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Text: Defending champion Rory McIlroy aims to put a poor run of form in 2013 behind him as he targets a third major success.
But world number one Tiger Woods will be looking to add to his 14 majors, and enters the competition in great shape after a fifth tournament win of the year in Ohio last week.
The BBC Sport websi... | The final major of the season, the US PGA at Oak Hill, starts on Thursday with the biggest names in golf participating. |
Text: Christina Rees said Mr Corbyn had been "brought up a lot on the doorstep to begin with" but had since "rallied the troops" and "motivated people".
She said voters were "really turning on to what Welsh Labour can deliver", adding: "Leadership is not an issue".
"We have a mountain to climb and we're clawing back", ... | Jeremy Corbyn's leadership of the Labour party has become less of an issue for voters on the doorstep, the shadow Welsh secretary has claimed. |
Text: The decision to call the match off was taken just before 10:00 BST on Wednesday after heavy overnight rain.
The abandonment left Northants opener Ben Duckett stranded on 282 not out, 49 short of the county's record score.
Northants took nine points from their opening Championship fixture of 2016, with Sussex clai... | No play was possible on day four of the Division Two game between Northamptonshire and Sussex, which ended as a draw. |
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The pair are Team GB's number one mixed doubles pairing and benefit from their on-and-off-the-court relationship.
"When people are missing their other halves when we're away for a long period of time, we're together," explains Chris. "That gives us a massive strength... | Chris and Gabby Adcock live together, work together and even sing together, as BBC Breakfast's Mike Bushell finds out. |
Text: Mr Kirby had been seen as a future chief executive of American Airlines, but instead will move straight into his new job at United.
American Airlines is giving him more than $13m (£10m) in severance pay.
United's financial performance has been lagging behind competitors and Mr Kirby's appointment will bring extr... | American Airlines president Scott Kirby is moving to rival United Continental to take up the same job. |
Text: With 94% of the votes counted, Mr Kuczynski had 50.2% against 49.7% for Keiko Fujimori.
Officials suggested it could take a few more days to declare a winner.
Ms Fujimori, 41, had a strong lead ahead of the vote on Sunday but corruption scandals in her Popular Force party may have dented her support.
She is the d... | Partial results in Peru's presidential election have given former World Bank executive Pedro Pablo Kuczynski a narrow lead. |
Text: Top seed Nadal, 31, who will claim the world number one spot from Andy Murray if he reaches the semi-finals in Canada, beat Borna Coric 6-1 6-2.
Murray pulled out of the competition with a hip injury, which has also ruled him out of the Cincinnati Masters.
Federer, playing in his first match since winning the Wim... | Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer both won their opening matches at the Rogers Cup in Montreal. |
Text: Former Australia international scrum-half Campese ruptured a tendon in the second half of Rovers' 20-18 defeat by Wigan Warriors on 10 June.
The 31-year-old has only made five Super League appearances this season.
"His quality and leadership skills have been clear to see, so we shall certainly miss his influence,... | Hull KR captain Terry Campese will miss the rest of the season after suffering a second serious hamstring injury. |
Text: The 29-year-old has 66 caps and was a member of the Springboks side that won the World Cup in 2007.
He will move to Welford Road from Japanese club Wild Knights.
"We have been looking to add world-class quality throughout the squad and JP is certainly in that class," Tigers director of rugby Richard Cockerill tol... | Leicester Tigers have signed South Africa international wing JP Pietersen for next season. |
Text: Nowell, 23, returns to the Chiefs squad this weekend against Sale after helping England retain the Six Nations title.
Asked how high Exeter could finish, he said: "I think top two - we obviously want to try and push for the top one.
"It'll only be our fault if we do let it slip now, because it isn't as if we have... | England and Exeter wing Jack Nowell says his club side are aiming to go into the Premiership play-offs having finished top of the table. |
Text: The King Rat snake was reported as lost from Main Street in Sandhead near Stranraer on Monday.
It is described as being about 5ft 6in long and is black with yellow bands about every three inches along its body.
The snake is not classed as venomous and poses "no threat to the public".
Police said it was likely to ... | Police have asked the public to contact them if they spot a snake which has escaped from a house in the south west of Scotland. |
Text: Security sources say 15 soldiers and two civilians died when gunmen attacked checkpoints around the town of Sheikh Zuweid on Thursday.
Egyptian forces have been fighting a faction affiliated to the Islamic State group, known as Sinai Province.
Dozens of soldiers and civilians have already been killed this year in... | Militants have reportedly killed 17 people in the north of Egypt's Sinai peninsula, near the Israel-Gaza border. |
Text: A section of sandstone surrounding a stained glass window high in the south transept fell off overnight.
The cathedral is scheduled to be the venue for Battle of Jutland commemorations on Tuesday, with many dignitaries due to attend.
It is thought that a section of the stonework fell about 70ft to the ground betw... | Stone masons have been called in to inspect part of St Magnus Cathedral in Orkney. |
Text: Wendy Bell and Amanda Carroll were sentenced with four others at Bradford Crown Court for the fraud against 92-year-old widow Audrey Hammond.
The pair overcharged Mrs Hammond for her home care.
Bell, 57, from Cullingworth, was jailed for three years and six months. Carroll, 44, of Shipley, was sentenced to three ... | Two carers have been jailed for defrauding an elderly woman with Parkinson's disease out of £500,000. |
Text: An inquest is being held into the death of the Castlederg schoolgirl.
The 15-year-old disappeared after a night out in County Donegal in August 1994. Her body has never been found.
Last month the officer in charge of the investigation, Eric Anderson, told the inquest he had discussed the case with Sir Hugh.
Mr An... | Former RUC Chief Constable Sir Hugh Annesley has no recollection of meeting a senior officer over the disappearance of Arlene Arkinson, a court has heard. |
Text: Gloucestershire Police said it happened at about 05:25 GMT on the southbound carriageway, just north of junction 13.
The 21-year-old driver of a BMW was killed, a spokesman said. The driver of the articulated lorry was unharmed.
A police spokesman said the southbound carriageway of the motorway remained closed be... | A man from Gloucester has been killed in a crash involving a lorry and a car on the M5 near Stroud. |
Text: Mutko has been outspoken since the McLaren report alleged there had been a state-backed Russian doping programme.
Part of the report outlines samples taken from two women's ice hockey players that contained male DNA.
"If you have sex five days before taking a doping test, they can find male DNA in you," said Mutk... | Female doping results can be distorted if athletes have had sex in the days leading up to a test, says Russia's Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Mutko. |
Text: Police say that the gunmen overpowered eight security guards, and shot the labourers on Friday night.
A separatist group said it was responsible for the attack.
Taliban militants, Baloch separatists and other groups fight in the Balochistan region, which borders Iran.
The separatist Balochistan Liberation Front s... | At least 20 workers accused of working on an army-backed dam construction site in the south-western Pakistani province of Balochistan have been shot dead by a large group of gunmen, officials say. |
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Governing body the FIA said the front wings on both cars were too flexible.
Ricciardo and Vettel, who qualified fifth and sixth respectively, can start from the back of the grid, although the team will have to strengthen the wings.
Red Bull are "disappointed" and bel... | Red Bull drivers Daniel Ricciardo and Sebastian Vettel have been excluded from qualifying at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix for driving illegal cars. |
Text: The Met Office said showers would develop across north west England and Wales during Thursday, before becoming heavier and more persistent.
The warning is valid until midday on Friday, when drier conditions are expected.
The areas said to be affected are Anglesey, Conwy, Denbighshire, Gwynedd, Flintshire, Powys, ... | A yellow "be aware" warning of rain has been issued for north and mid Wales. |
Text: They've been burning for several months and the smoke has spread to nearby countries like Malaysia.
It's a problem that affects Indonesia every year, but scientists say this year could be the worst since 1997.
Big companies, as well as farmers with small areas of land, are thought to have started many of the fire... | Huge forest fires are devastating large parts of Indonesia in Southeast Asia. |
Text: The Godolphin colt, at odds of 7-1, beat Glencadam Glory by three and a quarter lengths, with Tartini third.
Sofia Rocks set the pace before Best Solution surged clear. Favourite Sir John Lavery trailed home in sixth.
"We went a good gallop and didn't mess about," said Cosgrave. "I couldn't fault him. I thought i... | Best Solution, ridden by Pat Cosgrave, was a convincing winner of the Epsom Derby Trial at Lingfield. |
Text: The Washington Post, which has reported the move, describes the Office of Innovation as a "Swat team" of former private-sector executives.
It will have sweeping powers to reform government procedures, the report says.
Mr Kushner told the newspaper that the "government should be run like a great American company".... | President Donald Trump is expected to unveil a new unit aimed at overhauling the US federal bureaucracy, and headed by his son-in-law Jared Kushner. |
Text: Sir Nicholas Soames, who represents Mid Sussex, said he had spoken to Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin urging the measure.
He said: "There have been too many cases where passengers on the railway are treated extremely disrespectfully by staff simply not turning up."
A Southern Rail spokeswoman said there we... | Rail companies should be fined for cancellations caused by staff "no shows", a Sussex MP has said. |
Text: The man crossed the eastern section of the border unarmed on Thursday morning, said South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), with no shots fired.
He is now being investigated, said JCS.
The DMZ is fortified with landmines and barbed wire and guarded by tens of thousands of troops on both side. Defections across... | A North Korean soldier has defected to South Korea by walking across the heavily protected Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), say officials in Seoul. |
Text: The Great North Air Ambulance Service (GNAAS) wants to bring crews, fundraising and admin staff under one roof and enhance research and training.
It asked for £1.9m from a fund generated by fines on banks that manipulated lending rates.
Despite only being allocated £1m, the charity plans to press ahead.
GNAAS cur... | An air ambulance charity's plan for a new base and centre of excellence in the North East has received a £1m pledge from chancellor Philip Hammond. |
Text: The federal prosecutors' office has confirmed reports that Lula is being questioned over claims that he helped leading construction firm Odebrecht win contracts abroad between 2011 and 2014.
They now have 90 days to decide whether to launch a full inquiry.
Lula and Odebrecht have denied any wrongdoing.
Brazil's E... | Brazilian prosecutors have opened a preliminary investigation into former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva over alleged influence peddling. |
Text: The 190,000 sq ft Pitt Street site was vacated recently by Police Scotland, which has relocated to new administrative headquarters in Dalmarnock.
The site was built in 1924 and used by the Scottish College of Commerce before being taken over by the then Strathclyde Police in 1975.
It is expected to be demolished ... | A former police headquarters in Glasgow is being put up for sale. |
Text: The bodies of Marta Galikowska, 27, and daughters Maja, five, and Olga, one, were found at a house on Sherwin Road, Stoke-on-Trent on 12 October last year.
The mother and girls were pronounced dead at the scene.
Coroner Ian Smith concluded they died from stab wounds and the girls were unlawfully killed by their m... | A mother who killed herself and her two children was depressed because she mistakenly believed her eldest daughter had cancer, a coroner has concluded. |
Text: The Australian organic formula maker has seen its shares slump more than 40%.
The company said that sales would temporarily be hit as the industry adjusted to new rules required by China's Food and Drug Administration.
China is a key market for manufacturers in Australia and New Zealand.
Long-term breastfeeding i... | Shares in the baby formula milk firm Bellamy have plunged after a warning that new import regulations in China will cut into revenues. |
Text: It will be their first political meeting since Mrs Foster told the DUP conference that Irish government officials were talking down Northern Ireland's economy.
She said they appeared to care about the views of Northern Ireland people.
But she accused them of attempting to poach NI's foreign investors.
In response... | First Minister Arlene Foster is to meet Taoiseach (Irish prime minster) Enda Kenny in Dublin later to discuss the implications of Brexit. |
Text: Hours after the last chord sounded at Glastonbury the great clean-up has begun.
The festival was brought to a close by Ed Sheeran on the Pyramid Stage, just six years after his debut at one of the festival's smallest venues.
He attracted a much younger audience than Friday and Saturday's headliners, Radiohead and... | Pictures from agencies |
Text: The 24-year-old completed the deal in time to go into the squad for Saturday's game at Accrington.
Cooper, the son of ex-Scotland international Neale, was on Liverpool's books as a youngster.
He has also had spells at Ross County, Elgin and Falkirk before playing 12 games for St Mirren last season, scoring once.
... | Cheltenham Town have signed former St Mirren midfielder Alex Cooper on a three-month contract. |
Text: The woman, in her 20s, was attacked in a street after leaving the event's Chinawhite enclosure early on Sunday 2 July with men she met there.
The attack happened as she walked to a car and was then raped in front of it.
Two men, aged 23 and 24, from Bedford and a 26-year-old man from Loughborough were arrested an... | Three men have been arrested after a woman was raped leaving the Henley Regatta. |
Text: He has been under house detention since being sentenced for drug possession and making threats to kill last month.
He was banned from consuming alcohol as part of his eight-month sentence.
On Monday, a New Zealand judge allowed him to stay at home while on bail awaiting a November hearing on the possible breach.
... | Former AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd has pleaded not guilty to breaching the conditions of his current home detention by drinking alcohol. |
Text: The 6-1 favourite beat 50-1 outsider Poyle Vinnie by half a length in the 25-strong field with Ninjago (33-1) third and Toofi (10-1) fourth.
He became the first three-year-old to win the race since 2002.
"He's a horse I've always loved and this is a race I've always wanted to win," said Hamilton.
"He's done it a ... | Don't Touch extended his unbeaten run to five by winning the William Hill Ayr Gold Cup in a tight finish under jockey Tony Hamilton. |
Text: Beryl Larkin has lived in her field at Treuddyn, near Mold, for 19 years.
Her lawyer had hoped the application would stall Wednesday's plan to demolish or remove the caravan.
But the council's chief planning officer said they would "not be delaying the action which Mrs Larkin was made aware of in October 2013".
T... | A planning application by a 71-year-old woman bidding to save her caravan home from being removed is invalid, Flintshire planners have said. |
Text: It is a repeat of the 2015 final in which Reid and Hewett both won their singles rubbers to lift the trophy for the first time for Britain.
Hewett beat former world number three Tadeusz Kruszelnicki 6-0 6-3, with Reid defeating Kamil Fabisiak 6-0 6-1.
Find out how to get into disability sport with our special gui... | Great Britain will play top seeds France in Saturday's World Team Cup final after Gordon Reid and Alfie Hewett beat Poland 2-0 in Sardinia. |
Text: The investors include state-owned firm China National Chemical Corp (ChemChina) and investment firms AGIC Capital and Guoxin International.
KraussMaffei, which makes machinery for processing plastic and rubber, was owned by Canadian firm Onex Group.
The deal is the biggest acquisition by Chinese investors in a Ge... | A group of Chinese investors have bought one of Germany's largest machinery suppliers, KraussMaffei, for €925m ($1bn; £694m). |
Text: Aberdeen City Council said a "full assessment" of buildings was being carried out, and the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service would be consulted.
The bin areas are often the target of wilful fire-raising incidents.
A number of measures are being considered and no decisions have been made.
At least 79 people are bel... | Sprinkler systems could be installed in the communal bin storage rooms of Aberdeen's tower blocks in the wake of the Grenfell Tower disaster. |
Text: They show the disease now kills about nine in every 100,000 women, compared with 11 in every 100,000 in 2001.
Faster diagnosis and better treatment mean women are now surviving with their cancer for longer - five-year survival has increased from 33% to 44% over that period.
But experts say more still needs to be ... | Deaths from ovarian cancer have fallen by a fifth in a decade in England, figures reveal. |
Text: The spectacular event celebrating Shetland's Viking heritage was held in Lerwick on Tuesday.
A band of latter-day Viking warriors known as the Jarl Squad marched through the town, recreating its history.
Hundreds processed with flaming torches which were thrown into a longship that had been dragged through Lerwic... | Shetland's annual Up Helly Aa fire festival has been celebrated, culminating in the burning of a replica Viking ship. |
Text: Party officials said a panel "unanimously" recommended the decision.
Simon Danczuk, who has been serving as an independent MP since his suspension in December, had said he "expected" to be the party's candidate on 8 June.
It follows news his former wife Karen was not selected as Labour candidate for Bury North.
A... | An MP suspended by Labour for allegedly sending explicit texts will not be endorsed to stand as the party's candidate in the general election. |
Text: Windsor Road bridge, which connects Adamsdown with Splott, will be closed until spring 2016 with diversions of up to two miles in place.
The new bridge is needed to accommodate heavier loads and allow to extra headroom needed for the future electrification of the railway by 2017.
Cardiff council said it had worke... | Work to rebuild a 102-year-old Cardiff road bridge over south Wales' main railway line will begin on Monday. |
Text: Despite a 3% fall in livestock theft last year in the UK, there was an 18% increase in Wales, according to insurance firm NFU Mutual.
They warn a crackdown on rural crime in north west England has seen criminals move into Wales.
One such crime prevention scheme is the Lancashire Livestock Initiative.
The scheme s... | Farmers are being warned that animal theft is on the increase in Wales with criminals in England believed to be targeting farms across the border. |
Text: This November, messages will appear on the front of City Hall in three languages - English, Irish and Ulster Scots.
Previously, only English and Irish signs were posted at Christmas.
However, at a committee meeting on Friday morning it was agreed to have three signs this year.
All summer, the parties at City Hall... | Belfast City councillors have put aside their differences over bonfires and reached an all-party agreement on Christmas signs at City Hall. |
Text: Mobile phone footage of Robert Anderson's outburst as he walked through a Glasgow pub went viral after being uploaded to the internet.
He admitted repeatedly uttering a racial remark in McChuill's pub on Glasgow's High Street on 21 May.
The 27-year-old was ordered to carry out 250 hours of unpaid work.
Anderson, ... | A man who filmed himself chanting racist abuse about Celtic player Scott Sinclair has been given a community sentence. |
Text: One Briton, 11 Norwegians and one Italian who were on board the Super Puma helicopter are presumed dead.
The CAA said the restriction did not apply to search and rescue flights.
BP and Statoil have also suspended the use of the aircraft model, so it is unable to carry oil and gas workers.
"Following the accident,... | All UK commercial passenger flights using the Airbus EC225LP helicopter - or Super Puma - have been grounded by the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) following a fatal crash in Norway. |
Text: The 28-year-old, who can play in midfield or at full-back, was a free agent after mutually agreeing an exit from Birmingham at the end of January.
The former Celtic trainee and one-time Scotland international worked with new Shakers boss Lee Clark at Blues.
He memorably scored a last-minute goal under Clark to ke... | League One side Bury have signed utility player Paul Caddis on a deal until the end of the season. |
Text: John McVey, 32, was in West Mains Street in Broxburn when the incident happened at about 23:10 on Thursday.
He suffered serious injuries and was pronounced dead at the scene. Police appealed for information.
Sgt Gary Taylor said: "We are keen to hear from any motorists or members of the public who were in the are... | Police have released the name of a man who died after being hit by a taxi in West Lothian. |
Text: Rangers and St Johnstone were knocked out of the Europa League in the first qualifying round, and Craigan reckons an earlier start to the season would make a difference.
"It's a no-brainer - starting early would allow our teams to be up to speed when these games come along," he said.
"Let's try something differen... | Former Motherwell defender Stephen Craigan believes it is time to give summer football a chance in Scotland. |
Text: The collection at Althorp House features more than 150 personal objects including her Emanuel wedding dress.
A spokesman for Earl Spencer said it had been a "celebration" marking Diana's "charitable works and glamour".
Having raised more than £1.2m to help disadvantaged people around the world, it will close in A... | An exhibition chronicling the life of Princess Diana, based at the Spencer family's Northamptonshire home since 1998, is set to close next year. |
Text: Waltham Forest council was also told to pay £16,000 in costs for contravening health and safety guidelines.
The council said it "fully accepted" it should have done more at the time.
In January the council pleaded guilty to charges under the Health and Safety at Work Act and the Control of Asbestos regulations.
T... | An east London council has been fined £66,000 for failing to control employees' exposure to asbestos in their town hall basement. |
Text: Lawmakers say that couples sharing bikes could be tempted to commit "sinful acts".
Aceh is the only province that is allowed to practice Sharia law and has passed a series of Islamic measures.
The rule comes into effect next year, along with requirements for schools to teach girls and boys separately.
There has b... | Politicians in North Aceh, a district in Indonesia's Aceh Province, have passed a bill to ban unmarried couples from riding a motorcycle together. |
Text: The broad-brimmed felt hats have been produced in Australia for more than 130 years, although Akubra has been using some imported furs since the 1990s.
But the company plans to close its local rabbit processing operation to cut costs.
Mr Katter, an independent Queensland federal MP, said he was "hopping mad".
"It... | Australian MP Bob Katter said he may hang up his trademark Akubra hat after the company said it was going to start using only foreign rabbit fur. |
Text: Bernadette Smyth, of Suffolk Street, Ballymena, denies harassing Marie Stopes clinic director Dawn Purvis twice in January and February.
The Marie Stopes clinic opened in Belfast in October 2012, amid protests from anti-abortion groups.
It provides medical termination of pregnancy up to nine weeks gestation, subj... | An anti-abortion campaigner has dismissed allegations of harassment as "ridiculous", a court has heard. |
Text: The blast hit a market in the Waberi area, while President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud was visiting a nearby university.
No group claimed responsibility, but suspicion fell on the Islamist militant group al-Shabab.
"There was chaos and severed dead bodies strewn around the street," said Abdulahi Osman, a witness.
Who a... | A car bomb has killed at least 11 people and injured 16 others in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu. |
Text: Eighty three jobs were put at risk when Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE) failed to find a bidder for the power station in Uskmouth, near Newport, in May, 2014.
But SSE confirmed the station's sale in December, 2014.
New owner, Simec Group Ltd, says it will be converted to biomass fuel.
The station, which was bu... | The company which bought the UK's oldest coal-fire power station after it closed says it has since re-employed more than 40 staff. |
Text: South Australia's Mount Lofty Botanic Garden has been growing the Amorphophallus titanium, more commonly called the Corpse Flower, for 10 years.
About two weeks ago the plant's famously pungent flower began to grow, before finally opening on Monday.
Matt Coulter, a horticulture curator at the garden, said the flo... | A 2m-tall flower, known for its pungent odour which has been likened to rotting flesh, has bloomed in Australia. |
Text: An underspend of £14m may be returned to the government as it cannot carry funding into the next financial year.
Deputy chief constable Drew Harris said a "lack of clarity around future budgets" was hampering the PSNI's ability to improve policing.
Spending the money unnecessarily would be "irresponsible", the PS... | The Police Service of Northern Ireland has said that uncertainty over funding cuts has made financial planning "virtually impossible". |
Text: The 22-year-old has scored 10 goals in 22 appearances for City since joining the League Two side on loan in January.
"I would hope he wants to stay, we've made him a couple of offers now and the second offer is as good as we can make," Tisdale told BBC Radio Devon.
"I'd like to have had that decision back by now,... | Exeter City manager Paul Tisdale says the club has made the best offer it can to sign Bournemouth striker Jayden Stockley on a permanent deal. |
Text: The blaze broke out in his home in Cloghan near Fintown at around 14:00 on Thursday.
Fire crews attended the scene but the man, who lived alone, died a short time later.
His body has been taken to Letterkenny University Hospital for a post mortem examination. The cause of the fire is being investigated.
Summary: | An 80-year-old man has died in a house fire in County Donegal. |
Text: Kristofer Smith pleaded guilty to a charge of careless driving following the incident in Ardersier, near the Fort George base, on 19 January 2015.
The soldiers were out for a morning run when they were hit by Smith's Volkswagen car and injured. One had to be airlifted to hospital for treatment.
The 33-year-old wi... | A soldier has admitted knocking down four of his colleagues with a car outside an army base near Inverness. |
Text: Ms Parmar's parents died when she was very young and she says she cannot remember ever doing anything else except scavenging for rubbish to sell on.
It is not an easy existence.
The BBC's Rupa Jha meets five very different people in Ahmedabad, one of India's biggest cities, to ask them about their working lives.
... | Since she was around five years old, Kamlaben Parmar has worked as a rag picker, collecting any pieces of rubbish, mostly plastic and paper, from the streets that can be sold. |
Text: Roedd blaenwr rhyngwladol Cymru yn arfer chwarae i Sheffield United yn 2012 cyn iddo'i gael yn euog o dreisio menyw mewn ystafell westy yn 2011 a'i garcharu am bum mlynedd.
Cafodd y ddedfryd honno ei dileu yn dilyn achos llys newydd yn Hydref 2016 pan gafwyd Evans yn ddieuog.
Mae adroddiadau yn awgrymu fod ei gyt... | Mae Ched Evans wedi arwyddo i'w gyn-glwb Sheffield United mewn cytundeb newydd am dair blynedd. |
Text: Ella will work with England for the duration of the three-Test series as a specialist backs and skills coach.
Ella, who played club rugby at Randwick with Jones, won four Australia caps between 1982 and 1985.
The pair also worked together when Ella was assistant coach for Australia under Jones during the 2003 Rug... | England head coach Eddie Jones has recruited former Wallaby Glen Ella to his coaching staff for June's tour of Australia. |
Text: Djodjo Nsaka and two others were set upon as they returned to Middlesex University in Wembley on 20 January.
Donald Davies and Mukeh Kawa, both 21 from Colindale, were found guilty of murder at the Old Bailey.
Ali Tas, 21 from Colindale, was cleared of murder but convicted of manslaughter.
The court heard Mr Nsak... | Three men have been found guilty of stabbing a student to death outside his halls of residence over a row about a dirty look. |
Text: The 20-year old utility player, who can operate in midfield, spent last season at League Two side Wycombe Wanderers.
He has made one first team appearance for Southampton in 2014-15, when he also skippered the young Saints to the Under-21 Premier League title.
"I've been watching Jason for the last six months," s... | Walsall have made their fifth signing of the summer by bringing in Southampton defender Jason McCarthy on loan for the first half of next season. |
Text: It will be the first time the Social Travel Summit has been held in the UK.
VisitBritain, which is sponsoring the event in September, said it would involve more than 40 of the world's top travel writers on social media.
The summit will involve keynote speakers, workshops and round table discussions on topics such... | Inverness is to be the venue for a two-day international travel bloggers' conference. |
Text: Flynn is the latest author to be commissioned by the Hogarth Shakespeare project to rewrite the Bard's works.
The series launches in 2016 to mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death.
"Hamlet has long been a fascination of mine: murder, betrayal, revenge, deceit, madness ‒ all my favourite things," Flyn... | Gillian Flynn, author of the bestseller Gone Girl, is to write a new twist on Shakespeare's Hamlet. |
Text: The artist has offered the statue, called Verity, to Ilfracombe in north Devon on a 20-year loan.
North Devon's Council's executive has decided to accept the loan.
Groundwork is expected to start on the planned site at the town's harbour later this month. The sculpture itself is expected in October.
Plans for the... | Plans to put up a 20m (67ft) high statue of a naked pregnant woman by artist Damien Hirst in a seaside town have passed their final hurdle. |
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Sergey Novikov from computer security firm Kaspersky Lab says Russian gangs had moved their attention from attacking home users to corporations.
The deputy director of research and analysis said his company deals with 350,000 uniq... | BBC Scotland Investigates: Gangsters.com will be broadcast on Wednesday 11 June, at 22:35 on BBC One Scotland, and for a week afterwards on the BBC iPlayer. |
Text: At a gathering of leading insurers at Lloyd's of London, Mark Carney pointed out the rapid increase in weather-related catastrophes and the jump in both the physical and financial costs.
He said the challenges currently posed by climate change "pale in significance compared with what might come".
He said this gen... | The Bank of England governor has given a stark warning that climate change poses a huge risk to global stability. |
Text: According to the advice, revealed by Russian newspaper Izvestia, tattoos are a useful indication of character.
"Special attention should be paid to tattoos around the face, and on the sex organs and buttocks," it notes.
The defence source said it was a matter of health and appearance, not soldiers' sexual orienta... | Guidelines are being issued to the Russian army to check soldiers for intimate tattoos but a defence source denied gay men were being targeted. |
Text: The so-called ghost gear is a danger to seals and other marine mammals which get entangled in the mesh, the Cornwall Seal Group said.
Fifty-two creatures including seals, birds, crabs and fish were found tangled in nets in a year-long survey.
Fishermen said they collect hundreds of tonnes of discarded items every... | Fifty tonnes of discarded, lost or abandoned fishing nets, some from as far as Canada, have been found around the coast of Devon and Cornwall. |
Text: A section of the first floor, covering the workshop area of the showroom on Northfield Drive, Milton Keynes, gave way at about 12:00 BST.
No-one was injured. The fire service attended to assess what happened.
The Jardine Motors Group said everyone was evacuated from the building and the company was "investigating... | Up to 20 cars were damaged when part of an Audi showroom collapsed. |
Text: Paul McGuigan, 37, and Australian Darren Hoare were shot dead by former paratrooper Danny Fitzsimons in 2009.
An inquest into Mr McGuigan's death heard he told his fiancée Fitzsimons was "weird" during a Skype call.
Fitzsimons, from Rochdale, is serving a 20-year prison sentence in Baghdad.
During his trial in 2... | A security guard from Greater Manchester, murdered by a colleague in Iraq, had described his killer as "a bit dodgy" the night he died, an inquest has heard. |
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Rovers accepted a £25,000 fine, of which £20,000 will be suspended, for breaching three operational rules.
The Red Devils were fined £10,000 for two breaches, with £7,500 suspended, but a £3,000 fine has been added from a previous suspended breach after crowd problem... | The Rugby Football League has fined Hull KR and Salford Red Devils after crowd trouble at Craven Park in last season's Million Pound Game in October. |
Text: The 30-year-old, who made the last of his 16 appearances for Wales in 2012, has been unable to recover from a third operation to cure the problem.
Bishop joined Ospreys in 2005, making 209 appearances for the region.
"If there is ever a player who illustrates everything that an Osprey should be, it's Andrew," sai... | Ospreys and Wales centre Andrew Bishop has been forced to retire because of a back problem. |
Text: Two men, one of whom was armed with a gun, the other with a crowbar, threatened the van driver in the Riverside Retail Park on Saturday afternoon.
They made off with a cash box.
The man has been charged with robbery and possession of a firearm with intent. He is due to appear at Coleraine Magistrates Court later... | A 25-year-old man has been charged following an armed robbery of a cash-in-transit van in Coleraine. |
Text: The authorities have declared a social emergency to seek government funds to help with the influx.
The Warao say they travelled around 2,000 km (1,250 miles) and are fleeing hunger and Venezuela's worsening economic and political crisis.
Warao people have also gone to the northern Brazilian state of Roraima.
In B... | Around 400 indigenous Warao people from the Orinoco Delta in Venezuela have arrived in the Brazilian city of Manaus in the Amazon. |
Text: Pietersen, 36, who was told his England career was over in February 2014, hit 73 off 46 balls in an innings that included seven fours and three sixes.
His score guided Melbourne Stars to 200-7 on their way to a 46-run victory as Melbourne Renegades only made 154-9.
Pietersen's 73 came after he made 60 against Syd... | Ex-England batsman Kevin Pietersen made his second Big Bash League half-century in four days as he helped Melbourne Stars beat Melbourne Renegades. |
Text: The word "petrel" has been painted in 3ft high letters on the approach to the pumps at the Sainsbury's Edenthorpe store in Doncaster.
A picture of the blunder was posted on social media with the comment "Seabirds straight ahead #YouHadOneJob".
In a light-hearted response, the superstore said: "We're aware of this... | A road sign marking directing motorists to a supermarket petrol station has been misspelt, leaving drivers bemused. |
Text: Cardiff Blues have been keen on signing Francis, 24, on a dual contract with the Welsh Rugby Union (WRU).
"As far as I'm concerned, as far as he's concerned, he's an Exeter player for at least the next two years because he's under contract," Baxter said.
"I've had no contact from anybody - either Cardiff Blues or... | Exeter Chiefs head coach Rob Baxter says he expects prop Tomas Francis to be at Sandy Park next season, despite interest in the Wales international. |
Text: Caffe Nero said it would stop using milk from farms in Somerset and Gloucestershire that were part of a pilot tackling badger numbers.
Their move follows action against the coffee shop chain on Facebook by anti-cull protesters.
A spokesman for the Stop the Cull group denied any threats being made.
The cull, in Gl... | Threats to a coffee shop chain for using cows milk from farms in the badger cull zone is unacceptable, the government has said. |
Text: Six Baltimore police officers face criminal charges for the death of Gray, who died of a critical spine injury while in police custody in April.
Riots, looting and violence shook the city in the days following the black 25-year-old's death.
The city will propose the settlement to its Board of Estimates on Wednesd... | The city of Baltimore says it has reached a proposed $6.4 million (£4.2M) wrongful death settlement with the family of Freddie Gray. |
Text: Shortly after midday the FTSE 100 was down 29.88 points at 7,409.41.
Meanwhile sterling rose 0.4% against the dollar to $1.2732, and climbed 0.2% against the euro to 1.1401 euros.
The FTSE 100 often falls when the pound rises because many firms in the index operate abroad. A stronger pound means overseas earnings... | The pound climbed back above $1.27 but the FTSE 100 share index was on track for its third week of losses in a row. |
Text: The initial web version of the general election manifesto was taken down for a time because some photos showed the words "iStock by Getty Images".
The document was then restored without the photographs' watermarks.
A Plaid spokesman said the mistake was quickly corrected after a previous version containing waterm... | Plaid Cymru says human error led to its election manifesto being published online with watermarks on photographs. |
Text: A selection of the best photos from across Africa this week.
Summary: | Images courtesy of AP, AFP, EPA and Reuters |
Text: Luke Waudby, 20, with an address at Hosford House hostel on the Newtownards Road in Belfast, appeared before Belfast Magistrates Court on Saturday.
He faces a total of seven charges.
It is alleged that he "administered a poison or other noxious thing with intent to injure, aggrieve or annoy" his ex-partner on 19 ... | A man has been refused bail after appearing in court accused of trying to poison his ex-girlfriend. |
Text: The 37-year-old former Southend and Bournemouth player made 14 appearances for the Reds after joining the West Sussex club in October.
"We are now looking for another goalkeeper to compete with Callum Preston for the position," Crawley boss Mark Yates told the club website.
"We hope to have someone by Saturday, w... | Goalkeeper Darryl Flahavan has left Crawley Town after the League Two club withdrew the offer of a new contract. |
Text: England opener Hales, 27, and Chopra, 29, are both out of contract with their respective Division One clubs at the end of the county cricket season.
Hales is England's first-choice opener across all three formats after making his Test debut in December 2015.
Chopra has made 527 runs in eight County Championship m... | Division Two side Essex have requested to speak to Nottinghamshire's Alex Hales and Warwickshire batsman Varun Chopra, reports BBC Essex. |
Text: Huddersfield-born Ellis, 27, was part of Great Britain's first men's doubles medal-winning partnership at Rio 2016, along with Chris Langridge.
However, UK Sport named it as one of five sports to lose financial support.
"I'm quite scared for our future," Ellis told BBC Look East.
"People coming up, wanting to hav... | UK Sport's decision to withdraw all funding from badminton will give "no chance at all" to young players hoping to make a career in the sport, says Olympic bronze medallist Marcus Ellis. |
Text: Italian firm Hacking Team sells spying software to intelligence agencies around the world.
On Sunday, private data stolen from the company was posted online, indicating it knew about a serious flaw in Flash, but had not told Adobe.
One security blog said the bug had been "immediately weaponised" by attackers.
"Th... | Adobe has updated its Flash software to fix a security hole, which was made public only after data was stolen from an online surveillance company. |
Text: Derek Thomas was crossing the line on his mobility scooter at Bentley, Hampshire, in October last year when he was struck by a train.
An inquest heard low sun and wind gusts could have restricted Mr Thomas's ability to see and hear the train.
Following the hearing, Mr Thomas's brother and daughter called for new ... | The family of an 83-year-old man killed by a train on a railway crossing has called for safety improvements. |
Text: The families of two autistic men claim the council failed to make clear the impact of changes brought in February.
In a Judicial Review hearing, their lawyer said the council had made simultaneous proposals to shut the Westminster House Respite Centre.
The authority said the cuts were in response to reduced gover... | The Isle of Wight Council has been accused in the High Court of being "all over the place" in its plans to cut adult social care. |
Text: Baby and adult ashes were mixed together at the crematorium and given back to relatives of the adult.
The parents of infants were told there were no ashes.
Aberdeen City Council said Pete Leonard had resigned following a period of ill health. The council thanked him for 12 years of service.
BBC Scotland revealed ... | The director of the department running Aberdeen's Hazlehead Crematorium which was at the centre of the baby ashes scandal has resigned. |
Text: Boro took three points from a possible 15 before ending their five game winless run with successive victories against Cardiff and Fulham last week.
"After MK Dons and Leeds when we were in a really bad run, it was really calm because the team had played really well," Karanka told BBC Tees.
"Playing in that way, w... | Middlesbrough manager Aitor Karanka says he knew it would just take time for his side to recover their form. |
Text: Staff at the Nature Discovery Centre in Thatcham, Berkshire, removed most of the fish on Sunday after complaints from members of the public.
They said about 100 carp and perch died after an increase in algae reduced oxygen levels in the water.
A spokeswoman for the centre said it remained open despite "very diffi... | Visitors to a nature centre complained of a "horrid smell" after about 100 dead fish were discovered in its lake. |
Text: McIlroy, 26, ended the day on four under par after an even-par round of 72, which left him six shots behind leader Rafa Cabrera-Bello of Spain.
The Northern Irishman made four bogeys on the outward nine and slipped back to level par with a fifth at the 11th.
He salvaged the situation with birdies on the 13th, 16t... | Defending champion Rory McIlroy threw his ball into a lake in disgust before recovering with four late birdies in round two of the Dubai Desert Classic. |
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