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The world number four is among the favourites on a Quail Hollow layout where he has two wins and the course record.
"I'm not putting that much pressure on myself. I've proven myself enough over the last nine years of my career," said the Northern Irishman.
"I never lost faith. I've always believed in my abilities. I st... | Rory McIlroy says he has nothing to prove as he chases his first major in three years at the US PGA Championship. | 40875479 |
The leader of the Tories plans to visit all four parts of the UK on Tuesday.
Elsewhere, First Minister and SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon spoke about policies to reduce child poverty.
Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy has been talking about opportunities for young people while the Liberal Democrat theme is fairness in the ... | Prime Minister David Cameron was on an early morning visit to Scotland as the campaign north of the border picked up after the Easter holidays. | 32196142 |
Manston Airport was bought by Ann Gloag, who co-founded the Stagecoach Group, for £1 from the New Zealand company Infratil in October.
Since then it is understood the airport has been losing about £10,000 a day.
Up to 150 mostly part-time jobs were placed at risk last month when the airport revealed it was holding a co... | An offer from an unnamed potential buyer for a Kent airport facing closure has been withdrawn. | 26851061 |
The footage tells you a lot about society at the time.
Crowds, dozens deep, lined the roads and railways to catch a glimpse of the sovereign.
Over pictures of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh at Stormont, the Pathé narrator says: "Her Majesty the Queen has found overflowing expression of the undoubted loyalty and lo... | In 1953, British Pathé and BBC cameras captured the sumptuous spectacle of the newly crowned Queen's first visit to Northern Ireland. | 32839731 |
MSPs had raised concerns about the system, which can result in council chief executives being paid thousands of pounds on top of their salaries.
In 2016 almost £500,000 was available for Scotland's 32 returning officers for Holyrood and EU referendum votes.
Scottish Secretary David Mundell said the review would form p... | Extra payments to returning officers for overseeing elections are to be reviewed by the UK government. | 40364602 |
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Blackburn Rovers 3-1 Reading
Cardiff City 1-1 Birmingham City
Charlton Athletic 0-3 Burnley
Derby County 0-1 Ipswich Town
Fulham 1-0 Bolton Wanderers
Huddersfield Town 1-5 Brentford
Hull City 5-1 Rotherham United
Middlesbrough 1-1 Brighton and Hove Albion
MK Dons 1-2 Notti... | Read match reports for Saturday's 12 Championship games, as Middlesbrough join champions Burnley in securing promotion. | 36226463 |
A poor run of form saw manager Garry Monk leave in December, with Alan Curtis put in temporary charge before Francesco Guidolin's appointment.
The Swans' 3-1 win against Liverpool on Sunday ensured a sixth season in the top flight.
"We said we have to show character and resilience to get points," said Rangel.
"The main... | Swansea City defender Angel Rangel says meetings between the club's players helped them to avoid relegation from the Premier League. | 36186087 |
Police say at least three prisoners have been decapitated at the Alcacuz jail.
Many others are thought to have been killed in fighting between rival gangs at the prison.
This is the third major riot in Brazil this year. Nearly 100 inmates died in riots earlier this month in prisons in the states of Amazonas and Roraima... | Inmates have seized control of the largest prison in the north-eastern Brazilian city of Natal. | 38626821 |
It has become closely associated with globalisation and is a frequent target for critics of the process.
The WTO's main functions are to provide a forum for negotiations to reduce barriers to international commerce, and to administer a system of rules governing trade.
The WTO was established in 1995, when it took over ... | The World Trade Organization (WTO) is an international agency with 162 member countries and its purpose is to promote international commerce. | 35074942 |
Strong winds and snowfall hit Victoria, New South Wales (NSW), and even the "Sunshine state" Queensland saw snow.
Ipswich councillor Paul Tully drove three hours across the border so his son could see snow for the first time.
"We got up at 2.30am in the morning because there'd been a number of false starts in the past ... | South-east Australia has shivered through some of its coldest weather in decades, thanks to an icy cold snap. | 33456711 |
The black-and-white square barcodes are designed to help firefighters and paramedics get critical information needed to save car crash victims.
The QR codes direct smartphones to a webpage showing how to cut into each type of vehicle to free its passengers.
The firm said it had waived the right to patent the innovation... | Daimler is to paste Quick Response (QR) code stickers on to its Mercedes-Benz cars. | 22682186 |
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The market is centred around Victoria Square and Birmingham's Council House - and with more than 100 stalls, organisers claim it is the biggest authentic German market anywhere in the world other than in Germany and Austria.
Traditi... | Birmingham's 14th annual Frankfurt Christmas Market has opened, with five million visitors expected over the next six weeks. | 30040715 |
But two Singaporeans allegedly thought they had found a new way of queue jumping, and saving some money, by buying plane tickets so they could pick up the iPhone 7 at Changi Airport.
They were arrested on 16 September for breaking airport laws.
Police said they had "no intention" of leaving Singapore so should not have... | The launch of the latest iPhone last week saw the usual excited queues forming outside Apple shops. | 37436847 |
It turned out to be an eye-opening tale of global finance and deeply contentious figures.
My company is Thames Water, the UK's largest water and sewerage provider, with 14 million customers.
First I got on a train to Milton Keynes, home of the Open University, to meet Michael Pryke, from its social sciences faculty, wh... | As a mission, it sounded easy - to find out where the money from my humble water bill goes. | 25717935 |
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The Cumbrians took the lead when a defensive mix-up allowed Derek Asamoah through to lob Posh keeper Ben Alnwick.
Carlisle were punished just before the break when defender Burgess rose to nod in Joe Newell's right-wing corner.
Burgess then headed in again, this time from ... | Christian Burgess headed a stoppage-time winner as Peterborough came from behind to beat League Two Carlisle in the FA Cup first round. | 29907338 |
The 69-year-old fell ill in his cell at Saughton Prison in Edinburgh, BBC Scotland understands.
Tobin is serving life sentences for murdering Polish student Angelika Kluk, Scots schoolgirl Vicky Hamilton and Essex teenager Dinah McNicol.
He was believed to have been taken to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary by ambulance.
Tobi... | Serial killer Peter Tobin has been taken to hospital after having a suspected stroke. | 35521814 |
She revealed the news live on stage at London's O2, where she is in the middle of a six-night residency.
"Who's going to Glastonbury this year?" she asked. "See you there. I'll be there. I'll be headlining on the Saturday night this year."
"I've had to keep that secret for years!" the star added. Glastonbury later conf... | Pop star Adele has announced she will headline the Pyramid Stage at this year's Glastonbury Festival. | 35848943 |
Manx2 says the flights will run for three months until early September.
The company operated a short season of flights between the two islands last summer and said it boosted tourism at both destinations.
Earlier this year the company won a Welsh Government contract to provide flights between Anglesey and Cardiff for t... | A summer air service between Anglesey and the Isle of Man is taking off for a second year. | 13612346 |
Nawab Akbar Bugti was killed in a military operation in Balochistan while Mr Musharraf was in power.
Mr Musharraf still faces charges in other cases, including over Benazir Bhutto's 2007 assassination, and treason charges for imposing emergency rule in 2007.
The former military ruler has called all the charges politica... | A Pakistani court has acquitted former president Pervez Musharraf over the killing of a rebel leader in 2006. | 35341255 |
The unseeded 19-year-old came through 6-3 4-6 6-4 in one hour and 54 minutes.
The American goes on to face top seed Serena Williams, who swept past 11th seed Dominika Cibulkova 6-2 6-2.
Defending champion Stan Wawrinka beat Kei Nishikori 6-3 6-4 7-6 (8-6) to set up a semi-final with Novak Djokovic.
Keys overcame a recu... | Madison Keys beat Venus Williams to reach her first Grand Slam semi-final and end the possibility of an all-Williams contest at the Australian Open in Melbourne. | 31014864 |
The RNLI said the Denbighshire station's 24-year-old current boat will be replaced by a Shannon class vessel.
Coxswain Martin Jones described it as "an exciting new chapter in the station's 170 year history".
While an arrival date has not been finalised, the new boat, set to be built in Poole, Dorset, will be 50% faste... | A new £2.2m lifeboat is set to be be used off the north Wales coast from Rhyl, it has been announced. | 38200094 |
Officials in New York state are worried some buildings may collapse when the rain arrives. The storms are blamed for at least 13 deaths in the area.
The state remains paralysed by "historic" levels of snowfall.
The city of Buffalo was estimated to have received as much snow in three days as it normally gets in a year.
... | Snowfall in the north-east of the US has subsided, forecasters say, but there are now warnings of flooding as the snow melts. | 30124729 |
The lower house ratified the pact a day after it was endorsed by the Senate, despite objections from the opposition.
The deal aims to end an armed conflict that has killed more than 260,000 people over five decades.
The first peace accord was rejected in a referendum, but the revised version does not require a popular ... | Colombia's Congress has approved a revised peace accord to end the 50-year conflict between the government and the Farc rebel group. | 38165752 |
They triumphed 23-21 22-20, winning the final three points to take game one from 21-20 down and then winning the second from 20-20.
They will face Thailand's Bodin Isara and Savitree Amitrapai next.
Marcus Ellis and Lauren Smith lost in the mixed doubles while Smith and Sarah Walker are out of the women's doubles.
Elli... | Britain's Chris and Gabby Adcock reached the quarter-finals of the India Open with victory over Taiwan's Yang Lee and Hsu Ya Ching. | 39449074 |
Samuel Slater, 25, died after he crashed with a van in Victoria Avenue in Jersey in August 2014.
Acting Insp Jez Payne told the inquest on Thursday that the van driver should have checked for traffic when he crossed the avenue.
Deputy viscount Mark Harris said he would recommend a review of the junction to the States.
... | A "confusing" traffic junction contributed to the death of a motorcyclist, an inquest has heard. | 35716829 |
The stately hotel the Villa d'Este, on the shores of magnificent Lake Como replete with baroque chandeliers, statues of nymphs and marble columns is not a hard sell.
No wonder former prime ministers, current ministers, US senators and European commissioners are happy to mingle under the watchful eye of the dozens of va... | It's a pretty place for some very hard talking by the EU's man in charge of Brexit talks. | 41141650 |
Launched in February, the spacecraft carries an altimeter to sense the oceans' "hills" and "valleys".
It is basic information that is needed to track currents and eddies, inform ocean forecasts and track variability in climate-driven sea-level rise.
This first Sentinel-3a global map contains just one month's data.
The ... | The EU's Sentinel-3a satellite has given a sneak peek at what will be one of its most fundamental products - a map of sea surface height anomalies. | 36255957 |
Chile will face current world champions, Germany, in Saint Petersburg at 18:00 GMT on Sunday.
The mining tycoon and philanthropist, Leonardo Farkas, urged Chilean fans in Russia to gather outside the team's hotel to collect the flags.
"Let's give our players a boost," he wrote on Facebook.
Some 10,000 Chilean fans have... | A wealthy Chilean businessman has despatched 5,000 national flags to Russia ahead of the football Confederations Cup final. | 40470392 |
The 15th edition of the tournament is being jointly hosted by Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea and begins on 27 October in Melbourne.
England will also play Lebanon for the first time, while France are the other team in Pool A.
Scotland will face 2013 finalists and co-hosts New Zealand along with Tonga and S... | England will play defending champions Australia in the opening match of the 2017 Rugby League World Cup. | 36834724 |
A man in his 40s suffered serious head injuries when he was attacked at Scarva Walk in the town on Friday afternoon.
Michael Loughlin, 20, from Iveagh Close in Banbridge, has been charged with attempted murder, assaulting police, theft and causing criminal damage.
Shay Leonard, 22, from Willow Avenue, Banbridge was cha... | Two men have appeared in court charged over a serious assault in Banbridge, County Down. | 40706817 |
Mr Hammond met Wang Yi on his way to Hiroshima for the G7 foreign ministers' meeting and had an opportunity to talk about "issues of mutual concern".
China's steelmakers are accused of dumping excess on the global market.
This is considered a factor in Tata Steel's decision to sell its UK plants, including Port Talbot ... | Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond has discussed the issue of over-capacity in steel production with his Chinese counterpart in Beijing. | 36005290 |
Mr Barrrow, 64, called the election in September, more than a year ahead of schedule.
Belize is heavily dependent on aid from Venezuela, which also offers it oil at discounted prices.
Critics of Mr Barrow said he brought the polls forward in case Venezuela cuts its funding.
Venezuela is holding legislative elections on... | Belize's Prime Minister Dean Barrow has won an unprecedented third consecutive term in office in snap elections in the small Central American nation. | 34731810 |
England defeated New Zealand by 87 runs in their second group game to book their last four spot on Wednesday, 14 June.
"England will be pleased to have sealed the win and a semi-final spot," said Morris.
"We look forward to hosting them and I know they are pleased to be returning."
England play their final pool match a... | Glamorgan chief executive Hugh Morris says he is happy England will return to Cardiff for the Champions Trophy semi-final next week. | 40176442 |
The Rt Rev Libby Lane, 48, preached her first sermon in a service attended by hundreds of people.
She was consecrated as the eighth Bishop of Stockport at York Minster in January.
In November, the Church of England formally adopted legislation to allow the appointment of women bishops after decades of debate.
During th... | The first female bishop in the Church of England has been installed at Chester Cathedral. | 31770744 |
Ms O'Neill defended her decision to attend a commemoration for eight IRA men shot dead by the SAS in Loughgall in 1987.
An innocent civilian was also killed.
Michelle O'Neill spoke on Sunday at a memorial event marking 30 years since the ambush.
Mr Donaldson said all families had a right to remember their dead, but tha... | Sinn Féin's Stormont leader Michelle O'Neill "reopened wounds" by her attendance at a commemoration for eight IRA men shot dead by the SAS, the DUP's Sir Jeffrey Donaldson has said. | 39771537 |
Naveed Ahmed, 41, pleaded guilty to the murder of mother-of-two Tahira Ahmed, 38, at the Old Bailey.
Ms Ahmed was found by police at the property in Merton Avenue, in Northolt, on 27 May after neighbours heard an argument.
A post-mortem examination found both her arms had been broken and she had been stabbed and decapi... | A man has admitted decapitating his wife at their home in west London. | 30877744 |
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The 22-year-old fights Joseph Parker for the WBO title on 23 September.
He feels Parker's team are "looking past" him, having held meetings with Hearn, who promotes fellow Briton and WBA and IBF champion Anthony Joshua.
"I would take me completely seriously because I am co... | Hughie Fury has called promoter Eddie Hearn a "cockroach" and said he will unify boxing's heavyweight division with cousin Tyson Fury. | 40574887 |
Jo Gorrod took the women's gold on the streets of Gotland's capital, Visby, before Dan Halksworth won the men's event two years on from his success on home soil at Jersey 2015.
With the swimming leg shortened amid choppy conditions, Gorrod finished just inside the two-hour mark (1:59.43).
"It was tough. There were big ... | The Channel Islands made a golden start to the 2017 Island Games, with Jersey taking two individual triathlon titles. | 40347533 |
The decision was made at a four-hour extraordinary meeting which some councillors described as a "shambles".
It comes a day after a second Haverfordwest secondary school, Sir Thomas Picton, was placed into special measures.
Tasker Milward school has been in special measures since July 2014.
In May, the council dropped ... | Pembrokeshire council has voted to restart its review of secondary education in the county. | 36735073 |
Under current rules in Britain, women can serve on the front line but are banned from close combat.
But Gen Sir Peter Wall told Soldier magazine that women should have equal opportunities and allowing them to participate in close combat would make the armed forces "look more normal".
The Ministry of Defence said the ru... | The British army must consider allowing women to take close combat roles, the chief of general staff has said. | 26911523 |
Glencore, Fresnillo and Anglo American were all more than 3% higher, helped by rising commodity prices.
Shares in online grocer Ocado were down another 8%, adding to Tuesday's 14% slump after it said intense competition was hitting profit margins.
Shares in building firms were also among the big movers in trading in Lo... | (Noon): Mining firms were the top five winners on the benchmark FTSE 100 index on Wednesday. | 37359036 |
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Wildcard Kyrgios, 19, won 7-6 (7-5) 5-7 7-6 (7-5) 6-3 on his Centre Court debut and will play Milos Raonic in the quarter-finals on Wednesday.
Former champion John McEnroe said Kyrgios could win the title this year and has high hopes for his future.
Media playback is not s... | Australian teenager Nick Kyrgios set his sights on one day taking Rafael Nadal's world number one ranking after beating the Spaniard at Wimbledon. | 28120796 |
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The technology allows people to make purchases by carrying out conversations with the bots rather than having to use a specialised app or website.
The move raises the potential for a new type of hack - breached accounts could potentially give hackers the ability to rack up large ... | Facebook has rolled out the use of artificial intelligence-powered chatbots on its Messenger platform. | 36033202 |
Chloe Gilbert, 15, from Seend, Wiltshire, died in Southgate shopping centre in Bath, on Sunday 5 March.
Her family described her as "beautiful and talented".
"The cause of Chloe's death has yet to be ascertained, however we believe it may have been as a result [of] something she had eaten," they said in a statement.
"C... | A teenage girl who collapsed and died while shopping at the weekend had a dairy allergy, her family has said. | 39205196 |
By 2022, more than 400,000 households in Wales will receive Universal Credit - a scheme which combines all benefits into one.
But Citizens Advice said it was already leaving people in pilot areas, like Flintshire, dependent on food banks.
The Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) said most claimants were "satisfied".
T... | Benefit system changes are failing families in Wales and pushing them into debt, Citizens Advice has claimed. | 40525514 |
The 42-year-old Padgett's Honda racer has been racing this week, despite breaking his wrist in a off-road motorbike accident just 11 weeks ago.
A team spokesman said the decision was jointly made by the racer and the team.
The Padgett's spokesman said: "This is a joint decision made with John as we don't want the wrist... | Twenty-time TT winner John McGuinness has withdrawn from Wednesday's second Supersport TT race in the Isle of Man. | 27694497 |
The Higher Education Policy Institute says the potential impact of low loan repayments decades ahead is beginning to affect universities' budgets now.
The government says the Treasury will share any extra costs with the business department over a 30-year period.
And this will protect other parts of its budget from unex... | Graduates could face tougher conditions on their student loans because of uncertainty over long-term debt repayments, a report says. | 32785363 |
The collision involved two vehicles by Llyn Ogwen, near Bethesda, at about 09:45 GMT on Saturday morning.
North Wales Police said one man has been taken to Stoke Mandeville Hospital with potentially life-changing injuries.
Another man has been taken to Ysbyty Gwynedd in Bangor but his condition is not thought to be lif... | Two men have been taken to hospital following a crash on the A5 in Gwynedd. | 39089056 |
Mr Giggs was granted the injunction in April 2011 after a 14 April article in the Sun on an unnamed player's alleged affair with model Imogen Thomas.
Despite the order, Mr Giggs was widely identified. The High Court heard that he had now consented to being named.
It is considering whether he can sue the Sun for alleged... | Ryan Giggs has consented to being named as the footballer behind a legal order preventing the publication of details of an alleged extra-marital affair. | 17114875 |
Williamson, 32, first joined Wolves in October on loan, but he was recalled by the Magpies last month.
He becomes Wolves' third new signing in less than 24 hours.
The Molineux club have also signed Cardiff City striker Joe Mason for £3.5m and 17-year-old Barnet defender Hakeem Odoffin for an undisclosed fee.
Odoffin ha... | Wolverhampton Wanderers have signed experienced Newcastle United defender Mike Williamson for an undisclosed fee on an 18-month contract. | 35429613 |
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Several bookmakers had suspended betting on the Italian being the next Premier League manager to lose his job.
But, on the eve of Saturday's home match with champions Leicester, he said: "I am trying to find out who put the money on, it's very difficult."
Former Italy boss... | Antonio Conte says he takes rumours of him being sacked as Chelsea manager "with a smile". | 37659223 |
2014 World Player of the Year Mentor, who captained England in August's World Cup, Harten, Stacey Francis and Serena Guthrie will instead prepare for the domestic season.
Manchester Thunder's Sara Bayman leads a 12-strong squad including seven players not involved in the World Cup.
The three-Test series starts at Liver... | Defender Geva Mentor and attacker Jo Harten will miss England's Test series against world champions Australia. | 35025792 |
The pilgrims face new safety measures, including tighter security and ID bracelets, in a bid to prevent a repeat of last year's disaster.
But tens of thousands of Shia Iranians are absent because of long-running tensions with Sunni Saudi Arabia.
The pilgrimage is among the largest religious gatherings in the world.
Fol... | About 1.5 million Muslims have begun the annual Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia, unperturbed by a 2015 stampede which killed more than 2,000 people. | 37327113 |
Sally Smith claimed she was dismissed by Papworth Hospital in 2014 after fracturing her foot.
Addenbrooke's Hospital, which gave her a job, later learned she was actually sacked over competency concerns.
Ms Smith, who admitted dishonesty, was banned from practising by the Nursing and Midifery Council (NMC) On Tuesday.
... | A nurse who "deliberately concealed" the reasons for a previous dismissal when applying for a hospital job has been struck off. | 39730127 |
The Venezuelan navy had boarded the Teknik Perdana on Thursday in disputed waters off the coast of Guyana and sailed it to Venezuela's Margarita island.
Caracas accused the crew of operating illegally in Venezuelan waters.
Its owners said all 36 crew, among them five US citizens, had been released.
Owners SapuraKencana... | The owners of a US-operated oil ship which was detained by the Venezuelan navy on Thursday say the vessel has been released. | 24536713 |
Channel 4 confirmed to BBC News it was "looking at options" for the show, which would form part of its Stand Up To Cancer fundraiser in October.
According to reports, the problem-solving show would feature celebrity contestants, with former Doctor Who star David Tennant tipped to host.
However Channel 4 said it was "pr... | Classic 1990s game show The Crystal Maze is set to return for a one-off charity special. | 37231028 |
Rikki Neave's naked body was found about five minutes' walk from his home on the Welland Estate in Peterborough in November 1994.
An investigation into his murder was reopened in June last year and a fresh appeal was launched.
A man in his 30s from Peterborough was arrested on Tuesday morning.
Rikki was last seen leavi... | A man has been arrested on suspicion of murdering a six-year-old boy who was found strangled in woodland more than 20 years ago. | 36080429 |
Peter Fasoli, 58, was terrorised and killed in his London home by Jason Marshall in January 2013.
Marshall, 28, later set fire to the bungalow in Northolt to cover up the murder.
Mr Fasoli's death was thought to be an accident until his nephew found CCTV of the murder stored on his hard drive.
The harrowing footage fou... | A "fantasist" posing as a police officer who killed a man he met on a gay dating website has been found guilty of murder and arson. | 40880239 |
The bill - which was approved with only minor amendments - is now certain to become law after a final vote in the lower house, expected in May.
There have been several demonstrations in Paris both for and against the bill.
Gay rights organisations say homosexuals are being increasingly targeted amid opposition to gover... | France's upper house of parliament has voted to legalise gay marriage. | 22126437 |
The John Gosden-trained filly was ridden by Frankie Dettori to Oaks success at Epsom and in Ireland.
Enable is favourite ahead of last year's winner Highland Reel.
The three-year-old will face a host of older horses in one of the principal clashes of the season between the Classic generation and its elders.
As well as ... | Flat racing's dual Oaks winner Enable will line up in Saturday's high-summer showpiece, the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot. | 40726603 |
Anyone who is anyone has been there - even us - done it and moved on to the next thing: the #TrumpIsComing Challenge.
Donald Trump's election victory had barely been confirmed than the new craze was born.
Videos posted under variations on the phrase - currently the most popular is #TrumpsComingChallenge - show students... | If you're thinking about doing the Mannequin Challenge, then think again - that was SO last week. | 38021245 |
Four Loko, a fruit-flavoured alcoholic beverage with at least 12% alcohol content, was a well-known party drink in the US, and was removed from stores in several states until its ingredients were adjusted.
It's picked up steam in recent months in China, with people nicknaming it the "lose virginity" drink because they ... | An infamous drink, known as "blackout in a can" in the US, has made its way to China. | 37349712 |
The women have been named as friends Mhairi Convy, 18, and Laura Stewart, 20 - both students in Glasgow.
They were struck, along with a 36-year-old man, on Friday morning in North Hanover Street, close to the Buchanan Galleries shopping centre.
Police said it was thought the Range Rover came off the road and hit the pe... | Investigations are continuing after a 4x4 mounted the kerb and killed two students in Glasgow city centre. | 12028556 |
Concern is growing over the number of casualties after heavy clashes between local militia fighters and rebel forces.
Witnesses have reported bodies lying in the street after rebel shelling and sniper attacks.
The fierce fighting has continued despite airstrikes on Houthi forces by a Saudi-led coalition.
Houthi rebels ... | Fighting in the Yemeni city of Aden has intensified as Houthi rebels try to seize control of the city. | 32156539 |
Plaid leader Leanne Wood has said she could do a deal to put Labour in power even if the SNP was not involved.
She said Mr Miliband was irresponsible to rule out an SNP deal, claiming it could "open the door" to the Tories.
The Labour leader said he was "not interested in deals or coalitions", but in being "a Labour pr... | Ed Miliband has confirmed that his refusal to work with the SNP in a hung parliament also applies to Plaid Cymru. | 32548284 |
He said he supports a 45% tax on Chinese goods to address the trade imbalance between the US and China.
The Republican frontrunner told the New York Times: "I would do a tax and the tax, let me tell you what the tax should be … the tax should be 45%."
Mr Trump said he would expect China to impose its own tax on US go... | Presidential candidate Donald Trump supports a hefty export tariffs on Chinese goods coming into the US. | 35258620 |
The Scotland striker, 25, pounced in the fourth minute of injury time, stabbing in team-mate Doneil Henry's flick from Tom Cairney's corner.
Bolton squandered their best chance in the final 15 minutes, Craig Davies firing straight at keeper Jason Steele.
Blackburn are 11 points adrift of the top six as Bolton remain 18... | Jordan Rhodes scored a late winner as 10th-placed Blackburn maintained their faint Championship play-off hopes by beating neighbours Bolton. | 31723890 |
Archaeologists have made a full colour model of a wreck near Drumbeg, in Sutherland, thought to date from the late 17th or early 18th century.
A print has also been made of HMHS Anglia, a World War One hospital ship lost off Folkestone in Kent in 1915.
The steamship, built in Dumbarton in 1900, sank after it struck a m... | Two shipwrecks in UK waters are among the world's first underwater archaeological sites to be recreated using 3D printing technology. | 36357542 |
The 36-year-old former Republic of Ireland international agreed a deal until the end of August earlier this month, but will now stay at St James Park until after Christmas.
Morrison has featured as a substitute in four of Exeter's seven games so far this season.
He initially joined the club on non-contract terms last y... | Clinton Morrison has extended his contract at League Two Exeter City. | 34107801 |
Teenager Georgia-Mae Fenton replaces Amy Tinkler and will compete alongside Rio Olympians Claudia Fragapane, and Ellie and Becky Downie.
None of the men's Rio team, including medallists Max Whitlock, Louis Smith and Nile Wilson, are included.
However, 2012 Olympic medallist Sam Oldham returns to the team.
First-year se... | Great Britain have made just one change to their women's Olympic team for the European Gymnastics Championships in Romania. | 39566972 |
The foreign affairs ministry said on Tuesday that Yirenping had "violated the law" but gave no further details.
China earlier this week freed the women after more than a month in detention, a move welcomed by rights groups.
The detention of the women, who planned protests against sexual harassment, had sparked an inter... | China has threatened to punish a local human rights group, hours after releasing five activists said to be linked to the organisation. | 32313650 |
Andrew RT Davies, who campaigned for Leave in the referendum, questioned why the Welsh Government should handle the cash.
Mr Davies also said there is no need for a general election.
He added there were "vested interests" in making the Brexit project fail.
Wales gets £1.8bn in European Structural Funds in the current ... | Cash designed to replace EU funding after Brexit could come directly from Westminster rather than via Cardiff Bay, the leader of the Welsh Conservatives has suggested. | 36651130 |
The Sons defender converted confidently after Gregor Buchanan was judged to have been shoved in the box at a corner kick.
Ryan Stevenson's free-kick from the edge of the box had earlier hit the crossbar for the hosts.
United struggled to turn possession into chances but came close when Jamie Robson's volley was saved.
... | Mark Docherty's third penalty in two games brought Dumbarton a precious win over Dundee United. | 36994674 |
A man using the name John Phillips is alleged to have offered non-existent jobs and charged applicants up to £480 in "accreditation fees".
The BBC found many victims went on to unwittingly recruit further applicants.
Safer Jobs, an agency which fights fraud, said it was the "biggest scam of its kind".
"It's exploitatio... | Hundreds of vulnerable jobseekers may have been conned out of money as part of a recruitment scam, a BBC investigation has uncovered. | 37693838 |
Ailish Tynan arrived at the canal at Walthamstow Marshes, east London, as Jack Susianta, 17, was "treading water".
An onlooker told Ms Tynan "the police have chased that fella into the water", she told St Pancras Coroner's Court.
The Met Police deny claims they refused to save the teenager in July 2015.
She told the in... | A cyclist who saw a teenager die in a canal thought he must be violent because police were not going in to save him, an inquest has heard. | 36086826 |
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based monitoring group, said part of the base had been taken.
But the Syrian army said it had repelled the assault, inflicting heavy casualties on the rebels.
Some 250,000 civilians live under siege in Aleppo's rebel-held areas since government forces cut them off in July.
... | A coalition of Syrian Islamist rebel groups has said it stormed an artillery base in the strategic city of Aleppo to try to end a government siege. | 36993457 |
The CIPS/Markit Construction Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) rose to 55.9, from 54.2 a month earlier, as confidence levels hit a nine-year high. Any reading above 50 indicates growth.
The Conservative majority in May's general election boosted the sector.
Markit's Tim Moore said that result meant a "period of policy u... | UK construction rebounded in May from a near two-year low in April, a closely watched survey has indicated. | 32972688 |
Overall crime fell by 4.7%, although an increase was reported in sexual offences and domestic abuse.
The police claimed this was partly because of a new approach to tackling these offences, which has encouraged more victims to come forward.
Recorded crimes of violence, dishonesty and anti-social behaviour were all down... | Police Scotland have published figures indicating a further fall in recorded crime in the past year. | 33239400 |
The claim: Net migration to the UK will be an average of 275,000 a year until 2035.
Reality Check verdict: All such forecasts involve huge uncertainties. Migration Watch's predictions are higher than the Office for National Statistics ones, but not as high as a forecast from Vote Leave.
The think tank that campaigns fo... | Migration Watch has released its predictions of what will happen to migration to the UK if it stays in the European Union. | 36517971 |
Craig Williamson is accused of having the couples pay money into his account, believing they were paying Guthrie Castle near Forfar.
Mr Williamson, 42, of no fixed abode, appeared in private at Forfar Sheriff Court on a single charge of fraud.
He made no plea and was remanded in custody.
The charge states that the alle... | A wedding planner has appeared in court accused of defrauding more than £144,000 from couples booking ceremonies at an Angus castle. | 39856058 |
The Republic's Environmental Protection Agency released the study of a worst-case-scenario accident at the plant.
It found that people would not have to shelter indoors or flee the country in the case of a major radiation leak.
In September, a BBC investigation uncovered a catalogue of safety concerns at the Cumbria si... | A major accident at the Sellafield nuclear fuel reprocessing plant would not cause evacuations in the Republic of Ireland, a report has found. | 38256151 |
The Dingwall-based club has reduced the price of an adult season ticket for the Jail End south stand by £100 to £200.
It has also reduced the prices offered to young fans, including a new £5 season ticket for under 12s, and cut over 65s and over 75s' costs.
The lowered prices follows the club's offer of free entry to h... | Scottish Premiership club Ross County has cut the costs of its season tickets for next season. | 39882137 |
Australian couple Sean and Shelley Thomas found it in a sand dune at Rattray Head on Scotland's north-east coast.
The note inside, written by then 14-year-old Raymond Davidson, is dated 1 January 1971.
The couple said it would be "wonderful" to track Mr Davidson down before they returned home to Brisbane on Sunday.
Mrs... | A message in a bottle has washed up 44 years after it was written by a Carlisle boy at the start of the 1970s. | 33149667 |
The object at Ardrossan was reported to the town's coastguard rescue team just before 15:00 on Wednesday.
The area was cordoned off and contact made with Explosive Ordnance Disposal at the Clyde naval base.
Experts confirmed it was a dummy mine used during training exercises and did not contain any explosives and posed... | A stretch of coastline was sealed off in North Ayrshire following concerns that an unexploded mine had washed up. | 32532221 |
The surveys take data from different times in the house buying process and also have different parameters.
So how do house price surveys work and which ones should you trust?
The Land Registry, which records all completed property sales in England and Wales, has been recording the price of all property sales since Apri... | Every other day seems to bring a fresh house price survey, but they often appear to move in different directions. | 12076365 |
Magnitsky was arrested in 2008 after accusing officials of tax fraud, but was later himself accused of the crime.
His death in custody a year later led to a major diplomatic dispute between Russia and the United States.
In the same trial, William Browder, CEO of Hermitage Capital Management which Magnitsky represented,... | The late Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky has been found guilty of tax fraud by a Moscow court. | 23265423 |
A research paper, reported on but not published by The Australian newspaper, was said to go into detail about how teenage users post about self-image, weight loss and other issues.
Facebook confirmed the research was shared with advertisers, but said the article was “misleading”.
"Facebook does not offer tools to targe... | Facebook has denied it is targeting insecure young people in order to push advertising, amid a row over a leaked document. | 39775782 |
It took agents several hours to dislodge Antonio Pelle, 54, from his hideout between a bedroom and a bathroom, before arresting him.
Pelle, known as "Mamma", was first held in 2008 but escaped three years later when he was sent to hospital.
He faces 20 years in jail if convicted for drugs and arms smuggling.
"Fifty of ... | A fugitive mafia boss has been found hiding in a secret compartment in his own home after five years on the run, Italian police say. | 37571631 |
Cunco, sired by Frankel out of multiple group race-winning mare Chrysanthemum, won the Welcome To The Starlight Raceday Maiden Stakes.
Born in January 2014 and trained by John Gosden, Cunco came home three-quarters of a length clear of Isomer.
Frankel won all 14 of his starts, earning almost £3m in prize money, before ... | The first foal of the legendary Frankel made a winning racecourse debut at Newbury on Friday. | 36288213 |
A former athlete has alleged, in details issued through her lawyers, that Darrell Bunn groomed her when she was 16, and then sexually abused her.
The athlete, now in her 30s and unable to be named for legal reasons, said she complained to UKA in 2003.
After an investigation, Bunn was allowed to continue working in spor... | UK Athletics has been accused of a "cover-up" over its handling of an allegation of sexual abuse by a coach. | 38187957 |
UN refugee agency spokeswoman Melissa Fleming said that the group's estimate was "very conservative" and warned that it might be far higher in reality.
People on the run or in hiding were difficult to count and help, she added.
Meanwhile, Syria's new opposition coalition says it wants to be recognised as the country's ... | The Syrian Arab Red Crescent estimates 2.5 million people have been displaced within Syria, doubling the previous figure used by aid agencies. | 20311194 |
A team of officers using specialist PSNI search dogs are conducting searches at a number of locations.
The Castlederg teenager went missing after a night out in Bundoran in 1994.
Child killer, Robert Howard, was acquitted of Arlene's murder in 2005.
The PSNI carried out a number of searches last year.
The PSNI said the... | Detectives investigating the murder of teenager Arlene Arkinson who disappeared after a night out almost 20 years ago have resumed a series of searches in rural locations in County Tyrone. | 17509591 |
Orhan Pamuk, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2006, is nominated for his book A Strangeness in My Mind.
Italian writer Elena Ferrante, which is not her real name, is nominated for The Story of the Lost Child.
The winner of the prize will be announced on 16 May at a formal dinner at the V&A Museum.
Each shortli... | A Nobel Prize winner and an author who writes under a pseudonym are among six authors shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize. | 36028755 |
All of the managerial movements for December will appear below, followed by the full list of each club, league-by-league.
To read the list for November, visit the ins and outs page. | BBC Sport tracks all the manager ins and outs as well as listing all the current bosses in the Premier League, Scottish Premiership, English Football League and National League. | 38173023 |
The Foxes were 2-0 up in five minutes as Vardy ended his 10-game run without a Premier League goal by slotting home, and Andy King curled in moments later.
It was 3-0 within 20 minutes as Vardy added another after skipping past visiting keeper Claudio Bravo, and he completed his hat-trick by intercepting a misplaced Jo... | Jamie Vardy scored a hat-trick as Leicester City pulled off a stunning victory over an out-of-sorts Manchester City. | 38193109 |
Scarborough Borough Council announced Flamingo Land was the proposed bidder for the town's Futurist theatre.
If successful, the developers will demolish the sea-front theatre to build a rollercoaster, botanical gardens and cave-themed attraction on the site.
But the Scarborough Town Action Group said it was appealing a... | The company behind the takeover of a North Yorkshire theatre has been revealed. | 29708165 |
Welsh Conservative leader Andrew RT Davies said Wales needed "real change" after "17 years of Labour failure".
The Tories have already promised not to cut NHS spending, to cap the cost of elderly care and to increase the amount of free childcare for working parents.
Currently the largest opposition party in Cardiff Bay... | The Conservatives have pledged to take Wales on a "new path", as they launched their assembly election campaign. | 35825988 |
John Dickson, 27, and Christopher Pollard, 20, are charged with murdering Carl Gregory, who died Margate Road, Broadstairs on Tuesday night.
Mr Pollard, of Brimstone Hill, Meopham, and Mr Dickson, Northdown Road, Cliftonville, were arrested soon after.
They are due to appear via video-link at Medway Magistrates' Court ... | Two men have been charged with murdering a 20-year-old who died after being treated for serious injuries in a car park. | 37589000 |
The midfielder broke the deadlock with a right-footed finish after combining with Alex MacDonald and Liam Sercombe.
He doubled the lead after the break by running on to George Waring's pass for a low finish past Liam O'Brien.
Substitute Danny Hylton hit the bar before MacDonald headed in number three and Roofe complete... | Kemar Roofe netted a first hat-trick of his 25-goal season as Oxford United made light work of struggling Dagenham. | 35751146 |
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Lopez, 35, saved a match point to win 4-6 7-6 (7-2) 7-6 (10-8) at Queen's.
The Spaniard missed a match point against Grigor Dimitrov in the 2014 final, but got his hands on the trophy at the 12th time of asking.
"I cannot believe that I have finally won this trophy," world... | Spain's Feliciano Lopez finally ended the wait for a first Aegon Championships title with victory over Croatia's Marin Cilic in the final. | 40398647 |
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