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Psychologists at Cardiff University are working on a number of projects looking at the health benefits of "sleep engineering".
The team is considering ways of "decoupling" emotions from troubling memories during rest.
Sleep expert Prof Penny Lewis said the research area was new and "really exciting".
Post-traumatic stress disorder is believed to affect one-in-three people who suffer a traumatic event, with thousands of sufferers in the UK, including many armed forces veterans.
Prof Lewis, who is based as the university's CUBRIC neuroscience institute, believes the brain's processing of emotions during sleep could hold one of the keys to treating the debilitating disorder.
"Sometimes things happen to you in your life that you don't want to remember in graphic detail, like if you've been mugged or had an accident for instance," she said.
"And it's important over time those memories become less upsetting. So, what you want probably is to remember what happened but not to get upset every time you remember it."
Sleep scientists believe these kinds of anxiety could be treated by triggering the troubling memories while a person slumbers.
This triggering of memory reactivation can be done by presenting stimuli that are linked to the target memories during sleep.
Prof Lewis said: "So if we trigger emotional memories to reactivate during REM sleep, then we find that [people] rate the upsetting memories as much-less upsetting than they did before sleeping.
"It's early days on this but we're pretty excited about it," said Prof Lewis.
The university is currently conducting experiments using sleep labs at CUBRIC. | Scientists believe sleep manipulation could help to tackle anxiety disorders, such as post-traumatic stress disorder. | 37332407 |
A year ago, Mr Corbyn was filmed sitting on the floor of a train he said was "ram-packed".
Virgin Trains then released CCTV images and footage it said showed the Labour leader walking past empty seats.
In the newly-released CCTV, people can be seen sitting on the floor between the carriages.
It was released by pro-Corbyn filmmaker Yannis Mendez, whose original film of the Labour leader sitting on the floor sparked the debate.
Mr Mendez made a request to Virgin for the CCTV in which he featured, and it has now been published by his Double Down News company.
The clash between the rail operator and Mr Corbyn's team took place during last summer's Labour leadership contest.
After Mr Corbyn used the overcrowding on the service to make his case for rail renationalisation, Virgin responded, saying he had walked past available seats and managed to find somewhere to sit later on.
On social media, where it has been shared thousands of times, supporters of the Labour leader have said the latest film backs up his comments about overcrowding on the London to Newcastle service.
"These are the CCTV clips Richard Branson didn't show you," the voiceover says, to footage of people sitting and lying on the floor between carriages.
The film also highlights that people could be seen sitting in some - although not all - of the apparently empty seats Mr Corbyn walked past.
When questioned by journalists at the height of the row last year, the Labour leader said he had been looking for two empty seats together so he could sit with his wife.
Virgin Trains has not disputed the service was crowded but said at the time it took issue with the suggestion Mr Corbyn had been unable to find a seat.
Neither Virgin Trains nor the Labour leadership have commented on the latest video. | New footage has been published of the "traingate" journey that triggered a row involving Jeremy Corbyn and Sir Richard Branson last year. | 41036937 |
Kate Smurthwaite was due to perform at Goldsmiths University in London this evening.
But she says her show has been pulled because staff said they "could not guarantee the safety of students".
The Feminist Society denies it has anything to do with the decision.
A statement from the president of the Comedy Society said: "Despite many complaints from students about the content of Kate's act in the past we were planning to go ahead with the gig until Kate told me 24 hours before that there was likely to be a picket with lots of students and non-students outside the venue.
"I couldn't verify this. Up to this point we had only sold eight tickets so I decided to pull the plug."
Kate says she understood the gig to be primarily aimed at members of the Comedy and Feminist Societies, who would not need tickets.
The ones on sale were intended to be a way for the societies to make some extra cash.
"I'm really angry at them trying to do this [referring to ticket sales]," Kate tells Newsbeat.
"This is them trying to undermine and discredit me and the professional work that I do."
She says the venue and organisers have a responsibility to market the event and that she would have been happy to do promotional work to draw audiences.
Kate has previously said she is a supporter of the "Nordic model" on prostitution - and had been debating with people on Twitter about the issue over the weekend.
This legal model decriminalises sex work but makes it illegal to pay for sex. In other words, it's the client who is the criminal, not the prostitute.
While supporters say this policy reduces prostitution, opponents say it actually makes it more dangerous by driving it underground - and wastes money on policing people who are engaged in consensual sex.
Ms Smurthwaite says she was told on Sunday that a vote had been held by Goldsmiths Feminist Society on whether they should support Kate's appearance, with around 70% voting in favour of it going ahead.
She was also told that people may come to the event "to pick a fight".
Although she was keen to still put on the show, she was told that because of the risk of a picket line, they couldn't "ensure the safety of students" and so the gig would be cancelled.
In a statement on her Facebook page, Kate says: "The strangest thing is that my show is not about prostitution.
"I find it very strange that anyone would feel they couldn't enjoy a comedy show unless they agreed with 100% of the political views of the person performing."
Kate Smurthwaite's Leftie Cockwomble is described as being about "free speech".
Other comedians have come out in support of Kate, including Jason Manford, who tweeted: "I'm angry for you."
A spokesman for Goldsmiths Student Union says: "The Goldsmiths comedy society is a small volunteer led group.
"They made this decision independently from the union and we support their right to decide who plays their gigs."
The Feminist Society has yet to release any further information.
Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter, BBCNewsbeat on Instagram and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube | A comedian who describes herself as a feminist has told Newsbeat her gig has been cancelled because of planned protests by feminists over her views on prostitution. | 31089462 |
Prince William will learn about issues facing the UK's rural communities and farming industry during the 10-week bespoke course.
The studies are expected to give him a foundation for when he takes over the Duchy of Cornwall from Prince Charles.
It is thought the duke will live in Cambridge for part of the time.
A Kensington Palace spokesman said the prince was "very much looking forward" to the course, which runs until mid-March.
The course is run by the Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership (CPSL), an institution within Cambridge University's School of Technology, which has William's father, Prince Charles, as its patron.
The palace spokesman said: "The executive education programme of seminars, lectures and meetings will draw on the strengths of academics across the university.
"The course has been designed to help provide the duke with an understanding of contemporary issues affecting agricultural business and rural communities in the UK."
The Duchy of Cornwall is a portfolio of land, property and investments which the prince will inherit from his father when Charles becomes king.
Prince William, who is second-in-line to the throne, will have 18 to 20 hours of lectures, seminars and meetings a week, as well as essays to complete and field trips to attend.
The cost of the course is being met privately.
The duke graduated from the University of St Andrews in 2005 with a class 2:1 degree in geography, and it was as an undergraduate that he met his future wife Kate Middleton.
He then spent more than seven years in the military, most recently working as an RAF search and rescue pilot based in Anglesey, north Wales.
Over the next year he is expected to focus on royal duties and charity work with his wife, now the Duchess of Cambridge - as well as his studies.
In April, the couple are set to visit New Zealand and Australia, most likely accompanied by their baby son, Prince George. | The Duke of Cambridge is to become a full-time student of agricultural management at Cambridge University from next week, Kensington Palace says. | 25552545 |
Norman Lamb was being questioned by 26-year-old Newsbeat listener Annabelle Harris who is recovering from an eating disorder.
She started to develop the disorder from the age of 10 but it wasn't picked up until three years later.
After Annabelle told Newsbeat her story we took her to meet Norman Lamb.
She asked him some key questions about his plans on helping people.
The Liberal Democrat MP has pledged £150 million over the next five years in improving services, reducing waiting times and supporting families.
The idea is we introduce access waiting time standard so you know that you'll access support within a defined period of time.
Critically it has to be access to an evidence based service that will work - such as places like Slam in London.
It seems to me that they have a really impressive service, there is rapid intervention and it's community based.
Critically, it involves getting access to specialist support really quickly and results show that they achieve recovery much more quickly.
That's the approach I want to take but I just want it mainstreamed, it should be available everywhere but it takes time to build the capacity in the system.
We've made the judgement there is an overwhelming moral and economic imperative to invest in mental health across the board.
Will other parties do it? Well I just think we have to all hold whoever's elected to account on this.
I think we've got to that point in our history where mental health's time has come.
There's a growing understanding and recognition of the complete false economy in thinking you can trim back on mental health and no one will notice.
There is loads of evidence that if you invest in mental health you'll make further savings down the track and you can make a massive difference to people's lives
I think it is.
NHS England is leading on this - we've set the standard, we've got the money and the investment is there to do it.
We expect that standard to be met by April 2016 which includes six week standard to access psychological therapies for anxiety, depression and other mental health conditions.
But another critical standard is to access treatment within two weeks if you have first episode for psychosis which again has a massive impact on young people.
Labour says it will end the "scandalous'" neglect of mental health services if Labour takes power in May's General Election.
Ed Miliband says he wants his party to raise budgets for children's mental health services, expanding early intervention work and widening access to school-based therapy.
Get help with eating disorders at BBC Advice.
Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter, BBCNewsbeat on Instagram and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube | Whoever is elected in the general election must be held to account on mental health issues, says the government's care minister. | 31632872 |
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WBA, WBC and IBF middleweight champion Golovkin faces WBO light-middleweight belt holder Alvarez on 16 September.
Mayweather fights McGregor three weeks earlier in the same city, Las Vegas.
Golovkin insists his contest is the "true boxing fight" as opposed to the "circus show" of Mayweather-McGregor.
"This [Mayweather-McGregor] is not for fighters, but business," said the 35-year-old Kazakh, who has won all 37 of his fights with 33 by knockout.
"I think people understand what is a true fight, a boxing fight, like mine with Canelo or a big show, maybe sometimes for people a funny show, like a circus show.
"Everybody knows. Conor is not a boxer, just a show. If you want to watch a show please watch them, if you want to watch a true fight, a true boxing fight and you respect boxing, watch my fight with Canelo.
"This is business. Conor with Floyd is not a boxing fight because Conor is not a boxer. Money fight OK, show fight OK."
Golovkin-Alvarez is one of the most eagerly awaited boxing match-ups in recent memory that will decide the world's best middleweight.
Golovkin has made 18 consecutive world middleweight title defences and was taken to points for the first time since 2008 by American Daniel Jacobs in March.
Alvarez, 26, has won world titles in two weight divisions with one blemish during a 51-fight career - by a majority points decision to Mayweather in 2013.
The light-middleweight fight between American Mayweather, 40, and Ireland's McGregor, 28, has been described as a "farce" but could earn both men as much as $100m (£78.4m).
Mayweather, a former five-weight world champion and widely considered the best boxer of his generation, retired unbeaten in 2015 after 49 bouts.
That followed a successful defence of his WBC and WBA welterweight titles, a victory that meant he equalled Rocky Marciano's career record of 49-0.
McGregor, who has never boxed professionally, became the UFC's first dual-division champion in November 2016 and has previously challenged Mayweather to a fight under mixed martial arts rules.
His boxing licence was granted by the California State Athletic Commission in December, allowing him to box in the US state. | Gennady Golovkin has dismissed the idea that Floyd Mayweather's comeback fight against UFC champion Conor McGregor will overshadow his highly anticipated bout with Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez. | 40338359 |
8 January 2017 Last updated at 13:54 GMT
It's been reported that at least 12 people have died.
In some parts of the country so much rain has fallen that the water has reached house roofs and roads have been turned into rivers.
The government say the army is helping to evacuate flood victims, provide temporary shelter and give out emergency aid.
The rain isn't expected to stop for at least two more days, according to Thailand's weather department, who warn more flash floods may be on the way. | Record rainfall in Thailand, in south-east Asia, has caused flooding and devastation. | 38548367 |
The 76-year-old cleric, a top adviser to Pope Francis, was photographed at Sydney Airport early on Monday. He had arrived from the Vatican via Singapore.
Police have said the accusations relate to alleged "historical" incidents.
Cardinal Pell, who has strongly denied any wrongdoing, is due to face a Melbourne court on 26 July.
Australia's most senior Catholic figure was granted a leave of absence from the Vatican to fight the charges.
He did not make any comment on arrival in Sydney, local media said.
Victoria Police said the accusations arose from "multiple complainants".
Last month, Cardinal Pell told a news conference at the Holy See that he would travel to Australia if his doctors permitted it.
"I'm looking forward finally to having my day in court," he said.
"I am innocent of these charges, they are false. The whole idea of sexual abuse is abhorrent to me."
Cardinal Pell is considered the third-ranking official in the Holy See. | The Vatican treasurer, Cardinal George Pell, has returned to Australia as he prepares to defend himself against sexual assault charges. | 40552199 |
Wrexham kick off the new season at home to Dover Athletic on Saturday after making 18 summer signings.
Newton, 27, is one of only three players to remain from last season but says a much changed squad is ready for the new campaign.
"It doesn't feel like a totally new squad to me," Newton told BBC Wales Sport.
"The lads have come in and they've bonded really well and really quickly.
"I think the few days away together in Nottingham helped massively. We've trained everyday together and gone for food together."
Wrexham's trip to Nottingham included a 2-0 win against a Forest XI during an unbeaten pre-season campaign.
Defender Newton, an ever present last season, says he has been happy with their preparations and is "raring to go."
"We've seen what our strengths and weaknesses are," added Newton, appointed captain for the new season following the departure of Connor Jennings to Tranmere.
"We've worked on our weaknesses and I think we've put them to bed.
"Hopefully by the first game those weaknesses will have gone and we'll get three points on the board." | Captain Sean Newton says Wrexham's new-look squad has bonded well ahead of the National League season. | 36963951 |
It comes after Jermaine Baker, 28, was killed by armed officers in London, in December 2015.
Mr Baker, who was with two men in a car near Wood Green Crown Court, had intended to help a man being held on remand escape from a prison van.
Firearms officers were deployed to disrupt the plan.
"The officers reasonably believed that the men in the car were dangerous individuals, who were armed and prepared to use their weapons to achieve their criminal purpose," a Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) spokesman said.
"Having taken account of all the evidence provided by the IPCC [Independent Police Complaints Commission], the CPS has concluded that there is not a realistic prospect of conviction."
"The prosecution could not prove to the required standard that [the officer] was being untruthful about his belief that Mr Baker was armed and reaching for a weapon to fire on the officers."
The CPS spokesman said the officer had fired one shot which hit and killed Mr Baker, from Tottenham.
"Following a thorough search it was found that Mr Baker was not armed," he continued.
"An imitation firearm was, however, recovered from a holdall in the rear foot well behind the driver's seat of the car."
The IPCC said it was aware of the CPS decision and was waiting from a response from the Met Police.
At the time, Mr Baker and his accomplices were attempted to spring from a prison van Izzet Eren, who was being held on remand at HMP Wormwood Scrubs accused of gun offences, as he was en-route to a hearing at the court.
During the subsequent trial of one of Mr Baker's accomplices, Eren Hasyer, jurors at Woolwich Crown Court were told the prisoner hatched the escape plot from his cell using a smuggled mobile phone.
Det Ch Supt Tom Manson, of the Met Police, said: "This was a bold, well planned and carefully thought out conspiracy that bears all the hallmarks of a professional crime."
Two other men, Nathan Mason and Gokay Sogucakli, had admitted being part of the escape plot before Hasyer's trial began.
Hasyer was found guilty in May last year, of aiding the attempt to free Eren from the prison van. | A Met Police firearms officer will face no charges over the shooting of a man who was killed in a botched attempt to free a prisoner, prosecutors said. | 40274023 |
He brought a taste of his country with him - quite literally. The 40-year-old runs an authentic Greek grill house, serving souvlaki and bifteki to fellow Greeks in the area.
"You feel homesick, that's for sure," Andreas admits, reminiscing about his time as a soldier based in the Greek islands, a stark contrast to his sterile German surroundings.
"But it's better to have peace of mind, to be able to provide for my wife and kid."
Locally, some home comforts are provided for - there's a Greek coffee shop, a Greek taverna complete with an Olympiacos FC flag draped across the window, and a Greek grocery where Hellenic watermelons are on offer in the searing July heat.
Yet despite these familiar amenities, being among the 330,000 Greek migrants in Germany during the debt crisis has been challenging.
Germany's governing politicians have barely disguised their contempt for Alexis Tsipras and his anti-austerity Syriza party, while the country's most popular tabloid, Bild, has run a string of headlines in the past few years deriding Greeks for being lazy and greedy.
Recent academic research has found that anti-Greek sentiment is on the rise.
"You hear people say 'we've had enough', 'we pay for you' and things like that," says Niki, who came to Offenbach from Thessaloniki in 2010 and works in Frankfurt airport. "It's not comfortable."
Perhaps unsurprisingly, Niki socialises almost exclusively with her compatriots, often playing tavli, or Greek backgammon, with two German-born Greeks in Offenbach's Greek pub.
"I want this to end," she says, referring to the ongoing negotiations between Greece and its creditors. "I want to go back."
"It's going to be tough for me in Greece, but I prefer to be there with my people in my country, instead of staying here and listening to all this..."
She breaks off, wary of issuing an expletive. "You can put a beep here."
Despite acknowledging the efficiency of Frankfurt's infrastructure, and the relative stability of its economy, Niki has few kind words for her German neighbours.
"We might be poor but we still live - they do not know how to live," she says.
"I'm not going to take [any lessons] from German lifestyle to Greece. We're totally different."
A little further down Offenbach's Frankfurter Strasse, I come across Valerios, a 25-year-old who came here from Drama, a remote mountainous region in northern Greece, two years ago, and is now doing a vocational course while working in a hotel.
While he and his friend Pavlos, a builder who has been in Germany for four years, tuck into a kebab, Valerios says he, too, is acutely aware of how his country is perceived by some Germans.
"They say we are so lazy, that we don't like to work," he says, "and this comes from the media."
Just a few miles away, the sleek skyscraper that houses the European Central Bank looms large.
In the next few days it will seal the fate of Greece's banks, which are already teetering on the brink, by deciding whether to continue supplying emergency funding to the country's lenders.
But few of the Greeks in Offenbach have much confidence in the ECB or in the eurozone's leaders.
Most would have voted 'no' in Sunday's referendum.
"Let's go back to drachmas - it will be better," says Valerios, who wants to return to Greece when he finishes his studies.
Pavlos agrees: "By now, it's better to leave the eurozone."
Andreas, however, would prefer Greece to stay in the euro. If it doesn't, he worries that the country could become "the Cuba of Europe" over the next few years.
"In my heart I was going to say 'no' [to a deal with creditors] because I'm Greek and we're proud of being able to stand on our feet," he says.
"But if they just cut some slack to the Greeks - I would definitely say 'yes'."
Regardless, Andreas has no plans to leave Offenbach.
"Your child is getting supported - they have really good education systems here," he says, hugging his toddler. "It's not like in Greece."
"I really want my son to graduate from university here - I want him to do what I couldn't do." | After enduring a series of pay cuts and with his career prospects diminishing by the day, Andreas Ketselides moved his family from Athens to Offenbach just outside the German city of Frankfurt last year. | 33446985 |
The 25-year-old visually-impaired sprinter was not selected for the 2015-16 world class performance programme.
Anguilla-born sprinter Zharnel Hughes, who had his GB eligibility confirmed in June, was granted full funding.
Scottish steeplechaser Eilish McColgan said it is "no wonder athletes cheat" after her own funding was cut.
Clegg pulled out of the IPC World Championships in Doha last month after injuring her foot during a warm-up, having also been forced out of last year's European Championships through illness.
Fellow Scot McColgan, 24, has endured a similarly tough year, missing the entire 2015 season after breaking her ankle in January.
Selection for UK Athletics' world class performance programme (WCPP) is based on an athlete's potential to win Olympic or Paralympic medals and funded by the National Lottery through UK Sport.
The WCPP is split into two levels for both Olympic and Paralympic athletes:
Sprinter Dina Asher-Smith has been rewarded for her breakthrough 2015 season by receiving full funding for the first time.
The 19-year-old finished fifth in the 200m at the World Championships in Beijing in August, one month after she also became the first British woman to run under 11 seconds in the 100m.
Former 400m hurdles world champion Dai Greene, who failed to qualify for Beijing, is one of 21 athletes chosen for the Olympic podium programme.
He is joined by London 2012 gold medallists Jessica Ennis-Hill, Mo Farah and Greg Rutherford.
Hughes, 20, was born in the British overseas territory of Anguilla but opted to compete for Great Britain with his home country not recognised by the International Olympic Committee.
The highly-rated sprinter receives full funding at the first attempt, having won the Lausanne Diamond league 200m race in July.
Paralympic gold medallists Richard Whitehead and Jonnie Peacock are on a list of 25 Paralympic athletes receiving podium funding, with world championship medallists Georgie Hermitage, Kadeena Cox, Dan Bramall, Toby Gold and Abbie Hunnisett also included for the first time.
Alongside Clegg and McColgan, middle-distance runner Hannah England and 110m hurdler Lawrence Clarke lost their Olympic level funding.
Perri Shakes-Drayton, a former European indoor 400m gold medallist, and European 100m champion James Dasaolu also saw their support cut back from the Olympic level to the relay programmes.
Six-time Paralympic gold medallist David Weir is not included after opting out of the funding system last year.
Former 3,000m steeplechase British champion McColgan revealed UK Athletics' decision on social media prior to the official announcement, adding "My current financial status..." above an image of chocolate coins.
Scottish 800m runner Lynsey Sharp was also critical of the governing body despite making the podium programme, saying she had received "no email" to confirm her selection.
Podium
Olympic (21)
Dina Asher-Smith, Holly Bradshaw, Jessica Ennis-Hill, Mohamed Farah, Adam Gemili, Robbie Grabarz, Dai Greene, Sophie Hitchon, Zharnel Hughes, Katarina Johnson-Thompson, Laura Muir, Christine Ohuruogu, Andrew Osagie, Tiffany Porter, Andy Pozzi, Shara Proctor, Greg Rutherford, William Sharman, Lynsey Sharp, Lorraine Ugen, Laura Weightman
Paralympic (25)
Hollie Arnold, Paul Blake, Daniel Bramall, Jonathan Broom-Edwards, Mickey Bushell, Joanna Butterfield, Hannah Cockroft, Kadeena Cox, Aled Davies, Kyron Duke, Toby Gold, Dan Greaves, Sophie Hahn, Georgina Hermitage, Abbie Hunnisett, Sophie Kamlish, Maria Lyle, Dean Miller, Stephen Miller, Stephen Osborne, Melissa Nicholls, Jonnie Peacock, Stefanie Reid, Richard Whitehead, Bethany Woodward
Podium potential
Olympic (29)
Kate Avery, Chris Baker, Meghan Beesley, Tom Bosworth, Dan Bramble, Lucy Bryan, Ashley Bryant, Mark Dry, Tom Farrell, Niall Flannery, Emelia Gorecka, Charlie Grice, Adam Hague, Lucy Hatton, Jessica Judd, Chris Kandu, Morgan Lake, Kyle Langford, Nick Miller, Chris O'Hare, David Omoregie, Shelayna Oskan-Clarke, Isobel Pooley, Shona Richards, Jazmin Sawyers, Allan Smith, David Smith, Serita Solomon, Jake Wightman
Paralympic (27)
Kare Adenegan, Joshua Bain, Samantha Bowen, Shaun Burrows, Richard Chiassaro, Sabrina Fortune, Kylie Grimes, Claire Harvey, David Henson, Jordan Howe, Moatez Jomni, Jade Jones, Rhys Jones, Samantha Kinghorn, Simon Lawson, Polly Maton, Erin McBride, Holly Neill, Georgina Oliver, Derek Rae, Ben Rowlings, Sam Ruddock, Zachary Shaw, Will Smith, Laura Sugar, Isaac Towers, Bradley Wigley
Relay squads
Olympic
Men's 4x100m (7)
Harry Aikines-Aryeetey, James Dasaolu, Ojie Edoburun, James Ellington, Richard Kilty, Danny Talbot, Chijindu Ujah
Plus individually funded athletes:
Adam Gemili, Zharnel Hughes
Men's 4x400m (7)
Jarryd Dunn, Jack Green, Matthew Hudson-Smith, Martyn Rooney, Conrad Williams, Delano Williams, Rabah Yousif
Women's 4x100m (8)
Louise Bloor, Desiree Henry, Shannon Hylton, Daryll Neita, Ashleigh Nelson, Asha Philip, Bianca Williams, Jodie Williams
Plus individually funded athletes:
Dina Asher-Smith
Women's 4x400m (8)
Margaret Adeoye, Seren Bundy-Davies, Eilidh Child, Kelly Massey, Kirsten McAslan, Laviai Nielsen, Anyika Onuora, Perri Shakes-Drayton
Plus individually funded athletes:
Christine Ohuruogu
Paralympic (1)
Olivia Breen | Commonwealth Games gold medallist Libby Clegg has lost her funding from UK Athletics after pulling out of the recent IPC World Championships. | 34766516 |
They belong to a man in his 40s, his wife, in her 30s, and their three sons aged six, 11 and 13.
They have been named locally as Alan and Clodagh Hawe and their sons Niall, Ryan and Liam.
Police say they are not currently looking for anyone else in relation to the deaths.
The alarm was raised at 10:45 BST on Monday, after someone called to the house and could not get in.
They contacted police who searched the house and found two of the bodies downstairs, the other three were found in upstairs bedrooms.
Speaking at a press conference on Monday evening, Assistant Commissioner John O'Driscoll said: "We believe all the answers are in that house.
"We are working along very definite lines of inquiry.
"The most likely scenario is that one person in that house may have caused the deaths of the others."
He said there was no evidence that a firearm had been used and a number of objects had to be examined before a cause of death can be confirmed.
Bishop Leo O'Reilly of Kilmore said the deaths were "shocking" and "near impossible to comprehend". | The bodies of five members of a family have been found at a house near Ballyjamesduff in County Cavan in the Republic of Ireland. | 37215076 |
The local council is to fund a £5,000 study to look at how the concept might work.
Models vary, but it is based on an unconditional, regular payment instead of benefits, with proponents claiming it can cut welfare bureaucracy and reduce poverty.
The idea is being piloted in countries around the world, including Finland.
The Scottish government has said it is interested in the idea but believes it will not work north of the border unless welfare and tax is fully devolved.
Glasgow City Council's executive committee has given the go-ahead to a feasibility study this spring.
It will include discussions with community groups and the public sector.
The aim is to design the potential form that a pilot might take.
A document considered by the committee said: "Glasgow offers a unique and exciting opportunity to contribute to the debate.
"Glasgow is an international city with a proud history and reputation, yet also one with significant issues of poverty, inequality and health.
"The learning that could be gained from a Glasgow experimental approach to basic income, could inform the potential for the Basic Income Model to alleviate poverty and build economic and social inclusion.
Jamie Cooke, head of RSA Scotland, which is running the pilot, said: "This decision by Glasgow City Council is an important moment for basic income in Scotland, and marks a significant step forward.
"We now have the opportunity to move the basic income conversation forward and identify practical ways to run a pilot which works locally and has global resonance."
Fife Council has already agreed to a similar pilot but has not decided on the details. | Glasgow could be the first city in the UK to pilot a basic universal income for every citizen. | 38991320 |
Voters have begun meeting - or caucusing - across the state in schools, churches and other venues.
With half the Republican votes counted, it appears that there is a three-way fight between Donald Trump, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio.
Iowa kicks off a state-by-state contest over the coming weeks and months.
The Democratic race is also too close to call, with Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders mounting an unexpectedly strong challenge against the former first lady and Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton.
The third contender in that race, Martin O'Malley, is about to drop out of the contest, sources close to his campaign have told the BBC.
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Campaigning intensified over the weekend as candidates toured the sparsely populated Midwestern state to court undecided voters.
Voting began at 19:00 local time (01:00 GMT on Tuesday) and the final results - a winner from each party - could be named within hours.
This first electoral test is seen as key because victory can boost campaign momentum as other states vote.
Supporters of the main candidates in Iowa gave very different reasons for their backing.
Suzanne Wood said Mr Cruz was someone who "knows how to argue for conservative values", citing his stance on gun rights and religion.
For Julian Raven, an artist and preacher campaigning for Donald Trump, the Republican has the "courage that is required to match up with the existential threats that we face as a western civilisation".
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Iowa has an unusual election system called a caucus, which involves people gathering at private homes, schools and other public buildings across the state.
Democratic voters divide themselves into groups based on their preferred candidate, but the Republican caucus process is more like a traditional ballot.
Turnout could be high, especially with a predicted snowstorm expected to strike after the vote.
The Iowa Republican Party said there could be more votes cast than the record set in 2012, when 120,000 people turned out.
Democrats also expect a strong turnout, though not as many as the 240,000 people who caucused in the 2008 contest when Mrs Clinton was beaten into third by Barack Obama and John Edwards.
Iowa does not always pick the eventual winner. The last Republican winner in Iowa who won the party's nomination was George W Bush 16 years ago.
In the weeks ahead, there will be more ballots in the 49 other states plus US territories.
Each party's nominee will be chosen by the summer, and the US will pick its next president in November. | The nationwide process of selecting candidates to run in November's US presidential race is under way in the state of Iowa. | 35457094 |
The stainless steel fish, surrounded by textured concrete, seems to dive under the Gwynedd town's main thoroughfare.
Artist Benjamin Storch, who created it, held workshops with local young people to produce the winning design.
Regeneration scheme Pwllheli Partnership said it hoped it will "improve the aesthetics of the area".
The eye-catching creation was being installed in Pwllheli town centre on Monday and is due to be completed on Tuesday.
The fish's tail disappears into the pavement near the Conservative Club, and its head emerges over the road by the Mitre pub.
The installation is a joint project by Gwynedd Council's Community Arts Unit and South Pwllheli Communities First, funded by the council's Responding to the Recession fund.
Young people from the Cynllun Ieuenctid Pwllheli (CIP) scheme and students from Coleg Meirion Dwyfor created a number of designs.
The public were asked to comment on them before the final plan for the sculpture was decided.
Coun Roy Owen, Gwynedd's portfolio leader with responsibility for community arts, said the project aimed to "give local people the opportunity to be creative and to contribute towards the work of reviving and regenerating Pwllheli town centre".
"I am delighted that so many people have been able to take part," he said.
Stephen Tudor from the Pwllheli Partnership said there has been a number of projects in Pwllheli recently to enhance and regenerate the centre.
"This project is welcomed as part of this effort," he said. | A divided sculpture of a fish has been installed in Pwllheli, inspired by the town's sea-faring and fishing traditions. | 14441423 |
The German's victory from pole position in a race punctuated by a violent crash for Renault's Kevin Magnussen reduces his points deficit to Hamilton to nine.
Magnussen was taken to hospital with an injury to his left ankle after a huge crash at 180mph at Raidillon.
Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo was second, holding off a late Hamilton charge.
Hamilton started in 21st place on the grid, after a raft of engine penalties resulting from failures early in the season. His partner back there in probably the most talented back row in F1 history was his old rival Fernando Alonso, who used three engines this weekend.
The two made brilliant starts to the race to pass the pits for the first time with Alonso in 11th and Hamilton 13th, helped by a chaotic first lap ahead of them.
A concertina accident between the two Ferraris and Max Verstappen's Red Bull left all three with damage at the first corner and dropped them down the field - and further back McLaren's Jenson Button was taken out when Manor's Pascal Wehrlein smashed up his rear at Les Combes.
Starting on the medium tyres, Alonso and Hamilton moved up as others stopped in front of them on their softer rubber and were in fourth and fifth on lap eight, when Magnussen lost control through the final part of the Eau Rouge swerves.
The Renault spun and smashed into the barriers on the outside of the track, the Dane's cockpit head protection material flying out of the car in the violence of the impact.
He limped away from the accident but an investigation at the medical centre showed him to have an injury and he was taken to hospital.
Magnussen later tweeted that he was on his way home with a sore ankle and would be fine to compete in next weekend's Italian Grand Prix.
The accident destroyed the barriers at one of the most dangerous parts of the track and the race was red-flagged after two laps behind the safety car to give marshals time to repair them.
The red flag reset the race, with everyone allowed to change tyres, and it appeared as though Hamilton might now have the chance of an unlikely victory.
But although he quickly passed Alonso's under-powered McLaren-Honda, it took him until lap 18 of 44 to find a way past the similarly Mercedes-powered Force India of Nico Hulkenberg.
Three laps later, Mercedes brought him in for a new set of tyres, putting him out of sync with those around him and on a different strategy, the idea being to try to attack Ricciardo on fresher tyres in the closing laps.
Hamilton closed up on Ricciardo before his final stop on lap 32 but was unable to pass him and rejoined between Hulkenberg and his team-mate Sergio Perez.
That left Hamilton too much to do to try to catch Ricciardo, who was able to control the gap to the end.
Nevertheless, Hamilton was pleased to have limited the damage to his title bid as he expected to find it difficult to get into the top 10 and score points in this race.
Rosberg, meanwhile, delivered what he needed to do on a weekend that was less of an open goal than it might have appeared because of the difficulties caused by fragile tyres, influenced by what many unhappy drivers felt were "ridiculously" high pressures.
"Daniel was quite quick in the beginning of the second stint, but generally I had it under control," said Rosberg. "The car was awesome and Lewis was not there to battle it out."
Alonso fought as well as he could in the McLaren, whose Honda engine is well down on power compared with the rest.
He hung on to Hulkenberg until their final stops, made together, and McLaren worked wonders to have them out of their boxes side-by-side, Hulkenberg just holding on at the exit.
Alonso was vulnerable to cars coming from behind him and was literally powerless to fend off Perez and a recovering Vettel but managed to hold on to seventh place ahead of Williams' Valtteri Bottas and Raikkonen.
The Finn was angered by the defensive driving of Verstappen early in the race, swearing on the radio in the latest of a series of spats between the oldest and youngest drivers in F1 this year.
The Dutchman finished 11th, a disappointment for the 20,000 fans who had come from his native country to cheer him on.
His failure to convert a front-row start into a strong finish was a direct result of the first-corner crash.
It happened as Verstappen tried to recover from a bad getaway to dive back down the inside of Raikkonen into La Source.
The Red Bull was way across the inside kerb, with Raikkonen on his outside, as Vettel swept into the corner from the outside line.
The two Ferraris touched, Raikkonen hit Verstappen, and all three cars needed to stop at the end of the lap to repair the subsequent damage. | Lewis Hamilton recovered from the back row of the grid to finish third at the Belgian Grand Prix as Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg won a dramatic race. | 37209244 |
United were valued at $3.69bn (£2.86bn) and returned to the top of the annual list for the first time in five years.
Spanish club Barcelona were second with a worth of $3.64bn (£2.82bn) as Real $3.58bn (£2.77bn) went down to third.
Six English teams were in the top 10, with Manchester City, Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool and Tottenham joining United.
German champions Bayern Munich were fourth, while Italian title winners Juventus were ninth.
Real, who won the Champions League and Spanish title, had been top for the past four years but saw their value drop by 2% as United's went up by 11%.
"Manchester United's return to the top spot is a testament to their powerful brand and marketing acumen," Forbes Media assistant managing editor Mike Ozanian said in a statement.
Leicester, who won the English Premier League in 2015-16, were 19th and West Ham 15th. | Manchester United have overtaken Real Madrid as the world's most valuable football team, according to business magazine Forbes. | 40183907 |
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The Conservative MP was speaking to the BBC's Sunday Politics Scotland programme.
When asked by presenter Gordon Brewer whether reversal by the Scottish government was possible, Mr Mundell said: "Yes it will. It will be able to top up tax credits and indeed child benefit if is chooses to do so.
"Of course it will have to find the money and it will have to find the money either from Scottish tax payers, by telling them it is going to increase tax, or it will have to find it from cuts being made elsewhere." | Secretary of State for Scotland, David Mundell, said under the new Scotland Bill powers heading to Holyrood, the SNP government would be able to offset benefit cuts being planned by Westminster | 34543952 |
Paul Kerr scored the opening two tries before James McConnell added a third as MCB went in 22-9 ahead at half-time.
Johnny Jordan, Thomas Gallagher and Kerr touched touch for MCB in the second half while BRA tries came from Bradley Luney and Matthew Dalton.
MCB will take on holders RBAI in the St Patrick's Day final.
RBAI brushed aside the challenge of Ballymena Academy in the first semi-final at the same venue on Monday.
Niall Armstrong went over for three of their seven tries in a one-sided 41-8 win.
Media playback is not supported on this device | Methodist College Belfast cruised into the Schools' Cup decider thanks to a six-try victory over Belfast Royal Academy at Kingspan Stadium on Tuesday. | 39121089 |
India has more than 150 million TV homes, of which 25% use direct-to-home satellite and 51% receive cable TV. A TV digitisation drive is under way.
There are nearly 800 licensed satellite TV stations. Around half of these are news-based outlets, and news programmes often outperform entertainment output.
Doordarshan, the public TV, operates multiple services, including flagship DD1, which reaches some 400 million viewers.
Multichannel, direct-to-home (DTH) satellite TV is a huge hit. Major platforms Dish TV, Tata-Sky, Sun Direct, Big TV and Airtel Digital TV have millions of subscribers. State-owned Doordarshan Direct runs a free-to-air DTH service.
Music-based FM radio stations abound. But only public All India Radio can produce news programming. AIR's 237 stations reach more than 99% of the population.
India's press is lively and there are around 12,000 newspaper titles. Driven by a growing middle class, newspaper circulations have grown and new titles compete with established dailies.
Journalists operating in areas with armed conflicts do not enjoy the same protections as those in the rest of India, says Reporters Without Borders (RSF).
There were more than 243 million internet users by 2014 (InternetLiveStats.com). The online revolution has largely bypassed rural India, a government study has shown.
Facebook is the leading social network, with tens of millions of users. Twitter is used by celebrities, journalists and politicians. Some of them have a million or more followers.
There is no systematic filtering of the web. But the authorities have clashed with leading social networks over censorship of content deemed to be offensive.
The tussle, which involved the courts, pitted the government against Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo! and YouTube, among other platforms.
Rules require internet companies to remove "disparaging" or "blasphemous" content if they receive a complaint from an "affected person".
The authorities routinely suspend internet services in Indian-administered Kashmir during times of tension. | Indian broadcasting is flourishing and TV and radio outlets are proliferating. | 12557390 |
The measure was introduced after the killing of the country's third highest ranking police officer.
Assistant Inspector General Andrew Felix Kaweesi was killed when his car was attacked by gunmen on motorbikes.
The president posted a tweet strongly condemning the murder.
The president also took to Twitter to announce the immediate installation of security cameras in major towns and along major highways.
No further details have been made public.
In another post he reassured the country that public security would be guarded at all costs.
Two bodyguards who were accompanying Insp Gen Kaweesi were also killed.
The motive for the shooting and identities of the attackers, who escaped from the scene, were not known.
But Insp Gen Kaweesi was a former head of police operations in the capital Kampala and had gained a prominent public profile for overseeing the frequent arrests of Uganda's main opposition leader, Kizza Besigye.
He had left his home in a northern neighbourhood of the city and was on his way to work when the attack happened.
The Reuters news agency reported that local television showed a crowd gathered at the scene of the shooting and a parked Toyota Landcruiser with both doors on the driver's side open. Blood was spattered on the ground.
Government critics have long accused the police of cracking down on opponents of Mr Museveni instead of fighting crime.
Last month the Daily Monitor newspaper reported that only 15 out of 1,068 murders recorded in 2015 had led to prosecutions.
The murder of a high-profile police official will further heighten fears over public safety. | Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has ordered the installation of surveillance cameras in major towns to reassure the nation about public safety. | 39302745 |
The latest analysis from the Scottish ITEM Club - economists who independently apply the Treasury's economic model - point to the downsides.
Last week, we heard from Scottish Engineering, the sector's trade body, a downbeat message that falling orders from the offshore sector are being felt far beyond the north-east, reaching into firms in the central belt.
The latest analysis from the chief economist at the Scottish government suggests that the impact of the price fall may be neutral.
That is, offshore oil and gas is suffering a loss of profitability, with less investment and fewer jobs: but businesses, drivers and householders who buy fuel rather than produce the stuff are enjoying lower prices, which look to them a bit like a tax cut.
One question is which has the bigger impact. Another remaining question is whether the impacts will be felt at different times.
In St Andrews House, Gary Gillespie is in agreement with recent forecasts of around 2.3% growth in the Scottish economy.
The Scottish ITEM Club is slightly lower, at 2.2%, up by 0.2% points since its end-2014 forecast. The difference is hardly worth quibbling over. But what's striking is that puts Scotland significantly behind the growth rate expected by EY's ITEM Club for the UK as a whole, at 2.8%.
The analysis goes further than that, suggesting Scotland is on schedule to lag the growth rate in the rest of the UK for a few years to come.
Scotland and the UK have in common uncertainty around the eurozone and European Union membership. The EU referendum could also put pressure on sterling, by putting the trade deficit into starker relief, suggests the EY publication. Growth won't be helped by a sharp tightening in government spending.
The Scottish economy and the wider UK benefit from very low interest rates. Inflation is now around zero and staying low over the next year, while real wages rise.
So what makes Scotland different? Offshore oil and gas is an obvious candidate. Even if some think it has a neutral effect, the impact on the rest of the UK isn't weighted with the same downsides, proportionately. The wider economy ought to feel a positive effect.
Immigration is helping fuel growth in parts of England, but it's less of a boost to Scotland. And when measured per head, to take account of higher population growth south of the border, recent growth in Scotland can be made to look better.
The finance sector has been flat, stellar whisky exports figures have come down to earth, and despite the best efforts of the transport sector (for which, read Falkirk bus builders among a few others), manufacturing is not performing that well.
Construction, which motored at a cracking 13% growth rate last year, is expected to fall back, though it still has the benefit of big public projects, from the Forth Replacement Crossing to Aberdeen's ring road and the M8 upgrade through Lanarkshire.
Surveys of business confidence have been getting a bit gloomier in recent months, and retail spend is lagging well behind the rest of the country. That could be canny, instead of fuelling private debt even further, but shoppers are failing to do their patriotic duty to the economy in the short term.
The employment picture looks healthy, given the scale of the recent downturn and the high jobless rates elsewhere in Europe.
New jobs are being created, but nothing like as fast as in England. The net growth has been almost entirely in female employment over last year. That's been welcomed. But it suggests something's going wrong for men, without it being clear precisely what that is.
As often noted, the quality of jobs remains a problem - zero hours, temporary, part-time, skills underused and many wanting to work more hours than they can get.
And the ITEM Club returns to concerns that some sectors face skill shortages, which could push up pay for some without it being backed by higher productivity.
All that said, it forecasts 25,000 more jobs this year, and 15,000 to 20,000 per year in the medium term.
That's while the working age population shrinks by 10,000 per year (and the number drawing pensions increases). Overall, that means job opportunities for those who wish to keep working past 65.
Scotland's population is on track to hit 5.4m in 2017, but as immigration is much stronger into England, the Scottish share of the UK total will slide from its present 8.2%.
All this can be expected to have political implications. The case for Scottish independence has followed a twin-track argument that historic growth has been held back by being part of the union, yet this century, growth has matched the UK - suggesting that Scotland is strong enough to thrive without the union.
If Scotland is returning to relatively weaker growth, the 56 SNP MPs at Westminster and the Scottish government may choose to tweak the latter argument towards the preceding complaint that Scotland's economy is faltering.
They will surely prefer to argue that's down to Westminster rule and George Osborne's spending plans than for any of the blame to fall on Nicola Sturgeon's administration.
But it could also put further pressure on them to choose which of the economic levers they're soon getting, and others they want, could and will be used to address these shortcomings. | Nearly a year since the oil price began to fall and five months since it bottomed out, the benchmark barrel of Brent Crude remains volatile and we're still not clear what impact it will have on the Scottish economy. | 33044598 |
The order will apply to the federal and local Delhi governments.
India's Supreme Court will hear a plea against private ownership of diesel vehicles on 15 December.
Delhi is experiencing hazardous levels of pollution due to diesel emissions, construction dirt and the burning of crop stubble in farms around the city.
Air pollution causes more than 600,000 premature deaths in India each year.
The tribunal order will not apply to private owners of diesel cars, Delhi government lawyer NP Singh told the BBC.
However, the country's top court is due to hear a petition asking for the banning of privately-owned diesel vehicles next week.
In recent days, pollution levels in Delhi have reached alarming levels and last week, the Delhi high court said the city resembled a "gas chamber".
The Delhi government then announced that from 1 January 2016, private vehicles with odd and even registration numbers would only be allowed to operate on alternate days.
The transport department would run extra buses, a government official said.
New car sales are soaring in India, with 1,400 extra cars taking to the capital's streets every day.
Earlier this month, India said it would require vehicles to abide by stricter emissions standards by 2019, three years ahead of a previous deadline.
Last month on the night of Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, air pollution in Delhi reached 40 times the limit recommended by the World Health Organisation (WHO).
The capital city is not alone - India has 13 of the world's 20 most polluted cities, the WHO reported last year. | India's National Green Tribunal has told the government not to buy any more diesel vehicles amid worsening pollution in the capital, Delhi. | 35070114 |
But he remained immensely proud that his team were in Nottingham to compete in the 2015-16 season-ending finals.
After Sunday's 6-0 loss to Cardiff Devils in the third-place game, Dutiaume said it was "difficult" to lift his men from their semi-final.
Flyers went down 4-1 to Nottingham Panthers in Saturday's last-four tie.
"I don't know how that third-place game is for fans, but it's certainly painful for fans and difficult to get up for," said the Fife head coach.
"This is our second third-place game to play in and I spoke with the players about playing professionally.
"Unless you come in 100% and fully switched on, it's difficult to catch up with the pace and you could tell Cardiff were more tuned in.
"It leaves a sour taste in the mouth to go out on a 6-0 defeat, especially after playing such great hockey.
"The bigger picture is what this team has accomplished and I couldn't be prouder of what the guys done this year."
If the quarter-final win over Braehead Clan was the Flyers' high point, Saturday's defeat by Nottingham must have been at the other end of the scale.
In the first period, Fife were as dogged and determined as they had been over Ryan Finnerty's men, with David Brown in goal impressing once again.
After Coventry's shock 6-2 thrashing of Cardiff earlier in the day, the Flyers sought to record another upset.
But the Panthers were clinical and two quick goals during the second period rendered Fife's efforts in vain.
David Clarke's well-struck shot into the roof of Brown's net got the valuable opener, followed by Logan MacMillan sweeping in a second from Andy Bohmbach's square pass.
Patrick Cullen wasted an open goal opportunity that could have made a difference, but Ryan Dingle's angled finish started to get the Flyers fans believing again.
They thought they had scored an equaliser through Michael Dorr, but it was ruled out for an earlier infringement.
Panthers scored straight away through Brad Moran before Evan Mosey added their fourth to seal a place in the final.
For the Kirkcaldy side, their chance at redemption was the third-place game against Cardiff.
The Welsh team took the lead during the first period when Luke Piggott finished off a well-worked move.
Ryan Russell skated in from the left to flick the puck into the roof of the net to double the lead.
Then Chris Jones scored with a rebound to make it 3-0 with four minutes left to go of the first period.
David Brown was given an early finish and replaced by Craig Douglas as Dutiaume decided to utilise his team.
Cardiff went four up in the second as Jake Morrissette finished with a close-range tip then Piggott made it 5-0 shortly after.
Kyle Haines nearly gave the healthy travelling support something to cheer about late on with a strong effort that was batted away by netminder Mike Will.
Jones added his second and Cardiff's sixth to complete the rout on what turned into a miserable weekend for the Flyers in Nottingham.
The Scottish side's weekend was rounded off with the news of associate coach Danny Stewart's retirement.
Fans paid tribute to him during the final between Nottingham and Coventry, singing his name during the 39th minute - his shirt number.
Stewart revealed the physical rigours of the sport were starting to affect his everyday life and admits he took his time to make the decision.
He said: "I've had a great run and met a lot of great people along the way, but it was never an easy decision and I've been mulling it over since Christmas.
"My body has shown more wear and tear this year than ever before and I've been feeling more and more discomfort as the days and months went on so it's the right time to retire."
And Stewart's old club, Coventry, ended the weekend with a 2-0 loss to Nottingham, who clinched the final trophy of the season.
Stephen Schultz and former Dundee Stars defenceman Kevin Quick notched the goals to clinch the trophy for the home side.
Saturday - semi-finals
Cardiff Devils 2-6 Coventry Blaze
Nottingham Panthers 4-1 Fife Flyers
Sunday
Third-place game
Cardiff Devils 6-0 Fife Flyers
Final
Nottingham Panthers 2-0 Coventry Blaze | Fife Flyers head coach Todd Dutiaume was left disappointed as his team ended the Elite League play-off weekend without a win. | 35956250 |
When transplanted into pigs and rats, the kidneys worked, passing urine just like natural ones.
Getting the urine out has been a problem for earlier prototypes, causing them to balloon under the pressure.
The Japanese team got round this by growing extra plumbing for the kidney to stop the backlog, PNAS reports.
Although still years off human trials, the research helps guide the way towards the end goal of making organs for people, say experts.
In the UK, more than 6,000 people are waiting for a kidney - but because of a shortage of donors, fewer than 3,000 transplants are carried out each year.
More than 350 people die a year, almost one a day, waiting for a transplant.
Lab-grown kidneys using human stem cells could solve this problem.
Dr Takashi Yokoo and colleagues at the Jikei University School of Medicine in Tokyo used a stem cell method, but instead of just growing a kidney for the host animal, they set about growing a drainage tube too, along with a bladder to collect and store the urine.
When they connected this to the animal's existing bladder, the system worked.
Urine passed from the transplanted kidney into the transplanted bladder and then into the rat bladder.
And the transplant was still working well when they checked again eight weeks later.
They then repeated the procedure on a much larger mammal - a pig - and achieved the same results.
Prof Chris Mason, an expert in stem cells and regenerative medicine at University College London, said: "This is an interesting step forward. The science looks strong and they have good data in animals.
"But that's not to say this will work in humans. We are still years off that. It's very much mechanistic. It moves us closer to understanding how the plumbing might work.
"At least with kidneys, we can dialyse patients for a while so there would be time to grow kidneys if that becomes possible."
Other scientists have looked at rejuvenating old organs that would not normally be suitable for transplanting. Prof Harald Ott and colleagues have been testing out a method that washes away the tissue from dead organs to leave a scaffold that can be repopulated with healthy new cells.
They have built kidneys, hearts and lungs in this way.
Prof Ott says using a scaffold is a good short cut, rather than having to grow whole structures from scratch. | Scientists say they are a step closer to growing fully functioning replacement kidneys, after promising results in animals. | 34312125 |
Just before May's general election Miss Blackwood, now Conservative MP for Oxford West and Abingdon, revealed she had Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.
The condition affects the joints and muscles and can lead to constant pain.
Miss Blackwood is campaigning to reduce the "stigma" for people with "chronic illnesses".
She was diagnosed with the genetic condition two years ago, after suffering joint pain, migraines and asthma.
She said she made the decision to go public before the election because she felt it was "right" that people knew about her illness.
She wanted also to show that people with hidden conditions can still do "stressful, high-profile jobs".
Miss Blackwood said: "One of the reasons why I spoke out publicly was I felt it was important to be clear it's not a terminal illness, and even though it's chronic it's perfectly possible to carry on a normal life and get on with things.
"I think we still suffer in this country with quite a stigma around disability and chronic illness and we have to get over it."
Talking to BBC Oxford, Miss Blackwood said she made changes to her diet and took up Pilates to help manage the condition. | Oxford MP Nicola Blackwood has spoken out about her "hidden illness" to raise awareness of people living with debilitating conditions. | 33133119 |
Keith Tulsie, a BT manager from Salford, began fundraising after the death of a friend's daughter from a heart condition at the age of 19.
The 52-year-old said he was "humbled" to be given a British Empire Medal.
"Receiving this award means so much to me and everybody involved with Georgia's Children of the World."
The charity was set up after the death of Georgia Murray in 2010.
Since then, four learning centres have been established to support the education and development of underprivileged children in Cambodia and Romania.
This year, the charity opened its fifth venue - known as a Georgia's House - in Salford.
About 3,500 people also attended the annual G-Fest music festival in Worsley this spring to raise funds.
Mr Tulsie's name was put forward by former colleague Roy Hammond who helped to decorate one of the centres.
He said he nominated him because of "the colossal passion and pride Keith showed for the charity was so obvious that I felt compelled to try and publicly acknowledge his commitment".
Other people from Greater Manchester and east Cheshire in the New Year Honours list include: | A man who helped to raise £100,000 for disadvantaged children has said he is "over the moon" at being recognised in the New Year Honours. | 38461371 |
The 22-year-old made 12 league starts for Newport after arriving in January and helped them avoid relegation.
He made 35 appearances in all competitions in the 2016-17 season, for a combination of his former side Mansfield Town and the Welsh outfit.
Rose, who will join Grimsby on 1 July, is the younger brother of Tottenham Hotspur and England left-back Danny.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | Grimsby Town have signed midfielder Mitch Rose from fellow League Two club Newport County on a two-year contract. | 40002621 |
Amonkar, who enthralled audiences with her soulful singing for decades, died on Monday night at her house in Mumbai.
The singer followed the classical Hindustani school of singing, but was known for creating her own distinctive style.
Many, including legendary Bollywood singer Lata Mangeshkar, have paid tributes to Amonkar, and acknowledged her "great contribution" to music.
As news of her death broke, many people took to social media to pay tribute. The hashtag #kishoriamonkar has begun trending on Twitter India. | Renowned Indian singer Kishori Amonkar has died at the age of 86. | 39487737 |
At one point, shares in the company were up 35%, but they then fell back to close 13.7% higher.
Without citing sources, Kyodo News said a state-backed fund may invest in Sharp if Japanese lenders agreed to write off an unspecified amount of its debt.
Kyodo said the banks were expected to consider the plan, among other options.
In May, the firm agreed to a 200bn yen ($1.7bn; £1bn) bailout from banks and announced more job cuts.
Mizuho Bank and Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ each provided a 100bn yen investment in Sharp. It is also received 25bn yen from Japan Industrial Solutions to help fund its "business growth strategy".
The bailout was the firm's second in three years and was announced as Sharp reported larger-than-expected losses for the year to March 2015.
The report said that if Sharp's debts were cut, the government-backed Innovation Network Corporation of Japan - which was created to help increase the competitiveness of Japanese firms - might spin off the firm's troubled liquid display business (LCD).
The firm's LCD unit saw a loss of 12.7bn yen ($102m; £67m) for the quarter to September. In October, Sharp cut its earnings outlook for the full year to March 2016 to 10bn yen from 80bn yen.
The tech giant, which makes televisions, solar panels, tablets and phones, has been facing stiff competition from cheaper Taiwanese, South Korean and Chinese electronics firms.
Last week, Sharp said it wanted its workers to buy its products, in a attempt to boost sales.
The electronics giant said it was not mandatory for staff to buy its goods, but confirmed it wanted workers to choose its products over that of its competitors.
Sharp has also announced cost-cutting plans such as selling the company's Osaka headquarters and pulling out of the television business in North America. | Shares in troubled electronics maker Sharp have surged on a report that its lenders might waive some of its debts to allow new investment. | 34907589 |
John Beeden, 53, set off from San Francisco on 1 June and rowed for an average of 15 hours a day.
He had hoped to reach Cairns in north-east Australia weeks ago, but was slowed down by bad weather.
Mr Beeden, who rowed across the Atlantic four years ago, said there were times when he didn't think he could go on.
"To be the first person to achieve something on this scale is incredible really, and I haven't processed it yet," added Mr Beeden, who is originally from the northern English city of Sheffield but now lives in Canada.
He thanked the people of Cairns for a "brilliant reception" after 209 days at sea.
There have been some nine successful rows across the Pacific Ocean.
Some of those crossings were completed in stages while others left from South America, rather than from North America as Mr Beeden did.
John Fairfax and Sylvia Cook crossed the Pacific in 1971-72, leaving San Francisco and arriving at Hayman Island in Australia.
They became the first people to cross the Pacific and Ms Cook became the first woman to cross any ocean. They stopped along the way.
In 1983 Peter Bird set off on a solo rowing trip across the Pacific from San Francisco. He had to be rescued by the Australian navy 294 days later, coming within reach of the Great Barrier Reef.
Mr Beeden's wife Cheryl said: "He's an amazing guy, he's different than a lot of other people - he'll always fight to get the mile when he's having a bad day... he'll always be rowing.
"Always knew he could do it, it just took a lot longer than we expected and just glad that he's home and safe."
She added: "I kind of think it's like childbirth because he says he's not going to get in another boat for a while - but I am sure in a couple of weeks he'll be having some other adventure, and I will have to restrain him a little bit." | A Briton has completed the first non-stop solo row across the Pacific from North America to Australia. | 35186209 |
It topped the poll with 806,959 votes, while the Conservatives won two seats with 495,639 votes.
UKIP and the Green Party each retained one seat with 371,133 and 196,419 votes respectively.
The Liberal Democrats, who came fifth overall, lost their MEP in London, with the Tories also down one.
Before the results were out and the sitting Lib Dem MEP Baroness Sarah Ludford lost her seat, she seemed to sense the party may not do well.
She said: "It's nobody's fault, I don't think. I am certainly not blaming anybody, I am not going around asking for anybody's head.
By Karl MercerPolitical Correspondent, BBC London
So, for the first time in 15 years, the Lib Dems have no London representative at the European Parliament.
Baroness Ludford bowing out at City Hall last night capped a miserable couple of days for the party here in the capital, with Londoners turning against the party in both the town hall and European elections.
The scale of their demise is hard to exaggerate. The Lib Dems now have no local councillors on 18 of London's 32 boroughs.
On half a dozen more, they have just one councillor. In total across the capital, they lost half of their local representatives and now have just over 120 councillors.
They run just one London council, Sutton.
This of course, on the back of their disastrous mayoral election campaign in 2012, when their candidate Brian Paddick polled less than 5% of the vote and lost his deposit.
Coalition it seems, has not served the Lib Dems well when it comes to getting votes in the capital.
If that's bad enough news now, there will be several Lib Dem MPs looking nervously at the results ahead of next year's general election.
International Development Minister Lynne Featherstone will have noted that the Lib Dems lost 14 councillors in Haringey, Justice Minister Simon Hughes saw a dozen go from his local authority Southwark, and former Education Minister Sarah Teather (who is standing down next year) saw the party down to just one councillor in Brent.
Energy Secretary Ed Davey will no doubt ponder the fact that the Lib Dems lost control of Kingston, in his backyard.
The capital's Lib Dems won't have long to reflect on the past few days - they will have to start preparing for equally tough battles ahead.
"I am proud of the campaign we fought, I am proud of Nick Clegg taking on Nigel Farage and his divisive fear-mongering, whipping up prejudiced attitudes, I am proud that we have fought a pro-European campaign."
Later she added: "I think it's a great shame that Europe's premier city does not have an MEP now from the pro-European party the Liberal Democrats."
Former Lib Dem leader Sir Menzies Campbell said: "Deeply disappointed, for me and the party, but particularly for people like Sarah Ludford, who has been a tower of strength in the European Parliament, highly regarded, taken a particular interest in human rights, and represented the people of London in a wholly effective and well-judged way."
Labour candidates Claude Moraes, Mary Honeyball, Lucy Anderson and Seb Dance all took seats.
Mr Moraes said Labour's performance was an "extraordinary result" which "bucked" the national trend.
He said: "It's our best result in London in the European elections since the PR system began.
"Labour is generally a pro-European party but sees London's future as an internationally outward-looking city, at ease with itself and at ease with the kind of issues UKIP's scaring everyone about... but also bread and butter issues that we were not afraid to talk about on the doorstep, like the cost of living."
They will be joined by Charles Tannock and Dr Syed Kamall for the Conservatives, Gerard Batten for UKIP and Jean Lambert for the Green party.
After his win Mr Batten said: "In London my only regret is that we didn't get our second candidate elected, Paul Oakley, but we did double our share of the vote and in a number of boroughs I believe we either came second or first, in one at least. That's been a fantastic achievement."
Dr Kamall said: "Over the next few years we will continue as Conservative MEPs to stand up for London, its financial sector, its creative industries, its wonderful diversity.
"In Britain we have a long-term plan to fix the economic mess that we inherited and in Europe we will continue to build the coalitions across parties... to make sure we deliver the reform that we need."
Prof Tony Travers, the director of the Greater London Group at the London School of Economics said: "There is some evidence from opinion polls that Londoners have a different view, more optimistic and more positive about the EU than the country as a whole.
"In some polls, interestingly, London and Scotland have a similar view about Europe and it is more positive than the other parts of the UK.
"It's the proximity to Europe on one hand and the particular make up of London's population I think [which] makes it more positive about Europe and less likely to vote UKIP."
Seats in the European Parliament are allocated according to the D'Hondt system, a type of proportional representation. | Labour has doubled its number of MEPs in London after winning half of the region's eight seats in the European election. | 27572644 |
Referee Wayne Barnes asked television match official Peter Fitzgibbon to check the incident, but he could not find any clear footage so the game resumed without action being taken.
Citing commissioner John Montgomery was also unable to find clear evidence.
But there could be action taken over France's replacement of Uini Atonio.
Wales coach Rob Howley said he was left to "question the integrity of our game" after France replaced prop Atonio with Rabah Slimani during the 20 minutes of added time that were played.
France's team doctor said Atonio needed to go off for a head injury assessment.
Six Nations Rugby said it was "aware of concerns" about the incident and "is looking into the matter", but no action would be taken over North's allegation.
A statement read: "Based on the information available to him in the case of the alleged bite (including footage of the incident from several angles), the citing commissioner has not been able to conclude that any particular individual carried out an act of foul play, and accordingly he has not made a citing complaint ahead of the ordinary deadline for doing so, ie within 48 hours after the conclusion of the match.
"While the relevant rules provide that in certain circumstances, for example where the citing commissioner is uncertain as to the identity of the player(s) concerned, he is permitted to make a citing complaint after the 48-hour deadline, Six Nations Rugby anticipates that this will be the end of the matter in terms of the alleged bite." | Six Nations officials will not take any action over an alleged bite on Wales wing George North during Saturday's 20-18 loss to France. | 39336621 |
Ddydd Mercher cyhoeddodd arweinydd yr SNP ei bod hi'n bwriadu gofyn am ail bleidlais, a hynny oherwydd y gwahaniaethau yn safbwyntiau llywodraethau'r Alban a'r DU wrth ddelio â Brexit.
Yn sgil hynny dywedodd Ms Wood y dylid cynnal "trafodaeth genedlaethol i ystyried yr holl opsiynau, gan gynnwys Cymru annibynnol".
Ond wfftio hynny wnaeth arweinydd y Ceidwadwyr Cymreig, Andrew RT Davies, a mynnodd llefarydd ar ran y Prif Weinidog Carwyn Jones bod "pedair cenedl y DU yn gryfach gyda'i gilydd nag ar wahân".
Dywedodd Ms Sturgeon mai ei bwriad hi oedd cynnal ail refferendwm ar annibyniaeth rhywbryd rhwng hydref 2018 a gwanwyn 2019, a hynny am nad oedd llywodraeth y DU yn rhoi digon o ystyriaeth i'r Alban yn y trafodaethau Brexit.
Yn sgil hynny mynnodd Ms Wood y dylai Cymru hefyd ystyried ei dyfodol yn y DU.
"Mae Plaid Cymru wedi dweud eisoes nad oedd aros yn rhan o 'Gymru a Lloegr' yn opsiwn ar y papur pleidleisio yn y refferendwm ar Ewrop," meddai.
"Mae'n rhaid i drafodaeth genedlaethol i edrych ar yr holl opsiynau, gan gynnwys Cymru annibynnol, ddigwydd yng Nghymru pan mae'r senario'n dod yn un realistig.
"Mae Plaid Cymru yn credu y dylai penderfyniadau am Gymru gael eu gwneud yng Nghymru, ac mae'r ffordd mae'r Brexit caled yma'n cael ei ddilyn yn dangos yn union pam fod angen gwneud hynny."
Wrth ymateb i sylwadau Ms Sturgeon, dywedodd llefarydd ar ran Carwyn Jones fod "dyfodol cyfansoddiadol yr Alban yn fater i bobl yr Alban".
"Fodd bynnag, mae'r Prif Weinidog yn glir fod pedair cenedl y DU yn gryfach gyda'i gilydd nag ar wahân," ychwanegodd.
Mynnodd Andrew RT Davies mai siarad ar ran "buddiannau'r SNP" oedd Ms Sturgeon, yn hytrach na phobl yr Alban.
"Fel eu cyd-genedlaetholwyr, Plaid Cymru, dim ond un peth y mae'r SNP eisiau: annibyniaeth," meddai.
"Mae popeth maen nhw ei ddweud a'i wneud wedi anelu at y perwyl hwnnw - er bod mwyafrif o bobl yn dweud dro ar ôl tro nad ydyn nhw am ddychwelyd i raniadau milain refferendwm arall."
Ond fe ddywedodd arweinydd UKIP yn y Cynulliad, Neil Hamilton ei fod yn "croesawu" galwadau Ms Sturgeon - a Ms Wood - am refferenda ar annibyniaeth.
"Dyw hi byth yn anghywir i holi'r bobl. Rwy'n rhoi fy nghefnogaeth lawn i Nicola Sturgeon wrth gynnal refferendwm arall er mwyn dod â'r mater i derfyn unwaith ac am byth," meddai.
"Rwy hefyd yn herio Leanne Wood i alw am refferendwm ar annibyniaeth i Gymru. Byddai hyn yn dangos cyn lleied o gefnogaeth sydd gan Blaid Cymru i'w polisi o gael eu rheoli gan Frwsel, yn hytrach na Chaerdydd/San Steffan." | Mae arweinydd Plaid Cymru, Leanne Wood wedi dweud bod "angen i Gymru benderfynu ar ei dyfodol" yn sgil cyhoeddiad Nicola Sturgeon ei bod am i'r Alban gynnal ail refferendwm ar annibyniaeth. | 39253456 |
The colourful phenomenon was visible in Scotland and Northern Ireland, but was also spotted as far south as Anglesey and Oxfordshire.
But Lancaster University's AuroraWatch UK missed sending out an alert advising the public of potential sightings.
To improve accuracy, it is now using kit in Aberdeen rather than Lancaster.
The Scottish city's potential for seeing the aurora, also known as the Northern Lights, is celebrated in the traditional Scottish song, The Northern Lights of Old Aberdeen.
Lancaster University, which regularly provides advance warnings of the aurora, issued an apology and a detailed explanation to why it missed the displays earlier this year.
In a new statement, it said: "Following on from that missed event, we have been working on a few changes to our alert system to hopefully improve our alert level accuracy.
"Whilst some of those changes are still being worked on and tested, today we made the switch to using data from our Aberdeen magnetometer, rather than our Lancaster magnetometer, to generate alerts.
"Because Aberdeen is quite a bit further north than Lancaster, our magnetometer there records higher levels of disturbance in the earth's magnetic field. This means that we are more likely to issue alerts, and of a higher level, than before."
Aurora Borealis occurs when electrically-charged particles from the Sun enter the Earth's atmosphere. | Aurora Borealis watchers have switched from using detection equipment in England to kit in Scotland after missing spectacular displays in March. | 36424588 |
The Gulls thought they had clinched the points 12 minutes from time when Jamie Reid's cross was bundled in at the far post by Ruari Keating.
However, the Imps equalised in the 86th minute when a shot from Adam Marriott was parried by Brendan Moore only for substitute Harry Anderson to score from the rebound.
The home side then secured their fifth successive victory two minutes later when Sam Habergham fired a free-kick into the top corner.
Lincoln dominated the first half and Gulls keeper Brendan Moore had to be on his toes twice to deny Jack Muldoon, although at the other end Paul Farman made a brilliant save to keep out a corner at the near post.
Match report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Lincoln City 2, Torquay United 1.
Second Half ends, Lincoln City 2, Torquay United 1.
Substitution, Torquay United. Brett Williams replaces Myles Anderson.
Substitution, Torquay United. Shaun Harrad replaces Ruairi Keating.
Goal! Lincoln City 2, Torquay United 1. Sam Habergham (Lincoln City).
Goal! Lincoln City 1, Torquay United 1. Harry Anderson (Lincoln City).
Substitution, Torquay United. Ben Gerring replaces Damon Lathrope.
Goal! Lincoln City 0, Torquay United 1. Ruairi Keating (Torquay United).
Harry Anderson (Lincoln City) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Lincoln City. Adam Marriott replaces Jack Muldoon.
Substitution, Lincoln City. Harry Anderson replaces Josh Ginnelly.
Substitution, Lincoln City. Elliot Whitehouse replaces Billy Knott.
Second Half begins Lincoln City 0, Torquay United 0.
First Half ends, Lincoln City 0, Torquay United 0.
Ruairi Keating (Torquay United) is shown the yellow card.
Shaun Harrad (Torquay United) is shown the yellow card.
Myles Anderson (Torquay United) is shown the yellow card.
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up. | Lincoln scored twice in the final five minutes to secure a 2-1 win against relegation-threatened Torquay and move five points clear at the top of the National League table. | 39523620 |
The 90-year-old statesman underwent surgery to remove a small mass in his liver earlier this month.
He said he would reveal more "when facts are known, possibly next week".
Mr Carter will undergo treatment by physicians at Emory Healthcare in Atlanta.
President Barack Obama wished Mr Carter "a full and fast recovery" in a statement released on Wednesday.
"Jimmy, you're as resilient as they come, and along with the rest of America, we are rooting for you," Mr Obama said.
The White House said Mr Obama spoke to Mr Carter on the telephone on Wednesday.
Bernice King, daughter of Martin Luther King Jr, posted on Twitter: "President #JimmyCarter is in my thoughts & prayers. May the Lord heal, comfort & encourage this extraordinary servant-leader to the world."
Leaving the White House in 1981, Mr Carter has remained active carrying out humanitarian efforts with his Carter Center in recent years.
He founded the centre, which focuses on human-rights efforts and political mediation, soon after he left office.
He was later responsible for negotiating a 1994 nuclear disarmament pact with North Korea and has visited Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in recent years.
A Democrat from Georgia, Mr Carter was elected president in 1976.
He won the Nobel Peace prize in 2002 for his commitment to finding peaceful solutions to international conflicts, his work with human rights and democracy initiatives and his promotion of economic and social programmes.
The BBC interviewed Mr Carter in February about his efforts to eradicate guinea worm disease and in the South Sudan and Mali and river blindness in both Africa and Latin America.
He said then he was happy to still be travelling and doing work across the globe.
But in May, he returned early from a trip to observe elections in Ghana because he was "not feeling well".
Mr Carter has been recently promoting his latest book, A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety, which was released in July. | Former US President Jimmy Carter says recent liver surgery revealed that he has cancer and it has spread to other parts of his body. | 33898331 |
The total is double what it was in 2013 - and means one in nine positions is now vacant, according to the analysis by the Royal College of Nursing.
The union said the situation was dangerous, blaming the stress of working in the NHS and the cap on pay rises for the problem.
But the Conservatives said plans were in place to tackle the issue.
The party has said the extra money being invested - an average of 1% a year between 2010 and 2020 - is enabling ministers to ensure patient safety is prioritised and, despite the vacancies, the number of nurses employed is still rising.
Between 2010 and 2016 the numbers employed have risen by 2% to just over 300,000 full-time nurses.
The RCN, which is holding its annual conference in Liverpool, does not dispute this, instead it has looked at how many nurses NHS trusts needed to employ, but cannot.
It relied on freedom of information requests to obtain data from all types of NHS trusts for the end of 2016 and received responses from three-quarters.
They suggested on top of the nurses employed there were another 40,000 posts unfilled across the whole health service.
This equates to a vacancy rate of over 11% and compares to a total of 20,000 when the RCN last carried out similar research in 2013.
The rate was greatest in mental health services where more than 14% of posts were empty, compared to close to 8% in specialist services, such as cancer and heart hospitals.
Official figures in Scotland and Northern Ireland show a much lower vacancy rate at around 4% in each nation. Figures were not available for Wales.
Feedback from senior nurses showed four in five felt the NHS was only able to keep services running because of the "goodwill" of staff.
The research also suggested the NHS was increasingly turning to lower skilled staff, such as health care assistants, as they struggle to recruit enough nurses.
The RCN said the cap on pay rises, which is continuing until 2019, was a major factor. Results of a poll on strike action over this is due on Sunday.
RCN general secretary Janet Davies said the shortages were "dangerous" as they were now risking patient care.
"A lethal cocktail of factors in the NHS has resulted in too few registered nurses and patient care is suffering."
She said the situation could get even worse in future years because the NHS was so reliant on nurses from Europe and numbers could be affected by Brexit.
Ms Davies said it was now time to introduce strict rules on safe staffing, while lifting the pay cap. These are both things Labour has promised if it forms the next government.
It comes after NHS Providers, which represents trusts, warned last week that retaining staff was a major concern for NHS bosses, with reports of low-paid staff leaving to work in supermarkets.
Sam (not her real name) has only been working as a nurse for 18 months, but already she is looking to leave the profession.
"The pay is an issue, but it's the pressure that is the key thing. I work in an emergency department and we are constantly understaffed. I should have not more than four or five patients, but it is always more than that. And we rely heavily on agency staff and that puts more pressure on - and I am newly qualified.
"It means I can't provide the safe care I want to. I am rushing from patient to patient. We are having to discharge them before they are ready. It is really upsetting.
"The other week an elderly patient came in from a nursing home, but the doctors could not attend to her. She had a cardiac arrest. I had to perform CPR. I just can't keep working in these conditions. I need to get out."
Liberal Democrat health spokesman Norman Lamb said the number of unfilled posts was a "scandal".
"The Conservatives are bleeding the NHS dry," he added.
Meanwhile, Labour's shadow health secretary Jon Ashworth described it as "terrible news" for patients.
But the Conservatives have argued that the figures put forward on pay ignore the fact that half the workforce receive annual progression-in-the-job rises which bring the yearly rises to 3% on average for those with them.
A spokesman added that introducing safe staffing levels could undermine the "judgement" of senior doctors and nurses, but ministers remained determined to "ensure that standards of safety continue to rise".
He said a Labour government would put NHS services at risk because of its bad economic policies. | The NHS in England is drastically short of the nurses it needs, with 40,000 posts unfilled, figures suggest. | 39890235 |
According to executive producer Brad Simpson, the second season of the FX series will be "even more massive and more sprawling" than its predecessor.
"There were crimes that happened during Katrina - murders, rapes," he said.
"And there's also the crime of us not rescuing these people and not being prepared to take care of New Orleans."
More than 1,800 people were killed when Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf coast in August 2005, flooding 80% of New Orleans.
The disaster, the costliest in US history, caused estimated economic losses of $125bn (£95.7bn).
At a panel event in Los Angeles on Tuesday, Brad Simpson said Katrina was "a natural disaster waiting to happen".
Scripts are currently being written for the drama, which will premiere on the FX network in 2017.
American Crime Story: The People vs OJ Simpson dramatised the arrest, trial and subsequent acquittal of the former American football star.
Simpson had been accused of murdering his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ronald Goldman, on 12 June 1994.
The series received 22 Emmy nominations last month, with six of them going to members of its cast.
Brad Simpson said he would like to cast some of the show's actors in its follow-up, but only "if there are roles for them". | The makers of American Crime Story are to follow their Emmy-nominated drama about OJ Simpson's murder trial with one on the impact of Hurricane Katrina. | 37032321 |
The prime minister faces a very different - and potentially more difficult - challenge now that he has a Commons majority of his own.
When he was the leader of a coalition government, he could command a majority of 76. He now has a majority of 12.
Every vote could potentially turn into a cliff hanger, with the prime minister's authority on the line.
The Liberal Democrats proved to be remarkably reliable coalition partners, voting through the vast majority of coalition policy, even when it was not in their own manifesto.
There were rebellions, over tuition fees (although the legislation got through with the votes of the Lib Dem frontbench), press regulation and Europe.
But much of the Conservative legislation that the Lib Dem leadership objected to was never put to the vote because Nick Clegg would not support it.
Some of this - such as the abolition of the Human Rights Act and the greater powers to monitor internet communications, the so-called "snooper's charter" - will be among the new government's first priorities and will be highly unlikely to meet much resistance from the Conservative benches.
But a sizeable group of Conservative backbenchers got used to rebelling against the government during the last Parliament and some may find it a hard habit to break. Which is why Mark Harper's role as the government chief whip - in charge of party discipline - will be a crucial one in Mr Cameron's new cabinet.
And if the next Labour leader is someone who can marshal his or her troops effectively and form alliances with other parties to keep pressure on the government, they have the power to make Mr Cameron's life a misery.
The prime minister is likely to get a honeymoon period from his own party.
One of the first people through the door at Number 10 when Mr Cameron claimed victory on Friday was Graham Brady, chairman of the 1922 committee, the mouthpiece of Conservative backbenchers.
Mr Brady said the prime minister had made a "very open offer" to the committee to involve them in policy making - almost an echo of the "open and comprehensive" offer Mr Cameron made to the Lib Dems in 2010.
Mr Brady said he hoped the leadership and backbenchers would work "harmoniously" and he was sure his colleagues would rise to Mr Cameron's offer "and try to respond in a constructive way".
"I hope that there will be a much wider conversation and starting much earlier in the policy development process, so that we ought to be able to anticipate problems and difficulties and work together to make sure that we can be as harmonious as possible in the obviously quite difficult confines of a very small parliamentary majority."
As a young Tory adviser in the early 1990s, Mr Cameron will have witnessed at first hand the difficulties of governing with a slender Commons majority and what can happen when your own backbenchers turn against you.
John Major began his time at prime minister with a majority of 21 seats - almost double Mr Cameron's - but by the end of his time in power he was facing a nightly battle to get legislation through after losing his majority altogether.
An organised rebellion over Europe - and the Maastricht Treaty - had turned Mr Major into a prime minister widely seen as lacking authority.
Mr Cameron may find he has to rely on the support of smaller parties to avoid a similar fate.
He may come to an arrangement the Democratic Unionist Party, which has eight MPs, although no decision has been reached about this.
The party would be likely to demand a price, in the form of economic help for their constituencies in Northern Ireland, in return for a formal agreement to support the government in key Commons votes.
Mr Cameron may even find himself relying on UKIP which - despite gaining 13% of the vote on Thursday - only has one MP, the former Tory maverick Douglas Carswell, in a knife-edge Commons vote.
The Lib Dems, with eight MPs, might also be called upon to support the Conservatives, although their new leader may wish to distance himself from the coalition era that did so much damage to the party. | David Cameron's new Conservative government has a small majority - how will he manage to get his planned legislation through the House of Commons? | 32671989 |
Tata Steel, which employs more than 7,500 people in Wales, revealed plans to close the final salary pension scheme on Friday.
Trade unions accuse Tata Steel of being "hell bent" on closing the pension scheme and refusing to compromise.
Tata said it will consult employees on the closure of the pension scheme.
The firm has sites in Port Talbot, Llanwern in Newport, Shotton in Flintshire and Trostre, Carmarthenshire.
A company spokesman said: "We have been unable come to an agreement that would have enabled defined benefit provision to continue.
"We remain committed to providing employees with competitive future pension provision,"
It proposes to replace the current pension scheme with a defined contribution one.
Roy Rickhuss, general secretary of the Community trade union, said Tata's decision to close the current scheme is "unnecessary and profoundly disappointing".
He said: "We have made every effort to compromise with the company, even discussing the possibility of meeting the deficit through changes to member benefits. Sadly, the company rejected this offer.
"We have lost all faith in the company and its leadership, which has brought us to the brink of a major national industrial dispute for the first time in over 30 years."
Tata Steel insists that it is cooperating with the unions.
"Those discussions have been held in a constructive and transparent atmosphere," said its spokesman. | Unions representing Tata Steel workers in Wales are set to ballot members over industrial action after a plan to close their pension scheme was announced. | 31877875 |
Ian Paterson denied accusations that he did not make notes and also said the lack of records was "frustrating".
Mr Paterson, 59, is on trial at Nottingham Crown Court and denies 20 counts of wounding with intent.
The procedures relate to nine women and one man and were carried out between 1997 and 2011.
Giving evidence Mr Paterson, of Castle Mill Lane, Ashley, Altrincham, told how copies of clinical meetings, attended by other medical experts, to discuss a second opinion for patients would be shredded.
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In earlier evidence he had described the lack of records of what were known as MDT (multi-disciplinary team) meetings as "frustrating".
Under cross examination by Julian Christopher QC, prosecuting, the surgeon described a process where notes would be ripped up or shredded.
He described how a breast cancer nurse would also take notes in "a series of diaries".
But Mr Paterson then added: "It's also interesting that those seem to have gone missing."
Asked what would have been in those diaries, the surgeon replied: "Find the diaries and I'll show you."
Asked by Mr Christopher if the reason no MDT notes could be found was because he had never made any, the surgeon replied: "That's not true."
Jurors have previously heard claims he carried out completely unnecessary operations for "obscure motives" which may have included a desire to "earn extra money".
The jury has heard prosecution expert evidence from two consultants, who claimed a different approach could have been adopted to Mr Paterson's alleged victims.
The surgeon was formerly employed by Heart of England NHS Trust and also practised at Spire Healthcare. | A breast cancer surgeon accused of carrying out unnecessary operations told a jury that patient notes had "gone missing". | 39479349 |
Trinity Culley, then aged nine, grabbed towels and delivered her sister while the family waited for an ambulance at their home in Fingringhoe, Essex.
Mum Dee said Trinity was "amazing but a bit embarrassed as she saw everything".
"We're certainly not going to have to have that 'where babies come from' talk with her after this," she said.
Mrs Culley, 28, went into labour two weeks early on 31 March.
"Trinity dashed downstairs and grabbed towels and covered me up," she said.
"She just said, 'It's alright mum, I've seen this on One Born Every Minute'."
Trinity was not allowed to watch the programme but had been doing so in secret in her room, Mrs Culley said.
Jasmin Elizabeth-Rose weighed in at 7lb 1oz (3.2kg) and arrived "in about five minutes".
Mrs Culley said she and husband Terry, 34, were "extremely proud" of their eldest daughter.
Trinity, who has since had her 10th birthday, was "chastised" for watching the show on her television "which was not meant for that sort of thing".
Mrs Culley said: "She just turned to me and said, 'Well mum, if I hadn't watched it, I wouldn't have known what to do, would I?'." | A girl delivered her mother's baby after "seeing how it was done" while secretly watching hospital television series One Born Every Minute. | 32349449 |
Unlike Caley Thistle, Dundee avoided relegation after bringing in Neil McCann with five games to go.
"Dundee made a brave decision in getting rid of Paul Hartley and replacing him," said ex-ICT man Wilson.
"And I think Inverness were a little bit weak and should have done the same thing then to give them a chance."
Dundee, who were second bottom of the Scottish Premiership at the time and one place above Caley Thistle, won their first two games under McCann, 42, and drew their third. McCann lost his next two in charge and left Dens Park on Monday - the same day as 36-year-old Foran's departure from the Caledonian Stadium.
"Dundee got the bounce and stayed up, while Inverness decided no and paid the consequences of that," Wilson told BBC Radio Scotland's Sportsound.
Foran joined Caley Thistle as a striker in 2009 and replaced John Hughes as manager last summer.
Wilson, 45, had two spells as a player with Inverness and was surprised the announcement of Foran's exit did not come sooner after last week's boardroom reshuffle that led to the departure of chairman Kenny Cameron.
"Kenny was keen on Richie before they gave John Hughes the job and I think he came out and said one day Richie will be the manager and then obviously 18 months down the line that transpired," said Wilson.
"I think Richie obviously lost an ally there, but the statement doesn't confirm whether Richie resigned, or whether he was sacked, or if there's some kind of negotiation."
Following relegation, Foran had spoken out about "a few bad apples in the dressing room" and Wilson thought that earlier criticism of his players had not helped a manager in his first season in the role.
"There was obviously a bit of a split in the dressing room," he said. "There were some senior players who weren't overjoyed by some of Richie's comments.
"It is different when your ability is being questioned, but when your attitude is being questioned, that's when they can decide whether they are going to play for that manager or not.
"There were a couple of occasions when I thought some had stopped playing.
"At times, he was too honest and there would be an outpouring and I don't think at times the players knew where they were going with him."
Former Caley Thistle assistant Maurice Malpas had been recruited to the coaching staff near the end of the season and they responded with three wins in their last four games.
"There was no mention of Maurice or Brian Rice either," said Wilson of the club statement.
"When Richie got the job, he was told he had to keep Brian Rice and he is a great assistant manager and coach.
"Maurice is there and Brian Rice is there. Is there a combination there? We are guessing at the minute."
However, Wilson says that whoever succeeds Foran has a tough task to return them to the Premiership.
"The Championship is going to be hard to get out of," he predicted.
"Granted, there's going to be no Rangers, Hearts or Hibs and Hamilton are not going to join them.
"There is a chance there, but this next decision is an absolutely huge one." | Inverness Caledonian Thistle paid the price for not parting with manager Richie Foran before the end of the season, says Barry Wilson. | 40088740 |
The GMB won a legal ruling over its bid to negotiate for more than 200 warehouse workers at the site but the firm is challenging the decision.
Supporters protested outside a Lidl store in Cardiff, saying further demonstrations will be held.
The company has argued that staff are already "fairly represented" in the business without unions.
GMB regional secretary John Phillips said: "Lidl must abandon attempts to subvert these rights and begin to bargain with their employees and to extend collective bargaining to their hard pressed retail workers.
"Promoting value for consumers must not be at the expense of workers' rights and decent labour standards."
In August, the Central Arbitration Committee (CAC), the independent tribunal with statutory powers over trade union recognition, dismissed Lidl's attempts to block warehouse workers in Bridgend from having union representation.
But the German-owned supermarket chain described that decision as "disappointing" and continues to challenge it.
"We continue to believe that our employees are fairly represented within the business, without having to deal with trade unions and creating a divided workforce," said a spokesperson following last month's ruling.
The firm has 637 stores and nine distribution centres in Britain, employing about 18,000 staff. | Trade union members have held a rally in a dispute over recognition at a Lidl supermarket warehouse in Bridgend. | 37410609 |
Hamilton, who must stop Rosberg winning to take the title fight to the final race of the season, was 0.102 seconds quicker in a tense battle.
Rosberg heads into the race with a 19-point advantage and will be crowned champion if he gains seven points or more on Hamilton.
Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen was third.
The Finn was 0.668secs behind Hamilton and ahead of Red Bull's Max Verstappen. Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel and Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo completed the top six.
Sunday's race is live at 16:00 GMT on the BBC Sport website and Radio 5 live.
The rain that had threatened throughout the day held off for qualifying, with only occasional light drizzle that did not affect the track.
But heavier and more persistent rain is predicted in Sao Paulo for the race on Sunday, which could bring the Red Bulls and Ferraris into play in the battle between the Mercedes drivers.
Hamilton looked on top form throughout qualifying, topping both the first and second sessions and leading by 0.162secs after the first runs in the top 10 shootout.
Both men improved on their final runs but Hamilton had just enough to hold off the German.
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Hamilton, who has never won in Brazil, said: "I felt quite comfortable in qualifying as I have done all weekend. Nico has been getting quicker and quicker but I have generally had him covered.
"This is the best I could have hoped for coming here. I think it is only my second pole here."
Hamilton said he "did not really mind" if rained, adding: "I am ready for anything."
Rosberg said: "It was an exciting qualifying, very close, Lewis was just marginally quicker in the end. My lap was very good as well, but as we have seen this year, pole is not always the guy who wins the race."
Mercedes were in a different league from the rest as Raikkonen edged a tight battle for third between the Ferrari and Red Bull drivers with a strong final lap.
The Finn was just 0.081secs quicker than Verstappen, with Vettel a further 0.01secs adrift and Ricciardo 0.045secs behind him.
Haas driver Romain Grosjean took an impressive seventh, ahead of the Force Indias of Nico Hulkenberg and Sergio Perez, who leapfrogged McLaren's Fernando Alonso with their final laps.
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But it was an improved performance from McLaren after a disappointing time in the past three races, with their most competitive-looking performance for some time. Alonso was in the top 10 throughout qualifying.
Alonso's team-mate Jenson Button, likely racing in his penultimate grand prix, was knocked out in first qualifying, in which he was 0.576secs slower than the Spaniard and qualified 17th.
Button complained of "very little front grip", but also of high-speed oversteer, a characteristic with which he has never been comfortable.
The gulf between the two was illustrated by the fact Alonso was quick enough on his first lap to not even feel the need to go out again to make sure of his place in second qualifying, for perhaps the first time in McLaren's new Honda era.
Jolyon Palmer put in another impressive performance for Renault, who have announced this week they are retaining him for 2017.
The Englishman qualified 16th, ahead of team-mate Kevin Magnussen, who was 18th, for the third time in four races.
Brazilian Grand Prix qualifying results
Brazilian Grand Prix coverage details | Lewis Hamilton narrowly beat Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg to what could be a crucial pole position at the Brazilian Grand Prix. | 37962979 |
Dead Girls Tell No Tales tells the behind-the-scenes story of Grace Archer's death in a fire.
The BBC said the drama, which airs later this year on Radio 4, would depict "life in and around The Archers' production office and studio" in 1955.
The cast will feature Ysanne Churchman, the original Grace Archer, who is now 90 years old.
Churchman said: "It was a great pleasure to be invited back to The Archers to record this momentous piece of radio drama and revisit the excitement of September 1955. Looking back on those days, it was another life."
The world's longest running radio soap opera, The Archers is set in the fictional Midlands village of Ambridge.
Twenty million people tuned in to the episode in which Grace Archer died in her husband Phil's arms after she tried to rescue a horse from a stable fire.
It has been the subject of much debate whether the plotline was timed to thwart the launch night of ITV - the BBC's commercial rival.
"This is a really special occasion for anyone who has ever been a listener to The Archers," said the programme's current editor Sean O'Connor.
"We're going to reminisce about the very beginnings of this extraordinary programme - but also unearth the mysteries that surrounded this landmark moment.
"I'm particularly thrilled to welcome back Ysanne Churchman who created an iconic character and was at the very heart of a genuinely game-changing moment in media history."
Dead Girls Tell No Tales, written by Joanna Toye, will feature other characters from the early years of the programme, including Dan and Doris Archer, Carol Grey and John Tregorran, plus Archers creator Godfrey Baseley.
It will be broadcast on 19 September, almost 60 years to the day after the pivotal episode was originally aired. | One of the most dramatic plotlines in The Archers is to be the subject of a special BBC radio drama. | 33288079 |
Cardiff-born Delve won 11 caps while playing for Bath and Gloucester between 2006 and 2010 before leaving for a Super Rugby deal with Melbourne Rebels.
"I'm really excited about this move," Delve, 32, told the region's website.
"It's a great opportunity for me to play with a quality team that I believe is going places."
Delve captained Melbourne, including a match against the 2013 Lions, while he also made a Wales tour appearance in a non-Test match in Australia in 2012.
He has been playing in Japan with the NEC Green Rockets for the past two seasons.
Delve's signing has been prompted by Ospreys having up to five back-row players involved in the World Cup next season.
"I've been really impressed by [Ospreys coaches] Steve Tandy and Andy Lloyd when we've met and I'm looking forward to helping them to achieve the vision that the Ospreys have," Delve added.
"There's a strong, competitive squad of players at the Ospreys, with some great young players who have real potential alongside some genuine world-class individuals.
"When you add some of the signings confirmed for next season, experienced people like Paul James and Brendon Leonard coming in, and Joe Bearman re-signing, I think it's a great blend."
Ospreys rugby general manager Andrew Millward told BBC Wales: "He'll [Delve] be challenging for a place week in, week out.
"We've got a lot of internationals in the back-row and he'll be adding to that mix, especially when some of the guys are away on international duty.
"What he brings is leadership, and what he can impart to the younger players is just as important."
"I've got no doubt he's kept himself in good shape in Japan. It's great that we've got such good representation [in the World Cup], we've just got to deal with it."
Delve can play blindside or number eight but will be competing with the likes of Dan Lydiate, James King, Dan Baker and Canadian Tyler Ardron for those positions. | Back-row Gareth Delve has signed a two-year contract with Ospreys and will now play professional rugby in Wales for the first time in his career. | 32071092 |
Residents of Godolphin Cross near Helston emailed him in a desperate attempt to raise funds.
The village shares a name with the world famous Godolphin stables, founded by the sheikh, Cornwall Live reports.
Richard Mckie from the Godolphin Cross Community Association said: "We are extremely appreciative."
The group needed £90,000 to buy the chapel that they intend to convert into a community centre, and had raised £25,000 towards it.
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It's not known how much was contributed by the sheikh, but Mr Mckie said "it has pushed us across the line".
One villager, Valerie Wallace, had the idea as a last ditch attempt, with the group having failed to raise sufficient funds elsewhere.
"We thought nothing of it and then we began to get phone calls from Dubai," Mr Mckie said.
"We thought we were being hoaxed but it was no hoax."
The sheikh, who has been invited to visit the village, was unavailable for comment.
The group now needs to raise a further £350,000 to restore the hall. | The ruler of Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, has helped a small Cornish village buy its Methodist chapel. | 40431594 |
Richard David Curtis, 57, from Bawtry, South Yorkshire, was stopped at the Port of Dover in November 2013.
He failed to attend trial at Maidstone Crown Court in November 2016 and was found guilty of evading more than £1.3m in excise duty.
He was jailed for three years nine months in his absence.
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A total of 5,729,900 cigarettes were found hidden under boxes of chips in Curtis' HGV. He told customs officers in Dover he had spent the weekend in Belgium before collecting the food, and was unaware the lorry contained illicit cigarettes.
A warrant was issued for his arrest after he failed to appear at court.
Curtis has links to Doncaster, the South Yorkshire area and Nottinghamshire.
HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) are appealing for anyone who knows where he is to contact 0800 595 000.
Alan Tully, of the HMRC fraud unit, said: "Richard Curtis gambled with his liberty in a brazen bid to profit from smuggling illicit cigarettes into the UK.
"He lost and now he must face up to his crime and come forward to begin his time behind bars." | A lorry driver is on the run after being caught smuggling more than five-and-a-half million cigarettes into the UK under boxes of frozen chips. | 39489070 |
30 September 2016 Last updated at 15:38 BST
The spacecraft made a planned crash-landing on to the surface of the comet on Friday afternoon, sending back lots of information to Earth in the process.
It left Earth back in 2004, with the mission to chase down 67P and study it.
It reached the comet in 2014, after a 10-year journey, and landed a space probe, called Philae, on to it.
But things didn't all go to plan, as Ricky's been finding out... | The epic Rosetta space mission to Comet 67P has come to end - with a bump! | 37510398 |
The school is introducing a "trouser uniform" and a "skirt uniform" that can be worn by pupils up to age 16, regardless of their biological gender.
At least one person with gender dysphoria has taken up the option, according to the college.
Head Richard Cairns said the change to its 170-year-old code followed requests from a "small number of families".
"It ties in with my strong personal belief that youngsters should be respected for who they are," he added.
"If some boys and girls are happier identifying with a different gender from that in which they were born, then my job is to make sure that we accommodate that.
"My only interest as headmaster is their welfare and happiness."
Mr Cairns said whereas most schools gave transgender pupils "personal leeway with uniform" he wanted to "abolish the notion of boys' and girls' schools altogether".
"Traditional uniform will be worn but the type of uniform will be a matter for the individual boy or girl, always assuming parental support."
Fred Dimbleby, a sixth-form pupil at the college, said the change had support across the school and gave Brighton College a "real sense of unity".
"I think it would be great if all schools took up this idea. Secondary school is such a formative period for people so it's important to encourage people to be who they are and who they want to be."
Brighton College teaches up to 900 pupils aged between 11 and 18. | Independent school Brighton College has scrapped its traditional uniform rules to accommodate transgender pupils. | 35362368 |
Excessive nitrate levels were detected in some powdered milk samples and the products were branded as sub-standard, Xinhua news agency said.
The watchdog urged Shaanxi to punish producers found to have broken laws.
The quality of milk products remains a sensitive topic in China after a deadly tainted milk scandal in 2008.
At least six children died and some 300,000 fell ill after consuming milk products contaminated by melamine at that time.
Imported milk became highly prized in China after the scandal.
In 2013, however, the mainland imposed a temporary ban on all imports of milk powder from New Zealand after its main dairy exporter, Fonterra, found a bacterial strain that can cause botulism in some of its products .
China continues to rely on New Zealand for almost all its imports of milk powder. | China's food safety watchdog has asked three milk producers in Shaanxi province to recall infant formula powder, Chinese state media report. | 33250844 |
Thirteen people were taken to hospital after the incident on Sunday at the Streets venue in Porthcawl.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission said it had received a referral from South Wales Police
A 24-year-old man is due to appear at Cardiff Crown Court on 9 November charged with a number of offences.
Jan Williams, the IPCC Commissioner for Wales, said: "A police van was in the vicinity shortly prior to the collision and our independent investigation will examine what police action was taken in respect of the Audi, and whether relevant procedures were followed."
The watchdog said police had passed a mandatory referral to them immediately after the incident on John Street.
The body is appealing for anyone who may have seen the white police van and any interactions with the Audi A4 car in or around the area prior to the crash to come forward. | A police watchdog has launched an investigation into how police may have been involved prior to a crash outside a Bridgend county nightclub. | 34681033 |
It follows a National Audit Office (NAO) report, which revealed that the rollout will cost at least £92m less than BT had originally said.
The government said that the spare cash would be ploughed back into offering fast broadband to more remote areas.
BT said that the claim - made by MPs on the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) - was "bizarre".
PAC told the BBC it questioned why BT had told the committee it would cost so much more.
"Although it's reassuring that the cost to the public purse could end up being £92m (25%) less than what BT had originally forecast in its bid, I worry that this does not stack up with what BT told my committee in 2013 - that it factors in a contingency of between 5% and 8%, which might not get spent, a much smaller proportion than 25%," Margaret Hodge, chair of the PAC, told the BBC.
"It is very concerning that it looks like BT could have abused its dominant position in the market by vastly overestimating forecast costs in the first place when it put in its original bid, and we also have broader concerns about whether the deal represents value for money."
In response BT said that its initial cost estimates were "based on our initial view of how much it would cost to deploy fibre in rural areas".
"We have come in under budget in several areas which is good news for the taxpayer as we only charge for the costs we incur, not those we first forecast. The savings can now be reinvested to take fibre to additional areas."
"The suggestion we inflated those costs is bizarre as by doing so we would have hindered our chances of winning the work."
"The NAO report this week confirmed our costs were 20% below those others would have charged in a sample area, so we are clearly delivering excellent value for money."
The distribution of broadband is overseen by Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK), part of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS).
The report found "significantly lower" costs than listed in BT's financial model for the first phase of the scheme.
"As at September 2014, BT's total reported capital spend on phase 1 of the programme was £142 million (38%) under the estimated price, including work in progress not yet invoiced," the NAO said.
Taking into account possible further costs, BT would still have spent "approximately £92m less", the report concludes.
This sum will be ploughed back into rural rollouts, the DCMS said.
"The savings realised so far, along with with projected future savings, will be reinvested in extending the current rollout plans."
Several reports have found that rural businesses, schools and homes are at a significant disadvantage because of poor broadband.
Bringing faster services to remote areas has proved to be highly controversial.
Questions have been raised about the time it has taken the government to start the rollout and whether the plans are ambitious enough.
Last year the Public Accounts Committee accused the government of mismanaging the project, and said BT released "wildly inaccurate" estimates of costs.
Mrs Hodge said at the time: "The taxpayer has been ripped off, with £1.2bn going to the shareholders of BT."
BT's status as the only operator providing rural broadband could actually be one of the reasons for costs being cut, said Andrew Ferguson, editor of the ThinkBroadband news site.
"It is interesting that a chunk of the savings are down to the fact that only one supplier won all the contracts, increasing the economies of scale, at the expense of competition," he said.
Mike Kiely, a former adviser to BDUK, has long argued that BT's estimates of the cost of distributing broadband to rural areas were far too high.
He felt vindicated by the findings, saying: "Thirty-eight per cent excess costs have been confirmed in the cost models used to calculate the milestone payments. Those monies - and there will be more - need to be used to extend the fibre rollout further."
He and others argue that BT should think about offering even faster broadband - by taking so-called "fibre-to-the-premise" technology, which offers significantly higher speeds than BT's preferred technology of "fibre-to-the-cabinet".
BT hopes to deliver speeds of up to 500Mbps (megabits per second) to homes via an innovative technology known as G.fast.
"We believe G.fast is the key to unlocking ultrafast speeds and we are prepared to upgrade large parts of our network should the pilots prove successful," chief executive Gavin Patterson said.
The firm expects to offer initial speeds of a few hundred megabits per second to millions of homes and businesses by 2020. | BT has been accused by MPs of "vastly overestimating" the cost of providing broadband to rural areas. | 31043548 |
Outside the court in the capital, Khartoum, the men's families rejoiced and sang, AFP news agency reports.
Yat Michael and Peter Yen Reith had faced a possible death sentence if convicted.
Sudan has a majority Muslim population governed by Islamic law, and Christians often complain of persecution.
Last year there was global condemnation when a Sudanese woman was sentenced to hang for apostasy - renouncing her religion - after marrying a Christian man.
Her sentence was overturned by an appeals court and she is now living in the US with her husband.
"I am feeling free because I was in jail for many months," Mr Michael told the Christian Solidarity Worldwide advocacy group after his release. He added that he felt as though he was "born again".
He was taken into custody last December after delivering a sermon in the capital.
His colleague, Mr Reith, was arrested the following month when he came to look for the clergyman.
The two, who belong to the South Sudan Presbyterian Evangelical Church, were found guilty of other minor charges.
Mr Michael was convicted of disturbing the peace and Mr Reith for participating in a criminal organisation.
"The sentence they served in prison is enough, release them immediately and return the mobile phones and laptops," Judge Ahmed Ghaboush is quoted by AFP as saying.
BBC Sudan analyst Mohanad Hashim says many in Khartoum believe the spying charges were fabricated and that the real battle with the authorities is over land.
Government officials want churches in the city to give up some of the vast tracts of land they own so that it can be used for investment, he says.
Churches have been reluctant to part with the land, even though their position has been weakened since South Sudan became independent in 2011. | A court in Sudan has freed two South Sudanese Christian pastors after acquitting them of charges that include spying and crimes against the state. | 33795358 |
The little girl, who has yet to be given a name, was born at 00:14.
She weighed in at 7lb 13oz. Both she and her mother, Kerry Docherty from Paisley, are reported to be doing well.
Elsewhere in Scotland, a boy was born at Forth Valley Royal Hospital at 03:30. Stacey and Jamie Pryde from Tillicoultry's son Flynn arrived weighing 7lb 9oz. | The first Christmas baby in Scotland is believed to have been born at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley. | 35178604 |
The ex-West Indies captain was fined A$10,000 (£4,900) by Melbourne Renegades for "inappropriate conduct" to TV journalist Mel McLaughlin.
Gayle hit two sixes before being caught in the deep as the Renegades managed 155-6 from their 20 overs.
Former England batsman Kevin Pietersen then plundered 67 not out from 43 balls to get the Stars home in 18 overs.
McLaughlin was in the Network Ten studio at Etihad Stadium as the Stars recorded their fourth win from six matches.
She was conducting a pitch-side interview with Gayle in the Renegades' previous match when he said: "To see your eyes for the first time is nice. Hopefully we can have a drink afterwards. Don't blush baby."
Melbourne Renegades said his comments were "completely inappropriate and disrespectful" and apologised to McLaughlin and to the public. | Chris Gayle made 21 in his first innings since being fined for asking a reporter on a date in a live interview. | 35271429 |
The unnamed man was driving a Ford Mondeo when the crash occurred at about 01:00 GMT on Manchester Road in Burnley. He died at the scene.
The 48-year-old taxi driver suffered serious chest and leg injuries and was taken to hospital.
His two female passengers, aged 58 and 38, also received head injuries. A third car, which was parked and unattended, was also damaged.
Lancashire Police said an investigation was under way and appealed for witnesses. | A 19-year-old driver has died after a collision with a taxi. | 34755468 |
The Pyramid Stage field was packed to see the star play hits like Dancing on the Ceiling, Hello and Say You Say Me.
The event then closed with rock legends The Who performing their hits on the Pyramid Stage as part of a world tour that has been billed as their last.
Paul Weller and Patti Smith also played and the Dalai Lama visited the site.
The exiled Tibetan spiritual leader was introduced on the main stage by Patti Smith after earlier delivering a speech in the Peace Garden.
The 177,000 festivalgoers are now making their way home from the Somerset site.
Richie's performance in the festival's traditional Sunday afternoon "legend" slot will be remembered as one of this year's highlights.
Organisers suggested the field could have been near its 120,000 capacity when he played.
His set included hits like All Night Long, We Are The World, Easy and Three Times A Lady.
Fans chanted the star's name and the security guards in front of the stage had even learned a dance that they performed when he played Dancing on the Ceiling.
After that song, Richie looked disbelievingly at the size of the crowd and repeated: "What the hell is going on?"
Richie was following in the footsteps of stars like Dolly Parton, Tom Jones and Neil Diamond, who have taken the Sunday afternoon slot in the past.
At the end of the night, The Who brought the festival to a close with a greatest hits set that included rock classics like Pinball Wizard, Baba O'Riley and Won't Get Fooled Again.
They also took a dig at Kanye West's claim, made during his Saturday headline slot, to be the world's greatest rock star.
The band's Glastonbury appearance was part of a world tour to mark their 50th anniversary, which singer Roger Daltrey has described as "the beginning of the long goodbye".
Elsewhere at the festival, dance favourites The Chemical Brothers ended proceedings on a high on the Other Stage, while there were also appearances by US singer-songwriter Ryan Adams, art-pop auteur FKA Twigs and FFS - a group made from merging Franz Ferdinand and Sparks.
Earlier, fans gave an enthusiastic reception to the Dalai Lama after he joined Patti Smith during her Pyramid Stage performance.
She presented him with a cake in advance of his 80th birthday on 6 July and led a rendition of Happy Birthday.
The Dalai Lama said he was an admirer of Patti Smith and her band. "I very much appreciate those singers and musicians - most of you with white hair," he said. "That voice and physical action looks very beautiful.
"That gives me encouragement. Myself, now 80 years old, I should be more like you." | Lionel Richie has drawn the biggest crowd of this year's Glastonbury Festival, with at least 100,000 people estimated to have watched the singer. | 33305940 |
Brig Gen Mohammed Suleiman was shot by a sniper while at a beach resort near the Mediterranean port of Tartous.
Israel has never commented publicly on suspicions that it was involved.
But a document leaked to The Intercept website by American whistleblower Edward Snowden says Israeli naval commandos were behind the shooting.
Former US intelligence officers said its classification markings indicated the National Security Agency (NSA), for whom Mr Snowden worked as a contractor, had made the discovery through monitoring Israeli communications.
Arab media reported at the time of Suleiman's killing said he was shot in the head and neck by a sniper on board a yacht on the night of 1 August 2008 while he was having dinner at his beachfront home.
Some sources said Suleiman was President Bashar al-Assad top security aide; others that he served as Syria's "liaison" with the militant Lebanese Shia movement, Hezbollah.
A 2007 cable from the US embassy in Damascus, published by Wikileaks in 2010, described him as "special presidential adviser for arms procurement and strategic weapons".
Another cable, sent after Suleiman's assassination, said the officer enjoyed a reputation as having "special status and proximity to Bashar". He was believed to have "managed special projects for Assad, some of which may have been unknown to the broader Syrian military leadership", it added.
The cable also said "the most obvious suspects are the Israelis".
[Syrian government] security services are well aware that the coastal city of Tartous would offer easier access to Israeli operatives than would more inland locations such as Damascus," it explained.
On Wednesday evening, The Intercept published a top-secret entry in the NSA's internal version of Wikipedia, called Intellipedia, which appeared to confirm the embassy's suspicions.
"The assassination of Syrian Brigadier General Mohammed Suleiman by Israeli naval commandos near Tartous, Syria, was the first known instance of Israel targeting a legitimate government official," it states.
The entry is labelled as "SI", which according to the US intelligence classification manual means it is "technical and intelligence information derived from the monitoring of foreign communications signals".
Neither the NSA nor a spokesperson for Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu responded to requests for comment, The Intercept said.
The Syrian government's investigation into Suleiman's death was redirected after $80m in cash was uncovered in his home, according to a 2009 US diplomatic cable. President Assad was said to be "devastated by the discovery" and wanted to find out "how the general acquired so much money".
Suleiman's death came less than six months after the assassination in Damascus of Hezbollah's military chief, Imad Mughniyeh, in what is now believed to have been a joint operation by Israel's Mossad intelligence service and the US Central Intelligence Agency. | Israeli special forces were responsible for the assassination of a Syrian military official in 2008, a leaked US intelligence file says. | 33548065 |
Either Ali Price, 23, who has yet to start a Test, or his more experienced Warriors team-mate Henry Prygos, 27, will start at scrum-half against Wales.
The other will be on the bench, with both playing regularly at club level with Scotland fly-half Finn Russell.
"That is the silver lining for us," said centre Jones, set for a sixth cap.
"It is a big loss with Greig being out but Henry and Ali both play regularly with Finn at Glasgow.
"So it could be a great thing that they have that partnership going already which can see us into the game. It's not like we have someone totally new coming in.
"They are both quality players, they both kick well, so I don't think it will be a problem for us.
"They are two different types of scrum-half. Henry is similar to Greig in that he marshalls the game really well, while Ali has quite a bit of pace and loves going forward.
"We have guys who are used to playing with both scrum-halves so it is up to the coaches what they want in the game."
With Laidlaw ruled out of the remainder of the tournament, all seven of Scotland's seven backs on Saturday have strong links with Glasgow. Five are current players, Sean Maitland is a former player and Jones is set to join Glasgow.
Price or Pyrgos will join Russell at half-back, Stuart Hogg and Tommy Seymour make up two-thirds of the back three, and Jones has swiftly forged a centre partnership with another Warrior, Alex Dunbar, that will be rekindled at club level next season.
The Edinburgh-born, England-raised Jones will leave Cape Town-based Super Rugby outfit Stormers to join Glasgow later this year.
"It's a fairly new partnership but I think we are improving game by game," Jones, 23, said of his midfield combination with Dunbar.
"Defensively we have got a little bit better. We've been working hard at making sure we talk to each other the whole time.
"On the attacking side we also complement each other quite well but we can definitely get better.
"We get on pretty well, so that helps. We're training with each other every day right now, so you see how each other plays, read what they are going to do and then react to it. It is the same in defence.
"It is not just with Alex, but the whole backline, because it is almost the entire Glasgow backline."
With the fit-again Ryan Wilson set to return to the back row for the injured Josh Strauss, the other main interest apart from who starts at scrum-half when Vern Cotter confirms his line-up on Thursday will be the identity of his new captain.
The choice appears to be between experienced flanker John Barclay, assuming he has fully recovered from head and shoulder knocks sustained against France, and 22-year-old lock Jonny Gray - a co-captain of Glasgow - who both performed the role after Laidlaw's departure against France.
Pyrgos and veteran hooker Ross Ford have also led Scotland in the past, though neither is assured of a starting spot.
"Greig is a fantastic leader and captain so obviously it's a big loss," Jones added. "It just means the rest of the leadership group come together and they take charge.
"We have got other great players, other tacticians on the field and other leaders to step up. It is shame losing Greig but it is a great opportunity for other guys to show what they are worth." | Huw Jones says a new Glasgow half-back combination can be a "silver lining" for Scotland's Six Nations hopes after the loss of captain Greig Laidlaw. | 39054487 |
The group have embarked on a world tour to celebrate the 30th anniversary of their seminal album.
They will play every song from the 1987 album, which included hits such as Where the Streets Have No Name and With or Without You.
At the BC Place Stadium on Friday, they opened the set with Sunday Bloody Sunday and closed with a brand new unreleased song - Little Things.
English rock band Mumford & Sons were the supporting act.
The tour will take in more than 30 shows across North America and Europe, including dates in London and at Dublin's Croke Park, where the band played a triumphant homecoming show on the original Joshua Tree tour. | Irish rock band U2 have opened their Joshua Tree tour in Vancouver, Canada. | 39909070 |
But the EastEnders battleaxe is making a comeback and she's not alone.
Cindy Beale and Kathy Mitchell are also returning to the Square for a Children in Need special to be shown later this month.
They'll all be paying Ian Beale a ghostly visit after he is knocked unconscious by the door of a washing machine in the launderette.
The haunting trio will be joined by Ian's daughter Lucy, whose killer has not yet been found.
Adam Woodyatt, who plays Ian Beale said: "I don't want to spoil it but Ian is really happy to see some faces and completely knocked for six by others, but then again I think finding your late ex-wife in your kitchen is enough to shock anyone."
Gillian Taylforth, who was killed off-screen in 2006, said she's glad to be back.
"It was surreal being back but it was fantastic to have the chance to play Kathy again. Once I was back in the cafe with my apron on and stirring the beans it was like I had never left."
So with four women from Ian's past paying him a visit from the grave, does Woodyatt ever wondered if his character could be the next for the chop? Apparently not.
"Besides, Steve McFadden (Phil Mitchell) and I reckon that if a nuclear bomb went off in Walford, we'd be the ones walking out of the dust cloud saying: 'Did you hear a bang?"'
Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube | We waved a tearful goodbye to Pat Butcher and those iconic earrings way back in January 2012. | 29892748 |
The winning number - 79140 - appeared on 1,600 tickets in the town, with each now worth €400,000.
Second-prize winners included ticket-holders in Seville and Granada.
El Gordo is the world's biggest Christmas lottery, and the live televised draw grips the nation.
As is customary, the winners' numbers, revealed on wooden balls, were sung by a group of children at Madrid's Royal Theatre.
The lottery has taken on special importance as Spain as it struggles with high unemployment and austerity measures.
The Almeria province was badly hit when the country's massive property boom turned sour.
Jose Juan Rodriguez, deputy mayor of Roquetas de Mar, told state-owned broadcaster RTVE that the windfall would be a huge boost to the town's economy.
The town has an unemployment rate of over 30% - higher than the national average of 21% - and tourism and agriculture are the main industries.
Unlike many other lotteries, there is no single jackpot in El Gordo. Instead the winnings are distributed among thousands of people.
People traditionally chip in together and buy shares of several or many tickets among friends, families or workmates in one of the most popular Christmas customs in Spain.
Organisers said they would be handing out a total of €2.2bn this year.
The second prize was worth a total of €1.25m and the third prize 500,000. | Ticket-holders in the coastal town of Roquetas de Mar are celebrating after they won first prize - and a share of €640m (£470m) - in Spain's traditional "El Gordo" (The Fat One) lottery. | 35161134 |
Pienaar, who is leaving Ulster at the end of this season, sustained the injury in the warm-up before Saturday's defeat by the Ospreys.
The South African, 33, started Saturday's contest but was forced off after 20 minutes.
Ulster's hopes of reaching the play-offs semi-finals now look remote.
Les Kiss' side are now five points behind fourth-placed Ospreys and only a huge bonus-point victory over the leaders this weekend - allied to a heavy Ospreys defeat - would see Ulster sneaking into the semi-finals.
Pienaar will round off his Ulster playing career in the game the Barbarians at Kingspan Stadium on 1 June.
Stuart Olding will miss the Leinster game after picking up a leg injury in Saturday's defeat while Charles Piutau also picked up a knock in the weekend game.
For the latest rugby union news follow @bbcrugbyunion on Twitter. | Ruan Pienaar may have played his final Pro12 game for Ulster as a back spasm means he is a doubt for Saturday's contest with Leinster. | 39769618 |
The Financial Times said people in the UK were paying 15% more for one day tickets.
The European Commission told the BBC that it had "received a number of complaints" from customers.
A Disneyland Paris spokesman said promotions were seasonal.
The newspaper said in a report that in some cases French consumers were paying €1,346 for a premium package, while British visitors were charged €1,870 and Germans €2,447.
The European Commission is concerned that Disneyland Paris is stopping consumers in some member states from shopping around for the best deals, EC spokeswoman Lucia Caudet told BBC Business online.
Under European law, firms can not stop consumers from doing this, she said.
The BBC understands that consumers in countries including the UK, Germany and Italy have made pricing complaints.
The problem potentially lies in, for example, a UK holidaymaker trying to order a Disneyland Paris ticket from a French website but being unable to pay because they do not have a French credit card.
The French government has now been asked to investigate.
A spokesman for Disneyland Paris said that the price of a standard ticket was the same across the European Union market.
He said that the firm runs different promotions at specific times of year based around, for example, seasonal events and school holidays.
Customers are not subject to so-called geo-blocking, where promotions are closed to those people whose computers are located in a certain country, the spokesman said.
But he added that customers would not be able to directly pay for tickets for a promotion for a certain country unless their credit or debit card is registered in that country.
"It's an anti-fraud measure," he said. | Disneyland Paris is facing a pricing probe following accusations that UK and German customers are being frozen out of certain price promotions. | 33697945 |
The company was fined £500 for the incident in July 2015.
It happened at the Islandbank Pumping Station in Newry, County Down.
An inspector saw a "significant volume" of untreated sewage flowing over the wall of the facility and into the canal.
The court was told that during the morning of 13 July, the storm chamber alarms went off at the electronic control centre.
But because they were considered "fleeting" in nature, they were interpreted as an instrument fault.
The alert was not passed on to on-call staff for investigation.
The inspector from the Environment Agency saw sewage related debris on the road and floating in the canal.
Northern Ireland Water was fined under the legislation for making a discharge of sewage effluent to a waterway. | Northern Ireland Water misinterpreted a pollution alarm during a sewage spill because it thought it was a fault, a court has been told. | 38639308 |
The Toffees' high pressing unsettled Spurs during the first half and they took the lead when Ross Barkley's free-kick sneaked past Hugo Lloris.
The Spurs keeper then came off in the 35th minute with a hamstring injury.
The visitors equalised when Argentina winger Lamela stooped to meet Kyle Walker's delivery from the right.
Relive the action from Goodison Park
Reaction from Saturday's other Premier League matches
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Had Everton's players been at 100% rather than "70% physically", as new manager Koeman suggested pre-match, then perhaps the outcome at Goodison Park would have been different.
The Toffees gave Tottenham barely any time on the ball in the opening period with their incessant pressing.
This style of football, seen under the Dutchman when he was at Southampton, has quickly been incorporated at his new club.
Young Spaniard Gerard Deulofeu, the lone man in attack with Romelu Lukaku injured, led by example as he badgered the Tottenham centre-backs Toby Aldeweireld and Jan Vertonghen when they had the ball.
Everton's goal came from a set-piece and Lloris might be disappointed that neither he nor his defence dealt with it, as Barkley's teasing ball in from out wide missed the heads it was intended for and bounced in beyond the reach of the France international.
The Spurs keeper did not appear to be struggling up until that point but came off 10 minutes before half-time with a hamstring problem.
Tottenham's England striker Harry Kane was playing at Goodison Park - although you would be forgiven for not noticing.
He played a lone attacking role for 56 minutes and hardly had a sniff of the ball, which was partly due to poor service and partly due to brilliant closing down by Everton.
It was a similar story for attacking midfielders Dele Alli and Christian Eriksen, who at least managed a shot on goal in the first half.
Manager Mauricio Pochettino finally decided to twist 11 minutes into the second half when he brought on new forward signing Vincent Janssen to support Kane. What that did was pull one of the Everton midfielders further forward and freed up more space in the middle third.
Kyle Walker exploited this new-found freedom in the 59th minute when he surged down the right and delivered a brilliant cross for Lamela who nodded in from close range.
Spurs should have won the game but were denied by two outstanding saves by Everton's new goalkeeper Maarten Stekelenburg.
Everton:
Idrissa Gueye - An absolute terrier in defensive midfield for Everton. A brilliant lunging dive in front of Alli in the second half which caused the England midfielder to rush his strike was a great example of his tenacity.
Maarten Stekelenburg - The Dutchman had a quiet game until the second half when he produced two tremendous saves. A one-handed stop denied Janssen at point-blank range and then he tipped over Lamela's deflected shot.
Tottenham:
Victor Wanyama - Similar to Gueye, in the sense the former Southampton player made his presence on the field known early on with a couple of challenges.
Vincent Janssen - His arrival on the pitch sparked a change in fortunes for Spurs and he was unlucky not to score. All in all, a good start to his Premier League career.
Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino: "The first half was difficult for us and we did not play well. Hugo Lloris got injured and that was a big impact on us. In the second half we played as we usually play.
"They scored early and they believed they could win the game. They were very motivated.
"Lloris has a hamstring injury and we need to assess tomorrow to see what happens.
"We tried to correct the problems we had in the first half. With another striker, the team felt comfortable. Vincent Janssen brought good energy on the team and he gives us a different option."
On transfers: "We may get one or two. We are very open, it is not easy to bring in players who can help us but we are trying."
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Everton boss Ronald Koeman:
"We had a big, big chance close to half-time with Gerard Deulofeu. They had two big chances too but I think it is a fair result.
"The reaction of the crowd and fans was fantastic. I am very pleased about our first performance against a very good team.
"Ross Barkley's first goal is one of his qualities. I want the players to work hard and the pressing starts from the strikers. The players need to improve in that.
"One save from Maarten Stekelenburg was incredible in a key moment of the game."
On transfers: "I was focused on today's match but we are waiting for two or three new players and the board are working hard to bring them in. I don't talk about names. I hope we can sign two players next week."
Everton are away at West Brom at 15:00 BST next Saturday and Spurs host Crystal Palace at the same time in their first league game at White Hart Lane this season.
Match ends, Everton 1, Tottenham Hotspur 1.
Second Half ends, Everton 1, Tottenham Hotspur 1.
Attempt missed. Erik Lamela (Tottenham Hotspur) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Kyle Walker with a cross.
Corner, Tottenham Hotspur. Conceded by James McCarthy.
Attempt blocked. Vincent Janssen (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Christian Eriksen.
Substitution, Everton. Tom Cleverley replaces Gareth Barry.
Foul by Vincent Janssen (Tottenham Hotspur).
Mason Holgate (Everton) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Danny Rose (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.
Corner, Tottenham Hotspur. Conceded by Maarten Stekelenburg.
Attempt saved. Erik Lamela (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Harry Kane.
Attempt missed. Christian Eriksen (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high from a direct free kick.
Danny Rose (Tottenham Hotspur) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Gareth Barry (Everton).
Corner, Tottenham Hotspur. Conceded by Ramiro Funes Mori.
Attempt saved. Vincent Janssen (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Attempt blocked. Danny Rose (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Corner, Tottenham Hotspur. Conceded by Maarten Stekelenburg.
Substitution, Everton. Aaron Lennon replaces Kevin Mirallas.
Attempt missed. Ross Barkley (Everton) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Arouna Koné.
Foul by Kyle Walker (Tottenham Hotspur).
Ramiro Funes Mori (Everton) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Erik Lamela (Tottenham Hotspur).
James McCarthy (Everton) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Ramiro Funes Mori (Everton) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Gareth Barry.
Corner, Tottenham Hotspur. Conceded by Mason Holgate.
Vincent Janssen (Tottenham Hotspur) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Ramiro Funes Mori (Everton).
Substitution, Everton. Arouna Koné replaces Gerard Deulofeu.
Foul by Vincent Janssen (Tottenham Hotspur).
Ramiro Funes Mori (Everton) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Offside, Everton. Maarten Stekelenburg tries a through ball, but Gerard Deulofeu is caught offside.
Foul by Vincent Janssen (Tottenham Hotspur).
Ramiro Funes Mori (Everton) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Offside, Everton. Gareth Barry tries a through ball, but Gerard Deulofeu is caught offside.
Foul by Vincent Janssen (Tottenham Hotspur).
Ross Barkley (Everton) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Goal! Everton 1, Tottenham Hotspur 1. Erik Lamela (Tottenham Hotspur) header from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Kyle Walker with a cross.
Attempt saved. Kevin Mirallas (Everton) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner. Assisted by Ross Barkley with a headed pass.
Attempt missed. Dele Alli (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Vincent Janssen with a cross. | Erik Lamela's second-half header salvaged a point for Tottenham against an Everton side who impressed in their first league game under Ronald Koeman. | 36994878 |
Cherie Madge, 42, was found guilty of posting drugs to her internet "soul mate" Shaun Bowmer in Penrith, Cumbria.
She continued over a period of months despite pleas from Mr Bowmer's partner to stop. He died in February 2016.
Jailing her for four-and-a-half years at Carlisle Crown Court, Judge Peter Davies said Mr Bowmer "may be alive today" but for Madge.
The court heard the pair met in an online chat room "perhaps as along as 10 years ago".
Though they spoke to each other over the internet and phone, they never physically met.
Jurors were told Madge sent Mr Bowmer patient-returned drugs she sourced from her place of work between August 2015 and February 2016.
High levels of tramadol and morphine were found in Mr Bowmer's system after his death.
Madge, of Harlow in Essex, admitted sending Mr Bowmer tramadol, but denied illegally supplying him with four other controlled drugs - morphine-based Class A Zomorph and Sevredol and Class C diazepam and lorazepam.
Jurors found her guilty of all offences.
Judge Davies said Mr Bowmer's death was a "seriously aggravating feature" of Madge's offending.
He told her: "It is not an exaggeration to say but for you, he may be alive today." | A pharmacy assistant who illegally sent medication to an addict who then died from "drugs toxicity" has been jailed. | 39770138 |
The 32-year-old suffered a knee ligament injury in January 2008 playing for West Ham United's reserves.
Collins says he was "virtually in tears" as he feared the worst during a scan on the injury.
"That's all that was in my head. I'm thinking this is never going to be the same again," he told Sport Wales.
The Newport-born player added: "I remember at my age looking at the fact that a cruciate knee injury - you used to see players not come back from it."
Collins made his Wales debut as a 20-year-old in a youthful team fielded by then-manager Mark Hughes for a 0-0 draw with Norway in May, 2004.
The former Cardiff City player says injuries have restricted his international appearances, but is relishing what lies ahead in France in the summer.
"I think I made my debut when I was 20 maybe. I am 32 now and only to be on 46 caps is not enough, really," Collins said.
"I've pulled out of a lot of games through injury and I was out for two years from international football with my knee."
Collins says "persistent calf problems" have also limited his Wales career.
"Every time there was a Wales trip coming around I seemed to be out," he added. "I wasn't playing at my club and obviously I was missing the Wales games.
"So to be involved now still, at 32, and having touched this successful (Welsh) period and enjoying it more than I ever have, is great.
"A while ago, looking at my Welsh career I thought it would probably never happen and to be involved and hopefully going into it (Euro 2016) playing well in a tremendous Welsh team is very exciting."
Watch Sport Wales, BBC Two Wales from 21:00 GMT on Friday night or catch up on iPlayer. | Wales defender James Collins will go to the 2016 European Championship this summer having feared eight years ago his playing career was over. | 35414966 |
Protests have spread from Johannesburg's Wits University, closed last week after thousands demonstrated on campus, to the universities of Rhodes and Cape Town (UCT).
Wits University agreed to suspend a 10.5% tuition fee increase on Friday, pending negotiations with students.
Protesters argue that poorer, mainly black students would be worst affected.
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A statement from Wits University said that a decline in state subsidy over the years, combined with inflationary pressures, were behind the fee increases in recent years.
Analysis: Pumza Fihlani, BBC News, Johannesburg
Many of the affected universities are historically white institutions and while the demographics in the classrooms have changed since the end of apartheid in 1994, critics say the economic conditions of black families wanting to enrol their children have all but remained the same.
Black students say the institutions' high fees are now keeping them from getting a good education. Many say they rely on student loans and scholarships and these are at times difficult to secure.
It does not take much for an issue to become racially charged here in South Africa as the country still nurses a hang-over from decades of white minority rule.
But ironically it is the "born-free" generation, those born after the advent of democracy, now calling for transformation in the elite institutions. Some are calling for free education hoping this will level the playing fields between the affluent and the poor.
Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande, appearing on national broadcaster SABC, said that he was convening a meeting on Tuesday for university administrators, employees and student leaders to discuss fee increases.
The minister urged university authorities "to exercise greater caution and sensitivity in the process of determining fee increases", saying a solution would need to balance the difficulties of poorer students with the financial pressures currently facing the system.
The hashtag #FeesMustFall has been trending across South Africa, in an echo of #RhodesMustFall, which was used by UCT students in their successful campaign to have a statue of British colonialist Cecil Rhodes removed in April.
At Rhodes university in Eastern Cape Province, classes were suspended after students armed with sticks set up barricades of burning tyres, blocking road access to main campus entrances.
UCT is "notoriously the most expensive university in the country, if not on the continent," Rori Moseli, a second year student at UCT and a member of the student representative council, told the BBC's Focus on Africa radio programme.
He said that students were seeing fee increases of 10-12% every year, roughly twice the rate of annual inflation in South Africa.
"For a long time, we've brought up these issues... but it seems as though we get ignored," he added.
Students at UCT broke into a building on campus on Monday, after being locked out and ordered to leave the campus by university authorities.
UCT has secured an order from the High Court in Cape Town to "prevent protesters from interfering with university operations", which comes into force at 07:00 local time (05:00 GMT) on Tuesday.
The order authorises the police to enforce its terms, which include a ban on barricading entrances and occupying buildings on the the university campus. | Protests over fee increases have forced the suspension of teaching at three of South Africa's top universities. | 34571427 |
He said lengthy mandatory minimum sentences should be reduced - or thrown out entirely.
"Mass incarceration makes our entire country worse off, and we need to do something about it," he said.
Mr Obama urged Congress to pass a sentencing reform bill by year's end.
On Thursday, Mr Obama will be the first sitting president to visit a federal prison - part of week long focus by the White House on the criminal justice system.
Speaking to a gathering of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in Philadelphia, Mr Obama discussed investments in education, alternatives to trials and prison job training programs.
US Attorney General Loretta Lynch has been tasked with reviewing the overuse of solitary confinement, Mr Obama said.
"Do we think it makes sense to lock people up in tiny cells for 23 hours a day? It won't make us safer and stronger."
The country should not be tolerating overcrowding in prisons, gang activity or rape, which Mr Obama called "unacceptable".
Criminal justice reforms have been a subject of rare agreement between Republicans and Democrats in Congress.
He noted that African Americans and Latinos disproportionately make up most of the prison population.
On Monday Mr Obama commuted the sentences of 46 prisoners, many of whom were serving time for non-violent drug offences.
"If you're a low-level drug dealer, or you violate your parole, you owe some debt to society … but you don't owe 20 years," Mr Obama said.
Mr Obama said for what the US spends on keeping people in prison per year, $80 billion, there could be universal pre-school, doubled salaries for high school teachers or free tuition at US public colleges or universities.
This week's focus on criminal justice signals a renewed bid by Mr Obama's administration to tackle what he sees as a lack of fairness in the system.
"Communities that give our young people every shot at success, tough but fair courts and prisons that seek to prepare returning citizens to get that second chance...That's what we're here to build," he said.
The last significant changes to the criminal justice system in the US came in 2013 when US Attorney General Eric Holder dropped mandatory minimum sentences for non-violent drug offenders.
208,000 people in federal prisons
48% of them for drug offences
37% of them are black
34% of them are Hispanic
$80bn the cost of incarceration in the US in 2010 | President Barack Obama has called for sweeping reforms to the US criminal justice system including curbing the use of solitary confinement and voting rights for felons. | 33531314 |
The men were flown to Rome, where they were met by Italy's foreign minister.
Mr Quirico, 62, a reporter for the Turin-based daily La Stampa, entered Syria from Lebanon on 6 April saying he would be out of touch for a week.
The men were reportedly together when they were taken - it is not clear who was responsible for kidnapping.
Mr Quirico had spoken by phone to his wife in June confirming he had been kidnapped but said he was in good health.
In a message on Twitter, Belgian Prime Minister Elio Di Rupo said he shared the emotion and relief of the men's families.
Italy's Prime Minister Enrico Letta welcomed the news. "Our hope was never extinguished," he said.
Foreign Minister Emma Bonino met the men as they arrived at the Francesco Baracca military airport in Ciampino, south-west of Rome.
She said earlier she was "filled with joy and satisfaction" at their release.
"My thoughts are with Mr Quirico's relatives who will be able to greet him again after many months," said Ms Bonino.
"My thanks go to those who played a part in the successful outcome... the Foreign Ministry and other state agencies who together pursued every channel to solve this case. It was particularly difficult in such a complicated environment as Syria.
"This is great news for all media workers who risk their lives in war to tell the truth in extreme situations."
Mr Quirico was also among four journalists who were held captive briefly in Libya in 2011.
The conflict in Syria has made it one of the most dangerous places for journalists to work in.
According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, Syria was the most deadly country for reporters in 2012. | Italian journalist Domenico Quirico and Belgian teacher Pierre Piccinin da Prata, who were kidnapped in Syria in April, have been freed, say officials. | 24011595 |
The Northern Irishman had tests on Monday after complaining about back pain during the South Africa Open, in which he lost in a play-off.
McIlroy has sustained a stress fracture and must now begin a rehabilitation programme.
"It's bitterly disappointing. I think everyone knows how much I love playing this tournament," said the 27-year-old.
"In situations like this you simply have to listen to the experts, and the team I have consulted have all advised me to rest until my rib has fully recovered."
Following his withdrawal from the Abu Dhabi event, McIlroy's next scheduled tournament is the Dubai Desert Classic in the first week of February.
He had initially said he suspected his problem was fatigue after an off-season during which he hit a lot of balls in practice trying to decide on new equipment.
He played in Johannesburg with his back taped up and having taken anti-inflammatory tablets.
Defending champion Rickie Fowler and fellow American Dustin Johnson are among those due to play in Abu Dhabi. | World number two Rory McIlroy has pulled out of the Abu Dhabi Championship because of a rib injury. | 38645049 |
Stakeknife has been named by the media as Belfast man Freddie Scappaticci, who denies claims he was the Army's most high ranking agent in the IRA.
The Chief Constable told Stormont's justice committee that the secretary of state and the Department of Justice had said there would be no more money.
The investigation could cost £35m.
It is expected to take at least five years, at an estimated cost of £7m per year.
The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) Chief Constable George Hamilton has previously said he wants to bring in a team of detectives from outside Northern Ireland to conduct the inquiry.
On Thursday, he told the justice committee that the PSNI will have to fund the work from within its existing budget. | No additional money will be available to police to investigate the alleged activities of the Army agent codenamed Stakeknife, MLAs have heard. | 35663142 |
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As Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak praised Boris Johnson's "boundless enthusiasm" for the project, the London mayor said 60% of the latest homes to go on sale had gone to UK-passport holders.
Questioned over how affordable the properties are for Londoners, Tan Sri Liew of Battersea Project Holding Company, said: "That becomes a national policy, not a developer policy.
"We can only play by the rules set by you all."
BBC London Political Editor Tim Donovan reports from Malaysia. | The public space at the heart of the Battersea Power Station development is to be called Malaysia Square, it has been revealed in Kuala Lumpur. | 30282348 |
The company - which hiked fares earlier this year - said it currently had no plans for further rises this year.
In its accounts for 2014-15, Translink said its balance sheet reflected a £13m reduction in funding from the Department of Regional Development.
The company is set to face further financial pain.
One consequence will be that it is unable to purchase new buses.
While profits are down, passenger numbers rose by almost 500,000.
Translink said it would take two years to return to profit.
Part of its plan involves management redundancies and cuts to bus and train services - though these are currently on hold during consultations with unions.
The accounts show a pre-tax loss of £16.6m, before accounting, or non-trading, adjustments were made.
These included pension liabilities, but more significantly a £7m charge in respect of fuel hedging resulting from the fall in the price of oil.
Fuel hedging is when companies buy fuel at prices agreed in advance.
According to the accounts, movements in the price of oil meant Translink lost out during the 12 months in question. | Public transport company Translink has recorded a trading loss of £8.4m "against a very challenging backdrop" of Stormont cuts. | 33369143 |
The Fes Watch has a minimalist, monochrome design but falls short of the features offered by smartwatches.
However, the battery of the e-paper watch could last far longer with an estimated 60 days of use.
The device has been described as "retro and cool" by gadget expert Stuart Miles from Pocket-lint.
"One of my predictions for next year is that fashion is going to play a huge part in shaping the tech industry.
"Having a phone that's big and square is one thing, but if we're actually wearing things, it has to look good."
The watch face and straps have an e-paper display - comparable to the technology used in e-book readers such as Amazon's Kindle.
It means the watch can alternate between several different styles of watch face and strap design.
According to the Wall Street Journal, Sony had deliberately kept the development of the watch low-key, opting to use a spin-off division called Fashion Entertainments to work on the device.
Fashion Entertainments ran a crowdfunding campaign to fund the watch's creation, the WSJ reported, in an attempt to gauge the public's interest in the concept.
It raised 3.5 million yen ($30,000; £19,000).
"We hid Sony's name because we wanted to test the real value of the product, whether there will be demand for our concept," a person involved in the project told the newspaper. A spokeswoman for Sony confirmed to the BBC that Fashion Entertainments is a division of company's New Business Creation Department, and was working on a number of e-paper prototypes.
Other e-paper experiments being worked on by Fashion Entertainments include shoes, bow-ties and glasses.
One drawback of using e-paper rather than, for example, liquid-crystal displays (LCD) is a limitation on possible features due to the limitations of what e-paper can display.
However, Mr Miles said he did not envision that being too significant a drawback for e-paper wearable technology.
"Look at traditional watches now, they just tell the time and we're happy with that," he said, noting that one of the most popular smartwatches on the market, the Pebble, uses e-paper.
Sony has not provided a date for the Fes Watch's release.
Follow Dave Lee on Twitter @DaveLeeBBC | Sony has developed a watch made from e-paper as part of an initiative to experiment with the use of the material for fashion products. | 30245296 |
On Wednesday afternoon - as MPs debated air strikes in Syria - hundreds of student nurses (not to mention midwives, podiatrists, occupational therapists and radiographers) marched around Westminster.
Their gripe? The decision announced in last week's spending review to scrap bursaries and introduce tuition fees.
The government's rationale is that at a time when the NHS is under enormous financial pressure, providing financial assistance when other students pay their way is simply unaffordable.
The system also means the number of places has to be capped. As a result demand outstrips supply of places by two to one.
Ministers believe by scrapping the bursaries they can save £800m a year as well as increasing the number of nurses and other professionals because there will be no need for a cap.
But - as the pictures above and below show - the move is being met with strong resistance. Royal College of Nursing general secretary Janet Davies has described it as a "crushing blow".
Her argument - and it is one that is being made by others too - is that student nurses are different.
They spend half their time in clinical practice caring for patients and unlike other students do not get long breaks at Easter, Christmas and during the summer (denying them the opportunity to earn money pulling pints or waiting on tables).
Bursaries are, she says, a "lifeline" not a "luxury". She believes the move could even have the opposite effect the government wants, and actually discourage people from applying.
At a time when the NHS is already short of nurses - vacancies are proving hard to fill forcing the health service to rely on expensive agency staff or recruiting staf from abroad - that would be a disaster.
With the cuts due to be implemented in 2017, this is a dispute we could be hearing much more about.
And, of course, it comes just days after a temporary truce has been called in the junior doctor dispute with both sides embarking on a fresh round of talks to try to find a solution.
If they unravel, and this dispute escalates, the government could find itself in a fight with two sets of staff. And that is before we even consider the possibility of the talks that are on-going over the consultants' contract collapsing.
A quick scan of social media shows there is already a great deal of anger being directed towards Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt.
But others are getting drawn in too. The well-respected and admired NHS medical director, Sir Bruce Keogh, recently found himself the subject of much ire when he raised concerns about the idea of junior doctors going on strike (although admittedly he was pretty inflammatory in questioning whether they would be available if there was a terrorist strike).
So why is the government so intent on picking a fight with staff? The truth is, it isn't. Ministers would probably happily leave many of these issues alone if they could.
But one of the problems they face is that to change the NHS or to save it money staff are the obvious target.
Half the NHS budget is spent on labour costs and unlike in other areas of public spending (I'm thinking libraries and bin collections) it's simply not possible to start closing or restricting services en masse.
Battles between government and health staff could become a common theme of this Parliament. | Health workers have been back on the streets protesting - but this time it isn't the junior doctors. | 34970537 |
The hosts appeared to be heading for a first win in three matches when Miller fired home from the penalty spot in the 16th minute after he was tripped in the area.
But Maidstone levelled on the hour mark through Jamar Loza, whose cross caught out goalkeeper Steve Arnold and flew in off a post.
Dover almost stole the points late on but Miller's shot was well saved by Lee Worgan.
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Match ends, Dover Athletic 1, Maidstone United 1.
Second Half ends, Dover Athletic 1, Maidstone United 1.
Substitution, Maidstone United. Joseph N'Guessan replaces Yemi Odubade.
Substitution, Maidstone United. Bobby-Joe Taylor replaces Vas Karagiannis.
Substitution, Dover Athletic. Sammy Moore replaces Moses Emmanuel.
Substitution, Dover Athletic. Jim Stevenson replaces Jack Parkinson.
Goal! Dover Athletic 1, Maidstone United 1. Jamar Loza (Maidstone United).
Second Half begins Dover Athletic 1, Maidstone United 0.
First Half ends, Dover Athletic 1, Maidstone United 0.
Ricky Modeste (Dover Athletic) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Alex Flisher (Maidstone United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Goal! Dover Athletic 1, Maidstone United 0. Ricky Miller (Dover Athletic) converts the penalty with a.
Lee Worgan (Maidstone United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Tom Mills (Maidstone United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up. | Ricky Miller netted his 25th goal of the season but Dover spurned the opportunity to move into the National League play-off positions following a 1-1 home draw with Maidstone. | 38361178 |
The artworks, paid for by the community in Stirchley, were covered in thick silver paint sometime during Friday night.
Peter Evans, of the Friends of Stirchley Park, said it must have taken "a lot of effort" to cover the paintings.
Police said they would be checking CCTV to see if they could find the culprits.
The first painting, of a sleeping child, was commissioned five years ago.
"The park was derelict at the time and it represented its awakening," Mr Evans said.
"People loved it, it was the park's emblem".
The other two paintings, each done by Kings Heath artist Title, represented the park's history - a portrait of William Cadbury, who gave the land to the community, a tram, a public house and some local businesses, were finished 18 months ago.
"Stirchley's residents are up in arms," Mr Evans said.
"I think the paintings were deliberately targeted as every piece of imagery has gone."
Peter Walker, chair of the friends, said members of the group had been working tirelessly to improve the park for everyone and appealed for people to go to the police if they knew anything.
Since the vandalism was discovered on Saturday morning, Mr Evans said he had about 300 messages from people offering sympathy and suggesting fundraising ideas. | Three murals in a Birmingham park have been painted over, leaving residents "heartbroken" and "gutted". | 35677718 |
The drawing of a dancer was passed on to Alice Thoday, from Lincolnshire, by her family who thought it was part of Rodin's work of a Cambodian dance troupe, which visited France in 1906.
If genuine, the sketch would have been worth more than £100,000.
Analysis by experts for the programme could not determine its authenticity.
A handwriting analyst, who compared the signature of Ms Thoday's work with examples of Rodin's signature, raised doubts they were by the same hand.
Additionally art historian Christina Buley, who uncovered several fake Rodin works in a collection at the Musee d'Orsay in Paris in 2014, said she did not believe the drawing was genuine.
She felt it had more of the distinctive hallmarks of notorious forger Eric Durig, a Swiss-born sculptor who claimed to be Rodin's last pupil.
Philip Mould, an English art dealer and historian, said: "We're dealing with an artist who has been faked with competence by those close to him.
"It's understandable in the high-stakes art world that this leads to extreme caution and scepticism."
The show's host Fiona Bruce said: "Never before have we investigated an artist whose work has been so comprehensively faked and whose fakes have been displayed at the most renowned art institutions in the world."
After the verdict, Ms Thoday said despite the team not being able to prove the family's belief the work was Rodin, it would remain hanging on her wall. | A sketch believed to have been the work of artist Auguste Rodin has been revealed as a fake in an investigation by the BBC's Fake or Fortune show. | 36936702 |
Nugent netted twice inside the opening 21 minutes, flicking home the opener following some fine work by Matej Vydra on the left before nodding in his second from a Johnny Russell cross.
Vydra then wasted two chances and Andre Wisdom went close before the break.
In the 92nd minute, Gary Madine pounced to score what was a consolation goal.
The close-range injury-time strike was the only shot on target by Bolton, a side who have collected both their points in the competition this season away from the Macron Stadium, and who rarely troubled the Rams.
With Wales winger Tom Lawrence, a £5m midweek signing from Leicester City, coming off the bench for Derby, the differences between them and Bolton, a club under transfer embargo and which has a prominent shareholder facing a winding-up petition in two days' time, was stark.
Nugent's brace of goals took his tally to eight goals in his past 12 league starts for Derby and, while Vyrdra was key in creating the opener, the Czech striker's finishing was less polished as he fired wide after going clear through on goal before then volleying over.
The Trotters had what would have been an earlier chance to pull a goal back waved away by referee Steve Martin, as Madine was hauled down in the box and penalty appeals were made in vain.
Madine eventually scored, but it was not enough as Derby won for the second time in four days and Bolton slipped to their 14th defeat in their past 20 games in the second tier, dating back to 13 February 2016.
Bolton manager Phil Parkinson:
"You can talk about Derby's movement but the goals were soft from our point of view. Both we should have avoided and we gave ourselves a mountain to climb against a good side.
"The first one came from a throw-in and if you look at the footage and think in five seconds it was going to end up in the back of our net you wouldn't believe it.
"Simple things like that have got to be done better."
Derby manager Gary Rowett:
"Nugent is a brilliant all-round player for us in the Championship - his finishes were great.
"To score two goals in the way we did was great but we should have come in four or five-nil up.
"The fact we didn't made the game edgy in the second half. We started the second half a bit sloppily for five or 10 minutes and made a few poor decisions.
"That invited an opportunity for Bolton and their crowd to get a bit of momentum."
Match ends, Bolton Wanderers 1, Derby County 2.
Second Half ends, Bolton Wanderers 1, Derby County 2.
Richard Keogh (Derby County) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Mark Beevers (Bolton Wanderers).
Goal! Bolton Wanderers 1, Derby County 2. Gary Madine (Bolton Wanderers) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Aaron Wilbraham.
Offside, Bolton Wanderers. Dorian Dervite tries a through ball, but Aaron Wilbraham is caught offside.
Substitution, Derby County. Jacob Butterfield replaces Andreas Weimann.
Hand ball by William Buckley (Bolton Wanderers).
Bradley Johnson (Derby County) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Darren Pratley (Bolton Wanderers).
Substitution, Bolton Wanderers. Aaron Wilbraham replaces Andrew Taylor.
Foul by Andre Wisdom (Derby County).
Andrew Taylor (Bolton Wanderers) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt blocked. Adam Le Fondre (Bolton Wanderers) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Substitution, Derby County. Chris Martin replaces David Nugent.
Andre Wisdom (Derby County) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Andre Wisdom (Derby County).
William Buckley (Bolton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Bolton Wanderers. Conceded by Richard Keogh.
Foul by David Nugent (Derby County).
Mark Beevers (Bolton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Josh Cullen (Bolton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Tom Lawrence (Derby County).
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Andrew Taylor (Bolton Wanderers) because of an injury.
Attempt missed. Tom Lawrence (Derby County) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right.
Foul by Reece Burke (Bolton Wanderers).
Andreas Weimann (Derby County) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Dorian Dervite (Bolton Wanderers) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Filipe Morais following a set piece situation.
Adam Le Fondre (Bolton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Tom Huddlestone (Derby County).
Substitution, Bolton Wanderers. William Buckley replaces Jem Karacan.
Reece Burke (Bolton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Tom Lawrence (Derby County).
Substitution, Derby County. Tom Lawrence replaces Matej Vydra.
Foul by Mark Beevers (Bolton Wanderers).
Matej Vydra (Derby County) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Gary Madine (Bolton Wanderers) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Dorian Dervite with a cross.
Foul by Adam Le Fondre (Bolton Wanderers).
Johnny Russell (Derby County) wins a free kick in the defensive half. | David Nugent scored both goals as Derby County condemned Bolton Wanderers to their second home defeat since returning to the Championship. | 40907801 |
"The shutdown is aimed at preventing a repeat of leaks that occurred last year," Mohammed Seid at the Office for Government Communications Affairs, told the Reuters news agency.
In 2016, the country banned access to social media sites after university entrance exams were posted online.
But some have queried this explanation.
"We are being proactive," Mr Seid added, referring to exams that are due to finish on 8 June.
"We want our students to concentrate and be free of the psychological pressure and distractions that this brings."
Mr Seid is reported to have said that only social media sites had been blocked, but sources in Ethiopia told the BBC that there was widespread internet disruption, affecting both mobile networks and fixed line internet services.
A state of emergency has been in effect in Ethiopia since October, following anti-government protests.
Mobile internet access has been disabled on other occasions recently, including a period of a few weeks last year.
On Thursday, the BBC was unable to access websites belonging to the Ethiopian government and the sole communications provider, Ethio Telecom.
Preliminary data from Google suggested that there had indeed been a big drop in Ethiopian internet traffic to Google services since Wednesday afternoon. | Internet access across Ethiopia has been blocked to prevent national exam papers leaking online, a government spokesman has claimed. | 40118378 |
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The Icelandic singer performed the first date of her Biophilia tour on Thursday to launch the Manchester International Festival.
The festival specialises in staging music, theatre and art premieres.
Bjork's concert also involved a 24-piece all-female Icelandic choir and a voice-over from Sir David Attenborough.
With voluminous ginger hair and a purple robe, Bjork gave the first full performance of songs from her forthcoming album Biophilia.
It is a concept album about nature with songs inspired by such themes as DNA, tectonic plates and crystals.
The concert's opening song Thunderbolt featured two Tesla coils - electrical columns that shoot out small bolts of lightning to generate musical notes.
Four "gravity harps" were made from 10ft (3m) pendulums that plucked strings as they swung back and forth during a song about gravity.
Other newly-invented instruments included a "sharpsichord", a large cylinder with protruding pins that played a harpsichord as they were turned, and a "gameleste", a kind of piano that had been adapted so glockenspiel-style bronze bars were struck as notes were played.
Bjork approached Sir David Attenborough to take part after drawing inspiration for the album from his natural history programmes. She recently said he was her "rock star" when she was growing up.
The singer watched hundreds of video clips from his landmark shows to get inspiration for her songs and concert visuals.
The story of so-called zombie snails, which are invaded by parasites and were seen in Sir David's Trials Of Life series, has been incorporated into one song.
Footage of three-foot worms and carnivorous starfish feasting on a seal carcass at the bottom of the Antarctic, from the Life series, was shown on screens during the show.
Sir David recorded his introductory voice-over hours before the concert on Thursday. "He's been a constant source of inspiration for the project," the Biophilia project co-ordinator James Merry said.
The concert took place in front of 1,800 fans in a Victorian former fruit and vegetable market, which has more recently been used to store a Spitfire aeroplane and other items from the Museum of Science and Industry.
Bjork has said she wants Biophilia to be a multi-media experience combining music, technology and nature.
As well as a standard album and tour, the project involves a series of iPad and iPhone applications that let fans play with and create their own versions of the songs.
The apps also include a brand new system of musical notation devised by Bjork as well as academic essays explaining the ideas behind the tracks.
She will now play two shows a week at Campfield Market Hall for the next three weeks before taking the show to eight cities around the world over the coming two years.
Thursday's concert opened the third Manchester International Festival, which aims to put the city on the global cultural map by hosting new works by respected performers.
The festival began in 2007 and takes place every two years.
This year's other highlights include an opera by Blur and Gorillaz frontman Damon Albarn. Dr Dee, which tells the story of 16th Century alchemist, astrologer and spy John Dee, opens on Friday.
Victoria Wood is staging a new musical play about a 1920s Manchester children's choir, while performance artist Marina Abramovic and theatre company Punchdrunk are also showcasing original productions. | A musical lightning generator and four harp-playing pendulums were among the custom-made instruments unveiled by Bjork as she opened her world tour. | 13984487 |
It divides Shia and Sunni Muslims, the two sides of Islam. It is the oldest division in the Middle East, but just like the schism in Christianity between Protestants and Catholics, it is as much about power and identity as religion.
Leaders have tried to use sectarianism as a tool to protect and strengthen their own legitimacy, just as European governments still sometimes use nationalism.
But the forces that are being unleashed in the Middle East are at best a blunt instrument, at worst beyond anyone's control.
At one end of the fault-line is Tripoli, Lebanon's second city - unquiet, divided and often dangerous.
The increasingly sectarian war in Syria, just across the mountains from Tripoli, has turbo-charged a longstanding local conflict between Sunni Muslims, the majority in the city, and Alawites, who are from the same Shia sect as President Bashar al-Assad.
In every city in Lebanon there are posters of men who have been killed fighting in Syria.
Hezbollah, the Shia political party and militia, has sent forces to fight for the Assad regime. Young Sunni men are commemorated in the heart of Tripoli.
One prominent local Sunni looked at the posters of the fresh-faced young men: "All they did was travel there and stay long enough to get killed. They were too young and untrained to have made much difference."
In a shed in his garden, on the Sunni side of Tripoli's front line, Abu Firas and his friends still idolise Saddam Hussein, the Sunni strongman who fought Shia Iran.
The 22-year-old son of Abu Firas died when two Sunni mosques were bombed in August. Abu Firas, like all Tripoli's Sunnis, blames the Shia.
"Of course God almighty will kill them," he said. "But we ask God almighty for permission and help to eradicate them all."
The local Sunni militia commander said grief and anger had pushed Abu Firas to extremes. But every sectarian killing in the Middle East deepens and spreads hatred.
The split in Islam goes back to a dispute about who should succeed the Prophet Muhammad after he died in 632. Those who wanted his position to be inherited by his closest associates became Sunnis. Those who thought his descendants should succeed him became Shia.
In modern times the American-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 started a new upheaval in Islam's sectarian divide.
The removal of Saddam Hussein, Shia Iran's most bitter enemy, was a blow to the traditional Sunni ascendancy in the Middle East. Thousands of Iraqis have been killed in sectarian violence since then.
At the other end of the Gulf, in Bahrain, a longstanding political conflict between the poor Shia majority and the mainly Sunni ruling class has become more overtly sectarian. A member of the Bahraini ruling family told me he could feel the impact of sectarian clashes in Syria on Bahrain's streets.
In Syria itself, the uprising that called for freedom and justice has become an increasingly sectarian war. Sunni extremist groups, generally al-Qaeda followers, now dominate the armed opposition to President Assad.
The jihadists, who are using the Syrian war to increase their power in the heart of the Middle East, have a brutally sectarian vision of the world.
They repel many Syrian Sunnis, and are pushing Syria's minorities, Christians as well as Shia, even more firmly into the Assad camp.
In Beirut in November, suicide bombers attacked the embassy of Iran.
Many assumed it was the latest escalation in a proxy war between Shia Iran, the Syrian regime's backers, and Sunni Saudi Arabia, which supports the rebels.
The two regional rivals, either side of the Gulf, both blame each other for the rise of sectarianism.
Members of the Saudis' own Shia minority, mainly in the east of the country, complain that they are treated as potential fifth columnists for Iran.
Both Iran and Saudi Arabia have helped stoke the fire, but divisions between Shia and Sunni have also been used and abused by leaders in other Arab countries who have no intention of sharing power with fellow members of their own sects, let alone anyone else.
I discussed Shia-Sunni tension with Iran's Foreign Minister Javad Zarif last month during the talks in Geneva that led to the first stage of a deal on the future of Iran's nuclear programme.
He told me that whatever the differences over Syria, the countries concerned should co-operate to control the widening Shia-Sunni split. Mr Zarif said it was the biggest threat not just to peace in the Middle East, but to the peace of the world.
If there is a chance to manage and perhaps reverse the tide of sectarianism, then it might have to come from Iran and Saudi Arabia. But the two countries are regional powers, divided by history as well as a 21st Century rivalry.
At a recent funeral for Shia fighters in Damascus who had died fighting for the regime, the mourners wasted little breath chanting praise for President Assad in whose army the men died. Instead the slogans were sectarian, exalting the Shia tradition.
Even where sectarianism is less acute than Syria, there's economic crisis, political failure and renewed repression.
But the most dangerous force, which threatens to define the next decade in the Middle East, is the tension between Shia and Sunni.
Three years after the Arab uprisings started, the weight of a millennium and a half of sectarian rivalry is crushing hopes of a better future. | A fault-line runs from Lebanon on the Mediterranean, down through Syria and Iraq, to Saudi Arabia, the Gulf and beyond. | 25458755 |
Arriving in his home city of Davao after a trip to Japan, Mr Duterte said God gave him an ultimatum on the plane.
"I heard a voice telling me to stop swearing or the plane will crash in mid-air, and so I promised to stop," he told reporters at the airport.
Mr Duterte's blunt speaking, often directed at the West, has contributed to his popularity at home.
He called President Barack Obama a "son of a whore", called the European Union "hypocritical", threatened to leave the UN and accepted comparisons to Hitler, saying he would gladly kill three million drug addicts.
All were responses to criticisms of his bloody war on drugs, that has seen thousands of alleged drug dealers and users killed by police and vigilante groups.
Mr Duterte said he had promised God he would not "express slang, cuss words and everything", and said a "promise to God is a promise to the Filipino people".
But he suggested his promise might have its limits. Whether he will stick to not swearing when talking about the US, EU or arch political foe Senator Leila de Lima, will depend on timing, local media quoted him as saying.
Like most Filipinos, Mr Duterte is Roman Catholic, although he has boasted about his womanising and called the Pope a "son of a whore" for causing traffic jams during his visit.
The president has spoken about being abused by an American priest as a child, saying that informed his political views.
He recently said that the Philippines wanted "a separation" from long-standing ally the US, and wanted American troops to leave the country, possibly within two years. | Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte says he has promised God he will clean up his famously vulgar language. | 37795957 |
Charlie Dunn, from Tamworth, was found submerged in a paddling area on a visit to Bosworth Water Park, Leicestershire, on 23 July last year.
Lynsey Dunn, 28, and Paul Smith, 36, also pleaded not guilty to a separate child cruelty charge at Leicester Crown Court.
A trial is set to begin at Birmingham Crown Court on 29 November.
The pair are accused of causing the death of Charlie by gross negligence by permitting him to enter a bathing area unsupervised.
Both defendants, of Caledonian, Glascote Heath, Tamworth, also denied four other child cruelty offences relating to three other children.
The five child cruelty offences are alleged to have taken place between March 2012 and July 2016.
Mr Smith, who appeared via video-link from HMP Leicester, also denied two charges of witness intimidation, where he is alleged to have threatened the father of one witness and threatened to petrol-bomb the house of a woman's family.
He is also accused of telling the woman he would "rip her head off".
Mr Smith remains in custody, while Ms Dunn has been released on bail ahead of the trial.
A further directions hearing is due to take place at Leicester Crown Court on 20 October. | The mother and stepfather of a five-year-old boy who drowned in a lake have denied his manslaughter. | 40510724 |
On another smorgasbord Saturday of action, it also proved to be 13th time lucky for a Championship struggler, the day a goal-shy midfielder hit a hat-trick, an assistant referee and manager hit the deck and a remarkable transformation continued.
When Barry Richardson agreed to combine his role of Wycombe Wanderers goalkeeping coach with back-up keeper after number one Matt Ingram was sold to QPR, little did he think he would be playing eight days later.
But an injury to Alex Lynch early in their game at Plymouth left the Chairboys with a goalkeeping emergency on their hands and turning to the 46-year-old.
His appearance off the bench came more than a decade after Richardson broke his leg in his last match for Doncaster, and 27 years since he made his senior debut for Scarborough in 1989.
Back then:
Richardson, older than both his Wycombe boss Gareth Ainsworth and Plymouth manager Derek Adams, had Argyle's press team scrambling to point out that the majority of their squad were not even born when Richardson first played at Scarborough.
Not anticipating he would be making his first Football League appearance since 2002, the veteran goalkeeper was even pictured having a cup of tea during the team's pre-game warm-up.
Despite the bizarre circumstances surrounding his introduction, he managed to help play-off chasing Wycombe overcome promotion hopefuls Argyle, who had previously netted in every home game this season, 1-0.
"The game is all about opportunity, and what an opportunity Barry Richardson has had this afternoon," Wycombe boss Ainsworth told BBC Three Counties Radio.
"He is now the oldest player to play for Wycombe, and not only did he keep a clean sheet but I think he is the first to do so at Plymouth this season. I won't be looking to start him next week though."
But while Wycombe celebrated their win, Plymouth's social media team were less than impressed:
Diving. It is part of the game. Some condemn it, others feel it is OK to take advantage where you can.
It would be interesting to get Graham Westley's take on simulation, as he proved he is as good at hitting the deck as anyone.
Westley gave a masterclass when, during the first half of Peterborough's 2-2 FA Cup fourth-round draw with West Bromwich Albion, his goalkeeper kicked a damaged and deflated ball out of play and inadvertently hit the Posh manager. Watch it here.
Theatrics followed, but Westley shook it off and sprang back to his feet.
However, there was a bit more cause for concern at Woking's Kingfield Stadium when a referee's assistant was forced off early on after the ball struck him in the face.
A Woking fan volunteered to take on fourth official duties after a lengthy delay and the game passed with no further major incidents as it finished 2-2.
Charlton have featured in the Saturday round-up a few times in recent weeks for all the wrong reasons - battered one week, protesting the next.
Today, however, the Championship's second-from-bottom side are celebrating their first win in 13 games after easing past Rotherham United 4-1.
It was the first time in nine games that Charlton had managed to score more than once in a game, and last time they did that they were locked in a 2-2 draw with bottom side Bolton Wanderers.
The side which had not won since 21 November took the lead after just four minutes, Simon Makienok latching on to a Zakarya Bergdich cut-back pass to score.
While the Millers responded through Chris Burke, Igor Vetokele restored Charlton's advantage before Dane Makienok added his second and Ademola Lookman gave the 739 travelling Addicks fans reason to cheer for the first time in a long while.
The triumph will also come as a relief for Jose Riga, having been reappointed boss earlier this month.
Thrown away the gym membership yet?
Well, not everyone can stick to their New Year's resolutions as well as Barnsley have in recent weeks, beating Swindon 1-0 to extend their winning league run to six games, dating back to 28 December.
They are unbeaten in 2016, having also finished the first leg of the Johnstone's Paint Trophy Northern Area final against Fleetwood level at 1-1.
Before their surge in form the Tykes had picked up one win from their previous nine league games - losing nine of their 14 matches in all competitions between 17 October and Christmas.
Victory at the County Ground moved them up to 12th in the League One table and to within five points of the play-off places.
As demonstrated by Wycombe keeper Richardson, it was one of those days when the usually unassuming made a big impact.
Jack Compton scored all of Yeovil's goals in the 3-2 win over AFC Wimbledon, having previously not scored in the league for almost two years.
The 27-year-old had scored 11 times in his previous 166 career appearances.
But he is making a habit of scoring - by his own own standards - having also netted in Yeovil's FA Cup third-round replay defeat by Carlisle earlier this month. | A goalkeeping emergency which ended with a 46-year-old putting on the gloves to keep a clean sheet headlines our round-up of Saturday's football action. | 35450785 |
The 26-year-old spent three months on loan with the U's last term, helping Richard Money's side win promotion.
He scored nine goals in 13 outings, including one in the club's FA Trophy final victory over Gosport Borough.
"He has shown an unbelievable desire to join the club," said director of football Jez George. | Striker Ryan Bird has returned to Cambridge on a one-year deal after agreeing to terminate his contract with fellow League Two club Portsmouth. | 29022921 |
They will visit the British Memorial at Dunkirk Military Cemetery on Friday, 75 years after the evacuation.
A series of events is planned at the French town this weekend to commemorate the rescue of Allied troops.
On Thursday, about 50 "little ships" involved in the evacuation of troops from its beaches sailed from Kent. Such a trip is staged every five years.
Operation Dynamo, between 26 May and 4 June 1940, saw hundreds of boats of all types rescue 338,000 troops from France after they had retreated from Nazi forces.
This year's main commemorative event will be on Saturday, when an official service will take place at the Allied Beach Memorial in Dunkirk.
There will then be a parade of military vehicles and bands through the streets.
On Sunday a memorial plaque will be unveiled at the site of the MV Crested Eagle, a paddle steamer which was sunk with 300 soldiers on board.
There will also be a commemorative service for the Association of Dunkirk Little Ships (ADLS) on the quayside in Dunkirk.
The ADLS has organised sailings across the English Channel since 1970 in honour of the fishing boats, pleasure yachts and lifeboats that took part.
In 1940, their crews had heeded the government's request to help British, French and Belgian troops stranded after a German advance.
Historians say if the evacuation had not been a success, the allied war effort may have been critically damaged.
Among those sailing with the ADLS was Michael Bentall, 94, who came over from Ontario in Canada for the event.
In 1940 he was a soldier in the 4th Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment, and marched almost 120 miles to the beaches near Dunkirk to escape the German advance.
Eventually he found a rowing boat and was picked up by a navy ship during the rescue mission.
He said: "I didn't come here because I was feeling I had to come because of myself, it was for the chaps that I was with.
"I feel very lucky that I managed to get away in one sense, but I am also sad that I lost so many friends, pals and comrades. I don't understand how I have lived so long."
Aside from Operation Dynamo, two other troop evacuations from France were carried out.
Operation Cycle evacuated allied troops from Le Havre from 10 to 13 June 1940.
And Operation Ariel was carried out between 15 and 25 June, transporting many thousands of troops to Britain from locations which included Cherbourg, St Malo, Brest, St Nazaire and La Pallice.
Between Operation Cycle and Ariel, some 191,870 troops were rescued.
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Those debates will intensify as negotiations finally begin with the formal triggering of the UK's withdrawal from the European Union, known as Article 50, by Prime Minister Theresa May.
As the process finally begins, we look at where the parties in the assembly stand.
There has barely been a month in which Labour First Minister Carwyn Jones has not attended a Brexit summit - disguising the little leverage Mr Jones theoretically has - given Wales voted leave and he backed remain.
Regardless, after Article 50 is triggered, the Welsh Government is likely to warn the UK government about implementing anything that would mean Wales losing tariff-free access to the single market.
It will want current funding levels on agriculture and EU aid to be sustained.
The Welsh Government white paper in January intimated ministers believed freedom of movement - one of the pillars of membership of single market - could be kept but with the restriction that anyone who comes to the UK has a job.
The Welsh Government will also argue for structures to replace EU state aid rules - which prevent public bodies giving private firms an unfair advantage - in an effort to prevent what Mr Jones has called a "trade war" between the devolved nations.
But perhaps the biggest fight with the government will be over the distribution of post-Brexit powers among the devolved legislatures as they return from Brussels.
Plaid Cymru also found itself on the losing side at the referendum - it was never going to be a cheerleader for leaving the EU.
In an alternative article 50 letter, the party has called for membership of the European Economic Area and/or the European Free Trade Area - of which some countries outside of the EU that engage with the single market are members.
Plaid has, alongside Labour, called for guaranteed citizenship rights for EU nationals in Wales and Welsh nationals in the EU, and will want to see continued participation in European funding programmes.
The party will also be focused on what is and is not devolved after Brexit and will resist anything it sees as a claw-back of powers to London.
However, Plaid signed up to the Welsh Brexit white paper with Labour and some of the positions in it - such as its position on freedom of movement - also appear more nuanced than Plaid's pro-EU stance may suggest.
Plaid had initially demanded the UK remains a member of the single market, but the paper talks about participation in the single market - which could have a variety of implications.
UKIP is a significant force in Welsh politics by virtue of its six AMs - but the fact it had seven as recently as last summer is one example of the many internal problems the party faces.
Despite the internal rows, it can claim to be closer to Wales' verdict in the EU referendum than Labour and Plaid.
UKIP has promised to hold Theresa May's feet to the fire over the negotiations - anything that is seen as watering down Brexit is likely to be criticised by the party.
It has not produced a document outlining what Wales should get from leaving the EU in the same way Labour and Plaid has but UKIP is likely to press for a hard Brexit throughout the negotiation process.
It will likely criticise the UK government over anything it perceives as giving too much away to Brussels. It will want to see full immigration control and will be more relaxed about losing single-market access.
Party AMs will also not want to see contributions being made to the EU budget, the UK's seat retaken on the World Trade Organisation and Britain wholly removing itself from the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice.
Brexit was a boost for Andrew RT Davies' leadership of the Welsh Conservatives in the wake of an assembly campaign which saw his party lose seats.
With his party governing in Westminster, the Tory group will be loyal to the UK government in the Brexit process, unless there is an unexpected and highly-unlikely schism.
Mr Davies has told AMs in the Senedd he would would fight to secure "Wales's share of resources".
He, like Mr Jones, wants to see work on transitional arrangements within the UK post-Brexit to prevent disparities - and it is on issues like that where he thinks there could be more common ground on Brexit.
The Tory leader has previously stated, though, that it may not be devolved institutions which manage what replaces structural funds.
Mr Davies has said the Welsh Government is out of touch with voters and has tried to claim the moral high-ground by offering Carwyn Jones "the hand of friendship".
But his bids for cross-party working on Brexit in Cardiff have been snubbed.
Other than Plaid Cymru, the other party in Wales that is stridently pro-EU is the Welsh Liberal Democrats.
Party leader Mark Williams - and its only MP - voted against allowing the UK government the power to start Brexit in the House of Commons.
There is only one Lib Dem in the Senedd, former leader Kirsty Williams, who is a member of the Welsh Government - and the only member of the government who voted against Article 50 in the assembly.
The Lib Dems want rights protected for EU citizens and UK citizens, freedom of movement, membership of the single market, sustained levels of investment in UK universities and support for Welsh farmers to be protected. | It is many months since the result of the EU referendum was declared, but debates about Brexit have become a recurrent feature of political life in the National Assembly for Wales. | 39255774 |
They were apparently stranded at sea, abandoned by people smugglers who were transporting them to Thailand, rights groups said.
On Sunday, Indonesian authorities rescued nearly 600 migrants stranded off the coast of Aceh.
More than 100,000 Rohingya have fled Myanmar, also known as Burma, which does not recognise them as citizens.
The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) says a recent crackdown in Thailand on trafficking has meant that smugglers were leaving migrants on ship "camps" instead of bringing them on to land.
Police in Langkawi said three boats arrived into shallow waters near Langkawi in the middle of the night and the refugees offloaded.
"We think there were three boats that ferried 1,018 migrants," said Langkawi deputy police chief Jamil Ahmed.
He said the 555 Bangladeshis and 463 Rohingya, including 99 women and 54 children, would be handed over to the immigration department.
Authorities expected more migrants to arrive from waters around the area, he added.
The AFP news agency reported that Indonesian police had found another boat drifting off the coast of Aceh on Monday morning with 400 men, women and children from Myanmar and Bangladesh.
The migrants rescued on Sunday have been taken to a sports stadium in Lhoksukon, the capital of North Aceh district, chief of police for the area Lt Col Achmadi said.
Some were getting medical attention after being found sick and starving.
"We had nothing to eat,'' said Rashid Ahmed, a 43-year-old Rohingya man who was on one of the boats. He told AFP that he had left Myanmar's restive Rakhine state with his son three months ago.
Rohingya Muslims fleeing Myanmar often travel to Thailand with agents promising to get them to Malaysia.
They are sometimes held in jungle camps while agents demand a ransom to be paid to continue the journey.
Last week, dozens of human remains were found in abandoned refugee camps in the south of Thailand. Three Thais and a Burmese national have been arrested in Thailand on suspicion of human trafficking.
IOM told the BBC that the resulting crackdown on illegal arrivals from the Rohingya ethnic minority meant many smugglers were now unwilling to bring passengers onto land.
A spokesman for IOM said that thousands of refugees are believed to be stranded at sea close to Thailand.
"We believe there are more people waiting to land," said Jeff Labovitz, head of mission for IOM Asia Pacific. "There's a push to address the issue of smugglers' camps in Thailand and there [have] been numerous arrests so smugglers are not landing any more."
"There's been a crackdown and this is the result of the crackdown," he said. | Malaysian officials say 1,018 Bangladeshi and Rohingya refugees have landed illegally on Langkawi island. | 32686328 |
Gordon Gamble, 64, of Filching Road in Eastbourne, East Sussex, has now been jailed for three-and-a-half years.
Gamble was found guilty of acts of gross indecency with a child between March 1967 and March 1970, beginning when he was 15 and the girl was nine.
The Court of Appeal said he should have been been jailed in November.
The judge who imposed a two-year suspended term at London's Snaresbrook Crown Court referred to a number of factors including that the offences were committed when Gamble was a teenager.
He was also acquitted of seven of the original 10 counts, had no previous convictions and had worked as an "exemplary teacher of distinction".
Jailing Gamble, Lord Chief Justice Lord Thomas said judges sentencing in historic cases must guard against any temptation to make decisions because of what had happened in the intervening years.
Referring to the victim, he said: "She has lived with this matter for close on half a century.
"It has clearly had a most devastating effect on her life." | A teacher who abused a young girl nearly 50 years ago has been jailed after senior judges overturned an "unduly lenient" suspended sentence. | 35551516 |
US Pacific Fleet Commander Admiral Harry Harris made the comments in a speech in Australia on Tuesday night.
He said by pumping sand on to coral reefs and adding concrete, China had created "over 4sq/km (1.5 sq miles) of artificial landmass".
China has overlapping claims with neighbours in the South China Sea.
It has been reclaiming land in contested waters - something it said last year was "totally justified" as it had "sovereignty" over the area.
In recent months images have emerged of Chinese construction on reefs in the Spratly Islands to create artificial islands with facilities that could potentially be for military use, including an air strip.
Several nations, including Vietnam, the Philippines and Taiwan, also claim ownership of territory in the Spratly Islands.
Adm Harris described China's land reclamation as "unprecedented".
"China is building artificial land by pumping sand on to live coral reefs - some of them submerged - and paving over them with concrete. China has now created over 4sq/km (1.5 sq miles) of artificial landmass," he said.
"China is creating a great wall of sand with dredges and bulldozers over the course of months."
He said that considering China's "pattern of provocative actions towards smaller claimant states" in the South China Sea, the scope of the building raised "serious questions about Chinese intentions".
The row over territory in the South China Sea has escalated in recent years, raising regional tensions.
The Philippines has filed a complaint with UN's Permanent Court of Arbitration - but China says it will not engage with the case.
In Vietnam, anti-Chinese violence broke out last year after China moved a drilling rig into disputed waters of the Paracel Islands.
Last year, responding to a BBC report on the land reclamation, China's foreign ministry spokesman Hua Chunying said China's operations in the Spratly Islands fell "entirely within China's sovereignty and are totally justifiable".
Asked whether the reclamation was for commercial or military use, Ms Hua replied that it was "mainly for the purpose of improving the working and living conditions of people stationed on these islands". | China's land reclamation is creating a "great wall of sand" in the South China Sea, a top US official says, leading to "serious questions" on its intentions. | 32126840 |
Noone, 24, has become Malky Mackay's ninth signing of the summer for a fee believed to be £1m.
The Liverpool-born wideman started his career at Plymouth Argyle before joining the Seagulls for £300,000 in January 2011.
Noone, who has scored 11 goals in 60 appearances for Brighton, Exeter and Plymouth, is expected to make his debut at home to Wolves on Sunday.
Cardiff have already signed Craig Bellamy,Tommy Smith,Heidar Helguson,Matthew Connolly,Joe Lewis,Jordan Mutch,Kim Bo-Kyung, and Etien Velikonja this summer. | Cardiff City have signed Brighton winger Craig Noone on a four-year deal. | 19416803 |
Professor Ambikesh Mahapatra teaches chemistry at Jadavpur University. A court released him on bail.
Police say he forwarded doctored images of Ms Banerjee, former Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi, whom she recently sacked, and his replacement Mukul Roy.
The cartoon went viral on the social networking site Facebook.
Ms Banerjee sacked Mr Trivedi in March for not consulting her before presenting the railway budget, which included small but controversial fare increases.
The cartoon is a take on Oscar-winning late Bengali filmmaker Satyajit Ray's film Sonar Kella, or The Golden Fort.
It criticises Ms Banerjee's performance as a former railway minister. It also pokes fun at her for sacking Mr Trivedi from the same role.
Prof Mahapatra was arrested for "spreading derogatory messages against respectable people", said Sujoy Chanda, Deputy Commissioner of Calcutta police.
He did not say who these "respectable people" were.
The professor has been charged under India's information technology (IT) Act.
Prof Mahapatra was also attacked on Thursday night, allegedly by supporters of Ms Banerjee's Trinamool Congress [TMC] party.
His fellow professors and intellectuals have condemned his arrest, calling it an attack on free speech.
The chief minister, who came to power in 2011 bringing to an end the state's 34-year-old Communist rule, has recently attracted a lot of negative publicity.
The government's recent order to paint Calcutta blue was criticised by many.
Many of Ms Banerjee's high-profile supporters, including party MP and singer Kabir Suman, theatre actor Kaushik Sen and educator Sunanda Sanyal, have also begun criticising her government. | Indian police have arrested a professor in Calcutta for allegedly posting on the internet cartoons ridiculing West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. | 17699304 |
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