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At the time Mr Tilli was working as an estate agent, but with the Portuguese housing market in free fall, he was earning next to nothing.
And with Portugal's government needing a 78bn euro ($103bn; £62bn) international bailout, in exchange for putting in place a number of austerity measures, the wider Portuguese economy was mired in its worst recession for more than 40 years.
With the jobs market having ground to a halt, and four children to look after, Magda and Miguel Tilli decided they had no option but to take a chance on starting their own company.
Ms Tilli, 37, recalls: "We were at the beach, brainstorming about what we could do."
Tapping into Mr Tilli's knowledge of the property market, they recognised that they could turn a problem - no one was buying homes anymore - into a business opportunity.
And so, they decided to launch an estate agent business specialising in renting houses in Lisbon city centre.
While such a focus on rental properties may be common in other countries, the great majority of Portuguese estate agents only deal with selling homes.
This is because in Portugal owning your own house or apartment has always been such a matter of pride that it is the first choice of most people, even young adults.
Yet suddenly the great majority of young people couldn't hope to get a mortgage. Instead, a growing number living in Lisbon started to turn to the Tillis' new property rental business - Home Lovers.
To keep start-up costs down, the couple initially listed their available properties only on Facebook.
Yet to build up a decent reputation, they hired professionals to take all the photos, and only accepted properties of a high standard.
Ms Tilli says they picked the kind of places that appeal to young, urban professionals, such as trendy apartments.
Soon they had a steady stream of customers, both people wishing to rent a property, and landlords wanting to list with them.
"It became a cool thing to rent a house through us," says Ms Tilli, who previously worked as a flight attendant for TAP, the main Portuguese airline.
Home Lovers has now expanded to Porto and Cascais, two other Portuguese cities, and has a team of 20 workers.
It is now considering going to Madrid.
Ms Tilli says: "I'm a bit scared with that, but I don't see us being able to do this in any more places here in Portugal."
To understand why entrepreneurship, or setting up a business, is now so popular in Portugal, you only need a quick reminder of how bad unemployment remains in the country, even though it came out of recession in 2013.
The Portuguese jobless rate rose from 7.6% in 2008 to 14.1% in June of this year.
The situation is even worse for young adults, with one out of every three people aged 15 to 24 years old out of work, according to Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union.
Professor Paulo Soares de Pinho, who teaches at Nova School of Business and Economics in Lisbon, and runs his own investment fund, says that one of the biggest changes brought by Portugal's economic crisis was "to transform many unemployed people into wannabe entrepreneurs".
Yet he cautions that while many technology-minded young people are coming up with products, not all of them are able to turn them into a viable business.
"We're going through an app entrepreneurship wave. Any kid coming out of an engineering school develops an app and thinks he has a company," he says.
"But there are many tech projects with no market orientation whatsoever."
Carlos Silva, co-founder of the crowd funding website Seedrs, agrees that in Portugal "may start-ups are going ahead just because entrepreneurship is now a trend".
Yet, he adds that there are "more and more start-ups of excellent quality."
To help boost entrepreneurship, the Portuguese government has created an investment body called Portugal Ventures to invest 20m euros of public funds a year into start-up firms.
Start-up incubators have also sprung up, to give new businesses an office or desk to help them get on their feet during their first months.
Magda and Miguel Tilli, used one such incubator - Start-up Lisboa - during the launch of their firm.
Anthony Douglas is another entrepreneur who has used Start-up Lisboa to get his business off the ground.
The 33-year-old is the founder of Hole19, a golfing app, which has mapped out thousands of golf courses around the world, and allows golfers to track and store statistics about their own performances.
Initially it was a paid app, and the business struggled.
Mr Douglas, who has a Portuguese mother and American father, says: "We've been almost dead a few times, with zero euros in the bank.
"In some months I stopped paying my own salary and had to ask relatives for money."
Yet Mr Douglas has since been able to transform the business's fortunes by giving the app away for free.
The aim is now to make money by enabling Hole19's users to book golf courses via the app, in exchange for paying a fee each time.
Mr Douglas says Hole19 was downloaded 220,000 times in the first 90 days after going free. And recently he raised 900,000 euros from foreign investors.
Joao Romao, 25, is another young Portuguese entrepreneur who has managed to turn around his business fortunes.
His first start-up venture, based around the idea of a shareable gift list connected to online shops, quickly failed.
Undeterred, he is now developing a business called GetSocial, which aims to help companies promote their content on social networks, and measure its impact.
Recently he secured 630,000 euros of investment.
Mr Romao says: "The first try was a good lesson learned. It taught me how to build a start-up. Everybody's learning." | When Portugal was hit by an economic crisis in 2011, Magda Tilli and her husband Miguel realised that if they wanted to make a decent living they would have to set up their own business. | 29027462 | [
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Ex-Libyan dissident Abdul Hakim Belhaj says MI6 helped to arrange his and his wife's rendition - saying they were covertly taken from Thailand to Libya.
The case, involving allegations against ex-Foreign Secretary Jack Straw and an ex-MI6 chief, prompted an unprecedented battle over whether it can even begin.
The Supreme Court is to decide whether the couple can sue the UK government.
Police have investigated the claims but the Crown Prosecution Service is yet to announce its charging decision.
The so-called extraordinary rendition programme operated for years in the wake of the 9/11 attacks of the US.
The claims involve the secret detention and transfer of terror suspects between countries for interrogation, allegedly including torture.
The UK and rendition allegations
Government can be sued over rendition claims
Belhaj torture case against UK rejected
Mr Belhaj, a former Islamist fighter who opposed the Libyan dictator Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, says he was seized by US forces alongside his wife, Fatima Boudchar, in 2004 as they tried to fly from Asia to the UK to seek asylum.
The couple were taken from Thailand to Libya - and they were immediately imprisoned.
Mrs Boudchar, then pregnant, says she was abused in prison and feared she would lose her baby before she was released three months later.
Mr Belhaj has told British courts he was beaten, subjected to other abuses and, separately, interviewed by British intelligence officers.
The regime sentenced him to death, but he was eventually released in March 2010.
During the later fall of Gaddafi, papers uncovered in Tripoli revealed MI6's former head of counter-terrorism Sir Mark Allen had sent his congratulations to the Libyan regime for the "safe arrival" of Mr Belhaj.
"This was the least we could do for you and for Libya to demonstrate the remarkable relationship we have built up over recent years," he is said to have written. "The intelligence about [Mr. Belhaj] was British."
The couple launched a damages claim against the government, Sir Mark and former Foreign Secretary Jack Straw four years ago and have offered to settle for £1 and an apology.
A High Court judge initially ruled out the claim, saying it could damage foreign relationships - but the Court of Appeal said the "grave" allegations must be examined.
The Supreme Court must now decide whether to allow the government's final appeal which is focused on a complex legal principle.
Ministers say the case should not proceed because it would breach a long-standing legal doctrine that prevents one state's courts from ruling on whether a foreign government acted unlawfully.
The Court of Appeal ruled that while that principle was valid, it could not stop a British court from examining whether British agencies, officials or ministers were separately culpable.
The four-day Supreme Court hearing is being heard before seven justices - a sign of how important they regard the issues.
They are also looking at a similar case involving a Pakistan man, Yunus Rahmatullah, who says he was tortured by US forces after being handed over to them in Iraq by British forces. | One of the most controversial claims of rendition involving the UK is being heard by the Supreme Court. | 34762589 | [
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Watson, 56, will work alongside Mark McGhee as assistant to Scotland manager Gordon Strachan.
McCall left his role with Scotland after more than three years to take over as manager of Bradford City.
"It is an honour and a privilege to have been asked to help my country and, it goes without saying, I had no hesitation in doing so," said Watson.
It is a second spell as part of the of the coaching set-up for the former Birmingham City, Hibernian, Motherwell and Rangers coach, having worked under Alex McLeish during the Euro 2008 qualifying campaign.
Watson knows his new colleagues well, having played alongside Strachan and McGhee at Aberdeen in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
He added: "I actually missed Gordon's call when he phoned and, when I called him back, I thought it would be to organise scouting, so I was humbled when he asked if I would be willing to help out for the World Cup qualifiers.
"It was a great experience to work with the national team set-up before, under Alex, and we came really close to qualifying then.
"I am confident that we can go a step closer this time and I am really excited about getting started and helping Gordon and Mark in any way I can." | Andy Watson has been brought into the Scotland coaching set-up to replace Stuart McCall. | 36796363 | [
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The council is consulting on plans to introduce a cycle lane on Pontcanna's Cathedral Road, make some streets one-way and removing a traffic island.
It comes as part of the 2015-16 local transport plan, which proposes new cycle lanes across the city, 20mph speed restrictions, crossings and park and ride improvements.
The council aims for 50% of trips to be made by sustainable modes by 2026.
The Cathedral Road project is part of a wider north west Cardiff bus corridor scheme, to improve journey time and reliability so more people are encouraged to use buses.
The council estimates Cardiff's population will increase by nearly a quarter over 25 years, resulting in a 32% increase in traffic and 20% increase in commuters.
The plans include measures to re-allocate space on the roads to cyclists and remove on-street parking on the approach to junctions. There are also plans to add bus lanes and improve signage. | Major overhauls to transport routes in Cardiff are being considered. | 34506785 | [
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The oil giant said the majority of the staff and contractor posts would go this year, with the rest expected to be lost by the end of next year.
The job losses amount to about a fifth of BP's North Sea workforce.
BP said it was taking the step in the face of "toughening market conditions" but added that it remained committed to the North Sea.
The cuts are among 4,000 posts BP plans to shed from its global oil exploration and drilling business.
The announcement comes a day after oil firm Petrofac said up to 160 UK jobs could go under a restructuring plan.
Mark Thomas, regional president for BP North Sea, said: "We are committed to the North Sea and see a long-term future for our business here.
"For example, in 2016, we are continuing to invest around $2bn of capital into North Sea projects and a further $2bn in running our North Sea operations.
"This will sustain many hundreds of jobs both in BP North Sea and our supply chain going forward.
"However, in toughening market conditions and given the well-documented challenges of operating in this maturing region, we need to take specific steps to ensure our business remains competitive and robust.
"An inevitable outcome of this will be an impact on headcount and we expect a reduction of around 600 staff and agency contractor roles by the end of 2017, with the majority of these taking place this year.
"We are speaking to our staff and agency contractor management and will work with those affected over the coming months."
The UK government's Scottish Secretary, David Mundell, is expected to hold talks soon with the Scottish government's energy minister, Fergus Ewing, over the announcement.
Mr Mundell said: "The UK government will work with the Scottish government to ensure help is provided to those affected, including through the Job Centre Plus network.
"The UK government recognises the huge importance of the North Sea, to Scotland and the whole of the UK."
First Minister job Nicola Sturgeon described the job losses in the North Sea as a "crisis" for those affected but insisted that the sector had a "strong future ahead".
She said: "I think it is important to note and to welcome BP's continued commitment to the North Sea.
"BP has reiterated today its investment plans, both in capital investment and operational investment in the North Sea this year and has said that it sees a long-term future for its business."
She said she would ensure the taskforce, which was set up last year and is chaired by Lena Wilson from Scottish Enterprise, was doing everything it could for individuals facing the prospect of redundancy and the industry as a whole.
Lewis Macdonald, Scottish Labour MSP for the North East of Scotland, said the job cuts were "another huge blow" for Scotland's oil industry.
He added: "With so many jobs being lost in the north east, and no sign of a recovery any time soon, it is time to reconvene the oil summit held just under a year ago and for the SNP government to spell out what their strategy is for dealing with this major crisis."
Scottish Liberal Democrat MSP for North East Scotland, Alison McInnes, said "real support" was needed from the UK government if the North Sea oil and gas industry were to overcome the challenges it faced.
Maggie Chapman, Scottish Greens spokeswoman on social justice, said the "need for a plan to transition the Scottish economy away from dependence on fossil fuels" had become "ever more important".
John Boland, from trade union Unite, said: "This morning's announcement shows the crisis which has gripped our oil and gas sector for over a year now is far from over. It's another hammer blow for jobs and skills.
"We need an emergency convention of all the industry stakeholders - government, employers and trade unions - to tackle this crisis so we have a safe and sustainable industry for the next generation."
Aberdeen City Council leader Jenny Laing said: "This is very disappointing news and a sign of the continued difficulties facing the sector, but we welcome the commitment from BP that the company still sees a long-term future in this area and is continuing to invest heavily in the North Sea."
Industry body Oil and Gas UK said the plummeting oil price had impacted heavily on activity across the UK Continental Shelf.
Chief executive Deirdre Michie said: "While Oil and Gas UK cannot comment on the commercial decisions made by its members, companies are having to take very difficult decisions in what continues to be a challenging time, and we, as an industry, must be thoughtful and supportive of our colleagues who are being made redundant or facing uncertainty." | BP has announced plans to shed about 600 jobs from its operations in the North Sea. | 35291874 | [
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Ronan Toolis led the excavation works at Trusty's Hill Fort at Gatehouse of Fleet.
It unearthed evidence that it might have been the royal seat of the sixth century kingdom of Rheged.
Mr Toolis said it was "pre-eminent among the kingdoms of the north" at that time.
The location of Rheged had previously been thought by many historians to be in Cumbria.
However, Dr Christopher Bowles, co-director of the excavation work in Dumfries and Galloway, said that may not have been the case.
"The new archaeological evidence from Trusty's Hill enhances our perception of power, politics, economy and culture at a time when the foundations for the kingdoms of Scotland, England and Wales were being laid," he said.
"The 2012 excavations show that Trusty's Hill was likely the royal seat of Rheged, a kingdom that had Galloway as its heartland.
"This was a place of religious, cultural and political innovation whose contribution to culture in Scotland has perhaps not been given due recognition."
Dr Bowles said the influence of the kingdom had "rippled through the history and literature of Scotland and beyond".
Mr Toolis added that they had not been looking for Rheged when they started the excavations.
"What drew us to Trusty's Hill were Pictish symbols carved on to bedrock here, which are unique in this region and far to the south of where Pictish carvings are normally found," said Mr Toolis.
"The Galloway Picts Project was launched in 2012 to recover evidence for the archaeological context of these carvings.
"But far from validating the existence of Galloway Picts, the archaeological context revealed by our excavation instead indicates the carvings relate to a royal stronghold and place of inauguration for the local Britons of Galloway around AD 600.
"The new archaeological evidence suggests that Galloway may have been the heart of the lost Dark Age kingdom of Rheged, a kingdom that was in the late sixth century pre-eminent amongst the kingdoms of the north."
The two men have produced a new book which details their findings.
The Lost Dark Age Kingdom of Rheged is being launched in Gatehouse of Fleet on Saturday. | Archaeological research at a site in Galloway has suggested it may have been at the heart of a "lost kingdom" from the Dark Ages. | 38679324 | [
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Rachel Fee, 31, and her partner Nyomi Fee, 28, are accused of murdering the two-year-old in March 2014 at a house near Glenrothes, Fife, and ill-treating two other boys.
The two women deny all the charges against them.
Jurors immediately asked for a break after watching the 12-minute film.
The video was shown to the jury at the High Court in Livingston.
It showed Liam lying on the floor of his bedroom in his pyjamas, covered in a duvet. The video was taken by detectives in the early hours of 23 March 2014.
The court had previously heard paramedics arrived at the house just after 20:00 the previous evening.
The video showed each room of the house where the toddler lived with Rachel and Nyomi Fee. There was a cot in the room, alongside a buggy and pictures of Liam on the wall.
Later, Police Constable Sam Girdwood, 24, told the trial he and his partner were called to the house after receiving a report a baby was in cardiac arrest and may have been strangled by a young boy.
Pc Girdwood said he arrived and Rachel Fee was standing with the boy who she and Nyomi are accused of falsely blaming for Liam's death.
He said: "She had a hold of the young boy and told him to tell me what had happened. He mumbled something that sounded like 'I strangled him'."
The officer said he took the boy into a separate room from the women where he repeated the claim, and brought it up later at Glenrothes police station.
He said: "He wanted to tell me what happened. He put his hand up in the air to say he had done this to (Liam). He went on to say something along the lines of (Liam) was getting more attention than him."
Both accused, who are originally from Ryton, Tyne and Wear, also wept as the video was played to the jury.
The couple are accused of murdering Liam and attempting to defeat the ends of justice by blaming the killing on a young boy.
They are also charged with a catalogue of allegations that they neglected Liam and abused two other children, one of whom they blame for killing Liam, while in their care over a two-year period.
They deny all the charges against them.
The trial continues. | Members of the jury in the Liam Fee murder trial wept as they were shown a police video of the toddler's body hours after he was found dead. | 36214926 | [
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The treatment isn't offered on the NHS, but it's understood some staff have occasionally put patients in touch with organisations who provide it.
Experts say attempting so-called "gay cures" can be "dangerous" and "damaging".
Fourteen organisations, including NHS England, have signed an agreement to stop gay conversion therapy being offered to patients.
Although in general, referrals to conversion services are rare - there is evidence that GPs, counsellors and psychotherapists have made them.
They will also be providing training for staff to enable them to improve support available to lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) people seeking advice.
The agreement, The Memorandum of Understanding on Conversion Therapy in the UK, makes it clear that NHS England, the organisation which has day-to-day responsibility for running the NHS, "does not endorse or support conversion therapy" and will make this clear to staff.
It essentially means GPs will not be able to refer patients for gay therapy and that no-one employed by the NHS can provide it.
Amber Dowell, communications officer at the UK Council for Psychotherapy, told Newsbeat the agreement was "really important".
"It's very common for people to have feelings where they might question their sexuality, where they might want to explore the attractions they're feeling.
"We want people to be able to do that in an environment that is safe, supportive and free of judgement."
There are no official figures for how many people attempt conversion therapy every year, but the Department of Health has acknowledged to Newsbeat it does occasionally happen.
Amber suggested that an "ignorance of the issue of the ethics involved" rather than staff being "prejudiced against LGB people" was to blame for it being offered by the NHS in the past.
"I think, in trying to help people mistakenly, referrals had been made in the past," she said.
Newsbeat has spoken to people who said they had experienced conversion therapy.
Louise from West Yorkshire said she was blackmailed into receiving "treatment" for being gay in 2007 by her evangelical church.
She later attended group sessions of around 20 women near Liverpool. "[Most] were married with children. They were there without the knowledge of their partners or their children.
"If I'd been more impressionable I think I could have been really damaged by the process."
Brad, from Illinois, lives in the West Midlands. He said he was "scared" when he first discovered he was gay and "wanted to do my very best to change it".
He attended group therapy sessions but realised the treatment, which he said encouraged him "to do more stereotypical masculine things" wasn't going to change his feelings.
"It's really sad I spent three years of my life trying to do something that was impossible."
There are some who suggest it works and insist people should be able to try it.
Mike Davidson told Newsbeat he "converted" with therapy over the course of two years and now provides what he calls "support" for people who have "unwanted same-sex attraction" in Northern Ireland.
He thinks the service should be allowed but he wasn't able to give an accurate estimate of how widely the treatment was available.
He told Newsbeat that gay conversion isn't a "huge industry" and that the people he works with have decided it is something they want to do.
"By the time they [clients] get to us, they know what we're about and know what they would like to achieve."
Explaining the process, he said: "For some people they want to go as far as controlling their behaviour... they do not want to act out on those issues and we would support them."
He also said that he turns people away who appear to have been pressured into taking therapy and admitted that, even when working with someone who wants to change their sexual feelings, a "result" is never guaranteed.
The UK Council of Psychotherapy says it intends to expand the agreement to Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland soon.
Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter, BBCNewsbeat on Instagram and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube | NHS staff in England have been told that they should no longer help people access gay conversion therapy. | 30819061 | [
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Simon Hamilton said if they want the highest standard of health and social care, then the current configuration of services is not going to work.
Mr Hamilton pulled no punches in his first keynote address in his new role.
He said the real challenge was the absence of political agreement on the future of health and social care.
Mr Hamilton acknowledged the worries that reform will lead to the closure of facilities.
But he added that its growing and ageing population means Northern Ireland has to do things differently.
In a hard-hitting speech with lots of plain talking, the minister said attachments to the bricks and mortar of the National Health Service [NHS] must not act as a barrier that inhibits people from getting the best healthcare.
Instead, he called on people to embrace change and allow the NHS to move with the times. | Northern Ireland's new health minister has challenged politicians to accept change as he outlined his vision for the future of local health services. | 32823010 | [
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He said he had been inspired by Pope Francis's call for peace and dialogue.
Demonstrators set fire to the Congress building last month in protest at a secret Senate vote to allow second terms.
Paraguay suffered under decades of dictatorship until 1989 and many oppose presidential re-election.
Senators say they will continue to campaign for a vote in the lower house.
They argue that Paraguay is the only country in Latin America that does not allow second terms and it needs to modernise its constitution.
During the riots, police shot dead a demonstrator which triggered calls for crisis talks backed by Pope Francis.
They fell apart when the main opposition, the Liberal Party, boycotted them.
The conservative president had the backing of his leftist rival Fernando Lugo, who was president from 2008 to 2012 and also wants to run again. | The President of Paraguay, Horacio Cartes, says he will no longer seek re-election after his bid to change the constitution triggered rioting. | 39625409 | [
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The company is in talks with several Japanese lenders over money it needs to reorganise its business in the wake of a massive accounting scandal.
The embattled electronics giant is hoping for loans of up to 250bn yen ($2.2bn; £1.6bn), said Nikkei daily.
Toshiba confirmed it was in talks but said the details had not been decided.
The Nikkei daily said Sumitomo Mitsui Banking, Mizuho Bank and Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank were like to provide the funds as early as this month.
The funds are vital for the survival of the Japanese conglomerate as it streamlines its bloated businesses, whose poor performances had gone unnoticed during almost a decade of false accounting.
The restructuring comes after the company admitted in 2015 it had overstated its profits by $1.3bn over seven years.
As part of the efforts to balance its books, the firm has announced major job cuts and the selling of several plants and units to external investors.
Toshiba currently employs almost 200,000 people.
Its shares have lost about 40% of their value since April last year, when news of the profit overstatement began to emerge.
In July, its chief executive, president and six other high-level executives resigned from the company.
Toshiba, which is involved in a wide-range of industries from electronics to nuclear energy, was founded in 1875 and launched the world's first mass-market laptop in 1985. | Toshiba shares rallied more than 10% on Thursday on reports the firm was about to secure substantial new loans for its restructuring efforts. | 35713797 | [
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Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday that the Russian air force would continue its support of the Syrian armed forces.
He also urged Washington to deliver on a pledge to separate moderate Syrian opposition fighters from "terrorists".
US Secretary of State John Kerry warned the US was "on the verge" of suspending talks with Russia over Syria.
"It's irrational, in the context of the kind of bombing taking place, to be sitting there, trying to take things seriously," he told a conference in Washington.
"There is no notion or indication of seriousness of purpose with what is taking place right now."
The Russian foreign ministry said a US refusal to co-operate would be a gift to "terrorists".
The US and Russia have been negotiating for months to try to secure a cessation of hostilities but the latest truce collapsed last week after only a few days and attacks on eastern Aleppo have since intensified.
The US warned on Wednesday it would end talks on military co-operation unless Moscow stopped the bombing.
The recent cessation deal was meant to lead to joint Russian-US air strikes on so-called Islamic State and Jabhat Fateh al-Sham (formerly known as al-Nusra Front).
However Russia has complained the US has not done enough to separate the more moderate rebel groups, which it backs, from Jabhat Fateh al-Sham. Many of these groups have formed a strategic alliance with the more powerful Jabhat Fateh al-Sham and fight alongside it.
Despite growing tensions between the two nations, Mr Peskov said Russia remains interested in pursuing talks with the US in an effort to resolve the crisis in Syria.
His comments echo a statement from Moscow, which insisted it would send diplomats to Geneva to discuss ways of normalising the situation with the US.
US Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Thursday that national security agencies were reviewing all options to try to end the Syrian civil war.
He said President Barack Obama had asked "all of the agencies to put forward options, some familiar, some new, that we are very actively reviewing".
"When we are able to work through these in the days ahead we'll have an opportunity to come back and talk about them in detail," he said.
Meanwhile Turkey has said it will work with Russia on putting in place another ceasefire after the previous agreement collapsed.
Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told reporters in Ankara "we are more than ready" but emphasised that nations have to try harder to find a political resolution in order for an agreement to be effective.
Aleppo has come under heavy aerial bombardment since the partial truce deal disintegrated a week ago.
Some 250,000 people are trapped in the east in appalling conditions, under siege from Russian-backed Syrian forces.
UN aid chief Stephen O'Brien has warned that Aleppo is facing an unprecedented humanitarian crisis.
Mr O'Brien, the under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs, told the UN Security Council Aleppo had descended into a "merciless abyss of humanitarian catastrophe unlike any we have witnessed in Syria".
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He has named several players with problems in his preliminary 24-man squad, including Charles Kaboré, Préjuce Nakoulma, Jonathan Pitroipa and Bertrand Traoré.
"I am confident they can recover in time," Duarte insisted.
The squad is due to begin a training camp on 27 December.
Bakary Koné is another player from the 2013 squad that finished as runners-up in South Africa who has an injury concern.
Injury has ruled out Aziz Kabore, who plays for Valenciennes in France, while there is a first call-up for Blati Toure.
The 22-year-old was born in Ivory Coast, played as a junior in Spain but is now at Omonia Nicosia of Cyprus.
"Blati Touré is a player I adore. I've watched him since he was at Evian TG I France but I was told he was Ivorian, but he called me to assure me he is 100 percent Burkinabe," Duarte explained.
"He hasn't yet trained with us but he is player with the quality to make a positive addition."
Also included are the uncapped Morocco-based Ernest Aboubacar Congo, called up last month for the first time for last month's World Cup qualifier against the Cape Verde Islands, and Issoumaila Lingane of Hapoel Ashkelon in Israel.
Besides Aziz Kabore, the most significant absence is first choice goalkeeper Daouda Diakite, who was seriously injured three months ago playing for AS Vita Club in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The Stallions will leave Ouagadougou on 27 December to train in Marrakech where they play a Morocco B team on 4 January and Mali a few days later.
Burkina Faso meet Cameroon in Libreville in their first Group A game on the opening day of the Nations Cup finals on 14 January.
Squad:
Goalkeepers: Germain Sanou (Beauvais, France), Hervé Koffi (ASEC Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire), Aboubacar Sawadogo (RC Kadiogo)
Defenders: Ernest Aboubacar Congo (IZK Khemisset, Morocco), Yacouba Coulibaly (RC Kadiogo), Youssoufou Dayo (RCB Berkane, Morocco), Bakary Koné (Malaga, Spain), Patrick Malo (Smouha, Egypt), Issouf Paro (Santos, South Africa), Steeve Yago (Toulouse, France)
Midfielders: Cyrille Bayala (Sheriff Tiraspol, Moldova), Adama Guira (Racing Lens, France), Charles Kaboré (FC Krasnodar, Russia), Prejuce Nakoulma (Kayserispor, Turkey), Jonathan Pitroipa (Al Nasr, United Arab Emirates), Bakary Sare (Moreirense, Portugal), Blati Toure (Omonia Nicosia, Cyprus), Abdou Razack Traore (Karabukspor, Turkey), Alain Traore (Kayserispor, Turkey), Jonathan Zongo (Almeria, Spain)
Forwards: Aristide Bance (Asec Mimosas, Ivory Coast), Banou Diawara (Smouha, Egypt), Issoumaila Lingane (Hapoel Ashkelon, Israel), Bertrand Traore (Ajax Amsterdam, Netherlands). | Burkina Faso coach Paulo Duarte says he has is not concerned over a number of injuries to key players going into next month's African Nations Cup finals. | 38364424 | [
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Martin McCauley was seriously wounded and a teenager was killed when police opened fire on a hayshed in County Armagh in 1982.
It later emerged that the security services had secretly recorded what happened.
The evidence was not made available to the court during his trial.
The 52-year-old, from Lurgan, County Armagh, was arrested along with Niall Connolly and James Monaghan in Colombia in 2001 and accused of IRA training of rebel FARC guerrilla forces.
They were initially cleared of the charge, only to be convicted on appeal and sentenced to 17 years in jail.
But the three men avoided imprisonment by fleeing Colombia in 2004, turning up in the Republic of Ireland a year later.
Even though Mr McCauley faces extradition to South America if he returns to Northern Ireland, the Court of Appeal in Belfast is examining a weapons conviction for which he received a two-year suspended jail sentence.
Police claimed Martin McCauley confronted them with a rifle at a hayshed 32 years ago during the so-called RUC shoot to kill incident.
He was seriously injured and Michael Tighe was killed when RUC officers opened fire.
In 1985, Martin McCauley was convicted of possession of three rifles found inside the shed and given a two-year suspended sentence.
He had insisted he and Michael Tighe, had not been armed and that the police opened fire without warning.
The police told the court that was not true.
Years after his conviction, it was revealed that MI5 had a listening device hidden inside the hayshed at the time of the shooting that recorded what happened.
That recording could have re-established whether the police issued any warnings or made any reference to Mr McCauley being armed before they opened fire.
The existence of the recording was not made known to the court at the time of his trial.
Its existence was discovered by the former Deputy Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police, Sir John Stalker, as part of his investigation into allegations that the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) was operating a shoot to kill policy.
He also discovered that the recording was later destroyed.
Last year, the Criminal Cases Review Commission referred his case to the Court of Appeal, on the basis that potentially significant material had been withheld from the judge.
In a dramatic development on Wednesday, Gerald Simpson QC told the court he had been instructed to read a statement on behalf of the prosecution service.
It said material relevant to the decision to prosecute Mr McCauley was withheld from the director of public prosecutions at the time, from the court and from the defence in the trial.
The statement said this served only to undermine public confidence in the criminal justice system and to bring it into disrepute.
The lawyer told the three Appeal Court judges that the prosecution service would not be making any submissions to uphold the conviction and invited them to exercise their discretion to quash it.
The judges will sit next week to decide whether to do so.
Mr McCauley's lawyers will argue that the conviction should be quashed on the basis that vital evidence was not available to the trial judge.
The contents of John Stalker's investigation into the incident have never been made public.
The lawyers hope that will change during next week's hearing.
"Mr McCauley was tried in public, and he was convicted in public and it's his fundamental right that these documents be opened in the public court, so that he and the general public are aware of what actually occurred," Mr McCauley's lawyer, Fearghal Shiels, said.
Mr McCauley was not in court to hear the prosecution statement on Wednesday as he faces extradition to south America if he returns to Northern Ireland. | The Public Prosecution Service has said it will not oppose an appeal by one of the so-called Colombia Three against a weapons conviction. | 27409548 | [
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East Sussex Wildlife Rescue said it had rescued 25 birds in the last 12 months at Ditchling Common Country Park.
In the latest incident a fishing hook had to be removed from a swan's tongue in the charity's operating theatre.
East Sussex County Council (ESCC) said it inspected the lakes and removed any discarded fishing equipment.
The injured swan, along with its three cygnets was rescued on Thursday after the charity received six calls from walkers who reported seeing the bird with blood on its body and a fishing hook in its mouth.
Wildlife rescue founder Trevor Weeks said a large carp hook was embedded in the swan's tongue.
"The removal of the hook was a very dangerous procedure and could have resulted in the death of the swan," he said.
"We've had a whole variety of calls to that lake.
"We are getting everything from abscesses in their necks where hooks have become embedded, to breathing difficulties where they have got lines tightly wrapped round their necks.
"There are a lot of very responsible anglers and they are just as concerned about the problem as we are but if this doesn't improve they should be banning it completely."
Anglers need to apply for a permit to fish at the country park.
ESCC said the danger discarded fishing equipment poses to wildlife is made clear to anglers when they are granted a permit to fish.
"We litter-pick at the site once a week but, in light of the recent injury to the swan, we will carry out a further inspection at the pond and surrounding area and remove any discarded fishing lines, hooks and litter that we find," it said. | A wildlife charity is calling for fishing to be banned at an East Sussex venue after abandoned angling equipment caused injuries to 25 swans. | 36451560 | [
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Officials say 80 asylum applications will be accepted each day, and a maximum of 3,200 people will be allowed to travel through Austria.
The measures will be introduced on Friday.
The country has become a major transit route for migrants seeking to claim asylum in Germany.
Interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner said Austria had no choice but to act, as there was no European solution yet in place for the current migrant crisis.
"It is a matter of common sense to secure our borders as long as there is no European solution. I see it as our responsibility, to maintain security, order and the quality of life in Austria for our citizens," she said.
"We cannot cope with the number of asylum applications that we had last year. That is why we impose limits on the stream of refugees. Another step is the introduction of daily quotas."
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Austria took in about 90,000 asylum seekers in 2015, about 1% of its population, and officials expect to cut this number sharply this year, to about 37,500.
Observers say the influx has contributed to the rising popularity of the far right in Austria, sparking tensions in the governing coalition.
Neighbouring Slovenia and other countries in the Balkans - the main route for migrants bound for northern Europe - have also indicated that they will impose tougher measures against migrants.
Some EU states have already re-imposed border controls on a temporary basis.
The migrant flux is expected to intensify in coming months as weather conditions improve.
The crisis will be high on the EU's agenda at a Brussels summit on Thursday, and countries are expected to debate the future of the Schengen Agreement that creates a 26-nation passport-free zone.
Following the Austrian announcement, the Slovenian government said it had asked its parliament to approve the deployment of soldiers to its borders to help control the migrant flow. | Austria will impose a daily quota on asylum claims and limit the flux of migrants travelling through the country. | 35600220 | [
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Critics of BT say it has not invested enough in Openreach and want it sold.
Ofcom's chief executive, Sharon White, is currently reviewing the company's provision of superfast broadband.
She said one option was "the structural separation" of Openreach from BT.
Ms White explained this was among four possible options being explored. They are:
BT is responsible for connecting almost all households to the network regardless of their service provider, as well as improvements to and maintenance of the network.
Ms White said the UK was doing fairly well in rolling out superfast broadband compared with other major European economies which suggests a split is not a foregone conclusion.
But she said it was unacceptable that 2.5 million homes did not have access to minimal broadband speeds of 10 megabits per second.
The UK government has promised that internet providers will be legally obliged to provide this speed to everyone who wants it by 2020.
Ofcom completed the first phase of its digital communications review in the summer and is expected to report its recommendations next year.
Ms White, a high-flying Treasury civil servant before she arrived at Ofcom, is used to making these kind of decisions, though not under quite the same spotlight.
When I interviewed her she told me that Ofcom was still examining all options - but suggested that she was minded to act rather than let things carry on as before:
" I think there will be change," she tells me. "We're looking at a number of options, but I think it is very unlikely we will conclude that the status quo which has worked over the last 10 years is where we are likely to be over the next decade."
Now, it is still far from certain that Ofcom's Sharon White will recommend that Openreach is split off - and the digital minister Ed Vaizey has already indicated that the government is sceptical about such radical action. But BT knows that it is now under the microscope of a regulator determined to prove that it is the consumer's friend.
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Previously Openreach's chief executive Joe Garner has defended their record saying they were installing broadband throughout the country at a "tremendous" rate.
BT has always maintained splitting off the Openreach division would be a "mistake", saying only a company the size of BT can ensure future delivery.
A spokesperson for BT said in a statement: "The UK's broadband market compares well with other major European countries, but it has also changed beyond recognition in the past decade and regulation needs to be updated to reflect that."
"We believe the current model works extremely well but there is always room for improvement and for deregulation given the UK market is now far more competitive than it was a decade ago."
Rivals within the industry, who have complained of poor quality of service, slow installation times and repairs, believe dramatic change is needed.
A Vodafone spokesperson said: "Regulators must decide. Either break up BT and get the true competitive fibre Britain needs to compete with the world.....or let BT recreate its monopolist past and watch Britain's economy fade away."
Following Ofcom's last strategic review 10 years ago, BT was obliged to create Openreach, which gives competing providers equal access to its telephone and broadband network.
Essentially, those providers, such as Sky and Vodafone, pay a wholesale price to BT for use of the network and then charge telecoms customers for services. | The status quo between BT and its subsidiary Openreach, which provides the infrastructure connecting people to the internet, is unlikely to continue warns the head of the telecoms regulator, Ofcom. | 34972638 | [
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The watchdog said these were some of the "main barriers" to local authority participation in the scheme.
It estimates a need for 10,664 school places and 4,930 homes for the 20,000 refugees due to be taken in by 2020.
The government said it remained on track with its programme.
The NAO's report highlighted the government's success in having "expanded the original programme at speed to achieve a new target" of resettling 1,000 refugees by last Christmas, and progress in improving refugees' own experiences of the programme.
However, it said there could be significant problems in meeting the target of resettling 20,000 refugees if pledges of help from local authorities did not become firm offers.
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2,659 refugees resettled so far
49% are under the age of 18
55% are survivors of torture or violence
118 local authorities have volunteered to resettle families
Participation by local authorities is voluntary, and they can make what is known as an "indicative pledge" to resettle refugees before upgrading this to a "firm offer" once accommodation, support and other services have been secured.
Although there has been a 97% success rate for allocating refugees to firm offers, by the end of June 2016 there were only 125 firm offers to cover 1,078 cases of refugees accepted for resettlement.
According to the NAO, local authorities say the main thing preventing them from participating fully is that they are struggling to find suitable housing and enough school places.
The report says that just under a third (31%) of refugees settled so far are of school age.
Of those refugees still to come to the UK through the programme, an estimated 7,655 will be of school age and a further 3,009 will become old enough to enter the education system during the programme.
But the NAO said school places were already "in short supply" and cited its 2013 report on funding for new school places, which revealed that about one in five primary schools were full or over capacity.
The NAO also estimates that about 20% of children in the resettlement programme are expected to have special educational needs.
This means local authorities will probably have to provide more than 1,500 special educational needs places, the NAO said - and some local authorities have already "turned away cases because they were unable to provide the required places".
The programme so far has required 655 homes and is estimated to need a further 4,930 before 2020, based on the size of families resettled so far.
Some councils had been successful in partnering with the private rental sector to house refugees, the report said, but others were "struggling to do so".
Local authorities in areas where accommodation costs are high also have concerns about finding affordable accommodation for refugees given the current housing benefit cap.
This has meant only 11% of refugees have been settled in areas such as London and the South East.
Meg Hillier MP, chair of the Public Accounts Committee, said: "Local authorities should be applauded for stepping up to help these people in desperate need.
"But already under pressure local authorities will have to find over 10,600 childcare and school places, and nearly 5,000 homes over the course of the programme as well as social and community support services.
"We need to be convinced that the government is committed to supporting local authorities in their efforts and is clear about its expectations and funding beyond the first year of a refugee's stay in the UK."
Refugee Council head of advocacy Lisa Doyle said it was "fantastic" that UK communities were welcoming refugees.
She said: "Each Syrian refugee welcomed by the UK will have their life transformed, if not saved by this programme.
"The UK government must build on this success by offering more refugees safe passage here, particularly by enabling more refugees with family here to join them smoothly and swiftly."
Refugee Action chief executive Stephen Hale said: "We are pleased that the programme has been established but I think there is a lot to do to help refugees integrate into Britain."
He said the government's funding of English language classes was "crucial" in helping refugees integrate.
A government spokesman said: "We ask local authorities to consider carefully whether they have the necessary infrastructure and support networks before a resettlement occurs.
"We will only resettle individuals to a particular area once we've ensured these arrangements, including school places and housing, are in place."
He added: "The level of funding enables local authorities to provide vulnerable refugees with a safe environment and the chance to rebuild their lives." | The government's Syrian vulnerable persons resettlement programme could be "at risk" because of a lack of school places and accommodation, a National Audit Office report has warned. | 37347264 | [
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The world number one, 30, was scheduled to play an exhibition match at Hurlingham Club in London on Friday.
"Sadly I won't be ready to play at the Hurlingham, my hip is still sore and I need to rest it," he said.
The Briton is still expected to begin the defence of his Wimbledon title on Monday, but will be short of practice heading into the Championships.
Murray has only played one grass-court match this year, suffering a shock first-round defeat by world number 90 Jordan Thompson at Queen's.
As defending champion, the Scot is set to open on Centre Court at 13:00 BST on Monday.
Russell Fuller, BBC tennis correspondent:
Aches and pains are nothing new for Murray, or for any professional tennis player, but the timing is inopportune.
Murray's last practice session was a light one at the All England Club on Tuesday, and although it is possible he might still have one on Friday, he may need to spend another day on the sidelines.
My understanding is that his participation at Wimbledon is not currently in doubt, but his preparation has once again been hindered. This is a season in which injury and illness have caused much frustration.
Media playback is not supported on this device | Defending champion Andy Murray has pulled out of his final warm-up match before Wimbledon because of a sore hip. | 40444819 | [
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The #BringBackOurGirls group should be ashamed of manipulating "the victims of terrorism", he said.
Mr Jonathan had been due to hold his first meeting with some of the girls' parents on Tuesday.
Islamist group Boko Haram captured more than 200 girls during a raid on their boarding school in Chibok in April.
Mr Jonathan had been widely criticised for failing to meet distraught parents and not doing enough to rescue the girls.
#BringBackOurGirls was a global campaign launched on social media to secure the release of the girls.
Mr Jonathan agreed to the meeting on Monday following an appeal by Pakistani rights campaigner Malala Yousafzai.
Mr Jonathan had planned to meet 12 parents and five girls who escaped shortly after being captured but the parents withdrew at the last minute without giving any reason.
"Unfortunately, political forces within the Nigerian chapter of Bring Back Our Girls have decided to take this opportunity to play politics with the situation and the grief of the parents and the girls. They should be ashamed of their actions," he said in a statement.
"Those who would manipulate the victims of terrorism for their own benefit are engaging in a similar kind of evil: Psychological terrorism," he added.
Mr Jonathan's spokesman Doyin Okupe said the president was "extremely distraught".
"He cannot understand this. He cannot fathom this - that Nigeria's mothers will do this type of thing for children," Mr Okupe said.
Nigeria is due to hold presidential elections next year.
Mr Jonathan has not yet declared his candidature, but speculation is rife that he intends to run for another term.
Last year, he declared a state of emergency in the north-eastern states of Borno, Adamawa and Yobe, which are worst affected by the insurgency.
All three are under opposition control.
New York-based Human Rights Watch says more than 2,000 civilians have been killed in Nigeria this year by Boko Haram.
The deaths occurred in around 95 separate attacks in more than 70 towns and villages in the north-east, where Boko Haram launched its insurgency in 2009. | Nigeria's president has accused activists of "playing politics" after his meeting with parents of the abducted schoolgirls was called off. | 28318259 | [
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Both missiles hit the water before reaching the USS Mason, a guided-missile destroyer.
A spokesman for Yemen's rebel Houthi movement told the Saba news agency that it had not targeted any warships.
The incident came eight days after an attack on an Emirati civilian ship that was also blamed on the Houthis.
The UAE government said the high-speed catamaran was carrying aid, wounded Yemenis and passengers when it was hit in the Bab al-Mandab strait.
US Naval Forces Central Command spokeswoman Paula Dunn said in a statement on Monday that the USS Mason had been "conducting routine operations in international waters" north of the strait when it "detected two inbound missiles" around 19:00 (16:00 GMT) on Sunday.
"Both missiles impacted the water before reaching the ship," Ms Dunn said, adding that "there were no injuries to our sailors and no damage to the ship".
"We assess these missiles were launched from Houthi-controlled territory."
However, a Houthi military spokesman told Saba that the charge was "baseless and aimed to cover for the heinous Saudi crime of Saturday's air attacks on the civilian funeral hall in the capital Sanaa", which killed more than 140 people.
A Saudi-led multinational coalition, whose air campaign against the Houthis and their allies is supported by the US, has denied any responsibility.
Also on Monday, the coalition said it had intercepted a ballistic missile fired by the Houthis at the King Fahd Air Base in Taif in central Saudi Arabia, which hosts US military personnel training the kingdom's armed forces.
A missile was also reportedly fired at the Yemeni government-controlled city of Marib in central Yemen.
The UN says at least 4,125 civilians have been killed and 7,207 injured since the coalition intervened in the conflict between forces loyal to Yemen's internationally-recognised government and those allied to the Houthis in March 2015. | Two missiles were fired at a US warship from rebel-held territory in Yemen as it passed through the Red Sea on Sunday, the US Navy has said. | 37606758 | [
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Ministers promised a response after AMs claimed the 2013 Active Travel Act had failed to achieve its potential due to a lack of funding and leadership.
Healthy travel will be promoted in school lessons, public health campaigns, and investment decisions, backed up by monitored targets.
Transport Minister Edwina Hart said there was a need for "culture change".
Local councils are obliged to provide routes for cyclists and walkers and to consider their needs when planning new road and rail links under the 2013 legislation.
But there was "considerable frustration" among supporters of active travel at the lack of progress, the business and enterprise committee reported in February.
Chairman William Graham claimed AMs felt the commitment of ministers had "started to waver before it has properly begun".
The Active Travel Action Plan published by the Welsh government on Tuesday sets out expectations in areas ranging from leadership and infrastructure to skills and training.
An annual progress report will monitor how many more adults and children have been encouraged to take up walking or cycling.
"Increasing levels of walking and cycling offers many health and social benefits," said Mrs Hart.
"We know that most people in Wales currently make no or very few walking and cycling journeys.
"This plan sets out how we can achieve our ambition of making walking and cycling part of everyday life through a culture change, both within organisations, and among individuals, as well as action to reduce barriers to active travel." | Schools, the health service and planning laws will be used to boost walking and cycling in an action plan. | 35696492 | [
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The 23-year-old, Ulster's Player of the Year, made his international debut for Ireland in the Six Nations game against England at Twickenham in February.
McCloskey still had a year remaining on his previous contract but had no hesitation in signing a long-term deal.
"I grew up in Ulster and it was always a dream to wear the jersey," he said.
"Despite some strong interest from other clubs, it was a fairly straightforward decision since all of my family and friends are here.
"The supporters, the facilities we have and the quality of the coaching were all factors in my decision.
"We had a disappointing finish to the season but I believe things are promising for the future and I'm excited to be part of that."
McCloskey has accumulated 42 appearances, scoring five tries, since making his debut for the province in February 2014 as a replacement in the Pro12 fixture against the Dragons.
Ulster Director of Rugby Les Kiss described McCloskey's expressed delight at McCloskey's decision to extend his stay.
"Stuart has been one of our standout performers all season. A major strength of his is his gain-line busting runs, which we used to great effect this season.
"In addition to his powerful carrying ability, his deft handling and decoy lines have also caused havoc for defences." | Ulster centre Stuart McCloskey has signed a contract extension which will see him remain at Kingspan Stadium until the summer of 2019. | 36367489 | [
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At the trial in Florence, he is seeking to overturn the conviction, while the prosecution seeks a longer prison term.
The Costa Concordia capsized after it hit rocks close to Giglio island.
On Thursday, lawyers of the 55-year-old captain are expected to argue that the disaster off Tuscany's coast was a collective failure of the ship's crew and others should share the blame for the disaster.
"We will ask that the responsibility of all the protagonists in this affair be redefined, not just that of our client," lawyer Donato Laino told the AFP news agency.
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Schettino, who has not yet begun his sentence, also denies that he abandoned ship before passengers and crew had been evacuated.
Meanwhile, the prosecution is seeking a 26-year prison term.
If Schettino loses his appeal, he can try again at Italy's highest court - the Court of Cassation.
In February 2015, he was sentenced to 10 years for multiple manslaughter, five years for causing the shipwreck and one year for abandoning his passengers.
Investigators had severely criticised his handling of the disaster, accusing him of bringing the 290m-long vessel too close to shore when it struck the rocks.
More than 4,000 passengers and crew were forced into a chaotic evacuation.
During the trial, Schettino said he had taken the ship so close to land for "commercial reasons" in a bid to please his passengers and those ashore.
He had also rejected rumours that he had wanted to impress his lover, Domnica Cemortan, who was with him at the helm.
Costa Crociere, the company that owned the ship, sidestepped potential criminal charges in 2013 by agreeing to pay a €1m ($1.1m; £779,000) fine.
It is being sued by survivors, the Tuscany region and Giglio island for further damages.
Five other employees, including the helmsman, were handed prison sentences ranging from 18 months to two years and 10 months in plea bargains concluded early in the investigation. | The appeals trial is to begin in Italy of the captain held responsible for the Costa Concordia cruise ship disaster in 2012, in which 32 people were killed. | 36157476 | [
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The watchdogs said there were "weaknesses" and "crucial areas for improvement" in the services.
They acknowledged that care provision was "performing well in some aspects".
The comhairle and health board provide the services as a partnership.
A new report on the inspection carried out in April and June last year includes 12 recommendations for improvements.
The inspectors said in the report that too many older people were subject to delayed discharge from hospital, and were having to wait too long for care-at-home support or a care home placement.
They also identified "very limited" development of intermediate care services and said there was a need for "timely diagnosis" of dementia.
Inspectors also flagged up where the health board and council have been working well.
Front line health and social work staff were "well motivated and worked well together", said the report.
There was also a "strong sense of community spirit" among staff and patients.
Karen Reid, chief executive of the Care Inspectorate, said: "This report has highlighted important weaknesses in services provided for older people across the Western Isles, and we have clearly laid out our recommendations as to how these should be addressed.
"In particular, effective and consistent leadership is needed to ensure that services deliver better outcomes for older people who access them, and for their families and carers.
"We require significant improvement to ensure high-quality care is provided to older people in a way which reflects their needs and promotes their rights.
"The Care Inspectorate will now work with Healthcare Improvement Scotland and the Scottish government's chief social work adviser to directly support improvement in the partnership."
Robbie Pearson, acting chief executive of Healthcare Improvement Scotland, said: "In this joint inspection we found that most of the older people and carers that we met were generally happy with the services provided to them in the Western Isles.
"They felt that the services contributed to better outcomes in respect of their health and wellbeing. We also saw good examples of older people being supported to remain in their own homes.
"However, we found a number of important weaknesses that need to be addressed. A significant proportion of older people were subject to delayed discharges from hospital - this issue was raised in a previous inspection for the care of older people by Healthcare Improvement Scotland."
He added: "We are confident that the recommendations set out in this report will result in significant improvements in the care that older people receive." | A joint inspection of the delivery of services for older people in the Western Isles has identified the need for improvement. | 35880216 | [
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Mr Fillon's bid has been overshadowed by claims, which he denies, that his wife and two of his children were paid for non-existent parliamentary work.
Some in his party, The Republicans, feel he should drop out of the race.
Recent polls have suggested that he may be eliminated in the first round of the presidential election in April, paving the pay for a possible run-off between centrist Emmanuel Macron and far-right leader Marine Le Pen.
Fillon payment inquiry: What you need to know
But a source close to Mr Fillon told AFP news agency that the candidate "will not give up". The conservative Figaro newspaper said that Monday's speech would mark the start of a "counter-offensive".
Mr Fillon, a 62-year-old former prime minister, has denied wrongdoing and strongly defended his wife, Penelope.
Last month Le Canard Enchaine newspaper reported that she earned 500,000 euros ($534,000; £428,000) as her husband's parliamentary assistant between 1998 and 2012, and questioned how much work she had done.
The paper also said Mrs Fillon was paid 100,000 euros for little apparent work at a literary review owned by a billionaire friend of the family - an allegation that could lead to corruption charges against her husband.
It subsequently emerged that Mr Fillon had hired two of his children to act as lawyers, paying them 84,000 euros between 2005 and 2007 - when they were students.
Investigators have begun an inquiry into the reports. Mr Fillon said he would step down if placed under formal investigation.
Until the reports emerged, Mr Fillon was the front-runner for the presidential election, thanks in part to his image as a forthright, honest politician.
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Mrs Dewani, 28, died after the car she was travelling in with her husband, Shrien, 31, was hijacked in Cape Town.
The vigils were held on 13 November in Bristol, London, Cape Town and also Sweden where she was born.
South African authorities have applied to have Mr Dewani extradited over claims he was involved in her murder. He denies the charges.
Taxi driver Zola Tongo from Bothasig, Cape Town, has been jailed for 18 years for murder, kidnapping, robbery with aggravating circumstances and perverting the course of justice after agreeing a plea bargain.
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Mrs Dewani's uncle, Manoj Panchmatia, who helped organise the vigils, said it had been "a very difficult year for the family".
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Mr Panchmatia said the idea had come from users of Facebook who wanted to do "something special".
He said the family had received hundreds of emails from people saying they planned to light a candle.
The vigils, including one in Harrow, north London, where Mrs Dewani lived with relatives before getting married, were scheduled for 17:30 GMT.
Two other men, Mziwamadoda Qwabe, 25, and Xolile Mngeni, 23, are also charged with murder, as well as kidnapping and robbery with aggravating circumstances and will go on trial at the Western Cape High Court next year.
Mrs Dewani was shot after a cab the couple were travelling in was hijacked in the Gugulethu township.
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Entry had been gained with damage caused to the interior doors.
At 07:00 BST, police received reports that the property had been set alight causing extensive damage downstairs and smoke damage to the rest of the house.
In the intervening period between the two attacks the occupant of the property had left and no-one was injured.
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Hood will join his former Leeds team-mate Ben Jones-Bishop at the Red Devils next season.
"I'm very pleased that I've got this chance again and I'm going to take it with both hands," said Hood.
He told BBC Radio Manchester: "It's a massive challenge. I've had a couple of years out of top-flight rugby and it's a big change.
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The discovery, the scientists say, could inspire new robot design.
It is published in the Royal Society journal Interface.
Kai-jung Chi, from National Chung Hsing University in Taiwan, and her colleagues investigated the jumping ability of Adanson's house spider, a common arachnid that jumps when it hunts, in order to surprise its prey.
Ultimately, Dr Chi and her team hope to learn exactly how these creatures fine-tune and control their jumping manoeuvres, to aid the design of miniature robots able to move in similar ways.
Dr Chi's colleague, PhD student Yung-Kang Chen, filmed the spiders at 1,000 frames per second, and slowed down the resulting footage. They compared the movements of the Adanson's spider with those of a species of jumping spider that does not use a silk dragline.
"We analysed the motion and body orientation throughout the jumps," Dr Chi told BBC News.
This revealed that the Adanson's spider used its dragline to control the orientation of its body mid-air and to brake as it landed.
The non-silk jumping spider would often lose balance - tipping forward and onto its back upon landing.
"[The silk means that the spiders] can land in the optimal position to rapidly initiate prey capture," Dr Chi said.
The results, she said, suggested that the spiders were taking up the slack in their silk dragline by using the valve in their spinning system.
These super-fast adjustments mean that silk provides more than just a safety line for a jumping spider.
Dr Chi said that the "adjustable silk tension" could provide "biological inspiration" for future manoeuvrable robot design. | High-speed cameras have revealed how jumping spiders use a dragline of silk to stabilise themselves mid-air and control their landings. | 23588412 | [
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Inspectors criticised Darul Uloom school when they saw a "female governor sat out of sight of the male governors in an adjacent room".
But a statement from the school says the school did not segregate, but was respecting the governor's choice.
A wave of Ofsted inspections found nine private faith schools "inadequate".
Ofsted chief Sir Michael Wilshaw had written on Tuesday to Education Secretary Nicky Morgan with the findings of inspections of 22 private faith schools, in cities including Manchester, Coventry, Birmingham and Leicester.
These had formerly been inspected by an independent group - the Bridge Schools Inspectorate - but from this autumn Ofsted has taken over responsibility for carrying out checks.
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Inspectors raised concerns including that some of these private faith schools were not "promoting fundamental British values" and were not encouraging "mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs".
They highlighted particular concern about Darul Uloom Islamic High School in Birmingham, where inspectors observed that "the only female governor sat out of sight of the male governors in an adjacent room to the main meeting.
"As a result, she could only contribute to the meeting through a doorway. Governors told inspectors this was their usual arrangement.
"A senior HMI has pointed out to the school that this practice is unacceptable as it fails to show proper respect for women."
In response, a statement from the school says that visitors, parents and governors can "sit where and how they wish as they feel comfortable, and we never assert any restrictions on this".
The private boys' schools says it has an "open door policy" and has hosted meetings including for a local faith forum and for the West Midlands police.
The school issued a statement from the unnamed governor saying that "my request to sit as I please" was a way of "demonstrating the school's strong promotion of both Islamic and British values".
"The right for a person to choose is a universal value," she said. But she claimed that the "British values" requirement was opposed to this.
Darul Uloom, now rated as inadequate, had been inspected by Ofsted inspectors since 2011. In October 2013, Ofsted rated it as good and described the head teacher as "forward thinking".
Ofsted says that although its own inspectors carried out a number of inspections in recent years, the school was considered to have been part of the BSI inspection system.
Among the 22 schools inspected 15 were Muslim and seven Christian.
They had been part of a group of about 50 private schools which had been assessed by the Bridge Schools Inspectorate, which now is no longer approved to inspect schools.
Among the 22 schools inspected by Ofsted, one was "outstanding", four were rated "good", eight were rated as "requires improvement" and nine were "inadequate".
Sir Michael's letter to the education secretary says it should be a priority to inspect other former Bridge Schools Inspectorate schools. | The female governor at a private Muslim school in Birmingham - at the centre of criticism from Ofsted - chose to sit separately from men, says the school. | 34921582 | [
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Mae'r ardal wedi ei chynnwys yn y 10 uchaf gan y cyhoeddwyr yn dilyn adfywiad mewn sawl lleoliad, a chyfleoedd awyr agored sy'n gwneud y gorau o'r tirlun.
Yn ogystal â'r cyfleoedd antur, mae'r gogledd yn denu pobl sy'n chwilio am fwyd da, cyfleoedd i wylio'r sêr a gwledd o dreftadaeth.
Mae Gogledd Cymru wedi cyrraedd y pedwerydd safle ar y 10 uchaf ar draws y byd, gyda Choquequirao ym Mheriw ar y brig.
Ymysg yr atyniadau sydd wedi dal llygaid y cyhoeddwyr mae Surf Snowdonia yn Nolgarrog, Conwy, gwifren Zipworld uwchben chwarel y Penrhyn ym Methesda a pharc cenedlaethol Eryri.
Mae Llywodraeth Cymru wedi croesawu'r newyddion gan ddweud bod nifer yr ymwelwyr i Gymru wedi cynyddu ac y bydd y wobr yn rhan o farchnata'r llywodraeth ar gyfer 2017.
Cafodd y 10 lleoliad eu cynnwys ar y rhestr am eu bod yn cynnig rhywbeth newydd i ymwelwyr wneud neu weld, neu fod rhywbeth arbennig yn digwydd yno yn y flwyddyn nesaf.
Roedd ystyriaeth hefyd i ddatblygiadau diweddar neu os oedd arbenigwyr Lonely Planet yn teimlo nad yw'r lle yn cael sylw haeddiannol.
Roedd ysgrifenwyr a golygyddion wedi edrych ar gannoedd o leoliadau ar draws y byd cyn penderfynu ar y 10 uchaf.
Dywedodd Tom Hall, Cyfarwyddwr Golygyddol Lonely Planet, bod gogledd Cymru yn y 10 uchaf "am fod yr ardal yn haeddu cael ei chydnabod ar y llwyfan byd-eang".
"Mae'n ardal syfrdanol gyda phob math o weithgareddau ar gael i ddiddanu teithwyr," meddai.
"Mae gogledd Cymru yn berl ac fe ddylai fod ar radar bob teithiwr."
Yn ôl Ysgrifennydd yr Economi, Ken Skates fe fydd safle gogledd Cymru ar y rhestr yn siŵr o ddenu ymwelwyr newydd: "Rydyn ni wedi gweld buddsoddiad mewn cynnyrch sydd yn denu pobl i Gymru, nifer am y tro cyntaf ac unwaith maen nhw yng Nghymru maen nhw'n profi'r croeso cynnes, y diwylliant a hanes yr ardal."
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Skellig Ring, Iwerddon | Gogledd Cymru yw un o'r 10 lle gorau i ymweld a nhw ar draws y byd yn 2017, yn ôl Lonely Planet. | 37756584 | [
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Trouble prompted police involvement outside the ground before violence behind one goal as players warmed up.
"Projectiles and fireworks launched from the stands require fans to take refuge on the pitch," Lyon tweeted.
The game kicked off 45 minutes late with Lyon scoring twice in the closing 10 minutes to win 2-1.
Authorities had categorised the fixture 'high risk', with about 500 police reportedly stationed at Parc Olympique Lyonnais - more than double the usual amount.
Both teams left the field as fans spilled on to the playing surface before kick-off, with Lyon president Jean Michel Aulas going into the crowd in an effort to calm supporters.
When the French and Turkish sides eventually emerged, both sets of players clapped supporters all round the stadium, before going through brief warm-up drills ahead of a 20:50 BST kick-off.
Before Beskitas' fixture against Greek side Olympiakos in the previous round, both clubs worked with Uefa and took the decision to ban away fans in a bid to avoid crowd trouble.
It is the third incident at a Uefa competition this week, following Tuesday's bomb attack on Borussia Dortmund's team bus and Wednesday's clashes between Leicester City supporters and police in Madrid.
When the match got under way, former Liverpool striker Ryan Babel put Besiktas ahead but moments after Corentin Tolisso's equaliser on 83 minutes, Jeremy Morel robbed Spanish goalkeeper Fabri in the area to tap into an empty net.
Match ends, Lyon 2, Besiktas 1.
Second Half ends, Lyon 2, Besiktas 1.
Hand ball by Gökhan Inler (Besiktas).
Attempt missed. Corentin Tolisso (Lyon) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Mathieu Valbuena.
Attempt missed. Lucas Tousart (Lyon) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Mathieu Valbuena with a cross.
Corner, Lyon. Conceded by Adriano.
Corner, Lyon. Conceded by Dusko Tosic.
Substitution, Besiktas. Gökhan Inler replaces Cenk Tosun.
Alexandre Lacazette (Lyon) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Anderson Talisca (Besiktas).
Goal! Lyon 2, Besiktas 1. Jérémy Morel (Lyon) left footed shot from the left side of the six yard box to the centre of the goal.
Goal! Lyon 1, Besiktas 1. Corentin Tolisso (Lyon) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box to the bottom left corner following a set piece situation.
Tolgay Arslan (Besiktas) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Mathieu Valbuena (Lyon) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Tolgay Arslan (Besiktas).
Corner, Lyon. Conceded by Fabri.
Attempt saved. Maxwel Cornet (Lyon) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Nabil Fekir.
Lucas Tousart (Lyon) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Cenk Tosun (Besiktas).
Mathieu Valbuena (Lyon) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Mathieu Valbuena (Lyon).
Cenk Tosun (Besiktas) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt missed. Emanuel Mammana (Lyon) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high following a corner.
Corentin Tolisso (Lyon) hits the left post with a header from the left side of the six yard box. Assisted by Maxwel Cornet with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Lyon. Conceded by Adriano.
Mathieu Valbuena (Lyon) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Gökhan Gönül (Besiktas).
Offside, Lyon. Corentin Tolisso tries a through ball, but Mathieu Valbuena is caught offside.
Hand ball by Nabil Fekir (Lyon).
Hand ball by Dusko Tosic (Besiktas).
Foul by Alexandre Lacazette (Lyon).
Marcelo (Besiktas) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Besiktas. Tolgay Arslan replaces Oguzhan Ozyakup.
Christophe Jallet (Lyon) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Christophe Jallet (Lyon).
Ryan Babel (Besiktas) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Mathieu Valbuena (Lyon) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Cenk Tosun (Besiktas).
Attempt missed. Alexandre Lacazette (Lyon) right footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Corentin Tolisso (Lyon) wins a free kick in the defensive half. | Clashes in the stands that forced some supporters on to the pitch delayed Lyon's Europa League quarter-final first-leg win over Besiktas. | 39548463 | [
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But new research from Imperial College London suggests the gender gap between men and women's life expectancies is narrowing.
It predicts in 2030 men in England and Wales can expect to live on average to 85.7 years - just two years fewer than women.
In 1981 on the other hand, men were likely to die six years before women on average.
But why does this gender gap exist and will it ever close?
In 1909 women tended to outlive men by just 2.5 years, Prof Les Mayhew at Cass Business School says.
At this point infections were the most common cause of death and they affected men and women equally in many respects.
But most adults were dead by their early fifties - and many lives would have ended much earlier through childhood illness.
As living standards improved and antibiotics were developed to help fight off major killers, life expectancy increased.
But despite these gains, the gap between men and women began to widen in the second half of the century.
Smoking is widely recognised as one of the main reasons behind the gender gap.
And quitting is seen by many as the main reason it is now narrowed.
Records show men took up tobacco earlier than women and more of them picked up the habit - meaning their epidemic had a greater and long-lasting impact on their life spans.
By 1948 estimates suggest 80% of men were using some form of tobacco.
Inevitably many died of smoking related ailments such as heart attacks and lung cancer.
And this stamped out many of the gains in life expectancy men may otherwise have enjoyed.
Women on the other hand took up smoking a generation later on average.
But the female habit never reached the same proportions that male smoking did.
By the 1960S and 1970s doctors and government officials had started to take the link between tobacco and death more seriously.
And gradually smoking rates began to decline.
Many of the benefits are being reaped today - and because more men smoked, they now enjoy a greater share in these longevity gains.
Prof Sir Richard Peto, from Oxford University says: "About half of all smokers are killed by tobacco if they continue to smoke.
"But stopping works amazingly well.
"Those who stop before the age of 40 - preferably well before then - avoid more than 90% of the risks."
Improvements in prevention and treatment of heart disease have contributed too.
And others suggest many men are involved in less dangerous jobs now.
For example, a million men were employed in dangerous mining in the 1920s putting them at risk of lung disease.
Prof Les Mayhew of Cass Business school argues this is unlikely.
In a study published last year he says: "It would be hard to justify these differences on biological grounds since the gender gap varies so much and is different in each country, and therefore it is more likely to be societal in origin."
But others say biological differences probably play a part.
Projections indicate when comparing non-smoking men and non-smoking women, life expectancy remains higher in women.
No one has pinned down exactly what this biological advantage would be, if it exists at all.
But experts suggest it could be partly due to hormones protecting women from heart disease.
Whatever is protecting women, their advantage over men has been hugely aggravated by smoking patterns, Prof Peto says.
Many theories on the male shortfall in life expectancy are still open to debate and yet to be proven definitively.
Some studies suggest females enjoy a longer life partly because their immune systems age more slowly.
So in older age they are able to fight off illnesses, while men grow more susceptible to disease.
Others argue there is an ancient, evolutionary answer to the gap - seen in other species too.
One theory suggests males' competitive natures- arising from a desire to attract mates - encourages them to engage in more risky and ultimately more fatal behaviours.
Others believe women may be needed for longer, to make sure their offspring are well cared for into the future.
Official figures show the gap has been closing gradually.
And Office of National Statistics estimates put the gap at around three years by 2037.
Prof Mayhew on the other hand, in work published in 2014, estimates men and women could expect to live as long as each other in 2030.
But others call that an implausible claim. Predictions are uncertain - many things could change in the years to come.
In the tricky world of modelling the future, there is some consensus on at least one thing. Both men and women are likely to continue living longer and according to some - healthier - lives for many years to come. | It has long been accepted that women outlive men. | 32512351 | [
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After weeks of speculation about whether the Governor of the Bank of England would extend his time as its head in reaction to the referendum result, Mark Carney surprised many people in the City and in government by announcing a decision that few had considered.
Although many officials at the Bank believed that Mark Carney had two options before him - stay until 2021 or leave as originally intended in 2018 - the governor proffered a third.
Extend, yes, but for just one more year.
Superficially, it appeared to be a rather awkward fudge.
Did Mr Carney feel under political pressure not to extend until 2021 despite wanting to?
Was he so disillusioned by the gloomy economic predictions for the UK that he would rather not stick around to see the full effects of the Brexit vote?
Or was there another issue weighing on his mind: how his family would feel about another three years in the UK with a father who is regularly away at some global summit or other one weekend in every two?
The third, it appears, was the clincher.
When Mr Carney took office in 2013, the notion that Britain would be beginning the difficult process of negotiating its way out of the European Union three years later (a process described by the former head of the World Trade Organisation, Pascal Lamy, as something akin to "taking an egg out of omelette"), was a remote one.
But that all changed on 23 June.
Beyond trying to stabilise the economy, it also created a personal issue for the Governor.
If he left in 2018 as originally agreed, it would be right in the middle of Britain's exit negotiations.
Should he, therefore, extend his term to the full eight years that governors would usually be expected to serve?
That might provide a greater level of certainty for jittery markets.
And the Governor certainly understood the challenge of the job had changed, telling those close to him that an extension was an option and he "wanted to serve" - discussions which led to predictions in the media he would serve the full eight years.
But, a number of weeks ago in far more private discussions, he started talking about a "third way" - the short extension.
The reasons were personal and unique.
In 2018, one of Mr Carney's four daughters will be finishing her A-levels, and another will be completing her GCSEs.
Like everyone, I have personal circumstances that I have to manage. This is a role that requires total attention and devotion. I intend to give that for as long as I can.
For his family, this was the perfect moment to return home to Canada and its much lauded education system.
He hinted at how important that was in evidence to the economic affairs committee of the House of Lords last week.
"To be absolutely clear, it is an entirely personal decision," he said about whether he would extend his stay.
"No one should read anything into that decision as regards government policy - actual, imagined, potential, past. It is an absolute privilege for me to have this role. I fully recognise that.
"Like everyone, I have personal circumstances that I have to manage. This is a role that requires total attention and devotion. I intend to give that for as long as I can. Those are the only factors."
Those around Mr Carney dismiss any notion of "tension" with the Prime Minister, who was certainly keen for the Governor to extend his period in office to 2021. However, Theresa May was clear that it was up to Mr Carney to make the decision.
Neither did criticism from those who believe the Bank's pre-referendum economic forecasts were too gloomy about the effects of a Brexit vote get under his skin, they add.
Professionally, Mr Carney was clear that it would difficult to leave in the teeth of the Brexit negotiations.
But, with his family leaving in 2018 as originally planned, he only felt able to extend his time in the UK by one year.
By then the Article 50 process of decoupling Britain from the EU should be complete. It will then be for a new Governor to plot Britain's economic future. | Sometimes, the simplest explanation is the right one. | 37838086 | [
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An investigation is being into Emstrey Crematorium's failure to return babies' ashes to bereaved parents.
Last month, its head David Jenkins said at least 60 families had been affected.
The Justice and Civil Liberties Minister Simon Hughes said work on a national standard could begin as soon as the Shropshire inquiry concludes.
"It is clear we need to have a much more consistent practice of burial and cremation across the country," he said.
"We need to make sure we have absolutely the best standards in every part of the country and anything the inquiry recommends to me by the way of improved practice not just in Shropshire, but elsewhere, I would intend to follow.
"There's been a commission into infant cremation in Scotland. We'll make sure we learn the lessons from that and the inquiry in Shropshire."
Mr Hughes, who is responsible for coroners, cremations and burials, said work on national regulations could begin before the election and be in place later in the year.
The Shrewsbury independent inquiry, set up by Shropshire Council, is investigating cases at Emstrey Crematorium before 2012 and is due to report its findings next month.
A BBC investigation found just one set of ashes had been returned to bereaved families since 2004.
Co-operative Funeralcare, which took over the running of the site in 2011, said while it had returned infant remains in all cases since new equipment was introduced in 2012, it continued to follow industry guidance in advising families it could not "fully guarantee ashes". | An inquiry into the mishandling of baby ashes at a crematorium in Shrewsbury could lead to new national guidelines, the government has said. | 31764307 | [
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Mohammed Ali, of Prescot Road, Liverpool, is accused of attempting to possess a chemical weapon.
The father of two, 31, has denied the charge at the Old Bailey in London.
Using an online alias, Ali allegedly tried to order 500mg of the deadly toxin, the jury was told, which would have been enough to kill 1,400 people.
As "Weirdos 0000", Ali contacted a man on the black market and placed an order for the ricin, the court heard.
He went on to negotiate the deal in encrypted exchanges unaware the United States-based 'dealer' was actually an FBI agent who alerted the British authorities.
On 10 February, he took delivery of a toy car with "special batteries" at the home he shared with his wife and two young sons.
But instead of ricin, the five concealed packets contained a harmless powder and Ali was arrested.
The court has been told that the Bolton-born computer software programmer has displayed many traits of Asperger's syndrome.
Under cross-examination, defence clinical psychologist Alison Beck said: "I think that so far as I understand it, Mr Ali was motivated with pushing the boundaries of what was possible with the technology.
"The relevance of the dark net was to procure ricin and that idea was implanted in his brain having watched the series Breaking Bad."
Ali denies a charge of attempting to possess a chemical weapon between 10 January and 12 February.
The trial continues. | A man tried to buy ricin from the "dark web" after the idea was "implanted in his brain" from watching the Breaking Bad television series, a court heard. | 33638005 | [
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The lowest is Knowsley which could fall to zero as the last school teaching A-levels is closing its sixth form.
In a further seven authorities there are less than 20% of students taking A-levels in schools in their boroughs.
Nick Timothy of New Schools Network, which carried out the research, said it was a "glass ceiling" on ambition.
But a Department for Education spokeswoman said the figures were "misleading", because pupils could be studying A-levels in schools in other local authorities.
The analysis shows the wide differences in the numbers of young people taking A-levels in state schools and colleges in their council areas and getting qualifications that would help them apply for university places.
Source: New Schools Network
In 27 authorities, fewer than a quarter of pupils in this age group are taking A-levels in their council area.
In contrast, Harrow has 74% of pupils studying for A-levels in schools in the borough, and it's 71% in Darlington.
Teenagers might be travelling to take A-levels in schools and colleges in neighbouring local authorities.
But the study found that the authorities neighbouring these areas of low A-level take up were themselves likely to have below-average provision, so that students would have to compete for limited numbers of places.
The study warns of a "deep-seated problem" in ensuring that young people in poorer areas are able to take A-levels, saying that "access to A-levels is closely linked to deprivation" - with consequences for higher education and jobs.
But it shows that there is nothing inevitable about poorer areas being linked to low A-level take up and lower levels of university entry.
It highlights St Helens and the London boroughs of Lewisham and Islington as examples of authorities with both higher levels of deprivation and higher levels of young people taking A-levels.
Highest proportion of students taking A-levels
Source: New Schools Network
The analysis has been produced by the New Schools Network, which supports the opening of free schools, and it argues that these cold spots in A-level provision show the need for more schools serving this age group.
"Gaps in A-level provision are creating a glass ceiling for the poorest pupils by limiting access to A-Levels - which still offer the best chance of access to higher education and good employment prospects," said the organisation's director, Nick Timothy.
Leon Riley, who will become head of New College Doncaster, says that it will support students who at present have to go elsewhere.
"Currently 1,200 students travel outside Doncaster to access post-16 education. This cannot be right: we want to make a difference by providing local young people with access to top quality post-16 education," he said.
The analysis by New Schools Network follows the decision by the last school in Knowsley to offer A-levels, Halewood Academy, to close its sixth form.
The authority, which already has the lowest rate of A-level students and one of the lowest university entry rates in the country, will have no one taking A-levels in schools in the borough from next year.
As an academy, Halewood can decide to stop teaching A-levels without the local authority having any powers of intervention.
Parents at the school had campaigned to keep the sixth form, but the academy said that it was not financially viable.
"This is letting down the children of this community. There are people who want to go to university, lots of kids who want to do well," parent Vanessa Pointon said about the closure plans.
Knowsley council says the loss of A-levels in the borough is "not a council decision".
The regional schools commissioner, appointed to oversee academies by the Department for Education, has so far not set out any response to the withdrawal of A-level provision in Knowsley.
The Department for Education has not commented on plans for A-levels in Knowsley, but a spokeswoman rejected the analysis by the New Schools Network.
"These figures are completely misleading - they do not reflect those young people who study A-levels in a neighbouring borough, the actual levels of participation are far higher because many will choose to study in other areas.
"The primary reason the uptake of A-levels differs from area to area is because demand varies across the country. Where there is demand, provision is always available." | The stark regional differences in the proportion of pupils studying A-levels in local state schools in England has been revealed - ranging from 2% to 74%. | 36469254 | [
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Martin Foran, 71 and from Manchester, served a total of 18 years in prison but was twice cleared on appeal.
The Ministry of Justice said it only pays compensation when a conviction is quashed "because of a new fact."
But, Mr Foran says despite being found innocent his ordeal has left him ill and unable to pay basic bills.
Mr Foran was convicted in 1978 of robbery following an investigation by the since discredited West Midlands Serious Crime Squad.
He was portrayed as an IRA member by a regional paper and served six years of a 10-year sentence. The conviction was finally quashed last year.
Between his release and his successful appeal, he was found guilty in 1985 of robbing a Birmingham pub landlord.
That conviction was quashed on appeal in 2013, but not before he had served 12 years inside, during which time he spent 47 days in a rooftop protest and hunger strike at Nottingham jail.
His wife Valerie even scaled a nearby roof in a show of solidarity.
Last year, Mr Foran held a three-week protest outside the Ministry of Justice in London as part of his compensation fight.
He said he was told the justice secretary would speak to the West Midlands chief constable, but has not heard any update about this since.
Speaking exclusively to the BBC, he said the London protest "nearly killed me".
"It is affecting my health but I will continue fighting to my grave. My health is worsening."
He added: "I've had to walk the streets trying to find a solicitor who would represent me on a no-win no-fee basis. It has been soul-destroying.
"I can't even afford to run the car and the phone is about to be cut off. I'm also behind with the gas and electricity bill."
Mr Foran said his dying wish is to get an apology for his family.
"It destroys me that no-one has apologised to my wife Valerie and children for what has happened as they have suffered more than I have," he added.
"I would like to be able to go on holiday with my wife and enjoy what time we have left, but I cannot do this."
Speaking about Mr Foran's case, a Ministry of Justice spokesman said: "The fact that a conviction has been quashed by the Court of Appeal does not mean it was necessarily a miscarriage of justice."
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Ivan Cameron, who had cerebral palsy and epilepsy, died in hospital aged six in February 2009.
Mrs Cameron told the Times: "Ive dying is such a massive thing that everything else is irrelevant."
She also said it changed her husband's outlook. "I think it changed Dave's politics. It made him understanding, though he couldn't be too subjective."
David Cameron had been an MP for less than a year when Ivan was born in 2002, and became prime minister the year after Ivan died.
Mrs Cameron said: "From the moment he is born, you are living in a situation that is quite surreal and difficult to deal with.
"It is intense every day, in and out of hospitals... in a way, that prepared me for Dave being prime minister, because I was used to living and operating in a way that's not normal."
When Ivan died, she said, the outside world "became meaningless".
"Like anyone else in my situation, I just kept going. You have to deal with it, because you have no choice."
The Camerons have three other children; Nancy, born in 2004; Arthur, born in 2006; and Florence, born in 2010.
Mrs Cameron also spoke about her family's life in Downing Street.
"We tried to make the flat feel like a home.
"Dave would be combing the children's hair for nits before giving a speech in the evening."
They got their groceries delivered because there was no supermarket nearby - and if she forgot butter, she would have to go to a shop in Trafalgar Square.
"So I did plan quite carefully."
She also said she dreaded the official holiday photograph.
"At the last minute we would panic and think, 'Oh God, it's the holiday photo...
"I hated the holding-hands thing because it looked too romantic, so we overdid the cups-of-coffee-looking-wistful pose."
Mrs Cameron was speaking to the Times Magazine to promote her clothing brand Cefinn.
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The death is being treated as unexplained and a post-mortem examination will be held to establish the cause.
A Police Scotland spokesman said a disturbance had earlier been heard in the block of flats.
Forensic examinations are taking place at the scene and there is an increased police presence in the area.
Officers are appealing for any witnesses who may have been in the Thornhill Road area between 17:00 on Friday and 11:00 on Saturday to come forward.
Det Ch Insp Jim Smith said: "This is a heartbreaking time for the deceased's family and they are being supported by officers at this time.
"We are aware that sounds of a disturbance were heard within a block of flats in Thornhill Road and are keen to hear from anyone who was in that area during the evening of Friday 10th April and into the early hours of Saturday 11th April.
"Anyone who saw or heard anything that was out of the ordinary is asked to contact Police Scotland immediately." | The body of a 30-year-old man has been found at a flat in Falkirk. | 32275107 | [
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The technology and administration services provider, which employs 300 people in Northern Ireland, has won a government contract worth £500,000.
Its system is designed to help with the recording, planning and scheduling of staff.
The Passport Office has 2,500 employees working from 37 locations across the UK.
The platform will initially be used in Glasgow and then rolled out to the six other Passport Office locations throughout the UK.
Equiniti secured the deal though the government's G-Cloud procurement framework.
Nigel Farr, one of the company's directors, said: "Working patterns have changed dramatically over the last decade and far fewer businesses operate the stereotypical nine-to-five hours."
"Having a time and attendance system that is cloud-based is increasingly becoming essential in order to accommodate anything from flexible working or remote working to job sharing and hot-desking across locations," he added.
"Her Majesty's Passport Office has increased its flexibility and capability to respond to extreme external pressures which have a direct effect on its workforce requirements." | Belfast-based firm Equiniti has been selected to provide a cloud-based system for the Passport Office. | 32217979 | [
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Astronauts helped capture 360-degree panoramas of the insides of the ISS modules, as well as views down to the Earth below.
Some of the photography features pop-up text descriptions, marking the first time such annotations have appeared on the Maps platform.
This is not the first time 360-degree imagery has been captured beyond Earth.
In 2015, the European Space Agency published its own interactive tour of the ISS. And last year Nasa repurposed images captured by its Pathfinder mission to Mars to create clips suitable for virtual reality headsets.
However, one of the benefits of Google's technology is that it should give members of the public an improved sense of freedom of movement and a greater choice of viewpoints than had been possible before.
The tech giant said it hoped to inspire the public to further explore the science and engineering involved in space exploration.
"Every [ISS] component had to be flown on a space shuttle or rocket and constructed and connected in space, and it had to be done with such precision that it formed a hermetic environment to support life," project manager Alice Liu told the BBC.
"That is an engineering marvel that people should care about and know about."
The firm said creating the latest Street View expansion had posed unique challenges.
Past efforts - including capturing underwater views of Australia's Great Barrier Reef and elevated sights from Peru's Machu Picchu citadel - involved transporting specialist camera equipment to the locations.
But the cost and certification processes that would have been required to do this for the ISS meant it was not practical this time, nor could the US company send its own staff to take the photographs.
Instead, it had to rely on the astronauts already on board the ISS, who used digital single lens reflex (DSLR) cameras they already had to hand.
"Typically, to stitch panoramic images we take a camera and mount it on a fixed mount and rotate it around," explained Ms Liu.
"In space there were no tripods, so we ended up using a really simple set-up: a pair of bungee cords strapped in the module in a criss-cross fashion, so that the crossing point defined the centre of where the camera needed to be.
"The astronauts had to take the pictures at the defined angles and float around the camera to complete the set of images."
It took up to 24 such images to create a single panorama.
The astronauts had to fit the activity round their other duties and, from first snap to last image download to Google, the initiative lasted four months.
"There are a lot of obstacles up there, and we had limited time to capture the imagery," recalled astronaut Thomas Pesquet in a blog.
"Oh, and there's that whole zero gravity thing."
The notes that pop up as the user moves among the station's 15 modules provide background information about the equipment on display, and are intended to help make sense of what Google acknowledges can be a "confusing" experience.
Ms Liu confirmed the annotation technology could be rolled out to some of her firm's other Street View locations in the future.
"But we are not planning on using it as a form of advertising," she added.
While the ISS tour might not provide Google the opportunity to make money in itself, one expert suggested it would help the firm keep its mapping products one step ahead of Apple and other rivals.
"This feels like a cute marketing exercise that will keep Maps and Street View front and centre in consumers' minds," commented Ben Wood from the CCS tech consultancy.
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The celebrated US fashion designer was found dead in her New York flat on Monday, in an apparent suicide.
In a statement on his website, Sir Mick said he still failed "to understand how my lover and best friend could end her life in this tragic way".
He added: "We spent many wonderful years together and had made a great life for ourselves."
Sir Mick described his partner as having "had great presence and her talent was much admired, not least by me.
"I have been touched by the tributes that people have paid to her, and also the personal messages of support that I have received. I will never forget her."
The Rolling Stones have now have cancelled the first date of their Australian tour following the news.
The British band, fronted by Sir Mick were due to play in Perth on Wednesday. Their promoter said no further information was available.
They are scheduled to play five more concerts in Australia. The following date from Perth is due to take place on 22 March in Adelaide.
The BBC's Phil Mercer said ticket holders for Wednesday's gig were being asked to hold on to their tickets until a further update is available.
Scott, who was believed to be 49, was found by her assistant at 10:00 local time (14:00 GMT) on Monday.
The Stones are due to perform in Sydney, Melbourne and Macedon later this month before playing two dates in Brisbane and Auckland, New Zealand, in April.
The On Fire tour is then scheduled to move to Europe in June, with concerts planned for the Netherlands, Germany, Italy and Belgium.
Sir Mick, 70, began dating Scott in 2001.
On Monday night, a spokesman for the singer issued a statement to deny a report that he had recently ended his relationship with the designer.
"The story in the New York Post re: a split between Mick Jagger and L'Wren Scott is 100% untrue," said his spokeswoman, Victoria Scarfone.
"There is absolutely no basis in fact to this story. It is a horrible and inaccurate piece of gossip during this very tragic time for Mick."
The UK's Press Complaints Commission (PCC) told the BBC it had received a small number of complaints from the public over images published which apparently showed an upset Sir Mick at the time he was told Scott had died.
It is understood the singer has not yet complained personally, but the PCC would deal with the matter in due course.
Supermodel Naomi Campbell, Vogue editor Anna Wintour and singer Madonna were among those who were fans of the designer.
Scott was found dead by her assistant 90 minutes after sending her a text message asking to come to her Manhattan apartment without specifying why, the Associated Press news agency reported.
Police said there was no sign of foul play and no note was found.
Naomi Campbell said Scott was "the epitome of elegance and femininity".
Anna Wintour described Scott as "a total perfectionist... always unbelievably generous, gracious, kind and so much fun."
She added: "Her old world American manners and charm were from another time, but her sensibility was always fiercely modern."
Madonna wrote in a statement: "This is a horrible and tragic loss. I'm so upset. I loved L'Wren's work and she was always so generous with me."
Actress Nicole Kidman, said to be a friend of many years, was "heartbroken and in shock right now and unable to say anything", according to a spokeswoman.
Bianca Jagger, one of Sir Mick's former wives, tweeted: "Heartbroken to learn of the loss of the lovely and talented L'Wren Scott. My thoughts and prayers are with her family. May she rest in peace."
According to its last UK filing Scott's firm, LS Fashion Limited, owed creditors about $7.6m (£4.6m), as of 31 December 2012. It had assets of $1.7m.
Scott's death comes a month after she cancelled a show at London Fashion Week, saying production delays had left key pieces unready for the show.
Scott, born Luann Bambrough, was raised by Mormon adoptive parents in the US state of Utah.
The 6ft 3in (1.9m) tall former model began her career in Paris, then moved to Los Angeles to become a fashion stylist, according to a biography on her company's website.
She founded her own high-end fashion label in 2006 and created a more affordable line of clothes with Banana Republic.
Scott had dressed actresses such as Oprah Winfrey, Sarah Jessica Parker and Angelina Jolie for red carpet events.
She was also a costume consultant for films such as Ocean's Thirteen and Eyes Wide Shut. | Sir Mick Jagger has said he is "struggling" to understand the death of his girlfriend L'Wren Scott. | 26625193 | [
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Last year, David Smith, 37, of Aviemore, had surgery to remove the tumour close to his spine.
He told BBC Radio Scotland that the MRI scan he was shown earlier this week was the first scan since 2013 not to show a tumour.
Smith said it was better than winning gold at the London Paralympics in 2012.
The athlete won the medal in rowing. Following that success he has been training to compete in cycling.
However, the tumour had affected that pursuit and even risked crushing his spine and stopping him from breathing.
Smith said he had been dreading the results of his latest MRI scan, fearing it would still show the tumour.
He said: "I almost passed out. I thought I was going to be sick and I didn't even want to look at the scan."
After being shown the scan the athlete said he went through a "rollercoaster of emotions".
He said: "It took two or three hours for it to sink in. When it did sink in I was on the train home and I just started crying." | A Paralympian has said an MRI scan showing no sign of a tumour that had threatened to crush his spinal cord was better than winning a gold medal. | 39069571 | [
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Its annual report singles out President Donald Trump as an example of an "angrier and more divisive politics".
But it criticises other leaders, including those of Turkey, Hungary and the Philippines, who it says have used narratives of fear, blame and division.
The group also says governments are exploiting refugees for political ends.
The report, which covers 159 countries, cited a rise in hate speech across the US and Europe targeting refugees and said the reverberations would see more attacks on people on the basis of race, gender, nationality and religion.
It criticised countries that, it said, once claimed to champion rights abroad and that were now rolling back human rights at home.
"Instead of fighting for people's rights, too many leaders have adopted a dehumanizing agenda for political expediency," Salil Shetty, secretary general of Amnesty International, said in a statement.
"The limits of what is acceptable have shifted. Politicians are shamelessly and actively legitimizing all sorts of hateful rhetoric and policies based on people's identity: misogyny, racism and homophobia."
The group made special reference to Mr Trump's executive order last month that banned refugees and immigrants from seven mostly Muslim countries from entering the US.
It said Mr Trump put "his hateful xenophobic pre-election rhetoric" into action by signing the measure. The US president, who recently said he was the "least racist" and "least anti-Semitic person", is expected to unveil an updated order this week.
But Amnesty also mentioned Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban as leaders who were using the "us versus them" rhetoric.
"2016 was the year when the cynical use of 'us vs them' narratives of blame, hate and fear took on a global prominence to a level not seen since the 1930s," Mr Shetty added, citing the year when Adolf Hitler rose to power in Germany.
"A new world order where human rights are portrayed as a barrier to national interests makes the ability to tackle mass atrocities dangerously low, leaving the door open to abuses reminiscent of the darkest times of human history."
Kate Allen, director of Amnesty UK, criticised as "shameful" the recent decision by the British government to halt the scheme which allowed the entry of unaccompanied refugee children already in Europe, estimated to be 90,000.
The group also cited in its report:
The London-based group exceptionally launched its report in Paris, saying that France has seen an erosion of its rights in the name of security.
The French government says its measures, which followed a series of attacks in 2015, are necessary to protect the country. | Politicians who have used a divisive and dehumanised rhetoric are creating a more divided and dangerous world, says rights group Amnesty International. | 39048293 | [
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Despite decades of tobacco control policies, population growth has seen an increased number of smokers, it warned.
Researchers said mortality could rise further as tobacco companies aggressively targeted new markets, especially in the developing world.
The report was published in the medical journal The Lancet.
"Despite more than half a century of unequivocal evidence of the harmful effects of tobacco on health, today, one in every four men in the world is a daily smoker," said senior author Dr Emmanuela Gakidou.
"Smoking remains the second largest risk factor for early death and disability, and so to further reduce its impact we must intensify tobacco control to further reduce smoking prevalence and attributable burden."
The Global Burden of Diseases report was based on smoking habits in 195 countries and territories between 1990 and 2015.
It found that nearly one billion people smoked daily in 2015 - one in four men and one in 20 women.
That was a reduction from one in three men and one in 12 women who lit up in 1990.
However, population growth meant there was an increase in the overall number of smokers, up from 870 million in 1990.
And the number of tobacco-related deaths - more than 6.4 million in 2015 - increased by 4.7% over the same period.
The study found some countries had succeeded in efforts to help people quit, mostly through a combination of higher taxes, warnings on packages and education programmes.
Over the 25-year period, Brazil had seen the percentage of daily smokers drop from 29% to 12% among men and from 19% to 8% among women.
But, the report said, Bangladesh, Indonesia and the Philippines saw no change from 1990 to 2015.
Russia saw smoking among women rise by 4% over the same period and similar trends were emerging in parts of Africa, the authors warned. | Smoking causes one in 10 deaths worldwide, a new study shows, half of them in just four countries - China, India, the US and Russia. | 39510728 | [
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The American city, linked to sportswear firm Nike, was given the event by the IAAF without a bidding process, a decision being investigated in France.
Gothenburg, which missed out, described the process as "bad ethics".
But Eugene said it "adhered to all ethical and legal standards for organizing, presenting and advocating for our bid, according to IAAF rules".
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IAAF president and former vice-president Lord Coe severed his links to Nike after questions over his role in the decision.
But in a statement Eugene said it had submitted identical bids for the 2019 and 2021 World Championships, losing out to Doha in 2019.
It added: "The decision to award the 2021 World Championships to Eugene was made by the IAAF Council in a vote of 23-1."
French officials are already investigating corruption allegations involving former IAAF president Lamine Diack, with Coe quitting the Nike payroll two days after a BBC story suggested he had held talks with Diack and Nike about the awarding of the 2021 event.
Coe, who was reportedly paid £100,000 a year by Nike, said at the time that he "did not lobby anyone" over Eugene's bid, but simply "encouraged them to re-enter another bidding cycle as they had a strong bid".
Gothenburg bid chief Bjorn Erikkson said awarding the World Championships to Eugene had made him "really upset and for very good reasons".
He told BBC World Service: "What happened is bad ethics at least and definitely not professional.
"In the worst of cases it's maybe also criminal, if somebody were there influencing the process, and that's a question that I really want a good answer to."
The former police officer also said he was not sure if Gothenburg would re-enter the bidding process, should it be re-opened.
"It's up to the Gothenburg people, they don't want to answer that question until they know why the last procedure was so unacceptable," he told BBC World Service.
"If you are going to make business with these people you wish to know if they are professional, honest and serious, otherwise maybe you don't want to do business at all."
Coe said that awarding a World Championships without a bidding process "was not without precedence" - the 2007 World Championships in Osaka was one such occasion.
But Erikkson described that as "nonsense".
He added: "If you behave idiotically and unacceptably is it better if you do it twice rather than once? Secondly there are no arguments for doing this, because we who are engaged in the sport wished to have a transparent process, to do it in disguise is not acceptable." | Eugene has defended its role in winning the right to host the 2021 World Championships. | 35065628 | [
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The Duchess of Cambridge's sister took civil court action against a "person or persons unknown" after her account was said to have been hacked.
The Sun reported it was offered the images, which included shots of Prince George and Princess Charlotte.
A 35-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of an offence under the Computer Misuse Act and later bailed.
The allegations emerged after private pictures were said to have been offered to the newspaper via encrypted messaging service WhatsApp.
The Sun said it had been approached by someone using a pseudonym and asking for £50,000 within 48 hours.
Barrister Adam Wolanski, who led Miss Middleton's legal team, said she thought there had been a "genuine hack".
He said it was a "flagrant" and "criminal" act which had caused Miss Middleton "considerable distress".
Police said they were investigating the allegations and a 35-year-old man had been released on police bail pending further inquiries. He was arrested at an address in Northamptonshire late on Saturday.
In the summer, Miss Middleton and hedge fund manager James Matthews confirmed their engagement, with a wedding planned for next year.
Several high-profile figures have had images stolen from their iCloud accounts, including actress Jennifer Lawrence and singer Rihanna.
In July, American Edward Majerczyk pleaded guilty to running a phishing campaign to steal private pictures and videos from film and TV stars, in what was known as the "celebgate" affair. | The High Court has banned publication of photographs allegedly stolen from Pippa Middleton's iCloud account. | 37496318 | [
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Investigations are continuing into why the vehicle ploughed into Catherine Bonner's flat in Main Road, Fairlie, at about 13:45 on Thursday.
The A78 through the village is expected to remain closed until early next week.
A 55-year-old man who also lived in the flats continues to be treated for minor injuries at Inverclyde Royal Hospital.
He and the driver were rescued by the emergency services from the rubble. The 54-year-old driver has been released after treatment.
The lorry has been removed from the building and has been taken away to undergo further tests that will help establish the cause of the crash.
North Ayrshire Council said it was working with contractors and engineers to ensure that the properties affected "are made safe".
"Engineers and contractors have started work to secure the affected buildings and it is expected that a partial demolition may be required to ensure the site is made safe," the council said in a statement.
"The council has agreed that contractors can work into and through the night, if necessary.
"It is hoped that this will allow the A78 to re-open early next week."
The council said it had arranged for letters to be delivered to all 600 households in Fairlie informing them of the situation and making them aware that some noise disturbance is likely through the night while work is ongoing.
The statement added: "The council has apologised in advance for any disturbance which may be caused."
Fairlie Community Council has been campaigning for road improvements in the area.
It has argued that the route is not suitable for traffic that includes lorries heading to Hunterston power station.
Councillor John Ferguson, North Ayrshire Council's cabinet member for infrastructure, said: "While responsibility for management of the A78 trunk road lies with Transport Scotland, the council has lobbied - and will continue to lobby - for improvements to the road.
"A draft version of the North Ayrshire Local Plan, published in 2003, called on the (then) Scottish Executive to 'fully assess the need for further improvements on the trunk road network and bring forward schemes at the earliest possible date for the A78 coastal route'.
"While the specific reference to a Fairlie by-pass was removed at the request of the Scottish Executive's reporter, the council's aspiration for improvement schemes along the A78 coastal route remains." | Work will continue through the night to make safe the site of a house struck by a lorry in an accident that led to the death of a 55-year-old woman. | 21472661 | [
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Kirsty Parkes, who was a history and English teacher at a school in West Lothian, cannot apply to be re-registered for one year.
It follows a hearing held by the General Teaching Council for Scotland over two days in June.
Ms Parkes did not attend or seek representation. The incidents happened during the 2012/13 school session.
The written decision from the hearing said: "The panel was of the view that the conduct found proved had clearly called into question the respondent's fitness to teach.
"The respondent had failed to maintain appropriate professional boundaries in using a personal email account to contact a pupil."
The panel said the teacher had also "failed to act as a role model to pupils" and had "failed to uphold the integrity of the exam process".
The statement added: "This was in relation to the inappropriate storage and loss of papers; allowing the SQA rules in relation to exams to be breached and in providing essays for pupils to use in exams.
"The panel was of the view that public confidence in the respondent and teaching as a profession had been undermined by the conduct."
The panel also found that the teacher's conduct "fell significantly short of the standards expected."
The complaint also included allegations that school procedures were not followed and that the teacher was dishonest. | A school teacher has been struck off the teachers' register for helping pupils to cheat in their exams. | 40457407 | [
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They will be skippered by Jos Buttler after limited-overs captain Eoin Morgan and Alex Hales decided not to tour.
Bangladesh army commandos performed drills inside the stadium on Thursday.
"We witnessed a graphic demonstration of the response capabilities of the Bangladesh army," said England security chief Reg Dickason.
No international side has toured Bangladesh since 20 people were killed in a siege at a cafe in Dhaka in July.
The England and Wales Cricket Board said in August that tour would go ahead following a security review.
Justin Rowlatt, BBC correspondent in Dhaka
You can hear the England team coming from streets away. It isn't the roar of the fans, because even the Barmy Army decided not to risk coming to Dhaka. What you hear is the scream of sirens.
In Bangladesh, the England team bus travels with a phalanx of motorcycle outriders and a fleet of police cars jammed full of heavily armed officers.
The ECB's security team gave Bangladesh the all clear but the authorities here don't want to take any chances. An incident-free England tour will be evidence to the world that Bangladesh isn't as dangerous as many fear. Any attack would be a disaster for the reputation of the country.
But there is a risk that the small army guarding the cricket - not to mention the elaborate drills the Bangladeshis carried out inside a cricket stadium, complete with helicopters and a litter of pretend corpses - exaggerates the dangers to foreign visitors.
This is not a country in the grip of fear. Out on the streets of Dhaka the atmosphere is just as friendly and welcoming as I've always found it.
That said, earlier in the week I stopped for a cup of strong sweet tea at a stall in a busy market.
"Aren't you worried?", asked the chaiwala - the tea man.
"Why?", I asked.
"Because you are the only white man here."
I looked around. He was right.
On Thursday, the team watched the evacuation rehearsal inside the stadium led by the Rapid Action Battalion, the special security force of the Bangladesh police.
"It's quite eye-opening and something you hope we will never ever have to see for real," said Buttler. "It's a shock and it's sad that it has to be there.
"Everything has been in good order. Travel to and from the ground has been great for us although I'm sure it's been a bit frustrating for the locals.
"Security has been great so far, I think the guys within the group haven't even mentioned it."
Buttler leads England for the first time in a one-day international as the team look to make amends for the 15-run defeat by Bangladesh in Adelaide that knocked them out of the World Cup last year.
England have been in superb form since the World Cup, but Buttler believes the tourists will be underdogs against a team who have won their last six ODI series on home soil.
"There's no real motivation for revenge," said Buttler. "It's going to be a fantastic challenge for us as a group, this journey that the ODI side has been on in the last two years, it's a different one that lost to Bangladesh in the World Cup in Australia.
"It's not going to be easy for us. Bangladesh are very strong at home in their own conditions, and you look at the recent successes they've had in the ODI series. We don't mind being underdogs at all - that's something that probably suits us."
If England name the same XI that beat a Bangladesh Cricket Board XI on Tuesday it would mean an international debut for Northamptonshire batsman Ben Duckett.
Times in BST | England play the first of three one-day internationals against Bangladesh on Friday, following a build-up dominated by security concerns. | 37574371 | [
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Ireland team manager Mick Kearney said that the Irish are adopting a "wait and see" attitude over centre Payne's recovery from a hamstring injury.
If Payne is ruled out, his Ulster colleague Stuart McCloskey will be in contention for a first cap.
Props Mike Ross and Cian Healy are available to bolster the scrum after missing Ireland's first two games.
The Irish scrum struggled badly in the second half of the defeat by France and the return of the Leinster duo after injury will be a boost to coach Joe Schmidt.
Loose-head Healy has returned to Leinster duty in recent weeks after knee surgery while tight-head Ross has recovered from hamstring trouble.
"They both participated in Leinster's last two games and both got a significant amount of game-time at the weekend against Cardiff," said Kearney of Healy and Ross on Monday afternoon.
"So they're in, fully fit and available for selection."
Kearney appeared less certain of Payne's fitness.
"Jared Payne is continuing his rehab and the hope is that he will train fully tomorrow," added the Ireland team manager.
"He did some running last week and will continue with that rehab today."
Payne was initially thought to have suffered a dead leg in the Paris game but it was later diagnosed as a hamstring problem.
Fears over Johnny Sexton's fitness appear to have eased after he picked up a neck injury in Paris and then strained an ankle in training on Friday.
Ross and Healy join Ulster wing Craig Gilroy plus Munster lock Dave Foley and Leinster flanker Jordi Murphy in being added to the Ireland squad for the Twickenham contest.
Munster pair Keith Earls and Simon Zebo, who started in the draw against Wales, are included after missing the defeat by France because of injury.
Sean O'Brien, Dave Kearney and Mike McCarthy have all been ruled out of the remainder of the tournament after picking up injuries in the France game.
Ulster flanker Chris Henry remains a notable absentee, despite starting for his province in the defeat by the Scarlets.
After the daunting match against England, Joe Schmidt's side then finish their campaign with home games against Italy and Scotland on 12 and 19 March.
The holders' chances of retaining the title they won in 2014 and 2015 look remote, with just one point from their opening two fixtures.
Ireland squad: Forwards: Finlay Bealham (Connacht), Rory Best (Ulster), Sean Cronin (Leinster), Ultan Dillane (Connacht), Dave Foley (Munster), Cian Healy (Leinster), Jamie Heaslip (Leinster), Jack McGrath (Leinster), Jordi Murphy (Leinster), Tommy O'Donnell (Munster), Mike Ross (Leinster), Rhys Ruddock (Leinster), Donnacha Ryan (Munster), CJ Stander (Munster), Richardt Strauss (Leinster), Devin Toner (Leinster), Josh van der Flier (Leinster), Nathan White (Connacht).
Backs: Keith Earls (Munster), Craig Gilroy (Ulster), Robbie Henshaw (Connacht), Paddy Jackson (Ulster), Rob Kearney (Leinster), Ian Madigan (Leinster), Kieran Marmion (Connacht), Luke Marshall (Ulster), Stuart McCloskey (Ulster), Fergus McFadden (Leinster), Conor Murray (Munster), Jared Payne (Ulster), Eoin Reddan (Leinster), Jonathan Sexton (Leinster), Andrew Trimble (Ulster), Simon Zebo (Munster). | Jared Payne remains a fitness doubt for Ireland's Six Nations game against England on Saturday. | 35630802 | [
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In 1987 a coup by indigenous Fijians overthrew the elected, Indian-dominated coalition. This triggered a series of adverse events, including the introduction - and subsequent withdrawal - of a constitution enshrining indigenous Fijian political supremacy.
A further coup in 2000, led by businessman George Speight, saw the country's first ethnic Indian prime minister, his cabinet and several MPs held hostage for several weeks.
These events caused great harm to the economy - the tourism industry in particular - and Fiji's international reputation.
Rancour over the 2000 coup persisted, with bitter divisions over plans to grant an amnesty to those behind it. The continuing tensions generated by these disputes culminated in a bloodless military takeover in 2006 - Fiji's fourth coup in 20 years.
In September 2009, Fiji was suspended from the Commonwealth over its lack of progress towards democracy. It was only the second full suspension in the organisation's history.
In 2012 the government agreed to hold free elections in 2014, prompting Fiji's powerful neighbours Australia and New Zealand to restore full diplomatic ties. Following the elections the Commonwealth re-instated Fiji as a member.
Fiji's population, which resides mostly on the two main islands of Viti Levu and Vanua Levu, is divided between indigenous Fijians and Indo-Fijians, the descendents of indentured labourers brought from India.
The two groups were of roughly equal numbers until the mid-2000s, by which time coups and agitation had prompted thousands of Indo-Fijians to flee. Indigenous Fijians now make up small overall majority.
Mixing between the two groups is minimal, and informal segregation runs deep at almost every level of society.
There are also very small non-Indo-Fijian, non-Fijian minority communities, such as Chinese and Rotumans.
Although the former British colony relies heavily on the sugar and tourism industries for its foreign exchange, its economy is diverse. Gold, silver and limestone are mined, and there is a strong services sector and some light manufacturing.
Nonetheless, Fiji has been hampered by persistent trade and budget deficits, making it one of the world's largest per capita recipients of aid. | The 800-plus volcanic and coral islands that make up the Pacific nation of Fiji enjoy a tropical climate and host a significant tourism industry. | 14919066 | [
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About 80,000 works of art, ceramics, manuscripts, letters and photographs faced being auctioned to help pay off the pottery firm's pension debt.
But a public fundraising campaign launched in September hit its target in just a month.
Adminstrators Begbies Traynor said the collection will remain on display at the museum in Barlaston, Staffordshire.
The Art Fund, which led the campaign, will gift the collection to the Victoria and Albert Museum, before it is loaned to the Wedgwood Museum.
Administrator Bob Young said it had been "incredibly satisfying" to sign off on the sale on Monday.
"Today's fantastic outcome wouldn't have been possible without the spirit of goodwill and determination shown during the often complex negotiations," he said.
The Wedgwood Museum inherited Waterford Wedgwood plc's pension bill after the firm collapsed in 2009.
In 2010 the museum also went into administration, and in 2011 a high court judge ruled its collection could be sold to reimburse the Pension Protection Fund.
Alison Wedgwood, whose husband Tom is a direct descendant of company founder Josiah Wedgwood, said the collection was "important" for Staffordshire.
The collection risked being "sold and scattered around the globe" had the money not been raised, she added.
Tristram Hunt MP, who was involved in the campaign, said the sale was "fantastic news".
"The items contained within the Wedgwood collection chart a significant part of Britain's cultural development over centuries and play a crucial part in defining our national identity today," he said. | The Wedgwood Museum collection has been bought from administrators after £15.75m was raised to save it. | 30280942 | [
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The 31-year-old, from Sheffield, has received the honour for her services to athletics.
Ennis-Hill, who won gold at London 2012 Olympics and silver four years later in Rio, announced her retirement from the sport in October.
At the same ceremony, designer and ex-Spice Girl Victoria Beckham was made an OBE for services to fashion.
More on this story and others in South Yorkshire
Ennis-Hill, who received her honour from the Duke of Cambridge, will receive another World Championships gold medal after Tatyana Chernova was stripped of her 2011 world title for doping.
The 2012 Olympic champion, who was accompanied by her grandparents, mother Alison Powell and husband Andy Hill at the ceremony, said: "Just to hear the national anthem in this kind of moment again is really special.
"I've so many amazing memories of standing on the podium and hearing it and to be here receiving a damehood, which I never imagined I would ever receive, is an incredible honour."
She added: "I've had more than I could ever imagine out of my career so I can't stand here receiving a damehood and wish for any more." | Former heptathlete Jessica Ennis-Hill has formally been made a dame during a ceremony at Buckingham Palace. | 39645443 | [
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Ms Tiffney, 43, was last seen leaving her home in Edinburgh's Dean Village in May 2002.
The remains were found by a cyclist in an area off the A198, near the entrance to Gosford House in Longniddry on Sunday evening.
A murder charge against Ms Tiffney's son Sean Flynn was found not proven at the High Court in Perth in 2005.
Police said her death remained a murder investigation and that detectives would continue to liaise with the Crown Office and procurator fiscal service.
Police Scotland said there was no reason to speak to Mr Flynn at this stage.
They said the area, about eight metres from the roadside, where Ms Tiffney was found had not been searched before.
Det Ch Insp Keith Hardie, of Police Scotland, said: "Now that we have identified these remains, our thoughts are once again with Louise's family, who have had to wait 15 years for this news.
"We will continue to provide them with all the necessary support and assistance they may require at this very difficult time.
"It is not as bad news for the family as it would have been at the time.
"I think they had given up any hope of finding Louise alive so I suppose, to a certain extent, it's good news for them because there is the possibility of bringing this to some form of conclusion."
"Our investigation into Louise's death and the discovery of her remains is continuing and we will keep the family and the Crown Office fully updated with the progress of these inquiries."
The identity of the remains was confirmed using dental analysis.
However, police said they would also seek corroboration through DNA.
The force added that Ms Tiffney's remains had now been fully recovered from the site.
The A198, which had been closed since the discovery, was reopened on Friday.
In June 2002, Mr Flynn was given three years and nine months in a young offenders' institution after admitting causing the deaths of two friends in a car crash.
Three years later, he stood trial accused of Ms Tiffney's murder.
His trial heard that while waiting to be sentenced over the fatal crash, he and his mother quarrelled at their home.
The Crown alleged that he killed her and hid her body.
However, a jury at the High Court in Perth returned a verdict of not proven.
Mr Flynn expressed his relief, but relatives of Ms Tiffney reacted with fury to the verdict. | Human remains found in East Lothian are those of missing woman Louise Tiffney, police have confirmed. | 39527609 | [
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Police recovered the body from the water after being alerted shortly after 14:00 GMT.
Officers had been initially treating the death as unexplained, but said they were now classing it as not suspicious.
The man's details are yet to be released. | The death of a man found in a Lincolnshire waterway is not being treated as suspicious, police have said. | 31000320 | [
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Nicole Ferguson, 27, from Fergleen Park in Derry, pleaded guilty to stealing the money from the Ferryquay Street branch of Cancer Research UK.
The offence was committed between 21 March and 24 July 2014.
Ferguson has been released on bail until she is sentenced in February.
She also pleaded guilty to a second charge of abusing her position as an employee to expose charity to a risk of financial loss.
A defence solicitor told the court that full restitution would be available when Ferguson is sentenced.
As part of her bail conditions Ferguson must co-operate with the probation service and must reside at her Fergleen Park address. | A former Cancer Research UK assistant manager has pleaded guilty at Londonderry Magistrates Court to stealing over £600 from the charity. | 30779918 | [
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The Liberal Democrat chief secretary to the treasury aims to introduce a new offence for firms that fail to act to prevent economic crime.
Mr Alexander told the Andrew Marr show he wants organisations that encourage or facilitate tax evasion to face the same penalties as evaders themselves.
The proposed crackdown comes in the wake of HSBC tax-dodging allegations.
It emerged earlier this month that the bank had allegedly helped hundreds of people evade UK tax using hidden HSBC accounts in Geneva.
Former director of public prosecutions Lord Ken Macdonald said the bank had left itself open to criminal charges in the UK and there were strong grounds to investigate the bank for "cheating" HM Revenue and Customs.
He added that HMRC's decision not to prosecute was "seriously flawed".
Mr Alexander said: "We should create a new offence of corporate failure to avoid preventing an economic crime and also that organisations who facilitate or encourage evasion should face the same penalty as the evaders themselves."
He described it as a "Liberal Democrat idea" but intends to try to push the proposals through before May's general election.
If he cannot, they will form a key part of the Lib Dem manifesto.
"Organisations, be they accountants, banks or whatever, who help people evade tax will be liable for this new offence and crucially liable for financial penalties," he added.
There's been more comment about facilitating tax evasion in the fortnight since the Panorama programme on HSBC than in the five years before that.
Danny Alexander's new plan to make it a crime for banks and accountants to look the other way while their clients knowingly evade tax may appear to be a populist reaction - very late in the life of this coalition. The public may feel it's better late than never though.
They see benefit fraudsters brought before the courts and small firms harangued by the tax man for modest VAT bills while giant firms and high net worth individuals know it's unlikely they'll be prosecuted for not paying all their taxes.
Making the professional advisers pay the same fine as their clients will also send a chill down the spine of many of the big four accountants and all of the banks.
Danny Alexander concedes it might be a big ask to get a new law through Parliament making inaction in the face of tax evasion a crime but the Lib Dems will try. He says there's a much better chance of bolting on the financial penalties side of his proposal to next month's Budget though. And he may even get cross-party support.
Mr Alexander continued: "So, for example, if their customers have to pay back hundreds of millions of pounds in tax then those organisations should have to match that with hundreds of millions of pounds of their own money and I think that's a very tough disincentive to them to get involved in this in the first place.
"This is taboo. This is something that absolutely mustn't happen in our society and we still have a problem with some people thinking they can get away without paying their fair share of tax."
The Lib Dems said they would make a commitment to see the "tax gap" - the difference between the total owed to the Exchequer and the amount collected - fall in each year of the next Parliament.
The party would also strengthen codes of practice which apply to tax-advising professions.
Mr Alexander said in a statement that "these cheats and their accomplices are effectively stealing from all of us", adding: "These new measures will build on the successful strategy that is making tax evasion as socially unacceptable as benefit fiddling or drinking and driving."
Chris Leslie, shadow chief secretary to the Treasury, said: "Nobody will believe these warm words when Danny Alexander and the Lib Dems have broken their promises on tax.
"Along with the Tories they have totally failed to tackle tax avoidance and cut taxes for millionaires while raising VAT on families and pensioners." | Companies that fail to prevent tax evasion could face penalties as part of plans announced by Danny Alexander. | 31574557 | [
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The possibility of Brexit was one of the factors that led the US Federal Reserve to keep interest rates on hold, Chair Janet Yellen said.
The US central bank also said it expected a "slower path" for future rate rises.
It raised rates in December for the first time in nearly a decade.
On the 23 June UK referendum on whether to stay in the European Union, Ms Yellen said: "Clearly this is a very important decision for the United Kingdom and for Europe.
"It is a decision that could have consequences for economic and financial conditions in global financial markets.
"If it does so it could have consequences in turn for the US economic outlook that would be a factor in deciding on the appropriate path of policy," she added.
Meanwhile, the US Treasury cleared all bond sales on the 23 June.
Lou Crandall, chief economist at Wrightson ICAP, told Bloomberg Business that the Treasury alters its auctions calendar to avoid Fed monetary policy announcements, and that the UK referendum was a "similar kind of market event".
Fed policymakers did not reveal when rates might rise, but the door has been left open for an increase when they next meet at the end of July.
Chair Yellen added: "Proceeding cautiously and raising our interest-rate target will allow us to verify that economic growth will return to a moderate pace, that the labor market will strengthen further, and that inflation will continue to make progress toward our 2% objective."
The Fed said in a statement that the pace of improvement in the labour market had slowed. The bank added, however, that "economic activity will expand at a moderate pace and labour market indicators will strengthen" even with gradual rate increases.
Analysis: Andrew Walker, BBC News
The key consideration in this decision was the US jobs market - with a little help from the uncertainties arising from the forthcoming British referendum and a few other factors.
We have had two months where job creation has been disappointing, especially May.
The Fed Chair Janet Yellen called it "something of a loss of momentum".
But she also said signs there were signs that the labour market is "approaching maximum employment" and it's important not to attach too much importance to one data point.
She - and, she said, the Fed's policy making committee - did not feel that "progress in the labour market has come to an end".
Which leaves us (or at least me) having to pore over the next jobs report to see how likely a rate rise is in July.
At this stage it doesn't look very likely, but it is not altogether off the table.
The dollar fell against the euro and sterling, but Wall Street held on to earlier gains, with the S&P 500 up 0.3%.
The Fed expected the unemployment rate to stand at 4.7% by the end of this year, before falling to 4.6% in 2017 and remain at that level in 2018.
In May, US job creation fell to its lowest level in more than five years, after faltering in April.
Ms Yellen said it was important not to overreact to one or two monthly readings.
"That said, we will be watching the job market carefully," she added.
The Fed now expects the US economy to expand by only 2% a year for the foreseeable future - slightly lower than the forecast in March.
Brian Jacobsen of Wells Fargo Funds Management said: "It's as dovish as the Fed can get without actually cutting rates."
Aaron Kohli of BMO Capital Markets agreed that the statement appeared "somewhat dovish", adding: "The market had expected them to moderate their tone a little bit given what's been going on and given the risk that we have in terms of Brexit." | The US Federal Reserve has kept interest rates at between 0.25% and 0.5% in the face of an uncertain jobs market. | 36544022 | [
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Adams will make her professional debut in Manchester on Saturday when she fights Argentina's Virginia Carcamo.
"Virgil has a lot of knowledge and one thing I like about him is he knows how to take an Olympic champion and turn them into a pro," said Adams, 34.
"He did it with Andre [Ward] and he's capable of doing the same with me."
American Ward, 33, has gone from winning gold at the 2004 Olympics to becoming a two-weight world champion and being unbeaten in 31 fights.
Adams has been training alongside the likes of IBF, WBA and WBO light-heavyweight champion Ward as she prepares for her fight, and says doing so "has left me a bit in awe, to be honest".
She added: "Like every fighter, my ultimate goal is to headline a show in Las Vegas and with the way the sport is building at the moment I see no reason why I can't get there.
"Other female boxers like Claressa Shields and Katie Taylor have been putting women's professional boxing on the map and now that I've joined them it can only raise the bar again." | Great Britain's double gold medallist Nicola Adams believes new trainer Virgil Hunter will play a key part in success as a professional. | 39537604 | [
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The deal for the Long Ashton site made the council look "totally incompetent" and threatened "to turn it into a laughing stock" a Tory councillor said.
John Goulandris said money had been wasted paying the firm Park-and-Ride (PRL) for years after the council was obliged to do so.
The city's transport boss said the subsidy had stopped the service ending.
The site on the outskirts of Bristol was built in 1997 and leased to PRL.
The council subsidised it for the first six years, but after that the service was not profitable and the council ended up running the buses.
Mr Goulandris said: "Local taxpayers will be rightly outraged that we appear to have been paying this company a huge subsidy, amounting to between £5m-£6m, simply on being invoiced for managing the park-and-ride site.
"Whilst I appreciate there is a lot of anguish over the current wholesale review of council expenditure to identify potential savings, this exposé demonstrates that the local authority has been incredibly wasteful - even blasé - over the use of its resources."
Mr Goulandris said there should now be a review "into who agreed such a one-sided bargain".
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Peter Mann, the council's director of transport, said if it had not continued with the subsidy after 2002 "there would be no park-and-ride", which he described as "critical to the city".
The authority revealed it had been paying the subsidy for 14 years beyond its contractual obligation, during a budget review.
Officers advised an immediate end to the payments which was passed by council.
Mr Mann said the authority was looking to see if it could reduce costs so the service can continue.
"We need to continue the private dialogue with NCP [which owns PRL]... to come to a sensible conclusion."
NCP said while it was in "active dialogue" with the council "it would be inappropriate to comment any further."
But in a In a letter from NCP's solicitors it said if the council removes the payments "our client would... reconsider the commercial viability of continuing the P&R operation".
Bristol City Council has yet to comment. | A park-and-ride firm was paid £400,000 a year despite not running any buses since 2010, it has emerged. | 37563320 | [
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Suffolk Fire and Rescue Service, which employs about 700 people, may also lose 50-60 on-call firefighters as part of the savings plan.
The number of full-time crewed stations was reduced to four in a previous round of cuts - two remain in Ipswich, along with Lowestoft and Bury St Edmunds.
A public consultation on Suffolk County Council's plans will now take place.
Seven of the county's 47 fire engines could be scrapped and Wrentham fire station may close as part of the £1.3m cuts.
A fire engine in Sudbury, where a major fire broke out in September, could be replaced with a smaller "rapid response" vehicle.
Matthew Hicks, of Suffolk County Council, said he was confident an "outstanding service" could be maintained.
"Without question, this is a challenging set of proposals," he said. "However, they have been shaped by the feedback we received during the recent pre-consultation held in the summer.
"I now encourage people to respond to this full consultation so we have a wide range of views to inform our final decisions."
There has been a fall in the number of emergency calls over the last 10 years in Suffolk, in line with other authorities, from about 10,000 in 2004 to about 6,700 last year.
A spokesman for the Suffolk Fire Brigades Union said they were "deeply concerned about the devastating cuts" which, they said, were "nothing but dangerous".
Chairman Andy Vingoe said: "The £1.3m saving could be avoided totally if council tax was increased by less than £1.80 per person in Suffolk per year.
"We strongly urge all residents to reply to the consultation to tell the council that we are not prepared to endure these cuts." | Twenty full-time firefighters could lose their jobs in Suffolk in order to meet budget cuts of more than £1m. | 34700327 | [
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But if ordinary Greeks retain faith in democracy - their vote is all they have left, in the considered words of one struggling cafe-owner I met in Thessaloniki - they are rapidly losing trust in Europe.
For many, the EU remains a "one-way" street, as another man put it. For instance, older people used to the modernity EU membership brought back in 1981 cannot envisage ever leaving.
But for some younger Greeks in Thessaloniki, capital of a region with 30% unemployment, exit is an attractive idea, or at least the abandonment of the hated euro.
"You cannot put a lion and a cat in the same cage," one unemployed young man told me on the street, describing how he sees relations between Greece and the economic giants of the north.
Change may take a generation if it ever happens, given the continuing support for the parties tied to the financial crisis, New Democracy and Pasok, and doubts over the willingness of the radical left in the form of Syriza to really effect change.
Meanwhile there is marble-cold anger at the relentless impoverishment of a nation on the edge of Europe.
Former businessman Stefanos Dimoulas now works as a pizza delivery "boy", in his words, for 3.3 euros (£2.7; $4.5) an hour without medical insurance.
He has business debts of 50,000 euros but also, after a recent operation to remove a rare tumour in his neck, he owes 3,000 euros in medical bills. Now he needs more treatment.
Mr Dimoulas did not say for whom he would vote, but expressed dismay at the way Pasok and New Democracy were ruling together after decades on opposite sides.
He sees Greece's future outside the eurozone and outside the EU full stop, prospering with control over its own resources and currency.
His is a positive position, imbued with love for Greece, with none of the nationalist hate associated with the far-right Golden Dawn party.
I encountered some Golden Dawn supporters. Not the aggressive men I was used to seeing in TV reports, but two old-age pensioners getting drunk on spirits at a cafe table and a careworn middle-aged farmer, incensed at the low price of milk offered for his dairy herd.
None of them spoke to me. It was their friends nearby who informed me of their stance.
Making it my mission to interview unemployed or economically vulnerable Greeks primarily, quite at random near the cafes in Thessaloniki where they sit outside on walls or lawns because they cannot afford a simple cup of coffee anymore, I invariably met people preparing to vote for parties of the left.
Again, they gave no names of parties, but there was a distaste for the traditional left and a readiness to experiment, it seemed to me, with newer parties.
These include Antarsya, an anti-EU, anti-capitalist coalition created five years ago which won less than 1% of the vote at the last national election in 2012.
One of its European election candidates, Foteini Rizou, I met out of the blue at a backpacker hostel, where she works as a receptionist to fund her education as an architecture student in Thessaloniki.
"Pasok is no different from New Democracy," the Athenian student said. "The left should unite, but Syriza thinks staying in the EU will be good for everyone. Our view is that staying in the EU is really bad for the workers and bad for everyone in the EU."
One man who really could do with some urgent change for the better is Ilias, the unemployed mathematician who gave the analogy of the lion and the cat.
Unable to claim benefit, and living off his dwindling savings, the 31-year-old cannot contemplate starting a family because "without a job, you cannot get married". Emigration is not an option because he does not want to move away from his ageing parents.
He would vote, he said, but about his political views, would only remark that he had never yet voted for a party that got into government.
"Something must change here," he told me, shivering in the shadow of the city's Roman-era triumphal arch.
"If I had the solution ready I would not be here giving you the interview. We should leave the euro. They just want to make money out of poor countries."
A few hundred metres away, down on the seafront, I listened to another unemployed voter, nearly 10 years younger, staunchly anti-fascist and strongly patriotic, who expressed a harsher view.
"I think the only solution is a radical one, whatever that means," George Basilos said. "We need to direct our anger at something, instead of just burning.
"I think that the older generations drag us down. We are just waiting for them to die out. Some minds you cannot change."
His friend, student engineer Socrates Lambadas, who does underpaid part-time work like so many other students, admires Europe for its social progress and believes Greeks are stuck in the past.
"I think that many Greeks don't want to accept responsibility for the situation we're in today," he told me. "Thirty to 40 years from now, things will be better and people will not only tolerate change but look forward to it. We do have to change."
For now there is continuing poverty and, in the view of Mr Dimoulas, Greece may "have still further to fall".
You can also follow Patrick Jackson's reporting on jobless politics in the southern eurozone on his blog on Tumblr or get updates via Twitter. | Champions of the European Union can take heart from the fact that in urban Greece, people ground down by poverty still take the 25 May elections seriously. | 27354372 | [
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The teenager was pronounced dead at the scene, following the crash in New Malden at about 08:30 GMT.
The lorry driver, who was not arrested, stopped following the collision in Lime Grove.
Det Sgt John Hartfree, of the Met Police, appealed for drivers and pedestrians who witnessed the crash to come forward. | A 13-year-old girl died when she was struck by a lorry while walking along a street in south-west London. | 34845703 | [
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The Tigers opened talks with an interested party in May.
They have been up for sale since 2014, after the Football Association turned down owner Assem Allam's request to change their name to Hull Tigers.
It has been a tough summer for Hull, who have just 13 fit players because of injuries, and whose manager Steve Bruce was a candidate for the England job.
Bruce was interviewed on Monday for the England post, which is set to go to Sunderland's Sam Allardyce.
A club statement said: "Whilst the owners intend to continue discussing a sale to interested parties in September, the priority for the coming weeks is strengthening the squad ahead of the start of the new Premier League season, particularly given the number of injuries sustained to key players during pre-season."
Hull - who won promotion back to the top flight in May - open the Premier League season by hosting champions Leicester on Saturday, 13 August. | Hull have put takeover talks on hold until September to "ensure stability during the transfer window". | 36850414 | [
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Anscombe has been out since December with a groin injury which was the latest issue to sideline the New Zealand-born outside-half.
The 25-year-old has also suffered hip and ankle injuries since arriving at the Blues.
"You start getting bracketed as being made out of glass," he said.
Anscombe has been limited to 33 appearances for the Blues since joining in the autumn of 2014.
"Traditionally I've never had problems with injuries," said Anscombe.
"Coming from New Zealand, I played Super Rugby, ITM Cup and then finished the Cardiff Blues' season.
"I don't know if my body was angry at me for doing that or something, because it just seemed to catch up with me."
Anscombe has made nine Wales appearances and has a dual contract with the Blues and the Welsh Rugby Union that finishes at the end of the current season.
He has been overtaken in the international pecking order by Sam Davies and Owen Williams, behind Dan Biggar but still believes he can play at international level.
"It's been frustrating and disappointing," he added.
"It's tough when you think you are good enough to play at that Test level, but I just haven't had enough games.
"I guess everyone's got their doubts, but you've just got to keep competitive and believe in what you can do,
"You have got to have that self-belief and earn the jersey.
"There are a couple of guys there that have been playing well for a while now and deserve to be where they are, so Wales are in a lucky situation there.
"If I play well for the Blues and they start winning, hopefully people recognise you again."
Anscombe returned last month in the Challenge Cup match against Bristol and is in line to play against Connacht at the Arms Park on Sunday afternoon.
"If I can have a big second part of the season, then we will see what happens," he said.
"It's nice to be back in the Blues jersey.
"We really need to start winning and we have got belief in the squad that we can do it." | Cardiff Blues outside-half Gareth Anscombe hopes to put his injury problems behind him and achieve Wales recognition again. | 38913966 | [
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Dame Margaret Hodge's review said it would be better to ditch the Garden Bridge than risk uncertain costs.
Three months ago the Garden Bridge Trust admitted its future was in doubt after publishing accounts which showed a £70m shortfall in funding.
Initially £60m of public money was pledged on planning for the bridge.
Transport for London pledged £30m, but £20m of that was to be a loan, and the rest was from central government.
Dame Margaret says £37.4m had already been spent, and even if the bridge did not go ahead it would cost the taxpayer £46.4m.
The Garden Bridge Trust said it was seeking a meeting with the London mayor to discuss next steps, but added the trust was "determined" to make the bridge happen.
Dame Margaret, the MP for Barking and Dagenham and former chair of the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee was asked to examine the project by London Mayor, Sadiq Khan in September.
On Friday, Dame Margaret said: "Value for money for the taxpayer has not been secured.
"It would be better for the taxpayer to accept the financial loss of cancelling the project than to risk the potential uncertain additional costs to the public purse if the project proceeds."
Dame Margaret said decisions on the Garden Bridge were driven more by electoral cycles than value for taxpayers' money.
Her review also found costs spiralling out of control from an early estimate of £60m to over £200m now.
Moreover, the review found the "risk to the taxpayer has intensified", while the original ambition to "fund the Garden Bridge through private finance has been abandoned".
Other findings include:
Dame Margaret's review criticised the tendering process for the design of the Garden Bridge created by the previous City Hall administration.
It stated architects the Heatherwick Studio were given a head start in the process having already been closely associated with the project for five months before invitations to tender were sent out.
Two other firms that took part in the tendering process - Wilkinson Eyre and Marks Barfield - were given just eight working days to submit designs, the review said.
David Marks, co-director of Marks Barfield, told the BBC: "This competition didn't smell right from the start. It is clear that we were just there to make up the numbers and the outcome of this tender had in reality already been pre-determined.
"Had Marks Barfield been aware of Heatherwick Studios' involvement and original idea, we would certainly not have submitted a tender.
"We've never been asked to do something in such a short space of time."
This is 40 pages of brutal, uncompromising criticism of nearly every part of the once flagship Garden Bridge project. I can't remember reading a report so damning of a transport project.
Procurement, finances, business cases, value for money, previous mayors, deputy mayors and transport officials get an absolutely withering assessment.
This was meant to be an oasis of green calm hanging above the Thames.
Now a report has basically recommended it be cancelled and the taxpayer take a hit on a project whose overall cost is now upwards of £200m.
It will be very difficult for the project to withstand this.
The big question now is will the present Mayor Sadiq Khan just let it wither or kill it?
Lord Mervyn Davies, chairman of the Garden Bridge Trust, said: "We will be studying the report in detail and seeking a meeting with the mayor to discuss next steps.
"The Trust remains as determined as ever to make the Garden Bridge happen which will bring huge benefits to London and the UK."
A City Hall spokesman said: "The Mayor has been absolutely clear that he will not spend any more of London taxpayers' funds on the Garden Bridge.
"It is the Garden Bridge Trust that remains responsible for raising the necessary funds, and delivering the project." | A project to build a bridge covered with trees and shrubs across the Thames in London should be scrapped, a review has found. | 39524979 | [
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Sharbat Gula, whose haunting green eyes made her famous, fled Soviet-occupied Afghanistan as a child and was pictured in 1984 in a refugee camp in Pakistan.
Mrs Gula has been accused of living in Pakistan on fake identity papers and faces up to 14 years in jail.
Pakistan recently launched a crackdown on fake IDs.
There are strict restrictions to getting a Pakistani ID card, which is needed for opening a bank account or to buy property.
Why Now?: M Ilyas Khan, BBC News, Islamabad
Technically, Sharbat Gula cannot deny she committed fraud. But on a humanitarian level, many believe she is just one among thousands of Afghan refugees who committed the same offence.
Unfortunately for Mrs Gula, she has become the victim of a rather sudden turn in Pakistan's policy towards refugees. It wants them out of the country in the shortest possible time.
Pakistan's decision has come amid its rapidly deteriorating relations with India and Afghanistan. Officials say militants have been using hideouts in refugee settlements to launch attacks in Pakistan.
Another reason, according to some quarters, may be Islamabad's likely desire to inflict economic pain on Kabul for co-operating with India.
The Afghans forced to go home
Afghanistan's looming refugee disaster
Mrs Gula was arrested in Peshawar, near the Afghan border after a two-year investigation.
She allegedly applied for an identity card in April 2014, using the name Sharbat Bibi.
On Sunday Pakistan's Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said she should be granted bail, but a judge denied her application, saying she had failed to make her case.
If the fraud claims are true, she is one of thousands of Afghan refugees deploying desperate measures to avoid returning to their war-torn homeland.
The celebrated "Afghan girl" picture was taken by photographer Steve McCurry in 1984 in a refugee camp in north-west Pakistan, during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. It led to one of the most recognisable magazine covers ever printed.
He tracked her down 17 years later, living in the Tora Bora region of Afghanistan. Mrs Gula later moved back to Pakistan and he kept in touch.
He told BBC Newsday on Wednesday that he had hired a lawyer for her.
He added that he believed the Pakistani authorities may have singled her out because she is so well known.
"Perhaps they are trying to send the message to other Afghan refugees that 'we couldn't care who you are, we are going to hunt you down and drive you back into your country'."
Recent UN figures show that Pakistan hosts 1.4 million registered Afghan refugees. A further one million unregistered refugees are believed to be in the country.
Pakistan recently started cracking down on fake IDs.
It has been illegal for non-Pakistanis to have IDs since they were first issued in the 1970s but the law was not enforced, says our reporter M Ilyas Khan in Islamabad.
At first, the procedure was for a village council member to endorse a citizen's application. Few village councillors objected to endorsing an application for someone who, to them and to the rest of the village, was no longer a refugee but a neighbour, he adds. | An Afghan woman immortalised on the cover of National Geographic magazine has been denied bail after being arrested on fraud charges. | 37845265 | [
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Anders Behring Breivik complained in a letter to the prison service that his coffee is served cold, he does not have enough butter for his bread, and he is not allowed moisturiser.
Breivik is serving a minimum 21-year sentence for the bombings and shootings in Oslo and Utoeya island last July.
The Norwegian authorities have not commented on the letter.
However his lawyer has confirmed that the details of the 27-page document leaked to Norway's VG newspaper are authentic.
Breivik is being held in almost complete isolation - 23 hours a day, he says - at Ila prison outside Oslo.
His cell includes three sections, one to sleep, one for study and a third for exercise - each measuring 8 sq m (86 sq ft).
In the letter, he complains that the cell is poorly decorated and has no view.
"I highly doubt that there are worse detention facilities in Norway," he writes.
'Too cold'
Among his other complaints are:
Ila is an all-male institution which "houses some of the country's most dangerous men", its website says.
However it differs markedly from other maximum security jails in western Europe. The staff is a half-and-half mix of men and women and none are armed.
Breivik massacred 77 people, most of them teenagers at a youth camp run by Norway's governing Labour Party.
His 21-year sentence can be indefinitely extended for as long as he is considered a danger to society. | The Norwegian convicted of the massacre of 77 people last year has said he is being held in "inhumane" conditions. | 20270325 | [
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It is showcasing the huge amount which can be achieved by adults with learning difficulties and children with complex needs.
The "We Can" project has held exhibitions at the Senedd, Houses of Parliament and in 24 countries.
Mold-based Same but Different is behind it and everyone involved has a learning disability.
"Sometimes people make remarks that I can't do things and this makes you feel like you can't do it, but then I look back and realise that I can do things," said Scott Morris, 20, from Deeside.
"I may learn a bit slower, but I can still do what you can do."
Scott said his dream is to become a farmer and, if he does not achieve it, he will be "really sad".
Kate Siseman, 36, from Buckley, who has Down's Syndrome, has enjoyed doing an office and media course.
She said: "I love the fact you can listen to music while you type because it helps me clear my mind out.
"If I had to describe myself I would say I was smart, friendly, caring, kind and very sociable."
Other people involved include Paige Bedford, aged 19, from Bagillt, who is on the autism spectrum.
She said: "Having a disability makes you unique, it makes you different from other people.
"It sets you apart. It gives you a hidden edge that you don't know you have until you discover it."
Photographer and founder of Same but Different, Ceridwen Hughes, said "The aim of our organisation is to use the arts to create greater awareness of the person behind disability." | A new arts-based project using photography and video aims to show the people behind disability. | 39079948 | [
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Harold Jellicoe Percival, who was known as Coe, served as ground crew on the famous Dambusters raids carried out in May 1943 by 617 Squadron.
Mr Percival, who died last month aged 99, never married or had children.
The funeral home organising the service put an advert in a newspaper appealing for people to attend.
The Reverend Alan Clark, who conducted the service, said: "We marvel at the power of the printed word, whether on paper or screen."
Mr Percival's nephew, Andrew Colyer-Worrsall, said the attendance was "just remarkable".
"He was a quiet man, he was an ordinary man who did his duty and served in the war and to see so many people turn up, it's just overwhelming," he said.
"I can only say thank you so much to everybody.
"We thought there would just be two or three of us, so to see this many hundreds of people turn up is stunning."
Mr Percival, who lived in Penge, south London, before joining Bomber Command, died in Alistre Lodge Nursing Home in Lytham St Annes in Lancashire.
Nursing home manager Lorraine Holt told BBC News she had been inundated with responses from people after the advert was reposted on social media sites.
"Late last night, we had a call from a soldier on leave from Afghanistan who said he wanted to attend.
"Then an 80-year-old lady from London who served in the RAF called us to say she was attending.
"The response has been absolutely incredible."
The RAF Association Leyland branch, said they had also helped to ensure Mr Percival's funeral on Monday was well attended.
By Steve BeckerBBC Radio Lancashire reporter
Harold Percival was, by all accounts, something of a loner, with no close family or friends.
Yet hundreds of people attended Lytham Crematorium to pay their respects, as a testimony to the power of remembrance and social networking.
With the service taking place on Armistice Day, it became a particularly poignant event, drawing armed forces personnel, charities and many members of the public.
In fact, before the Last Post was played, a spontaneous round of applause broke out as his coffin was taken from the hearse.
We'll never know the answer to the question posed by many people at the service: what would this quiet man have made of his send off?
But most suspected he'd have been secretly pleased and proud.
The association's standard bearer Stuart Dagger said: "We are saying goodbye to a hero."
The Dambusters March played as Mr Percival's coffin was carried into Lytham Park Crematorium at 11:00 GMT on Armistice Day.
A two-minute silence was observed around the coffin to mark the anniversary of the World War One armistice before it was carried into the crematorium.
About 100 people were inside with another 400 standing silently outside in the rain.
Relatives of Mr Percival thanked those who attended and who spread the word saying "We are overwhelmed. This shows how great the British public are."
Mr Percival's nephew, David Worsell, who could not attend the funeral, said: "He was a private man.
"He worked in Australia for a number of years as a decorator and would visit England for holidays.
"He travelled around England with only his backpack.
"He didn't have a postal address - he just used to get everything sent to my mother's address and would go through it when they met up."
Frank Richard Carew-Percival, who contacted the BBC from Australia, said he was Mr Percival's nephew and was disappointed that he wouldn't be able to attend the service.
"He lived with us on and off in Australia and New Zealand. He loved cricket and taught my son how to spin bowl."
He said his uncle was a shy man who led a "nomadic type " lifestyle.
"I managed to trace him six months ago and sent him photos of when he lived with us.
"We always had a Coe's room wherever we lived as he could turn up at any time."
Mr Percival's family told the BBC a nephew, great-nephew and great-niece would be at his funeral. | Hundreds of people from across the UK have attended the funeral in Lancashire of a World War Two veteran they never knew. | 24889924 | [
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Lib Dem Lord Oates accused Labour of being prepared to "concede everything", and the opposition's leader in the Lords, Baroness Smith, responded that his party was giving people "false hope".
The two parties had teamed up to help inflict defeats on the government concerning the rights of EU citizens and parliamentary approval for a Brexit deal.
But that co-operation went out the window when MPs rejected those amendments - with Lib Dems determined to insist on them and Labour prepared to defer to the Commons.
A Labour source in the Lords told the BBC it was "fairly obvious grandstanding" by the Lib Dems, and geared towards content for their campaign leaflets.
"It's pretty unforgiveable to build up false hope with people genuinely worried about their future in Britain, when you already know that MPs were ready to dig in behind the government," the source said.
For their part, the Lib Dems' Europe spokesperson Baroness Ludford accused Labour of "waving through the government's plans" and "lining up with the Conservatives as they drive forward with a hard Brexit".
It's not just on Brexit that the two biggest opposition parties have a track record of forming alliances - they have trooped through the lobbies together to impose government defeats on bills dealing with issues from higher education to housing.
Baroness Ludford seemed sanguine about their chances of coming together again, saying: "The Liberal Democrats will continue to work with peers from across the House to fight for the issues we agree on."
But the Labour source predicted "residual tensions", adding: "I can't imagine there'll be much demand here to organise a 'progressive consensus summer drinks' gathering.
"Our respective leaderships will of course continue to keep things business-like." | There were angry scenes on Monday night as the bill enabling the government to trigger Article 50 cleared the Lords. | 39270960 | [
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The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's son is the first member of the UK Royal family to have his first birthday marked by a new coin.
The third in line to the throne and future king turns one on 22 July.
The design of the sterling silver piece was approved by his parents; his great-grandmother the Queen; and Chancellor George Osborne.
It bears the heraldic royal arms and the year 2014.
Prince George was photographed at the weekend walking with the help of his mother.
Shane Bissett, director of commemorative coin and bullion at the Royal Mint, said: "We felt there could be no more fitting design to mark the first birthday of our future king than the royal arms - the arms of the monarch - minted in honour of the future heir to the throne.
"The choice of a silver coin is significant too, as the precious metal is closely associated with newborn babies...
"Crossing the palm of a newborn baby with silver is a way to wish them wealth and good health throughout their life, whilst the £5 coin is a favourite for royal celebrations."
The coins will be a limited mintage of 7,500 and will cost £80 each from the Royal Mint.
The heraldic royal arms incorporates the four quarterings of the royal arms, each contained in a shield, as well as a rose, thistle, leek, a sprig of shamrock and a crown.
It was originally created for the Queen and was last used on a coin struck for the British Exhibition in New York in 1960.
George's birth and his christening were also marked with commemorative coins. | A commemorative £5 coin is being produced to honour the first birthday of Prince George of Cambridge. | 27868094 | [
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Officers raided a workshop in the port of Izmir, where they say they found life jackets stuffed with packaging rather than buoyancy aids.
The four workers making the jackets included two young Syrian girls.
On Tuesday, the bodies of 34 migrants were found along Turkey's coast. Many were wearing life jackets.
Several children were among the dead.
More than one million migrants crossed the Mediterranean in 2015 and the vast majority went from Turkey to Greece.
Many migrants buy life jackets to help them survive the dinghy journey. A properly made jacket costs up to a £100 (€130; $150), reports the BBC's James Reynolds in Istanbul.
But many migrants make do with cheaper, badly made ones, which cost just £10 and may offer no protection whatsoever, our correspondent says.
Izmir: Migrants' life jacket capital
The life jacket 'mountains' of Lesbos
Migration to Europe explained in graphics
According to the UN, 3,771 people were listed as dead or missing in 2015.
In Wednesday's raid the authorities seized 1,263 life jackets that failed to correspond to safety standards, Turkey's Dogan news agency said. The workshop was in the centre of Izmir, a major hub for refugees and migrants.
Four people were found working in the workshop, including two young Syrian girls, the news agency said. It did not publish the girls' ages.
The confiscated life jackets have been sent to the local police for examination and an investigation has been launched.
It comes one day after the bodies of more than 30 migrants were washed up in Turkey. Their boats capsized in bad weather on the way to the Greek island of Lesbos, the authorities say.
Turkish media published harrowing images of the corpses, many still wearing life jackets that had apparently been of no use.
Migrants are continuing to arrive on the Greek islands every day, despite the wintry weather. Lesbos is by far the most popular destination for migrants leaving Turkey. More than 500,000 reached the island in 2015.
Late last year, Turkey reached a deal with the European Union to tighten its borders and reduce the numbers crossing to Greece in return for €3bn (£2.1bn) and political concessions.
A note on terminology: The BBC uses the term migrant to refer to all people on the move who have yet to complete the legal process of claiming asylum. This group includes people fleeing war-torn countries such as Syria, who are likely to be granted refugee status, as well as people who are seeking jobs and better lives, who governments are likely to rule are economic migrants. | Police in Turkey say they have confiscated more than 1,000 fake life jackets made for migrants wanting to cross the Aegean Sea to Greece. | 35241813 | [
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The 97 jobs will be created over the next five years.
The firm began operating in Northern Ireland in 2012 and now employs about 100 people.
Invest NI is supporting the investment with a grant of £727,500.
Axiom is based in the US and employs around 1,200 people.
The new posts in Belfast will have average salaries of £40,000.
They include a mix of lawyers, project managers and technologists.
Axiom provides out-sourced legal services.
It recently announced a major partnership with an investment bank to provide improved risk management in derivatives.
Kate Docherty of Axiom said the company had been "delighted by the success of our operation in Belfast and its contribution to our growth globally".
"Our expansion in this region is a testament not only to that growth, but to the skilled pool of available talent in Belfast who have made that success possible," she added. | The legal services firm Axiom UK is to double its Belfast workforce in a £9m investment. | 32396776 | [
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A former Spanish colony, it was annexed by Morocco in 1975. Since then it has been the subject of a long-running territorial dispute between Morocco and its indigenous Saharawi people, led by the Polisario Front.
A 16-year-long insurgency ended with a UN-brokered truce in 1991 and the promise of a referendum on independence which has yet to take place.
Although under the de facto administrative control of Morocco, the status and sovereignty of Western Sahara remain unresolved and numerous direct talks have failed to break the political deadlock.
The Saharan Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), declared by the Polisario Front in 1976, is now recognised by many governments and is a full member of the African Union.
Home to phosphate reserves and rich fishing grounds off its coast, Western Sahara is also believed to have as yet untapped offshore oil deposits.
Population 567,000
Main town Laayoune
Area 252,120 sq km (97,344 sq miles)
Main language Arabic
Main religion Islam
Life expectancy 66 years (men), 70 years (women)
President of the Saharan Arab Democratic Republic: Brahim Ghali
The Polisario Front proclaimed the Saharan Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) in 1976, with a government in exile in Algeria.
Brahim Ghali was elected leader of the Polisario Front and president of the Saharan Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) in July 2016 following the death of long-term president Mohamed Abdelaziz Ezzedine.
A seasoned military leader, described both as a "hard-line supporter" and "historic figure", he was one of Polisario's founding members in 1973 and led the first raids against the occupying Spanish forces that sparked the armed struggle for Western Saharan independence.
In 2008 he left his post as ambassador to Spain with unresolved charges against him alleging inhumane treatment and the torture of Saharan prisoners, and became the ambassador to Algeria.
Morocco's state broadcaster RTM operates radio and TV services from Laayoune.
On the other side of the political divide, a Polisario-backed mediumwave (AM) radio station is on the air.
Radio
Television
News agency
Some key dates in the history of Western Sahara:
1884 - Spain colonises Western Sahara, an area formerly populated by Berber tribes.
1934 - Becomes a Spanish province known as Spanish Sahara.
1957 - Newly-independent Morocco lays centuries-old claim to Western Sahara.
1965 - The UN calls for the decolonisation of Western Sahara.
1973 - Polisario Front, the indigenous Saharawi independence movement, is founded.
1975 - Morocco's King Hassan defies a Hague ruling in favour of Saharawi rights to self-determination and stages the "Green March" of 350,000 Moroccans into Western Sahara. Spain transfers administrative control to Morocco and Mauritania.
1975-91 - Polisario Front fights a 16-year-long guerrilla war against Moroccan forces, which ends with a UN-brokered cease-fire.
1975-76 - Morocco annexes two-thirds of Western Sahara after colonial power Spain withdraws. Polisario guerrillas declare the Saharan Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), with a government-in-exile in Algeria. Thousands of Sahrawi refugees flee to western Algeria to set up camps near the town of Tindouf.
1979 - Mauritania renounces all claims to Western Sahara leaving Morocco to annex its share of the territory.
1991-2000s - UN brokered cease-fire ends war but Morocco has yet to hold an agreed referendum on independence. Numerous UN-sponsored talks have failed to yield a breakthrough.
2016 - Long-term leader Mohamed Abdelaziz Ezzedine dies. | Western Sahara is a sparsely-populated area of mostly desert situated on the northwest coast of Africa. | 14115273 | [
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Gosport Borough Council says it brought in the £100 fines to combat dog mess and poorly controlled dogs.
Previously walkers were allowed to walk up-to six charges, but this has been curbed with the new Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO).
One professional dog walker said it will affect business.
Nick Lower, who runs Gosport Dog Walking, said: "There are a few professional dog walkers who are going to be affected, and members of the public as well."
Sue McNaughton, who will now have to walk her five huskies in two packs said: "I understand where [the council] are coming from, but they're penalising the many because of the few.
"I wouldn't walk five dogs if I didn't think I could control them."
Councillor Graham Burgess said: "In a densely-populated borough like Gosport, we do believe new rules are needed."
Some residents are happy about the change, including Jenny Brown who said: "I'm pleased this has come into focus. I've had so many problems when encountering larger groups of dogs."
Similar fines are in place in other areas including Oxford.
In 2011 the council brought in fines for people walking more than four dogs after complaints of packs being out of control.
Councillor John Tanner said: "With more than four dogs, you are not taking your dog out for a walk but a pack of potentially dangerous animals for a riot around the park." | Fines for people who walk more than four dogs at a time have come into force in a Hampshire town. | 39769910 | [
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Martin, 28, has scored seven goals in 17 appearances for Fulham in the Championship this term.
He "made himself unavailable" for Friday's abandoned game at Reading, but Jokanovic insisted he would stay.
"I'm not going to send him back to Derby - he's going to stay with us and respect the contract," said Jokanovic.
"He stopped in training, but I have information from the medical staff that he is available to play. He decided to take a day off."
He continued to BBC Radio London: "We're not a train station, you can't come in and out when you want. We need to respect ourselves, we are the oldest London club.
"I don't know if he will play for Fulham, but I'm sure he's not going to play for Derby."
Earlier this month, Derby manager Steve McClaren said he was surprised Martin was allowed to leave the club under previous boss Nigel Pearson. | Fulham manager Slavisa Jokanovic has dismissed reports that striker Chris Martin could return early to Derby from his season-long loan at Craven Cottage. | 38471921 | [
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Pte Sean Benton, 20, from Hastings, was found with five bullet wounds to his chest in June 1995 while on guard at a perimeter fence at Deepcut.
An original inquest into his death recorded a verdict of suicide.
His family applied for a new hearing after using the Human Rights Act to access evidence held by police.
His twin, Tony Benton, and sister, Tracy Lewis, wept and said: "We are just happy and relieved. It's been too long."
A spokesperson for the Ministry of Defence (MoD) said: "We care deeply about our young recruits and our thoughts remain with the family and friends of Private Sean Benton."
BBC Local Live: For the latest updates and more news
The malevolent culture at Deepcut barracks
Justice Collins said fresh evidence had "come to light which casts some doubt upon the correctness" of the original decision.
He added that under article two of the Human Rights Act there was material that questioned the care Pte Benton received from the Army at the time.
Mrs Lewis said: "Our family had just 20 years with Sean. It has taken us another 21 to secure the thorough, independent inquiry we should have seen immediately after his death."
"For two decades, our family has been tormented by questions about what Sean went through at Deepcut," she added.
"If his death had been properly investigated in 1995, we would have been spared years of uncertainty and pain.
"It should be a source of huge shame to the Ministry of Defence and Surrey Police that our mother had to fight for so long - far longer than she should have had to - to force the authorities to answer basic questions."
The family said the original inquest took less than two hours and heard from six people. A criminal investigation seven years later found no evidence of third party involvement.
Pte Benton's medical records were not obtained and no evidence was gathered or presented about his experiences at the base.
The family, who are represented by human rights group Liberty, believe he was subjected to severe bullying.
In a statement, the MoD said: "The Armed Forces will not tolerate abuse, bullying, or discrimination. All allegations are taken very seriously and will be thoroughly investigated, either by the civil or military police and, where appropriate, action will be taken."
"It would be inappropriate to comment further while legal proceedings are ongoing - we will assist the coroner as necessary," it added.
Pte Benton was the first of four young soldiers to die at the barracks between 1995 and 2002.
Pte Cheryl James, 18, from Llangollen, North Wales, shot herself in November 1995, according to a second inquest into her death which concluded in June. However, the coroner criticised a lack of training, structure and inappropriate sexual relationships in the camp.
Pte James' father, Des, said he had applied to the MoD for a full public inquiry into what went on at the barracks.
Pte Geoff Gray, 17, from Hackney, east London, was found dead with two gunshot wounds to his head on 17 September 2001.
Pte James Collinson, 17, from Perth, was found dead with a single gunshot wound through his chin on 23 March 2002.
A date for the fresh inquest into Pte Benton's death is yet to be set. | A fresh inquest can take place into the death of a young soldier at an army barracks in Surrey 21 years ago, a high court judge has ruled. | 37655128 | [
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After Jonny Bairstow made 64 and Alex Hales 51, the tourists slipped from 116-1 to 211-9 - both Eoin Morgan and Jos Buttler were out first ball.
They needed last-wicket pair Adil Rashid and David Willey to reach 282.
India A coasted in the chase, Ajinkya Rahane's 91 getting them home with more than 10 overs to spare.
This setback comes after England beat a different India A line-up by three wickets on Tuesday.
It also throws up further questions over the top-order batting.
The regular top four would comprise Hales, Jason Roy - who was unlucky to be bowled when a part of his helmet fell on to the bails - Joe Root and Morgan.
Root has not played in the warm-ups after arriving late because of the birth of his son, while captain Morgan, returning to the side after missing the tour of Bangladesh over security fears, has made only three runs in two innings.
Meanwhile, Sam Billings made 93 in the first match and Bairstow pressed his claim here.
Morgan is not the only man short of form. Moeen Ali has made just one run in his two innings and was the third of three wickets to fall in the space of eight balls.
Rashid, who shared 71 for the 10th wicket with Willey, served up a succession of short balls in seven overs of leg spin that went for 51 - and not one of England's bowlers managed an economy rate of under six.
BBC Sport's Tim Peach in Mumbai
The manner of captain Eoin Morgan and vice-captain Jos Buttler's dismissals epitomised this latest England middle-order collapse in India.
Both were caught and bowled, first ball, prodding easy catches back to the bowler, misjudging the pace of the wicket.
England will be much more pleased with their top order, however. Not only did Hales and Bairstow both reach half-centuries, but Jason Roy was looking in fine form before his unfortunate dismissal. He stood his ground for what seemed an age, unable to quite work out how the bails had been dislodged.
We're often told of how deep England bat, and this was proved by a carefree 70-run partnership between Rashid and Willey, who helped make the target more respectable. | England were heavily beaten by India A in their second and final warm-up match before the one-day international series begins on Sunday. | 38597815 | [
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The body of Kimberley Jones, 25, was found by a paramedic at the house in Cwmbach, Aberdare, on 9 August, 2013.
Mother-of-one Ms Jones was due to move into the house the following day, but was allowed to stay the night before.
Tests on the fire showed the flue was ineffective allowing smoke to leak into the room, the Aberdare inquest heard.
During those tests carbon monoxide gas was at 16 times the acceptable level.
Ms Jones' father, Andrew Jones, told the inquest he knew the owner of the house, Ms Linda Parfitt, as a family friend for 25 years and he arranged to buy the house from her to use as a home for his daughter.
Ms Parfitt left the property at the start of the week and Mr Jones was decorating it that week.
He said he stayed there for two nights to keep the house secure.
His daughter, who worked as a care worker, was due to stay there on Thursday 8 August, but Mr Jones said he had woken up cold the previous morning so decided to light the fire.
He told the inquest that he told his daughter to keep a window open as he did not want her to die from carbon monoxide poisoning.
He said: "That will haunt me for the rest of my days."
Mr Jones said his wife called him the following morning as she could not contact their daughter.
He said he went to the house but the emergency services were already there.
He told the coroner he identified his daughter's body later that day.
Plumbing inspector Howard Reed told the coroner the fire was dirty with a lot of soot and debris.
Tests showed its window and door leaked smoke and carbon monoxide tests found that after two hours there were 829 parts per million (ppm) of the gas in the room.
A domestic carbon monoxide alarm would sound at about 50 ppm and levels of between 600 and 750ppm are likely to cause fatalities, the hearing was told.
Debris on the fire's throat plate, which is used to restrict airflow, was blocking the flue and Mr Reed estimated it had not been removed for "many years".
The owner of the house at the time, Ms Parfitt, told the inquest that she and her ex-partner arranged for the fire to be installed.
Ms Parfitt told the inquest that a vent in the living room had been there prior to moving into the house.
She said that she did not inspect it and could not explain how a magazine cover found its way into the grill opening.
When shown a picture of smoke coming from the fire during the inspection after Ms Jones died, Miss Parfitt told the coroner: "I've never seen smoke coming out of it like that - I'm sure about that."
The inquest has now been adjourned until later in the year. | The flue of a coal fire at the home of a woman suspected to have died from carbon monoxide poisoning was blocked, an inquest has heard. | 33538194 | [
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Two special concerts at the Royal Albert Hall will see pupils perform their own response to 10 pieces of classic music.
The Ten Pieces project was announced last year as part of an initiative to inspire primary school children to learn more about classical music.
Each Prom will feature pupils playing music, as well as dance, film and animation.
The schoolchildren's work will run alongside the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, which will play the original 10 pieces of music, which include Mozart, Handel and Holst.
Blue Peter's Barney Harwood and children's TV presenters Dick and Dom will host the concerts on 18 and 19 July, the opening weekend of this year's Proms.
The Saturday concert will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 3, while the Sunday concert will be recorded for future broadcast on BBC Radio 2.
Last June, the BBC announced ten pieces of classical music aimed at inspiring schoolchildren to create their own works.
Since October 2014, some 8,500 primary school pupils have signed up to take part in the scheme, which offers musical workshops from local arts organisations as well as an online film about classical music, which has been seen by more than 120,000 children so far.
The schoolchildren are being invited to submit their "creative responses" to the music to the Ten Pieces website, as either films, audio recordings or images, by the end of March.
The full 2015 BBC Proms season will be announced in April.
John Adams: Short Ride in a Fast Machine
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 (1st movement)
Britten: 'Storm' Interlude from Peter Grimes
Grieg: In the Hall of the Mountain King from Peer Gynt
Handel: Zadok the Priest
Holst: Mars from The Planets
Anna Meredith: Connect It
Mozart: Horn Concerto No. 4 (3rd movement)
Mussorgsky: A Night on the Bare Mountain
Stravinsky: The Firebird - suite (1911) (Finale) | Schoolchildren will perform their own work at this year's Proms. | 31036851 | [
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Sports Minister Carál Nί Chuilίn said they stood down just before she was due to meet board representatives.
They were there to discuss a report by the Head of Internal Audit at the Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure and the Department of Education.
Ms Nί Chuilίn said she advised the remaining members at the meeting "of my deep concerns at the issues raised by their staff" with the internal auditor.
On Friday, the minister called for the meeting to consider the findings of the report into "serious allegations" about the "leadership, management and the overall culture" of the organisation.
After Monday's meeting, she said she had accepted the board members' resignations, and thanked them "for their efforts in promoting and fostering sport during their time in office".
In a statement, she said: "Given the ongoing challenges in Sport NI, I am taking steps to intervene directly to support both staff and the remaining board members.
"I also wish to advise staff that their concerns are being taken seriously and that they will be fully addressed."
Chair of the culture committee Nelson McCausland said the situation was "shocking and unprecedented".
"That is why we need to get Carál Nί Chuilίn in front of the committee as soon as possible," he said.
"It tells us something about the department and the way that the minister has been running the department," Mr McCausland told BBC NI's Good Morning Ulster.
"We also want to talk to the people who resigned, they have a story as well.
"It is a whole quagmire, we need to get to the bottom of it. The minister owes that to the public, to Sport NI and to the committee."
Ms Nί Chuilίn said she would meet the remaining board members later this week.
No-one from Sport NI was available for comment. | Nine members of the Sport NI board have resigned with immediate effect. | 33417306 | [
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But it has perhaps been more like Pinter than Shakespeare.
The menacing silences, the bullying over polite exchanges, the brutal quest for dominance as self-confidence drains from one man to another.
So here is a cut-out-and-keep guide for any budding dramatist on what we know and what I've found out.
The day of the referendum.
I'm told Michael Gove and Boris Johnson go to bed with only one speech prepared - to acknowledge defeat.
04:45 BST
A mobile phone rings in the Gove household.
His wife, Sarah Vine - as she explained in her Daily Mail column - hears her husband's phone go off.
Then this exchange.
"Michael, guess what? We've won!"
"Gosh."
She wrote in her column: "Given Michael's high-profile role in the Leave campaign, that means he - we - are now charged with implementing the instructions of 17 million people.
"And that is an awesome responsibility."
As the mobile phones go mad: "'You were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off,' I said, in my best (ie not very good) Michael Caine Italian Job accent.
"In other words, you've really torn it now."
The tear widens as David Cameron resigns.
Boris Johnson was at home with a small team, watching the prime minister resign live on TV.
Victory, one insider said, was the moment it all went wrong.
Another told me Boris felt he was staring down both barrels of a gun. He had rather a nice life - did he really want to be PM?
Watching the prime minister resign, Team Boris think Gove, who'd been talking to Osborne, might come on board.
Then pretty much public silence from the man who hoped to be prime minister.
Cut to a close-up of the thwack of willow on leather - Boris at the wicket of a rather posh, rather jolly, cricket match.
Then an apparently quite amusing barbecue at his country house.
Michael Gove joined him - and said that together they were the dream team. He was promised he'd become chancellor and be in charge of Brexit negotiations.
But had the Tory establishment decided, as one insider told me, they did not want another Old Etonian - another face from that Bullingdon Club photo - as their leader in an anti-elitist age?
Did someone urge Gove to sign up with the intention of doing the indecent thing?
Morning
Please, no clichés of the spinning presses.
However, Boris Johnson's Daily Telegraph column is the next scene.
"It is said that those who voted Leave were mainly driven by anxieties about immigration," he writes.
"I do not believe that is so... British people will still be able to go and work in the EU; to live; to travel; to study; to buy homes; and to settle down."
Was this the turning point? Too soft, too un-Brexity, for Michael Gove?
Hardly. He had sent an email at 18:00 on Sunday urging only minor changes and describing it as "very, very good."
17:00 BST
Gove is shown the spreadsheet of MPs supporting Boris.
One source told me that early in a leadership election all that matters is numbers. You need to pull in the left, the right, young, old, Leave, Remain.
Morning
A meeting at the Park Lane offices of the Australian super-strategist Sir Lynton Crosby.
Team Boris are surprised by the appearance of Gove's youthful eminence grise, Dominic Cummings. His exclusion has already been demanded.
Then comes the first pubic hint of unease.
An e-mail from Vine to her husband Gove finds its way to journalists.
"One simple message: you MUST have SPECIFIC assurances from Boris OTHERWISE you cannot guarantee your support," it says.
She tells him: "Do not concede any ground. Be your stubborn best."
Adding: "The details can be worked out later on, but without that you have no leverage.
"Crucially, the membership will not have the necessary reassurance to back Boris, neither will Dacre/Murdoch (the editor of the Daily Mail and News International boss respectively), who instinctively dislike Boris but trust your ability enough to support a Boris/Gove ticket."
Speaking in London, Rupert Murdoch says he'd be "happy for Michael Gove to get it" and describes him as "the most principled and most able" candidate available.
18:00 BST
Team Boris say they have 63 MPs solidly backing them.
Morning
The critical day.
10 Greycoat Place, near London's Victoria station, is established as the Johnson/Gove HQ.
18:00 BST
Team Boris report they have 97 MPs "locked in solid".
19:00 BST
Boris goes to a Conservative MPs' party at Westminster.
There are suggestions from Gove's side that Boris bungles this and support is draining away.
In particular they claim he forgets a letter promising rising star Andrea Leadsom she can become chancellor as price for her support.
Team Boris say this is nonsense, and Gove had already been promised this job.
Team Gove say she could have had deputy prime minister. But for them it crystallises something.
Gove begins to think Boris is too cavalier and unfocused - an unguided missile.
20:00 BST
Boris joins Gove and the prime minister at a party at the Hurlingham Club.
Was it the scene of more intrigue? Do we see Michael Gove glad-handing, plotting, building support?
Is he being lobbied? Or does he seem a distracted, lonely figure? The prime minister is there. Do they talk?
I'm told by an eyewitness at another party - held during the referendum - that Sarah Vine went up to the prime minister and said: "Are we OK?"
He apparently hissed: "If you just get your husband off the telly, we'll be fine."
My source said: "Everyone just rocked back - it was quite public."
22:00 BST
Boris leaves with a key member of Team Gove to write his speech - the most of important of his life.
His pitch to become prime minister.
Around midnight
The Team Gove member takes a series of phone calls. He then makes his excuses and leaves.
Gove tries to speak to Chancellor George Osborne, but can't get through.
08:00 BST
Dominic Raab has written in the Sun, backing Boris for PM.
He says the former London mayor has got the "'Heineken effect', that refreshes the parts that more conventional politicians cannot reach".
But cancels a planned interview on the Today programme.
08:00 BST
Gove formally tells his team he is going to run.
08:35 BST
The team at Greycoat Place get a call from a journalist telling them Gove is jumping ship.
"Rubbish," they tell her.
08:40 BST
They listen in horror as Sir Lynton Crosby takes a call from Gove, telling him he's running.
"I felt kicked in the stomach, it's nasty stuff. Gove is deeply ambitious and he was persuaded he didn't need Boris. It could be him. It was all about power," says one insider.
11:25 BST
Moments before Boris is about to go on stage, his small team decides he can't run.
11:50 BST
Boris Johnson announces he will not stand for the Tory leadership.
Afternoon
Team Boris are beside themselves with fury.
One sends a text message to the Sun's political editor Tom Newton Dunn.
It describes Gove in colourful language, adding that he had "set this up from start".
"This is going to be bloody," it adds.
Another emails of Gove: "He is actually Theon Greyjoy, or will be by the time I am finished with him."
If you don't follow Game of Thrones - that political drama with added dragons - Theon is tortured, castrated, and tortured again, until he is barely human.
Politics makes such good drama because it is about the lust for power, driving ambition, the balance between cynicism and belief.
It is about when to strike - brutal and quick - and when to stay the hand.
But it is also about personality, about an inner life and inner doubts that haunt us all.
It is about self-confidence and the need for love.
Never more so than in this drama.
Many feel it was about Boris's need to be loved that drove him to Brexit as much as ambition.
His team were clearly delighted that passing taxi drivers shouted "Oi, Boris" with amused approval.
But he didn't like the abuse he was now getting travelling around London after the referendum.
His calculation had probably been that he would be applauded by the crowd; loved by the party as a good loser who chose the side that lost; in pole position for a big job in David Cameron's next cabinet - and then perhaps an even bigger one.
He perhaps hadn't thought through whether he was really up for it - or up to it.
He was never truly clubbable, never a House of Commons man, cultivating friendships.
Like the Earl of Essex he "veil his bonnet to an oyster wife, and with a kind of humble conge (bow) greet, the vulgar sort that did admire his life" (anon).
Essex too forgot the establishment - the Palace, the Court - carried the power of execution.
Johnson's camp portrays Gove as the ultimate Machiavellian villain, driven by an ambitious wife, and adviser, plotting from within to destroy one close ally and then another, climbing the greasy pole with the hand grips of treachery and betrayal.
They say that is foolish, because Gove was always the anchor, and it was always a negotiation, a deal - simply one that didn't come off.
Perhaps Gove would prefer a softer version of betrayal, with him as Shakespeare's Prince Hal, shaking off Falstaff and his amusing but ultimately childish ways as he grew to power.
It was all too hasty, thinks one insider, in sorrow not anger - they were all pushed over the edge by the speed of events.
But don't mistake the fury. There will be another act. I am told: "This isn't over. Gove did need Boris. And Boris hasn't spoken yet." | The comparisons to a Shakespearian tragedy have become a cliché, so obvious are the parallels with Caesar, Macbeth, and more profoundly Coriolanus. | 36693200 | [
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Phoenix, 37, told Interview Magazine: "I don't want to be a part of it. I don't believe in it."
The actor has been tipped for awards success The Master, in which he plays a war veteran.
He was nominated for an Oscar for his role as music legend Johnny Cash in Walk The Line in 2005.
Phoenix said he was dreading the upcoming Hollywood awards season which culminates with the Oscars in February 2013.
"It's a carrot, but it's the worst-tasting carrot I've ever tasted in my whole life. I don't want this carrot," he said.
"It's totally subjective. Pitting people against each other....It's the stupidest thing in the whole world."
Phoenix described the period when Walk The Line was up for multiple awards seven years ago as "one of the most uncomfortable periods of my life."
"I never want to have that experience again," he revealed in the interview.
"I don't know how to explain it - and it's not like I'm in this place where I think I'm just above it - but I just don't ever want to get comfortable with that part of things."
The Master, which also stars Philip Seymour Hoffman, is Phoenix's first feature film since I'm Still Here, Casey Affleck's spoof 2010 documentary which chronicled Phoenix's supposed retirement from acting to launch a career as a rapper.
Phoenix called that experience "unbelievably liberating" and said it was hard subsequently to find projects that interested and excited him.
"I mean, everything that they teach you when you're a kid about acting is completely...wrong. They tell you to memorise your lines, follow your light, and hit your marks. Those are the three things that you shouldn't do.
"You should not learn your lines, you should not hit your mark, and you should never follow your light. Find your light - that's my opinion," he said. | Joaquin Phoenix has said he wants no part in the movie industry awards season, calling the awards "stupid" and "subjective". | 20004220 | [
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Hosts GB are aiming to win the event for the first time and were indebted to goalkeeper George Pinner who made a series of saves to keep the game level.
Mark Glenghorne came closest to a winner for GB, but was denied by Simon Orchard in the Australia goal.
"As a team we pride ourselves on our defence," Pinner told BBC Sport.
"It really was a great performance with everyone throwing themselves in there, putting their bodies on the line and that's what you need to win tournaments."
The Champions Trophy in London sees six of the best teams in the world compete in the final major international tournament before this summer's Rio Olympic Games.
All six nations will face one another in the pool stage, with the top two ranked teams facing off for gold on the final day - those ranked third and fourth will compete for bronze.
Earlier on Friday, South Korea took an early advantage with a 2-0 defeat of Belgium, while defending champions Germany needed a late equaliser to salvage a 3-3 draw against India.
The GB men will face 2014 Champions Trophy runners-up India in their second fixture at 16:00 BST on Saturday and will be hoping for goal-scoring improvements.
They relied not only on Pinner but also two crucial video referrals, which overturned a penalty stroke and a goal, having both initially been awarded to Australia.
"We take encouragement from the result and we know the performance can get better," captain Barry Middleton told BBC Sport.
"Tournament hockey isn't always about who plays their best at the beginning, it's about if you can build through the tournament and finish strong and that's what we're looking to do." | Great Britain's men began their Champions Trophy campaign with an encouraging 0-0 draw against world number one side Australia. | 36505019 | [
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The Kemp's ridley turtle was one of two found on beaches near Formby, Merseyside, and Cumbria's Walney Island on 22 December.
The reptile found in Merseyside died soon after, but the other was being looked after at the Lake District Coast Aquarium in Maryport.
Aquarium owner Mark Vollers said it had struggled to feed itself.
The turtles were believed to be from the Gulf of Mexico 5,000 miles (8,000 km) away and were among a small number which washed up on British and European shores last month.
Mr Vollers told BBC Cumbria: "We thought we had a 50/50 chance, which would've improved if it had started feeding.
"It was getting some sustenance in other ways but not really enough to recover.
"We were following a strict agreed protocol arrived at after consultation with vets here and in other countries - people who have experience of this species of turtle."
The turtle, possibly aged about 20, is now with a specialist vet who will determine the cause of death.
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Jersey-based collector David Gainsborough-Roberts, 73, spent his life collecting a variety of memorabilia from famous people.
Last year he sold his entire Marilyn Monroe collection, making £1.5m which he said would go to charity.
Mr Gainsborough-Roberts was born in Buxton, Derbyshire, and died in Jersey on Saturday.
His collection focused on popular history of the 19th and 20th Century, and included keys and coats from the Titanic; Winston Churchill's Stetson hat; and guns owned by Billy the Kid. He even had a pair of Queen Victoria's knickers.
He would tell friends and family that making money from his collection was never the point. He told his friend Murray Norton that "the point is they have a story attached to them".
Mr Norton said his fame stretched far and wide but he would always make time for people.
"If you went to America people would know David Gainsborough-Roberts because he was a regular on the Joan Rivers Show.
"He was known throughout the world. He would give talks in far flung places from Germany to California," Mr Norton said.
Friends have described him as a kind and generous man with a lot of character and enthusiasm. | One of the biggest collectors of Marilyn Monroe memorabilia has died following a short illness. | 40398295 | [
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The cockpit voice recorder from the accident off Shetland in 2013, in which four people died, was recovered by the Air Accidents Investigation Branch.
A judge ruled it was in the public interest and the interests of justice to make it available.
The British Airline Pilots' Association (Balpa) said it had lodged an appeal.
The union's general secretary, Jim McAuslan, said: "The 2013 Supa Puma accident was tragic, and it is vital the AAIB gets to the root cause and has access to whatever data it needs.
"However, providing the data to the prosecutor and the police in parallel to the AAIB's investigation cuts across everything pilots and the broader flight safety community stand for.
"We cannot stand by while the court allows that to happen without pursuing other legal avenues to highlight our concerns and question whether it is the correct approach."
Prosecutors have been trying to establish whether anybody could be held criminally responsible for the crash.
The Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) has the right to initial access to the cockpit voice recorder but it routinely chooses not to hand over the material to other bodies - in this case the Crown prosecutors.
The BBC Scotland news website revealed last year an order was being sought by Lord Advocate Frank Mulholland QC at the Court of Session to access the data.
It was a rare legal move.
Lord Jones said he was satisfied that disclosing the data would have no adverse impact on current or future crash investigations - but that it could only be disclosed to the Crown Office and Police Scotland.
A total of 18 people were on board when the Super Puma crashed on its approach to Sumburgh.
Helicopter passengers Sarah Darnley from Elgin, Gary McCrossan, from Inverness, Duncan Munro, from Bishop Auckland, and George Allison, from Winchester, lost their lives. | A ruling that investigators should hand over the black box from a North Sea helicopter crash to Scotland's top law officer is being challenged. | 33425676 | [
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The woman, named in floral tributes as Kelly, was arrested on suspicion of assault in Darwen on Saturday and taken to Greenbank police station.
After she was found "unresponsive" in her cell at about 01:30 GMT on Sunday, she was taken to hospital where she later died, Lancashire Police added.
The incident has been referred to the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) for investigation.
Flowers were left outside the police station to the woman who is yet to be formally named by police.
A note on one of the bunches read: "To my beautiful daughter Kelly.
"Love you, will always love you.
"Will miss you greatly. Mum."
An IPCC Spokesperson said it had begun an independent investigation following the death of a woman detained by Lancashire Constabulary.
Investigators have begun to gather evidence, they added. | A 35-year-old woman has died in police custody in Blackburn. | 38262565 | [
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The Clarets are 14th - two points off ninth place - and close to securing top-flight survival after being promoted last season.
"He's got promoted straight away with a club that had been relegated the year before," said Pulis.
"And they could end up in the top half of the Premier League with a small budget. He's done fantastic."
West Brom are eighth in the Premier League, despite losing their last four games, and play Burnley on Saturday.
"I won't tell you who I put down as my winner but Sean was in my top three," added Pulis.
Pulis also believes British coaches like him, Dyche, Bournemouth's Eddie Howe and Crystal Palace's Sam Allardyce, do not get the credit they deserve in the Premier League.
"There's some very good British managers in the Premier League," said Pulis.
"I think people overlook them because there are new managers, fresh managers coming in." | Burnley's Sean Dyche is in the top three Premier League managers of the year, says West Brom boss Tony Pulis. | 39777562 | [
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Anna Swabey, 25, from Newton Aycliffe, County Durham, was initially given three months to live in 2015 when she met Andy Bell, 26, on a dating app.
The pair were due to marry on Saturday in the Yorkshire Dales, but Miss Swabey passed away earlier.
She raised almost £80,000 for Brain Tumour Research and posted frank videos about her chemotherapy sessions.
Her sister Victoria described Miss Swabey as "one of life's truly inspiring and incredible human beings."
Charity spokeswoman Wendy Fulcher added that a "light had gone out."
Months after her diagnosis Miss Swabey started a blog, Inside my Head, in which she openly chronicled her treatment.
However, the latest blog post was from her sister Victoria, who described the moment doctors revealed the cancer had worsened and that surgeons had removed an "apple-sized" mass.
"Anna's call was matter of fact and to the point. Her biopsy results showed that the tumour had now progressed to a Grade 4. In all honesty, and in typical Anna style, she was more bothered about how we all felt than what it meant for her."
Ms Fulcher described Miss Swabey as "bright, vivacious, kind, and beautiful."
She added: "Anna was one of those to whom others are naturally drawn.
"She had a great sense of fun and a marvellous joie de vivre.
"Anna was just 23 when she was told she had a brain tumour. Understandably devastated and angry, she nevertheless held her head up high and decided she would live her life, however long it might be, to the full."
In her last blog post on 8 July, Miss Swabey spoke of how unwell chemotherapy had left her, but how she had been lifted by her hen party in York.
She said: "I'm getting pretty fed up of feeling poorly all the time now. But I don't think it was really helped because I had my hen party two weekends ago, which was amazing."
Ms Fulcher said Miss Swabey was given hope by neurosurgeon Kevin O'Neill, who leads the Brain Tumour Research Centre of Excellence at Imperial College.
"She left her first consultation with him in "tears of happiness" not because he had changed her diagnosis but because they would fight "Trev", as she dubbed the growth in her brain, together," Ms Fulcher said.
But after her condition worsened she and Mr Bell were forced to postpone their wedding.
Ms Fulcher said brain cancer was particularly cruel because it killed more children and people under 40 than any other form of the disease, but received just 1% of national, research funding.
Concluding her blog post Miss Swabey's sister said: "She [Anna] has faced her illness with positivity, dignity and absolute defiance, and we couldn't be more proud of our beautiful girl and the way she has touched so many people with her amazing attitude to life, love and the whole heap of crap she has had to contend with since the arrival of Trev!!
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After a drab game with few chances for either side, Mohamed Salah teed up El Said, who struck firmly past Uganda keeper Denis Onyango on 89 minutes.
Uganda's Joseph Ochaya earlier had a goal correctly disallowed for offside.
The win means Egypt play Ghana on Wednesday with top spot of Group D still at stake, while Uganda are out of their first tournament since 1978.
Ghana secured their place in the quarter-finals with a 1-0 victory over Mali earlier on Saturday.
On a deteriorating pitch in Port-Gentil, seven-times champions Egypt failed to break down a resolute Cranes defence for long periods.
Onyango made an impressive clearing header to deny the onrushing Salah at the end of an otherwise lifeless first half.
Uganda began the second half brightly, forcing veteran Egypt goalkeeper Essam El Hadary to punch several set-pieces clear but ultimately failed to register a shot on target as Ochaya turned in Faruku Miya's through ball from a clearly offside position on 52 minutes.
El Said blasted a shot well over when unmarked and Marwan Mohsen went close for the Pharaohs with a header, but Egypt appeared to be heading for their second consecutive goalless draw.
However, an otherwise quiet Salah showed great composure late on to check his shot and play in El Said with a reverse pass, the substitute's close-range shot evading Onyango.
Uganda now face Mali in the final round of group games on Wednesday, with Mali needing a win and for Ghana to beat Egypt by two goals or more if they are to qualify.
Match ends, Egypt 1, Uganda 0.
Second Half ends, Egypt 1, Uganda 0.
Offside, Uganda. Murshid Jjuko tries a through ball, but Muhammad Shaban is caught offside.
Hand ball by Moses Oloya (Uganda).
Kahraba (Egypt) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Hassan Wasswa (Uganda).
Offside, Egypt. Kahraba tries a through ball, but Marwan Mohsen is caught offside.
Substitution, Uganda. Moses Oloya replaces Denis Iguma.
Mohamed Shafy (Egypt) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Khalid Aucho (Uganda).
Goal! Egypt 1, Uganda 0. Abdallah El Said (Egypt) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Mohamed Salah.
Attempt missed. Amr Warda (Egypt) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Mohamed Shafy.
Corner, Uganda. Conceded by Ahmed Fathy.
Attempt blocked. Joseph Ochaya (Uganda) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Nicholas Wadada.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Substitution, Uganda. Nicholas Wadada replaces Faruku Miya.
Substitution, Egypt. Kahraba replaces Trezeguet.
Delay in match Khalid Aucho (Uganda) because of an injury.
Attempt saved. Marwan Mohsen (Egypt) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Amr Warda.
Tonny Mawejje (Uganda) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Mohamed Elneny (Egypt).
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Mohamed Shafy (Egypt) because of an injury.
Foul by Muhammad Shaban (Uganda).
Ali Gabr (Egypt) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Hand ball by Trezeguet (Egypt).
Attempt missed. Marwan Mohsen (Egypt) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Mohamed Shafy with a cross following a set piece situation.
Foul by Murshid Jjuko (Uganda).
Marwan Mohsen (Egypt) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Godfrey Walusimbi (Uganda) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Ahmed Fathy (Egypt).
Attempt saved. Trezeguet (Egypt) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt blocked. Trezeguet (Egypt) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Amr Warda.
Substitution, Egypt. Amr Warda replaces Ramadan Sobhi.
Substitution, Uganda. Muhammad Shaban replaces Geofrey Massa.
Attempt missed. Abdallah El Said (Egypt) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right.
Foul by Joseph Ochaya (Uganda).
Ahmed Fathy (Egypt) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Egypt. Abdallah El Said replaces Tarek Hamed.
Foul by Geofrey Massa (Uganda). | Substitute Abdallah El Said scored a late winner for Egypt to knock Uganda out of the Africa Cup of Nations. | 38620027 | [
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Sam Gallagher's powerful header back across goal ensured Rovers, who remain in the relegation zone, are still two points from safety with three to play.
Tammy Abraham's 22nd goal of the season, an exquisite finish past David Raya, had earlier put City in front.
Abraham, Matty Taylor and Josh Brownhill all wasted chances to make it 2-0 before Rovers rescued a point.
On-loan Chelsea striker Abraham, 19, was arguably most guilty, shooting straight at the goalkeeper when through on goal as the Robins created a host of great opportunities prior to Gallagher's equaliser.
Bristol City remain four points above the relegation zone, with fixtures against Barnsley, Brighton and Birmingham remaining.
They could have all but sealed their Championship survival during a dominant first 70 minutes at Ewood Park, but were unable to hold on for a third successive win.
Blackburn face Wolves, Aston Villa and Brentford in their final three matches of the season.
Blackburn manager Tony Mowbray:
"The frustration was the goal we let in really. We ultimately tried to play offside and it was a really sloppy decision from us.
"And yet the story of the game was the changes we made, the way the team clawed their way back into the game and then, for us, ultimately a penalty decision that wasn't given, that having watched it back looks a clear penalty kick.
"In an ideal world it would have been a day where we didn't play particularly well, but came away with three points. Ultimately we've come away with one. On a day that (Nottingham) Forest lost and Birmingham lost, it's a point we have to put in the bag."
Bristol City boss Lee Johnson:
"I thought it was outstanding, our performance today. My only criticism really is we should have put it to bed. We have to make sure we're more clinical with our chances because we created numerous ones.
"I thought the goal was outstanding, I think it was 31 passes that led to the goal, so my analyst tells me. It shows that we have a bright young side that has to do a job this year and then we can kick on."
Match ends, Blackburn Rovers 1, Bristol City 1.
Second Half ends, Blackburn Rovers 1, Bristol City 1.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Aaron Wilbraham (Bristol City) because of an injury.
Attempt blocked. Hope Akpan (Blackburn Rovers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Connor Mahoney.
Corner, Bristol City. Conceded by Elliott Bennett.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Josh Brownhill (Bristol City) because of an injury.
David Cotterill (Bristol City) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Bristol City. Aaron Wilbraham replaces Matty Taylor.
Corner, Blackburn Rovers. Conceded by Joe Bryan.
Joe Bryan (Bristol City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Connor Mahoney (Blackburn Rovers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Joe Bryan (Bristol City).
Attempt missed. Tommie Hoban (Blackburn Rovers) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Craig Conway with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Blackburn Rovers. Conceded by Josh Brownhill.
Corner, Blackburn Rovers. Conceded by Bailey Wright.
Attempt saved. Sam Gallagher (Blackburn Rovers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Lucas João.
Attempt missed. Jason Lowe (Blackburn Rovers) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.
Substitution, Bristol City. David Cotterill replaces Mark Little.
Lucas João (Blackburn Rovers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Matty Taylor (Bristol City).
Substitution, Bristol City. Callum O'Dowda replaces Jamie Paterson.
Attempt missed. Jamie Paterson (Bristol City) right footed shot from the left side of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Joe Bryan.
Goal! Blackburn Rovers 1, Bristol City 1. Sam Gallagher (Blackburn Rovers) header from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Elliott Bennett.
Attempt saved. Josh Brownhill (Bristol City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Tammy Abraham.
Elliott Bennett (Blackburn Rovers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Joe Bryan (Bristol City).
Offside, Blackburn Rovers. Elliott Bennett tries a through ball, but Sam Gallagher is caught offside.
Substitution, Blackburn Rovers. Marvin Emnes replaces Elliott Ward.
Offside, Bristol City. Jamie Paterson tries a through ball, but Aden Flint is caught offside.
Foul by Jason Lowe (Blackburn Rovers).
Jamie Paterson (Bristol City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Lucas João (Blackburn Rovers) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Aden Flint (Bristol City).
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Attempt saved. Tammy Abraham (Bristol City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Josh Brownhill.
Offside, Bristol City. Aden Flint tries a through ball, but Tammy Abraham is caught offside.
Derrick Williams (Blackburn Rovers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Derrick Williams (Blackburn Rovers). | Blackburn Rovers came from behind to earn a crucial draw against fellow Championship strugglers Bristol City. | 39549905 | [
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Inflation is among the highest in the world, there are long queues for basic goods and the atmosphere on the streets is becoming increasingly agitated.
Meanwhile politicians on both sides are so hostile to each other, a political solution remains remote.
For years, the opposition in Venezuela has claimed the country was "becoming another Cuba" but such claims were rarely given much credence, or dismissed as hyperbole.
But the BBC's Will Grant, who has lived in both countries, says there are growing parallels to a specific point in Cuba's past.
Etched into Cuba's collective memory is its infamous Special Period.
A reference to the years just after the collapse of the Soviet Union, it is a time forever synonymous with suffering, austerity and hunger on the communist island.
Without its wealthier benefactors in Eastern Europe, Cuba struggled to provide enough food for its people.
The stories from those days are legion. People remember selling family heirlooms to buy food and even stray cats ending up in the cooking pot.
Whether the tales are apocryphal or not, Cuba was certainly on its knees economically, and largely remained that way until a leftist former soldier took power in Venezuela.
Once Hugo Chavez became the president of Venezuela, which has the largest proven oil reserves in the world, things quickly started to look up for Cuba.
Mr Chavez aligned closely with Cuban leader Fidel Castro, and began to fill the gap that the Soviets had left behind.
These days, though, Venezuela is the more troubled of the two socialist allies.
What's gone wrong in Venezuela?
Having lived in Venezuela at the height of Mr Chavez's power, when oil was worth more than $130 a barrel, and having last visited Caracas in April 2013 when Nicolas Maduro was elected president, it was quite a shock to see for myself how quickly things have deteriorated.
While the place was always chaotic, run by a sort of live-television ad-hoc form of policy making, I have never seen it quite like this.
We encountered the first queue, snaking back for over a block, almost as soon as we emerged into the west of the capital from the airport.
It did not take long to see lots more.
As in Cuba, the government subsidises and controls the prices of certain basic goods.
Now, with inflation spiralling, hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans spend their days waiting outside stores for bread, flour, baby milk, cooking oil, nappies and toilet paper.
Worse still, many join those queues based on rumour alone, in the forlorn hope of finding those products on the shelves only to be turned away empty handed after hours in the blistering sun.
Needless to say, in such circumstances, tempers can easily fray.
"We don't sell the subsidised goods," explains Sonia, a 40-year-old storeowner who provided us a little refuge from the pushing and shoving unfolding in the street outside her shop.
As we stand on her roof terrace, a healthy distance away from the soldiers who had tried to stop us from recording and to confiscate our equipment, Sonia explains how she and her husband were initially disappointed that they had not been granted the concession to sell government-regulated products a few years ago.
But now, she says, it has saved them from the madness that their competitors on the other side of the road are dealing with on a daily basis - desperate crowds and armed troops at the door, the spectre of looting constantly hanging over them.
"People can end up killing each other in these situations," she comments, tears forming in her eyes.
"It's sad, so sad to live like this. We have young daughters and at times, even we have to resort to buying from the black market."
As we watch the troops corralling the queue into order, Sonia points out people she says are "bachaqueros", price speculators and black marketeers who wait in line to purchase food not for their families but to sell on at a huge profit.
The black market for basic goods has been thriving in Cuba for decades. It now looks set to become a common feature in Venezuela too.
"Venezuelans are good people", she says. "We really don't deserve any of this."
Meanwhile, President Maduro came to a regional summit in Cuba to drum up support in his war of words with Luis Almagro, the head of regional body the Organization of American States.
The latter recently said the Venezuelan president was in danger of becoming just another "petty dictator in Latin America" and proposed invoking the organisation's democratic charter against him.
Cue some pretty earthy language from President Maduro: "I suggest you put this democratic charter in a very thin tube and find a better use for it, Mr Almagro. You can shove that democratic charter wherever it fits."
Of course, back when Cuba was battling through its darkest economic days, Venezuela was very cosy with Washington. President George Bush Snr visited Caracas in 1990, Bill Clinton seven years later.
As Nicolas Maduro left Cuba, an island which first formed his socialist ideals, the irony cannot have escaped him - one country recently entertaining the US president as a friend, the other on the brink of economic collapse.
Venezuela's Special Period may only just be starting.
Listen to From Our Own Correspondent on BBC World Service or on BBC Radio 4 on Thursdays at 11:00 and Saturdays at 11:30. Or catch up on the BBC iPlayer or get the podcast.
Subscribe to the BBC News Magazine's email newsletter to get articles sent to your inbox. | The crisis in Venezuela shows little sign of easing up. | 36487888 | [
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The album, currently untitled, will be released in the autumn by Motown Records.
"If your a rapper I suggest you run because I'm about to come for all of you sucka's," Hart wrote in a strongly worded post on Instagram.
"Y'all just knocked on the door of a small giant that loves chicken nuggets and long walks in the park."
Hart achieved fame as a stand-up before enjoying further success as the star of such films as Get Hard, The Wedding Ringer and Ride Along.
He has already been seen this summer in the action comedy Central Intelligence, alongside Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson.
And he can be heard in hit animated film The Secret Life of Pets as the voice of a short-tempered rabbit named Snowball.
The 37-year-old's previous albums have all been recordings of his stand-up shows. | US comedian Kevin Hart has signed a deal to release an album as his inept rapper alter-ego Chocolate Droppa. | 37059535 | [
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In laboratory tests, two sweetgrass compounds drove mosquitoes away from tantalising fake blood samples, just as well as the widely-used repellent Deet.
Further tests are needed to see how long the effects last.
The researchers say folk remedies are a rich source of possible new repellents.
"This is the fourth plant that we've investigated in this manner," said Charles Cantrell, a research chemist who works for the US Department of Agriculture.
"The neat thing about this one is that it produces a compound, coumarin, which has a great odour and was known... to have some repelling properties. And it's very safe."
Dr Cantrell was speaking in Boston at the 250th national meeting of the American Chemical Society.
"There's an interesting story about coumarin," he told journalists at the conference.
"Back in the 90s, Avon 'Skin So Soft' had a product that people discovered actually worked well as an insect repellent. It wasn't marketed as an insect repellent, but the effectiveness was well-known among consumers.
"Scientists did an investigation and one of the constituents in Skin So Soft was coumarin - which we've now isolated from sweetgrass."
Despite this, coumarin is not currently registered or marketed as a repellent, Dr Cantrell said.
The second key ingredient he and his colleagues identified in sweetgrass was phytol, a common constituent in essential oils from plants. Phytol, similarly, is known to repel insects but is not currently marketed for that purpose.
Dr Cantrell's team isolated these chemicals from the grass by passing steam through it, separating the oily and volatile compounds and then further purifying them into 12 fractions.
Those 12 samples were presented to mosquitoes in a special test.
"The bioassay is designed to mimic human skin," Dr Cantrell explained. "You put a blood mimic in a little well and cover it with a membrane."
That membrane is then perfumed with the chemical to be tested, and the researchers simply count the bites.
"We'll have five mosquitoes per little chamber. You can watch them bite the membrane, but for final confirmation... you squash them, to see which ones contain the red dye."
Once these results were in, the team identified the specific molecules involved using spectrometry.
Coumarin and phytol were the stand-outs, Dr Cantrell said.
"In this three minute time-frame, measuring the number of bites, they were just as effective as Deet."
The next step is to test them over a more practical timeframe.
"We don't know yet what the duration of repellency is. It may work well in our bioassay for three minutes, but how does it work for three hours?
"These are questions that we're going to try to answer over the next year or two."
Follow Jonathan on Twitter | US scientists have identified the chemicals responsible for the mosquito-repelling activity of sweetgrass, a plant traditionally used by some Native Americans to fend off the bugs. | 33984044 | [
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