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Problem: Write an article based on this "The vice-chancellor of Plymouth University has been suspended pending a review."
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A: By Neil GallacherBBC South West Business Correspondent
I understand that there is no suggestion of gross misconduct, or dishonesty, or of what was described to me as "impropriety".
Clearly there are serious concerns of some sort, or Professor Purcell wouldn't have been suspended.
But this does help to clarify things, because until now there was no hint at all as to why she had been "placed on leave".
What should we make of this?
Some business leaders are concerned that if the university looks shaky at the top, the impressive investment that's been going on there could start to dry up.
On the other hand, the South West Devon MP Gary Streeter told us that he trusts the governors completely, and if there's a process to be gone through, he's happy for them to go through it.
University governors said Wendy Purcell's position was unchanged and her deputy, Professor David Coslett, would temporarily act up.
The BBC understands there has been a "serious clash of personalities".
The governors said they were not able to go into any more detail during the review, asking for the "confidentiality of the situation to be respected".
Professor Purcell, who earned more than £288,000 in 2013, was a graduate of Plymouth University in 1985 with a degree in biological science.
She was appointed vice-chancellor and chief executive of the university in December 2007.
A university statement said: "As you would expect from a world-ranked university with a strong and distinguished reputation, the executive team will ensure core business continues to be focused on the delivery of a first-class experience for our students.
"We also continue to work with partners and stakeholders for the benefit and interests of the city and wider region."
Problem: Write an article based on this "Meet Yasmin Somers, who was inspired to take up wheelchair racing by the London 2012 Paralympics and has now represented England at the Cerebral Palsy World Championships."
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"I don't really know where I'd be without it," she says.
"Being part of racing and the Weir-Archer academy has given me a lot more confidence in life - not just sport."
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Problem: Write an article based on this "On a sweltering July afternoon in Gaza City, Ghazi Hamed leans back in his chair and kicks off his shoes."
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A: | He stretches out his legs towards a large fan whirring in the corner of his office. He seems keen to cool his toes.
Hamas' deputy foreign minister is hot but he is not bothered. A smile creeps across his neatly trimmed salt and pepper beard. He's very much in the pink.
"Everyone is celebrating. We are very happy. It was wonderful," he smiles.
And the reason for his good humour: The election of a new president. Not in Gaza but in neighbouring Egypt.
When it was announced last month that the Muslim Brotherhood's Mohammed Mursi was to be Egypt's first democratically elected president, thousands of Hamas supporters in Gaza took to the streets to celebrate.
Gaza City's main boulevard - the Champs Elysee du Gaza, as some locals choose to call it - was filled with a cacophony of car horns and firecrackers.
Nearby, a succession of Hamas leaders took to a stage to cheer the Brotherhood's victory.
They see Mr Mursi very much as one of their own.
"The new voice, the new regime in Egypt will be more supportive for the Palestinians. Not only for Hamas but for the whole Palestinian question," says Mr Hamed.
Another reason for his upbeat mood, Mr Hamed says is what is good for Hamas, is bad for Israel.
"Israel is more isolated now. It has lost its most important friend in the Middle East. Things will not be like under Hosni Mubarak."
Hamas, which has been in power in Gaza since 2007, was originally founded, in the 1980s, as a Palestinian offshoot of the long-established Muslim Brotherhood.
"At the end of the day Hamas is part of the international Muslim Brotherhood organisation," says Mokhaimer Abu Sada, Professor of Politics at Gaza's al-Azhar University.
"Because Palestinians are under Israel's occupation maybe Hamas became a militant organisation dedicated to fighting that occupation. But at the end of the day both Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt subscribe to the same principles."
Some analysts believe that having a powerful and now friendly neighbour will make Hamas more confident in its ongoing conflict with Israel.
In the days after Mr Mursi was elected, Hamas militants fired scores of rockets and mortars into Israel as the Israeli military carried out air strikes on Gaza.
It was the first time Hamas had directly engaged militarily for more than a year, although Israel accuses the Islamist movement of allowing smaller militants groups to launch attacks.
It is possible Hamas' military wing, the al-Qassam Brigades, was trying to assert itself, testing the waters as to how Israel might react given the change in power in Egypt just days earlier.
Both Mr Hamed and Prof Abu Sada reject that suggestion.
They say the Hamas firing had more to do with internal politics among Gaza's militant factions rather than being connected to Mr Mursi's election.
Either way many will be watching to see how the Muslim Brotherhood reacts if Hamas chooses to fire rockets again.
The Muslim Brotherhood has said it wants to uphold Egypt's long-standing peace treaty with Israel.
Prof Abu Sada believes the movement will put pressure on Hamas to also maintain some sort of cold peace.
"Egypt is definitely not interested in provoking Israel. Egypt is much more concerned with solving its internal problems - poverty and unemployment," says Prof Abu Sada.
"Hamas has the same issues in Gaza. Hamas is much more interested in rebuilding the Gaza Strip instead of engaging in another war with Israel. Since the last war [with Israel from December 2008 to January 2009] Hamas has largely tried to restrain other resistance groups within Gaza."
Prof Abu Sada highlights the internal dilemma, which has faced Hamas ever since it came to power: Can it successfully run a government taking care of Gaza's 1.6 million people while at the same time continuing to act as a resistance movement fighting Israel militarily?
He believes the Muslim Brotherhood will try to steer Hamas towards the former.
"The Muslim Brotherhood will try to influence Hamas in a much more moderate and pragmatic way."
And Mr Hamed, who is widely considered to be one of the more moderate voices within the Hamas leadership in Gaza, says his government does not want the Muslim Brotherhood to be forced to choose between keeping its relationship with Hamas and keeping the peace with Israel.
"We are not interested in squeezing the Muslim Brotherhood into a corner or dragging Egypt into a confrontation with Israel."
Mr Hamed cautions that much will also depend on how much power the Muslim Brotherhood eventually wrestles from Egypt's military generals.
He believes it could take several years before the shifting dynamics of power in Egypt begin to settle.
But in the long term, he sees Egypt and Turkey, with its Islamist government, as the two big players in the region with the potential to influence the Middle East's most intractable conflict, that is between Israel and the Palestinians.
In the shorter term he believes the Muslim Brotherhood will work towards easing the humanitarian situation in Gaza.
He hopes it will move to further lift Egypt's blockade of Gaza which former President Hosni Mubarak imposed at the request of Israel and the United States, when Hamas came to power.
Mr Hamed points to the fact that immediately after Mr Mursi's election, Egypt greatly increased the number of Palestinians allowed to leave Gaza through Egypt each day.
Around a thousand people are now permitted to travel each day, up from around 500 just a few months ago.
Mr Hamed says the next target would be to see the border opened up to legal commercial traffic.
Currently hundreds of thousands of tonnes of goods, mostly construction materials, pass into Gaza through smuggling tunnels from Egypt every month.
The illegal trade, which has greatly increased since the fall of Mr Mubarak, has helped fuel something of a construction boom in Gaza with new buildings being put up on just about every street corner.
"We have had a building revolution in Gaza over the past year," says Rafik Hassuna, in front of a new classroom block that his company is building at Gaza's Islamic University.
Mr Hassuna runs one of the largest construction companies in Gaza. One of biggest projects is helping build a new wide tree-lined corniche road along the strip's Mediterranean seafront.
It is a huge undertaking, given that all the thousands of tonnes of building materials have to be carted in underground.
"It's crazy!" says Mr Hassuna shaking his head.
"We suffered from Mubarak who supported Israel and its siege of Gaza."
He now wants Mr Mursi to open up the border for trade.
"We hope the Arab Spring will bring fresh rains for Gaza. There is a commercial relation between Egypt and Libya, Egypt and Sudan. We hope to establish the same relation between Gaza and Egypt. We pray for this."
But there is one reason why such an opening up might not happen.
Some in Israel have suggested that the Egypt-Gaza border should be opened up, pushing responsibility for the Palestinian territory towards Cairo.
And that is why Mr Hamed says Hamas wants Egypt to be close but not too close.
"Gaza is part of Palestine. Gaza, the West Bank, Jerusalem and the whole of Palestine are part of one political and geographical unity. Gaza is part of the Palestinian homeland - it is not part of Egypt." | 8 | Flan2021 | huggingface:xsum | fs_noopt |
Text: Jurors at Cardiff Crown Court were told Finley Thomas had been exposed to drugs by his mother and her partner.
Sean Buckley, 28, denies murdering Finley at his home in Tonypandy, Rhondda Cynon Taff.
Both Mr Buckley and Finley's mother, Chloe Thomas, 25, deny cruelty to a young person under 16.
The court heard Ms Thomas was hooked on illegal drugs and the tranquillizer diazepam during her "infatuation" with Mr Buckley.
Their trial was told on Thursday how a post mortem examination on Finley's body showed he had the same drugs in his system.
Roger Thomas QC, prosecuting, said: "Allowing him to suffer drug contamination is evidence of a lack of care and a lack of concern amounting to neglect."
Ms Thomas called 999 on 23 September 2014, saying her son had fallen down the stairs.
He was taken to hospital, but died the next day.
Mr Buckley's phone showed he had run up drug debts from buying and selling cannabis and cocaine.
Mr Thomas told the court the couple exchanged text messages to "get their story straight" about how Finley "fell down the stairs", as well as how he had got several other earlier injuries.
"It summarises her view of Buckley. She saw no wrong in him and she put the interest of her child second to that of Buckley and ignored what was plainly in front of her eyes," he said.
Previously, the court heard how a garden chair was used to kill Finley.
Mr Thomas said: "The death was caused by Buckley on a defenceless 17-month-old child, with what we claim was quite senseless violence, by shaking him and forcing him against a chair."
The trial continues.
summary: A 17-month-old boy had cocaine and cannabis in his system when he was murdered by his mother's boyfriend, a court has heard.
Text: NIE Networks has restored supply to 10,000 customers but about 3,000 remain without power.
The worst affected areas are counties Tyrone, Londonderry and Antrim. The strongest wind recorded was 85mph.
A number of roads across Northern Ireland are also closed due to fallen trees and flooding.
NIE Networks emergency crews and engineers are working to restore power to the remaining customers and the firm has opened its main incident centre in Craigavon, County Armagh, to co-ordinate its response.
The firm's communications manager, Julia Carson, said: "We have been in regular contact with the Met Office and had mobilised NIE Networks emergency crews, engineers and call handlers in preparation for any damage the severe weather may cause
She also advised the public: "Put safety first and if you do see any trees down across power lines or broken electricity poles, keep away and call NIE Networks immediately."
Electricity customers who have lost supply in Northern Ireland should call NIE Networks' customer helpline on 03457 643 643 or report the fault online using their website: nienetworks.co.uk
Storm Gertrude has brought gusts of wind of over 80mph in exposed coastal areas of Northern Ireland - the highest gust recorded so far was 85mph at Orlock Head on the County Down coast.
Winds will reduce by mid morning but it will remain windy throughout the day with a mix of sunshine showers.
The Met Office's amber wind warning expires at 10:00 GMT but a yellow wind warning remains in force until 18:00 GMT with gusts to around 60mph possible.
Colder air will sweep across Northern Ireland later and showers will turn to sleet and snow. A yellow warning has been issued for wind and snow on Friday night, valid from midnight to 15:00 GMT on Saturday.
Storm Gertrude has also caused damage in Scotland and the Republic of Ireland overnight.
The Irish state broadcaster RTÉ said more than 5,000 homes and businesses in the Republic of Ireland were without power on Friday morning after severe winds.
summary: About 13,000 electricity customers lost supply in Northern Ireland overnight after gales brought down trees and damaged a number of power lines.
Text: The report, commissioned by the BBC Trust, examined how the corporation reflects views from across the UK.
It found the BBC had been "slow" to catch up with public opinion on areas such as immigration and the EU.
But former ITV chief Stuart Prebble, who led the review, praised the BBC for an "impressive breadth of opinion".
"I have been impressed by the commitment of the BBC's journalists to ensuring that they bring a diversity of voices and viewpoints on a wide range of news stories to audiences across the country," he said.
The report found that too much weight is given to the views of politicians and the BBC should find ways to report more "contentious" views from people outside Parliament, which would reflect wider public opinion.
Mr Prebble said it was clear "the BBC cannot afford to rest on its laurels and it should ensure it does all it can to keep up with the ebb and flow of public opinion, which means avoiding over-reliance on Westminster voices, making efforts to find new voices even if they are contentious, and challenging their own assumptions on the accepted consensus."
The report suggested that the audience of Question Time should be chosen from a wider group, rather than just BBC viewers.
BBC coverage of immigration, religion and the European Union between 2007 and 2012 was examined as part of the study.
On reporting religion, if found there were some gaps in knowledge among some generalist reporters
Mr Prebble said the BBC had not fully reflected concerns about immigration's effect on Britain saying coverage was too often "dry and clinical".
He put this down to an over reliance on interviewing politicians, many of whom were reluctant to address the issue.
Mr Prebble's investigation picked up from a 2007 report by John Bridcut, which set out 12 "guiding principles" aimed at protecting against biased reporting and ensuring impartiality.
Mr Bridcut's report found that technological and social change had led to a wider range of opinion in society than the traditional right and left wing views.
BBC Trustee David Liddiment said: "Our impartiality reviews are an important inducement for the Executive to question itself, in this case on its breadth of opinion, to ensure it is doing all it can to achieve what licence fee payers expect and that it is constantly alert to changing public opinion.
"We deliberately chose some complex and controversial subject areas for the review in immigration, religion, and the EU, and our generally positive findings are testament to programme-makers across the corporation.
"It is clear that there is more to do and we will look to the Executive to deliver on this." he added.
The BBC executive team has set out a series of actions in response to the report's findings, including:
Mr Prebble's review is the fifth report examining impartiality commissioned by the BBC Trust. Previous reports have focused on business, science, coverage of UK nations and the Arab spring.
In a statement, the BBC said it was "pleased" its news coverage was found to be "remarkable" and "impressive", adding that it set out "interesting insights".
"Stuart Prebble has concluded, overall, that our coverage of immigration is 'broad and impressive', that on the EU we offer 'a wide and comprehensive range of information and viewpoints' and that the BBC's coverage of religion is 'comprehensive and impressive'.
"He also states that the overwhelming number of journalists within the BBC leave their personal politics at home.
"We agree it is always vital to guard against unconscious bias or 'group think' and will continue to do so and we've committed to a number of actions to improve our coverage even further."
summary: | A review into impartiality in BBC news reporting has suggested the broadcaster should find ways to report more "extreme" opinions. | 1 | Flan2021 | huggingface:xsum | fs_noopt |
Text: World governing body Fifa said an investigation "uncovered breaches of fiduciary responsibilities".
The 45-year-old German took over as acting general secretary after Jerome Valcke was sacked for irregularities.
The dismissal is not connected to the payment made to Michel Platini by former president Sepp Blatter in 2011.
Former Fifa vice president Platini and Blatter were last year found guilty of ethics breaches over the 2m Swiss Franc (£1.3m) "disloyal payment".
Uefa president Platini, 60, resigned from European football's governing body after failing to have a six-year ban from football overturned.
Blatter, 80, is still waiting to hear the outcome of his appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
Valcke, 55, was given a 12-year ban from football in February for his alleged involvement in a scheme to profit from the sale of World Cup tickets.
Kattner joined Fifa in 2003 as director of finance, becoming deputy secretary general in 2007.
His salary and bonuses were part of a contract that was unseen by relevant Fifa committees.
No other current Fifa directors are believed to be involved.
United Nations official Fatma Samoura has already been named as Fifa's new permanent secretary general.
The 54-year-old Senegalese woman is set to start her role next month.
summary: Fifa acting secretary general Markus Kattner has been sacked after being accused of paying himself bonuses worth millions of pounds.
Text: The 39-year-old did not play for the Dons after signing from Hearts in a predominately coaching capacity last summer, but impressed on trial.
Manager David Hopkin told Livingston's website: "I have been chasing Neil for close to two months now.
"He will be fantastic for us, of that I have no doubt."
Alexander, who has three Scotland caps, joined Livingston in 1998 from Stenhousemuir and left to join Cardiff City three years later.
He subsequently had spells with Ipswich Town, Rangers and Crystal Palace before joining Hearts, making his final appearance in the Scottish Premiership in April 2016.
"He brings a wealth of experience to the team, having won previous league titles with Hearts and Rangers, with the added bonus of a European final during his time at Ibrox," added Hopkin.
"Neil is a very fit individual who has looked after himself impeccably over the years and will be invaluable to our young squad this season."
Alexander becomes Hopkin's sixth signing for Livi's return to Scotland's second tier after winning League One.
Forward Dylan Mackin was previously with Motherwell, midfielders Scott Robinson and Ross Brown were both at East Fife and striker Josh Peters with Forfar Athletic.
Meanwhile, Hearts striker Nikolay Todorov has returned for a second loan spell.
summary: Former Scotland goalkeeper Neil Alexander has returned to Livingston for a second spell after being released by Aberdeen.
Text: The results of the biggest bank by market value are closely watched as an indicator of the Australian economy.
Last week the central bank cut interest rates to a record low to tackle weak inflation and spur growth.
Australia has been struggling with slowing growth amid a global slump in commodity prices.
Commonwealth Bank's cash profit rose 3% to A$9.45bn, largely in line with analysts' expectations. The results mark the seventh consecutive annual record.
Many Australian banks use the cash profit measure rather than net profit as their preferred performance measure.
The cash profit numbers strip out one-off items, including those that may distort a bank's performance in a given period.
Australia's banking sector is also facing tightened capital requirements and regulations adding to costs.
The lenders are also under political pressure to move away from aggressive sales tactics and reform corporate behaviour in the wake of several scandals including insurance fraud and interest rate-rigging.
Chief executive Ian Narev said Commonwealth Bank was aware of the "combined impact of weaker demand, strong competition and increasing regulation", noting cautious optimism about the outlook for the bank.
"An ongoing focus on productivity and credit quality will be important. But we remain positive about Australia's economic prospects," he added.
Australia's top lender by assets, National Australia Bank, reports results on 15 August.
summary: | Commonwealth Bank of Australia, the country's biggest lender, has posted a 2% rise in annual profit to a record A$9.2bn ($7.1bn, £5.4bn). | 1 | Flan2021 | huggingface:xsum | fs_noopt |
Q: The incident happened at the Esso Service Station on Drygate Street, Larkhall, at about 20:30 on Monday.
The 51-year-old female assistant refused to hand over money from the till and ran out of the garage, raising the alarm with nearby business owners.
The man, who wore a scarf and glasses and carried a holdall, ran along Drygate Street towards Station Road.
He was white, about 5ft 8in, of medium build and also wearing dark clothes.
Det Con Ruth Whyte, from Police Scotland, said: "Our inquiries are continuing to trace the cowardly individual who attempted and failed to rob the service station. No-one should be placed in a state of fear or alarm as they go about their daily lives.
"We have conducted local inquiries and are continuing to assess CCTV to help identify the suspect.
"I would ask anyone with any information to get in contact. You may have seen a man in dark clothing hanging about the area in a suspicious manner before the attempted robbery or running along Drygate Street following the incident."
A: A man threatened a garage assistant in South Lanarkshire with a weapon before fleeing empty-handed.
Q: Ferres joined Rhinos from Huddersfield for an undisclosed fee in January, and has made 19 appearances this season.
The 30-year-old had been at the Giants since 2012, having previously played for Castleford, Wakefield and Bradford.
"Results and our league position [ninth in Super League] have not gone to plan, but this is a great club," he said.
"I will be looking to knuckle down and make the most of this opportunity to help get the team back to where we want to be at the top of the table."
Leeds, the defending Super League champions, will face Featherstone Rovers in the Qualifiers on 6 August after finishing ninth.
A: England forward Brett Ferres has signed a new contract with Leeds Rhinos that will keep him at the Super League club until the end of the 2019 season.
Q: The 11 charges relate to the period when ex-Supt Andrew Carr, 47, worked for the 7th Swindon Scouts and Orchid Vale PTA.
Funds were not paid into bank accounts, cheques were written out in another name and documents were falsified.
Carr, from Swindon, will be sentenced at Bournemouth Crown Court on 21 July.
He was dismissed from Wiltshire Police in May following a hearing held in private "to ensure it did not prejudice his criminal trial".
Carr was charged with four counts of fraud relating to the scouts and PTA where the proceeds of various fundraising events were not paid into bank accounts as required.
Two counts of theft relate to falsifying documents for accounting purposes and five counts of forgery relate to writing out cheques in another person's name.
Speaking after the case, Ch Con Mike Veale expressed his "dismay and disappointment" that Carr's behaviour fell below what was expected of a police officer.
"This is a stark reminder of the important role that police officers and staff have in our society in relation to the requirement to demonstrate the highest standards of behaviour," he said.
"I expect them to act with the utmost integrity at all times including conduct whilst on and off duty."
A: A former senior police officer has admitted charges of fraud, forgery and false accounting carried out when he was treasurer of a scout group.
Q: The 20-year-old has had spells on loan with Coventry City and Barnsley and has made 21 first-team appearances for the Magpies since his debut in 2014.
Armstrong scored 20 goals in 40 appearances for Coventry in 2015-16.
"He's a good young player with great potential. We look forward to working with him," manager Phil Parkinson said.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.
A: | Bolton Wanderers have signed striker Adam Armstrong from Premier League side Newcastle United on a loan deal until January 2018. | 0 | Flan2021 | huggingface:xsum | fs_noopt |
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A family of five, including a three-year-old boy, were forced to jump to safety from a first-floor bedroom after an arson attack on their home.
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A: Firefighters were called after the blaze broke out in Jedburgh Avenue, Heaton, Bolton, just after 02:30 GMT.
A smoke alarm woke the sleeping family, who have been praised for the "quick thinking and decisive action" that may have saved their lives.
The home was badly damaged but the residents escaped unharmed.
Firefighter manager Lee Coleman, of Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service, said the family awoke to see flames lapping at the front door.
"There was no way they could have got out of that house through the front door and so they made their exit through the bedroom window of the first floor," he said.
Det Sgt Rob Parker, of Greater Manchester Police, said: "We believe an accelerant was used to start this fire, that could very easily have killed all inside."
Firefighters said one man jumped from the window into the back garden, before the child was dropped to safety into the man's arms.
Two women and a second man also jumped.
All five were given oxygen at the scene before being transferred to the Royal Bolton Hospital for further tests and treatment.
Mr Coleman added: "The working smoke alarm at this property undoubtedly saved the house itself from any real and significant damage and made sure the family were up and out of that property in a flash.
"It clearly could have been much worse."
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Four leading German economic institutes have raised their growth forecast for Germany's economy because of falling oil prices and a weak euro.
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A: The country's economy - the largest in the eurozone - will grow by 2.1% this year, the institutes said in a report.
In the autumn they had predicted 1.3% growth and warned that the economy was "stagnating".
In 2014 as a whole, Germany's GDP was 1.5% higher than in the previous year, according to official figures.
"The German economy is experiencing a strong upturn driven by unexpected expansive impulses, especially the falling oil price and the sharp depreciation of the euro," CES Ifo Group Munich said.
Timo Wollmershaeuser, chief economist at the Ifo Institute, said: "The low oil price leaves the Germans more money for consumption, and the low euro is pushing exports."
The Ifo Institute was one of four institutes that wrote the annual spring forecast.
The joint paper said that "consumption is the driving force behind the upturn".
In addition it said "the rest of the euro area is also expected to produce slightly positive impulses, meaning that international trade will contribute to growth."
The bodies called for lower taxes for small businesses after a prediction of public budget surpluses of €20bn euros (£13bn) this year and next.
"The tax wedge between labour costs and net wages, created by contributions to the pay‐as‐you-go social security system and income tax, is among the highest of all OECD countries in Germany," they said.
"The income tax rate above all - especially for small and medium‐sized companies - should therefore be made more performance‐oriented to reduce the labour factor burden and thus to increase Germany's growth potential."
This suggestion is unlikely to gain traction in Berlin, as the ruling coalition of conservatives and Social Democrats has an agreement not to raise or lower taxes, but to use any leeway to boost investment.
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Residents are being told to close their windows as firefighters tackle a second grass fire close to houses in Rhondda.
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A: South Wales Fire and Rescue Service were called an 25 hectare (61.7 acre) blaze in Pontygwaith, Ferndale at about 13:40 BST on Wednesday.
The fire took four hours to get under control, using tactical burning.
Shortly after crews left a second mountain fire began. One crew returned to tackle the blaze.
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Bristol had to beat fellow strugglers Worcester to keep their hopes of staying in the Premiership, says winger Tom Varndell.
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A: | The 31-year-old scored a hat-trick as Bristol won their first league match this season since promotion and their first top-flight game since March 2009.
The 28-20 win came despite having centre Tusi Pisi sent off after 14 minutes for his challenge in the air.
"Today we knew it was all or nothing," Varndell told BBC Radio Bristol.
"We have had a good run in Europe the last couple of weeks, which has done wonders for our confidence. To win the way we did with 14 men is a massive credit to the whole team.
"We want to be in this league next year and you have got to make winning a habit. We know what it is going to take.
"It is a massive weight off our shoulders getting that first Premiership win. It has been long overdue and hopefully now we can kick on." | 9 | Flan2021 | huggingface:xsum | fs_noopt |
Q: Paul Chichester was back in his home city to speak to businesses.
He said cyber security was increasingly relevant regarding personal data and also online banking and shopping.
London-based NCSC, part of intelligence and communications agency GCHQ, was officially opened in February.
Mr Chichester said it dealt with the full spectrum of threats from nations trying to steal secrets and harm the UK's critical infrastructure through to citizens worried about bank accounts and personal identities online.
He said Wales, in terms of geography, was close to GCHQ's base in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, and could exploit its technology base and build on digital skills, offering local business opportunities.
"It's really important everyone invests the time, energy and effort to focus on the topic," he said.
"There are huge economic benefits in cyber security and we really want Wales to be at the heart of exploiting that. I visited Airbus [cyber security centre in Newport] recently and they have some fantastic capabilities there in their cyber arena."
A National Cyber Security Academy has been established in Newport to train the next generation of experts, while the Welsh Government wants to make south east Wales a hub for the industry.
"There are some really good beginnings there but we want to see more. In academia, we want to see the universities going on to be some of our centres of excellence."
He said it was also about underpinning digital knowledge at an early age and he was positive more children were growing up "living and breathing technology", with primary schools developing coding.
NATIONAL CYBER SECURITY CENTRE
Mr Chichester, who met members of Cardiff Business Club, said attacks were happening all the time, and included businesses being held to ransom by cyber-criminals hacking and taking over systems.
"Businesses and citizens are being targeted every day," he said.
"People need to be on their guard all the time and on the look out for suspicious emails or just be conscious that people are trying to get access to their data."
He said businesses also needed to regularly back up their data, especially with "ransomware" a real threat to the business community - when people take over systems and demand money before giving access back.
A: Wales is well placed to take advantage of the growing industry in tackling online crime, according to the Cardiff-born director of operations at the new National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC).
Q: US comedian Ari Shaffir is 15 minutes late for our interview.
"I get lost a lot," he says apologetically. He is in Scotland, performing at the Edinburgh fringe festival.
He couldn't map app his way to the BBC studio because, for the past 20 months, he has been without a smartphone.
In December 2014, Shaffir was growing concerned about the amount of time he was spending using his iPhone - especially on social media - and was considering abandoning his data plan so that he could only access the internet via wi-fi.
"I was noticing a lot of distraction on my part - constantly checking social media, not to mention email and text," he says.
"You need some of it for work and the rest is distracting you from doing your work. If you post a photo on Instagram you don't need to watch the people saying, 'Yeah I like it' - people are constantly checking their 'likes'."
So when one evening he accidentally left his handset in the back of a taxi, he decided to go cold turkey.
The first six months were difficult.
"I felt withdrawal symptoms at first, kind of the way I felt when I quit smoking," he said.
But he says he now sleeps better, talks to more people and takes more interest in his surroundings as a smartphone-free individual - and jokes that he feels "superior" to his smartphone-absorbed friends.
"I see myself as a sober alcoholic - I can't handle it," he says.
"A lot of my friends said, 'Just use [the phone] less', but that's like walking around with a pack of cigarettes in your pocket and saying just don't smoke."
Dr Andrew Przybylski, an experimental psychologist and research fellow at Oxford University's Internet Institute, thinks the comparison is a little strong.
"There is no scientific evidence that smartphones are addictive in the clinical sense," he told the BBC.
"But because they put so many possibilities at our fingertips they are very attractive."
Dr Przybylski added that there "isn't any good research" as yet to suggest that heavy use of social media causes changes in the brain.
"If anything, brain activation is analogous to having a good conversation with friends or having a chocolate," he added.
Shaffir is not so sure - and he is not alone. Hollywood actor Bill Murray is said never to have had a smartphone and Silicon Valley tech entrepreneur Steve Hilton has written about his decision not to own any sort of mobile phone for the last three years.
"I find the idea that we should all be connected and contactable all the time not just bizarre but menacing," said Mr Hilton, a former adviser to David Cameron.
He admitted to borrowing other people's phones "four or five times a month".
"That's the sum total of the times I find I really need a phone's functionality," he wrote.
Meanwhile Ann Makosinski gave a TEDx Teen talk at the age of 18 about never owning a smartphone.
Like many others, the young Canadian inventor argued that they stifle creativity.
"Creativity was born out of necessity because I didn't have many things to play with," she said of her childhood.
"I think in terms of creativity these technologies are a net positive," said Dr Przybylski.
"Looking at the way that younger people use Snapchat and apps to create mash-ups is probably a step forward."
For Ari Shaffir, the constant attention demanded by handsets needs rebalancing.
"It's every moment of your life," he says.
"There needs to be an etiquette built around it and we haven't built it yet."
Perhaps that revolution is under way.
A cocktail bar in East Sussex has "banned" mobile devices by building a Faraday Cage into its walls to block phone signals and Apple has patented technology to prevent smartphone cameras from working at concerts.
Meanwhile, Shaffir is now using a six-year-old Samsung Gravity 3.
"It can text, you can make the font bigger or smaller, and it has over 10 different ring tones," he jokes.
"You cannot get on email, you cannot get on any website. You can tweet via your texting, you just can't check responses."
Should the smartphone industry be worried? Analyst Ben Wood from CCS Insight doesn't think so.
"The smartphone has become part of the fabric of today's society," he said.
"It is the most prolific consumer electronics device on the planet and it seems most people can't live without one.
"As if to underline how pervasive they are as a phenomenon we've now reached a point that there are more smartphones than people in the UK. It seems like the whole population is hooked."
A: | A recent report by UK regulator Ofcom claimed that 59% of Brits consider themselves to be "hooked" on their handsets - but not everybody is a slave to their smartphone, reports Zoe Kleinman. | 0 | Flan2021 | huggingface:xsum | fs_noopt |
Met Office yellow "be aware" warnings for rain covers from 18:00 Wednesday to 08:00 Thursday and winds of up to 80mph from 21:00 Wednesday to 15:00 Thursday.
The heaviest rain has been forecast for Scotland's southern uplands and southern and central Highlands.
The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) has issued four flood alert and nine flooding warnings.
They cover parts of Tayside, Dumfries, the Borders and Ayrshire and Arran.
Flooding has already affected parts of Perthshire and also the south of Scotland.
Winds gusting to 80mph have been forecast for the Western Isles between Wednesday and Thursday. High winds have also been forecast for the Northern Isles.
Ferry operator Caledonian MacBrayne said 25 of its 26 services have been disrupted. Wednesday's Barra to South Uist and Colonsay services have been cancelled.
The company said it had altered its timetable to capitalise on periods of calmer weather to help people get home and for supplies to be delivered to island communities.
Director of operations Drew Collier said: "We have pulled out all the stops to ensure people travelling to these destinations can get home to their friends and family in time for the celebrations."
Meanwhile, the Scottish government has warned that climate change is likely to increase the frequency and severity of flooding.
Its new report, Mapping Flood Disadvantage in Scotland 2015, suggests that urgent action is needed to address the risks to highly vulnerable communities exposed to flooding.
The report recommends that local authorities work closely with third sector organisations to help communities cope with floods.
WWF Scotland said the report highlighted the need to reduce harmful emissions that exacerbate climate change.
Sum: Warnings of heavy rain, flooding and high winds are in place for parts of Scotland until Thursday afternoon.
The loss-making Kent airport will close next week after a US firm's offer to buy the site was rejected on Monday and another bid fell through in April.
An airport spokesman said there had not been "a viable alternative" to allow the airport to remain open.
But Kent MP Sir Roger Gale said the airport should have negotiated over the offers.
Campaigners have vowed to continue fighting to keep Manston open.
In a statement, the airport spokesman said it had also considered business proposals put forward by staff but those would have still required losses to be subsidised.
"In the absence of other options, the decision has been taken to close the airport on 15 May," it said.
"Individual consultation will now take place with all staff members who will be supported through this process."
Staff were told of the decision to close the airport at a meeting on Tuesday morning.
The site was bought by Ann Gloag, who co-founded the Stagecoach Group, for £1 last year.
In March, the airport said it was in talks about closing because it was losing £10,000 a day.
Several airlines have pulled out, including KLM, which ran two daily flights to Amsterdam.
In a joint statement, local Conservative MPs Sir Roger Gale and Laura Sandys, said there was "ongoing and serious interest" in the acquisition of Manston as a working airport and they hoped the current owners could be persuaded to reconsider.
"We are convinced that, given more time, real progress could have been made and it is thus hugely disappointing that the decision has been taken to close it."
US firm RiverOak Investment, which is based in Stamford, Connecticut, said it had made an offer to acquire 100% of the shares in the company that owned Manston Airport.
It said it had $350m (£206m) in assets and a successful track record of turning around "troubled operating and real estate assets".
The company said it had developed a long-term plan to own and manage Manston as an airport.
In a statement, it said: "RiverOak is distressed to learn of the announced closure of Manston today and remains willing to engage with all parties to achieve a solution which allows the airport to continue operating and preserves the jobs of its staff."
Wendy Fraser, group secretary of Save Manston Airport, said campaigners would be stepping up their campaign to keep the airport open
"We'll fight to reopen it if it does close, and we will not let this be made into anything but an airport," she said.
Founder of the campaign group Dan Light added: "I believe that something can be done. I mean, it's not the end yet. It may look like it is, but we're going to fight to the bitter end."
Sum: Manston Airport is to close with the loss of up to 150 jobs after a buyer was not found, its owners have said.
The network would allow smart devices to talk to each other via the network.
Phone carrier SK Telecom is behind the initiative, which uses technology that will allow it to reach 99% of the country's population.
Aside from South Korea, the Netherlands also has a nationwide IoT network.
There will be charges involved as users will have to subscribe to monthly price plans that range from 350 Korean won ($0.30, ??0.20) to 2,000 won.
SK Telecom is investing up to 100 billion won by the end of next year to further develop the infrastructure, which it hopes will be a new source of revenue.
In a statement it said the price plans are "highly affordable" and cost one-tenth of its current LTE-based IoT services which will ease the cost burden of startups and small and medium enterprises.
The IoT can help appliances like fridges or printers tell its owners when it needs to be refilled, help customers locate lost smartphones and even monitor pets.
Sum: | South Korea has launched its first commercial, low-cost Internet of Things (IoT) network aimed at making the country even more connected. | 7 | Flan2021 | huggingface:xsum | fs_noopt |
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Article:The Gunners, who have reached the second phase for the 14th successive season, weathered early pressure before going close via Olivier Giroud.
Gonzalo Higuain put Napoli ahead before the Gunners' Mikel Arteta was sent off.
And although Jose Callejon scored a second for Napoli in injury time, Borussia Dortmund's 2-1 win at Marseille eliminated the Italian side.
When Argentine striker Higuain struck after 73 minutes, Napoli were on course to qualify for the last 16.
But Kevin Grosskreutz's goal for Dortmund three minutes from time in Marseille sent last season's runners-up through in their place.
Arsenal, who had to lose by three goals in order to miss out, took the sting out of the game with some controlled possession and there was no time for Napoli to grab a third after Callejon had lobbed Wojciech Szczesny to double their lead.
Dortmund, Arsenal and Napoli all finished on 12 points, but the Germans beat Arsenal to top spot on a better head-to-head record. The Gunners pipped the Italians to second place on goal difference.
As runners-up the Gunners will play a top seed, meaning they will be up against holders Bayern Munich, Real Madrid, Barcelona, Paris St-Germain or Atletico Madrid.
Arsene Wenger's side may have been forgiven for not approaching Napoli in their usual attacking manner, but they soon found a rhythm to their passing after an energetic opening from the hosts which saw Goran Pandev test Szczesny with an early shot.
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Arsenal's first meaningful opening came on 23 minutes when a flowing exchange of passes ended with France striker Giroud's angled shot being beaten away by home goalkeeper Rafael Cabral.
With Aaron Ramsey and Jack Wilshere on the bench, Mathieu Flamini came into the side and was instrumental in wrestling control in midfield and Rafael Benitez's men committed several fouls as their frustration grew.
The hosts had two decent opportunities to strike before half-time, though, as the energetic Dries Mertens played in Christian Maggio down the right channel. He could only lift his shot over the bar, however, as Szczesny came out to close him down.
The Arsenal goalkeeper then almost gifted Napoli a goal as he kicked Laurent Koscielny's backpass straight at Higuain, but the striker - who was a target for the Gunners in the summer - headed wide from an angle.
Had Arsenal held on to win the group, they would have faced one of these sides in the last 16:
Napoli improved around the hour mark and almost went ahead when Raul Albiol's pass found left-back Pablo Armero but his tame shot was easily saved.
Benitez's men then wasted three further chances before Higuain finally made the breakthrough, turning and finding the bottom corner after collecting Callejon's pass outside the box.
With Borussia Dortmund drawing with Marseille at this point, the Stadio San Paolo erupted as Napoli moved into second spot in the group.
The home crowd cheered further three minutes later when Arteta received a second yellow card for a foul on Callejon, having already been booked in the first half.
That set up a nervous finale, and when Callejon scored it looked like there may be a chance for Napoli to knock Arsenal out, but there was only enough time left for the Gunners to take the re-start.
Dortmund's late goal consigns Benitez, who was Chelsea's interim manager at this time last season, to the Europa League for a second consecutive campaign.
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Summarize the main points of that article.
Answer:
Arsenal qualified for the Champions League knockout stages as Group F runners-up, despite losing to Napoli.
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Article:The former Liberal Democrat MP for Montgomeryshire said he needed surgery as his teeth are "disintegrating", making it difficult to eat.
It follows his 1998 accident in which he fell 98ft (30m), sustaining serious facial injuries and breaking his sternum, ribs and back in 12 places.
The operation on the NHS was medical and not cosmetic, he added.
Speaking to the Jason Mohammad programme, Mr Opik said he was already two years into the treatment and will have a further two years of work after going under the knife.
"Even at that time I knew it was going to have a life-changing effect on me, not just physically but psychologically," he said.
"Interestingly enough it took some time for that effect to take hold and it's still a driver in changing my thinking today."
The operation on 26 January will see his jaw broken and reconstructed.
"Whether or not I look like George Clooney, or indeed Nick Clegg, at least I will be able to eat," he joked.
Mr Opik lost his parliamentary seat in 2010.
Summarize the main points of that article.
Answer:
Lembit Opik is due to undergo an operation to correct his "wonky" face, 18 years after a paragliding accident.
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Article:Their returns are a boost for Wales as they prepare for the Six Nations.
National captain Warburton comes in at open-side, while Gareth Anscombe takes over at fly-half from Rhys Patchell, who is on the bench.
Blues can reach the quarter-finals from Pool 3 if they win heavily and other results go their way.
Warburton, who has not played since the World Cup, has recovered from ankle problems.
Anscombe came off the bench in Blues' 34-26 at pool leaders Harlequins in the last round and starts for the region for the first time this season.
Jenkins leads the side and has a chance to press his claim to be Wales' first-choice loose-head prop in the forthcoming Six Nations.
Head coach Danny Wilson has made 12 changes, with Jenkins part of a completely changed pack and recalled Wales wing Tom James back after illness.
Former Wales captain Matthew Rees is set to return from a seven-week ban, imposed for stamping on Harlequins number eight Nick Easter.
Blues beat Italian second-tier side Calvisano 50-9 in November.
Meanwhile, Wales and former Blues centre Jamie Roberts sits out Harlequins' visit to Montpellier in the same group.
The Welsh region need a Harlequins victory to give them a chance of finishing as one of the best runners-up in Europe's second-tier competition.
Wilson said: "A few players deserve an opportunity and they get the chance to impress.
"The outcome of our qualification hopes is now out of our hands, all we can concentrate is our performance and getting the five points we need. We will react to what happens elsewhere."
Cardiff Blues: Dan Fish; Alex Cuthbert, Cory Allen, Gavin Evans, Tom James; Gareth Anscombe, Tavis Knoyle; Gethin Jenkins (capt), Ethan Lewis, Dillon Lewis, Jarrad Hoeata, Lou Reed, Cam Dolan Josh Navidi, Sam Warburton.
Replacements: Matthew Rees, Thomas Davies, Scott Andrews, Macauley Cook, Ellis Jenkins, Lloyd Williams, Rhys Patchell, Aled Summerhill.
Calvisano: Ben De Jager; Giacomo De Santis, Alberto Chiesa, Tommy Castello (capt), Marco Susio; Florin Vlaicu, Pablo Canavosio; Luca Scarsini, Lorenzo Giovanchelli, Rudy Biancotti, Michele Andreotti, Davide Zanetti, Matteo Archetti, Renato Giammarioli, Jim Tuivaiti.
Replacements: Gabriele Morelli, Sami Panico, Marco Riccioni Agustin Cavalieri, Emilio Vezzoli, Nocola Belardo, Riccardo Raffaele, Filippo Buscema.
Referee: Thomas Charabas (France).
Summarize the main points of that article.
Answer:
| Sam Warburton and Gethin Jenkins return from injuries to start for Cardiff Blues in their European Challenge Cup clash against Calvisano on Friday. | 3 | Flan2021 | huggingface:xsum | fs_noopt |
Some officers have been asked to travel more than 200 miles on short-term attachments because of the crisis.
Thirty-two officers are being sent to maximum security Woodhill prison, in Milton Keynes, the documents show.
The Ministry of Justice insisted "most prisons are appropriately staffed".
It said a recent rise in the prison population was being managed "through sensible and proportionate measures".
It is attempting to recruit 1,700 new officers to ease the difficulties.
Documents obtained by the Howard League for Penal Reform - and shared with Newsnight - show that more than 50 prisons have been asked to provide officers to plug gaps elsewhere in the system.
In all, 239 officers were asked to move to other prisons during November and December.
The distances included travelling from Exeter to Swaleside, Kent - 227 miles; from Garth, in Lancashire, to London's Wormwood Scrubs - 218 miles; and from Frankland, County Durham to Woodhill - 228 miles.
All of the staff being sent to Woodhill are being taken away from other category A jails.
The attachments often involve prison officers being put up at hotels for a fortnight at a time.
A specific document about staffing on Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year's Day indicates that about 56 officers will be asked to work in other prisons.
The document suggests some officers will be required to work more than 60 miles away.
Peter McParlin, chairman of the Prison Officers Association, told Newsnight: "It means that prisons are permanently in a state of flux.
"We have 250 prison officers traversing the country day in, day out to prop up failing and restricted regimes in prison.
"It means the much-vaunted rehabilitation revolution isn't taking place."
Frances Crook, chief executive of the Howard League for Penal Reform, said: "The prisons are in complete meltdown as a result of government policy, so they have to move people round in order to deal with that emergency.
"It's very costly and very disruptive. People are fetching up to a prison who don't know where anything is."
She said it was a "chaotic policy to deal with an emergency".
The Howard League said it was particularly concerned that staff were being taken out of young offender institutions to plug gaps in adult prisons.
One former prisoner, who asked for anonymity, said staff shortages had had a big impact on life behind bars.
"There were a lot of vulnerable prisoners, particularly some young prisoners, who were subject to quite severe physical assaults, even sexual assaults.
"I think there was a general feeling, because of the shortage of officers in particular, that bullying was on the rise, extortion, what's called taxing in prison, where prisoners basically have to pay protection money to those cons who are controlling wings.
"And we are also seeing a massive upswing in drugs consumption and availability in prison and that in itself fuels debt, bullying, violence and of course people under the influence of drugs often make very violent and irrational decisions.
"For most of the closed prisons, they are really on top of a volcano at the moment and it is only a matter of time before this could potentially turn into something much more violent and destructive."
The Ministry of Justice said the National Offender Management Service (Noms) had speeded up its recruitment process and that it was on track to recruit another 1,700 staff by March 2015.
It said measures to manage the rise in prison population included an ongoing officer recruitment campaign and the establishment of a reserve force of staff to be called on when needed.
The Ministry of Justice said it did not know how much money was being spent on the short-term attachments because the costs were taken from individual prison budgets.
Sum: Nearly 250 prison officers are being bussed across the country to fill gaps at other jails because staff shortages are so acute this Christmas, according to leaked documents.
The 2003 World Cup winning coach congratulated Australia for announcing a partial reversal of their policy to omit Australians playing overseas.
"Stuart Lancaster must be free to pick his best players, no matter where they ply their trade," he said.
"It's wrong to say England are best served by players at English clubs."
Woodward pointed to Toulon's Steffon Armitage and Clermont Auvergne's Nick Abendanon as examples of foreign-based players who deserve to be considered for the English national team.
He added, in the Daily Mail: "Jonny Wilkinson moved to France and became even better than when he played for England, so that completes the argument for me. Would I have picked Jonny if he was playing in France? Of course I would."
Woodward also said if players such as Matt Giteau and Drew Mitchell of Toulon were to excel for Australia against World Cup hosts England later this year then everyone would "know exactly what the headlines will be".
He added: "When it comes to a home World Cup, you don't want to be left talking about 'what ifs'."
Lancaster's England side play Australia, Wales, Fiji and Uruguay in the World Cup group stages, with their opening game against Fiji to be played at Twickenham on 18 September.
Sum: | England's "old-fashioned" policy of only selecting domestic-based players should be scrapped, says former national team coach Sir Clive Woodward. | 7 | Flan2021 | huggingface:xsum | fs_noopt |
Text: In a report MSF said there were no weapons or fighting inside the compound in Kunduz before the bombing started.
The US initially said its forces had come under fire, but later said the air strikes were requested by Afghan forces under Taliban fire.
The bombing killed at least 30 people.
The report acknowledged that about 20 patients at the time - out of more than 100 - were wounded Taliban. But this accorded with the rules of war, it said.
Some accounts of events mentioned shooting that appeared to "follow the movement of people on the run", the report said. It said the shooting probably came from the plane carrying out the attack.
The death toll was earlier set at 22, but the report says at least 30 people were killed, including 10 known patients, 13 known staff, and 7 more bodies that were not recognisable.
MSF says the co-ordinates of the hospital were well-known and had been communicated again to all sides three days before the bombing.
It said the bombing went on for a more than an hour despite repeated calls to US and Afghan military officials in Kabul and Washington to call off the strikes.
MSF General Director Christopher Stokes told reporters on Thursday: "All the information that we've provided so far shows that a mistake is quite hard to understand and believe at this stage."
"From what we are seeing now, this action is illegal in the laws of war," he added.
In depth:
The US defence department said on Thursday that it was still trying to establish what had happened.
"We are committed to conducting investigations that are thorough and transparent," it said in a statement.
The US has said the bombing was a mistake. It came amid efforts to reverse a Taliban takeover of Kunduz.
A number of inquiries have been ordered - by the US Department of Justice, the Pentagon, Nato and an American-Afghan team.
But MSF said both the US and Afghanistan must agree to an independent inquiry.
Kunduz, a strategically significant city of about 300,000 inhabitants in north-west Afghanistan, was quiet for the first night in more than a week, the report says.
summary: Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) staff were shot at from the air while fleeing a hospital in northern Afghanistan that was hit by US air strikes a month ago, the charity says.
Text: Steven Stewart was working for Technic Concrete Floors on a new cinema complex at Fort Kinnaird Retail Park in Edinburgh when the incident happened.
Edinburgh Sheriff Court heard he was walking over a floor under construction when he tripped on 16 May 2014.
His foot dislodged an unsecured wooden panel covering a void in the floor.
He landed on steel mesh grids.
Mr Stewart, who was sub-contracted to work for the firm, sustained serious injuries to his back and a broken foot.
The Lancashire-based flooring company pleaded guilty at Edinburgh Sheriff Court to contravening part of the Health and Safety Act.
Gary Aitken, head of the Crown Office health and safety division, said: "This was an accident that resulted in life-changing injuries that could have been avoided if the appropriate measures had been in place at the time.
"This incident could well have proved fatal and it has irrevocably changed Mr Stewart's life.
"Falls from height are usually the greatest single cause of death and serious injury to workers within the construction industry.
"Hopefully this prosecution will remind other employers that failure to fulfil their obligations can have terrible consequences and that they will be held to account for their failings."
summary: A flooring firm has been fined £3,300 after a worker fell 14.7ft (4.5m) through a hole in a floor, leaving him with "life-changing" injuries.
Text: It is the first successful hijacking of a major commercial vessel in the Somali Basin since 2012 and is prompting debate over whether shipping companies have become complacent about the risk of maritime piracy.
The MT Aris 13 was travelling from Djibouti to Mogadishu on 13 March when, instead of giving the Somali coast a wide berth as advised, it took a short cut between the tip of the Horn of Africa and the Yemeni island of Socotra.
Somali pirates then ambushed the vessel just 11 miles (17km) from shore with two fast speedboats, known as skiffs, while aiming their weapons at the crew.
The vessel and its crew of eight Sri Lankan seafarers have now been seized by the pirates and are being held pending either ransom negotiations or a rescue attempt by the regional Puntland authorities. This brings to 16 the number of seafarers currently being held by Somalia-based pirates, the remaining eight being Iranians.
"For a vessel passing that close to the coast of Somalia without armed guards shows a level of complacency," said a spokesman for Neptune Maritime Security, which is currently running armed protection teams on around 70 vessels this month as they pass through the area of the western Indian Ocean known as the High Risk Area (HRA).
Employing armed teams, usually former servicemen, is seen by many shipping companies as prohibitively expensive. Shipping industry analysts say many vessels, especially those with a high freeboard (the vertical distance between the surface of the sea and the deck) have simply been speeding up to avoid capture. This is part of what is known as Best Management Practice, or BMP4.
Although pirates have, in the past, been incredibly adept at scaling the sides of big ocean-going vessels while in motion, this becomes very hard to do at speeds of 15 knots or more, especially if the captain takes evasive action, creating an unpredictable bow wave that can sink the pirates' skiffs.
In recent years the European Union and other nations, including China, have mounted naval patrols to deter Somali piracy and escort convoys along the coast of Yemen. But the area is so vast that their ships were rarely able to reach a vessel in distress in time. Once pirates were onboard it became a hostage situation which most naval vessels' rules of engagement prevented them from getting involved in.
"The navies' presence is good," says John Steed from the seafarers' welfare group Oceans Beyond Piracy, "but the primary factor in deterring Somali piracy has been the presence of armed guards onboard, along with best practice like speeding up," he added.
The ship that was captured on Monday had a low freeboard and was travelling so slowly that it was, he says "almost a sitting duck".
So will this latest hijacking be a wake-up call that prompts more precautions being taken at sea or will it signal the start of a new wave of piracy?
Worryingly, the factors that drove many Somali coastal fishermen to become pirates nearly a decade ago are still there. Somalia is currently in the grip of a famine and poverty is widespread; there are few employment options for young people.
There is massive and growing local resentment at the poaching of fish stocks off the coast by Asian trawlers. According to Oceans Beyond Piracy, some foreign vessels have "dubious" licences issued by officials in Puntland, but the local people never get to see any benefit from them.
The high point in Somali piracy came in 2010, both in terms of vessels hijacked and the number of seafarers taken prisoner for ransom. Soon after that, shipping companies began placing armed guards onboard who would "show weapons" to circling pirates and if necessary fire warning shots to ward them off.
This effectively broke the pirates' business model as, until then, they had been able to approach a ship, often at dawn after a night of chewing the narcotic qat leaf, open fire on the bridge to scare the captain into slowing down and stopping, and then they would board it using ladders.
They would then hold the vessel, its crew and its cargo for ransoms of millions of dollars.
After 2010 they were no longer able to do this with impunity. But now that news will have spread that many vessels are not carrying that armed protection there are concerns that the lucrative business of Somali maritime piracy may be set to return.
summary: | The hijacking of a merchant fuel tanker by pirates off the Somali coast this week has sent shockwaves through parts of the shipping industry. | 1 | Flan2021 | huggingface:xsum | fs_noopt |
Problem: Article: Dennis is joining the cast as King Arthur on 3 August, while Davis will make his West End debut when he takes on the role of Patsy on 23 September.
Dennis, who appeared with Davis in the BBC comedy Life's Too Short, said he was "really looking forward to always looking on the bright side of life".
He is scheduled to appear in the musical until 2 November.
"As a kid I was always a massive fan of Monty Python so when Spamalot came to town I thought, 'I'd really love to be in that'," he said
"And now I'm excited that I'm actually not just in it, but playing the lead role."
Davis said he "jumped" at the opportunity to star in the show.
"I've been in hit TV shows and blockbuster Hollywood movies, but you are never really taken seriously as an actor until you've done a play," he said.
Role of God
Spamalot currently stars Bonnie Langford as Lady of the Lake.
The current run will also feature a video recording of different celebrities, including Barbara Windsor, Christopher Biggins and Larry Lamb, playing the role of God for one week.
Spamalot, written by Monty Python star Eric Idle and John Du Prez, and directed by Christopher Luscombe, is showing at the Playhouse Theatre.
Like Monty Python And The Holy Grail, the film upon which it is based, the stage comedy is about a group of medieval knights searching for the mythical Holy Grail but the plot broadens out to spoof Broadway, and various musicals, including those of Andrew Lloyd Webber.
The stage show premiered on Broadway in 2005 and went on to win three Tony Awards.
Last month a film producer won a High Court case against the surviving members of Monty Python over royalty rights to Spamalot.
Mark Forstater, who co-produced the 1975 film, claimed he was underpaid royalties since the musical's launch in 2005.
Answer: [[Les Dennis and Star Wars actor Warwick Davis are to star in the hit stage show Spamalot, in London's West End.]]
Problem: Article: The warnings have been made at the Royal College of Nursing and British Medical Association conferences.
Delegates at each explained how pressures have got so bad that patients are being put at risk.
But ministers in England rejected the claims, saying investment was making the NHS the safest health system in the world.
The two conferences have fallen on the same week this year and both got under way with dire warnings of mounting pressures.
The RCN produced a dossier showing how frail elderly people were being moved at night and patients were being treated in corridors and storerooms.
And doctors at their conference in Belfast warned the NHS had been left drastically short of beds and was "bursting at the seams".
Medics highlighted OECD figures, which showed that countries such as Belgium, France, Austria, Germany and even Romania have more than double the number of beds per head of population than the UK.
In England, the number of hospital beds has been cut by more than a fifth over the past decade to just over 103,000, leaving hospitals dangerously full according to BMA leader Dr Mark Porter.
He said the situation meant there was an "increased risk" of infections and meant it was less likely that patients would end up on the right ward.
Mr Michael Hardingham, an ear, nose and throat surgeon from Cheltenham, went even further.
He told delegates during the debate: "Patients are being harmed because they are being sent home as there are no beds available."
Doctors overwhelmingly passed a motion that the reduction in bed stock had gone too far.
Meanwhile, nurses at the RCN conference in Glasgow highlighted examples of how the pressure on hospitals was forcing some sites to take extreme measures.
These included:
RCN general secretary Janet Davies said the NHS was stuck in a state of "endless winter which was creating chaos".
And Janet Youd, an emergency care nurse from West Yorkshire, added: "I can't say, hand on heart, that you'll get safe care at the next emergency department you need to go to."
But a Department of Health spokeswoman maintained the NHS was "performing well despite the additional pressures" being placed on it.
"Patient safety remains our priority and we are determined to make the NHS the safest and most transparent healthcare system in the world."
Answer: [[The NHS is stuck in an "endless winter" with hospitals left in chaos struggling to cope, doctors and nurses say.]]
Problem: Article: The Australian trailed the five-time world champion before winning four frames in a row to claim a 6-3 victory at the Queen Elizabeth Stadium.
Englishman O'Sullivan made a 143 in the fifth frame, the highest break of the tournament, to go 3-2 up before 2010 world champion Robertson hit back.
The invitational, eight-player Hong Kong tournament is not a ranking event.
Robertson's most recent ranking title remains his Riga Masters victory in June 2016.
The world number seven beat world champion Mark Selby and home favourite Marco Fu to reach the final, while O'Sullivan saw off John Higgins and Judd Trump.
Answer: | [[Neil Robertson earned a first title in 13 months by beating Ronnie O'Sullivan in the final of the Hong Kong Masters.]] | 2 | Flan2021 | huggingface:xsum | fs_noopt |
Problem: Article: Martin O'Neill's side play the first leg away on 13 November, with the return tie three days later.
The Republic could have secured automatic qualification from Group D with a 2-2 draw in Poland earlier this month but lost 2-1.
In the three other play-off matches, Ukraine play Slovenia, Sweden face Denmark, while Norway take on Hungary.
Bosnia finished third in Group B behind Belgium and Wales, drawing 0-0 against Chris Coleman's side in Cardiff before winning 2-0 at home.
"If there's any slight advantage to be had, it's maybe that the second game will be in Dublin," O'Neill said.
"We will go for it and give it everything we've got. We had terrific results against Germany - the draw out in Germany and a home win - and because that's so recent we can draw real confidence from it."
The Republic's only previous meeting with Bosnia is a 1-0 friendly win in 2012, when Shane Long scored the decisive goal.
They reached Euro 2012 via the play-offs, with the side then managed by Giovanni Trapattoni beating Estonia 5-1 over two legs.
But in November 2009 they were beaten in a play-off to reach the 2010 World Cup by France, who went through with a goal which should have been disallowed for a Thierry Henry handball.
Answer: [[Republic of Ireland will face Bosnia-Herzegovina in a two-legged play-off to qualify for Euro 2016.]]
Problem: Article: The scale of the production, the quality of the cameras, the epic sweeping shots and the pastiches of old movies - it seemed the show was aimed at the big screen, not the telly. Or a mobile phone, which is how I imagine a lot of people will view it.
It opens with a scene so over-the-top and opulent you'd think that the Prince Regent was behind the camera. Think Mad Max meets Easy Rider as we see the three presenters drive across the Californian desert, making their way through a sea of cars all barrelling along to a massive stage that has risen from the sand like a pyramid.
They look out of their car windows and smile a cheesy smile at each other. We know what's coming next. Richard Hammond will spin his motor while not paying attention, or James May will be shunted from behind by a guffawing Jeremy Clarkson, or all three will come unstuck and end up in a smoking pile of bent metal.
Critics praise Clarkson's Grand Tour
Clarkson's show to be judged 'on Twitter'
Whatever the device, an amusing comeuppance is seconds away. We know the drill.
Except we don't. Because the payoff never comes. The cheesy smiles are not a set up to a joke, but a precursor to them taking to the stage in the manner of rock stars on tour. A huge crowd of cheering fans has amassed at their feet. There is no irony. It feels uncomfortably hubristic.
Cut to a large tent with a huge picture window looking out onto the desert, in front of which is a more modest wooden stage, set with a small table. This is their new home, a peripatetic studio that appears in whichever country the show happens to be based that week.
Hammond and May sit at the table while Clarkson introduces the show, joshes with the audience about them being American, and uses a TV screen to go through a PowerPoint-type presentation of images about which the three presenters joke. Normal service has been resumed.
They go to Portugal to race three fast cars around a racetrack, which petrolheads will no doubt enjoy, but their many fans who are more interested in horseplay than horsepower might find goes on a bit.
We're introduced - at length - to a new "home" track with a "not straight", a grumpy American Nascar driver who takes The Stig's place, and a new format for a celebrity interview - the guest appears to "die" before a word is spoken.
As ever with these three, the best bits are the banter. Hammond, in particular, stands out. His energy, eagerness to please, and ability to crack genuinely funny off-the-cuff jokes (beyond those that are scripted) are a boon for the viewer, and, one would have thought, Clarkson, on whose shoulders and talent the show rests.
May seems more out of sorts. Clarkson has repeatedly said during his round of interviews to promote the programme how much he hates his co-presenters. The assumption that this is a tongue-in-cheek comment, adding a dynamic to the sitcom feel the show has of three middle-aged male characters haplessly going about their business as car journalists. But the screen chemistry between him and May suggests there's a ring of truth about Clarkson's claim, which is not much fun to watch.
In future episodes, the cars take a back seat to give the presenters a chance to do what they excel at: being very silly. A trip to Jordan to play in an army training centre is good. There are a lot of laughs, plenty of slapstick, and more film allusions to enjoy. Perhaps this is what they should focus on in the future.
Maybe the small screen is too small for them, and their next step should be away from the internet and into the cinema. It seemed to me that Grand Tour is a TV show that wants to be - and quite possibly should be - a movie.
Answer: [[Filmic is the word that sprang to my mind when watching the Grand Tour.]]
Problem: Article: 17 April 2016 Last updated at 12:05 BST
Life-like fake birds and a sound system playing puffin calls have been placed on cliffs on a small island off the coast to encourage the birds to breed there.
Puffins were last known to breed on the Calf of Man in the 1980s but their population has been damaged by rodents.
Watch Ricky's report.
Answer: [[Hundreds of model puffins are being used to attract the real birds back to the Isle of Man.]]
Problem: Article: He presented the Sunday Morning Gardening Show for 22 years and had been the station's on-air gardening expert for more than 40.
His co-presenter Tim Crowther said he was "absolutely devastated" at his death.
The radio station will open a book of condolence on Monday at its studios.
Mr Crowther described his friend as a brilliant horticulturalist and broadcaster.
"Joe will be deeply missed by me, by my production team, by all his colleagues at BBC Radio Leeds and by our listeners.
"He has left a hole in all our hearts which is impossible to fill," he said.
BBC Radio Leeds editor Rozina Breen said: "Words cannot adequately describe how we feel about losing Joe.
"He was the cornerstone of BBC Radio Leeds, a wonderful man and a first class horticulturist whose enduring patience, kindness and enthusiasm we will miss so much."
Colleagues and listeners have paid tribute to him on social media.
As well as his radio work, Mr Maiden appeared on television and wrote a number of books and articles for magazines.
He is survived by a wife, two children and three grandchildren.
Answer: | [[BBC Radio Leeds' long-serving gardening expert Joe Maiden has died from prostate cancer, the station has announced.]] | 2 | Flan2021 | huggingface:xsum | fs_noopt |
Problem: Four experts from security company FireEye found the HTC One Max stored fingerprint data in an image file that was simple to decode.
A growing number of smartphones use fingerprint recognition to unlock the device or authorise online purchases.
HTC did not respond to a request for comment but the BBC understands the flaw has now been fixed.
Recognising biometric data such as a fingerprint or face is a convenient way for people to interact with their handset, but security experts continue to question its long-term practicality.
"Biometric data is personal, it's an image of my fingerprint," said Professor Angela Sasse from University College, London.
"It's not beyond the wit of an attacker to create a dummy finger, if they have the raw data. And if they steal my fingerprint, I can't change it."
Prof Sasse said storing a fingerprint in an unencrypted format was "like writing your password on a notepad".
"Good manufacturers should hire a specialist to do a penetration test on their phone before they release it," she said.
"I find it hard to believe they did a security test on this device. And if one fingerprint system is broken, it has a knock-on effect on consumer confidence."
The four researchers - Yulong Zhang, Zhaofeng Chen, Hui Xue and Tao Wei - presented their findings at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas.
They told HTC in advance of their presentation, giving the company time to fix the problem.
The group said people should always keep their phone operating system up to date to protect themselves from known security issues.
What was that article about?
A: Security researchers have identified a way to access unencrypted fingerprint data on an HTC smartphone.
Problem: The gathering, outside the cathedral in St Philip's Square, included speeches from leaders of different faiths.
The Right Reverend David Urquhart said it was for "people of all faiths and none to join together in solidarity and reflection".
A minute's silence was also held as part of the ceremony.
The bishop said: "At times like this, the different faiths in Birmingham are able to show that we are united in our condemnation of these attacks and in our determination not to let events like this damage the good relations we have here in Birmingham."
Landmarks across the UK, including the Library of Birmingham, were illuminated in the colours of the French flag on Saturday night as a gesture of solidarity with those affected.
What was that article about?
A: Hundreds of people have taken part in a candlelit vigil led by the Bishop of Birmingham in sympathy with people affected by the attacks in Paris.
Problem: Sandra Bainbridge, 70, of Belper, Derbyshire was attacked and killed in December 2013.
A report into failings by the NHS trust that treated her killer Andrea Cutler said the attack was "not preventable".
Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust said its failings had been "largely addressed".
Cutler, 43, a heavy drug user, pleaded guilty to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility and was given a hospital order with no time limit in January 2015.
The report highlighted a series of failings by the trust including a "flawed approach towards reviewing her records" and "no consistent sharing of information".
Bainbridge's daughter Lele Bobeszko said: "The external investigation report basically identifies that every single area of practice that the trust used in their care and treatment of Cutler was very seriously flawed.
"The trust didn't use the most basic procedures... and because of that they didn't identify and didn't act when she was deteriorating and becoming increasingly violent."
Cutler attacked the victim in her home, stabbing her 73 times and then taking her car and driving to Derby where she used her credit cards.
She was described as suffering from schizoaffective psychosis at the time of the killing.
The report said it was "predictable" that she could have committed a violent attack "upon either her mother or an individual known to her" but not a random person.
Dr David Levy of NHS England said: "We are sorry for the failings identified by the independent investigation report and we apologise for them and for the distress this has caused both families."
He said actions had already been taken by the trust to ensure "changes are made in the way in which care and treatment is delivered".
What was that article about?
A: | The family of a woman who was stabbed by a squatter say the treatment of her mentally-ill attacker was "very seriously flawed". | 6 | Flan2021 | huggingface:xsum | fs_noopt |
Write an article based on this summary:
Harry Shearer is taking legal action against entertainment group Vivendi, claiming it has denied him and others profits from 1984's This is Spinal Tap.
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A: Shearer alleges that Vivendi, which acquired the film in 1989, engaged in fraud to hide revenues.
The Simpsons actor is seeking $125m (£102m) in compensatory and punitive damages.
Vivendi's UK representative declined to comment when asked to do so by the BBC News website.
"I think it's important to challenge the status quo, not just for myself but for all my fellow artists, musicians and creators," Shearer, 72, said in a video posted on Twitter.
His legal action claims that, "according to Vivendi", the four creators' share of merchandising income between 1984 and 2006 was just $81 (£66).
Directed by Rob Reiner, This is Spinal Tap followed the misfortunes of a fictional British rock band as it promotes its latest record.
Shearer, who also voices Simpsons characters as Mr Burns and Ned Flanders, said he, Reiner and the film and band's other creators - Christopher Guest and Michael McKean - had "poured themselves into nurturing and perfecting the paean to rock loudness that has entertained so many people".
Despite the film's success, he said, the four had fallen victim to "fuzzy... entertainment industry accounting schemes" that also had affected others in the industry.
"It is stunning that after all this time... the only people who haven't shared Spinal Tap's success are those who formed the band and created the film in the first place," he added.
Shearer accuses Vivendi of "wilfully manipulating certain accounting data" and "ignoring contractually-obligated accounting and reporting processes".
"Vivendi and its subsidiaries... have, at least in our case, conducted blatantly unfair business practices," he went on, referencing StudioCanal and Universal Music Group.
Follow us on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, on Instagram at bbcnewsents, or if you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.
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A man has become the third fatality of a car crash on a Leicester street.
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A: At about 20:25 GMT on 10 January, a Honda Civic and a Mitsubishi Shogun collided at the junction of Hastings Road and Buckland Road.
The driver and front seat passenger of the Honda died at the scene while two rear seat passengers were injured.
One of these, 21-year-old Abubaker Hussein Mohamed, of Leicester, died as a result of his injuries on Tuesday, police said.
The fourth man remains in hospital in a stable condition.
Police have renewed an appeal for witnesses.
A man and a woman, travelling in the Mitsubishi, were also injured. The man was later released from hospital but the woman is in a critical but stable condition.
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At least 10 people have been wounded, two seriously, in clashes between right-wing extremists and counter-protesters in Sacramento, California.
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A: Police said about 30 members of a white supremacist group were holding a rally outside the California State Capitol when about 400 counter-protesters turned up and fights broke out.
Nine men and one woman were treated for stab wounds, cuts and bruises, officials said.
No arrests have been reported so far.
Video posted on social media showed dozens of people, some wearing masks and wielding what appeared to be wooden bats, racing across the capitol grounds and attacking others.
The two people seriously wounded had suffered stab wounds, Sacramento Fire Department spokesman Chris Harvey said.
"There was a large number of people carrying sticks and rushing to either get into the melee or see what was going on," he said.
Matthew Heimbach, chairman of white supremacist group the Traditionalist Worker Party (TWP), told the Los Angeles Times that his group and the Golden State Skinheads had organised the rally.
He said one of their marchers had been stabbed in an artery and six of the counter-protesters had also been stabbed.
TWP vice chairman Matt Parrott, who was at the rally, blamed "leftist radicals" for the violence.
The TWP is described by the Southern Poverty Law Center as the political wing of the Traditionalist Youth Network, which aims to "indoctrinate high school and college students into white nationalism".
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Australia's High Court has upheld a ruling that a radio station broke the law by airing a hoax call to a hospital which was treating the Duchess of Cambridge for morning sickness.
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A: | DJs Mel Greig and Michael Christian made international headlines in 2012 when a nurse who fell for their prank later killed herself.
The High Court overturned a previous decision which cleared 2Day FM.
The station could now be fined or see its licence suspended or revoked.
2Day FM said Wednesday's decision "means that there is a serious defect in Australian broadcasting law".
The High Court ruling upheld an earlier finding by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) that the station broke the law by not obtaining consent to air the call from either of the hospital staff featured.
Ms Greig and Mr Christian called King Edward VII's Hospital in London on December 2012 pretending to be the Queen and Prince Phillip.
Nurse Jacintha Saldanha, 46, answered the call and transferred it to a colleague, who gave details of the duchess's condition. Following widespread media coverage Mrs Saldanha was found hanged three days later.
ACMA had ruled in November 2013, nearly a year after the prank took place, that the radio station had broken the law by broadcasting the call.
But the station successfully sued the ACMA in the Federal Court, arguing that the media watchdog did not have the authority to decide whether a criminal offence had been committed and overturned its decision.
Wednesday's High Court ruling reverses that Federal Court decision, finding that the ACMA does have that power. The authority can now decide whether to issue a penalty to the station of a fine or suspension of licence.
In February 2013, the UK's Crown Prosecution Service said there was no evidence to support a charge of manslaughter against the two DJs.
At an inquest into Mrs Saldana's death, Coroner Fiona Wilcox concluded that the hoax call had been "clearly pressing on her mind" but that she had had "appropriate" support from the hospital. | 9 | Flan2021 | huggingface:xsum | fs_noopt |
Problem: Article: The Liverpool-born 62-year-old, a former EA Sports executive, starts his new role on Thursday, succeeding Ian Ayre, who left in February after 10 years at the club.
"I wandered down the road looking for a pint on Sunday and I just sat in the pub listening to three guys on the next table dissecting every position for 45 minutes. It was compelling," he said.
"They didn't have a clue who I was."
But Moore told BBC Sport any transfer targets the fans had in mind would be unlikely to influence the club's policy as those responsible for buying players - manager Jurgen Klopp and sporting director Michael Edwards - were "trusted implicitly".
"There's two Peter Moores," he said. "There's the fan who has his own opinions about what needs to happen and that Peter Moore stays in a box somewhere.
"And then there's the Peter Moore that trusts implicitly what Michael Edwards and Jurgen Klopp and their staff are doing right now. We've got that well under control."
Liverpool-born Moore, who is currently based in the United States, will move back to the city this month to take up his new role.
He has 40 years of experience working for large companies and has held various positions at Electronic Arts over the past 10 years.
But Moore still remembers his first game in 1959 and says he can empathise with those who go to Anfield.
"It's part of my DNA. I can still feel being on The Kop in the old days and moving 15 steps up and down depending on what was going on on the pitch.
"We're in this together, we are a collective. The socialist beliefs that are core to this club all pulling together here. It's very unique and very different.
"If you grew up here in the sixties as a kid and a family these were tough times. There were very few things you had to hang on to or look forward to - for all of us it was three o'clock on a Saturday afternoon at Anfield."
Moore says fans will drive his decision-making.
"When I think about what we need to do here there's a mentality that I have that I will call fan first, which is when we make decisions 'what does this mean for the fan?'" he said.
For Moore, fans are not limited to those attending matches, but those global fans "sitting at 4am in San Francisco with my red shirt on and living and dying with every kick from 5,200 miles away".
Liverpool have already begun their transfer business, agreeing to sign 19-year-old Chelsea striker Dominic Solanke for a fee of around £3m.
But Moore would not be drawn on the club's spending plans for this transfer window: "Who do we need to buy? That's not how it works around here.
"There's a constant process of identifying talent, looking at the opportunities, and like any good business what you do is you say 'we've got a weakness here or we need to invest there build for the future'."
Liverpool secured their return to Champions League football for the 2017-18 season with victory over Middlesbrough on the final day of the season.
Klopp's side finished fourth in the final Premier League table and will have to negotiate Champions League qualifying at the start of next season.
"We have deserved to get back and that is building a better platform for us to be more attractive to players," said Moore.
"It's obviously worth money, and that's public, but we become more of an attractive club again.
"Players who want to play in Champions League - let's not forget this is a World Cup season at the end of next year and players want their national team managers to see them on the big stages."
Answer: [[New Liverpool chief executive Peter Moore says he has been eavesdropping on fans' pub conversations to get their views on the club - before they recognise him.]]
Problem: Article: The City had been "an incredibly poor servant of the real economy" for years and should be helping business grow and create jobs, he told activists.
A Labour government would "turn the tide" by creating two "challenger" banks to boost High Street competition.
David Cameron said the banking system was "much stronger" than in 2010.
The "big five" banks - HSBC, Barclays, RBS, Santander and Lloyds Banking Group - account for the majority of bank customers and lending.
By Nick RobinsonPolitical editor
In his speech at the University of London, Mr Miliband likened the "broken" banking system to the energy market, claiming "too much power is concentrated in too few hands" and this has had a detrimental effect on enterprise and jobs.
Under Labour, Mr Miliband said, "instead of you serving the banks, the banks will serve you."
"We need a reckoning with our banks, not for retribution but for reform," he added.
Bank of England Governor Mark Carney said earlier this week that he supported the view that a cap on banks' market share "would not result in substantial improvement to competition".
But Mr Miliband said a Labour government would instruct the Competition and Markets Authority to report within six months of the May 2015 general election what the limit on a bank's market share should be and the timetable for any sell-off of branches, which should be completed by 2020.
The opposition leader said he wanted to "establish for the first time a threshold for the market share any one bank can have of personal accounts and small-business lending".
Labour would also introduce a new National Credit Register for small and medium-sized businesses, to increase competition and improve lending to small business by allowing all banks access to comprehensive data on their credit histories.
Mr Miliband insisted politicians could not "duck" the issue: "I am not talking about whether we should have new banks but about how we make it happen...
"It is not about creating new banks that control some tiny proportion of the market, but new banks that have a substantial proportion and can properly challenge existing banks.
By Robert PestonBusiness editor
Extracts of the speech to be given by the Labour leader say: "We have to get to the root of the decades-long problem in British banking - too much power concentrated in too few hands.
"Britain has one of the most concentrated banking systems in the world, with just four banks controlling 85% of small business lending."
Ed Miliband will pledge that big banks cannot get any bigger.
Bankers have said to me this would lead to what they call a perverse outcome, that as they approached the maximum size they would dump customers they deemed low quality or loss-making.
It is unclear whether these customers would be able to bank elsewhere.
Labour to force bank break-ups
"And we are not asking whether existing banks might have to divest themselves of a significant number of branches. We are asking how we make it happen."
Mr Miliband acknowledged the previous Labour government had made mistakes in bank regulation but said David Cameron was happy with a "steady as you go" approach to bank reform while more radical steps were needed.
Asked what he thought the maximum size of a bank should be, he said he would "not dream up a figure out of the air" and the regulators should decide.
The prime minister said the government had presided over the worst banking crash of recent times.
"We have been sorting out our banking system, which is much stronger than the mess we inherited from Labour," he said during a visit to Norfolk.
"But what we need is a whole economic plan - which builds the roads and railways, that helps the small businesses, which creates the jobs and cuts people's taxes - that is what this government is delivering."
Shares in RBS and a number of other banks fell marginally on Friday and the British Bankers Association said Labour's proposals would "undermine" the levels of service given to existing customers.
"Forcing people to change bank by selling their local branch is not what customers want," said its chief executive Anthony Browne.
Efforts by the Lloyds Banking Group to dispose of more than 630 branches last year foundered after Co-op pulled out of a deal due to financial problems.
But the firm has re-launched the TSB retail bank, with about 600 branches, while RBS has set out plans to revive Williams and Glyn's - which ceased trading in 1985 -to take over RBS branches in England and Wales and NatWest outlets in Scotland.
Answer: | [[The UK's five largest banks are too powerful and should be forced to give up "significant" numbers of branches, Labour leader Ed Miliband has said.]] | 2 | Flan2021 | huggingface:xsum | fs_noopt |
Article: PC Andrew Reid, a beat police officer for Upton Grey and the Candovers, near Basingstoke, for more than a decade will be relocated.
One dedicated officer for a 50 sq m (130 sq km) area will be replaced by two police officers and PCSOs covering a 200 sq m (518 sq m) area.
Hampshire Police must make £80m in savings by 2017.
PC Reid, who lives in a "police house" in Preston Candover, had become so popular villagers had clubbed together and offered to pay for him to stay.
They also offered to sponsor a marked 4X4 response vehicle.
However, the Hampshire Police Federation raised concerns over a possible "two-tier" service, with affluent communities able to pay for better police coverage.
A compromise has now been reached after the Police and Crime Commissioner, Simon Hayes, met villagers to discuss their concerns.
PC Reid will have lead responsibility for his previous rural beat area, but will be deployed to the wider area as required.
A review will be held in six months to check residents are happy with the arrangements.
Mr Hayes said residents were "satisfied" with the actions being taken.
Councillor Mark Ruffell, borough councillor for Upton Grey and the Candovers, said he remained "concerned" about the "operational effect" of the restructuring, and said residents were "unhappy that the level of police cover is now too low".
"My residents don't wish to have police cover spread so thinly that it appears non-existent," he said.
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Summarize: Villagers will lose their beat bobby despite offering to pay £60,000 annually for three years to keep him.
Article: But a quick glimpse at any high street with its rows of closed-down signs, pound shops and charity outlets suggest that consumers don't entirely agree.
Now a new phenomenon - dubbed social shopping - threatens to incorporate the missing social element in online shopping and possibly destroy even more bricks and mortar stores.
Social shopping encompasses a range of ideas, from shopping within social networks, to shopping-specific search engines that use friends recommendations to group buying sites such as Groupon.
Groupon harnesses the power of the crowd to bring people daily deals that they may not even have known they wanted - from manicures to mountain biking.
It has a very simple business model - people sign up for offers and once the required number of people are registered, the deal is confirmed and a voucher is sent to your inbox.
The firm has five million users in the UK alone, and is said to be the fastest growing company ever.
It puts much of its growth down to web-based recommendations - people see a deal and spread it among their online friends but not everyone is convinced by its social credentials.
"There are a lot of myths about how social Groupon is. In the beginning many deals may have been spread via social networks but now it is primarily through a daily e-+mail," said Forrester analyst Sucharita Mulpuru, who has recently authored a report on social shopping.
Word-of-mouth may have helped catapult Groupon into the limelight but its quarter of a billion dollar marketing spend probably played an even bigger role, thinks Ms Mulpuru.
As the world's largest social network Facebook is keen that people talk to retailers as well as their friends and it is trying to figure out how to make the most out of social shopping.
It boasts that half of the top 25 retailers use the site but the level of integration varies, from those who simply see it as a way to gain fans to "like" their brands to firms, such as clothing firm Asos, which are happy to allow users to make purchases from within the social network.
Asos is one of Facebook's biggest successes. It puts its full catalogue on the site and its fan page has 800,000 members.
Amazon uses the social network to offer product suggestions based on likes and favourites pulled from users' profile information.
It has also introduced gift recommendations which let you know which of your friends have upcoming birthdays and suggests presents for them based on what they have shared with Amazon.
Ticketing firm TicketMaster offers anyone who has bought a ticket on its site the chance to share the purchase information with their Facebook friends. It claims to have increased its revenue as a result of this feature.
Meanwhile Levi's has what Facebook describes as a "social store front", offering users jeans that their friends may have liked and even using information to influence its supply chain. So if people in London are "liking" the skinny jeans most and people in Manchester are "liking" the bootcut style they can simply adjust their stock to match this.
And herein, for Ms Mulpuru, lies the real power of social shopping - as a tool for retailers.
"There is a ton of data that people share about themselves that the retailer can use to make more relevant offers. It is far more a personalisation tactic than about getting or retaining customers," she said.
Facebook's director of business development Christian Hernandez believes that Facebook can help users "connect to brands that they care about" and he reckons that among his Facebook friends there is plenty of chatter about shopping.
But Ms Mulpuru is not convinced it will become a shopping hub any time soon.
"TV didn't transform retail and neither will Facebook. At the end of the day no-one buys something as the result of a link. The truth is that large brands just have not experienced any sizable gains in direct sales from Facebook," she said.
"In spite of hundreds of thousands of developers having been given the opportunity to create useful shopping applications or to integrate commerce into Facebook, there has yet to be a blockbuster success," she added.
It hasn't stopped a raft of companies betting that social and shopping is a powerful combination.
Three former Yahoo executives have set up a dedicated social network aimed entirely at shoppers.
Dubbed ChoozOn , the start-up is built entirely around shopping and personalised deals. It allows users to manage their various deals and discount services and upcoming apps for the iPhone and Android handsets will highlight nearby deals.
Users can sign up for loyalty programmes and if they share their shopping preferences and the brands and retailers they like best, the shops will fashion specific discounts for them.
Meanwhile UK start-up Shopow (Shopper Power) offers a shopping search engine that aggregates thousands of retailers and products across all areas of consumer goods. Like other price comparison sites it allow users to compare goods by criteria such as price, retailer, service and delivery, but it also integrates various social functions.
It will display reviews and deals that have already been collected around a product, as well as drawing in more personal views.
"Shopow is somewhere where you can interact with friends but also rate your recent purchases," explained co-founder Kevin Flood.
He thinks people are far more likely offer to useful feedback via such a site than on Facebook.
"While some deals are appropriate to share on Facebook, you wouldn't share your experiences with a dishwasher on there," he said.
The ability of retailers to engage directly with consumers is a very powerful one and some have taken bold steps in this direction.
In February, US fashion designer Derek Lam harnessed the power of the web when he asked eBayers to vote on which of 16 dresses should form his summer collection. More than 120,000 people voted and the five winners went on sale in May.
Not wanting to be left out, the high street too is embracing social media.
In March, London's largest shopping centre Westfield unveiled a tweet mirror that allowed shoppers to try on an outfit and share the image in real time with friends and followers on Twitter.
The mirror, brainchild of Dutch firm Nedap Retail, is already installed in dozens of shops in Belgium, France, Germany and Switzerland.
How many shoppers want to invite their online friends into the changing room is unclear but it offers a small glimpse of what offline retailers will have to do if it wants to persuade consumers away from their screens and back to the mall.
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Summarize: | Offline retailers have long held that online shopping will never replace a visit to the shops because sitting at a computer clicking on links is just not as much fun as hanging out at the mall. | 5 | Flan2021 | huggingface:xsum | fs_noopt |
Problem: Write an article based on this "An American employee of a US defence contractor has been killed and another injured in a gun attack in Saudi Arabia's capital, Riyadh."
Article:
A: Both victims worked for Vinnell Arabia, a US company providing support to the Saudi National Guard, officials said.
The motive for the attack was unclear. A man was later held after exchanging fire with Saudi security forces.
Saudi officials said the man - named as Abdul Aziz Fahad al-Rashid - had no known links to "extremist" groups.
Tuesday's shooting happened when the two Americans stopped their car at a petrol station in eastern Riyadh.
Officials later said they had arrested Mr Rashid, reportedly a 24-year-old US-born Saudi national.
The Saudi interior ministry said that the "security authorities have no proven prior links between [Mr Rashid] and extremist organisations".
In a statement, the Saudi embassy in Washington said Mr Rashid had "worked at the same company as the victims, and was recently dismissed from his job due to drug-related issues".
US state department spokesman Jen Psaki said the shooting happened not far from the Vinnell Arabia base in Riyadh.
She said the wounded contractor had been "lightly injured".
"We are in close contact with the Saudi government as we continue to gather details about the shooting and motive," she said.
"We are in the process of evaluating our security posture and will take appropriate steps to ensure the safety of all US mission personnel."
The last reported killings of Westerners by gunmen in Saudi Arabia was in 2007 when three French nationals were shot dead while camping in the north-west.
Problem: Write an article based on this "Scottish actor and comedian Sanjeev Kohli is to join the cast of BBC Scotland drama River City in the autumn, it has been announced."
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A: Kohli, who is best known for his role as shopkeeper Navid in Still Game, will play a new character called Amandeep 'AJ' Jandhu.
The actor said he was looking forward to setting up home in Shieldinch.
He said: "River City is a Scottish institution and I'm chuffed to bits to be joining the cast."
Kohli added: "To be honest, I've been waiting for the call to join for quite some time now. I even bought a special phone - which I've been staring at for seven years - and it finally rang."
The 43-year-old Glaswegian will play the role of local lad made good.
AJ is a former banker who returns to Shieldinch to rediscover his roots and start up a small business venture along with his wife and son.
The casting of Kohli's on-screen family will be announced in the coming weeks.
They will debut on the screens in October.
Another new face joining the cast in the autumn is Gayle Telfor Stevens (Scot Squad, Sketchland) who will play Caitlin McLean, the older, but not wiser, sister of Ellie (Leah MacRae).
Problem: Write an article based on this "Grants of up to £100,000 are to be made available to support business in West Yorkshire hit by flooding over Christmas."
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A: | The West Yorkshire Combined Authority has agreed a total business flood recovery fund of £5m.
It said grants could include cash to repair or buy new equipment, pay to restore flood-hit premises or help with relocation costs.
The fund will be managed by the Leeds City Region Enterprise Partnership.
The money will come from the area's regional growth fund allocation from the government for 2016/17.
The city region area covers the 10 local authority areas of Barnsley, Bradford, Calderdale, Craven, Harrogate, Kirklees, Leeds, Selby, Wakefield and York.
It is believed around 2,000 businesses were damaged by the flooding in December.
Peter Box, chair of the combined authority, said: "I know how devastating it has been for many small and medium businesses and the knock-on effect for those companies that are suppliers or customers of those flood-hit firms."
Mr Box said he accepted the money would only "scratch the surface" and said the combined authority would continue to press for continuing support for flood prevention measures from the government.
He said the grants, which would range from £5,000 to £100,000, would be in addition to financial support already offered for flood clean-up costs by local authorities. | 8 | Flan2021 | huggingface:xsum | fs_noopt |
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Drones carrying large amounts of drugs and mobile phones have been intercepted by police as they were being flown near a north London jail.
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A: One device crashed after it was tracked flying over HMP Pentonville on 14 August, while another drone was seized mid-flight later the same day.
On 13 August, a man was spotted by officers acting suspiciously near the prison. He fled but dropped two bags of class B drugs and phones.
No arrests have been made.
Det Ch Insp Steve Heatley said the drones "carried a substantial amount of class B drugs, legal highs and a large quantity of mobile phones".
"We are able to intercept them thanks to the vigilance of officers and the public," he said.
The devices were recovered as part of Operation Airborne, which involved officers investigating attempts to smuggle contraband into the all-male prison over the weekend of 12-14 August.
Two other drones got away during the operation, police said.
Earlier this year it was revealed that drones were increasingly being used to smuggle items into prisons in England and Wales.
Figures showed there were 33 incidents involving devices in 2015, compared to two in 2014 and none in 2013.
Drugs, phones, mobile chargers and USB cards were among the items discovered.
The use of drones is a particular problem at older jails like HMP Pentonville, according to officers.
"They've worked out they can drop drones into the prison yard... because the fences aren't as high and they're built near houses", Det Supt Stuart Ryan said.
In April, a drone carrying contraband was captured on CCTV being flown into Wandsworth Prison, a jail built in the 1850s.
Andy Darken of the Prison Officers' Association said the prison service "doesn't really have the resources, means or indeed the know how yet of how to deal with the problem".
In February the Met said it was "looking at the work of the Dutch police use of eagles" as a method to intercept devices.
The Ministry of Justice said it was "doing more" to tackle the issue.
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A man has died and another is said to be in a serious condition after a group of swimmers got caught up in a riptide in Norfolk.
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A: The men were pulled unconscious from the water at Sea Palling, near Great Yarmouth, shortly before midday.
A 54-year-old man died while a 26-year-old man was airlifted to the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital.
Members of the public pulled them out of the sea, the RNLI said.
The East of England Ambulance Service said paramedics treated two men, "both in cardiac arrest".
A spokesman said: "Sadly a man, believed to be in his 50s, died at the scene."
A coastguard spokeswoman said: "Quite a number of people went into the water to help. There were two people that needed medical attention."
Four men got into difficulties about 800m away from the lifeguarded area, the RNLI said.
Jack Hood, RNLI lifeguard supervisor, said: "It appears these four men got into distress in the water because of one of the notorious rips that can occur off this coast.
"One of our lifeguards immediately started CPR on the 54-year-old, assisted by a member of the public who declared he was a medic. Meanwhile, a member of the public who had experience of first aid was giving CPR to the 26-year-old, so our lifeguard moved her focus to take over his treatment.
"In the meantime, our other lifeguard had rushed to obtain oxygen and a defibrillator from the RNLI's beach lifeguard unit. Whilst the 26-year-old was breathing when she returned with the equipment, the 54-year-old was not."
Three land ambulances, two air ambulances, the Humber Coastguard rescue helicopter and three local coastguard teams were called to the beach along with two RNLI inshore lifeboats.
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The mother of murdered six-year-old Ellie Butler has launched an appeal against her conviction.
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A: Jennie Gray, 36, is serving a 42-month prison term for child cruelty. She had also admitted perverting the course of justice.
Her partner Ben Butler was convicted of murdering Ellie in June and jailed for life, with a minimum term of 23 years.
The Court of Appeal confirmed Gray had made a "late application" to appeal both charges.
Appeals are usually limited to 28 days after conviction but Gray was found guilty in June.
Anyone lodging an application after deadline has to make representations as to why it should be accepted "out of time" by the court.
Ellie died in October 2013 from catastrophic head injuries while in the care of her father at their home in Sutton in south-west London.
She had been placed in the care of her grandparents in 2009 after Butler was accused of shaking her when she was a baby, although this was later quashed on appeal.
But the youngster went back to live with her parents in 2012 - 11 months before her death - after the couple won a High Court judgement.
Mrs Justice Hogg sided with Butler despite objections from police, social services and Ellie's maternal grandfather, Neal Gray.
In June, the Old Bailey heard that Butler battered his daughter to death during a "volcanic loss of temper".
The couple angrily protested their innocence when jurors returned guilty verdicts.
Gray told them they had made a "big mistake", while Butler shouted that he would "fight forever" in the appeal courts.
It is understood that Butler has not made any late application to the Court of Appeal.
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Accrington Stanley have signed former Blackburn Rovers winger Luke Wall.
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A: | The 19-year-old, who was released by the Rovers at the end of last season, has signed a 12-month contract with an option for a second year.
The Liverpudlian agreed a one-year deal with Rovers last summer, but failed to break into the first team.
Wall, who has also spent time on loan at Skelmersdale United in the Northern Premier League, is the eighth new signing by Accrington this summer.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | 9 | Flan2021 | huggingface:xsum | fs_noopt |
Problem: The spacecraft is returning home from its 2005 visit to the asteroid Itokawa
Hayabusa has achieved a crucial engine firing to aim the probe at Woomera Protected Area in southern Australia.
Its sample return capsule is scheduled to detach from its "mothership" and land at Woomera on 13 June, but there is no guarantee of mission success.
It remains doubtful whether the probe managed to grab any material from Itokawa; scientists will have to open the capsule to find out.
At the weekend, the Japanese Space Agency (Jaxa) announced that Hayabusa had successfully completed its third Trajectory Correction Manoeuvre (TCM), designed to guide the spacecraft towards a touchdown in the Australian outback.
The spacecraft now lies within about 3,600,000km of our planet.
Just one further, more detailed, correction manouevre is planned for the spacecraft before its sample capsule is returned to Earth at around 1400 GMT on Sunday.
The US space agency (Nasa) will deploy a DC-8 plane from California to observe the scheduled landing.
The aircraft is packed with imaging and spectrographic cameras to capture different aspects of the craft's re-entry.
Even if Hayabusa failed to grab large samples at Itokawa, scientists hope the capsule may still contain small residues from the asteroid that could be analysed in laboratories.
Asteroids contain primordial material left over from the formation of the Solar System billions of years ago.
The mission has been beset with problems. Hayabusa made two "touchdowns" on Itokawa designed to collect rocks and soil, but apparently failed to fire a metal bullet designed to gather the samples.
A fuel leak in 2005 left Hayabusa's chemical propellant tanks empty, so engineers had to use the spacecraft's ion engines to guide the spacecraft home.
Ion thrusters are highly efficient but have a low acceleration. This means that each trajectory correction takes much longer to complete than it would with chemical engines.
Paul.Rincon-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk
What was that article about?
A: The Japanese space probe Hayabusa, which was designed to return samples from an asteroid, has been placed on course for a landing in Australia.
Problem: Scotland international Morrison, 30, was due to be a free agent on 1 July but has agreed a new initial two-year deal at the Premier League club.
"I thought long and hard and spoke to the chairman many times," Morrison told BBC WM.
"It helped make my mind up and it was a big decision but I'm delighted."
Darlington-born Morrison's new contract - which has an option for a further twelve months - will take his time with Baggies to more than a decade, having joined from Middlesbrough in August 2007.
Having missed the last three months of last season though injury, Morrison admits he thought hard about which direction his future was going to take.
"I didn't like how it ended last season, just walking round the pitch and then out the door - I've worked too hard over the last nine years to give it away like that," he said.
"I've got an opportunity make it a bit more positive and I'm motivated to do that.
"The chairman's said he's planning to bring more players in and try to kick on up the league and I bought into his vision and his plans and I want to be part of that."
What was that article about?
A: Long-serving midfielder James Morrison says the "vision" of chairman Jeremy Peace was the main reason he signed a new contract at West Brom.
Problem: Both residents and activists described the clashes as "unprecedented", and said rebel fighters were attacking government positions on several fronts.
The fighting had spread to previously peaceful districts, they added.
On Thursday, the UN said the number of Syrians fleeing to other states could exceed 700,000 by the end of the year.
More than half a million are believed to have already crossed into Turkey, Jordan, Lebanon and Iraq, but only 294,000 have registered with the UN.
UN agencies and other humanitarian groups have issued a funding appeal for $488m (£300m) to help them meet the needs of the refugees.
Activists said the start of the rebel offensive in Aleppo was announced in calls from mosques at about 16:00 (13:00 GMT) on Thursday.
In interviews with foreign media and videos posted online, members of the Tawhid Brigade said a "decisive" battle for control of the city had begun. The offensive involved hundreds of rebel fighters attacking government positions on several fronts, they added.
"We wanted to surprise the Syrian army which had started to creep forward towards the southern neighbourhoods," Bashir al-Haji, the Tawhid Brigade's commander, told the Guardian newspaper.
"There are 6,000 fighters of the Tawhid Brigade taking part in the battle now, in addition to a few other brigades like al-Fatah and Ahfad al-Fatihin for the Turkmen."
He denied the FSA had declared "decisive" battles for Aleppo before.
"We are not aiming to liberate the whole of Aleppo with this battle but to regain control of most of the city and get back as many neighbourhoods as we can."
The rebel claims could not be immediately verified, but activists and residents reported heavy clashes and shelling in the districts of Izaa, Saif al-Dawla, Salah al-Din, Amariya and Sukkari on Thursday night and Friday morning.
"The fighting is unprecedented and has not stopped since Thursday," said Rami Abdul Rahman of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based activist group, told AFP news agency.
"The clashes used to be limited to one or two blocks of a district, but now the fighting is on several fronts."
But the BBC's Jim Muir in Beirut says there is little sign so far that the rebels have made much progress.
Syrian state media reported some unusual mortar fire onto south-eastern districts of the city which have so far been relatively untouched.
Attacks by rebels had been repulsed in several places, and heavy losses had been inflicted by government forces, they said.
For more than a month, the struggle for control of Aleppo has been at a stalemate, with government forces unable to dislodge the rebels, and the latter unable to take complete control, our correspondent adds.
Meanwhile, several north-eastern and southern districts of Damascus which were supposedly recaptured by the army weeks ago saw further violence on Friday, with troops and militia moving back in.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 60 people, including 30 civilians, had been killed across the country on Friday.
What was that article about?
A: | Fierce fighting has been reported in Syria's second city of Aleppo, a day after the rebel Free Syrian Army (FSA) said a "decisive" battle had begun. | 6 | Flan2021 | huggingface:xsum | fs_noopt |
input: Article: Military officials say they will register weight before professional exams, to link promotion and fitness.
Defence Minister Ruben Saavedra has said soldiers "must be prepared both on an intellectual and physical level".
And the police have forbidden overweight members to wear uniforms until they slim down.
The move may already have delivered results, if unexpected ones.
In the town of Oruro south of La Paz, two policemen patrolling in civilian clothing succeeded in catching some thieves in a street market, apparently because they weren't in uniform.
On 2 December, President Evo Morales suggested that soldiers and officers who neglected their fitness should not be promoted, insisting that staying in good shape was a "responsibility" of the security forces.
Soldiers and police have complained of a lack of sports facilities, so the government has been supplying equipment to barracks and police stations.
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output: Bolivia's security forces have begun registering overweight members after President Evo Morales complained that too many of them were out of shape.
input: Article: The Grade-I listed chapter house and infirmary at Margam Abbey in Port Talbot have undergone "extensive" repairs by Neath Port Talbot council.
The work included removing vegetation, re-pointing stonework, capping stones and repairing cracked masonry.
Council leader Ali Thomas said the project ensured the abbey would "attract visitors for years to come".
The funding was awarded by the European Regional Development Fund, WREN Heritage Fund and Cadw.
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output: Remains at a 12th Century abbey in Neath Port Talbot have been restored following a £240,000 grant.
input: Article: The Migration Advisory Committee report said the proposal could raise £250m to go towards helping train British-based workers in UK firms.
It also suggested raising the minimum salary threshold for skilled workers coming to the UK by £9,200, to £30,000.
Ministers are concerned about the rising number of "Tier 2" migrants.
There are also concerned about companies' reliance on them to fill shortages in the labour market.
As such, the government asked the Migration Advisory Committee - the independent public body which advises it on migration issues - to investigate possible changes to Tier 2 visa requirements.
Currently, those wanting to work in the UK must be offered a starting salary of £20,800. There are some higher thresholds specific to individual roles.
In 2014, 151,000 skilled workers and their dependants arrived in the UK or were allowed to stay on.
The committee said raising the salary threshold to £30,000 would have excluded almost 28,000 people in 2014 - or about 18% of the total.
The committee "strongly" supports the introduction of the so-called Immigration Skills Charge to incentivise employers to reduce their reliance on migrant workers and encourage them to invest in training British workers.
The committee also recommends tightening the rules on intra-company transfers - overseas staff working for the same company in the UK - which have risen "very rapidly" in recent years.
Professor Sir David Metcalf, committee chairman, said: "Skilled migrant workers make important contributions to boosting productivity and public finances, but this should be balanced against their potential impact on the welfare of existing UK residents.
"Raising the cost of employing skilled migrants via higher pay thresholds, and the introduction of an immigration skills charge, should lead to greater investment in UK employees and reduce the use of migrant labour."
Businesses should be "content" that £30,000 was a reasonable figure and the £1,000 charge would be put back into good UK firms, such as Rolls Royce, he told BBC's World at One.
Neil Carberry, of the business lobby group, CBI, said businesses agreed that training British-based people to do jobs where there were shortages was the long-term solution.
"But the question's more complex than that," he told the World at One.
"We live in a global economy, we have short-term skills shortages, but we also have multi-national companies who frankly can base work in different countries and we want it to be attractive for these big companies to come and invest in the UK and create jobs here."
The immigration skills charge is separate to the apprenticeship levy, due to be enforced in April 2017, which is payable by all medium and large companies.
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output: Bosses should pay an annual charge of £1,000 for every skilled worker brought in from outside Europe, migration advisers have told the government.
input: Article: The accident happened on the Murray River, near the border between New South Wales and Victoria.
Niall Quinn was in his 20s and from Silverbridge, near Newry.
Police said Mr Quinn, who was staying on the boat with friends, had fallen from the top deck into the water. It is believed he may have hit his head as he fell.
His body was located in waters nearby by police divers. Ten privately owned vessels also assisted in the search.
Sinn Féin councillor Terry Hearty knows the Quinn family.
"They just cannot get their head round it, they cannot believe it," he said.
"Niall was such a likeable, lively lad, always smiling, always going somewhere and everyone knew him."
Mr Quinn was a former player with the Silverbridge Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) club.
The club said it was devastated to hear of his "untimely death".
Former Armagh GAA captain Jarlath Burns is the secretary of the club.
He told BBC News NI he had played on the same team as Mr Quinn and described him as a "great lad".
"I was going towards the end of my career and Niall was just beginning his," he said.
"We played in the reserve side at Silverbridge together and won a championship together. He later went on to play for the senior team.
"He was a very skilful player.
"Niall was a lad who lived life to the full, he was a hard-working fella, a great lad with an unassuming way.
"We lost something from the club when he left."
Mr Burns said that Mr Quinn's death was a further tragedy for his mother Deirdre, whose brother Michael was killed in a terrorist attack on Donnelly's Bar in Silverbridge in December 1975.
"Niall's mother's family owned Donnelly's Bar in Silverbridge and her brother Michael was killed in the attack on the bar by the Glennane gang in December 1975," he said.
"The family circle is highly respected and loved so much by the people of Silverbridge.
"There is a Michael Donnelly Cup at Silverbridge GAA Club every year in tribute and the family come to present it."
The Irish Department of Foreign Affairs is providing consular assistance to Mr Quinn's family.
Sinn Féin councillor Barra O'Muiri said he understood The Kevin Bell Repatriation Trust was working with the Quinn family and people in Australia to bring "Niall home as soon as possible".
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output: | A man from Northern Ireland has died in Australia after falling from a houseboat. | 4 | Flan2021 | huggingface:xsum | fs_noopt |
input: Article: Chanelle Higgins was on a night out in West Norwood, south-east London, in May when a car mounted the pavement, struck her and a friend, and drove away.
Ms Higgins now uses a wheelchair and has limited upper-body movement.
Her case will be featured on Crimewatch later and she will appeal for anyone with information to contact police.
Ms Higgins told the show: "The last thing I remember was going in the ambulance and screaming about my legs hurting, and trying to reach for my legs, and then blacking out and waking up in a hospital bed with all tubes in my mouth my neck my nose.
"And they told me that I was paralysed and I had very limited use to my hands - it was just horrible.
"If I'm honest I just wanted to die there and then."
A dark grey BMW 3 series hit Ms Higgins and her friend at about 04:40 BST on 29 May last year. The car mounted the pavement on Norwood High Street, near Scandals Night Club.
In June a 25-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder. He has been released on bail until mid-April.
When the Met Police launched an appeal last November for witnesses, Ms Higgins said: "I have spent five whole months lying in a hospital bed, missing my children and wondering what type of future I will be able to have.
"As a single mother, I was devastated to miss my son's birthday."
She added: "That night has changed me in just about every way. I'm not the person that I used to be and I'm just so unhappy. I used to be active, fit and bubbly. And so independent, I didn't have to rely on anyone. Now I need care 24 hours a day and due to my disability, I can't look after my children by myself and they have to stay with my family.
"This is what hurts the most. It has been so painful being away from them yet they are the only thing that keeps me going now."
Monday's special episode of Crimewatch will focus on the consequences of road crime after the law was toughened for using a mobile phone while driving.
Last week, penalties and fines for offenders were doubled to six points and £200 respectively.
Following what happened to her, Ms Higgins told BBC Crimewatch her children were her motivation.
She said: "If I didn't have kids I would have given up because it was so hard, so painful.
"I am not going to let them see Mummy's weak. Mummy's too strong. I'm a fighter."
Ms Higgins' appeal will air at 21:00 GMT on BBC One.
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output: A mother paralysed from the waist down in a hit-and-run collision has told BBC's Crimewatch she wanted "to die there and then".
input: Article: Karen Buckley, 24, from Cork, was last seen leaving the Sanctuary nightclub with a man in the early hours of Sunday.
Police Scotland confirmed officers are following a "definite line of inquiry".
High Craigton Farm near Milngavie, north of Glasgow, has been cordoned off as part of the investigation.
Officers have also been seen at a nearby golf course.
Miss Buckley's handbag was discovered in Glasgow's Dawsholm Park on Tuesday. Police divers and specialist officers are continuing to carry out a detailed search of the park, which is in the Kelvinside area of the city and is bordered by both the River Kelvin and the Forth and Clyde Canal.
They are being supported by the Police Scotland helicopter, police search dogs and the specialist crime division.
Miss Buckley arrived at the Sanctuary nightclub with friends at about 23:45 on Saturday and at about 01:00 she told them she was going to the toilet. She failed to return and did not take her jacket.
Her friends have said she had had a few drinks, but was not drunk.
She was seen talking to a man outside the club. Police said later they had traced the man, who told them they travelled together by car to his flat but she left about 04:00 on Sunday.
Miss Buckley moved to Glasgow in February and is a first year occupational therapy student at Glasgow Caledonian University. She was previously a nurse at the Princess Alexandria Hospital in Harlow, Essex.
Her parents have flown to Scotland from their home in Ireland.
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output: Police investigating the disappearance of an Irish student in Glasgow have detained a 21 year-old man, BBC Scotland understands.
input: Article: The Communication Workers Union (CWU) warned the 24-hour strike on 15 September could be followed by more industrial action.
The workers will be joined by more than 700 Post Office managers who are members of the Unite trade union.
The Post Office said it would act to minimise disruption.
Dave Ward, general secretary of the CWU, said: "The Post Office is relentlessly pursuing a programme of cuts that will mean a further 2,000 job losses, staff being left tens of thousands of pounds worse off in retirement and the privatisation of its flagship branches.
"The Post Office is at crisis point and the government has to step in."
The Post Office said it was "disappointed by the call for industrial action", but said that contingency plans would minimise disruption to services during the strike.
Kevin Gilliland, Post Office's network and sales director, said 97% of its 11,600 branches would operate as normal.
"We will also work hard to minimise any disruption to customers in our 300 Crown branches should they be affected by strike action," he said.
The CWU has about 3,500 members working for the Post Office, including counter staff at the 300 Crown branches.
It also has members who deliver cash to rural branches and said it was confident the strike would therefore affect the majority of the Post Office's branches.
"We are making a simple demand," said Mr Ward.
"The government needs to pause the cuts, convene a summit of key stakeholders in the industry and work out a strategy that gives employees and the public confidence that the Post Office has a future."
Mr Gilliland said: "The changes are needed to make our services better for customers and ensure that Post Office branches thrive at the heart of communities for future generations.
"We halved our losses in 2015/16 and are making steady progress to reduce costs to the taxpayer by making our business simpler to run and modernising our network, which is now at its most stable for decades."
A Department for Business spokesman said the Post Office's financial performance continued to improve and the network now had more than 11,500 branches, with 3,500 open on Sundays.
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output: | Thousands of Post Office workers will strike next week in a dispute over branch closures, job losses and pensions, trade union officials said. | 4 | Flan2021 | huggingface:xsum | fs_noopt |
Problem: Article: But a quick glimpse at any high street with its rows of closed-down signs, pound shops and charity outlets suggest that consumers don't entirely agree.
Now a new phenomenon - dubbed social shopping - threatens to incorporate the missing social element in online shopping and possibly destroy even more bricks and mortar stores.
Social shopping encompasses a range of ideas, from shopping within social networks, to shopping-specific search engines that use friends recommendations to group buying sites such as Groupon.
Groupon harnesses the power of the crowd to bring people daily deals that they may not even have known they wanted - from manicures to mountain biking.
It has a very simple business model - people sign up for offers and once the required number of people are registered, the deal is confirmed and a voucher is sent to your inbox.
The firm has five million users in the UK alone, and is said to be the fastest growing company ever.
It puts much of its growth down to web-based recommendations - people see a deal and spread it among their online friends but not everyone is convinced by its social credentials.
"There are a lot of myths about how social Groupon is. In the beginning many deals may have been spread via social networks but now it is primarily through a daily e-+mail," said Forrester analyst Sucharita Mulpuru, who has recently authored a report on social shopping.
Word-of-mouth may have helped catapult Groupon into the limelight but its quarter of a billion dollar marketing spend probably played an even bigger role, thinks Ms Mulpuru.
As the world's largest social network Facebook is keen that people talk to retailers as well as their friends and it is trying to figure out how to make the most out of social shopping.
It boasts that half of the top 25 retailers use the site but the level of integration varies, from those who simply see it as a way to gain fans to "like" their brands to firms, such as clothing firm Asos, which are happy to allow users to make purchases from within the social network.
Asos is one of Facebook's biggest successes. It puts its full catalogue on the site and its fan page has 800,000 members.
Amazon uses the social network to offer product suggestions based on likes and favourites pulled from users' profile information.
It has also introduced gift recommendations which let you know which of your friends have upcoming birthdays and suggests presents for them based on what they have shared with Amazon.
Ticketing firm TicketMaster offers anyone who has bought a ticket on its site the chance to share the purchase information with their Facebook friends. It claims to have increased its revenue as a result of this feature.
Meanwhile Levi's has what Facebook describes as a "social store front", offering users jeans that their friends may have liked and even using information to influence its supply chain. So if people in London are "liking" the skinny jeans most and people in Manchester are "liking" the bootcut style they can simply adjust their stock to match this.
And herein, for Ms Mulpuru, lies the real power of social shopping - as a tool for retailers.
"There is a ton of data that people share about themselves that the retailer can use to make more relevant offers. It is far more a personalisation tactic than about getting or retaining customers," she said.
Facebook's director of business development Christian Hernandez believes that Facebook can help users "connect to brands that they care about" and he reckons that among his Facebook friends there is plenty of chatter about shopping.
But Ms Mulpuru is not convinced it will become a shopping hub any time soon.
"TV didn't transform retail and neither will Facebook. At the end of the day no-one buys something as the result of a link. The truth is that large brands just have not experienced any sizable gains in direct sales from Facebook," she said.
"In spite of hundreds of thousands of developers having been given the opportunity to create useful shopping applications or to integrate commerce into Facebook, there has yet to be a blockbuster success," she added.
It hasn't stopped a raft of companies betting that social and shopping is a powerful combination.
Three former Yahoo executives have set up a dedicated social network aimed entirely at shoppers.
Dubbed ChoozOn , the start-up is built entirely around shopping and personalised deals. It allows users to manage their various deals and discount services and upcoming apps for the iPhone and Android handsets will highlight nearby deals.
Users can sign up for loyalty programmes and if they share their shopping preferences and the brands and retailers they like best, the shops will fashion specific discounts for them.
Meanwhile UK start-up Shopow (Shopper Power) offers a shopping search engine that aggregates thousands of retailers and products across all areas of consumer goods. Like other price comparison sites it allow users to compare goods by criteria such as price, retailer, service and delivery, but it also integrates various social functions.
It will display reviews and deals that have already been collected around a product, as well as drawing in more personal views.
"Shopow is somewhere where you can interact with friends but also rate your recent purchases," explained co-founder Kevin Flood.
He thinks people are far more likely offer to useful feedback via such a site than on Facebook.
"While some deals are appropriate to share on Facebook, you wouldn't share your experiences with a dishwasher on there," he said.
The ability of retailers to engage directly with consumers is a very powerful one and some have taken bold steps in this direction.
In February, US fashion designer Derek Lam harnessed the power of the web when he asked eBayers to vote on which of 16 dresses should form his summer collection. More than 120,000 people voted and the five winners went on sale in May.
Not wanting to be left out, the high street too is embracing social media.
In March, London's largest shopping centre Westfield unveiled a tweet mirror that allowed shoppers to try on an outfit and share the image in real time with friends and followers on Twitter.
The mirror, brainchild of Dutch firm Nedap Retail, is already installed in dozens of shops in Belgium, France, Germany and Switzerland.
How many shoppers want to invite their online friends into the changing room is unclear but it offers a small glimpse of what offline retailers will have to do if it wants to persuade consumers away from their screens and back to the mall.
Answer: [[Offline retailers have long held that online shopping will never replace a visit to the shops because sitting at a computer clicking on links is just not as much fun as hanging out at the mall.]]
Problem: Article: The 21-year-old made two appearances for the League Two club, the most recent coming against Southampton's under-21 team on 4 October.
Bransgrove joined the U's in 2013 from Brentford and had loan spells with Bishop's Stortford and Wealdstone.
"It's a big decision, and I've thought about it long and hard with family and friends, but it feels right," he said.
He has previously been called up by Scotland at under-18 and under-21 level.
"I've been doing a part-time Business Management degree with the Open University over the past 18 months and it's been going better than expected," Bransgrove added.
"I've really enjoyed it and I've always had a passion for the accountancy side of business, so I think now is the right time to make that call.
"I know that almost every boy would want to be a professional footballer, but I've always been a footballer because I've been lucky enough to have had that talent."
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Answer: [[Colchester United goalkeeper James Bransgrove has quit football to focus on a career in business.]]
Problem: Article: James McDonagh, 28, from Castledawson died after he was assaulted outside a bar and nightclub complex on the Hillhead Road on Sunday morning.
The 41-year-old was arrested in Toomebridge on Monday night on suspicion of murder.
A 20-year-old man arrested on Sunday night has been released on bail pending further enquiries.
Meanwhile, police have been given more time to question two other suspects.
The men, aged 24 and 52, were arrested in the Toomebridge area on Sunday night.
A court granted police a further 36 hours to question the men on Tuesday.
Police said a post mortem examination is due be carried out on Mr McDonagh's body on Wednesday.
The officer leading the investigation, Det Ch Insp Eamonn Corrigan, appealed to anyone who witnessed the incident outside The Elk Inn on Sunday morning to contact detectives.
Answer: | [[A fourth man has been arrested in connection with the murder of a man near Toomebridge, County Antrim.]] | 2 | Flan2021 | huggingface:xsum | fs_noopt |
Problem: Write an article based on this "Barrow moved above opponents Woking in the National League table following a victory at Holker Street."
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A: Both sides went close in a frantic start as Barrow's Adi Yussuf missed a gilt-edged chance in the area, while Woking's Joe Ward was denied by a good save from Stuart Moore.
It was the hosts who took the lead as Yussuf bent an effort over Woking goalkeeper Nathan Baxter and into the net from 25 yards.
The lead was doubled shortly after the break when Jordan White latched on to a long throw from Dan Jones to tap into the Woking net and he should have added a third minutes later but nodded just wide of the target.
The striker made amends for his miss seven minutes from time as he found the net with a header from a corner to wrap up a comfortable victory for the Bluebirds.
Report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Barrow 3, Woking 0.
Second Half ends, Barrow 3, Woking 0.
Substitution, Barrow. Harry Panayiotou replaces Jordan White.
Richard Orlu (Woking) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Barrow. Donovan Makoma replaces Gomis.
Goal! Barrow 3, Woking 0. Jordan White (Barrow).
Jimmy Dunne (Barrow) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Woking. Kane Ferdinand replaces Bobson Bawling.
Substitution, Woking. Chez Isaac replaces Jordan Wynter.
Substitution, Woking. Jamie Philpot replaces Charlie Carter.
Goal! Barrow 2, Woking 0. Jordan White (Barrow).
Second Half begins Barrow 1, Woking 0.
First Half ends, Barrow 1, Woking 0.
Moussa Diarra (Barrow) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Barrow. Daniel Cockerline replaces Adi Yussuf.
Goal! Barrow 1, Woking 0. Adi Yussuf (Barrow).
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
Problem: Write an article based on this "Arsenal Ladies have signed England international Fara Williams from Liverpool Ladies."
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A: The 31-year-old midfielder is England's most-capped player of all time, having represented her country 148 times.
Williams was part of the squad that finished third at last year's World Cup and was awarded an MBE in the New Year Honours list.
"Fara is a great competitor and a fantastic character, too," said Gunners boss Pedro Martinez Losa.
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"She is a player with huge experience at club and international level, and her reading and understanding of games is fantastic."
Williams, who has also had spells at Chelsea, Charlton and Everton, helped the Reds win the FA Women's Super League title in 2013 and 2014.
Arsenal have not disclosed the length of her contract, but Williams tweeted she had signed with the north London side for two years.
This is a big coup for Arsenal and their fans.
With three World Cups, three European Championships and the London Olympics under her belt, 31-year-old Williams will add plenty of experience to their midfield.
Arsenal claimed the Continental Cup in 2015. Making a signing like this shows great intent as Arsenal look to win their first league title since 2012.
But it's another blow for Liverpool, whose slide continues.
Champions in 2013 and 2014, Liverpool finished second bottom in the WSL last season and Williams has now become the seventh player to leave the club in the transfer window.
Problem: Write an article based on this "A portrait of Francis Bacon's former lover George Dyer has sold for £42.2m, smashing its pre-sale estimate of £28m."
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A: | Christie's said the 6ft-tall artwork, entitled Portrait of George Dyer Talking, was the most valuable work of art it had sold in Europe.
It was bought by an anonymous telephone bidder at Christie's Post War and Contemporary Art auction in London.
Dyer died of an overdose in Paris two days before the painting was exhibited at a Bacon retrospective in 1971.
Dyer and Bacon had become involved after Bacon caught Dyer burgling his house.
The canvas depicts the artist's lover perched on a stool, his twisted body positioned under a naked light bulb.
The 1966 painting is understood to have been sold by Mexican banker David Martinez Guzman. It last appeared on the open market in 2000, when it sold for £4m at Christie's in New York.
The most expensive Bacon work ever sold at auction was his triptych of Lucian Freud, which sold for £85.3m ($142m) last November.
Also in the sale was Abstraktes Bild, a large abstract canvas by Gerhard Richter from 1989, which fetched £19.5m.
Jeff Koons' Cracked Egg (Magenta) fetched £14m - with the seller reported to be Koons's friend and colleague Damien Hirst.
Hirst's own Mickey Mouse depiction fetched £902,500, with all the proceeds going to children's charity Kids Company.
The work, which represents the figure of the Disney character with a series of large circles, went for three times more than the expected price.
Speaking after the auction, the charity's founder, Camilla Batmanghelidjh, said: "Some childlike magic happened tonight... in reality, Mickey came to the rescue of some of the most vulnerable children.
"This money will change lives. From the bottom of my heart, thank you, Damien." | 8 | Flan2021 | huggingface:xsum | fs_noopt |
The Queen was joined by several members of the Royal Family at the Cenotaph for Remembrance Sunday.
The country observed a two-minute silence as Big Ben struck the eleventh hour.
British forces across the world - including 9,500 soldiers in Afghanistan - also stood silent to remember.
The Queen laid a wreath, followed by the Duke of Edinburgh and the Duke of Cambridge.
The former chief of the defence staff, Lord Guthrie, laid a wreath on behalf of the Prince of Wales, who is in Auckland, New Zealand.
British Foreign Secretary William Hague laid a wreath on behalf of all those in the armed forces across the commonwealth who have fallen.
Veterans' representatives laid wreaths at the Cenotaph before nearly 10,000 ex-servicemen and women marched past to commemorate their fallen comrades.
This year's commemoration is the first to take place since the death of the last veteran to serve during World War I on either side, according to the Royal British Legion.
There was warm applause from the crowd as the parade marched past the war memorial, inscribed to The Glorious Dead.
The Royal British Legion's head of remembrance, Helen Hill, said the number of veterans marching had increased by 3,000 in the past five years.
"The numbers are going up, not down. There are an increasing number of associations looking after the veteran community. More and more people want to participate in the activities," she said.
Other remembrance events were held across the UK:
British servicemen and women in Helmand Province were able to attend services at remote patrol bases or checkpoints.
By Angus CrawfordBBC News
The air was cold and clear, the sky a cobalt blue and Whitehall with the Cenotaph at its heart was lined with the ranks of those who serve and those who once served.
Watching from behind the barriers around the MoD, a solitary figure pausing from his duties talking to the media. His silhouette against the sunlight throwing into sharp relief the dark metal of his prosthetic legs, lost in a roadside explosion in Afghanistan five years ago.
The two minutes silence was immaculately observed, the only thing to break the quiet the crying of gulls wheeling in the air.
The wreaths were placed gently around the base of the cenotaph and then the march past.
A glittering parade of polish and steel, of khaki, blue and black - Royal Marines and Gurkhas, Submariners and Gunners and many more in uniform.
Then thousands of veterans, men and women in civilian clothes, but with medals on their chests and cap badges gleaming on berets.
On each lapel a splash of colour, a Poppy, the symbol of remembrance, of sacrifice and thanksgiving.
Lt-Col Zac Stenning, a serving soldier, attended the Remembrance service in London for the first time.
He told BBC News he was "immensely struck by both the dignity and pride and the solemnity of the service".
He added he had lost 10 men from his Army unit in the last six months in Afghanistan, and this in particular made this Sunday an important day.
"It is that single day in the year when we stand together and as a nation we remember the commitment of our men and women of the armed forces not only as soldiers today but of the past."
Corporal of Horse Alistair Grice, from the Blues and Royals Household Cavalry Regiment, said it was a "day of remembering and a celebration of what we have and what we are fortunate to have".
The 35-year-old, from Coppull in Lancashire, who served in conflicts from Bosnia onwards said he would be remembering comrades from his unit including Trooper James Munday, who died in an explosion in Afghanistan on 15 October 2008 and Lance Corporal Jonathan Woodgate, 26, who was killed on 26 March 2010.
Cpl Grice added: "It's amazing to see how many people, not just British but foreign as well, who are here to support the British Armed Forces and what we have done in the past."
This year, Remembrance Sunday falls on 11 November itself, the date of the armistice which brought World War I to an end.
The prime minister of the Republic of Ireland and his deputy took part in Remembrance Sunday services in Northern Ireland.
Taoiseach Enda Kenny was in Enniskillen and Tanaiste Eamon Gilmore was in Belfast, where First Minister Peter Robinson and Secretary of State Theresa Villiers led the wreathlaying.
Welsh First Minister Carwyn Jones led Wales in its Remembrance Sunday commemorations in Cardiff.
Meanwhile, First Minister Alex Salmond paid tribute to the courage and commitment of Scotland's servicemen and women in Edinburgh.
Sum: A two-minute silence has been held to remember members of the British and Commonwealth's armed forces who have died during conflicts.
Tesla had a 50% rise in orders compared with the same period last year.
However higher costs hurt profits. Tesla's profits were $231m (£149m) in the period between July and September compared with $251m in 2014.
The company also announced it would release its Model 3 car, a mass market vehicle, at the end of March 2016.
The company expects to sell the Model 3 for $35,000.
Tesla opened two new stores in China this quarter and said it planned to open more as sales in the country grow.
Telsa reported it delivered 11,603 vehicles in the third quarter, slightly more than 11,580 it expected.
Shares of the company were up 7.5% in after-hours trading.
Sum: Tesla, the maker of electric cars, saw a rise in orders during the third quarter helped by sales of the company's new Model X SUV.
The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital (RNOH) in Stanmore, north west London, set up the appeal in a bid to raise £400,000 for its spinal injuries unit.
It said government money goes to frontline staff and services, making "investment in facilities difficult".
The GMB union said it was a "damning indictment" of the lack of NHS funding.
The 'Make it Possible' project is a first for any NHS trust and breaks new ground, with the ideas for improving care coming from patients and families.
The proposals are then assessed by a panel of experts for viability before a funding appeal is launched.
The first project is to help expand the RNOH spinal injuries unit, to include new equipment to rehabilitate patients and add six more beds to the ward.
About £126,000 of the £400,000 needed has been raised.
Rob Hurd, chief executive at the RNOH, said: "We have to be frank, capital is constrained in our National Health Service and investment in facilities is really difficult at this time.
"We are putting all our money into frontline nurses, doctors and providing the services. That means the infrastructure that we have got doesn't get replaced as quickly as we would like. So we need the help of donations and charitable sources to make those additional investments.
"So we really value those donations because without them we cannot even get started."
The GMB union has criticised the government for the hospital's reliance on public donations.
National Secretary Rehana Azam said: "That the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital is asking members of the public to crowdfund improvements is a damning indictment of this government's reluctance to properly fund the NHS.
"It seems that it's not just workers and patients who're expected to suffer at the hands of NHS cuts; apparently the public's bank balances are too."
A Department of Health spokesperson said £10bn is being invested nationwide into the NHS, including about £4bn extra this year and a further £20bn to fund capital programmes such as maintenance and building projects.
It added: "Where trusts need additional funding for capital projects they can apply for it to ensure facilities are of the highest standards for patients."
Patient Marcus Perrineau Daley, 26, a DJ, model and fitness expert, who was left paralysed from waist down in a road accident last year, is fronting the crowdfunding campaign for the new unit.
He said: "No-one ever thinks it's going to happen to them but in a second my life changed forever.
"I had to wait months to be transferred to Stanmore to begin my road to recovery - the funds raised by this campaign will help ensure that patients like me can receive specialist help as quickly as possible."
Sum: | An NHS trust has launched a crowdfunding appeal to buy equipment for a new hospital unit because "it cannot get started without donations". | 7 | Flan2021 | huggingface:xsum | fs_noopt |
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Cheltenham Town manager Gary Johnson will miss a "few weeks" of work to have "straightforward" heart surgery.
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A: Johnson was not on the sidelines for the Robins' past two games and was taken to hospital at the weekend.
The 61-year-old has been Cheltenham boss since April 2015, leading them to the National League title last season.
"We look forward to welcoming Gary back once he has been cleared to return to work but, realistically, this may take some time," chairman Paul Baker said.
"The board will give Gary their full support in his recovery process."
Assistant manager Russell Milton took charge for the defeats by Doncaster and Exeter, and will continue to lead the team until Johnson returns.
Cheltenham are 22nd in the League Two table, seven points above the relegation zone.
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Maggie Chapman has been re-elected as co-convener of the Scottish Green Party.
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A: Ms Chapman triumphed over challenger Zara Kitson following a month-long ballot of the party's 9,000 members.
The party has both male and female co-conveners, with Ms Chapman sharing the leadership with Patrick Harvie.
The Aberdeen University rector quit her council seat in Edinburgh in the summer to concentrate on her bid to win a seat at Holyrood in 2016.
Ms Chapman said: "This has been a really exciting election, and I'm really pleased the Scottish Green Party has chosen my vision of a welcoming, socially just Scotland which works for good in the world.
"I congratulate Zara on her campaign, and look forward to working with her and the other candidates to deliver the best yet result for our party in the Holyrood election next year.
"Next year's election is a great opportunity for us to make a really big impact on Scottish politics and to give a voice to the movements that are changing and will change our country and our world."
Mr Harvie, who did not face a contest for the position of male co-convener, added: "I'd like to thank all those who stood for party positions. My congratulations to Maggie on winning the female co-convener contest and I look forward to both Zara and Maggie being elected as MSPs in May."
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US Republican Greg Gianforte has won a special congressional election in Montana, just hours after he was charged with assaulting a UK reporter.
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A: With about 96% of areas reporting, he has secured 51% of the vote. His Democratic rival Rob Quist has 43%.
Mr Gianforte has apologised for the incident in which he is accused of "body slamming" Ben Jacobs who works for the UK's Guardian newspaper.
In a victory speech he said he had "learned a lesson" and was "sorry".
A Fox News journalist who saw Wednesday's incident said Mr Gianforte had "grabbed Jacobs by the neck with both hands and slammed him into the ground" after the reporter persisted in trying to question him.
Mr Gianforte had previously said Mr Jacobs had grabbed his wrist, pulling them both to the ground.
"When you make a mistake you have to own up to it, that's the Montana way," he said, after initial laughter among his supporters as he began to speak about the incident.
"Last night I made a mistake, I took an action that I can't take back.
"I am not proud of what happened, I should not have responded in the way that I did, and I'm sorry," he said.
"I should not have treated that reporter that way, and for that I'm sorry Mr Ben Jacobs," he added.
He has been charged with misdemeanour assault, for which the maximum penalty is a $500 (£385) fine and a six-month jail term.
Mr Gianforte, a multimillionaire technology executive and Christian conservative, beat Mr Quist, a banjo-playing folk singer, to fill an empty seat in the House of Representatives.
Mr Quist said he was "sure that Montanans will hold Mr Gianforte accountable."
The vacancy in Montana arose after President Donald Trump appointed the previous holder of the seat, Ryan Zinke, as interior secretary.
Three of the state's largest newspapers withdrew their endorsements of Mr Gianforte after the violent incident on the eve of the vote.
The state's Democratic governor, Steve Bullock, described it as "a wake-up call to all Montanans and Americans".
"It is unsettling on many levels that Greg Gianforte physically assaulted a journalist and then lied, refusing to take responsibility for his actions," he said in a statement.
More than a third of the votes were cast by mail before it took place, an electoral official told Reuters.
Republicans have held the state's single seat in the House for two decades.
The party has, in general, been downplaying the case and casting it as an errant mistake, BBC North America reporter Anthony Zurcher says.
But critics are drawing the line between the rhetoric of President Trump - in which he has dubbed certain media outlets as "enemies of the American people" - and the incident, our correspondent adds.
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Dame Shirley Bassey and Gary Barlow will join the line-up of stars performing at the Queen's 90th birthday celebrations.
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A: | The event, which is part of a four-night celebration, will be hosted by Ant and Dec on 15 in May on the private grounds of Windsor Castle.
Previously announced performers include Kylie Minogue, Andrea Bocelli, Katherine Jenkins and Jess Glynne.
Ant and Dec said they were "honoured to be hosting the special celebration".
"This spectacular evening will bring together some of the best known names in the entertainment world who will perform with 900 horses and 1,500 participants to mark this very special birthday", they said.
Dame Shirley, 79, has sung before the monarch on several occasions including for the Royal Variety Performance and during The Queen's Diamond Jubilee Concert at Buckingham Palace in 2012.
Take That star Barlow, 45, was chosen to compose the Queen's official Diamond Jubilee single, Sing, with Andrew Lloyd Webber.
He performed the song with the Military Wives at The Queen's Diamond Jubilee Concert.
The celebration will tell the story of the Queen's life, from her birth in 1926 to her coronation in 1953, and the whole of her reign.
The event will be broadcast by ITV on 15 May. | 9 | Flan2021 | huggingface:xsum | fs_noopt |
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Japan is exploring the feasibility of forging the Olympic 2020 medals using precious metals salvaged from electronic waste.
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A: Members of Japan's Olympic organising committee tabled the idea to government officials and companies earlier this year, local media reports said.
Olympic host cities have traditionally obtained the metal from mining firms.
But Japan, which lacks its own mineral resources, is keen to take the theme of a sustainable future a step further.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has developed strict criteria for the world's greatest sporting event, and this extends to how the medals should be produced.
The Rio Olympics, for example, used gold that was extracted without the use of mercury and a third of the silver and bronze used came from recycled sources.
Discarded consumer electronics such as smartphones and tablets contain small amounts of precious and rare earth metals, including platinum, palladium, gold, silver, lithium, cobalt and nickel.
Scrap cars and home appliances such as fridges and air conditioners also contain these rarer metals, along with base metals, including iron, copper, lead and zinc.
Recycling or refining companies either collect or purchase tons of this e-waste and industrial scraps. They then use chemical processes to separate the various metals.
Much of this work takes place in developing countries such as China, India and Indonesia.
Does Japan have enough for 2020?
Japan has one of the highest recycling rates in Asia, according to OECD data. However, this mainly applies to plastic, paper and glass.
About 650,000 tonnes of small electronics and home appliances are discarded in Japan every year, the Nikkei newspaper said. However, it is estimated that less than 100,000 tonnes is collected for recycling.
So for the 2020 Games, Japan will probably have to ask individual countries or companies to contribute towards the recycled metal collection effort.
The amount of metal needed will depend on the size and number of medals, since each year, they seem to get bigger and heavier.
Five new sports have also been added to the Tokyo 2020 competition, including baseball, karate, skateboarding, sport climbing and surfing.
The 2016 Rio Olympics had the largest medals of any games, weighing in at 500g each and 1cm thick in the middle.
The Brazilian Mint produced 5,130 medals in total, up from the 4,700 made by London's Royal Mint for the 2012 Games.
How much will it cost?
It may end up being cheaper using recycled metals than buying it on the spot market.
A little-known fact is that the gold medals are mostly made out of sterling silver and the bronze metals are mostly made out of copper.
Isn't that rather sneaky?
The IOC minimum requirement for a gold medal is 6g of the pure yellow metal.
If the medals were made of pure gold, the overall cost would run into tens of millions of dollars.
Gold is currently about 70 times more expensive than silver. But some market experts think that may change by 2020.
Global silver reserves continue to shrink as demand is exceeding supply and we mine only 11oz of silver for each ounce of gold, said Gregor Gregersen, the founder of Silver Bullion in Singapore.
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The Treasury has told the Stormont administration that it is engaged in preparatory work to take control of the Northern Ireland Executive's finances.
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A: First Minister Peter Robinson said the Treasury had indicated its willingness to intervene if Stormont does not stay within its budget.
He said "formal concern" was expressed in a letter to Stormont's finance minister from the Treasury.
Mr Robinson made the comments during an interview for the BBC.
The DUP leader said the chief secretary to the Treasury Greg Hands had written to Northern Ireland's Finance Minister Arlene Foster voicing concern about Stormont departments potentially breaching their spending controls.
Mr Robinson told the BBC that the letter gave "a very clear indication that they intended to take steps that preparatory work had already begun and that they would not allow us to breach those totals but would intervene".
He added: "That indicates that the lifetime of the assembly is limited, unless those who are stalling in the process, the SDLP and Sinn Féin, take their responsibilities seriously and deal with these issues.
"I can imagine as soon as there will be an intervention from the Treasury to tell us what we can spend and how much we can spend, we will have ministers who aren't prepared to play ball with that and the assembly collapses."
Mr Robinson held a private meeting with the prime minister on Thursday. He said the prime minister continued to be concerned that agreements reached last December had not been implemented.
The Northern Ireland parties had agreed a deal on Westminster's welfare reform measures in the Stormont House Agreement last December.
However, Sinn Féin withdrew its support in March.
Since the striking of the agreement, Sinn Féin, the SDLP and the Green Party have opposed plans to implement the changes.
They have argued that the measures will hit the most vulnerable members of society.
But supporters of the plan have warned that failure to change the benefits system will mean the executive cannot manage its budget, putting the future of the devolved government at risk.
Last month, Stormont's new budget bill passed its second stage, but the final stage is dependent on a deal on welfare reform.
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The cost of renting a home in England and Wales was 5.2% higher in July than the same month a year earlier, according to lettings agent Your Move.
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A: Its survey, based on analysis of about 20,000 properties, suggested that average monthly rent paid by private tenants rose to £846.
The increase was sharpest in the South East of England.
The annual rise in this region of 14.9% was explained by a ripple effect from high rents in London.
London had the highest average monthly rents, at £1,273, the survey suggested.
Adrian Gill, director of Your Move, said: "The UK's vote to leave the European Union has not caused any immediate change in the rental market, although we must wait for longer term trends to develop."
Tenants' finances worsened in July, with 9% of tenancies having arrears of a day or more, up from 8.4% in June. This was still well below a high of 14.6% recorded in February 2010.
The survey follows figures from the Office for National Statistics, which found that rental prices paid by tenants in Britain rose by 2.4% in the 12 months to July.
Where can I afford to live?
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Derry City substitute Nathan Boyle came off the bench to score his first goals for the club and earn a dramatic win over Galway United at the Brandywell.
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A: | Kevin Devaney had taken advantage of poor defending to tap home his second goal of the season in the 24th minute.
Boyle fired in the equaliser 15 minutes from time and snatched victory with a left-foot finish in stoppage time.
The Candystripes have now won three league games in a row and are one of five teams joint top of the table.
The visitors went into the match unbeaten in their three opening fixtures of the campaign and looked set to extend that run until Boyle's late intervention.
Derry manager Kenny Shiels fielded an unchanged line-up for the third successive game as he hoped to build on clean sheet victories over Cork City and Bray Wanderers, following an opening night defeat by Finn Harps.
Devaney opened the scoring with a right-foot shot past Ger Doherty at the back post after Gary Shanahan had squared the ball across goal.
Former Derry player Enda Curran almost caught Doherty off his line before half-time while the home keeper saved from Shanahan's glancing header.
For the home side, Gareth McGlynn saw his free-kick tipped over by Conor Winn, who also denied Barry McNamee.
A well organised Galway side looked to be running out comfortable winners until Boyle levelled, and Winn produced a fine stop from Josh Daniels, who was also seeking his first goal for the club.
Boyle then latched onto a loose ball and unleashed a stunning effort to secure victory.
Derry are joined by Cork City, Dundalk, St Patrick's Athletic and Shamrock Rovers on nine points at the summit of the Premier Division. | 9 | Flan2021 | huggingface:xsum | fs_noopt |
Problem: Write an article based on this "Sad news for fans of Peter Capaldi - he's leaving Doctor Who at the end of the year, it's been announced."
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A: Speaking on BBC Radio 2, Peter said: "I feel it’s time to move on."
The new series airs in spring and Capaldi said his final episode will be shown at Christmas.
The 58-year-old Glasgow-born star became the 12th actor to play the Doctor in 2013.
He's shared his adventures with Clara Oswald (Jenna Coleman) and Bill Potts (Pearl Mackie)
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He was a good doctor to be honest, however if you read the chronicles of Doctor Who and it states that there should have been only 12 regenerations. And so there can't be a new doctor. I am sad to see him go because he really made a impact on the Doctor Who series and I just don't think there should be anymore since this is the Doctor's last regeneration.
William, Sheffield, England
I think Martin Freeman should be the next doctor. He would be really good at it and he would be really funny.
Alice, Weymouth, England
I think the next actor to play the doctor should definitely be a man. My dad and I think it should be British actor Simon Pegg.
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I would like to be the next doctor!
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I agree that Peter made a good choice so he can move on to other things. I also think that next doctor should be a woman.
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Problem: Write an article based on this "A huge treasure ship, which sank around 300 years ago, has been found at the bottom of the ocean in Columbia, in South America."
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A: The ship was an old Spanish galleon called the San Jose, a large boat with huge sails and lots of different decks.
Galleons were initially used for sea battles during the 16th and 18th Century, or for carrying items to trade with other countries.
The President of Columbia Juan Manuel Santos said: "Great news! We have found the San Jose galleon,".
The San Jose was carrying gold, silver, gems and jewellery which was going to be shipped to Spain's king to help fund his war against the British, when it was sunk in June 1708.
People think the treasure might be worth around £2.6bn-£11bn!
There are currently arguments going on between the Columbian government and the Sea Search Armada, who found the area where the ship sank, over who owns the treasure.
Problem: Write an article based on this "British-educated Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani was named emir of Qatar after his 61-year-old father, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, announced his abdication as leader of the gas-rich Gulf state in June 2013."
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A: | Sheikh Hamad's abdication broke the mould of Gulf politics, where rulers traditionally remain on the throne until they die. Sheikh Tamim, 33, presents a younger face as ruler, at odds with the older generations in neighbouring states.
Nevertheless, under Sheikh Tamim's rule Qatar is expected to continue on the path set by his father, with his mother, Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned, remaining one of the key driving forces in the country's politics.
Taking over from his father, whose 18-year rule was marked by the emergence of Qatar as an influential player on both the Gulf and world stage, Sheikh Tamim's elevation to emir marks the confirmation of the Al Thani dynasty's grip on power in Qatar.
Al Thani family members hold many key posts in the country's government, and the smooth transition to a new emir underlines a desire for stability in an unpredictable region.
Qatar became an influential regional player under the rule of Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa, backing the Arab Spring revolutions and siding with rebels fighting against authoritarian governments in Syria and Libya.
It is also home to the Al-Jazeera TV channel and it has won the right to host the 2022 football World Cup.
Sheikh Tamim was born in Doha in 1980, the fourth son of Sheikh Hamad. He became the Gulf state's heir apparent in 2003 after his older brother Jasim renounced his claim to the throne.
The young Tamim was sent to Britain for his education at Sherborne School in Dorset. Sherborne's only overseas branch now operates in Doha.
After achieving his A-Levels, he followed his father's example by attending the Royal Military Academy in Sandhurst.
He graduated in 1998 before being inducted into the Qatari armed forces as a Second Lieutenant. He was appointed deputy commander-in-chief of Qatar's armed forces in 2009.
It is as a sports administrator that the young sheikh has excelled. In 2006, readers of the Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram voted him "the best sport personality in the Arab world". That year he chaired the organising committee of the 15th Asian Games in Doha, attended by all member countries for the first time.
A member of the International Olympic Committee, Sheikh Tamim also heads Doha's bid for the 2020 Olympic Games.
As well as the Fifa World Cup, Qatar will also host the 2014 Fina (International Swimming Federation) Swimming World Championships. In addition, Qatar Sport Investments, established by Sheikh Tamim in 2005, owns big-spending French football club Paris Saint-Germain.
Which sports most interest the new emir is unclear, but he has been filmed playing badminton, and seen 10-pin bowling with former Egyptian military chief Mohammed Hussein Tantawi.
Other posts held by Sheikh Tamim include chairman of the Supreme Council for the Environment and Natural Reserves, chairman of the Supreme Education Council, and chairman of the board of directors of the Qatar Investment Authority.
In 2005, Sheikh Tamim married his second cousin Sheikha Jawaher bint Hamad bin Suhaim Al Thani. They have four children.
A second marriage in 2009 to Sheikha Anoud bint Mana al-Hajri brought two further children - in total, three sons and three daughters.
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Problem: He added that researchers should be "optimistic about the future".
But Mr Johnson could not offer any assurances that UK universities could continue to receive billions of pounds of EU research funds.
The minister, who was appointed to the post last year, spoke to scientists at a parliamentary event organised by the Royal Society of Biology.
"In legal terms, nothing has changed overnight," he told researchers at the meeting. "We remain in the European Research Area. (European research) funding will continue to flow during this period.
"EU students who are already here, or are applying to start courses in the autumn, will have student finance in place for the full duration of their courses."
But those involved in science funding said that Mr Johnson and officials at his department (Business Innovation and Skills) were "unprepared" for the event of a win for the Leave campaign.
A senior official who did not wish to be named said that Bis had no plan in place in the event of a Brexit.
"They are trying to gather information on what are the areas of research that depend most on European funding and what the priority areas should be. That information should have been collected weeks ago," said the official.
"That is why we are not hearing much from ministers. Civil servants are trying to keep them quiet because they don't want them saying anything that might be a hostage to fortune later.
"But that silence is just adding to this sense of weird uncertainty that no-one seems to have a vision for what should happen going forward."
The reason for that silence is that in order to continue to receive EU research funding as the UK does now, the country has to be part of or have access to the single market - and so agree to the free movement of people.
Free movement was one dimension of EU membership that voters opposed in the referendum and so it will be impossible for Jo Johnson and his fellow ministers at Bis to make a plan until this issue is resolved - possibly by his brother Boris, should he become Prime Minister.
Nicola Blackwood, chair of the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee and Conservative MP for Abingdon and Oxford, said that the scientific community had to acknowledge that many people were worried by immigration, but there might be a way of squaring the circle by thinking "more creatively".
Some ideas, she said, could include taking students out of the immigration figures, having a shorter turnaround for visa applications and having a system that is more responsive to skills shortages.
"In the medium term, there will be uncertainty. The message needs to go out to scientists here and in Europe that we remain open for business," she said.
Ms Blackwood added that the Treasury had to commit itself to stepping in and making up any shortfall if EU funds were withdrawn.
Research leaders say that UK science benefits enormously from the free movement of scientists across Europe. It enables them to attract some of the best scientists in the world who are attracted by the UK's strong science base and the ease with which they and their families settle in the country. Britain also receives billions of pounds from EU research grants.
European Union money now amounts to nearly a tenth of university research funding. The president of the UK's Royal Society, Sir Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, told fellow researchers at the meeting that EU funding had kept UK science competitive at a time when British government science funding had been declining in real terms. But he added that it was not just about the money.
"A key component of it is funding for research networks that bring together scientists from the EU and beyond," he explained.
"These networks are vital in allowing scientists in Europe to collaborate and to propose and implement large research programmes that no single nation can afford. If we are excluded from EU programmes, we will be excluded from many of the collaborations and decision-making bodies, and we will lose our ability to influence new developments and new research directions."
Those who campaigned for the UK to leave the EU, such as Lee Upcraft, who speaks for Scientists for Britain and was a UKIP parliamentary candidate for Wantage in 2015, believe that the UK can negotiate a deal to receive EU funds while still controlling migration.
"Nobody is sure what the future relationship is going to be. That's where the science community needs to sit down with government and work out how best to go forward," he said.
"We don't know if we are going down a European free trade area route which would maintain freedom of movement or choose something more restrictive. But when it comes to EU research funds - look at countries like Turkey and Israel which receive EU research funds where we don't have freedom of movement - so there is no reason negotiations for EU research funds depend on freedom of movement."
Mike Galsworthy, of the pro-Remain campaign group Scientists for EU, said: "The minister is absolutely right to remind us that our relationship on the science programme and provision for EU students remains unchanged at this stage," he said.
"However, little can be done at the moment to prevent hiring or investment disruptions that may be occurring across academia and industry, other than to monitor it all as best we can. Ultimately, our relationship with the EU science programme and EU science policy will involve complex negotiations around freedom of movement and financial contributions."
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What was that article about?
A: Science Minister Jo Johnson has said that world class research would "endure" in the UK following a Brexit.
Problem: The character is the "feisty" sister of Chrissie Sugden, played by Louise Marwood, and the daughter of Lawrence White (John Bowe).
She is set for a dramatic entrance to the ITV soap in October, with ITV saying "she will continue to raise tensions" for months to come.
Series producer Iain MacLeod said she was a "brilliant addition".
He added: "She's funny, feisty and flirtatious - she might turn your fella's head but, importantly, she has a good heart."
He said "Emily couldn't be more perfect for this role" and that there is already an "electric" chemistry on-set between her and the rest of the cast.
Rebecca is also the aunt of Lachlan White, played by Thomas Atkinson.
Head, daughter of actor Anthony Head, said: "I am really looking forward to joining the Emmerdale cast, and so excited to be the one to put a face to the name Rebecca White.
"I can't wait to see how the village reacts to her arrival."
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What was that article about?
A: Inbetweeners actress Emily Head says she is "so excited" to join the cast of Emmerdale as Rebecca White.
Problem: Fell, who was the county's top scorer in the County Championship in 2015, had an operation in October after a tumour was discovered.
"I got the results on 1 November and they broke the good news that it hadn't spread," the 22-year-old said.
"It was really the best news that I could have hoped for."
Fell is now back in training at New Road and is set to spend part of the winter in Australia playing grade cricket in Perth.
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"I was quite lucky. I was fairly stupid in the fact I didn't get it checked straight away," Fell said.
"When they did analyse the tumour, it was fairly big at the stage they operated.
"I think if I had left it any longer and I had gone to Australia without being checked, who knows how bad it could have been.
"Because I felt no different, that is why I didn't bother to get it checked sooner than I did."
Fell has chosen not to follow up his operation with any further treatment on the advice of his specialist.
"I was recommended by the professor I saw that if you can avoid chemotherapy it is definitely something I should do - especially as a sportsman - as the side effects and consequences can be quite severe," he said.
"It is something I want to avoid. I've been told there is a 65% chance it is all clear and a 35% chance it can come back and if it comes back, it will most likely be in the next three months and then I would have to go through three cycles of chemotherapy as opposed to two now.
"I've got back into training which has been a bit of a shock to the system this week but it's great to be back - playing cricket is the best thing about it."
More on this story and others around Herefordshire and Worcestershire.
What was that article about?
A: | Worcestershire batsman Tom Fell says he has been given the go-ahead to play next season after revealing he has had surgery for testicular cancer. | 6 | Flan2021 | huggingface:xsum | fs_noopt |
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