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Mr Zhou is the latest in a string of high-profile businessmen in the country to temporarily disappear.
Metersbonwe suspended trading in its shares over his unaccounted absence.
Chinese media reports have speculated he has been picked up by the police as part of Beijing's anti-corruption drive.
Zhou Chengjian has been named as the country's 62nd richest person by wealth publisher Hurun, attributing a fortune of $4.1 bn to him.
Starting out as a tailor, he build Shanghai-based Metersbonwe into one of China's biggest and best-known clothing companies.
A company statement said it could reach neither the chairman nor his secretary.
Metersbonwe also halted trading of its shares "to protect investors' interests".
His disappearance comes only weeks after Guo Guangchang, chairman of private sector conglomerate Fosun, temporarily went missing.
Fosun operates in sectors from steel and mining to pharmaceuticals. In 2015 it acquired the French vacation resort company Club Med.
Chinese media reports on links between the disappearance of businessmen and the authorities sweeping anti-corruption campaign remain unconfirmed.
In the case of Mr Guo, he reappeared after several days and according to his company had been "assisting in certain investigations carried out by judiciary authorities". | Chinese billionaire Zhou Chengjian of one of China's biggest fashion chains, Metersbonwe, has gone missing, the company confirmed. | 35261090 | [
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Tevez, who missed a penalty against Wigan last Saturday, was back on the bench for the midweek Champions League game against Napoli.
Mancini insists that Tevez, who failed to secure a summer move away from the club, must accept the situation.
"In this moment there are players that are better than him but Carlos is here training," he said.
"Carlos will have a chance to play. I don't know if he is happy but every player that can't play is not happy. This is normal.
"He will have his moment."
The form of fellow strikers Edin Dzeko and Sergio Aguero, who have scored six league goals apiece so far this season, mean that the 27-year-old Argentina international's chances have been limited, while Mario Balotelli has also played just one league game.
But Mancini believes his free-scoring side still need to be more ruthless in front of goal than neighbours and arch-rivals Manchester United, who have scored 18 goals - three more than City - in their first four Premier League games.
When City underlined their title credentials with a 5-1 win at Tottenham last month, United bettered them with a 8-2 victory over Arsenal.
Mancini's men impressed again by beating Wigan 3-0 last week, only for United to hammer Bolton 5-0.
The Italian said: "Man United are a top team - they have been used to winning for a long time. They have strong players.
"When they played against Arsenal, when they scored two or three goals, they continued trying to score.
"We need to have this mentality. If we have a game like Tottenham where we can score, we need to continue to try to play." | Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini says Carlos Tevez must wait for his chance to get back into the team. | 14951350 | [
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The county council plans to build 200 council homes and 300 affordable homes.
The first will be built on the site of the former Custom House Lane School in Connah's Quay.
Meanwhile, the nearby "old dairy" on Mold Road is being flattened along with some terraced homes on the adjacent High Street. The former dairy has stood empty for more than 30 years.
The council has asked experts to draw up proposals for the site, which will be levelled and seeded once demolition work is completed in March. | Building work is due to start next month on the first new council homes in Flintshire for more than 20 years. | 35383087 | [
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As no single party or bloc commands a majority of the 325 seats in parliament, the contenders have had to forge new partnerships and deals in their efforts to share out the positions of power.
This is the main Shia parliamentary bloc. It was formed after the March 2010 elections as a result of a merger of Prime Minister Nouri Maliki's State of Law coalition and the Iraqi National Alliance (INA).
The National Alliance decided in October to support Mr Maliki's bid for a second term as premier, but the decision was reportedly not unanimous.
STATE OF LAW COALITION: This grouping - which merged with the Iraqi National Alliance to form the National Alliance - is led by outgoing Prime Minister Maliki, who has been seeking a second term in power.
The bloc purportedly cut across religious and tribal lines. It included Mr Maliki's Shia Islamist Dawa [Call] Party as well as some Sunni tribal leaders, Shia Kurds, Christians and independents.
Mr Maliki said the alliance wanted an Iraq built on nationalist principles.
However, many of the minority Sunnis apparently aren't confident that he truly believes they should be given a large share of power.
Mr Maliki hoped to capitalise on successes of his first term in office. However, his record on security was undermined by a series of high-profile attacks on government targets in Baghdad before the March elections.
IRAQI NATIONAL ALLIANCE (INA): This mainly Shia alliance - which merged with the State of Law Coalition - includes followers of the powerful cleric and one-time militia leader Moqtada al-Sadr.
It brings together the Iraqi Islamic Supreme Council (IISC), the Basra-based Fadhilah party, a few Sunni leaders, former prime minister Ibrahim Jaafari, and Ahmad Chalabi - the former exile who played a key role before the 2003 US-led invasion.
Jaafari was prime minister in the Iraqi Transitional Government between 2005 and 2006 and his reputation was tainted by the fact that militias took over the security services while he was in charge, and by the sectarian war that ensued.
A senior leader of the IISC is outgoing Vice-President Adel Abdul-Mahdi.
The Kurdish coalition is dominated by the two parties administering Iraq's northern, semi-autonomous Kurdish region.
The Kurdistan Democratic Party led by the region's president, Masood Barzani, and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan headed by Iraq's outgoing national president, Jalal Talabani, are both secular in nature and enjoy close ties with the West.
The two parties faced a major challenge in Kurdistan's parliamentary vote this year from the Reform (Change) bloc, which won about a quarter of the seats.
The Kurds have played king-maker in Iraq since the 2003 invasion and will likely retain enough clout to be part of a ruling alliance with another faction.
This alliance won the election by a slim two-seat margin over outgoing Prime Minister Maliki's State of Law, but neither came anywhere near the majority needed to govern.
It is led by former prime minister Iyad Allawi, a secular Shia widely supported by Sunnis who view him as a strongman capable of countering Shia power Iran.
The alliance includes outgoing Vice-President Tariq al-Hashemi, a Sunni Arab, and senior Sunni politician Saleh al-Mutlaq. They ran on a nationalist platform.
While all of the major coalitions have adopted a rhetoric of ''national unity'', al-Iraqiyya, and Saleh al-Mutlaq in particular, have a more consistent anti-sectarian perspective than most of their rivals.
This group brings together a range of significant political figures, including Interior Minister Jawad Bolani and a leader of the Sunni anti-al-Qaeda militia in al-Anbar province, Ahmad Abu-Risha.
Unity of Iraq has adopted a similar rhetoric to Mr Maliki's State of Law list, probably prompting suggestions that key figures in the list, such as Abu-Risha, appeared to have been seriously considering joining Mr Maliki.
Like al-Iraqiyya, the Unity of Iraq list was seriously affected by the ban on candidates with alleged Baathist links.
The Iraqi Accord Front, an alliance of parties led by Sunni politicians, participated in the December 2005 elections but has since been weakened by splits and defections. It includes Speaker of the last parliament, Ayad al-Samarrai.
It consists of some tribal leaders and the Iraqi Islamic Party (IIP), which has increased its political visibility over recent years, enhancing its claim to represent Iraqi Sunnis at a national level.
Tribal leaders were courted by major parties as it was thought they would play an important role in the election. Some of Iraq's Sunni tribal leaders sprang to prominence when US forces began backing local sheikhs against al-Qaeda in 2006.
While the tribal figures are looking to branch out into mainstream politics, they have not formed a united front and have mainly joined forces with existing blocs.
Smaller minorities, including Turkmen, Christians, Yazidis, Sabean Mandaeans, Shabak and others, were thought likely to ally with bigger electoral lists in areas where they were not dominant.
BBC Monitoring selects and translates news from radio, television, press, news agencies and the internet from 150 countries in more than 70 languages. It is based in Caversham, UK, and has several bureaux abroad. | Iraqi political groups have for several months been trying to forge a coalition government, following the inconclusive parliamentary elections in March 2010. | 11730332 | [
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North Wales Police claimed Owen Jones, 52, of Caernarfon, Gwynedd, was not fit to hold a firearms certificate after officers looked at his profile.
Mr Jones, who had held a licence for more than 30 years, appealed against the decision and won.
Caernarfon Crown Court heard on Friday that he was not a cause for concern despite the posts.
The hearing was told a senior police officer regarded the posts as "highly offensive", prompting the licence to be revoked.
Judge Niclas Parry said Mr Jones was ignorant about the subject of the Muslim faith, but added: "None of those messages were created by the appellant.
"The appellant has liked certain messages that appeared on his Facebook profile. He has then effectively re-published the message." | A man who liked "highly offensive" Facebook messages about Islam had his shotgun licence revoked by police. | 38703555 | [
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Armstrong, 43, was stripped of his record seven Tour de France titles and banned from sport for life by the United States Anti-Doping Agency (Usada) in August 2012.
"If I was racing in 2015, no, I wouldn't do it again because I don't think you have to," he said.
"If you take me back to 1995, when doping was completely pervasive, I would probably do it again."
Speaking in his first television interview since confessing to Oprah Winfrey that he had used performance-enhancing drugs during his career, Armstrong tells BBC sports editor Dan Roan:
Armstrong had been the subject of doping allegations since he returned from cancer in 1996 to dominate one of the world's toughest events from 1999 to 2005.
He aggressively denied the claims until Usada's 200-page "reasoned decision" - complete with 1,000 additional pages of evidence - was released in October 2012.
Armstrong finally confessed in a two-part interview with US talk-show host Winfrey in January, 2013.
He was forced to step away from the cancer charity he had founded and has since kept his counsel, save for a handful of print interviews.
Speaking in his hometown of Austin, Texas, Armstrong said "the fallout" from his confession had been "heavy, tough, trying and required patience".
The father-of-five said his life had "thinned out" and "slowed from 100mph to 10", but added he would like to return to "50, 55".
As for whether the world was ready to accept his return to public life, Armstrong said: "Selfishly, I would say 'yeah, we're getting close to that time'.
"But that's me, my word doesn't matter any more. What matters is what people collectively think, whether that's the cycling community, the cancer community.
"Listen, of course I want to be out of timeout, what kid doesn't?"
Armstrong was asked if he would make the same choice to cheat that he made in 1995.
He said: "When I made the decision, when my team made that decision, when the whole peloton made that decision, it was a bad decision and an imperfect time.
"But it happened. And I know what happened because of that. I know what happened to the sport, I saw its growth."
Armstrong said sales at his bicycle supplier Trek Bicycles went from $100m (£66.5m) to $1bn and his charity foundation went from "raising no money to raising $500m, serving three million people".
He added: "Do we want to take it away? I don't think anybody says 'yes'."
Armstrong did admit to "unacceptable and inexcusable" behaviour towards other people during his career.
Former rider Filippo Simeoni angered Armstrong by testifying against his coach/doctor, Michele Ferrari, in a 2002 Italian doping case. The American called him a liar and denied the Italian a stage win in the 2004 Tour.
Armstrong also responded with legal threats and personal smears when Emma O'Reilly, a masseuse at his US Postal team, provided some of the earliest details on his doping.
"I would want to change the man that did those things, maybe not the decision, but the way he acted," he continued.
"The way he treated people, the way he couldn't stop fighting. It was unacceptable, inexcusable."
He added he had been "an arsehole to a dozen people" and had spent the past two years trying to make amends, with varying results.
Armstrong was equally forthright on what should happen to his Tour titles, which have not been reallocated, such was the extent of cycling's doping problem at the time.
"I think there has to be a winner, I'm just saying that as a fan," he said.
"There's a huge block in World War One with no winners, and there's another block in World War Two, and then it seems like there's another world war.
"I don't think history is stupid, history rectifies a lot of things. If you ask me what happens in 50 years, I don't think it sits empty... I feel like I won those Tours."
Armstrong reiterated his promise that he raced clean during his second comeback in 2009 and 2010, contrary to Usada's report, and said he would be the first to release his samples for retesting as soon as a test for blood transfusions is developed.
He also confirmed he has spoken to the Cycling Independent Reform Commission (CIRC) on two occasions and is now waiting to see if it will recommend a reduction in his ban, something that would allow him to "compete in some sport at a fairly high level", but also raise money for charity.
Armstrong was less forthcoming on his legal battle with former team-mate Floyd Landis and the Department of Justice. That case, which hinges on whether his team's sponsor, the US Postal Service, was defrauded of almost $40m (£26.5m), is unlikely to be heard in court until 2016.
But he admitted the strain of his legal problems was telling, and he looked forward to a time without lawyers and worries about what his children might hear at school.
A 30-minute documentary, Lance Armstrong: The Road Ahead, will be broadcast on BBC News at 20:30 GMT on Thursday, 29 January, and again over the following days on that channel and BBC World News. An extended edit of Dan Roan's interview will also be available on the BBC iPlayer. | Shamed cyclist Lance Armstrong believes the time is coming when he should be forgiven for doping and lying - and told the BBC he would probably do it again. | 30981609 | [
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The Australian Open semi-finalist joins Heather Watson, Victoria Azarenka and Caroline Wozniacki in the draw.
"I had a good run at the tournament last year, which was the start of a great summer for me," Konta said.
"It's a really strong field which is great for the tournament and I'm hoping for more success in Nottingham."
Croatian teenager Ana Konjuh will return to the Nottingham Tennis Centre to defend her title and British number three Naomi Broady is also set to play in the tournament, which will take place from 4-12 June.
Never want to miss the latest tennis news? You can now add this sport and all the other sports and teams you follow to your personalised My Sport home. | British number one Johanna Konta has become the latest player to confirm her entry to the pre-Wimbledon Aegon Open in Nottingham in June. | 36159176 | [
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Inverness were dominated after the interval with Kane Hemmings eventually cancelling out Ross Draper's opener.
"We've got [Owain] Fon-Williams to thank for making three or four wonderful saves to keep us in it," Hughes told BBC Scotland.
"We were second to every ball and I'm happy to come away with a point."
Dundee recovered from Draper's strike and spent most of the second half in and around the Inverness penalty area as they controlled the game.
"You have to be honest," said Hughes. "I felt in the first half the two teams were nip and tuck, we played some nice stuff and got our goal. In the second half it was all Dundee.
"My frustration was how Dundee were getting in so easily and I'm really disappointed with the goal that we lost and how it came about. We need to defend that better.
"We were second to every ball and that gives the other team the impetus to get on it and play. We just dropped off it, especially in the second half today. It's not a skill or a technique thing, it's a mental thing."
Dundee manager Paul Hartley, meanwhile, felt that his side created enough chances in the second half to win the game comfortably, and he praised his players for remaining patient as they pushed for an equaliser, even as Hemmings, Rory Loy and Greg Stewart all missed a series of chances.
"In the first 10 minutes we didn't start that well but in the second half we were terrific," said Hartley.
"We could have won that game 5-1, we had some fantastic chances and on another day you bank on Stewart and Hemmings scoring more than that given they chances they got.
"But the team kept going and I thought we were brilliant in the second half, some of our passes and combinations.
"You've got the give the [Inverness] goalkeeper credit, he made some great saves, but we kept going, we never gave in and I've got a smashing bunch of lads.
"[The battle to finish in the top six] is exciting, there's not a lot between the clubs. We've got a big week coming up, a real testing week for the club, the players and myself, and it's a week we want to do well in." | Inverness CT manager John Hughes admits Dundee "did enough" to defeat his side at Dens Park and that his own team did not merit more than a point. | 35679430 | [
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Sammon, the 29-year-old ex-Kilmarnock forward, has agreed a three-year contract as he leaves Derby County.
They will arrive as Hearts prepare for their first Europa League qualifier.
Six players left Tynecastle in the summer, with three first-team regulars - defender Blaze Augustyn, goalkeeper Neil Alexander and midfielder Miguel Pallardo - all now on the lookout for new clubs. | Hearts are expected to confirm the signing of defender Faycal Rherras and striker Conor Sammon ahead of a return to pre-season training next week. | 36501013 | [
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The Spain international, 31, has not played since mid-October after injuring an Achilles in Arsenal's 6-0 Champions League win over Ludogorets.
Arsenal said his problem "had not progressed" and that he would travel to Sweden next week for surgery.
Cazorla missed seven months of last season with a knee injury.
He has scored two goals in 11 games in all competitions for the Gunners this term.
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Navalny had denied the charges, saying the trial was politically motivated.
The 37-year-old had been a leading campaigner against President Putin's United Russia party, and regularly blogged about corruption allegations.
The EU said the verdict posed "serious questions" about the state of Russian law. The US said it was "deeply disappointed".
Before he was handcuffed and led away, Navalny urged his supporters to continue his anti-corruption struggle, tweeting: "Don't sit around doing nothing."
Navalny has previously said he would like to stand for president one day.
He had recently registered his candidacy for the next mayor of Moscow, but his campaign team said that after the verdict he was withdrawing from the race, and called on his supporters to boycott the vote.
By Oleg BoldyrevBBC News, Kirov
Minutes after Judge Blinov started reading from the substantial sheaf of papers, it became evident the two defendants, Alexei Navalny and Pyotr Ofitserov, were going to be found guilty.
Seasoned observers of this trial were just about able to pick up the judge's words. Others were bewildered by the hum-like reading.
Entering the courtroom just before the verdict reading started, both defendants were far from gloomy. "Why sad faces?" quipped Navalny, walking past dozens of journalists and a row of cameras.
Navalny has long acquired the skill of tweeting and blogging while interminable financial documents were read by prosecution, defence and, now, judge.
Publishing his fiery comments on politics, corruption and the need to unite in opposition to Vladimir Putin's regime - that's one of the many things he won't be able to do from behind bars, waiting for the sentence to be appealed against.
'Explosion of anger'
The BBC's Moscow correspondent Daniel Sandford says that when the sentence was handed down, there were tears from Navalny's supporters and an explosion of anger on the social networking sites that he has used so effectively.
Anti-Putin activist and former cabinet minister Boris Nemtsov told reporters the trial was "completely fabricated from start to finish, and even the judge could not say what the reason for the crime was".
Other countries have also voiced their concern at the verdict. The US ambassador to Moscow, Michael McFaul, said: "We are deeply disappointed in the conviction of Navalny and the apparent political motivations in this trial."
A spokesperson for the EU's top foreign policy official, Catherine Ashton, said the embezzlement charges were unsubstantiated, and that Navalny's jailing posed "serious questions as to the state of the rule of law in Russia".
French foreign ministry spokesman Philippe Lalliot added his concern, but said: "We note that not all judicial remedies have been exhausted and that the sentence could be reviewed on appeal."
Navalny's supporters in Moscow have vowed to stage protests against the verdict later on Thursday.
'Almost inevitable'
Navalny arrived at the courtroom in Kirov to hear the verdict after a 12-hour overnight train journey from Moscow.
Our correspondent said Navalny smiled in a resigned manner when the almost inevitable guilty verdict came.
His wife, Yulia Navalnaya, said her husband knew he would get a non-suspended sentence and was mentally prepared to go to prison.
Navalny was found guilty of heading a group that embezzled timber worth 16m rubles ($500,000; £330,000) from the Kirovles state timber company while working as an adviser to Kirov's governor Nikita Belykh.
The prosecution had asked for a six-year jail sentence, but judge Sergei Blinov decided on five years, and said there were no extenuating circumstances that would warrant keeping Navalny out of prison.
Navalny's co-accused, Pyotr Ofitserov, was also found guilty, and given a four-year jail sentence.
"Navalny... committed a grave crime," said Judge Blinov as he delivered the sentence.
State television has only shown limited interest in the process despite Navalny's prominence, but online the trial has been followed extensively.
Mr Navalny came to public attention when he inspired mass protests against the Kremlin and President Vladimir Putin in December 2011.
Profile: Alexei Navalny
A thorn in Putin's side
Judge Blinov said he found the testimony of the main prosecution witness, Vyacheslav Opalev, to be "trustworthy and consistent''.
Navalny insists that Mr Opalev spoke against him out of revenge, because Navalny had recommended he be fired and his company investigated for corruption.
After the verdict, Navalny tweeted: "So that's it. Don't get bored without me. Most importantly, don't sit around doing nothing. The toad won't get off the oil pipe by itself."
In his LiveJournal blog on Wednesday Navalny said: "The current authorities are not a big, healthy fish, but rather a bloated fish or Latin American toad, which puffs itself up when it sees danger, with the help of television."
In an unusual step, the court allowed the whole trial to be broadcast live online.
He is now one of the key figures of the opposition - a thorn in the side of the political establishment, campaigning against the endemic corruption, our correspondent says.
Mr Navalny has also coined a phrase to describe the ruling party United Russia that has stuck in everyone's minds - "the party of crooks and thieves". | Russian protest leader Alexei Navalny has been jailed for five years, for embezzlement from a timber firm. | 23352688 | [
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Steven Maclean bundled home the opener five minutes before half-time.
The hosts, slacker after the break, had beleaguered striker Larnell Cole sent-off after he confronted the referee.
Liam Craig sealed the win from the penalty spot with two minutes to play, before Graham Cummins finished a sumptuous stoppage-time move.
And things got worse still for Caley Thistle after the match, with captain Gary Warren shown a red card in the tunnel.
Saints remain five points clear of Hearts in fourth place, and closed the gap on third-placed Rangers, who play Aberdeen on Sunday, to three points.
With game after game ticking past, Inverness' position looks increasingly perilous. Next weekend's trip to Motherwell, second-bottom on goal difference, is now seismic.
This contest turned nightmarish for the hosts after a bright opening, but the truth is, given their predicament, Caley Thistle did not threaten St Johnstone's goal enough.
Billy Mckay sent a shot over from close range. Alex Fisher nodded a diving header wide. Carl Tremarco miscued a volley.
Greg Tansey did draw a save from Alan Mannus when he rasped in an effort from outside the box, but Richie Foran's side never looked likely to find the net.
Their best opportunity came immediately after the Saints went ahead, when Tansey fed Cole, who seemed to panic in a terrific position and shot straight at Mannus.
Cole's dismissal ended the contest when he appeared to be cautioned twice for challenging referee Stephen Finnie's decision not to award a foul.
St Johnstone were merciless and could have had more.
With just one win from their last 21 league games, Inverness look deep in trouble.
Tommy Wright's side deserve so much credit. Saints were tactically brilliant, so strong defensively and ruthlessly capitalised on their man advantage.
They took one of their few first-half chances when Michael Coulson broke down the left and sent a dangerous ball across the six-yard box.
Owain Fon Williams could only parry into the danger area, Cummins' shot was blocked but Maclean followed up to force it home.
They should have had another when Craig's superb curling corner flew all the way to the back post where Cummins slid in and somehow knocked it over from two yards.
Craig, in his 300th appearance for the club, coolly converted a spot-kick after Cummins was tripped to seal the points.
Cummins then slammed home after Miller danced around the area to tee him up, before Craig cracked the bar amid the late flurry.
With a tendency to finish the season strongly, and just a three-point gap to Rangers, the Perth side look capable of something special this term.
Inverness CT manager Richie Foran: "It is a tough time of the season to be sitting bottom, and I need real men to stand up to that, but not enough of them did that today.
"It is pure luck we are still in it and it is only four points. I sound like a broken record but one win changes it - that is the truth. But I need braver players with more passion and desire. We controlled aspects of the game without having that ruthless edge to it. I don't think we believed today.
"The main person who is not good enough is me. I am obviously not doing my job right and big apologies to the supporters. I believe we let them down today.
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"It is not good enough. I pick the team, I pick the shape, I will take 90% of the blame for that but the players need to stand up as well."
St Johnstone manager Tommy Wright: "We went in 1-0 at half-time without playing particularly well but looked a threat. We looked comfortable enough and then after the sending-off, we were ruthless. We scored two and maybe could have scored two or three more.
"The attitude to go and kick on and make sure we got that second goal, to make sure we weren't having any problems in the last few minutes, was excellent.
"It's been a week that didn't start so well that's ended absolutely magnificently for us. We enjoy defending. We don't panic when we're under pressure. We're a good side that can do both sides of the game.
"There's a better chance tonight (of finishing third) but we're not going to get carried away. We'll just keep working away. It keeps us five ahead of Hearts. It was an important result."
Match ends, Inverness CT 0, St. Johnstone 3.
Second Half ends, Inverness CT 0, St. Johnstone 3.
Attempt missed. Graham Cummins (St. Johnstone) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left.
Liam Craig (St. Johnstone) hits the bar with a left footed shot from outside the box.
Goal! Inverness CT 0, St. Johnstone 3. Graham Cummins (St. Johnstone) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the top left corner. Assisted by Chris Millar.
Goal! Inverness CT 0, St. Johnstone 2. Liam Craig (St. Johnstone) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the bottom left corner.
Penalty conceded by Carl Tremarco (Inverness CT) after a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty St. Johnstone. Graham Cummins draws a foul in the penalty area.
Attempt blocked. Chris Millar (St. Johnstone) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Graham Cummins (St. Johnstone) right footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the right following a fast break.
Substitution, Inverness CT. Scott Boden replaces Jamie McCart.
Substitution, St. Johnstone. Craig Thomson replaces Blair Alston.
Second yellow card to Larnell Cole (Inverness CT).
Larnell Cole (Inverness CT) is shown the yellow card.
Hand ball by Liam Polworth (Inverness CT).
Substitution, St. Johnstone. Chris Millar replaces Steven MacLean.
Attempt saved. Carl Tremarco (Inverness CT) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Gary Warren (Inverness CT) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Graham Cummins (St. Johnstone).
Attempt missed. Billy King (Inverness CT) left footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right.
Attempt saved. Larnell Cole (Inverness CT) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Foul by Liam Polworth (Inverness CT).
Tam Scobbie (St. Johnstone) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Gary Warren (Inverness CT).
Graham Cummins (St. Johnstone) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Substitution, St. Johnstone. David Wotherspoon replaces Michael Coulson.
Attempt missed. Michael Coulson (St. Johnstone) right footed shot from outside the box is too high from a direct free kick.
Foul by Jamie McCart (Inverness CT).
Steven MacLean (St. Johnstone) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
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Blair Alston (St. Johnstone) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Liam Polworth (Inverness CT) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Blair Alston (St. Johnstone).
Larnell Cole (Inverness CT) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Michael Coulson (St. Johnstone).
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Attempt blocked. Billy McKay (Inverness CT) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Foul by Louis Laing (Inverness CT).
Michael Coulson (St. Johnstone) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Liam Polworth (Inverness CT) wins a free kick in the attacking half. | Ten-man Inverness Caledonian Thistle fell four points adrift at the foot of the Scottish Premiership with defeat by St Johnstone. | 39463930 | [
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The helicopter was trying to find a vulnerable missing person in the Daventry area.
It carried on with its mission while a police car was dispatched to investigate the laser. Officers were unable to find out who was responsible.
Pilot Paul Atherton said it was "very distracting".
Live updates on this story and other news from Northamptonshire
He said: "On the police helicopter, I'm the only pilot.
"If I get hit in the eye and I'm blinded, who's going to fly the aircraft? People on the ground don't realise how serious this is."
The National Police Air Service (NPAS) said Mr Atherton saw two flashes of light from the laser at about 23:00 BST on Friday.
The NPAS reported 35 laser incidents on its aircraft in 2014 and 91 in 2015.
There was a total of 1,400 attacks on aircraft reported to the Civil Aviation Authority last year.
People have been jailed in the past for pointing lasers at aircraft in the sky, but the devices themselves remain legal.
Pat Lawrence, a spokesman for the British Airline Pilots Association (Balpa), said regulations need to change.
He said: "There's no restriction on the imports of these very powerful lasers." | The pilot of a police helicopter has called for a ban on lasers after a beam of light was shone at his aircraft as it flew over Northamptonshire. | 37361034 | [
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Kerber, the Australian Open and US Open winner, was too strong for defending champion Agnieszka Radwanska.
The German dominated for a 6-2 6-1 victory over the Pole to make it six wins apiece in their head-to-heads.
"It's just amazing to be here,'' said Kerber, who is playing in the event for the fourth time.
"It's been an incredible 12 months. I've been really working at being focused, being calm and being positive on court and this is the biggest improvement I've made."
After a disappointing first set, in which Cibulkova trailed 4-1 after being broken twice in her first three service games, the world number eight showed far more intensity in the second set.
She improved her first-serve percentage dramatically from 42% to 79% with Kuznetsova, who was in superb form in the opening set, happy to sit back and wait for any opportunities.
Cibulkova, making her first appearance at the elite eight-player event, squandered chances to secure the second set while serving at 5-4 and 6-5 but in the tie-break she recovered quickly to set up four set points and level the match.
Kuznetsova, 31, took a 10-minute break at the end of the second set to change her kit but while it initially did not appear to unsettle Cibulkova, who broke to go 2-0 up, she again was unable to take advantage of the break.
Two-time Grand Slam tournament winner Kuznetsova won the next four games to lead 4-2, only for a gutsy Cibulkova to roar back with four straight games of her own to clinch a place in the final. | Debutante Dominika Cibulkova will meet world number one Angelique Kerber in Sunday's final at the WTA Finals in Singapore. | 37809638 | [
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A shot by Kyle McAusland pulled Alloa back into the game before half-time.
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The woman had been driving east towards Newmarket on the westbound carriageway before being stopped at junction 27.
She stopped in front of the police car with inches to spare.
Simon Newton reports. | An 81-year-old motorist driving the wrong way along the A14 at 50mph was stopped by police who put their car in the way of her vehicle. | 26131962 | [
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Ricciardo and Vettel are respectively 60 and 117 points behind leader Lewis Hamilton with 150 still available.
Red Bull team principal Christian Horner said their title hopes were a "long shot" but Mercedes' reliability problems gave them a chance.
"Due to their shocking reliability, hopefully we can keep ourselves in the championship," he said.
Although reigning champion Vettel is almost completely out of the reckoning and has only a mathematical chance, Horner says it is too early for Red Bull to consider team orders to aid Ricciardo's challenge.
Vettel finished second to Hamilton in Singapore on Sunday with Ricciardo third while Nico Rosberg retired with an electrical failure.
"Mercedes have an enormous advantage at this point," Horner said. "We'll take it one race at a time. Both of them are still just in it and both have taken a chunk of points out of Nico.
"Daniel, OK he's conceded three points to Seb but is that going to make the difference? Impossible to say with a crystal ball at this stage but at the moment it doesn't make sense to interfere with team orders.
"Daniel is totally comfortable and happy with that.
"If there was a realistic chance of Daniel winning and Sebastian was mathematically out of the championship, then we'd do the best we can for the team but the situation we're in at the moment is it's a long shot." | Red Bull insist Daniel Ricciardo and Sebastian Vettel are still in the fight for the drivers' championship. | 29319683 | [
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A Belgian security official working for the EU and three Malians also died in the attack.
One witness said an attacker shouted "God is Great" in Arabic ("Allahu Akbar"). It is the first attack of its kind in the capital.
It is not clear who carried out the attack, but al-Qaeda-linked Islamist militants have been fighting the army in northern Mali for a number of years.
France, the former colonial power in Mali, intervened two years ago to stop their advance south on Bamako.
French President Francois Hollande condemned the attack as "cowardly".
He spoke by phone to Malian counterpart Ibrahim Boubacar Keita and they "decided on common measures to strengthen security in Mali", the French presidency said.
Belgian Foreign Minister Didier Reynders called the attack a "cowardly act of terror".
La Terasse is popular among expats for its salsa evenings. You often see people there from the UN and EU mission that trains the Malian army.
When I arrived there about an hour after the attack, there was a white body bag on the floor. A dozen Malian police were at the scene, including an inspector who used tables and stools to cordon off the bar. A witness said the attackers had sped off in a vehicle and on a motorbike and that one had shouted "Allahu Akbar".
If confirmed as the work of Islamist fundamentalists, this would be the first such attack in Bamako. But locals have long feared it might happen.
Many think the UN and the French and Malian militaries have been complacent to believe the danger is limited to Mali's north. There is very little security in Bamako apart from around foreign embassies and the UN mission.
European Council President Donald Tusk said the EU would "not be intimidated by terrorism, at home or abroad".
The attack happened shortly after midnight. Witnesses and officials said the attackers had killed the Belgian and Malian victims near the bar.
Our reporter says French soldiers arrived quickly afterwards on the first-floor nightclub on Saturday.
They confirmed that a man killed at the bar, in the Hippodrome area of the capital popular with expatriates, was a French national. The French foreign ministry later named him as 30-year-old Fabien Guyomard, who French media said was in Mali working for a private company.
One of the Malian victims is believed to have been a police officer, and another a security guard, our correspondent says.
Militancy in Mali:
A witness told the BBC he had seen four men flee the scene in a vehicle and one on a motorbike.
UN officials said an early report that a third European had been killed was incorrect.
Nine people were wounded in the attack, officials said. They reportedly include three Swiss citizens, two of whom were soldiers working at the UN mission, according to the Swiss defence ministry.
It has also emerged two people detained by police after the killings on Saturday were not involved.
France has troops based in the Sahel region of northern Africa in an effort to stop the emergence of jihadist groups.
This follows their intervention in Mali in January 2013, after various Islamist militant groups managed to take over most of northern Mali in 2012.
The militants were eventually expelled from towns across the north, but both nomadic Tuareg rebels and other Islamist militant groups have remained active in the vast desert region.
Peace talks with Tuareg rebels ended inconclusively in Algiers last week.
Northern Mali has been a flashpoint of conflict since Mali's independence from French rule in 1960, with Tuareg rebels campaigning for independence or more autonomy.
The conflict has become more complex with the emergence of jihadi groups, which roam freely across parts of the Sahara desert. | Five people have been killed in a machine-gun and grenade attack on a bar in Mali's capital, Bamako. | 31775679 | [
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The court heard he was inspired by the murder of Fusilier Lee Rigby and used the internet to research cadet bases.
He converted to Islam in 2014 and became radicalised. Months later he was arrested in east London in a possession of a 12in knife and a hammer.
Ziamani, who was 18 when held on the street in August last year as part of a joint police and MI5 intelligence operation, also had a black "Islamic flag" in his bag.
Police say he visited his former girlfriend earlier that day, when he showed her his weapons and told her he intended to attack and kill soldiers.
The trial heard he told her Michael Adebolajo - one of the men who murdered Fusilier Rigby in Woolwich, south-east London a year earlier - was a "legend".
In his sentencing remarks, Judge Timothy Pontius told Ziamani: "A realistic and sensible assessment of the whole of the evidence leads inescapably to the conclusion that this defendant, had he not, by sheer good fortune, been spotted and stopped by the police on the street in east London, would have carried out the intention he had so graphically expressed to his ex-girlfriend just a few hours before."
He said Ziamani would have to serve at least two-thirds of his sentence before being eligible for parole, adding that he would extend the time he would spend on licence after his release by five years.
Ziamani was born in London to Congolese parents and went to school in Peckham. His mother worked as a nursery nurse and his father was a psychiatric nurse.
The defendant told the court that his parents, who are Jehovah's Witnesses, had found out he was a Muslim only when they had seen pictures of friends in Islamic clothes on his mobile phone.
During the trial, jurors heard how Ziamani had fallen in with members of the extremist organisation al-Muhajiroun, after he was "kicked out" of his home after converting to Islam.
Police say the group played a "major role in influencing and shaping his radical views" and he attended their demonstrations.
The jury heard Mr Ziamani also put posts on Facebook supporting Sharia law and stating he was "willing to die in the cause of Allah".
It was told Ziamani had been arrested in June last year on an unrelated matter and police found a ripped-up letter to his parents in his jeans pocket, in which he had written about mounting an attack on a British soldier.
In the letter Ziamani stated because he had no means of getting out to Iraq or Syria he would wage war against the British government on UK soil.
He was bailed, but refused to engage with officers from the government's anti-radicalisation programme, Prevent.
Ziamani's lawyer, Naeem Mian, said his client was not an "entrenched extremist" but a young man who while destitute had been groomed by people who were "more sophisticated and mature" than him.
"It is worrying to say the least that those who groomed him are able to groom and radicalise a young man in such a short period of time," he said.
"On any view it is a tragic case because this young man will spend a long time in custody after which he will inevitably be unemployable. His foolish, naive acts have resulted in him throwing his life away at his tender age. He has nothing to look forward to now."
When Ziamani was convicted last month, Commander Richard Walton of the Counter Terrorism Command described him as an "impressionable young man who became radicalised then rapidly developed an extremist, violent mindset".
After the sentencing, Deb Walsh, deputy head of counter terrorism at the Crown Prosecution Service, said: "This case highlights how violent and extreme views on a page can become credible threats to the lives and safety of British citizens." | A teenager who planned to behead a British soldier has been jailed for 22 years by a judge at the Old Bailey. | 31987242 | [
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Bissouma penned a professional deal with the northern club only in July 2016, four months after joining the reserves from AS Real Bamako.
The 20-year-old, whose previous deal ran until June 2019, says he is very happy at Stade Pierre-Mauroy.
"In football, when you put in the work you always get rewarded," Bissouma told the club's website.
"I still have a lot of progress to make. I want to give myself every chance of doing that and fulfilling my objectives.
"The first is to keep the club in Ligue 1, and then I would also like to win a trophy with Lille."
Bissouma has scored once in 17 appearances for the club since making his debut against Toulouse in September 2016. | Mali international midfielder Yves Bissouma has signed a new contract to stay with French club Lille until 2021. | 39206956 | [
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Clapham said his position had become "untenable" following criticism in the media and on social media.
The decision followed on from the news that three directors, including Shrouder, would step aside in June.
Director Nigel Allen will take on the chairmanship on an interim basis while new investors are sought.
Clapham added: "(Directors) Nigel Allen and Liam Watson are considering their positions, Nigel has agreed to act as Interim Chairman until the 30 June 2017 during which time the board will seek a meeting with the Trust in Yellow Board to establish their views for the future as the call for change has come from them following the Open Meeting.
"The board will urgently seek to establish any level of interest in bringing in investors who may wish to take a controlling interest in the ownership of the club."
After their relegation from the National League was confirmed following defeat by Dover Athletic, Southport beat promotion-chasing Forest Green Rovers - only their third win of 2017. | Southport chairman Charlie Clapham has stood down with immediate effect, along with vice-chairman Sam Shrouder following National League relegation. | 39667438 | [
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Returning officers were ordered to physically deliver paper copies of their constituency's tallies to the counting centre in the capital.
Election officials have urged patience.
Uhuru Kenyatta, who faces trial at the International Criminal Court, has been leading in early presidential results declared from Monday's tightly contested election.
He is due to stand trial at The Hague next month for allegedly fuelling violence after the disputed 2007 election. He denies the charge.
His closest rival is outgoing Prime Minister Raila Odinga.
With provisional results in from more than 40% of polling stations earlier on Wednesday, Mr Odinga had 42% of the vote compared with Mr Kenyatta's 53%.
However, Mr Odinga's allies remain confident that he will gain ground as results from his strongholds, including the Coast Province, are declared.
More than 1,000 people were killed in the violence which broke out in 2007-08 after Mr Odinga claimed he had been cheated of victory by supporters of President Mwai Kibaki, who is stepping down after two terms in office.
The BBC's Solomon Mugera in the capital, Nairobi, says Kenyans are becoming increasingly anxious about the delay in finalising the results.
Some businesses and schools across the country have remained shut since Monday's election, he says.
This has led to a shortage of goods, pushing up the prices of basic foodstuff in areas such as Kibera, the biggest slum in Nairobi and a stronghold of Mr Odinga, our correspondent adds.
Uhuru Kenyatta
Raila Odinga
Profile: Uhuru Kenyatta
Profile: Raila Odinga
Some electoral officials have had to drive hundreds of kilometres to the counting centre in Nairobi to deliver paper copies of the tally of their returns.
At about 13:00 local time, returning officers from only 53 of the 290 constituencies had arrived and the election commission said it would announce results from constituencies as they were ready.
Its website had stopped giving updated results from the presidential race on Wednesday, and was still showing figures from Tuesday night.
Our correspondent says the large number of spoiled ballots - about 6% of the total vote, well over double the number of votes cast for the third-placed candidate, Musailia Mudavadi - has become a major bone of contention.
Mr Odinga's Coalition of Reforms and Democracy (Cord) wants them to be counted, but Mr Kenyatta's Jubilee Coalition is resisting this.
Late on Tuesday, the election commission announced that the spoiled ballots would count in the overall vote total, increasing the likelihood of a run-off between the top two candidates, news agencies report.
Mr Kenyatta's running mate William Ruto, who is also facing a trial at the ICC, said foreign embassies may have influenced such a decision.
"We want to believe that this is not an attempt to deny the Jubilee Coalition a first-round victory as is clearly now on the wall," he is quoted by Reuters news agency as saying.
But the election commission now says a decision on what to do about the spoiled ballots will be taken after all other votes are counted, our correspondent reports.
If no agreement is reached, one of the presidential candidates is bound to mount a legal challenge, he says.
As there are different types of spoiled ballots, a possible compromise would be to include those that were annulled simply because they had been put in the wrong box - for instance, in the parliamentary box rather the presidential box - while excluding a ballot paper on which a person had voted for two candidates, our reporter says.
In the run-up to the election, the European Union (EU) said it would only have limited contact with a president who faced trial at the ICC, while US Assistant Secretary of State Johnnie Carson warned Kenyan voters that "choices have consequences".
The winning candidate must get more than 50% of the total votes cast and at least 25% of votes in half of the 47 counties.
If there is no clear winner, a second round of voting will take place, probably on 11 April.
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On board were 200 men and women from the United States intent on building a colony on the Caribbean island.
They hoped that if enough of their fellow nationals followed their lead, eventually Cuba would be annexed by the US.
Local folklore has it that after days fighting a path through the swamp, the early settlers were so happy to reach somewhere that was not knee-deep in mud or thick with swarms of mosquitoes that they proclaimed it to be "the glory".
La Gloria City was born.
In fact, they had been sold a lie.
They had bought plots of land in a town that existed only in the blueprints of the Cuba Land and Steamship Company of New York.
Upon realising the deception, many cut their losses and went home.
The hardy ones stayed on and became citrus farmers, sugarcane growers and cattle farmers.
The sweltering humidity is still the same as in those days.
But all that remains of those early 20th Century pioneers today are the gravestones in the local cemetery.
They include a store owner called William Stokes, who was just a baby when his parents chose to make the trip to Cuba.
He married, raised a family and stayed in the sleepy community for the rest of his life, even after his children left and his business went broke.
By the time of his death in 1974, Mr Stokes was the only original US settler still on the island, earning him the title of "the last North American in Cuba".
"It's important to me to maintain this place," says gravedigger Jorge Gallardo as he leads me to the grave of Willy Stokes, as he calls him.
Mr Gallardo has spent a year hacking back the encroaching vegetation from the cemetery.
"This is our eternal home - for me and my children, and for our North American founders," he explains.
One of La Gloria's oldest residents remembers when it was more of an American than a Cuban town.
Now in her late 80s, Jeanny Martinez was fostered by William Stokes' parents and still speaks near-flawless English.
"La Gloria was all American. Beautiful, American houses. The Methodist church was there and the Episcopal one was over there," she says pointing from the porch of her small tin-and-timber home.
Like many Cubans of her generation, Ms Martinez speaks of her youth before the 1959 revolution with a mixture of romanticism and nostalgia.
"I have to defend the Americans because lots of people were hungry and they gave them work and food in the orange and tangerine groves," she says.
"Now La Gloria is not good for anything."
That is not a view shared by those working at the local farming cooperative named after revolutionary hero Camilo Cienfuegos.
Under more relaxed rules on agricultural production in Cuba, the cooperative has begun to grow a wider range of goods on land that previously lay idle.
"Yucca, bananas, avocados, squashes, tomatoes...,"Elida Diaz lists the things which grow on the land she farms with her family.
Ms Diaz disputes the idea that the town has stagnated over the years saying that the region has developed significantly.
"When I arrived here aged 20, there was no electricity, nothing," she recalls.
"Today we have public transport, we're on the electrical grid, we have refrigeration units. It's been a complete change."
But in the field behind her, the men are mostly using the same tools as the settlers did: hoes, machetes, their bare hands.
A loyal revolutionary, Ms Diaz is reluctant to voice criticism but admits that more is needed if the remote community is to prosper and move into the 21st Century.
A water shortage is causing severe problems throughout Camaguey province and monthly incomes for rural workers are far from stable.
"A new tractor would let us work the land better, new tools, boots for the workers, tractor tyres, spare parts, fuel…" she says, warming to her theme.
But she is quick to identify Washington and its decades-old trade embargo as the source of the problem.
"The first thing that the Americans must do is lift the embargo on us. Then we could supply them with our citrus and they could send us the products we need. That would be wonderful."
In 1932 a huge hurricane swept through Camaguey devastating the citrus and sugar crops and destroying the dreams of the thousand or so colonists in La Gloria City.
Most sold up and left.
Among the wreckage was the town's Protestant church.
More than 80 years later, the groundwork for a new one is only now getting underway.
Built on the original site with funding from Jacksonville, Florida, churchgoers in La Gloria see it as a fitting legacy to this uniquely American corner of the Cuban countryside. | On 4th January 1900, not even two years after Cuba had finally wrested itself from Spain's colonial grip, the steamer Yarmouth came over the horizon off the coast of Nuevitas, on Cuba's northern shore. | 33330432 | [
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Next was found to have used a tax avoidance scheme called a rate-booster.
The court ruled Next diverted UK profits to foreign subsidiaries to claim tax relief on overseas profits.
Such schemes are a way in which firms avoid corporation tax on foreign profits that are then paid back to the UK parent firm.
Under rules designed to prevent double taxation of company profits, firms were able to claim credit for tax paid on money they made overseas.
But some companies were able to exploit the rules through the creation of artificial arrangements involving what HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) referred to as "complex circular movements of money between companies in the same group, so they can claim there has been double taxation".
Known as rate-booster schemes, this enabled companies to avoid corporation tax by diverting profits made in the UK to foreign subsidiaries.
The foreign subsidiary then paid tax on those profits - often at a lower rate of corporation tax - before the profits were paid back to the UK parent company.
Finally, the UK parent company received credits from HMRC for the tax already paid by its subsidiary.
As a result, companies were able to claim far more tax had been paid on their overseas profits than was actually the case.
Legal changes in 2005 and 2009 mean rate-booster schemes are no longer possible or attractive, HMRC added.
The Next case is the second to reach court, following a 2013 ruling against P&O Ferries, although the firm appealed against the decision and an appeal judgement is outstanding.
HMRC said about £130m in tax was at stake across 20 rate-booster cases, which were awaiting the P&O and Next decisions.
About 70 rate-boosters have already been conceded by companies that wanted to avoid going to court. This has brought in more than £500m in tax, it added.
HMRC's director general of business tax, Jim Harra, said: "This case shows how HMRC takes effective action against big businesses that try to avoid paying tax through convoluted, artificial avoidance schemes. HMRC expects all businesses to steer well clear of such schemes."
In a statement, Next said it had paid the tax owed to HMRC "some years ago" and that this had been fully accounted for at the time.
The retailer described the dispute between itself and HMRC as "a technical debate around complex legislation" which had now been superseded. It added that current UK law generally allowed companies to "repatriate their profits without a tax charge". | High Street retailer Next has been hit with a £22.4m tax bill after a court found it diverted profits made in the UK offshore to avoid paying tax. | 32798693 | [
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The Commons opposed proposals to allow councils to extend opening hours by 317 votes to 286, as 27 Tories rebelled.
Ministers had sought to limit the rebellion by promising to trial the changes in 12 areas but said afterwards they would respect MPs' views.
Critics of the plans said they would "chip away" at Sunday's special status and put undue pressure on workers.
It is the Conservative government's second defeat in the House of Commons since it was elected last May.
The government had hoped to relax existing restrictions on Sunday trading, which limit large shops to opening for a maximum of six hours, by devolving responsibility to local councils. But their plans were thwarted by an unlikely alliance of Labour, the SNP and Conservative backbenchers.
List of Conservative MPs who voted against the government
Before the vote, ministers indicated they would seek to amend their proposals in the House of Lords if MPs approved them in principle. But while blaming the SNP for the defeat, ministers conceded afterwards the plans would not be resurrected.
"We respect the view of the House of Parliament. The Commons has spoken and given a very clear view - we have to absolutely respect that," said the planning minister Brandon Lewis.
In the biggest proposed shake-up for 20 years, ministers wanted to give the 353 councils in England and 22 in Wales the freedom to determine opening hours for large shops in their area.
During a three-hour debate, a succession of Conservative MPs spoke out against the changes - first announced by Mr Osborne in last year's Budget - and the way they were being introduced.
Analysis by the BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg
The reason the government lost by such a margin was not just because of staunch opposition from the Labour Party with its 'Keep Sunday Special' campaign, or the principled opposition from many Tory MPs who believe fervently that Sundays are indeed special and should be protected.
The government also lost because the SNP objected to their plans, even though in Scotland shops have opened for longer on Sundays for many years.
It is an embarrassing defeat for the government and particularly George Osborne, who must deliver the Budget a week today. But the SNP's involvement could have a longer term impact. Read more from Laura
Sir Gerald Howarth said the late offer of concessions had been "shambolic" and looked like they had been "delivered by lastminute.com" while Stewart Jackson said the "dead hand" of the Treasury was responsible for an "egregious and unnecessary confrontation" with Tory backbenchers.
Conservative MP David Burrowes, who tabled the successful rebel amendment, said the government had not made the economic case for such sweeping changes, which he said were opposed by businesses of all sizes, shop workers and faith groups.
Speaking after the vote, he told BBC News of his "relief", adding: "The main thing out there is relief for shop workers, families and businesses who will really be pleased today."
Labour said the government's approach had been "tawdry" and the House of Commons had spoken clearly on the "contentious issue".
The Federation of Small Businesses said the outcome was a "major win" for its members.
"Our members have been unconvinced of the economic case for relaxing Sunday trading rules and there has been no impact assessment to support the proposals," said the group's policy director, Mike Cherry.
"The current system can be seen as a great British compromise which allows families to spend time together, employees to work if they wish to, and provides much needed support for smaller retailers within their communities."
The proposed changes were not covered by new English Votes for English Laws provisions, which require the explicit consent of English and Welsh MPs for measures exclusively affecting them, because other parts of the Enterprise Bill apply to Scotland. | Plans to overhaul Sunday trading laws in England and Wales have been dropped after they were rejected by MPs. | 35768674 | [
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Out of work for half a year, Liisa, 26 and from Helsinki, has been looking for a job without success.
"While I'm unemployed I will only get €36 more per month with the basic income. I've always been positive about the idea, though, so it was nice to be one of those who were chosen."
Basic income has frequently been suggested as a way of cutting welfare bureaucracy as well as poverty.
But one of the main reasons why Finland's social insurance agency Kela is trying out the monthly tax-free payment of €560 (£490; $600) is to see whether providing a basic income will make the unemployed more eager to go into short-term jobs.
Finland has some 213,000 unemployed, a higher rate than its Nordic neighbours, and a working population of 2,413,000. Short-term contracts here have steadily become a key feature of Finland's labour market.
€560
Monthly income for two years
€20m Cost to government
8.1% Unemployment rate
5,503,347 Finnish population
The benefit system in many cases provides people with little incentive to go into low-income jobs because welfare is generally cut back if you start earning.
"Every single euro that a person earns diminishes his or her social benefits," says Olli Kangas, head of society relations at Kela.
"In some cases an unemployed person is afraid of losing their benefits in the future, if he or she receives a temporary employment."
The idea behind the basic income experiment is that any earnings would be a supplement; €560 a month may not sound much but it is a start.
"The government wants to see if it's possible to eliminate at least the worst disincentives to work," says Mr Kangas.
Randomly selected from Finland's unemployed, the 2,000 taking part in the experiment were all receiving the lowest rate of unemployment benefit. After tax, it was little different from the €560 they now receive monthly in basic income.
The difference is that they will receive it without filling in a form and irrespective of whether they get a job or not over the next two years.
For Liisa Ronkainen, already looking for work for several months, it is certainly an attractive idea.
"Now that I will get a salary in addition to the basic income I might try even harder," she suggests.
And there was a similar message from another of the participants, Juha Jarvinen, who has been out of work for five years but now hopes to start a new business. "For my part, the basic income will mean I can escape enslavement and feel that I am a functioning citizen again," he told Finnish public broadcaster YLE.
The trial has aroused interest worldwide, because it will answer the burning questions about how people out of work will respond to the idea of a basic income.
Some might decide to acquire more education or change their career, to make themselves more attractive to the labour market. Others might seek to start a business.
But there is always the chance that it could be used as an excuse to take it easy and work as little as possible.
None of those chosen was given a chance to say no, so the outcome of the project will not be slanted. And no-one will receive less money than before.
As for cutting red tape, the prime objective behind the pilot, there will be a partial improvement for those taking part.
Most of those involved receive additional social benefits in the form of housing benefit or a higher unemployment benefit because they have children. The form procedure to get these will remain unchanged during the experiment.
But for Finnish authorities bureaucracy will diminish considerably. If any of the 2,000 start studying, get a job or lose a job or even develop a long-term illness, they will not have to pass the information on. Their basic income will not change.
As the experiment takes hold, researchers will watch how the chosen group fare in comparison with the rest of the country's unemployed.
They have already suggested expanding the experiment, either to increase the number of unemployed people taking part or to widen it to other groups in society.
The Finnish centre-right government of Prime Minister Juha Sipila has provided €20m to the project and the research group says most of the money will remain untouched until the start of 2018.
"This is just a start," says Olli Kangas. "In 2018 we would like to start something better."
As for the cost of the experiment, that depends on how many of the 2,000 will find work.
The basic income will initially be covered by the money that would have been paid out in unemployment benefit anyway. Costs will only start to build up when people get a job. | "I was so surprised when I got the letter, and a bit sceptical too," says Liisa Ronkainen, one of 2,000 Finns chosen for a government experiment to provide unemployed people with a basic income. | 38593513 | [
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Strathspey Steam Railway needs a crossing on the River Dulnain so it can offer journeys between Aviemore and Grantown-on-Spey.
The group runs locomotives along 10 miles (16km) of line between Aviemore and Broomhill.
It needs three more miles of track (4.8km) to link up with Grantown. | Railway enthusiasts have hired a powerful crane to lift the lower sections of a new bridge into place across a river in the Highlands. | 26191444 | [
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Members of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta from more than 100 countries marched five abreast into Saint Peter's Basilica on a cold winter's day under a cloudless sky, squinting in the bright sunlight.
The knights were hatless, but wore long black woollen cloaks with the distinctive eight-pointed white cross of their order embroidered in front.
The dames (about 30% of the members are now women), wearing similar robes and coiffed with black mantillas, followed behind.
The procession, including aid workers and volunteers bringing up the rear, took more than half an hour to wind around the basilica, into the square and up the steps into Saint Peter's.
At the high altar Pope Benedict's number two, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, led a special Mass to celebrate the 900th anniversary of the founding of the order by Brother Gerard, a Benedictine monk who opened a hospital for sick and poor pilgrims in Jerusalem at the time of the Crusades.
In 1113 Pope Paschal II formally recognised the independence of the Knights with a Papal bull, the original of which is still held in Malta's National Archives.
The Knights have had a long history of displacement around the Mediterranean.
After being evicted from Jerusalem by Saladin towards the end of the 12th Century, they set up a new headquarters in Cyprus, and subsequently on the island of Rhodes where they created an independent state.
During the Middle Ages they were more warriors than hospitallers. For two centuries they were the masters of Malta but they were again evicted, this time by Napoleon who occupied the island on his way to Egypt.
They finally settled in Rome in 1834, where they continue to enjoy many of the privileges of statehood, such as the power to appoint and receive ambassadors, print stamps, and issue passports, without actually having a real state to govern.
Today the Knights are a unique sovereign entity in that they rule over no territory except a palace in one of Rome's smartest shopping districts, a church and an elegant villa overlooking the city.
They have observer status at the United Nations, just like the Vatican, and Pope Benedict is a member of the monastic order, having joined 15 years ago.
He gave his blessing to the knights at the end of the Vatican Mass urging them to continue their work for the world's neediest people.
He reminded them that they are not practising "mere philanthropy" but must always stay true to the order's original Christian ideals, and to Church teaching.
The order's international headquarters is in a palace situated in Rome's Via Condotti, a short distance from the Spanish Steps. High fashion boutiques nearby offer neat handbags for sale at prices ranging up to $3,000.
The atmosphere inside reminded me of an Oxbridge College or a London Club. Inside the porter's lodge there are cubby holes for letters addressed to His Highness, the Grand Master - who is British - and to senior officials.
Matthew Festing is an expert on 17th Century European painting. He used to run the Northern England office of the auction house Sotheby's before being elected for life five years ago to become the leader of the Knights of Malta.
He now enjoys the title of prince, and holds the equivalent rank of a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
Sitting in his cosy private apartment decorated with gold brocade wall coverings, fine antique furniture and paintings, he explained to me how the Knights are changing.
"The fact that we are called Knights is a function of the past really," he said. "We were originally recruited from the aristocratic families of Europe."
The order has now become a worldwide organisation, and it tries to attract the most talented people from many areas outside Europe.
"We have a very different makeup from what we did perhaps 50 years or 500 years ago, but fundamentally the talents we are trying to attract for our members are the same," Mr Festing said. | Four thousand Knights of Malta, heirs to one of the great orders of European chivalry of mediaeval times, and the fourth oldest religious order in the Roman Catholic Church, took over the Vatican briefly on Saturday. | 21396696 | [
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Daniel Filmus, Argentina's minister for the islands - called the Malvinas locally - announced the case in London.
The companies involved are Falkland Oil and Gas, Premier Oil, Rockhopper, Edison International and Noble Energy.
Mr Filmus told the BBC the companies were "performing illegal acts by entering Argentine territory".
He added: "I want to make it clear for the directors of these companies and for British public opinion that Argentina will use the full force of the law - both national and international law - to prevent these countries from taking the riches which belong to 40 million Argentine citizens.
"Argentina has extradition treaties around the world and we intend to use them."
He added that the area being drilled was "as much ours as the centre of Buenos Aires. Neither the UK nor any other country would allow anyone to enter their territory and take away their riches."
In response, UK Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond accused the Argentines of "outrageous bullying".
He said the islanders had a "perfect right to develop their own economic resources and Argentina needs to stop this kind of behaviour and start acting like a responsible member of the international community".
The Falklands Islands government also said the Argentines had no case.
"We have the right to develop our economy, including the hydrocarbons industry, and we are exercising that right," it said.
"It is worth remembering that it was the government of Argentina who walked away from working with the Falkland Islands on the development of a hydrocarbons industry some years ago.
"Argentine domestic law does not apply to the Falkland Islands and this latest action is clearly another attempt by Argentina to try to block economic growth in the Falkland Islands."
Analysts suggested Argentina would have little joy in the courts.
"The Argentines will lose," Malcolm Bracken at Redmayne Bentley told the BBC. "They have no jurisdiction - the UN settled the matter in 1982."
In fact, he said the country's current position would prove counterproductive.
"All they're doing is handing any possible benefit that Argentina may have had from the oil boom in the south Atlantic to Chile.
"There'd be an awful lot of logistic support needed for drilling that simply isn't available in the Falklands. They'd need a port somewhere and that's likely to be near Chile rather than Argentina, so they're cutting their own nose off to spite their face."
Earlier this month, Argentine foreign ministry officials said they would prosecute oil companies operating near the Falkland Islands. The officials said companies active there were operating illegally in Argentine territory.
This came after the three British oil companies announced new oil and gas finds north of the islands, and as Argentina marked the 33rd anniversary of the war with the UK over the islands.
Tensions between the UK and Argentina were already running high after the UK announced it would spend £280m over the next 10 years on improving defences on the islands. | Argentina has begun legal proceedings against three British and two US companies for drilling oil near the Falkland Islands. | 32354222 | [
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During a turbulent five-month period, the 32-year-old retired from one-day international cricket but starred in Tests, before becoming upset by a Twitter parody account.
He later reversed his limited-overs decision but was then dropped entirely over "provocative texts" about team-mates.
Here, BBC Sport charts every twist and turn of the saga that ended on Wednesday, when it was announced the batsman is to undergo a "re-integration" period before his expected return to action.
Test record: 88 matches, 151 innings, 7,076 runs, highest score 227, average 49.48, 27 fifties, 21 centuries
ODI record: 127 matches, 116 innings, 4,184 runs, highest score 130, average 41.84, 23 fifties, nine centuries
T20 international record: 36 matches, 36 innings, 1,176 runs, highest score 79, average 37.93, seven fifties
Discontent first emerged in May when Pietersen announced his decision to retire from ODI internationals, despite scoring hundreds in each of his last two innings.
He cited the "intensity of the international schedule and the increasing demands on my body".
The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) insisted he also had to retire from International Twenty20 cricket, too, in accordance with their rules.
Pietersen announced he would concentrate solely on Tests, but said: "For the record, were the selection criteria not in place, I would have readily played for England in the upcoming ICC World Twenty20."
In early August, Pietersen scored 149 against South Africa in the second Test at Headingley, claiming he was in the "best form of my life".
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But he then made outspoken comments at a news conference suggesting the final Test at Lord's could well be his last for England.
Pietersen was also understood to be angry at a Twitter parody account that mocked him, especially as some members of the squad followed and engaged with it.
At the news conference, he said: "I love playing Test cricket, but there are obstacles and I'll decide what happens at the end of the next Test."
Ex-England captain Alec Stewart said: "It's important to stress no player, however good, is bigger than the team and no-one is irreplaceable."
The dispute escalated following claims Pietersen sent text messages to South Africans AB de Villiers and Dale Steyn during the Headingley match that allegedly criticised England captain Andrew Strauss.
But Pietersen took the cricket world by surprise on 11 August by reversing his decision to quit limited-overs cricket in a video interview with his management company.
The interview was posted on video-sharing website YouTube on the eve of the squad announcement for the final Test.
In it, Pietersen said: "I'm not going anywhere. I want to make myself available for selection for every single form of cricket for England. I love winning for England. I can't wait to play in Straussy's 100th Test next week."
But former England captain Geoffrey Boycott said: "When you have said something that is not nice about the captain of England, you have to front up face to face."
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On 12 August, Pietersen was dropped from the final-Test squad after the ECB said he had failed to provide assurances he had not sent derogatory text messages.
Pietersen, who claimed the texts were "provocative but meant as banter", said: "To say I am gutted is an understatement."
Morris said: "In the best interests of the team, he will miss the Lord's Test.
"Confirmation he has not sent derogatory texts has not been forthcoming despite timelines being set."
Three days later, on the eve of the Lord's Test, Pietersen apologised for the texts. "I truly didn't mean to cause upset or tension, particularly with important games at stake," he said.
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"I apologise to Straussy and the team for the inappropriate remarks at the press conference and for the texts."
Despite the apology, Strauss described Pietersen's place in the side for the third Test against South Africa as "untenable."
Former Australian international Shane Warne had a simple solution: "'Strauss and Pietersen could have gone down the pub and had a beer.
"If they'd punched the absolute whatever out of each other to sort it out, so be it."
In late August, from professional cricket, with one-day captain Alastair Cook taking over as Test skipper.
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Strauss denied the Pietersen saga had affected his decision and later revealed he had received a personal apology.
Strauss said: "I first spoke to Andy Flower about it prior to the Kevin Pietersen incident rearing its head. It just hasn't been a consideration.
"We had a good chat and Kevin apologised to me, which was great. I will have no problems meeting up with Kevin and having a beer with him, definitely."
September saw a softening in the attitude towards Pietersen, with negotiations to get him back gathering pace, but the batsman was still left out of the squads for the limited-overs matches with South Africa, the World Twenty20 and the tour of India.
Instead, he worked as a TV pundit at the World Twenty20, allowing him time to meet with representatives of the ECB.
England coach Andy Flower admitted they missed Pietersen's presence in Sri Lanka, while Cook added: "Time hopefully will be a healer and we will be able to move on, but the issues will have to be resolved."
On Wednesday, it was announced Pietersen had signed a fourth-month central contract, with a period of "re-integration" built in.
Pietersen and ECB bosses will hope that this finally draws a line under what had been a bitter and very public saga. | Kevin Pietersen described his dispute with England as a "horrible situation" after signing a new contract that should see him finally return to international duty. | 19811573 | [
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He said he wanted to act "in the best interests" of the university where he studied as an undergraduate.
The resignation comes after several of his Bill Cosby shows have been axed in the US.
The 77-year-old entertainer has been accused of sexually assaulting more than a dozen women.
The comedian has not directly addressed the accusations, but his lawyers have described them as "discredited" and "defamatory."
Mr Cosby said in a statement on Monday that he had "always been proud" of his association with Temple University, where he had been a trustee for over 30 years.
"The Board of Trustees accepts Dr Cosby's resignation from the board and thanks him for his service to the university,'' the university said in a statement.
More than a dozen women, including former supermodel Janice Dickinson, have come forward claiming that Mr Cosby drugged and sexually assaulted them.
Some of the accusations date back to 2005 and 2006.
A woman from Florida has also accused Mr Cosby of raping her backstage at a show in Las Vegas in 1976.
Mr Cosby has not been charged in connection with any of the allegations.
Several broadcasters have decided not to continue projects with Mr Cosby, including NBC and Netflix. | US comedian Bill Cosby has resigned from the board of trustees of Temple University in Philadelphia amid ongoing allegations of sexual assault. | 30285632 | [
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She had come prepared to own up to her mistakes, apologising to the gathered throng just as a few hours earlier she had apologised to the cabinet.
It had been her decision to call the election, and her leadership of the campaign that faltered and in what was described as the most human performance they had seen for quite some time, Theresa May said sorry, time and again.
"We saw the human being, not the Maybot"; "it was the first time in seven weeks she didn't say strong and stable"; more poignantly for the Tories MPs who commiserated with each other, "if she'd campaigned like that, we'd have won".
They were cheered, relieved perhaps, that she had, tonight, managed to pull it off, to show regret at the calamity her decision to go to the country had unleashed, relieved too that she rose to this particular occasion that seems likely to settle nerves enough to avoid the possibility of the party plunging into another leadership election and potentially therefore, another general election that they might lose.
The sense of immediate danger to her leadership has faded. But while her enemies are not breathing down her neck, they are still in the room.
One MP told me she wasn't asked any hard questions but deliberately took the time to take all of them, to show willing, "her strategy has been to take as many questions as exist".
It's like that episode of the West Wing where the Presidential Candidate Vinick was in deep trouble, so he took endless questions until the press finally got tired and went home - apologies if the American series isn't your thing, but it's an obsession of rather a lot of Westminster types.
While publicly it is tonight the done thing for Tories to be fulsomely on the record praising the prime minister, privately it's hard to find a single MP who believes that she will take the party into the next general election. PM survives first bout of battle for control
It is, however, also very hard to find a single MP who wants to unleash even more potential chaos by triggering an election contest, let alone a general election.
But it's the circumstances, rather than newly discovered rapture, for the PM that have saved her.
One former cabinet minister told me "having a Tory prime minister is much more important than our own wound licking". Another minister told me in the medium term it is "hard to see how" the PM can stay.
Theresa May has survived the first bout of what will be a fight to stay in control. The election has redressed the balance, not just between the two main parties, but also between the Tory leader and her party.
And the PM knows it, most tellingly also saying to her MPs tonight, "I'll serve as long as you want me". Hardly a bold statement of a leader who feels they are in charge, but an acknowledgement that others will decide when their time is up. | In the slightly sweaty committee corridor outside the meeting of Tory MPs tonight, MPs were queuing to praise the prime minister. | 40254482 | [
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Mr Trump said Mr Mueller's friendship with James Comey, who had been heading the inquiry until sacked from his role as FBI chief, was "bothersome".
Asked on Fox News whether Mr Mueller should step down, Mr Trump said: "We're going to have to see."
However, Mr Trump did call Mr Mueller an "honourable man".
Mr Mueller was given the role of special counsel by the justice department to lead its investigation into alleged Russian interference after Mr Comey was sacked on 9 May.
Mr Mueller has not given any details of his investigation but US media have reported he is investigating Mr Trump for possible obstruction of justice, both in the firing of Mr Comey and whether Mr Trump tried to end an inquiry into sacked national security adviser Michael Flynn.
President Trump has repeatedly denied any collusion with Russia, calling it a "witch hunt".
He did so again in his interview with Fox & Friends on Friday, saying "there has been no obstruction. There has been no collusion."
He called the accusations of obstruction of justice "ridiculous".
Asked whether Mr Mueller should recuse himself from the inquiry because of his friendship with Mr Comey, Mr Trump said: "Well he's very, very good friends with Comey which is very bothersome. But he's also... we're going to have to see."
He also said that "the people that've been hired were all Hillary Clinton supporters".
When Mr Mueller was appointed Mr Trump was said to be furious, but the special counsel won widespread initial praise from both Republicans and Democrats.
However, lately some influential conservatives have intensified their attacks, openly calling for Mr Mueller's dismissal.
Trump advocate Newt Gingrich urged the president to "rethink" Mr Mueller's position, saying: "Republicans are delusional if they think the special counsel is going to be fair."
The New York Times has reported that Mr Trump has considered firing Mr Mueller but has so far been talked out of it by aides.
Ten days ago, White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said: "While the president has every right to" fire Mr Mueller "he has no intention to do so".
On Friday, her colleague Sean Spicer repeated there was "no intention" to dismiss Mr Mueller.
And in his Fox interview, Mr Trump said: "Robert Mueller is an honourable man and hopefully he'll come up with an honourable conclusion."
Earlier this month, Mr Comey testified to Congress that Mr Trump had pressured him to drop the investigation into Mr Flynn.
Mr Flynn was sacked in February for failing to reveal the extent of his contacts with Sergei Kislyak, the Russian ambassador to Washington.
Mr Comey testified he was "sure" Mr Mueller was looking at whether Mr Trump had obstructed justice.
US media said Mr Mueller was also examining whether Mr Comey's sacking was an attempt by the president to alter the course of the investigation.
On 16 June, Mr Trump sent out a tweet appearing to accept he was under investigation, although later his aides suggested that was not the intention.
On Thursday, Mr Trump also made it clear that he had not made secret recordings of his conversations with Mr Comey, despite an earlier hint to the contrary.
His tweet came a day before he was required by Congress to hand over any such tapes.
Mr Trump had kick-started speculation of the recordings in a tweet he posted days after firing Mr Comey, saying: "James Comey better hope there are no 'tapes' of our conversations."
Allegations of collusion between the Trump team and Russian officials during the election have dogged the president's first five months in office.
US investigators are looking into whether Russian cyber hackers targeted US electoral systems in order to help Mr Trump win - something Moscow has strongly denied.
Separately on Friday, a Washington Post article said the Obama administration had been made aware by sources within the Moscow government last August of President VladiÂmir Putin's direct involvement in the cyber campaign to disrupt the election.
The article said the administration debated a response for months before expelling 35 diplomats and closing two Russian compounds. Mr Obama had also approved planting cyber weapons in the Russian infrastructure, the article said, but the measure was not put into action. | President Donald Trump has questioned the neutrality of Robert Mueller, who is investigating Russian interference in last year's US election. | 40385833 | [
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David Haines was killed by so-called Islamic State fighters almost exactly one year ago, on 13 September 2014.
His brother Mike has been travelling the country spreading a message of religious tolerance and understanding.
He urged UK communities to "extend the hand of friendship" to those in need.
David Haines, who grew up in Perth, was abducted while working as an aid worker in Syria, and held hostage for 18 months before a video of his murder was posted online.
The 44-year-old father of two's brother Mike has since worked with charities, community groups and religious leaders across the country.
He said: "Right from the day David was taken, we were aware as a family that the chances of him coming out were not good.
"When he appeared in the video, we knew that it was going to end. I thought that day was the worst day of my life.
"It was devastating, it really was a terrible night.
"It's one of those things, you could either let it destroy you, or carry on."
Mr Haines has met the Pope and travelled to the Middle East as he continues his brother's work to spread messages of unity, tolerance and peace.
He said he had no hatred for young people radicalised by extremism, and said his brother's life "wasn't about hating".
He said: "Those poor youths, the girls and boys who get twisted into going out there and given a false reality, I have no hate for them.
"Those people who are behind it and planning it, it's a little bit different.
"There's a part of me, when I look back at the relationship that David and I had, that could hate.
"But my brother's life wasn't about hating. Rather than hate these people, let's bring love and compassion and tolerance and understanding to those people that they are affecting.
"They took my brother's life, but they are killing thousands of people in the most barbaric of ways. My brother is just one among many."
Mr Haines said the government and communities in the UK had a "duty" to extend the hand of friendship and help those in need in countries affected by extremism.
He said: "It is a measure of our humanity, how much humanity we show them. They are in real danger, and real need.
"For me, it's our duty that we do help. As communities, as cities, as councils, we all have a role to play.
"They will be coming into our communities, and what's more effective than what the British government does as an entity is the hand that we give to them in friendship."
Mr Haines is set to embark on a tour of Scotland as part of his campaign to counteract hatred and intolerance. | The brother of an aid worker murdered by extremist militants in Syria says he will not hate his killers, calling for compassion for those affected by conflict in the Middle East. | 34222148 | [
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Steven Walters, 48, pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual assault at Stafford Crown Court in September.
Chief Constable David Thompson said the case represented "one of the worst violations of policing integrity I've ever seen".
Walters was also found guilty of gross misconduct at a disciplinary hearing on Monday and dismissed from the force.
More on this and other stories from Birmingham and the Black Country
The crimes took place between February and April 2015.
Walters, who was based at Sutton Coldfield, approached a woman in her 20s, who he offered a lift home in his patrol car in the early hours.
After a colleague asked the woman "what she was doing at that time of night in that dress", Walters placed his hand on her thigh when she was in the car, leaving the victim feeling "creeped out".
In the second assault, the court heard he touched the victim under her skirt in her own home while her children were in other rooms.
He attempted to kiss her face and neck, and also asked to be taken to a bedroom.
Sentencing, Judge Paul Glenn said Walters had shown no remorse, adding: "The public are entitled to have faith in police officers and to trust them in the discharge of their powers and responsibilities.
"You exploited that trust and you have brought disgrace on yourself and indeed the force you served."
Derrick Campbell, from the Independent Police Complaints Commission, praised the victims for their "courage and bravery" in reporting his crimes.
"[Walters] completely abused his position of trust by targeting and taking advantage of vulnerable women for his own sexual gratification," he said. | A West Midlands police officer who admitted sexually assaulting two women has been jailed for four years. | 37553453 | [
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The announcement follows a series of drone crashes that made the company recall its much anticipated Karma aircraft.
In addition, the US company said its president, Anthony Bates, would quit his post at the end of the year after three years in the job.
GoPro said that consumer demand for its products remained "solid".
However, the company has posted a loss in each of its past four quarters.
At the start of this month it also revealed its cash reserves had fallen to $132m (£106m) - less than half the amount at the start of the year.
"I knew they were in trouble, but I didn't expect them to have such a dramatic fall from grace," Tom Morrod, director of consumer electronics at the IHS consultancy, told the BBC.
"The Karma drones were their recover strategy, and when they had to be recalled it faltered. This is the result.
"GoPro was struggling as an action cam specialist, which is why it needed an alternative market. The fact that the device was unsalable has damaged its prospects, at least temporarily."
The job cuts represent 15% of the California-based company's workforce.
The move reflects the fact that even if the fold-up Karma drone returns to sale, GoPro will probably have missed out on the Christmas shopping season.
It had sold about 2,500 of the drones in the 16 days they were on the market.
A problem with the machines caused a number of them to lose power mid-flight, causing them to fall uncontrolled out of the air.
One video of an accident showed the drone diving on to a beach on which people were walking.
There have been no reports of injuries. However, the company is being sued over claims it misled investors about demand for the product and took too long to alert the public to its power supply flaw.
Reviews for GoPro's new Hero 5 cameras have generally been positive. The new devices introduced voice control, electronic image stabilisation and built-in water resistance.
However, some technology blogs doubted whether the features were enough to convince existing owners to upgrade.
And the company faces increased competition from rival action cams and the improved quality of smartphone cameras, many of which now also offer protection against water.
As part of its cutbacks GoPro is also closing its entertainment division.
The operation was announced in July 2015 and offered owners thousands of dollars for videos they had filmed using its equipment.
In return it wanted the right to promote their content through its social media accounts.
It also sought to sell the rights to the material to advertising agencies and split the proceeds.
The company described it as a "no-brainer" for creative professionals at the time.
GoPro's shares were trading 2.5% up on the day by early afternoon in New York, but they remain down on their value at the start of the year. | Action camera-maker GoPro is cutting 200 jobs and shutting down some of its services. | 38161918 | [
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The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) said the reasons included a rise in the cost of pensioner benefits, and an increase in housing benefit spend.
It said Chancellor George Osborne could need to make more spending cuts "just to stay on track".
The Treasury said its plan was "securing a resilient economy".
The IFS said changes to benefits and tax credits had been expected to save £19bn compared with "a world of no policy change".
Explaining why spending had in fact reduced by £2.5bn in real terms, it said:
"All this has important fiscal consequences," said the report's author, Andrew Hood, adding that slow earnings growth could push up spending.
"Mr Osborne wants further cuts to social security spending to help reduce the deficit. He may end up having to make cuts just to stay on track."
The IFS study comes after Labour released figures it said showed the government had spent £25bn more on social security than the amount it had predicted in November 2010.
The party commissioned the House of Commons Library to compare forecasts made in the 2010 Autumn Statement with how much the coalition had spent since then and intends to spend this year.
Writing on the PoliticsHome website, shadow chancellor Ed Balls and shadow work and pensions secretary Rachel Reeves said savings from welfare cuts had been outweighed by a failure to tackle the causes of rising social security spending.
They wrote: "A key cause of the Tories' overspending is their failure to make the economy work for working people, leaving thousands more reliant on housing benefit."
But the Treasury rejected this analysis.
A spokesman said: "The government's long term economic plan is working, cutting the deficit by a third and already delivering over 70% of the £126bn consolidation set for this Parliament.
"At Budget 2013 we announced a cap on total welfare spending for 2015 to 2016 onwards, bringing over £100bn of spending under new controls.
"However, the impact of the great recession is still being felt in the economy and public finances, which is why we need to keep working through the plan that's securing a resilient economy."
Green Party leader Natalie Bennett pointed to a report from the London School of Economics and the University of Essex that said the poorest groups had lost the largest share of their incomes on average as a result of coalition government policies.
She said: "This report once again goes to prove that Osborne's ideologically-driven austerity economics are simply not working."
The Treasury said analysis of annual budget statements had shown the richest households were "making the biggest contribution to reducing the deficit". | Welfare spending over the course of this Parliament has fallen by just £2.5bn despite reforms aimed at saving £19bn, economic forecasters say. | 30085140 | [
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Robin Li was in the passenger seat when he made a video call to an artificial-intelligence developers conference in the Chinese capital.
But while autonomous vehicles are tipped as the future of motoring, they are banned from China's public roads.
Police began an investigation after the video went viral.
The footage shows another Baidu executive in the driver's seat, but with his hands off the steering wheel.
Mr Li reportedly told his audience the vehicle was on autopilot and that the journey was smooth.
Baidu, which has not commented on the incident, is one of many firms developing prototypes of self-driving vehicles that will use mapping and artificial intelligence technology.
At the conference, Baidu announced that it had built an alliance with 50 partners to develop and promote self-driving cars.
They include Ford, Daimler, five Chinese car manufacturers, mapping firm TomTom, and chipmakers Intel and Nvidia.
Baidu said it hoped to have autonomous cars on China's roads by 2019 - so long as the law allowed it - before expanding to other markets including the US.
Earlier this year Baidu also opened up its self-driving car codes to software developers via the 'Apollo' open-source platform in the hope it would spur innovation.
Two of its autonomous vehicles using Apollo version 1.0 were on display at the developers conference, the Wall Street Journal said.
Google parent company Alphabet, Ford and GM have also built and are among those testing self-driving cars. | The head of Chinese online search giant Baidu is being investigated, after riding in one of the firm's driverless cars on a Beijing ring-road. | 40515706 | [
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The 24-hour industrial action is part of an ongoing dispute over staffing and the role of conductors.
A strike planned for 4 April on Southern routes was moved to 8 April after the company offered fresh talks.
Merseyrail said coinciding a strike with the race meeting would damage Liverpool's reputation.
Speaking after its failed talks with the union on Monday, Merseyrail's managing director Jan Chaudhry-van der Velde said the strikes would "do immeasurable damage" as the "eyes of the world will be on Liverpool" during the Grand National.
RMT general secretary Mick Cash said the "cynical and hostile stance from Merseyrail" left the union "with no option but to put on this additional strike action".
He said the RMT "recognises the severe impact that the action will have" but asked the public "to understand that we have no option but to take this high-profile action to force the company back to the negotiating table".
Mr Chaudhry-van der Velde said the RMT "has sunk to a new low" by inflicting "a barefaced attack on the reputation of our region" on "one of its proudest and most important days of the year".
Merseyrail has "a range of contingency plans" which would "almost inevitably involve using buses to replace trains", he said.
Mr Cash called on Southern to "get out of the bunker and to start making some progress".
He said RMT members on Southern "have shown incredible strength and resilience throughout the past year" and "have been clear from the off that this is not a dispute about who opens the doors".
"It is a dispute about a safe method of operation and about the guarantee of that crucial, second safety-critical member of staff," he said.
A Southern spokesman said: "We have received no official confirmation from the RMT and will review our response when we do."
Richard Allan, deputy managing director of Arriva Rail North, said he was "surprised" at the move as "we had been in contact with their officials in the last 24 hours to organise further talks".
David Sidebottom, director of independent watchdog Transport Focus, said: "Yet more strikes are being dumped on passengers who may have to cancel plans or endure miserable journeys.
"It is vital that all parties in this dispute get back around the table to resolve this matter without bringing the railway to a standstill."
Up to 2,000 staff at Southern rail, Merseyrail and Northern rail walked out on 13 March in the ongoing dispute but only limited disruption was reported. | Workers on Southern, Merseyrail and Arriva Trains North are to hold fresh strikes on 8 April, the day of the Grand National, the RMT union has said. | 39339782 | [
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Turkey has reacted with anger to the comment made by the Pope at a service in Rome earlier on Sunday.
Armenia and many historians say up to 1.5 million Armenian Christians were killed by Ottoman forces in 1915.
But Turkey has always disputed that figure and said the deaths were part of a civil conflict triggered by WW1.
The row has continued to sour relations between Armenia and Turkey.
The Pope made the comments at a Mass in the Armenian Catholic rite at Peter's Basilica, attended by the Armenian president and church leaders.
He said that humanity had lived through "three massive and unprecedented tragedies" in the last century.
"The first, which is widely considered 'the first genocide of the 20th Century', struck your own Armenian people," he said, in a form of words used by a declaration by Pope John Paul II in 2001.
Pope Francis also referred to the crimes "perpetrated by Nazism and Stalinism" and said other genocides had followed in Cambodia, Rwanda, Burundi and Bosnia.
He said it was his duty to honour the memories of those who were killed.
"Concealing or denying evil is like allowing a wound to keep bleeding without bandaging it," the Pope added.
Armenia's President Serzh Sargsyan welcomed his comments, saying they sent a powerful message to the international community.
But Turkey immediately summoned the Vatican's ambassador to Ankara for an explanation, and then later recalled its ambassador from Rome.
The foreign ministry said it felt "great disappointment and sadness" at the Pope's remarks, which it said would cause a "problem of trust" between them.
Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu tweeted: "The Pope's statement, which is far from the legal and historical reality, cannot be accepted.
"Religious authorities are not the places to incite resentment and hatred with baseless allegations," he added.
Pope Francis, who visited Turkey last year, would have been perfectly conscious that he would offend the moderate Muslim country by his use of the word "genocide".
But the Pope's powerful phrase "concealing or denying evil is like allowing a wound to bleed without bandaging it" extended his condemnation to all other, more recent, mass killings.
It now remains to be seen how far his remarks will impact upon the Vatican's future relations with moderate Muslim states. It was a bold decision but totally coherent with Pope Francis' philosophy of open discussion about moral arguments.
Pope Francis' focus today on Armenia, the first country to adopt Christianity as its state religion, even before the conversion of the Roman Emperor Constantine, serves as yet another reminder of the Catholic Church's widely spread roots in Eastern Europe and the Middle East.
In 2014, for the first time, Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan offered condolences to the grandchildren of all the Armenians who lost their lives.
But he also said that it was inadmissible for Armenia to turn the issue "into a matter of political conflict".
Armenia says up to 1.5 million people died in 1915-16 as the Ottoman Empire was disintegrating. Turkey has said the number of deaths was much smaller.
Many of the victims were civilians deported en masse to barren desert regions where they died of starvation and thirst. Thousands also died in massacres.
Most non-Turkish scholars of the events regard them as genocide. Among the other states which formally recognise them as genocide are Argentina, Belgium, Canada, France, Italy, Russia and Uruguay.
Turkey maintains that many of the dead were killed in clashes during World War One, and that ethnic Turks also suffered in the conflict. | Turkey has recalled its envoy to the Vatican after Pope Francis described the mass killing of Armenians under Ottoman rule in WW1 as "genocide". | 32272604 | [
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Arscott, who spent four seasons at Bristol between 2006-2010, has featured in nine games for the club this term.
The 31-year-old made only seven league appearances for Bath after joining from Premiership rivals Exeter in June 2014.
"He's an assured presence in the full-back role," Bristol director of rugby Andy Robinson said.
"Luke has a wealth of Premiership experience with Bristol, Bath and Exeter so we are confident he can make the step up to top-flight rugby if we achieve our goals."
Have you added the new Top Story alerts in the BBC Sport app? Simply head to the menu in the app - and don't forget you can also add alerts for the Six Nations, cricket scores, your football team and more. | Bristol's on-loan full-back Luke Arscott has signed a one-year contract to join the Championship leaders from Bath at the end of the season. | 35773789 | [
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Joey's Pizza has 212 stores across Germany with annual sales of €143m ($156.5m; £103.9m).
Germany is the world's fourth-biggest pizza market and the deal is worth up to A$120m ($86m).
The deal will increase the number of stores owned by Sydney-listed Domino's Pizza Enterprises to 1,870.
The joint venture will be two-thirds owned by the Australian company, with the remainder owned by the London-listed Domino's Pizza Group, which already has operations in Germany.
Don Meij, chief executive of Domino's Pizza Enterprises, said that entering the German market represented a long-term growth opportunity.
"The acquisition of the market-leading Joey's Pizza business provides immediate scale and marketing presence which we can build from," he said.
The company's Sydney-listed shares jumped more than 12% after the deal was announced. The stock has soared more than 125% in the past 12 months.
The Australian company also raised its profit outlook for the year to June by 30% - to A$166.1m net income before tax and other items.
The Domino's brand globally is owned by the New York-listed Domino's Pizza Inc.
The London-listed company has more than 800 stores in the UK, and holds franchises in Ireland, Germany and Switzerland. Up to 15 of its German stores will be bought by the joint venture.
Shares in Domino's Pizza Group have risen by 38% this year and the company is valued at £1.6bn.
Domino's Australia is the world's largest franchisee for the pizza brand. It holds the Domino's brand network in Australia, Belgium, France, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand and Monaco.
The Joey's Pizza deal is expected to be completed early next year, subject to regulatory approval. | The companies that own Domino's Pizza in the UK and Australia have set up a joint venture to buy Germany's biggest pizza chain. | 35109258 | [
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Mark McCarroll, a father-of-one, was working as a fork lift driver at Hayes Fuels depot in Belfast's Harbour estate when the accident happened.
Hayes Fuels director Allister Hayes and risk manager Stanley Gibson both pleaded guilty at Belfast Crown Court
Mr Gibson pleaded guilty to two charges, while Mr Hayes, on behalf of his company, pleaded guilty to charges of failing to ensure the safety of its employees and failing to ensure the safe storage of materials and objects.
The family of Mr McCarroll, a 49-year-old grand-father, was present in court when details of the events surrounding his death were outlined to the court.
A prosecution lawyer told the judge that on the day of the accident on 27 March 2013, heavy goods vehicle driver Brian Wilshaw was at the yard where his lorry was being loaded with mixed coals and briquettes.
"Mr Wilshaw flagged down Mr McCarroll in his forklift truck and he put two of three full pallets of coal on the lorry,'' the prosecution lawyer said.
"Mr McCarroll and Mr Wilshaw were in shed two on the premises calculating the number of briquettes on a slack pallet which had been already been picked up from the ground.
"The full pallets needed by Mr Wilshaw were still in the shed and while he was engaged in gathering loose briquettes from this area, Mr McCarroll was standing on the slack pallet counting the bales.
"Mr McCarroll pulled a bale out and had time to set this on the ground, at which stage, two pallet stacks fell on top of him.
"Mr Wilshaw shouted a warning but Mr McCarroll was unable to avoid being hit.''
The court heard that medical assistance was called to the yard but Mr McCarroll died two days later on 29 March from chest and pelvic injuries.
The judge was told that the Health and Safety Executive of Northern Ireland (HSENI) found a number of breaches by Hayes Fuels, including:
HSENI said that Hayes Fuels should have used an overlapping or 'staircase' system to store pallets.
The court was told that in September 2012, Hayes Fuels hired Stanley Gibson Partnership to advise them on health and safety issues and his company subsequently carried out an audit of the premises.
The Stanley Gibson Partnership provided "numerous risk assessments'' to Hayes Fuels and lignite materials (briquettes) was intended to be included in the risk for solid fuels.
"However, there is no account mentioned to matters such as the size of pallets how the pallet and load base varied or how the lignite pallets are to be stacked," the prosecution lawyer said.
"It considered that the risk assessments and safety audit completed by Stanley Gibson Partnership were neither adequate nor sufficient.''
The court heard that Mr McCarroll's partner, Barbara Thompson, had "suffered both emotionally and financially from the loss of her long-term partner''.
The prosecution lawyer added that his only son Christopher had suffered "disruption to his employment and sleep patterns in the wake of his father's untimely death''.
The court heard the maximum penalty that could be imposed was an unlimited fine and/or two years in prison.
However, the judge heard that fines in previous similar cases of a death of an employee at a workplace has ranged from £20,000 to £60,000.
A lawyer for Mr Gibson told the judge: "I have read the victim impact statement and I want to publicly state just how devastated my client is that he has been in any way associated with or responsible for the tragic accident.
"You cannot read those statements without recognising the impact this has had on his family.
"He identified the problem on the premises but accepts he did not take the next step and complete his audit.''
A lawyer for Hayes Fuels said that on behalf of the company and Allister Hayes he wanted to "express their sincere apologies to the McCarroll family''.
The judge adjourned sentencing for a month, and told the court: "This is a very tragic case and there is a great deal for me consider.'' | One of Northern Ireland's fuel distributors has admitted breaching health and safety legislation in connection with the death of one of its employees. | 34361175 | [
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Owen and Karl Oyston sued fan David Ragozzino for £150,000 over a post on website Another View From the Tower.
The 32-year-old said he had "limited financial means" and feared what would happen should the Oystons win the case.
The judge at Manchester Civil Justice Centre gave him 21 days to respond to the claim.
The application to default hearing was brought by the Oystons on the grounds Mr Ragozzino had failed to file a defence in time to their action.
He was supported at the court by dozens of Blackpool fans, who carried banners that criticised the Oystons' running of the club.
On Friday, fellow 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".
On Saturday, about 1,000 fans staged a demonstration before the club's home game with Brighton, calling for the Oystons to relinquish control of the club. | A Blackpool football fan who is accused of libelling the club's owners on the internet has told a court he has "never written anything defamatory". | 31147480 | [
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The man, who was from Staffordshire, collapsed while riding on the A5 near Chirk, Wrexham, at about 10:45 BST on Sunday.
He had been raising money for the Douglas Macmillan Hospice.
North Wales Police said officers attended, along with a road and air ambulance, and tried to help members of the public to save the cyclist.
"I am very sad to say that their efforts were not successful," temporary Supt Nick Evans said.
Douglas Macmillan Hospice - known as Dougie Mac - is a specialist palliative care provider in north Staffordshire for adults, the majority of whom are affected by cancer.
A number of charity bike rides for the hospice were being held on Sunday taking in routes from Stoke-on-Trent to Llangollen and back. | A 44-year-old man has died in north Wales while taking part in a charity cycle ride | 39837875 | [
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The country's largest union, the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa), claims that more than 200,000 members are striking. | Engineering and metal workers in South Africa have gone on strike after talks on Monday failed to reach an agreement over pay. | 28115799 | [
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This quiz is day seven and asks questions about the month of July 2016.
Good luck! | How much do you remember about the news in Wales over the past 12 months? | 38334966 | [
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Marc Carter's plea to find a replacement sippy cup for son Ben was retweeted more than 12,000 times.
The 14-year-old has only drunk from the double-handled vessels, which are no longer produced, since the age of two.
Tommee Tippee said it will produce 500 cups after it searched factories worldwide and found the original mould.
The firm's attention was drawn to the family's plight when Mr Carter launched the Twitter appeal to find a replacement.
More on a dad's desperate search for a cup, and other stories
His original plea prompted offers of help from as far away as Australia.
Mr Carter, 42, said the response from well-wishers had been "incredible" and it was a "huge surprise" to be contacted by the manufacturer.
Mr Carter said: "For me it's massive. Some people think I'm exaggerating but without it he doesn't drink so personally I'm very relieved."
Tommee Tippee will send the cups on demand for free to the Carter family.
Mr Carter said: "I would not be happier if I won the lottery. We've moved down to the middle of nowhere and don't want much.
"Just knowing he has got these cups gives us peace of mind."
Northumberland-based Tommee Tippee does not normally keep the moulds but had been searching factories around the world in the hope of finding the original plans.
A spokesman said: "We are delighted to confirm that we are able to start production on a run of the original cup.
"This will ensure that Ben has a lifetime supply and that his family won't ever have to worry about finding another cup for Ben."
Mr Carter, from Devon, told the BBC his son has had his current blue cup for three years, but it is now falling apart and may only last a few more weeks.
He said: "This tiny blue cup dictates our life." | A dad's desperate search to replace his autistic son's beloved "little blue cup" has ended - after the manufacturer stepped in to make a lifetime's supply. | 38141319 | [
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Malala Yousafzai was attacked on her way home from school in Mingora, the region's main town.
She came to public attention in 2009 by writing a diary for BBC Urdu about life under Taliban militants who had taken control of the valley.
A Pakistani Taliban spokesman told the BBC they carried out the attack.
Ehsanullah Ehsan told BBC Urdu that they attacked her because she was anti-Taliban and secular, adding that she would not be spared.
Malala Yousafzai was travelling with at least one other girl when she was shot, but there are differing accounts of how events unfolded.
By Orla GuerinBBC News, Islamabad
The chilling attack on the young peace campaigner has been leading TV news bulletins here. Malala Yousafzai is one of the best-known schoolgirls in the country. Young as she is, she has dared to do what many others do not - publicly criticise the Taliban.
Malala's confident, articulate campaign for girls' education has won her admirers - and recognition - at home and abroad. She has appeared on national and international television, and spoken of her dream of a future Pakistan where education would prevail.
Even by the standards of blood-soaked Pakistan, there has been shock at the shooting. It has been condemned by Pakistan's Prime Minister, Raja Pervez Ashraf, who sent a helicopter to transfer Malala to hospital in Peshawar.
The head of Pakistan's Independent Human Rights Commission, Zohra Yusuf, said "this tragic attack on this courageous child" sends a very disturbing message to all those working for women and girls.
One report, citing local sources, says a bearded gunman stopped a car full of schoolgirls, and asked for Malala Yousafzai by name, before opening fire.
But a police official also told BBC Urdu that unidentified gunmen opened fire on the schoolgirls as they were about to board a van or bus.
She was hit in the head and, some reports say, in the neck area by a second bullet, but is now in hospital and is reportedly out of danger. Another girl who was with her at the time was also injured.
Malala Yousafzai was just 11 when she was writing her diary, two years after the Taliban took over the Swat Valley, and ordered girls' schools to close.
In the diary, which she kept for the BBC's Urdu service under a pen name, she exposed the suffering caused by the militants as they ruled.
She used the pen-name Gul Makai when writing the diary. Her identity only emerged after the Taliban were driven out of Swat and she later won a national award for bravery and was also nominated for an international children's peace award.
Correspondents say she earned the admiration of many across Pakistan for her courage in speaking out about life under the brutal rule of Taliban militants.
One poignant entry reflects on the Taliban decree banning girls' education: "Since today was the last day of our school, we decided to play in the playground a bit longer. I am of the view that the school will one day reopen but while leaving I looked at the building as if I would not come here again."
She has since said that she wants to study law and enter politics when she grows up. "I dreamt of a country where education would prevail," she said.
The BBC's Orla Guerin in Islamabad says that Malala Yousafzai was a public figure who didn't shy away from risks and had strong support from her parents for her activism. Indeed, her father, who is a school teacher, expressed his pride in her campaigning.
In a statement about the attack, Pakistani Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf said: "We have to fight the mindset that is involved in this. We have to condemn it... Malala is like my daughter, and yours too. If that mindset prevails, then whose daughter would be safe?"
After the Taliban: Swat women on changing life
The Taliban, under the notorious militant cleric Maulana Fazlullah, took hold of the Swat Valley in late 2007 and remained in de facto control until they were driven out by Pakistani military forces during an offensive in 2009.
While in power they closed girls' schools, promulgated their extreme version of Sharia law and introduced measures such as banning the playing of music in cars.
Since they were ejected, there have been isolated militant attacks in Swat but the region has largely remained stable and many of the thousands of people who fled during the Taliban years have returned. | Gunmen have wounded a 14-year-old rights activist who has campaigned for girls' education in the Swat Valley in north-west Pakistan. | 19882799 | [
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PC James Burns was found not guilty of common assault and two counts of assault causing actual bodily harm against Michael Stanley, 28, in Penrhyndeudraeth, on 10 April 2016.
He was also cleared of giving a false statement about what happened.
He had denied all the charges at Caernarfon Crown Court.
The case against another officer, PC Robin Humphreys, who had been accused of perverting the course of justice, was thrown out earlier in the month.
Judge Huw Rees said there was insufficient evidence to prove he had colluded with PC Burns by giving false statements about the incident. | A police officer has been cleared of assaulting a handcuffed man with pepper spray after arresting him in Gwynedd. | 40887012 | [
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The contractor, Smartty's Management Limited, has been asked to return the excess payment, the government said.
On Wednesday, Transport Minister Dzifa Attivor resigned following a public outcry over the deal.
Ghana is struggling with a large budget deficit and a widening public debt.
The branding involved respraying the 116 imported passenger buses and adding portraits of the current President John Mahama, his three immediate predecessors and Ghana's first head of state, Kwame Nkrumah.
A proper procurement method was "not followed and the contract did not ensure value for money," the government said after a review by Attorney General Marietta Brew Appiah-Opong.
Opposition and anti-corruption campaigners have raised concerns over the amount spent, which they said was far too much, forcing the presidency to set up an investigation.
The BBC's Sammy Darko in the capital, Accra, says many people think the government is not doing enough to tackle budget mismanagement.
They want to see people being charged for causing financial loss to the state, he adds.
Mrs Attivor's resignation is the first by a Ghanaian minister in more than a decade and comes amid efforts by the government to cut spending as it implements a three-year International Monetary Fund plan to restore fiscal stability.
Earlier this week, Mr Mahama banned public officials, including ministers, from first class air travel and he suspended non-essential trips. | Ghana has demanded a $500,000 (£350,000) refund after its transport ministry spent $1m to paint more than 100 buses with portraits of the country's recent leaders. | 35175324 | [
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Rees starred as the spirited servant Demelza, who married Cornish tin mine owner Ross Poldark.
Something of a Downton Abbey of its day, and a contemporary of ITV's popular Upstairs Downstairs, up to 15 million viewers tuned into the BBC's Sunday evening costume drama.
A story of love and greed among sweeping landscapes, Poldark was set in the 18th Century and based on books by Winston Graham. It ran for two series between 1975 and 1977.
Co-starring Robin Ellis and Ralph Bates, it was shown in 22 countries.
Fellow Welsh actress Ruth Madoc told the BBC: "Angharad was a lovely, gentle woman and very pretty.
"Poldark was a landmark series which everyone remembers so well."
Before the TV series which made her name, Rees had appeared in the 1972 film Under Milk Wood with fellow Welsh actors Richard Burton and Sian Phillips, along with Hollywood star Elizabeth Taylor, and was nominated for a best newcomer award for her role in the film Moments (1974) with Keith Michell.
An acclaimed acting career on stage, screen and radio followed.
TV credits included Dennis Potter's Joe's Ark, Remington Steel, a BBC adaptation of Shakespeare's As You Like It and Trainer, a drama series set in the world of horse racing.
She also appeared in the cult horror film Hands of the Ripper and plays such as A Winter's Tale, Richard II, Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet.
For her radio work, she won the Prix Italia for Florent and the Tuxedo Millions in 1982 and was nominated for a best actress award in 1985.
However, she turned her back on acting when her eldest son Linford was killed in a car crash on the M11 in Essex in 1999, aged 26.
At the time, Rees and husband, Dynasty actor Christopher Cazenove, said they were "devastated".
Linford had recently gained a postgraduate degree in philosophy from Cambridge.
Speaking to the South Wales Echo newspaper two years later, Rees said she was "distraught" following Linford's death and threw herself into her "therapeutic" passion for jewellery design.
"I was about to open the shop when my son died," she told the newspaper.
"I became very reclusive. I used to go there every day and work. It was a creative thing and I could lose myself in it."
Her talent led to a successful fine jewellery business, with a shop in Knightsbridge. Her pieces featured in the film Elizabeth - The Golden Age.
It wasn't her first venture in the business world.
In the early nineties, Rees set up her own company to teach relaxation techniques, helping executives, sports stars and academics.
"I like having something on the go. I'm not a lady who lunches," she said in the interview.
After her divorce from Casanove, who died in 2010, she married David McAlpine, of the construction family in 2005.
Despite stepping away from the acting spotlight, she remained an active supporter of the arts.
She also did poetry readings and recited at the gala opening of the Welsh assembly in Cardiff in 1999.
Although born in London, Rees moved to Cardiff as a baby with her Welsh parents, growing up in the suburb of Rhiwbina and attending the local infants school.
Her late father Professor Linford Rees was an eminent psychiatrist, originally from the Burry Port area of Carmarthenshire, while her late mother Catherine was from the Swansea Valley.
Rees maintained the link with the city she grew up in by becoming an honorary fellow of Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.
Ruth Madoc added: "I knew her very well socially back in London and we worked together from time to time.
"We did a poetry reading in the Grand Theatre in Swansea about 12 years ago.
"I haven't seen her for some time and hadn't realised she was so ill."
She is survived by her husband, and her son Rhys, 35.
Her family released a statement saying they were "deeply saddened" to announce her death "after a long battle with pancreatic cancer".
"She will be greatly missed by her family and friends," they added. | Welsh actress Angharad Rees, who has died of cancer at the age of 63, was one of the best-known faces of the 1970s thanks to her role in Poldark. | 18944657 | [
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Flames tore through Newsome Mills, a four-storey former textile mill in Huddersfield, following a suspected arson attack on Thursday.
The gutted mill has been mostly demolished but a Facebook group wants the tower restored to "former glory".
Councillor Andrew Cooper said: "People have a lot of affection for the mill."
The Green Party councillor on Kirklees Council added: "At the very minimum we need to keep it in the landscape.
"Substantial historic elements are still there and there is a lot of real love and enthusiasm for the building."
Mr Cooper is also a member of the new Facebook group, Save the Clock.
Helen Kingston, who started the social media group, said "this mill is engrained in all our childhood memories".
The mill site is Grade II-listed and was founded in 1827. It was a working woollen textile mill until 1983.
Most of the buildings were let out as business units until the site was sold in 2006, according to Historic England.
The majority of the building was demolished to the ground floor on Friday. | A landmark clock tower which forms part of a listed mill building gutted by fire should be saved, according to campaigners. | 38043693 | [
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The county council plans to prohibit buses, taxis and private hire vehicles from using Queen Street.
Oxford Bus Company said the authority needed to consider the "additional pressure" on surrounding streets.
The council said it was "vital" for more pedestrians and cyclists to use the route.
Oxford bus Company said: "We can't have a situation where Queen Street is pedestrianised but the additional pressure put on surrounding streets means that waiting conditions for bus passengers become unbearable, or walks between stops become unacceptably long - or our customers can't get taken to where they want to go.
"A credible, agreed plan therefore needs to be identified between all parties before Queen Street can be closed and dialogue is ongoing to achieve this."
Oxfordshire County Council said the street was one of the main routes across the city centre and added pedestrian and cycle numbers were expected to increase "significantly" in the future due to development across the city.
"It is vital that strong pedestrian and cycle links are maintained and encouraged, and improvements to the pedestrian experience are made, to ensure a well-connected and joined up city centre that will continue to thrive," it added.
A consultation on the proposals runs until 6 June. | A "credible plan" needs to be agreed before any move to ban buses and taxis from a street in Oxford is made, a bus company has said. | 36411651 | [
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Mark Jeansonne said his client, Chris Few, had his hands up and was not threatening police when gunfire began.
Two city marshals in Louisiana have been charged with second-degree murder.
The lawyer had not seen the video, but it was described to a judge during a court proceeding on Monday.
The two men opened fire on a car in which the family was riding during a traffic stop in Marksville, Louisiana.
As lawyers gathered at the court, mourners met for Jeremy Mardis' funeral in neighbouring Hattiesburg, Mississippi, from where he had recently moved.
Mr Few meanwhile remained in hospital, unable to attend his son's final service.
He has not been told that his son is dead, the lawyer said.
Col Michael Edmonson of Louisiana state police said on Monday he was still "figuring out" why the father and son's car was being pursued by police.
Hopefully they did not see the boy was in the back seat before they fired, he told CNN.
Early reports said that the two officers were serving a warrant on Mr Few.
However, Mr Edmonson said there was no evidence a warrant was issued, and that no gun was found at the crime scene.
The two officers, Derrick Stafford and Norris Greenhouse, were arrested on Friday after body-camera footage taken from them was assessed.
Referring to the body-camera footage of the incident, Col Edmondson added: "I can tell you, it is the most disturbing thing I've seen, and I'll leave it like that."
They each face charges of second-degree murder and second-degree attempted murder. They are currently being held in a Louisiana jail. | Body camera footage shows that the father of a six-year-old autistic boy was attempting to surrender before police opened fire, killing his son, a lawyer has said. | 34769178 | [
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Girlguiding UK found they needed a new vow that includes non-religious members and those who follow other faiths.
It has been replaced with a new promise to "be true to myself and develop my beliefs".
The new oath drops the reference to God for the first time since Guides began in 1910.
Brownies and Guides currently vow to "to love my God, to serve my Queen and my country".
I promise that I will do my best
To be true to myself and develop my beliefs
To serve the Queen and my community
To help other people
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To keep the Guide (Brownie) law
The consultation about the vow was carried out earlier this year and involved nearly 44,000 Girlguiding UK members and non-members.
Chief Guide Gill Slocombe said: "Guiding believes in having one promise that is a clear statement of our core values for all our members to commit to. We hope that our new promise will allow all girls - of all faiths and none - to understand and feel proud of their commitment." | From September, girls joining the Brownies and Guides in the UK, will no longer have to pledge their devotion to God. | 22964399 | [
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This afternoon, the Labour leader returned to the stage - in shirt sleeves this time - to face questions from his audience.
One introduced herself: "Christina Rees, newly-elected Labour councillor for Bridgend."
So far so good. But then it got trickier.
"And you haven't kissed me, Ed, but you kissed Barbara yesterday and I'm extremely jealous," joked Christina.
A look of mock alarm came over the leader's face as he assured delegates: "Don't get the wrong idea by the way."
Christina told her leader how Labour had won a by-election in Bettws: "The Tories only got 12 votes!"
Ed Miliband started to look concerned: "Don't give us all the Bridgend results because we might be here....."
He cut swiftly to his next questioner - Barbara Jones, from Caerphilly, who introduced herself thus: "I am the lucky one that got the kiss yesterday and I've had so many texts you wouldn't believe it."
Had he not been wearing television make-up, Ed Miliband surely would have blushed. Instead, he briefly referred to delegates as "comrades" for the first time, while imploring Barbara to move on.
Barbara moved on, but 24 hours into the era of "one nation Labour" the leader has discovered that you can't please all the people all the time. | Ed Miliband may have wowed delegates with his "look - no notes" speech to the Labour conference but not everyone is going home happy. | 19821003 | [
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Bianca Nikol Roberson, a recent school graduate, was driving near West Goshen when her car veered off the road.
Police responded to what they initially thought was a fatal collision, but then discovered that Ms Roberson had been shot in the head.
Investigators believe another driver shot her as she attempted to merge into the same lane as a red pickup truck.
The road on which Ms Roberson was driving narrows to a single lane where it joins another main route.
"Her car started jostling with a red pickup truck - not actually hitting - but both of them trying to merge together," prosecutor Tom Hogan told reporters.
"And then she was shot. The man in the red pickup truck shot her directly in the head."
"This was a senseless and brutal act of violence," he added.
Ms Roberson was pronounced dead at the scene. The case is now being treated as a homicide.
Police have issued a call for help in tracing the pickup truck and the suspect, who is described as a white male aged between 30 and 40 with blonde hair and a medium build.
Mr Hogan said "every cop in three states" is looking for the vehicle.
Ms Roberson's father, Rodney, spoke to NBC News about his daughter, telling them she was preparing to attend university.
"We were all excited for her," he told the station. "She was excited. We were just happy for her."
Her brother, Dontae Arburg, said she was "very loved."
"She always smiled. Always wanted to entertain and make you smile," he said. | Pennsylvania police are hunting a man who shot and killed an 18-year-old girl in a "road rage incident". | 40461716 | [
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The Anglo-South African company said its current structure was "too costly" and inefficient.
Changes to the regulatory environment in Europe and South Africa had also made the business more complex to run.
It came as the firm reported a 4% rise in annual pre-tax adjusted operating profit to £1.7bn.
Old Mutual said it expected the separation of its four main units to be completed by the end of 2018.
The company plans to separate into Old Mutual Emerging Markets, Old Mutual Wealth, Nedbank Group and OM Asset Management.
Chief executive Bruce Hemphill said: "The strategy we have announced today sets out a bold new course to unlock value currently trapped within the group structure.
"We have four strong businesses that can reach their full potential by freeing them from the costs and constraints of the group.
"These businesses are performing strongly, have excellent competitive positions in sizeable markets and the underlying growth potential to flourish independently."
He said the current organisation of the group was "a costly structure with insufficient synergies to justify those costs".
The group said it had yet to decide how it would go about spinning off the units.
Old Mutual announced its strategic review in November, after former Standard Bank executive Mr Hemphill took over as chief executive.
The group, which was founded in South Africa in 1845, currently has a majority stake in South African lender Nedbank. But it plans to reduce it to a minority stake by the end of 2018.
The company's Old Mutual Wealth unit, a sponsor of England rugby union, has also received a takeover approach from private equity firms, according to reports citing unnamed sources. | Financial services group Old Mutual has said it will split itself into four separate companies following the outcome of a strategic review. | 35782231 | [
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It happened at about 00:30 on Sunday and both men were taken to hospital for treatment.
Officers are now asking anyone who saw what happened or who has information to get in touch.
They want to talk to people who were in the club or in the immediate area on Saturday night or early Sunday morning and witnessed the disturbance. | Two men were seriously hurt during a disturbance at the Woodburn Miners Club in Dalkeith. | 37333076 | [
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Johnny McGurk, 49, appeared in court in County Londonderry accused of theft from quarry firm Patrick Bradley Ltd.
Mr McGurk, an accountant, was released on bail and will appear in court again on 19 November.
He won an All-Ireland football championship and All-Star award in 1993.
Mr McGurk also captained his club Lavey to an All-Ireland senior club championship in 1991.
The accused's name was given to Coleraine Magistrates Court as John Malachy McGurk of Oakland Crescent in Knockloughrim, Magherafelt, County Londonderry.
He was charged with stealing £572,206 from Patrick Bradley Ltd, based in Kilrea, also in County Londonderry.
Mr McGurk was also accused of 36 counts of fraud relating to sums of allegedly stolen money lodged in his bank account.
All the offences are alleged to have happened between 1 July 2006 and 31 December 2011. | A Gaelic footballer who won an All-Ireland championship with Derry will stand trial accused of stealing over £500,000 from his employer. | 34475490 | [
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Ednane Mahmood, from Blackburn, is also alleged to have provided internet links to others with speeches and propaganda that encouraged acts of terrorism.
He was stopped by police at Manchester Airport after returning from Turkey on 21 September and charged on Wednesday.
Mr Mahmood was released on conditional bail when he appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court.
The conditions include sleeping at his family home, reporting to a police station in Blackburn twice a week, not applying for travel documents and a ban from using the internet.
During the brief hearing before magistrates, the 18-year-old spoke only to confirm his name, date of birth and address.
Mr Mahmood will next appear at the Old Bailey on 24 April.
His arrest followed an investigation by the North West Counter Terrorism Unit and Lancashire Constabulary. | An 18-year-old man has appeared in court charged with attempting to travel to Syria to commit acts of terrorism. | 32232373 | [
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Pythefnos yn ôl dywedodd Ken Skates y byddai'n rhaid i'r cwmni sy'n ceisio cael cefnogaeth ar gyfer Cylchffordd Cymru roi mwy o fanylion am fuddsoddwyr.
Dywedodd Mr Skates y byddai'r llywodraeth nawr yn "ystyried y cynnig yn ofalus" cyn i'r cabinet wneud penderfyniad terfynol.
Mae'r datblygwyr yn dweud y byddai'r cynllun yn costio £425m, ac yn creu 6,000 o swyddi.
Yn ôl y datblygwyr, Cwmni Datblygu Blaenau'r Cymoedd, bydd y gwaith adeiladu'n dechrau yn y gwanwyn os yw'r prosiect yn cael ei gymeradwyo.
Mae disgwyl i'r cynllun i adeiladu trac rasio ger Glyn Ebwy gostio £425m ond mae Llywodraeth Cymru wedi mynnu na fyddan nhw'n gwarantu mwy na hanner y gost.
Yn ôl cwmni Cylchffordd Cymru mae'r cynnig diweddara' yn dangos bod ganddyn nhw gefnogaeth preifat i dalu am y cynllun, a mae'n gofyn i drethdalwyr warantu llai na 50%.
Yn siarad yn siambr y Cynulliad dywedodd Ysgrifennydd yr Economi, Ken Skates ei fod yn "ymddangos" fel pe bai'r datblygwyr wedi cyrraedd meini prawf y llywodraeth.
Dywedodd y byddai'r broses ffurfiol o "ddiwydrwydd dyladwy" - sef edrych yn fanwl ar y ffigyrau, y datblygwyr a chynaliadwyedd y cynllun - yn gallu bwrw mlaen.
Yn ôl Mr Skates fe fydd y broses yna'n cymryd hyd at chwech wythnos cyn i'r cabinet benderfynu os yw'r llywodraeth am gefnogi'r cynllun.
Yn ymateb i ddatganiad Ysgrifennydd yr Economi, fe ddywedodd Cwmni Datblygu Blaenau'r Cymoedd ei fod yn "edrych ymlaen at ddechrau'r gwaith adeiladu erbyn y gwanwyn eleni".
Dywedodd y cwmni y byddai'n gwireddu "gweledigaeth ar gyfer canolfan o safon rhyngwladol ar gyfer moduro, hamdden, twristiaeth ac arloesi, fydd yn trawsnewid y gymuned leol, yn creu cyfleoedd cyflogaeth, a helpu i ddatblygu'r economi Gymreig". | Mae datblygwyr trac rasio ym Mlaenau Gwent wedi rhoi cynnig newydd gerbron Llywodraeth Cymru, wedi i Ysgrifennydd yr Economi alw am fwy o fanylion. | 38909077 | [
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The 16-year-old girl was raped on Saturday 20 December 2014 at an unknown address in the Bolton area.
It was reported to police at about 03:00 the next morning.
The victim has worked with specialist officers from Greater Manchester Police since the attack to create the e-fit images of the men.
Detectives want to hear from anyone who recognises them.
Det Insp Damian Simpson said: "We have been working closely with the victim to help create the image of the offender and finding who is responsible.
"As the investigation continues we are now seeking assistance from the public to identify the men, who we believe were driving a red car.
"The victim does not know where the offence has taken place but believes it was in a house in the Bolton area. I would appeal to anyone who may recognise the men in the image to contact us as soon as possible."
Anyone with any information is asked to contact Greater Manchester Police or Crimestoppers. | Police investigating the rape of a teenager last Christmas have issued e-fits of two men they want to trace in connection with the incident. | 32217659 | [
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The Australian defeated 11-time world champion Kelly Slater, but fell out of the semi-finals to Brazilian Adriano de Souza, who claimed his first WSL crown.
Mr de Souza paid tribute to Fanning saying "he deserved it more than me".
There has been strong support after a grieving Fanning won his Pipeline quarter-finals heat on Wednesday.
The Australian broke down in an interview after his winning heat, not long after learning of his brother's death.
He later posted on social media that it was one of the most challenging days of his life.
"I am so grateful for the incredible love and well wishes that have come my way since learning of my eldest brother's passing," Fanning said on Instagram.
"Like all my big brothers, Peter will always be a hero to me... I knew I could find the strength to take part in the final event of the season because that's what Pete would want."
It has not been disclosed how or where Peter Fanning died.
Mick Fanning came close to losing his own life in July after being forced to fight off a shark during a competition in South Africa.
Mick's mother, who is currently with him in Hawaii, said she was overwhelmed by the live televised footage of his close encounter with the shark.
"I just saw my boy going down. That was absolutely terrifying because I have lost a son before," Liz Osborne told Fairfax media.
Fanning's other brother, Sean, died in a car accident in 1998.
Immediately after clinching the Pipeline Masters title, Adriano de Souza spoke of conflicting emotions going into the final day of competition.
"I wish so much to give a hug to Mick's mum, but it's kind of scary as we are in a world title race and I didn't want to mix it up," de Souza said.
"I think Mick deserved it more than me, he's such a strong man, a three-time world champion. The strongest man I have met in my whole life." | Mick Fanning has missed out on a fourth world surf title in Hawaii after a strong performance overshadowed by the death of his brother Peter. | 35128293 | [
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Kenneth Dymond, 37, also made contact with a 15-year-old girl over the internet.
Lincoln Crown Court heard that more than 500 images were recovered from Dymond's computers and phones after a raid on his home in August 2015.
He was also placed on the sex offenders' register for 10 years.
More on this and other Lincolnshire stories.
Dymond of Magna Mile, Ludford, Lincolnshire, was serving as an detective constable in the Met's Specialist Crime and Operations Command at the time of the offences.
Stephen Kemp, prosecuting told the court that the internet search history on Dymond's computers "identified various terms which indicated searches for material of a paedophilic nature".
Mr Kemp added: "There were extracts of a Skype conversation recovered from a laptop which appeared to be from a 15-year-old girl's brother calling the defendant a paedophile.
"That person threatened he would go to the police if the defendant did not delete his sister's profile."
Reka Hollos, defending, said Dymond suffered from chronic depression and had undergone counselling for his addiction to pornography.
"He is very remorseful for what he has done," she said.
Judge Michael Heath, passing sentence, told him: "As a serving police officer you ought to know that children are grievously abused so that this material, this utter filth, can be put out there on the internet for people to view it.
"I cannot suspend the sentence in a case such as this." | A detective serving with the Metropolitan Police has been jailed after admitting downloading hundreds of pornographic images of children. | 36563228 | [
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Schalk Burger and JP Pietersen crashed over in a first half dominated by the powerful Springboks.
The Scots struggled to make inroads until a Duncan Weir interception led to a thrilling Tommy Seymour try.
But the cool kicking of Handre Pollard kept South Africa at a safe distance and Bryan Habana added a late score to reflect the gulf in quality.
Listen to the best of the action on BBC Radio 5 live
The Springboks, twice World Cup winners, signalled that their campaign is back on track with a bludgeoning display of brute force after their shock opening loss to Japan.
Scotland now look ahead to next weekend's clash with Samoa, knowing victory will see them through to the quarter-finals.
The first score came after 13 minutes when a combination of Burger, Bismarck du Plessis and Duane Vermeulen smashed their way through the Scottish defence, with Burger credited with the final touch in a muddle of hands.
Scotland were warned and here was the Springbok maul in all its ferocity. At times the Scots were mauled off the park, never more so than at the end of a one-sided first half when a devastating rumble paved the way for JP Pietersen to touch down.
It was textbook. It came with Jannie du Plessis in the sin-bin. Scotland were in a mightily deep hole.
At the break, such was South Africa's upper hand that you felt Scotland were set for a pummelling, with Heyneke Meyer's team leading by a handsome 17 points.
The revival from Scotland might have been brief but it was heartening.
Weir's epic breakaway and the support from Tim Visser created a try from the blue from Seymour to cut the game to a seven-point margin.
It was a score that rocked the Bokke but just when Scotland needed to consolidate, they blundered.
They made a frightful hash of the restart, then had Greig Laidlaw sent to the bin for a cynical grab at Habana.
Their bravery never let up one for second, though. A sure sign of South Africa's concerned mindset came when Pollard opted for a drop goal to re-establish their cushion.
In the end, the Boks had too much ball and too much power. The physical toll was massive. South Africa did not play cosmic rugby but they played with an intensity that Scotland could not live with.
A do-or-die meeting with the Samoans, who suffered a major loss to Japan. Samoa are out of the World Cup. if Scotland beat them, they make the quarter-finals. Next Saturday back at St James' Park will be huge for the Scots.
Vern Cotter has some decisions to make. Blair Cowan was magnificent and made a mockery of the decision to leave him out of the original 31. If John Hardie is fit, who plays seven next week?
Cotter will be encouraged by some of what he saw. The courage was there in spades against South Africa.
Richie Gray was wonderful. His younger brother, Jonny, was not far behind. Josh Strauss showed up well.
This was a beaten Scotland but a Scotland that is improving and will be considered hot favourites in the must-win game on Saturday - their biggest test in four years.
Scotland captain Greig Laidlaw: "We were disappointed with our performance. It was a poor first half, probably wasn't a great second half either, we just didn't really get out the blocks and paid the price for it.
"We knew [the South African physicality] was coming, we just didn't stop it. We were letting them get that momentum we spoke about. Once they did that it was a nightmare to try and attack.
"The breakdown was a melee; we let them get on the front foot when they were attacking so it was hard to defend.
"That was all nonsense [about Scotland fielding a weakened side] before the game; we're just disappointed with our performance."
South Africa: le Roux, Pietersen, Kriel, de Allende, Habana, Pollard, du Preez, Mtawarira, B. du Plessis, J. du Plessis, Etzebeth, de Jager, Louw, Burger, Vermeulen.
Replacements: Lambie for Pietersen (70), Serfontein for de Allende (75), Pienaar for du Preez (80), Nyakane for Mtawarira (67), Strauss for B. du Plessis (57), Malherbe for J. du Plessis (50), du Toit for de Jager (76), Alberts for Burger (70).
Sin Bin: J. du Plessis (34).
Scotland: Hogg, Seymour, Vernon, Scott, Visser, Weir, Laidlaw, Reid, Brown, Nel, R. Gray, J. Gray, Strauss, Cowan, Denton.
Replacements: Lamont for Hogg (63), Horne for Vernon (65), Hidalgo-Clyne for Laidlaw (70), Dickinson for Reid (51), Ford for Brown (61), Welsh for Nel (64), Swinson for J. Gray (69), Wilson for Strauss (55).
Sin Bin: Laidlaw (53).
Att: 50,900
Referee: Nigel Owens (Wales).
For the latest rugby union news, follow @bbcrugbyunion on Twitter. | South Africa comfortably held off Scotland in Newcastle to take over at the top of World Cup Pool B. | 34412195 | [
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Jade Ali, 28, said she had been "left in the dark" about the search for partner Christopher Huxtable, 34.
He is one of three men believed to be trapped under the debris of the decommissioned power station.
The Health and Safety Executive said its priority was to recover bodies from the rubble.
Updates on this story and more from Oxfordshire
But Ms Ali, from Swansea, said she felt rescuers had given up their search too early.
"There's still a chance Christopher could still be alive," she said.
One person died and five were injured after half of the 10-storey building collapsed on 23 February.
Police said it was "highly unlikely" that the missing were still alive and that recovering bodies would take "many, many weeks".
John Howley, the uncle of Rotherham-based demolition worker Ken Cresswell, who is also believed to be trapped in the rubble, said there had been a "diabolical" delay in getting to the missing men.
He said: "It is just the uncertainty - you are hoping that they are still alive in there, but you have got to be realistic and think that it has been going on too long now."
The Sun has reported that the third victim is John Shaw, also believed to be from Rotherham, South Yorkshire.
Site supervisor Mathew Mowat said he was seconds from being buried by the collapse.
He said: "I feel guilty in not being under there with the guys and for coming home because they are still there left under that steel - it is ridiculous they are not out."
A Health and Safety Executive spokesman said: "The priority of the multi-agency response remains the recovery of the bodies to their families.
"Given the risks, scale and complexity of the incident and that the building collapsed without warning, emergency services have had to strike a very difficult balance between helping those trapped and injured, recovering the bodies and the need to avoid further harm on the site."
Thames Valley Police said it met with the families of the victims on Monday and the structure was still "unsafe". They are seeking "specialist advice" on how to progress.
A spokesperson added: "Our priority remains the recovery of their loved ones so they can be returned to their families and to understand what caused this incident." | Two of the three families of missing workers feared trapped at the collapsed Didcot A Power Station have criticised emergency services' rescue attempts. | 35746054 | [
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The 20-year-old striker scored a hat-trick in a 5-2 win over St Johnstone on his return from injury as a second-half substitute at McDiarmid Park.
Chelsea were reportedly considering a £40m offer for the Frenchman.
"I am happy to learn here and that's why I signed here," Dembele told BBC Scotland.
"I am learning at one of the biggest clubs and I'm enjoying it."
Dembele, who had missed Celtic's previous two games, has now scored 23 times for the Scottish Premiership leaders since his £500,000 summer move from Fulham.
Rumours that Dembele was in talks with Chelsea were fuelled when he was spotted on a flight to London on transfer deadline day.
Celtic insisted that he was travelling to see a knee specialist - close to Chelsea's Stamford Bridge stadium - regarding a recent injury.
And the Glasgow club also stressed that no official offer materialised from the Premier League leaders.
Dembele had responded to social media speculation on the day by tweeting a picture of himself in a Celtic strip and in the same pose as Leonardo Di Caprio in the movie Wolf Of Wall Street when his character proclaims he is not leaving his company after all.
Following the win over St Johnstone, the striker reiterated that he had been in London "for my scan".
Dembele also insisted he had not been affected by Chelsea's alleged interest and said: "I don't really listen to the media. I'm a Celtic player and I'm happy to be here.
"I try to improve here and show people the player I am and that I'm happy to be here and I showed that today on the pitch."
Asked how long he was likely to remain at Celtic Park, Dembele replied: "I can't tell you that I will be here for 10 years or 20 years. I don't know."
Celtic had to come from 2-1 behind to beat St Johnstone, with Dembele equalising with a controversial penalty after referee Craig Thomson ruled that a Kieran Tierney cross had struck Keith Watson's arm.
The striker insisted that he had not been concerned about the possibility of his side losing their first domestic match of the season.
"I know the quality of the team, so I know that, if we keep playing the way we have all season, we will beat St Johnstone," added Dembele.
"So, even when we were behind, I was confident.
"We showed good imagination, we played well and scored five goals, so it is good for us." | Moussa Dembele says he is happy to continue his football education with Celtic despite being linked with Chelsea during January. | 38873442 | [
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The train was carrying a flammable, toxic substance called acrylonitrile when it came off the rails near Maryville, just outside Knoxville.
Firefighters evacuated people within a two-mile radius of the fire to prevent them breathing in the poisonous fumes.
Local police said seven officers were hospitalised because of the fumes.
The train was pulling 57 carriages of mixed freight from Ohio to Georgia when it derailed just before midnight on Wednesday, the train's operators CSX said in a statement.
One of the carriages transporting acrylonitrile burst into flames.
Acrylonitrile is a chemical compound used to manufacture plastics. Officials say it is "highly flammable and toxic" and can cause headaches, nausea and kidney irritation if inhaled.
Firefighters wearing breathing equipment went door-to-door telling Maryville residents to move to temporary shelters, one of which has been set up in a high school out of the at-risk area.
Locals have been told the evacuation could last up to 48 hours. | More than 5,000 residents of the US state of Tennessee have been evacuated after a freight train carrying toxic chemicals derailed and caught fire. | 33363814 | [
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Theresa May has been appointing her first cabinet after taking over from David Cameron who stepped down as prime minister on Wednesday.
Mr Mundell has been the MP for Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale since 2005.
He was under-secretary of state for Scotland from 2010 to 2015 and became Scottish Secretary in May 2015.
Mr Mundell was reaffirmed in that post by Mrs May.
He said: "I am delighted to be reappointed as secretary of state for Scotland, and to have the opportunity to build on my work over the past year.
"The PM has made it clear we need to unite the country and work for the best interests of everyone in Britain.
"My focus now is to work with the Scottish government in order to get the best deal for Scotland and the United Kingdom as we leave the EU."
Mrs May has made big Cabinet changes including appointing Brexiter Boris Johnson to foreign secretary; Philip Hammond to chancellor and Amber Rudd to the Home Office.
Both Labour and the SNP said that the new Cabinet was worryingly right wing.
Nationalist MP Angus Robertson said: "There is serious cause for concern with a range of appointments - we are witnessing the creation of one of the most right-wing Cabinets in the modern era.
"From Boris Johnson as our Foreign Secretary - a man who will now be representing us on the world stage - to David Davis as Brexit Minister and Liam Fox for Trade, it will be Brexiteers who are taking forward UK foreign policy."
He added that although Mrs May spoke about social justice her "mask had already slipped" and the "reality is we are witnessing a sharp turn to the right in UK politics."
Scotland's only Labour MP Ian Murray said: "Despite Theresa May's rhetoric on the steps of Number 10 last night, this new Tory cabinet looks even more right wing than the one that we've just left behind.
"People across Scotland will not be fooled by new management at the top of the Tory Government.
"Their economic credibility lies in tatters after taking a gamble with Brexit and they have put the union at risk, not just as a result of this referendum." | Scotland's only Conservative MP, David Mundell, has kept his job as secretary of state for Scotland. | 36797300 | [
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The Rams ended an eight-game winless Championship streak with a 3-1 comeback victory at Brentford on Saturday.
Martin came off the bench with the Rams trailing 1-0 and helped create one goal before scoring the third - just his second goal in 19 games.
"It's nice to finally contribute. I feel a lot lighter with that monkey off my back," Martin told BBC Radio Derby.
"I have been a bit non-existent for the last couple of months."
The 27-year-old's strike was his 10th league goal in 31 appearances, but only his second since finding the net against Huddersfield Town in October.
But Martin said Derby would not be over-reacting after earning their first league win this year. Their last victory was a 2-0 success over Fulham on Boxing Day which took them top of the Championship table.
"It's not a time to celebrate and dwell too much because the win should have come much earlier and we understand that," Martin said.
"I don't necessarily think I am not contributing if I don't score, but the big thing is I want to contribute to winning performances and we hadn't managed to win in a long, long time.
"The main feeling is elation and relief at winning the game. But it's not a time to really celebrate.
"But this is a great lift. We have started the week extremely well and hopefully we can kick on again."
Derby are at home against Blackburn Rovers on Wednesday and away to Wolves on Saturday. | Striker Chris Martin has described his input during Derby County's dismal recent run as a "bit non-existent". | 35630304 | [
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Businessman Jeffrey Spector, 54, of St Annes, Lancashire, died on Friday following a six-year illness.
He was surrounded by friends and family at a meal shortly before his death at the clinic, which aids accompanied suicide.
His wife Elaine and three daughters said they respected his decision.
The family said in a statement: "Whilst we are now in a state of all-consuming grief and miss Jeffrey very much, we also recognise that he is now at peace and away from the fear which surrounded him in the last few weeks of his life.
"Jeffrey ended his life with dignity and control which was his overwhelming desire."
In an interview with the Blackpool Gazette last week, Mr Spector said: "If I am paralysed and can't speak, send me to the spirit world."
He reportedly said the condition was affecting his nervous system.
Friend Linda Earle, who had known him for 20 years, said: "He's fought it every step of the way. I've never known a man try so hard.
"I don't blame him for a minute....it's no one else's decision but his own."
Journalist David Graham told BBC Radio Lancashire he had spoken to Mr Spector at his hotel near the clinic in Zurich.
Mr Graham said Mr Spector, a director of an advertising agency, had had a series of consultations with leading surgeons across the UK.
"He had one operation which failed and I think that spurred him on the Dignitas route," said Mr Graham.
In England and Wales, the Suicide Act 1961 makes it an offence to encourage or assist a suicide or a suicide attempt.
Former Lord Chancellor Lord Falconer said he would attempt to reintroduce a bill that would allow assisted dying in the UK.
He said it was "completely wrong" that terminally ill people did not have the option to end their life.
"Whatever your take on the subject, it should be debated," Lord Falconer told the BBC.
Last year the Director of Public Prosecutions, Alison Saunders, clarified assisted suicide guidelines, making the prosecution of health professionals less likely.
However, in April, disability rights campaigners who said assisted suicide policy was too "liberal" won permission to bring a legal challenge to her policy.
Rob George, president of the Association for Palliative Medicine, said he was concerned about any possible law change.
He said: "This is a dangerous distraction from providing decent health care, and actually it's the dying that we need to look after.
"Our job is to look after people as they die... not in order that they die."
However, the daughter of a woman who died at Dignitas last year said she wanted the law to change so that terminally ill people could end their life at home.
Jayne Bramwell's daughter Lindsay said that it would help to "ease the path for everyone involved and make what is a horrendous time a bit easier".
She said it was "enormously distressing" for her mother to have to travel to Switzerland in a wheelchair.
"She just wanted to be at home and have all her family with her..." she said.
In 2008, a paralysed rugby player from Worcester died at Dignitas.
Daniel James, 23, had a collapsed spine following an accident during training with Nuneaton Rugby Club. The Director of Public Prosecutions said prosecutions in the case would not be in the public interest.
Dignitas, which said it aided "accompanied suicide", often described as assisted suicide, has not commented specifically on the Jeffrey Spector case.
The charity, founded in 1998, said: "The main work of Dignitas is not assistance in dying but in fact suicide preventive work, above all suicide-attempt-prevention work in a broad sense." | A British father-of-three who feared he would be paralysed by an inoperable tumour has died at the Dignitas centre in Switzerland. | 32881161 | [
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The sixth form at Halewood Academy in Knowsley will shut in August 2017 after the Department for Education agreed it could stop providing A-levels.
Principal Gary Evans said it was "sad" but left the academy in a stronger financial position.
Education chiefs pledged to get an another A level plan in place by 2017.
Mr Evans said: "We shall continue to work extensively with other post-16 providers to ensure that all of our students remain in education or training once they leave the academy.
"Discussions are also taking place for a future potential post-16 joint venture across Knowsley," he said.
Knowsley has the lowest proportion of students taking A-levels in England at 2% and has among the lowest university entry rates in England.
A letter to the school from parliamentary undersecretary of state for schools, Lord Nash, outlined the plan.
He said after considering the quality of provision, the impact on existing students and the availability of post-16 education in the area "I have agreed their request to close the sixth form".
Knowsley councillor Gary See said the local authority was "naturally disappointed with this outcome" but pleased there was "some clarity for the Academy and its students".
He said due to the school's academy status, the council had "no powers to intervene" but had committed to working with the government to establish "new sixth form provision from September 2017".
Parents at the school had protested against the closure, arguing it "is letting down the children of this community" and could block their ambitions.
Students who are part-way through their studies will be able to continue at the sixth form. | A Merseyside borough will have no A-level provision after the government approved the closure of the area's only sixth form offering the qualification. | 36674622 | [
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The Hangzhou Internet Court opened on Friday and heard its first case - a copyright infringement dispute between an online writer and a web company.
Legal agents in Hangzhou and Beijing accessed the court via their computers and the trial lasted 20 minutes.
The court's focus will be civil cases, including online shopping disputes.
Judges were sworn in and the first case was presented on a large screen in the courtroom.
Defendants and plaintiffs appear before the judge not in person, but via video-chat.
"The internet court breaks geographic boundaries and greatly saves time in traditional hearings," said Wang Jiangqiao, the court's vice-president, via state media.
In 2016, China began streaming some trials in more traditional courtrooms online in an apparent effort to boost the transparency of the legal system.
Some questioned the move, however.
"I don't think it's appropriate to broadcast trials online because many people involved in these cases probably don't want the public to share their personal information," human rights lawyer Liang Xiaojun told the BBC at the time.
In some other countries, online portals to allow people to resolve legal disputes in cyber-space already exist.
Canada's Civil Resolution Tribunal starting accepting claims for $5,000 (£3,000) or less in British Columbia in June. | China has launched a digital "cyber-court" to help deal with a rise in the number of internet-related claims, according to state media. | 40980004 | [
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It may seem strange to measure the impact of a presidential visit to the EU institutions and Nato simply in terms of faux-pas avoided and false steps not taken but somehow that's the way it is for Mr Trump.
The 45th President of the United States found himself immersed for the first time and at first hand in the complexities of the EU.
And he discovered that they have sprinkled the title of president rather liberally among the heads of the European Commission, European Council and European Parliament.
Even with all those presidential figures on hand in Brussels, it was hard to ignore the feeling that, as European leaders were getting to know the president they must now deal with, they were being offered a tantalising glimpse of the president they preferred.
Whether by coincidence or not, Barack Obama was appearing at around the same time 700km (435 miles) down the road at a huge public event in Berlin.
Mr Obama had an easier day of it than Mr Trump.
He basked in the admiration of a huge crowd at the Brandenburg Gate alongside Chancellor Angela Merkel where they had gathered for a celebration of the strength of the Evangelical Church.
Mrs Merkel, said Mr Obama, had done great things for Germany and the world - and it may well be the case that his endorsement will still carry a little weight as the chancellor faces elections later in the year.
At around the same time Mr Trump was holding talks with those various European presidents - including Jean-Claude Juncker of the European Commission, who once talked of the need to educate Mr Trump about "the world he does not know".
No-one took questions after the meeting.
Mr Trump said nothing at all and Donald Tusk from the EU Council confined himself to an on-camera statement in which he alluded to one or two areas where it would be hard to disagree - like the importance of fighting terrorism and shared values like freedom and human dignity - but then said enough to suggest that there were plenty of areas where they had not found it hard to disagree.
"Some issues," he said, "remain open like climate and trade. And I'm not 100% sure we can say today that we have a common position, a common opinion about Russia."
Mr Trump's schedule appeared to have been designed to minimise opportunities for press scrutiny, so there was no chance to ask him directly whether he had changed his views on Brexit, which is viewed as a catastrophe in Brussels but which he has described as both "great" and "fantastic".
A news conference would also have presented the president with an opportunity to examine his evolving attitude towards Nato which he has variously described both as "obsolete" and "no longer obsolete".
In the absence of such scrutiny, some reporters devoted themselves to microscopic observation of the Trump body language.
Anyone who followed the discussions during the Middle Eastern section of the tour about whether the first couple were holding hands as they walked in public might care to note that, as they waited at the US embassy residence to greet their lunch guest Emmanuel Macron, they did not stand hand-in-hand but were so close together that their arms were touching.
The rather awkward presidential handshake with Mr Macron is a good example of how that kind of scrutiny works.
It lasted only a little more than five seconds. While it did look rather over-extended, some reporters spoke of "knuckles whitening" and of "faces tightened" and one even described it as "screw-you in handshake form". Watch the video above and judge for yourselves.
When President Trump did finally speak in public towards the end of his day in Brussels, it was worth waiting for.
He made a short speech at the magnificent new Nato headquarters building and pointed out rather archly that he had avoided asking how much the palatial new building had cost, even though the alliance's over-reliance on American guns and money is one of his favourite diplomatic themes.
But he did not confine himself to that little joke on the subject.
In a blunt address, he said directly that 23 of the 28 Nato members were not paying their fair share towards its costs and warned that was unfair to the American taxpayer - a remark that will surely resonate back home.
He also conflated very directly the problem of terrorism with the issue of immigration in a way that very few of his fellow Nato leaders would endorse, but which picked up on one of his favourite campaign themes from last year.
Here again, though, it seems that Mr Trump's visit may be remembered not for the big politics or the strategic thought but for another curious moment captured on camera and instantly transmitted by social media.
As the leaders began to group themselves for the formal summit photograph, Mr Trump appeared to emerge from the back of the pack and firmly push out of the way Dusko Markovic, the prime minister of Montenegro - which is about to join the alliance. The American leader is then seen to draw himself to his full height, ready for the picture.
So, certainly no diplomatic disasters on President Trump's first visit to Brussels. He came to give his fellow Nato leaders something to think about and so he did.
But something about the president somehow means that he can't help giving everyone something to talk about at the same time. | Donald Trump's motorcade swept through Brussels on a tour of the landmarks of post-war reconstruction that he once seemed to threaten - and diplomatic calamity was averted. | 40049855 | [
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Rahama Sadau's appearance in a music video "hugging and cuddling" Nigerian pop star Classiq offended some people.
Ms Sadau said sorry to those she upset, but said her actions were "innocuous".
Hausa films are popular in the mostly Muslim northern Nigeria where it is taboo for men and women to hold hands in public.
The industry, commonly known as Kannywood, has been under fire from conservative Muslim clerics who accuse it of corrupting people's values.
The Motion Pictures Practitioners Association of Nigeria banned the actress from Kannywood films, saying that her appearance in the video violated the industry's code of ethics.
It added that it hoped the ban would serve as a deterrent to other actors and actresses who are "expected to be good ambassadors of the society they represent".
As the film opens parents are seen discussing who their successful city-dwelling son should marry. They decide on a cousin who they deem meets all their expectations of a good wife.
But there's a hitch, their urban, and urbane, son is in love with an educated city lady. He wants to marry her.
The family confronts their son with their choice of wife for him. The dispute generates tension and finally the parents force their son to marry the cousin.
He goes through with the wedding but stays in touch with his preferred partner. They go on romantic outings during which he mentions his loveless marriage.
Throughout the film, dancing and singing punctuate the action.
Despite the passionate plot, there will not be any physical contact. That means no hugging and definitely no kissing. If there is to be any suggestion of sex, the screen will go dark.
Ms Sadau said she took full responsibility for what happened, but argued that she was behaving professionally and added that in her line of work "innocuous touching with other people... is inevitable".
But she reassured people that she would behave with decorum, adding: "I have lines that I would never cross."
Responding to the criticism she has received she said people should "be more tolerant and forgiving towards one another and to cease all the senseless abuse, name calling and backbiting".
The Kannywood star appeared in the video with Classiq, in a song entitled I Love You.
In it, the Nigerian pop star is smitten with a vegetable seller in a market, acted by Ms Sadau.
Initially, she rejects his advances, batting him away with a bunch of vegetables, but he eventually wins her over.
They hold hands and engage in a bit of cuddling that would be considered demure in a Western film.
But many people in northern Nigeria felt she had gone too far with Classiq in the music video, reports the BBC's Isa Sanusi from the capital, Abuja. | A leading Nigerian actress, who was banned from the Hausa-language film industry because of her "immoral" behaviour, has apologised. | 37551142 | [
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Gareth Colfer-Williams, 25, died last week at his home in Swansea, the city at the centre of an epidemic of the disease which has reached 942 cases.
But the examination was unable to establish whether measles was the main cause of his death.
An inquest will be opened and adjourned on Tuesday to allow further tests.
Since the outbreak began in November, 83 people have needed hospital treatment for the illness.
Mr Colfer-Williams' mother, Angela Colfer said her son had recently been treated at Swansea's Morriston Hospital for asthma.
A few days after he was discharged he became unwell and developed a rash.
Mrs Colfer said her son went to see an out-of-hours GP on 17 April with a rash "from head to foot" but not on his arms.
The following morning, Mr Colfer-Williams was found dead at his flat.
Public Health Wales said on Friday that laboratory tests confirmed a diagnosis of measles but further tests were needed to determine the cause of death.
The family said they had no idea how Mr Colfer-Williams got measles as no close family member has it, including his three-year-old daughter who has been vaccinated. | Further tests will be carried out on a man who died while suffering from measles after post-mortem examination results were inconclusive. | 22299596 | [
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Elizabeth Timar, 18, was last seen near Blackpool Sands at 19:45 BST on Monday.
Romanian Ms Timar, from Exeter, had been "at the beach for the afternoon with a male", said Devon and Cornwall Police.
The force has carried out a major air and sea search with help from RNLI coastguards and Dartmoor Search and Rescue Group.
Ms Timar was last seen wearing a black coat with a red top underneath, blue jeans, and carrying a handbag.
A force spokesman said: "If anybody was in the area on Monday and saw a young female acting strangely then please get in touch." | Concerns are growing for a teenager who was last seen at a beach in South Devon six days ago. | 36570869 | [
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Edward Maher was questioning the soldier in charge of risk assessment during the exercise in July 2013.
He said instructors did not notice for nearly an hour that his son, L/Cpl Edward Maher, was "overdue, over time, and off track" on the march.
Fellow reservists L/Cpl Craig Roberts and Cpl James Dunsby also died.
L/Cpl Maher's father questioned why a soldier, known as 1B to protect his identity, did not did not realise his son had gone "off track" until 16:10 BST when he had been expected at the next checkpoint at 15:34 BST.
Soldier 1B explained he had only noticed L/Cpl Maher's tracking device on the screen at that time.
Mr Maher said: "They were overdue, overtime, off track… do you think that your process had failed?"
"At that time sir, no I [didn't]," the soldier replied.
Earlier on Tuesday, soldier 1B told the inquest it was not in his thought process to stop the test because most soldiers were doing well during the 16-mile (26km) test on one of the hottest days of that year.
He told the hearing in Solihull that of the 78 reservists taking part that day, six had withdrawn by early afternoon - two for medical reasons.
But he said he was not concerned because the course was "tough".
"They were all completing the march on time.... at that time the two casualties had recovered within 10 minutes… none of the qualified medics there told me they needed qualified assistance," he said.
"All of the other runners were all within time… that includes Craig, that includes Ed, that includes James.
"Were there alarm bells ringing in my head at that time? No there was not."
David Turner QC, representing Cpl Dunsby's widow Bryher, asked 1B if he would have continued the march if commanding officer 1A had told him about the heat illness casualties.
"I would have looked at what was going on… everyone is pushing themselves… it takes a different type of person to operate within that theatre, at that time I would have said it would not have been within my thought process to stop that march," he said.
Soldier 1B said he told candidates to be aware of the hot weather and rising temperatures, but he did not consider heat exhaustion to be a greater risk than normal.
He also said he was not made aware of new guidance on heat injuries and when an exercise should be stopped, following the death of a marine in similar circumstances in 2008.
The inquest is continuing. | The father of a reservist who died after attempting an SAS selection exercise in the Brecon Beacons has told an inquest processes "failed" that day. | 33151291 | [
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It happened on 16 September when Mr Obama visited the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.
The incident came to light on Tuesday, hours after the boss of the Secret Service was grilled by Congress about a security breach at the White House.
A Secret Service official confirmed the incident but declined to comment.
The incident contravened a protocol that only members of the Secret Service are allowed to carry weapons in the presence of the president.
Tuesday's revelations led to calls from one senior US congressman for a "top-to-bottom" review of the agency.
The gun was found when the man was questioned by agents after taking a video of the president in the lift.
He was immediately sacked by his supervisors, who arrived on the scene shortly after the incident, reports said.
November 2009: A Virginia couple filming a reality show make it past Secret Service checkpoints into a dinner for visiting Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh without an invitation.
November 2011: A man parks a car directly south of the White House and opens fire with a rifle, striking the residence at least seven times. Secret Service supervisors fail to realise the White House has been struck for four days - until a housekeeper discovers the damage.
April 2012: Eleven Secret Service employees preparing for the president's visit to the Summit of the Americas in Cartagena, Columbia, bring sex workers back to their hotel. An altercation ensues when one agent reneges on an agreement to pay $800 (£500) for the night, one woman tells a newspaper. Investigators later reveal agents violated protocol by "consuming excessive amounts of alcohol and patronising questionable local establishments while off duty".
November 2013: A senior supervisor on the president's protective detail starts a row after demanding access to a woman's room at the Hay Adams Hotel overlooking the White House. He leaves behind in the room a bullet from his service weapon.
March 2014: Three agents on the elite counter assault team are sent home from the Netherlands, where they have been preparing for a presidential visit, after one is found passed out drunk in a hallway. The agents had been drinking until about 02:30 and were scheduled to be on duty at 10:00.
16 September 2014: An armed security contractor with a felony criminal record is allowed to board a lift with the president in a government building in Atlanta.
19 September 2014: Omar Gonzalez, a troubled Iraq War veteran, scales a fence at the White House, evades agents during his dash across the lawn, and enters the White House through an unlocked and unalarmed door.
A supervisor asked the man to hand over his gun, surprising the Secret Service team who had not known he was armed.
The Washington Post said the man had three convictions for assault and battery.
"This person was within arm's length of the president with a gun," said Utah congressman Jason Chaffetz, who was told of the incident by a whistleblower.
It will come as another embarrassment on the day after the director of the US Secret Service, Julia Pierson, took responsibility before a hostile House oversight committee hearing for an "unacceptable" security breach at the presidential residence.
On 19 September Omar Gonzalez, 42, scaled a fence at the White House, ran across the lawn, entered an unlocked door and was eventually tackled inside.
On Wednesday Republican congressman Michael McCaul, chairman of the House of Representatives committee with oversight of the agency, called for a comprehensive review.
"This latest episode adds to the growing list of failures from an agency plagued by operational challenges, cultural problems and reporting difficulties," he said. | President Barack Obama rode in a lift with an armed security contractor who had assault convictions, in another security lapse. | 29437755 | [
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Human Rights Watch believes Nato air strikes killed at least 72 civilians and says the organisation needs to bear responsibility where appropriate.
"We're calling for prompt, credible and thorough investigations," HRW's Fred Abrahams told BBC News.
Nato insists it took unprecedented care to minimise civilian casualties.
It argues that it cannot take responsibility because it has had no presence on the ground to confirm the deaths.
Aircraft from the US, the UK and France conducted most of the 9,658 strike sorties last year, targeting forces loyal to Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi.
In March, another human rights organisation,
Amnesty International, said it had documented 55 cases
of named civilians, including 16 children and 14 women, killed in air strikes.
It described Nato's failure to investigate these cases thoroughly as "deeply disappointing".
The point of the Nato air campaign in Libya last year was to protect civilians, so how many innocent people died is still a sensitive issue, BBC diplomatic correspondent Bridget Kendall reports.
In its report published on Monday, HRW said it had examined in detail evidence of claims of civilian deaths from eight separate Nato strikes.
In one instance, it said a first Nato bomb killed 14 people and a second bomb, moments later, killed 18 more who had rushed to help victims.
What concerns Mr Abrahams, the main author of the report, is that the deaths remain unacknowledged and the families have been offered no compensation.
"Until now, Nato has taken a position of denial," he said.
Source: Nato
"They refuse to give information about how they died and they refuse to investigate, and it is this lack of transparency that is deeply troubling.
"I think it will lead to unnecessary civilian deaths in the future if Nato refuses to look at what went wrong and make corrections."
Nato says it is ready to co-operate with the new Libyan authorities in assessing what further action is appropriate.
But so far the task force being set up in Tripoli seems to have made little headway, our diplomatic correspondent adds. | A leading human rights organisation has urged Nato to investigate fully the deaths of civilians in air strikes in Libya last year. | 18053488 | [
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Sam Boulton, 26, was hit by a van at about 13:20 BST on 27 July on London Road. He later died in hospital.
Leicestershire Police said a 50-year-old man was questioned and released.
The road was closed between Station Street and the entrance to the station but later reopened. Police have appealed for witnesses.
In a statement, Mr Boulton's father Jeff said: "We would like to thank you all for your kind wishes, love and support for our beautiful son, brother and fiancé. We are asking you to respect the privacy of both families during this sad time." | A man arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving after a cyclist died near Leicester railway station has been released on bail. | 36907594 | [
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Sir Keir Starmer said there was a "very strong case" for the Crown Prosecution Service to make the final decision on whether to prosecute cases.
Currently, police forces in England and Wales decide whether to pass a case on to the CPS after investigating a death.
The CPS said cases should be referred to a prosecutor as early as possible.
Department of Transport figures show 113 cyclists were killed in the UK last year.
Last year a Freedom of Information request by BBC's Newsbeat found that between 2007 and 2014 there were 276 recorded incidents where a cyclist was killed in an accident involving a motor vehicle.
Of these, 148 - 54% - resulted in the driver of the vehicle being charged with an offence. Of those found guilty, fewer than half went to prison.
Sir Keir, now a Labour MP, told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme that if a death was involved and it was serious enough to have had a criminal investigation "then it really ought to go off to the CPS for the final decision".
In Scotland, if evidence suggests the driver is to blame for a collision that leads to a cyclist's death, a report is to be submitted to the Procurator Fiscal.
But data compiled from a 2014 freedom of information request to Police Scotland suggests this happened in only a small number of cases.
Cycling campaigners are calling for a change in liability - who is considered responsible for a collision - in civil cases.
At the moment there is no presumption on either side.
Last year, my dad Mick was killed as he cycled through central London.
After three weeks in a coma, he died.
At the inquest the driver said the first she realised was when she heard a noise, like something falling from the sky. The coroner returned a verdict of accidental death.
We had questions about how the police were investigating from very early on. Potential witnesses weren't chased as we would have liked and we felt they just didn't think about what we were going through.
A year on from my dad's death we held a vigil at the spot where his crash happened.
That day, the police told a journalist they would pass the case to prosecutors - which could lead to a trial. It felt like progress.
But this changed just four days later when police again went straight to the journalist, saying the case was actually closed.
I still want to know more about what happened on the night of my dad's crash and the only option for my family is a private prosecution.
The Met Police said they followed all available lines of enquiry in this case.
Rhia Favero, from the cycling charity CTC, said it supported the argument of "presumed liability" - placing the onus on the driver to demonstrate they were only partially liable for an accident.
"Currently it's often on the victim to prove liability - which seems very unfair, " she said.
Sir Keir said the debate over liability had been going on for some time.
"You have to be very careful with this - and I certainly wouldn't want to go to strict liability where it's automatically thought one party is at fault - but we may need to start looking again at that balance," he said.
How safe is cycling?
A senior lawyer who has dealt with a number of cases involving cyclists said he thought it was problematic that some senior police officers have said they would not commute on a bike in the capital.
Martin Porter QC said: "They're looking at cycling as a dangerous activity. Their emphasis then, and the emphasis of some coroners, is upon whether a cyclist is wearing a crash helmet or high visibility equipment, rather than on whether the people driving in the vicinity of vulnerable road users like cyclists are taking the appropriate amount of care not to collide with them."
Suzette Davenport, roads policing lead for National Police Chiefs' Council, said: "I wouldn't do that, because it's too busy, there are too many risks.
"One of the things as a police officer, but also in my roads policing role, is my sense of risk is so heightened because of what we deal with on a day-to-day basis. We know there are a range of people who don't go home at the end of the day."
The head of the Metropolitan Police, Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, has also previously said he would not cycle in London.
A CPS spokeswoman said the police could make the decision to take no further action.
She added: "Guidelines on early investigative advice state that specific cases, including those involving a death, should always be referred to an Area Prosecutor as early as possible."
The Victoria Derbyshire programme is broadcast on weekdays between 09:15 and 11:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News channel. | The way cycling deaths are treated by police and prosecutors may need to change, the former Director of Public Prosecutions has said. | 34604622 | [
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Dentsu is accused of violating labour standards after Matsuri Takahashi, 24, killed herself in 2015.
Her friends said Ms Takahashi - who had been at the firm for less than a year - claimed to be so busy she slept just 10 hours a week.
Death from overwork is relatively common in Japan, where it has its own word: karoshi.
Ms Takahashi is reported to have worked 100 hours of overtime a month for some time before her death.
She died on Christmas day 2015. According to reports, a note left behind for her mother included the line: "Why do things have to be so hard?"
The Asahi Shimbun newspaper said the company was being charged over illegal overtime, and that prosecutors were seeking a fine.
That would effectively end the investigation, Kyodo news agency reported.
The case against Dentsu targets the corporate entity, but not any individuals.
But Kyodo news agency quoted Ms Takahashi's mother as saying she was "unconvinced" about the lack of charges for her daughter's superiors.
The high-profile case has led to renewed calls for changes to Japan's notoriously long working hours and illegal unpaid overtime.
Officially, there are several hundred cases of karoshi each year, although campaigners say the real number is even higher.
Dentsu has made a number of reforms in the aftermath of Ms Takahashi's case, reported to include turning off the lights at 22:00 every night in a bid to force employees to leave.
The agency's chief executive, Tadashi Ishii, offered his resignation last December over the controversy. | One of Japan's leading advertising agencies has been charged over the death of an employee from overwork. | 40541609 | [
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Dorset Police said officers had restrained the man, who was reported acting erratically in Poole on Tuesday.
The man suffered a medical episode while with the officers, who performed CPR while waiting for an ambulance.
He was taken to Poole Hospital but his condition deteriorated and he died on Wednesday morning, police said. His next of kin have been told.
Police have referred the death to the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC).
A statement from the force said officers were called at 16:12 and 16:19 BST amid concern for the man's welfare.
The statement said: "When officers arrived, a man matching the description was found on The Avenue. He was restrained while officers assessed the situation.
"While with officers he suffered a medical emergency. The ambulance service was requested to attend and officers performed CPR while awaiting their arrival.
"The man was taken to Poole Hospital for further treatment. Sadly, his condition deteriorated and he died in hospital this morning." | A man who police had been called to help after he was seen wandering among traffic has died in hospital. | 39582816 | [
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Bruce Dewey, 36, was spotted by Sussex Police as he drove his Honda Legend in Tarring Road in Chichester in February.
He was known to only have a provisional driving licence and so was followed. He was requested to stop but carried on for about 50 minutes.
During the chase he dialled 999 and asked police to stop following him. He was jailed for dangerous driving.
One police car was put out of action during the chase. Dewey was brought to a stop on the A27 in Sompting on 22 February damaging two more police cars.
PC Peter De Silvo said: "For nearly 50 minutes he refused to stop for police units, avoided stop sticks deployed to try and burst his tyres and at one point called 999 and asked us to stop following him."
Chichester Crown Court heard Dewey admit to dangerous driving, driving otherwise than in accordance with a licence and driving without third-party insurance.
He was jailed on 8 August for 15 months and disqualified from driving for three years and will be required to take an extended retest. | CCTV images of a man who dialled 999 to ask police to stop following him during a police pursuit have been released. | 37340191 | [
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The boar - which has a moving head - is one of a number of animated replica creatures at Mountfitchet Castle.
Staff at the site, an open air museum, were surprised to find two nests had been created next to the arc of its belly.
Owner Jeremy Goldsmith said seeing the hatched chicks on Thursday morning had been a "lovely surprise" for staff.
He said it remained unclear why the hens had made the nests next to the boar, though it was likely they chose it because it was a secluded spot with straw, and perhaps for a sense of protection from the replica animal
The chicks have been seen playing on top of the boar's back and head. | A castle has welcomed 20 chicks to its grounds after hens nested next to a lifelike replica boar. | 32531686 | [
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The Nobel committee praised him for a peace deal signed with Farc rebels, but rejected by Colombians in a vote.
Mr Santos said he dedicated the award to "all the victims of the conflict", and the Farc leader congratulated him.
About 260,000 people have been killed and more than six million internally displaced in Colombia.
The award did not include Farc leader Rodrigo Londono, known as Timochenko, who also signed the accord.
The head of the Nobel commitee said the award recognised the president's "resolute efforts" to end the conflict.
"The award should also be seen as a tribute to the Colombian people who, despite great hardships and abuses, have not given up hope of a just peace, and to all the parties who have contributed to the peace process," Kaci Kullman Five added.
Sources: BBC Monitoring, Colombian presidency
Mr Santos said on Twitter: "This honourable distinction is not for me, it's for all the victims of the conflict. Together we'll win the most important award of them all: peace."
The peace deal was rejected by 50.2% of voters who went to the polls on 2 October.
The committee acknowledged the result, saying: "What the 'No' side rejected was not the desire for peace, but a specific peace agreement."
It also said that finding a balance between the need for reconciliation and ensuring justice for the victims would be a difficult challenge.
Also on Twitter, Farc leader Timochenko said: "I congratulate President Juan Manuel Santos, Cuba and Norway, who sponsored the process, and Venezuela and Chile, who assisted it, without them, peace would be impossible."
Earlier, he had written: "The only prize we aspire to is peace with social justice for Colombia, without (right-wing) paramilitary groups, without retaliation or lies. Peace in the streets."
This was a Peace Prize for a peace deal that wasn't. President Santos joins a long line of Nobel Peace Prize winners who have been rewarded for effort as much as achievement.
But it is too easy to be cynical. The Nobel Peace Prize has often been controversial. In recent years a variety of international bureaucracies have won - the EU, the IAEA and the OPCW.
Why, some have argued, should people get a prize for simply doing their job? What, others ask, had US President Barack Obama actually done to merit the prize in 2009, other than be elected?
But the Nobel has often gone to extraordinary individuals who really have gone above and beyond to bring peace - in Northern Ireland and East Timor to name just two examples. Maybe the award to President Santos may yet galvanise public opinion in Colombia to think again about the deal.
Critics, led by former president Alvaro Uribe, said the deal was too lenient to the rebels.
Under the agreement, special courts would have been created to try crimes committed during the conflict.
Those who confessed would have received lighter sentences and avoided serving any time in conventional prisons.
The Farc would also have been guaranteed 10 seats in the Colombian Congress in the 2018 and 2022 elections.
Despite the rejection by voters, Mr Santos vowed to continue with talks with the rebels.
Government negotiators have already returned to the Cuban capital Havana for further discussions with Farc leaders.
Kaci Kullman Five, from the Nobel committee, said the award was also meant as "encouragement" to the rebels.
"Giving the prize to Santos is not a belittlement to any of the other parties.
"The Farc is obviously a very important part of this process.''
1964: Set up as armed wing of Communist Party
2002: At its height, it had an army of 20,000 fighters controlling up to a third of the country. Senator Ingrid Betancourt was kidnapped and held for six years along with 14 other hostages
2008: The Farc suffers a series of defeats in its worst year
2012: Start of peace talks in Havana
2016: Definitive ceasefire
Full timeline of Farc conflict
Mr Santos was selected from a list of 376 candidates - 228 were individuals and 148 were organisations. They included:
The main candidates for the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize
Why are Nobel laureates getting older?
Winners throughout the years | Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to end the 52-year conflict with left-wing rebels. | 37585188 | [
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The Surrey village team play in the Isthmian League Premier Division, the seventh tier of English football.
Southern League Chesham, also from the seventh tier, face a trip to League One club Peterborough United.
Ninth-tier Westfields will face Curzon Ashton, who upset York City 2-1 in Monday's replay, with ties to be played on the weekend of 5-6 November.
The Midlands League Premier Division club, formed in 1966 following England's World Cup triumph, are the lowest-ranked team left in the competition.
"We are delighted we are at home, six home games on bounce now this season," Westfields chief executive Andy Morris told BBC Sport before the Curzon Ashton result. "I'm quietly confident with a home draw.
"Getting this far is a huge bonus - we have earned enough money so far to get us through this season and keep us going into next season."
Merstham had offered free drinks in their clubhouse from 19:00 BST until their ball, number 79, came up, but the Moatsiders' generosity was presumably shortlived as they were the fourth tie drawn.
Meanwhile, Spennymoor Town of the Northern Premier League will travel to League One MK Dons, while Stamford, who play one level below Spennymoor in the NPL South, will make the trip to Hartlepool if they overcome Wrexham in Tuesday's fourth qualifying round replay in north Wales.
"What an occasion. It is all a reward for the hard work and fantastic opportunity for the supporters to go to the game and hopefully see us win," said Spennymoor manager Jason Ainsley.
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A total of 39 non-league clubs joined the 48 from Leagues One and Two in the first-round draw, with the winners of seven ties still to be decided following draws on Saturday.
Bolton Wanderers and Sheffield United, both four-time cup winners, face home ties against Leyton Orient and Grimsby Town respectively.
National League Altrincham - who beat Barnsley at the same stage last season - take on either Lincoln City or Guiseley.
Meanwhile, 2008 winners Portsmouth will be at home to League Two rivals Wycombe Wanderers.
Premier League and Championship clubs will enter the competition at the third-round stage.
Full FA Cup first-round draw:
Sheffield United v Leyton Orient
Millwall v Southend United
Dagenham & Redbridge v FC Halifax Town
Merstham v Oxford United
Taunton/Hemel Hempstead v Barrow
Southport v Fleetwood Town
Yeovil v Solihull Moors
Stockport County v Torquay/Woking
Dartford v Sutton United
Walsall v Macclesfield Town
Port Vale v Stevenage
Northampton v Harrow Borough/Margate
Cambridge United v Dover Athletic
Westfields v Curzon Ashton
MK Dons v Spennymoor Town
Gillingham v Brackley Town
Alfreton/Gateshead v Newport County
Portsmouth v Wycombe Wanderers
Maidstone United v Rochdale
Bury v AFC Wimbledon
St Albans City v Carlisle United
Boreham Wood v Notts County
Mansfield Town v Plymouth Argyle
Braintree Town v Eastbourne Borough
Hartlepool United v Wrexham/Stamford
Bolton Wanderers v Grimsby Town
Bradford City v Accrington Stanley
Oldham Athletic v Doncaster Rovers
Eastleigh v Swindon Town
Shrewsbury Town v Barnet
Morecambe v Coventry City
Crawley Town v Bristol Rovers
Whitehawk v Stourbridge
Colchester United v Chesterfield
Lincoln City/Guiseley v Altrincham
Exeter City v Luton Town
Charlton Athletic v Scunthorpe United
Cheltenham Town v Crewe Alexandra
Peterborough United v Chesham
Blackpool v Kidderminster Harriers | Merstham will face Oxford United at home when they appear in the first round of the FA Cup for the first time. | 37673067 | [
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Let's not forget the traditional argument with your other half about whose job it was to buy all the batteries for the children's new toys - which are currently a source of tension because nobody can turn them on.
Am I right?
If that sounds all too familiar and you fancy keeping the whole thing a bit more spiritual this year without giving up your gadgets, here are five ways to enjoy Christmas online:
Everyday Church Online, which launched in the UK in September, runs virtual services every Sunday for a net-based congregation from around the world. Everyone's invited to log on and chat while a recorded sermon is streamed.
So far, people from 61 different countries have logged on, according to online pastor Darren Parker.
"There are lots of reasons why people can't get to church on a Sunday so we thought we would bring the church to them," he says.
"The chat room is like the foyer of a church."
Virtual prayer requests received from the global congregation have included:
Its first Christmas theme is Star Wars, the subject of three festive sermons.
"We found some real truths [in the franchise] which compare to Christmas," says Mr Parker.
"The new Star Wars is called The Force Awakens. Our sermons are called The Hope Awakens - it's about awakening hope for humanity."
The Star Wars sermon will be running throughout the day on the church's website.
Guardians of Ancora is a recently launched, free-to-play fantasy game available on Android, iPhone and Kindle platforms. It's developed by the same people behind the young people's group the Scripture Union.
The game is aimed at eight to 11-year-olds and director Terry Clutterham says 45,000 were playing within four months of its release.
"Ancora is a weird, wonderful, amazing place but it is a fictional space where children enter as guardians," he says.
"The problem with Ancora is that the light has been stolen from that world, so there is darkness around.
"It's the role of the guardians to rediscover the lost treasured stories which are the stories of the Bible... and those stories help to light up the world."
You get the idea.
Special content created for Christmas includes two new Bible-themed quests in which players find the birth of the baby Jesus.
There are lots of very charming nativity videos out there but it's not easy to rack up the hits.
German marketing company Viral.de had huge success with its 2010 video The Digital Story of Nativity, which has so far been viewed almost six million times.
There are no actors, no animals, and not even a stable.
The whole story is told in the form of Facebook status updates, tweets, Google searches and Foursquare check-ins.
Highlights include one "Joseph Carpenter" buying a cow and a donkey on Farmville before uploading a baby picture, which looks suspiciously like a Christmas card.
The Churches Advertising Network also had a respectable go - Christmas Starts with a Baby's Giggle, which features a modern-day couple sitting in a trendy living room with their baby, only for the scenery behind them to keep changing eras until they are Mary and Joseph in the stable. So far, it has been viewed about 250,000 times.
"It's pretty good - we're not John Lewis, we're a group of Christians with a very small budget," explains Frances Goodwin, who chairs the network.
"The message is that Christmas is the same today as it was 2,000 years ago."
However, according to a report in the Daily Mail, the charity's attempt to get the ad screened at cinemas was thwarted when the organisation that sells screen rejected it for being "too religious".
After distributing more than three million printed books and nearly five million booklets telling Old Testament stories in the genre of Japanese cult cartoon form Manga, the company Next Manga has just launched its work in app and e-book form - so far, only in the English language.
The book containing its version of the nativity is called the Manga Messiah.
It is available in 33 different languages - 25,000 copies of the Arabic version were recently sent to Syrian and Libyan refugees.
"We see it as a unique opportunity to share a message of hope and peace with these people who have suffered so much," says founder Roald Lidal.
"One third of all publications are in Manga form in Japan," adds Mr Lidal, who lived in the country for 45 years.
"There is a Manga for every age and every type of person. It seemed very difficult to proclaim the message of the Bible without using Manga."
As if you needed the excuse. But lots of groups are using platforms like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to connect with their communities, especially at this time of year.
"I don't see that much these days of trying to share the Gospel in 140 characters," says Kevin Bennett of Christian media group Premier.
"The Church is mostly trying to just drop thoughts in, get people to fix their gaze on something a little bit higher for a second and maybe consider things that are a bit more spiritual rather than earthly."
"Jesus would definitely be on Twitter," adds Jules Middleton, blogger and mission pastor at The Point Church in Burgess Hill, West Sussex.
"He was a great communicator."
Sounds like a seal of approval to me. | Nothing says Christmas more than watching that Harry Potter movie you've already seen 2,900 times, eating a mountain of lukewarm turkey and trying to work out where you're going to put all those new socks. | 35074007 | [
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The male in his early 30s was found with critical injuries in North Woolwich Road, Silvertown, at about 13:30 GMT.
He was pronounced dead at the scene and inquiries are under way to locate his next-of-kin, the Met said. No arrests have been made.
Two other cyclists were killed in the capital within hours of each other on Monday.
Anita Szucs, 30, died after an apparent hit-and-run on Bounces Road, Enfield, while Karla Roman, 32, was killed in a crash with a coach on Whitechapel High Street, Tower Hamlets. | A cyclist has died in a crash with an HGV in east London. | 38923734 | [
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The park authority's planning committee said the land involved was earmarked for housing.
However, it added that the developer's three planning applications for the project were "not deemed to meet with a range of other planning policies".
Aviemore and Highland Developments Ltd, part of the Tulloch Homes Group, had sought approval for the scheme.
The housing project has been going through the planning process for more than 10 years.
Among the planning committee's reasons for refusal were that environmental impacts had not been fully assessed.
Rare red squirrels, capercaillie and wood ants had been recorded in the area.
Committee members were also told the village's Carr Road was unsuitable as an access for the majority of houses proposed.
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So for the one tasked with replacing Karl Robinson as MK Dons manager, changing the mark of a man who had been in charge for more than half of the club's entire existence will be quite a renovation.
Robinson, once the third-longest serving boss in England's top four divisions, oversaw the development of England international Dele Alli and led Dons to the Championship for the first time.
So, having been engrained in the fundamental DNA of a club only founded in 2004, which prides itself on the football it plays and the development of youngsters, can this carry on under someone else?
"What we are talking about is playing modern football," chairman Pete Winkelman said.
"We're a young football club and we want to play football like the big boys play, we might not play it at the same speed or accuracy but I want our supporters to recognise that football.
"The way that we play can be interpreted in many different ways. Karl's interpreted one way, and there's a massive spectrum for other people to interpret it differently.
"You look at the difference between how Chelsea and Tottenham are playing, Bournemouth and Liverpool. They're all playing a similar kind of football but all doing it completely differently."
This club needs to be a Premier League club one day
Robinson was aged just 29 in May 2010 when Winkelman promoted him from Paul Ince's assistant to full-time boss after former England midfielder Ince left Stadium:MK.
Failures in successive League One play-off campaigns in his first two seasons in charge showed signs of things to come, and Robinson finally delivered promotion to the Championship in 2015 thanks in no small part to the goals of on-loan Will Grigg and Benik Afobe.
But after a dismal Championship season in which they got relegated with only four wins from January onwards, Robinson left on Sunday with the Dons 19th in League One.
"Ironically it's that promotion that changes the whole nature of club and we came back to League One with this burden of expectation that we need to be a Championship club," said Winkelman.
"To be honest, this club needs to be a Premier League club one day. I've built a Premier League stadium, Milton Keynes is going to be a top-10 city in the country and we need to have a top-10 ambition.
"It's one thing thinking it, it's another thing delivering it. But where we cannot be is 19th in League One. It's the lowest position we've been in since this stadium. We're going backwards, not forwards."
It was during that promotion-winning campaign that one of the club's greatest nights to date came - when they defeated Louis van Gaal's Manchester United 4-0 in the League Cup.
And Robinson, despite the club finding itself in one of its worst positions since he took over, said his overriding feeling after leaving the club is pride. Why?
"The people of Milton Keynes, the identity, the growth of youth in Milton Keynes and the net profit in transfer fees in six years, the development of young players," he told BBC Three Counties Radio.
"The dream was to fill the stadium - (I was the) first person to do that, the first person to beat AFC Wimbledon.
"50% of the squad is home-grown, which is phenomenal in modern-day football I think."
Instead of dissecting Saturday's 3-0 defeat by Southend United, a solitary Robinson pitched up at a golf course on Monday, trying to take a step back from what had happened.
"I still believed they'd finish in the play-offs. I said that to the chairman on Sunday," he continued. "But I have no arguments with the decisions that were made. I have no problems with anybody."
Also left working out what has gone wrong are Dons fans, some of whom are unhappy with the recruitment strategy, overseen by the chairman's son Bobby.
The club use a recruitment database first set up by Paul Mitchell, who went on to work with Mauricio Pochettino at Southampton and Tottenham, to help make a list of potential signings.
But fan questions have arisen after players such as Matthew Upson, Dale Jennings and Jay Emmanuel-Thomas failed to make an impact in the club's Championship season.
"We've made mistakes when we haven't signed to the (recruitment) list: 85% of the players last year weren't on our recruitment list," said Pete Winkelman.
"It's something we've put more right this year, but again, not all of them were on the list.
"There are successes and failures in that recruitment list, but the successes hugely outweigh the failures.
"I want to get rid of this thing that we make decisions. I've never picked the team, other than the amount of money people can spend on somebody. I've never had any other influence in the football, and nor has Bob.
"People trying to get at me will get at Bob. It's an easy hit but what I can rely on is one of the strongest databases in football."
Winkelman now has to sift through "around 200" names and is even considering creating a technical director role to work alongside the new manager.
Meanwhile, Robinson wants to get back into management as soon as possible and has already been asked whether he would ever want to return to MK Dons.
"It was a very strange question to be asked 24 hours after leaving. But, do you know what, my answer to that was '100%'," he said.
"I would love to manage the club again someday. That's the emotional ties we have with the football club." | From builders and bakers to door handle makers, the replacement for any longstanding member of staff will sometimes sneeringly be told "that's not how they used to do it". | 37765880 | [
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Sgt Mark Wright was injured in February 2012 while restraining a "dangerously out of control" man armed with two knives.
Police were called after reports that a number of women had been assaulted at the house.
They were told a woman and two children were still inside with the man.
Sgt Wright was about to force entry to the house when the man emerged, armed with two knives.
When the officer and a colleague tried to restrain him he was stabbed in the head.
"The cut to the back of the head cut right through the tissue around the back of my head, right down to my skull," Sgt Wright said.
"There were puncture wounds to my face and forehead, narrowly missing my eye."
Although seriously wounded, Sgt Wright's actions were judged to have ensured the safety of the two young children, the woman and his two colleagues.
His attacker was arrested, charged and subsequently sentenced to seven years in prison.
Sgt Wright said while he was proud to have been awarded the medal, his colleagues should share the honour.
"In fairness, this is happening to police officers every day, they're facing similar dangers," he said.
"In receiving this award I can honestly say I am extremely proud, but I am truly humbled as well.
"I accept it not just on behalf of myself, my family and my friends, but for all my colleagues."
Sgt Wright will receive his medal at Buckingham Palace later this year, although the date has not yet been set. | A police officer who has been awarded the Queen's Gallantry Medal after being stabbed in the head at a house in Lurgan has said he is "truly humbled". | 38802579 | [
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The 28-year-old was an ever-present in the side which won the County Championship title in 2016.
"He is one of the finest cricketers in the country," managing director of cricket Angus Fraser said.
"As a glove-man there are few better than him and he is capable of producing match-changing innings with the bat."
Since making his debut for Middlesex in June 2009, Simpson has made almost 250 appearances in all formats.
The left-hander has scored 6,687 runs for the club and has 472 dismissals to his name. | Middlesex wicketkeeper-batsman John Simpson has extended his contract, keeping him at Lord's until the end of the 2019 season. | 38344115 | [
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The UK Personal Genome Project could provide a massive free tool for scientists to further understanding of disease and human genetics.
Participants will get an analysis of their DNA, but so will the rest of the world, and anonymity is not guaranteed.
They are warned there could be unknown consequences for them and relatives.
Unlocking the secrets of DNA could transform the understanding of disease.
A deeper understanding of Alzheimer's disease is emerging by looking for differences in the DNA of people with and without the disease.
Prof George Church, who runs the US version of the project, said analysing 100,000 genomes could lead to advances in common diseases such as diabetes.
He said: "We're finding more and more of these common diseases are a collection of rare diseases.
"Cancer used to be a disease, then it broke up into lots of different diseases by tissue, then lots of sub-categories based on the genes that are impacted, so now it's thousands of diseases."
Participants will have to pass tests to prove they fully understand the risks of making their genetic identities freely available for the world to use before taking part.
There will be immediate risks and those that emerge as genetic technology advances including:
Dr Peter Mills, who is investigating the ethical issues around biological and health data with the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, told the BBC: "The difference with genetic data is you're not just committing yourself to something you might not fully envisage, but you're also implicating biological relatives.
"There is potentially huge public benefit, but there is the potential for it to rebound, but how that rebounds on the person, families and those yet to be born is very difficult to know."
Cian Murphy, a 24-year-old PhD student at University College London, wants to take part. He said: "Very few people live their whole lives not affected by some genetic illness, your sample could be the difference between a cure being discovered or not."
As part of the study, participants will find out intimate details about their genome, such as the presence of any high-risk breast-cancer genes.
They will be given a list of doctors they can go to if they need further medical advice.
While people will not have their name published, studies have shown it is possible to work out someone's identity from genetic databases and other public records.
Dr David King, from the group Human Genetics Alert, said: "Human Genetics Alert would strongly advise people not to give their genetic information to a project which will share it with the world.
"Once your data is online, you will never be able to recall it. The project's informed-consent procedures are not valid, because they do not tell you all of the risks. That is not informed consent."
He warned the data could be used for any purpose including those people objected to ethically and said there was "no reason" for it to be public.
Meanwhile, the government's Genomics England project is trying to sequence 100,000 NHS patient's DNA, which is private and carries a threat of legal action if patients are identified.
Sir John Chisholm, executive chairman of Genomics England, said: "We would want anyone consenting to their DNA being used for sequencing to have a clear understanding of what they are contributing to, and to do so on a voluntary basis which we understand will be the case with Personal Genome Project.
"Anyone who takes part in any initiative that involves giving a DNA sample for sequencing should be as clear at the time of giving their consent as they can be of how that sample will be used, and who will have access to it, and what future purposes it can be put to." | Scientists are looking for 100,000 volunteers prepared to have their DNA sequenced and published online for anyone to look at. | 24834375 | [
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The Bulls' fate has been in the balance since the full extent of their financial worries emerged in the weeks since their dramatic final-day escape sent Chester down instead.
Chester have been reinstated as a Conference Premier club and Hayes & Yeading will stay in Conference South.
"Hereford United can have no complaints. The Conference bent over backwards to help them.
"I described the news of the board's offer of an extension on Friday evening as not so much 'last chance saloon', but rather 'last orders in last chance saloon' and United have seemingly chosen not to offer the league the assurances they were seeking.
"It is a desperately sad day for all Hereford supporters, but the Bulls have nobody to blame but themselves.
"You have to feel very sorry for those players who gave their all at Aldershot on the last day of the season to keep Hereford in the Conference Premier. Sadly, those efforts now count for nothing."
The Conference had originally offered a payment deadline of Thursday, 5 June.
The club's debt to their football creditors, including former boss Martin Foyle, members of the current squad, other club staff and clubs from whom the Bulls loaned players during the 2013-14 season, added up to £148,000.
That deadline was extended three times, to Friday, 6 June, then again to Saturday, 7 June and for a third time until Thursday, 12 June.
But it became clear on Tuesday that the Bulls, taken over last week by London businessman Tommy Agombar, would not make that deadline - and the Conference has now acted.
The last team to be expelled from the Conference was Chester City in February 2010.
They reformed as Chester FC two months later - and it is now they who have taken the Bulls' place, following a dramatic final day of the season when, almost simultaneously, a late Hereford winning goal at Aldershot and a Salisbury equaliser at Chester kept the Bulls up.
By way of an added twist, Chester announced on Tuesday that Kingsley James, who was in Hereford's team that day, has moved to Bumpers Lane.
26 April - Hereford stay up on final day of Conference Premier season
29 April - Hereford United Supporters' Trust make offer to buy the club for £1 and clear their £220,000 debts
22 May - Former Bulls boss Martin Foyle serves winding-up petition over unpaid wages, after players reveal they have not been fully paid too
2 June - Case adjourned for 28 days at Royal Court of Justice
3 June - Tommy Agombar takes over as new Hereford owner
5 June - Hereford fail to meet 17:00 BST deadline to pay football creditors, and are threatened with expulsion, subject to Conference board vote
6 June - Hereford meet with Conference board and are given new deadline of 7 June. The deadline is moved to 9 June, then 12 June
10 June - Hereford expelled from Football Conference
And former Hereford boss Foyle, now manager at Southport, chose the same day to sign another player from that same Bulls team, keeper Dan Lloyd-Weston, who opted to leave as he was still owed part of his salary.
When last season ended, despite months of fundraising efforts by fans, as well as generous donations from fans of other clubs, the Bulls faced debts of approximately £225,000.
They still owe over £70,000 to clear the latest PAYE tax demand from HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC).
An offer was made by one of the club's main fan bodies, the Hereford United Supporters' Trust (HUST), on the back of pledges made by their backers, to buy the club for £1 and take over the running at Edgar Street.
But, although chairman David Keyte held talks with them, they were not the preferred option.
Keyte was reported to have been in talks with three different rival bidders before Agombar's takeover.
The downward spiral of Hereford's financial situation since being relegated from the Football League in May 2012 has been exacerbated by falling gates.
The average attendance for the 2013-14 season at Edgar Street was 1,758, little over half the average gate they attracted of 3,270 in League Two just five years ago. | Hereford United have been expelled from the Football Conference following the club's failure to pay their bills. | 27786442 | [
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The pop star was given the night's top honour for her multi-million selling record 25, but told the audience, "I can't possibly accept this award".
"I'm very humbled and I'm very grateful, but Beyonce is the artist of my life".
The British singer then appeared to break the award in two accidentally and offer a piece to her fellow nominee.
Adele's victory over Beyonce is certain to boost complaints that the Grammys habitually overlook black artists.
Several artists, including Frank Ocean and Kanye West, chose to skip this year's ceremony on that basis.
Ocean even declined to submit his critically-acclaimed album, Blonde, for consideration, saying the Grammys did not "seem to be representing very well for people who come from where I come from, and hold down what I hold down".
Two years ago, West rushed onto the stage in protest when Beck's Morning Phase beat Beyonce's last LP in the best album race.
However, Adele's 25 was by far the biggest-seller on this year's shortlist; outselling Beyonce's Lemonade by a factor of 10 to 1.
It is unclear if Adele will officially reject her award. If she does, it would only be the second time in history that has happened.
The last was in 1990, when Sinead O'Connor turned down best alternative album for I Do Not Want What I Have Not Got, claiming the ceremony was too "commercialised".
Main winners
Whatever the outcome, Adele remains one of the night's biggest winners.
She won five prizes in all, including three of the top four: Best album, song of the year and record of the year - the latter two both rewarding her 2015 comeback single, Hello.
Chicago's Chance the Rapper also took three prizes, including best rap album for his self-released record Coloring Book.
"I know people think independence means you do it by yourself, but independence means freedom," he said as he picked up best new act at the start of the ceremony.
Rock icon David Bowie won in each of the five categories he was nominated for, including best alternative album, for Blackstar, and best rock performance, for the album's title track.
And Beyonce wasn't left completely empty-handed: she took home best urban contemporary album and best music video, for the politically-charged Formation.
The star, who is pregnant with twins, also gave an ambitious and logistically complex performance of the songs Love Drought and Sandcastles, themed around the ideas of rebirth, regeneration and healing.
Dressed in flowing, golden Egyptian robes and an elaborate headdress, she dedicated the performance to motherhood, proudly displaying her baby bump as she sang.
But while Beyonce's performance was flawless, others were marred by technical issues.
Lady Gaga duetted with Metallica on the song Moth to the Flame, but singer James Hetfield was inaudible throughout the first verse.
He later sang cheek-to-cheek with Gaga, sharing her microphone, but angrily threw his guitar to one of his roadies at the end of the performance.
Adele also went off-key during a tribute to George Michael, and tearfully asked if the song could be started again. It was, and she received a standing ovation for her troubles.
Respects were paid to Sir George Martin, Leonard Cohen and other musicians we lost in 2016, while Bruno Mars honoured Prince by playing the star's trademark cloud guitar in a pitch-perfect rendition of Let's Go Crazy.
Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email [email protected]. | Adele has apparently turned down the Grammy award for best album, saying Beyonce deserved it more. | 38953317 | [
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