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A software "issue" meant polling cards and some postal votes were sent out to some "non eligible" voters.
They are still awaiting responses from six councils so the number could rise.
Leave campaigners Iain Duncan Smith and Bernard Jenkin have expressed "serious concerns" about the "conduct of the EU referendum and its franchise".
They have written to the prime minister complaining of "many and varied" examples of EU nationals being sent polling cards.
On Friday, the Electoral Commission confirmed the numbers affected so far, and said the software provider had since "resolved the issue".
Any postal votes wrongly issued would be cancelled and none of those affected would appear as an eligible voter on the electoral registers used at polling stations, it said.
EU citizens from non-UK countries are not entitled to vote, unless they are citizens of the Irish Republic, Cyprus or Malta.
But Mr Duncan Smith has said a Nottingham City Council officer had emailed a Vote Leave supporter to say the council was unable to check whether people put their correct nationality on an application, and had to assume the information submitted was correct.
Kingston-upon-Thames council in south-west London said a Polish citizen in the area - whose case had been highlighted by the Guido Fawkes website - was sent a polling card because he had put "British" as his nationality on the electoral register.
British, Irish and Commonwealth citizens resident in the UK and many British citizens living abroad are entitled to vote in the referendum.
You can check with your local authority's electoral services team if you are worried that you are not on the register.
If you are not on the register you have until midnight on Tuesday, 7 June to submit an application for a vote. The deadlines for applying for a postal vote at the referendum are:
In England, Scotland or Wales, you can register to vote online anytime at gov.uk/register-to-vote. If you are a British citizen living abroad, you can register to vote online in the same way.
In Northern Ireland, visit the government's Register to vote in Northern Ireland page to download a registration form. If you are an Irish citizen living abroad who was born in Northern Ireland, visit the Electoral Office for Northern Ireland website to download the correct form. | Polling cards were wrongly sent to at least 3,462 EU citizens who are not allowed to vote in the EU referendum, the Electoral Commission has announced. | 36446521 | [
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The US singer complained the virtual assistant was pronouncing her surname wrong.
"I called the head of Apple, Tim Cook, and he delightfully agreed to have Siri change the pronunciation of my name, finally," she said on Weekend Edition.
Streisand said the second syllable of her name should be pronounced with "a soft S, like sand on the beach".
Siri currently pronounces the singer's name as "StreiZAND". The next Apple update is due on 30 September.
"So let's see if that happens, because I will be thrilled," Streisand told the US show on Saturday.
The singer is currently on tour for her new album, Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway.
In 2014, Streisand created US chart history by becoming the first artist to score number one albums in each of the last six decades.
She is one of just a few to have won all four major US entertainment awards - an Oscar, Emmy, Grammy and an honorary Tony.
Streisand has also enjoyed an illustrious film career which began with 1968's Funny Girl, for which she won an Oscar.
Her other films include The Way We Were, What's Up, Doc? and the Meet the Parents sequel, Meet the Fockers.
Follow us on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, on Instagram, or if you have a story suggestion email [email protected]. | A tweak to Siri's pronunciation of Barbra Streisand's name will be heading to Apple products soon. | 37153494 | [
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The body of Waldek Mural, 57, was discovered by a member of the public in Burley Park Burley on 5 September.
A post-mortem examination showed he had died as a result of multiple injuries.
Grzegorz Kowalczyk, 41, from Headingley, appeared at Leeds Magistrates' Court where he was remanded in custody to appear at the city's crown court on Tuesday. | A man has appeared in court charged with the murder of a Polish national found dead in a park in Leeds. | 34232123 | [
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The 53-year-old has come under scrutiny since information on Sir Bradley Wiggins' authorised use of banned drugs to treat a medical condition was released by hackers.
And further questions about Team Sky's doping controls led MPs to claim its reputation was "in tatters".
"It shouldn't even need saying, but we all back Dave B 100%!", Thomas tweeted.
"I've known him a long time and I wouldn't want anyone else leading Team Sky," the 30-year-old said.
Peter Kennaugh agreed with Thomas, adding: "I think all the riders on Team Sky would join me in saying they are completely behind Dave Brailsford."
"He's the leader of our super Team Sky," added Elia Viviani.
Michal Kwiatkowski, Owain Doull and Luke Rowe also tweeted their support for Brailsford.
It follows reports that some riders have lost confidence in Brailsford and considered asking him to resign.
Brailsford has denied any wrongdoing, saying TUEs "do not cross the line" over performance-enhancing drugs.
Last week a Parliamentary select committee heard evidence about the former Team Sky doctor who received a 'mystery package' for Sir Bradley Wiggins in 2011, Richard Freeman.
Team Sky responded saying that they were a clean team who abide by the rules.
"We are proud of our stance against doping. We believe our approach to anti-doping is rigorous and comprehensive," they said in a statement.
BBC sports editor Dan Roan
With the future of Sir Dave Brailsford - and perhaps even Team Sky - uncertain after months of damaging revelations, this is an attempted fight-back, with several riders closing ranks around their under-fire boss at the request of management.
However, it has not escaped attention that the team's leading man, Chris Froome, is yet to make clear his support, instead tweeting about a meal he enjoyed in South Africa. And if that is an act of defiance, it could place even more pressure on Brailsford as he tries to cling to his job.
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Freeman, meanwhile, has also received the support of a former colleague.
Dave Readle, who was a sports psychologist at the governing body's high performance programme from 2008 to 2014, and worked closely with Freeman, told BBC sports editor Dan Roan that the doctor "has been thrown under the bus".
MPs at last week's select committee hearing were told how Freeman had failed to keep medical records of treatments for riders - a possible breach of General Medical Council rules, according to the UK Anti-Doping Agency - and ordered large quantities of the corticosteroid triamcinolone, that may have outstripped clinical need.
Freeman administered Wiggins' TUEs, and took delivery of the mystery medical package in France 2011. It has also been reported that fellow doctors at Team Sky blocked him applying for a fourth TUE for Wiggins, and that he was in charge of medical supplies when testosterone patches were delivered to British Cycling in 2011, apparently in error.
He has denied any wrongdoing, and is thought to be preparing written submissions to Ukad's questions.
Freeman withdrew from giving evidence to the select committee on the eve of the hearing last week due to ill health. But Readle said: "Richard has been hung out to dry. He is a loyal friend, a man of honesty, integrity and loyalty, and this is a tough time for him. All this negative publicity, he's in a state of shock.
"The fact that no one's come out to support him, after all the help he's given riders, it stinks.
"I spent a lot of time with him and everything he did was above board, there was no cutting corners."
When asked why Freeman may have failed to keep medical records, Readle said that the intensity of the workload while treating large numbers of athletes and other staff may have meant that the doctor's administration sometimes slipped.
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Symantec says the Wifatch program is closing loopholes and fixing bugs on routers it infects.
Routers are being increasingly targeted by criminals keen to steal data or to help with large-scale web attacks.
Symantec has monitored the network of "vaccinated" devices but, so far, has not seen it put to malicious use.
Wifatch was first discovered in late 2014 and since then has been steadily scouring the web for routers and other smart devices running vulnerable software.
In a blogpost, Symantec said that once Wifatch finds and infects a vulnerable router it connects to other compromised devices to download software updates that make them harder to attack successfully.
In addition, it said, Wifatch tries to disinfect devices that have been compromised by malicious software. It regularly reboots devices to kill off malware running on them and return them to a clean state.
As far as Symantec can tell, Wifatch's payload has no malicious components and the growing network of compromised devices has never been used for attacks, said Symantec security analyst Mario Ballano.
The software also leaves a message on the router telling its owner to change the default passwords and update the firmware that controls the device.
Wifatch targets a wide variety of home routers that run variations of the Linux operating system. Symantec said that "tens of thousands" of gadgets were harbouring Wifatch. About a third of all the devices it had hit were in China with Brazil and Mexico making up another quarter of its victims.
Symantec remained cautious about the intentions of Wifatch despite its benign appearance.
"Wifatch is a piece of code that infects a device without user consent and, in that regard, is the same as any other piece of malware," said Mr Ballano.
"It should also be pointed out that Wifatch contains a number of general-purpose back doors that can be used by the author to carry out potentially malicious actions," he added. | A benevolent virus has been used to harden more than 10,000 home routers against cyber-attacks, says a security firm. | 34423414 | [
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Johnston has been at the club for 15 years, serving as chairman for 10.
Recently, he has faced pressure to step down altogether from fans who felt his presence was an impediment to attracting potential club investors.
"It has been an honour to serve Kilmarnock FC in various capacities over the last 15 years," Johnston said.
Meanwhile, BBC Scotland has learned negotiations are continuing between the club and Lee McCulloch and his representative, as Killie look to make him their permanent manager.
McCulloch has been in interim charge at Rugby Park since Lee Clark's departure for Bury in February, and successfully kept Kilmarnock in the Scottish Premiership.
Johnston is also standing down from the board of the Kilmarnock Community Sports Trust (KCST) on which he represented the club.
In a statement, Kilmarnock said: "When Michael took over as chairman and majority shareholder the club had around £13m of debt.
"Aided by a number of high value transfer fees which he personally negotiated, Michael gradually reduced this while maintaining the club's competitive position in the top tier of Scottish league football.
"In March 2014 Michael completed a transformational restructuring of the club's finances which delivered the arm's length sale of the Park Hotel for full market value, with the proceeds going towards reducing the club's bank debt of £9m.
"Billy Bowie acquired the balance of the bank debt and converted this into equity in the club, combined with the permanent write-off by former chairman Jamie Moffat of the balance of his loans to the club, which originally totalled £1.8m.
"The outcome was the elimination of almost £11m of debt from the club's balance sheet.
"In the wake of that, Michael introduced a new board of directors and stood down as chairman in 2015. He also formed KCST, a registered charity, to run the club's community department in a more financially efficient manner."
Troon-born Johnston said the death of his wife Joanne in March hastened his decision to relinquish his positions at the club.
"I have been fortunate to meet so many interesting people through football and greatly enjoyed serving on the council of the Scottish FA for over 10 years and the board of the Scottish Premier League during the historic amalgamation with the Scottish Football League in 2013," he said.
"There have been many challenges to confront along the way and these have taken their toll on not only me but also my family, to whom I extend my heartfelt thanks for their unqualified support.
"The recent loss of my wife Joanne, who was my greatest source of inspiration and encouragement at all times, has prompted my decision to retire from all active duties at the club and I look forward to attending Rugby Park as a committed supporter in future, unburdened of the worries of the past.
"I wish Billy Bowie and John Kiltie the very best of luck and good judgement in running the club, ably supported by club secretary Kirsten Callaghan, who was a key member of staff during my time as chairman.
"I also wish to record my thanks to all the members of staff, past and present, the shareholders and the supporters who have supported me and the club so enthusiastically over the years.
"The club is now in a healthy position to advance in Scottish football and register even greater success." | Former chairman Michael Johnston has resigned from his positions as a director and the company secretary of Kilmarnock. | 39981862 | [
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The Hatters, a top-flight side 22 years ago, are 14 points clear at the top of the Conference Premier, a league they have been in since 2009 after 89 years in the Football League.
Sweet told Late Kick Off East: "If you compare us to clubs that have been at a low level but are now in the Premier League and Championship - there are no boundaries for what we can achieve."
Late Kick Off East will be assessing the impact of dropping out of the Football League and the difficulty of getting back up.
The team will take a close look at Luton and Cambridge United, as well as the difficulties facing Northampton Town should they fail in their bid to survive in League Two.
Watch Late Kick Off in the East of England on BBC One on Monday, 10 March at 23:20 GMT or on the iPlayer for seven days after
Championship clubs Yeovil and Doncaster were playing non-league football as recently as 2002-03, while Premier League sides Swansea and Hull have played in League Two in the past decade.
The Hatters have been a prime example of how difficult it is to come straight back up after dropping into the Conference.
Their Football League status ended five seasons ago, brought on by a 30-point deduction for paying agents through a third party and failing to come out of administration.
It was a third relegation in as many seasons for the stricken club.
A consortium, fronted by TV presenter Nick Owen, who is now Hatters chairman, and with Sweet on board, took over the club in 2008 and have eradicated the mismanagement that exacerbated the team's swift decline.
But while progress has been made in off-field affairs, four managers have tried and failed to win that elusive promotion.
The Hatters are playing down the near-inevitability of succeeding this time around, but boss John Still would have to surrender a 14-point lead at the top of the table if the Bedfordshire club are not to go up automatically.
"It means an awful lot more than just one league to us," said Sweet.
"We feel it is the beginning of a resurgence.
"We've done everything we possibly can, all the preparation is there, we just want to keep winning matches and for that green light to go. We think we can actually spin on a bit.
"League Two is not the destiny of course, without appearing to be arrogant.
"We took over the club in 2008 with the vision that we had 12 years to put it back into a position where we would be comfortable, where we feel our natural position in the pyramid would be.
"That's not League Two - and that's no disrespect to League Two. We've served our time and I just think when we get back into League Two it will give us a bit more of an ambition."
Late Kick Off will be on every Monday until the end of the season, covering the teams in your region. Get involved on Twitter @latekickoffeast | Promotion from the Conference Premier could start Luton Town's resurgence to the Premier League, says managing director Gary Sweet. | 26467450 | [
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Torquing Group was criticised for a lack of communication over the Zano after the project folded last week.
An apology has been issued along with the new information.
The collapse of Zano caused embarrassment for Kickstarter when many disappointed backers questioned whether they would get their money back.
In the new update, which was published to the project's Kickstarter page, the firm detailed how its funding had been apportioned across the project.
The four largest areas to which more than £2.3m in donations had been distributed as follows:
Developing improvements to the Zano prototype had been one significant example of expenditure, the company said.
"Ultimately these upgrades coupled with delays caused by the creation of a bespoke and automatic testing rig had significant financial and timeline impacts upon the project," the statement added.
The firm also reiterated its intention to "co-operate fully" with Trading Standards within Pembrokeshire County Council.
In a closing comment, Torquing added an additional apology: "We would like to make a sincere apology for the understandable disappointment felt by all of those that have supported the project."
The BBC had also learned that Kickstarter had contacted Zano backers following the announcement of Zano's collapse last week.
"Like you, we're extremely frustrated by what's happened with this project," the message said.
It added that Kickstarter had asked Torquing to provide a more detailed update to backers by November 30 - or Kickstarter would pursue an inquiry into the Zano project. | The company behind the failed mini-drone Zano has provided some details of how more than £2.3m in funding was allocated. | 34926371 | [
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Cancer Research UK said the number of females diagnosed with the disease had climbed 97% since 1975.
Although more men still die from lung cancer there has been a 40% drop in the rate among males over the same period.
The charity said the figures reflected smoking trends in the UK, with the number of male smokers falling from the 1950s.
It was not until two decades later that the number of female smokers began dropping significantly.
Lung cancer is the most common cancer in Scotland and also the biggest killer of all the cancers, according to the charity.
About 4,200 people die of the disease every year in Scotland, and about 86% of all cases are linked to tobacco.
It also has one of the lowest survival rates, with more than two-thirds of patients diagnosed too late for them to be offered successful treatment.
Cancer Research has called for an increased awareness of the disease and more fundraising to help fight it.
Director of early diagnosis Sara Hiom said: "We need to improve awareness of the possible signs and symptoms of lung cancer and urge people - especially those at increased risk - to go to their doctor without delay if they spot any symptoms.
"We know that if people go to their GP as soon as they're aware of symptoms it can make all the difference and save lives.
"Look out for feeling more breathless than usual or for much of the time, a cough that has lasted longer than three weeks, an existing cough that has changed or got worse or coughing up blood. If you notice any of these or have worries about unusual changes, make an appointment to see your doctor."
Claire Cameron, from Bathgate, West Lothian, lost her mother Jane Liddell to lung cancer in February 2012, aged 59.
Ms Cameron, 33, said the non-smoker had suffered from a severe, persistent cough and was referred to a specialist who gave her the news.
She said: "Mum was ill for such a long time and we had to push her to go back and back to the doctor as she was one of those people who didn't want to waste her doctor's time. No-one suspected lung cancer, mum wasn't a smoker.
"When I look back now after all the recent TV advertising urging people with a cough to see their doctor, it all adds up. I only wish that things had been different for mum and that we had all been as aware.
"I urge anyone who has even the slightest of symptoms to keep getting it checked and, if you see no improvement, keep going back to the doctor."
Health Secretary Alex Neil said the Scottish government was running a high-profile campaign to encourage people to get checked early.
"We are also the first country in the world to trail a new ground-breaking test to detect lung cancer earlier," he added.
"If it works, it could lead to lung cancer being diagnosed, not just months, but in some cases years earlier." | Lung cancer rates in women have almost doubled in Scotland over the past 40 years, according to a charity. | 26654507 | [
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Dr Martin Thom was called to treat a man who had collapsed in the street in Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, in May last year because an ambulance was not available.
The Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service was told the doctor had been shoved and punched before he hit out.
Dr Thom's registration was suspended for two months. He was previously fined £360 in court after admitting assault.
The ruling said the GP had found the 25-year-old apparently under the influence of alcohol or drugs.
Dr Thom said he "felt threatened" in a situation over which he had no control or support.
He said the patient approached him and shoved him before punching him three times to the head.
The GP said he tried to defend himself by pushing the patient, causing him to bang his head against a wall. He then punched him twice.
He had no recollection of punching the patient, but accepted he did.
The doctor's actions were said to be out of character and he had cited workload pressures.
The tribunal report said: "You accepted that you should have ensured your own safety by withdrawing, but rather you acted disproportionately and assaulted the patient for which you apologised.
"You stated that 'it was unprofessional and completely unacceptable behaviour for which I accept responsibility'.
"You set out the learning points from this situation and stated that you had learned from your attendance at counselling and courses the correct way to handle such a situation so that you do not repeat your actions."
It stated: "You referred to your attendance at a NHS Grampian Management of Workplace Violence and Aggression course which you said had taught you valuable skills in recognising the first signs of aggression and strategies to avoid the situation you found yourself in that day.
"You said that in order for you to remain a valuable member of the profession you must find ways of coping with the stressful job of being a GP by learning appropriate and proportionate coping strategies and you set out details of the courses, counselling and reading you had undertaken with this aim in mind.
"You had been particularly influenced by reading Professor Steve Peters' 'The Chimp Paradox' and recognised that you were responsible for the actions of your 'inner chimp'.
The GP had previously been fined £360 at Peterhead Sheriff Court in November after admitting assault.
The ruling said: "The tribunal has taken the view that your registration should be suspended for a period of two months.
"It considers that this period is the minimum required to address the public interest in upholding standards and maintaining confidence in the profession, while also minimising the disadvantage which will arise to your colleagues and those in the local community where you work.
"You have demonstrated that you fully appreciate the gravity of what occurred."
The Saltoun Surgery, where Dr Thom works, said Dr Thom had been on-call and was asked to attend the scene.
The surgery added: "There is a lack of GPs willing to come to work in Fraserburgh and in rural and remote areas in general.
"There is a national shortage of GPs, which is not a new problem.
"We had no response to a recent national advert for GP in BMJ. We are training one of our nurses to become a nurse prescriber in an effort to meet ongoing demand."
An NHS Grampian spokesman said: "We note the decision of the MPTS and it would be inappropriate to comment further at this stage." | A GP who punched an aggressive patient has been suspended. | 37505047 | [
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Surprise frontrunner Francois Fillon said his project was "more radical", and vowed to implement sweeping changes in the first three months of his term.
Alain Juppe insisted his proposals were "deep and credible" but lacked the "brutality" of Mr Fillon's plans.
It was the final Republicans party debate before Sunday's concluding vote.
The Republicans candidate is widely expected to face far-right National Front (FN) leader Marine Le Pen in a runoff vote in the presidential election next May.
Self-declared supporters of the centre-right values are choosing between the two former prime ministers. It is the party's first such primary vote, modelled on the US system.
Seven candidates were whittled down to two last Sunday, with Mr Fillon taking an unexpectedly decisive lead of 44.1% to Mr Juppe's 28.5%.
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Fillon under fire over women's rights
The past week has seen a campaign marked by a bitter row over the nature Mr Fillon's social policies. Mr Juppe provoked a furious reaction when he questioned whether Mr Fillon, a Roman Catholic, could seek to challenge the legality of abortion.
But polling suggests such tactics seem to have backfired on Mr Juppe, once the favourite seen as the safe choice.
A poll of 908 debate viewers by Elabe suggested 71% of conservative respondents found Mr Fillon more convincing, as did 57% of viewers of all political stripes.
"It is true that my project is more radical and perhaps more difficult," said Mr Fillon.
His controversial economic reforms include cutting half a million public sector jobs and scrapping the 35-hour work week, prompting comparisons to the late British prime minister Margaret Thatcher.
Mr Juppe also proposes cutting jobs and liberalising work hours, though to a lesser extent. Both propose roughly similar cuts to public spending of at least €100bn (£85bn; $106bn).
"I've got a plan for the reforms I want to make in the first three months of the presidential term - and I'm convinced if we don't get these changes implemented in the first three months, the French people will feel disheartened, they'll turn away from politics, and then there'll be a greater risk of the extremists winning," Mr Fillon said.
The country was "on the brink of revolt", which could only be averted with such radical action.
Conservative Le Figaro says the debate "eased tensions on the right" and showed the two contenders "have already formed identical visions and almost similar projects" - in particular the need to end the "vicious cycle of spending and debt".
They have "some differences on security, education and migration, but they are minor", concludes its political editor.
But centre-left Le Monde's political correspondent disagrees, seeing "significant differences" on the European Union, Russia and Syria.
While Mr Fillon wants to "respect the sovereignty" of EU member states, Mr Juppe favours a "powerful EU as a future world power".
On Syria, Mr Fillon wants to put France "back in play" by "opening a channel to Damascus", whereas Mr Juppe wants to "boost transatlantic co-operation" and takes a firm line against President Bashar al-Assad, Le Monde says.
Left-wing Liberation writes that the debate between "Fillon the radical and Juppe the reconciler" was "knotty, often tense, but not aggressive".
It thought Mr Juppe managed to score points over his opponent on some issues, but "not enough to trouble the winner of the first round".
BBC Monitoring reports and analyses news from TV, radio, web and print media around the world. You can follow BBC Monitoring on Twitter and Facebook.
Mr Juppe hit back at Mr Fillon, saying "reform should not be a punishment but bring hope".
"The French social model exists, I want to consolidate it... not break it," Mr Juppe said, referring to the welfare system.
Mr Juppe pledged to bring unity and stability to the presidency - whose current Socialist incumbent, Francois Hollande, has seen his popularity drop to historic lows.
He said he would choose a "loyal" PM and 15 "durable" cabinet ministers who would not "change every 18 months". | The two rivals for the centre-right French presidential nomination have clashed over the level of change they promise to bring, in a TV debate. | 38102512 | [
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The call comes after at least four people were killed in clashes between police and protesters.
Pascal Tsaty Mabiala of the PanAfrican Union for Social Democracy wants to stop Sunday's vote going ahead.
President Denis Sassou Nguesso has been in power since 1997.
The vote is aimed at pushing through changes to the constitution such as scrapping age and two-term limits.
Police fired shots and tear gas in the capital, Brazzaville, on Tuesday in a clamp down on protests against the president's bid for a third term.
Texting and internet services were cut and public meetings banned ahead of the referendum, residents said.
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"People are demonstrating across the city. The police are firing tear gas bombs," Tresor Nzila, head of the Congolese Observatory of Human Rights, told the Reuters news agency.
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The opposition have been campaigning under the slogan "Sassoufit", a pun on the French expression for "that's enough".
Africa's longest-serving leaders:
The arrogance of power
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The trustees of Wykeham House School in Fareham had warned last month its future was in doubt.
A statement blamed falling numbers and said most children had found alternative schools.
The school offered single sex teaching for both boys and girls, charging fees of up to £4,100 per term. Both the boys' and girls' sites are to close.
Wykeham House School was established, initially as a girls' school, in 1913 and has about 120 pupils.
A new boys' senior school site opened in September 2014.
Its website said the school prided itself on its "small classes and nurturing environment".
Chair of trustees John Charles, said: 'We are sorry to be closing the doors on such a wonderful school.
"We have worked hard to explore different options to secure a future for our school but in the face of reducing pupil numbers and a shrinking market place for single sex education we have had to take the sad decision to close the school.'
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Tiffany Li, 31, posted $4m in cash and pledged $61m in property, raised from a group of friends, family and business associates, the Associated Press said.
The bail had been set at $35m, but California courts require double the amount if property is used.
Her lawyer said she was "well-liked in the community", the LA Times reported.
"I was surprised at the number of people that came forward," Geoff Carr said, "I think people believe she is not guilty," he told the newspaper.
Ms Li has pleaded not guilty to charges that she conspired with her boyfriend, Kaveh Bayat, and another man, Olivier Adella, to kill Keith Green, 27, and dispose of his body last year.
Prosecutors say she feared losing custody of her young children to Mr Green.
San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe told the LA Times the bail sum - described as "mind boggling" in one news report - would be the highest ever posted in the wealthy county's history.
He said he believed her to be a flight risk, but that lawyers on both sides had agreed that if the expected release went ahead she would have to wear an electronic monitoring bracelet, be under house arrest and surrender her passport as well as her children's.
Mr Carr said he expected Ms Li, a Chinese-born property manager and former stockbroker, to be released on Thursday, the Associated Press reported.
A family friend of Mr Green, Angela Dunn, said news of the bail was "very disappointing", ABC7 reported.
Mr Green and Ms Li had met on 28 April at a pancake restaurant near her home in Hillsborough, an area south of San Francisco, considered one of the wealthiest communities in the US.
But he never returned home. His body was found nearly two weeks later, some 80 miles (128km) north. He had been shot dead.
A week after that, Ms Li, Mr Adella and Mr Bayat were arrested on suspicion of murder. | A California woman suspected of murdering the father of her two children is hoping to be released from prison after raising $65m (£52m) bail. | 39511940 | [
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A foul smell led residents to the site in March.
The government says all the bodies were buried in a single night and include stillborn babies and unclaimed bodies.
But Human Rights Watch says they must check to see if any of the people killed during anti-government protests in January have been buried there.
Dozens of demonstrators died in protests over a proposed electoral law change which would have required a national census to be held before the presidential election could take place.
The US-based watchdog Human Rights Watch (HWR) has said that bodies went missing during the protests and also during government crackdowns on criminal gangs in the capital last year and in 2013.
Human rights workers first became aware of the burial site after residents of Maluku in Kinshasa reported a terrible smell near the local cemetery more than two weeks ago.
A woman working in the field then discovered a limb sticking out of the ground.
The DR Congo government has said that the bodies were all buried in individual graves on 19 March.
A spokesman said on Monday that there would be no exhumations of the bodies. | The Democratic Republic of the Congo has been urged to investigate at least 421 bodies found in an unmarked burial ground in the capital, Kinshasa. | 32197742 | [
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Woods, 41, is recovering from a fourth back operation since April 2014.
The American 14-time major winner was breathalysed in Florida in May after being arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence.
He denied alcohol was involved and said it was down to "an unexpected reaction to prescribed medication".
In a statement released on social media, Woods said: "I'm currently receiving professional help to manage my medications and the ways that I deal with back pain and a sleep disorder.
"I want to thank everyone for the amazing outpouring of support and understanding, especially the fans and players on tour."
Woods has not won a tournament anywhere since 2013, while his title drought in major championships dates back to 2008.
Last December, he came back after 15 months out injured but has not played since his back problems recurred in February.
A month ago, he wrote that his latest surgery had relieved pain and that he had not "felt this good in years".
Four days later he was arrested on the driving charge, which he is due to answer in court in Palm Beach County on 9 August. | Former world number one Tiger Woods says he is getting "professional help" to manage medication for pain and sleep loss as he tries to return to fitness. | 40337950 | [
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Poorer Indians who have no proof to offer of their existence will leapfrog into a national online system, another global first, where their identities can be validated anytime anywhere in a few seconds.
"India will outdo the world's biggest biometric databases including those of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the US-VISIT visa programme," says Nandan Nilekani, the technology tycoon who heads the programme popularly called by its acronym UIDAI.
The United States' visa programme is a biometric database of 120 million.
In comparison, the UIDAI has already registered 200 million members, less than two years after the first enrolment.
By 2014 half of India's population will have an identity tagged to a random, unique 12-digit number.
As more and more Indians have their fingerprints taken, irises scanned and photographs clicked, UIDAI's chief technology architect Pramod Varma describes the database structure as a "Google-meets-Facebook" scale out.
With its internet-class open source backbone, the database will accommodate more than 12 billion fingerprints, 2.4 billion iris scans and 1.2 billion photographs.
Even more groundbreaking, once established and stored, a person's identity can easily be verified and authenticated using a cell phone, smart phone, tablet or any other device hooked to the internet.
The information is stored in a fortress-like data centre in Bangalore with a triple layer of security, and travels in highly encrypted packets.
Many of the radical ideas for UIDAI's technology have come from the talent the project has drawn from the Indian diaspora - tech entrepreneurs like Bala Parthasarathy of HP-acquired photo service, Snapfish and Silicon Valley returnees like Srikanth Nadhamuni, formerly with Intel.
Mr Nilekani himself co-founded and built the multi-billion dollar outsourcing company Infosys before being drafted by the government to head the project.
The programme has studied global best practices in biometric identity databases.
Unlike the United States' social security number, which is guessable and China's, which adds the date of birth, India's 12-digit identity number is randomly generated.
The United States' visa database does not factor in iris scans while India has included them to provide a greater degree of accuracy.
India's telecom revolution leapfrogged over several stages of technology in the past decade-and-a-half to great success. Similarly, the massive UIDAI will vault over older technologies.
"By starting on a clean slate and reconfiguring the structure, we have opened up a whole new set of possibilities," says Mr Nilekani.
The project will stay abreast of the latest in biometrics, cloud computing and connectivity.
Costs though have been kept low, first, by adopting an open policy in selecting devices and software and encouraging multiple private vendors.
Second, the project is technology-neutral, not locking in to any particular hardware or software.
If the technology architecture is unique, so is its accuracy in validating identities.
"The combination of 10-finger biometrics, two-iris scans and photograph establishes the identity of a person with over 99.5% accuracy," says Krishnakumar Natarajan, CEO of Bangalore-based tech outsourcing firm MindTree, which is one of the firms building applications for the project.
The best of the biometric databases in the world have a single de-duplication check, to ensure that every person is identified and tagged only once.
UIDAI will de-duplicate three times over, accuracy that is vital in a country which has had a massive population migration in the past decade and welfare programmes that now total $60bn in value, says Ashok Dalwai, deputy director general of UIDAI.
"A lack of identity has become the divide in India, denying needy Indians access to welfare programmes," Mr Dalwai says.
In a country where billions of dollars in welfare get siphoned off by middlemen using fake identities, the programme will "stem leakage and fraud", he adds.
The real challenge for the project, however, will be in the applications built around the unique identities.
A slew of pilots are currently testing the robustness of the system.
In a trial in Tumkur near Bangalore, Indians armed with a new unique identity number are opening bank accounts electronically.
In the northern Jharkhand state, the government is electronically dispensing payments under an employment guarantee scheme directly into the recipients' bank accounts, which were opened after acquiring an identity number.
In another pilot in the same region, people are authenticating themselves on a simple device connected to the network and withdrawing money from their new bank accounts.
In the future, every outlet with such a device can potentially serve as a cash-dispensing "micro ATM".
In the coming years, UIDAI holds the promise of being a game changer.
With a unique identity, previously anonymous poor Indians can have access to services such as bank accounts, mobile connections and driving licences.
That is already something, for a country which has a population of 1.2 billion but only 50 million passport-holders and 200 million with driving licenses.
Indians design and build some of the world's most sophisticated software and technologies for multinational corporations.
Now, some of this hi-tech savvy promise to transport India's neglected millions from the technological dark ages, propelling them from complete obscurity to an online identity.
Saritha Rai is a journalist and commentator who tracks the economic, social and cultural changes sweeping India. | In an audacious technological mission, India is building a near foolproof database of personal biometric identities for nearly a billion people, something that has never been attempted anywhere in the world. | 18156858 | [
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The foreign ministry said a Russian jet flew into its airspace on the border with Syria on Friday. Moscow described the claim as "baseless propaganda".
Tensions between the two countries have been high since November, when Turkey shot down a Russian jet.
Russia has been carrying out air strikes in Syria since September.
It has been targeting forces fighting the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, its ally.
In a statement, the Turkish foreign ministry said a Russian SU-34 jet crossed into Turkish airspace at 11:46 local time on Friday, ignoring several warnings made in Russian and English.
It said the ministry had summoned the Russian ambassador in Ankara to "strongly protest at and condemn" the incident.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned on Saturday that Russia would "have to face consequences if it keeps up such violations".
"Such irresponsible steps do not benefit either the Russian Federation, or Russia-Nato relations, or regional and global peace," he told reporters.
He said he had asked repeatedly for a meeting with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, without success.
Nato - of which Turkey is a member - on Saturday urged Russia "to act responsibility and to fully respect Nato airspace" and "take all necessary measures to ensure that such violations do not happen again".
Relations between Russia and Turkey, a vocal opponent of Mr Assad, plummeted after Turkish F-16s shot down a Russian SU-24 on 24 November.
Turkey said the plane intruded into its airspace and ignored repeated warnings to leave.
Russia insisted the jet had never crossed over from Syrian territory and did not receive any warnings.
The two leaders embarked on a war of words and Russia introduced a raft of sanctions designed to damage Turkey's economy.
Moscow's ban on the import of Turkish foods, the sale of charter holidays for Russians to Turkey and most construction projects with Turkish firms was expected to cost the Turkish economy at least $10bn. | Turkey has accused Russia of again violating its airspace and warned it would "face consequences" if such infringements continue. | 35449152 | [
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The 25-year-old Spaniard agreed an initial three-year deal with the Whites last summer after moving to Craven Cottage from Rayo Vallecano.
However, he has not made a first-team appearance for the Championship club since October.
Celta are ninth in La Liga and will face Ukrainian side Shakhtar Donetsk in the last 32 of the Europa League.
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Strikes planned for Christmas were suspended after the new offer was made but members rejected it by 7-1.
The strike affects "mixed fleet" staff who joined after 2010 and account for 15% of the total cabin crew.
BA said it planned to "ensure that all our customers travel to their destinations".
It said further details for customers would be published on Friday 6 January, once it had finalised contingency plans.
"We are extremely disappointed that Unite has once again chosen to target our customers," the company said.
"We are now focused on protecting our customers from this unnecessary and completely unjustified action."
The dispute concerns about 4,000 staff who have joined the airline since 2010 on "mixed fleet" contracts, who do not feel they are paid enough. About 2,500 of them are Unite members.
Earnings were advertised between £21,000 and £25,000 but, in reality, start at just over £12,000 plus £3 an hour flying pay, Unite said.
The union said its members rejected the new offer by 7-1.
"British Airways is needlessly provoking strike action by refusing to extend the mandate of the strike ballot and allow meaningful talks to take place," Unite's national office Oliver Richardson said.
"Instead of listening to why its mixed fleet cabin crew rejected the offer negotiated at Acas, British Airways has sought instead to try and bully a workforce of young men and women who are trying to eke out a living on poverty pay."
However, he added that the union was "hopeful that a negotiated settlement which meets our members' aspirations can be achieved" and urged BA to "engage constructively". | British Airways cabin crew will stage a 48-hour strike from 10 January after rejecting a new pay offer, the Unite union says. | 38502182 | [
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These are two of the questions up for debate at a new exhibition at the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth.
From ancient Brythonic warlord to mythical chivalric king with a court anywhere from Wales to Glastonbury or as far north as Scotland - it is hard to separate myth, legend and fact.
According to curator Dr Maredudd ap Huw, these unknowns lie at the heart of King Arthur's enduring appeal.
"The beauty of Arthur is that he was - indeed, according to some 'is' - whoever you want him to be," said Dr ap Huw.
"There is some early evidence to suggest that there was an Arthur in the 4th or 5th Centuries.
"Though in all likelihood he was very far removed from the romantic depictions of (writers) Thomas Malory and Alfred, Lord Tennyson."
However, just how Welsh he would have been is a "moot point", Dr ap Huw added.
Before the Saxons drove the Brythonic people (Celtic Britons) west and north, there was no recognised entity of an independent Wales, making his nationality hard to ascertain.
The exhibition brings together all the crucial texts which have informed our perception of Arthur for more than a millennium.
One of the exhibits is the 13th Century Book of Aneirin, which includes a 6th Century poem describing a battle near what is now Catterick in North Yorkshire.
Dr ap Huw said one reference in it is extremely telling.
A young Brythonic hero called Gwawrddur is described as fighting valiantly against the Saxons "although he was no Arthur".
"It is possible to infer (from this) that the legend of Arthur as a fearsome warlord was already well-established by the 6th Century," Dr ap Huw added.
But the man who drew all the threads together and introduced Arthur's wife Guinevere, his sword Excalibur and the Knights of the Round Table was Geoffrey of Monmouth.
Dr ap Huw describes the 12th Century writer as "the most influential author in the history of Wales".
"Forget Dylan Thomas, what Geoffrey wrote had a far more profound impact on world thinking and the perception of Arthur as a Welsh hero," he said.
"Writing in Latin, his ideas rapidly spread throughout Europe, and via Chretien De Troyes, fed into the French-Norman ideals of chivalric kingship.
"Geoffrey claimed as his source an ancient Welsh manuscript which was then lost, never to be found. Read into that what you will, but what is certainly true to say is that it is still essentially Geoffrey's version of King Arthur which we are taught as children, right up to the present day."
Arthur's castle Camelot and other characters such as the wizard Merlin are then referenced in the 13th Century Black Book of Carmarthen.
There he is described as "a war veteran who has lost his wits in battle in Scotland, and has developed the gift of being able to talk to animals".
But it was not until the 15th and 16th Century that "Arthur Mania" reached its heights after William Caxton published Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur.
While Geoffrey of Monmouth set Camelot in the former Roman stronghold of Caerleon, near Newport, Malory anchored it as a thoroughly English tale.
So much so that King Henry VII named his eldest son Arthur in honour of the legend.
By 1534, Polydore Vergil's Anglica Historia had debunked much of Geoffrey of Monmouth's work, and cast doubt on the very existence of a historical Arthur at all.
"Virgil's account wasn't wholly accepted. John Prise - a lawyer for Thomas Cromwell - published a rebuttal in defence of Arthur, but by then the historiographic interest in Arthur was already fatally damaged.
"That's not to say we'd forgotten about him altogether. Edmund Spencer's Faerie Queene drew heavily on Arthurian tradition and, when it was presented to Queen Elizabeth I in 1590, she was so delighted that she awarded him a pension of £50 a year for life," Dr ap Huw said.
"But by then Arthur had become a Britannia or Gloriana-type figurehead for a nation.
"The historical Arthur was dead…though there are some who say he never died, and is simply waiting to wake again when his country needs him." | Who was King Arthur and how Welsh was he? | 40725177 | [
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The company was due to release results on 10 March and hold its shareholders' meeting towards the end of April.
It has not said by how much these events will be delayed.
It says results will be about the same as in 2014, although the cost of the crisis will eat into those.
It said it was working on "valuation calculations".
Sales in VW-branded cars dipped last year after the scandal - which affected 11 million cars - came to light in September. Deliveries fell 5.3% in October, 2.4% in November and 7.9% in December compared with those months in 2014.
It was its first drop in VW-branded sales in 11 years as the company continues to cope with the emissions scandal.
VW has promised it will have a fix in the coming weeks for the millions of US cars with defeat devices that disguised emission levels in diesel cars.
Sales of VW-brand cars fell 4.8% in 2015 to 5.82 million cars from 6.12 million a year earlier.
The US Environmental Protection Agency is suing the company over what it says were 600,000 affected vehicles and a US law firm is conducting an investigation into who made the decisions to cheat.
Volkswagen says it is sticking to its plan to publish the findings of its investigation into the scandal in the second half of April.
Results from Porsche, which is owned by Volkswagen, are also being delayed. | Volkswagen says it will not release its results nor hold its shareholders' meeting on time, as it needs more time to work out its accounts as a result of last year's emissions crisis. | 35499916 | [
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Peter Ward, 54 of Barnstaple in Devon and Richard Hiley, 30 of Tividale in the West Midlands were sentenced at Birmingham Crown Court on Monday.
Ward was given five years and two months, Hiley five years.
The pair pleaded guilty to possession, supply and importation of Class A and Class B drugs.
Peter Ward was known online as PlutoPete. His business specialised in supplying military-grade foil packaging that claimed to hide illegal materials from detection.
He also provided new psychoactive substances, commonly known as legal highs.
He was arrested by National Crime Agency officers in Barnstaple in October 2013 following an international operation targeting prominent vendors on dark web marketplaces like Silk Road.
Officers searched Ward's rural home and found class A and B drugs and numerous computers.
Analysis uncovered his close working with an ex-customer, Richard Hiley, who was commissioned by Ward to convert bitcoins into cash.
In December 2013, NCA officers raided Hiley's address in the West Midlands after financial records seized from Ward identified large scale transactions between the pair.
Hiley also pleaded guilty to two counts of importing a prohibited weapon after he imported five stun guns. He said they were for personal protection.
NCA Branch Commander, Ian Glover, said: "Criminals and their customers like to think that dark web market places provide an anonymous haven.
"The reality is that law enforcement works together internationally to identify and pursue these people."
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Borth Animalarium said 32 dragons, which were cold and not moving, were left in a cardboard box on the counter by a friend of a disabled man who could no longer take care of them.
Staff warmed them and fed them, and found homes for eight of the animals.
They are a docile and quiet species, and require a heated tank, light and UV sources.
Animalarium owner Jane Mumbray said: "Many people bred bearded dragons last year as they were selling for £80 each in some pet shops. However, there are so many of them about now they do not sell.
"They are probably the best pet lizard species of all. Bearded dragons greet each other by waving a front leg and will often greet their owner in the same way.
"It is not a light commitment to take on a pet lizard and should be taken seriously but they are a very rewarding pet." | A zoo in Ceredigion is looking for homes for 24 abandoned Australian bearded dragons. | 35092707 | [
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The commission is investigating tax deals granted to US companies for setting up headquarters in Europe.
Next month the EU is expected to deliver its decision on Apple. The company could be hit with a multi-billion pound bill for unpaid taxes.
The commission said there was "no bias against US companies" in the probes.
In a report published on Wednesday, the US regulator said action by Brussels would make it into a "supra-national tax authority" overriding the tax codes of its member states.
It also said Brussels was using a different set of criteria to judge cases involving US companies, adding that potential penalties were "deeply troubling".
Apple has been accused of sheltering billions of pounds in profit in the Republic of Ireland tax-free, under a deal it reached with Irish authorities. JP Morgan, an investment banker for Apple, has said the company could face a bill for $19bn (£14.3bn) in a worst-case scenario.
Several companies including Apple, Amazon and Starbucks are under investigation by the European Commission over allegations of tax avoidance.
Last year, the commission ruled that Starbucks and Fiat were given sweetheart tax deals in the Netherlands.
The EU's executive body said it was investigating whether Apple was given special tax benefits for setting up in Ireland that were not granted to other companies, potentially violating EU state aid rules.
Earlier this year the US government publicly challenged the investigation by Brussels, accusing it of targeting US corporations.
In its latest move, the Treasury Department asked Brussels to reconsider its actions against several US companies including Apple, Starbucks, and Amazon. It argued penalties for these firms could have broader repercussions for cross-border taxation.
"The investigations have global implications as well for the international tax system and the G20's agenda to combat [tax avoidance] while improving tax certainty to fuel growth and investment," Robert Stack, a Treasury Department deputy wrote in a blog on the agency's website.
He argued that a charge from the European Commission could be considered a foreign tax credit in the US - a classification that could reduce the businesses' tax bills in the US.
The Treasury Department said it was continuing to "consider potential responses should the commission continue its present course".
In response the commission said it was trying to ensure EU law was applied equally to all companies operating in Europe.
Apple has previously said that it had not had "any special tax deal with the Irish government".
"We have received no selective treatment from Irish officials," the company has said. "Apple is subject to the same tax laws as scores of other international companies doing business in Ireland."
The Irish finance ministry has also insisted Apple "did not receive selective treatment and there was no 'special tax rate deal'".
"Ireland is confident that there is no state aid rule breach in this case and we will defend all aspects vigorously," the Department of Finance said two years ago when the European Commission announced its formal investigation. | The US Treasury Department has warned the European Commission about taking action against US companies over tax avoidance allegations. | 37179785 | [
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Fire crews sprayed the whales with seawater as local teams tried to return them to the sea.
Expert Jacky Karpouzopoulos, of the Centre for Marine Mammal Research at La Rochelle, said the beaching may have followed the death of a dominant male in the pod.
He told La Voix du Nord newspaper that the whales could have been one family of which the dominant male died at sea and the others followed his body to the shore.
"The group was in the middle of a deep-sea migration towards the Faroe Islands to reproduce and feed," he said.
Mr Karpouzopoulos described the beaching of so many whales as "exceptional".
About 400 local residents went to the beach to try to help the rescue operation, La Voix du Nord reported.
It said that two of the rescued whales stayed close to the shore, as if waiting for the others to be returned.
The largest of the dead whales was a male more than 5m (16ft) long.
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The 39-year-old returned to the sport and has volunteered to educate Britain's young riders.
Technical director Shane Sutton said "nurturing an anti-doping culture" was at the heart of British Cycling.
Millar won stages in road cycling's three most prestigious stage races - the Tour de France, Vuelta a Espana and Giro d'Italia - and also won 2010 Commonwealth gold for Scotland in the road race time trial.
The Scot, who retired in 2014, is regarded as one of the sport's leading anti-doping campaigners.
Sutton added: "Having someone of David's calibre on board to support us in this education process is invaluable. He is readily available to share his well-rounded experiences as a professional cyclist to the young riders who aspire to succeed in their careers.
"David will work with the squad on a voluntary basis until the end of the month with a view to subsequently joining the team in a more official capacity." | British Cycling has revealed that David Millar, the former British road race champion who served a two-year doping ban, is mentoring its academy riders. | 35548357 | [
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The teenager was also charged in connection with a dishonesty offence that allegedly occurred at the same time on 31 March.
He was further charged in connection with a separate hare coursing incident in the Pathhead area on 23 March.
The boy is the second to be charged with the Dalkeith incident which took place on farmland.
A report has been submitted to the Children's Reporter.
Sgt Michele Lindsay, of Police Scotland, said: "We recognise the impact that hare coursing has on rural communities and remain committed to investigating all reports of this.
"We are working with farmers to tackle this issue and patrols are being carried out as part of the rural crime initiative.
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The firm, which controls two-fifths of the Scotch whisky industry, reported Scotch sales down 5% by volume.
However, single malts from Scotland continued their rise, led by the Singleton in the US and Taiwan.
American whiskey sales were also strengthened by apple-flavoured bottlings.
The London-based company has lost momentum due to slowing growth in key markets, including South America and China.
It has had lower shipments, as wholesalers have pulled back on stock-holding.
Despite flat comparable sales, Diageo posted a rise in pre-tax profits - from £2.7bn to £2.9bn. A big increase in volume of sales was driven by the acquisition of United Spirits in India, which boosted reported net sales by 5%.
Currency movements had an impact on its results, most significantly the Venezuelan bolivar and the Russian ruble. That cut £370m from sales and £100m from operating profit, once translated into sterling.
Some markets saw Diageo facing tough price competition, including Smirnoff vodka in the US and Johnnie Walker whisky in Brazil.
Notable improvements in sales were reported for Johnnie Walker in Mexico, while Guinness returned to growth in its UK and Irish home market.
American Blonde Lager drove Guinness sales up in the US. Net sales were up 6% in Africa.
Other developments during the financial year included a buyout of the remaining half of the Don Julio tequila brand, the sale of Gleneagles hotel and resort in Perthshire, and a shifting of strategy in South Africa to focus on spirits.
Diageo chief executive Ivan Menezes said the performance reflected the company's sales challenges, and that further changes were under way to sharpen the business.
He added: "We have consistently applied a long-term perspective in making changes, despite the short-term challenges we have faced from an external environment where currency volatility continues to impact the emerging market consumer."
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The drop was due to lower commodity prices and weaker domestic demand.
Next week, China is due to report its third-quarter growth rate, which is expected to be lower than the 7% annual pace seen in the second quarter.
China recently revised down its growth rate for 2014 from 7.4% to 7.3%, the weakest pace for almost 25 years.
China has been attempting to shift from an export-led economy to a consumer-led one, although the steep fall in imports suggests domestic demand is not as strong as the government would have hoped.
In dollar terms, China's exports fell by 3.7% from a year earlier to $205.6bn - although analysts had forecast a steeper fall.
The country's trade surplus nearly doubled to $60.34bn.
In yuan-denominated terms, imports fell by 17.7% while exports were down 1.1%.
In a research note, economists at ANZ said: "September's import figure does not bode well for industrial production and fixed-asset investment.
"Overall growth momentum last month remained weak and third-quarter GDP growth to be released next Monday will likely have edged down to 6.4% in the third quarter, compared with 7% in the first half." | China saw a sharp fall in the value of its imports last month, figures show, raising further questions over the strength of its economy. | 34513044 | [
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Michael Coe, 35, saw the two 16-year-olds hugging in the street in Newham, east London, in April and demanded to know if they were Muslims.
Southwark Crown Court heard the Muslim convert then called the girl a "whore", before throwing the boy to the ground.
Coe also attacked a passing teacher who had tried to help the couple.
Judge Michael Gledhill QC said the two children had denied they were Muslim when challenged by Coe.
"Why? Because they were frightened of what you would do if they told you the truth, that they were in fact Muslim," Jude Gledhill said.
He added: "At the time of these offences you either held extremist views or views that were getting very close to extremist views."
Coe had admitted "shoving" the boy - who is half his size - claiming he was acting in self-defence, but was convicted in August of assault occasioning actual bodily harm and battery.
The court heard the father of two was radicalised in prison by al-Qaeda terrorist Dhiren Barot in 2007 while serving an eight-year term for firing a shotgun at police during an arrest.
Coe was also convicted of religiously aggravated harassment in 2013 after seeing a Muslim woman talking to a group of men and telling her that it was against Islam.
The defendant, also known as Mikaeel Ibrahim, became a close associate of convicted hate preacher Choudary, founder of the banned organisation al-Muhajiroun, of which Coe was a member.
Prosecutor Jonathan Polnay read a victim impact statement from the boy.
"He feels the offence has affected his life quite a lot," My Polnay said. "He doesn't see his friends outside of school.
"He has also split up with the girl who was his girlfriend at the time." | An associate of convicted hate preacher Anjem Choudary has been jailed for 28 months for knocking a boy unconscious because he was cuddling a girl. | 38210021 | [
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Scotland is set for more devolved powers following the no vote.
The Tory leader said the debate must now widen to the rest of the UK.
"Just as the people of Scotland will have more powers over their affairs, so it follows that the people of England, Wales and Northern Ireland must have a bigger say over theirs," he said.
With the results in from all 32 Scottish council areas, the "No" side polled 2,001,926, votes to 1,617,989 for "Yes" - 55% to 45%.
The prime minister is set to outline plans for Scotland to have draft legislation published on its power on tax, spending and welfare by January.
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He said: "It is time for our United Kingdom to come together and to move forward.
"A vital part of that will be a balanced settlement - fair to people in Scotland, and importantly to everyone in England, Wales and Northern Ireland as well."
Mr Cameron added: "In Wales, there are plans to give the Welsh government and the assembly more powers and I want Wales to be at the heart of the debate on how to make our United Kingdom work for all our nations."
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg added that "this referendum marks not only a new chapter for Scotland within the UK but also wider constitutional reform across the Union."
Analysis - David Cornock, BBC Wales parliamentary correspondent
A lot of negotiations have gone on behind the scenes to ensure the prime minister's statement is not just an Anglo-Scottish one.
Welsh Secretary Stephen Crabb has been pushing to ensure Wales is not left behind in what David Cameron is calling this "new settlement".
Mr Cameron said that just as Scotland will have more power over their affairs, it follows that England, Wales and Northern Ireland must have a bigger say over theirs.
We know that more tax powers for Wales are in the pipeline. What this suggests is that perhaps there will be more flexibility about those powers.
David Cameron says the "West Lothian question" - English votes for English laws - needs a decisive answer.
Why should Scottish MPs vote on English and Welsh issues when English and Welsh MPs cannot vote on Scottish devolved issues? And to a lesser extent it applies to Welsh MPs on England-only issues.
Former Welsh secretary William Hague will be drawing up proposals.
This is important in terms of Conservative Party management as there is an English backlash from English Conservative MPs who think the current settlement is unfair.
Some would say the only answer to the West Lothian question is not to ask it because nobody has managed to resolve the issue.
Labour would say that banning Scottish MPs from some votes in the House of Commons would create two classes of MPs.
Nobody has yet come up with a definitive, universally accepted, answer to the West Lothian question, but David Cameron thinks and hopes he can have one in the next few weeks. | Prime Minister David Cameron says Wales must have a bigger say over its affairs in the wake of the Scottish independence referendum. | 29272702 | [
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Grant Ward's scuffed shot put Town ahead before Luke Varney rolled the ball into an empty net after QPR keeper Alex Smithies miscued a clearance.
Cole Skuse's long-range shot fell to Tom Lawrence, who capped the scoring with a calm finish into the corner.
Rangers offered little in attack, but sub Sandro headed Tjarron Cherry's corner against the post late on.
Ipswich had failed to score in seven of their previous 10 Championship games, but could have had plenty more, with Christophe Berra heading wide from six yards, and Skuse firing a volley straight at Smithies.
The Rs have won only once in their last six matches away from Loftus Road, and rarely looked like improving that record in Ian Holloway's second game in charge.
The win lifted Mick McCarthy's Ipswich up four places to 14th and above Rangers, who slipped to 15th.
Ipswich manager Mick McCarthy: "The irony was that poor old Alex Smithies cost them the second goal which set us up to win as comprehensively as we did. He then kept it from being an embarrassing scoreline, but I'll take three.
"With Luke Varney and also Jonathan Douglas, I knew what I was going to get - even though I bet some people weren't thinking that when they saw the teamsheet. Luke epitomised everything what I want in this team.
"We have not been bristling with confidence. I have had a couple of rotten weekends after Rotherham and Nottingham Forest. But hopefully Ipswich can be a happier place than it has been."
QPR boss Ian Holloway: "I am sure everyone will say everything hinged on the second goal, but it shouldn't have.
"The goal was a calamity and after that we were awful and it could have been four or five.
"Everyone will blame my keeper but I won't as my defenders should have made an angle for him. Even with my legs, I would have ran back and tried to help him.
"My players need to be mentally tougher as a group. I am disappointed with how we finished today. We have got to try and be a bigger, braver and more solid team."
Match ends, Ipswich Town 3, Queens Park Rangers 0.
Second Half ends, Ipswich Town 3, Queens Park Rangers 0.
Attempt saved. Yeni N'Gbakoto (Queens Park Rangers) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Yeni N'Gbakoto (Queens Park Rangers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Luke Chambers (Ipswich Town).
Attempt saved. Freddie Sears (Ipswich Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Jonathan Douglas.
Offside, Ipswich Town. Leon Best tries a through ball, but Jonathan Douglas is caught offside.
Attempt saved. David McGoldrick (Ipswich Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Leon Best.
Attempt saved. Freddie Sears (Ipswich Town) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Cole Skuse.
Karl Henry (Queens Park Rangers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jonathan Douglas (Ipswich Town).
Offside, Queens Park Rangers. Alex Smithies tries a through ball, but Idrissa Sylla is caught offside.
Sandro (Queens Park Rangers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by David McGoldrick (Ipswich Town).
Attempt blocked. Cole Skuse (Ipswich Town) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Corner, Ipswich Town. Conceded by Grant Hall.
Karl Henry (Queens Park Rangers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Cole Skuse (Ipswich Town).
Attempt missed. Jonathan Douglas (Ipswich Town) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Freddie Sears with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Ipswich Town. Conceded by Alex Smithies.
Attempt saved. Grant Ward (Ipswich Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Freddie Sears with a through ball.
Alex Smithies (Queens Park Rangers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jonathan Douglas (Ipswich Town).
Corner, Ipswich Town. Conceded by Alex Smithies.
Attempt saved. David McGoldrick (Ipswich Town) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Grant Ward.
Attempt missed. David McGoldrick (Ipswich Town) right footed shot from more than 35 yards misses to the left. Assisted by Cole Skuse following a set piece situation.
Substitution, Ipswich Town. Leon Best replaces Tom Lawrence.
Foul by Nedum Onuoha (Queens Park Rangers).
Grant Ward (Ipswich Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner, Queens Park Rangers. Conceded by Grant Ward.
Corner, Queens Park Rangers. Conceded by Adam Webster.
Sandro (Queens Park Rangers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jonathan Douglas (Ipswich Town).
Sandro (Queens Park Rangers) hits the right post with a header from the right side of the six yard box. Assisted by Tjaronn Chery with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Queens Park Rangers. Conceded by Christophe Berra.
Attempt missed. David McGoldrick (Ipswich Town) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Tom Lawrence.
Foul by Sandro (Queens Park Rangers).
Jonathan Douglas (Ipswich Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Karl Henry (Queens Park Rangers).
Cole Skuse (Ipswich Town) wins a free kick on the left wing. | Ipswich Town put their scoring problems behind them with their biggest win of the season to sink QPR at Portman Road. | 38034979 | [
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They have been taken to UN centres in Dohuk in Kurdish northern Iraq.
It is unclear whether they escaped in Iraq or were freed, as the UN declined to give more information to avoid jeopardising future releases.
IS killed and enslaved thousands of Yazidis after seizing the northern town of Sinjar in 2014.
Kurdish Peshmerga forces regained control in 2015 but many Yazidis were held captive by IS elsewhere as the group took over large swathes of northern Iraq.
The 36 survivors include men, women and children who were enslaved, the UN Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs said.
They reached Dohuk two nights ago where they are being housed in centres established by the UN Population Fund.
There, they are being reunited with family members and offered care including clothing and medical and psychological aid, the UN said.
The women and children are being cared for at dedicated service points and will be referred for more specialised treatment.
The UN's humanitarian co-ordinator for Iraq, Lise Grande, said the UN was going to do "everything possible" for the rescued Yazidi.
"What these women and girls have endured is unimaginable," she said.
Who, What, Why: Who are the Yazidis?
The UN - which has accused IS of committing genocide against the Yazidi - estimates that 1,500 women and girls are still being held and could be suffering protracted sexual abuse.
A UN report released last year said the extremists had subjected captured Yazidis to the "most horrific of atrocities", killing or enslaving thousands, warning IS aimed to completely erase their way of life.
In March. lawyer Amal Clooney urged the UN to back a UK-led investigation into the crimes committed by IS.
IS has been under increasing pressure in Iraq, losing much of the territory it seized in 2014.
Iraqi forces have recaptured most the city of Mosul from IS, but they are still trying to push the group out of the Old City district in the west. | Thirty-six members of the Yazidi religious minority are free after nearly three years in the hands of so-called Islamic State (IS), the UN says. | 39762790 | [
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The facility, based on the town's Crichton estate, is due to open in the next 12 months.
The centre will be used primarily to research ways to improve responses to weather-related emergencies such as flooding.
A report to the council's policy and resources committee will give a full update on progress to date.
Initially the facility will have up to six staff.
Last month, the Scottish government gave assurances that plans to develop the centre remained on track.
It followed concerns from Dumfriesshire Labour MSP Elaine Murray about the pace of progress on the project, since it was first announced in August last year.
A report to the council says it is essential the renewed impetus is maintained.
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The event was organised by trade unionists, councillors, Labour Party members, and MSPs.
They are calling for action by the Scottish and UK governments to protect the industry and its jobs.
About 400 marchers set off at 11:00 from the Dalzell works, heading to Ravenscraig for a rally.
Up to 270 jobs could be lost after Tata Steel announced plans to mothball the plants along with 900 posts at the firm's facility in Scunthorpe.
A total of 225 jobs are threatened at the Dalzell plate-rolling works in Motherwell, along with 45 posts at the Clydebridge plant in Cambuslang.
The company blames cheap Chinese imports and high energy costs for a collapse in steel prices. The Scottish government has assembled a taskforce to try to guarantee a future for the plants.
Community union representative Derek Fearon said: "We are trying to raise awareness of the campaign, and hopefully through this Tata will become a responsible seller.
"The main aim of the taskforce, the priority of it, is for the two plants to remain open.
"The mood is upbeat, the guys are still positive that everything can be done for the two plants to be saved."
The Scottish government has pledged to do everything possible to keep the plants operational, with its preferred option being to find a buyer.
However, ministers have not ruled out moves to bring both facilities under public ownership.
A Scottish Steel Task Force, chaired by business minister Fergus Ewing, and including representatives from trade unions and Tata, as well as local councils, met last week to discuss the way forward.
Motherwell and Wishaw MSP John Pentland, himself a former steelworker, has welcomed the creation of the task force and called for all avenues to be explored to keep the plants open.
He said: "The starting point for the Scottish Task Force should be saving the steel plants and all the jobs, not softening the blow.
"We should not meekly accept the annihilation of the Scottish steel industry. We don't want consolation measures such as retraining for other jobs that don't exist. There are other options that will protect the industry and its jobs.
"I believe Scottish steel can have a future, and we must consider all the options to achieve that, including public ownership, which doesn't rely on Westminster anymore." | Supporters of the two threatened Scottish steel plants have been marching through Motherwell in North Lanarkshire. | 34747019 | [
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A forensic anthropologist has been helping police since the remains were found at Pentrellyncymer near Cerrigydrudion in November.
His body is believed to have been in the forest for several years.
Police said the man is believed to be aged over 54 and between 5ft 8in (172cm) and 5ft 10in (177cm) tall.
Further forensic tests by experts continue to enable police to establish the circumstances of the death, said Det Supt John Hanson, of North Wales Police, the senior investigating officer.
Mr Hanson said: "The meticulous examination and recovery phase of this operation at the scene at Pentrellyncymer is now complete and the forensic anthropologist continues to examine all the remains.
"The, as yet unidentified, man sustained serious head trauma and whilst the circumstances of his death are unknown at this time the injuries indicate the death is suspicious so detectives will continue to work alongside forensic experts to establish the man's identity and circumstances and cause of his death.
"I am conscious at this stage the description of the man is very limited, and initial indications suggest his remains have been in the forest at Pentrellyncymer for several years.
"However I would still ask if anyone in the community can help me identify this man and offer any information which would progress this investigation to please contact North Wales Police." | Tests on the remains of a man found in a Conwy county forestry have shown he suffered serious head trauma and died in suspicious circumstances. | 35171225 | [
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Dame Rosemary Butler said it was "critical" that people voted, with more powers coming to Wales.
She said fewer than half of those eligible to vote did so in 2011.
"Yet when I tell people that around £16bn is spent on things like health and education, they quickly take an interest in how that money should be spent," she said.
Elections for the assembly and police and crime commissioners take place on 5 May.
There are concerns that up to 70,000 people in Wales - the number of voters in a typical constituency - have not registered to vote out of an adult population of 2.3m.
Speaking on National Voter Registration Day on Friday, Dame Rosemary said: "Encouraging more people to vote has been a key part of my role as Presiding Officer through campaigns like Women in Public Life, and tackling the democratic deficit.
"Devolution in Wales is moving into a new era with more powers set to lie here and more decisions made in Wales, for Wales."
Rhydian Thomas, head of the Electoral Commission in Wales, said they were fully behind the drive to recruit more voters.
"It's a fantastic opportunity to spread the message that young people, students, renters and home-movers are still much less likely to be registered to vote," he said.
Details of how to register to vote are available online. | The assembly's presiding officer is urging people to make sure they are registered to vote in May's elections. | 35501911 | [
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The Northampton hooker is expected to be named skipper by new head coach Eddie Jones on Monday.
Hartley has been banned for over a year in total during his career.
But Rugby Football Union chief executive Ritchie said he had "paid the penalty", adding "I don't think it precludes him [from being captain]".
Speaking to BBC Radio 5 live, Ritchie added: "It is primarily a matter for the head coach, and I'm not going to hinder that in any way.
"It's a matter of balance and perspective, and Dylan I'm sure brings many positives as well to the set-up."
Ritchie confirmed the RFU is monitoring the case of young flanker Sam Underhill, who plays for Welsh region Ospreys.
The 19-year-old is English and is on the radar of England boss Jones, but is ineligible to be picked for his country while playing outside the English Premiership.
Underhill - who has captained England at Under-18 level - is studying at Cardiff University and is contracted to Bridgend and the Ospreys.
However, Ritchie says Underhill's case may be viewed differently to the likes of those who play in France, and that he may be treated as a special case given his age.
"I think we need to look at that, and we are having some discussions about that," Ritchie added.
"We want to keep people who have played in our age-grade teams, as he has. We maybe need to look at whether it is different for elite squads compared to development squads."
Ritchie says French club Toulon's bid to join the Premiership is a "long shot".
The Toulon president Mourad Boudjelall has written to Premiership Rugby this week about the prospect.
The RFU council would have to approve any change to England's elite competition, and Ritchie believes there are numerous obstacles in Toulon's way.
"I think it's a challenging proposition," Ritchie said.
"I would think it's a long shot, but having said that it's for others to discuss as well, and we've not really sat down and had a proper, considered conversation about it yet.
"But in some ways it's interesting Mr Boudjellal thinks that playing rugby in England is good for Toulon, so we should look at that as a positive."
Despite England's disappointing performance at the World Cup, the RFU says it is on course to meet legacy targets.
Early evidence shows participation is increasing, including 8,000 adults returning to the game during and after the tournament, and the RFU has launched programmes to get more schools and clubs playing the sport, and will also provide 100 new artificial pitches across the country.
"We really are trying to use the opportunity the Rugby World Cup gave us to grow the profile of the game - and participation in the game - across the country. The hard work has started for us now as we try and maximise the opportunity," said the RFU's rugby development director Steve Grainger. | Dylan Hartley's disciplinary record should not prevent him being appointed England captain, according to the head of English rugby Ian Ritchie. | 35385719 | [
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The accused, three of whom are from Birmingham and the fourth from County Wexford, were arrested on Thursday.
Newry Crown Court was told the investigation involved the PSNI, National Crime Agency (NCA) and Garda (Irish police).
The 167kg drugs shipment was tracked through Spain, England and Ireland, the court heard.
The accused are Chris Connaughton, 36, of St Patrick's Place, Enniscorthy, County Wexford, and Birmingham men Stephen Dainty, 53, of Pool Farm Road, Alcocks Green, Mark Fleetwood, 51, of Dingleside, Hall Green and Paul Green, 62, Weatherfield Road, Tysley.
A lawyer for Mr Connaughton, in whose van the drugs were found, said his client was the "least-part player" and had merely agreed to collect unknown items using his van for a "200 euros cash in hand job".
The court was told he parked the van at Damolly Retail Park in Newry, where it was picked up by "others". The drugs were then allegedly loaded on in Camlough.
Flight records were revealed of connections from Birmingham to Dublin and Alicante in Spain using the credit card of Mr Fleetwood.
A lawyer for Mr Fleetwood said that he was the "patsy" of unknown contraband, "the camouflage in all this, used by others".
A district judge said he was satisfied there was a case against the co-accused in what he believed was a major drug operation crossing international boundaries.
"There has been a highly significant arrest involving drugs with evidence that the four defendants have played a part in a joint venture to conspire to bring drugs into this jurisdiction," the judge said.
"I am refusing bail on the fear that the accused may interfere with evidence gathering in what is a live investigation."
The four co-accused were remanded to appear via video link at Newry Magistrates' Court on 29 April. | Four men have appeared in court charged with attempting to smuggle £800,000 of cannabis into Northern Ireland in pallets of orange juice. | 32461587 | [
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The 20-year-old would have been part of Paul Simpson's squad in South Korea, but opted to remain in Glasgow.
"I made a decision and I'm proud of that decision," Roberts said.
"I've got a massive final to play. There's an incentive for all of us to go all the way."
Celtic can seal the treble - for only the third time in the club's history - if they overcome Aberdeen on Saturday at Hampden.
It may be Roberts' last game for the club, since he is due to return to parent side Manchester City in the summer, after 18 months at Celtic Park.
"To win the treble at this massive club would be big for me and hopefully we can do that," Roberts said.
"It's a massive trophy to be a part of and a big one in Scottish football. So it's important for all the players, not just me, to go into it 100% and we'll do that.
"We [have] the same focus, the same mindset and go into the final in the same way [as every other game this season]."
Celtic have defeated Aberdeen in all five of their meetings this season, but Roberts insists the Pittodrie side will be a "tough test" because "they have a point to prove".
Roberts has been in impressive form in recent weeks - scoring six goals in his last 10 games - and credits the influence of manager Brendan Rodgers for the level of his performances.
"I'm feeling good at the moment, confident, and as a player you need to feel good about yourself, to go into a game feeling positive and do what you do best," Roberts said.
"As a player, you're striving for games and form, and you become a better player for that. The time I've been here I've come on leaps and bounds, thanks to the players and the staff here. It's been a good year and it's not over yet.
"[Rodgers] is a top coach, and he's brought all the players onto a different level. This year we've been unplayable at times and that's been down to his management, his coaching has been brilliant.
"He loves working with young players, he's done that with me, Moussa [Dembele] and Kieran [Tierney] and we've gone up a gear this season, which is important for our careers as well as Celtic."
Roberts also expressed his condolences for the families affected by the Manchester bombing.
"It's a tragic thing to happen in any part of the world, but especially somewhere so close," he said.
"To go to a concert and for a bomb to go off, it's not good and our thoughts are with all the families end everyone in Manchester. It's good that we unite and get behind the country." | Celtic's on-loan attacker Patrick Roberts has no regrets over choosing to stay with Celtic for the Scottish Cup final rather than playing for England at the Under-20 World Cup. | 40014488 | [
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Organisers said they were not opposed to gay or lesbian rights, but wanted to defend family values and the institution of marriage.
The demonstrators called for a meeting with President Enrique Pena Nieto.
Gay and lesbian activists staged rival protests.
Public opinion in Mexico, a predominantly Roman Catholic nation, has been split since Mr Pena Nieto announced in May plans to change the constitution.
Same-sex marriages are legal in some Mexican states, but Mr Pena Nieto wants it to be allowed across the country.
Last year the Supreme Court declared that a ban on such unions imposed in many of Mexico's states was unconstitutional.
Leaders of the National Front for the Family, which organised the march, say they are not opposed to LGBT rights.
But they argue that Mexico has fallen victim of an ideological battle that threatens family values and the institution of marriage.
"In a democratic society you cannot impose a single thought," said Mario Alberto Romo, a spokesman for the group.
Demonstrators are calling for a meeting with Mr Pena Nieto to debate the issue.
LGBT rights supporters turned up at the march to show their backing for Mr Pena Nieto's proposal to legalise same-sex marriage, but police said there were no clashes.
Some of them carried banners that read: "I'm gay and I'm a Catholic" and "We also have families".
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West Ham said they will now work in unison with the ladies' team to ensure key improvements are made.
Vice-chairman Karren Brady said the Premier League club are "passionately committed to equality".
She added women's football was a "high priority on our agenda".
Hunt had told BBC Sport West Ham should "start to act like a 21st century club" and claimed they had stopped his team from finding sponsors, adding the ladies were short on funds because they had to buy their own kit.
In response, West Ham claimed Hunt had "refused to align" with their principles.
The ladies' team, who this season celebrate their 25th anniversary, play in the FA Women's Premier League Southern Division.
Brady added: "The addition of the ladies into the West Ham family is the solution my board and I have long sought.
"Not only does it secure the long-term future of the ladies' side, but also guarantees current and future supporters, players and staff of the ladies' team will form an integral part of the club's bright future as we move forward."
As part of the agreement, the West Ham Ladies' Academy will also be managed by the Premier League club. | West Ham United have taken over the running of the ladies' club, saying they are "delighted" to bring it into "the West Ham family". | 37616047 | [
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Lagmar Barking, a joint venture between MAR Properties and the Lagan Developments (Holdings), owned the Vicarage Field shopping centre in Barking.
It has been bought by Benson Elliot, a UK-based private equity property fund manager.
The last accounts for Lagmar Barking showed it owed its lenders £70m.
The loan secured on the centre was bought by the US investment fund Cerberus as part of its purchase of the National Asset Management Agency's (Nama) Northern Ireland loan book in 2014.
Peter Cornforth, director of retail at Benson Elliot, said the deal was "an exciting purchase for Benson Elliot".
He added that it provided the firm with "a fantastic opportunity to contribute to the regeneration of a key east London metropolitan centre".
Cerberus is continuing to rapidly work through the former Nama portfolio with a combination of asset sales, refinancings and enforcements. | A shopping centre in east London that had been owned by two Northern Ireland property groups has been sold for £35m. | 33515933 | [
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Congo needed a draw to progress and went ahead when Thierry Bifouma swept home Ferebory Dore's cross.
Burkina Faso required a win and offered little until the last 10 minutes when Aristide Bance scored at the far post.
Congo won it in the 87th minute when goalkeeper Germain Sanou punched the ball on to the shoulder of Fabrice Ondama and it trickled into the net.
Congo's qualification added to the remarkable record of manager Claude LeRoy, who has now achieved seven quarter-finals in eight appearances at the tournament with five different countries.
Congo had the best chance of a very disappointing first half in the 21st minute when Delvin N'Dinga played in Bifouma on the left-hand side of the penalty area, but the striker dragged the ball wide of the far post.
Burkina Faso, who reached the final of the last tournament in 2013, finally woke up as the match approached half-time.
First Jonathan Pitroipa set up Prejuce Nakoulma, who could not control the ball and Congo goalkeeper Christoffer Mafoumbi rushed out to clear.
Then Pitroipa received a pass inside the area, chested it down but sent his shot high over the bar.
The second half started in a much more eventful way with Dore heading a good chance past the near post from a 47th-minute corner.
Burkina Faso almost took the lead in remarkable fashion three minutes later.
Goalkeeper Sanou cleared the ball downfield from well inside his own penalty area and it reached the opposite area where it bounced over his counterpart Mafoumbi and rolled just past the post.
Bifouma put Congo in front a minute later from close range from a right-wing cross by Dore, who seemed to be clearly offside when he received the ball.
Burkina Faso needed to score twice to have a hope of going into the last eight but rarely looked likely to do that.
Congo nearly added to their lead with a 72nd-minute free-kick, but N'Dinga's powerful shot was saved by Sanou.
Burkina Faso finally found the net in the 81st minute when Mafoumbi spilled an Alain Traore free-kick, but substitute Issiaka Ouedraogo's finish was ruled out for offside.
Bance gave Burkina Faso's fans fleeting hope when he scored from Ouedraogo's cross, but 90 seconds later it was all over when the ball went in off Ondama as Congo secured victory.
Congo coach Claude LeRoy:
"It's incredible. I feel a lot of emotion and incredible happiness.
"We conceded a goal that shouldn't have stood because there was a foul on Bissiki at the start of the move, but although a 1-1 draw would have been enough, we hit back right away.
"We have come from nowhere. We knocked out Nigeria, the reigning champions, and now we have beaten Burkina Faso, who were runners-up last time. Anything that happens from now on is a bonus."
Burkina Faso coach Paul Put:
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3 January 2016 Last updated at 16:39 GMT
The Met Office warned of heavy rain in the morning, followed by heavy showers, from 04:00 GMT. This latest band of heavy rain is expected to last until Tuesday.
The chief forecaster said a greater risk of localised flooding than normal might be expected given the already saturated ground following weeks of heavy rain.
One lane in each of the Brynglas tunnels in Newport was blocked due to flooding while Dyfed-Powys Police reported a number of flooded roads in Powys, Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire.
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Wisley Property Investments is hoping to build homes, shops, a school, health centre and sports pitch on the former Wisley Airfield site.
A decision was expected by 24 December but Guildford councillor Tony Rooth said more information was needed.
However, Guildford greenbelt councillor Susan Parker fears the delay will play into the developer's hands.
Ms Parker, leader of the Guildford Greenbelt Group, said the decision could be taken away from the borough if it doesn't come to a decision by the agreed date.
She explained: "The applicant could seek to go to the inspector on the grounds of non-determination which means the council hasn't decided therefore you have to decide Mr Inspector.
"And the inspector normally has more of the presumption in favour of approving something if there has been non-determination."
But Guildford's lead councillor on housing Tony Rooth said it was a very big project with "all sorts of issues" which would take a long time to evaluate.
He added: "What we need are brownfield sites where much-needed housing in Guildford can be built.
"Whether Wisley qualifies as a brownfield, or even a white concrete site as opposed to a Greenbelt site, we will evaluate when the applications are fully ready to consider."
Guildford Borough Council confirmed the 24 December date was "now unlikely" and said it would be seeking to agree a further extension of time. | A decision on plans to build more than 2,000 homes on a former airfield in Surrey has been delayed. | 34891230 | [
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She quit the role accusing the UK party leadership of treating Scotland like a "branch office".
Jack McConnell, who was Labour first minister from 2001 to 2007, said he was "very, very angry".
While his predecessor Henry McLeish said Labour faced a problem of "historic, epic proportions".
Ms Lamont announced her resignation in an interview with the Daily Record.
She said: "Just as the SNP must embrace that devolution is the settled will of the Scottish people, the Labour Party must recognise that the Scottish party has to be autonomous and not just a branch office of a party based in London."
Ms Lamont also attacked those who had attempted to undermine her position as she sought to reform the party in Scotland.
Mr McLeish, a former Westminster MP who returned to Scotland and led Labour at the Scottish Parliament from 2000 to 2001, said: "Labour in Westminster, Labour in London has not a clue about the realities of Scottish politics.
"Joanne has been badly advised. The influences on Ed Miliband have not been helpful."
Mr McLeish said Ms Lamont had been unable to lead the party in Scotland amid "constant sniping" from MPs.
"It's interesting to know that while we've had devolution of government from Westminster over the last 20 years, we've had no devolution of political power from the Labour Party," he added.
Former Scottish Labour leader Jack McConnell tweeted: "This is a truly astonishing development. Johann leaves with head held high. Outrageous treatment of Scottish Labour Party Leader."
Lord McConnell later told BBC Radio Scotland's Good Morning Scotland programme he was "very angry".
He said Ms Lamont, who was given more power than previous Scottish Labour leaders when she was elected three years ago, must share some of the blame for failing to set out "a positive vision for the 21st century".
Lord McConnell added: "But to undermine her position in this way, when the position of the Scottish Labour Party leader was clarified so clearly three years ago, is in my view entirely the wrong way to go.
"I think there are serious questions that need to be asked about what has happened in these past two weeks, but also that this issue has to be resolved in advance of the election of the next leader of the Scottish Labour Party."
Lord McConnell said Ms Lamont's move to publicly blame Mr Miliband and "those around him" was a "very serious accusation" that required answers from him and those closest to him. | Two former first ministers of Scotland have hit out at Labour's treatment of Johann Lamont who has resigned from the post of Scottish party leader. | 29770207 | [
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Both Jenny Rathbone and Mike Hedges are applying separately to take part in a ballot which, if they win, will allow them to propose a bill to ban the fees.
Mr Hedges said the fees were a "tax" on some of society's poorest with students among the biggest hit.
But one letting agent said a ban could hit efforts to professionalise the sector.
The Welsh Government said it was happy to consider how such legislation might work.
The charges have already been banned in Scotland, while the UK government is planning to consult on doing the same in England.
There are currently no firm plans to do the same in Wales, although the Welsh Government has said it was "actively considering" the move. Ministers have faced criticism for not acting sooner.
AMs from all of the assembly's opposition parties have supported a ban.
Assembly members can propose bills - proposals for new laws which when passed by the assembly become acts - from outside the government through a random ballot process.
Mr Hedges said: "They are a tax on some of the poorest people in society who are engaged in private rented accommodation."
The Swansea East AM said it was a big problem in university cities and a "big problem anywhere where there is more demand for housing then there is housing".
Mr Hedges believes that about 20 AMs may apply to take part in the ballot - although only Mr Hedges and Ms Rathbone are currently known to be proposing banning the fees.
Cardiff Council AM Jenny Rathbone said Mr Hedges' attempt "doubles the chances of one of us being picked".
Catherine Iannucci, 21, originally from Barry and studying her third year of history and politics at Cardiff University, lives in a house with six other tenants.
She said they have had to pay £80 each to take the home off the market - amounting to a fee of £560 for the agency.
Ms Iannucci, who is a part of the group Labour Students and has conducted research on agency fees for Ms Rathbone, said: "It's a significant amount of money.
"We don't really know what they're for and we don't know what that's gone towards."
She also had to pay a deposit of a month's rent, plus £50.
"In the middle of term, because we look around February time - nobody has that money to just throw away easily. It does put you under a lot pressure for the rest of the term," she said.
She said she would be in favour of a ban as long as it meant that rents did not go up as a result.
Douglas Haig is the director for Wales and vice-chairman of the Residential Landlords Association - which also owns Cardiff property management company James Douglas Sales and Lettings.
He said his firm does charge fees, adding: "There are fees that go to landlord, there are fees that go to the tenant."
Mr Haig said he did not condone "sharp practices" in the sector but warned that banning fees may make it harder to professionalise the industry.
"If we just outright ban fees, then we're going to have a number of consequences," he said.
"The most important is around the professionalisation of the sector... If you are taking away money from the sector, that's going to be very difficult to continue providing quality.
"I don't think the vast majority of agents out there are actually profiteering.
"There are costs in running these businesses that people are unaware of and as increased state regulation comes in, those costs continue to rise."
A Welsh Government spokesman said: "We are happy to consider how legislation on this might work.
"We want to look at the evidence from Scotland and see wider consultation to ensure that a ban on fees does not push rental costs up."
The next scheduled ballot for backbench bills is on 25 January. | Letting agents' fees for tenants could be banned in Wales under proposals from two backbench Labour AMs. | 38327779 | [
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It's overtaken Barack Obama's famous "four more years" tweet.
When Obama sent the message after being re-elected in 2012, he made history by being retweeted more than half a million times in a few hours and smashed previous records.
It's now been shared more than 750,000 times.
But the One Direction tweet from 2011 in which Louis said Harry was "always in my heart" is now more popular, having been retweeted more than 780,000 times.
Both still have a long way to go to beat the famous Oscar selfie posted by Ellen DeGeneres. So far that has been retweeted more than three million times.
Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter, BBCNewsbeat on Instagram and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube | A tweet from One Direction's Louis Tomlinson to Harry Styles has become the second most retweeted post of all time. | 30814192 | [
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The fact that the government is no longer even the biggest shareholder marks an important return to near normality.
Since 2013, the government stake has been sold off at first in a couple of big chunks and then in a gradual trickle and so this moment was bound to happen at some stage.
The government still owns nearly 6%, but global investor Blackrock now eclipses that and Lloyds is on trajectory to return to full private ownership later this year when taxpayers should recoup all the money they put in.
It hasn't been an easy ride. The huge compensation costs of PPI mis-selling and intermittent market turbulence have hampered and delayed the process, but Lloyds, while not risk-free, can be considered pretty much out of the woods.
As a plain vanilla UK savings and lending bank, Lloyds was always going to be an easier bank to fix than RBS which is still about 71% owned by the taxpayer.
As a global bank with fingers in most of the pies that got burnt during the crisis, RBS has paid out over £50bn in fines and compensation and has its biggest reckoning yet to come.
It is still facing a bill from US authorities which could end up in the double digit billions for its role in the subprime mis-selling scandal that started the whole financial crisis in the first place.
While those negotiations could come to a head as early as this week (watch out for separate blog on this), RBS won't reach the point Lloyds did today for many, many years to come. | Eight years ago the government rescued Lloyds by taking a 43% stake for just over £20bn. | 38552831 | [
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Nick Woodman described the remote controlled aircraft as the "ultimate" accessory for his firm's action cameras.
He made the announcement at the Code Conference in California, where he also unveiled new kit to that helps capture video footage for virtual reality helmets.
One industry watcher said GoPro's move into drones was "very significant".
"It's the fact that the company has such a strong brand," explained John Stapley from Amateur Photographer magazine.
"It's similar to what you can already see with action cameras. There are a lot of others out there but most people don't know they exist or don't have any interest in them because GoPro has become such a dominant name that it is 'the action brand' as far as they are concerned."
The risk for the firm, he added, was that other drone manufacturers would opt to partner with other camera makers to avoid supporting a competitor.
The world's bestselling commercial drone maker - China's DJI - has already decided to limit initial sales of its Phantom 3 flagship to a design that features its own proprietary video camera.
The previous generation had been launched instead with an optional mount for GoPro cams.
Mr Woodman said he planned to release the GoPro drone within the first half of 2016, and that it would be targeted at consumers.
"Quadcopters have a special place for us at GoPro because I was a huge radio-controlled plane enthusiast as a kid and I could never really get anyone involved in it with me because it was either too geeky or it took a lot of time to learn how to fly these things - you'd crash them all the time," he said.
"So, I was really surprised to see how quickly the general consumer was adopting quadcopters.
"Quads plus GoPro has been one of the most democratising combinations in terms of enabling people to capture professional quality content and see themselves in their environment in a way that they'd never seen before. It looks like you're in your own movie."
Drones are expected to be one of the fastest growing electronics sectors over the coming years.
According to the US's Consumer Electronics Association, the global market for consumer drones totalled $84m (£54m) last year but is forecast to top $300m by 2018. The CEA adds that if regulators relax the rules for the use of such aircraft by commercial organisations, the market could further swell to $1bn by 2020.
That could represent a lucrative new market for GoPro.
The firm's existing cameras and other accessories generated $363m of sales over the first three months of 2015. That was up 54% on the previous year, but resulted in a relatively slim net profit of $16.8m.
Mr Woodman also showed off a prototype mount that can hold six of his firm's Hero4 cameras, each pointing in a different direction.
He said the resulting footage could be stitched together using software developed by Kolor - a start-up it bought last month - to create a single 6K-quality 360-degree image.
This could then be used with virtual reality helmets - allowing a user to change their perspective by turning their head left and right and looking up and down - or via YouTube and Facebook, which are both adding support for interactive spherical videos.
The Six-Camera Spherical Array add-on will go on sale later this year.
Mr Woodman acknowledged, however, that the high cost of buying enough cameras to fill it was likely to limit the mount's appeal to professionals.
At a subsequent event, Google also announced a more elaborate virtual reality capture device, which involves 16 GoPro cameras, as part of a tie-up between the two companies.
The footage produced by the Jump camera array will be processed by the search firm's own software to produce panoramas, rather than spherical videos, that make use of depth data deduced by Google's algorithms. | GoPro's chief executive has confirmed it will make its own quadcopter drones. | 32915014 | [
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But when the last Labour government tried to bring them in the plan faced robust opposition, and the reintroduction of ID cards is not currently being considered by this government.
Everyone, even children, had to carry an ID card during World War Two. Introduced in 1939 the idea was to enable the government to keep track of a transient population, displaced by bombs or evacuated from their homes. The wartime ID card system remained in place after 1945, eventually going out of use in the early 1950s.
Labour revived the idea of a national identity card scheme at the start of the new century.
David Blunkett, the then Home Secretary, outlined the plans in 2002. At the time the project had an estimated cost of up to £3bn.
He said the cards would ensure people did not work if they were not entitled to and did not "draw on services which are free in this country, unless they are entitled to".
In March 2006 and after several defeats in the House of Lords, the Identity Cards Act became law and in November 2008 the roll-out of compulsory ID cards for foreign nationals began .
The scheme remained controversial and in 2009 a new Home Secretary, Alan Johnson said the cards would not be compulsory for UK citizens, however pilot schemes continued and at the end of 2009 people in Greater Manchester became the first in the UK to be able to buy a biometric ID card - at a cost of £30.
By the time of the 2010 General Election around 15,000 were thought to be in circulation, but Labour lost the election and the new coalition government scrapped the project. The cards were no longer valid and the national identity register, which held the personal details of everyone issued with an identity card, including photographs and fingerprint biometrics was destroyed in 2011.
Various arguments have been put forward for and against the use of ID cards .
Those in favour say they provide clarity for employers, are the only way to properly deal with illegal immigration and tackle both identity and benefit fraud. It has also been suggested they could help in the fight against terrorism.
Those against ID cards point to the expense of bringing in any scheme, Labour's project is said to have cost £5bn. Opponents also highlight the civil liberties concerns and what they believe is unnecessary data collection and intrusion by the state.
In response to the recent scenes of thousands of migrants trying to get to the UK after crossing from North Africa and travelling through Europe, the deputy mayor of Calais, Philippe Mignonet has said the UK should introduce ID cards (and employment controls).
But there's still strong opposition to the idea here.
The anti-ID cards pressure group NO2ID remains in existence and is withering about the deputy mayor's suggestion. NO2ID's General Secretary Guy Herbert disagrees with the deputy mayor: "France has had ID cards for decades, but they have not stopped migrants coming to his town.
"In fact though coalition rhetoric was against the Blair government's centralised scheme, the UK makes lots of demands on people to produce ID in various forms in everyday life. This is getting steadily worse, but does not seem to have made much difference to people with strong motivations to come here."
And the deputy mayor of Calais is likely to be disappointed by the response from Britain's politicians too.
The Shadow Immigration Minister David Hanson was in the Home Office when Labour introduced its scheme. When asked what he thought now about identity cards, he said: " I felt they were a way in which we can at least track and identify individuals but that debate has moved on... we're not going to introduce them in the near future given the capital and financial cost of doing that - what we need to do is to ensure that we have proper enforcement."
The Home Office also rejected the idea, a spokesperson said: "The government has no plans to introduce ID cards in the UK."
Read more: Would Calais migrants really be better off in the UK? | The deputy mayor of Calais, Philippe Mignonet wants the UK to introduce identity cards as part of efforts to deter migrants gathering at the French port and attempting to cross the channel. | 33756783 | [
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The 27-year-old had been due to face Wladimir Klitschko in a rematch, before the Ukrainian retired on Thursday.
The WBA says Joshua and Ortiz have 30 days from 3 August to agree the fight.
Joshua, who beat Klitschko at Wembley in April, has also been told he must face IBF mandatory challenger Kubrat Pulev before 2 December or risk being stripped of his belt.
There had been plans for Joshua to fight Klitschko in Las Vegas on 11 November and Ortiz's manager, Jay Jimenez, has said his fighter could fill the void.
Jimenez told Boxingscene: "We are next. We have no problem fighting on that date of November 11th in Las Vegas. Our mandatory takes precedent over Pulev's and they know that."
Ortiz, 38, has 23 knockouts from 27 wins, while Pulev, 36, has one defeat in his 26 fights, with 13 stoppages.
Joshua holds two of the four major belts, with New Zealand's Joseph Parker the WBO champion, while American Deontay Wilder has the WBC belt. | British heavyweight Anthony Joshua has been ordered by the WBA to defend his title against Cuba's Luis Ortiz. | 40824231 | [
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A Health Protection Agency study found a 10-fold increased risk in cases of the sleep disorder in children seen in sleep centres who had received the jab.
Manufacturer GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has been ordered to investigate the link.
Families who believe they were affected are now considering a group legal action.
Pandemrix was most widely used in the UK during the 2009-10 flu pandemic and given to almost a million British children between six months and five years old. The vaccine, which is no longer used, has already been linked to narcolepsy in youngsters from Finland, Sweden and Ireland.
Narcolepsy is a rare sleeping condition. The main symptom is falling asleep suddenly and it may also cause muscle weakness.
The HPA abstract paper, from Developmental Medicine in Childhood Neurology, was presented to a conference of paediatricians in Manchester and is now being considered for publication in full by the British Medical Journal. It estimates the risk was one in 52,000 in those vaccinated.
Specialists reviewed 75 children aged four to 18 who developed narcolepsy about the time Pandemrix was rolled out. Of these, 18 had received Pandemrix.
They found a 10-fold increased risk of the condition within six months of having the jab which "suggests a causal association consistent with reports from Finland and Sweden".
An expert in vaccines who was in charge of one of the paediatric clinical trials of Pandemrix, Prof Adam Finn from the University of Bristol, said: "The risk is so much increased that it seems very unlikely that this is a biased result.
"The bottom line is they have found they were somewhere between 10 and 16 times more likely to have had Pandemrix than other children. So that confirms what you would expect to see based on other studies done in Finland, Sweden and Ireland, which are all the same."
Research programme
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) warned in 2011 that Pandemrix should only be given to children and teenagers at risk of H1N1 flu if other jabs are unavailable because of concerns of potential link to narcolepsy.
It has ordered GSK to commit to a complex research programme to look at the root causes.
GSK say they take the safety of patients very seriously and are working hard to better understand the research emerging from a select number of countries.
A spokesperson said: "Narcolepsy is a complex disease and its causes are not yet fully understood but it is generally considered to be associated with genetic and environmental factors, including infections.
"It is crucial that we learn more about how narcolepsy is triggered and how Pandemrix might have interacted with other risk factors in affected individuals. Throughout development there was no data suggesting a potential for an increased risk of narcolepsy among those vaccinated."
It is understood that one possible trigger is the high levels of adjuvant in the vaccine used to enhance the recipients response.
The UK government, which gave GSK a legal indemnity against having to pay compensation, could now face the prospect of a group legal action by families affected.
The Department of Work and Pensions, which is responsible for administering Vaccine Damage Payments Scheme says there is currently insufficient medical evidence to show that the swine flu vaccine causes narcolepsy.
A spokesperson for the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency said: "The results of the HPA study are consistent with earlier evidence from some other EU countries and support the regulatory action already taken in Europe to restrict the use of Pandemrix in those aged under 20 years." | An increased risk of narcolepsy has been found among English children vaccinated with the swine flu vaccine, Pandemrix. | 21197394 | [
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Brian Farrell admitted conspiring to distribute heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine, in March this year.
Silk Road 2.0 was shut down in 2015, following Operation Onymous, raids that targeted almost 400 suspected illicit marketplaces around the world.
At the time, it was generating sales of about $8m (£5.5m) a month and had about 150,000 users.
Ross Ulbricht, who set up the original Silk Road, was sentenced in May 2015 to life in prison on several charges including distributing drugs.
Silk Road 2.0 was a copy of the original site and allowed people to use bitcoins to anonymously buy and sell drugs and other illegal goods and services via the Tor dark web network.
Farrell, who operated online using the alias "DoctorClu", had admitted his involvement with the site when prosecutors had been searching his Washington home in 2015, court papers revealed.
Blake Benthall, arrested in 2014, denies creating the Silk Road 2.0 site. | An American who helped run a successor to the Silk Road drug marketplace has been sentenced to eight years in jail. | 36459014 | [
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Zuniga can play in either full-back position and has 62 caps for his country.
The 30-year-old joined Napoli in 2009 from Siena, and played for four years under new Watford boss Walter Mazzarri.
He is the Premier League club's fourth summer signing, following centre-back Christian Kabasele, striker Jerome Sinclair and record buy Isaac Success.
Zuniga played four times for Colombia at the 2014 World Cup, and it was his challenge that caused Brazil forward Neymar to miss the 7-1 semi-final defeat by Germany.
The defender has appeared 125 times for Napoli during seven years at the Serie A club and spent a short spell on loan at Bologna at the start of 2016.
Media playback is not supported on this device | Watford have signed Colombia defender Juan Camilo Zuniga on a season-long loan from Italian side Napoli. | 36814012 | [
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Marcel Kittel o'r Almaen oedd y cyntaf i gyrraedd y llinell derfyn yn Liege, gyda Thomas yn seithfed.
Mewn glaw trwm ac amgylchiadau anodd, cafodd Thomas a phencampwr y llynedd, Chris Froome, hefyd o Team Sky, ddamwain ar hyd y daith, ond llwyddodd Thomas i gyrraedd y terfyn yn ddianaf.
Ond Geraint Thomas sy'n parhau ar frig y tabl ar sail amser.
Dywedodd Geraint Thomas fod y profiad o ddod yn fuddugol yn y ras yn erbyn y cloc ddydd Sadwrn yn anghredadwy, a diolchodd i'w gefnogwyr am eu dymuniadau da.
Bydd y trydydd cymal yn dechrau yn Verviers yng Ngwlad Belg ddydd Llun, ac yn croesi'r ffin i Ffrainc cyn gorffen yn Longwy.
Tabl y Tour de France wedi dau gymal
1. Geraint Thomas (Prydain/Team Sky) - 4:53:10"
2. Stefan Kueng (Swisdir/BMC Racing) - +5 eiliad
3. Marcel Kittel (Yr Almaen/Quick-Step) - +6 eiliad
4. Vasil Kiryienka (Belarws/Team Sky) - +7 eiliad
5. Matteo Trentin (Yr Eidal/Quick-Step) - +10 eiliad
6. Chris Froome (Prydain/Team Sky) - +12 eiliad
Gallwch wylio uchafbwyntiau'r Tour de France ar S4C yn ddyddiol. | Bydd Geraint Thomas yn gwisgo crys melyn y Tour de France unwaith eto ddydd Llun er nad enillodd ail gymal y ras. | 40475158 | [
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The 8ft guitar statue has been erected in East Park, where he worked as an attendant before gaining musical fame working with David Bowie in the 1970s.
Ronson led Bowie's backing band, Spiders From Mars. He died in 1993, aged 46, after developing liver cancer.
His sister Maggie Ronson said: "He absolutely loved his gardening job so this couldn't be more perfect.
"We're very, very happy and I'm sure he'd be very proud."
More on this and other stories from East Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire
Councillor Mary Glew, who unveiled the sculpture at a ceremony, said it was "a fitting tribute" to the musician who "left an enduring legacy to the world of contemporary music".
The sculpture was designed by 18-year-old Hull College student Janis Skodins, whose artwork was chosen in a competition.
It has been installed in the Michael Ronson Garden of Reflection, near the park's pavilion.
The sculpture is among 100 plaques and memorials honouring notable people across Hull for its City of Culture celebrations.
Fellow musician Trevor Bolder is also due to be honoured.
As well as working with Bowie, Ronson recorded several solo albums, the most successful of which was Slaughter on 10th Avenue, which reached number nine in the UK album chart.
He also played on, produced or arranged songs for artists including Lou Reed, Bob Dylan, and Morrissey. | A sculpture honouring Spiders From Mars guitarist Mick Ronson has been unveiled in his home town of Hull. | 40132259 | [
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Guy Bridge, 16, completed the lap on Thursday in two hours, 32 minutes and 25 seconds to become the fastest single-handed sailor round the island.
His mother, Steph Bridge, claimed the spot for the fastest female in three hours, three minutes and 24 seconds.
The World Sailing Speed Records (WSSR) will formally ratify the timings later.
WSSR said: "This is the first time there has been an official attempt in these two categories. It's a benchmark."
Guy, who beat his brother, Olly, 18, in the race by just two seconds said: "It feels amazing but my legs were burning - it was tough."
The trio from Exmouth reached speeds of 25knots during the 55-mile (89km) race which started and finished off the Royal Yacht Squadron line in Cowes. | A mother and her teenage son have set benchmark records for the fastest circumnavigation of the Isle of Wight on kiteboards. | 36682475 | [
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Ministers had been criticised for scrapping MyTravelPass, which gave 16-18 year olds a third off bus travel.
But it will now continue beyond April until a new scheme, planned for 2018, is in place.
The move was welcomed by NUS Wales but the Welsh Conservatives said the "U-turn" highlighted historical issues over the management of projects.
MyTravelPass was established as part of a budget deal with the Liberal Democrats during the last assembly term.
The Welsh Government announced the end of the scheme in January. The announcement was criticised by bus operators and other AMs, including Labour's Lynne Neagle.
CPT Cymru, which represents the bus industry, said at the time of the decision to end the scheme, it had not been well publicised and that take-up had been low.
The Welsh Government, at the time of announcing the end of the scheme, had said that it was only ever launched as a pilot with funding agreed until March 2017.
It said initial analysis suggested that pass-holders were not using their passes to travel outside their immediate areas.
But in a statement to assembly members, Economy Secretary Ken Skates said "there is clearly an appetite in Wales for a scheme of this nature".
Mr Skates said he would launch a consultation into a new youth travel pass, which he intends to launch from 2018.
The existing arrangements will continue to be available throughout Wales from 1 April 2017, the minister explained, adding he has asked CPT to come forward with proposals for a new marketing campaign.
NUS Wales deputy president Carmen Smith welcomed the news but said the new scheme "should be extended to all learners in further education and apprentices to the age of 25".
The Welsh Liberal Democrats also welcomed the move while Welsh Conservative spokesman for skills Mohammad Asghar called it an expected "U-turn".
He said the move "once again highlights historical issues within the economy department over its management and implementation of investments and projects".
A Welsh Government spokesman said: "We made clear at the time of the draft budget that as a result of the low take up of the pilot MyTravelPass, our intention was to develop a new discount scheme for young people that learned the lessons of the pilot and which could encourage more young people to use the bus network.
"Today we have confirmed that approach." | A £15m Welsh discount travel pass for young people that was axed has been reinstated. | 39040199 | [
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The new polymer £5 note, which is slightly smaller than its paper predecessor, will be available in branches before becoming more widely available across Scotland.
It continues to feature Sir Walter Scott and The Mound on the front, and a bridge theme on the back.
All existing paper Bank of Scotland £5 notes will be gradually withdrawn.
However, those that remain in circulation will continue to be accepted at shops, banks and cash payment machines.
Bank of Scotland also plans to replace its £10 paper note with a polymer version next year.
The new, plastic material is said to be cleaner and more resilient to being crumpled and spilled on.
In September, the Bank of England released new £5 plastic notes featuring Winston Churchill on the back.
It was the first time a polymer note had been circulated by the Bank of England, but other parts of the UK have already been using the material.
Polymer banknotes are made from a very thin, flexible, see-through plastic film, with the design printed on special layers of ink on the front and back.
Because the main material is see-through, the design can include clear spots that are like little windows you can look straight through.
More than 20 countries around the world already use polymer banknotes - they include Scotland, Australia, New Zealand and Canada.
Last year the Clydesdale Bank brought a fully plastic note into circulation in the UK for the first time with a limited commemorative edition £5 note.
As of last week, it entered into full circulation, and has begun to replace the current paper version.
The note features Scottish engineering pioneer and entrepreneur Sir William Arrol on the front, along with the Forth Bridge and the Titan Crane.
The reverse shows several images of the Forth Bridge.
Royal Bank of Scotland's new £5 plastic note is due to enter circulation on 27 October.
It will feature Scottish novelist and poet Nan Shepherd.
Scientist Mary Somerville has already been selected for the bank's planned £10 polymer note, which is due to enter into circulation next year.
They will be the first women to appear on the bank's main issue notes. | The Bank of Scotland's first plastic banknote intended for general circulation is set to be issued. | 37542612 | [
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He declared Nato was "no longer obsolete" and dropped his pledge to declare China a currency manipulator.
Mr Trump also said he was no longer opposed to a federal exports agency he once dismissed as "unnecessary".
And the president signalled he was open to reappointing Janet Yellen as head of the Federal Reserve.
Meanwhile, his administration dropped a freeze on federal hiring that it imposed in January.
The about-faces suggest the mercurial Mr Trump may be favouring a more pragmatic, moderate approach to the hardline economic nationalism that helped elect him.
The startling series of flip-flops come amid reports of a titanic White House power struggle between chief strategist Steve Bannon and senior adviser Jared Kushner.
According to the Washington rumour mill, Mr Bannon - the former Breitbart News executive - has been sidelined after falling out with the president's son-in-law, Mr Kushner.
Mr Trump's decision not to label China a "currency manipulator" emerged in an interview with the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday.
That U-turn follows his talks last week with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
Mr Trump repeatedly pledged to label Beijing a "currency manipulator" on his first day in office, during an election campaign when he also accused the Asian powerhouse of "raping" the US.
But experts said a formal declaration to that effect by the Treasury Department could have led to US sanctions, which would have prompted retaliation from Beijing.
Mr Trump's last campaign ad depicted Janet Yellen, head of the Federal Reserve, as a member of a shadowy globalist cabal "who control the levers of power in Washington".
On Wednesday, he told the Wall Street Journal he "respects" the US central bank chief.
He also indicated he might consider reappointing her next year, saying she would not be "toast".
Mr Trump was once highly critical of the Fed, saying its low interest rate policy had hurt savers. Now he says he likes "a low-interest rate policy".
On his first working day in office, Mr Trump signed a presidential memorandum to suspend hiring of non-military federal workers, in a move that delighted small government conservatives.
The order mandated that "no vacant positions… may be filled and no new positions may be created".
But that policy was gone on Wednesday. White House budget director Mick Mulvaney said: "It does not mean that the agencies will be free to hire willy-nilly."
He said they were "replacing it with a smarter plan, a more strategic plan, a more surgical plan".
In the Wall Street Journal interview, the president praised the Export-Import Bank, which he dismissed in August last year as an "unnecessary" agency with "a lot of excess baggage".
The bank, which provides taxpayer-backed loans for the purchase of US exports, is accused by conservatives of corporate cronyism and welfare.
Now he plans to fill two vacancies on its board.
"It turns out that, first of all," Mr Trump told the Journal, "lots of small companies are really helped."
Mr Trump repeatedly questioned the military alliance's purpose during the campaign.
But as he hosted Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at the White House on Wednesday, the US president said the threat of terrorism had underlined the alliance's importance.
"I said it [Nato] was obsolete," Mr Trump said. "It's no longer obsolete."
CNN political pundit David Gregory says the shifts show Trump is willing to be a dealmaking president.
"He's flexible, perhaps unprincipled, with a pragmatic approach to government," he said.
But he warned that, although tacking back and forth is fine, it is dangerous to be "all over the map" because people stop believing what you say.
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What has Trump done so far? | US President Donald Trump has reversed course in the space of 24 hours on an array of populist positions he adopted during the election campaign. | 39591032 | [
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The key moment was a fumble by Mayo keeper Robert Hennelly early in the second half which gifted Dublin a penalty scored by Diarmuid Connolly.
Hennelly was a late inclusion in place of David Clarke but the move backfired.
Deep in injury-time, Cillian O'Connor missed a difficult free which would have levelled the scores.
Lee Keegan's goal put Mayo ahead midway through the first period but Dublin regrouped to lead 0-10 to 1-6 by half-time.
Hennelly struggled badly with his kick-outs early on with one of his misdirected clearances leading to the black carding of the influential Keegan late in the first half in what was a huge blow for the Connacht county.
Earlier, Dublin's Jonny Cooper was also black carded and a number other players from both sides - notably Dublin's John Small - were fortunate not to suffer the same fate.
In the end, Dublin's stronger bench proved decisive as Cormac Costello came on to kick the champions' three final scores from play.
Cillian O'Connor's ninth point of the contest left the minimum between the teams with three minutes of injury-time left but the Mayo free-taker then missed a high-pressure free from 40 metres which would have levelled the scores again.
As Dublin celebrated back-to-back titles for the first time since the county's triumphs in 1976 and '77, Mayo's players looked crestfallen as they attempted to come to terms with a fifth All-Ireland final defeat in 12 years.
With Hennelly struggling to pick out team-mates from his kick-outs, Dublin moved into a 0-4 to 0-0 lead by the sixth minute which included three Dean Rock points - two of which were from play.
But Mayo were on terms within six minutes after a run of four points started by Patrick Durcan's superb point.
Two Rock frees edged Dublin ahead again but Mayo were suddenly in the lead as the over-lapping Keegan took a perfectly weighted pass from Aidan O'Shea before hammering past Stephen Cluxton from 14 yards.
Cooper's black carding moments later for a hand trip appeared a further boost for Mayo but the Dubs outscored them 0-4 to 0-2 during the remainder of the first period to lead 0-10 to 1-6 at the break.
Mayo regained the lead within two minutes of the restart but were soon three in arrears after another Rock free was followed by Hennelly's howler as he was forced to concede a penalty after spilling a harmless looking ball, with his inevitable black carding followed by Connolly superbly stroking past Clarke.
Mayo cut Dublin's lead to the minimum on four occasions during the remaining half hour of action but their habitual woes of errant shooting and a lack of composure prevented them from getting on terms.
Once again, Aidan O'Shea was not the force that Mayo would have hoped for despite his good work for their first-half goal.
Mayo: R Hennelly, B Harrison, D Vaughan, K Higgins, L Keegan, C Boyle, P Durcan, S O'Shea, T Parsons, K McLoughlin, A O'Shea, D O'Connor, J Doherty. A Moran, C O'Connor.
Dublin: S Cluxton; P McMahon, J Cooper, M Fitzsimons; J McCarthy, C O'Sullivan, J Small; B Fenton, P Mannion; P Flynn, K McManamon, C Kilkenny; D Rock, D Connolly, B Brogan. | Mayo's 65-year wait for an All-Ireland Senior Football title goes on after holders Dublin edged a 1-15 to 1-14 win in the final replay at Croke Park. | 37525042 | [
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The first minister signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with SinoFortone and another Chinese firm in March.
After reports that the agreement has now been cancelled, the Scottish government highlighted a "climate of hostility" from opposition parties.
Opponents of the deal called for a full statement on the "sorry episode".
The agreement, said to be worth up to £10bn, was signed with representatives of SinoFortone Group and China Railway No. 3 Engineering Group (CR3) at Nicola Sturgeon's official Bute House residence in Edinburgh.
However opposition parties voiced fears about the deal, amid concerns CR3's parent company China Railway Group had been named in an Amnesty International report on human rights abuses and had been blacklisted by Norway's oil fund.
Ms Sturgeon said no specific deals would be done with the Chinese consortium if legitimate concerns were uncovered, with all actual investments to be scrutinised by the Scottish Parliament.
The Sunday Times newspaper reported the deal had collapsed in August and claimed it had become known in China as the "Scottish shambles".
A spokesman for Economy Secretary Keith Brown said the government was aware of some concerns but had not thought the deal was off.
He also said opposition parties should be "ashamed" for putting potential investments at risk.
The spokesman said: "We did not consider that the MOU had been cancelled but were aware that SinoFortone felt they could not move ahead at that time in the climate of hostility they faced from other parties.
"However, they continued to believe in the benefits for Scotland of an infrastructure partnership with China and we remained committed to pursuing these opportunities.
"The MOU is about building relationships with a view to investment and we remain committed to it. We are sorry if the partners consider the MOU to be cancelled and we remain open to working together on projects in the future."
Opposition parties maintained their stance, with Labour's Jackie Baillie demanding the government "come clean" about the fate of the agreement "as a matter of urgency".
She said: "Scotland deserves answers on this backroom deal - the whole affair poses serious questions about the transparency and competence of SNP ministers. The SNP government's handling of this has been cackhanded from the very beginning, so it is no wonder it has been branded a shambles.
"The SNP tried to hush up this deal throughout the election, and now we find out that it fell apart months ago, and yet the Scottish people - once again - were none the wiser."
Scottish Conservative economy spokesman Dean Lockhart added: "This whole episode has shown the SNP just can't be trusted with economic matters. It thought it had struck gold, tried and failed to keep it a secret, and now doesn't seem to know what's going on.
"We now need a calm assessment of all this to see if a potentially lucrative deal with China can be reached. These things can't be allowed to fall through because of SNP bungling."
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie, who lodged 28 parliamentary questions about the MOU on the first day of the new Holyrood term, also called for an "urgent statement" from Mr Brown about the affair.
He said: "They must explain what recent discussions they have had with these Chinese companies, what lessons they have learned from this sorry episode and what new arrangements will be put in place to attract ethical investment for Scotland.
"The SNP has a chance to inject some much needed transparency for something that has been clouded in secrecy. Throughout this whole process groups such as Amnesty International and Transparency International expressed concerns but the SNP covered their ears and ploughed on regardless. The showed a casual disregard for human rights."
The Scottish government spokesman said opposition parties should be "ashamed", accusing them of "doing Scotland down".
He said: "The opposition should be ashamed of themselves if their actions, in search of cheap headlines, have put up to £10bn of investment at risk.
"The Scottish government will do everything we can to make sure that Scotland is open for business. It would be helpful if opposition parties joined us in making the case for Scotland, rather than doing Scotland down." | A row has broken out over an investment pact between Scotland and China after the Scottish government blamed the opposition for its reported collapse. | 37897626 | [
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The 49-year-old was convicted at the Old Bailey after backing the group in an oath of allegiance published online.
Police say Choudary's followers carried out attacks in the UK and abroad.
The judge, who described Choudary as calculating and dangerous, passed the same sentence on his confidant Mohammed Mizanur Rahman, 33.
Both men were also sentenced to a notification order lasting 15 years, which requires them to tell police if details such as their address change.
Choudary, of Ilford, east London, and Rahman, from Palmers Green, north London, were convicted last month of inviting support for IS - an offence contrary to section 12 of the Terrorism Act 2000 - between 29 June 2014 and 6 March 2015.
The trial heard the pair also used speeches to urge support for IS, which is also known as Daesh, after it declared a caliphate in the summer of 2014.
Counter-terrorism chiefs blame the preacher and the proscribed organisations which he helped to run, such as al-Muhajiroun, for radicalising young men and women including the killers of soldier Lee Rigby in 2013.
But they said they had been unable to act for many years as Choudary - a former solicitor - had stayed "just within the law".
By Dominic Casciani, BBC home affairs correspondent
As he was sentenced, Choudary's supporters stood up in the public gallery and shouted: "Allahu Akbar" - Arabic for God is greatist. He smiled and disappeared down to the cells.
For 20 years Choudary has been the police's headache - now he is the prison service's. He will start time in the high security unit - a prison within a prison - at HMP Belmarsh in south-east London. Only a few of the most dangerous individuals in the country are ever held there at one time - and the priority will be keeping him apart from the impressionable minds whom Mr Justice Holroyde said he did so much to influence.
Whether the prison service will succeed is unclear. Only last month it published a report that raised serious questions about how well the UK manages violent extremists behind bars. So what happens to Choudary from now on may demonstrate whether jails can securely hold people like him and prevent them from doing further harm.
Home Secretary Amber Rudd said: "This is a serious custodial sentence, and it's a tribute to the work of the police and security services. The country is safer.
"All their evil words and dissent they've tried to sow throughout society is over. They're paying the price and they're going to jail."
Sue Hemming, CPS head of counter terrorism said: "Both men were fully aware that Daesh is a proscribed terrorist group responsible for brutal activities and that what they themselves were doing was illegal.
"Those who invite others to support such organisations will be prosecuted and jailed for their crimes."
'Gateway to terror'
The head of the Metropolitan Police's counter terrorism command, Commander Dean Haydon, said the pair caused "frustration for both law enforcement agencies and communities as they spread hate".
"We have watched Choudary developing a media career as spokesman for the extremists, saying the most distasteful of comments, but without crossing the criminal threshold," he said.
"This has been a significant prosecution in our fight against terrorism, and we will now be working with communities to ensure that they are not replaced by others spreading hate."
Kalsoom Bashir from counter-extremism organisation Inspire, said she was relieved the law had caught up with Choudary, saying he has been described as "the gateway to terror".
"He has enticed those individuals who were on the fringes of society towards supporting violent extremism and giving them, behind closed doors, justification for committing acts of violence in the name of terror - those who heard him then went on to commit those acts of terror."
Hannah Stuart, research fellow at The Henry Jackson Society - a think tank which aims to combat extremism - said Choudary and Rahman will continue to pose a threat even in prison, due to their "low likelihood of rehabilitation".
"It is key that their internet access be restricted and that staff are able to identify their efforts to influence communal environments, such as Friday prayers or informal social settings," she said.
In court, Choudary refused to stand up in the dock as his sentencing hearing began.
Passing sentence, the judge, Mr Justice Holroyde, said the pair had "crossed the line between the legitimate expression of your own views and a criminal act".
"A significant proportion of those listening to your words would be impressionable persons looking to you for guidance on how to act," he said.
He told Choudary he had failed to condemn "any aspect" of what IS was doing, adding: "In that way you indirectly encouraged violent terrorist activity."
The judge said that in one of Choudary's speeches he referred "happily to the prospect of the flag of Islam flying over 10 Downing Street and the White House", and in another set out his ambitions for Islam to "dominate the whole world".
Choudary's supporters included the men who murdered Fusilier Lee Rigby - Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale.
Mr Justice Holroyde went on to describe Rahman as a "hothead" while Choudary was more "calculating" and more experienced, adding that both men were dangerous and had shown no remorse.
"You are both mature men and intelligent men who knew throughout exactly what you were doing. You are both fluent and persuasive speakers."
Choudary's lawyer, Mark Summers QC, asked the judge to take into account the impact of solitary confinement on his client's mental welfare when deciding how long he must serve in jail.
However, the judge refused to shorten the sentence and said it was a matter for the Prison Service.
He added that he could not decide sentences based on "speculation" over whether Choudary would be held in solitary confinement "to minimise the risk that persons such as you two will radicalise other prisoners whilst serving your sentences".
"I do not think it would be right to reduce your sentence because of the possibility that your own behaviour may cause the prison service to deal with you in a particular way," he said.
Both Choudary and Rahman were previously convicted over a protest march held in London in 2006 over Danish cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.
Choudary was fined £500 for failing to give notice of a public procession while Rahman was convicted of soliciting murder and jailed for six years. | Radical preacher Anjem Choudary has been jailed for five-and-a-half years for inviting support for the so-called Islamic State group. | 37284199 | [
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Imagine a situation where most people with a common condition are undiagnosed and where opportunities are repeatedly missed to identify the problem and to offer good care.
What is this condition? It's dying.
Each year, an estimated 92,000 people in England are believed to need end of life care but not receive it.
As a practising GP I have seen distressed relatives after a patient has died in hospital.
Often they have not had a chance to see their relative before they died and were unaware of the seriousness of the condition, despite repeated admissions with deteriorating conditions.
Many such patients are never formally identified as at risk of dying and not assessed for end of life care.
One relative said something that haunts me to this day: "I wish the doctors had told me that my mother was dying."
As a result too many people still die in distress with uncontrolled symptoms, or have futile interventions when this will not make any difference.
All of us, including doctors, must do more to talk about dying.
A new ComRes research for the Dying Matters Coalition confirms there is a widespread reluctance to talk about dying and death.
That is why we want to encourage people to talk more openly about dying and bereavement and to make plans around end-of-life care.
Most people have not made a plan of their choices and wishes in the event of a serious illness.
People often think there is plenty of time when the situation arises but often this is not the case and it can be too late.
Doctors are trained to cure, but as people live with long-term conditions, the medical profession needs to change how it works with dying patients.
We need to bring dying back into people's homes, rather than in hospital, care homes or hospices.
As increasing numbers of people develop and live with dementia, it is vital that doctors talk about the kind of end-of-life care people would choose, while people are healthy.
There's a huge change required in our culture, starting with the medical profession.
Having learnt a lot from the Canadian communications expert Prof Stephen Workman, I would urge doctors to do three things.
First, be compassionate but direct when talking about dying.
Doctors speaking to relatives about an ill patient who is giving cause for concern, should not just say "your husband is seriously ill", but should add "It is possible that he could die". This allows all involved to prepare.
Secondly, be honest and don't offer false hope.
Think twice about offering a false choice of procedures like cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) when someone is actually dying and chances of recovery are minuscule.
Instead offer supportive care to keep the patient comfortable and allow them to die a natural dignified death.
And, thirdly, when doctors diagnose a serious illness they should ask the patient whether they would like to talk about what they can expect and what is likely to happen.
Most people die from frailty in old age, and will be well known to health and social care services.
Importantly, this gives opportunities for talking about end of life wishes and advance care planning.
My ambition is to reduce the fear of dying and increase knowledge and awareness of palliative care.
It is vitally important that every person who is coming to the end of their life is spotted early enough and supported to make a good advance care plan.
I know just how hard it is to address issues like this in the frenzy of busy surgeries and wards.
But we as doctors need to up our game.
All of us, especially doctors can play a part in ensuring everyone is able to have a good death. | In this week's Scrubbing Up opinion column, Prof Mayur Lakhani chair of the Dying Matters Coalition, urges doctors to be more open and frank about preparing patients and their families for the end of life. | 18101418 | [
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Property developers Michael and John Taggart are offering a settlement where they would repay less than 1p for every pound they owe.
That arrangement, known as an Individual Voluntary Arrangement (IVA), would allow them to avoid bankruptcy.
The brothers' house-building business collapsed in 2008. Their creditors will vote on the IVA proposal next month.
In December 2015, the brothers lost a long-running legal battle with the Ulster Bank. | Two County Londonderry brothers facing bankruptcy owe their creditors up to £213m, the High Court has been told. | 38768801 | [
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It follows the arrest of an former ombudsman investigator over an alleged theft of sensitive security documents.
It is understood the documents contained information the police and security service MI5 believe could put the lives of individuals at risk.
The PFNI said it was an "astounding and very worrying state of affairs".
A 69-year-old man was arrested in Dartford, Kent, on Sunday after detectives from the PSNI's Serious Crime Branch conducted a joint search with local police.
It is understood he retired from the ombudsman's office a number of years ago and that the documents do not refer to any case currently being investigated by it.
Mark Lindsay, chair of the federation, said there had to be an element of fairness for police officers under investigation.
"They need the same protections that a normal member of society would have and that doesn't exist at the moment with the ombudsman's office," he told the BBC's Good Morning Ulster programme.
"There is a real role for the Police Ombudsman's office, but that office has to hold the confidence of police officers."
The police have begun a criminal investigation into the issue and have also suspended the release of any further sensitive material to the ombudsman's office until a review of security protocols is carried out.
The Ulster Unionist MP Tom Elliott said the ombudsman's office had serious questions to answer.
"When there's alleged wrongdoing, the PSNI should be called in at an earlier stage to investigate these matters so that they can be independently investigated," Mr Elliott told the BBC.
"There is a failure and a gap there that needs to be resolved."
In a statement to the BBC, a spokesman for the ombudsman confirmed he was alerted by police last week about the theft of sensitive material originating from the office.
The office of the Police Ombudsman said it was anticipated that this suspension of the sharing of sensitive material "will be temporary." | The Police Federation of Northern Ireland (PFNI) has called for a "full inquiry" into the operation of the police ombudsman. | 39587693 | [
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The UK stage of the race comes to the city on 7 July.
Cycling enthusiast Rad Wagon is recruiting people to knit 3,000 miniature "Tour jerseys" and wool-covered bicycle wheels.
Schools and knitting groups have already offered to start knitting and the council was "interested", he said.
A similar "mini-jersey" idea is being promoted by Harrogate Borough Council for the Yorkshire stage of the race.
The public response to that was so overwhelming the council had to ask people not to send any more knitting to them.
"It's a bit copycat but we can do so much more," Mr Wagon said.
"The city's well-known for its knitters and 'yarn bombers' who cover everything from bikes to trees to lamp-posts. It's 'very Cambridge'.
"I think knitting is in Cambridge's DNA," he added.
Mr Wagon, a cycling skills and bicycle maintenance trainer from Outspoken Training in the city, said he was a fan not only of the Tour de France, but the cultural activities surrounding it.
"It isn't just a bike race. Its history is all about promoting your town and region and that's something we can do.
"The world's eyes will be on us and it's a chance for us to show that Cambridge can do things slightly differently, and perhaps slightly oddly," he said.
A knitting shop owner has offered to give knitting lessons and collect the tiny pullovers, Mr Wagon said.
A cycle shop in the city has also offered a collection of battered wheels which Mr Wagon hopes can also be turned into knitted decorations.
He said he was discussing suitable places his knitted bunting might go, with the city council. | A man who admits he "cannot knit a stitch" is hoping to cover the streets of Cambridge with knitted bunting and wool artwork during the Tour de France. | 26564061 | [
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It began on Friday when Ramzan Kadyrov, leader of the southern Russian republic, labelled opponents of President Vladimir Putin "enemies of the people" and called for such "traitors" to be prosecuted for subversion, claiming they were working in league with the West.
Mr Kadyrov has now re-asserted his claims and gone even further in an online editorial for pro-Kremlin newspaper Izvestia.
Referring to a "half-witted rabble", he offered opposition activists the services of a Chechen psychiatric hospital to treat their "mass psychosis".
"I promise we won't spare the injections. We can do double," he wrote.
A boxer-turned-insurgent and now a self-styled "foot soldier" of President Putin, the man known simply as Ramzan is not someone many in Russia dare criticise openly.
Human rights groups have long accused him of presiding over widespread abuses in the Russian republic, and the key suspect in last year's shock shooting of opposition politician Boris Nemtsov beside the Kremlin walls had been deputy commander of one of his elite battalions. He was referred to by Ramzan as a "true patriot".
This time, the Chechen leader's comments appear to have touched a nerve.
The most dramatic response came from a little-known independent politician in Siberia, who raged against Ramzan on his Facebook page as the "shame of Russia".
"Why don't you get lost?" Konstantin Senchenko told him, and let "normal, honest people" work for the good of the country.
But the Siberian was soon eating his "hasty" words. The next day, he apologised profusely on Facebook for his "discourtesy", apparently after multiple calls from Chechnya.
Cartoons of his sudden change of heart soon spread on social media, depicting him begging forgiveness with a gun to his head.
In an ultimate humiliation, the shamefaced politician was seen in a video clip apologising personally to Ramzan for his "emotional outburst".
Activists on Twitter then took up the Siberian's insult with the hashtag #KadyrovshameofRussia.
Well-known opposition journalists followed that by filming themselves making fake, grovelling apologies to Ramzan "for existing".
One was filmed running on a treadmill with no trousers, just as a young Chechen man was forced to do recently after criticising Ramzan Kadyrov on Instagram.
Meanwhile, a group of prominent Russian liberals has begun gathering signatures demanding his resignation, and a St Petersburg politician has called on prosecutors to examine his statements for extremism.
But the backlash has only increased the tirade from Chechnya, where local politicians have been falling over themselves to express devotion to their leader.
None has outdone the speaker of parliament, Magomed Daudov, who posted a photograph of his boss holding back his huge, fierce dog on a leash and warned that Tarzan's teeth were "itching" - naming four well-known opposition figures whom the hound would presumably love to sink them into.
"Tarzan has become very frisky. We can barely restrain him," wrote the speaker in an Instagram post that attracted over 6,000 likes. "Just imagine what would happen… If it weren't for… Democracy."
There is some talk that this is all a show of strength by the Chechen leader: a reminder of the considerable forces at his disposal amid talk of a power struggle between Grozny and Moscow.
But the Kremlin has remained tight-lipped throughout, prompting others to conclude that it more likely endorses Ramzan's actions.
Parliamentary elections are due later this year and, with an economy battered by falling oil prices, there's concern that opposition groups could capitalise on potential social unrest.
"It's a message to all of those who don't agree with what's happening," argues former oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who is now an opposition activist in exile and himself one of the obvious targets of Ramzan Kadyrov's ire.
"The authorities are afraid and they decided to frighten society," wrote Mr Khodorkovsky on his blog.
Another commentator has suggested that the Chechen leader simply wants to underline his loyalty to Moscow ahead of a wave of forced budget cuts and to ensure that the generous flow of federal subsidies to Chechnya does not stop.
Whatever the motive, the practice of singling out traitors is seen as particularly dangerous in the wake of Boris Nemtsov's murder.
A year ago, Putin loyalists were still beating the drum of patriotism following the annexation of Crimea from Ukraine; state TV was lashing out viciously at Kremlin critics; warnings that Ukraine-style revolutions would not be tolerated were rife.
Ramzan Kadyrov's latest outburst has resurrected the idea of an enemy within and the search for a scapegoat.
"The situation is very tense now," Mr Senchenko, explained by phone from Krasnoyarsk, pointing to Russia's mounting economic problems.
That concern is what motivated his own Facebook rage against Chechnya's leader.
"Some people really think there are enemies of the state and it's not clear what can enter their heads," he warned. "So we need to be careful." | Traitors, jackals and vile liberals are just a few of the choice descriptions of Russia's opposition emerging from Chechnya in recent days, in a war of words that threatens to escalate. | 35357238 | [
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Zipporah Lisle-Mainwaring, 71, was accused of painting the candy stripes to "get her own back" on neighbours who objected to her property plans.
She wanted to demolish her Kensington house and replace it with a new dwelling and two-storey basement.
At the High Court she is challenging Kensington and Chelsea Council's policy of restricting basements to one storey.
She is taking court action alongside construction company Force Foundations.
Ms Lisle-Mainwaring hit the headlines in April after painting her house in red and white stripes.
Residents called the design "hideous and tacky", but Ms Lisle-Mainwaring said they were being "hysterical" and denied the paint-job had been done to spite her neighbours.
The High Court hearing is expected to last up to three days. | A pensioner who painted red and white stripes on her townhouse has started court action against planning policy. | 33429542 | [
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Plans include relocating the town's Central Library and cutting back on the Citizens Advice Bureau.
The council will also work with traders to find a private buyer for the town's Victorian indoor market.
The Labour-run authority said it was implementing the cuts "with a heavy heart" and blamed "severe austerity cuts imposed by central government".
Councillor Bill Dixon, leader of the authority, said that tough choices had been made, but local people had been able to comment during a public consultation.
"There were other cuts that people didn't want us to make," he said.
"Withdrawing school patrol crossings for example - some authorities have done that, this authority decided not to."
Responding to protesters opposed to the relocation of the Crown Street Library to the Dolphin Centre, he said: "I was born and bred in the town.
"I do understand the attachment to Crown Street Library, but we should emphasise we are not closing the library but moving it." | Darlington Council has rubber stamped moves aimed at making £10m savings over the next four years. | 36664885 | [
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"Industrial-strength" extremists cannot be dealt with "just with force of arms", he said in a rare interview.
During the Iraq war, Mr Petraeus devised the strategy that saw a "surge" in US troop numbers and secured support from Sunni tribesmen against al-Qaeda.
Iraq's US-backed army is now battling to retake territory seized by IS.
Gen Petraeus described the group as "a formidable enemy".
"It is really a conventional army that also has elements of an insurgency, and indeed significant terrorist elements as well," he said.
But when asked to compare IS with its predecessor, al-Qaeda in Iraq - which Gen Petraeus was instrumental in defeating - he said the latter "had much greater roots in Iraq and much greater numbers than IS".
The retired general characterised the recent capture by IS of Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province, as "a strategic loss in the sense that the narrative of IS being on the defensive - of losing - was shown to be somewhat hollow".
"I do think Ramadi will be retaken in a matter of weeks or less," he added.
"But this was a big setback. At such a time, one has to look at the strategy, at refinements that need to be made, at efforts that need to be augmented, and I know that's what's going on right now."
1974: Graduates from West Point US military academy, joining the army
2007: Leads US troop surge during Iraq conflict
2008: Head of US Central Command
2010: Nato commander in Afghanistan
Mid-2011: Leaves military to become CIA director
November 2012: Resigns over affair
After commanding international troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, Gen Petraeus became head of the CIA but was forced to stand down in 2012, following revelations of an extra-marital affair.
Subsequent allegations that he provided classified information to his mistress while he was CIA director led him to plead guilty to one misdemeanour charge.
But despite the turbulence of his private life, Gen Petraeus remains one of the heroes of America's controversial military operations of recent years.
He was the architect of the "surge" in Iraq that deployed more US troops, but equally important, got them out of their defended compounds to create security at a local level.
He also greatly expanded the Anbar Awakening, the mobilisation of Sunni tribesmen to combat al-Qaeda.
Not surprisingly in the wake of the recent setbacks in Iraq, his views are being canvassed by the White House, the Pentagon, and on Capitol Hill.
The keynote of the Petraeus approach today is as it always was - the need for the political and military aspects of strategy to march closely in step.
"You cannot deal with an industrial-strength extremist problem just with force of arms," he said. "You have to have that political component as well."
Political change has to start at the top. Above all, Gen Petraeus says, "the Sunni Arabs have to be given incentives to support the new Iraq rather than to oppose it".
As to the fundamental question - can the Iraqi military actually win against Islamic State? - he has few doubts.
"During the surge and in the years after the surge, Iraqi forces fought and died for their country at vastly higher numbers than did US and coalition forces. We know that they can fight," he insists.
"We know that they will fight. But they will only fight if they have good leadership, and the support and knowledge that somebody will have their back if they get into a tough fight."
That looks like requiring greater US involvement closer to the frontline. Gen Petraeus is reluctant to give details.
"Should there be US advisors with Iraqi forces below the divisional level?" he asks. "Should there be joint teams of tactical air controllers on the ground with security and other assets to support them?
"Does there need to be an augmentation of the train-and-equip effort? Can we accelerate the delivery of some of the equipment that Iraq so desperately needs?"
It sounds like the elements of a blueprint for a re-invigorated US effort. But then again - typical Petraeus - there is the political dimension.
"Are we doing all that we can to empower and support those Iraqi leaders, starting with Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, who recognise the need to bring the Sunni Arab population back into the fabric of Iraqi society? And, most importantly, are our military elements and structures sufficiently supporting the political component and vice versa?"
In response to my comment that all this could have been said a year ago - Gen Petraeus responded by saying that he did indeed say it all a year ago. This is not about re-inventing the wheel.
"We need to see the same elements of this (previous) comprehensive civil-military counter- insurgency campaign, albeit today with the Iraqis playing the key roles, enabled by the Americans."
Gen Petraeus acknowledges the difficulties of grappling with the horrors in Syria but insists that the only way forward is to train and equip moderate opposition elements. He says that more such fighters will spring up once the programme gets under way.
And he is very cautious about any Iranian role in combating IS. He insists Iran remains a revolutionary power in the region.
"This is a country that has made progress because of chaos. It has both benefited from chaos and fomented chaos to try to achieve regional hegemony," he says.
So he believes that "while there can indeed be some coincidence of interest between the US, its coalition allies in the region and Iran in terms of the defeat of IS (...) the over-arching context is one that gives you reason to have considerable caution in how you go forward in the relationship with Iran".
Gen Petraeus still travels to Iraq regularly. He knows the key players well. And though out of uniform and established in a civilian career as an adviser, he remains the man who did achieve a kind of success in Iraq.
That is a commodity that is in short supply today for the Americans and the Iraqi authorities. This makes the Petraeus approach an attractive model.
But the question remains: Can the outcome be the same with the Iraqi military cast in the role of the Americans? | Ex-CIA Director David Petraeus has told the BBC that Islamic State militants can only be defeated through a dual military and political approach. | 32950900 | [
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Sepsis can lead to shock and rapid organ failure following an infection.
A snapshot of 290 hospital patients showing signs of sepsis found only 12% were initially screened and treated in line with best practice.
Health Secretary Vaughan Gething said more needed to be done and he was "open minded" about potential options.
Last year, more than 7,500 people were admitted to hospitals with sepsis.
It can be treated effectively with antibiotics - if spotted quickly enough.
Research, due to be published later this week, was led by intensive care consultant Dr Tamas Szakmany.
"We have seen in our study this year there was big variation in how the clinical teams were responding to sepsis," said Dr Szakmany.
"There are important pockets of very good practice and we have seen there are hospitals, there are health boards, where the response is less good."
The issue is the focus for BBC Wales' Week In Week Out programme, following Welsh weatherman Derek Brockway as he explores how his own father Cliff died of sepsis last year.
On 30 December 2014, 17-year-old Chloe Christopher collapsed and died after developing sepsis.
Her mother Michelle told Derek Brockway about the heartbreaking last moments of her daughter's life.
The Welsh health secretary told the forecaster: "We have got a health improvement programme.
"We are the first country within the UK to have this early warning score system... but it has always been about how consistently that has been adhered to.
"If we level out that variation, we will end up saving more lives. So I wouldn't pretend to you or anyone else that we are perfect where we are."
Mr Gething said he is considering whether to make hospitals screen patients with symptoms in the same way.
"I am open minded to that, absolutely," he said.
"I am not going to run away from choices to be made about improving the service."
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Swansea came into the match without a win in six games and fell behind at Villa Park to a Jordan Ayew strike.
But Sigurdsson's 25-yard free-kick got the visitors back on terms before Ayew's brother, Andre, nicked a late winner for Swansea.
"It was an important win, especially after going 1-0 down," said Iceland midfielder Sigurdsson.
"So we showed good character as a team to get back into the game and probably steal it at the end.
"We got back into the game with that free-kick and then changed the formation a little bit with Mo [Modou Barrow] coming on, it gave us a lot of pace down the wing.
"We kept going, knew we were going to get the chances.
"It was fantastic for the team because it's been a hard few weeks for us, having not won many games and lost a few points."
Bottom-of-the-table Villa had been on an even worse run and the loss to Swansea prompted Tim Sherwood's sacking as manager on Sunday.
But with a win to lift Swansea out of their mini-slump, Sigurdsson says morale will now improve and they can take added confidence into next Saturday's home game with Arsenal.
"We put the pressure on ourselves, we set targets before the season where we want to finish," he added.
"Of course we're not happy with the way we've been performing over the last couple of months.
"Sometimes you don't perform well, but you nick those wins, that's what it's about - as long as you're winning games you're happy.
"But of course we're not happy and we put the pressure on ourselves to win those games, and there has been some performances where we haven't been near our best.
"The only thing we can do is train hard and it will come.
"Days like these [against Villa] will help you with confidence and hopefully now we can kick on." | Gylfi Sigurdsson has praised his Swansea City team-mates for their come-from-behind win against Aston Villa. | 34631672 | [
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Kat Merchant and Emily Scarratt scored early tries for England before Rawina Everitt crossed for New Zealand.
Further tries from Merchant and Roz Crowley put England 24-10 up before Selica Winiata crossed on half-time.
Jo Watmore added a fifth try and Scarratt's boot did the rest, Kendra Cocksedge's late try mere consolation.
23 Nov: England 16-13 New Zealand
27 Nov: England 17-8 New Zealand
1 Dec: England 32-23 New Zealand
England head coach Gary Street said: "Obviously we're hugely delighted to have won here at Twickenham and to wrap up the series in front of a big home crowd. The players, as a group, were once again outstanding and they showed tremendous mental strength to get through this series and win it 3-0.
"There is a lot of trust in this group and that shows every time a squad member pulls on the England shirt. We may not have won a World Cup for many years but we are definitely the number one side in the world at the moment."
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The Black Ferns had the edge in the maul but they could not cope with England's pacy all-round game.
New Zealand showed attacking intent from the off but after early pressure England broke out from their own 22 as Natasha Hunt took a quick tap penalty.
Watmore made good ground, producing a couple of trademark hand-offs, and Merchant supported well to scorch over in the corner.
Three minutes later Scarratt latched onto Katy McLean's neat chip and full-back Scarratt converted her own try to make it 12-0.
2010: New Zealand 13-10 England
2006: New Zealand 25-17 England
2002: New Zealand 19-9 England
New Zealand hit back as Everitt crossed for a converted try but the hosts were soon back on the front foot, with Merchant beating three tacklers and taking another one over the line with her for an unconverted try.
Kelly Brazier landed a penalty for New Zealand as the scoreboard continued to kick over but England had the upper hand and they added a fourth try, converted by Scarratt, as prop Crowley finished off another fine attack.
New Zealand are not world champions for nothing though and, with England down to 14 after Heather Fisher was sin-binned, Winiata scored in the corner to make it 24-15 at half-time.
The visitors cut the gap to six points soon after the restart as Brazier squeezed over a penalty, but that was as close as they would get.
The Black Ferns lost Aroha Savage to the sin-bin and Watmore made them pay with a fine try after an arcing outside break, and Scarratt soon added a penalty to give England a 32-18 lead.
Cocksedge cut the gap for the world champions but England ended the game on top and looked the more likely scorers at the final whistle.
England: Emily Scarratt; Katherine Merchant, Joanne Watmore, Alice Richardson, Michaela Staniford, Katy McLean, (capt), Natasha Hunt, Roz Crowley, Victoria Fleetwood, Laura Keates, Tamara Taylor, Rowena Burnfield, Heather Fisher, Marlie Packer, Sarah Hunter.
Replacements: Emma Croker (for Victoria Fleetwood 40 mins), Sophie Hemming (for Roz Crowley 49 mins ), Rochelle Clark (for Laura Keates 49 mins), Emily Braund (for Sarah Hunter 67 mins), Hannah Gallagher (for Marlie Packer 56 mins), La Toya Mason (for 9 Natasha Hunt 69 mins), Amber Reed (for Alice Richardson 76 mins), Francesca Matthews (for Michaela Staniford 56 mins).
New Zealand: Kelly Brazier; Selica Winiata, Shakira Baker, Claire Richardson, 11 Hazel Tubic; Kendra Cocksedge, Emma Jensen; Ruth McKay, Fiao'o Fa'amausili (capt), Stephanie TeOhaere-Fox, Eloise Blackwell, Rawina Everitt, Aroha Savage, Justine Lavea, Casey Robertson.
Replacements: 16 Karina Stowers (Auckland), 17 Kathleen Wilton (for 3 Stephanie TeOhaere-Fox 53 mins), 18 Aleisha Nelson (for Kathleen Wilton 76 mins), 19 Jackie Patea (for Eloise Blackwell 58 mins), 20 Lydia Crossman (for Casey Robertson 49 mins) Teresa Te Tamaki (for Emma Jensen 64 mins), 22 Anika Tiplady (Otago), 23 Halie Hurring (for Hazel Tubic 40 mins).
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Sydney's Daily Telegraph reported the investigation concerns two games involving the north Sydney-based Manly Sea Eagles last year.
It said the games were against South Sydney Rabbitohs and Parramatta Eels.
"The organised crime squad is in the early stage of examining information relating to alleged match-fixing in the NRL," said New South Wales police.
Manly's media department was unavailable for comment, while the NRL said it was co-operating with authorities.
"The possibility of the existence of match-fixing within our sport cuts to the core of our sport and our values," said NRL chief executive Todd Greenberg.
"We will take any action necessary to protect the integrity of the game."
In 2011, Ryan Tandy was banned for life after being convicted of match-fixing while playing for Canterbury Bulldogs against North Queensland in 2010.
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"I haven't come here just to sit on the bench," the Congo international told BBC Radio Solent. "I'm hungry and Portsmouth are a top club."
Linganzi and goalkeeper Liam O'Brien, 24, have both signed short-term deals.
O'Brien returns for a second spell at Portsmouth, having left in 2010.
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The visitors went in front when Luke Summerfield's free-kick was met by a deft touch by Dave Winfield.
Pearce levelled when he guided his header from 12 yards inside the left post from Adam Chapman's corner.
The Stags had glorious chances to win it as Matt Green hit the crossbar from only five yards out and Reggie Lambe also hit the woodwork.
Match ends, Mansfield Town 1, York City 1.
Second Half ends, Mansfield Town 1, York City 1.
Foul by Adi Yussuf (Mansfield Town).
Dave Winfield (York City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Blair Adams (Mansfield Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Daniel Galbraith (York City).
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Hand ball by Luke Summerfield (York City).
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Foul by Krystian Pearce (Mansfield Town).
Vadaine Oliver (York City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Nathan Thomas (Mansfield Town).
Eddie Nolan (York City) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt blocked. Reggie Lambe (Mansfield Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Substitution, Mansfield Town. Adi Yussuf replaces Craig Westcarr.
Substitution, York City. Josh Carson replaces Bradley Fewster.
Chris Clements (Mansfield Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Chris Clements (Mansfield Town).
James Berrett (York City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
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Attempt saved. Reggie Lambe (Mansfield Town) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top left corner.
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Reggie Lambe (Mansfield Town) hits the bar with a left footed shot from outside the box.
Corner, Mansfield Town. Conceded by Eddie Nolan.
Blair Adams (Mansfield Town) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Daniel Galbraith (York City).
Attempt missed. Nathan Thomas (Mansfield Town) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left.
Matt Green (Mansfield Town) hits the bar with a right footed shot from very close range.
Attempt missed. Bradley Fewster (York City) left footed shot from the left side of the box is high and wide to the right.
Foul by Adam Chapman (Mansfield Town).
James Berrett (York City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Krystian Pearce (Mansfield Town) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Femi Ilesanmi (York City).
Substitution, Mansfield Town. Nathan Thomas replaces Matty Blair.
Matt Green (Mansfield Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Femi Ilesanmi (York City).
Reggie Lambe (Mansfield Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. | Krystian Pearce's equaliser earned a point for Mansfield Town after they fell behind at home to York City. | 35148018 | [
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The Nepal Scotland Association said many of its members lost friends and loved ones in the devastating earthquake last weekend.
The event was held outside the City Chambers on the Royal Mile.
It was organised by Mercy Corps with help from the Nepal Scotland Association and the city council.
A charity concert to raise money for the relief effort was also held in the city.
The Singing Bowl Concert, considered to be the ancient sound of Nepal, was held at St Giles' Cathedral. | A candlelit vigil has been held in Edinburgh to show support for the people of Nepal. | 32562791 | [
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Matt Denton, from Hampshire, estimates his "very expensive toy" has cost him hundreds of thousands of pounds.
He says a mining company and a marine research organisation are now interested in his design and he hopes it might be used at science fairs.
During its development the machine had one outing, at a music festival, where Mr Denton says it was well received.
"It's an entertainment vehicle," he said. "But I hope it will inspire people."
The project was only initially intended to take 12 months, Mr Denton, who usually specialises in small-scale animatronics for the film industry, said.
"After 18 months we tried the model out. We had to completely strip out and rebuild the legs. They were too heavy and complicated.
"I'm a software and electronics engineer so this was out of my area - I had to learn fast."
The robot, driver-operated by joysticks within a cockpit, can only travel at 1.5km/h (1mph) and manage a distance of 5km on a 20-litre (4.5-gallon) tank of diesel.
"It's not about miles to the gallon, it's about gallons to the mile," he said.
"It wasn't built to be efficient and fast. It was built to look cool and insect-like and fun."
Mr Denton said he was inspired by science fiction to create the "walking" machine.
"But legs are very inefficient - the wheel was invented for a reason," he added. | A giant-mantis robot with hydraulic legs has been unveiled by a designer who spent four years creating it. | 22231365 | [
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Satellite images taken on 14 February appear to show two batteries of eight missile launchers and a radar system on Woody or Yongxing Island in the Paracels.
The presence of missiles would significantly increase tensions in the acrimonious South China Sea dispute.
China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi said reports were a Western media invention.
But Mr Wang defended "the limited and necessary self-defence facilities" on islands inhabited by Chinese personnel as "consistent with the right for self-preservation and self-protection.... under the international law".
Asked about the reports, US Secretary of State John Kerry attacked China's increased "militarisation" of the contested region, saying it was a "serious concern".
Taiwan's defence ministry said it had "learned of an air defence missile system deployed" by the Chinese on Woody Island.
It would not say how many missiles had been deployed or when, but told the BBC they would be capable of targeting civilian and military aircraft.
The commander of the US Pacific Fleet confirmed the deployment to Reuters news agency.
Adm Harry Harris said such a move would be "a militarisation of the South China Sea in ways" China's President Xi Jinping had pledged not to make.
Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said there were "serious concerns" over China's "unilateral move to change the status quo" in the region, and "we cannot accept this fact".
China has been carrying out extensive land reclamation work in the region, which it says is legal and for civilian purposes.
But the work has angered other countries which also claim the territory, and there is growing concern about the implications of the area becoming militarised.
The latest images of Woody Island were captured by ImageSat International.
They show a close-up of a section of beach, the shape of which resembles the northern coastline as it appears on other images, and point out two missiles batteries. Each battery is made up of four launchers and two control vehicles.
Two of the the launchers appear to have been erected, says the report.
An image taken of the site on 3 February shows the beach empty.
Fox News quoted a US defence official as saying the missiles appeared to be the HQ-9 air defence system, with a range of about 200km (125 miles).
China's deployment of long-range surface-to-air missiles to the South China Sea is a clear escalation, but it is not a surprise.
Nor is it China's first deployment of advanced military technology to Woody Island (Yongxing Dao). Last November, photos appeared on the internet of Chinese J-11 fighter jets landing on the newly-enlarged runway there.
Sending the missile batteries now could be a warning to Vietnam, or a response to the US Navy, which sailed a missile destroyer past Woody Island at the end of January.
So far Beijing has been careful not to put any weapons on its newly-constructed islands further south, in the Spratly group. That would be much more provocative.
Last month Beijing even sent two civilian airliners to land on its newly-completed runway at Fiery Cross Reef.
It was a good publicity stunt. But no one should be in any doubt that the true purpose of those new islands and their new runways is also military.
The news comes as South East Asian regional leaders end a two-day meeting in California where South China Sea had been a topic of debate.
US President Barack Obama said the members had discussed the need for "tangible steps" to reduce tensions, including "a halt to further reclamation, new construction and militarization of disputed areas".
Rival countries have wrangled over territory in the South China Sea for centuries, but tension has steadily increased in recent years.
Its islets and waters are claimed in part or in whole by Taiwan, China, Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia and Brunei.
China has backed its expansive claims with island-building and naval patrols, while the US says it opposes restrictions on freedom of navigation and unlawful sovereignty claims - by all sides, but seen by many as aimed at China.
The frictions have sparked concern that the area is becoming a flashpoint with global consequences.
Although largely uninhabited, the Paracels and the Spratlys may have reserves of natural resources around them. There has been little detailed exploration of the area, so estimates are largely extrapolated from the mineral wealth of neighbouring areas.
The sea is also a major shipping route and home to fishing grounds that supply the livelihoods of people across the region. | China has deployed surface-to-air missiles on a disputed island in the South China Sea, Taiwan says. | 35592988 | [
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Sixty seasonal workers have had their contracts terminated early and eight permanent staff have been made redundant at Surf Snowdonia in Dolgarrog, Conwy Valley.
The lagoon, which generates a man-made wave using new technology, suffered its third fault last week since it opened at the end of July.
Bosses have apologised to customers.
The lagoon was filled with more than six million gallons (33,000 cubic metres) of filtered rainwater for its opening but a fault led to it being emptied in August.
It was also shut for five days earlier in September due to a tear in the lagoon liner.
The latest fault is due to a "serious failure" of the main drive mechanism of the wave generating machinery which could take three months to repair.
Martin Ainscough, chairman of the Ainscough Group which owns Surf Snowdonia, said: "This is a very disappointing day for us all at Surf Snowdonia, and we know it's especially difficult for our excellent staff and for all of the people who have booked to come surfing with us.
"During the winter closure period we will be making further investment in order to improve the surf lagoon and broaden our offer.
"Surf Snowdonia was always intended as a long term investment in our group and our extra investment over the winter will prove our absolute commitment to make Surf Snowdonia a success."
The attraction received £4m of Welsh government funding in 2014.
A Welsh government spokesman said: "We share the disappointment of the team at Surf Snowdonia, their customers and staff.
"This innovative attraction has proved so popular since its launch and we welcome the further investment over coming winter months and are assured the attraction will return even bigger and better in time for the 2016 season."
The facility is due to reopen next spring. | A new surf lagoon in north Wales has shut eight weeks early for the winter due to mechanical issues, bosses said. | 34454232 | [
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Karen Seldon, 44, of Abercarn, Caerphilly county, was cleared of four counts of sexual activity with a minor at Newport Crown Court.
Ms Seldon said she was "angry" that the boy said she sent him provocative pictures of herself on Facebook.
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The wider S&P 500 was 1.23 points lower at 2,182.64, but the tech-heavy Nasdaq index gained 6.22 points to 5,244.60.
The announcement that US cancer drug firm Medivation would be purchased by pharmaceutical giant Pfizer sent its shares soaring 19.7%.
Pfizer shares were down 0.4%.
Crude prices fell 3.4% on signs of rising supplies. Brent crude fell to $49.16 a barrel, while US oil dropped to $47.43.
Oil giant Chevron dropped 0.4%, and Marathon Oil sank 7%.
Aside from the oil price fall, investors are cautious ahead of the annual meeting of central bankers later this week in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
"It's oil and then we've got Jackson Hole hanging over us, and there is always some surprise that comes out of Jackson Hole," said Jack Ablin, chief investment officer at BMO Private Bank, in Chicago.
Federal Reserve chairwoman Janet Yellen will deliver a speech on Friday, which will be scrutinised for clues as to the timing of the next US interest rate rise.
Computer chipmaker Intersil jumped 19.8% after a report that Japanese firm Renesas was in the final stages of negotiations to buy it for $2.99bn. | (Closed): US shares were mixed, as a rise in biotech stocks offset a fall in energy shares caused by a sharp drop in the oil price. | 37157008 | [
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The 22-year-old, who has signed a one-year contract, joins defender Craig Barr and striker Mark Stewart at the Scottish Championship club.
Johnston came through Kilmarnock's youth ranks to make the Premiership side's first team.
But he moved to Kirkcaldy last summer and played 34 times.
Barr, 30, had been at Stark's Park for three seasons after leaving Airdrieonians and played 17 times as Rovers dropped to League One.
The 29-year-old Stewart joined Rovers at the same time, from Derry City, and scored five times in 36 appearances last season. | Former Kilmarnock winger Chris Johnston has become the third player to sign for Dumbarton this summer after leaving relegated Raith Rovers. | 40557517 | [
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Party co-leader Patrick Harvie tweeted that he was "delighted" with the first Green gain in the elections, and the party's first Orkney councillor.
Robbie McGregor won the uncontested Shetland South seat for the SNP.
He is the first councillor to represent the party on Shetland Islands Council.
The Greens said Mr Sankey was the first member of a mainstream national party to be elected to Orkney Islands Council, where candidates have traditionally stood as independents.
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It found children of minority families do not get enough support to learn Cantonese - putting them behind in school and causing long-term problems in the jobs market.
"One of the main barriers to equal access has been a de facto racial segregation of ethnic minority students from Chinese students in the public school system," says University of Hong Kong law professor, Puja Kapai, who carried out the study.
The practice of communities studying separately has also meant that children grow up without interacting with other cultures.
Hong Kong is home to 365,000 ethnic minority people, making up 6% of its total population. Communities of Indians, Pakistanis, Nepalese and Filipinos have lived in Hong Kong for generations.
But the city still lacks a curriculum for children speaking Chinese as a second language, which would enable them to learn Cantonese, a requirement for many jobs and university places.
"The language requirement that forms a barrier for ethnic minorities to receive equal access in education and the labour market, can be seen as an indirect form of discrimination," says Raymond Ho, a senior member of the Equal Opportunities Commission in Hong Kong.
But he is confident that since the government made it unlawful to discriminate on the grounds of race in 2009, there is more public awareness of the needs of ethnic minorities.
More stories from the BBC's Knowledge economy series looking at education from a global perspective and how to get in touch
In the past there have been claims that Chinese locals are "less accepting" of people with darker skin. That was the claim of a report in 2008 from Unison, a group that campaigns for the rights of ethnic minorities.
This acceptance level was found to be lowest in the education sector.
Language is a major barrier for ethnic minorities to access education.
The best place to start learning Chinese and meeting people of other backgrounds is in kindergarten, says Holing Yip from Unison.
But Unison's study Kindergarten Support Report 2015 showed that 62% of kindergartens used Cantonese exclusively as the interview language.
It also found that privately-run kindergartens were reluctant to give application forms to non-Chinese parents, and many ask children to have Chinese speaking skills by age three.
As a result, there is a concentration of ethnic minorities in a small number of kindergartens.
Mr Ho says the Equal Opportunities Commission has been "encouraging kindergartens to be open to ethnic minorities. But also not to use language ability as a selection criteria".
There has been a pattern of Chinese students enrolling in mainstream primary and secondary schools, where classes are taught in Cantonese.
Ethnic minorities would enrol in English-medium "designated schools".
But the designated schools equipped students with such a low level of Cantonese that they would find it hard to enter university or employment.
As such some parents choose to send their children to Cantonese-medium schools.
"Having struggled themselves, many ethnic minority parents want their children to learn Cantonese so they don't go through what they did," says Ms Yip.
But getting information about how to apply to Chinese-medium schools is often only available in Chinese. Some have discouraged ethnic minority parents from applying.
Those who get places can struggle, as all classes are in Cantonese with no extra support in class and parents are unable to help at home.
Many parents are forced to seek extra tuition to help children with homework.
"There are situations where if a tutor can't come one day, their children won't be able to hand in their homework and will be penalised. It's also a huge financial burden," says Ms Yip.
Chinese University of Hong Kong student Deepen Nebhwani attended both types of schools.
"I learnt more Chinese in the mainstream school where all my friends were Chinese, just by practising it outside of class, than I did at the designated school where I studied Cantonese as a language class."
After pressure from local non-governmental organisations and the United Nations, the Hong Kong government disbanded designated schools in 2013.
But the tendency to send ethnic minority children to particular schools continues.
"Ultimately, parents are faced with the decision of whether their children should suffer now in a Chinese-medium school, or later in the labour market. And that's not a fair choice for a parent to have to make," says Ms Yip.
In September 2014, the Hong Kong government took a step forward by introducing a "learning framework" aimed at supporting ethnic minority students in learning Cantonese.
Depending on the number of ethnic minority students enrolled, schools can receive from HK$800,000 (£68,000) to HK$1,500,000 to help them.
But Prof Kapai is sceptical about its effectiveness.
"It has simply broken the curriculum down into steps, but nothing has actually changed. There needs to be a Chinese as a second language curriculum to teach non-native speakers how to learn Cantonese properly," she says.
"Ethnic minorities may still be struggling with subjects such as maths as a result of the class and material being in Chinese," says Unison's Ms Yip
Prof Kapai's report emphasises interlinked problems for minority groups.
A lack of Cantonese language skills will present barriers in employment, leading to an increase in poverty, and difficulty accessing healthcare.
Cantonese language proficiency is a core requirement for some jobs, such as the civil service.
Typical occupations taken up by ethnic minorities are in the catering, construction and manual labour industries.
The Hong Kong Council of Social Welfare says that many Pakistani, Indonesian and Thai households are below the city's poverty rate.
"I identify as a Hongkonger," says Mr Nebhwani. But he is excluded from many jobs because of the limitations of his language skills.
"If I were to try and completely integrate, it would be hard because of my level of Cantonese."
"The government is committed to encouraging and supporting non-Chinese speaking students' integration into the community, including facilitating their early adaptation to the school education system and mastery of the Chinese language," said a spokesperson for Hong Kong's education bureau. | Ethnic minorities in Hong Kong are "marginalised" by the education system, says a university study. | 34444284 | [
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He told the cadets the international order was "under challenge as never before in my lifetime".
It was the first passing out involving mixed platoons of men and women.
The Sovereign's Parade at the military academy in Surrey formally marks the senior cadets' completion of their commissioning course, and the Prince of Wales was representing the Queen at the event for a fourth time.
He told the officer cadets they would face trials "as great as any faced by our forebears", but said he was confident they would rise to the challenge.
"You are receiving your commissions as officers at a moment when the profession of arms is moving into uncharted waters," he said.
"In the face of such challenges, Britain's traditional qualities - fair play, civility, a sense of humour in adversity - remains as precious as they've always been.
"The harder it becomes to stop people determined to maim and kill, the more urgent becomes our need to understand and defuse their perverse determination."
Among those watching the parade was tennis player Andy Murray's wife Kim, whose brother Scott Sears was passing out.
Prince Charles is colonel in chief of the Royal Gurkha Rifles and wore his Army field marshal uniform at the parade.
His speech came as the Ministry of Defence issued an update on RAF operations against IS targets in Iraq and Syria.
Officials said that on Thursday two Typhoon FGR4s struck an IS-held building and a bunker in northern Iraq with a Paveway IV guided bomb; a Tornado patrol destroyed a building and a mortar position with Paveways, and a Reaper drone struck a vehicle and supported Kurdish forces when they came under fire from a sniper.
On Wednesday, two Tornado GR4s provided air support to Kurdish soldiers fighting IS in northern Iraq, and used a Paveway IV guided bomb to destroy a position. | A "cult of death and destruction" is seducing "lost young people", the Prince of Wales has told Army officer cadets at a passing-out parade. | 35073768 | [
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Drones: What are they and how do they work?
Could we all soon own a drone?
Viewpoint: Drones, modern war, and the US
The matte black, almost featureless triangular aircraft is making its first public appearance, and the makers don't want people seeing too much of its advanced features.
But this object - the rather awkwardly-named nEUROn - could be the future of combat aircraft.
When a jet like the Rafale or the Sukhoi SU-35 shrieks overhead at the show, the watching crowds are left in awe at the skill and daring of the pilot.
Ever since the World War I, when aces like the Red Baron Manfred von Richthofen patrolled the skies, the fighter pilot has held a special place in the imagination.
But that status could now be under threat, because the next generation of combat aircraft may dispense with the pilot altogether.
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, or drones, are nothing new, as their controversial use in Afghanistan and Pakistan has shown.
But drones have limitations, and are vulnerable to being shot down within seconds of going anywhere near properly defended airspace.
One solution is to develop much larger machines, full-scale fighter aircraft capable of flying long distances at high speed.
They would be capable of bombing missions or tactical strikes, and able to defend themselves. And all without the need for a pilot.
A number of experimental "superdrones" have already been built. Among them are Northrop Grumman's X-47 and the BAE Systems' Taranis.
And then there's the spooky-looking nEUROn, being developed by a European consortium.
France's Dassault is the lead contractor in the six-nation consortium, with the other participants being defence companies from Greece, Italy, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland.
The nEUROn, which made its first flight at the tail end of last year, is an ugly beast, low slung and black.
Its rather bat-like appearance clearly owes a great deal to the Lockheed Martin F117 Nighthawk, better known as the original Stealth Fighter, and indeed it has been built using stealth technologies.
"It's a big one!" says Eric Trappier, chief executive of French firm Dassault Aviation. "It's the size of a fighter, with a bomb bay."
The aircraft has already done radar tests to assess its stealth capabilities, but a fully operational aircraft is unlikely to be ready until the end of the decade.
Mr Trappier believes there is a clear role for unmanned aircraft to play in future conflicts, with fleets of pilotless planes being directed to targets by controllers on the ground, or from manned aircraft flying behind them.
"In some regions you have very dangerous missions, and the use of unmanned vehicles could be very useful. For example, the destruction of enemy countermeasures or missiles or whatever.
"It's mainly for the first day of war, where you don't really know what's going on in front of you, the UCAV (unmanned combat aerial vehicle) could be a good answer."
So could unmanned planes one day do the job better than a fighter piloted by an individual rather than a computer?
"Yes, in some types of mission it could be better. In some others, where you really need to have the pilot in the loop, well I think the manned vehicle will remain. So it's a kind of compromise between the unmanned vehicles and the manned fighters."
But manufacturers wont be able to develop them without opposition.
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The use of existing drones has faced widespread criticism, largely because of the way in which they have been employed by the CIA in particular, outside the boundaries of conventional conflict.
But there have also been concerns that the operators of drones are too far removed from the battlefield to comprehend the seriousness of what they do and that mistakes can be made.
But according to Mr Trappier, the issue is not whether or not drones should be used, but how they should be operated.
"It's a matter of who is in charge, who is in command. You need to know what you are doing on the mission. Whether a human is in the aircraft or not, he has to be in the loop."
He says much of the criticism in the US is not about the use of drones, but about who is in charge: the CIA, the Pentagon, or the armed forces.
"You need to continue to operate UAVs as though you were operating a manned vehicle," he says.
That's fine in theory, but would it be the case in practice?
Given the amount of development money being poured into this industry, one suspects that in a few years time we will eventually find out. | Under a huge semi-opaque dome and with heavy security in attendance, visitors to the Paris Air Show peer at a strange looking shape. | 22968362 | [
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Passwords were found on public websites such as Pastebin, where hackers often dump data.
Recorded Future said it was impossible to say whether all the passwords were active.
The details were likely to have been stolen when used to access malware-ridden sites.
Recorded Future's report said many government employees had used their official emails, and possibly the same passwords, to log in to third-party web services that had been hacked.
The company scanned more than 680,000 web sources over the course of a year. It found 705 emails and passwords originating from government agencies.
The data was connected with the departments of defence, justice, the treasury and energy as well as the CIA and the director of National Intelligence.
"The presence of these credentials on the open web leaves these agencies vulnerable to espionage, socially engineered attacks, and tailored spear-phishing attacks against their workforce," the company said on its blog.
Recorded Future called on government departments to make their networks more secure by requiring staff to use two-factor authentication, which requires users to have two separate components to their log-ins, and only allowing them to remotely access their systems via virtual private networks.
"It isn't that these agencies don't know what to do, it is just that they aren't implementing the changes," said Scott Donnelly, a senior analyst at Recorded Future. | A security intelligence company has found the stolen log-in credentials for up to 47 US government agencies accessible online. | 33272712 | [
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The Mosque and Imams National Advisory Board (MINAB) recognises the problem of abuse in the after school classes.
Ahmed Beg, from the board, said: "We are working to raise standards and want the teachers to be qualified."
Irfan Patel, 33, was found guilty on Friday of cruelty against children at a Lancashire mosque.
A Lancashire mother, who wanted to remain anonymous, was horrified to discover her son's madrassa teacher had been hitting and abusing him.
"I never sent him to be beaten - I sent him to learn the Koran," she said.
He was not the only one to suffer at the hands of a teacher at a madrassa, an after school class where children learn about their faith.
In the last year, three teachers from madrassas in Lancashire have been convicted of beating children, the latest case involving Patel.
In August Kurram Hussain, also from Blackburn, was found guilty of what magistrates called "gratuitous degradation" in beating two boys aged 10 and 11.
That followed Ibrahim Yusuf's conviction while teaching at an Accrington madrassa in 2011.
The mother said police had told her that her son's teacher had punched him in the stomach and "slapped his face, and hit his hands with a pencil".
"And he made him stand like a chicken. If he fell down, after five minutes my boy said he made him do another five minutes."
The stress position her son was forced to adopt is a torture tactic used in war zones.
Corporal punishment has been banned in mainstream schools since the 1980s.
However, madrassas are classed as supplementary schools where it is still legal in religious settings as long as it does not exceed "reasonable chastisement".
The schools are unregulated and teachers often have no training.
Nazir Afzal, the chief crown prosecutor for north-west England, handled all three prosecutions. He thinks abuse is far more widespread.
"When we talk about three successful prosecutions in the last year in the North West and probably a dozen nationally, we're talking about literally the tip of the iceberg," he said.
"In order to meet the demand, schools are being set up left right and centre.
"There is no Ofsted, no inspection regime, they're reliant entirely on a particular committee enforcing standards, ensuring discipline is correctly maintained.
"And if they are not up to the job, there's nothing to prevent children being harmed pretty much on a daily basis."
One school leading the way in the reform is Jamia Ghosia Academy in Blackburn.
It has become more like mainstream schools and is seen as a model of good practice by teachers at madrasssas in other parts of the country.
Classes are small and interactive, staff are checked for criminal records, CCTV is in place to protect pupils and corporal punishment is banned.
Head teacher Ustad Muhammad said: "In terms of corporal punishment, I'm not going to accept that in any form or any way because no child learns with that.
"You have to be patient. Children can be rowdy, can shout, can do certain things but that's the whole idea of having teacher training and learning certain types of skills." | An Islamic watchdog is calling for the reform of madrassas following the latest conviction of a teacher for child cruelty. | 19519444 | [
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He said his election after a landslide win in May was "a historic moment", and pledged no reconciliation with those who had "committed violence".
The retired field marshal overthrew President Mohammed Morsi last July.
He has since been pursuing a crackdown on Mr Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood, which urged a boycott of the elections.
Liberal and secular activists, including the 6 April youth movement which was prominent in the 2011 revolution that ousted long-serving President Hosni Mubarak, also shunned the 26-28 May poll in protest at the curtailing of civil rights.
Mr Sisi, 59, made no mention directly of the Muslim Brotherhood in a speech at a Cairo presidential palace late on Sunday.
But he said there would be no reconciliation with anyone who had "blood on their hands".
He said: "Defeating terrorism and achieving security is the top priority in our coming phase.
"There will be no acquiescence or laxity shown to those who resorted to violence."
Mr Sisi was earlier sworn in for a four-year term at a ceremony shown live on television.
He said: "Throughout its extended history over thousands of years, our country has never witnessed a democratic peaceful handover of power."
Mr Sisi's victory came almost a year after he ousted Egypt's first freely elected president, Mohamed Morsi, following mass protests against his rule.
At the swearing-in, the Supreme Constitutional Court deputy head, Maher Sami, said the ousting was not a coup, and that Mr Sisi had responded to the will of the people.
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In the May elections, Mr Sisi secured 96.9% of the vote and his sole challenger, left-winger Hamdeen Sabahi, received only 3.1%. Turnout was less than 50%.
Mr Sisi inherits a nation that is divided and weary, the BBC's Orla Guerin in the Egyptian capital reports.
Experts warn that if he cannot deliver in the next year or two he could also face a mass revolt.
One student, Israa Youssef, told Reuters: "Sisi has to do something in his first 100 days, people will watch closely and there might be another revolution. That's what people are like in this country."
Mr Sisi faces an array of challenges, including fixing the economy, preventing further political crises and easing poverty.
More than a quarter of Egyptians live below the poverty line. Mr Sisi has pledged to build 26 new tourist resorts, eight new airports and 22 industrial estates.
He has promised to restore security in a country where attacks by Islamist militants have left hundreds of security personnel dead over the past 11 months.
The militants have stepped up attacks in response to the crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood and its allies, in which more than 1,400 people have been killed and 16,000 detained.
Mr Morsi and other senior leaders of the Brotherhood, which has been designated a terrorist organisation, are standing trial on a series of charges. They strongly deny any wrongdoing.
Critics fear Mr Sisi will continue to show little tolerance for dissent. | Ex-army chief Abdul Fattah al-Sisi has vowed to to tackle "terrorism" and bring security, after being sworn in as Egypt's new president. | 27751813 | [
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The 20-year-old, who can also play as a winger, has come through the academy at the Premier League club and played for the under-23 side in the EFL Trophy.
"I'm very excited to be playing under Keith Hill, who is a great manager," he told the Dale website.
"I know that he puts his trust in young players, so I feel like he'll put his trust in me and I will repay him."
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page or visit our Premier League tracker here. | League One side Rochdale have signed Stoke City full-back Joel Taylor on loan for the rest of the season. | 38742886 | [
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The Restore Justice campaign, spearheaded by Paul Staines who writes the Guido Fawkes political blog, calls for the death penalty to be brought back for child and police officer murderers.
He cites opinion polls which suggest about half the population would like it re-introduced for murderers. This rises to 60% when it comes to child or police officer killers.
Mr Staines needs 100,000 people to support his e-petition on the government website to prompt a possible parliamentary debate on the issue.
The last executions in the UK took place in 1964. The death penalty was formally abolished in Britain in 1965 and in Northern Ireland in 1973.
Despite it rating high on public opinion polls, it was last debated in Parliament in 1998 during the passage of the Human Rights Act. It was rejected by 158 votes.
"The majority are in favour for bringing back the death penalty everywhere except in Parliament," said Mr Staines.
"Politicians are complaining that there's a disconnect and that the public aren't engaged with them - maybe if they represented the views and the will of the voters, there wouldn't be such a big disconnect."
He added: "The people want the death penalty, and politicians aren't prepared to vote for it. That's not right.
"What I'm trying to do is get Parliament to discuss this issue between what Parliament wants and what the people want."
House of Commons leader Sir George Young has warned that it would damage democracy to ignore strong opinions among members of the public "or pretend that their views do not exist".
Douglas Carswell MP agreed, saying, although he was firmly against the death penalty, he was in favour of Parliament debating it and would support a referendum on whether it should be brought back.
"I'm convinced that if there was a referendum on capital punishment we could win it; we could get most people to say 'no' to the death penalty.
"We need to treat people as grown-ups and have the debate and not do what we have done for half a century which is to ignore the public's concern and treat them with contempt.
"The important thing is we have this debate."
Mr Carswell added that the reason why Parliament had not debated this topic in recent years was because it was "out of touch with the public".
"The mistake MPs have made is to not trust the people and to try and ignore their concerns. We can disagree with it but we have to trust it."
But Neil Durkin from Amnesty International said it was a "waste of time and money that we as a nation cannot afford".
In September 2010, YouGov conducted the last opinion poll to ask directly if people want the death penalty re-instated. It suggested that 51% did.
And a Mori poll in July 2010 asked people which of a list of crimes they thought should have the death penalty.
For child murder, 62% supported it while a YouGov poll in November 2010 found 74% of people supported the death penalty for murder in some circumstances, though only 16% supported it for all murders.
However, when similar polls were carried out in the 1970s, support for it was far higher with 70% in favour.
Anthony Wells, associate director of YouGov, says polls which ask about the death penalty are straightforward: "Do you support it or not?"
"When people already know about it and have established views then it is quite simple. The hard ones [opinion polls] are when people need to have an issue explained to them."
He said historically opinion polls on capital punishment have been commissioned by newspapers when there has been a heinous crime such as after the Soham murders.
Mr Wells added that such polls are not often commissioned in times when a high-profile murder is not in the news. However, the last two polls on the subject were not about a specific case, being conducted for a story about sentencing for murder and for a Channel 4 programme.
Polls are quite accurate, plus or minus 3%, said Mr Wells, and their accuracy can be checked against real life events such as who is going to win the election or X Factor.
"All the polls about the death penalty show similar patterns so even if it was worded differently it would still get the same result," he added.
"You can only tell what people think at the moment, but if it follows current trends then yes, I'd expect it to go down."
Mr Durkin from Amnesty International said it was important to have an informed debate, rather than a simple "yes or no" question.
"Public opinion polls are usually conducted after a particularly horrible murder that's had lots of publicity so you do tend to get that outcry.
"On top of that, when we have looked at opinion polls in the US, most people tend to think that the US is firmly in terms of public opinion pro death penalty.
"If you offer in those questions to the public alternatives to capital punishment - the lethal injections, the electrocutions, whatever it is - and talk about longer sentences then support drops away." | An internet campaign has reignited the debate on whether the UK government should seek the reintroduction of the death penalty. | 14402195 | [
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At the top, but not in the inner circle.
As the first Muslim woman to sit in the cabinet she was a crucial symbol of David Cameron's efforts to modernise the Tories.
But now she has left the government - and in a way designed to inflict damage.
The prime minister was only told shortly about her decision to quit before she announced it on her Twitter feed.
She'd also done an interview, explaining her decision, which was published on the Huffington Post website within the hour.
David Cameron's response to her resignation contained a jibe - he had "much regret" she hadn't talked to him about her concerns before she quit.
But there was also a warm tribute.
"I would like you to know how much I have personally appreciated your support and friendship over the years' he wrote.
There is no evidence though that Mr Cameron is changing his mind or re-assessing the government's stance on Israel's conduct during this war.
The prime minister has faced criticism from some in his own party for not condemning Israel for what they believe is its disproportionate use of force against Hamas and civilians in Gaza.
He described an attack on Monday as a "slaughter" and he said the situation was "intolerable".
Other senior ministers have called it a "catastrophe".
But neither Mr Cameron nor any Conservative minister has said that Israel has gone beyond what is proportionate.
The response on Tuesday afternoon from the new foreign secretary, Philip Hammond, was telling.
What Lady Warsi has labelled a "morally indefensible" position he has dismissed as a call for "megaphone diplomacy". He emphasised that he felt he had to be "balanced".
That reveals how deep the divide was between two people who were supposed to be working together. | Sayeeda Warsi has been a permanent feature at the top of the Conservative Party since David Cameron became leader almost a decade ago. | 28664856 | [
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Last week, Seoul suspended its operations at Kaesong following the North's recent rocket and nuclear tests to cut off the money supply.
The North has called the shutdown "a declaration of war".
Kaesong was one of the last points of co-operation between the two Koreas.
The North reacted to the shutdown by expelling all South Koreans from the complex and freezing the assets of South Korean firms. It has also vowed to cut key communication hotlines with the South.
The privately-run manufacturing zone saw thousands of North Koreans working for South Korean businesses, making clothing, textiles, car parts and semi-conductors.
On Sunday, the South's unification ministry said in a statement the wages, in US dollars, had been paid to the government instead of directly to the workers.
"Any foreign currency earned in North Korea is transferred to the Workers' Party, where the money is used to develop nuclear weapons or missiles, or to purchase luxury goods," said Hong Yong-pyo, the unification minister, in a televised interview, referring to Pyongyang's ruling communist party.
He added that 70% of the money was kept by Pyongyang while workers were given tickets to buy food and essential items, and local currency. The government cited "multiple channels" as its sources for these claims but did not divulge how it had arrived at the percentage.
The South estimates about 616bn Korean won (£350m, $508m) had been paid to the North over the years.
Mr Hong was quoted by Yonhap news agency as saying that the South did not suspend operations earlier at Kaesong because "the international community recognised its significance", and it shut it down this time because "North Korea was only going to intensify its weapons development, and we needed to make a decisive move to alleviate our people's security concerns".
On 7 February, North Korea conducted a long-range rocket launch. It came after the country's fourth nuclear test in January.
What is the Kaesong Industrial Complex
Why did North launch long-range rocket?
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Spotlight: A Woman Alone With The IRA investigated the republican movement's handling of sexual abuse allegations against a suspected IRA member.
Maíria Cahill waived her right to anonymity to tell how the republican movement responded to her allegations.
The programme was broadcast last October.
Ms Cahill claimed she was raped by a suspected IRA man when she was a teenager, and that the IRA later helped to cover up the alleged abuse.
BBC Northern Ireland Director Peter Johnston said: "This is a fantastic win for our Spotlight team - particularly with a Northern Ireland story winning in the UK-wide Scoop Of The Year category.
"This recognition from the Royal Television Society follows Spotlight's long tradition of making award-winning programmes and is a reflection of the dedication of our Spotlight team to produce hard-hitting, high quality investigative journalism."
Jeremy Adams, Head of Television Current Affairs, BBC Northern Ireland, said it was a "tremendous achievement".
"The team put a great deal of time and dedication into what was a painstaking investigation and also one of the most important and talked-about television investigations of the past year," he said.
Other winners at the ceremony in the London Hilton, Park Lane, included ITV News at Ten for Daily News Programme of the Year, and Sky News for News Channel of the Year. | BBC Northern Ireland current affairs programme Spotlight has won Scoop of the Year at the Royal Television Society (RTS) journalism awards. | 31529097 | [
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