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Lewis Dunne, 16, was found on a towpath near Burrows Court in Vauxhall, Liverpool, on Sunday evening and died later in hospital.
A post-mortem examination found he died from a single shotgun wound to the back, Merseyside Police said.
A family tribute said he was "the love of our life" and was "so kind and gentle..alway... | A teenager who was shot dead was the "bond that held us together", his family has said. | 34851977 |
Police notes read out revealed a social worker had confirmed the pair were at least known to each other - a few days after she went missing in August 1994.
Arlene, 15 from Castlederg went missing after a night out at a disco in County Donegal in 1994.
Her body has never been found.
Det Con Gareth Jenkins told the inque... | Social services alerted police to a possible relationship between County Tyrone schoolgirl Arlene Arkinson and the man suspected of killing her, a coroner's court has heard. | 35604816 |
The Mercedes driver came under scrutiny over his behaviour at the same media event in Japan, during which he gave short answers and played on his phone.
He also said fans and not journalists should ask the questions and walked out of a post-qualifying Mercedes briefing.
Hamilton trails team-mate Nico Rosberg by 33 poin... | Lewis Hamilton has been called to appear at the drivers' news conference for this weekend's US Grand Prix - two weeks after he criticised its format. | 37692397 |
The 44-year-old won two Scottish League Cups and two Scottish Premiership titles with Celtic as a player.
"After my short time in management, this will be the proudest moment to date," he told BBC Scotland.
"If we were to win it, I'd say it would probably cap off everything I have achieved. I have been very fortunate."... | Alan Stubbs says leading Hibernian to victory in Sunday's Scottish League Cup final against Ross County would be the greatest moment of his career. | 35752377 |
South Wales Police and Gwent Police are bidding goodbye to paper and pens and using mobile devices instead.
The electronic notebook and I-Patrol app means officers can take audio and video accounts from witnesses and victims and upload data onto a system without returning to a police station.
It was developed over two ... | Two Welsh police forces are ditching the traditional pocket notebooks for something much more 21st Century. | 35030935 |
The Bluebirds beat Brentford 2-1 on Saturday to stay in 14th place in the Championship table.
With five games left in the season, Cardiff are safe from relegation but realistically out of contention for the play-offs.
"It's very difficult for me to get myself up for it when I know we're safe. I need an edge on my game ... | Cardiff City manager Neil Warnock says he struggles to motivate himself for games when his side have little to play for. | 39541553 |
Experts say it is part of a new tactic that has emerged in recent months, with smugglers using old freighters to transport hundreds of people - mostly Syrian refugees - from Turkey to EU countries.
Just days earlier, the Blue Sky M, carrying 970 people, was found adrift in Greek waters.
Who are the people organising th... | Human traffickers are believed to have set the Ezadeen cargo ship on autopilot before abandoning it to continue at full speed across the Mediterranean with 359 illegal migrants on board. | 30715001 |
A robber hit the mayor's driver with a hammer as he loaded a briefcase containing the chains into the mayoral car in Radcliffe on 30 October.
He then jumped into a waiting green Volkswagen Polo in the town's Stand Lane area, which then drove off.
Police fear the chains, worth about £200,000, may be sold or melted down... | Scrap metal dealers are being asked to help police catch two men who stole the ceremonial chains of the mayor and mayoress of Bury, Greater Manchester. | 32032148 |
From next year, the new GCSE will require pupils in England to study two religions but not humanism.
The parents fear excluding humanism may lead children to believe religion "has a monopoly on truth and on morality".
In February, former Archbishop of Canterbury the Right Reverend Lord Williams urged a government rethi... | Three families are due in court on Tuesday to challenge the decision to exclude non-religious beliefs from the new religious studies GCSE syllabus. | 34765202 |
Members of the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee want to discuss whether the public engagement project around the search for a name has been a success or a failure.
A website inviting suggestions attracted huge interest, with "Boaty McBoatface" being the big favourite.
But science minister Jo Johnson is... | MPs are to review the process that has been used to find a name for the UK's new polar research ship. | 36216392 |
The release of male panda Taotao, from a nature reserve in Sichuan province, follows that of Xiang Xiang in 2006, says Xinhua news agency.
Scientists are hoping that the two-year-old has enough skills to survive and help increase the panda population.
Xiang Xiang died in 2007 after he got into a fight with wild pandas.... | China has released a second giant panda bred in captivity into the wild after giving it special survival training, state-run media say. | 19920462 |
Alex Smith, from Oldham, said it was an "injustice" victims were receiving far less than those who contracted HIV through NHS blood products in the 1970s and 80s.
His solicitors have asked the Department of Health (DoH) for comparable help.
The DoH said it was "more than doubling" its annual spending.
Mr Smith said he ... | A man who developed Hepatitis C from contaminated blood is demanding more financial support from the government. | 37300829 |
Spending by business fell by 1.4% in the fourth quarter from the previous three-month period.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) which collects the data said falling oil prices may be to blame.
The oil price has fallen by over a half since June last year, and oil companies have pulled back on investment in the UK... | Business investment in the UK has fallen for the second quarter in a row, recording the biggest fall since 2009. | 31636722 |
On her incredible journey she meets kids whose lives have been changed forever.
She sees how the makers of The Muppets are keeping children away from deadly explosions.
And she hangs out in Afghanistan's first ever skateboarding school. | Sonali has travelled thousands of miles to Afghanistan - a country devastated by war. | 13847787 |
Net migration measures the number of people coming to Britain, minus the number of people leaving.
Given that it's pretty hard to control the number of people leaving, it's arguably a dangerous thing on which to pin your political career.
But that's what the former prime minister did when he pledged to get the number d... | The employers group, the CBI, is calling on the government to abandon an immigration target which was set by David Cameron and which then proved part of his undoing. | 38305194 |
It said more than 42,000 people are currently being treated for the disease in Wales.
The Dementia Risk Reduction Campaign will be launched on Friday, with a 10-day road show visiting large shopping centres and employers.
Its aim is to encourage people to live healthier lifestyles.
The campaign follows research by Prof... | A campaign aimed at reducing people's risk of developing dementia by 60% is to be launched by the Welsh Government. | 38928546 |
Reyaad Khan, 21, died on 21 August, along with another man, in a "precision airstrike" in Syria, the Prime Minister David Cameron said on Monday.
He said Khan was plotting "barbaric" attacks on UK soil and he was killed in an "act of self-defence".
The jihadist's death was first announced at the Jalalia mosque in River... | A Cardiff jihadist who was one of three men from the city to have joined a group in Syria was killed by the RAF. | 34176790 |
Men of his dad's generation are afraid to talk about their feelings in case they are seen as "weak", he says.
And this seems a common experience for teenage boys, with 49% telling a survey they would feel uncomfortable talking about mental health with their dads.
A third of boys also told the survey, for the Time to Ch... | When depression hit Keenan Atkins in early secondary school, he was scared to talk to his father about it. | 37798403 |
The Britons, considered gold medal prospects at Rio 2016, were fourth in their semi-final, a race won by Poland.
Alan Campbell also failed to make the A final after finishing fifth in the single sculls in Brandenburg, Germany.
GB will have 13 crews in Sunday's A finals, which will be shown live on the BBC Red Button fr... | Charlotte Taylor and Kat Copeland missed out on a place in the final of the lightweight women's doubles at the European Rowing Championships. | 36237357 |
The Dons moved above Rangers into second on goal difference on Saturday.
"There's still a lot of football to play, but the table is probably what we thought it would be like," said McInnes after his side beat Partick Thistle.
"There's no surprises. We always felt we were going to be competitive and, as long as we're th... | Aberdeen manager Derek McInnes expects "a fight" to secure the runners-up spot in the Scottish Premiership. | 38874790 |
The former Wakefield, Huddersfield and Castleford three-quarter has been a regular for Salford since he joined from Batley in June 2014.
He has scored 11 goals in 13 games for Ian Watson's side in 2016.
"I want to play in big games in front of big crowds and hopefully push for an international spot," Griffin told the H... | Hull FC have signed centre Josh Griffin from Salford Red Devils on a three-year deal that will commence in 2017. | 36427852 |
The charges, which include indecent assault and sexual assault, involve four boys, who were aged between 11 and 14 at the time of the alleged offences.
The ex-Crewe youth coach is accused of a total of 55 offences between 1979 and 1991 against young boys.
The 63-year-old denied all accusations during previous court app... | Ex-football coach Barry Bennell has been charged with a further 14 counts of historical sex abuse against boys, the Crown Prosecution Service has said. | 40343895 |
Out of about 4.2 million women invited, just over three million attended. NHS Digital said it was the second consecutive year that screening rates had fallen.
Attendance rates in Wales and Scotland have also gone down.
Charities said women were putting their lives at risk by not getting screened.
A cervical screening t... | At least one in every four women invited for cervical cancer screening in England last year failed to attend, latest figures show. | 37985517 |
Peaches, who was 24, died after taking a heroin overdose earlier this year.
The Boomtown Rats singer and activist said he "goes over and over and over" what he could have done to help the mother of two.
In an ITV News interview he described the journalist, model and TV presenter as "super bright" but "frantic" in her p... | Peaches Geldof's father, Sir Bob Geldof, has said he "blames himself" for the death of his daughter. | 29642574 |
Sir Nicholas Soames said he would not sign a motion of no confidence in Mr Bercow, following his opposition to President Trump speaking in Parliament during a future state visit.
The MP said Mr Bercow was too outspoken but had been "very good" in many ways.
Mr Bercow has face criticism from other Conservatives, althoug... | A campaign to unseat John Bercow as Commons Speaker is "undignified and unattractive", a senior Tory has said. | 39020254 |
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Pienaar, 31, signed a new contract with the Irish province in 2013 after turning down the chance to join European champions Toulon.
"If Ulster thought I was still good enough and wanted to extend my contract I would consider it," said Pienaar.
"I would need to feel I was s... | South African scrum-half Ruan Pienaar says he would consider staying on at Ulster after his current deal runs out in 2017. | 34927151 |
Researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem filmed crawling octopuses to work out exactly how the animals used their almost limitlessly flexible arms when they move.
This revealed the surprising simplicity of their motion; they just choose which arm to use to push themselves along.
The findings are published in... | With the aid of high-speed cameras, scientists have revealed how octopuses co-ordinate their arms to crawl. | 32319705 |
Yet some are asking why, in a conflict that has already killed at least an estimated 100,000 people, many in the most barbaric way, should the use of chemical weapons be any more abhorrent?
After all, long before that dreadful early Wednesday morning in August, Syria's ever-growing list of atrocities already included r... | It has been just over three weeks since the world woke up in horror to what appears to have been a mass chemical attack on residential areas in the suburbs of Damascus on 21 August. | 24024788 |
It will launch as a two-seater convertible with petrol engines made at Jaguar's Castle Bromwich plant with the design to be unveiled this year, the carmaker said.
As the iconic E-type was last made in 1975, Jaguar said it had been "absent for too long" from making sports cars.
The car will go on sale in mid-2013.
Jagua... | Jaguar Land Rover is to build a successor to its previous sports cars called the F-type at its factory in Birmingham. | 17620105 |
Well over two-thirds - 67.9% - of year 12 pupils achieved five or more GCSEs, including English and Maths, at grades A*-C in 2015/16.
That is an increase of 0.9% from 2014/15.
At A-level, 66.3% of students achieved three or more A-levels at grades A*-C in 2015/16, an increase of 1.4% on the previous year.
The statistic... | The proportion of Northern Ireland pupils getting good A-level and GCSE grades has reached its highest ever. | 39733756 |
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The ex-Wales and Liverpool striker played for and managed the Swans, guiding them to English football's top flight in 1981.
Swansea now find themselves one place and one point above the Premier League relegation zone.
Asked if he thinks they will survive, Toshack said: "Ye... | Former Swansea City manager John Toshack believes the club will avoid relegation from the Premier League this season. | 39496009 |
The announcement sent ructions through the retail sector, with Tesco shares sinking 5% and Sainsbury's down 4%.
Marks and Spencer, which also has a sizable food business, fell 2%.
Neil Wilson at ETX Capital said the deal was "yet another signal of the seismic shift in the market caused by the Amazon model".
Shares in M... | Shares in some of the UK's leading supermarkets fell sharply on the news that online retail giant Amazon is buying upmarket grocer Whole Foods. | 40300341 |
A government official said Mr Tsipras would ask parliament on Thursday to approve the payment, worth €617m (£517m) in total.
Earlier, eurozone lenders suspended their recently agreed short-term debt-relief plan for Greece.
They said they had not been asked to approve the bonuses plan.
The European Stability Mechanism ... | The Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has refused to back down over his plans to give poor Greek pensioners a pre-Christmas bonus. | 38318360 |
It comes after Ballymena's Michelin tyre plant announced it would close in 2018 with the loss of 860 jobs.
Michelin and other large businesses in Northern Ireland have long warned about the impact of high energy costs.
However, news of the closure was blamed on a decrease in demand for truck tyres in Europe since the f... | A new advisory panel will examine ways Stormont can help deal with the high energy costs faced by manufacturing companies in Northern Ireland. | 34866195 |
Russians celebrate Prince Vladimir the Great as the man who converted their country to Christianity, but for some Ukrainians this represents an attempt to steal their history.
For them, Prince Volodymyr - as he is known in Ukraine - is an ancient Ukrainian leader who ruled from Kiev and Christianised the country that w... | The legacy of a medieval prince has added a new dimension to the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, as both countries mark the 1,000th anniversary of his death. | 33689641 |
The lawsuit, filed by Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson, aims to prove that President Trump's order, which temporarily bars nationals from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the US, is unconstitutional.
Amazon's Jeff Bezos said his firm had "prepared a declaration of support".
Microsoft said it would ... | Amazon, Microsoft and Expedia have backed a legal challenge to President Donald Trump's immigration curbs. | 38808715 |
Naser Oric was detained in Geneva on an international arrest warrant issued by Belgrade, which now wants him extradited to face trial in Serbia.
Serbia says he was involved in the deaths of nine ethnic Serbs in 1992.
He commanded Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) troops in Srebrenica - scene of the worst massacre by Bosnian Ser... | Bosnian prosecutors have urged Switzerland to hand over a former Bosnian Muslim commander arrested on 10 June - and not to send him to Serbia. | 33227519 |
The prisoner was returning from exercise at HMP Oakwood near Wolverhampton when he threatened the officer, HM Prison Service said.
He was ordered back to his cell but as he returned, he attacked the officer causing him to fall onto railings and "take a blow to the head".
He was taken to hospital with suspected broken r... | An inmate attacked a prison officer after "demanding" a new TV in his cell. | 35632671 |
Beale agreed to join Wasps on 13 May, but suffered a serious knee injury less than a day later while playing for New South Wales Waratahs in Super Rugby.
The 27-year-old's contract, which expires at the end of the season, makes him the Premiership's best paid player.
He could feature in Sunday's European Champions Cup ... | Australia international Kurtley Beale is close to making his Wasps debut after seven months out through injury, says director of rugby Dai Young. | 38244395 |
The event is part of an art exhibition at the 20-21 Visual Arts Centre, which began on Saturday 18 February.
To find and keep the pieces, worth at least £1,000 each, people must study five paintings and solve the code within them.
One of the items was found by accident so a reward is being offered to anyone who can so... | Four of five gold artefacts hidden in Scunthorpe as part of a treasure hunt have been found inside a week. | 39089125 |
Councillors have approved the executive summary of a final draft business case for the flights.
Loganair ran services from Ashaig Airfield, near Broadford, to Glasgow until 1988. Loch Lomond Seaplanes still uses the strip for scheduled flights.
Feedback on the summary is now to be sought from Transport Scotland.
Highla... | Highland Council has said that a new airport could be built on Skye in about two years if plans for more flights to and from Glasgow are progressed. | 37540572 |
Sussex Police appealed for help in finding Robert Roche, 36, from Hove, after he failed to arrive at nursery with his three-year-old son and 18-month-old daughter on Monday morning.
Officers said they received a call from a member of the public earlier on Tuesday and found them in London Road.
Police are working to est... | A man who went missing with his two young children has been found with them safe and well in Brighton. | 40937240 |
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The former Irish Derby winner, trained in Ireland by Aidan O'Brien, justified a late gamble with a convincing triumph in the two-and-a-half mile race.
Running for the first time over more than a mile and three quarters, the 11-8 favourite prevailed by three lengths under J... | Fame And Glory showed class and stamina to win the Gold Cup at Ascot. | 13780893 |
Ford's net profit was $1.9bn (£1.2bn) in the July-to-September period, compared with $1.1bn for the same quarter in 2014.
The strong revenue growth came mostly from sales in North America, where the F-150 truck and Explorer sports utility vehicle helped drive the increase.
Other markets were not so successful, Europe ... | US carmaker Ford has reported a near-doubling of its third-quarter profit. | 34646936 |
The 57-year-old was killed in The Old Mill housing estate in Ratoath on 23 March.
He was shot a number of times while sitting in his car outside his home.
It is thought the gun attack was linked to a gangland feud, which left two other men dead earlier this year.
Mr Duggan, a well-known criminal linked to cigarette smu... | A man in his 40s is being questioned by Irish police investigating the murder of Noel Duggan in County Meath last month. | 36079964 |
Russell Howarth had been raising publicity for a campaign which accused Uber of operating illegally.
But a New South Wales court said his actions amounted to intimidation.
It also found he tried to damage Uber's business to benefit a rival ride-sharing service run by his wife.
Justice Michael Slattery said: "Mr Howarth... | A man who carried out citizen's arrests on Uber drivers in Australia "intimidated" his targets and has been permanently banned from making similar arrests. | 39490387 |
This fault is because of an error in production, but the broken coins have become something of a collectors item.
Coin collectors are eager to snap them up because they are very rare, which has seen the broken coins being sold on sites like eBay for prices of up to £5000!
However, the Royal Mint - where all British coi... | The new £1 coins are causing a stir this week - some have been found with a defect that causes the middle to fall out! | 39816967 |
On 23 February 2007, a 300-tonne Virgin Pendolino train was travelling at 95mph when it hit a "degraded" set of points on the West Coast Main Line and careered down an embankment.
An 84-year-old Glasgow woman, Margaret Masson, was killed and more than 80 other people were injured, some seriously.
To mark the anniversar... | Ten years after a fatal train crash, three people connected with the tragedy have spoken of the night that changed their lives. | 38970987 |
Basharat Hussain, 39, one of seven defendants, denies sixteen offences including rape, indecent assault and false imprisonment.
He told his defence barrister he had been "boyfriend and girlfriend" to three of the witnesses.
They had all claimed he had sexually exploited them when they young.
Mr Hussain was giving evide... | A man accused of sexually abusing vulnerable girls in Rotherham has said he knew four of six alleged victims who had given evidence against him. | 35424391 |
The uneasiness began with an unorthodox overhaul of senior staff positions, and escalated into a simmering revolt against a controversial policy seen as cutting to the core of the department's work and values.
In Mr Tillerson's inbox is a "dissent cable" opposing President Trump's temporary ban on refugees and travelle... | The 69th US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is taking charge of a state department distressed and anxious about Donald Trump's turbulent first days in office. | 38837723 |
Police are appealing for witnesses after the Northern Ireland striker told them of the incident during the 1-0 defeat by Hearts on Saturday.
"It is in the hands of the police," said Clark. "It is a police matter.
"Josh is in a happy place as a person, as a lad. He has done what he had to do and that is the way it will ... | Kilmarnock manager Lee Clark says it is business as usual for Josh Magennis despite the striker having reported a fan over a claim of racial abuse. | 35688953 |
The FDA has previously approved medical devices - including prosthetics - that have been 3D printed.
The new drug, dubbed Spritam, was developed by Aprecia Pharmaceuticals to control seizures brought on by epilepsy.
The company said that it planned to develop other medications using its 3D platform.
Printing the drugs ... | In a world first, the US Food and Drug Administration has given the go-ahead for a 3D-printed pill to be produced. | 33772692 |
That includes Andy Hornby, HBOS's former chief executive, and its former chairman, Lord Stevenson.
A separate report, from the Bank of England and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), blamed top executives for the bank's failure.
It was also highly critical of the former City regulator.
It said the Financial Services... | Regulators should consider banning up to 10 former HBOS executives from working in the City, a report into the collapse of the bank has said. | 34858996 |
Equipped with quad bikes and a patrol vehicle, complete with basic medical kit, they can be anywhere on the seafront in less than eight minutes - much faster than an ambulance.
Roger has done the job for just a year but admits he has been "astounded" by how much of his time is spent preventing and dealing with suicides... | The eight miles of coastline in Brighton and Hove can be a treacherous place and Roger De Casanove and his seafront team are usually the first to identify someone in distress. | 39281204 |
Lee Joon-seok was at the helm when the ferry went down in April 2014 killing more than 300 people, mostly children.
He had been found guilty in November of gross negligence and sentenced to 36 years, but relatives of the dead were furious he was not convicted of murder.
But the appeals court gave 14 other crew members ... | An appeals court has sentenced the South Korean captain of the Sewol ferry to life in prison on a murder charge, strengthening an earlier conviction. | 32492263 |
Galliford Try said it had been unable to reach an agreement that would benefit its shareholders.
Last month, Redrow also abandoned an attempt to buy Bovis after having a takeover offer rejected.
Bovis has also announced that Greg Fitzgerald will be appointed chief executive. Mr Fitzgerald was formerly chief executive o... | Galliford Try has abandoned an effort to buy rival builder Bovis Homes. | 39500575 |
The university announced plans to increase the number of student beds from about 600 to more than 2,000 as part of a new campus village.
It said it wanted to house more students in university accommodation rather than private residential properties in Brighton and Hove.
Detailed plans are yet to be submitted to the cit... | Student housing at the University of Sussex could more than treble as part of a £500m revamp of its Falmer campus. | 35756721 |
The party were wiped out after former party leaders Mark Durkan, Margaret Ritchie and Alasdair McDonnell were toppled in Foyle, South Down and Belfast South.
Mr Eastwood said the party would have to "accept" the verdict of voters.
"We will not rush into any kneejerk reactions," he vowed.
"But nor will we be slow in doi... | SDLP leader Colum Eastwood has said the party is up for "the challenge of changing" after losing all their MPs in Thursday's general election. | 40233926 |
Becky Morgan fell in the water at the Port of Ramsgate on 1 May after a party. Michael Bowditch went clubbing after watching her die.
Bowditch, 21, had denied murder but admitted manslaughter by gross negligence.
He was given a five-and-a-half-year prison sentence at Maidstone Crown Court.
Bowditch, of Prestedge Avenu... | A man has been jailed for killing a 17-year-old woman by not helping her when she fell into the sea. | 38757650 |
The fact that complete, permanent borders still have not yet been drawn around Israel 60 years later is testimony to the rancour of its relations with neighbouring Arab states.
Jordan and Egypt have signed treaties with Israel, turning some of the 1949 ceasefire lines into state borders. But the absence of final settle... | The modern Israeli state was forged in the fires of the first Middle East war in 1948-1949, but from the beginning it was a state without clear borders. | 11102696 |
Abdul Aldhfeiry, 21, from Cardiff, broke his neck in the accident in Australia in 2012.
He can stand with assistance but now the £100,000 technology developed in the United States has allowed him to take his first steps.
The bionic legs have reactors to the body's movement.
"I feel really good," said Mr Aldhfeiry, who... | A man who was left paralysed after a car accident has been able to walk for the first time in four years thanks to a bionic exoskeleton. | 36481653 |
She said she and her husband Barack Obama were "outraged and heartbroken" over the abduction on 14 April of more than 200 girls from their school.
She was speaking instead of her husband in the weekly presidential address.
The Islamist militant group Boko Haram has claimed the abductions.
In the latest incident attribu... | US First Lady Michelle Obama has said the mass kidnap of Nigerian schoolgirls is part of a wider pattern of threats and intimidation facing girls around the world who pursue an education. | 27354230 |
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Our very own doubles team, Ricky and Hayley, went to check out what fashion on the court can do for your game. | Thousands of us are watching the players best shots - but we've also be checking out what they're wearing. | 33385277 |
The 20-year-old "will join the club on a two year loan period with obligation to buy" a statement from the club said.
The club's website describes him as " a very physical player with good technique, good pace and stamina, capable of playing in different roles."
He played 29 times for Atalanta last season scoring six g... | Ivory Coast midfielder Franck Kessie has signed for AC Milan from Italian rivals Atalanta. | 40136347 |
Can Dundar and Erdem Gul, from the newspaper Cumhuriyet, were detained in November over a report alleging that the Turkish government tried to ship arms to Islamists in Syria.
But Turkey's constitutional court challenged the charges, saying they violated freedom of the press.
The pair still face possible life sentences... | Two Turkish journalists charged with revealing state secrets have been freed from prison but still face trial. | 35662829 |
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The ex-England midfielder, 37, signed a five-month deal and will donate his salary - of at least £1m - to charity.
"I'm excited, it's something we've been working on and talking about for quite a while," he said on Thursday.
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"... | David Beckham has joined French Ligue 1 side Paris St-Germain and announced he will be playing for free. | 21281665 |
Wednesday's picture arrived with a rather anodyne caption saying "staff from the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) celebrate after the Mars Orbiter Spacecraft (Mom) successfully entered the Mars orbit".
But in reality, the picture was about much more than that - a bunch of smiling Indian women resplendent in go... | When the crowded command control room of India's Mars mission exploded into applause after it successfully put a satellite into orbit around the Red Planet, photographer Manjunath Kiran of the AFP news agency clicked this remarkable image of scientists congratulating each other. | 29357472 |
The 44-year Englishman was sacked by Sligo Rovers in June, having won the League of Ireland title and two cups in a two-and-a-half year stint.
Kenny Black, McCall's assistant, will take the team for Saturday's home game with Ross County.
Black's future is unclear, with talks planned over the coming days to establish wh... | Ian Baraclough wants to "win trophies" with Motherwell, having been chosen to succeed departed manager Stuart McCall. | 30462209 |
The 30-year-old Bayern Munich defender, who can also play in midfield, played 113 times for Germany.
Lahm will continue playing for his club side, where he renewed his contract until 2018 shortly before the World Cup.
His retirement from the national side was confirmed by the German FA (DFB).
"I am happy and grateful t... | Germany captain Philipp Lahm has retired from international football after leading his side to victory at the World Cup in Brazil. | 28364966 |
After Iowa and New Hampshire, the race has now moved to South Carolina before the 20 February primary.
Front-runner Donald Trump repeatedly tangled with Texas Senator Ted Cruz and former Florida Governor Jeb Bush in a series of tense exchanges.
The lively audience repeatedly jeered and booed the candidates.
As the cand... | The Republican candidates for president traded sharp blows over foreign policy and the future of the Supreme Court in an often unruly and chaotic debate. | 35572261 |
The proposed change has been put off until at least 2020 because of broadcast contracts.
"The growth and development of the game in Wales could be driven by this new competition," he said.
The streamlined tournament would be in addition to the current T20 Blast which involves county teams.
The proposal has provoked con... | Glamorgan chief executive Hugh Morris says plans for a city-based Twenty20 cricket tournament should go ahead, despite a delay. | 38712673 |
Lots of casually dressed, smiley very middle-class Germans - some with children, others with dogs, chatting animatedly in beautiful parkland on the outskirts of Hamburg on a sunny Sunday afternoon.
But this was indeed a protest group, putting together a petition in an attempt to stop a new refugee centre being built on... | It didn't much look like a protest. | 34535983 |
Dr Hugh McGoldrick of Crossgar Road East, Crossgar, was due to go on trial next week on a total of eight charges.
Along with two counts of falsifying clinical trials, he faced a further four charges of fraud by false representation along with two counts of perverting the course of justice.
The offences took place at hi... | A County Down doctor has pleaded guilty to falsifying clinical trials on patients with sleeping disorders. | 36113536 |
Liberal Democrat Alison McInnes wants to see the age of criminal responsibility in Scotland rise from eight years to the age of 12.
In an effort to bring about the change, she has put forward amendments to the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Bill.
The Scottish Government said the age of criminal responsibility remained "un... | An MSP is bidding to increase the age at which children can be held responsible for their crimes. | 33298900 |
A review will say peers should lose their absolute veto over detailed laws known as secondary legislation.
Peers will instead be offered a new power to send these laws back to the Commons, forcing MPs to vote again - but will only be able to do this once.
The review was ordered after peers voted to delay tax credit cut... | David Cameron is preparing to use the full force of the law to clip the wings of the House of Lords after it blocked his welfare cuts, the BBC has learned. | 35117990 |
His climbing partner, Jamie Fisher died of hypothermia. My brother, now 45, survived but had to have all four limbs amputated to save his body from septic shock.
Since then my "limbless mountaineer" sibling has been attempting to push back the boundaries of what people with disabilities can achieve.
His latest venture ... | Fifteen years ago my brother, Jamie Andrew, lost both his hands and feet to severe frostbite after getting caught in a five-day storm in the alps. | 29787999 |
Kevin Lokko got the hosts off to a sensational start with a second-minute strike, and Delano Sam-Yorke doubled the lead just three minutes later.
Joe Pigott steered in Tom Mills's cross inside 15 minutes, and Alex Flisher could so easily have made it four, but hit the post.
On the stroke of half time, Lokko added to hi... | Four first-half goals helped Maidstone United blitz Chester at the Gallagher Stadium. | 38940572 |
Evidence gathered by the Care Quality Commission, and seen by the BBC, shows the regulator is worried over the "pace" of care home closures.
Over the past six years, the number of homes has fallen by nearly 1,500 to 16,600.
The document also warns about the number of home care providers turning their back on council co... | The whole care market for older and disabled people in England could be at risk, the official regulator says. | 37620989 |
The pair won the best male and female actor prizes for their roles in the drama about serial killer Fred West.
BBC One's Luther was named best drama series, while Coronation Street won best soap and continuing drama.
Channel 4 won the most awards at the ceremony with 10, including two for its new comedy Fresh Meat.
Wes... | Dominic West and Emily Watson have won Royal Television Society (RTS) Awards for their performances in ITV1's Appropriate Adult. | 17456334 |
The Money Advice Service asked just over 2,000 consumers to select the best value deals from four sets of offers.
Only 2% of those asked answered all four questions correctly.
In the survey, 76% of those asked said they spent more than they intended, after being enticed by special offers, paying an average £11 extra pe... | Most grocery shoppers are unable to identify the cheapest deals when faced with a blizzard of "special offers" in stores, financial experts say. | 35539416 |
Jordan has said it will take place along a line agreed by both Syrian government forces and rebels.
The ceasefire was announced after the US and Russians leader met in person for the first time.
During their meeting Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin discussed a wide range of topics - including the war in Syria.
Their fac... | The US, Russia and Jordan have agreed to put in place a ceasefire across south-western Syria, which is due to begin on Sunday. | 40539535 |
So you'd think public cinemas would be struggling to compete. Not a bit of it.
Millions still flock to the big screen, with movie theatres adopting the latest technologies to keep us coming back.
Last year was a bumper 12 months for the movie business, with global box office takings hitting a record $38bn (£29bn; €34bn... | The advent of giant smart TVs and video-on-demand services like Netflix has turned our homes into comfortable mini cinemas. | 36779183 |
It means the 33-year-old, who joined Everton on Tuesday, will miss the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations in January in Morocco - should Cameroon qualify.
The decision comes after he was dropped from Volker Finke's latest squad and lost the captaincy to Stephane Mbia.
"I wish to inform you that I hereby put a definitive end to... | Cameroon's 54-goal all-time leading scorer Samuel Eto'o has announced his retirement from international football. | 28959734 |
Last week, the High Court backed Beth Warren's case to stop the sperm being destroyed by April 2015.
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority kept the door open to appeal, but now says it accepts the verdict.
Her husband had the sperm frozen before starting cancer treatment.
But 32-year-old Warren Brewer, a ski... | A widow's legal battle to keep her dead husband's frozen sperm is finally over after the fertility regulator said it would not take the case back to the courts. | 26559020 |
On 27 April 2014, Rodgers was being carried along on a crest of euphoria that looked certain to make him the first Liverpool manager to win the title in 24 years.
A 2-0 loss to Chelsea, including the infamous slip from Steven Gerrard, started a chain of events that ended with his dismissal an hour after the 1-1 Merseys... | Brendan Rodgers was sacked as Liverpool manager after travelling from the brink of history to Anfield oblivion in the space of 18 months. | 34440168 |
The Staggies beat Hibernian 2-1 at Hampden in Glasgow last Sunday.
The parade started from County's stadium in Dingwall following the team's game against derby rivals Inverness Caledonian Thistle.
Inverness are the holders of the Scottish Cup but were knocked out of this season's competition by Hibs.
The Edinburgh side... | Ross County have paraded the League Cup for supporters after winning the trophy in the club's first appearance in the competition's final. | 35841749 |
The jet engine maker reported a loss before tax of £4.6bn for 2016.
However, once one-off costs have been stripped out, the company's underlying profit was better than many experts had predicted.
Rolls-Royce agreed to pay £671m to settle corruption cases with UK and US authorities and it has written off £4.4bn from cur... | A bribery settlement and the fall in the pound have pushed engineering giant Rolls-Royce to a record loss. | 38966165 |
Derek and Julia Limbert hoped to visit Iona, but missed their only chance to visit the Isle after a driver gave them wrong information about ferry sailings.
Other visits on the five-day trip were either cancelled or cut short.
After BBC Scotland contacted the company, it offered the couple a full refund, which they acc... | A tour operator has offered a full refund to a couple who complained about a "disaster" coach holiday in the Highlands. | 37637869 |
The Fine Cut Seville Orange marmalade was made by chefs at Sharrow Bay Hotel in Ullswater.
Laced with Louis Marcellin 1967 Armagnac and garnished with gold leaf flakes, the chefs wanted to produce the "world's most expensive" marmalade.
The £385 raised in the eBay auction will go to the Cumbria Flood Appeal which was s... | A jar of marmalade has raised hundreds of pounds at auction to help those affected by flooding in Cumbria. | 35910643 |
A Ministry of Justice memo said the scheme - less expensive than prison - should be used "as fully as possible".
But the BBC's Danny Shaw said the public would want reassurance that security was not compromised.
The running of the Bail Accommodation and Support Service was taken over this month by private firm Stonham.... | Ministers plan to increase the number of offenders and remand prisoners released into bail accommodation in England and Wales, it has emerged. | 10430408 |
Mike Gapes said he chiefly wanted Mr Corbyn to "listen to and work with" MPs chairing backbench policy committees - most of whom did not vote for him.
Without their support, he suggested the Labour leader "could not succeed".
But Corbyn-supporting Labour MP Ronnie Campbell said the committees were merely "talking shops... | A Jeremy Corbyn critic has rejected talk of MPs on the Labour right forming a "shadow, shadow cabinet" after they seized key policy making roles. | 34747379 |
During PMQs, the Labour leader called for investment to end "agency Britain" pointing to workers on zero hours contracts and low wages.
Prime Minister David Cameron said the government was investing in "industries of the future".
He accused Mr Corbyn of "talking down the north".
"We are never going to success as a coun... | Jeremy Corbyn has accused the government of failing to invest in the North of England and ignoring communities that "feel left behind". | 36724705 |
The picture, taken by fashion photographer Mario Testino, shows the toddler smiling in the arms of his father, Prince William.
George's birthday is on Wednesday 22 July and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are likely to have a party for their son at their Norfolk home.
The picture was taken after Princess Charlotte's ... | An official picture of Prince George has been released to mark his second birthday. | 33612861 |
The award is being given by France to all surviving British veterans of the 1944 Normandy landings to honour their part in the liberation of France.
France's ambassador to Great Britain presented the Legion d'Honneur to five of the men at the Yorkshire Air Museum at Elvington.
The veterans, who come from across Yorkshi... | Six D-Day veterans from Yorkshire have been presented with France's highest military honour. | 32486807 |
All photographs © John Vink / Magnum Photos. | 38568738 | |
Passengers are asked to show passes so retailers can identify who is flying to non-EU countries and avoid paying 20% VAT on customers' purchases.
Treasury minister David Gauke said VAT relief at airports was intended to reduce prices for travellers, not be a windfall gain for shops.
Retailers said they followed governm... | Airport shops are being urged to pass on VAT savings made in some cases when customers show boarding passes. | 33873725 |
Willett, 27, has been paired with American Larry Mize and Australian amateur Byron Meth for the first two rounds at Augusta National.
"We used to go to Anglesey in Wales for two weeks in the summer and play the same nine-hole golf course three or four times," he told BBC Radio Sheffield.
"I think the longest club you h... | Sheffield's Danny Willett used to play his golf "in the middle of a sheep field" - now he's about to play in his first Masters. | 32219072 |
Ryan Totten's poor eyesight means he is unable to play sport without eyewear.
But the Irish Rugby Football Union (IRFU), the game's governing body in Ireland, says he cannot take part in matches due to health and safety fears.
Now the County Antrim schoolboy wants the IRFU to change its stance.
Ryan has been playing ta... | A seven-year-old boy who has been told he cannot play rugby because he wears goggles to improve his vision when playing has appealed to the sport's chiefs to let him back into the game. | 33987947 |
Robin McGreer, 35, allegedly approached the victim, verbally harassed him and left him with a "significant face wound" in the 27 November 2016 attack.
He is charged with bias-related malicious bodily injury in relation to the incident in a Washington DC suburb.
The victim was taken to hospital with non-life-threatening... | A US man is facing hate crime charges after he allegedly bit another man's face and used anti-Muslim slurs during a fight at a shopping centre car park. | 39110304 |
The man, whose identity was not disclosed, called a local zoo asking for help after the animals grew too big for his home.
Despite being illegal in Toronto, reptiles are often sold as pets when they are very young and small.
Indian River Reptile Zoo called it the largest rescue in its history.
"I couldn't believe what ... | More than a hundred crocodiles, alligators and caimans have arrived at an animal sanctuary after being kept in a Toronto man's home for 10 years. | 33936772 |
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