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Barca suffered their third successive league defeat in losing 2-1 at home to Valencia on Sunday after closest challengers Atletico Madrid and Real Madrid both won.
Borussia Dortmund recovered from their extraordinary Europa League defeat by Liverpool to beat Hamburg in the Bundesliga, although they are unlikely to deny... | Lionel Messi's 500th career goal brought little reason to celebrate for a Barcelona side whose La Liga title challenge is in trouble. | 36065165 |
The tiny creature was one of 122 hatchlings from a green turtle nest on Castaways Beach on Queensland's Sunshine Coast.
The volunteers from Coolum and North Shore Coast Care were surveying the nest on Sunday when they found it.
"It was very chipper and just took off into the water as happy as can be," said group presid... | Wildlife volunteers say they were stunned to find an extremely rare albino turtle on a beach in Australia. | 35528979 |
The fire service were called to Dean Terrace in the Stockbridge area at about 03:00 on Sunday.
The cars, a BMW 116d and a red Mercedes 220 CDI, were found to be well alight. Police believe the fire was deliberate.
No one was injured in the blaze but officers said they were "keen to hear" from anyone in the area who saw... | Police in Edinburgh have appealed for information after two cars were set on fire. | 33405752 |
Scrum-half Cliff, 28, came through Sale's academy and made 113 appearances before leaving in March 2015.
Hooker Jones, 29, joined Bristol in the same year and helped them to promotion from the Championship in 2015-16.
"It's great news for the club," Sale director of rugby Steve Diamond said. "They both know what we are... | Sale Sharks have re-signed Will Cliff and Marc Jones from Bristol ahead of next season on two-year contracts. | 39340797 |
Andrew Dobson, from Crewe, was sentenced to two years and eight months in jail and has been put on the sex offenders register for life.
Following the discovery of the doll - at East Midlands Airport - searches found indecent images on his computer.
The 49-year-old pleaded guilty to four counts at Chester Crown Court.
H... | A man has been jailed for trying to import an "obscene" child-like sex doll, in what police say is the first case of its kind in the UK. | 40383627 |
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They work long hours and usually take home less than $1,000 (£650) a month, most of which is sent back to their families.
Many are from cricket-mad India and Bangladesh, and they like nothing more than to spend their one precious d... | Singapore is home to hundreds of thousands of foreign construction workers. | 34122231 |
Sujith PV, 26, was killed in February and his mother, Sulojana M, still remembers her son's murder in painful detail.
"They struck him with a pipe, broke his skull and bones, and then hacked him to death in front of my eyes."
Sulojana, her husband and their two sons were sleeping at home in Kannur district when they we... | Kerala, one of India's most developed states, has witnessed a series of brutal political murders in recent years, writes BBC Hindi's Divya Arya. | 36299827 |
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The Dons led through Adam Rooney after keeper Jack Hamilton parried Peter Pawlett's effort into his path.
Esmael Goncalves levelled after the break before Anthony O'Connor replied and Hearts' Jamie Walker was sent off.
The Dons are nine points and 23 goals better off than ... | Aberdeen all but secured second spot in the Premiership with victory over 10-man Hearts at Tynecastle. | 39760495 |
Mr Peake and his two colleagues, Russian Yuri Malenchenko and American Tim Kopra, were welcomed with hugs from the ISS's existing crew members after successfully docking their Russian Soyuz spacecraft,
The former Army major and helicopter pilot has not stopped smiling all day. Here's his amazing journey - in pictures: | British astronaut Tim Peake is on board the International Space Station, six-and-a-half hours after blasting off from a base in Kazakhstan. | 35103837 |
Instead the talk played down he notion, pointing out that Scottish Labour's national executive committee would need to approve any Labour participation in coalition deals.
It is significant that in Aberdeen councillors appear to be ignoring the NEC to enter a coalition with the Conservatives.
But the notion that local ... | Labour did not completely rule out coalition deals with the Conservatives to run Scottish councils. | 39950528 |
Gwendoline Goring was sitting in a children's play area after becoming breathless when a warden issued an on-the-spot fine.
After a protest, Central Bedfordshire Council considered the "mitigating circumstances" and rescinded the fine.
Mrs Goring said she was "so glad" as the fine had been stressful.
The council said d... | An 83-year-old woman has had her fine rescinded for walking her dog in a Dunstable park where animals are banned. | 33975760 |
Thousands of people developed Hepatitis C and HIV after being given infected blood in the late 70s and 80s.
In 2015, the Welsh Government announced extra financial support for patients who had received contaminated blood.
Health Secretary Vaughan Gething said only the UK government had the power and the information to ... | The "tainted blood" scandal which led to the deaths of 70 people in Wales should be the subject of a UK public inquiry, a group of AMs has said. | 38741493 |
The county became the first to object to a change in England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) rules, which would allow the competition to take place.
Essex have since also objected, while Yorkshire, Durham and Sussex are amongst those to give their support.
The rule change requires the support of 31 of the 41 voting membe... | Middlesex chairman Mike O'Farrell says he supports the concept of a city-based Twenty20 competition, but has long-term concerns over money and governance. | 39671913 |
Matt Western, a Warwickshire county councillor, took the seat from Chris White who held a majority of 6,606 in 2015.
Describing his win as "astonishing", Mr Western said of Labour's manifesto: "We recognised at the time that we had something special, we had a promise."
Nuneaton has been held by the Conservatives with a... | Labour has taken the Warwick and Leamington seat from the Conservatives. | 40211171 |
"I declare this day... the end of the epidemic of the Ebola virus in Mali," said Ousmane Kone.
The last Ebola-infected patient in Mali recovered and left hospital in early December.
Latest figures show the three West African countries worst affected have all seen a decline in new Ebola cases.
Sierra Leone and Guinea bo... | Mali's health minister says the country is now free of the Ebola virus, after 42 days without a new case of the disease. | 30875317 |
Kezia Dugdale said that she, rather than the party's UK leader, was "in charge" of Scottish Labour.
She said Mr Corbyn "doesn't need an invite and did not decline to come".
The UK leaders of the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats have both addressed their Scottish conference is recent weeks.
Scottish Labour will be ho... | The Scottish Labour leader has insisted there is no problem in Jeremy Corbyn not attending the party's Scottish conference. | 35841218 |
The Rocky spin-off was also given prizes for lead actor Michael B Jordan and for supporting players Sylvester Stallone and Tessa Thompson.
The best ensemble performance award went to Straight Outta Compton, which also won for best original screenplay.
Brie Larson won best actress for Room and George Miller won best dir... | Creed has been voted the best film of 2015 by the Black Film Critics Circle. | 35159090 |
Police said the Ford Focus car he was driving left the southbound carriageway near Lendalfoot and hit the verge at about 19:00 on Monday.
He was taken by ambulance to Ayr Hospital where he was pronounced dead a short time later.
Police said they wanted to speak to anyone who witnessed the crash or saw the Ford Focus on... | A 28-year-old man has died following a crash on the A77 in Girvan. | 40644935 |
At the moment, they pay 90% of the amount due if the home was occupied.
However, Scottish Borders Council is now considering using powers which would allow them to charge twice the standard level.
It has been estimated it could generate an extra £900,000 although that figure might fall as homes are occupied.
The levy ... | Owners of homes in the Borders which have lain empty for a long period could see their council tax charges more than doubled. | 35531633 |
This is what the taskforce, chaired by former acting leader Dame Margaret Beckett, says about Wales:
The result in Wales was disappointing - we underperformed compared with other traditional Labour heartlands. There was a small swing in votes to the Conservatives from Labour (0.3 per cent) compared to the average swing... | Labour has just published its "learning the lessons from defeat taskforce report" - how and why it lost the 2015 general election. | 35355107 |
The 54-year-old needed medical treatment after an incident at his home near Markethill on 28 June.
The man has been charged with common assault and making threats to kill.
The 60-year-old is expected to appear at Armagh Magistrates Court on 28 July. | A 60-year-old man has been charged with assaulting victims campaigner Willie Frazer in County Armagh. | 33384717 |
After wrapping up the England innings for 283 in the first four overs of the day, India were well placed at 148-2.
But the tourists took three wickets for eight runs, before Ben Stokes removed India captain Virat Kohli for 62.
Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja then shared an unbroken stand of 67 as India closed o... | England produced an outstanding bowling and fielding display to drag themselves back into contention on day two of the third Test against India in Mohali. | 38122490 |
Authorities were called to a home in San Antonio early on Friday morning after a neighbour reported hearing a child crying for a long time.
A three-year-old girl was also found tied to an outside door by a dog lead.
Police found six more children alone inside the home, ranging in age from 10 months to 13 years old.
Pol... | Police in the US state in Texas have rescued eight children from "horrific abuse" including a two-year-old who was chained to the ground in a garden. | 36173987 |
The group of about 40 people punched windows and tried to kick down glass doors at Liverpool's Titanic Hotel at about 22:10 BST on Friday.
City mayor Joe Anderson was hosting the event in aid of For James - the fund set up after he was killed in 1993.
Merseyside Police are trying to identify those responsible.
The forc... | A group of political protesters broke into a hotel during a charity dinner to raise money in memory of murdered toddler James Bulger. | 32942544 |
We are in the green room at London's Festival Hall where, just a few minutes earlier, Alderman was announced as this year's winner of the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction for her sci-fi novel The Power.
Her gripping book - described by the judges as a "brilliantly imagined dystopia" - explores a future in which women ... | "My legs are a bit trembly - like after you've had a sudden shock," says Naomi Alderman, without realising the pun she's just made. | 40192872 |
The issue arose on Friday and work is ongoing to try to resolve it.
A short statement from Dumfries and Galloway Council confirmed the problem had occurred at the end of last week.
It said it was working with the software supplier to identify the problem and repair it as soon as possible.
No date has yet been set for t... | An IT problem has shut down public access computers and a stock management system at libraries across Dumfries and Galloway. | 31929441 |
The Financial Conduct Authority said it was the largest fine that it or the former Financial Services Authority had imposed for retail conduct failings.
The bonus scheme pressurised staff to hit sales targets or risk being demoted and have their pay cut, the FCA said.
Lloyds Bank has accepted the regulator's findings a... | Lloyds Banking Group has been fined £28m for "serious failings" in relation to bonus schemes for sales staff. | 25330366 |
Sphere Medical Ltd has launched a fund-raising drive with shareholders as it prepares to open the facility by 2016.
The Wales Fund - a £100m scheme set up to boost hi-tech medical and pharmaceutical industries in Wales - has pledged £4m toward the plan.
The Cambridge-based firm said the site's location is yet to be dec... | A medical equipment developer has announced a £12m plan to open a new production centre in Wales. | 32352640 |
Dortmund, who beat Darmstadt 2-0, are now five points off Bayern and host the champions this weekend.
Bayern, who had won 17 consecutive home games in all competitions, trailed when Mainz's Jairo swept home a cross.
Arjen Robben levelled from 25 yards but substitute Jhon Cordoba scored a late winner from outside the bo... | Bayern Munich suffered a surprise defeat by Mainz as Borussia Dortmund boosted their Bundesliga title hopes going into Saturday's Der Klassiker. | 35693011 |
Clarke, 34, was signed on a two-year deal last summer, but his contract has been terminated by mutual consent.
The form of Adam Smith meant Clarke made only four first-team appearances for the Cobblers last season and did not feature at all in the league.
Wimbledon, also promoted to League One via the play-offs, have n... | AFC Wimbledon have signed Ryan Clarke after the goalkeeper was released by Northampton Town. | 36585991 |
He was a prolific writer, toured extensively and released his last album days before he died.
We take a look at the David Bowie's career in numbers - from world tours to numbers of platinum-selling albums.
Sources: Google maps; tour dates from Wikipedia
David Bowie propelled himself to international superstardom with h... | Rock legend David Bowie - the man, his music and manner - inspired millions around the world in a career spanning 51 years. | 35284235 |
Stephen Rodgers and his wife, Alison, planned their special day around the historic match.
The couple arranged for the game to be played on a big screen at their reception and had their first dance after the half time whistle.
Following Northern Ireland's 3-1 win, the newly-weds are considering travelling to France for... | A football-mad couple from Carrickfergus, who planned their wedding around Northern Ireland's European qualifier against Greece on Thursday, have their sights set on a Euro 2016 honeymoon. | 34487715 |
Since Nigel Farage quit as leader, his successor resigned 18 days into the job and another contender left the party following a fracas with a fellow MEP.
Mr Nuttall's rival Suzanne Evans said she could widen UKIP's reach, appealing to women and ethnic minority voters.
Third hopeful John Rees-Evans has vowed to give mor... | UKIP leadership contender Paul Nuttall has told the BBC only he can "get a grip" on the party, following a series of upsets in recent months. | 38043760 |
As Canada celebrates its 150th anniversary, BBC World News will explore this vast country throughout July - from discovering some of the most remote places in Canada on The Travel Show to documentary-style programming in Canada Stories.
To mark this occasion, we are offering Canadian audiences the chance to watch BBC ... | BBC World News: Free TV Preview Available Now | 40297983 |
The prime minister's comment came after she was asked whether she would "prioritise" controlling immigration over staying in the single market.
She told Sky News her approach was not "muddled", following criticism by the UK's former EU ambassador.
Mrs May, whose critics have demanded more detail of her aims, promised t... | The UK cannot expect to hold on to "bits" of its membership after leaving the EU, Theresa May has said. | 38546820 |
As the first son of his widowed mother - a farmer - custom demanded that the responsibility for his six siblings would shift to him the minute he graduated from university.
Long before he got his degree in statistics, he decided that he did not want to join the mass of unemployed university graduates in his country.
Bu... | Nearly 15 years ago, successful Nigerian businessman Anselm Okoukoni was one of the desperate African migrants prepared to do anything to get to Europe. | 35131170 |
In the past five years the department has paid around £5.5m to the Western European Union, which is now defunct.
Critics said it was a waste of taxpayers' money but the Foreign Office says the UK has been pushing to get the WEU fully closed as soon as possible.
The payments were revealed by a Freedom of Information req... | The UK Foreign Office has been spending over £1m a year on an international security alliance that was abolished in 2011, the BBC has discovered. | 36411536 |
Ahmad al-Faqi al-Mahdi said he was "really sorry" for his actions and asked for forgiveness.
He was accused of leading rebel forces who destroyed historic shrines at the world heritage site in 2012.
It is the first time that the court in The Hague has tried a case of cultural destruction.
It is also the first time a su... | An Islamist militant has admitted destroying cultural sites in Timbuktu, Mali, in a landmark trial at the International Criminal Court (ICC). | 37152191 |
The Harry Potter author will be presented with the Pen/Allen Foundation Literary Service Award on 16 May at the group's annual spring gala in New York.
Pen (Poets, Essayists and Novelists) said it was honouring the author in recognition of her support for free expression and charitable causes.
Previous winners have inc... | JK Rowling is to receive a prestigious award from literary and human rights group Pen America. | 35408331 |
While other hospitals are seeing the overtime bill rise, the trust, which runs two hospitals and a specialist eye unit in north-west England, stopped using premium rates in 2010. So how did it buck the trend?
Chief executive Andrew Foster said the 2008 financial crisis was the prompt for getting tough.
"We immediately ... | Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust stands out in the BBC investigation into high-cost overtime payments to consultants - it doesn't pay them. | 36898882 |
161 people lost their lives after an attempted coup by a military faction on Friday night.
A flight to Dalaman in the south-west of the country left Aldergrove on Saturday afternoon.
Tour operator Thompson said most travellers had decided to continue with their holiday plans.
Sharon Laverty and her friend Victoria Hewe... | Despite political turmoil, most holiday makers bound for Turkey left Belfast International Airport unfazed on Saturday. | 36815548 |
Lebanon has placed new restrictions on Syrians entering the country to slow the flow of asylum seekers trying to escape the Syrian civil war. | 30684523 | |
Neville left the club this week after less than four months in charge and was replaced by Pako Ayestaran - a man Neville had brought to the Mestalla.
Valencia went ahead when Rodrigo scored after goalkeeper Javi Varas's error.
But Jonathan Viera's penalty and an own goal from Valencia's Shkodran Mustafi gave Las Palmas... | Valencia lost in their first game since the sacking of former boss Gary Neville as they suffered an away defeat at Las Palmas to remain in relegation trouble. | 35928644 |
Channel 4 signed a three-year deal with Love Productions, which makes the hit baking programme, in September last year.
A BBC spokesperson wished the programme "well for the future".
Paul Hollywood is the only celebrity to be following the show to its new home.
An insider told BBC News: "We don't want to get in the way... | The Great British Bake Off will return to television screens this year, after the BBC waived a legal clause preventing Channel 4 from showing it until 2018. | 38748945 |
The Indomitable Lions advance to the last eight as Group B winners, with DR Congo going through as runners-up.
Yazid Atouba made it 1-0 to Cameroon just before half-time but Jean Makusu equalised straight after the break.
Nicolas Moumi restored Cameroon's lead on 50 minutes and Samuel Nlend sealed the victory with a ch... | Cameroon beat DR Congo 3-1 to reach the quarter-finals of the African Nations Championship in Rwanda. | 35404143 |
Akinfeev, 28, was hit in the first minute of the Group G clash at the Gradski Stadion and was taken off on a stretcher and then substituted.
After a 35-minute delay German referee Deniz Aytekin restarted the match.
But the game was abandoned in the second half at 0-0 after a brawl involving players and coaching staff.
... | Russia goalkeeper Igor Akinfeev was struck on the back of the head by a flare as their Euro 2016 qualifier with Montenegro in Podgorica was abandoned. | 32096292 |
Solicitors' associations warn that cutting the number of contracts from 1,600 to 527 will lead to inadequate access to legal advice for defendants.
But judges in London's High Court ruled the plans were not legally flawed.
The Ministry of Justice said savings had to be made in the legal aid system.
In the High Court on... | Solicitors have lost a legal challenge against government plans to cut by more than half the number of duty lawyers attending magistrates' courts and police stations in England and Wales. | 31522509 |
Scientists suggest chokeberries could work in combination with conventional drugs to kill more cancer cells.
But the UK research is at an early stage, with experiments carried out only on cancer cells in laboratories.
Cancer Research UK says much more work is needed to test the effectiveness of berries, particularly in... | Wild berries native to North America may have a role in boosting cancer therapy, according to a study in the Journal of Clinical Pathology. | 29237733 |
Noye, 70, was convicted of murdering 21-year-old Stephen Cameron in an attack on the M25 in Kent in 1996.
He went on the run but was arrested in Spain two years on. He was sentenced to life, with a minimum of 16 years.
The recommendation comes after Noye won a High Court challenge in February against a decision refusi... | Road-rage killer Kenneth Noye has been recommended for transfer to an open prison, the Parole Board has said. | 40482914 |
Matthew Ingham, 37, has been charged with five counts of theft and Kim Ager, 34, has been charged with with receiving stolen goods.
The charges relate to the theft of laptops and other items in July.
Mr Ingham and Ms Ager, both from Keighley, will appear at Leeds Magistrates' Court next month. | Two people have been charged in connection with the theft of electronic equipment from a children's cancer ward in Leeds General Infirmary. | 34607067 |
Denbighshire council's scrutiny committee decided on Thursday the future provision of all adult services in the county will also go before full council.
The council runs care homes in Ruthin, Denbigh and Corwen, with 200 residents and 130 staff.
The authority needs to save £18m over the next two years. | The future of council-run care homes in Denbighshire will be discussed in a community consultation. | 29464948 |
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One woman who has well and truly broken through that ceiling in one of the toughest industries around is Dr Marlene Kanga.
She is the head of Engineers Australia and is in Singapore for a global industry conference.
She spoke to Ali Moore about what inspired her to become an ... | The glass ceiling is still a problem for women trying to rise through the leadership ranks in business. | 24075638 |
The disused Victoria Road Cemetery chapel in Farnborough was gutted by the blaze on Monday evening.
About 70% of the chapel, which was built in 1859, has been damaged by the blaze which ripped through its roof, the fire service said.
Police said the boys, aged 11 and 12, had been arrested on suspicion of arson and rele... | Two boys have been arrested on suspicion of setting fire to a Victorian cemetery chapel in Hampshire. | 36832640 |
Scrapping the act and replacing it with a British Bill of Rights was a Conservative election manifesto pledge.
But the Committee on the Administration of Justice (CAJ) said the move would "significantly roll back" Northern Ireland's peace settlement.
The Ministry of Justice said the plan would be discussed in due cours... | The government's pledge to scrap the Human Rights Act would be a "flagrant breach" of the Good Friday Agreement, a human rights organisation has said. | 32705020 |
Less than 1% of 87,230 sex assaults carried out in the UK targeted victims over 60, Durham University researchers found.
But the team believe this is the tip of the iceberg and many older victims are being put off reporting the crime.
They also found that more than 65% of attackers who targeted the elderly, were under ... | Sex attack victims over 60 are failing to report assaults and are being made to feel "invisible", a study has found. | 34914982 |
Mr Poltorak said Ukrainian forces were coming under attack just two to four times a day - the lowest rate in the past year and a half.
The reduction in violence comes a week after the latest ceasefire agreement came into force on 1 September.
Last week's truce aimed to reinforce an agreement struck in Minsk in February... | Fighting in eastern Ukraine has fallen to its lowest level since the conflict started, Ukrainian Defence Minister Stepan Poltorak has said. | 34184945 |
The 46-year-old woman was discovered in Beckett Avenue, Meir, at about 13:00 BST on Sunday.
Officers have arrested two men, aged 47 and 34, and a 26-year-old woman, Staffordshire Police said.
The force said it was currently treating her death as suspicious and asked anyone with information to get in touch. | Three people have been arrested following the "suspicious death" of a woman who was found in Stoke-in-Trent. | 33310799 |
JJ Abrams' film achieved the feat in 12 days, beating the previous record of 13 days set by Jurassic World in June.
But while Jurassic World had the benefit of record takings in China over the period, The Force Awakens has yet to open there.
Star Wars also scored the biggest US Christmas Day box office takings in histo... | Star Wars: The Force Awakens has become the fastest film to take $1bn (£674m) at the global box office. | 35185528 |
Police said the arrested man, 30, was also suspected of two assault offences.
PC Neil Doyle, 36, was attacked near the Aloha Club in the city centre early on Friday and died of bleeding around the brain.
A 28-year-old suspect handed himself in earlier. The suspects, both from Huyton in Merseyside, are being interviewed... | A second man has been arrested on suspicion of murdering an off-duty police constable in Liverpool. | 30565797 |
Muhammadu Buhari swept to a historic election victory in March 2015, becoming the first opposition candidate to win a Nigerian presidential poll.
A former military ruler, Mr Buhari defeated incumbent Goodluck Jonathan by three million votes.
Mr Jonathan's People's Democratic Party had dominated Nigerian politics since ... | President: Muhammadu Buhari | 13949548 |
The marauding criminal ate into savings, eroded incomes and increased the cost of everything from the weekly shop to filling up the car.
It made a widow of the prudent.
For years inflation and unemployment were the twin enemies of Western politicians and central bank governors. If either rose precipitately, a period ou... | Ronald Reagan once said inflation was as "frightening as an armed robber". | 37349812 |
Singapore said it would allow the US to deploy a spy plane out of its territory to monitor Chinese activities in the South China sea.
The move, which angered the Chinese, comes at a time of heightened tensions in the area over China's building of artificial islands in disputed places.
It is a reminder that while Washin... | Buried under the avalanche of reactions to presidential candidate Donald Trump's verbal attack against Muslims, the stream of headlines about the San Bernardino couple who shot and killed more than 14 people last week and the dissection of President Barack Obama's Sunday Oval speech about the war against the so-called ... | 35040851 |
Violet McAfee, 44, was in the garden of a friend's house when three bikes crashed during Saturday's opening race.
She suffered serious head and leg injuries. She was taken to hospital by helicopter. Her condition is stable.
Two riders were also taken to hospital. One, Stephen Thompson, is also now in a stable condition... | The partner of a woman seriously injured while watching the North West 200 motorbike races has paid tribute to quick-thinking doctors at the scene. | 32786391 |
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Fly-half Sam Davies conjured a rare - and pivotal - flash of quality to send Josh Matavesi in for the game's only try with a superb reverse pass.
Davies converted the score and kicked two penalties to Duncan Weir's three for Edinburgh.
The defeat is the Scottish side's fif... | Ospreys moved top of the Pro12 with a hard-fought victory over Edinburgh in dreadful weather conditions. | 39138416 |
Dr Andrew Goodall said the health service in Wales would instead look to keep making "steady and sustained improvements across the board".
Last week, his counterpart in England suggested patients could face longer waits for knee and hip operations.
But Dr Goodall wants improved waiting times over a range of services.
I... | NHS Wales' boss has rejected the idea that planned surgery waiting times could be allowed to grow as a "trade off" for quicker A&E and cancer care. | 39515153 |
O'Neil swept home a shot from 15 yards in the 27th minute and although Bolton had chances to equalise, their finishing was wasteful.
The visitors had plenty of possession but Chesterfield defended strongly, although Zach Clough was just off target with a flick in the seventh minute and he also had other chances in the ... | Bolton were beaten for the first time in five league games as a Liam O'Neil goal earned struggling Chesterfield victory at the Proact Stadium. | 38272131 |
Just a few weeks later, George Osborne has announced that the pilot would be, well, all of England.
I asked a senior minister why the Chancellor leapfrogged the trials and has gone for full roll out. The answer was one word: "power".
Or to put it another way, this is a government and chancellor feeling much more confid... | The Conservatives' general election manifesto pledged there would be a few pilot schemes - in Cambridgeshire, Manchester and Cheshire East - to test the impact of giving local authorities the power to retain 100% of any incremental funds they raise from business rates. | 34449708 |
A group of scientists drafted the letter with the initial aim of building a network of 500 women.
In the six days since its publication, 8,800 researchers have signed the pledge, which rejects the "hateful rhetoric that was given a voice".
Dr Kelly Ramirez, at the Netherlands Insitute of Ecology, was an author.
Dr Rami... | Almost 10,000 women working in science have signed an open letter pledging to combat discrimination and "anti-science sentiment" following the US election. | 38094016 |
The president-elect said the Japanese company would be hit with a "big border tax" if the plan went ahead.
American car companies have faced harsh criticism from Mr Trump for building cars more cheaply outside the US.
Toyota's President Akio Toyoda said the company had no immediate plans to curb production in Mexico.
"... | Donald Trump has tweeted that Toyota will face hefty tariffs on cars built in Mexico for the US market if it builds Corollas south of the border. | 38525389 |
The UKIP leader said the BBC was part of the "political establishment" which covered the election "as if there were just two choices in England".
The comment to reporters came ahead of a BBC Question Time leaders' debate featuring David Cameron, Ed Miliband and Nick Clegg.
Mr Farage will answer questions in a separate ... | Nigel Farage has accused the BBC of "bias" in its coverage of UKIP's election campaign. | 32537024 |
Constable Claude Dorion said a search helicopter spotted the remains of Mike Gagnon, 37, late on Monday.
Mr Gagnon and his stepdaughter went missing on Sunday after their car was swept into the Riviere Sainte-Anne in the Gaspé region of the province.
Ground search crews and divers are still looking for the toddler.
Th... | Quebec provincial police have recovered the body of man who was swept away by a swollen river in floods that are feared to have claimed three other lives. | 39860618 |
One pedestrian said the routes offered a "new perspective" on Dundee, while another said it would "breathe new life" into the Waterfront.
The grid pattern became operational on Friday morning following two years of construction work.
Dundee City Council said the project was completed on time and on budget.
Rod McLeod, ... | New streets and pavements connecting Dundee Waterfront to the city centre have opened to the public for the first time. | 35670612 |
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The nine-man Team Vestas Wind crew were stranded after crashing on a remote coral reef, before being picked up by a coastguard boat and taken to Mauritius.
Shore crew chief Neil Cox, said: "We've had nine guys sitting on a sand pit in the middle of the Indian Ocean.
"The c... | A shipwrecked crew have been rescued from shark-inhabited waters during the round-the-world Volvo Ocean Race. | 30330226 |
Taylor sidefooted the hosts ahead but Matt Mills headed Forest's equaliser.
And, after Darnell Fisher was sent off for a second caution, Apostolos Vellios scored with a stunning overhead kick.
But Taylor curled the ball in to level and they held on, although Forest substitute Nicklas Bendtner nearly won it when his hea... | Jon Taylor grabbed a late equaliser to earn 10-man Rotherham a thrilling draw against Nottingham Forest after a frantic final 15 minutes. | 37293370 |
For the first two years of the project, the originator of Bitcoin's core ideas, who adopted the name of Satoshi Nakamoto, was very active on the cryptography forums where the underlying code of the protocol was critiqued, tested and improved.
Satoshi worked with Hal Finney, James Donald, Nick Szabo, Ray Dillinger and m... | The dollar value of individual bitcoins may have fluctuated wildly since their creation but there is one facet of the virtual currency that has only ever accrued more and more interest - the question of who invented it. | 36168864 |
The Gills finished ninth last season, but are currently 17th in the table, 10 points off the play-offs, after 25 games of the campaign.
The Kent club have suffered back-to-back defeats, losing to Millwall on Friday and Oxford on Monday.
"This is obviously a difficult decision to begin 2017 with," chairman Paul Scally t... | League One side Gillingham have sacked manager Justin Edinburgh after less than two years in charge. | 38496284 |
The 23-year-old Irishman takes over from Italian Manuel Pascali, 33, who has moved to Cittadella in his homeland.
Connolly joined Killie from Crawley Town in 2014 and made 29 appearances for the Rugby Park side last season.
"To be captain of any football club is a real honour," Republic of Ireland Under-21 cap Connolly... | Kilmarnock have announced defender Mark Connolly as their new captain. | 33569357 |
Mike Pompeo said Pyongyang was moving at an "ever-alarming rate" with its weapons programme and another missile test would not be surprising.
But he warned that Washington's "strategic patience" was over.
Both sides have used hostile rhetoric, with President Donald Trump threatening "fire and fury" on the North.
Mr Pom... | There is no imminent threat of a nuclear war with North Korea, the director of the US Central Intelligence Agency said, despite rising tensions. | 40917414 |
The Scottish government is seeking views on recommendations by an independent expert panel to introduce a "no-fault" scheme in Scotland.
The group has recommended changing the current system for the handling of claims to one of no-fault compensation.
The system would be similar to schemes in place in other parts of the... | A consultation has begun on whether the NHS should compensate people when things go wrong without victims having to go to court. | 19295413 |
Charlie Elphicke, MP for Dover and Deal, said allowing the protests to go ahead on Saturday was "irresponsible, reckless and wrong".
Three men were arrested as groups demonstrating against immigration clashed with anti-racism protesters.
Kent Police said the law obliged it to facilitate peaceful protest.
Fights with br... | Police have been criticised by an MP for allowing rival demonstrations to take place in Dover after they erupted into violence. | 35454046 |
Dr Rowan Williams says he's worried by news that half as many children know the prayer compared with 40 years ago.
He said: "I'd like to see schools introducing children to the Lord's Prayer, so that they know that it's there, they know what it means and know why it matters.
"Then they may make up their minds about whe... | The Archbishop of Canterbury says he believes that children should be taught the Lord's Prayer in schools. | 17561869 |
The world champion was 0.421 seconds faster than Red Bull's Daniil Kvyat in the brief period of dry running.
A late shower prevented Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel completing a lap that would have offered comparison.
The second Red Bull of Daniel Ricciardo was third but ended the session with an off at Turn 13 in the wet c... | Lewis Hamilton set the pace in the first practice session of the new season, held in intermittent rain at the Australian Grand Prix. | 35839648 |
Reinhold Hanning is accused of being an accessory to the murder of at least 170,000 people at the camp. He was an SS guard there from 1942 to 1944.
He has said he knew what was going on at the camp but did not act to stop it.
But he denies involvement in murder. His trial in Detmold began in February.
The Nazis killed ... | A 94-year-old former Auschwitz death camp guard has apologised to Nazi victims in a court in western Germany, saying he feels "ashamed" of his work at a "criminal organisation". | 36168688 |
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, 26, is tipped to become the next leader of the People's Party (PPP), currently headed by his father Asif Ali Zardari.
He told supporters in Karachi: "If you want to save Pakistan, the only answer is Bhuttoism and the PPP."
He had previously been forced to keep a low profile because of Taliban th... | Tens of thousands of Pakistanis have attended the first mass rally held by the son of murdered Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. | 29673493 |
Firefighters say the foam spread after a fire alarm malfunctioned in a hangar at San Jose airport, causing foam to spew out of the hangar's vents.
The public has been warned to not to touch the foam as it is a skin irritant.
Local media say the foam deluge has stopped, and clean-up crews are being sent to the scene.
Ge... | A sea of flame retardant foam has flooded the streets around an airport hangar in the US state of California. | 38034467 |
The survey found the salary difference stretched across different languages, countries and experience levels.
The debate over whether it is better to use spaces or tabs to indent code has raged among programmers for years.
Indents act like paragraph markers and help define how programs work.
The result was "surprising,... | Computer programmers who use spaces as part of their coding earn $15,370 (£12,000) more per year than those who use tabs, a survey of developers has revealed. | 40302410 |
The Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government wants to set in stone the date of the next general election - which has previously been up to the prime minister of the day to decide. Under their proposals the next general election will be held on 7 May 2015.
Criticism of the current system tends to centre on the... | MPs are debating legislation to introduce five-year fixed term parliaments, part of a series of constitutional changes planned by the coalition government. | 11286879 |
Set out in a letter, the guidelines are the latest effort to eradicate child sex abuse in the Roman Catholic Church.
It incorporates sweeping revisions made last year to the Church's laws on sexual abuse.
But victims' groups are critical of the move, saying it does not go far enough.
The letter is intended to help ever... | Pope Benedict has told bishops around the world to promptly report all suspected cases of sexual abuse of minors by Catholic priests to local police in new guidelines he has issued. | 13416498 |
Arrests for sexual offences on the network have also increased by 36% since 2015.
The "Report it to stop it" campaign has been re-launched as police estimate 90% of people still do not report offences.
The Mayor of London encouraged Londoners "to speak up and report unwanted sexual behaviour".
New figures released by T... | Reports of sexual offences on London's transport network have doubled to over 2,000 a year in the last five years, according to new figures. | 39217472 |
The Dons hold a two-goal lead thanks to last week's 3-1 success at Pittodrie.
They know if they plunder another, it should be enough to book their place in the second qualifying round.
"I think the amount of chances we created last Thursday gives us a lot of hope for an away goal," said defender Graeme Shinnie.
"If we ... | Aberdeen will aim for a tie-killing away goal when they take on Fola Esch in the second leg of their Europa League qualifier in Luxembourg. | 36730650 |
Canadian-owned site AshleyMadison.com, with its tagline "life is short, have an affair", said it was listing in Europe because of the continent's "more laissez-faire attitude" to infidelity.
Parent company Avid Life Media said it hoped to raise $200m (£134m) in London later this year.
The site says it has 36 million m... | A dating website focusing on adultery has announced its intention to list publicly in London. | 32331335 |
The 27-year-old later told police the act had been a "dare", police said.
Video footage showed a spray of water being thrown over the group carrying the torch in Maracaju in central Brazil.
The torch relay will cover 20,000km (12,400 mile) and 300 Brazilian cities before the flame arrives in Rio de Janeiro for the Game... | A man has been arrested in Brazil after trying to put out the Olympic flame by throwing a bucket of water over it. | 36643346 |
Brothers Dennis and Bernard McGinley from Taunton, Somerset, and Christy Stokes from Micheldever, Hampshire, threatened to shoot the victim, who cannot be identified for legal reasons.
Teesside Crown Court heard he was forced to empty his bank account, borrow money and sell his tractor.
The men were jailed after pleadi... | Three men who blackmailed a North Yorkshire farmer, forcing him to pay them almost £200,000, have been jailed. | 35607366 |
The TUC said statutory maternity pay for UK mothers was among the worst in Europe.
Here's what you had to say.
Priya Virdi, Datchet
I work in London and live in Datchet, Berkshire. I work in telecommunications and earn an average London wage. I'm currently on maternity leave wondering if I'll get a chance to see my bab... | We asked women how they have coped financially after having a baby, following a call by a trade union body for "decently paid" maternity leave. | 39380881 |
Christopher Metcalfe, 70, from Blidworth, Nottinghamshire, is accused of five sex offences against three girls in the 1970s and 1980s.
At Derby Crown Court he said he remembered swimming trips but insisted no inappropriate touching took place.
Mr Metcalfe said one girl went to his home but only on a simple errand.
The ... | An ex-teacher accused of sex assaults on children as young as nine at his home and during swimming trips said the attacks "simply didn't happen". | 39435861 |
The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that dozens more were injured in the city of Ariha.
People had been gathering at the mosque to break their Ramadan fast at the time, the group said.
The cause of the explosion is not yet known.
An unnamed senior non-Syrian member of al-Nusra was reportedly killed in... | At least 25 members of Syria's al-Qaeda affiliate, al-Nusra Front, including a leader, have been killed in a blast at a mosque in north-western Idlib province, activists say. | 33392983 |
He said the US and Russia were working on a mechanism to ensure air strikes only targeted so-called Islamic State (IS) or al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front.
Mr Kerry said they had agreed not to debate alleged violations in public.
On Monday, aid convoys began reaching besieged areas of Syria as the cessation of violence, ... | US Secretary of State John Kerry says all alleged violations of the partial truce in Syria will be investigated. | 35693422 |
On 5 December 1766, young Scotsman James Christie opened the doors of his first sale house, in Pall Mall, London.
His first auction included a pair of sheets, two pillowcases, two chamber pots and four Indian glassworks.
The following year, he held his first of what would be many auctions devoted entirely to pictures.
... | World-renowned auction house Christie's is celebrating its 250th anniversary. | 37936567 |
The protesters have been camping in a field near Upton in Chester for the past 18 months, but were given 28 days to leave by a judge last week.
Natalie Bennett said the campers were "standing up for their community".
Landowner, energy firm IGas, said the camp was illegal.
The protesters have been in the field since Apr... | Green Party leader Natalie Bennett has told anti-fracking campaigners, facing eviction in Cheshire "non-violent direct action", may be necessary. | 34804457 |
Google said a "majority" of users were affected by the short-term software problem.
While people could still access and use Gmail many people saw "unexpected behaviour" because of the problem.
Many reported the errors via Twitter seeking clarification from Google about what had gone wrong.
The error messages started ap... | Gmail users around the world saw errors and safety warnings over the weekend after Google forgot to update a key part of the messaging software. | 32194202 |
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