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The two-time major winner last won at the Tournament of Champions in January 2016.
Spieth carded a seven-under-par 65 in the third round to move to 17 under.
Fellow American Brandt Snedeker (67) is second on 11 under, one ahead of Dustin Johnson and Kelly Kraft, who shot 66s.
Spieth started the day in a share of the lead with world number one Jason Day and American Derek Fathauer on 10 under.
Australian Day had a disastrous start with three bogeys and a double bogey in his opening six holes as he fell away with a three-over 75, while Fathauer signed for a 74.
Spieth meanwhile was delighted with a return to form with the putter as he rolled in eight birdies, five on the back nine.
"I hit my lines," the 23-year-old told Golf Channel. "It's been something I've been struggling with this year.
"I've been striking the ball really well but my third and ninth place finishes were off of very average putting on strokes gained." | Jordan Spieth is on course to win his first PGA Tour title in over a year as he takes a six-shot lead into the final round of the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. | 38948145 | [
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The giant orb, covered in detailed NASA imagery of the lunar surface, was created by Bristol-based Luke Jerram.
Titled Museum of the Moon, it has been hung temporarily in the Wills Memorial Building to welcome the university's new chancellor Sir Paul Nurse.
Mr Jerram, said: "This is an opportunity for the public to have a close encounter with the moon."
Images taken by a NASA satellite were used by the artist to create the installation.
Each centimetre of the internally-lit spherical structure represents 5km (3 miles) of the moon's surface.
Mr Jerram, who was behind Bristol's 2014 water slide and the globally successful street pianos, said it would give people the chance to "study every detail of its surface" as well as "bathe in moonlight".
"The Great Hall is such an amazing space to present the Museum of the Moon," he said.
The floating artwork, which is illuminated and accompanied by music from different composers, was created in partnership with the University of Bristol and the UK Space Agency.
The Great Hall will be open to the public to view the Museum of the Moon next weekend. | A 7m (23ft) diameter giant replica of the moon has been installed in the University of Bristol's Great Hall. | 39320125 | [
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Newsbeat has just the place for them. If the social networking company gets it way they could be checking in to Facebook Town.
The social media company has bought up more than 200 acres of Silicon Valley.
According to Silicon Valley Business Journal Facebook "feel you just can't build a corporate campus, it has to be integrated into the community".
A Facebook Spokesperson told Newsbeat: "This purchase is an investment in our future and the future of Menlo Park. Being a good neighbour is extremely important to us.
"We look forward to continuing our dialogue with city and community leaders on local priorities in the months and years to come."
In reality it's still too early to say exactly what Facebook may do with the site and whether they will go ahead with a full scale giant Facebook town where workers and local people can live next to Facebook HQ.
No official plans appear to have been drawn up and Facebook may not move in for a number of years but it is considering building the town.
It owns the land near Menlo Park in California and has been the area's largest employer for years.
More than a quarter of the residents there work for Facebook.
Building towns for workers is nothing new.
In the past a soap factory built the town of Port Sunlight in the Wirral and Bournville in Birmingham was built for the chocolate company.
Facebook Town may be seen as a way of offering something back to the area.
The company and other computer industries have been blamed for pushing up house prices, making it hard for locals to get on the property ladder.
Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter, BBCNewsbeat on Instagram and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube | Some people say they are addicted to Facebook and can't go for long without checking their status. | 31312884 | [
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The Woodland Trust's annual contest will decide which specimen represents the country in the Europe-wide event.
The final winner of the England heat will be decided by public vote.
This year's list includes yew trees, ancient oaks, hawthornes and the sycamore under which the Tolpuddle Martyrs first met.
Experts at the Trust whittled down 200 public nominations to four shortlists for each country in the UK, with the winner from each region competing in the European event.
The Scottish list includes an oak said to have been visited separately by both William Wallace and Rob Roy, while Northern Ireland's list includes an avenue of trees used in Game of Thrones.
Meanwhile the Welsh list includes two of the oldest trees in the UK, reputed to be almost 5,000 years old.
Calke Park is a haven for ancient trees with the oldest an oak called The Old Man of Calke, thought to be between 1,000 and 1,200 years old. The average age of a large oak in the UK is about 200 years.
This ancient yew could be 2,500 years old and is close to the site where King John sealed Magna Carta at Runnymede - although some argue it was under the Ankerwycke tree's shadow.
It is also said to be the spot where Henry VIII courted Anne Boleyn.
This tree in St Martin's Church, Martindale, Cumbria is believed to be at least 800 years old. The nearby church has a bell with an untranslated Nordic rune cast into it and an altar apparently made from meteorite.
According to legend Joseph of Arimathea, an uncle of Jesus, thrust his staff into the ground at Wearyall Hill in Somerset where it took root as a hawthorn tree.
It was chopped down in the Civil War but descendants survive at Glastonbury Abbey from where a flowering spray has been sent to the Monarch each Christmas since the 17th Century.
A recent survey revealed many of the trees in Linford Manor Park are more than 300 years old and are considered significant because of their relationship to the design of the 18th Century grounds.
This venerable oak is a descendent of the tree the future King Charles II hid in following his defeat at the final battle of the English Civil War in 1651 at Worcester.
The young Charles attempted to flee to Wales but had to seek refuge in Boscobel where he hid first in a tree and then in a priest hole.
In 1834, six farm labourers were sentenced to seven years in an Australian penal colony after a meeting under a large sycamore in Tolpuddle to talk about falling wages.
There was a public outcry and their actions laid the foundations for trade unions. The large hollow tree - estimated to be 330 years old - is now a place of pilgrimage for trade unionists.
The black poplar is one of the rarest native trees in the UK, with only 2,500 thought to be left.
This fine example is in the grounds of Acklington School and is estimated to be between 250 and 300 years old. It was saved from felling in 2010.
Believed to be over 250 years old, this is thought to be the largest wild pear tree in Warwickshire and the second largest in the UK. The tree sits on the proposed HS2 route.
The tree has grown outside the house of Judith Clark in Litherland for 27 years. Ms Clark is housebound and said it had enriched her life greatly as she watched the changing seasons. | A tree which stood at the time of Magna Carta and another with links to the time of Christ have been shortlisted in the Tree of the Year competition. | 34314175 | [
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Radio 1's audience fell by 3.2% in the last three months of 2016 compared with the previous quarter, while Radio 1Xtra fell 11.4% over the same period.
Capital saw its listenership drop by 3.1%, while the Kiss network saw its share fall by 3.5%,
Yet Kiss still has reason to be happy, as its breakfast show is now London's most popular commercial breakfast show.
The audience research body's figures also show Radio 4's Today programme recorded its highest ever audience.
The BBC station's flagship show went from 7 million weekly listeners in the last quarter of 2015 to 7.4 million in the last three months of 2016.
"In an era of fake news, echo chambers and significant shifts in global politics, the role of Radio 4's Today as the trusted guide to the world around us is more important than ever," said Bob Shennan, director of BBC radio and music.
Radio 3's breakfast show also did well, with an audience of 647,000 in the last quarter of 2016 signalling a 20% rise on the same period in 2015.
Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email [email protected]. | Most UK radio stations aimed at a young audience have seen their listeners fall, Rajar figures suggest. | 38920143 | [
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The 28-year-old has spent the past four years with Danish top-flight club AGF Aarhus.
Hearts head coach Robbie Neilson said: "He's got experience, a good grounding and is a great character.
"We watched a lot of him on video, spoke to various people about him and got good reports and he's impressed in the time he's spent with us."
He works hard and wants to do well
Scotland Under-21 international Kevin McHattie is Hearts' first-choice left-back.
Neilson said: "It's great to get both cover and someone to challenge Kevin."
Eckersley, capped by England Under-18s, made a solitary first-team appearance while at Old Trafford, and had loan spells at Royal Antwerp, Brondby, Barnsley and Port Vale.
The latter resulted in a permanent move to the Valiants, but he switched to Horsens in the Danish top flight in 2008 before moving to Aarhus two years later.
He won the Danish First Division, the country's second tier, with both clubs.
"He works hard and wants to do well," said Neilson on Hearts' website. | Hearts have signed former Manchester United youth-team full-back Adam Eckersley after a successful trial. | 28894141 | [
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Bailey died after the incident at Cults Academy on 28 October.
The 16-year-old accused - who cannot be named for legal reasons - appeared in private at Aberdeen Sheriff Court.
The boy is also charged with having a blade or point on school premises. He made no plea, was fully committed and remanded in custody.
Special assemblies were held on Monday as pupils returned to classes for the first time since the incident.
Bailey's family issued a message of thanks for the support they have received. | A teenage boy has appeared in court for a second time charged with murdering 16-year-old Bailey Gwynne, who was stabbed at his Aberdeen school. | 34746286 | [
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Mourinho has been cleared of making discriminatory comments to Carneiro, who has since left the club.
But Dyke, in a letter to FA Council members, said the 52-year-old Portuguese "made a mistake".
The FA has been criticised by one of its board members - Heather Rabbatts - for its handling of the case.
Rabbatts, head of the FA's inclusion advisory board, said the governing body's reaction had been "seriously disappointing".
"I have major concerns over the way in which the disciplinary process has been conducted," she added.
The FA investigated after a member of public made a complaint about Mourinho's language towards Carneiro during Chelsea's 2-2 draw with Swansea on 8 August.
Carneiro and head physio Jon Fearn had treated Eden Hazard for an injury after being called onto the pitch by the referee, which meant the player had to leave the field.
That meant Chelsea were reduced to nine men, with goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois having been sent off, and Mourinho criticised the pair in a post-match news conference.
Carneiro, 42, had her role downgraded before deciding to leave the club.
"I don't think Mr Mourinho comes well out of the whole saga - he clearly made a mistake in the heat of a game, and should have said so and apologised," said FA chairman Dyke.
"Instead he has said very little and Miss Carneiro has lost her job.
"Our regulatory team have investigated this and whilst Mr Mourinho has breached no rules, it was clearly a failure of his personal judgement and public behaviour."
The Women in Football campaign group said its language expert is certain Mourinho used abusive language, contrary to the verdict of the FA's chosen expert.
But the FA said it had appointed an independent academic expert in Portuguese linguistics to study the footage of the incident, which included the audio recording.
"We have engaged an expert of high calibre to address such an important issue such as discriminatory language, which we take very seriously," said a spokesperson.
Rabbatts said the FA had failed to act previously over sexist and abusive chanting towards Carneiro by fans in stadiums. | Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho should have apologised to ex-club doctor Eva Carneiro for his criticism of her, says Football Association boss Greg Dyke. | 34418595 | [
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Martin made 38 appearances last season for Livi, scoring five goals, as they finished sixth, one place above Rovers.
He was in his second spell with the West Lothian club, with whom he started his career.
Scott went on to play for Ross County and Hibernian, who farmed him back to the Dingwall club on loan.
He switched back to Livingston last summer. | Raith Rovers have signed Martin Scott after the 28-year-old midfielder was released by Scottish Championship rivals Livingston. | 27675250 | [
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Asghar Buksh, 55, repeatedly struck mother-of-six Nasreen Buksh over the head with a heavy blunt object which has never been found.
He admitted culpable homicide on the basis of diminished responsibility after saying he had no recollection of the killing at Dixon Avenue, Glasgow, on 24 September last year.
Buksh will be sentenced on 27 June.
The High Court in Glasgow heard that 43-year-old Mrs Buksh died after being struck on the head at least five times.
Pathologists told the court that the lack of defensive injuries and the position of her body suggested she was assaulted as she slept.
Following the attack, Buksh went to Cathcart Police Station and told an officer: "I've come to hand myself in. I think my wife's dead. I hit her on the head. I did it."
The court was told that three psychiatrists described Buksh as suffering from an acute stress disorder at the time.
Prosecutor Gordon Lamont said: "The accused and his wife had been married for 25 years, but over the last 10 or 11 years their relationship appears to have broken down and they became increasingly estranged, albeit, still residing under the one roof.
"They slept separately and Mrs Buksh routinely slept on the sofa in the living room. Their children report that they barely spoke to each other."
Mr Lamont said the problems in the marriage intensified after Mrs Buksh went to Pakistan on holiday in May last year.
He said she had become involved with another man and was making plans to move to Pakistan.
The court also heard that two days before he killed his wife, Buksh went to Paisley Police Office and spoke with a support officer saying he feared his wife was going to take their youngest child, aged 10, to Pakistan and not return.
He also made an emergency doctor's appointment and said he was suffering from stress and not sleeping.
He was prescribed medication for stress.
Defence counsel Sarah Livingstone said: "My client has no memory of this incident. His amnesia is absolutely genuine.
"This is not a case where this man was a bad husband, there was no domestic abuse. This was an unhappy marriage, but however, unhappy it was it didn't justify killing his wife.
"He suffered an acute stress reaction. Three psychiatrists all agree that he was suffering from an abnormality of the mind."
Judge Lord Burns deferred sentence on Buksh until 27 June at the High Court in Edinburgh for background reports. | A man has admitted killing his wife of 25 years while she slept. | 40093144 | [
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Two Foxes fans were arrested during their team's 2-0 home win over the Seagulls on Saturday.
Brighton Supporters Club's vice chair said such chanting was "disgusting" and the club should be fined and anyone responsible banned from the stadium.
The chairman of Foxes Pride said abuse was "offensive" and "unacceptable".
Brighton is a city well known for having a substantial lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community.
Liz Costa from Brighton & Hove Albion Supporters Club said about 50 Leicester fans took part in the "disgusting" chanting throughout most of the match at the King Power Stadium.
She said: "The club needs fining, this has nothing to do with football.
"[The chanting] lets the whole club down and damages their reputation. I feel I never want to visit [the stadium] again.
"Those responsible need to be identified and banned."
She added that Leicester's stewards were "very good" and reacted quickly.
Graeme Smith from Foxes Pride said: "There are some forums where people are saying you need to get over it, you need to get a life, it's only a bit of banter, but its not, it's offensive and it's unacceptable."
Leicester fan Chris Whiting, who is gay, said the "shocking" chanting by his fellow supporters made him feel unsafe.
Both the Football Association and the Premier League have been approached for comment.
Paul Mortimer from anti-discrimination group Kick It Out said: "It's about education more than anything, making people aware of the impact that this has on their own fans.
"Within football clubs there are LGBT communities and imagine what they will be feeling when a section of fans are saying this horrible language in their presence."
Leicester City said it was "disappointed" about what happened but satisfied stewards reacted "swiftly and appropriately" and those responsible were ejected and reported to police.
A 44-year-old man has been charged with indecent chanting under Section 3 of the Football Offences Act and is due to appear at Leicester Magistrates' Court on Thursday.
A second man aged 21 who was arrested on suspicion of making obscene gestures was given a caution. | Supporters of both clubs have condemned homophobic abuse after anti-gay chanting was heard during Leicester's match against Brighton. | 41000016 | [
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BBC director general Tony Hall set out plans for the next decade, saying the corporation will become an "open BBC for the internet age".
A children's iPlayer and a pool of local reporters who will share work with local newspapers are also planned.
Yet he said funding cuts would mean the loss or reduction of some services.
Lord Hall laid out the plans at the Science Museum on Monday, ahead of the BBC's charter renewal in 2016.
Citing the importance of "excellence without arrogance", he said his plans did not signal "an expansionist BBC".
He did warn, however, that funding cuts would mean it would "inevitably have to either close or reduce some services", without specifying which areas might be under threat.
New initiatives will include an Ideas Service, which Lord Hall said would be an "open online platform" featuring material from galleries, museums and universities as well as the corporation itself.
He said: "Our new, open BBC will act as a curator bringing the best from Britain's great cultural institutions and thinkers to everyone.
"Britain has some of the greatest cultural forces in the world. We want to join with them, working alongside them, to make Britain the greatest cultural force in the world.
"We are extremely ambitious for this new service.
"Where Google's mission is to organise the world's information, ours in a smaller way would be to understand it. We will work with anyone who can help us understand this ever more complex world."
The government launched a consultation on the BBC's Royal Charter, which sets out the purpose of the BBC and how it will be governed, in July, promising to ask "hard questions" about the corporation's size and ambition.
Other BBC plans include:
The director general also said he wanted to enable "producers, directors, writers, artists to have the creative freedom to do things they would find it harder to do elsewhere".
Quality drama will also be a priority, he said, and the BBC will make "bigger and bolder series" that will be made available on the iPlayer in their entirety.
Physicist and BBC presenter Professor Brian Cox also announced a science strand named The New Age of Wonder, which will be part of the Ideas Service and will be created in partnership with organisations like the Royal Institution.
"This is not an expansionist BBC" is perhaps the key political line in today's announcements. This is a response to the accusation that the corporation is "imperial in its ambitions" made by Chancellor George Osborne (along with several newspapers).
Partnerships with cultural bodies, sharing news with local newspapers, opening up the iPlayer to third party content - the mood music is all about co-operation rather than competition.
The second theme can be seen most clearly in the plans for bigger and bolder drama and giving people the chance to "binge" watch. The BBC is in a global marketplace - Netflix, Amazon, Google, Apple and HBO - the traditional media landscape is being blown apart.
The BBC's problem is looking after its core audience and responding to a technological transformation. It will take money and the BBC has just taken a £650m cut. Those "tough choices" mentioned in the speech is the theme that has not yet been announced.
Lord Hall described the recent agreement by the BBC to cover the £600m cost of providing free television licences for over-75s as a "tough deal" that would require "some very difficult choices" to be made.
He said: "Having already saved 40% of the BBC's revenues in this charter period, we must save close to another 20% over the next five years."
Details of how those savings will be made and which services might be under threat will be announced in the coming months, he added.
In a charter review proposals document published on Monday, however, the BBC suggests that "some existing services" might no longer be needed in future.
"Streaming news may replace rolling news," the document states. "Children may prefer iPlay to scheduled television. The Ideas Service might mean we no longer need BBC Four."
Later in the same document, though, the BBC states "it is too early to be specific about the service changes that we will need to make."
The BBC's plans for "a network of 100 public service reporters across the country" did not find favour with the Scottish Newspaper Society, who labelled the proposal "a Trojan horse which will undermine long-established publications and destroy local news agencies".
"Instead of helping local news publishers, it would make the BBC even more powerful and would further concentrate coverage of news in the hands of the state-funded broadcaster," said its director John McLellan.
The News Media Association, which represents national, regional and local news media organisations across the UK, expressed similar concerns, saying the corporation's proposals represented "BBC expansion into local news provision and recruitment of more BBC local journalists through the back door".
"The local newspaper sector already employs thousands of journalists and is the only reliable source of independent and trusted local news across the UK," said its vice chairman Ashley Highfield. "There is no deficit which the BBC needs to plug."
"Under the guise of being helpful, the BBC would end up replacing independent local news services," Mr McLellan told Radio 4's The World at One earlier, calling the plan "a further expansion of the BBC's encroachment".
Yet this accusation was rejected by James Purnell, the BBC's director of strategy, who told the same programme it was "very much not the goal" for the BBC to "take over all local journalism". | The BBC has pledged to work more closely with the UK's arts and science institutions to "make Britain the greatest cultural force in the world". | 34168310 | [
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Mohammed Salah had twice been denied by Munir Mohamedi, but prior to the goal Morocco missed a host of good chances.
Aziz Bouhaddouz failed to connect with a cross from two yards out, before seeing a header deflected just wide.
And Morocco defender Romain Saiss and midfielder Mbark Boussoufa were both denied by the crossbar.
Egypt go on to play Burkina Faso, who beat Tunisia 2-0 in their quarter-final on Saturday.
In Sunday's other quarter-final, Ghana beat DR Congo 2-1 to set up a meeting with Cameroon, who knocked out Senegal.
Egypt - the most successful side in Africa Cup of Nations history with seven titles - are yet to concede a goal in Gabon on their return to the competition after a seven-year absence.
But Morocco boss Herve Renard's bid to become the first manager to win three Africa Cup of Nations title with three different countries is now over.
The Frenchman led Zambia to unlikely triumph in 2012, and won the 2015 title with Ivory Coast.
On a pitch that has been criticised for its poor quality, his side created the greater number of clear opportunities to score but were wasteful in front of goal and were made to pay as extra-time loomed.
From an Egypt corner that Morocco failed to clear, the ball dropped kindly to 22-year-old forward Abdel-Moneim, also known as Kahraba, who stabbed home the winner on the spin.
Match ends, Egypt 1, Morocco 0.
Second Half ends, Egypt 1, Morocco 0.
Attempt missed. Faycal Fajr (Morocco) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right from a direct free kick.
Foul by Ali Gabr (Egypt).
Omar El Kaddouri (Morocco) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Rachid Alioui (Morocco) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Karim El Ahmadi.
Substitution, Egypt. Saad Samir replaces Tarek Hamed.
Foul by Kahraba (Egypt).
Nabil Dirar (Morocco) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Morocco. Rachid Alioui replaces Romain Saiss.
Hand ball by Mbark Boussoufa (Morocco).
Corner, Morocco. Conceded by Ali Gabr.
Goal! Egypt 1, Morocco 0. Kahraba (Egypt) right footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Ahmed Hassan following a corner.
Attempt missed. Kahraba (Egypt) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Abdallah El Said with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Egypt. Conceded by Medhi Benatia.
Ahmed Hassan (Egypt) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Manuel da Costa (Morocco).
Ahmed Fathy (Egypt) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Manuel da Costa (Morocco).
Ahmed Hassan (Egypt) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Medhi Benatia (Morocco).
Mohamed Salah (Egypt) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Romain Saiss (Morocco).
Substitution, Morocco. Omar El Kaddouri replaces Aziz Bouhaddouz.
Foul by Trezeguet (Egypt).
Youssef En-Nesyri (Morocco) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Egypt. Conceded by Munir.
Attempt saved. Mohamed Salah (Egypt) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Abdallah El Said.
Kahraba (Egypt) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Manuel da Costa (Morocco).
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Kahraba (Egypt) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Kahraba (Egypt).
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Essam El Hadary (Egypt) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Aziz Bouhaddouz (Morocco).
Foul by Ahmed Fathy (Egypt).
Aziz Bouhaddouz (Morocco) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt missed. Aziz Bouhaddouz (Morocco) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Nabil Dirar with a cross.
Attempt missed. Manuel da Costa (Morocco) header from the left side of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Mbark Boussoufa following a set piece situation. | Egypt knocked out Morocco to reach the Africa Cup of Nations semi-finals as substitute Mahmoud Abdel-Moneim prodded home a dramatic 87th-minute winner. | 38709185 | [
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The order was issued by Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery after he witnessed the surrender of Nazi forces in northern Europe on 4 May.
The mimeographed document is one of the earliest written records of the German surrender.
The words in purple ink on it read: "All offensive ops will cease fire from receipt this signal."
It adds: "Orders will be given to all troops to cease fire 0800 hrs tomorrow Saturday 5 May."
Richard Davie, of auctioneers Nottingham's International Autograph Auctions, said the note was an "historically important document".
German forces in Italy had already surrendered on 2 May, but those in north-west Germany, Denmark and Holland surrendered to Field Marshal Montgomery, who was commanding all the British and Canadian armies in Europe, inside a tent at his headquarters, at Luneburg Heath on 4 May 1945.
The final document of unconditional surrender was signed at US General Dwight Eisenhower's headquarters in Reims on 7 May.
An official statement declaring the war in Europe over was made the following day. | A rare document ordering Allied forces to cease fire following the surrender of Nazi Germany has sold for £1,000. | 38489927 | [
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The reconstruction of the event 66 million years ago was made possible by drilling into the remnant bowl and analysing its rocks.
These show how the space impactor made the hard surface of the planet slosh back and forth like a fluid.
At one stage, a mountain higher than Everest was thrown up before collapsing back into a smaller range of peaks.
"And this all happens on the scale of minutes, which is quite amazing," Prof Joanna Morgan from Imperial College London, UK, told BBC News.
The researchers report their account in this week's edition of Science Magazine.
Their study confirms a very dynamic, very energetic model for crater formation, and will go a long way to explaining the resulting cataclysmic environmental changes.
The debris thrown into the atmosphere likely saw the skies darken and the global climate cool for months, perhaps even years, driving many creatures into extinction, not just the dinosaurs.
The team spent April to May this year drilling a core through the so-called Chicxulub Crater, now buried under ocean sediments off Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula.
Chicxulub Crater - The impact that changed life on Earth
The researchers targeted a particular zone in the 200km-wide bowl known as the "peak ring", which - if earlier ideas were correct - should have contained the rocks that moved the greatest distance in the impact. These would have been dense granites lifted from almost 10km down.
And that is precisely what the team found.
"Once we got through the impact melt on top, we recovered pink granite. It was so obvious to the eye - like what you would expect to see in a kitchen countertop," recalled Prof Sean Gulick from the University of Texas at Austin, US.
But these were not normal granites, of course. They were deformed and fractured at every scale - visibly in the hand and even down at the level of the rock's individual mineral crystals. Evidence of enormous stress, of having experienced colossal pressures.
The analysis of the core materials now fits an astonishing narrative.
This describes the roughly 15km-wide stony asteroid instantly punching a cavity in the Earth's surface some 30km deep and 80-100km across.
Unstable, and under the pull of gravity, the sides of this depression promptly started to collapse inwards.
At the same time, the centre of the bowl rebounded, briefly lifting rock higher than the Himalayas, before also falling down to cover the inward-rushing sides of the initial hole.
"If this deep-rebound model is correct (it's called the dynamic collapse model), then our peak ring rocks should be the rocks that have travelled farthest in the impact - first, outwards by kilometres, then up in the air by over 10km, and back down and outwards by another, say, 10km. So their total travel path is something like 30km, and they do that in under 10 minutes," Prof Gulick told the BBC's Science in Action programme.
Imagine a sugar cube dropped into a cup of tea. The drink's liquid first gets out of the way of the cube, moves back in and up, before finally slopping down.
When the asteroid struck the Earth, the rocks it hit also behaved like a fluid.
"These rocks must have lost their strength and cohesion, and very dramatically had their friction reduced," said Prof Morgan. "So, yes, temporarily, they behave like a fluid. It's the only way you can make a crater like this."
One of the important outcomes of the research is that it provides a useful template also to understand the surfaces of other planets.
All the terrestrial worlds and even Earth's Moon are scarred with craters just like Chicxulub.
And knowing how rocks can move vertically and horizontally in an impact will assist scientists as they attempt to interpret similar crustal features seen elsewhere in the Solar System.
The project to drill into Chicxulub Crater was conducted by the European Consortium for Ocean Research Drilling (ECORD) as part of the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP). The expedition was also supported by the International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP).
[email protected] and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos | Scientists say they can now describe in detail how the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs produced its huge crater. | 38019604 | [
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More than 80,000 people were in Croke Park for the homecoming show to mark 30 years since The Joshua Tree album.
First drummer Larry Mullen Jr appeared, then guitarist The Edge, next Bono, and finally Adam Clayton on bass.
As they launched into Sunday Bloody Sunday, the crowd went wild.
Many of those watching had flown in to Dublin from all over the world.
With Bono name-checking Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and Irish President Michael D Higgins as part of the audience, the band played some of their classics before playing The Joshua Tree in full and in order.
Those earlier classics included New Year's Day, Bad and Pride.
"Our prayer is that we have one of those epic nights of rock 'n' roll," Bono told the audience.
The Joshua Tree was the band's take on americana in 1987, and the element of the gig commemorating that record was accompanied by sometimes haunting images by U2's long-time visual collaborator Anton Corbijn on a giant screen behind the band.
The album made U2 the biggest rock band in the world and saw the beginnings of Bono the human rights and third world debt campaigner.
Though wildly acclaimed at the time, it was criticised by some as being a bit politically naive at a time when Ronald Reagan was the US president and many feared where his policies might lead.
Others see worrying similarities 30 years later with the United States of President Donald Trump.
"It came out 30 years ago and it has taken us 30 years to figure out some of these songs - not just how to play them but to understand what they're about," Bono said.
The only sideways reference to the current American president was when a character called Trump and a wall was mentioned in footage from an old western series on the huge screen.
In between songs Bono likened the gathering to "a big Irish wedding" and lent his support for the Irish bid to host the Rugby World Cup, with Croke Park as one the main proposed venues.
At one stage the band and the colossal crowd sang Happy Birthday to three members of the U2 crew.
With all the better known songs from The Joshua Tree - Where the Streets Have No Name, I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For and With Or Without You - on the first side of the cassette, as Bono put it, the concert flagged a little once the gig got to side two.
When the album was finished the band launched into Miss Sarajevo, a song about the Balkan war, as the screen behind showed sometimes distressing images of the ongoing war in Syria.
Bono thanked the Irish Naval Service in the Mediterranean for the "thousands of lives" it has saved.
In two songs - Beautiful Day and Vertigo - the band segued into David Bowie classics Starman and Rebel Rebel.
There were musical and visual tributes to women from Ireland and around the world who "insisted and persisted for their rights", and praise for the generosity of the Irish people before the almost-spiritual coming together of the band and the audience for One.
But the evening wasn't all about nostalgia and U2 ended their set with The Little Things You Give Away, from the band's expected forthcoming album Songs of Experience.
As a live act, U2 are considered among the best, if not the best, in the world - they set a high bar for themselves.
Last night, while all consented that it was a fantastic night, not all agreed the band had reached their own high standards.
Personally I thought they came pretty darn close to them. | Under a fading blue sky, the imminent arrival of U2 on stage in the Irish capital was heralded by two songs - Thin Lizzy's The Boys Are Back In Town and The Waterboys' Whole Of The Moon. | 40697176 | [
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Fans threw flares and ripped up parts of the Mohammed V stadium after Raja's 2-1 victory over Chabab Rif Al Hoceima.
The country's DGSN security service said in a statement that 31 people were arrested for "acts of vandalism".
FMRFF has banned fans from the next five Raja home matches and fined the club 100,000 dirhams (£7,170).
Footage on Moroccan media showed the fans, dressed in the club's green colours, charging at each other. It was unclear how the clashes had erupted.
DGSN revealed 10 people had been arrested prior to the game.
Prosecutors have opened an inquiry into the fan trouble. | Two people were killed in fighting among fans of Raja de Casablanca on Saturday, the Moroccan Football Federation (FMRFF) has confirmed. | 35864106 | [
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Ex-French Minister for Health and Sport Roselyne Bachelot said Nadal's seven-month absence in 2012 was "probably due to a positive doping test".
Nadal, 29, has denied ever doping and the Spanish Olympic Committee said he had passed "countless doping tests".
Real Madrid have defended Nadal from "the attacks made on his person".
A club statement said: "Rafa Nadal represents the fundamental values of sport.
"His greatness and his incredible achievements have always been based upon a foundation of exemplary conduct, unwavering work, talent and astonishing levels of commitment.
"This being the case, our institution considers the attacks made on his person by former minister Roselyne Bachelot to be unjustifiable and unacceptable."
Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane added: "I feel bad for Rafa Nadal because he is a gentleman, a person that has shown the values he has and that everyone loves.
"He is a professional and I know him a little. I feel bad for what they have said.
"He has to leave all this to one side and think that everyone who loves sport, loves Rafa Nadal, whether they be French, Spanish or American."
Nadal, who has won 14 Grand Slam titles, was out for seven months from July 2012 with tendinitis and then a stomach virus.
The Spaniard was asked on Wednesday about the subject of doping, in the light of Maria Sharapova's admission last week of a failed test.
"I am a completely clean guy," said the former world number one. "I have never had the temptation of doing something wrong." | Real Madrid backed "exemplary" club member Rafael Nadal after the tennis star was accused by a former French minister of failing a drugs test. | 35794268 | [
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Munashe Charles Kutyauripo, 16, known as Charlie, was attacked at Ashton Playing Fields following his friend's party at Woodford social club.
Police said the boys were arrested at separate addresses and were in custody.
Detectives are continuing to search for 16-year-old Aaron Alexander Tavares-Gaiete.
Detective Chief Inspector Mark Lawson said Charlie's family had been left "devastated" by his death, and "wanted and deserved answers" about what happened.
His family said in a statement: "We hope that if anybody knows anything, they should come forward and help find whoever did this because to the world he was just a 16-year-old boy, but to us, that was our son taken."
A post-mortem examination found he died from a stab wound to the chest. | Two 17-year-olds have been arrested on suspicion of murdering a teenage boy who was stabbed after a birthday party in east London. | 35333145 | [
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Colin Nathaniel Scott, 23, fell into the spring in the Norris Geyser Basin area of the park in north-west Wyoming.
Authorities are now trying to retrieve Mr Scott's body from the spring but have so far been unable to reach it.
Springs in that part of the park, where boiling water runs under thin rock, can see temperatures of up to 93C (199F).
"It's very fragile rock and can be thin as a skiff of ice," said park spokeswoman Charissa Reid.
Park officials say Mr Scott and his sister had strayed some 200 metres (656ft) from a designated walkway. They recommend visitors do not leave trails in hydrothermal areas or approach wildlife.
On Saturday, a 13-year-old boy suffered burns after his father, who was carrying him, slipped into another hot spring in the park. The pair had also reportedly left a path.
Last month, a Canadian tourist put a bison calf into his car boot in Yellowstone as he was worried it looked cold.
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The 11 imams, sheiks and religious teachers from nine countries met a Holocaust survivor and Poles whose families risked execution to save Jews from the Nazis, in the Polish capital's Nozyk Synagogue as part of the tour.
They have been around museums, including the recently opened Museum of the History of Polish Jews on the site of the former Jewish Ghetto in Warsaw. And they also visited the Auschwitz and Dachau concentration camps.
"The main aim is to get Muslims who are leaders all over the world, particularly in the Middle East, to acknowledge the reality of what happened here and to be able to teach it to the people that they lead," said trip organiser Rabbi Jack Bemporad, who is executive director of the US-based Center for Interreligious Understanding.
He was standing underneath the red brick watchtower over the main entrance to Birkenau, the largest of more than 40 camps that made up the Auschwitz complex. This was where the Nazis installed four gas chambers and crematoria to speed up the murder and disposal of people, who were mostly Jews, from across Europe.
Auschwitz-Birkenau, set up by the Germans in Nazi-occupied Poland, is largely intact and is now a museum. Historians estimate 1.1 million people were killed there - one million of them were Jews but there were also Poles, Roma, Soviet prisoners of war and others.
"I think that when someone wants to deny the Holocaust or think that it is exaggerated, which many of them do and certainly many of their followers do, when they come here and see it, their experience is such that they can no longer think that," Rabbi Bemporad said.
Beside the ruins of one of the gas chambers - the Germans blew them up as they retreated, in an effort to hide their crimes - the Muslim leaders paused for a moment's silence.
"You may read every book about the Holocaust but it's nothing like when you see this place where people were burned," said Mohamed Magid, president of the Islamic Society of North America.
"This is the building, the bricks. If they were to speak to you and I, they would tell you how many cries and screams they have heard."
Mr Magid, who is originally from Sudan, first visited Auschwitz-Birkenau during a trip organised for American imams in 2010. He said the experience had led him to hold an annual Seder, a Jewish ceremonial meal, at his mosque in Virginia where he invites people to listen to the story of a Holocaust survivor who was saved by a Muslim family.
"We go back more committed to human rights and more understanding of conflicts and how to resolve them, but also to be careful of a curriculum that teaches racism and hatred," he said.
Earlier, the group had taken photos as they walked around an exhibition in the red brick barrack blocks at Auschwitz, about 2 miles (3kms) from Birkenau.
They made comments such as "Can you imagine?" and "It's beyond comprehension" as they saw a great pile of hair shorn from women prisoners that was used to make rudimentary textiles. They shook their heads as they saw faded children's shoes and dolls in glass cases.
After they had seen just two of the 14 exhibition blocks, some of the group asked for a break and they knelt in prayer beside the camp's execution wall.
Barakat Hasan, a Palestinian imam and director of the Center for Studies and Islamic Media in Jerusalem, said he "didn't know many details about the Holocaust" before the trip.
"I felt my heart bleeding when I was looking at all this. I was fighting back tears," he said through an interpreter. "As a Palestinian living under occupation, I feel sympathy for the pain and injustice that was inflicted on the Jews," he added.
Mr Hasan said he did not believe there were people in the Muslim world who denied the Holocaust happened, but he said there was discussion in his community about whether the commonly quoted figure of six million Jewish victims was correct.
"Maybe now after seeing what I've seen, maybe the numbers are correct also," he said, adding that he would write articles and mention his trip on Facebook.
As he walked along the railway line and unloading ramp at Birkenau - where the trains hauling cattle cars crammed with Jews arrived - Ahmet Muharrem Atlig, a Turkish imam and secretary general of the Journalists and Writers Foundation in Istanbul, said he wept when he saw a photograph that showed children looking scared as they got off a train.
"Unfortunately the Muslim communities and congregation don't know much about the Holocaust," he said.
"Yes, we've heard something. But we have to come and see what happened here. It's not just about Jews, or Christians, this is all about human beings because the human race suffered here." | Muslim leaders from around the world have taken part in an unprecedented trip to Germany and Poland to see and hear for themselves about the horrors of the Jewish Holocaust. | 22644206 | [
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The Canadian, 28, was picked as the Devils' forward of the year in 2016-17 after scoring 24 goals and 29 assists in 66 games.
Haddad was a dominant force last season, playing the role of a power forward as Devils won the Elite League.
"Joey Haddad was outstanding for us last season," said Devils player-coach Andrew Lord.
"There were a number of games that he completely took over or broke open a game for us and that is what makes fans love him so much.
"He is a big body and dominates in the corners and is tough to play against.
"There were a number of teams that wanted him to make a move but he loves it here and I don't really think he entertained any other offers."
Haddad will also be a vital part of Devils' Champions Hockey League campaign, with the Welsh side drawn in Group E against HC Davos from Switzerland, Bili Tygri Liberec of the Czech Republic and Sweden's Vaxjo Lakers. | Cardiff Devils attacker Joey Haddad has re-signed for a fourth season with the Elite League champions. | 39975629 | [
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Koukash has owned the Super League team since 2013 but it has stated before he could leave Salford.
"My plans are to make sure we win the next few games. We'll see what happens at the end of the season," he said.
"I have not made my mind up to walk away, I'm working hard to make sure it is financially viable for next year."
Salford scored 13 tries as they comfortably beat Featherstone on Sunday in a game where only 1,759 were in attendance at the AJ Bell Stadium.
"It was a crucial game, there was no football around, there was good weather, it's a Sunday where families can come and we reduced ticket prices," Koukash told BBC Radio Manchester.
"To only have 1,750 for a crucial game, I must say I'm very disappointed. What the fans all have to understand is that next year the club will only be able to spend what it can afford.
"I can no longer keep bankrolling it the way I did. If the fans wanted to see a competitive Super League side they need to start turning up."
Despite his future with the club being in doubt, Koukash said he could not buy another rugby league club if his time with Salford was to end.
"Once you are a Red Devil, you will always be a Red Devil. I will never be involved with another club, that's it. The time when I finish from Salford, I will just sit back and enjoy the sport like any other fan," he added. | Salford Red Devils owner Marwan Koukash says he has still not decided whether he will sell the club at the end of the current season. | 37333831 | [
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In 2015, voter turnout among 18- to 24-year-olds was estimated to be 43%, compared with a 66.1% turnout overall. This year, YouGov puts the youth turnout at 58%.
Polling traditionally shows that a majority of young people vote Labour. This year, the proportion has jumped to 63% for 18-29-year-olds, according to YouGov.
So how did this change happen?
Sam Jeffers, co-founder of Who Targets Me, which monitored the use of social media adverts by the political parties during the general election, said it seemed clear that Labour defeated the Conservatives in the social media battle.
Labour's adverts had consistently been shared more widely by social media users, he said.
Part of this appears to be down to the difference in tone of the adverts.
While the Conservatives had almost entirely focused their adverts on the strength of Prime Minister Theresa May and the weakness of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, Labour's social media adverts had been more positive, seeking to emphasise that the party was building a social movement, he said.
And this had been combined with the repeated use of adverts with practical messages designed to increase youth voter turnout by giving instructions on how to register to vote and where to find local polling stations.
Adverts also appeared to have been released on specific days on the basis that their message was likely to cut through for only a limited amount of time, Mr Jeffers said.
For example, Labour had invested heavily on adverts attacking the Tories' so-called "dementia tax" on social care costs, days before the 8 June election.
The aim of this appeared to be to suppress the older, potentially Conservative, vote or get them to switch to Labour at the last minute, Mr Jeffers said.
Labour also focused its attention on more of the UK, targeting 464 constituencies in the final two days of the election campaign. The Tories targeted 205.
Was it Facebook wot swung it?
While the Labour Party paid for targeted adverts on social media, Momentum - the group that was set up to support Mr Corbyn's leadership bid and now campaigns for Labour - had a different social media strategy.
Rather than pay for advertising, it instead sought to create content it hoped social media users would share voluntarily.
The group created videos - many of them parodies - it hoped would become viral.
These included Daddy, why do you hate me? - a mock political broadcast telling people to vote for Theresa May "because your children deserve worse" - which Momentum says has been viewed more than 7.6 million times across social media platforms.
Its Facebook and Twitter pages feature a mixture of content, from posts mocking Theresa May's record to videos of Mr Corbyn hugging some of his supporters.
Joe Todd, from Momentum, said the group had felt its strategy was working when it had realised many of the people sharing its content were not typical supporters of Mr Corbyn.
Increasingly, users liking its Facebook page had been people who also liked the pages of TV programmes not known for their political audiences, such as Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway and Match of the Day, he said.
"We were breaking out of the leftie bubble," Mr Todd said.
Using message services to reach the young - and in some cases mobilising them into an army of potential canvassers - had been important in reaching the youth vote, Mr Todd said.
Momentum says it reached some 400,000 people through the messaging platform WhatsApp, which data shows is used most by 18-to 29-year-olds, in the UK.
The group also set up mynearestmarginal.com - a website that enables activists to pool together, and often lift share, to canvass in marginal seats.
Momentum says the website was used by about 100,000 people - more than four times as many as its 24,000 membership.
This meant young people with no experience of canvassing could team up with those with previous election experience for targeted canvassing.
"If you have a young person telling another young person, 'You should get out and vote because this election is important', it's more convincing," Mr Todd said.
There was also an unashamed pitch for the youth vote at the heart of Labour's manifesto For the Many, Not the Few - and that was the eye-catching promise of scrapping tuition fees for university students and the pledge to reintroduce their maintenance grants.
Further policies pitched with the young in mind included the ending of zero-hour contracts and unpaid internships, a rise in the minimum wage, and a pledge to build more than one million homes.
Of course, Labour wasn't the only party that targeted young people and it's hard to quantify the effect of the manifesto in getting the young out to vote, but Mr Todd felt it was among the most significant factors.
"It conjured up a sense of hope," he said.
The Labour campaign also featured large rallies that accompanied Jeremy Corbyn's speeches around the country.
Mr Corbyn had been a long-standing supporter of the protest movement, and the veteran anti-war campaigner was well placed to appeal to a growing number of young people who had become engaged in politics through these movements, according to Sam Fairbairn, national secretary of the People's Assembly protest group.
Although the People's Assembly does not endorse individual parties or candidates, Mr Fairbairn said the group - and its numerous local affiliates and sister organisations - had encouraged members to join Mr Corbyn's campaign rallies.
"It's no accident Jeremy has been part of these movements since he's been in politics. This is how many young people have got into politics in the last 10 years," Mr Fairbairn said.
"What we saw was the result of the work all these movements have done."
A string of endorsements from anti-establishment celebrities and musicians, including from the world of grime - a genre of music that blends garage and jungle and has a Jamaican influence - also, arguably, further bolstered Mr Corbyn's youth credentials.
Mr Corbyn also took part in interviews with outlets - such as rock magazines NME and Kerrang, and football YouTube channel Copa90 - outside of the political mainstream that were more likely to reach younger audiences.
Becka Hudson, from the #Grime4Corbyn campaign, told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme Mr Corbyn had "offered young people a programme they can believe in and a better future".
The question is what happens next with that youth support.
Is there the danger the young will be discouraged by the election result and be less likely to turn out at the next election, whenever that may be?
Mr Todd thinks the opposite is the case.
"For most people this project was something they believed in, but it seemed like it might not be possible. Now the prospect of victory is really realistic," he said. | A boosted youth vote is believed to have contributed to Labour's shock election result, but what made young people turn out to vote? | 40244905 | [
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Under the adverse conditions, RBS's capital levels fell by 7.5 percentage points - the third biggest fall of the 51 banks tested.
However, RBS said the tests showed it had made "continued progress".
RBS was bailed out by the government in 2008 and the UK taxpayer continues to hold a 73% stake in the bank.
The health check of 51 lenders in the eurozone and the rest of the EU, including the UK, was carried out by the London-based European Banking Authority.
It examined the impact of GDP falling by about 7% between now and 2018.
Why are the banks being tested?
The Bank of England said the results for RBS and three other UK banks - Barclays, HSBC and Lloyds - were "consistent with those of previous Bank of England stress tests".
"They provide evidence that major UK banks have the resilience necessary to maintain lending to the real economy, even in a macroeconomic stress scenario," it added.
Under the test conditions, RBS was left with a capital buffer of just over 8%.
Ewen Stevenson, RBS chief financial officer, said: "The EBA stress test results demonstrate our continued progress towards transforming the balance sheet to being safe and sustainable.
"We are confident that in delivering our strategy, we will transform RBS into a low-risk, resilient bank."
Conservative former chancellor Lord Lamont urged people not to be overly concerned about RBS's position, saying it was still "well above the minimum capital" that would be required - and saying the real danger to the European economy came from continental institutions.
He told BBC's Today programme there was "work to be done" but attention should be focused on banks in Germany and Italy, as well as Portugal and Greece which were not tested because they were considered too small.
"That is where it is thought there is a lot of weakness in the European banking system," he said, warning the situation in Italy and other countries "could create a real political crisis" for Europe.
Under the test conditions, Barclays' capital buffers would fall by 4 percentage points in the event of a major economic shock, leaving it with a buffer of 7.3%.
Unlike in previous years, the EBA did not judge whether banks had passed or failed its latest tests.
In 2014, if banks had a capital buffer of 5.5% after the stress test, then they were considered healthy, and analysts use that as an informal benchmark.
Both RBS and Barclays surpassed that mark in the latest test.
Allied Irish Banks, which was bailed out by Irish taxpayers, showed a near 9 percentage points fall in capital levels in the test.
"AIB is well-capitalised and capital accretive," the bank said in a statement.
"The results published today are point-in-time projections based on prescribed stress assumptions and should not be treated as indicative of the future financial performance."
Italy's Monte dei Paschi di Siena was by far the worst performer, with the test forecasting that its capital would fall by 14 percentage points under the adverse conditions.
Shortly before the results of the stress test were released, Monte dei Paschi di Siena announced that it had secured the backing of a consortium of banks for a rescue plan.
The plan involves the sale of €9.2bn (£7.7bn) of bad loans and an injection of €5bn of fresh capital.
Founded in 1472, Monte dei Paschi is one of the world's oldest banks, but in recent years has been one of Europe's weakest, with €50bn of bad loans.
Analysts were also keen to see how German banks performed under the test conditions.
Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank were left with capital buffers of less than 8% at the end of the test.
"Commerzbank is robust and stress resistant," Commerzbank chief risk officer Marcus Chromik said in a statement.
"Even under the adverse conditions of the EBA stress scenario, the stability of the Bank would be guaranteed."
After the financial crisis of 2008, US banks took hefty charges to clean up their balance sheets, but European banks were much less aggressive, leaving them with billions of euros of poorly-performing loans.
"Whilst we recognise the extensive capital raising done so far, this is not a clean bill of health," EBA Chairman Andrea Enria said in a statement.
"There remains work to do." | RBS Group performed comparatively poorly in the latest European stress tests, which assess how the banks might perform in adverse economic conditions. | 36928888 | [
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Celebrations were held in the streets around the Belgrave Road, known as the Golden Mile.
About 35,000 turned out for the lights switch on last week, and even more people are believed to have attended the main event.
Diwali is a celebration of light over darkness and is a major Hindu festival also marked by Sikhs and Jains.
Source: BBC Religion and Ethics
The annual Leicester event, which culminates in a large firework display in nearby Cossington Street Recreation Ground, is thought to be one of the largest Diwali parties outside India.
Manjula Sood, chairman of the Leicester Council of Faiths, said that like many Hindus, she started the day with family prayers at home before exchanging sweets.
"This year we are going to have a spectacular fireworks show and people will see how beautiful it is and then we greet each other on Belgrave Road," she said.
She added: "It's not only for Hindus, Sikhs or Jains. This has become such a wonderful festival. You see people from everywhere, not only Leicester. They come from outside Leicester and share in our joy."
As well as fireworks, people can enjoy Rangoli street art by artist Janak Chauhan as well as entertainment on stage in the park.
Across the rest of the city, events have been held to celebrate Diwali including arts and crafts at Newarke Houses Museum and Gardens and several shows at Curve theatre.
Belgrave Road and Belgrave Flyover will be closed to traffic from 17:30 to 21:30 GMT. | Tens of thousands of people have celebrated Diwali in Leicester city centre. | 24796541 | [
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The Scottish Sun reports that the shocking discovery was made around an hour after he was reported missing.
His disappearance triggered a major search and rescue operation along the banks of the fast-flowing River Ericht, reports the Scottish Daily Express.
The Courier says paramedics battled to save the boy but they were unable to revive him. It adds that local MSP John Swinney described the news as "heartbreaking".
Meanwhile the i newspaper reports that the "poor" are twice as likely to die from cancer. It says a new study has identified a huge "survival gap" across Scotland's social classes.
The cancer survival gap has been described as "completely unacceptable" by Macmillan Cancer Support, according to the front page of The Scotsman.
The Scotland edition of The Times reports that a multi-million pound funding "black hole" has been exposed in a flagship Scottish government plan to safeguard the future of the NHS.
Meanwhile, The Herald leads with a report that Scotland could have the "fastest and easiest" ever entry into the EU if it becomes independent.
On a similar subject, The National's front page headline asks: "Where's your Vow noo?" The paper reports that former first minister Alex Salmond asked the question of the Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrat parties during a rally in his Gordon constituency.
The Daily Record carries a photograph of a man accused of forcing Romanian girls to sell sex in brothels in Scotland.
The death of a young mother in car crash in Aberdeenshire leads the front page of the Press and Journal.
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Police had earlier released an image of a 54-year-old man they wanted to speak to.
A spokeswoman said he had been located in the Dumfries and Galloway area.
An area of Penilee Road has been cordoned off and forensic officers have been carrying out investigations. | A man police said they wanted to trace in connection with a murder and attempted murder in Paisley has been arrested. | 40140182 | [
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The Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) said it was difficult to keep the vessel Millennium Time on a steady heading before it struck a tug on the River Thames in July 2014.
The report also said the man at the helm at the time of the crash did not hold a boatmaster's licence.
City Cruises apologised and said passenger safety was "paramount".
The nine injured passengers suffered cuts and bruises when the boat struck motor tug Redoubt, which was towing three barges between Blackfriars and Waterloo bridges on the Thames on 17 July 2014.
The 69-year-old mate's employment as a helmsman was contrary to the instructions of the Millennium Time's operators, City Cruises, the report said.
And the 58-year-old master of vessel was providing a sightseeing commentary, meaning he did not supervise the mate at the helm, the report concluded.
The MAIB said the mate did not take immediate action to avoid the vessel's collision with Redoubt because he thought the motor tug was turning towards Millennium Time, but Millennium Time had unexpectedly steered towards the motor tug.
The report said: "The turn was not deliberately initiated by the movement of the helm and most likely resulted from the unintended application of port rudder, and/or the influence of the effects of (an aquatic phenomenon known as) hydrodynamic interaction."
By the time the helmsman noticed the vessel was turning the collision could not be prevented, the MAIB said.
The report added the crew were also unaware of the number of passengers onboard - they thought they were carrying 426 people but the police counted 362.
Both vessels were damaged and it took 32 days to repair Millennium Time's damage, which included broken windows.
The MAIB, which made a number of safety recommendations, said City Cruises had replaced the steering systems on Millennium Time and its sister vessels.
In a statement, City Cruises said its vessels undergo rigorous testing and the helmsman was in the process of completing his boatmaster's licence.
Spokesman Kyle Haughton said: "The safety of our passengers and crew is paramount to us.
"The report does not highlight one significant reason for the accident and refers to a number of contributing factors." | A pleasure boat involved in a crash that injured nine tourists had steering problems, a report has said. | 33157374 | [
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The 45-year-old's Honda Fireblade crashed in the opening practice session of the Jurby Motodrome racing meet on Saturday morning.
The Andreas Racing Association said Carswell sustained serious injuries in the crash and was taken to Noble's Hospital, where he later died.
An investigation into the crash is due to take place, the association said. | TT rider Gary Carswell has died after a crash during a practice race on the Isle of Man. | 32271731 | [
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The hosts took the lead when Ryan Flynn drove towards the box and curled into the bottom corner.
Northern Ireland striker Will Grigg levelled for Wigan after a corner was not cleared, before visiting defender Jake Buxton saw red for a late tackle.
League One's Oldham regained the lead when Josh Law drilled in his first goal since joining in pre-season.
Match ends, Oldham Athletic 2, Wigan Athletic 1.
Second Half ends, Oldham Athletic 2, Wigan Athletic 1.
Corner, Oldham Athletic. Conceded by Donervon Daniels.
Foul by Ryan Flynn (Oldham Athletic).
Donervon Daniels (Wigan Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Jake Cassidy (Oldham Athletic) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Foul by Oliver Banks (Oldham Athletic).
Michael Jacobs (Wigan Athletic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Oldham Athletic. Jake Cassidy replaces Lee Erwin.
Substitution, Wigan Athletic. Danny O'Brien replaces Tim Chow.
Substitution, Wigan Athletic. Sam Cosgrove replaces Ryan Colclough.
Corner, Wigan Athletic. Conceded by Josh Law.
Goal! Oldham Athletic 2, Wigan Athletic 1. Josh Law (Oldham Athletic) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Ryan Flynn.
Corner, Wigan Athletic. Conceded by Oliver Banks.
Ryan Colclough (Wigan Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Oliver Banks (Oldham Athletic).
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Ousmane Fane (Oldham Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ryan Colclough (Wigan Athletic).
Substitution, Wigan Athletic. James Barrigan replaces William Grigg.
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Michael Jacobs (Wigan Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Paul Green (Oldham Athletic).
Attempt missed. Cameron Burgess (Oldham Athletic) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Corner, Oldham Athletic. Conceded by Tim Chow.
Corner, Oldham Athletic. Conceded by David Perkins.
Substitution, Oldham Athletic. Oliver Banks replaces Marc Klok.
Foul by Ousmane Fane (Oldham Athletic).
Ryan Colclough (Wigan Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
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Attempt saved. Lee Erwin (Oldham Athletic) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
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Foul by Josh Law (Oldham Athletic).
William Grigg (Wigan Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
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Ryan Flynn (Oldham Athletic) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Michael Jacobs (Wigan Athletic).
Michael Jacobs (Wigan Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Paul Green (Oldham Athletic). | Oldham Athletic overcame 10-man Championship side Wigan Athletic to reach the EFL Cup second round. | 36949056 | [
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The FTSE 100 company said it would not be able to afford the rising cost of its contribution to the pension plan from 2018.
The move will affect 90,000 members of the defined benefit scheme.
Unite will consider strike action if Royal Mail does not "respond positively", and the CWU said "unagreed" changes would face a ballot.
Royal Mail wants members of the scheme to change to a defined contribution plan - in which the company and staff contribute to a pension pot with no guarantee of how much the eventual payment will be.
The Royal Mail pension plan currently has a £1.7bn surplus but Royal Mail forecasts that it will run out in 2018 and that continuing contributions under the existing arrangement is "not affordable". It currently contributes £400m a year but forecasts this will rise to more than £1bn in 2018.
It said: "With our unions, we have been actively exploring possible changes to potentially enable us to keep the plan open on a defined benefit basis after March 2018 as part of our pension review process.
"We will continue discussions with our unions during and after the consultation. We will carefully consider feedback and any affordable proposals that members or their representatives make."
However, Unite said the consultation was a "cause for concern" and said it would look to mitigate the impact of any proposed changes during and after the consultation process.
Brian Scott, national officer of Unite said: "The consultation is complex and the company needs to ensure that its employees, our members, clearly understand the potential impact on them, and the reasons and justification for the proposed changes."
He added: "It is too early to make any pronouncements on industrial action, but if the company does not respond positively on this and other issues we cannot rule this out."
Terry Pullinger, deputy general secretary postal at the CWU, said: "So we move from shadow boxing to the ring and negotiations will now begin in earnest, and the CWU is fully committed to developing an agreed solution which maintains the pension promise of a wage and dignity in retirement.
"However, any attempt to introduce any unagreed change by the business would be met with an industrial action ballot."
Shares in Royal Mail were down 2% to 454p. | Royal Mail has begun a consultation over changes to its pension scheme amid threats of strike action from unions. | 38520632 | [
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Barry Gardiner said he would ask the Audit Office to investigate revelations by the BBC Spotlight programme about Invest NI's Belfast headquarters.
The Private Finance Initiative (PFI) was a way for the government to get buildings now and pay later.
But many contracts have been criticised as they turned out to be too expensive.
Invest Northern Ireland is a business development agency which aims to promote economic growth by providing government support to firms.
It signed a PFI contract for its new headquarters in Belfast in 2005.
After the property crash, it became a very bad deal.
Spotlight's research indicates that Invest NI's rent in 2012 was at least double the market rate and set a record for Belfast which still stands.
Invest NI has said that these are not valid comparisons, given the long-term nature of the projects.
Labour MP Mr Gardiner, who was Northern Ireland's direct rule enterprise minister when the 2005 contract was signed, said he will ask the Audit Office to investigate.
Tuesday's programme also reveals details of Invest NI's current multi-million pound debt to the controversial US investment fund, Cerberus.
Spotlight will be broadcast on BBC One Northern Ireland at 22: 40 BST on Tuesday, 20 June. | A Shadow Cabinet member and former Northern Ireland minister has called for an investigation into Invest NI's Private Finance Initiative contract. | 40334871 | [
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It found almost half a million people have had to leave work for medical reasons within five years before they were due to retire.
In March the government announced an independent review into the state pension age.
Research by the TUC research points to a significant north/south divide.
In the south west of England, just one in 13 people blamed sickness or disability for leaving work. However, that figure rises to one in seven in the north of England, Scotland and Wales and one in four in Northern Ireland.
Those in the lowest-paid jobs or in manual work are also twice as likely to stop working for health reasons than managers or professionals.
TUC general secretary Frances O'Grady said: "These figures show that we must hold off on any further rises in the pension age until we have worked out how to support the one in eight workers who are too ill to work before they even get to state pension age.
"People should be able to retire in dignity with a decent pension when the time is right. Older workers have a crucial role to play in the labour market but we can't expect the sick to wait longer to get a pension when they may need financial support more than ever."
A government review of the state pension age is being led by ex-CBI chief John Cridland. Its findings are due to be published in May.
The state pension age is set to rise to 65 for both men and women by November 2018 and 67 by 2028.
Tom McPhail, head of retirement policy at financial services firm Hargreaves Lansdown, said earlier this year: "Those joining the workforce today are likely to find themselves waiting until their mid-seventies to get a pay-out from the state system." | Ill-health or disability is forcing one in eight people to stop working before they reach the state pension age, the TUC says. | 37272164 | [
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Colin Hughes was attacked in Old Swan in September 2010 as he went to investigate a noise at the door of his home.
Two men, aged 18 and 21, from Old Swan and Huyton, were arrested on suspicion of murder on Tuesday.
Detectives have arrested six people as part of the inquiry, but no-one has been charged.
Mr Hughes had been playing cards with his fiancee Paula Greenwood when they heard the glass in the back door smash at about 0045 BST on 21 September.
Ms Greenwood went to call the police while Mr Hughes, a chef at a local pub, went to investigate. She later found him lying face down in the garden.
He was taken to hospital but died soon afterwards. A post-mortem examination found he died from a single stab wound. | Two men arrested over the killing of a 42-year-old man in his back garden in Liverpool have been released on bail. | 12405156 | [
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Pritchard, a former England Under-21 international, has agreed a four-year deal at Carrow Road.
The 23-year-old has scored a total of 20 goals in 100 matches on loan away from White Hart Lane at Peterborough, Swindon, Brentford and West Brom.
Jones, 30, has signed a two-year deal after leaving Portsmouth.
He has made more than 400 career appearances for clubs including Exeter, Peterborough and Crawley and will fight for a first-team place alongside John Ruddy and Michael McGovern.
Pritchard told the club website: "I feel I need to go out and prove myself again in football. I'm 23 now so it's about time I had my own path really."
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | Norwich City have signed midfielder Alex Pritchard from Tottenham Hotspur for an undisclosed fee and goalkeeper Paul Jones on a free transfer. | 36974593 | [
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Poet Andrew McMillan's Physical won The Guardian First Book Award last year.
The Swansea University-backed award will go to the best published literary work in English, written by an author aged 39 or under.
Chair of the judges Prof Dai Smith called the works "eye-catching, eclectic and totally energising".
The shortlisted writers are:
A set of short stories set in Caerphilly by locally-born writer Thomas Morris was on the long list but did not make the final cut.
The winner will be announced at a gala ceremony at Swansea University, which sponsors the prize, on International Dylan Thomas Day, 14 May. | The shortlist for the £30,000 Dylan Thomas Prize for young writers has been unveiled. | 35863026 | [
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Kirsty Blackman, SNP MP for Aberdeen North, found a toy rabbit at the Carriage Gates entrance last July.
She tried to trace the owner on social media but no-one came forward for months.
After turning to Mumsnet, a user got in touch at Hogmanay, saying the toy belonged to her six-year-old daughter.
The woman said she worked near Westminster at the time and her daughter was "gutted" when the bunny went missing as they had been "inseparable since birth".
She reclaimed the toy on a visit to the House of Commons on Wednesday.
Ms Blackman updated followers on the toy's time at Westminster, including pictures of her and the Jellycat Bashful Bunny with Big Ben behind them and at Prime Minister's Questions.
She also drafted an Early Day Motion stating the House of Commons is "saddened by the discovery of the abandoned bashful bunny by the gates of the Palace of Westminster" which was not submitted to parliament but was signed by several SNP colleagues.
Ms Blackman said previously: "I have two young children, so I know the devastation that can be caused when a toy is lost." | An MP who issued a social medial appeal after discovering a soft toy abandoned outside the House of Commons has reunited it with its young owner. | 38610148 | [
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Muhanad Mahmoud al-Farekh was deported from Pakistan, where he had travelled to in about 2007.
He and two others travelled to the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan from Winnipeg, Canada, where they were students.
Mr al-Farekh was born in Texas, and has been charged in New York.
He is accused of supporting a conspiracy to kill Americans and to carry out attacks against the US military.
A statement from the US Department of Justice and court documents say that Mr al-Farekh, a man named Ferid Imam, and one other unnamed individual allegedly left Canada, where they were students at the University of Manitoba, to travel to Pakistan and fight against American forces.
The justice department says that the trio did not discuss their plans with associates before leaving.
However, one of the men called a friend to tell him that he should not expect to see him again because he wished to become a martyr. | The US Justice Department says it has charged an American citizen with conspiracy to provide material support to al-Qaeda militants in Pakistan. | 32169142 | [
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The £1.471bn spent shooting movies like Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Avengers: Age of Ultron in 2014 represents a 35% increase on 2013.
Money spent on homegrown UK films also increased, with £188m spent making films budgeted at £500,000 and above.
Box office takings, though, were down 2% on the previous year.
Overall, 157.5 million tickets were sold, representing a 5% dip in attendances compared with 2013.
Yet the BFI's figures show an increased market share for UK independent films, thanks in part to the box office success of Paddington and The Inbetweeners 2.
The former title took £34.7m in 2014 and has now made more than £35.5m at UK and Ireland box offices.
"The UK film industry is a powerhouse for growth and I'm delighted that 2014 saw an all-time high spend on film production," culture secretary Sajid Javid said.
"The huge amount of inward investment we are seeing is a sure-fire sign that the UK is the best place in the world to make films."
BFI chief executive Amanda Nevill said its report "illuminates a dynamic and vibrant story of success for the screen industries in the UK".
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The 16-year-old was attacked by Taliban gunmen on a school bus near her former home in Pakistan in October.
She was treated at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham and now lives in the city.
She said she was "honoured" to be part of the opening ceremony.
She added: "The content of a book holds the power of education and it is with this power that we can shape our future and change lives.
"There is no greater weapon than knowledge and no greater source of knowledge than the written word.
"It is my dream that one day, great buildings like this one will exist in every corner of the world so every child can grow up with the opportunity to succeed."
Malala will place her copy of The Alchemist by Paolo Coelho in the library - the last book to go on the shelves. She will then receive membership to access the archive.
The teenager was targeted by the Taliban after campaigning for girls' rights to go to school. It was in part of the country where Islamic fundamentalists were trying to impose a strict form of Sharia law.
She has since been awarded the Tipperary International Peace Award and the International Children's Peace Prize.
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Avon and Somerset Police want to speak to a man aged between 25 to 30 with short black hair and a stubbly beard.
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Adam Lallana replaced the Brazilian in that game on his return from a month's lay-off and could be in line to start.
Southampton's leading scorer Charlie Austin might be involved for the first time since dislocating his shoulder on 8 December.
He is among several players expected to step up their comebacks by playing for the under-23 side on Friday night.
Steve Wilson: "Having failed to score against Southampton over the course of three matches already this season, Liverpool would be right to be wary of this latest encounter at a time when they can afford no more slip-ups.
"After drawing with Bournemouth and losing to Palace, a home win is overdue - but Southampton have already exploited Liverpool's vulnerabilities as well as anyone.
"If Jurgen Klopp's side do fail to finish in the top four it will be entirely of their own doing after underperforming in too many games which on paper seemed underwhelming.
"Southampton may be securely mid-table without too much to trouble them, but the boos which greeted their inability to beat Hull at St Mary's a week ago will have hurt and should ensure a response."
Twitter:@Wilsonfooty
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp: "It cannot be our job to count points, our job is to get them.
"There is absolutely no club in the top spots who can waste points in the next match day: not Chelsea, not Tottenham, not Liverpool, City, United or Arsenal.
"We all have to fight with all we have and that makes this league so exciting."
Southampton manager Claude Puel on speculation over his future: "I've been surprised to see these reports because it seems for me it has been an interesting season with many games.
"There have been European games, cup games, with quality. We reached the final at Wembley against Manchester United and we've also improved many players.
"We're ninth in the table with all these games, all these injuries.
"Sometimes we lack consistency and a clinical edge, and all of this we have to correct for next season because we can do better."
Liverpool owe Saints after they lost to them in the semi-finals of the EFL Cup, and I think they will get some revenge.
Prediction: 2-0
Lawro's full predictions v indie rock band Kasabian
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The Health and Safety Executive (HSENI) is investigating the cause of death, which is understood to have involved farm machinery.
The boy's death was the first of a child on a farm in Northern Ireland for almost three years, said the HSENI.
There were seven deaths on Northern Ireland farms in 2016 and six the year before, it added.
The last child to die in a farm fatality was in June 2014, when a boy died in a slurry tank accident near Dunloy, County Antrim.
DUP leader Arlene Foster said the news had shocked the close-knit farming community in Fermanagh.
Ulster Unionist MP Tom Elliott said the community would rally around the "very close" family.
"The family have lost a son, a grandson and a brother and that's something I'm sure they will find very, very difficult to come to terms with," he said.
Former Sinn Féin agriculture minister Michelle Gildernew said the community of Maguiresbridge was "devastated".
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It said lack of awareness and a shortage of trainees meant police often ended up questioning adults with mental illness or learning issues without one.
Home Secretary Theresa May said the situation was "not acceptable".
Appropriate adults are trained volunteers who help with communication during police interviews.
They are supposed to ensure mentally vulnerable people who are arrested or questioned understand what is happening, and that their legal rights and welfare are safeguarded.
They were introduced in the 1980s following miscarriages of justice involving vulnerable people.
Local authorities are required to provide appropriate adults whenever children are in contact with police and there is no parent or guardian present, but there is no duty to do the same in respect of vulnerable adults.
In some areas, no organised scheme for adults exists.
Researchers analysed police data and found appropriate adults were used in about 45,000 of the 1.4m detentions and voluntary interviews of adults each year.
It is estimated that 280,000 of those detentions involves a person who is "mentally vulnerable".
What does an appropriate adult do?
Appropriate adults do not provide legal advice, but assist with rights and broader welfare.
Nuala Chapman, an appropriate adult, told BBC Radio 5 live that she would be called after a medical practitioner had decided someone in custody needed support.
"We then go to the station, we go through all the processes with them, we make sure they understand what is going on, we go through interview with them and... facilitate communication between all the people in the interview," she said.
"Our role ends once they have either been charged or bailed."
The report, entitled There to Help, found police were least likely to identify vulnerability in areas which did not have an organised appropriate adult scheme.
Custody officers reported spending hours trying to find a suitable appropriate adult. They admitted to sometimes asking random members of the public, or proceeding without one.
Chris Bath, chief executive of the National Appropriate Adult Network, the charity which led the study, said: "People with learning disabilities, mental ill health, traumatic brain injuries or autistic spectrum disorders are some of the most vulnerable citizens, and state detention is perhaps the most vulnerable situation.
"We have a moral and a legal duty to ensure appropriate adults are available wherever people live."
The report's recommendations include:
The home secretary said appropriate adults "provide vital support and help to demystify what can be a confusing, sometimes frightening, experience in police custody".
Mrs May added: "The status quo is not acceptable and I am concerned that vulnerable adults are not always receiving the support of an appropriate adult.
"We are currently examining the recommendations and implementation options to ensure that vulnerable people are provided with the support they are entitled to."
Avtar Bhatoa, from the Law Society, said appropriate adults were needed to ensure "fair justice for all".
"With the right support, mentally vulnerable people are less likely to suffer an injustice or to waive their right to free legal advice through fear and misunderstanding, which can compound their disadvantage in the justice system, " he said. | Up to a quarter of a million vulnerable people are not being supported by an "appropriate adult" while in police custody, a Home Office report suggests. | 34054636 | [
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The scale of the criminal operation has been detailed by the three sources, who say they were employed by two front-companies set up by a gang of professional fraudsters.
The sources describe working in "call centres" in two Indian cities.
They say as many as 60 "employees" work in shifts in each office, phoning TalkTalk customers and duping them into giving access to their bank accounts.
The whistleblowers say they were given a script in which they were told to claim they were calling from TalkTalk.
They say they then convinced victims to install a computer virus.
A separate team would use that virus to gain access to victims' online banking, they add.
While it has not been possible to independently verify their claims, the sources have given highly detailed accounts of the scammers' tactics, which correlate very closely with previous reports of fraud targeting TalkTalk customers.
The software they named also matches that identified by TalkTalk in its own website guidance on what to watch out for in a scam call.
In addition, a victim of the fraud shown the call centre script has confirmed it matched the one read out to her when she was conned out of £5,000.
TalkTalk was hit by a cyber-attack in October 2015, but that hack appears to be unrelated to the Indian fraud.
Instead, it is alleged the scam is linked to problems in a company hired by the British broadband provider.
In 2011, TalkTalk outsourced some of its call-centre work to the Kolkata (Calcutta) office of Wipro, one of India's largest IT service companies.
Last year, three Wipro employees were arrested on suspicion of selling TalkTalk customer data.
A source in Kolkata, who did not want to be named, alleges the same data was obtained by a criminal gang, with USB sticks full of data trading hands at parties.
The criminals then used the data to operate at least three call centres, according to the whistleblowers, where staff work in shifts earning about £120 per month to perpetrate an intricate but highly successful scam.
They say they phone TalkTalk customers, using the stolen data to convince victims they are genuine employees of the company.
They then convince the victims their computers are infected, and offer to fix the problems.
Through this, the whistleblowers say, the victim is tricked into installing a virus that gives the scammer complete control over their machine.
The victims are then offered a compensation payment, for which they must log in to online banking, they add.
Thanks to the virus, the fraudsters are able to gain access to the victims' bank accounts when they log in.
They say they use various methods to spirit away the money: in some cases pretending to make erroneous overpayments, then convincing victims to repay the extra amount.
In other cases, victims have said the scammers were able to set up a new payee without their knowledge and transfer the money out of the account directly.
Although the BBC cannot be sure of the whistleblowers claims, the following suggested they were telling the truth:
Dozens of customers are said to have been affected, and many have lost thousands of pounds as a result of the fraud.
Leigh Day solicitors is representing about 20 people who have between them lost almost £100,000.
Questions remain about the speed with which TalkTalk responded to the data breach at Wipro, which is believed to have been in late 2014.
It was only in October 2015, after the apparently unrelated cyber-attack, that TalkTalk began a "forensic review" leading to the arrests at Wipro.
"We are aware that there are criminals targeting a number of UK and international companies, and we take our responsibility to protect our customers very seriously," said a spokeswoman for TalkTalk.
"This is why we launched our Beat The Scammers campaign, helping all our customers to keep themselves from safe from scammers no matter who they claim to be, while our network also proactively blocks over 90 million scam and nuisance calls a month."
Wipro did not respond to requests for comment.
When contacted, the two companies named by the whistleblowers strongly denied any knowledge of criminal behaviour, and insisted their businesses were legitimate.
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Thousands of protesters took to the streets to call for Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi to resign.
Mr Sisi has faced heavy criticism over his executive decision to give away the Red Sea islands, during a visit by Saudi Arabia's King Salman.
The uninhabited islands have been under Egyptian control since 1950.
The protesters in Cairo chanted "Sisi out" and "We own the land".
Mohamed Hussein, an engineer, told Reuters: "I'm protesting because of the overall situation in the country, not just the islands."
Some also chanted "The people want the downfall of the regime!" - a slogan from the 2011 Arab Spring uprising that toppled former leader Hosni Mubarak - as well as "Sisi - Mubarak".
At least 80 people were arrested in Cairo and Alexandria, officials said.
The White House said the US would watch the situation in Egypt, a key ally, carefully.
Both secular and Islamist activists had called for people to demonstrate against the transfer of the uninhabited islands.
Mr Sisi was forced to publicly defend his decision to give away the islands, Tiran and Sanafir, which are situated at the mouth of the Gulf of Aqaba.
He said they had always belonged to the Saudis and Egypt had simply been asked to look after them.
"We did not surrender our rights but we restored the rights of others," Mr Sisi said. "Egypt did not relinquish even a grain of sand. All the data and documents say nothing except that this particular right is theirs."
Critics of the deal say Mr Sisi's decision to hand over the islands without parliamentary approval, and only announce the deal after it was done, was improper.
Others have accused the president of giving the islands away in return for Saudi aid and investment.
Mr Sisi has faced increasing criticism in recent months on a range of issues, including Egypt's lacklustre economy.
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In a statement seen by the BBC, his wife said he had been out drinking with another man in the city of Yangon on Friday night before his death.
The Foreign Office said it was investigating the death of a British national and was providing support to the victim's family.
News agency AFP quoted police as saying the dead man was a 47-year-old who had suffered wounds to his head and chest.
According to reports, the man - who had been working at an international school - was found dead at an apartment in Yangon, previously known as Rangoon.
The Foreign Office says it is working with local authorities in Myanmar, formerly Burma, to determine what happened. | A British man believed to be a teacher has been found dead in Myanmar. | 37889518 | [
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Russian Football Union acting president Nikita Simonyan told the R-Sport agency Capello's role was in question.
Simonyan's comments came following Russia's 1-0 defeat by Austria in a Euro 2016 qualifier on Sunday.
Russia are third in their group and are facing the prospect of needing to win a play-off to reach the tournament.
Former England manager Capello, 68, took over as Russia boss in July 2012 and signed a four-year contract extension in January 2014.
The deal was designed to keep the Italian in the role until the 2018 World Cup, which is due to be staged in Russia.
Russia were knocked out at the group stage of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil without winning a game, and have eight points from six games in their Euro 2016 qualifying campaign.
Capello's side have failed to win in five games, losing two, and are eight points behind Group G leaders Austria and four adrift of Sweden, in second. | Fabio Capello's future as Russia manager is in doubt with the nation's football chief due to "discuss" whether to sack him. | 33133548 | [
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After Everton striker Lukaku's fiercely struck opener from outside the box, Bournemouth's Joshua King levelled.
Veton Berisha profited from static defending as Norway then led, but Hazard deftly headed in an equaliser and Laurent Ciman got the winner.
Meanwhile, Russia, who begin their Euro 2016 campaign against England on Saturday, drew 1-1 with Serbia.
They were denied victory by an 88th-minute equaliser from Newcastle striker Aleksandar Mitrovic, having taken the lead through Artem Dzyuba in the 85th minute.
Earlier, Czech Republic suffered a 2-1 home defeat by South Korea in their final warm-up game.
Yoon Bit-garam and Suk Hyun-jun gave the away side a 2-0 half-time lead before Marek Suchy got one back and Theodor Gebre Selassie was sent off for a second yellow card.
Match ends, Belgium 3, Norway 2.
Second Half ends, Belgium 3, Norway 2.
Foul by Marouane Fellaini (Belgium).
Ruben Jenssen (Norway) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Divock Origi (Belgium).
Jonas Svensson (Norway) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Corner, Norway. Conceded by Marouane Fellaini.
Substitution, Belgium. Mousa Dembélé replaces Eden Hazard.
Romelu Lukaku (Belgium) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ruben Jenssen (Norway).
Laurent Ciman (Belgium) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Valon Berisha (Norway).
Attempt missed. Marouane Fellaini (Belgium) header from very close range misses to the right. Assisted by Eden Hazard with a cross following a corner.
Substitution, Norway. Alexander Sørloth replaces Joshua King.
Corner, Belgium. Conceded by Jonas Svensson.
Substitution, Belgium. Divock Origi replaces Dries Mertens.
Attempt missed. Valon Berisha (Norway) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Ruben Jenssen.
Attempt saved. Kevin De Bruyne (Belgium) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Jonas Svensson (Norway) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Eden Hazard (Belgium) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Jonas Svensson (Norway).
Jordan Lukaku (Belgium) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Jordan Lukaku (Belgium).
Markus Henriksen (Norway) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Hand ball by Ruben Jenssen (Norway).
Offside, Belgium. Thibaut Courtois tries a through ball, but Kevin De Bruyne is caught offside.
Substitution, Norway. Ruben Jenssen replaces Stefan Johansen.
Radja Nainggolan (Belgium) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Markus Henriksen (Norway).
Goal! Belgium 3, Norway 2. Laurent Ciman (Belgium) header from very close range to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Toby Alderweireld with a headed pass following a corner.
Substitution, Norway. Stefan Strandberg replaces Ole Selnaes.
Substitution, Norway. Iver Fossum replaces Veton Berisha.
Corner, Belgium. Conceded by Haitam Aleesami.
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Attempt missed. Dries Mertens (Belgium) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is too high. Assisted by Jordan Lukaku.
Attempt missed. Jordan Lukaku (Belgium) left footed shot from a difficult angle on the left misses to the right. Assisted by Romelu Lukaku.
Goal! Belgium 2, Norway 2. Eden Hazard (Belgium) header from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Kevin De Bruyne with a cross.
Corner, Norway. Conceded by Toby Alderweireld.
Attempt blocked. Joshua King (Norway) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Markus Henriksen.
Substitution, Norway. Valon Berisha replaces Adama Diomande. | Romelu Lukaku and Eden Hazard scored as Belgium came from behind to beat Norway in their final game before Euro 2016. | 36456002 | [
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The four-year-old was in Skegness, Lincolnshire, when a Jack Russell-type dog allegedly bit her a number of times at about 13:45 BST on Saturday.
The owner of the animal allegedly refused to provide her details to the parents of the child.
Police are treating the incident as an offence of having a dog dangerously out of control in a public place.
The dog had allegedly been sitting under the owner's chair at the time and was not on a lead.
The girl required hospital treatment following the incident off Grand Parade.
Dogs are banned from this area from 1 May to 30 September. | A dog attack on a girl on a beach has led to police releasing a picture of the animal's owner. | 34041090 | [
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Nottinghamshire Police were present when the man fell from a building in the Radford area of Nottingham on Friday evening.
A witness told the Nottingham Post he survived the first fall before running to another flat and falling again.
Police are not treating the death of the man, in his mid-30s, as suspicious.
Officers were called to Waterloo Road at about 19:30 GMT. | The death of a man who twice apparently jumped from a building has been referred to the Independent Police Complaints Commission. | 34696691 | [
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The inquiry will look at historical abuse of children in care in Scotland.
But John Findlay, who was abused while a pupil in the care of Aberlour House in Moray, said money would be better spent supporting victims.
He said the inquiry was "yet another process" rather than progress towards helping people.
Mr Findlay told BBC Scotland's Timeline programme how he had spoken publically before about what happened to him, but has not been contacted about giving evidence to the inquiry.
He was abused by one of his teachers, who is no longer alive, at Aberlour House, a prep school for Gordonstoun private school in Moray which Mr Findlay went on to attend.
Mr Findlay was assaulted in his bed in a dormitory after being given what he described as a form of date rape drug.
"He fondled my genitalia. He put his head under the covers, He took photographs," said Mr Findlay of the attack.
"Once I was able to move afterwards I confronted him about it. I was convinced by him that I imagined it, that nothing happened."
Mr Findlay said what happened to him as a child "tainted" his adult life, including work and personal relationships.
On the inquiry, he said: "I would love to say I have hope, however, it is yet another announcement of yet another inquiry and yet another process.
"I see actually no progression whatsoever with regards to any government or any school providing genuine help for victims of abuse.
"It is all very well saying 'yeah, we are looking into it', but for crying out loud it is about time you could just turn around and say instead of spending how ever much on inquiries why not just spend the money on helping the victims of this abuse."
Gordonstoun is among boarding schools and other institutions involved in the investigation.
In a statement. Gordonstoun said: "We welcome the Scottish Abuse Inquiry's invitation to submit a report and will respond in full.
"Cases of non-recent abuse must be unimaginably distressing for the victims and their families and the work that the Scottish Abuse Inquiry is undertaking will, we hope, draw important lessons from the past and make children safer in the future.
"For everyone at Gordonstoun today, making sure our students are happy, healthy and safe is at the heart of everything we do.
"We are committed to providing a safe and nurturing environment for all our students. Our ongoing work in this area was recognised in our most recent independent Care Inspectorate Report which gave us a rating of five - 'very good' - for pupil care and support and noted the 'comprehensive child protection procedures' in place."
The Scottish government said it had established one of the widest ranging public inquiries that Scotland has ever seen into the abuse of children in care.
A spokesperson said: "It will focus on the systemic institutional failures which saw many of our most vulnerable children, including those in the care of the state, abused by the very individuals who were there to care for them.
"We want that inquiry to be able to undertake its work in a timescale that can address the issues raised by survivors.
"Scotland is one of the few countries in the world that has dedicated funding for support services for adult survivors of child abuse.
"We have made real progress in delivering what survivors told us they wanted, including a greatly expanded support fund of £13.5m over five years to co-ordinate access to and deliver resources, integrated care and support for those who were abused in care."
The spokesperson said Deputy First Minister John Swinney had also committed to a consultation on redress, pledging to work with survivors to consider the wide range of differing views on the subject.
The spokesperson added: "Last year, we introduced legislation to make it easier to take civil action against historic child abuse, and we also reviewing the child protection system to ensure it is as effective as it can be." | A victim of child abuse has criticised the decision to hold an inquiry to investigate more than 60 institutions, including several top private schools. | 38839537 | [
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The announcement came during a trade mission to China involving business leaders from across Scotland.
SCC said a recent Chinese policy of opening up to new overseas alliances presented "a myriad of opportunities" for Scottish businesses.
It added there was potential to sell goods and services which Chinese firms and consumers wanted and needed.
The trade mission saw SCC hold meetings with senior business people, politicians and local government officials, as well as "think tanks" in Beijing, Yantai and Jinan in the eastern province of Shandong.
The Scottish delegation was led by SCC's new president, Tim Allan, and chief executive Liz Cameron.
During the visit, SCC signed a memorandum of understanding for "trade engagement and partnership" with senior officials from the Yantai municipal government.
Ms Cameron said: "This exploratory visit is part of the new partnership which was formed between Scottish business, through our extensive chamber network, and the Scottish government to utilise the worldwide connectivity of the business community.
"We now have a deeper understanding of how we can achieve the best exchange for business, where the opportunities exist for Scottish organisations and how we can best pursue these.
"We have also identified several potential opportunities for inward investment into Scotland and will be working with Scottish government and SDI as well as other trade organisations to explore these and leverage the momentum of change within China."
She added: "Our next steps will be to undertake a deep-dive of companies based in Scotland who have products, skills and expertise which have the potential to be exported to the Shandong Province area.
"Our aim is to add impetus to the Scottish economy by assisting companies who have not previously thought about exporting to grasp the potential that international trade offers."
According to SCC, Shandong Province represents the third largest economy in China, with a population of nearly 100 million.
Key sectors it has identified as being of interest to Scottish businesses include robotics, bioscience, manufacturing, engineering and smart technologies, agriculture, food and drink and football management.
SCC said there were also opportunities in consumer goods, recreation and tourism services, financial and professional services and education.
SCC intends to return to the province later this year to "explore new ways to foster co-operation between the two countries". | Scottish Chambers of Commerce (SCC) has officially opened a new international trade office in Yantai, China. | 39928446 | [
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The body of Lindsay Rimer, 13, was found in the Rochdale Canal five months after she disappeared in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, in November 1994.
Her killer has never been found and West Yorkshire Police are treating the death as murder.
The force said a new DNA profile had been identified, which it hoped would lead them to identify the killer.
Speaking on the anniversary of the discovery of her body, Det Supt Simon Atkinson said: "Our Canadian colleagues are doing some ground-breaking forensic work, so we've sent some of the forensic exhibits over to them.
"They have been able to develop a DNA profile which we are really interested in developing further."
He added: "It's a leap forward we haven't had in the past 21 years, so I'm really excited about this development."
Lindsay left her home in Cambridge Street at about 22:00 and visited the Trades Club in Home Street.
The last known sighting of her was caught on CCTV 20 minutes later as she bought cornflakes at a shop in Crown Street.
Her body, which had been weighted down with a stone, was recovered about a mile upstream from the town centre.
Juliet Rimer, her younger sister, said: "A piece of everyone's soul is missing and I often wonder how our lives would have been, if we were not a broken family.
"The advice Lindsay would have given me, the fights we might have had, and the things we may have shared.
"Getting the answers wouldn't change the hurt, but it would help bring closure to us all." | New forensic leads are being investigated in connection with the death of a schoolgirl 21 years ago. | 36019234 | [
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A report said the force was inadequate at protecting vulnerable victims.
Surrey Police boss Nick Ephgrave said the force was good at preventing crime but this potentially came at the expense of investigations.
Inspector Zoe Billingham said Surrey showed a "commendably strong commitment to keeping people safe from harm".
She said the force had strong, mature neighbourhood police teams who worked well with councils, and neighbourhood officers had more training than in other forces.
But she said: "The way the force investigates more complex crime requiring specialist investigations is still not good enough.
"Many investigations that we reviewed were not of an acceptable standard and there were long delays in examining computers and mobile phones for evidence."
She said the force needed to improve its understanding of the threat posed by organised crime, improve its process for mapping those groups, and fully mobilise its neighbourhood teams in the fight against organised crime.
Mr Ephgrave, temporary chief constable, said the force was already tackling concerns by increasing resources to protect the vulnerable, and providing more training, better process and use of systems, and a culture change in how the force operated.
He said: "None of these things can provide an instant fix but together they are starting to deliver positive results."
A separate report by HM Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) in December last year found Surrey Police's approach to protecting vulnerable people to be inadequate.
Surrey police and crime commissioner Kevin Hurley said changes were already in place, including a change in chief constable.
This month it emerged that Mr Hurley had considered seeking Ms Owens' dismissal as Surrey Police chief. She resigned last autumn to move to her new role as director general of the National Crime Agency
Mr Hurley said: "When we look at where the buck stops, it stays with the team manager."
But he said the force was already turning around, with reductions in robbery and burglary, improvements in violent crime and rape investigations, praise for the force's action on anti-social behaviour.
The BBC has approached Ms Owens for a comment. In a previous response, she said blame apportioned to her was "ill-considered and inaccurate".
"I was selected to my current role by the Home Secretary after a lengthy and thorough process and am now focused on leading the National Crime Agency in its fight to cut serious and organised crime," she said. | Surrey Police needs to improve how it investigates crime and tackles serious and organised crime, a government inspector has said. | 35601694 | [
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"I have been asked in my younger years to consider joining, and I just never felt ready or prepared," said Ms Seifert, who started working as a model at the age of 14 and later worked as a television presenter.
But the moment finally arrived in 2009, after she had finished a nursing degree in New York. At the age of 25 - the limit for most pageants - time was running out.
Ms Seifert trained for over a month at a so-called beauty camp, setting her sights on representing the Philippines at the Miss Universe competition. But she said pageant organisers disqualified her days before the finals over bikini photos published in a men's magazine.
Undaunted, she decided to take part in another national pageant weeks later. Not only did she win the national Miss Earth title, she went on to compete in the international pageant, where she was crowned runner-up out of 80 competitors from all over the world.
Beauty pageants have been popular in the Philippines since they were brought to the country by the American colonial government in the first half of the 20th Century, says Jose Wendell Capili, an academic at the University of the Philippines in the capital, Manila.
Opposition from feminists, if there is any, is muted.
The recent successes of candidates in international competitions have heightened interest even further.
Mr Capili, who wrote a book about Philippine pageants, says that as a result, pageants have become more competitive.
"In the old days, an untrained candidate may end up winning a title either because she is a great beauty or is someone from a pedigreed family," he said. "These days, there are talent scouts and modelling agencies who actually train some of the girls, months, even years, before the national competition."
One of the most successful beauty camps is headed by Jonas Gaffud, who is CEO of a large modelling agency, Mercator.
He and a teams of mentors field an average of 10 candidates a year. The mentors work for free, and many of the women dominate the national pageants and go on to place well internationally.
Mr Gaffud is credited with helping Megan Young win the first Miss World crown for the Philippines in 2013. His team's beauty queens have also been finalists in every Miss Universe pageant since 2010. Some have also placed in previous Miss World and Miss International finals.
In scouting a potential candidate, Mr Gaffud said that height - at least five feet five inches tall (165.1cm) - and "the beauty of face" were most important.
But training was just as important. He said candidates need to start training at least six months before a competition. This included studying the pageant's cause, learning how to walk on stage, knowing how to do hair and make-up, exercising to tone the physique and practicing how to answer questions, he said.
Ms Seifert, who trained at another beauty camp, said that the hours spent training were intense.
"There are different exercises that you do, all the way from head to toe. Stretching, neck rotations, really tough waist movements to shape your waist," she said.
One exercise was called the "duck walk" and involved walking in circles in a bikini at a dance studio lined with mirrors. "Just imagine doing lunges in high heels with a book or several books on your head - and they cannot fall," she said.
And despite her previous experience as a television host, she still received coaching for the pageant Q&A, as well as advice from former pageant winners.
Like Ms Seifert, Sian Elizabeth Maynard also trained at a beauty camp before taking part in a national pageant, even after successfully winning three local titles.
She did calisthenics exercises and walking training, which included "doing weird lunges and wiggling".
Sian Elizabeth Maynard, now 27, did not really want to join beauty pageants. But she says her mum "begged me to, so I joined a local one".
She joined three local pageants a year from 2007 to 2009 - two in Cebu province in central Philippines and one national pageant - and won all titles. She was one of 10 finalists in Miss Philippines-Earth in 2010.
They were not all pleasant experiences. Once, some of the candidates' sashes - which must be worn at all times in the competition - went missing. Replacements were quickly made, but some women ended up wearing their sashes even while brushing their teeth. Ms Maynard slept with hers under her pillow.
"In other pageants, someone would cut the strap of a bikini or the strap of a sandal," she said.
"The number one rule is that you have to watch your belongings because there could be a lot of theft, like make-up and cell phones go missing," Ms Maynard said.
But she had good memories too, and said she made many friends. She learned how to dress up and present herself, when before joining she "didn't even know or bother to comb my hair".
"So when we do these lunges, and we wiggle our hips, it's really tiresome. And we all do this in four-inch heels minimum. It helps us to lengthen our stride and to put more sway in our hips," Ms Maynard said.
Sometimes she had to do the high-heeled lunges while answering questions called out by her mentors.
"And then, every so often while we're doing it, one of them [trainers] would just call out a question, like you know, 'If you had to take out an element out the universe, which element would it be and why? Earth, wind, fire or water?'
"It's really not just about smiling and standing in front of people. It's a lot of hard work," said Ms Maynard, now 27.
Even the tiny details matter, Mr Gaffud said. He helps pick the right outfits and involves himself with how a candidate "should sway on stage". He even helps pick a candidate's lipstick shade - anything to help improve her chances. He said mentors tried to build on a candidate's natural traits, such as whether to cultivate a sweet or sexy image.
Some mentors do charge for their services, but most like Mr Gaffud do it "for the love of finding a girl".
"This is a side project," he said, adding that mentors help pay for the candidate's make-up, pictorials, food and sometimes even their rent.
Some mentors, however, go on to manage their beauty queen's careers after they are successful in pageants.
"They don't expect us to pay for anything, which I just find really amazing," said Ms Seifert, "because these pageant aficionados have full-time jobs, but they really dedicate so much of themselves to helping us develop and train," she said.
Becoming a beauty queen is not always glamorous, Ms Seifert cautioned. "The moment I got crowned was the moment all the hard work began," she said.
In her case, being a Miss Philippines-Earth winner and Miss Earth runner-up meant many public appearances to promote environmental causes.
Pageant winners have high public profiles in the Philippines, and winning a title is seen as coming with big responsibilities. As "an important public figure", it was important to set a good example to young girls who looked up to beauty queens, Ms Seifert said.
Winners are feted, introduced to high-ranking officials, and often recognised on the street and asked to pose for photographs.
Anjo Lorenzana, a lecturer from the Ateneo de Manila University who specialises in media and popular culture, said pageants were also an opportunity for the Philippines to promote its image on an international stage.
"By winning international beauty contests, Filipinos, who are usually equated with lowly occupations, can be seen in a better light," he said.
For the candidates, pageants can be a stepping stone for upward social or economic mobility, Jose Wendell Capili said.
He added that Filipinos were deeply passionate about pageants, pointing to heated online discussions. "Rooting for a particular candidate can sometimes break up families, friendships and relationships," he said.
Tammy David, who has been photographing pageants since 2007, said the most unusual pageant she shot was inside a large jail.
"You could see how parents were proud because their daughter was Little Miss Bureau of Corrections," Ms David said. "Beauty pageants are everywhere." | Sandra Seifert is tall, pretty, smart and articulate, but it took a while for her to decide she wanted to take part in a beauty pageant in the Philippines. | 25550425 | [
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Mark Mason, 48, from Rhyl, died after being stabbed at the town's Home Bargains car park on 27 October 2016.
James Davies, 20, from Liverpool, denies murder and malicious wounding with intent.
Anthony Baines, 30, and Mark Ennis, 30, also from Liverpool, deny the same charges.
Jake Melia, 21, also from Liverpool, has admitted all charges.
The trial at Mold Crown Court has heard the attack was the result of a turf war which had erupted between two rival gangs over the control of the drugs trade in the Rhyl area.
On Monday, Mr Davies told the court he approached Mr Mason's car with a knife and banged its handle on the car window.
He said: "I just wanted them to see it and be scared.
"It was a stupid idea when I think of it but I didn't know it was going to end in the way that it did."
He said he did not inflict any injuries and he did not see how Mr Mason suffered 22 stab wounds.
He added he only discovered Mr Mason had been stabbed when he was told as they drove away.
The case continues. | A drug dealer has admitted waving a knife around in a Denbighshire car park before a man was fatally stabbed but denied using the weapon. | 39845879 | [
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The events were organised by the Right2Water group.
RTÉ reports that demonstrations were held in various parts of the country including Dublin, Cork and Galway.
The Right2Water campaign is made up of community groups, political groupings and trade unions.
Brendan Ogle of the Unite trade union said the demonstrations were the first step in a significant pre-election campaign by Right2Water.
"Water has been a catalyst in the fight against austerity but people are crying out for a change in how our country is run and that will be visible on the streets of Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Galway and Donegal, among other counties today," he said.
The Irish Department of the Environment said three out of four people are now paying water bills.
This figure includes those on private schemes as well as those paying through Irish Water.
The department added that it did not think it prudent to advise people to get into debt by not paying their bills and urged them to engage with Irish Water. | Thousands of people in the Republic of Ireland have participated in 30 demonstrations about water charges. | 35393842 | [
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Wales and British and Irish Lions lock Jones hopes the players can now concentrate on the new season.
"Ultimately as players we've prepared as if it's a normal season and everything's rosy," Jones said.
"I do stress it's not been ideal and it's not a distraction, but all the same it will be nice to have it done because we've heard for the last 18 months, potentially two years, that this is going to be sorted.
"I commend both sides for doing so but it's just disappointing it's taken so long."
We've got to move forward with the players that we've got and that's what we intend to do
A new deal between the WRU and Cardiff Blues, Newport Gwent Dragons, Scarlets and Jones' own Ospreys is expected to be signed this week and the 28-year-old added jokingly: "Apparently there was white smoke coming out of the top of the Millennium Stadium, which bodes well!"
Jones, who has won 80 caps for Wales and six for the Lions, is one of nine players tipped to become dual-contracted under the proposed new deal.
Ospreys begin their season on Friday, 5 September at home to Treviso in the Guinness Pro12, while they will also face the Italians in the Champions Cup in October in a pool including Northampton and Racing Metro.
The Welsh side have seen senior players of the calibre of Richard Hibbard, Ian Evans and Ryan Jones - all Lions - leave for other clubs in the off-season.
Jones is hoping that players will emerge from within Ospreys to swell the ranks.
"[It is a] pretty big [hole], particularly in the pack. You also look at [fly-half] Matthew Morgan going which was one of our shining lights coming through," Jones said.
"Obviously he moved for probably different reasons that some of the other guys did, but they've all moved on and a lot has been said about the comings and goings.
"As a region, a group of players and personally we wish them the best, but we've got to move forward with the players that we've got and that's what we intend to do.
"The likes of Lloyd Peers, Tyler Ardron... these are guys putting their hands up in the squad.
"People like myself, Duncan [Jones] and other guys, Biggs [Dan Biggar], are going to try and grab a few by the scruff of the neck and bring them along with us." | Ospreys captain Alun Wyn Jones has welcomed the news that the Welsh Rugby Union and its four regions are set to sign a new participation agreement. | 28940079 | [
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The Niagara County Legislature voted in favour of asking New York's attorney general to investigate on Thursday.
The local water authority said the colour was caused by residue from black carbon filters used to clean the water.
The water authority says July's treatment process was necessary and the discharge within "permitted limits".
An inky and foul-smelling cloud of water appeared at the base of Niagara Falls on 29 July 2017.
Some initially suspected an oil spill, but the Niagara Falls Water Board (NFWB) said it was caused by a "routine" water treatment and apologised for causing alarm to residents and tourists.
In a statement the board said the "inky water" was the result of a "necessary and short term change in the waste water treatment process" at its plant near the city of Buffalo.
Officials say the plant had the correct paperwork to release the discharge - which came from one of its five sediment filtration basins and was being flushed out over the weekend in preparation for contractors to begin upgrade work. | The discharge of black smelly wastewater at the base of Niagara Falls has prompted calls for a criminal inquiry. | 40903972 | [
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Those selling the illicit weapons often disassembled and sent them in different packages or embedded them in old stereos or printers, the report found.
Researchers found that firearms and related goods generated 136 sales per month and a monthly revenue of $80,000 (£62,000).
The firearms trade has gained attention following recent terrorist attacks.
The dark net is a part of the internet that requires specific software to access, in order for users to remain anonymous.
While the trade was unlikely to fuel large-scale terrorist operations, it had the potential to become the platform of choice for "lone-wolf" terrorists to obtain weapons and ammunition, the report said.
Non-profit organisation Rand Corporation Europe, working with Manchester University, found 52 unique vendors selling weapons or similar items such as ammunition, explosives, or components such as silencers across 811 listings and 18 markets.
Police believe the 2016 Munich shooting, which left nine people dead, used weapons purchased on the dark net.
Lead author of the research, Giacomo Persi Paoli, said: "Recent high-profile cases have shown that the threat posed by individuals or small groups obtaining weapons illegally from the dark web is real.
"The ability to not only arm criminals and terrorists, who can make virtually anonymous purchases, but also vulnerable and fixated individuals is perhaps the most dangerous aspect."
Guns account for less than 1% of items sold on the platform, with its main trade being in narcotics.
Nevertheless, the volume being sold "can be considered sufficiently high to be a cause of concern for policy makers and law enforcement agencies", said the report.
The study involved collecting data from 12 dark net marketplaces during a week in September 2016.
Most of those selling guns were based in the US, but Europe was the most popular destination for the weapons they sold.
Judith Aldridge, co-investigator on the study, said: "In very simple terms, anyone can connect to the dark web and within minutes have access to a variety of vendors offering their products, which are most often illegal.
"The dark web enables illegal trade at a global level, removing some of the geographical barriers between vendors and buyers, while increasing the personal safety of both buyers and sellers through a series of anonymising features that obscure their identities." | Criminals and terrorists are using the so-called dark net to buy weapons, a new study has suggested. | 40668749 | [
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Why not enjoy a selection of them here, as we also look forward to many more exciting news stories from the country's young journalists.
More than 100 UK schools took part on the first News Day, making and broadcasting their own news.
The stories covered included interviews with the main political party leaders, including prime minister Tony Blair, by five groups of 12 to 13-year-old schoolchildren.
For all the year's News Day stories click here.
Among the many schools taking part was Fort Hill Community School in Basingstoke, where pupils were unhappy with the way teenagers were portrayed in the media.
Four School Reporters met local Conservative MP Maria Miller to air their concerns and to find out what she thought could be done to help young people.
For all the year's News Day stories click here.
The issue of mobile phones concerned Westhoughton High School in Bolton on News Day, and whether banning them in school was necessarily a bad idea.
School Reporters set about investigating whether their mobiles could actually be used to enhance their education.
For all the year's News Day stories click here.
The year also saw our first special report, to mark the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen.
It included a report by School Reporters from Maidenhill School in Stonehouse, Gloucestershire, whose own climate change correspondent, Annie, aged 15, interviewed Archbishop Desmond Tutu at the conference.
For all our Climate Change 2009 stories click here.
By 2010 more than 700 schools and 25,000 schoolchildren were taking part on News Day.
The year saw a record-breaking temperature measurement - involving School Reporters from as far afield as the Shetland Islands and a school on St Helena in the South Atlantic!
At around 09:15, schools across the country each took a Celsius reading and e-mailed it in to the BBC Weather Centre, where they were compiled for a huge interactive weather report. One lucky school enrolled weatherman Michael Fish to help take a reading in the Blue Peter garden at Television Centre in west London.
For all the year's News Day stories click here.
Hundreds of students across the UK - and beyond - took part in the first School Report Sports Day as part of a BBC news-making initiative.
Among the day's top events, 2008 triple Olympic cycling gold medallist Sir Chris Hoy visited Hartford High School in Cheshire, where he spoke by video link to students in the Malaysian city of Ipoh.
For all our Sports Day 2010 stories click here.
More than 24,000 children aged 11 to 16 contributed to a BBC School Report survey which gave a unique insight into the daily lives, fears and aspirations of a generation of young people in the UK.
A third of the children surveyed said their families had cut back on spending amid the economic downturn. Crime topped their list of personal fears, while terrorism and climate change were their biggest global concerns.
For all the Survey 2011 stories click here.
Pupils from Bonus Pastor Catholic College in Lewisham got the experience of a lifetime when they interviewed street dance sensation Flawless for the fifth anniversary of School Report's News Day.
The group became famous when they appeared on Britain's Got Talent in 2009 and were the stars of the 2010 film StreetDance 3D.
For all the year's News Day stories click here.
Among the highlights of News Day, was an interview by School Reporters from West Bridgford School with Bank of England Governor Sir Mervyn King.
And pupils at St Mary's High School stood in for the head and deputy head for the day, while the teachers took their places in the classroom.
Meanwhile, School Reporters at Oxford Spires Academy were thrilled when The Duchess of Cambridge visited the school.
For all the year's News Day stories click here.
The London Olympics and Paralympics offered a unique opportunity for School Reporters to experience sport at the very highest level.,
It also provided School Reporter Tasnim, from Morpeth School, the chance to perform at the Paralympics closing ceremony alongside Coldplay and Rihanna, where she had to run inside a mechanical fish!
For all our School Report at London 2012 stories click here.
Some 33,000 School Reporters took part in the project's seventh annual News Day, covering topics from punks to policemen and Branson to budgets.
And, in a special film for School Report, three students from Southend High School for Girls travelled back to the decade of legwarmers, neon and Rubik's cubes to ask whether it was better to be a teenager in the 1980s or now.
For all the year's News Day stories click here.
Education Secretary Michael Gove revealed his rapping talent when a group of School Reporters interviewed him at the Department for Education.
And students across the UK had the chance to present the weather forecast in their home nation or region.
For all the 2014 News Day stories, click here.
School Report held its first Radio Festival as the highlight of Year 9 of the project. BBC Radio 1 Breakfast Show presenter Nick Grimshaw was among the high-profile guests while other students visiting the BBC had the opportunity to meet fellow DJ Tevor Nelson.
Away from the Festival, a group of students were challenged to see if they could do without social media for a week - with fascinating results.
And six political parties created party election broadcasts especially for young people.
To look back at the 2015 News Day stories, click here.
Around 30,000 students from more than 1,000 schools up and down the UK and beyond took part in the project's 10th anniversary News Day.
Pupils from Northumberland Church of England Academy in Ashington monitored their own sleep as the school became the first of 100 asked to take part in an Oxford University research project - Teen Sleep - aimed at determining how much sleep teenagers need.
A group of School Reporters from Connaught School for Girls in Leytonstone, east London, decided to investigate whether mindfulness meditation can help pupils concentrate amid the distractions of 21st Century living.
And students from La Retraite Roman Catholic School reported on how, because of budget cuts meaning funding for young carers has reduced, the burden of caring is falling more on young females than males.
For all the year's News Day stories click here. | BBC News School Report has enjoyed many highlights since it started in 2007 - from world record attempts to interviews with global figures. | 26198076 | [
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Police raided 43-year-old John Nicholson's Dundee home in February following a tip-off.
Officers found drugs including more than 2.5 kg of heroin with a street value of £263,000 during the operation.
Nicholson will be sentenced on 11 May after admitting being concerned in the supply of drugs at his home in the city's Raglan Street.
Defence counsel Ronnie Renucci said Nicholson pled guilty on the basis that he had allowed his house to be used for the storage of the drugs.
Mr Renucci said: "He was not the owner of the drugs. He was doing so to pay off a debt."
The High Court in Edinburgh was told police officers also recovered £100,000 worth of amphetamine and cannabis with a potential street value of between £60,000 and £90,000.
The court heard that Nicholson had previous convictions for road traffic offences and dishonesty but had never been jailed.
Lord Kinclaven deferred sentence on Nicholson for reports and remanded him in custody. | A man stored £450,000 worth of heroin, cannabis and amphetamines at his house to pay off a debt, a court was told. | 39577034 | [
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It happened at the Aberdeen Sea Cadets base at Pocra Quay last November.
Police described it as "disgraceful".
The Crown Office said a report had been received about a 35-year-old man but after consideration of the case it had been decided there should be no proceedings taken at this time. | A man charged after the theft of money from purses at a Remembrance Sunday event at Aberdeen harbour will not face court proceedings, BBC Scotland has learned. | 39862532 | [
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The Wikileaks co-founder sought asylum at London's Ecuadorean embassy in 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden.
UK officials said the bill for policing the embassy, which stands at £12m ($18.8m; €16.8m), was "unacceptable".
Earlier, Swedish prosecutors dropped two sex assault claims against Mr Assange, who had denied the claims.
Mr Assange still faces the more serious accusation of rape, which he also denies.
The British Ambassador in Quito, Ecuador's capital, is to make the formal protest to the Ecuadorean government on Thursday.
"Ecuador must recognise that its decision to harbour Mr Assange more than three years ago has prevented the proper course of justice... It is completely unacceptable that the British taxpayer has had to foot the bill for this abuse of diplomatic relations," said Foreign Office minister Hugo Swire.
Mr Swire said the UK "continues to have a legal obligation" to extradite Mr Assange over the rape allegation.
"I have instructed our ambassador in Quito to reiterate to Ecuador that the continuing failure... to bring this situation to an end, is being seen as a growing stain on the country's reputation," he added.
Full timeline
Julian Assange profile
Mr Assange sought asylum three years ago to avoid extradition to Sweden, fearing he would then be sent to the US and put on trial for releasing secret American documents.
The UK has paid for policing around the embassy in Knightsbridge, central London, for the past three years.
The formal protest comes after Swedish prosecutors dropped their investigation into an allegation of sexual molestation and an accusation of unlawful coercion against Mr Assange because they ran out of time to question him.
An additional alleged incident of sexual molestation will be "time barred" - that is, time will run out to question Mr Assange - on 18 August.
The Swedish statement also said an allegation of rape was due to expire on 17 August 2020, but that investigation would continue.
The alleged events took place in August 2010.
Mr Assange said he was "extremely disappointed", adding the Swedish prosecutor had avoided hearing his side of the story.
Under Swedish law, charges cannot be laid without interviewing the suspect.
"There was no need for any of this. I am an innocent man. I haven't even been charged," said Mr Assange.
"From the beginning I offered simple solutions. Come to the embassy to take my statement or promise not to send me to the United States. This Swedish official refused both. She even refused a written statement."
However, Sweden's director of public prosecution said a request to interview Mr Assange inside the embassy had been submitted but permission was yet to be granted.
Marianne Nye said she still hoped to arrange an interview as there were "ongoing negotiations" between Sweden and Ecuador.
One of Mr Assange's lawyers, Helena Kennedy, said: "Julian Assange has spent more time incarcerated in the small rooms of the embassy, with no access to fresh air or exercise and contrary to international law, than he could ever spend in a Swedish prison on these allegations."
Mr Assange's mother Christine said: "I have privately shed many tears for many years - the terrible injustice of it all."
Wikileaks has published thousands of secret documents, which have caused intense embarrassment for the US and lifted the lid on diplomatic relations. | The UK is to make a formal protest to the government of Ecuador over the country's decision to "harbour" Julian Assange, the Foreign Office has said. | 33907874 | [
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The Premiership club are laying a new organic surface at Sixways, joining Saracens and Newcastle in playing their home games on an all-weather pitch.
"It does change the dynamics of the game slightly," Hogg, 47, told BBC Hereford and Worcester.
"It's part and parcel of the game now - we need to get up to speed with it."
Warriors' three pre-season matches are all away - against French side Clermont Auvergne, Jersey and Munster - while their new home is being prepared.
They start the 2016-17 season against European and Premiership champions Sarries at Twickenham before local rivals Gloucester come to Sixways on 9 September.
And with five of their seven wins last term coming at home, Hogg knows this campaign on their own patch will be even more important.
"It's essential that we find our feet," Hogg said.
"Our new surface should give us an added advantage playing on it every other week.
"You can lock-out the scrums because your feet get more purchase and the mauls and other contact areas tend to be much more cleaner and sharper on a 4G surface and that's something you have to build your decision making around."
Warriors will renew their rivalry with newly-promoted Bristol after Andy Robinson's side finally got out of the second tier last season after four previous play-off failures.
Bristol did the double over Warriors in the Championship two seasons ago but Worcester got revenge winning a pulsating play-off final in May 2015 by a single point on aggregate.
And Hogg is expecting Robinson's side to be a threat.
"Andy's done a fantastic job down there - it's been two or three years in the making," Hogg said.
"They've got some real consistency and they'll be a challenge in the Premiership, especially at Ashton Gate." | Worcester Warriors head coach Carl Hogg has admitted it is "essential" they become a force on their new artificial pitch next season. | 36836201 | [
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It reveals that those aged 60 and over are the fastest growing population in English and Welsh prisons, with an increase of 146% between 2002 and 2014.
Those aged 50-59 are the second fastest-growing group, says the report.
The government said it was "committed to providing suitable facilities".
The report comes as Prisons Minister Andrew Selous is due to give evidence on older prisoners to the Commons justice select committee.
Longer sentences mean more people are growing frail in prison, but high rates of social and support needs are unmet, says the trust.
Two in five prisoners over 50 now have a disability of some kind, the report added.
Trust director Juliet Lyon said: "In the last few years, prison has been reduced to a punitive holding operation for people growing older and sicker behind bars.
"Prisons are less safe and less decent than they were even a year ago when we published our last report.
"An incoming administration of government in May 2015 must not accept this deterioration in prison standards and conditions as the new normal."
Although the prison population stands at around 84,500 in England and Wales - 20% higher than it was 12 years ago - the National Offender Management Service has had to make more than £700m in savings over the last three years and is expected cut a further £149m in 2014-15.
The proportion of prisons whose performance is "of concern" or "of serious concern" according to the National Offender Management Service has risen from 13% in 2012-13, to 23% in 2013-14.
Prisons minister Andrew Selous, said: "We're committed to providing suitable facilities and ensuring individual healthcare needs are met, as well as working alongside charities such as Age UK and Recoop to ensure older offenders are rehabilitated.
"From April next year, local authorities will be responsible for care and support for prisoners meaning that, for the first time, we will have a social care service working alongside the healthcare already provided in prisons by the NHS." | Prisons are struggling to cope with the increasing number of elderly, sick and disabled people behind bars, a Prison Reform Trust report says. | 29788543 | [
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Thousands more had official guest status and got a slightly closer view from inside the spaceport itself. A magnificent morning ascent for the youngest of the Nasa spaceplanes as it began its final mission - the delivery of the $2bn Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) instrument to the International Space Station.
There will, however, be a group of British engineers for whom Monday's lift-off was a bitter-sweet moment. These are the people whose technology got dropped from AMS in the year before launch.
For those not familiar with this story, let me back up and reprise events. They have some potentially fascinating implications for deep space travel.
AMS is one of the most expensive science experiments ever put in space - probably the most expensive.
It has taken a group of 600 or so researchers from 16 nations a total of 17 years to prepare it for flight. It promises some dramatic new insights into the origin and make-up of the cosmos.
AMS will do this by studying the storm of high-energy particles (cosmic rays) that are hurled at Earth from the deepest reaches of the Universe.
Critical to its operation is a very strong magnet. As the particles enter AMS, they will bend through this magnet. How they bend reveals their charge, a fundamental property that says a great deal about the nature of those particles and where they came from.
The UK at a programmatic level never got involved in AMS, presumably because it was a space station project (and the UK doesn't engage with human spaceflight), but one British company was contracted to build the all-important magnet.
Scientific Magnetics (formerly Space Cryomagnetics) of Culham, in Oxfordshire, spent 12 years developing this super-cooled beast, and it was - so the project leaders on AMS told me - a marvel.
It was incredibly powerful and directed its entire field inwards, like an enclosed bubble. From the outside, the magnet appeared as an inert beer can.
This was really important because if you put such a device on a shuttle or a space station and it hasn't been carefully designed, it will start to interact with its surrounding - even try to orientate itself with the Earth's magnetic field. Not what you want on a space vehicle.
But to cut a long story short, the British magnet's super-fluid-helium cooling mechanism meant that it was only ever going to be a short-lived device. And when the space station's life was extended last year to 2020, the AMS project leaders took the decision to remove the UK magnet and replace it with a less powerful, but much longer-lived, Chinese one.
Now, as I say, this is a story with some interesting outcomes.
The British magnet is currently sitting in store at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (Cern) where AMS was assembled and tested, and there's a lot of interest in seeing its technology put to other uses.
The first of these is astronaut protection. The cosmic rays that AMS is trying to characterise are particles that also represent a hazard to humans in space.
When astronauts eventually go beyond the space station - back to the Moon, and on to asteroids and Mars - they will need to shield themselves from these high-energy particles. The idea of using a powerful magnetic field to do this job is being investigated Dr Roberto Battiston, the deputy principal investigator on AMS. He told me:
"We continue to work to understand how this technology could be used for future shielding of astronauts undergoing long exposure, for instance at a Moonbase or on a trip to Mars… because this is by far the most advanced super-conducting magnet-design ever built and completed for a space mission. It is not going to fly but it had everything that would allow it to fly.
"The European Space Agency asked me to submit a proposal for a feasibility study and [Scientific Magnetics] is part of it.
"We would design the magnet in a different way to the AMS one. AMS was designed to have a very strong magnetic field within an inner bore. By modifying the coils and the currents, we can design a magnetic field confined in an external ring surrounding an inner bore that is magnetic-field free. In this internal module will be the habitable part for the astronauts - where they will live. We are talking about something having a diameter of about five to six metres and the length of 10m - surrounded by this magnetic field that is intense enough to bend away cosmic rays coming from deep space."
There are immense practicalities to overcome, of course. These special magnets get their strength because they are superconducting. This means running them at cryo-temperatures, which demands a lot of liquid helium.
This has a tendency to boil off over time, limiting the life of your device, which brings us back to AMS. All that said, Professor Battiston is encouraged by the research. He says it should be possible to limit radiation exposure on a Mars flight to something similar to that currently experienced by astronauts on a six-month stay at the space station.
The other big space application for which British magnet technology might be useful is in the plasma rockets that could one day propel all spacecraft.
These rely on the motion of highly excited gases, or plasmas, moulded by magnetic fields to provide thrust. Although they don't give the initial big kick you get from chemical combustion, their supreme efficiency means they can go on thrusting for extended periods, achieving far more acceleration per kilogram of fuel consumed. Proponents of plasma rockets say they could dramatically cut the journey time to Mars from months to weeks.
Scientific Magnetics has already produced a superconducting magnet for a testbed at Ad Astra in Texas, the company at the forefront of this propulsion technology.
Steve Harrison from Scientific Magnetics told me:
"These rockets use radio frequency heating to generate the plasma and then the magnets contain the plasma in the same way they do in a tokomak fusion reactor. The magnets are profiled such that they form a sort of nozzle out the back; and because the plasma is expanding and supersonic, it flies out and gives you thrust. For the system Ad Astra has been testing for the last two years, we designed and built the super-conducting magnet."
Similar obstacles to the magnetic shield prevent immediate adoption of the propulsion application as well, especially if the propulsion magnets incorporate cryogenic liquids, but both concepts are definitely worth watching for the future. | It's thought as many as half a million people crammed the roads and beaches outside the Kennedy Space Center to see Endeavour's final launch. | 13411163 | [
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The centrepiece is a plan to take any refugees and migrants who cross the sea to Greece in smugglers' boats and return them, directly, to Turkey.
European Union officials say whatever is finally agreed "will comply with both European and international law". Privately, though, some admit that, while the assessment of their lawyers is "quite promising", there are legal hurdles that must be overcome.
So can Europe carry out mass returns of entire groups of people? UN officials have cited the European Convention on Human Rights, arguing that it explicitly prohibits the collective expulsion of foreigners. And they say that under international law, it is not illegal for someone fleeing persecution and conflict to cross a border and ask for asylum.
Around 90% of those arriving in the Greek islands say they are fleeing conflict, primarily from Syria, Iraq or Afghanistan. Under international law, each person's case must be heard on an individual basis, not as a group, because they may have very good reasons for seeking protection.
The second difficulty, UN officials have said, is that while returns can be legal, people can only be sent back to a country that is safe, is able to care for them, give them full access to work, to education, to healthcare, and, most important of all, will take responsibility for processing the individual's asylum claim.
The reason many Syrians are leaving Turkey is that it can't provide work, education and healthcare for them all. A system to apply for asylum in Europe from Turkey doesn't exist yet.
Until now, the EU has not returned people to Turkey. It hasn't viewed Turkey as what's called a "safe third country". Turkey is not a full member of the Geneva Convention. It does not offer Syrians asylum, only a lesser form of international protection. And other groups like Iraqis and Afghans don't even have that option in Turkey. So while returning Syrians is questionable, returning non-Syrians may be even more problematic.
Even if all the legal issues are settled there remains the practical problem of how Greece would send back all those making the crossings. Desperate people, men, women and children would have to be rounded up, held and then transported back across the sea.
In exchange for the mass returns, the EU is offering to take in large numbers of asylum seekers directly from Turkey. So for every Syrian sent back to Turkey, one already in Turkey will be resettled in Europe. But finding EU countries willing to accept the new arrivals may not be easy.
Last year, EU countries pledged to shift thousands of refugees directly from Greece, Italy, and Turkey and give them new homes in the EU. Just a few hundred have actually been moved. Could countries achieve now what they have failed to make happen so far?
Hungary has made clear that it is not prepared to accept quotas under this new plan. Other countries in central and eastern Europe are also opposed. So to make this work, a "coalition of the willing" - countries prepared to welcome Syrians - will have to be assembled. Germany and the Netherlands may have to be the leaders here, but they will need support from other states too.
Among Turkey's demands to secure a deal is visa-free access to the EU for Turks, ideally by the end of June, but there is significant political resistance. It would allow more than 70 million Turks to travel (but not work) visa-free in Europe's Schengen zone.
That hasn't happened before now because some EU countries have worried about the political backlash at home from anti-immigrant parties. France in particular has been opposed. The indications from behind closed doors at the summit were that President Francois Hollande may be willing to accept a deal on visas.
But then there is the problem that Turkey does not officially recognise the Greek-Cypriot government in Nicosia (Cyprus is an EU member). That's one issue to overcome, and there is also significant opposition to visa concessions for Turkey in the European Parliament, which would have to approve the change as well.
Even if all of these issues are resolved, sources say that EU countries will probably still insist Turkey meet all the technical conditions necessary for visa-free access. The hurdles, such as Turkey introducing more sophisticated biometric passports, are significant.
This is another of Turkey's demands. It may be largely symbolic, as most EU countries believe Turkey is years away from achieving EU membership, but making any headway on this will be even harder than on the subject of visas.
Opposition from Cyprus is one big issue here. Turkey must recognise the government in Cyprus before any new discussions open. Cyprus has stated clearly that it has a clear understanding from other EU countries that "Turkey cannot use its role in the refugee crisis... to ask for exchanges as regards its EU accession course".
Other countries like Italy and Belgium have doubts about making concessions at a time when there are serious concerns about Turkey's political direction, about declining media freedoms, and worries about a shift towards greater authoritarianism in Turkey's politics.
Privately, EU sources say agreement even to open any new accession discussions will be "very difficult" and is one of the most important things to clarify if a deal is to be done next week.
For all the difficulties, though, there are powerful, political reasons why all sides want a deal. The EU as a whole wants to regain control of events in this refugee crisis. There is a real concern that countries have started going it alone, consensus has broken down, and the EU has to find a plan that reverses that dynamic.
There is also a fear that if the refugee crisis remains unresolved, it could affect Britain's EU referendum. Angela Merkel needs a deal as she's come under huge political pressure at home. And the crisis has caused a real rift between the leaders of Germany and Austria that needs to be mended.
Other EU leaders want to show their electorates they can protect the EU's borders, fearing that otherwise anti-immigrant parties will seize the political initiative. Closing some border crossings to deal with the refugee crisis has had economic costs too.
And a deal suits Turkey as well. It is hosting millions of refugees and is under serious pressure because of the way the war in Syria has shifted with Russia's involvement. Despite their difficulties, the EU and Turkey both benefit if they can make a strategic relationship work, and they need support from each other to deal with the crises they are facing.
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. | European leaders are billing their new proposal to deal with the refugee and migrant influx as a "game-changer", but the scheme is not agreed yet and there are doubts about whether it it is practical or even legal. | 35761623 | [
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Speaking to BBC Newsnight in her first interview on the subject, Marion Janner said it amounted to accusations against "a corpse".
In December 2015, shortly before his death, Lord Janner was ruled unfit to stand trial because of dementia.
The Goddard inquiry is due to hold public hearings into the allegations.
Thirty-three complainants have been given core participant status in the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, meaning they have the right to make statements, see documents and seek permission to ask questions when Justice Goddard begins hearing the Janner allegations in March.
The offences relating to Lord Janner are alleged to have taken place in children's homes and hotels between 1955 and 1988.
His family has always denied the allegations.
"It's an outrage. It's an absolute outrage," Marion Janner told Newsnight.
"Now Dad is dead, there's not the possibility of the other side of the story being heard.
"It's the people making the accusations' word against a corpse, which doesn't work. It cannot be just.
"The other 12 strands are all institutions - big institutions... If they had decided to look at individuals, they could have chosen someone who was alive and convicted - instead they have chosen someone who is dead and not convicted."
The Goddard inquiry is currently looking at 13 separate claims of historical child sex abuse involving an alleged institutional cover-up, of which the strand involving Janner was expected to be the first.
Other areas under investigation include the Catholic and Anglican churches and abuse in children's homes in Nottinghamshire and Lambeth and a school in Rochdale.
The peer had been on a leave of absence from the House of Lords since October 2014. He died in December 2015.
Lawyers for the alleged victims say their clients have been waiting years for justice.
Marion Janner says the family has evidence Lord Janner could not have committed the crimes he is accused of, which will emerge during civil cases against him.
She says the family is particularly unhappy that witnesses in the Goddard inquiry will not be cross examined.
"The pendulum has swung so far that people making accusations are automatically believed over this most serious of crimes... We're in the current situation that people can make any accusations and be automatically believed... It's just bonkers."
Mrs Janner said her father's relationship with one of the complainants was "not strange for somebody of Dad's generation".
"Dad was fired up with the sense of social justice... He was just really committed to helping people whose lives were so much harder.
"And because we have such a loving family, I think Dad really felt for people who didn't have a family at all, and were stuck in a children's home."
At the end of his life, Mrs Janner says her father was "completely unaware" of the allegations against him "because he didn't have the cognitive understanding to grasp what was going on".
"We had a news blackout in the house - as much for my sanity as his."
But he would have been "completely bewildered" by pictures of himself popping up on the television, she said.
"He had absolutely no idea - which was one of the blessings of his dementia."
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The 23 year-old stroked the GB boat to a fast start and they were ahead after 500m but European champions, Romania and New Zealand proved too strong.
The Romanians came out on top, with the British eight comfortably holding off the challenge from the Netherlands
The GB eight now prepare for the World Championships in Sarasota in September.
There was no medal success for Enniskillen's Holly Nixon in the women's quadruple sculls.
Nixon and her GB team mates Bethany Bryan, Alice Baatz and Mathilda Hodgkins-Byrne, were always off the pace and finished fifth in a race won by Poland. | Belfast's Rebecca Shorten won a bronze medal as part of the Great Britain women's eight at the final World Cup regatta of the season in Lucerne. | 40550057 | [
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Her stepson, filmmaker Carlo Alberto Pinelli, told the Hollywood Reporter that she had died on 1 May in Spain.
In Casablanca, Lebeau plays Humphrey Bogart's spurned lover.
In a famous scene, she tearfully shouts "Vive La France", after the clientele in Rick's Café sing La Marseillaise to drown out singing by German soldiers.
Born in 1923 near Paris, she fled Nazi-occupied France with her then husband, prominent actor Marcel Dalio, in 1940.
The couple ended up in Hollywood, and both played in Casablanca.
In the film, Bogart plays an American cafe owner in Morocco, a territory controlled by France's Nazi collaborationist regime. He must choose between his love for a woman and helping her husband escape Casablanca to continue fighting the Nazis.
Lebeau played in two more US films before returning to France after the war.
Her subsequent work includes the role of a temperamental French actress in Fellini's 8 1/2 (1963). | French actress Madeleine Lebeau, the last surviving cast member of the classic 1942 film Casablanca, has died at the age of 92, her family says. | 36295621 | [
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Nigel Williams, of Caerwent, was walking on the A48 near the Northgate House bed and breakfast in Caerwent when he was hit on Saturday at about 03:30 GMT.
He was taken to Newport's Royal Gwent Hospital, but died shortly after arrival.
The father-of-three's family said he would be "sadly missed".
"He always had time for everyone he met and was always ready to help with anything and everyone," they said.
Anyone who witnessed the crash has been asked to call Gwent Police on 101. | A 55-year-old man who died after being hit by a car in Monmouthshire has been named by Gwent Police. | 37909065 | [
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The ex-Pontypridd MP blamed Labour's lack of "radical thinking" for its election defeat.
Mr Howells said the party must have a "radical analysis" of society if it is to increase its numbers in parliament.
But he said Labour had "held the line in Wales as well as anybody did in Britain" and praised the first minister for doing "something right".
He told BBC Radio Wales' Sunday Supplement programme: "It's probably at least as bad as under Michael Foot's leadership when we were in real dire straits.
"If the Labour party doesn't come up with fresh thinking, with some radical analysis of what's going on in society and what people need out of society, it could well dwindle to a very small number of MPs."
Labour won 232 seats in the general election, down from 258 in 2010.
In Wales, the party won 25 out of 40 seats, but had expected to improve on the 26 seats it won in 2010.
Of those seats, it lost Gower to the Conservatives by 27 votes, a constituency Labour had held for more than 100 years.
Mr Howells acknowledged Labour's biggest successes were in the city and coal field regeneration areas.
"If we ever want to be back in government again, we need to win southern England," he said.
He also attacked Ed Miliband for promoting "unmitigated gloom" which he described as "dull, it's boring, it does not inspire anyone".
And he said there was little enthusiasm for the party's new prospective leaders as they were "branded with the Miliband brand".
Labour's next leader, he said, would need to be "much more radical" and "jump a generation of leaders and ideas".
But Mr Howells was more optimistic about the future of Labour in Wales.
He said: "I think Carwyn Jones is a much sharper leader.
"They've proved that they can run a government in Wales and people trust them, that's why they voted for them."
Responding to his comments, Labour peer Baroness Eluned Morgan admitted the party needed a "thorough rethink", but denied claims it was experiencing its worse crisis in living memory.
She said the party needed to readdress the way it approached politics and the way it makes contact with society if it was to move forward successfully. | Former Labour minister Kim Howells has said the party is in the "deepest crisis" he can remember. | 32863727 | [
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Ma Long, Jike Zhang and Xu Xin defeated the Japanese trio of Koki Niwa, Jun Mizutani and Maharu Yoshimura 3-1.
China won all four table tennis golds available in Rio to take their total to 28 from the 32 available since table tennis' first Olympic appearance in Seoul in 1988.
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The good stuff is silicon-28, and physicists in the US have worked out how to produce it with 40 times greater purity than ever before.
Even better, they can do it in the lab instead of relying on samples made ten years ago in a huge, repurposed plutonium plant in St Petersburg.
This promises to solve a serious supply problem in quantum computing research.
Several of the most promising schemes for building a quantum computer are based in silicon. One that has received much attention stores "qubits" in atoms of another element, like phosphorous, embedded in a tiny layer of ultra-pure silicon-28.
Qubits are the quantum replacement for bits - the ones and zeros that represent information inside a conventional computer. They promise to usher in a new era of computing because they can simultaneously encode a one and a zero, enabling incredibly fast and complex calculations.
The difficulty for silicon-based designs is that normal silicon contains quite a lot of atoms that aren't silicon-28. Almost 8% of a commercial silicon wafer is made up of other isotopes like silicon-29, which would cause interference in a quantum chip.
"It leads to decoherence, which is sort of like ADD in computers," explained Dr Joshua Pomeroy, one of the physicists behind the new work, from the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Maryland.
Researchers in this field, like Dr Pomeroy, have been relying on off-cuts of enriched silicon-28 that all started out in Russia.
The St Petersburg facility is a repurposed plutonium enrichment plant, housing industrial-scale gas centrifuges which were commissioned in 2004, by German scientists, to produce a sample of silicon-28 with 99.99% purity.
That sample was used to crystallise 5kg of the stuff, at a cost of around one million euros, for an international effort to calculate Avogadro's number from 1kg, perfect spheres of silicon-28.
Waste material from this project has been almost the only global source of this high-quality silicon ever since.
Dr Pomeroy explained that the quantum community "can't command the resources" to commission that type of production. "It's fortuitous that the Avogadro project existed," he told the BBC.
"So there's sort of a nervousness - when they wrap up finally, and they're not buying any more of it, what are we going to do?"
But Dr Pomeroy and his colleagues have now shown that small amounts of silicon-28, enriched to an unprecedented 99.9998%, can be produced using equipment already found in many labs.
They managed the feat with kit that is normally used for mass spectrometry - a technique for identifying a substance based on the weight of the different atoms it contains. By pumping ions of silicon through a big magnetic field, the different isotopes (atoms of silicon with different weights) can be separated from each other, because heavier atoms are diverted less by the magnet than lighter ones.
Dr Pomeroy said this was an unexpectedly simple solution. "We had what often happens in science, which is that we had an apparatus whose purpose had come to an end. And we had a problem that needed solving, and we married them up."
The thin films of silicon-28 that his team can produce are very, very pure - but also very small.
"It's much more difficult to produce large quantities," Dr Pomeroy concedes, "but particularly in the research phase, those quantities are largely unnecessary."
Despite some controversial commercial initiatives, quantum computers primarily remain a field of research. And according to Dr Pomeroy, the new approach is more than capable of delivering enough of the purer-than-pure silicon for scientists to test out their designs.
Importantly, researchers around the world could potentially make it in their own labs.
"We're recognising that we don't need to produce an entire wafer's worth of silicon-28 that's enriched," he said. "We only really need to make enough to insulate the computer from the rest of the wafer."
The team's research was published in the Journal of Physics D.
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The players, who each represent one of the four Welsh regions, have 160 Wales caps between them.
Dual contracts are funded 60% by the Welsh Rugby Union and 40% by the regions.
"Having our best players in Wales is vital to the future health of our game," the WRU's Martyn Phillips said.
The WRU chief executive continued: "Seeing international players re-sign these contracts highlights the success of the programme as we continue to work hard to drive the game forward.
"We have made no secret of that and the importance both on and off the field at regional and national level in Welsh players playing their rugby in Wales."
The quartet have made more than 370 regional appearances between them.
Cardiff Blues' Wales captain Warburton, 28, was the first Welsh player to be given a dual contract in September 2014.
Flanker Lydiate returned to Welsh rugby on a national dual contract in December 2014 when he joined Ospreys following a spell in France with Racing Metro.
Scarlets prop Lee, who has won 26 caps for Wales, signed his first dual contract in January 2015.
Newport Gwent Dragons' Amos, 22, signed his national dual contract in December 2014 and has won 10 caps for Wales.
Amos' deal is a boost to the Dragons as he had been linked with a move away from Rodney Parade.
Newport Gwent Dragons head coach Kingsley Jones said: "It's great news for both our region and Wales that Hallam has committed to the Dragons for another two years."
Cardiff Blues head coach Danny Wilson on Sam Warburton: "With his leadership ability and having achieved so much in the game he's a great asset for Cardiff Blues.
"It's great that he sees his future here and he will be a key figure for us moving forward."
Ospreys head coach, Steve Tandy on Dan Lydiate: "With Dan's outlook on the game and his desire to keep learning, even as a senior Wales international and a Lion, he is an example to everybody.
"I believe he's really grown as an individual and a player since he came to us less than two years ago, and there is still more growth in him, on and off the field."
Scarlets head coach, Wayne Pivac on Samson Lee: "We're delighted to see another homegrown player committing his future to the club.
"It's great news that Samson has extended his contract and will continue to ply his trade here at the Scarlets."
Newport Gwent Dragons head coach Kingsley Jones on Hallam Amos: "He is pivotal to our plans going forward.
"Not only is he a top class international player he is a quality person and at the age of just 21 is respected by the whole squad and staff." | Wales internationals Sam Warburton, Dan Lydiate, Samson Lee and Hallam Amos have signed extensions to their national dual contracts. | 37801034 | [
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Eleven months on from their first Scottish Cup triumph in 114 years, the feel-good factor around the Edinburgh outfit continued with confirmation their three-year spell in the second-tier Championship is over.
"Hopefully we will not be back here for quite a while," Lennon added.
"We've handled the big games pretty well. We've been a little bit inconsistent at times, but I think next season, we have players who can play at the Premiership level. I think they'll enjoy it and flourish there. The hard bit for me was getting out of this division, because it's so competitive."
So, having justified their position as favourites by sealing the title with three games to spare, how well equipped are Hibs for their return to the big-time?
BBC Sport Scotland spoke to chief executive Leeann Dempster (LD) and former players Michael Stewart (MS) and Craig Paterson (CP) to assess their prospects.
LD: "There are a lot of great things happening at the club. We have a fantastic academy with some of the best young players in Scotland coming through. We have got a great squad of players and a great management team, and we want to keep as much continuity as we can. We didn't get promoted in the last two years but we had a brilliantly solid base."
MS: "I don't think there needs to be a major overhaul. If you look at the quality in the side it's a vast improvement on the teams Hibs had prior to their relegation. That is borne out by the fact they have done so well against top-flight opposition in the cup competitions during their time in the Championship. There definitely needs to be more goals in the side as apart from Jason Cummings it's a bit lean and he needs more support.
"They have been linked with Liam Boyce and someone of that ilk would be a fantastic signing for Hibs. Louis Moult at Motherwell is another guy who has shown he can score in the top flight regularly. I'm sure they won't be far off the wish-list for Neil Lennon."
CP: "I don't see a major overhaul. I don't imagine Hibs have the kind of money to do that, but certainly you want to try and cherry-pick one or two players you think can come and make an impact in the team. They also need to fend off any interest from other sides in the good players they have there. I think Hibs have shown against the likes of Hearts [in the Scottish Cup] and Aberdeen [League Cup] that they can compete at that level and I'm sure they'll be thoroughly looking forward to doing it on a weekly basis."
"I'm very proud to be the manger of this club, I've really enjoyed the season, and I've had great support from people like (director of football) George Craig, (chief executive) Leeann Dempster and (chairman) Rod Petrie," said Lennon. "The board have made my job a lot easier, and the support I've had throughout the city and the club has been fantastic."
LD: "Neil is a wonderful manager and he has done a great job. He is fantastic with the players, he has a good team behind him and he is genuinely enjoying his time here and we love having him here. It is a great partnership and long may it continue."
MS: "They've got a squad and a management structure there that is vastly improved on what they had when they were in the Premiership, so it would be a perverse situation if they went back to something of a lesser standing when they are in the top flight."
CP: "I think the biggest thing the board did was push the boat out and get Neil Lennon. He was a winner as a player, a winner as a manager, he brings a winning mentality and watching Hibs this season, I think that's filtered down to the players.
"Watching Hibs a couple of seasons ago, going late into games, you always thought they might just blow it. This season, they look comfortable, you're thinking Hibs are going to nick a goal and win the game, and that's something they've got to keep going. The manager brings that - it's important you keep him at the club. He's given them the Championship title, now you have to give him the tools to go on and take the job on in the top division."
MS: "If you look at the squad they've got at the moment, it's good enough to challenge for the top six and I would expect them to add to the squad they have got. So I don't see any reason why they won't target the top six and I'm pretty sure Neil Lennon wouldn't settle for anything less."
CP: "Hearts and Rangers went up and were immediately competitive. Hibs have got to believe they're in the same category. They're the same kind of side, they're a team who should have aspirations of competing in that top half.
"The club have spent a lot of money over the last couple of years keeping a really strong squad together. At the third time of asking they've got out of that league, but they've spent a lot of money to do it.
"They're a good team this season, they've proved in cup ties they can match teams from the top division, but like every club, they need to add a little bit of quality. Keep the good players, add in one or two areas, and I think Hibs would definitely be competitive in the top half of the Premiership."
LD: "We have been a Premiership club in terms of behind the scenes even though we weren't promoted in the last couple of years. But we have the certainty of promotion now and the finances that come with it. We all know how big this club is and this really is the first stage of where we need to be."
Hibs' average league attendance this season has risen by more than 5,500; the average is 4,000 more than their last season (2013-14) in the Premiership. They have not had less than 13,000 for a Championship game this season.
LD: "Importantly, the supporters have already bought almost 8,000 season tickets even before we knew we were promoted, which is fantastic. I have to thank them for helping us - we genuinely couldn't have done it without them."
CP: "They've done it in the face of adversity; now the fans should be looking forward to games against Rangers, Celtic, and the derby [v Hearts] four times a season. The club have got to enthuse them. The way you do that is give them something to look forward to, and that means a team worth watching and following, and that takes a little bit of money, unfortunately."
CP: "I think it does. You add in another quality team who've got a support and a travelling support, that always adds something to the mix and teams will be happy to see that. But for Hibs, it's all about testing yourself, and they want to do that. They've been desperate for three seasons to get back into an arena where you can go up against the big guns and show you can do it."
MS: "Celtic are out there on their own at the moment but the make-up of the top six inevitably will be more competitive with Hibs in there. It's a benefit to the game in this country to have a club the size of Hibs back in the top flight. It makes it a lot more attractive for players and fans."
CP: "I think they'll enjoy it. People will love coming to Easter Road - a great stadium, good playing surface - but they know it's another team that's going to be very difficult to beat.
"If you're in that bottom half, you don't want quality coming up every year. They've had Hearts, Rangers, now they've got Hibs. It is difficult up there, because every time someone comes up, you know that it might just push you down into that area where you're fighting relegation yet again." | "We're back," declared Hibernian boss Neil Lennon as the strains of 'Sunshine of Leith' rang around Easter Road on Saturday in celebration of the club's return to Scotland's top flight. | 39614199 | [
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He said the target to cut net migration to the UK could not be achieved as long as Britain remained a member of the EU.
Launching UKIP's campaign poster on immigration, Mr Farage said an "honest debate" on the subject was needed to restore public trust in politics.
The Conservatives said UKIP's immigration policy was in "chaos".
Speaking in Dover, Mr Farage told the gathered media that the other parties were making false promises on immigration during the election campaign.
But he said the only solution to controlling immigration was to leave the EU - which UKIP campaigns for.
The prime minister pledged in 2011 to reduce the number of migrants coming to the UK to levels last seen in the 1990s, about "tens of thousands" each year.
But the target has not been met, with the latest figures showing net migration rose to 298,000 for the year ending in September 2014 - higher than when he came to office.
Nigel Farage swept in and out of a blustery press call in the shadow of the white cliffs of Dover.
The UKIP leader - helped along by a backdrop of party activists - unveiled a poster attacking the Conservatives' record on immigration, in response to which they said UKIP's policy was in "chaos".
An initially well-behaved press pack soon descended into a gentle scrum, with Mr Farage directed towards one camera then another for a series of interviews.
He announced new target immigration figures, was challenged over his views on migrants with long-term illnesses and set an ambitious timeframe to get immigration down.
Then, time for a coffee - not a pint - in a local pub before Mr Farage was whisked away again.
A picturesque media opportunity, but one that revealed little more about UKIP's immigration policy other than the obvious fact it is central to their campaign.
The symbolic location, with the shadow of France on the horizon, was deliberately chosen by Team UKIP to keep Britain's relationship with the continent at the forefront of people's minds. Although - perhaps ironically - it also caused some mobile phones to switch to French networks in order to function.
Downing Street said the rise has been driven in part by Britain's economic success relative to its neighbours in the eurozone. Labour said the government's pledge was "in tatters".
But, unveiling UKIP's campaign advert, Mr Farage said: "When Cameron made that promise he was being wilfully dishonest.
"Because he knew the truth and I think now the British public, five years on, know the truth: that you actually cannot have an immigration policy, you can't set targets of any kind at all, you can't attempt to control who comes into Britain all the while you're members of the European Union."
He issued a call for a "return to normality", saying net immigration - the difference between the number of people leaving the UK and the number coming in - should be brought down to about 30,000 people per year.
Charlie Elphicke, Conservative candidate in Dover, accused Mr Farage's party of performing U-turns on immigration policy.
"All we've seen from UKIP on immigration is chaos and confusion: one minute there's a cap, then there's not. Mark Reckless says certain migrants should be repatriated, then Farage says they're welcome to stay," he said.
I am not sure if it is by design or if he just wants a slow start, but two days in to this general election campaign and UKIP leader Nigel Farage appears to be taking it easy.
Or at least that is how it seems.
This is a candidate who has to win on 7 May. If he fails to become the next MP for South Thanet he has said he will quit as leader.
Yet I have seen no door-knocking. Our cameras have not been told of any public event, yet.
We have had two poster-unveiling ceremonies with impromptu leader interviews. He arrives, he speaks, he answers questions, then he leaves.
Read more from Robin.
The EU, and the UK's place within it, is set to be a major issue in the election campaign.
David Cameron has promised to renegotiate the terms of Britain's membership of the EU and put it to a public vote in 2017, if the Conservatives win in May.
Labour has said it does not support an in/out referendum, while Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg said his party would not "play footsie" with the idea of leaving the EU - although he has refused to say he would block a referendum as part of any coalition deal.
The Financial Times has reported the Lib Dems would only agree to support a poll if the franchise was extended to EU migrants resident in the UK and 16- and 17-year-olds. The party is also said to want to have a say on the wording of the question and the timing of the vote.
In response, UKIP's economic spokesman and campaign chief Patrick O'Flynn accused Mr Cameron and Mr Clegg of preparing to "rig" a referendum if they are in power together again.
He said it would be "profoundly unfair" to allow UK-based EU nationals to participate, and claimed the idea to give younger people a vote was designed to sway the result towards an "in" vote. | David Cameron was "wilfully dishonest" when he pledged to cap immigration to the tens of thousands, UKIP leader Nigel Farage has said. | 32129312 | [
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An Iranian affiliated broadcaster said MP Nadhim Zahawi bought crude oil from the militant group and sold it to markets in Israel and Europe.
But High Court judges said the Iraqi-born Stratford-on-Avon candidate was a victim of "fake news".
He was awarded £200,000 in damages and legal costs of £138,483 against Press TV and UK-registered Press TV Ltd.
Mr Zahawi sued the English language news and documentary network - which is affiliated to Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB), owned by the Iranian state - over a July 2015 website article which then went viral.
More updates on this and other stories in Coventry and Warwickshire
It alleged Mr Zahawi funded and profited from trade with a terrorist group by purchasing the oil at a low price and selling it on.
But Mr Zahawi, chief strategy officer of Gulf Keystone Petroleum, said: "The ludicrous allegation that I, while a Member of Parliament, had firstly betrayed all of my deepest held moral principles, and secondly had somehow managed to avoid international security services, and the law, to personally trade oil with Daesh, was of course completely untrue."
He said the allegations spread "like wildfire" on social media and he had to defend himself from a "profoundly embarrassing and deeply upsetting experience".
He added that it was "of particular note" the article was published the same day he criticised Iran in Parliament.
Awarding the damages at London's High Court on Thursday, Master Victoria McCloud said Mr Zahawi had been "wrongly associated by way of `fake news' on the internet, with the consequence being very significant harm to his reputation."
Neither Press TV nor Press TV Ltd defended the case and judgment was entered in default | A Conservative politician has won libel damages after it was reported he helped fund so-called Islamic State (IS). | 39811870 | [
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Notts leg-spinner Imran Tahir led the recovery with 7-112 as Somerset were all out for 437 - a lead of 36.
Resuming on 244-3, South Africa international Tahir claimed six of the seven Somerset wickets to fall on a scorching day - including Trescothick, who added 101 to his overnight 117.
Notts lost Steven Mullaney and Michael Lumb early, before closing on 58-2.
Trescothick, who equalled Somerset's record for the most first-class centuries with his 49th on Monday, was in wonderful form once again despite stifling temperatures.
The 40-year-old brought up his double century off 323 balls with a trademark cover drive off Samit Patel - his 31st boundary - before he was the last man to go, chipping Tahir to cover.
Somerset looked set for a much bigger lead as Trescothick and Jim Allenby's hundred partnership took them to 379-4 and within 22 of the hosts.
But once Allenby was bowled by Patel for 63, Tahir tore through the rest of the batting order as Somerset lost their last five wickets for 37.
The procession of afternoon wickets continued in Nottinghamshire's second innings as Craig Overton pinned first-innings centurion Mullaney lbw and Allenby bowled Lumb without scoring in the next over.
Jake Libby and Brendan Taylor batted out the final hour to give Notts a lead of 22 at stumps. | Somerset opener Marcus Trescothick hit a superb 218 before Nottinghamshire fought back at Trent Bridge. | 36830575 | [
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Konrad, 38, swam the equivalent of 290 lengths of an Olympic-size swimming pool after his 36-foot boat, which was on auto pilot, drifted away from him off the South Florida coast.
The United States Coast Guard reported that friends became concerned when he failed to return for dinner.
After up to 12 hours in the water, he had treatment for hypothermia symptoms.
He played 82 games for the Dolphins between 1999-2004. | Former Miami Dolphins running back Rob Konrad swam nine miles to shore after falling off his boat while fishing. | 30744474 | [
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Ex-Manchester United trainee McGinty, 21, played 13 times for the Conference club after joining on loan in February.
"It's a fantastic move for me at this stage in my career. I want to push on here," McGinty told the club website.
Meanwhile, 35-year-old goalkeeper Phil Smith, who was the Shots' first-choice stopper for 2014-15, has agreed a new one-year contract with the club. | Aldershot have announced the signing of defender Sean McGinty from Rochdale on a one-year deal from 1 July. | 33005878 | [
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Toby Ricketts and Marianna Fenn tied the "noodle knot" in the New Zealand South Island town of Akaroa.
The happy couple say that guidelines of the Pastafarian religion stipulate that wedding celebrants must be pirates.
Members of the church profess the belief that the world was created by an airborne spaghetti and meatballs-based being and humans evolved from pirates.
New Zealand officials last month designated the religion as an officially-recognised faith, allowing Wellington-based Pastafarian Karen Martyn the legal right to conduct marriages.
She carried out her inaugural wedding as an ordained "ministeroni" on Saturday.
More weddings are planned, she said, including same-sex unions that were legalised in New Zealand in 2013.
"I've had people from Russia, from Germany, from Denmark, from all over contacting me and wanting me to marry them in the church because of our non-discriminatory philosophy," she said.
"We will marry any consenting legal adults who meet the legal requirement." | The light-hearted Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster has staged its first legally recognised wedding. | 36062126 | [
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The Beyond Caravaggio exhibition features the work of the Italian artist and 30 other artists from all over Europe who were influenced by him.
It is a collaboration with the National Galleries in London and Dublin.
Edinburgh is the last stop for the works inspired by the man known as the "bad boy" of early 17th Century art.
This is the first exhibition of works by Caravaggio and his followers ever to be shown in Scotland.
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio was just 39 when he died in 1610.
Four years earlier he had murdered a man after a quarrel over a game of tennis and spent the rest of his life as a fugitive.
Christopher Baker, the acting director of the Scottish National Gallery, told BBC Scotland that Caravaggio was a "revolutionary artist".
He said: "You could see him as the archetypal bad boy artist who in his private life has a tempestuous time, who behaves appallingly, who is often in the courts and who is on the run having committed murder.
"In addition to all of that he is a great creative force.
"He produces these extraordinary pictures, which unsurprisingly, had an extraordinary impact and inspired other painters, who travelled to Rome and Naples from right across Europe and thought 'I need to do that, I want a piece of that as well'.
"That is the story this exhibition tells."
One of the paintings in the exhibition, The Taking of Christ (1602), is from the National Gallery of Ireland, where it is on indefinite loan from the Jesuit Community in Dublin.
It was rediscovered in 1990 in a Jesuits' residence in the Irish capital.
Aidan Weston-Lewis, the curator of exhibition at the Scottish National Gallery, said it was "frustrating" to think that it was offered to the Scottish National Gallery for free in 1921 and turned down.
He said it was the only painting by Caravaggio that has ever been in a Scottish private collection.
It was bought by Scottish country gentleman William Hamilton Nisbet in Rome in 1802, directly from the Mattei family who had commissioned it 200 years earlier.
The painting was on display at Biel House in East Lothian for 120 years.
Mr Weston-Lewis said: "His descendants bequeathed a large group of pictures from that collection to the Scottish National Gallery.
"We didn't have space for them all.
"They were paraded in front of the trustees at the next board meeting and some were selected and some weren't.
"Very sadly from our point of view this painting got away. It was turned down."
Mr Weston-Lewis said the painting had been mistakenly re-attributed to a Caravaggio follower but even so the reputation of the Italian artist was so low at this time that the painting would not have been thought worth saving.
He said: "There was a degree of ignorance. It was only in the middle of the 20th Century that his reputation was resurrected fully.
"Now one could argue he's probably the most popular of all Old Master painters, or certainly up there among them."
Caravaggio's dramatic lighting and compositions, and his radically new approach to subject matter, exerted a huge influence on artists such as Gentileschi, Ribera, Valentin and Ter Brugghen.
Mr Baker said: "It is not just the style of painting but the new types of subject matter, often secular subjects that he excelled at producing, that thrilled other people.
"But also it's gaming, being in pubs, misbehaving, having a good time, this heady world of pleasure comes into painting at this moment through him, and that's what everybody else wants a bit of."
The four paintings by Caravaggio to be shown in the exhibition include The Supper at Emmaus (1601) and Boy bitten by a Lizard (about 1594-5) as well as The Taking of Christ (1602).
Ribera's The Martyrdom of St Bartholomew (1634), which was in the Cranstoun family collection at Corehouse in Lanarkshire for more than 170 years, has been borrowed for this exhibition from the National Gallery of Art in Washington.
Another painting, Christ displaying his Wounds (c.1625-35) by Spadarino, has been borrowed from Perth Museum and Art Gallery.
Beyond Caravaggio is on display at the National Galleries in Scotland from 17 June to 24 September. Entrance to the exhibit costs £12. | Four paintings by Renaissance Old Master Caravaggio are the centrepiece of a major exhibition at the National Galleries of Scotland. | 40292815 | [
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Mudassir Hussain of Gladstone Street, Derby, pleaded guilty to preparing acts of terrorism.
Sheffield Crown Court heard the 31-year-old made it to Turkey before his family alerted police, who then had him returned to England.
Police said the actions of Hussain's family may well have saved lives, including his own.
Hussain left the UK on 6 January and police were notified shortly after.
Within days, the Turkish authorities deported Hussain back to the UK where he was arrested and charged.
Det Ch Supt Clive Wain, head of the North East Counter Terrorism Unit which led the operation, said: "By pleading guilty Hussain has admitted his intention was to take part in the conflict in Syria and was aware that he may be killed.
"We were not aware of Hussain's intentions prior to him travelling and therefore by the time we intervened he had already committed an offence. However by reporting their concerns Hussain's family may well have saved lives, including his own."
Hussain was sentenced to five years and three months imprisonment and one year on licence. | A man who tried to join the fighting in Syria has been jailed for more than five years for a terrorism offence. | 40571388 | [
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The environment department says what should be a carpet of blue at this time of year is now fringed with white.
Commonly known as wild garlic, the alium was introduced as a garden plant but it escaped and is now rampant in woods and hedgerows.
Plant expert Jane Gilmour from the Biological Records Centre is advising gardeners to get rid of the invader.
Its leaves appear in the autumn which means the department can use contact weed killer to tackle the problem without harming the bluebell bulbs.
Ms Gilmour said: "Sometimes called stinking onions, this is from the Mediterranean. It has increased massively in numbers in the past few years.
"The milder weather and generally milder winters have suited it brilliantly and it is out-competing bluebells as it comes into leaf just a little bit earlier.
"It is one of those plants people are staring to realise is a thug." | Bluebell woods in Guernsey are being invaded by a non-native species, environmentalists say. | 32563659 | [
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Salvador Sobral's success with Amar Pelos Dois (Love for Both of Us) has made him a national hero.
Wearing a plain black suit he delivered an emotionally charged song without the theatrics that often accompany other Eurovision acts.
Previously Portugal had never got above the sixth place that it reached in 1996.
It was a triumph for "brand Portugal", music journalist and advertising executive Manuel Falcao told the BBC.
"The Portuguese language is present worldwide but sometimes it's hard for the national identity to make an impression, so for the brand this is very nice - people are very happy," he said.
The timing was fortunate for Portugal, as the nation shows signs of recovery from the 2008 financial crisis and a massive bailout from its eurozone partners.
"Polls show people are more optimistic here than three years ago, the economic indicators are not strong but positive - even by EU standards," Mr Falcao said.
Eurovision success "coincided with a good mood in Portugal - we won the Euro 2016 football championship and tourism here is beating all records", he said.
He cautioned, however, that one song would not make a radical difference.
It was a doubly memorable weekend for Portugal, as Pope Francis drew a vast crowd to the Fatima shrine, where he made saints of two Portuguese children. Their visions of the Virgin Mary in 1917 turned Fatima into a top Catholic pilgrimage site.
There is national pride that Sobral's song Amar Pelos Dois touched so many hearts, in a competition dominated by English lyrics.
"The language, more than the Portuguese language, was music," Sobral said.
The song was crafted by his sister Luisa, an accomplished singer-songwriter and music college graduate, with several CDs to her name.
A fellow Portuguese music expert, Sofia Vieira Lopes, said the song's triumph proved that lyrics were not fundamental to a musical message.
"It shows that it's not necessary to sing in English to understand the music," she told Portugal's Publico daily.
Salvador Sobral criticised the commercialisation of pop, after his Saturday night triumph in Ukraine, speaking contemptuously of "fast-food music".
"This is a vote for people who actually mean something with their music," he said. "Music is not fireworks, music is feeling."
The state tourism authority, Turismo de Portugal, is thrilled by the boost to the country's image.
"We are in the spotlight," its president Luis Araujo told the daily Diario de Noticias (DN). He characterised the winning song as "simplicity, transparency, honesty".
The melancholy, bittersweet lyrics include the lines: "My darling, listen to my prayers / I beg you to come back, come back to love me / I know we can't love alone."
There was a poignancy to Sobral's performance, as he has struggled with a serious heart condition.
His success shows there is still a market for national musical traditions, despite the dominance of Anglo-American pop culture.
Portugal requires broadcasters to observe a quota of Portuguese-language songs. France and Spain have similar quotas, to showcase home-grown talent.
Even before the Eurovision final Sobral's song was hugely popular in Portugal, Mr Falcao said.
Yet English remains the default pop language, even in Portugal, he said.
And Salvador Sobral himself has recorded covers of American hits - in English. | Portuguese are celebrating the fact that an intimate love ballad in their language conquered a Eurovision song contest audience for the first time. | 39919961 | [
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Heard, 30, filed for divorce in Los Angeles Superior Court citing irreconcilable differences.
They married 15 months ago and have no children.
They have recently been embroiled in a legal case in Australia after Heard took two dogs into the country illegally. She pleaded guilty in April to a charge of falsifying documents.
Depp, 52, and Heard met while co-starring in the 2011 film The Rum Diary.
In the court papers, Texan-born Heard listed the separation date as Sunday.
Celebrity news website TMZ reported that Depp had asked a judge to reject Heard's claim for spousal support.
The split comes days after the death of Depp's mother. His latest film, Alice Through the Looking Glass, is due to be released on Friday.
The Australian court case started last year when Heard brought two dogs into the country where her husband was filming the latest movie in the Pirates of the Caribbean series.
When the case was settled, the couple released a video apology expressing remorse and advising travellers to respect Australian quarantine laws.
However, Australia's Deputy PM Barnaby Joyce had threatened to have the dogs put down, triggering a war of words with Depp that lasted for months.
The actor recently said on a US TV show that Mr Joyce looks "somehow inbred with a tomato".
Mr Joyce responded by saying he was "pulling strings" in Johnny Depp's head, like film villain Hannibal Lecter. | Film star Johnny Depp and his actress wife Amber Heard are to divorce, US court documents have revealed. | 36385841 | [
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The 38-year-old Englishman topped the rankings in 2012 but has since dropped out of the coveted world top 50 for the first time in more than a decade.
"My confidence had taken a big knock and I asked myself if I wanted to continue doing this," he said.
"Then I told myself not to be a baby, to grow up and realise how lucky I was. I was still playing golf for a living."
Donald is yet to win a major title but has played in four victorious Ryder Cup teams, although he missed out on selection for Europe's win at Gleneagles in 2014, having failed to land a European or PGA tournament since 2012.
"I wasn't enjoying it, finding it so very hard and could not see much light at the end of the tunnel," he told the Daily Telegraph.
Caddie John McLaren decided to end their six-year association last October but Donald found guidance from sports psychologist Michael Gervais, who helped Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner become the first human to break the sound barrier without mechanical assistance.
"He just reminded me that it's up to me what mood or mindset I'm in," Donald added. "When you're in a slump it's easy to forget you're still the one who is in control."
Donald, who has finished third at both the Masters and US PGA Championship and won more than £35m in his career, is now ranked at 78th in the world and needs to return to the top 50 or win on the PGA Tour to qualify for a 12th consecutive Masters at Augusta in April.
"I think I have a little way to go, but I'm feeling confident that I can get back to at least close to a level I was a few years ago," he added. | Former world number one Luke Donald has revealed he considered retirement last year following a slump in form. | 35276779 | [
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And even one of those three times - when it bought 250 million chocolate selection boxes from Woolworths following its collapse - was a deliberate ploy to attract the retailer's customers to its stores.
It's a story that reflects just how Poundland, despite the cheap and cheerful image, is a tightly managed business.
Poundland might look a bit basic - the ultimate in pile-it-high, sell-it-cheap - but this is a sophisticated firm with big plans for expansion. And its growth is part of a wider UK success story: the unstoppable rise of the discount retailers.
Overall, the discount sector - including Poundland and its smaller rivals such as Poundworld and Poundstretcher, as well as the fast-growing supermarket chains Aldi and Lidl - has grown 48% over the past five years, according to retail research firm The Local Data Company.
This compares to the slower 34% expansion of the big four supermarket chains - Tesco, Morrisons, Asda and Sainsbury - over the same period.
In fact, last year discount stores grew twice as fast as the big four supermarkets with each chain opening an average of 33 shops compared to the 16 opened by each of the bigger players.
This growth in a much improved economy seems surprising, but analysts believe the recession started a much more fundamental shift.
Maureen Hinton, global research director for retail research firm Conlumino, says the careful habits initially borne of necessity have now become entrenched, with people realising they don't have to pay a lot to get good quality products.
She also credits the straightforward everyday pricing strategy of the discounters, compared to the "opaque" costs of their bigger rivals for their continuing popularity.
"There's a genuine honesty with pound stores. People have discovered there's the opportunity to buy good stuff at low prices so why pay more?" she says.
Poundland's customer data backs this up. Far from a shop just for people struggling to make ends meet, it claims to have successfully converted the middle class with a quarter of its customers now from the "AB" demographic - the wealthier end of the population.
The discounters are also benefitting from a backlash against their bigger rivals: they're are seen as a welcome outsider, says Dimitrios Tsivrikos, a consumer and business psychologist at University College London.
"The cheap environment, low staffing and basic shop fit outs all help. People think there's no danger here and let their guard down," he says.
And conversely, because customers believe that there's no hidden agenda they spend more.
"The no gimmicks, no frills, 'here we are saving money' message means people buy a lot more just because no one is trying to convince them to do it," he adds.
In reality, he says people overestimate their ability to understand pricing, with the low pricing creating "a level of euphoria and excitement" that interferes with rational decision making, with "bargain" signs helping to create a sense of urgency.
"We are hardwired to feel more euphoric, the hunter gatherer instinct pushes us to buy with our shopping driven by missing out rather than acquiring what we need."
To take advantage of this, most of the discount stores stock a smaller constantly changing range on top of standard staples.
Chris Edwards, the boss of Poundworld, says its bestselling products are "everyday grocery items", including baby wipes, crisps and chocolate.
But he says the chain, which has 280 shops nationwide, each week changes 500 of the 5,000 items it stocks to "keep up with trends", such as a range of Minions products to tie in with the forthcoming film release, and give customers "new and exciting offers".
The chain has also recently launched an online shop, aimed at expanding its reach.
Poundland's Mr McCarthy says it is "reasonably well advanced" with similar plans, but it is also aiming to rapidly expand its physical presence.
It is using the funds from last year's £750m flotation on the London Stock Exchange to open more stores with a bullish long term target of opening 1,000 UK stores up from its current network of over 500 stores across the UK and Ireland.
A £55m deal to buy smaller rival 99p Stores and convert their shops into Poundlands, which is currently being reviewed by The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), would dramatically hasten its growth.
And in contrast to what you'd expect, Mr McCarthy says the "good times" are actually much better for sales.
"We've been going for 25 years and seen two recessions. In good times people feel more confident and go on more shopping trips which means we get more business".
He is equally upbeat about the firm's growth prospects, pointing to the success of US discount chain Dollar Tree, which has been going for half a century, for proof of Poundland's potential longevity.
But others are less certain, warning that the growth of the discounters has an obvious limit. "If there are five pound shops on the high street, people are not going to spend five times as much. They are in danger of reaching a peak," warns Ms Hinton.
Still, it remains hard to resist the lure of the bargain. Mr McCarthy admits that even he is not immune to the store's charms - describing it as a "Pandora's box treasure trove".
He buys phone charges, Toblerone chocolate bars and biographies. "It's very difficult not to be compelled to buy," he says. | During his nine years at the helm of Poundland, says chief executive Jim McCarthy, the discount chain has sold a product at a loss just three times. | 33155628 | [
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The absence of millions of young voters from the electoral register could lead to a victory for the Leave camp in the EU referendum, he warned.
Mr Miliband said their "optimistic generation" can keep Britain in the EU.
But Leave campaigner, Conservative MP James Cleverly, said Mr Miliband's "cynical" comments would "fool no-one".
Mr Miliband said in a speech in London on Saturday that 1.5 million of the six million 18-24 year olds eligible to vote are not registered, nor are a quarter of the eight million 25-35 year olds.
They have until 7 June to register to vote in the UK's referendum on its membership of the EU, which takes place on 23 June.
Mr Miliband said: "Today is a call to arms to all young people to register to vote.
"Let's be clear about the danger - a decision not to vote is a decision to let someone else decide your future.
"Young people can decide this referendum. If they don't use their vote, the danger is this referendum will be lost."
The UK's EU vote: All you need to know
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Mr Miliband, who resigned as leader of the Labour Party following its defeat in the 2015 general election, said the Leave side offered a "narrow" future which pretended to be about national freedom.
He added: "When the Leave campaign is asked about the future - future jobs, future opportunities, future growth - they have one answer: they just don't know.
"Those words should ring in the ears of every child, student and parent. Not knowing is not a path to prosperity, not knowing is the road to recession."
Mr Miliband also told BBC Breakfast that polls suggested younger people were more likely to vote to remain in the EU by three to one, and that older people should "heed the wisdom of the young".
He added: "All round the world young people are kicking against the establishment, and yet young people want to back Remain.
"That shows Remain is a future-orientated, positive, optimistic idea, because I think young people take for granted that we've got to work with other countries, and not isolate ourselves."
Mr Cleverly said Mr Miliband's "cynical" attempt to reach young people "will fool no-one".
"After his failed efforts to court the youth vote via Russell Brand last year, you'd think he would know better."
He also told the BBC that he "absolutely" wanted young people to vote in the referendum.
"When I talk to young people, actually I find that they are very concerned about the costs of EU membership, about how it limits our ability to trade with the developing world, and how it impinges on our democracy."
Meanwhile, pro-Brexit employment minister Priti Patel launched an attack on the economic predictions of her government colleagues in the Treasury.
While out campaigning she told the BBC its forecasts have "been questioned heavily" and that Vote Leave was "making the positive economic case as to why we should leave the European Union".
"Of course we can take back control of the money we send to Europe and spend that growing our economic base and invest that in our economic prosperity in future," she said.
And despite their increasingly personalised battle, David Cameron indicated he still regards Leave campaigner Boris Johnson as a "substantial" potential future successor.
Mr Cameron said he would not reconsider comments he made that Mr Johnson, George Osborne and Theresa May were all figures who could step into his shoes when he steps down, which he has promised to do before the next general election. | Former Labour leader Ed Miliband has issued a "call to arms", urging young people to register to vote in next month's EU referendum. | 36403826 | [
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Some 160 kilos of herbal cannabis was discovered, Garda (Irish police) said in a statement.
It described the seizure as "significant" and said the drugs were "destined for the Irish market".
A business premises in Ashbourne was also searched during the "intelligence-led" operation.
It involved Garda officers from the Drugs and Organised Crime Bureau and the Special Crime Task Force.
Staff from the Revenue Commissioners Customs Service also participated.
All four men, who are Irish nationals, are being questioned on suspicion of drug trafficking offences. | Cannabis with an estimated street value of 3.2m euros (£2.7m) has been seized in a joint operation by police and customs in the Republic of Ireland. | 38824836 | [
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The cylindrical device, which was between six and eight inches long (15-20cm), was discovered at the Scaur at Kirkcolm on Wednesday.
A police spokesman said the small bomb was rusty and resembled a dog bone.
He urged anyone who finds similar devices not to touch them, but to contact Police Scotland as soon as possible with its location.
The spokesman said: "The device has been dealt with and there is no danger to the public.
"However, please be aware when walking along the coastline should any similar devices be found.
"The devices will not explode, however they will burn at high temperatures and emit toxic fumes."
The bomblet may have come from Beaufort's Dyke, a deep trench in the Irish Sea between Scotland and Northern Ireland, which has been used as a munitions dump. | Police have issued a warning after a World War Two phosphorous bomblet was found washed up near Stranraer. | 33092260 | [
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The wager on Murray - the competition's 5/2 second favourite, behind Novak Djokovic - would net a £175,000 return, including the stake.
Ladbrokes believes it to be the largest tennis bet ever placed in Scotland.
The company's Alex Donohue said: "Our Murray fan in Aberdeen has given his hero the ultimate vote of confidence with this record-breaking bet."
Murray ended Britain's 77-year wait for a men's singles champion in 2013 when he beat Djokovic in the final.
The British number one is due to get his campaign under way against Mikhail Kukushkin of Kazakhstan on Tuesday. | A punter in Aberdeen has placed a bet of £50,000 on Andy Murray to win Wimbledon. | 33310503 | [
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How about £54,000?
If that seems high for a three-year degree, that's how much a think tank has calculated a student could have to pay back with interest.
And that wouldn't be the full size of the debt. There could be another £40,000 still outstanding when fee loans are written off after 30 years.
When fees start increasing from this autumn, it will mean borrowing about £28,600 for three years, with the amount then rising with inflation each year.
But while students have battled for years over the headline figure of £9,000 and now £9,250, the Intergenerational Foundation says they're missing the much bigger picture of what it will really cost in repayments.
And it's going to publish its findings in a report called The Packhorse Generation.
These extra costs start to rack up while a student is still at university, because interest is charged as soon as students start their courses, adding thousands to the debt before students have even graduated.
Students start paying back their fee loans once they earn more than £21,000 per year - and the more they earn the more they pay each month, until the debt, plus interest, is cleared.
So this means total repayments can vary widely.
The think tank, which campaigns for fairness between generations, forecasts that:
A more likely scenario is that a graduate would start on a lower salary and gradually progress upwards.
And the think tank gives an example of someone starting out on £22,000 and then rising over the years to £41,000, with the projection that they would pay back about £31,000 and leave a further £69,000 unpaid.
These are not necessarily bad deals for students if it helps them into a good career.
But Estelle Clarke, a former City lawyer on the advisory board of the Intergenerational Foundation, argues that we're failing to understand the "stranglehold" of debt that we're building up for young people.
She also warns we should be looking nervously at the vast scale of write-offs in the current system.
At present the taxpayer picks up the tab for unpaid loans after 30 years, allowing graduates to walk away from tens of thousands of pounds of debt and interest charges.
"Taxpayers end up paying for this system twice over. Firstly, they will shoulder the burden of an economy deprived of cash as millions of graduates' incomes are diverted to loan repayments," says Ms Clarke.
"And secondly, they shoulder the burden of the non-repayment of most loans due to the extortionate ratcheting up of interest in spite of regular payments made."
But the government has long considered selling off more of the student loan book to the private financial sector.
Would a private operator, looking hungrily at monthly repayments from millions of graduates, want more favourable terms and a bigger slice of that unpaid debt?
Ms Clarke warns that there is not nearly enough protection for students against future changes to repayment arrangements to "extract even more cash from graduates' pockets".
"No other lending has so little protection," she says.
By international standards, the only real comparison for such levels of student borrowing is the United States.
But as England is increasing the cost of tuition, the US has been trying to reverse out of a spiral of higher fees and higher debt.
This month the governor of New York announced a plan to scrap tuition fees at state universities and colleges for families earning up to $125,000 (£102,000) per year, which would help 80% of households.
It reflected deep-seated middle class anxieties about student debt - especially for families not rich enough to afford the fees and not poor enough to get financial support.
This really can be a lifetime of debt, with warnings this month of aggressive tactics from lenders trying to recover student loans from pensioners, with the over-60s in the US still owing £55bn of student debt.
Under the Obama administration there had been growing efforts to tackle student debt.
But with the election of President Trump the future of student loans, now measured in the trillions, has become much less predictable.
The Department for Education argues that England's system is already extremely accessible, because there are no upfront costs for any students.
Instead the costs are backloaded to be paid after graduates are working.
And since graduates are likely to earn more, they can afford the cost of repayments, which in turn supports the next generation of students.
"The English system of student funding is sustainable, and has been recognised as such by the OECD," said a Department for Education spokeswoman.
"Critically, our system removes financial barriers for anyone hoping to study - with record numbers of young people from disadvantaged backgrounds going to university last year."
But this is something of a turning point - with fees and debts about to begin a long upward curve. And the Intergenerational Foundation's warnings cast a cold light on the scale of the escalating costs.
Will this be the next stage of a sophisticated, self-funding, open-access, affordable university system, or unwitting steps towards a financial sinkhole? | How much will it cost to get a degree in England when tuition fees increase to £9,250 in the autumn? | 38651059 | [
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Lancaster left the role on Wednesday after England's World Cup failure.
Gatland's Wales beat England at Twickenham to help the hosts' demise and he has been linked with a move.
New Zealander Gatland is contracted to Wales until 2019 and Thomas believes "he'll see his time out with Wales and probably go back to New Zealand".
Gatland has said he intends to step down from the Wales role after the 2019 World Cup in Japan.
Thomas also believes Gatland will have "one eye on coaching New Zealand after a successful run with Wales and with the British and Irish Lions".
However, former Lion Thomas says he understands why the English Rugby Football Union might want to have Gatland in charge - even if Wales' record against Australia, New Zealand and South Africa has not matched their Six Nations efforts under him.
"I'm sure England would want to make a move for someone like him after seeing what he's done for Wales," said Gatland.
"Since he's been in charge, Wales have been an amazingly successful - unfortunately not against the mights of the southern hemisphere as much as he would like.
"But we are such a force now in world rugby and are feared and respected, and that's due to the players, yes, but also due to him and the structure he's given the players.
"So I'm sure they'd want him and if anybody could afford him, the RFU, I'm sure, could."
South Africa's 2007 World Cup-winning coach Jake White "is interested" in the England job. | Former Wales captain Gareth Thomas doubts head coach Warren Gatland could be tempted to succeed Stuart Lancaster as England boss. | 34807343 | [
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They held private meetings with Theresa May in the wake of the Hillsborough inquests, which ended in April.
Jurors found the fans who died as a result of the 1989 crush were unlawfully killed.
The families also complained about the conduct of South Yorkshire Police.
They called on the home secretary to put the force into remedial measures.
It is understood the proposed 'Hillsborough Law' would seek to place a further onus on those in public office to cooperate positively with investigations.
The families were told about developments in two ongoing criminal investigations into the disaster at the meetings with the home secretary, which were held in Warrington.
Theresa May has previously praised the dignity and determination of the victims' relatives.
Chair of the Hillsborough Family Support Group, Margaret Aspinall, whose son James died in the disaster, said: "I myself for the very first time felt - I'm sure the families did as well - that at last there's a home secretary that's actually listening to them."
The home secretary has met some Hillsborough families before, but this is the first time that she's spoken directly to them since the inquests ended.
Theresa May spent several hours in Warrington, meeting separately with the two main groups of relatives.
The atmosphere was said to be heated, with some of the families complaining directly to her about the conduct of South Yorkshire Police during the inquests.
Some relatives asked for assurances that there will be criminal prosecutions, and I'm told that they wanted to make sure that the home secretary personally understood the emotional toll that the two-year inquests have taken.
Although the Hillsborough families welcomed the jury's finding of unlawful killing, they know that many months of uncertainty lie ahead before they find out whether criminal trials will follow.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission revealed that 19 people have refused to assist with their probe into the conduct of officers from West Midlands Police, which investigated the tragedy.
The watchdog has now handed files on suspects to the Crown Prosecution Service in its largest-ever inquiry into alleged criminality and alleged police misconduct.
The IPCC has contacted 258 officers and staff members involved in the investigation into the tragedy and a total of 161 statements have been taken.
The watchdog said: "Our intention remains to submit full files of evidence to the CPS by the turn of the year to enable decisions to be made on whether any individuals should be charged." | Relatives of the 96 people who died at Hillsborough have told the home secretary they want a "Hillsborough Law" to compel public officials to tell the truth at inquiries. | 36438606 | [
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Lara Clarke, an amateur baker from the West Midlands, has baked this special Harry Potter cake.
In the past she has also baked the Weasley's flying car and the Hogwart's library.
Many other bakers around the world have also made cakes to celebrate JK Rowling's special day. | The author of the Harry Potter books, JK Rowling, is celebrating her 50th birthday today. | 33733469 | [
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