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Combined takings from streaming, downloads, physical sales and licensing for use in films, TV and computer games rose 5.1% to £926m.
The main contributor to growth was streaming, but vinyl revenues rose by more than two thirds.
However, more revenues could be generated by platforms such as Youtube, the BPI said.
Revenue from physical formats dipped below £300m last year, but remained just above the £274m generated by streaming services such as Spotify, Apple Music and Deezer.
Geoff Taylor, chief executive of the BPI and the Brit Awards, said the increase in revenues was encouraging, as more and more consumers enjoyed the benefits of subscribing to a streaming service or rediscovered the joys of vinyl.
"Britain's world-leading music sector has the potential for sustained growth in the years ahead, but this exciting future can only be realised if government makes creative businesses a priority post-Brexit," he added.
UK artists needed to be able to tour freely in EU markets, and UK businesses needed to be able to employ the best talent, Mr Taylor argued.
He added that strong intellectual property protections would need to be included in trade talks with third party countries.
An International Trade spokeswoman said: "Music is one of our most important exports and trade policy has a key role in supporting growth in this market.
"We will in due course explore all options in the design of future trade agreements, including the role of intellectual property rights in boosting UK exports in overseas markets."
Streaming revenues jumped more than 60% in 2016, and accounted for close to a third of label revenues.
The BPI said streaming would overtake revenues from physical sales in 2017.
However, the association added that there was a "growing mismatch between the huge value that certain digital platforms, such as YouTube, extract from music or other entertainment and the relatively small amount they return back to the creators concerned".
A YouTube spokesperson said it was working "with the music industry to bring more money to artists, labels and publishers".
She said that YouTube had paid out more than $1bn to the music industry globally from advertising in the past year.
"YouTube is contributing a meaningful and growing revenue stream for the industry."
However, many argue that the Google-owned video site should pay out far more revenue to artists and songwriters. | Revenue for UK record companies hit a five-year high in 2016, according to industry association the BPI. | 39577369 | [
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The 32-year-old was released by the Paisley club after making more than 330 appearances over two stints.
"He's played at the highest level in Scotland and is top flight quality," manager Ian Murray told the club website.
"A player of his calibre opting to join us is a very good sign."
A League Cup winner with the Buddies in 2013, Van Zanten, who also had spells at Hibs, Morton and Hamilton, made 18 appearances last season.
Van Zanten is the Championship club's second summer signing, following Scott Taggart's move from Morton. | Former St Mirren full-back David van Zanten has joined Dumbarton on a one-year deal, with the option of staying for a further 12 months. | 28013775 | [
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For all that it may sound attractive to the Scots, Welsh and Northern Irish to have greater influence over their respective economic destinies, presumably that would be less desirable if at a stroke they became poorer.
The point is that as and when there is an English parliament for English people - of the sort that the former Tory minister John Redwood has been demanding, and David Cameron seemed to concede today - the financial transfer from England to the rest of the UK may be harder to sustain.
So these constitutional reforms will be tricky, if not dangerous - if at least a part of the current glue that holds the UK together is a redistribution of resources from England to the rest, and that glue is progressively removed.
Being British right now means in part that public services and living standards are not too far apart in quantum and quality wherever you happen to live. But what if the overhaul of the UK's budget-making or fiscal constitution waters down that glue.
How much is at stake?
Well, spending on public-sector services per head is highest in Northern Ireland, £10,900 and it is lowest in England, at £8,500.
The figure for Scotland - beneficiary of the famous or notorious Barnett Formula, which formalises an income transfer from England to Scotland - is £10,200.
So expenditure on public services in Scotland is a fifth higher per person than south of the border, and it is 28% higher in Northern Ireland.
In Wales, the increment on public-service spending is 14% - which the Welsh have often complained is too little, compared with the transfer of income to Scotland.
Now one way of looking at the scale of the transfer is to look at the amount of income - or what is known as gross value added - generated in each country.
So English gross value added per head is highest, at just under £22,000, and it is lowest in Wales at £15,400.
The English enjoy public-service spending per annum equivalent to under 40% of the income they generate, whereas annual outlays on public services in Wales are equivalent to more than 60% of nationally generated income per head.
The ratios for Scotland and Northern Ireland are just over 50% and not far off 70% respectively.
In a UK of considerable social and cultural solidarity that prevailed for most of the twentieth century, these sorts of disparities between income and outlay between the nations were relatively uncontroversial: they captured the idea that all UK citizens are in it together, as it were.
But today it seems almost inevitable that in David Cameron's brave new world of greater national fiscal self-determination, some English nationalist MPs on the right of the spectrum may increasingly view Wales - and Scotland and Northern Ireland - as de facto socialist paradises excessively featherbedded by the English.
That said, if the nations are given much greater control over income taxes - which appears to be what is on offer - could they not pay for whatever public services they feel they need out of these locally levied taxes?
Not remotely.
Income and other direct taxes per head in Wales raise £5,564, considerably less than the UK average of £7,360, and nowhere near enough to cover public service expenditure.
There is a similar mismatch between direct income taxes and public spending throughout the UK.
Borrowing and indirect taxes, mostly VAT, make up the difference. And there is not the faintest chance that national parliaments will be given the power to increase VAT, because this would be an admin nightmare for businesses and undermine the UK as a frictionless single market.
All of which means that it may sound exciting and empowering in Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland to make their own choices about taxing and spending.
But it may also be a bit nerve-wracking (or worse) if it provides cover for Westminster to reduce the income transferred to them from English taxpayers. | The big question about the Prime Minister's plan to hand more control over taxes, spending and welfare to the four nations is how far this would end the subsidy of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland by England, and especially by London and the South East. | 29278544 | [
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About 170,000 people are expected in Cardiff over four days around the match between Real Madrid and Juventus.
South Wales Police's Assistant Chief Constable Richard Lewis said the force could invoke temporary powers allowing officers to search anyone without the usual reasonable grounds.
He described safety and security at the event as "our absolute aim".
He added: "We have powers to stop and search every day of the week and we will be utilising these, but we can also apply for extra powers to allow us to stop and search specifically in an area which we may apply for and use this weekend."
These powers, which must be approved by a senior officer, allow random searches if serious violence may take place in a specific area.
Streets immediately surrounding the National Stadium of Wales will be off limits for anyone without a match ticket on Saturday and no bags will be allowed in the stadium.
Real Madrid and Juventus fans have two different bag drops and their belongings will be held in articulated lorries.
ACC Lewis advised against attempting to drive into the capital on match day due to additional security barriers preventing vehicles from getting into the centre.
Over 24 hours on Saturday there will be 2,000 deployments of police officers throughout the city.
Between Thursday and Sunday, when the festival around the match runs, there will be 6,500 deployments, including 550 armed officers.
ACC Lewis said the Champions League "even trumps Nato" in terms of the impact on the city. | Police are likely to apply for extra powers to stop and search people at this weekend's Champions League final. | 40098643 | [
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The reactor at Yongbyon has been the source of plutonium for North Korea's nuclear weapons programme.
The White House said North Korea should "focus instead on fulfilling its international obligations".
The reactor was shut down in 2007 as part of a disarmament-for-aid deal.
But Pyongyang vowed to restart it in 2013, following its third nuclear test and amid high regional tensions.
White House spokesman Josh Earnest said the international community would not accept North Korea as a nuclear state.
"We will work with our partners in the context of the six-party talks to try to return North Korea to a posture of fulfilling those commitments that they have made," he said.
"We will repeat our call that North Korea should refrain from the irresponsible provocations that aggravate regional tension and should focus instead on fulfilling its international obligations and commitments."
Six-nation talks involving South Korea, the US, China, Japan and Russia aimed at ending the North's nuclear programme have been stalled since 2009.
Experts believe that, when fully operational, the Yongbyon reactor can make one nuclear bomb's worth of plutonium per year.
A US think-tank said this year that satellite images suggested work had started at the Yongbyon complex.
But Tuesday's announcement was the first official confirmation from North Korea that it had restarted operations there.
The state-run news agency KCNA said North Korea was improving its nuclear weapons "in quality and quantity".
It said that the North was ready to face US hostility with "nuclear weapons any time".
However, experts say North Korea's nuclear capabilities are unclear.
Pyongyang claims it has made a device small enough to fit a nuclear warhead on to a missile, which it could launch at its enemies. But US officials have cast doubt on the claim.
North Korea has made bellicose threats against its neighbours and the US before, often to coincide with annual joint military exercises held by South Korea and US forces.
The two Koreas remain technically at war, because the 1950-1953 war ended in an armistice, not a peace treaty. | The US has warned North Korea to refrain from "irresponsible provocation" after the communist state said its main nuclear facility had resumed normal operations. | 34263953 | [
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Its mother was among the first group of 20 relocated to mid Wales from Scotland in 2015.
Pine martens were once common in Wales but were thought to be close to extinction by the 20th Century.
"Evidence of breeding in Wales is very exciting," said Hilary Macmillan from the Vincent Wildlife Trust, a mammal conservation charity.
"This is proving that they are breeding successfully in Wales."
The mother of the baby pine marten - also known as a kit - gave birth about a month ago, must have bred while in Wales to have become pregnant last year.
Others among the relocated group gave birth last year but they would have become pregnant after mating prior to their move south.
However, not everyone is please to see the animals return, with one landowner in Ceredigion dubbing the predator a "killing machine".
So far, 39 pine martens have been relocated to mid Wales in the last two years with a further 20 expected this autumn.
The kit was filmed by trust volunteer Huw Denman as it climbed a tree at its den site. | The first pine marten born and bred in Wales as part of a recovery project has been caught on camera. | 40188235 | [
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The hosts took the lead with Jake Taylor's stunning long-range strike but Diomande equalised for the Premier League side within two minutes.
Joel Grant fired wide for the Grecians before Diomande turned and finished in the area for his second.
Substitute Robert Snodgrass' late 25-yard free-kick secured the Tigers' place in round three.
Hull had only 13 fit senior players for their opening two Premier League games and made seven changes for this match, with debuts handed to goalkeeper Dusan Kuciak and academy products Jarrod Bowen and Greg Olley.
Caretaker boss Mike Phelan has now won all three games this season after being put in charge following Steve Bruce's exit in July.
Match ends, Exeter City 1, Hull City 3.
Second Half ends, Exeter City 1, Hull City 3.
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Attempt blocked. Joel Grant (Exeter City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Substitution, Exeter City. Connor Riley-Lowe replaces Craig Woodman.
Substitution, Exeter City. David Wheeler replaces Jake Taylor.
Goal! Exeter City 1, Hull City 3. Robert Snodgrass (Hull City) from a free kick with a left footed shot to the bottom right corner.
Robert Snodgrass (Hull City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
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Substitution, Hull City. Robert Snodgrass replaces Shaun Maloney.
Goal! Exeter City 1, Hull City 2. Adama Diomande (Hull City) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Shaun Maloney.
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Corner, Exeter City. Conceded by Shaun Maloney.
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Corner, Hull City. Conceded by Christy Pym.
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Attempt missed. Joel Grant (Exeter City) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. | Adama Diomande scored twice as Hull City battled past League Two's Exeter City in the EFL Cup second round. | 37091226 | [
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Each year the library chooses films for preservation which are "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant".
This year's 25 additions bring the total number of preserved films to 700.
Other inductees this year include The Princess Bride, The Breakfast Club, Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 thriller The Birds.
To be eligible for preservation, films must be at least a decade old.
The announcement of The Lion King's inclusion comes three months after Disney announced the movie would be remade as a live action film directed by Jon Favreau.
The original animation was released in 1994 and later adapted for the stage.
Other films to be added this year include Lost Horizon, Funny Girl, East of Eden and 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea.
Paris Is Burning, a 1990 documentary that explored drag ballroom dance culture through the eyes of New York City's black and Latino LGBTQ community, is also among the inductees.
Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email [email protected]. | The Lion King and Thelma & Louise are among 25 films that will be preserved by the US Library of Congress. | 38312379 | [
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Britain remained firmly opposed to any move towards creating an EU army, Sir Michael Fallon said, as it would simply undermine Nato.
And yet it wasn't on the agenda when EU defence ministers met in Slovakia and barely anyone is talking about the idea. There are no plans for legions of Eurotroops decked out in helmets emblazoned with yellow stars on a blue background.
UK will oppose plan for 'EU army'
Juncker proposes EU military HQ
Brexit vote revives EU army dream
It's difficult, indeed pointless, to oppose something that doesn't exist and isn't being suggested. But that's the problem with the argument over the EU's future military capabilities; for now it's a battle of semantics, a war of words.
Instead the official agenda here in Bratislava spoke of "the EU Global Strategy and its synergies and sequencing with the Commission-led EDAP".
But for Sir Michael Fallon there's already much to dislike.
France and Germany presented proposals that would include joint development of military hardware such as helicopters and drones, expanding the EU's peace-keeping missions and, most contentiously of all, establishing a permanent joint European military HQ.
"We will continue to oppose any kind of duplication like that, or any unnecessary bureaucracy that cuts across the primary mechanism for defending Europe, which is Nato," Mr Fallon told reporters.
He was by no means alone in opposing such "bureaucratic duplication", he said.
Germany insists that the idea has nothing to do with a European army.
"It is not aimed against Nato," said Defence Minister Ursula Von der Leyen. "On the contrary, we need a strong Europe and whatever strengthens Europe in defence also strengthens Nato."
And those words were underlined by Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, who told reporters at the meeting that there was "no contradiction between strong European defence and a strong Nato". The importance lay in avoiding duplication, he said.
When he stepped out of the meeting, the UK defence secretary said that 12 countries had spoken and half were against the EU military headquarters, including Sweden, the Netherlands, Poland, Latvia and Lithuania. The BBC couldn't immediately verify that.
EU foreign affairs chief Federica Mogherini said after the informal summit that "in our three hours discussion on this topic with all the ministers, I never heard once the word 'veto', I never heard once the word 'blocking', and I never heard once the word 'army'," she said.
Primarily Sir Michael said he remained sceptical about European willingness to stump up the cash for new defence projects when only a handful of European countries met their existing defence budget obligations to Nato.
"The real issue is whether they're prepared to step up to the 2% (of GDP on defence spending) as we already have," Mr Fallon told reporters.
"There are half a dozen of them in that room who don't spend 1%," he said, explaining why he was cool towards Europe's common defence ambitions.
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An RNLI lifeboat from Barrow rescued the crew and brought them to shore shortly after 02:50 BST.
One of the men, aged 58, suffered a head injury and was taken to hospital for treatment.
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The 28-year-old Australian finished on 15 under par, with American Kevin Chappell his closest rival on 11 under.
Day, whose halfway total of 129 was a record for the Florida event, shot a one-under closing round of 71.
Northern Ireland's Graeme McDowell and Rory McIlroy finished at eight and seven under respectively, while England's Justin Rose was five under.
American Justin Thomas bettered his third-round 75 by 10 shots on Sunday to finish on 10 under in a tie for third. Rose also shot one of the day's best rounds, but his 66 was only good enough to move him into a tie for 19th.
Day dropped two shots on the front nine, but birdied the 10th and 12th to get back to level par for the round.
The US PGA winner also birdied the 16th after a superb chip to the green as he earned his 10th PGA Tour title.
Coming soon: We're launching a new BBC Sport newsletter ahead of the Euros and Olympics, bringing all the best stories, features and video right to your inbox. You can sign up here. | World number one Jason Day maintained his four-stroke advantage to win the Players Championship at Sawgrass. | 36299142 | [
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A 12-week consultation on the scheme, worth up to £1,200 a child, has begun.
Families with two working parents could be able to claim, and ministers said carers who look after disabled relatives and others would be included.
Chancellor George Osborne said stay-at-home mothers, who had made a "lifestyle choice", would not be eligible.
The government says the overall scheme - set to replace the existing system of employer-supported childcare vouchers - will help 2.5 million families.
It is aimed at getting more people back into jobs.
The UK has some of the highest childcare costs in the world, with many people with two or more children saying it does not make financial sense for both parents to work.
The new system is expected be phased in from autumn 2015, with children under five helped in the first year. It will then build up over time to include all children under the age of 12.
Families with two working parents on less than £150,000 each would be able to claim up to £1,200 a year per child.
Critics have said the focus on work will penalise parents who stay at home to look after their children, or are unable to work because they act as full-time "carers" for other adults.
However, extra details released by the government on Monday make it clear that parents who do not work because they are carers will also be eligible.
Carers are defined as those spending at least 35 hours a week looking after someone such as a disabled relative.
But the scheme will not be extended to those who stay at home to bring up their children.
Lisa Frederiksen, from Epsom, Surrey, was "staggered" by childcare costs for her children Casper, four, and Elizabeth, two.
She said: "As a career-orientated woman, when I had my first child at the age of 40 I was staggered at the cost of childcare.
"My employer would not agree to a part-time role, so I was faced with childcare costs of £1,200 per month.
"After my second child, it became apparent that working was not going to pay. With two lots of childcare and the costs of commuting, it just wasn't worth working.
"My Danish husband's family cannot comprehend the cost of childcare here. They pay £300 a month for care in well-equipped, carefully staffed nurseries.
"This new scheme is a drop in the ocean, but we need a radical rethink."
Mr Osborne told BBC Radio 4's World at One programme: "This is help for formal childcare. Obviously it's not for stay-at-home mothers.
"I have huge regard for mothers who want to stay at home and look after their children. That's their lifestyle choice. I want to help those families too. I'm not trying to be exclusive.
"We have a proposal on married couples' tax breaks which I'm going to introduce in the Autumn Statement later this year... that will help stay-at-home mothers."
Lynne Burnham, secretary of Mothers at Home Matter, called for a "level playing field" for all families, with the introduction of a "family allowance" for all households with children under the age of 16.
She added: "It should not be for this government to dictate how a family chooses to care for its children."
Under the proposal, parents will be required to open an online voucher account with a voucher provider and have their payments topped up by the government.
For every 80p families pay in, the government will put in 20p, up to the annual limit of £1,200.
The vouchers will be valid for any Ofsted-regulated childcare in England and equivalent bodies in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Half of the funding for the new scheme will come from the abolition of the previous system of employer-supported childcare vouchers - which is provided by only about 5% of employers - and in part by funding switched from elsewhere in Whitehall.
A separate scheme will provide funding for parents who claim universal credit. It will see the state cover up to 85% of their childcare costs, up from 70% at present.
For Labour, shadow children's minister Sharon Hodgson said: "Only David Cameron's government could be so out of touch that they expect families to be grateful for help with childcare in 2015 when they've already seen costs spiralling and support taken away." | The government says it wants to expand a planned childcare tax credit scheme to include parents who stay at home because they are full-time carers. | 23565469 | [
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Firefighters across the UK who retired between 2001 and 2006 received lower lump sums than they should have because of an error by the UK government.
The Treasury has given the Welsh government £5m to compensate those affected in Wales.
It follows a ruling by the Pensions Ombudsman in a test case in May.
Retired Strathclyde fireman William Milne received more than £30,000 after winning his claim against the UK Government Actuary's Department (GAD).
The Ombudsman ruled that firefighters and police officers who retired between December 2001 and November 2006 should receive a top-up to their lump sum, plus interest.
Thousands of police officers - including hundreds in Wales - are also affected.
As the fire service is devolved, the Welsh government is overseeing the compensation payments to retired Welsh firefighters.
The UK government is responsible for payments to retired police officers in England and Wales.
A Welsh government spokeswoman said: "The Treasury has provided the necessary funding so that we are not required to absorb the costs from our existing budgets.
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Cameroon's Ekeng died aged 26 of a suspected heart attack after collapsing on the pitch during a match on Friday.
Thirteen-time winners Dinamo face CFR Cluj in the postponed final on 17 May.
"If we win the final, the trophy will be sent to Cameroon, where it will be placed on Patrick's grave," said sporting director Ionel Danciulescu.
Danciulescu told Romanian TV channel Digi Sport that Dinamo would ask Cluj to do the same if they win.
The final, scheduled to be played on Tuesday 10 May, was postponed following Ekeng's death.
Ekeng fell to the ground in the 70th minute of the televised Romanian league match against Viitorul and was pronounced dead in hospital two hours later.
Two days later Cameroon women's goalkeeper Jeanine Christelle Djomnang, 26, died after collapsing during a warm-up session. | Dinamo Bucharest will honour the memory of midfielder Patrick Ekeng by sending the Romanian Cup to his family in Cameroon if they win the trophy. | 36260507 | [
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Saints' 3-0 reverse at Everton on Monday completed a difficult Christmas period for Claude Puel's side.
But Stephens, who made his Premier League debut at Goodison Park, believes a change of form is on the cards.
"We just need that little bit of extra luck, or extra quality to go 1-0 up," he told BBC Radio Solent. "These things happen and we'll bounce back."
Stephens, 22, found himself introduced in the sixth minute at Everton, when injury forced Cedric Soares off.
"I enjoyed playing the game," he said. "But at the end of the day, I want to win and being on the end of a 3-0 defeat isn't good.
"We'll pick ourselves up and work hard and I'm sure it will turn round. I don't think there's too much wrong, it's not a disaster and it's not time to panic." | Southampton defender Jack Stephens has insisted it is "not the time to panic" despite their third defeat in six days. | 38497841 | [
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Jackson went close to scoring, shooting after the Dutch had pushed their keeper outfield, but Weir deflected it in.
The result follows Thursday's 1-1 draw against hosts Germany.
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Demba Ba leapt to put the Blues ahead with a deflected shot and Eden Hazard added a second before the break, following up when Ramires hit the bar.
Saints created little until Rickie Lambert came off the bench to head home Nathaniel Clyne's cross.
Jason Puncheon levelled when he smashed home Luke Shaw's cross and Southampton left with an unlikely draw.
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Chelsea have now won only one out of six domestic games at Stamford Bridge under Benitez and, for the third successive home game, boos rang out at the final whistle.
It was easy to understand the home fans' frustrations. This was a game that they seemingly had wrapped up at half-time despite missing several chances but they were rattled by Lambert's introduction and instant impact.
Ba could have made sure of the points when he volleyed over in the second half but sloppy defending gave Puncheon room for his explosive finish, which leaves Chelsea 13 points behind leaders Manchester United, with 16 games left.
Home: P6 W1 D3 L2 F10 A5
Away: P7 W6 D0 L1 F21 A7
Results in Premier League, FA Cup and Capital One Cup, not including World Club Championship or Champions League.
It was only the third time in 90 home matches in the Premier League era that Chelsea had surrendered a 2-0 half-time lead, a slip particularly ill-timed from Benitez's point of view considering the news about Pep Guardiola earlier in the day.
The announcement that the long-term Chelsea managerial target is to take charge of Bayern Munich next summer might have been bad news for Blues owner Roman Abramovich, but surely represents a window of opportunity for his interim boss.
If Benitez is to stay for longer than the end of this campaign, then results will arguably matter more than the opinion of the fans who have opposed his appointment from the start.
At the moment, both are going against him on home turf. Benitez has claimed this is down to the tactics of visiting teams rather than a reaction to the often abusive atmosphere but against Southampton it was poor finishing - and defending - that was to blame.
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Chelsea were comfortable at the break, taking the lead through Ba's instinctive finish from Cesar Azpilicueta's cross and doubling it when Hazard impressively despatched a bouncing ball from the edge of the area after Ramires had struck the bar.
But the home side were given a rude awakening when Saints' top scorer Lambert, left on the bench while his side looked to defend deep and counter-attack before half-time, was summoned for a rescue mission.
It took Lambert, the leading English scorer in the top division, precisely two minutes and 47 seconds to announce his arrival in the game, powering home his header for his 10th goal of a productive campaign.
Chelsea could still have made the points safe, with Ba missing the target completely after he ran on to Juan Mata's superbly clipped pass, but it was Saints who had the last word as they extended their unbeaten league run to five games.
Shaw raided forward down the left flank and his cross was allowed to bounce across the edge of the area, where it was met by Puncheon to take a touch and fire a superb strike past the helpless Cech.
Chelsea interim manager Rafael Benitez: "We should have won.
"We didn't take our chances when we had them. We had situations where we could score. We didn't and they broke on a counter-attack. We gave them hope they could score and they did it.
"I was talking to the team at half-time, trying to say 'we have to score a third goal'.
"I think for us we cannot be happy drawing at home. I am disappointed.
Southampton manager Nigel Adkins: "We came with a game-plan to be compact and frustrate the opposition.
"It was a big call to leave Rickie Lambert out but we wanted to make sure we were in the game.
"At half-time it was 2-0 and I said, 'stick to the game-plan'. If we had gone and chased it there was every chance we could have ended up with a scoreline like Aston Villa, who conceded eight here.
"We stuck at it. Rickie came on and scored the goal and what a fantastic goal it was for the second one.
Full Time The referee brings the game to a close.
The referee blows for offside against Ashley Cole. Artur Boruc restarts play with the free kick.
A cross is delivered by Fernando Torres.
The ball is delivered by Juan Mata, clearance by Maya Yoshida.
The ball is sent over by David Luiz, Jos Hooiveld manages to make a clearance.
The ball is delivered by David Luiz.
Free kick awarded for a foul by Nascimento Ramires on Gaston Ramirez. Gaston Ramirez produces a shot on goal direct from the free kick, blocked by Fernando Torres.
Juan Mata crosses the ball, Jos Hooiveld makes a clearance.
Luke Shaw challenges Fernando Torres unfairly and gives away a free kick. Free kick taken by Juan Mata.
Rickie Lambert concedes a free kick for a foul on David Luiz. Petr Cech takes the free kick.
Free kick awarded for an unfair challenge on Gaston Ramirez by Fernando Torres. Direct free kick taken by Jos Hooiveld.
Gaston Ramirez concedes a free kick for a foul on Emboaba Oscar. Petr Cech restarts play with the free kick.
David Luiz crosses the ball, clearance made by Luke Shaw.
Fernando Torres has an effort at goal from the edge of the box that misses to the right of the target.
The assistant referee flags for offside against Demba Ba. Free kick taken by Artur Boruc.
Jos Hooiveld crosses the ball in from the free kick, comfortable save by Petr Cech.
Booking David Luiz booked for unsporting behaviour.
Unfair challenge on Gaston Ramirez by David Luiz results in a free kick.
Fernando Torres takes a shot. Blocked by Jos Hooiveld.
Demba Ba produces a volleyed right-footed shot from 18 yards.
Gaston Ramirez gives away a free kick for an unfair challenge on Nascimento Ramires. Juan Mata takes the direct free kick.
Corner from the right by-line taken by Juan Mata, Jos Hooiveld makes a clearance.
Foul by Fernando Torres on Jack Cork, free kick awarded. Jos Hooiveld restarts play with the free kick.
Substitution Frank Lampard goes off and Fernando Torres comes on.
The ball is swung over by Luke Shaw, David Luiz manages to make a clearance.
Free kick awarded for an unfair challenge on Jason Puncheon by David Luiz. Gaston Ramirez crosses the ball in from the free kick, clearance made by Nascimento Ramires.
Nascimento Ramires fouled by Gaston Ramirez, the ref awards a free kick. Shot comes in from David Luiz from the free kick.
Assist by Gaston Ramirez.
Goal! - Jason Puncheon - Chelsea 2 - 2 Southamp'n Jason Puncheon scores a goal from just inside the penalty area to the top left corner of the goal. Chelsea 2-2 Southampton.
Direct free kick taken by Ashley Cole.
Substitution Guly Do Prado goes off and Gaston Ramirez comes on.
Richard Chaplow concedes a free kick for a foul on Eden Hazard.
Corner taken by Jason Puncheon, Petr Cech makes a comfortable save.
Rickie Lambert takes a shot. David Luiz gets a block in.
Unfair challenge on Juan Mata by Maya Yoshida results in a free kick. Strike on goal comes in from Frank Lampard from the free kick.
The ball is crossed by Jason Puncheon, clearance made by Gary Cahill.
The referee blows for offside. Indirect free kick taken by David Luiz.
Shot from deep inside the area by Demba Ba clears the crossbar.
Foul by Morgan Schneiderlin on Frank Lampard, free kick awarded. Free kick taken by Nascimento Ramires.
Direct free kick taken by Maya Yoshida.
Substitution Richard Chaplow replaces Steven Davis.
Emboaba Oscar gives away a free kick for an unfair challenge on Jason Puncheon.
Ashley Cole produces a drilled left-footed shot from 12 yards. Jason Puncheon gets a block in.
Jack Cork challenges Emboaba Oscar unfairly and gives away a free kick. Direct free kick taken by Emboaba Oscar.
Ashley Cole sends in a cross.
The ball is crossed by Nathaniel Clyne.
Nathaniel Clyne delivers the ball, Cesar Azpilicueta makes a clearance.
Free kick awarded for a foul by Rickie Lambert on David Luiz. Free kick taken by David Luiz.
Effort on goal by Emboaba Oscar from just inside the penalty area goes over the target.
The assist for the goal came from Nathaniel Clyne.
Goal! - Rickie Lambert - Chelsea 2 - 1 Southamp'n Rickie Lambert finds the net with a headed goal from inside the box. Chelsea 2-1 Southampton.
Nathaniel Clyne sends in a cross,
Free kick taken by Artur Boruc.
Substitution Jay Rodriguez goes off and Rickie Lambert comes on.
The referee blows for offside.
Emboaba Oscar challenges Morgan Schneiderlin unfairly and gives away a free kick. Guly Do Prado crosses the ball in from the free kick.
Corner taken left-footed by Jason Puncheon, Cesar Azpilicueta makes a clearance.
The assistant referee flags for offside against Jay Rodriguez. David Luiz takes the direct free kick.
Demba Ba sends in a cross, Artur Boruc makes a comfortable save.
Free kick awarded for a foul by Frank Lampard on Jack Cork. Maya Yoshida takes the direct free kick.
Ashley Cole takes a shot. Comfortable save by Artur Boruc.
The game restarts for the second half.
Half Time The whistle is blown to end the first half.
Nascimento Ramires takes a shot from just outaide the penalty area and strikes the post.
Assist on the goal came from Nascimento Ramires.
Goal! - Eden Hazard - Chelsea 2 - 0 Southamp'n A goal is scored by Eden Hazard from just inside the penalty area to the top right corner of the goal. Chelsea 2-0 Southampton.
Juan Mata takes a short corner.
Juan Mata sends in a cross.
Guly Do Prado concedes a free kick for a foul on Juan Mata. Direct free kick taken by Juan Mata.
Effort from the edge of the box by Frank Lampard goes wide of the left-hand upright.
Nascimento Ramires takes a shot. Maya Yoshida gets a block in.
Shot by Frank Lampard. Luke Shaw gets a block in.
Juan Mata delivers a pass corner to short, Maya Yoshida manages to make a clearance.
Effort from the edge of the box by Steven Davis goes wide of the left-hand upright.
A cross is delivered by Jack Cork, David Luiz manages to make a clearance.
The ball is delivered by Luke Shaw, Nascimento Ramires manages to make a clearance.
Corner taken right-footed by Guly Do Prado from the left by-line to the near post, Frank Lampard makes a clearance.
Free kick awarded for a foul by Demba Ba on Jack Cork. Free kick crossed left-footed by Jason Puncheon from right channel, clearance made by Gary Cahill.
Assist on the goal came from Emboaba Oscar.
Goal! - Demba Ba - Chelsea 1 - 0 Southamp'n Demba Ba finds the net with a goal from inside the penalty box to the bottom right corner of the goal. Chelsea 1-0 Southampton.
Cesar Azpilicueta delivers the ball,
The ball is swung over by Cesar Azpilicueta, Maya Yoshida manages to make a clearance.
The referee gives a free kick against Demba Ba for handball. Free kick taken by Artur Boruc.
Demba Ba takes a shot. Save by Artur Boruc.
The assistant referee flags for offside against Jay Rodriguez. David Luiz restarts play with the free kick.
Guly Do Prado delivers the ball, Header by Jason Puncheon from deep inside the penalty area misses to the left of the target.
Nascimento Ramires gives away a free kick for an unfair challenge on Morgan Schneiderlin. Direct free kick taken by Jos Hooiveld.
Effort on goal by Cesar Azpilicueta from outside the box goes harmlessly over the bar.
The ball is sent over by Juan Mata.
Juan Mata takes the outswinging corner, clearance by Jay Rodriguez.
Demba Ba delivers the ball.
Effort from the edge of the box by Emboaba Oscar goes wide of the left-hand post.
Centre by Luke Shaw, blocked by Emboaba Oscar.
Nathaniel Clyne produces a cross, clearance made by Ashley Cole.
Effort from outside the penalty area by Jay Rodriguez goes wide left of the goal.
The referee gets the game underway.
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Learning Partnership West runs job clubs, provides mentoring and support and manages adventure playgrounds in a £3m contract from Bristol City Council.
A dozen whistleblowers raised issues including concerns Nicola Burcham's leadership created a "culture of fear".
The former CEO, who quit in May 2015, said she had left "a long time ago" and refused to comment further.
She added the BBC's approach for a comment was "ridiculous".
Ms Burcham left almost a month after the whistleblowers approached the council with concerns about her leadership and decision-making.
The BBC has spoken to a significant number of former staff, on condition of anonymity.
One said: "She coined the term 'freeze and squeeze'. It would start with totally ignoring someone. Then excessive performance management and finally the person would be managed out.
"Appointments were often made with a heavy bias towards black and minority ethnics - particularly young black males."
Another whistleblower said: "She had her favourites. You were in and then out quickly. She was the boss. She could do what she liked. You couldn't challenge her."
While another told the BBC: "When she was appointed CEO, things changed. There was a culture of fear and bullying from her. She had her favourites.
"No one had a good experience of how they were treated by her. She was not a well-liked woman. She was a very unpleasant woman to work for."
The council investigated some of their allegations, and said the company was not always acting in the best interests of its clients - young people in need.
They found clients from troubled backgrounds were being funnelled into institutions run by Learning Partnership West.
Staff at the company were told not to consider other provision.
It was also alleged Ms Burcham bullied staff, and recruitment processes at the company were inappropriate - resulting in unfair selection.
The chairman of the company commissioned an independent investigation into these allegations, but declined to share the final report.
He did say nothing illegal was found. The BBC understands enough people felt bullied that something had to be done.
Netta Meadows, service director for Strategic Commissioning in the People directorate of Bristol City Council, said: "Last year we were made aware of some complaints relating to the management of the service and the council has provided support to investigate these claims.
"The council is confident that Learning Partnership West has responded to the issues."
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"[President Barack] Obama must now start focusing on OUR COUNTRY, jobs, healthcare and all of our many problems," he tweeted. "Forget Syria and make America great again!"
Two years ago Mr Trump built a winning presidential campaign around this very theme, sharply criticising Democrats and some fellow Republicans for what he viewed as their overly interventionist foreign policies.
Just a week ago Secretary of State Rex Tillerson appeared to be following this new script when he downplayed calls for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's removal, saying his status "will be decided by the Syrian people".
Then on Thursday night, two days after another chemical weapons attack, President Donald Trump ordered a guided missile strike on a Syrian government airfield.
The move marks a dramatic turnaround from Mr Trump's prior rhetoric and the expectations of how he would conduct his foreign policy.
In his remarks following the missile strike, the president explained that it was in the "vital national security interest of the United States to prevent and deter the spread and use of deadly chemical weapons".
He even called on "civilised nations" to end the "bloodshed and slaughter" of the Syrian civil war and insisted that "peace and harmony" will prevail.
The man who was thought to be a neo-isolationist now, just months into his presidency, is projecting US military force abroad to enforce international norms and punish human rights abuses.
What changed? It seems clear that the graphic images of dead and dying Syrian civilians - including "beautiful babies", in Mr Trump's words - had a dramatic effect on the president's disposition.
With a few notable exceptions, the strike is being praised by Washington politicians on the left and on the right. In the coming days, however, some serious questions will be posed.
If the president's foreign policy outlook can shift so dramatically in just a few days, if not hours, will allies and adversaries interpret this as a sign of flexibility or incoherence?
A cruise missile strike is a low-risk form of military action, but it also is of limited effectiveness.
A White House official described this as a warning shot across Mr Assad's bow.
If the Syrian president continues to use chemical weapons or conduct conventional attacks that result in significant civilian casualties, will the US escalate its military intervention or back down and risk appearing weak?
When Mr Obama contemplated using force against the Syrian government, he decided that he would need congressional authorisation to do so. Will Mr Trump now seek approval from the lawmakers, on both sides of the aisle, who were reluctant to give the Democratic president such approval?
Thursday night was Mr Trump's first significant foreign policy challenge, and it appears to have dramatically changed his outlook, his rhetoric and his resulting actions. The candidate who constantly spoke of putting America first ended his brief remarks on Thursday night by calling for God's blessings not just for his nation but for the "entire world".
This strike - and this change of attitude - may simply be a one-off event. Or, perhaps, an unlikely globalist has been born. | Four years ago, after the Syrian government launched a brutal chemical attack on its own civilians, Donald Trump warned anyone who would listen that the US should refrain from launching retaliatory military strikes. | 39525265 | [
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The latest claim came as a female pupil, who alleged she was raped by a teacher in 1990 while attending its former junior school, spoke to the BBC.
Kate, who we are not identifying, told her story to the police two years ago but the case collapsed.
Gordonstoun said it was committed to assisting the police.
BBC Scotland spoke to Kate, who claimed she was raped by a teacher while on a camping trip in 1990 when she was a 12-year-old pupil at Gordonstoun's prep School, Aberlour House.
She eventually told her story to the police but the case collapsed after another witness withdrew her statement at the last minute.
Kate, who now lives in England, has now joined a group of former pupils who are pressing for a change in Scotland's corroboration laws and asking the school to deal with the many claims of bullying and abuse.
She said: "I do remember feeling very isolated, because it was the first night of the trip it happened. I just had no idea what had just happened to me.
"I hold the school in great esteem but obviously there were failings at the time.
"An apology is always a nice thing to hear. I know it's a different era but it would be nice to hear an apology."
Police Scotland confirmed that it has been contacted by another former pupil in recent days concerning what it calls a historical matter at Gordonstoun.
In a statement, Gordonstoun said: "We were shocked and saddened to hear of Kate's account of her experience at Aberlour House.
"Cases of this kind must be unimaginably distressing for the victims and we are committed to managing any case of historic abuse as openly as possible, assisting the police with any inquiry and, above all, supporting victims in any way we can.
"We have given the investigating police unrestricted access to the archive records we hold for Aberlour House.
"We were surprised and disappointed that her case did not go to court and remain available to assist future investigations." | Another former pupil of Gordonstoun public school in Moray has contacted police over claims of historical sexual abuse, it has emerged. | 32582527 | [
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Owen and Karl Oyston are seeking £150,000 damages from the Back Henry Street website.
Papers were served on Thursday over six alleged defamatory comments which were made in 2014.
A club spokesman confirmed the legal action but said it would not be commenting further.
A notice published on the fans' website stated: "To clear up any rumours, on Thursday 5 February 2015, Back Henry Street was served papers from the court, relating to the Oystons' and Blackpool Football Club's intent to seek damages for six allegedly defamatory comments made on the site in 2014, limited collectively at £150,000.
"For obvious reasons, we can not go into any more detail at this time. Thank you for your continued support."
The forum has appealed to fans of the Championship side to help in its legal fight.
One of its moderators posted a message saying: "A football club exists and prospers due to the support of its fan-base and Back Henry Street will forever champion the freedom of thought and expression in discussion of Blackpool Football Club.
"It is vital we ensure that we, the real Blackpool fans, will always have this forum to discuss our club."
Last week dozens of Blackpool fans attended a court hearing in Manchester for a separate legal action brought by the Oystons against a fan.
David Ragozzino, 32, was given 21 days to respond to a claim for damages from the club.
On 30 January another fan, Stephen Sharpe, apologised to the Oystons over his online comments, withdrawing his posts after accepting they were "false, defamatory and, in some cases, threatening".
The club also has legal action pending against the former chair of the Blackpool Supporters' Trust, Tim Fielding. | The owners of Blackpool Football Club are suing a web forum for libel in the latest of a series of actions against fans making derogatory comments online. | 31299325 | [
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The 53-year-old German was last seen on Saturday afternoon, when he went to cycle part of the South West coastal path between Newquay and Sennen.
The search involved the coastguard helicopter, cliff teams, lifeboat crews and police.
Devon and Cornwall Police said a body was recovered by the Sennen lifeboat near Land's End.
A police spokesman said he was unable to confirm the identity of the dead man. | A search team looking for a missing tourist have found a man's body at the foot of cliffs in Cornwall. | 40319376 | [
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The £14.6m college is part of a major overhaul of post-16 education by Flintshire council.
First Minister Carwyn Jones will open the facility, based at Coleg Cambria's Deeside campus, on Friday.
In 2013, it was announced that sixth forms at Holywell, John Summers and Connah's Quay high schools were to be axed, with students instead moving to the new college. | A multi-million pound sixth form college centralising post-16 education in Flintshire has officially opened its doors. | 37383872 | [
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These are the close-up views provided by academics from Mosul, who have maintained covert contacts linking the city with the outside world.
They claim that foreign fighters, once visible in Mosul, have disappeared from the city.
"The frontline foreign fighters are rarely there. They've vanished. The houses they occupied are vacant," said one source, speaking anonymously.
"They're leaving it to the local fighters, who will become the scapegoats."
The IS leadership in the city is also described as "melting away".
"It's a lost cause. It's the end of days for them," says one of the scholars from Mosul, who have been supported by the New York-based Institute of International Education, which once rescued academics in Europe from the Nazis.
They also talk of "changed tactics", with IS fighters trimming their beards and changing the way they dress to look more like the civilian population - with Mosul residents assuming this is to make them less distinguishable if the city is overrun.
Cars in the city have been forced to switch to Islamic State number plates, says one of the academics. The fear from civilians is that this could make all cars vulnerable to an air strike or put them at risk of being attacked in the battle for the city.
So far, air strikes have been carefully targeted at government buildings and military sites, according to this view from the city. Another says that this accuracy might seem "impossible" but so far the attacks have been on "confirmed" targets.
Mosul University, once one of the biggest universities in the Middle East, had been kept open by the IS authorities when they seized the city in 2014.
It had raised questions about whether its laboratories were being used to develop weapons, including for chemical warfare, which could be used in battle or against civilians.
But sources now say that this is "no longer an issue" as the university has been pulverised by air strikes.
"The university is completely inoperative and air strikes have made it a difficult place to go. Most of the buildings have been brought down, it's virtually gone. The laboratories are destroyed."
It is expected there will be "chlorine rockets", but doubts about anything more sophisticated.
Another source says that "Daesh used the university to store some weapons" and had blocked access to some sections of laboratories.
"It is believed that they used laboratories for terrorist purposes, but it is almost impossible to confirm such claims."
But it's assumed that the laboratories would have had chemicals - and that the IS forces might have carried out experiments, such as adding chemicals to explosives.
But the destruction of the university is claimed to have stopped any further weapons development.
Although there is a claim that "Daesh insurgents are still inside the university to 'protect' it from any emergency situation".
As the Iraqi government forces, militias and Kurdish Peshmerga close in on the city, there are signs of deepening tensions between the IS regime and the local population, according to sources.
The city's people are said to be in a "state of fear and terror". As IS has been targeted by the coalition forces, they in turn have "put their anger on the people" claiming that Mosul's residents are communicating with "hostile parties to Daesh".
At Friday prayers last week, a pro-IS preacher talked of how local people were "hypocrites" who had let down the "caliphate".
The religious police are also trying to assert their authority and show that nothing has changed in their control - and there have been more gruesome public executions of people claimed to be opponents or informants.
"They are trying to show they are in control of everything."
There is a culture of "false accusations" and another Mosul academic says: "Daesh continues to hunt 'offenders' and punish them heavily," which often means the death penalty.
The IS authorities have tried to clamp down on communications - but this doesn't seem to be effective.
There had been highly-monitored public points for internet access, but these too have been shut down.
But as the Iraqi forces advance on the city, internet providers have been boosting access in Mosul.
It means that in some parts of the city it has been possible to make contact, but this is being carried out in elaborate and extremely cautious ways to keep such links secret.
Such communication is described as being immensely dangerous, but there is a great hunger for news. A source says there is a "great risk of punishment", which would be execution.
There is said to be a huge amount of excitement about the approaching forces.
"People in Mosul are jubilant at the prospect of the city being liberated," says another local source.
This optimism, at the early stages of the battle, is said to outweigh fears of the loss of civilian lives and the destruction of buildings.
Tactics being used by the IS forces, such as digging tunnels, are seen as likely to be ineffective - and there is an expectation that they will be defeated.
Then there will be questions about reconstruction and rebuilding - and there are questions about whether professionals who have fled the city will really want to come back.
There are deep concerns about how the battle for Mosul might become a proxy for other sectarian disputes and score-settling, with so many opposing forces under the banner of the coalition attacking IS.
There are also fears that politicians, with their own militias, could exploit the battle for their own advantage.
Arguments also exist that this is a city exhausted by bloodshed and desperate for peace and moderation.
For two years of the IS occupation and for a decade before, there has been so much conflict, destruction and extremism.
Mosul has been "saturated with violence" and this long "trauma" must end. | The forces of so-called Islamic State, now besieged in Mosul, are in a state of "frenzy" inside the city, increasingly blaming and terrorising the local population and preparing to conceal themselves if defeated. | 37706042 | [
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The 19-year-old Sunderland Ladies striker has scored 66 goals is 68 appearances in two-and-a-half seasons, including 13 in 17 in this season's FA Women's Super League 2.
Logically, Mead's next step is the top flight, and she could get there with the Black Cats, who need just five points to seal promotion this term.
"I've spoken to some of the (FAWSL 1) managers but they know at the moment I'm doing well at Sunderland," she told BBC Newcastle.
"Maybe at the end of the season I might get a few calls, but we will see where Sunderland end up.
"You can tell the difference between us and the teams in the top league. They are training every day, with the likes of Jordan (Nobbs), Jill (Scott) and Steph Houghton going full-time, and it has helped them develop their careers a lot.
"I would like to be in that position as well."
Mead showcased her talents at the recent U20 World Cup in Canada, scoring a wonder goal that upped her profile and was widely shared on social media.
"I didn't realise it would be as big as it was, but I'm glad about what it did for women's football and how it helped promote the game more," she explained. "It was mental, the response I got from the goal.
"It just felt right when I went to hit it, and obviously I hit it well and it went in the top corner."
With England honours at U15, U17, U19 and U20 level, Mead is now waiting for a senior call-up from national boss Mark Sampson.
"Mark has shown that if you're on form he will pick you in any league - Fran Kirby (Reading striker) has just got in and she is in FAWSL 2. She's on fire at the moment," said Mead.
"If he thinks you've got the talent and he thinks you can do a job in his team he'll pick you at any age."
Like Rachel Yankey, Jordan Nobbs and Steph Houghton, the Whitby-born forward started her football career when her mother took her to a boys' Saturday morning training session.
Aged 10, Mead went on to join the California Girls side, but continued to play along with the boys as well, and eventually came to the attention of the Middlesbrough Centre of Excellence.
"I started out with a boys' team, and played for them until I wasn't allowed to anymore. Playing with the boys helped me develop a lot quicker.
"I was scared of the girls more than the boys when it came down to it."
Mead made her way through the age groups at Middlesbrough, and in 2010 she showed up on England's radar, earning England caps at both U15 and U17 level.
"It was a bit surreal - at that age I'd never thought I would be playing at an international standard," she said.
"I'd started playing well for the Centre of Excellence and obviously England scouts came to watch some games and I impressed them.
"I went to a one-day camp and did really well, I scored four goals in one game, so from there it just took off."
In 2011, FA Women's Premier League champions Sunderland soon came calling, and Mead was thrust straight into the starting line-up, notching 23 goals in as many games, finishing as top scorer in the Premier League and helping secure Sunderland the league and cup double.
She followed her debut season with an even better second campaign, netting 30 times in 28 appearances on the way to another golden boot and league title.
Further international recognition followed, with a call-up for the European Under-19 Championships.
"I think that was the making of my England career," concluded Mead. "In qualifying we got beaten in the first game by Serbia, but from then until the final we hadn't been beaten or conceded a goal, so I think that was just a great thing for the team." | Meet Beth Mead, one of the most prolific strikers in English domestic women's football over the last three years. | 29326290 | [
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The non-league club's ground at Meadow Park was completely submerged by the 2007 floods and they have been unable to play there since.
The new ground will be a completely new build, within the boundaries of the old stadium, and will include flood defences.
The plans will be submitted to Gloucester County Council next week.
Club spokesman Mike Dunstan said: "We have regularly communicated with residents and can say that this flood defence proposal will give substantial and significant benefits to the residents and businesses of the Sudmeadow area.
"GCFC flood risks consultants have been working on this proposal since 2008 with the EA (Environment Agency) to provide the solution."
Since 2007 the club has played home games at the grounds of Forest Green Rovers, Cirencester Town and Cheltenham Town.
Club chairman Nigel Hughes said: "I am especially pleased for our supporters who have, throughout this very difficult time, been wonderfully supportive and extremely patient with us.
"There is still much work to be done but this gives us all a big lift and is something to work towards." | Plans to rebuild flood-damaged Gloucester City Football Club's stadium have gone on display. | 12542921 | [
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It's a big problem - it's estimated that 1.2 million people aged 16 to 25 in England have at some point stayed in an unsecure or unsafe place.
Actor Connor Lawson, who plays Alex, and Gaia Marcus, from the homelessness charity Centrepoint, join Jenny on the sofa to talk about it.
You can watch the show to find out what is in store for Alex. | CBBC drama series The Dumping Ground is focusing on the issue of homelessness through a new character called Alex. | 39151512 | [
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Annemiek van Vleuten doesn't remember the rest: bike cartwheeling into the trees; a roaring silence followed by panicked voices; rivals sweeping past, one by one. That's one way to erase the memory of an Olympic dream crushed.
"I remember I had a gap on my competitors and was thinking, 'OK, it's not necessary to go crazy going downhill'," the 33-year-old Dutchwoman, who was leading the road race in Rio when the crash took place, tells BBC Sport.
"Then it started to rain a little bit, so I was actually extra careful. But the corner surprised me and I didn't take it properly. Next thing I remember I was awake in a hospital bed and I had my mother on the phone."
Back in the Netherlands, poor Mrs Van Vleuten had been watching the race on her birthday. The agony these elite athletes put their parents through. Then again, what about us viewers - that wasn't what we were expecting when we switched on the TV expecting some wholesome sporting entertainment.
And what about her poor team-mates - when Anna van der Breggen rounded the bend, she thought Van Vleuten might be dead. This being the Olympics, Van der Breggen didn't think of stopping but rode on to win the gold instead.
But this interview didn't take place from said hospital, or even a different one in the Netherlands. Two weeks after the crash that was heard around the world, Van Vleuten was on her bike again. Never mind the three fractures in her back, the severe concussion, the worried mum, there were other races to be won.
"The first week I was really struggling with the idea that I was going for gold and made that stupid, stupid mistake. But then I realised that thinking like this was not going to help me feel better. So I started making some new goals.
"The three vertebrae were not broken in a dangerous place in my back, only on the side, and I never had serious symptoms of the concussion. And as a cyclist you're used to crashing at least once or twice a year, it's part of the job."
Almost a month to the day after her Olympic hopes hit the skids, Van Vleuten won her first stage, the Belgium Tour prologue. Three days later, Van Vleuten clinched the overall title with a stirring solo effort on the final stage.
"It's sort of a miracle but I sort of expected it," said Van der Breggen, apparently a difficult woman to stir. "She is really tough. That is Annemiek."
A tough talker, too. Asked how she felt when she heard Britain's Lizzie Deignan (nee Armitstead) had been cleared to compete in the Olympic road race, having missed three drug tests in a year, Van Vleuten goes for the jugular.
"I was angry about it because the rules are for everyone and you cannot make exceptions. It's part of the job, you have to take it seriously. It's very special to miss three tests in one year, a really big achievement. Maybe because she's the world champion they made an exception for her but I don't think that's fair."
Van Vleuten is similarly outspoken on the subject of inequality in cycling, advocating that every men's race should have a women's equivalent.
"What would help is if we had more time on television. That would help to get more sponsors and more people to watch and enjoy it. The [women's] Rio road race was a good example of that, it was at the same level as the men's race."
At the current rate, equality will arrive in cycling long after Van Vleuten has pedalled her last and hung her bikes up. Female cyclists earn a fraction of what male cyclists pull in and the chance to ride one day of the Tour de France is little more than a patronising pat on the head from the cycling authorities.
But just as Van Vleuten doesn't like to look over her shoulder, she doesn't like to look too far forward. It makes a lot of sense, given what happened in Rio.
"After the London Olympics I wasn't only thinking of Rio. Cycling has a lot of nice races, like the Tour of Flanders [which Van Vleuten won in 2011 and Armitstead this year], which is a super-beautiful race to win. I just see things one day at a time and year by year."
Next for Van Vleuten is the World Championships in Qatar, which run from this Sunday and in which she will compete alongside Van der Breggen in the team time trial and the road race. Expected to compete against the clock in temperatures pushing 40C, it's good that she can look on the bright side.
"It's hard for me to do interviews that always want to talk about the crash because it's something I've accepted and I don't want to look back at that.
"I prefer to think about the part before, the part when I was going uphill and riding so excellent, better than I ever did. That part was nice to watch back again. I'm proud of what I did, that day in Rio was really special."
Follow coverage of the World Road Championships from 9-16 October across the BBC. | If you don't remember the name, let me remind you of the carnage: back wheel rears up, like the hind legs of a bucking bronco; rider performs a half-twisting front flip; rider lands on her shoulders, skids off the road and spins onto her front; rider hangs limp over the kerb, like a rag doll tossed from a car window. | 37550889 | [
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Towards the end of last year, however, the economy expanded by just over 5%, boosted by government spending.
President Joko Widodo had promised to lift annual growth to 7% on average.
However, the country has seen an average of just under 6% growth over the past decade and analysts have said growth is unlikely to improve for some time.
"The fourth quarter data is a positive surprise," economist Tony Nash told the BBC.
"But unfortunately the uptick will likely be short lived. We expect deterioration in the first quarter and it'll be tough to regain growth momentum before 2017," he added.
Mr Widodo made his promise to raise growth when his five-year term began in 2014, but he has faced problems boosting government spending and has seen several large infrastructure projects delayed.
A $5.5bn high-speed railway project, funded by China, was signed last year and is scheduled to be up and running by 2019.
But the project has faced widespread objections from transport experts and its long-term viability has been questioned.
Mr Widodo has also faced international condemnation for the country's man-made forest fires, which have caused serious economic and environmental damage.
In December, the World Bank said Indonesia's forest fires last year had likely cost the country more than twice the amount spent on reconstruction efforts after the 2004 Aceh tsunami.
In its quarterly report, the bank said the fires had cost some 221tn Indonesian rupiah ($15.72bn; £10.5bn).
It added that regional and global costs would be much higher. | Growth in South East Asia's largest economy, Indonesia, has come in at 4.76% for 2015, marking the fifth consecutive yearly decline. | 35499338 | [
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The window was smashed before accelerant was poured inside and it was set alight at 03:30 GMT on Sunday at the Park Regis Hotel in Broad Street, Birmingham.
Mayweather was appearing in the city, meeting fans as part of a tour.
An eyewitness who filmed the damaged vehicle but did not wish to be named said: "He [Mayweather] was actually outside when the van was set on fire, then he ran back in.
More on this story and others around Birmingham and the Black Country.
"There was panic inside the whole hotel. Nobody was allowed out of the hotel for a couple of hours. They had the whole hotel on lockdown."
There is no sound on the video. | A van used by retired world champion boxer Floyd Mayweather has been set on fire, police said. | 39182312 | [
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Liz Saville Roberts' private members' bill is aimed at giving victims more confidence in coming forward to report rape.
It comes after the Ched Evans retrial jury was allowed to hear details about the sexual history of the complainant.
Chesterfield striker Mr Evans was cleared of rape last October.
Following the case Attorney General Jeremy Wright told the Commons that giving a court details of a complainant's sexual history was not "routinely used" in such cases, but there was "a concern".
A review into the laws protecting alleged rape victims was also launched.
Ms Saville Roberts, the Plaid Cymru MP for Dwyfor Meirionnydd, will introduce the bill on Wednesday. It has cross-party support.
It replicates the so-called 'Rape Shield Law' which exists in the USA, Canada and Australia and aims to prevent the cross-examination of a rape complainant's sexual history, previous behaviour or appearance.
"It is neither right nor just that a victim of rape can be questioned in court on matters not relevant to the case in hand," said Ms Saville Roberts.
"Yet in the recent past victims have been humiliated by lawyers asking questions about their sexual partners, their clothing and appearance.
"Such practices will undoubtedly make victims reluctant to come forward and more likely to drop complaints and there is already anecdotal evidence that high profile cases involving such evidence being used has led to a drop in the number of women who are coming forward."
An 18-month study undertaken by Dame Vera Baird QC in 2015 concluded that in over a third of all rape cases heard at Newcastle Crown Court, there were questions about prior sexual conduct of the complainant.
The charity Voice4Victim, which worked closely with Ms Saville Roberts on the bill, said changes to legislation were urgently needed.
Its founder Claire Waxman said: "This brutal cross-examination of rape victims re-traumatises the victim and causes them irreparable harm.
"It's this victim-blaming attitude of rape victims that needs to be stamped out from the justice process to ensure victims have the faith and confidence to come forward and report these serious crimes."
In 2012, Mr Evans, 28, was found guilty of raping a 19-year-old woman in a hotel room in Rhuddlan, Denbighshire, the previous year. He served half of a five-year prison term.
But that conviction was quashed on appeal last April and he was found not guilty of the same charge at the subsequent retrial. | An MP is launching a bid to stop alleged rape victims being cross-examined in court about their sexual history or appearance. | 38872798 | [
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The computer program, which is inspired by the human brain, learned how to play 49 classic Atari games. In more than half, it was as good or better than a professional human player.
Researchers from Google DeepMind said this was the first time a system had learned how to master a wide range of complex tasks.
The study is published in the journal Nature.
Dr Demis Hassabis, DeepMind's vice president of engineering, said: "Up until now, self-learning systems have only been used for relatively simple problems.
"For the first time, we have used it in a perceptually rich environment to complete tasks that are very challenging to humans."
Technology companies are investing heavily in machine learning. In 2014, Google purchased DeepMind Technologies for a reported £400m.
This is not the first time that a machine has mastered complex games.
IBM's Deep Blue - a chess-playing computer - famously beat the world champion Garry Kasparov in a match staged in 1997.
However, this artificial intelligence system was pre-programmed with a sort of instruction manual that gave it the expertise it needed to excel at the board game.
The difference with DeepMind's computer program, which the company describes as an "agent", is that it is armed only with the most basic information before it is given a video game to play.
Dr Hassabis explained: "The only information we gave the system was the raw pixels on the screen and the idea that it had to get a high score. And everything else it had to figure out by itself."
The team presented the machine with 49 different videogames, ranging from classics such as Space Invaders and Pong, to boxing and tennis games and the 3D-racing challenge Enduro.
In 29 of them, it was comparable to or better than a human games tester. For Video Pinball, Boxing and Breakout, its performance far exceeded the professional's, but it struggled with Pac-Man, Private Eye and Montezuma's Revenge.
"On the face it, it looks trivial in the sense that these are games from the 80s and you can write solutions to these games quite easily," said Dr Hassabis.
"What is not trivial is to have one single system that can learn from the pixels, as perceptual inputs, what to do.
"The same system can play 49 different games from the box without any pre-programming. You literally give it a new game, a new screen and it figures out after a few hours of game play what to do."
The research is the latest development in the field of "deep learning", which is paving the way for smarter machines.
Scientists are developing computer programs that - like the human brain - can be exposed to large amounts of data, such as images or sounds, and then intuitively extract useful information or patterns.
Examples include machines that can scan millions of images and understand what they are looking at: they can tell a cat is a cat, for example. This ability is key for self-driving cars, which need an awareness of their surroundings.
Or machines that can understand human speech, which can be used in sophisticated voice recognition software or for systems that translate languages in real-time.
Dr Hassabis said: "One of the things holding back robotics today, in factories, in things like elderly care robots and in household-cleaning robots, is that when these machines are in the real world, they have to deal with the unexpected. You can't pre-program it with every eventuality that might happen.
"In some sense, these machines need intelligence that is adaptable and they have to be able to learn for themselves."
Some fear that creating computers that can outwit humans could be dangerous.
In December, Prof Stephen Hawking said that the development of full artificial intelligence "could spell the end of the human race".
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Scott, whose victory chances were hit by a mechanical failure in the second race on Friday, came fourth in the medal race to claim silver overall.
Tom Squires won RS:X windsurfing gold after coming second in the final race.
Olympic silver medallist Luke Patience finished fourth in the men's 470 with new crew Chris Gruber.
Patience, who won silver at London 2012 with Stuart Bithell, needs to re-qualify for this summer's Olympic games in Rio de Janeiro after first-choice partner Elliot Willis was forced to withdraw from the squad to undergo treatment for bowel cancer.
New Zealand's Josh Junior claimed Finn gold after defending champion Scott, 28, who won the opening race in Palma, fell out of contention after his rudder pinned on the first lap of the second race. | Three-time world champion Giles Scott won silver in the Finn class on the final day of the Trofeo Princess Sofia in Palma de Majorca. | 35950964 | [
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During the first nine months of 1938, he oversaw the Czech Kindertransport, which brought Jewish children from German-occupied Czechoslovakia to safety in the UK.
He worked tirelessly to ensure money was raised and homes were found for the young refugees.
Yet, amazingly, his self-effacing manner meant that it was 50 years before the full story of his heroic efforts became public knowledge.
Nicholas George Winton was born on 19 May 1909 in the well-heeled Hampstead district of north London.
His Jewish parents had moved from Germany to London in 1907 and changed the family name from Wertheim to Winton.
They had also converted to Christianity and it was into that faith that their son was baptised.
In 1923, Winton became one of the first pupils at the newly opened Stowe School in Buckinghamshire. Although he left without attaining any qualifications, he had become imbued with a love of mathematics.
He continued his studies at evening classes before moving to Germany, where he worked in banks in Hamburg and Berlin.
In 1931, just two years before Hitler became German chancellor, he moved to work in Paris before returning to London.
His mother's family had remained in Germany and that, together with the stories of Jewish refugees fleeing to London, made him all too aware of the persecution of the Jews by the Nazis.
In December 1938, Winton had been due to go on a skiing holiday to Switzerland when he suddenly decided to travel instead to Prague, where a friend was trying to help Jewish refugees.
He visited camps for refugees from the Sudetenland, a German-speaking area of Czechoslovakia, which had been ceded to Germany in September 1938 following pressure on the Czech government from Britain and France.
British activists were already working in Czechoslovakia trying to help the refugees, but Winton's great idea was to rescue children by finding families in the UK to give them a home.
He was helped by a 1938 Act of Parliament that permitted the entry of refugee children under the age of 17, as long as money was deposited to pay for their eventual return home.
Winton set up an office in a hotel in Prague, where he was quickly besieged by families desperate to get their children out before Germany invaded Czechoslovakia.
On his return to London, he worked with relief organisations to set up the Czech Kindertransport, just one of a number of initiatives attempting to rescue Jewish children from Germany and the Nazi-occupied territories.
Winton placed dozens of newspaper advertisements pleading for people to come forward and offer children a home. It was not always easy.
"The problem was getting the people who would accept the children, and of course this was at a time when the evacuation of children from the south [of England] was taking place anyway," he said.
"It's marvellous that so many people did come forward. The unfortunate thing was that no other country would come along and help.
"I tried America but they didn't take any. It would have made a vast difference if they had."
In the first eight months of 1939, eight trains left Prague taking 669 children to safety. A further 15 were flown out via Sweden.
The ninth train was scheduled to leave Prague on 1 September 1939, the day Germany invaded Poland and triggered the outbreak of World War Two.
"Within hours of the announcement, the train disappeared," Winton later recalled. "None of the 250 children on board was seen again.
"We had families waiting at Liverpool Street that day in vain. If the train had been a day earlier, it would have come through."
Winton registered as a conscientious objector and served for a time as an ambulance driver, before joining the RAF where he was eventually commissioned.
He told no-one about his pre-war exploits and it was not until 1988 that his wife discovered a scrapbook in the attic containing a mass of documents, including the names of the rescued children.
In July of that year, Winton appeared on an edition of the BBC programme That's Life, and some of the people he had rescued were invited to attend.
Until they arrived in the studio, they had no idea that Winton was the man who had saved them.
Winton was awarded an MBE in 1983 for his work in establishing the Abbeyfield care homes and, in 2003, was knighted in recognition of his efforts on the Kindertransport.
In 2007, he received the Czech Republic's highest military decoration, the Cross of the 1st Class, and was nominated by the Czech government for the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize.
A train dubbed "The Winton Train" left Prague station on 1 September 2009, exactly 70 years after the last Kindertransport had been due to depart from the Czech capital.
In October 2014, at the age of 105, he travelled to Prague to receive the Czech Republic's highest honour, the Order of the White Lion.
In his acceptance speech, he was typically modest: "In a way, I shouldn't have lived so long to give everyone the opportunity to exaggerate things the way they are doing today."
It was another Nobel Peace Prize recipient, Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, who summed up the vital role of those who, like Winton, tried to save Europe's Jewish children from the Nazis:
"In those times there was darkness everywhere. In Heaven and on Earth, all the gates of compassion seemed to have been closed.
"The killer killed and the Jews died and the outside world adopted an attitude either of complicity or of indifference. Only a few had the courage to care." | Sir Nicholas Winton, who has died aged 106, has been hailed as a hero of the Holocaust. | 12402158 | [
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The 21-year-old prop, who joined the club this summer under their Player Development Foundation scheme made his debut in the weekend win over Ospreys.
"He had a nasty injury early on and he came back and we weren't happy with his fitness and form," Paver said.
"He went to Redruth and I had a few doubts, we had a frank conversation and he's taken the bull by the horns."
The former Launceston player spent the 2014-15 season with Plymouth Albion in the Championship, but did not start a league game during the Devon club's relegation season.
But Paver says Chapman's performance in the British and Irish Cup win on Saturday has raised some eyebrows at the Mennaye.
"I left him out there for 80 minutes, started him at loose-head, pushed him to tight-head, not many can do that but he can do that, and he put his hand up and he's really impressed me," he added.
"The guys will give him a big slap on the back because he's valued within our squad and he's got an opportunity next week to back it up and that will be great for this young man.
"The Championship is not an easy place to play your rugby and the British and Irish Cup is a good place to start from. If he can impress next week who knows." | Cornish Pirates coach Alan Paver says he has been impressed with Luke Chapman's commitment after injury. | 38649933 | [
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Nick Warren, 57, got into difficulties as he tried to reach his black Labrador in stormy conditions off Wellington Parade in Kingsdown, on Sunday.
He was rescued by lifeboat crews but died at Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Hospital, Margate, later.
Lisa Rogers described her father as "my mate" and said she wished he had thought of his own safety.
Mr Warren's former wife, Heather, said he was her "best friend" and his death would be a "big loss". | Tributes have been paid to a man who died after he went into the sea off the Kent coast to try to rescue his dog. | 35001781 | [
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Pundits and election wags love to talk about the so-called "October surprise" - a last-minute revelation that turns an election upside down. This October, the only surprise seems to be a day without surprises.
Here are just some of the highlights of a week that will likely cast a shadow over US politics for years to come.
If there were any doubts about the direction the second US presidential debate was going to take on Sunday night, they were dispelled an hour before showtime, when Donald Trump held an impromptu press conference with women who have accused Bill Clinton of sexual assault.
The striking thing is that while the former president's sexual history was broached by the Republican, it probably wasn't the most eye-popping, norm-breaking moment of the debate.
That, instead, came when Mr Trump said that Hillary Clinton feared his presidency because his election would lead to her imprisonment.
"Such incendiary talk is an affront to elementary democratic decency and a breach of the boundaries of American political discourse," writes conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer.
In the days since the debate, Mr Trump has only increased the voltage. Where once he used to downplay his crowd's "lock her up" chants, now he eggs them on.
"She has to go to jail," he said at a Pennsylvania rally.
Gone is any semblance of moderation or talk of pivot and restraint. It's red meat from here on out.
Parade of the accusers
While Mr Trump's embrace of "lock her up" rhetoric received the lion's share of condemnation from the left and the right, that debate moment likely won't have the greatest impact on the final month of the campaign. That (dubious) honour goes to his assertion that his secretly recorded discussion of how he made unwelcome advances on women was "just talk".
Such a blanket denial has prompted a steady stream of women to come forward to assert that Mr Trump's actions do, in fact, reflect his candid words. Jessica Leeds, who accused Mr Trump of fondling her on a plane, said she practically jumped out of her skin when she heard Mr Trump deny any improper behaviour.
The Trump campaign has promised that it will release evidence that the accusers are fabricating their claims - and Mr Trump in several speeches has issued blanket denials. So far, however, the sum total of evidence levelled against the growing list of women coming forward is a discussion of the mobility of airline armrests, an insistence that Mr Trump wouldn't have enough private time with the women in question to do anything untoward and, most amazingly, Mr Trump's own assertion that one of the women wasn't attractive enough to catch his eye.
"Believe me, she would not be my first choice," he said at a North Carolina rally on Friday.
Believe me, that line isn't going to win him any votes.
You'd be hard-pressed to notice over the din of the travelling circus the Trump campaign has become, but the Clinton team also spent the week weathering a scandal of its own. Thanks to the release by Wikileaks of emails possibly acquired by Russian hackers, the public has been given an inside view of the Clinton campaign - and the picture it paints is often unflattering.
Campaign operatives obsess over messaging and even individual tweets, they mull over negative campaign tactics, try to resolve staff infighting and speculate on ways to inspire a liberal revolt within the Catholic Church.
The emails - assuming they are authentic - contain a full opposition-research dossier on primary opponent Bernie Sanders and staff-culled highlights of the most controversial portions of Mrs Clinton's speech to Wall Street banks that feature her pining for a hemispheric free-trade, open-borders zone.
They also show the campaign's at-times cosy relationship with mainstream journalists and television pundits - including evidence that former Democratic campaign operative (and current party head) Donna Brazile may have given the Clinton team a sneak peek at a question from a televised town hall forum during the Democratic primary.
It turns out presidential campaigns, like sausage, aren't things anyone wants to watch being made.
Let's face it, email controversies aside, right now it's just Donald Trump's world and we're all living in it. Unfortunately for the Republican nominee, that particular world is one with enemies around every corner, conspiring to seize what is rightfully his.
After announcing that he was free of "shackles" in a tweet on Tuesday morning, Mr Trump has proceeded to pick fights with members of his own party's leadership, condemn what he sees as a hopelessly biased media and warn of an international cabal that aims to subvert American democracy.
He regularly tells his supporters that they should carefully monitor polling places in "other communities" for signs of malfeasance. His own website currently has a sign-up for volunteer "election observers".
"This election will determine whether we are a free nation or whether we have only the illusion of democracy, but are in fact controlled by a small handful of global special interests rigging the system, and our system is rigged," Mr Trump said at a rally in Florida on Thursday.
His campaign, he said, was at war with "a global power structure that is responsible for the economic decisions that have robbed our working class, stripped our country of its wealth and put that money into the pockets of a handful of large corporations and political entities".
Mr Trump's latest remarks have some commentators saying he's moved from anti-Semitic dog whistles to a fully fledged bullhorn.
"Whatever Trump is thinking or means, the white nationalists and neo-Nazis he's activated will hear his speech with glee because he's channeling textbook anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, with all the code words and emotional tenor," writes liberal blogger Josh Marshall. "These are the kinds of conspiratorial, revanchist fantasies that spur violence and attacks on the mundane ordinariness of democracy itself."
This week also featured two of the Democratic Party's biggest guns unloading their most pointed fusillades.
President Barack Obama, who has seen his approval ratings soar to their highest point in nearly four years, appears to be running out of pejoratives to describe the Republican nominee. On Wednesday he said Mr Trump's comments on women would disqualify him from employment at a 7-Eleven convenience store, let alone the presidency.
Perhaps more concerning for Republicans up and down the ballot, however, was Mr Obama's decision to try to tie the party as a whole to what could be Mr Trump's sinking electoral ship.
"They don't get credit for at the very last minute when, finally, the guy they nominated and supported is caught on tape saying things that no decent person would even think, much less say, much less brag about, much less act on," Mr Obama said in Ohio on Thursday.
"You can't wait until that finally happens and then say that's too much and then think somehow you're showing any kind of leadership and deserve to be elected to the United States Senate."
Those remarks stand in sharp contrast with the tone Mr Obama took at the Democratic National Convention in July, when he said that Mr Trump didn't embody Republican or conservative values.
Meanwhile, First Lady Michelle Obama launched her own attack on Mr Trump - and, if anything, it was more personal and more deadly. She has the advantage of being able to speak to Americans not as a politician but as an ordinary citizen (who happens to live in the White House, of course). And in this case, she was speaking to the nation as an outraged woman.
"This is not something we can sweep under the rug as just another disturbing footnote in a sad election," she said of Mr Trump's surreptitiously recorded comments. "This was a powerful individual speaking freely and openly about sexually predatory behaviour."
That her speech took place shortly before Mr Trump's free-form conspiracy rant, media condemnation and blanket denial of sexual assault allegations just made the contrast more stark.
Rhetoric and media furore aside, what this election really boils down to is a numbers game. Who can marshal financial and manpower resources and who can't? Who's got the votes in key states, and who doesn't? Messaging and momentum matter, but in the end it's only important insofar as it puts ballots in the box and numbers on the board on election day.
According to current polling, it's been a miserable week for Donald Trump. His numbers are tanking nationally, as Hillary Clinton has stretched her lead from a virtual dead heat before the first debate to high single digits.
The story in swing states is equally troubling for the Republican. He still leads in Iowa, but the pivotal battlegrounds of Ohio, Florida and North Carolina are trending away from him. Then there are states that are normally safe for Republicans - Arizona, Georgia, Utah, Alaska and Indiana - that are showing signs of tightening.
A recent poll of Texas, which Republicans have carried in every presidential election since 1976 and hasn't elected a Democrat to state-wide office since 1994, shows Mr Trump only ahead by four points.
With less than a month until election day, time is running out for Mr Trump. Next week's presidential debate could be the last opportunity he has to shake up the race - but if the past two face-offs are any indication, they are more likely to cement Mrs Clinton's lead.
Pundits and prognosticators have been wrong about Mr Trump many times in the past. His primary campaign proved to be one long refutation of conventional wisdom. After this at-times-stomach-turning week, however, it's looking more and more like it would take an unprecedented reversal of fortune for the New York businessman to add the White House to his real estate empire. | The second week of October is likely to be remembered as the moment when the 2016 presidential campaign went careening off the rails and spinning into the void. | 37548004 | [
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A further 24 shops have been closed down altogether, while police have also arrested 186 alleged offenders.
The Home Office said it was "encouraged" that so many retailers had been "denied the chance to profit from this reckless trade".
However, the charity DrugWise said the ban had driven the market underground.
Legal highs became popular on the drug scene around 2008. They contain substances which mimic the effects of illegal drugs such as cocaine, cannabis and ecstasy and go by names such as Spice and Black Mamba.
What are legal highs?
'Legal highs made me punch my own face'
Laws criminalising the production, distribution, sale and supply of the drugs - known as the Psychoactive Substances Act - came into effect at the end of May.
Commander Simon Bray, from the National Police Chiefs Council, said London's Metropolitan Police had also seized nearly 14,000 nitrous oxide or laughing gas canisters since the change.
Mr Bray said although it was difficult to draw firm conclusions about the impact on use of the drugs, "intuitively I think it must have had an effect".
"It will certainly make it less easy for the casual first-time user to get involved in this sort of stuff," he said adding that he believed many people were "lulled into buying these things" thinking they were legal and therefore safe.
The Angelus Foundation, which educates people on the risks of legal highs, said it believed many online traders had also shut down.
Jeremy Sare, director of communications at the charity, told the BBC: "I think the ban has made a big difference and we are supportive of the legislation.
"What we are surprised about is the online supply hasn't surged. Traders seem to have stopped selling. It is still early days and we may look back in 12 months and see more online trading but many look to have closed.
"Many were operating within the law but now the law has gone against them so they haven't continued."
He said the two biggest groups still using the drugs were homeless people and prisoners.
Greg, originally from Essex and now living in west Wales, told BBC Radio 5 live about his experience of a legal high known as Holy Smoke.
"I had just a little bit... My head just started spinning and I had this paranoid feeling. I just wanted to go home and hide but I couldn't walk properly. I honestly thought that I was going to die.
"From what I've heard it is still pretty regularly available. I think most people still think it's legal."
"Alison" a recovering drug user, has also used legal highs. "They've got names like Train Wreck, Black Cobra and Pandora's Box," she said. "It's still really easy to get. You can get three packets for about £25.
"No prices have changed. Nothing has changed at all. People are still walking around with it and selling it from home. I don't think it [the ban] has made one bit of difference."
However, Harry Shapiro, director of DrugWise, said although the ban may have put off "casual and curious" drug users, it had not deterred those with a serious drug problem and had driven the market underground.
"It's moved from the shops to the street," he said.
The drugs have been linked to 444 deaths since 2010, including two brothers from Scotland.
William McGough, 30, was in the grip of an addiction to the drugs when he drowned in a river in Wick, Scotland, in 2013.
Then, in May, the body of his brother Simon, 37, was found next to a packet of the psychoactive substances.
Their sister, Melanie Downie, 40, spoke publicly about their deaths to highlight the "addictive and destructive" nature of the drugs.
Sarah Newton the government's safeguarding minister, said the drugs "have already cost far too many lives".
"I'm encouraged to see that - three months in - police are using their new powers to take dealers off our streets and that so many retailers have been denied the chance to profit from this reckless trade."
"These drugs are not legal, they are not safe and we will not allow them to be sold in this country," she added. | More than 300 UK retailers are no longer selling so-called legal highs, three months after a ban was introduced, the Home Office has said. | 37185996 | [
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18 August 2017 Last updated at 08:15 BST
They've just left Alaska and have a 3,500 mile journey ahead of them.
The team are taking the journey to draw attention to the melting sea ice.
Watch Whitney's video to find out more.
Pictures courtesy of Arctic Mission | A crew of 10 people, and their dog, are trying to be the first to sail yachts to the North Pole. | 40967761 | [
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The 335ft (100m) Victorian structure, which closed last year, is one of the UK's shortest piers.
Bryan Huxford, who co-owns Humberside Airport, said he would soon reopen the pier as a traditional entertainment venue.
The pier sold at auction in March but was put back on the market in May after the sale fell through.
Mr Huxford, who bought the pier for an undisclosed fee, said the venue would be "safeguarded for future community ownership".
"This has the potential to be very exciting and could create jobs, boost skills and give people across North East Lincolnshire a venue to really be proud of," he said.
"But we're not getting ahead of ourselves at this stage because we know the pier will only truly survive and thrive with the support of local people."
Crafts, conferences, weddings
A public consultation is expected to start next week to gauge interest in the project and decide on the pier's future use.
Mr Huxford said the pier would have a number of uses including tearooms, craft market, wedding receptions, conferences and a traditional dance and concert hall.
A steering group of seven business people has been set up to manage the pier while it recruits members of the public to create a community organisation.
Mr Huxford said the organisation would takeover the running of the pier "with the ultimate aim of buying the building."
Cleethorpes Pier, which was built at a cost of £8,000 and opened in 1873, has been empty since it closed last year and was previously used as a nightclub. | Cleethorpes Pier has been bought by a local businessman who intends to turn it into a community-run venue. | 23378000 | [
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De Kock hit four sixes in a brilliant 135 and Amla made 127 as the hosts reached their target of 319 with 22 balls to spare at Centurion.
Joe Root hit five sixes in 125 - his highest one-day international score - but England's 318-8 proved inadequate.
England lead the series 2-1 with two matches to play.
Coming together at 36-1 after Jason Roy was run out for 20, Root shared stands of 125 with Alex Hales (65 off 73) and 82 with Ben Stokes (53 off 37).
Hales and Root played sensibly to bring up their fifties in the 23rd over but Hales, who made 99 in the second ODI, got out when he hooked Kagiso Rabada straight to Morne Morkel on the fine leg boundary.
In-form Jos Buttler was promoted to number four but was out first ball, flicking Rabada to leg gully.
England captain Eoin Morgan struggled to find his timing, labouring to eight off 24 balls before he was caught at mid-wicket.
But Root continued to bat with skill, reaching his hundred off 95 balls, and then hitting two sixes and a four from his next three deliveries.
The Yorkshireman was finally run out in the 43rd over when a straight drive ricocheted off the non-striker's stumps into the leg-side field and a mix-up with Stokes left the 25-year-old stranded.
Stokes raced to his 50 in 33 balls - and despite a rush of late wickets as Kyle Abbott took two in two, David Willey and Adil Rashid added late runs to set South Africa a testing target.
De Kock and Amla ignored the thunder and lightning rumbling around the stadium to get South Africa off to a perfect start.
De Kock took advantage of anything slightly wide while Amla moved around the crease to upset the bowlers' lines, enabling the duo to bring up their century stand in the 18th over.
England's spinners bowled in tandem but were unable to slow the scoring, with De Kock cracking three sixes on his way to his century from 96 balls.
The onslaught continued with Amla supporting De Kock from the other end, whipping the ball off his legs for a six as England's bowlers grew increasingly resigned to their fate.
The stand was finally broken when De Kock tamely chipped Rashid to Root at mid-wicket.
But Amla reached his century to move level with Chris Gayle, Tillakaratne Dilshan and Sourav Ganguly in seventh place in the all-time ODI centuries list.
The 32-year-old saw his team to the verge of victory before he was caught behind off Chris Jordan with just eight runs required.
Faf du Plessis hit a six to level the scores and then hit the winning run next ball to keep the series alive heading to Johannesburg on Friday for the fourth match.
England captain Eoin Morgan: "I thought 318 was a good score. The wicket got a little worse as our innings went on and a little wear and tear crept in, but Joe Root was outstanding.
"They had an incredible opening partnership but I thought we let them get away. The ball didn't swing early on so we had to go back to hitting our lengths, and we didn't do that well enough to create pressure."
South Africa captain AB de Villiers: "We needed that win, and I thought the boys played really well. We had a bit of urgency and hunger in the field. We've not had the greatest series until today but that shows the attitude we have.
"We have a little bit of local knowledge. I'm from here and so are a couple of guys in the team and we feel it's definitely a chasing kind of wicket. I didn't win the toss but I was going to bowl first anyway. It's very difficult to defend here at night."
Former England opener Geoffrey Boycott:
"I don't think England did a lot wrong in their bowling, and their fielding was quite good, but nothing happened for them. Rashid bowled quite well - he tried to mix it up because wickets were everything.
"The team lacks a bit of something. Steven Finn and Stuart Broad would both improve it. Reece Topley needs a bit more pace and I do worry about Jordan. He is a fantastic fielder, but Finn and Broad are better bowlers and add something more.
"But in the end we still might have lost because Amla played that well and De Kock was scintillating." | Quinton de Kock and Hashim Amla put on 239 for the first wicket to help South Africa beat England by seven wickets in the third one-day international. | 35533650 | [
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They are being held under Section 5 of the Terrorism Act 2006, on suspicion of preparing terrorist acts.
A spokesman for the South East Counter Terrorism Unit said the arrests were not linked to Friday's attacks in Paris, which left 129 people dead. | Two men have been arrested on suspicion of terrorism offences as they attempted to leave the UK via Dover. | 34843705 | [
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But payrolls increased by just 138,000. Economists had expected growth of more than 180,000.
Official job creation figures for March and April were also revised down.
The jobs report is a closely watched barometer of the US economy and one of the metrics the US central bank considers as it sets interest rates.
A number of reports have shown that US growth in the first quarter was weak. Federal Reserve officials have said they are monitoring the figures, but believe the slowdown is temporary.
Some slowdown in job creation has been expected, as the labour market heads deeper into one of the longest expansions in US history.
But the 138,000 jobs added in May marked a sharp deceleration from the average monthly gain of 181,000 over the previous 12 months.
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Job creation kept pace with population growth in May, but it was not what financial markets were expecting, said Paul Diggle, senior economist at Aberdeen Asset Management.
"Today's numbers probably won't stop the Fed from raising rates next week. But they might well influence what happens next," he said.
"If wage growth doesn't improve, the Fed is going to want to soften its stance on how many rate rises are to come this year and next."
Private sector employers added 147,000 jobs over the month, led by the professional and business services, health care, and leisure and hospitality sectors. Construction and mining payrolls also rose.
But losses in the retail sector continued, with payrolls falling by 6,100 over the month. Government was also a drag on job creation, with 9,000 fewer positions. Employment in manufacturing also dipped.
The decline in the unemployment rate came as the number of people outside the labour force - neither working nor looking for work - increased in May. The labour force participation rate was 62.7%, retreating from earlier this year.
The revisions to March and April, which come as the Labor Department receives more detailed information, also meant there were about 66,000 fewer gains over the two months than previously reported.
Gus Faucher, senior economist at PNC Financial Services, called Friday's report "disappointing". He said some of the slowdown came as some employers had trouble finding workers with the right skills.
Wages are up, but not as much as might be expected, he added.
Average hourly earnings were $26.22 last month, rising 2.5% over the year.
But economists at Moody's Analytics said the soft jobs number in May might omit summer hiring that occurred later in in the month. They wrote that they expected to see future gains, even if the overall pace of expansion slows.
"Because of the peculiarities inherent in the May report, we are minimising its importance," they wrote. "There are few risks on the horizon that suggest that the economy is at risk of downturn." | US employers added fewer jobs than expected in May, but the unemployment rate dipped further as the economy headed toward full employment. | 40135661 | [
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Christmas Day is the only religious holiday which is also a national public holiday, after Easter Monday was officially renamed Family Day.
But South Africa's Law Reform Commission argues that is unfair and says holidays from all religions should be treated equally. The commission noted that members of other religious groups do not get paid when they skip work to observing their own holidays.
Some 80% of South Africans are classed as Christian, according to the most recent available statistics, although many combine their Christian beliefs with traditional practices.
The chairman of the Commission for the Promotion and Protection of Rights of Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Communities Thoko Mkhwanazi-Xaluva said she supports a change.
"We are trying to find a middle road for the country that's not going to make people angry, that's not going to start a religious war," she said.
"But once you take Christianity alone and you give all the Christians all the happiness and give others nothing, then it's unconstitutional," she added.
The commission says that the constitutional guarantee of minority rights should extend to recognition of minority faith holidays.
It did not take too long before there was a push back from some Christians who were not happy with the proposal.
The leader of the African Christian Democratic Party (ACDP), Reverend Kenneth Meshoe, said that if Christmas was removed from the holiday calendar - to achieve equality - it would imply that "South Africans don't need God in their lives, which would have serious consequences".
Mr Meshoe also said that if the matter came before parliament, the ACDP would lobby Christians from other parties to vote in favour of retaining Christian holidays.
This is not the first time the matter has been raised here in South Africa.
In 1994 at the end of apartheid, Ascension Day was removed as a public holiday and Easter was officially renamed Family Day, although most people still refer to it as Easter.
Ten years later the issue of holidays was discussed again by the Department of Home Affairs but it was later abandoned.
Religion in South Africa (most recent figures)
Christianity: 79.8%
Islam: 1.5%
Hinduism: 1.2%
Judaism: 0.2%
Other beliefs: 0.6%
No religion: 15%
Undetermined: 1.4%
Source: Census 2001
But what has been the trend elsewhere on the continent?
In Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation, which is roughly equally split between Christians and Muslims, both Christmas and the Prophet Muhammad's birthday Eid el-Maulud are national holidays.
In Senegal, a country I have visited many times and which enjoys one of the most harmonious relations between majority and minority groups on the continent, there is much more understanding.
In addition to Independence Day and Labour Day, it has numerous paid religious holidays.
Sources: wego.com; officeholidays.com; 2013 Mercer study and others
Some 94% of the country is Muslim and so Eid al-Fitr (the end of the fasting month of Ramadan) and Eid al-Adha (Feast of Sacrifice) are national holidays. Indeed, there are often two - when different sects celebrate the holidays on different days.
But Christmas Day, Easter and Ascension are also national holidays - and are celebrated by the 5% of the population who are Christians.
While this may go some way to forging religious harmony, business leaders there complain bitterly about the loss of productivity.
Back in South Africa, the business community is already complaining about the number of public holidays and so would not take kindly to the idea of appeasing minority groups by having any more religious holidays.
A task team was established two years ago to look into the idea of reducing the number.
Although there were some recommendations that the country could do without a couple of days holiday, it was generally accepted that comparatively, Africa's most industrialised economy was not out of kilter with the rest of the world.
South Africa has 13 public holidays during the course of the year, Malaysia has 12 and the United States, Singapore and France 11.
Christo Botes, Executive Director of Business Partners Limited, said the problem was a month like April where they are crammed together in one month, affecting productivity levels.
So for business, the idea is not necessarily to reduce the number of bank holidays but to spread them out in such a way to reduce their impact on the factories and other industries.
During April's xenophobic attacks, some suggested that South Africa should have Africa Day on 25 May as a paid holiday, as is the case in many other countries on the continent.
The hope was that this would bring locals closer to the idea of an African Union ideology.
But no-one has raised this idea since the violence subsided.
So the debate about how many public holidays South Africans should enjoy looks set to rumble on. | The number of religious holidays has come under scrutiny in South Africa, after a report suggested that minority groups were discriminated against because only Christian holidays are officially recognised. | 33478480 | [
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The MP for Tottenham said it was "absolutely time" for a new generation to "step up to a leadership role".
Mr Lammy is putting together a bid to be Labour's candidate for Mayor of London in 2016 but said he has not discounted a tilt at the top job.
But Alan Johnson has ruled himself out, saying the new leader faces a "10-year task" to rebuild Labour.
No contenders have yet come forward in the race to succeed Ed Miliband, who stepped down after Labour's defeat.
Yvette Cooper, Andy Burnham and Chuka Umunna are seen as the frontrunners.
Former soldier and shadow justice minister Dan Jarvis is also being tipped as a possible contender. He has declined to comment on leadership speculation.
Harriet Harman is to serve as acting leader until a leadership contest takes place later this summer. She has said she will stand down as deputy leader later this year.
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"I've been in the Parliamentary Labour Party for fifteen years and certainly for people like me it's absolutely time to step up into a leadership role," he said.
Labour's election rules
MPs wishing to stand as leader and deputy leader have to be nominated by 15% of their colleagues in the Parliamentary Labour Party to be eligible to stand.
As Labour now has 232 MPs, this means prospective candidates must get at least 34 signatures. That means the maximum size of any field is six contenders.
Under rules agreed last year, all Labour Party members, registered supporters and affiliated supporters - including union members - will be allowed a maximum of one vote each on a one member, one vote system.
When the election is held, they will be asked to rank candidates in order of preference.
If no candidate gets 50% of all votes cast, the votes will be added up and the candidate with the fewest votes eliminated. Their 2nd preference votes will then be redistributed until one candidate has 50% of all votes cast.
"Now, I have been thinking very, very carefully and indicating that I want to seek the Labour nomination for London mayor.
"But actually, putting together that team, now that we have a proper race to lead the party, of course, me and others are looking very carefully at who is the best leader and if colleagues come to me over the coming days and say "look, David, why don't you put your [hat in] I will look at it."
Mr Lammy, who is regarded as being on the right of the party, was a minister under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown having first entered Parliament in 2000.
He gained a national profile for his response to the shooting of Mark Duggan in his constituency in August 2011, which sparked riots across London and other cities.
Asked whether he had been approached by colleagues to run, he said: "They want me to step up for something.
"I think the question is whether that is here in London or the country at large. My passion instinctively is for London".
A former Labour home secretary has suggested it could take a decade for Labour to recovery from its defeat.
Alan Johnson, who has ruled himself out of the contest, said the party needed a "proper rethink" about its direction and the new leader would have a big job on their hands.
"This is a ten-year task," he told Radio 4's Today programme "This is a job for the future...It is much more fundamental than just changing the leadership."
Mr Johnson said Mr Miliband had run a "decent campaign" but he was alarmed that the party had been unable to recapture seats in the south of England it held between 1997 and 2010, such as Hastings and South Thanet.
Labour, he suggested, had lost contact with Middle England, which had propelled it to three successive election victories under Tony Blair, and the party needed to consider its sense of purpose if it was to get back into power at the next attempt.
"Why have we lost this crucial issue that was important from 1945 onwards for Labour - that is aspiration. Aspiration for our children and our future....We can not longer relate to them as a party of aspiration."
He added: "You would have thought Tony Blair lost three elections rather than won three elections. It is almost de rigueur not to mention his name. It is a fundamental flaw."
Labour's National Executive Committee, the party's ruling body, is expected to set out a timetable for the contest next week.
In 2014, the party changed the rules for future contests to move to a "one member, one vote" system of party members, affiliated trade union supporters and registered supporters. | David Lammy has said he will consider standing for Labour leader if colleagues want him to do it. | 32671418 | [
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Kelly Pearce, 36, was found with fatal throat wounds in a flat belonging to witness Joseph Withers on Canvey Island, Essex, on 19 November.
Accused Anthony Ayres, 49, of Fairlop Avenue in Canvey, denies murdering her.
At Chelmsford Crown Court his defence claimed Mr Withers killed her and then blamed Mr Ayres who arrived later.
Ms Pearce had been stabbed 40 times in the face and neck and bludgeoned to death with a weapon "consistent" with a hammer in a "frenzied attack", the court heard.
More on this and other news from Essex
She sustained fatal neck wounds and skull and brain damage, and died later in hospital.
The court was told she had been attacked in the bathroom of a flat in Fairlop Avenue in Canvey, belonging to Mr Withers.
On the day of the killing, Mr Withers, who described himself in police interviews as a paranoid schizophrenic, said he was briefly locked out of his flat, while Ms Pearce and Mr Ayres were inside.
When he got back in he claimed to have seen Mr Ayres swinging a hammer.
"I saw him hitting her with the hammer or something. I just saw him hitting like that," he told the court.
Defence lawyer Oliver Saxby, QC, said: "It sounds like you weren't sure. Why did you say 'or something'?"
"That's best description I could give," Mr Withers replied.
He claimed he had then run from the flat to call the police.
However, Mr Saxby said: "I'm suggesting that either you lost it with her, or that there was somebody else in there who was responsible for what happened."
"It was Tony," Mr Withers replied.
He had said early in the cross-examination: "You're trying to say I attacked Kelly. I would never attack anybody. I'm scared of Kelly."
The trial continues. | A prosecution witness in the trial of a man accused of the "frenzied" murder of a woman, has been accused of carrying out the killing himself. | 36798971 | [
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The 18-year-old, of Westfield Avenue South, Saltdean, East Sussex, is due to appear before Brighton Magistrates' Court on 24 March.
Hundreds of people were left ticket-less after paying to go to the event last September.
Sussex Police said the charges incorporated all of the reports of money being paid for but no tickets being given. | A teenager has been charged with selling fake tickets for last year's Bestival on the Isle of Wight. | 35591132 | [
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18 June 2015 Last updated at 15:10 BST
All the big gaming companies including Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony are showing off what they've been working on.
Virtual reality usually involves putting on some glasses that contain video screens.
The specs give you the impression you're in a totally different world, that changes as you look around the room.
For years, virtual reality has been tipped as the next big thing in technology - but now it looks like it might finally be ready for action.
Radio 1 reporter Steffan Powell sent us this report from E3. | Gaming experts are predicting a big future for virtual reality at E3 - the world's biggest convention for games. | 33189100 | [
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Shopper Cornelius Price, 40, threw the six-pint bottle in a temper, Llandrindod Wells Magistrates' Court heard.
It was claimed he was verbally abusive and escorted off the premises.
Admitting criminal damage, Price said he threw the milk towards the store manager saying "catch it" but it accidentally spilt.
"He was told to return the milk he was holding and leave the store and he threw it at the floor in temper," said Julie Sullivan, prosecuting.
"£1.50 compensation is requested for the milk."
Phil Sherrard, defending, said: "This is minor criminal damage. He knows he should have been more careful with the milk."
Price was told to pay £1.50 compensation to Tesco, fined £75, ordered to pay £20 victim surcharge and £85 costs. The money will be deducted from his benefits at £10 a fortnight. | Supermarket giant Tesco has won £1.50 compensation from a customer who spilt a bottle of milk in one of its stores. | 32173459 | [
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The vote held on Friday was for 68 seats out of the 290 in parliament. It meant that nervous Iranians woke up on Saturday morning to an all new political landscape.
For the first time in 13 years moderates and reformists now have a majority in parliament.
While it was not a sweeping victory for the supporters of President Hassan Rouhani, it was still a surprise win, especially given the months of heavy campaigning against the government's policies.
Hardliners had a majority in the outgoing parliament.
In the three years since Hassan Rouhani took office, they have bitterly opposed most of government's plans, organising a fierce attack on the nuclear deal between Iran and world powers.
Some MPs have even gone so far as to describe Foreign Minister Javad Zarif as a traitor.
The popular moderate who negotiated the nuclear deal has regularly been subject to harsh criticism in parliament and is under constant threat of impeachment by fundamentalist MPs.
Now almost all those MPs have been unseated by moderate or reformist counterparts, and those who remain either supported the deal or at least never attacked it as vociferously as their unseated comrades.
Many observers argue the nuclear deal not only brought an end to years of harsh international sanctions but was also the deal-breaker in the elections. The people were saying no to those who had promised to stop the deal.
What puts this victory in a more meaningful context is the fact that it was achieved despite almost all well-known reformists being banned from running in the elections and a complete lack of media coverage of their campaign in the run-up to the elections.
State TV and media never gave equal coverage to reformists or moderate candidates and even led a campaign against the deal in recent months.
The only medium available to pro-government candidates was the internet and social media, which they used to the maximum in getting their message across, especially to the young and women.
The triumph of the reformists should lead to a major realignment within parliament, making it more supportive of President Rouhani.
But it will by no means end the president's problems when it comes to delivering his election promises.
The nuclear deal has hit some rough patches on its way to implementation.
Apart from domestic oppositions from hardliners in parliament and other unelected bodies, there are still a lot of obstacles to overcome outside of Iran.
The international banks still have not opened up to Iranian businesses and in the US, conservatives in Congress are doing all they can to derail the deal.
Any more delays in its implementation and ensuing lifting of sanctions would harm President Rouhani's economic reform plans and would prepare the ground for hardliners to recover from the this week's defeat in order to reshape their campaign against the government.
Time is not on the moderates' side and the new momentum could die down easily if it is not supported by economic rewards.
This is a worry that every unseated hardliner MP is focusing on from now onwards. | The run-off parliamentary election win by the moderate government of Iran is a crucial victory for them. | 36180490 | [
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The RAC said the higher prices were due to a combination of rising crude oil prices, and the devaluation of the pound after June's Brexit vote.
Average petrol prices rose by 4.4p to 116.7p per litre and average diesel prices rose 5.2p to 118.7p per litre.
The motoring body said these were the biggest monthly increases for three and a half years.
Its fuel spokesman, Simon Williams, said retailers had "no choice" but to put up prices on garage forecourts.
"The effects of the weak pound have really been felt on the wholesale market, and this, combined with an oil price at nearly double its lowest level in 2016, has put significant upward pressure on wholesale fuel prices," he said.
"Certainly, we are a long way from the remarkably low fuel prices enjoyed by families and businesses early in 2016, when the average price of unleaded was around 102p per litre and diesel was 101p," he added.
According to the RAC, the increases mean it now costs £64.20 to fill the 55-litre petrol tank of a typical family car.
Meanwhile it costs £65.25 to fill up a similarly sized tank in a diesel car.
The RAC suggested that the price of fuel might stabilise in the coming months.
"Opec, which represents some of the world's biggest oil producers, recently agreed in principle a cut in production," said Mr Williams.
"But a final deal is still to be agreed at an Opec meeting at the end of this month and, with some analysts suggesting a deal might yet stall, this leaves open the prospect oil prices might stabilise or even fall before the end of the year," he added. | Petrol and diesel prices rose sharply in October, said the RAC, taking them to their highest level since July 2015. | 37849933 | [
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They report that a checkpoint manned by local police was attacked in the Mirzawalang area of Sar-e Pul province.
The assailants then entered the village and shot dead mainly Shia Muslim civilians including women and children, a spokesman for the provincial governor said.
"They were killed in a brutal, inhumane way," he added.
He reported that seven members of the Afghan security forces has also been killed, as well as a number of insurgents.
A combination of Taliban and Islamic State (IS) group fighters - including foreigners - were involved, he said. Both are Sunni Muslim militant groups.
The Taliban denied killing civilians, saying that its fighters had killed 28 members of a government-supported militia in the area.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani condemned the attack.
"Criminal terrorists have once again killed civilians, women and children," he said in a statement.
"This barbaric act of them is deemed a direct violation of human rights and a war crime."
Fighting has intensified across Afghanistan in recent months. More than 1,662 civilians were killed in the half of the year, according to UN figures.
Can Afghan military turn tide in Taliban fight?
US President Donald Trump is considering whether to increase the number of US troops aiding the military and police in the country.
End of Twitter post by @afgexecutive | At least 50 civilians have been killed by militants in northern Afghanistan, officials say. | 40845361 | [
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A team from Cardiff University has appealed to more than 3,000 beekeepers to send them photos, videos and audio files from hives over the summer.
The noises will be analysed at the School of Pharmacy.
The research will also help them learn where the bees find their feed by mapping the exact locations they were pictured or recorded.
"The Africanised honey bee makes different sound to the European bees," said microbiology professor Les Bailie.
"The bees we have on the roof of the school here are Italian. Do the bees in Cardiff make the same sound as those in Aberystwyth or Wrexham?"
Prof Bailie said bees could make up to 10 different noises depending on their mood, including angry, calm or ill.
Analysing the "known noises" can help determine where bees are from, but could also be used to play to bees to help their mood.
"A happy bee is a productive bee. If you can make the bee happy by playing them the right sound they can produce more honey," Prof Bailie said.
"Plotting these differences could ultimately help us in our bid to find out which plants help bees the most.
"Gathering photos, video and sound files will help us understand where gaps lie and will help put plants in the right places to make bees more productive."
If enough beekeepers respond, and investigators detect initial differences, the project could be rolled out to include more than 40,000 beekeepers across the UK. | Scientists are trying to find out if bees make different sounds depending on where in Wales they are. | 36796326 | [
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He said new forests would slow flooding by trapping water with their roots.
The idea of "rewilding" the uplands is catching on fast as parts of Britain face repeated flooding, with more rainfall on the way.
Environment Secretary Owen Paterson said he would seriously consider innovative solutions like rewilding.
The government has been criticised for being slow to capitalise on the benefits of capturing rain where it falls.
Lord Rooker, a Labour peer, said too much emphasis had been attached to the look of the countryside rather than practical considerations like trapping water.
"We pay the farmers to grub up the trees and hedges; we pay them to plant the hills with pretty grass and sheep to maintain the chocolate box image, and then wonder why we've got floods," he said.
The idea of reintroducing forests into catchments has been strongly supported by several leading scientists.
The government is sponsoring a handful of catchment trials to assess the potential of the upstream areas to catch water and send it slowly downhill.
A research paper for the Environment Agency shows that some of the schemes, like partly damming streams with felled trees to cause local flooding, are highly unpredictable when employed on their own.
If they divert rainfall on to surrounding fields that can actually make flooding downstream worse if the water then flows off the fields, bypassing bends in the river.
But the study, which is not yet peer-reviewed, suggests that reintroducing flood forests to upland areas can be highly effective - and potentially much cheaper than conventional flood defences.
The author, Simon Dixon, said: "Complex forested floodplains dramatically slow water moving over them as they have an irregular surface covered by tree roots, upright tree trunks and dead wood."
He explains the process this way: "As a simple analogy during a flood many 'packets' of water are delivered to the main trunk river from all its tributaries.
"If the delivery of a single large 'packet' of water can be significantly delayed it will then arrive at the main river after the peak of the flood, and thus the main flood peak height has less 'packets' of water in it and is lower."
The best results come, he says, when rivers are partly dammed and a forest is allowed to grow on the floodplain. "This shows substantial and predictable responses in downstream flood height," he said.
This is exactly what would have happened if farmers had not been encouraged by government to maximise food production by felling forests to graze sheep on the uplands.
Lord Rooker got the idea of reintroducing forests from an article by the green journalist George Monbiot, who complained that farmers are subsidised to keep sheep even though the grazing animals actually make flooding worse by compacting the earth.
"Instead of a steady flow sustained around the year by trees in the hills, by sensitive farming methods, by rivers which are allowed to find their own course and their own level, to filter and hold back their waters through bends and braiding and obstructions, we get a cycle of flood and drought. We get filthy water and empty aquifers and huge insurance premiums and ruined carpets. And all of it at public expense," Mr Monbiot wrote earlier this month.
The idea of catching water upstream is strongly supported by the water and environment professional body, the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM).
Its spokesman Katherine Pygott has previously told BBC News: "Flooding is getting worse with changing weather patterns, but these schemes are taking a very long time and a lot of energy.
"Projects working with nature to reduce flood risk are needed right across the country - but it is complicated, with many different organisations involved, and it will need political leadership from the highest level to make it happen. So far we haven't seen that leadership."
Environment Secretary Owen Paterson told me he would give serious consideration to innovative solutions to flooding, like rewilding.
The government could theoretically encourage farmers to rewild key parts of their catchments using grants under the Common Agricultural Policy, but CIWEM say that at the moment it is much easier for farmers to get grants for wildlife protection than flood protection.
Mr Paterson had hoped to divert more cash into a fund that could be used for these sort of measures but was overruled by the prime minister after a campaign by farmers demanding to keep the maximum amount of their grants into direct payments for farming - in effect, for owning land.
Follow Roger on Twitter @rharrabin | Britain should turn swathes of its upland pastures into woodland to help prevent flooding, according to a former environment minister, Lord Rooker. | 25864631 | [
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Peel Energy and United Utilities want to add a further 16 turbines at Scout Moor, on land between Rochdale and Rossendale.
Rossendale Borough Council's development control committee gave the go-ahead for 14 of them at a meeting on Tuesday night.
Councillors in Rochdale are yet to rule on plans for the remaining two.
A statement from Rossendale Borough Council said their decision will now be referred to the government, which will then decide whether or not to "call-in" the decision for further debate.
Scout Moor wind farm opened in 2008 with 26 existing wind turbines generating enough electricity for 40,000 homes.
MW = Megawatts
Source: RenewableUK
However, opponents are concerned the expansion of the wind farm will impact negatively on the natural beauty of the area.
Proposals to double the size of the site have already been scaled down after a public consultation.
A joint planning application for expansion on Scout Moor and the neighbouring Rooley Moor was submitted to Rochdale and Rossendale Borough Councils.
The document states "if all the proposals... are consented they will result in the largest wind farm in England".
Jon England of Peel Energy said: "The UK is quite a highly populated country. Offshore is one of those areas which moves it away from communities but you are going to increase costs.
"If you increase the cost of construction of these sorts of developments you are going to increase the cost to the consumer.
"We've been out to the community many times. We've done tens of consultation events. Yes there is objection [to expansion].
"But in the scale of the population that see Scout Moor wind farm the level of objection is relatively low." | Planning permission has been granted to create what is believed to be England's largest onshore wind farm. | 34113160 | [
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Konta continued her remarkable run with a 6-4 6-1 win over China's Zhang Shuai in the quarter-finals and next faces German seventh seed Angelique Kerber.
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Fellow Briton Murray saw off Spain's David Ferrer 6-3 6-7 (5-7) 6-2 6-3 to reach his sixth Melbourne semi-final.
The Scot, seeded second, will play Canada's Milos Raonic on Friday.
Raonic, a Wimbledon semi-finalist in 2014, beat Frenchman Gael Monfils 6-3 3-6 6-3 6-4.
Konta and Murray have matched the achievement of semi-finalist Sue Barker and runner-up John Lloyd, who both reached the last four at the Australian Open 39 years ago.
Murray, 28, won a gruelling quarter-final against eighth seed Ferrer that lasted three hours and 49 minutes.
Konta, ranked 47th, is the first British woman to reach a Grand Slam semi-final since Jo Durie made the US Open last four in 1983.
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"I'm just so happy that I'm enjoying what I'm doing," said Konta after her straight-set win over Zhang. "That is me living my dream."
Her achievements so far have guaranteed her prize money of at least £370,000 and are likely to secure her a place in the world's top 30.
"When I was a little girl, I dreamt of winning grand slams and being number one in the world," she added. "That dream stays the same, I think, as long as you're doing the career that you're on."
Konta said she "just wanted to come out and play the best level" she could against Zhang, who was also in uncharted waters.
The British number one saw off the Chinese qualifier, ranked 133rd in the world, in one hour and 22 minutes.
Konta began confidently, breaking twice and serving superbly as she moved 5-2 clear before overcoming some nerves and a resurgent opponent to clinch the set.
After saving a break point that would have made it 5-5 and then converting her sixth set point, the confidence returned and Konta again earned a double-break lead in the second set.
With a semi-final place there for the taking, Konta saw two match points slip by but converted the third thanks to a net cord.
"To be honest, I was taking it a match at a time," said Konta. "She definitely didn't make it easy for me.
"Every time I was ahead, she was constantly there. I'm not proud of the net cord, but I'm happy I was able to fight every point."
A Grand Slam final appearance is now a real possibility, arguably more so after Kerber's surprise win over the in-form Victoria Azarenka.
Kerber and Konta will meet for the first time in Thursday's second semi-final at around 04:30 GMT.
Murray is through to his 18th Grand Slam semi-final, bringing him level with Boris Becker, having dropped just two sets in five matches.
The former Wimbledon and US Open champion was made to work hard by Ferrer, but Murray proved the stronger in the third and fourth sets.
A three-set win looked possible after he took the opener and fought back from 4-1 down in the second to earn two break points at 4-4.
Ferrer, 33, showed his famous battling qualities by digging in and forcing a tie-break, which he would win to draw level, prompting Murray to berate himself and talk to those in his player box.
The Scot was understandably irritated but gathered himself sufficiently to break for a 3-1 lead in the third, at which point the roof was brought across with thunderstorms forecast.
Murray saved a break point on the resumption, but broke once again to take a grip on the contest and moved 2-0 up in the fourth.
Ferrer, 33, refused to yield and hit straight back but Murray made the decisive move in game six after the Spaniard netted a smash and made it to the finish line with two hard-fought service games.
He will now play Raonic, who is pledging to "fight with all my heart" when the two meet on Friday.
With Jamie Murray through to the semi-finals of the men's doubles with Brazilian Bruno Soares, it is the first time two brothers have reached semis in singles and doubles at the Australian Open.
Azarenka might have been seeded seven places lower than Kerber at 14th, but the German still pulled off something of a shock by knocking out the Belarusian.
The 28-year-old raced into an early 4-0 lead and then staged a superb second-set fightback to beat two-time champion Azarenka 6-3 7-5.
The German had lost all six previous matches against Azarenka and saved five set points from 2-5 in the second set.
"I can't actually describe it in words," said Kerber. "I'm so happy I beat her for the first time."
Azarenka, 26, said her footwork and shots weren't good enough and also blamed "too many unforced errors in the key moments".
BBC Radio 5 Live tennis correspondent Russell Fuller:
Winning the Davis Cup with Serbia for the first time in 2010 inspired Novak Djokovic to win three Grand Slam titles the following year.
Andy Murray certainly believes you can also ascribe some of the British success in Melbourne to Davis Cup momentum.
"When you have success like we had, the other players see that and want to be part of that as well," he told BBC Sport.
"Jo's played great pretty much since Wimbledon last year and my brother has probably taken some confidence from the Davis Cup as well.
"They were very intense atmospheres and he played some of his best tennis in those matches."
Will the run continue when Konta takes to the court for her semi-final?
"Jo's definitely got a chance," said Murray. "I think she's playing at that level now. I don't think there's a clear favourite." | Britain have two Grand Slam singles semi-finalists for the first time since 1977 after victories for Johanna Konta and Andy Murray at the Australian Open. | 35416399 | [
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Detective Botha was removed pending the result of an investigation into seven counts of attempted murder.
National police commissioner Mangwashi Phiyega announced the change after a third day of testimony at Mr Pistorius's bail hearing.
Mr Pistorius, 26, denies murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, 29.
Ms Steenkamp died after being shot three times at Mr Pistorius' home on 14 February.
Ms Phiyega said the police had received feedback from state prosecutors about Det Botha only on Wednesday.
By Andrew HardingAfrica correspondent
The news Hilton Botha is facing reinstated charges of attempted murder has stunned everyone. The immediate question is what impact, if any, the news may have on the prosecution argument that Mr Pistorius should not be allowed bail pending trial.
The timing of the reinstatement of the charges is still unclear and the National Prosecuting Authority says they are in no way connected to the athlete's murder case. It is curious, though, that the information about Det Botha was not provided to the Pistorius defence team or, apparently, to the prosecution.
Some might argue that Det Botha, who wilted under strenuous cross-examination by the defence, eventually conceding that he had not yet seen any evidence to contradict the athlete's version of events, has already done enough damage to the prosecution's call for Mr Pistorius to be denied bail and that the new revelations may not affect the magistrate's decision significantly.
She described him as an "experienced detective" who was not yet facing any criminal charges.
However, she said she was using her authority as national police chief to ask Lt Gen Vineshkumar Moonoo to take over the Pistorius case.
Gen Moonoo is reported to be a veteran of some 30 years service. He will work with the police chief in Gauteng province on a case Ms Phiyega said required attention "at a national level".
"We recognise the significance, the importance and the severity of the matter," she said of the Pistorius case.
She denied that the decision to replace Det Botha was embarrassing for the police. He has not been suspended and could remain a potential witness in any trial.
The BBC's Pumza Fihlani, in Pretoria, says the claims against Det Botha refer to a 2009 incident in which he and several other officers allegedly opened fired on a minibus taxi carrying seven passengers when the driver apparently disobeyed an order to stop.
The detective is expected to appear in court in May, reports say.
In court on Thursday, defence and prosecution lawyers offered their final arguments.
The magistrate is expected to issues his ruling on Mr Pistorius's bail application on Friday.
Lead defence lawyer Barry Roux asked for the charge of premeditated murder to be downgraded, and said Det Botha's contradictory evidence on Wednesday had undermined the prosecution's case.
Mr Roux said: "The poor quality of the evidence offered by investigative officer Botha exposed the disastrous shortcomings of the state's case."
The defence counsel said the fact that Mr Pistorius had carried Ms Steenkamp downstairs showed he was desperate to save her life.
Mr Roux added that the "known forensics is consistent" with the sprinter's version of events, and that a post-mortem examination showed Ms Steenkamp had an empty bladder at the time of her death.
That would indicate that she visited the bathroom of her own accord, rather than to escape her boyfriend, he said.
On Wednesday, Det Botha told the court that the trajectory of gunshots through the bathroom door indicated that Mr Pistorius, a double amputee, was wearing his prosthetic legs and shot downwards through the door.
This contradicted an earlier account given by Mr Pistorius, who said he was walking on his stumps and grabbed his gun because he felt vulnerable when he thought an intruder had entered his home.
What happened on the night?
But Det Botha also amended his testimony on the proximity of the witness who he said had heard arguments.
He said police had lost track of ammunition found inside the house, and was also accused of not wearing protective clothing at the crime scene.
The defence also countered police suggestions that testosterone and needles had been found in Mr Pistorius's bedroom, arguing instead that the substance was a herbal remedy called Testocompasutium co-enzyme.
On Thursday, prosecutor Gerrie Nel told the court that Mr Pistorius should not be granted bail simply because he is famous.
He branded Mr Pistorius as a man "prone to violence" who threatened Ms Steenkamp and eventually killed her.
He was critical of Mr Pistorius' sworn affidavit read to the court on Tuesday, said the athlete had a history of violence as described him as "willing and ready to kill". | South Africa's top detective is to take over the Oscar Pistorius inquiry amid attempted murder accusations against current lead officer Hilton Botha. | 21536888 | [
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The teenager suffered a serious leg injury in the fall at Devil's Cave in Chellow Dene, near Bradford, on Friday night.
During the two-hour rescue, Calder Valley Search and Rescue Team lowered a team member down into the cave by rope and the boy was placed on a stretcher.
He was later carried to an ambulance waiting nearby.
The incident was attended by 18 search and rescue team members, West Yorkshire Police, West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service and Yorkshire Ambulance Service. | A 14-year-old boy had to be rescued by a search and rescue team after falling into a cave in West Yorkshire. | 39907089 | [
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Perry Cohen and Austin Stephanos, both 14, were last seen on Friday afternoon buying $110 worth of fuel near Jupiter, before setting off on a 19-foot boat.
Their capsized boat was found on Sunday morning more than 180 miles from where they set off two days before.
"I just want him home. I know he's coming home," said Austin's mother Carly Black on NBC's Today programme.
Pamela Cohen, mother of Perry, told NBC that she believes her son and his friend "are doing everything they can to stay afloat".
She said the two boys have worked with boats their whole lives and that it is natural for them to be on the water.
The two mothers said the boys went fishing offshore when the weather turned and "something went amiss".
The US Coast Guard expanded its search on Tuesday morning, searching up to Georgia and down to Cape Canaveral in Florida through the day and night.
A spokesman said they were still optimistic they can be found alive.
They were last seen buying petrol and authorities said they may have been headed toward the Bahamas.
Nick Korniloff says his stepson, Perry, and Austin were were supposed to stay on a nearby river and waterway when they set out to go fishing on Friday, but they ended up in dangerous waters.
Former American football player Joe Namath, Ms Cohen's neighbour, has offered a $100,000 (£64,100) reward for information on the missing boys.
Mr Namath said during a press conference "We've got to believe in their wherewithal". | Authorities are continuing to search for two teenagers who went missing while fishing off the Florida coast. | 33694013 | [
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She told The Sun her three rivals were all "continuity Miliband" candidates who would not connect with aspirational low and middle income voters.
It come as another contender, Yvette Cooper, sets out a plan to create two million high tech jobs.
Ms Cooper, Ms Kendall, Andy Burnham and Jeremy Corbyn will take part in a leadership hustings later.
The four MPs are vying to succeed Mr Miliband as Labour leader, with the result of the election to be announced in early September.
The campaign so far has been dominated by the candidates' attitudes to Labour's election defeat and how far they are willing to distance themselves from the policies put forward by Mr Miliband.
Claims by Ms Kendall and her supporters that only she would break from the past have led to a war of words between their rival camps.
In an interview with the Sun, Ms Kendall said she made no apology for calling for a complete change of approach, claiming that "if we stick with what we have been saying for the last five or eight years, we will have the same result".
"I think I am the only person in this race that isn't continuity Miliband," she said. "The other candidates haven't spelled out how they would be different from Ed Miliband."
In a direct appeal to readers of the Sun, which was highly critical of Mr Miliband's leadership, Ms Kendall said Labour needed to show it could be trusted with people's money and had more to say to homeowners and those who run their own business.
"We have got to get back to the values of the British people - work, responsibility, wanting to get on, wanting to be a success, and being proud of that - not making people ashamed or think somehow that they are doing something wrong."
During a campaign visit to the University of Manchester, Ms Cooper will argue that Britain is being "left behind" as a country, with its spending on research and development and science lagging behind that of other comparable European economies.
Even when major scientific discoveries are made in the UK, such as with graphene - a material that has been been touted as having the scope to transform electronics - she said the UK has often been slow to exploit their commercial potential.
Acknowledging that Labour's relationship with business is in "real need of recovery", she said a future Labour government must aspire to spend 3% of the UK's national output on science and R&D to bring it into line with the likes of Germany.
Such a financial commitment, backed by a 10-year plan, was needed to create two million high-skilled manufacturing jobs, she said.
"Britain can't compete with Brazil or Indonesia on low-wage, low-skills jobs," she said.
"But with high-skilled jobs in emergent technologies, in the harnessing of new technologies such as graphene, we can do what we've done before: punch well above our weight as a small island off the coast of Europe. That should be Labour's mission."
All small businesses, she argued, should have guaranteed access to high-speed broadband since the digital economy was crucial to Britain's future long-term competitiveness.
Stressing that Labour must be the champion of innovation as the route to greater productivity, she recalled Harold Wilson's famous prediction in 1963 that a new Britain would be forged in the "white heat" of a scientific revolution.
"Just as Labour championed the white heat of technology in the 1960s, so today we need to champion the white flashing constellations of the networked world".
The Conservatives have pledged to spend 2.5% of GDP on science and R&D by 2020 while Chancellor George Osborne has said Manchester will be heart of a northern powerhouse, underpinned by investment in world-class science and research facilities.
The four candidates will take part in a hustings in Manchester later, organised by trade union Unison. | Liz Kendall says she is the only Labour leadership candidate who would fully break with Ed Miliband's leadership. | 33378988 | [
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The letter - published in the Guardian - said the coalition's approach has been characterised by broken promises, cuts and destructive legislation.
And it warned the squeeze was "hitting patients" with pressures growing on A&E units and hospital waiting lists.
But the Conservatives rejected the claims - and suggested it had been orchestrated by Labour.
The letter was organised by Dr Clare Gerada, a Labour member and former chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners, but she denied the party had had any input into it.
Signatories include Sir George Alberti, who worked as an emergency care tsar under Labour, Dr Laurence Buckman, a London-based GP and former senior member of the British Medical Association, and Prof John Ashton, a retired director of public health and president of the Faculty of Public Health.
Dr Helena McKeown, a GP from Wiltshire and Liberal Democrat councillor, also signed the letter.
The letter said: "The NHS is withering away and if things carry on as they are then in future people will be denied care they once had under the NHS and have to pay more for health services.
"As medical and public health professionals our primary concern is for all patients. We invite voters to consider carefully how the NHS has fared over the last five years."
In particular, the letter went into detail about the government's reforms, saying they had led to a "rapid and unwanted expansion of the role of commercial companies".
A Conservative Party spokeswoman described the group as a "small number of doctors" and pointed out that some of them were Labour supporters and advisers.
"The facts are clear: we have cut the number of managers and increased funding for the NHS so we can have 9,500 more doctors and 6,900 nurses treating patients.
"The NHS in England continues to perform better than other parts of the UK, with patients more likely to be seen within four hours in A&E than in Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland." | The government has "undermined and weakened" the NHS in England, a letter signed by 140 doctors says. | 32206814 | [
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Volunteers at St Helier Lifeboat Station in Jersey have walked out amid claims Andy Hibbs was "bullied" by senior management at the RNLI.
The RNLI said it asked Mr Hibbs to stand down "due to serious breaches of the RNLI's Volunteer Code of Conduct".
Claims of bullying are taken "very seriously" and are being investigated, the RNLI said.
Mr Hibbs said he thought the organisation was breaking Jersey's laws and said he is "humbled" by the support of his crew.
Officials from the RNLI met the crew on Thursday evening after complaints were made against Mr Hibbs, the BBC understands.
More on St Helier lifeboat crew resigning, and other Jersey news
Mr Hibbs said: "I was sacked pretty much. The whole thing was just a joke.
"I was being bullied by senior management in the RNLI and I refused to accept it."
A statement from the RNLI said the situation was "incredibly complex" and a "confidential process".
It said: "The RNLI has asked one volunteer at St Helier lifeboat station to stand down with immediate effect.
"We have worked closely with the volunteer for some time but have been unable to resolve a serious breakdown in the relationship between the individual and the charity.
"Unfortunately this impacted on the RNLI's ability to effectively deliver a safe and effective rescue service from St Helier.
"Other volunteers have chosen to step down, which has forced the RNLI to declare the St Helier lifeboats off service temporarily.
"We understand the impact of standing down volunteers and we do not take such decisions lightly."
The St Helier lifeboat should be back in service in a few days, the RNLI said.
A former member of Jersey's RNLI has said there will be a protest held on Sunday.
Paul Battrick said there would be a "silent gathering" at 10:00 BST to support the volunteer crew members.
He said he hoped the protest will get the RNLI "to see sense".
Jersey will have lifeboat cover from the other Channel Islands stations - St Catherine's, St Peter Port and Alderney. | All 25 members of a lifeboat crew have resigned in protest at the sacking of their coxswain. | 39526414 | [
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Peake won silver at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow and is targeting a Team GB spot in Rio.
The 30-year-old aims to break the Welsh record, which she currently holds, at Cardiff International Sports Stadium.
"I've done a lot of competitions trying to get the magical bar that is the Rio qualification," Peake said.
"There's quite a few goals for the weekend.
"A personal best would be nice and would also be a Welsh record. I've equalled it so far this year so I'd really like to step that up a notch."
British Athletics has set 4.50m as the qualification standard for Rio with Peake setting a personal best of 4.40m. | Pole vaulter Sally Peake hopes victory at Saturday's Welsh Senior Athletics Championships in Cardiff will take her as step closer to the Olympics. | 36493819 | [
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He said he allowed the girl to marry a 26-year-old Lebanese man, in a ceremony in New South Wales, because he did not want her to have sex outside marriage.
The 63 year old was found guilty in April of procuring a child under the age of 14 for unlawful sexual activity.
During sentencing in Sydney the judge told him he had "failed" his daughter.
She said she hoped the punishment would act as a deterrent to others.
The father, who cannot be named to protect his daughter's identity, told Downing Centre District Court that he considered sex outside marriage a sin, so when his daughter reached puberty he decided she should marry.
When the Lebanese man, who was in Australia on a student visa, showed an interest, he arranged for a local sheikh to carry out the ceremony.
It took place last year in the Hunter Valley region, around 250km (150 miles) north of Sydney.
The marriage, which is not recognised under Australian law, was consummated at a hotel on the night of the wedding with the father's permission.
The pair also had sex at the father's home the following weekend. The court heard that the girl later had a miscarriage.
The man was jailed for seven and a half years in March for the sexual abuse of minor.
Australian authorities are now looking after the victim.
The judge told the court that religious beliefs did not justify the father's actions. "They were linked in the purpose that (the man) would have sex with his daughter," she added. | An Australian man has been jailed for eight years for arranging an Islamic marriage between his 12-year-old daughter and a man twice her age. | 33572321 | [
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Scientists trying to understand the rise of antibiotic resistance, considered by some to be the great health threat of our time, believe they could provide clues to the mechanisms behind its spread.
In an increasingly global society, travel can be pointed to as one of the reasons for the rise of antibiotic resistance.
Now an international team of researchers from Newcastle University and the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, is studying how large gatherings of people could become hotspots for the spread of the genes that cause resistance.
In order to do this, they needed to find a site that was free from pollution where they could study the effects of human activity.
Rishikesh and Haridwar - which became famous when the Beatles dropped in during the 1960s - provided the perfect case studies.
Every year, in May and June, these cities welcome hundreds of thousands of pilgrims and the cities' populations swell from around 300,000 to over a million.
Most of the year, the river running through the cities is pristine. But, during this influx, it is exposed to pollution such as human waste.
"When there's that many people the local infrastructure gets exceeded - and the chances of being exposed to faecal matter increases," Prof Graham, from Newcastle University, one of the authors of the study, explained.
This increased level of human waste is key to understanding how genes for antibiotic resistance spread.
That's due to where the resistance genes are located in bacteria, and how these bacteria are carried by humans.
Antibiotic resistance in bacteria is controlled by naturally occurring genes.
These genes are found on plasmids, small rings of DNA that are separate from chromosomes.
Plasmids can move easily between bacteria, allowing them to acquire traits, such as antibiotic resistance, very quickly.
Many people have some organisms in their gut that contain these genes. Generally, these do not affect a person until they take certain antibiotics.
The river samples that Dr Zia Shaikh, from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, analysed showed that, when the amount human waste entering the river rises during May and June, levels of antibiotic resistance genes are up to 60 times higher.
The indicates that the resistant organisms in people's guts can be washed into the river in faeces.
The faecal organisms tend not to live very long, but the plasmids that carry antibiotic resistance genes can be quickly transferred to other organisms in the river.
This increases the probability that people will ingest bacteria with antibiotic resistant genes when they drink or bathe in the water.
Once they are exposed, they can then carry them back to their own towns and cities in their gut - carrying antibiotic resistance genes to the wider world.
The research suggests that, when the large numbers of people are in close proximity without adequate facilities, the probability that antibiotic resistance genes will spread increases.
This could affect any large gathering around the world.
The spread of the antibiotic resistance genes adds to existing health concerns.
Prof David Heymann from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine says: "Mass gatherings provide opportunities for infections to spread from human to human, and to humans from other sources through faults in sanitation, water supply, and food from vendors and other sources."
He said the research was "another important indicator of the importance of the environment in evolution of antimicrobial resistance".
However, phenomena like the pilgrimage to the River Ganges are an important part of culture.
"Our goal here isn't to impair the social activity, it to help to make to safer," said Prof Graham.
Prof Heymann agrees: "Mass gatherings are important and must continue. They can be made safe by ensuring that the risks of infection are minimised."
Prof Graham hopes that governments, physicians, clinicians, epidemiologists around the world will understand the importance of this kind of research in tackling the spread of antibiotic resistance.
"The role of the environment has been underappreciated," he said. "Just because you haven't acquired direct resistance from drinking the water doesn't mean you haven't increased the potential for acquiring resistance in the future." | The Hindu holy sites in the Indian cities of Rishikesh and Haridwar attract millions of pilgrims each year - but they are now the destination for another group of devotees. | 27695242 | [
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The competition organised by village leaders in Bibipur, Haryana attracted nearly 800 entries from all over the country.
Winners were declared on Friday and received a trophy, a certificate and prize of 2,100 rupees ($316; £199).
Haryana has one of India's lowest gender ratios, with 877 women for every 1,000 men. This, say experts, is the result of illegal sex-selective abortions, female infanticide, parental neglect and discrimination against girl children.
Here we show some of the selfies as well as images taken by photographer Mansi Thapliyal, who travelled to talk to some of those who participated in the contest. | A village in India recently held an unique contest to raise consciousness about girl children: click a selfie with your daughter and win a prize. | 33134218 | [
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Jennings, 25, was out for 48 on the fourth morning of the third Test against the Proteas, meaning he averages only 15.3 in six innings.
"Even though he got 48, there were a lot of edges," said Smith.
"If I was a selector I'd be thinking it was time to make a change with the West Indies and then the Ashes coming up."
England play one more Test against South Africa, followed by three against the West Indies before they defend the Ashes down under.
Johannesburg-born Jennings was 34 not out overnight at The Oval, having survived a dropped catch and successfully overturned an lbw decision on the third day.
He added 14 to his score before fending a short delivery from Kagiso Rabada to gully.
Speaking on Test Match Special, Smith - who led South Africa to two Test series wins in Australia - added: "Should England give another player time to settle in?
"The way that Jennings plays, I think Australia might be quite a scary place for him.
"It's not easy. These are people's lives and they're working hard, but I think South Africa would love Jennings to play in the final Test match.
"If you had to ask them they would say: 'Please pick him.'"
Jennings' struggles are the latest in an ongoing problem for England, who have tried 11 different opening partners for Alastair Cook since Andrew Strauss retired in 2012.
Some have had success - Adam Lyth and Sam Robson made centuries, while Haseeb Hameed impressed in India before suffering an injury and struggling for form with county side Lancashire.
Durham left-hander Jennings, who replaced Hameed in India, also made a century on his Test debut, but has since passed 50 only once in nine innings.
If he is removed from the England side, his most likely replacement would be Surrey's Mark Stoneman, who is the third highest run-scorer in County Championship Division One this season.
"I can't say if Stoneman is better, I haven't seen enough - but if they think there is potential then I would give him a go," said Smith. | An Ashes series in Australia will be a "scary" proposition for England opener Keaton Jennings, says former South Africa captain Graeme Smith. | 40768672 | [
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The unknown offender seized control of the Medway Council feed at about 19:45 BST.
Its first tweet announced: "The Medway Council Twitter feed has been taken over by the citizens of Medway."
Hackers went on to publish a string of Tweets which were removed about 10 minutes later. The authority apologised for any offence caused.
It tweeted: "Our account was hacked for a short time earlier this evening.
"Sorry for any offence caused by the tweets which have now been removed."
During the security breach, around nine tweets were sent including one which promised: "We're also going to introduce decent schools. About time eh?".
The hackers also announced an end to Rochester's Dickens Festival.
Celia Glynn-Williams, head of communication at Medway Council, said action was taken to secure the account as quickly as possible.
She added: "We are sorry for any offence caused by the messages that were tweeted.
"We take the security of our account very seriously and are looking into how this happened." | Hackers have targeted a council Twitter feed - announcing an end to council tax and free parking for all. | 39788157 | [
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The Fire Brigades Union (FBU) accused ministers of offering an "unworkable" guarantee to protect firefighters aged over 55 who fail fitness tests "through no fault of their own".
The government said it had been "clear" that the staff would get full pensions.
It said "robust" plans were in place to protect the public during the strike.
In December, MPs approved plans to make firefighters in England work until they are 60 and to increase their pension contributions.
Fire minister Penny Mordaunt said no firefighter over 55 would lose their job for losing fitness if it was not their fault.
But the FBU says it has contacted fire authorities and "a number" said they would not uphold the guarantee.
FBU general secretary Matt Wrack claimed: "It is clear that when Penny Mordaunt gave the guarantee in Parliament she would have been aware that no fire authority ever planned to implement the 'guarantee'."
He said Ms Mordaunt had "misled" fire service staff and Parliament, and firefighters were "unbelievably angry with the disgraceful actions of this government".
A spokesman for the Department for Communities and Local Government said firefighters who "fail a fitness test through no fault of their own and cannot regain fitness with remedial help" would get an "unreduced pension".
The FBU said its members in Northern Ireland had ended their dispute following a "revised and improved offer with a lower pension age".
It said members in Scotland and Wales would not strike because "genuine negotiations" had taken place. | Firefighters in England say their next one-day strike in the long-running dispute with the government over pensions will be on 25 February. | 31497740 | [
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Sophia, as she called herself, charged $5 (£3.50) a week to be in a relationship with me on Facebook.
She'd leave messages, laugh at my hilarious status updates and, most important of all, change her relationship status to say we were an item.
As an experiment, I tried to see if my friends would be duped by this arrangement, one which I could describe only as a form of escorting - although strictly online only.
After a long week, I came clean to both my friends and Sophia.
I told them it was all a joke, and I nervously told her I was a journalist.
Thankfully, she was up for a chat.
"The whole Sophia thing is just my marketing username," she said.
"Nothing on that Facebook profile is real. My photos on there are really me, but nothing else is."
She said she was doing it to save money so she could go away and study.
But that was 2013, and this is now. Has fake girlfriend tech moved on?
While browsing Product Hunt, a great site that highlights new apps and ideas, I recently spotted an intriguing service called Invisible Girlfriend.
It promised me the chance to sign up and create my perfect girlfriend, and soon I'd start getting text messages from her so I could impress all of my friends.
"My cofounder had the idea for years," said Kyle Tabor, the site's chief executive, in an email.
"He mainly needed a fake girlfriend to get his parents off his back after he was divorced."
It works like this. You pick from one of six broad personality types - because there are only six types of women in the world, you understand. Rejecting "saucy and sarcastic" I went with "lovingly nerdy".
Faced with a stock photo library of about 30 people, I picked out a picture of a pretty brunette. I should, apparently, save it to my phone to show my friends later.
After a selecting a few standard interests - "lower league English football" wasn't available - I was then given help concocting a convincing back story. We met at an office party, and she's the girl of my dreams.
Her name? That was left to a name generator.
Mum, Dad... meet Alma Doris Brakus.
I guessed I'd have to get used to it.
Time to get down to some serious pro-flirting via text.
Feel free to take notes.
"Hi Alma, what are you up to?" I offered, sultrily.
A few minutes later, she replied: "Not much, early day at work so I'm home already. What about you?"
Bored already? Me too. But that's what makes this service more interesting than I'd first assumed.
I thought this would essentially be a sex line. So if I said: "What are you up to?", the answer would be an attempt at sexiness, like: "Ooh, I'm all alone ;);)" and so forth.
Yet the service seems to strive to be somewhat unsexy, almost mundane - like real life. I half expected her to ask me to pick up some milk on the way home.
That authenticity is helped by the fact that the texts are written by real people, a team of "real anonymous humans" replying to every message.
My cagey attempts to inject a bit of rudeness fell flat. The raunchiest exchange being: "What's the sexiest thing you could wear?" met with: "My skin lol. Or a skirt".
"Can you send me a pic of yourself?" I asked, only to get "O->-<" in return. That's an emoticon of a person lying down, in case you can't tell.
I'd have pushed it further, but the thought of some "real anonymous" bloke texting me back made me feel strange.
To sum up: a ludicrous, pathetic idea, that no-one would possibly take seriously. Or so I thought.
"We have had thousands of users pay for the service," Mr Tabor told me.
"It's about 50/50 between the text only and the full suite."
You read that right. People pay for this (according to Mr Tabor at least).
If you just want text messages, it costs $15 a month. The full suite is $25, and you get voicemails and all sorts for that.
The service isn't just for fake girlfriends, either. The site also lets women, or gay men, sign up and have a fake boyfriend. And what Mr Tabor said next surprised me the most.
"Actually, over 60% of our accounts choose boyfriends."
Consider me baffled. Why would anyone want or need this?
"Several reasons," Mr Tabor said.
"Get parents off your back, get a co-worker to stop hitting on you, make an ex jealous, or maybe just to practice flirting."
His team takes the illusion responsibility seriously.
I wanted to use the image of my beloved Alma Doris in this article, but Mr Tabor politely asked that I didn't, on the off-chance it might blow someone else's cover story.
An extensive how-to guide contains tips such as how to talk about your girlfriend/boyfriend, what questions to expect from pushy friends, and common mistakes people make when lying through their teeth about an imaginary human. There's even a live chat function to ask for advice from the site's staff.
But in the end, I had to break up with Alma Doris.
"I'm moving to Yemen," I said. She didn't understand.
If this service seems sad to you, then don't laugh. Just be thankful. Many users, Mr Tabor said, used the service for companionship. Someone to text for a chat now and then.
Like Sophia in 2013, Invisible Girlfriend and Boyfriend is satisfying a need, and a harmless one at that.
If people are prepared to pay for a service, and others are prepared to provide it - then fine.
And for the record, the woman behind Sophia did go on to save enough to study. Late last year, she certified as a fully qualified dietician.
Follow Dave Lee on Twitter @DaveLeeBBC and on Facebook | Three years ago, I hired a fake girlfriend. | 35585087 | [
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About 70 people were injured and many are feared trapped beneath the seven-storey bloc in Thane after the incident on Thursday evening.
Building work was going on even though four floors were already occupied. A search for survivors is continuing.
Building collapses are common with poor construction practices often blamed.
By Sameer HashmiMumbai business reporter
The building collapse underlines the issue of illegal construction in India.
Police say the builder of the high rise used sub-standard construction material and did not possess an occupation certificate.
There are hundreds of similar illegal high-rises in the Mumbai region. Due to a high population growth, there is always demand for cheap housing. And homes in illegal buildings sell at a lower price compared to those in legal ones.
Activists also allege that unscrupulous builders often pay hefty bribes to authorities who turn a blind eye to these illegal structures and do not take any action against the builders.
The authorities now say they are searching for the officials who were supervising the building works.
The BBC's Sameer Hashmi, who is at the scene of the incident, says rescue workers are still trying to clear the debris.
Most people living in the building are from the low-to-middle income groups, our correspondent adds.
Witnesses say the construction of the building started just six weeks ago and in that time seven floors were built rapidly and the eighth floor was under construction.
Even though the construction was incomplete, the builders had allowed families to move in, our correspondent adds.
On Thursday evening a section of the building collapsed, bringing the entire structure down, police said.
Rescue efforts continued throughout the night and dozens have been injured.
It is not yet clear what caused the collapse, but police inspector Digamber Jangale told the BBC it appeared to be due to the use of substandard building material.
Police said a case had been registered and an inquiry had begun and that they were searching for the builders to arrest them.
One witness, named only as Ramlal, said the building appeared to tilt before quickly collapsing.
"The building collapsed like a pack of cards within three to four seconds," he said.
In pictures: Mumbai building collapse
Schoolgirl Hasina Shaikh, who had lived with her family on the fifth floor, said she was lucky to be still alive.
"I had just returned from school and was changing when the building started shaking and came down on us," she told Mumbai's DNA newspaper.
"When I regained consciousness later, I was in the hospital."
In other recent incidents | At least 45 people have died, including 15 children, after a building being constructed illegally collapsed near the Indian city of Mumbai, police say. | 22036751 | [
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In an email to delegates, the university's vice chancellor Patrick Johnston said he had made the decision on Monday that the event would not proceed.
He cited concerns about the security risk for delegates and about the reputation of the university.
The symposium: Understanding Charlie: New perspectives on contemporary citizenship after Charlie Hebdo, was due to be hosted by QUB's Institute for Collaborative Research in the Humanities.
Twelve people died when two brothers, Said and Cherif Kouachi, fired on the journalists on 7 January at the satirical magazine's offices in Paris.
Five others were killed over the two following days by one of their associates. | A conference in Belfast to discuss the fallout from the Charlie Hebdo murders has been cancelled. | 32405516 | [
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Two years earlier that figure was half.
The Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service (SCTS) said this was despite a significant increase in case levels, particularly domestic abuse and sexual violence.
The report said the closure of 17 courts - 10 sheriff and seven Justice of the Peace courts - had been successfully implemented, with savings already realised of £2.1m and further annual savings expected of £1.3m.
SCTS said while concerns were expressed that court performance would suffer as a result of the transfer of business from smaller centres, there has been "strong and improved performance".
Despite strong local opposition in some cases, the last two courts, Haddington in East Lothian and Dingwall in Ross-shire, closed in February 2015.
It said in all courts, the 16-week waiting period between the first calling availability of a criminal trial was being achieved.
But it added this had meant some adjustment to the court programme as there was the risk of crown and defence lawyers not having not sufficient time to prepare their cases.
In civil cases, all courts were meeting the 12-week waiting period for civil proofs and hearings, and in most cases they were significantly below that.
SCTS said: "This level of performance continues to be achieved against the background of a significant increase in case levels in both summary and solemn business, particularly in relation to domestic abuse and sexual offences, with a far greater proportion of these cases proceeding to evidence-led trials.
"In April 2014 the percentage of sheriff courts setting criminal trials at the optimum 16 weeks was 50%, at April 2016 this figure is 95%."
Chief executive Eric McQueen added: "For too long it has been easy to describe our criminal courts as products of the Victorian age.
"Our task now is to bring them right into the 21st Century, not by tinkering at the edges, but by radical digital reform to improve the quality of justice for all concerned.
"Through technology we can to allow children and vulnerable witnesses to give their evidence, and have it examined, outwith the trauma and pressures of the court environment and to modernise the way we do business in summary criminal cases through a digital case management system."
Apart from the closure of sheriff and JP courts, the reform package also aimed to concentrate High Court cases in three centres - Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen.
In the 2016 calendar year these three sites will provide 88% (3,000) of the 3,425 planned sitting days for trials in the High Court.
SCTS has also invested in the development of two new courtrooms in the Glasgow High Court building to be operational by September 2016.
They will add an additional capacity of 500 sitting days per year, reducing the need for the High Court to sit in designated sheriff courts such as Dunfermline, Livingston and Dumbarton which have been used to hear some trials. | Waiting times for trials in Scotland's courts are being reduced, a report has found. | 36784404 | [
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The government introduced fees in 2013 to reduce the number of malicious and weak cases, but that led to a 79% reduction over three years.
Trade union Unison argued that the fees prevented workers getting access to justice.
The Supreme Court also found fees were indirectly discriminatory to women.
It ruled tht the government was acting unlawfully and unconstitutionally when it introduced the fees.
Unison general secretary Dave Prentis said: "This is absolutely a tremendous victory, it's probably the biggest victory of employment rights in this country."
Fees ranged between £390 and £1,200 to get a case heard at a hearing. Discrimination cases cost more for claimants because of the complexity and time hearings took.
The Supreme Court found this was indirectly discriminatory because a higher proportion of women would bring discrimination cases. | Fees for those bringing employment tribunal claims have been ruled unlawful, and the government will now have to repay up to £32m to claimants. | 40727400 | [
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He quit despite surviving a vote on an opposition motion to remove him.
Mr Slipper is accused of sexual harassment by a former staff member, and of sending lurid text messages, now revealed in court documents.
His resignation could harm Ms Gillard's slender majority, which relies on votes from independent MPs.
Mr Slipper defected from opposition leader Tony Abbot's Liberal Party last year, becoming an independent.
He was swiftly promoted to the non-voting role of Speaker, freeing up his predecessor - Labour member Harry Jenkins - and effectively giving Ms Gillard a two-seat majority in the House.
His resignation now means Ms Gillard is dependent on Mr Slipper as an independent to help pass legislation.
Mr Slipper appeared to fight back tears in an emotional return to the House to announce his decision to resign, saying it was made with "great sadness" and regret.
His resignation followed a heated debate between Ms Gillard and Mr Abbot on Tuesday, with Mr Abbot accusing Mr Slipper of not being a "fit and proper" person for position of Speaker.
On Monday, court documents filed as part of a sexual harassment lawsuit being brought against him gave details of lurid text messages he is alleged to have sent his accuser, who is openly gay.
Mr Slipper, who is married, earlier apologised for the content of the text messages. He also denies the charges of sexual harassment.
He had been absent from parliament since April when he voluntarily stepped aside while the case against him was investigated. | Australia's parliament Speaker Peter Slipper has resigned amid a continuing sex scandal, dealing a blow to Prime Minister Julia Gillard's government. | 19882153 | [
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That's how one financier described Dominic Chappell's plans for acquiring and reviving BHS to MPs today.
Andrew Frangos of Cornhill Capital was approached by the three-time bankrupt Chappell to raise money secured against property to use as working capital - the money you need for day to day running of a company.
Mr Frangos said that BHS was not the limit of his ambitions and that Chappell had plans to one day buy Arcadia - the parent company run by Sir Philip Green. Ultimately, Chappell didn't use Cornhill Capital and the two of them are in dispute over unpaid bills.
He was joined in the commons by representatives from accountants Grant Thornton and lawyers Olswang to explain their involvement as advisers to Mr Chappell.
Both made extensive use of client confidentiality protection but several important themes emerged.
Retail Acquisitions Limited did not delve very deeply into the pension problems. Meetings between Chappell and the Chris Martin, chair of the BHS pension scheme, totalled less than half an hour and Grant Thornton's Mark Byers said he was denied the usual access to the pension trustees and their advisors.
On the bigger picture, MPs asked what the professional advisers made of this "punt". Why did they believe that a retail novice with a chequered financial background could succeed in turning BHS around when a feted retail tycoon had failed? We got two interesting answers.
First, a central part of the turnaround plan involved getting the landlords for the 164 stores to agree to reduce the rent. Mark Byers, from Grant Thornton said it would be difficult to have that negotiation, for BHS essentially to plead poverty, as long as BHS was part of the bigger Arcadia group.
Second, it wasn't their job.
So far there is no smoking gun. What is emerging from these sessions is that lots of professional firms were tasked with making sure small bits of the deal ticked a number of boxes. No one, it seems, was there to look Mr Chappell in the eye and judge whether he had the ability, or even the intention, of making BHS work.
MPs will no doubt suggest that role fell to Sir Philip Green himself as the seller. He appears before the committees on 8 June. | "A bit of a punt" - the BHS business plan. | 36382450 | [
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The women had been legally married for a few months after one of them passed as a man in front of an Islamic cleric who presided over their wedding.
But suspicious neighbours confronted the couple and reported them to police.
The two women are now back with their families, forcibly separated and under surveillance by the Islamic police.
The local Sharia police chief told them Islam said they must be beheaded and burned for what they had done.
But Aceh, the only province in Indonesia that is allowed to implement Sharia law, has yet to adopt any provisions dealing with gay and lesbian people.
The provincial parliament passed Islamic laws authorising the stoning to death of adulterers and the caning of homosexuals in 2009, but the governor has refused to sign it.
Homosexuality is frowned upon but legal in Indonesia.
Activists have blamed Aceh's Sharia laws for encouraging vigilantism and intolerance, and say they violate the Indonesian constitution. | Islamic police in the Indonesian province of Aceh have forced two women to have their marriage annulled and sign an agreement to separate. | 14667232 | [
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Katari Anuradha was shot and stabbed by at least three men wearing burkas, Indian media reported, quoting police. A motive has yet to be established.
Her husband, who was with her, is in a critical condition with bullet and stab injuries.
The attack took place at the Chittoor Municipal Corporation office, where the staff tried to stop the attackers.
Senior police official G Srinivas told the Indian Express newspaper that they were exploring several angles, including old rivalry and new enemies.
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Security has been tightened in Chittoor and state police are closing borders with neighbouring Tamil Nadu state in an attempt to find the killers. | The mayor of Chittoor town in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh has been killed by unknown attackers. | 34843387 | [
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Welsh Water's HelpU social tariff could offer savings of up to £250 a year for its most disadvantaged customers, the company said.
It is backed by the Welsh government and other organisations.
It comes as the water company's half year financial report showed a strong overall performance for the six months leading up to September.
The non-shareholder company - which says all its gains go to customers - said it invested £174m in large projects and essential infrastructure in that period - nearly £1m a day.
It also confirmed that a further £170m will be invested between October 2014 and April 2015.
Chief Executive Chris Jones said: "With all our gains going to customers, we can deliver real value by accelerating investment, keeping bills low and helping those who genuinely struggle to pay their water bills."
The HelpU tariff has been developed with support from the independent consumer watchdog Consumer Council for Water (CCWater), the Welsh government and housing associations group Community Housing Cymru.
It will be targeted at customers spending more than 5% of their income on water bills.
It said average household incomes in the area it serves are almost 13% lower than the rest of England and Wales, with some areas being 20% below the average. | More than 100,000 customers in Wales could have help with their water bills thanks to a new tariff being launched. | 30034239 | [
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Ministers are to publish draft laws they say are a "landmark" in prohibiting the substances' production, distribution, sale and supply.
Legal highs, officially called new psychoactive substances, have been linked to a number of deaths.
Ministers said young people who took them were "taking exceptional risks with their health".
A blanket ban on legal highs, which are often sold online or on the high street, was in the Conservative Party's election manifesto and featured in the Queen's Speech.
Labour also promised to ban their sale and distribution in its manifesto.
The Psychoactive Substances Bill applied to "any substance intended for human consumption that is capable of producing a psychoactive effect", the government said.
Alcohol, tobacco and caffeine will be excluded, and there are also exemptions for food and medical products, while controlled drugs will continue to be regulated by existing laws.
The new restrictions will also extend to the sale of nitrous oxide - also known as laughing gas or "hippy crack" - for human use.
What are legal highs?
The government said the "legitimate sale" of nitrous oxide, which is also used for food processing, medicinal and industrial purposes, would not be affected.
Home Office minister Mike Penning said the measures would "fundamentally change the way we tackle new psychoactive substances".
They would end the "game of cat and mouse" whereby new drugs appeared on the market more quickly than the government could identify and ban them, he said.
He added: "The blanket ban will give police and other law enforcement agencies greater powers to tackle the reckless trade in psychoactive substances, instead of having to take a substance-by-substance approach."
Legal highs are not controlled under the Misuse of Drugs Act, although individual substances, such as mephedrone, have been outlawed.
The government's proposals would apply throughout the United Kingdom, and would include powers to seize and destroy legal highs and to search people, premises and vehicles.
Civil measures - including prohibition notices and prohibition orders - will also be possible.
Commander Simon Bray, of the National Police Chiefs' Council, said: "A blanket ban on new psychoactive substances will make it simpler for law enforcement to deal with those drugs which are potentially unsafe but which may not yet be controlled." | A new "blanket ban" on so-called legal highs will carry prison sentences of up to seven years, the government says. | 32919712 | [
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Washington blamed Russia and the Syrian government for intensifying their attacks against civilians.
Last week, the US warned it would halt the talks unless Moscow stops bombing the city of Aleppo.
Russia said it regretted the US move, accusing it of shifting the blame for the collapse of last month's truce.
Aleppo, Syria's largest city in the north, has come under heavy aerial bombardment since the end of the ceasefire two weeks ago.
The main trauma hospital in the rebel-held eastern part of the city was hit in an air strike for the third time in a week, activists said on Monday.
Hundreds of people, including children, have died since government forces launched an offensive to take full control of Aleppo after the week-long truce lapsed.
Some 250,000 people are trapped in eastern Aleppo.
In a statement, state department spokesman john Kirby said: "The United States is suspending its participation in bilateral channels with Russia that were established to sustain the cessation of hostilities.
"Unfortunately, Russia failed to live up to its own commitments... and was also either unwilling or unable to ensure Syrian regime adherence to the arrangements to which Moscow agreed.
"Rather, Russia and the Syrian regime have chosen to pursue a military course," Mr Kirby said, admitting that "this is not a decision that was taken lightly".
He said Moscow and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's troops had been "targeting of critical infrastructure such as hospitals, and preventing humanitarian aid from reaching civilians in need, including through the 19 September attack on a humanitarian aid convoy".
Moscow strongly denies involvement of its own or Syrian planes in the deadly aid convoy strike, and says the incident was caused by fire on the ground and not by an air strike.
In response to the US suspension of the talks, Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said: "We regret this decision by Washington."
"Washington simply did not fulfil the key condition of the agreement to improve the humanitarian condition around Aleppo.
"After failing to fulfil the agreements that they themselves worked out, they are trying to shift responsibility on to someone else," Ms Zakharova said.
She also said that the US had failed to divide jihadist groups in Syria from the moderate opposition.
Russia and the US were due to convene in Geneva to try to co-ordinate air strikes against jihadist groups, but American officials were told to return home.
The US also said that it would withdraw personnel "that had been dispatched in anticipation of the possible establishment of the Joint (US-Russian) Implementation Centre".
However, the two sides would keep talking about counter-terrorism operations in Syria to avoid unnecessary clashes. | The US has said it is suspending talks with Russia over Syria, accusing Moscow of having "failed to live up" to its commitments under a ceasefire deal. | 37546354 | [
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Police were called to Station Road, Wood Green, at about 03:20 BST after receiving reports of a stabbing outside the Jolly Anglers public house.
Paramedics treated the man, named by police as 33-year-old Vincent Harvey, but he was pronounced dead at the scene.
No arrests have been made and the Met have appealed for witnesses.
Det Ch Insp Noel McHugh said there was "a large number of people in and around the Jolly Anglers pub at the time Vincent was stabbed".
"It is vital that anyone who saw this incident, or the events leading up to the incident, get in contact with police," he said. | A murder investigation has been launched after a man was stabbed to death outside a busy north London pub. | 37739453 | [
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Two separate proceedings, one by a cross-party group of MLAs and another from victims' campaigner Raymond McCord, were heard earlier this month.
A judge ruled there was nothing in the 1998 Good Friday peace agreement to prevent the government triggering Article 50, the formal legal process for leaving the EU.
The UK government welcomed the ruling.
Mr McCord said that "without a doubt" he would be taking his case to the Supreme Court.
"The judge has left the door open," he said.
"We're right in what we're doing for the people of this country."
The challenge by politicians from Sinn Féin, the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP), the Alliance Party and the Green Party suggested the UK government could not trigger Article 50 without a parliamentary vote.
They said the Brexit decision should be examined and voted on by parliament or, failing that, by the Northern Ireland Assembly.
Earlier this month, the High Court in London heard that the need for parliament to give its approval before the Brexit process starts is of huge "constitutional importance".
Mr McCord, whose son was murdered by loyalist paramilitaries and who now campaigns for victims of violence during Northern Ireland's Troubles, brought Friday's other legal bid.
His challenge came amid worries that the Brexit vote could mean an end to EU funding for peace projects that help Troubles victims.
His lawyer argued that the Good Friday Agreement meant Westminster had given sovereignty of Northern Ireland over to its people, and that leaving the EU would have a "catastrophic effect" for the peace process.
Major constitutional changes such as leaving the EU could not therefore be imposed by a Westminster government, Mr McCord's barrister said.
But the judge ruled that prerogative power could still be used, arguing that triggering Article 50 is merely the start of a legislative process in which acts of parliament will be necessary.
"While the wind of change may be about to blow, the precise direction in which it will blows cannot be determined," he said.
He concluded that discussing the use of prerogative power to enact the EU referendum result was not suitable for a judicial review.
It had also been argued that the Good Friday Agreement gave the power of sovereignty to the people of Northern Ireland and that the Westminster government could not therefore make the region leave the EU.
But the judge rejected that argument as well, saying he could not see anything in the agreement or the relevant legislation that confirmed that view.
All of the issues raised by the applicants were rejected by the court.
The pound dropped in the wake of the ruling, with analysts speculating that it had weighed on the currency.
Sinn Féin's John O'Down said Remain-supporting politicians would "continue to explore every legal and political option open to us" to ensure that citizens' rights are "protected and upheld".
SDLP leader Colum Eastwood acknowledged that the cost of taking the case to the Supreme Court could be an issue.
But he added: "We believe very, very strongly that Brexit would have a hugely detrimental effect on people here," he said.
"It would be a huge constitutional shock to people and to the political process here."
Remaining within the EU would give Troubles victims a better chance of getting justice, Mr McCord said.
"The British government have no interest in victims," he added.
Mr McCord's barrister Ciaran O'Hare said the judgement was "no surprise" and they welcomed the ruling.
"It is a very important constitutional case and it will have to dealt with in the Supreme Court," he said.
Welcoming the ruling, a government spokesman said: "As we have always made clear, we stand by our commitments under the Belfast Agreement and the outcome of the EU referendum doesn't change this."
The case has been closely watched by Westminster, especially as similar hearings are due for judgement in the near future. | A landmark legal challenge against Brexit has been rejected at the High Court in Belfast. | 37796836 | [
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BBC Radio Solent reports Eisner has already informed manager Paul Cook of his interest in creating the role.
The former Walt Disney chief executive has made an offer to buy 100% of the League Two champions.
Cook is believed to want a firm input over any potential candidate to ensure minimal disruption to his set-up.
Portsmouth won the League Two title on goal difference from Plymouth Argyle on the final day of the season.
Cook won the title for a second time in his managerial career after leading Chesterfield to promotion in 2014.
Eisner's offer of £5.67m for Portsmouth plus an additional investment of £10m in equity will be voted on by club shareholders and members of the Pompey Supporters' Trust (PST), who currently own 48%. | Portsmouth are considering appointing a director of football next season, should Michael Eisner's proposed takeover of the club go through. | 39869485 | [
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Lowry is five under par but still has four holes to play on Sunday before starting his final round at Oakmont.
American Andrew Landry is two shots behind with players catching up after storms affected the first day.
England's Lee Westwood is a shot back on two under, having played 15 holes, along with second-round leader Dustin Johnson and Spain's Sergio Garcia.
The leaderboard was constantly changing during an intriguing third round with Johnson, Lowry, Landry, Westwood and Garcia all having either the outright lead, or a share of it at some point.
None of the top seven on the leaderboard have ever won one of golf's four majors.
Lowry birdied the fourth, sixth and seventh to briefly move a shot clear at the top on his own.
But after taking a bogey-four on the eighth, he added birdies on the ninth and 12th to regain the lead and open up a slight advantage.
"I'm glad we didn't have to play another four holes as I was getting tired but I'm really looking forward to getting out there on Sunday," said world number 41 Lowry.
"I've never been in this position but this is where you want to be.
"My game is good and I feel very comfortable out there."
Johnson had begun the round with a one-stroke advantage and birdied the first hole to move two shots clear. He scrambled a par on the second after sending his tee shot, via a spectator's head, into a food stall.
However, the American double-bogeyed the third as his challenge faltered.
Westwood, 43, is looking to win his first major at his 73rd attempt. He held a share of the lead after chipping in for an eagle from 130 yards on the par-four fifth but finished the day on two-under par with three holes of his third round to play.
Garcia was also briefly a co-leader after hitting back-to-back birdies on the fifth and sixth as he bids for his first major after finishing second on four occasions.
Landry, who is ranked 624 in the world, led the American challenge with a birdie on the seventh giving him the outright lead and he ended the day as Lowry's closest challenger on three under with five to play.
South Africa's Branden Grace is the leader in the clubhouse after a four-under-par 66 in his third round.
World number one Jason Day, the 2015 PGA Championship winner, also hit a 66 after four birdies in his first five holes and picked up an eagle on the par-five fourth.
The 28-year-old Australian, who shot a six-over par 76 in his opening round, is six shots off the lead.
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The County Down school led 0-9 to 0-4 at half-time and extended their lead to six points by the conclusion.
Rian O'Neill top-scored for the winners with 0-7, while Cian McConville contributed 0-2. Tiernan Kelly recorded three points for St Ronan's.
St Mary's Magherafelt and St Paul's Bessbrook must replay their semi-final.
The schools played out a 1-12 to 1-12 draw in the opening semi-final at the Dub on Wednesday and are set to meet next week at a venue still to be finalised. | St Colman's Newry progressed to the MacRory Cup final by beating St Ronan's Lurgan 0-14 to 0-8 in Thursday night's semi-final at the Athletic Grounds. | 39072969 | [
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Home favourite Higgins beat compatriot Scott Donaldson and fellow Scot Stephen Maguire defeated Fergal O'Brien.
Neil Robertson and Judd Trump were among Wednesday's other winners.
Robertson overcame Gary Wilson, while Marco Fu beat Liam Highfield and Trump defeated Igor Figueiredo, with Ali Carter losing to Chris Wakelin.
Scots Graeme Dott and Anthony McGill lost to Mark Davis and Mitchell Mann, respectively.
Mei Xi Wen eliminated Peter Ebdon and will play four-time world champion Higgins on Thursday.
Trump will face Noppon Saengkham and Robertson takes on Joe Swail.
The latest event in the Home Nations Series, the tournament is the first World Snooker ranking event held in Scotland since the World Open in 2010. | Ronnie O'Sullivan beat Adam Stefanow to set up a third-round tie against Jimmy White at the Scottish Open, as John Higgins also progressed in Glasgow. | 38323404 | [
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The medics, wearing white gowns and surgical caps, were demanding the government honour a 2013 deal to increase salaries.
Dozens of mental health patients were said to have walked out of a hospital in Nairobi during the strike.
Officials say the action is premature and negotiations should continue.
They say doctors have defied a court order suspending the strike until the end of this month to allow for more talks.
But the Kenya Medical Practitioners Pharmacists and Dentists' Union (KMPDU) said it had run out of patience after government commitments failed to materialise.
"We have had lots and lots of diplomacy, and lots and lots of dialogue. Dialogue has to come to an end," union chairman Samuel Oroko said.
About 5,000 medical staff in more than 2,000 public hospitals stopped working at midnight on Sunday.
Hospitals would not offer even emergency services during the action, the union said.
A BBC correspondent says this puts thousands of lives at risk because many Kenyans cannot afford private medical care.
At one hospital in western Kenya, a reporter with the Daily Nation newspaper heard a nurse tell a crying woman in labour to go and see the county governor. Under the Kenyan system, counties are responsible for paying some medical staff.
Meanwhile, at least 50 mental health patients at the Mathare mental hospital in Nairobi were reported to have left the facility amid the chaos of the strike.
Video posted on the website of the Standard newspaper appeared to show patients climbing over hospital walls and walking away.
Medical staff want a deal signed between the Kenya Medical Practitioners' Union and the Kenya government in 2013 to be implemented.
The agreement included a 300% pay rise for doctors.
The doctors' union also says it wants more medics hired to reduce the doctor-patient ratio, currently one doctor for more than 16,000 Kenyans.
"We have a big shortage of doctors yet our counties are sending doctors away, saying they cannot hire more doctors," union representative Gitau Kagona told the Daily Nation. "We cannot have good service delivery in hospitals because of this challenge."
Some medical staff brought empty sacks to an event marking the beginning of the strike, a reference to money paid under a controversial government tender to a businesswoman, who reportedly carried it off in a sack.
They also launched a social media hashtag - #LipaKamaTender - which roughly translates as "pay like the tenders", implying the state should pay their salaries as efficiently as it pays government tenders.
There have been protests and isolated strikes from various medical practitioners in parts of the country over the delay in raising salaries.
However this is the first nationwide strike on the issue.
The doctors' decision not to offer emergency care follows a similar approach taken by medical staff during a week-long strike in Burkina Faso last month, when medical students and army health workers were brought in to offer treatment. | Police have fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of doctors striking in the Kenyan capital Nairobi. | 38209375 | [
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"For Ollie it's about fitness - you see how he moves in the game today," the Celtic manager said.
"He has the qualities to play at the very highest level."
Ntcham, a French international youth player, spent the past two seasons on loan at Genoa in Italy.
He played for just over an hour of Saturday's friendly and Rodgers reckons that was enough to show how vital he will be.
"His range of passing, it makes the game look very simple," Rodgers added. "He can play short, play long, he can dribble and shoot.
"He has everything to be a top, top level number eight. It's just timing really, that's his first game so 65 minutes was enough for him. He'll just build up his fitness over the next few weeks and when he's ready he'll be a big player for us."
Another player to have recently signed a four-year deal with Celtic, Kundai Benyu, has also made a big impression on his new boss.
He played more than 70 minutes on Saturday and Rodgers admitted the 19-year-old, signed from Ipswich, has forced his way into contention.
"Young Kundai did really well," he said. "He's surprised me to be honest. I knew he was a good player, you can see what we're trying to build here in terms of players who are technically gifted, but they have to have good mobility and good physicality, and he has that. He's come in and played with a nice little edge, he's competitive and he's got confidence.
"How he receives the ball is very good, he's an attacking player, he wants to get goals and he's actually quite exciting.
"Initially the plan was to have him in, thinking he would maybe get an idea of how we work and then go on loan, but I've sort of changed my mind on him after watching him. I think it's going to be good for him to have at least six months with us, see how we train, see how we work, get an education on our footballing idea then review it again in January and see where he's at.
"He's certainly a boy who can contribute for us and he's done very well."
Second-half goals from Maxwel Cornet, Myziane Maolida Nabil Fekir and Amine Gouiri won the friendly for Lyon, who finished fourth in the French top flight last season.
But Rodgers was happy with how the match went.
"I really enjoyed it," he said. "Up until the first hour it was a real good game. I have a responsibility to try to get as many of my players as fit as we can for the beginning of the season and for throughout the season.
"First half we were very good, some of our combination play, the speed in our game was excellent and we should have went in in front at that time.
"Once we make the changes into the second half it becomes a little bit broken, and the level in our quality changes. For the senior players it was great to get game time." | Brendan Rodgers says Celtic new boy Olivier Ntcham proved he has the ability to play at the very top level in Saturday's friendly defeat to Lyon. | 40623594 | [
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The 25-year-old American born striker made 37 appearances and scored seven goals during his 12 months at Tynecastle.
Johnsen also made his first international appearance for Norway while a Hearts player.
The Edinburgh club has strengthened up front, signing Kyle Lafferty during this transfer window.
Johnsen was brought to Hearts by former head coach Robbie Neilson after leaving Bulgarian club Litex Lovech.
And Neilson's successor, Ian Cathro, had to deny reports of an argument with the striker at half-time during a game against St Johnstone in May.
Den Haag, managed by Alfons Groenendijk, the former Manchester City midfielder and former Ajax assistant, finished 11th in the Eredivisie last season. | Hearts have sold Bjorn Johnsen to Dutch top-rlight club ADO Den Haag for an undisclosed transfer fee. | 40783414 | [
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The adapted artwork for the Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album is worth about ??70,000.
It was created to celebrate the success of the record - released in June 1967 - for Christmas of that year.
The artwork is one of five Beatles album sleeves to feature in the top 10, compiled by Record Collector magazine.
Sir Peter Blake's original Sgt Pepper collage was doctored to replace the faces of The Beatles and other notable figures with those of executives from the band's US label Capitol.
Only about 100 are thought to have been made.
'Main attraction'
In second place, valued at ??7,000, are the first 10 numbered copies of the Beatles' self-titled 1968 record, which became known as The White Album because of its plain white cover.
The band's name was embossed on the front of the sleeve, which was designed by pop artist Richard Hamilton, along with a unique stamped serial number.
In third position was a pair of sleeves designed by Andy Warhol.
Madrigals' 1953 work Magic Key To Spanish Volumes 1 and 2, and spoken word anti-crime lecture The Nation's Nightmare, from 1951, have been valued at ??3,500 and ??3,000 respectively.
At number four was the bizarre US-released compilation album Jolly What! England's Greatest Recording Stars: The Beatles and Frank Ifield on Stage.
The 1964 album, featuring the songs of both the Fab Four and crooner Ifield, is valued at ??3,000.
The Beatles were also in eighth place for the original album sleeve created for the US release of their Yesterday And Today record in 1966, which is valued at ??2,000.
Known as "the butcher sleeve" because it featured the musicians posing with dismembered doll parts and slabs of meat, it was quickly withdrawn from the US market.
List compiler Ian Shirley, editor of the Rare Record Price Guide 2012, said: "While pristine records and inserts are vital to securing a top price, the numbered sleeve is the main attraction.
"The hunger to collect low numbers remains undiminished amongst Beatles fans." | A Beatles sleeve which features the faces of music executives in place of the Fab Four has been named the world's rarest album cover. | 15588440 | [
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Dermot Nolan, chief executive of Ofgem, told the BBC that domestic gas and electricity prices should be cheaper "for the vast majority of people".
Wholesale energy costs make up nearly half of a domestic bill, and have fallen by about a third in the last 12 to 18 months, he said.
Yet, prices had not fallen, he added.
Energy UK, which represents the major energy energy companies, insisted that there was a competitive market of 34 suppliers and that people should switch for savings of hundreds of pounds.
Lawrence Slade, chief executive of the trade body, said the industry had made "mistakes in the past" in failing to assist those languishing on variable deals but that the situation had improved alongside increased competition.
The regulator has said 70% of consumers remain on standard variable tariffs which have hardly changed since early last year.
Pressure is mounting on the UK's big six energy suppliers to cut their prices in line with falling costs after the latest analysis showed wholesale gas and electricity prices in the UK hit a five-year low at the end of 2015.
Figures published on Thursday showed the cost of energy on the wholesale market tumbled to £36.76 per megawatt hour on the Power Index, compiled by market information provider ICIS. | Energy companies are "overcharging in many cases" with bills failing to fall in line with dropping wholesale costs, the industry's regulator has said. | 35321723 | [
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Mal Meninga's team went through the tournament unbeaten - and in wrestling the title from the Kiwis reclaimed the world number one ranking.
With a quarter of the match gone, tries from Blake Ferguson, Josh Dugan and Trent Merrin plus a penalty from Johnathan Thurston gave the Kangaroos an unassailable 20-0 lead.
That was 24-0 by the break as the ruthless Australians added to their score when Dugan touched down a kick from Thurston.
Full-back Darius Boyd extinguished any hope of an unlikely comeback with a score shortly after the restart and although two tries from Jordan Kahu reduced the deficit, Australia's Boyd Cordner had the final word with a late score.
Australia coach Meninga is a Liverpool FC fan and must have been delighted with the ruthless performance from his team at Anfield.
Meninga had targeted reclaiming the world number one ranking during this tour and that never looked in doubt on a chilly Sunday afternoon when their opponents were simply unable to answer the questions asked of them.
The defending champions briefly rallied after Ferguson had touched down in the corner two minutes in and again for a period in the second half, but by and large Australia were utterly dominant.
Brilliantly marshalled by halves Thurston and Cooper Cronk and hooker Cameron Smith, they built pressure, dominated field position and looked a class above the only team to have come anywhere near them in this tournament, their group game at Coventry ending 14-8.
They targeted the defence of makeshift Kiwi half-back Tohu Harris, kicked penalties to extend their lead even when the game was surely already theirs and for most of the match showed a hunger and desire way beyond what the Kiwis possessed.
One year before the World Cup, it is difficult to see on the form they have shown in England how any other team can prevent them from retaining their title.
This competition was David Kidwell's first as coach of New Zealand - and aside from claiming his first win in their 17-16 victory over England, little has gone right for him or his team.
They were held to a draw by Scotland at Workington last week and at Anfield looked some way short of producing the sort of mercurial, against-the-odds performance that saw them win the Four Nations in 2014.
New Zealand have now lost four times to Australia in 2016 - once in Stephen Kearney's last game in charge and three times under Kidwell.
There has been some speculation in the Kiwi press that Kidwell would benefit from a coaching mentor and right now there is plenty for him to think about.
Shaun Johnson showed glimpses of the brilliance he possesses during the tournament but plus points were at a premium.
New Zealand's poor record in England continues - they lost a Test series against England in 2015 and have not won a Tri-Nations or Four Nations over here - and they will need to vastly improve if they want to threaten at the World Cup.
Australia: D. Boyd, Ferguson, Inglis, Dugan, Holmes, Thurston, Cronk, Scott, Smith, Woods, Cordner, Gillett, Merrin. Replacements: Morgan, Klemmer, Frizell, S. Boyd.
New Zealand: Kahu, Fusitu'a, Kata, Kenny-Dowall, Rapana, Harris, Johnson, J. Bromwich, Luke, Blair, Proctor, Ma'u, Taumalolo. Replacements: Brown, Taupau, Eastwood, Tapine.
Referee: Ben Cummins (Australia) | Australia produced a clinical display to blow New Zealand away 34-8 and deservedly win the Four Nations in front of 40,042 at Anfield. | 38044602 | [
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Steven Dunne, 42, failed to return to Southview Low Secure Unit, Hellingly, at 17:00 BST on Wednesday.
After a police appeal on Saturday, Dunne later went into Bootle Street police station in Manchester, where he is in custody.
Dunne will return to hospital under a higher level of security.
Earlier, in their appeal, Sussex Police had said they believed he had gone to Manchester because he had family links in the city.
In November 2010, Dunne admitted the manslaughter of Gordon Stalker, 51, on the grounds of diminished responsibility and was detained indefinitely.
Sussex Police said the level of security he was originally detained under was approved by the Ministry of Justice.
After Dunne handed himself in, Lisa Rodrigues, chief executive of Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, said: "We were concerned for Mr Dunne's welfare and we worked closely with Sussex Police throughout their investigation."
The NHS trust had said Dunne posed a "low risk" after he was reported missing.
During the court case, Dunne, formerly of Chates Farm Court, Brighton, told Lewes Crown Court he believed Mr Stalker was controlling his mind and he could only be freed by killing him.
The pair were neighbours in a shared house in Elm Grove, Brighton, where they were friends and often socialised together.
But Dunne's mental health deteriorated and he began to believe that Mr Stalker was a witch who had captured his soul.
He stabbed Mr Stalker repeatedly in their communal hallway.
The judge ordered him to be detained under the Mental Health Act. | A paranoid schizophrenic who killed a former neighbour and went missing from his secure unit in Sussex has handed himself in to police. | 15137158 | [
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John "Jack" Zawadski, 82, and his nephew filed the lawsuit after being told that the funeral parlour did not "deal with their kind".
Their legal team argue the response of staff at the Picayune mortuary devastated Mr Zawadski and his family.
But the co-owner of the funeral home has tearfully denied the allegations.
"We just didn't do that," a weeping Henrietta Brewer told Mississippi Today.
Mrs Brewer said that her mortuary had handled the funerals of "well over a dozen" gay people since she and her husband opened it in 2006.
She said one gay man had even been buried in the funeral home's privately-owned cemetery.
"We're the ones that treat everyone good," Mrs Brewer said, arguing that none of her staff was homophobic.
'Bob was my life'
Mr Zawadski and his nephew, John Gaspari, are seeking unspecified cash compensation from the Brewer Funeral Home for "breach of contract, negligent misrepresentation and the intentional and negligent infliction of emotional distress", Lambda Legal said in a press statement.
The lawsuit says that Mr Gaspari had completed all the arrangements for the funeral of his uncle, Robert Huskey, who died in a hospice shortly after celebrating his 86th birthday.
They argue that the funeral parlour suddenly declined the use of their facilities - including the storage and transport of Mr Huskey's body - after they found out he was married to a man.
Mr Zawadski said that the alleged action of the funeral home left him feeling as "if the air had been knocked" out of him.
"Bob was my life, and we had always felt so welcome in this community. And then, at a moment of such personal pain and loss, to have someone do what they did to me, to us, to Bob, I just couldn't believe it. No-one should be put through what we were put through."
Lambda Legal Counsel Beth Littrell said that what had happened to them was shocking.
"Almost immediately after losing his husband and partner of more than 50 years, Jack Zawadski's grief was compounded by injustice and callous treatment from the very place that should have helped ease his suffering," she said.
Mr Zawadski and Mr Huskey moved to Picayune to retire, getting married there when it became legally acceptable for them to do so in 2015. | A mortuary in Mississippi is being sued by the husband of a gay man for allegedly refusing to cremate him because of his sexuality. | 39795569 | [
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City council leader Lib Dem Simon Cook will tell a conference an arena on the site of the old diesel depot site is a crucial part of the zone.
He stressed although it was early days potential operators believe its size would attract many good quality shows.
Mr Cook said there was a risk a larger version would be built in Cardiff if the Bristol arena did not go ahead.
"We've fallen behind Cardiff too often in the past. It is really time to grab the opportunity and go for it.
"There is a very big interest in an arena for Bristol... we're absolutely determined to deliver it," he added.
It is believed the arena would cost up to £80m to build, some of which will come from the government's City Deal fund.
Several plans for an entertainment arena have been put forward since 2003 but the idea was dropped in 2007 when costs rose to £86m.
Then in 2009, plans for a 15,000-seater music and sport venue were proposed with a second site at Ashton Vale close to where Bristol City Football Club wants to build a new stadium.
The city's biggest music venue is the famous Colston Hall, which can hold about 2,000 people. | A 12,000-seater music venue on the Temple Meads Enterprise Zone in Bristol is possible by 2016, the council says. | 19811027 | [
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They were leaving Pinewood Avenue at about 02:00 BST, when a man emerged from an alleyway and threw a brick at the vehicle.
The brick struck the windscreen in front of the driver, smashing it.
The man, who was dressed in a dark hooded jacket with his face covered, ran off in the direction of the alleyway.
The officers were left shaken, but physically unharmed.
Sgt Brian Caskey condemned the attack.
"This patrol vehicle will be out of circulation while repairs are carried out," he said.
"The person responsible needs to be identified and brought to justice." | The windscreen of a PSNI car has been smashed during an attack on a police patrol in Carrickfergus. | 36186258 | [
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Communication between two proteins is what triggers the cell tent to lose its shape and become unanchored, their research found.
This allows the cells to travel to other areas of the body.
The researchers said their findings could help prevent the spread of lung cancer.
Writing in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, researchers from York and the University of Texas describe how the communications centre of a cell - known as the Golgi apparatus - receives a signal from proteins which prompts the movement of membrane sacks inside it.
This movement alters the shape and surface of the cancer cell, allowing it to break free from its moorings and move around freely.
Dr Daniel Ungar, from the University of York's biology department, said it was apt to think of the cancer cell resembling a tent structure.
"It has fixed sides to hold its shape and is firmly anchored to the ground in order to secure its contents.
"In order to move the tent, we have to rearrange its contents and collapse its sides in order to lift it out of its anchored position and carry it away," he said.
He added that a similar process happens with cancer when it spreads - its outer edges are altered leaving it unanchored.
The study found that a protein called Zeb1 was critical to this process and the research team now want to look at how to target the protein without damaging healthy cells, in which the protein also exists.
The researchers only looked at lung cancer cells and do not know if the same process occurs in other cancers. | Spreading lung cancer cells are like tents which have collapsed and are adrift in the wind, scientists from the University of York have discovered. | 38095297 | [
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Andreas Werner, 46, of Leipzig, failed to spot the motorcyclist as he turned his VW Transporter right causing the fatal crash.
The father-of-four pleaded guilty to causing death by careless driving at Llandudno Magistrates' Court.
He was fined £1,000 and also banned from driving in the UK for two years.
Prosecutor Sarah Marsh told the court the victim's family saw no value in Werner, who was staying in a cottage with his family near Bala, being sent to jail.
She said: "They accept it was a momentary lapse and nothing will bring him back."
Craig Hutchinson, defending, said Werner was remorseful and could offer no explanation for the crash. | A German holidaymaker has been fined £1,000 after causing a crash which killed a motorcyclist in Conwy county. | 40613520 | [
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