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Question: The number of human interventions in journeys made by driverless cars from Google company Waymo in California more than halved in 2016.

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['Represent the news to retrieve its missing first sentence', 'But peer a bit closer and you catch site of a factory.\nLook harder and you discover that this area between the historic towns of Bad Mergentheim and Wertheim is dotted with medium-sized or "Mittelstand" companies.\n"You don\'t expect to find companies here from the heart of German world class industry but they are just in between those valleys in these hills," says Winfried Weber, professor of management at Mannheim University of Applied Sciences.\nHis passion for the privately owned - often still family run - Mittelstand companies is personal.\nHis grandfather was a clockmaker who was forced out of business by Japanese competition in the 1950s.\nToday he says his mission is to tell the story of these companies\' current success.\nHe travels the world lecturing and hosts business delegations from South Korea and China.\n"I tell them don\'t go to Berlin, come here to this rural province in southern Germany," he tells me as he drives along the gently winding road.\n"You find here a very high concentration of world class Mittelstand companies in relation to the population," he says.\nAbout 99% of German companies are small and medium sized. There are about 3.3 million of them.\nStrictly speaking, they would have fewer than 500 employees to be classed as Mittelstand, but it\'s a term that goes much deeper and has come to define a business mindset.\n"In Germany a lot of those small and medium sized companies are doing exports from the beginning," Prof Weber says.\n"They try to be in the forefront of innovation, and find and define a niche, and then sell on an international level."\nAnd the most successful ones are world market leaders in their niche sectors, which Prof Weber says are "hidden champions".\nThis is where he believes much of Germany\'s exporting prowess stems from.\n"In Germany we have only 28 of the global 500 biggest companies but we have around 48% of those small world market leaders," Professor Weber says.\nWe\'re on our way to meet Gabriella Koenig, managing director of Koenig & Meyer, a "hidden champion".\nHer company makes music and microphone stands. If you\'re a musician you have probably used one of them.\nSlim with shortly cropped dark hair, she fizzes with energy and enthusiasm.\nIn the car park she introduces me to her 81-year-old father and both are keen to tell me the history of the company.\nGabriella\'s grandfather started the firm with a business partner in the early 1930s in eastern Germany, but after the Second World War, they moved to Wertheim in the west.\nGabriella is the third generation to take charge.\nShe goes into a vast noisy factory full of green metal-bashing machines.\n"We have almost every production process in-house to guarantee the best quality so that we can really control every step," she says above the roar of the machines.\nTrue to the spirit of the Mittelstand, exporting has long been vital to the company.\n"Already in the 1950s Koenig & Meyer was visiting the first trade shows in Frankfurt," she says, "and found the first international partners."\nToday the company employs 280 people in three factories and has a turnover of 38m euros (Â£34m; $44m).\nAbout 60% of sales are exports to 80 countries worldwide, with 70% of their turnover in Europe.\nGabriella says customers, "accept that the product can be 15-20% more expensive than a competitive cheaper made item."\nBut has the weakness of the euro helped?\n"I would say yes definitely. The euro helps us, as all other Germany companies who are exporting a lot," she says.\nGermany has been criticised by its trading partners for exporting much more than it imports.\nLast year it had a whopping current account surplus of just under $300bn.\nWage restraint in the last fifteen years and labour market and welfare reforms are all credited with making Germany more competitive.\nAnother criticism levelled at Germany is that it\'s not investing enough at home.\nThe International Monetary Fund is urging the government to spend more on public infrastructure projects, which it says would encourage German companies to invest there too, and help re-balance its global trade.\nBut Prof Weber says that in spite of their exporting success, the Mittelstand does face challenges.\nSuccession can be an issue. Gabriella doesn\'t have children but says the company will stay in the family.\nFinding enough skilled staff is also a challenge - Koenig & Meyer trains employees on apprenticeship schemes.\nHowever, Gabriella says, "it gets more and more difficult nowadays to find young people who will  join the company."\nWhile there is clearly innovation in the Mittelstand, at Koenig & Meyer they come up with 20 to 30 new products every year, they are not Silicon Valley.\nProf Weber says Germany has, "fewer IT start-ups, we have less venture capital."\nBut he says the outlook is long-term and, "You can say that our capitalism is more patient capitalism". He also believes that others can learn from the Mittelstand.\n"I think that the future big company will be a little bit like many Mittelstand companies, with a more down-to-earth approach, with flatter hierarchies and more responsibility, and more flexibility for the workforce."\nListen to "The Secrets of Germany\'s Success".'] == ['represent the summary to retrieve the rest of the news story with more details', 'Driving along the "romantic road" between two towns in Baden-Wuerttemberg in southern Germany it\'s easy to admire the lush rolling hillsides, vineyards and picturesque villages.']

There were only 124 "disengagement" incidents last year, where a driver had to take control of a test vehicle on public roads, down from 341 in 2015.
The cars drove nearly 636,000 miles last year, compared with just over 424,000 in 2015.
Other states in the US do not require such reporting.
The California Department of Motor Vehicles published the annual reports on Wednesday.
Under law, every company that has a state permit to test autonomous vehicles in California must report how many times a driver had to intervene.
"Disengagements are a natural part of the testing process that allow our engineers to expand the software' s capabilities and identify areas of improvement," Waymo said in its report.
The most common reasons for interventions in Waymo cars were "software discrepancies, unwanted manoeuvres of the vehicle and perception discrepancies", according to the company.
Of the 124 incidents, only 10 were caused by the "reckless" behaviour of another road user.
Beyond Waymo's impressive results, the news was generally good.
Cruise, the start-up leading General Motors' autonomous driving development, upped its testing in San Francisco markedly. It went from driving fewer than five miles in June 2015, to nearly 400 in June 2016.
It reported 414 disengagements in almost 10,000 miles of driving in 2016 overall.
For some companies the records show a very small amount of mileage covered by the autonomous cars.
In other US states with self-driving regulations - including Nevada, Michigan, and Florida - there is no requirement for public disclosure of this type of data, which is why, for example, not much is known about Uber's autonomous vehicle testing.
Ford only reported 590 miles driven in 2016, all in the month of March. It only has two autonomous cars in California, but has a much larger fleet in Michigan, where reporting is not required.
Meanwhile BMW recorded one disengagement in its 638 miles of autonomous driving in March and April 2016, because lane markings on Highway 101 were not clear enough. The operator's reaction time was recorded as "under two seconds".
The companies that reported to the California DMV were: BMW, Bosch, GM Cruise, Delphi Automotive Systems, Ford, Waymo, Honda, Nissan North America, Mercedes-Benz, Tesla and Volkswagen.
In the UK, Volvo is expected to begin testing its autonomous cars on the roads this year.

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It has long been known that Apple is working on automotive-related projects, but the company has never publicly confirmed any details.
The news was made public by California’s Department of Motor Vehicles on Friday.
The agency said Apple has been given permission to test three cars manufactured by Lexus.
Apple has not commented - other than to point to its letter late last year expressing an interest in the technology.
The company was "excited about the potential of automated systems in many areas, including transportation”, it said at the time.
Rumours about Apple’s car ambitions have ranged from speculation it was building its own car to the suggestion it was instead focusing more on in-car software.
Internally known as Project Titan, the project at one point was understood to have more than 1,000 employees working on it, though the current scale of Apple’s efforts is unknown.
Encountering self-driving cars in California is a daily occurrence for those living around Silicon Valley. Apple has become the 30th company to be granted a testing permit.
Among the stipulations for approval is the requirement to regularly report back statistics on the performance of the technology - including how often humans have to intervene when the computer gets it wrong.
Apple's competitors have already been testing autonomous vehicles. Last year Waymo - a company spun out of Google's self-driving programme - clocked up 635,868 miles in California. Statistics showed a human had to step in on average once every 5,000 miles of driving.
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Question: A £500,000 bid for Truro to become European Capital of Culture has stalled amid claims it is a poorly-considered "vanity project".

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Last month Cornwall Council's Independent-Lib Dem cabinet voted to go ahead with the bid for Truro to secure the title in 2023.
At the time the city's mayor said he had not been consulted about the plans.
The decision will now face further scrutiny after Conservative councillors complained.
More on the culture bid and other stories from Cornwall
They claimed Truro started working on the bid too late and other interested cities, including Leeds and Milton Keynes, had been putting together detailed plans for several years.
"We've been told for four years we've got no money, we're a 'no-money council' and you suddenly produce more than £500,000 for a bid to become the European Capital of Culture," said councillor Fiona Ferguson.
"I think it's entirely unrealistic to spend money on this sort of thing. It's a vanity project."
She claimed Brexit also meant any money invested in the project could be wasted, as the UK may no longer even be eligible to take part.
However, in the past three non-EU cities have held the title, Istanbul in 2010, Stavanger in Norway in 2008 and Reykjavik, Iceland, in 2000.
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport, which launched the contest in December, said it was continuing under the assumption a UK city will host the event in 2023.
Cornwall Council said the cabinet's decision was being called in on the grounds that there was "inadequate consultation with stakeholders prior to the decision being made" and that there was not sufficient evidence "on which to base a decision".

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Joe Anderson said the city council would launch a feasibility study before submitting a bid.
Hosting the event "would reflect the city's growing confidence and expertise in organising large events", he said.
Mr Anderson's announcement came three days before voting to select Labour's candidate for the Liverpool city region metro mayor election closes.
MPs Luciana Berger and Steve Rotheram are the other hopefuls.
The UK's nomination for a host city will be decided in 2018, with the successful host named by the Commonwealth Games General Assembly in 2019.
Mayor Anderson said: "Liverpool is an ambitious city and I believe we have an enormous amount to offer when it comes to hosting an event of this scale, which would be an incredibly important catalyst for regeneration, investment and raising the profile of sport."
Heptathlete Katarina Johnson-Thompson, boxer Tony Bellew, and former footballer Jamie Carragher are among the ambassadors for the proposed bid.
The last British city to host the games was Glasgow in 2014 although England last held it in Manchester in 2002.
Manchester City Council leader, Sir Richard Leese, said that despite "a long tradition of sporting rivalry... Liverpool's bid to host the 2026 Commonwealth Games has Manchester's wholehearted support".
In July, the Welsh government dropped plans to bid for the event, blaming the cost and uncertainty after the Brexit vote.
Birmingham City Council leader, councillor John Clancy, said in April that he was "open to persuasion" after the city was encouraged to bid but he believed it "would detract from our immediate priorities".
Last year, it was announced that South Africa would host the event in 2022 after the Canadian city Edmonton withdrew its bid due to cost. The awarding of the games to Durban followed concerns from the Commonwealth Games Federation about a lack of interest from member countries in hosting future competitions.
Liverpool has recently held a number of large spectator events including when 1.2 million spectators watched ocean liners gather to celebrate Cunard's 175th anniversary last year.
In 2014, a giant puppet show to mark the 100th anniversary of World War One attracted about a million visitors.
There's nothing new in Mayor Anderson's desire to bid for Liverpool to host the Commonwealth Games in 2026.
It was one of his pledges when he successfully ran for re-election as mayor of Liverpool in May.
It's also no coincidence that he is a candidate in an election - which ends on Friday - for Labour's candidate to be metro mayor of the Liverpool city region.
Evertonians will be desperate to hear that a new stadium for the club will be part of the plans, but anything concrete is a long way off.
The Mayor's declaration of intent brings local athletes on board - but will also provoke those who think at a time of austerity, the city can ill afford to be spending money on an international sporting event.
But then, people said that about Liverpool's bid to be European Capital of Culture - which went on to be a huge success.


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Question: Shadow chancellor Ed Balls has promised to reintroduce the 50p top rate of income tax for people earning more than £150,000 if Labour wins the next election.

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The previous Labour government increased the top rate from 40p to 50p in 2010, but the current government cut that to 45p with effect from April last year.
So what is the 50p tax rate, and why is it such a central issue for politicians in the run-up to the next election?
What is the 50p tax rate?
Anyone receiving a "taxable" income - such as salaries, pensions and interest on savings - in the UK is subject to income tax.
After a "personal allowance" of £9,440 (due to rise to £10,000 from April) people pay according to "bands" of income.
At present income of up to £32,010 is taxed at the "basic rate" of 20%, while a "higher rate" applies to income from £32,011 to £150,000.
Under Labour's plan, half of all income above £150,000 would go to HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC), instead of 45% as at present.
Why does Ed Balls want to bring it back?
The shadow chancellor said the coalition government had given the "richest people in the country a huge tax cut" by scrapping the 50p top rate - something he said "cannot be right".
Making his pledge to restore the 50p rate, Mr Balls said "those with the broadest shoulders" should bear a "fairer share of the burden".
Labour tried to block the abolition of the 50p rate in 2012 but were defeated in the House of Commons.
How much would it raise?
Labour has not put a figure on this.
A 2012 HMRC assessment - which the Office for Budget Responsibility called "reasonable" - estimated that cutting the top rate from 50p to 45p would cost £100m a year.
But Mr Balls said the three years where the tax was imposed (after increasing the top rate from 40p to 50p) raised almost £10bn more than the assessment suggested.
Labour said the impact of returning the rate to 50p would be bigger than £100m because tax liabilities for people earning more than £150,000 in the period during which the assessment was carried out were higher than previously thought.
What do the coalition parties say?
Conservative Treasury minister David Gauke said the 50p rate would "raise little, if anything", a conclusion he said was backed up by the HMRC assessment.
Scrapping the 50p top rate in his 2012 budget, Chancellor George Osborne said it "damages our economy and raises next to nothing".
The previous year Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg had said the 50p rate should not be cut while many people were "struggling to make ends meet".
But in the same year Business Secretary Vince Cable had said the party would consider scrapping the 50p rate if there was a "good alternative", such as a "tax on very high-value property".
At the Lib Dem conference in September, activists voted by 224 to 220 against making the return of the 50p rate a party policy.
What do supporters of the 50p top tax rate say?
The Unite union said pledging to restore the 50p rate showed Labour "understands the need for a fairer taxation system".
"Voters will know now that Labour is emerging as a positive choice for this country," it added.
Richard Murphy, director of think tank Tax Research UK, said the 50p tax rate "worked" but was undermined by the short time it remained in place.
He said the UK was "seeing a massive increase in inequality" and the 50p rate would help "balance up" the economy.
What do critics say?
The 2012 HMRC assessment said the high tax rate made the UK a "less attractive place to start, finance and grow a business".
Jonathan Isaby, chief executive of the TaxPayers' Alliance, said bringing back the 50p rate would be an "unmitigated disaster for Britain".
Mark Littlewood, director general at the Institute of Economic Affairs, echoed that view, saying it would be a "disaster for both enterprise and economic growth".
And Labour peer Lord Sugar, businessman and star of TV show the Apprentice, has said reducing the tax was a "clever move".
How has the top rate of tax changed over the years?
On coming to power in 1979, Margaret Thatcher's government reduced the top rate of income tax from 83% to 60%.
This was reduced again in 1988 to 40%, and the "higher rate" has remained at the same level ever since.
But in April 2010 Labour's "additional rate" came into force, meaning anyone earning more than £150,000 a year had to pay 50p in every pound of income over that amount.
The current coalition government kept the additional rate system, but reduced the amount to 45p from last April.

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The prime minister said it was her party's "firm intention to reduce taxes on ordinary working families".
But Sir Michael Fallon said in the Daily Telegraph that there would be no rise in income tax for higher earners.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said the Conservatives' tax policies were in "chaos".
The Conservative manifesto scrapped a pledge made by David Cameron in 2015 not to raise VAT, national insurance or income tax.
Speaking in West Yorkshire Mrs May said: "Our position on tax hasn't changed. We have set it out in the manifesto.
"What people will know when they go to vote on Thursday is that it is the Conservative party that always has been and is and always will be a low tax party and it is our firm intention to reduce taxes for ordinary working families."
However, in his Telegraph interview, Sir Michael appeared to go further than Mrs May.
He said voting Conservative was "the only way" people could be sure income tax would not be hiked.
Asked if high earners could confidently vote Conservative next week, safe in the knowledge that their income tax would not go up, Sir Michael said: "Yes.
"You've seen our record. We're not in the business of punishing people for getting on, on the contrary we want people to keep more of their earnings.
"The only way they can be sure their taxes won't rise is to vote Conservative. We already know your tax will go up if you vote Labour on Thursday."
The Conservative manifesto had committed the party to keeping tax "as low as possible" but had not ruled out increases in income tax.
Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson later told BBC's Newsnight: "We will bear down on taxation and we have absolutely no plans to raise income tax. Our plans are to cut taxes. Labour's plans are to put them up."
Former Conservative work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith told BBC Breakfast the party was trying to get away from the "idea that you set out every single thing in detail saying we won't do this, we won't do that, we won't do the other because then you get a large shopping list".
At the 2015 general election, David Cameron promised that income tax, National Insurance, and VAT - the so-called "triple lock" - would not go up under a Conservative government.
That promise led to a U-turn earlier this year when Mrs May's government had to ditch plans to raise National Insurance contributions for the self-employed.
The Tories have pledged not to raise VAT but to increase the personal allowance to £12,500 and raise the minimum earnings for the 40p higher rate to £50,000 by 2020.
Sir Michael Fallon's comments were a signal to the Tory base - designed to reassure core supporters that their taxes wouldn't go up under the Conservatives and make sure they turn out to vote.
There is no firm commitment though, no promise in writing unlike in the party's previous manifesto.
And Theresa May didn't go as far as her defence secretary, declining to make a new pledge - suggesting this isn't something she wants to be held to.
Labour have seized on the discrepancy as a sign of Conservative confusion - with Jeremy Corbyn reminding voters of his claim that 95% would pay no more tax if he won power.
All parties are fighting hard in these last few remaining days of campaigning to make sure their key messages get through.
Opposition parties seized on Sir Michael's comments.
"One minister says they're going to give no more tax rises - indeed possibly tax reductions for the very wealthiest - then they can't answer the question about tax rises for the rest of the population," Mr Corbyn said.
"Let's be clear - what Labour are offering is no tax rises or national insurance rises or VAT rises for 95% of the population."
Former Lib Dem business secretary Sir Vince Cable asked where the money was coming from to pay for Sir Michael's apparent promise.
"Since they are ruling out increases in income, corporate tax and VAT we must assume that there will be an increase in national insurance and in various 'stealth taxes' yet to be specified. It undoubtedly raises suspicions," he said.
The SNP's Stewart Hosie said Sir Michael had "let the cat out of the bag", adding: "Tory plans for a tax freeze for the richest in society were clearly airbrushed out of their manifesto."
Labour has promised to raise the income tax rate to 45p for earnings above £80,000 and to 50p for each pound earned over £123,000.
It says it will not raise income tax for those earning less than £80,000.
It says the planned rises for higher earners will help fund billions of pounds of investment for schools and the NHS and an expansion of free childcare, in what it calls a "programme of hope".
Meanwhile the Liberal Democrats have pledged to increase income tax by a penny to help pay for the NHS, social care and mental health.
The SNP says it would support the idea of raising the top rate of income tax for those earning more than £150,000 from 45p to 50p.
It says there would be no increase in taxation on the low paid, in national insurance or in VAT.
Whereas, the Green Party wants to implement a wealth tax on the top 1% of earners and introduce a "Robin Hood" tax on financial transactions.


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Question: A Dundee mother-of-13 has said she "can't wait" to become a grandmother for the first time in the summer.

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Emma Hann and husband Roy's 13 children are aged between two and 25, with eight of them still staying at the family home.
Their 22-year-old daughter Polly and son-in-law Michael Watt are expecting their first child in August.
The family will run the new Race For Life Family 5K after Cancer Research UK asked them to launch the event.
Mrs Hann, 47, told BBC Scotland: "We're really excited, really delighted.
"When Polly went to see the midwives, they all knew who her mum was.
"It's a little bit sad because Polly and Michael have just moved to Dunfermline, they were just living across the road from us.
"But it's been amazing watching her little bump starting to grow and knowing that's my little grandbaby."
The family gets through 50 pints of milk, 21 loaves of bread and five large boxes of cereal every week.
Until the expectant couple's recent move to Fife, 10 of the Hann children stayed with their parents in their six-bedroom Dundee home.
Mrs Hann said: "Two of her sisters, Alice and Sophia, are staying in her (Polly's) little house just across the road.
"We still see a lot of everybody, but it is nice having a little bit more bedroom space."
The Race for Life Family 5K runs will take place in June alongside the traditional women-only events at 10 locations across Scotland.
Mrs Hann said: "Some of my older girls have been involved in Race for Life on a few of the years, so to be asked to be involved with it is really exciting.
"We're all planning to be there and all excited about it."

And for Vera Sommerfeld of Lethbridge, Canada, this year brings a special reason to pop the champagne corks.
At the age of 96, Ms Sommerfeld has just become a great-great-great-grandmother.
Baby Callie, born in October, is the newest addition to a family with six living generations of women.
The delighted matriarch told Canada's CBC News: "It's pretty wonderful, really."
"I just couldn't wait for this baby to be born, because it was going to be my sixth generation, and I waited for it for a long time."
Four of the women live in Lethbridge, a city in the province of Alberta, and all five (plus baby) catch up around once a month.
Ms Sommerfeld is a huge fan of the latest arrival, saying she adored her from the start.
"I couldn't even describe it. She's just such a beautiful girl. I love her so much," she said.
Two-month old Callie's mother, Alisa Marsh, is 20. Her grandmother Amanda Cormier is 39, and Grace Couturier is a great-grandmother at 59.
Gwen Shaw, the baby's great-great-grandmother, is a sprightly 75.
The Guinness World Record for the most generations in an unbroken line is seven, but to reach six is still extremely rare -  and rarer still when they are all women.
Ms Cormier told the BBC she felt very young to be a grandmother at 39, "but now that she's here, I wouldn't change a thing!"
New mother Ms Marsh said having so many maternal figures around has been "wonderful".
"They visit all the time!" she laughed.
Ms Marsh married her husband Logan on 27 June 2015, and says her great-great-grandmother Ms Sommerfeld quickly started asking "when we were giving her her sixth generation!"
The 20-year-old told the BBC she hopes to have more children in the fullness of time. Of course, she hopes her many grandmothers will be around to meet them too.
Ms Shaw puts the family's longevity down to good genes. But after almost a century on earth, Ms Sommerfeld credits her drink of choice - rum and soda.
"She drinks them every day," Ms Marsh confirmed.
Great-grandmother Grace Couturier told the local Lethbridge Herald: "The one thing my grandmother [Ms Sommerfeld] has told us has kept her alive this long is waiting for that baby to be born. Now she's going to stay alive because the baby is here.
"It's amazing. It's absolutely amazing that my grandmother is still here to see my granddaughter have her first."
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Question: Everton Ladies have completed the signing of striker Chloe Kelly on a season-long loan from Women's Super League One rivals Arsenal.

The England Under-19 international previously had a three-month spell with the Blues during the 2016 season, scoring twice in nine appearances.
"To be back here is great," Kelly, 19, told the club website.
"It gives me a chance to prove myself in WSL 1. Now we are back in the top flight and we have a point to prove."

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The 21-year-old left-back has returned to the UK after two years in Italy with ACF Brescia and then AGSM Verona.
Williams won Serie A and the Coppa Italia while with Brescia, having opted to leave England to play full-time football abroad.
She has won international honours up to England Under-23 level and was an FA Cup finalist in 2014 with Everton.
Williams is Birmingham City manager Marc Skinner's third signing ahead of the Women's Super League Spring Series, after Ellen White and Sarah Mayling joined the club.
They begin their campaign at home to Sunderland Ladies on 23 April.
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Question: UKIP has become an "essential voice" in Welsh politics, the party's leader in the assembly has insisted.

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Neil Hamilton said that with Brexit achieved, UKIP's aim now was to inform the Welsh electorate of its domestic policies.
And he denied the party had outlived its purpose, following the vote to leave the European Union.
His comments come despite UKIPs loss in Stoke-on-Trent Central's by-election on Friday.
The party had hoped to capitalise on voters' leanings towards Brexit - the area voted strongly to leave the EU in June - but Labour held its seat.
UKIP was founded in 1991 with the sole aim of getting the UK out of the EU.
But Mr Hamilton defended the role of his party post-Brexit while speaking to Sunday Politics Wales.
"In the last 20 years, UKIP has become an essential, particularly in Wales, part of the domestic political scene and we now have to refocus our attention upon other issues," he said.
"We have serious work now in order to show people we do have other policies which can benefit them in their daily lives."
With six assembly members, UKIP are hoping to establish a further foot-hold in Wales in the up-coming local elections.
"Carywn Jones doesn't hold a majority in the assembly, he can only do so with the combination of other parties," Mr Hamilton said.
"We are an important voice in Wales, we got the best part of 15% of the vote in the assembly election last year and all the current opinion polls show that we would actually do better in Wales today than we did last May."

She told activists in Bangor that Plaid Cymru offers voters a "ray of hope".
Ms Wood claimed that an "emboldened" Conservative government would be a threat to jobs and public services.
Plaid currently has three MPs. On 8 June it hopes to capture Labour-held constituencies Rhondda and Ynys Mon.
The party hopes to capitalise on Labour's poor opinion poll ratings and divisions over its leader Jeremy Corbyn.
As the Tories lead the opinion polls, Ms Wood said the Labour Party had "abandoned ship and are now arguing over who gets the life rafts".
"A vote for Labour in this election will not stop a Conservative UK government," she said.
"But if the dark clouds of Tory rule lurk on the horizon, then Plaid Cymru is the ray of hope."
Plaid, which campaigned for a Remain vote in last year's EU referendum, has said this election is a "defining period" in the country's history.
Ms Wood - who represents Rhondda in the Welsh Assembly - has ruled out standing as a candidate for Westminster herself.
But former Plaid leader Ieuan Wyn Jones is seeking selection as a candidate in his former Ynys Mon constituency.


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Question: A headless and limbless corpse found in waters off Denmark was deliberately mutilated, say Copenhagen police.

But they say it is still too early to say whether it is the remains of Swedish journalist Kim Wall.
She was last seen alive on 10 August as she departed on a trip with submarine inventor Peter Madsen.
He initially said he had dropped her off safely near Copenhagen, but has since said she died in an accident and that he had "buried" her at sea.
The body has been sent for DNA analysis, but the results will not be available until Thursday morning.
Divers continue to search the waters near where the torso was discovered, but, despite some reported sightings, other remains have not been found.
"The current situation is that there is a torso in which arms, legs and head have been removed off as a result of deliberate cutting," said Jens Moller Jensen of the Copenhagen police.
"There is nothing about the length of the torso to indicate that it is not Kim Wall, but we do not yet know."
Ms Wall, 30, was a freelance journalist who had graduated from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. She was based between New York and Beijing and had written for The Guardian and The New York Times.
She was reported missing by her boyfriend after she failed to return from what should have been a short trip to research a feature about Mr Madsen and his submarine, the Nautilus.
The submarine sank hours after the search for the journalist began, and Mr Madsen was charged with negligent manslaughter. Danish police believe the 40-tonne vessel was deliberately sunk by Mr Madsen, who was rescued before being arrested.
The torso was found on Monday in shallows off the densely populated Danish island of Amager, on which the Danish capital of Copenhagen is partly situated.
Mr Madsen denies any wrongdoing.
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Fishermen found the decomposing body inside the radio room of the yacht, which was floating 62 miles (100 km) off the coast near Barabo town in Surigeo del Sur province, police said.
Documents in the vessel indentified the man as Manfred Fritz Bajorat.
It is unclear what killed him or how long he has been dead.
Investigators found no obvious signs of violence. They are trying to retrace the man's final journeys and speak to the last people to have had contact with him.
Graphic photographs posted on Facebook  by local authorities appeared to show the body preserved in the radio room by hot, salty ocean conditions.
The man was found slumped over his right arm on a desk, with one hand near a telephone. Personal possessions were found scattered elsewhere in the yacht, according to reports.
The grim discovery was made on Thursday by local fishermen, led by 23-year-old Christopher Rivas, who reported it to police.
Forensic examiners believe the man died more than four days before the yacht, marked "Sajo", was found, Inspector Mark Navales, deputy police chief of Barabo town, told AFP.
"It is still a mystery to us," he said.
The yacht was later towed to Barabo on Mindanao island.
The German embassy in Manila has not commented on the reports.


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Question: In many respects Greece has more reason than the UK to be angry with the European Union, and to want to leave.

Its people and government are embittered by the imposition of harsh austerity measures by the EU and IMF.
Those bailout conditions have brought years of deep recession and high unemployment, but have done little to reduce Greece's huge debt burden.
And as a frontline country in the migrant crisis, Greece feels let down by Brussels and EU member states, in its struggle to cope with the arrival of more than a million refugees and migrants over the past 18 months.
The anger shows in a pan-European survey published by the Pew Research Center earlier this month, in which Greeks top the table in their response to many of the questions asked.
For example, 71% of those who took part had an unfavourable view of the EU - far higher than in the UK.
More than 90% disapproved of the way the EU was handling economic issues and the migrant crisis.
And now with the UK having voted to become the first member state to leave the EU, an important precedent has been set.
So could Brexit be followed by Grexit?
On the streets of Athens, it's not hard to find people delighted by the British vote to quit the EU.
"I think the decision is very good, I think they did well," says Ionna Kokka.
"It is something we and all the other countries should also have done, because the situation is unbearable for everybody.
"There are no jobs, households are on their knees and we're being suffocated from all directions."
But these are the views of the minority, with most Greeks, like the government, still in favour of being part of the EU.
And yet, the risk remains of Brexit precipitating the departure of Greece from the eurozone and therefore possibly the EU.
Immediately after the UK referendum result was announced on Friday, stock markets around the world plunged, as did the value of the pound.
The Athens stock exchange was particularly hard hit, with foreign investors pulling out of some of their riskier investments in Greece.
"It's going to be a turbulent summer," says the stockbroker Nikos Chryssochoidis. "Greece needs foreign investment."
"The major problem is the Greek banking sector and these stocks have been really battered. As long as they remain at these very low levels, this poses [the question] again how viable they are."
The turbulence also means it will now be more expensive for the Greek government to borrow the money it needs.
And there are concerns about the impact the sharp fall in the pound's value could have on tourism, the country's most important industry.
Already one senior official has warned of a potential "wave of cancellations" by British holidaymakers, because the weak pound will make Greece a more expensive destination.
Around two million British tourists visit the country every year.
With the Greek economy already fragile, some commentators here are pessimistic.
'I think that Greece, because of the difficulties it has faced and the challenges of the (austerity) programme it has signed, will be a prime candidate for an exit from the eurozone," says the journalist and author Yannis Palaiologos.
But the stockbroker Nikos Chryssochoidis believes it's too early to evaluate the situation.
And he argues the shock of the UK departure from the EU, and the concern other countries might follow, could help Greece, because Brussels will now feel the need to tread more softly.
"Maybe you'd be more inclined to listen to what Greece has to say about the current (austerity) programme, which is very strict," he says.
"And maybe you'd be more comfortable to alleviate Greece from the burdens."
That is certainly the hope of the government here and the Greek people.

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Our talk of dark times when the city smouldered seem out of place on this sunny day amid the greenery and sounds of laughter.
But the possibility of Brexit makes him think of a time when Berlin was a ruined city, his father's horrendous experience as a 15-year-old boy soldier and Germany's past.
"Being nationalistic is not a good thing. So if the value of the EU is damaged - and it is already fragile - and if Great Britain is out, the temptation is the German population will also consider 'what are the benefits? Why don't we do things on our own?'
"It gives you a very eerie feeling, how thin that layer of civilisation is. If you do things together with other countries in the EU it gives us a chance to come to a compromise. If we are not in the EU we will not look to compromise, but to win."
It is a reminder that the European Union means more emotionally to Germany, and many other members, than it ever can do to the UK.
It is ironic that if we do vote to leave the EU the internal politics of the institution and its member nations could matter more than ever before for the future of our country.
Talks have already started in Brussels about how to respond if we do vote to leave.
After initial bromides about building a stronger Europe they would wait for the UK Government to set out the terms it might want.
There might be a wait, if, as expected, the Conservative Party descends into civil war.
But the future might then hang on the reaction of the 27 remaining countries of the EU.
Leave campaigners constantly argue that because of the size of our economy the EU wouldn't raise trade barriers, and cut off their nose to spite their face.
Remain campaigners, on the other hand, warn that the rest of the EU wouldn't make it easy.
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In reality two main forces would be in play on the continent, competing with each other.
One is the instinct that it is indeed best for the European economy and European companies to have a smooth transition to an easy relationship. The other, that breaking up cannot appear pain-free when there are so many pressures on the EU.
What Berlin and Angela Merkel wants, does not always, automatically, become EU policy. But it has a powerful influence. That is why I went to Berlin.
When I meet the Christian Democrat MEP, Christian Ehler, he is wearing cuff links: one says "trust me", the other "I'm a politician" .
He can afford this wry gesture. He is not just a politician - he's also an industrialist, former MD of a multi-national biotech company.
He knows Mrs Merkel well, and has an important job in the European Union - coordinator for his party grouping on the industry committee.
He told me: "Politicians like to pretend they are in charge of everything. But it is not just a political decision."
The UK could get a good deal with minimal rules, he said, but it would have no say over the rules, and so wouldn't be integrated into the EU market: that could harm the British economy.
Alternatively, the EU could impose tough measures on the UK, but that could cause damage on all sides.
"Sorting it out would be a year-long nightmare, the economy (across the Eurozone) would go down by at least 3 to 5%."
Mr Ehler is frustrated. His boys at are at a British school, he has a flat in London and he travels there often and says that the economies are so linked via the EU that it would be difficult to disentangle.
"It is really complicated. It's an integrated economy. Take my constituency: one of the biggest employers is Rolls Royce, which is producing half of the engines for Airbus in Germany.
"Should we put the British out? Then my constituency is out."
Mr Ehler's committee has looked at what would happen to joint investments, such as this. His conclusion? It is a mess, a nightmare that "would have Putin laugh his butt off".
He reminds me that some of Germany's success is in part down to the structures the British put in place after the war, not least a system of industrial relations.
There is almost a sense of embarrassment at the way people almost seem to be flattering our awkward country.
But then there is a also widespread irritation that the British are more inclined to moan about being dominated by the EU than celebrate their leadership within it.
I hear several influential people argue that Germany needs the UK to push - against the French and others - for economic liberalisation.
Without the UK, Germany would be cast more firmly on one side of the debate, rather than as honest broker, which makes them feel more comfortable.
But this is mere detail to the fear that grips mainstream politicians all over Europe. The hard-right Front National will be fighting an election in France next year on the policy of a referendum on the EU.
Parties which question the European project are on the rise in Austria, Sweden, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic and Italy - just to mention the most obvious examples. Nationalistic governments in Hungary and Poland are happy to clash with Brussels.
The director of the German Marshall Fund's Europe programme Daniela Schwarzer tells me: "One motive (if the UK leaves) will be to not make others think this is an easy game - you have a referendum and you get what you want. There has to be a visible cost to leaving the European Union."
Germany - mindful of its dreadful past - has always preferred to exercise power through the EU, in concert with others. As the generations change this instinct becomes a little weaker.
The Greek crisis on one hand, and the migrant crisis on the other, has brought Germany's role into sharp focus, and underlined the fragility of the EU.
The rise of the right has been seen in Germany too. The Alternative for Germany (AFD) is only three years old but did well in regional elections.
Beatrix Von Storch, party vice chair and an MEP, tells me if the UK votes to leave it would be bad for Germany in one way - it would pick up the tab if our contributions disappeared.
But she adds: "It would be good if you leave just to show you can survive. We're told no one can live without the European Union - you cant trade, you can't travel, everything will break down and the UK will go bankrupt in a month or two.
"I think that's complete rubbish and I would like to see how it works and I think we will see it is possible to trade with EU without being part of it."
She says making life tough for Britain would be counter-productive.
"If they start to punish the UK this would strengthen all the movements that want to leave the EU, the movements we can see rising at the moment."
Artur Fischer says Brexit would inevitably lead to confusion.
At present he works two days a week in London, and pays 40% of his taxes in the UK. He doesn't know if that would continue. His board knows any deal with UK companies is currently covered by EU rules - they might not have that certainty in the future.
"Our industry would be against any trade barriers. They are against all trade barriers.
"But I'm pretty sure from a political point of view that after they left Britain would not have the benefits they currently have."
People may yearn for certainly in this debate - the reality is there can be none, because it depends on future moves and counter-moves.
If the UK does leave, the arguments I've been hearing in Berlin will rage across a continent.


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Question: Jose Mourinho says he does not know about becoming the next Manchester United manager, but is hoping to be back in football this summer.

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Earlier this month, BBC Sport reported that United had held talks with representatives of the Portuguese.
Mourinho, 53, was sacked by Chelsea in December, seven months after winning the Premier League title.
Asked if he will replace Louis van Gaal at Old Trafford, Mourinho said: "That's the one million dollar question."
Speaking at a school in Singapore, he added: "Nobody knows and I am the first one not to know. I read so many different things."
Mourinho has been linked with a return to Serie A side Inter Milan and Spanish giants Real Madrid.
But he said: "Starting next season with a new club and project is probably the best for me."
The future of Dutchman Van Gaal, 64, has been an almost constant source of speculation in recent weeks.
His contract ends at the end of next season but the former Netherlands boss has been involved in a number of testy exchanges with reporters whenever his position is discussed.
United lie fifth in the Premier League, six points off fourth-placed Manchester City, and went out of the Champions League at the group stages.
They are through to the quarter-finals of the FA Cup and face Danish side FC Midtjylland in last 32 of the Europa League on Thursday, trailing 2-1 from the first leg.

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United are in talks with the Portuguese coach, 53, to replace Dutchman Louis van Gaal, who was sacked on Monday.
"In the last year, Manchester United has lost its identity," Ancelotti, 56, told BBC Sport pundit Jermaine Jenas.
However, the Bayern Munich boss said Van Gaal had been faced with the tricky task of rebuilding United and perhaps needed more time to make his mark.
"The job of Van Gaal was not easy, he had to rebuild the team," said Italian Ancelotti. "It takes time. In football, you need time to build something."
Old Trafford legend Eric Cantona says new Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola would have been a better fit for United than Mourinho.
"I would have loved to have seen Guardiola at Manchester United," Cantona, who celebrated his 50th birthday this week, told the Guardian.
"Guardiola was the one to take. He is the spiritual son of Johan Cruyff. He is the only one to change Manchester United.
"I love Jose Mourinho, but, in terms of the type of football he plays, I don't think he is Manchester United."
Mourinho's agent, Jorge Mendes, flew into London on Tuesday morning and is leading discussions with United.
If he is confirmed in the role, Mourinho will renew his rivalry with Guardiola, who was Barcelona boss when Mourinho was in charge at Real Madrid.


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Question: Scotland centre Mark Bennett may return from a shoulder injury sooner than expected to face England in the Six Nations opener on 6 February.

He was hurt playing for Glasgow earlier this month and it was feared he would miss the tournament's early rounds.
Bennett, 22, was nominated as one of the breakthrough players at last year's World Cup.
"He is progressing well and we should know next week," said head coach Vern Cotter. "It is 50-50, I would say."
Alex Dunbar sustained a thigh strain in Glasgow's win over Racing 92 on Saturday, while Peter Horne is struggling with a foot problem and Richie Vernon is a long-term injury absentee.
That leaves Matt Scott and Duncan Taylor as the only currently fit centres in Cotter's squad.
"Do Scotland have good strength in depth? No," said Cotter, whose side lost all five of last year's Six Nations Tests.
"We've got some good character and we've got some good individuals, but if we get banged up we know what that means.
"The players believe they can be competitive. A lot of things in this game are based on momentum so starting well will be important.
"We don't want to add stress and weight on the shoulders of the players. They want to win every game."
Some Scotland head coaches have in the past been set a win ratio target for the tournament but Cotter insists he does not have one this year.
"It hasn't been mentioned," he explained. "I know they'd like us to win every game as well. The players want to perform well in the jersey.
"To use an old expression, we don't want to have any regrets at the end."
Since Scotland's 35-34 defeat by Australia in the quarter-final of the World Cup, a number of players have spoken about the pain of that loss following a controversial penalty decision by referee Craig Joubert.
And while Cotter has sympathy for the players, he wants them to move on.
"The memory of the World Cup will stay with the players for a long time but it's part of history now," added the New Zealander.
"I feel for them. I don't think I need to use it [as motivation] as the desire in the team is to improve. That's the energy generated within the team and the driving force within the group and that's a great mentality.
"There is a 'no excuse' mentality within the group. It's about what we can do."

Wales interim coach Rob Howley had anticipated the lay-off by leaving the 18-year-old out of his squad for the tournament in Tuesday's announcement.
Uncapped Giles was tipped to make his Wales debut during the series.
"At this stage we are predicting a recovery period for Keelan of approximately four weeks," said Ospreys medical officer Chris Towers.
The lay-off rules Giles out for the matches against Italy in Rome on 5 February and England in Cardiff on 11 February.
He would also be a doubt for the game against Scotland in Murrayfield on 25 February.
Ospreys also face a spell of up to five weeks without tight-head prop Fia Ma'afu whi suffered an ankle injury in the European Challenge Cup match against Lyon on Sunday, 15 January.


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Question: Everton boss Ronald Koeman says the loss of Yannick Bolasie has increased the need to make signings in January.

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The DR Congo winger, 27, will have knee surgery next week after scans confirmed he suffered serious ligament damage against Manchester United on Sunday.
"The necessity now is a little bit more than before because we have lost Yannick for a long time," said Koeman.
Koeman has previously spoken about his interest in taking Manchester United's Memphis Depay, 22, on loan in January.
Bolasie injured the right anterior cruciate ligament in the 68th minute of Sunday's 1-1 draw at Goodison Park and is unlikely to feature again this season.
Koeman said the priority now was for the club to ensure the £25m summer signing from Crystal Palace gets the best possible treatment.
"He is going to London for an opinion about his knee, what is the best thing to do and the kind of operation, and then maybe he will go somewhere else to get a second opinion," he said.
"Normally I think the operation will be next week but it is a big disappointment for everyone."
Meanwhile, Koeman has challenged midfielder Ross Barkley to prove he is worth a place in the team.
The England international, 23, was dropped for Sunday's 1-1 draw at home to United and appeared to be visibly upset when he did not feature.
"If you like to play you need to show that to the manager during the whole week and he is trying to do his best," said Koeman, who also dropped Barkley for a league game against Manchester City in October.
"Sometimes it can be a tactical reason, sometimes I expect more from Ross Barkley.
"He needs to accept it. He needs to show it on the training pitch and that is the best way to give the best answer as to why he doesn't play.
"He is always trying to do his best but it is not always about the mentality of the player, it is about tactics, his movement, his productivity."

Lookman, 19, is expected to have a medical at Everton shortly, after terms were agreed between the clubs.
Boss Ronald Koeman will then be keen to secure a deal for Schneiderlin, 27.
The France midfielder, who played for the Dutchman at Southampton, has been told he can leave Old Trafford.
Schneiderlin, who has also been linked with a return to France at Marseille, has failed to figure under manager Jose Mourinho.
It is understood Everton have had a £19m bid turned down but it seems certain they will return with a renewed offer closer to United's asking price.
United are keen to recoup most, if not all, of the £24m they paid Southampton in July 2015 and have also rejected an offer from West Bromwich Albion.
Koeman wants early recruits with midfielder Idrissa Gueye, arguably Everton's most influential performer this season, now away on international duty with Senegal at the Africa Cup Of Nations, and James McCarthy out injured.
Everton also retain an interest in another player marginalised under Mourinho at Old Trafford, Koeman's fellow Dutchman Memphis Depay.
Forward Lookman is expected to be first in at Goodison Park, with director of football Steve Walsh making his signing a priority.
Everton - with Walsh a key figure - are embarking on a policy of recruiting emerging young talent as well as established players.
The Toffees signed teenage striker Dominic Calvert-Lewin from Sheffield United for £1.5m in August and the England youth international started the 3-0 win against Southampton on Monday after several appearances as a substitute but was forced to go off early on with an ankle injury.
Charlton had hoped Everton would loan Lookman back to them for the rest of the season but he is seen as someone who could quickly play a part at Goodison Park.


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Question: President Barack Obama has vowed the US will not be intimidated, after Islamic State militants released a video showing the beheading of American journalist Steven Sotloff.

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He said the US will build a coalition to "degrade and destroy" the group.
Another US journalist, James Foley, was similarly killed last month.
Separately, the UK held a meeting of its emergency Cobra committee after threats to kill a British hostage who was also shown in the latest video.
Islamic State has seized large swathes of territory in Iraq and Syria in recent months, declaring a new caliphate, or Islamic state, under leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
The US has launched more than 120 air strikes in the past month to try to help Kurdish forces curb the IS advance.
After the latest video emerged, Mr Obama ordered the deployment of another 350 troops to Baghdad to protect US diplomatic facilities.
His announcement came as campaign group Human Rights Watch said it had uncovered new sites of Islamic State mass killings in the Iraqi city of Tikrit.
The militants are believed to have murdered more than 500 Iraqi soldiers after taking over a large Iraqi army base in June.
US National Security Council spokesperson Caitlin Hayden said that US intelligence agents had "analysed the recently released video showing US citizen Steven Sotloff and has reached the judgment that it is authentic".
Speaking in Estonia, Mr Obama said the beheading was a "horrific act of violence and we cannot begin to imagine the agony everyone who loves Steven is feeling right now. Our country grieves with them".
He added: "Whatever these murderers think they will achieve by killing innocent Americans like Steven, they have already failed.
"They have failed because, like people round the world, Americans are repulsed by their barbarism. We will not be intimidated. Their horrific acts only unite us as a country and stiffen our resolve.
"Those who make the mistake of harming Americans will learn that we will not forget, that our reach is long and that justice will be served."
Mr Obama said the US strategy was to "try to ensure Isil is not an ongoing threat to the region". Islamic State is also often referred to as Isil or Isis.
Vice President Joe Biden added his voice to the calls for justice, by saying the US would pursue the killers "to the gates of hell".
UK Prime Minister David Cameron told MPs the two American beheadings were "utterly abhorrent and barbaric", adding: "We will not waver in our aim of defeating terrorism."
Analysis: BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner
This second video from Islamic State is significant, even though it was largely expected and dreaded. It shows that the recent US air strikes which have halted the lightning advance of IS across northern Iraq are causing the organisation real damage, upsetting its plans to extend by force its rule into Kurdistan.
Unable to hit back militarily against America's jets, IS has responded with a form of information warfare that it knows will horrify most people in the West.
Secondly, by threatening to murder a British hostage, IS shows it makes little or no distinction between the US and Britain as its enemy. This is despite Britain so far restricting itself to dropping aid to refugees and flying in supplies to the Kurdish military, leaving air strikes to the Americans.
A spokesman for the Sotloff family had earlier indicated they believed the video was genuine, issuing a statement that said: "The family knows of this horrific tragedy and is grieving privately. There will be no public comment from the family during this difficult time."
US state department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said it was believed that "a few" other Americans were still being held by Islamic State.
Mr Sotloff, 31, who also held Israeli citizenship, was abducted in northern Syria in August 2013.
He had appeared in a video last month which showed James Foley being killed.
The latest video, entitled "A second message to America", is about two-and-a-half minutes long and was apparently recorded in a desert.
Next to a masked figure, Mr Sotloff reads out a text addressed to President Obama saying: "You've spent billions of US taxpayers' dollars and we have lost thousands of our troops in our previous fighting against the Islamic State, so where is the people's interest in reigniting this war?"
The militant spoke with a British accent similar to that of the man who appeared to carry out the beheading of James Foley.
Mr Hammond told the BBC it seemed to be the same person.
US media reaction
Writing in the New York Times, Thomas L Friedman warns that the US strategy on Islamic State must avoid the "fire, ready, aim" approach that followed the 9/11 attacks. He says: "There are no words to describe the vileness of the video beheadings of two American journalists by Isis, but I have no doubt that they're meant to get us to overreact, a la 9/11, and rush off again without a strategy. Isis is awful, but it is not a threat to America's homeland."
The Wall Street Journal and Washington Post carry tributes from Mr Sotloff's friends and colleagues. His former Time editor Ishaan Tharoor praises the "breadth and commitment of his work" across many Middle East countries.
Writing in the Boston Globe, Farah Stockman says: "We couldn't save Sotloff. But we can ensure that his death... was not in vain. He risked his life knowingly, so the rest of us could understand a terrible war better - so that the rest of us could read more, think more, and understand more about Syria. We owe it to him to do just that."
The man says: "I'm back, Obama, and I'm back because of your arrogant foreign policy towards the Islamic State... despite our serious warnings."
He also threatens to kill the British hostage shown in the footage. The family of the British hostage have asked the media not to release his name.

This comes after an IS video appeared to show him being burned alive. Jordan confirmed the death, although the video's authenticity is being checked.
Officials told reporters a convicted jihadist Jordan had tried to exchange for the pilot would be executed.
The 26-year-old pilot was seized when his plane came down in Syria in December during a mission against IS.
Mamdouh al-Ameri, a spokesman for the Jordanian armed forces, said on Tuesday that Lt Kasasbeh had "fallen as a martyr".
"His blood will not be shed in vain. Our punishment and revenge will be as huge as the loss of the Jordanians."
The army also promised an "earth-shattering" response to his death.
Jordanian state TV reported that Lt Kasasbeh was killed a month ago. Since then Jordan had tried to secure his release as part of a prisoner swap, offering to free failed suicide bomber Sajida al-Rishawi in exchange.
Rishawi, an Iraqi national, is on death row for her role in attacks in the capital, Amman, that killed 60 people in 2005.
Jordanian officials are quoted as saying she would now be executed along with with three other convicted militants.
IS had sought her release as part of a deal to free captive Japanese journalist Kenji Goto. A video that appeared to show Goto's dead body appeared four days ago.
In Wednesday, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said he had felt "an intense sense of anger" when hearing that the Jordanian pilot had been "horrifically burned to death".
Mr Abe expressed his solidarity with the Jordanian people and vowed not to "bow to terrorism".
Jordanians greeted the news with horror. Many have seen the gruesome video, barely edited, played over and over on television.
Hundreds gathered in the streets after dark, demanding revenge against Lt Kasasbeh's killers. Some also wanted to know why Jordan was involved in this fight at all.
The pilot's father was among supporters when the news came through. He and other family members have left the capital to mourn at home.
King Abdullah said Lt Kasasbeh had died defending his beliefs and homeland. The defence ministry said the pilot's blood would not have been shed in vain. It is promising a fitting punishment.
For many Jordanians, this has to begin with the quick execution of Sajida al-Rishawi, the failed al-Qaeda suicide bomber, jailed 10 years ago for her part in a spate of bombings against hotels here.
The video purportedly showing the pilot was posted online on Tuesday. It was distributed via a Twitter account known as a source for IS propaganda.
The highly produced 22-minute film shows what militants say is the pilot standing in a cage engulfed in flames.
The BBC's security correspondent, Frank Gardner, says it is aimed at a world already shocked by the calculated cruelty of Islamic State's actions.
Jordan's King Abdullah hailed Lt Kasasbeh as a hero, saying Jordan must "stand united" in the face of hardship.
The king decided to cut short a visit to the US after news of the pilot's death, but he met President Barack Obama on Tuesday evening before flying home.
Mr Obama earlier said that if the video was real, it would be "one more indication of the viciousness and barbarity" of IS.
"I think it will redouble the vigilance and determination on the part of the global coalition to make sure they are degraded and ultimately defeated," Mr Obama said.
24 December 2014: Jordanian Lt Moaz Youssef al-Kasasbeh captured by IS after his plane crashes
25 December 2014: Pilot's father urges IS to show mercy
20 January 2015: IS threatens to kill two Japanese hostages unless Japan pays $200m ransom within 72 hours
24 January: IS releases video of Japanese hostage Kenji Goto holding a picture apparently showing Haruna Yukawa's decapitated body
24 January: IS calls for release of Sajida al-Rishawi, an Iraqi militant sentenced to death in Jordan
28 January: Jordan offers to release Rishawi in exchange for Lt Kasasbeh
29 January: Deadline to kill Lt Kasasbeh and Mr Goto expires
31 January: Video released appearing to show Kenji Goto's body
3 February: Video released appearing to show Lt Kasasbeh burnt alive, with Jordanian media suggesting he was killed weeks earlier


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Question: The London Stock Exchange (LSE) has said a merger with Deutsche Boerse would be "compelling" as the UK firm reported a rise in profits for last year.

The LSE said the tie-up would be an "industry-defining combination" with substantial revenue and cost benefits.
The talks, first announced on 23 February, are still "ongoing".
It comes as the UK stock exchange company announced a 31% rise in adjusted pre-tax profits of Â£643.4m.
Including one-off items, profit before tax from continuing operations was Â£336.1m last year, the LSE said.
A merger with the German stock exchange would create a "group with global aspirations", said Xavier Rolet, the LSE chief executive.
"The boards believe that the potential merger would represent a compelling opportunity for both companies to strengthen each other," the company said.
LSE did not mention a potential rival bid from the owner of the New York Stock Exchange.
On Tuesday, Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), which owns the flagship US stock market, said it was considering making a takeover offer for the LSE.
ICE has until 29 March to make or announce an offer, while Deutsche Boerse has until 22 March.
Under the proposed "merger of equals", the LSE would own 45.6% of the combined group and Deutsche Boerse would hold the remaining 54.4%.
Both companies said all their key businesses would continue to operate under their current brand names.
The merged company would also have dual headquarters in London and Frankfurt.

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The index climbed above the 7,500 level for the first time, closing at 7,522.03 points after nine days of gains.
Confidence in the outcome of the UK election and a recovery in commodity stocks helped lift the index, analysts said.
Continuing weakness in the pound also helped, they added.
"Investors seem to be feeling confident about the outlook for Britain under what is expected to be the biggest Conservative party majority since Margaret Thatcher," said Jasper Lawler of LCG.
Laith Khalaf, analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, said: "Investors will be thinking that the 8,000 mark is hovering into view."
Sterling dipped after the latest UK inflation report, before rallying back to the $1.29 level. The inflation rate jumped to 2.7% last month from 2.3% in March.
Connor Campbell of Spreadex said: "The Bank of England appears reluctant to combat rising prices with a rate hike; combine that with the alarming squeeze on real wages and the pound has little reason for cheer, something that only works in the FTSE's favour."
In general, a weaker pound lifts the FTSE 100 as many companies on the index have significant revenues from overseas. A weak pound means these revenues are worth more when converted back into sterling.
The pound also slipped 0.7% against the euro to 1.1663 euros.
Vodafone was the biggest riser on the FTSE 100, with the mobile giant's shares rising nearly 4% as investors overlooked a hefty annual loss and focused on its upbeat outlook.
It expects profits to rise due to healthy revenues from contract customers.
Hargreaves Lansdown was by far the biggest faller, ending 8.5% after US exchange-traded fund provider Vanguard said it planned to sell directly to investors in Europe for the first time.
Shares in EasyJet fell 7.3% after the airline reported larger-than-expected half-year losses.
The airline recorded a loss of Â£212m in the six months to March, partly due to the impact of the lower pound and the timing of Easter.


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Question: Paralympic fencer Gabi Down has retired from the sport at the age of 17 because of a wrist injury.

Down was one of Great Britain's youngest para-athletes competing at London 2012 and she helped the women's epee team finish eighth.
She has just had a year-long break and does not want to risk surgery which would "leave me with scar tissue and potentially a worse injury".
"I still want to stay as involved with fencing as I possibly can," she added.

Pearson, 29, who won gold at London 2012 and silver at Beijing 2008, suffered the injury in training.
"Unfortunately, it is the biggest sporting event in the world that I am going to be missing out on," Pearson told Australia's Nine Network.
"It's devastating that I can't be at Rio as the Olympic champ."
Australia's track and field captain only returned from injury in June but has struggled for fitness.
The 2011 world champion missed the end of the 2015 season after shattering her wrist competing in Rome.
The athlete has had trouble with track times since her return and finished last at Norway's Diamond League event earlier this month.
The Australian Olympic team's chef de mission, Kitty Chiller said earlier:  "It is just such a shame for a fantastic champion, a fantastic fighter and if she doesn't run in Rio I'll be very, very sad for Sally and the team."
In a blog post on 18 June, Pearson described her "exhausting" training regime to get ready for Rio and reflected on the "broken bones, torn calf, degenerative Achilles and hammy problems" that she has suffered from in the past 12 months.


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Question: President: Alexander Lukashenko

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Alexander Lukashenko, often referred to as Europe's last dictator, won a fifth term as president in October 2015, with no significant opposition candidate allowed to stand.
President Alexander Lukashenko is entering his fifth term in office
Profile: Alexander Lukashenko
His win in December 2010 was followed by violent confrontations in the capital Minsk between the security forces and thousands of opposition demonstrators protesting about alleged vote-rigging.
A former state farm director, Mr Lukashenko was first elected president in 1994, following his energetic performance as chairman of the parliamentary anti-corruption committee.
A 1996 referendum gave the president greatly increased powers at the expense of parliament and extended his term by two years. He won a further five years in office in 2001 presidential elections condemned as undemocratic by Western observers. Another referendum in October 2004 supported lifting the two-term limit on Mr Lukashenko's rule, allowing him to stand again in 2006 and 2010.
Over the years, several opposition politicians who might have provided leadership have disappeared or been imprisoned. Insulting the president, even in jest, carries a prison sentence.
The president remains defiant in the face of Western pressure for change. He has dismissed all possibility of revolutions such as those which brought an end to old-style regimes in Georgia and neighbouring Ukraine.

A hat-trick from Mark Wilson as well as tries from Zach Kibirige and Marcus Watson saw the hosts secure a bonus-point 29-7 lead at the break, Denis Simplikevich with the Siberians' score.
Kibirige grabbed his second try before former England sevens winger Watson scored three more in the second half.
The Premiership side go second in pool one, three points behind Connact.
Newcastle picked up their first point of the season last week as they secured a losing bonus point in their loss in Brive.
But Dean Richards' side were too much at Kingston Park for their Siberian opponents who are in their first European Rugby Challenge Cup campaign.
Newcastle: Tait; Kibirige, Penny, Harris, Watson; Catterick, Young; Vickers, McGuigan, Welsh, Green, Robinson, Welch, Temm, Wilson.
Replacements: Lawson, Rogers, Vea, Witty, Mayhew, Tipuna, Willis, Powell.
Enisei-STM: Kushnarev; Malnik, Kacharava, Gerasimov, Simplikevich; Gaisin, Baranovs; Bezverkhov, Selskii, Zykov, Saulite, Krasylnyk, Orlov, Temnov, Krotov.
Replacements: Hasanov, Cleminson, Pronenko, Butenko, Babaev, Shcherban, Kurashov, Krotov.
Attendance: 4,806


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Question: A prosecutor has told jurors there is a "compelling case" against a man accused of murdering a former Mr Scotland bodybuilding champion.

Steven Kirkwood, 44, denies murdering Michael O'Hanlon by repeatedly stabbing him at HK Autotek, Stevenston, Ayrshire, last July.
He has lodged a special defence of self-defence.
In his closing speech, prosecutor Richard Goddard said the "right thing to do" was to convict Mr Kirkwood.
The jury has heard that abusive texts and Facebook messages were being sent by Mr Kirkwood to his ex-partner Eileen O'Hanlon, who was due to marry Mr O'Hanlon in August last year.
A meeting was set up in the garage on 25 July 2016 to talk over the situation.
There was a struggle and Mr O'Hanlon was stabbed four times and died from massive blood loss.
Mr Kirkwood admits stabbing him, but claims he was acting in self-defence. He said he found the knife on the floor and lashed out because he was pinned down by Mr O'Hanlon and his friend Forbes Cowan.
Mr Goddard told the jurors that Mr Kirkwood had spoken about stabbing Mr O'Hanlon and had said "I think I killed him", 45 minutes after the incident in the garage.
"We have evidence of what eye-witnesses saw, evidence of what Steven Kirkwood admitted to others what he had done in the aftermath of the incident," he told jurors.
Mr Kirkwood had also posted on social media that his ex-partner Ms O'Hanlon had called him a nutcase for years and added: "I'm now going to show them nutcase."
Mr Goddard told the jury: "He started the day posting those words and ended it by stabbing Michael O'Hanlon to death."
The prosecutor added: "There is no evidence the knife was ever in anyone else's hands."
Defence QC Derek Ogg, in his closing speech, said that on the day of the incident Mr Kirkwood had found himself facing two big, powerful men - the reigning Mr Scotland bodybuilding champion Mr O'Hanlon, who was 6ft and 17 stone, and 6ft 4in Forbes Cowan, who was a runner-up in the World's Strongest Man competition.
Mr Ogg said: "These are two big, powerful, strong men. You could not get bigger and stronger men in Ayrshire than these two.
"He used what force he thought at the time was necessary to stop these two big powerful men each of whom had expressed aggression towards him.
"My client has severe arthritis. These men were not just looking for violence, but serious violence. Mr Kirkwood could only escape by going through these two men."
He added: "There was no conversation about resolving any issue. They intended to do violence and wicked violence to my client.
"These are men of such height and strength that if these two came through a door aggressively anyone would be thinking: 'This is it. I'm in for it.'"
"If you had an elephant lying there and you saw these two men coming you would go for it."
The defence QC accused Crown witnesses of being selective with their evidence.
The trial before judge Lady Rae continues.

Arran Coghlan, 39, from Alderley Edge, was accused of assaulting two officers outside Mottram Towers in Stockport.
Mr Coghlan said he reacted in self-defence and did not know the men were police when they approached him.
The Crown Prosecution Service told Liverpool Crown Court the charges were being dropped as the prosecution could offer no evidence.
Mr Coghlan was recently cleared in a multi-million pound drugs conspiracy case, after being accused of leading a cocaine-smuggling operation.
He was arrested by the Serious Organised Crime Agency in September 2010 and cleared in June after prosecutors offered no evidence at Liverpool Crown Court.
Mr Coghlan, who has denied any links with criminality, was charged with the murder of his friend Stephen Akinyemi after a fight at his home in Alderley Edge in February 2010.
But prosecutors dropped that case because they could not prove he had not been acting in self-defence.
Mr Coghlan was injured in the fight but Mr Akinyemi - who was known to police - was shot in the head and stabbed to the upper body, despite wearing a stab vest.
The businessman was also cleared in 1996 of shooting Chris Little dead at the wheel of his Mercedes in Stockport.
In 2003, he stood trial for the murder of drug dealer David Barnshaw, who was kidnapped and forced to drink petrol before being burned alive in the back of a car in Stockport in 2001.
He was cleared after it transpired police failed to pass on important information about another possible suspect.


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Question: A couple's chance wedding photograph with members of New Zealand's Black Power gang has gone viral on Facebook.

Newlyweds Sarah and Matthew Oke were having their pictures taken at Lucy's Gully on the North Island when they ran into the gang members.
They were in the area paying respects to the dead as part of a traditional Maori "hikoi" at the mountain.
The gang members agreed to pose for a pictures with the couple, and even gave a salute.
Formed in Wellington during the 1970s, Black Power is a prominent gang made up of Maori and Polynesian members.
Some members have been linked to drug running and other organised crime.
Photographer Rebecca Inns, 31, who captured the moment on film, detailed the experience in a Facebook post.
"The rain had just cleared and we were enjoying a lovely sunny wedding shoot," she described. "As we headed back, we came across a very full car-park and the guys who were there as part of a hikoi."
"We asked if it would be okay to include them in a wedding photo and they were really accommodating. This is the result."
New Zealand's gangs
The unconventional photograph received 5,000 reactions on the site and was shared close to 600 times.
Some have praised it for helping to break down barriers and racial stereotypes.
Ms Inns, who said the couple had given her permission to share the photo, told the BBC that she was "completely taken by surprise" at the interest.
"Both parties just happened to be in the same place at the same time, both there for their own special reasons - and it has made for a wonderfully unique photo," she said.
"We definitely did not expect it to go viral when capturing the moment. But we pride ourselves on recording those unique moments in a couple's special day."
Ms Inns said the gang members had been "very respectful".
"They all offered their congratulations to the couple and were so kind. They also told the bride how beautiful she looked."
Reporting by the BBC's Heather Chen.

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Thousands turned up on Auckland's streets and in Victoria Park to meet the players, who touched down in the city on Wednesday.