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The writer's work tells the story of a Nigerian woman who moves to the US to pursue a college education.
In 2008, her second novel, Half of a Yellow Sun, won the UK's Orange Prize and Purple Hibiscus was longlisted for the Booker Prize four years earlier.
Other category winners for the US honour included Sheri Fink's book about Hurricane Katrina.
Her account of the patients, staff and families who took shelter in New Orleans' Memorial Hospital during the devastating storm took the non-fiction prize.
Frank Bidart won the poetry section for his collection Metaphysical Dog, while Amy Wilentz was honoured with the autobiography award for her account of journeys to Haiti following the 2010 earthquake in the country.
For the first time, a special award was given for a debut writer, crossing all categories.
Anthony Marra was honoured with the prize for his novel A Constellation of Vital Phenomena.
Adichie's third novel was also named as one of the New York Times' top 10 books of 2013.
In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, the author said her book drew on her own experiences as an African living in the US, particularly with African Americans.
"I don't know race in the way an African American knows race… Sometimes it takes an outsider to see something about your own reality that you don't," she said.
Her preceding work, Half of a Yellow Sun, is set during the Biafran War of the late 1960s and has been adapted into a forthcoming film starring Chiwetel Ejiofor and Thandie Newton.
The writer is also in the running for the UK's Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction - formerly known as the Orange Prize - for Americanah.
The National Critics Book Prize was first awarded in 1974 and is open to writers of all nationalities whose work has been published in the US. | Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has won the US National Critics Book Prize for her novel Americanah. | 26575228 | [
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The toilet, in a busy park in Pudong New Area, will have 10 unisex stalls, plus some urinals and a stall for disabled people.
The opening on 19 November will coincide with World Toilet Day.
Unisex facilities will spare officials having to decide how to share out male and female stalls, say reports.
"It is an apparent problem that women have to wait in lines for toilets," Fu Liping, an official involved in the project, was quoted as saying, by the Xinhua news agency.
The stalls will be more spacious than regular ones. To guarantee safety and privacy, there will be attendants and higher partitions between stalls.
But there are no plans yet to build more unisex toilets, as authorities are unsure whether citizens will embrace the idea.
Their caution seem to be well-grounded, as people online have been less than enthusiastic about the unisex lavatory.
"I don't really support the idea. After all, men and female are different," said Weibo user Zhu Zhu Xia.
Another Weibo user said: "The problem will be solved if they build double female toilets." | Shanghai is trialling a unisex public toilet block to lower the time women have to spend waiting in queues, Chinese media have reported. | 37820092 | [
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The victim was taken to hospital from Crown Street, Acton, on Friday but died from his injuries.
A 16-year-old suspect was arrested and remains in custody in South London, police said.
Officers are continuing to question a 17-year-old arrested near the scene on suspicion of murder, the Met said.
Police believe they know the identity of the dead youth but it has yet to be formally confirmed.
Det Ch Insp Rebecca Reeves said the street would have been busy at the time of the stabbing and asked for anyone with information to come forward.
She added: "We are particularly keen to hear from anyone who saw or heard an argument outside a cafe on Crown Street." | A second teenager has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a 17-year-old boy was stabbed to death in a west London street. | 34560421 | [
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Sylvia Blackburn, 72, suffered serious head injuries outside Bedford Road Lower School, Kempston, last December.
Brian Wright, 55, of Kempston, told Luton Crown Court he had been blinded by the setting sun.
He accepted he had struck Mrs Blackburn but denies causing serious injury by dangerous driving.
Mrs Blackburn is now being treated in residential care.
Judge Michael Kay QC paused the case for five minutes so Mr Wright could compose himself after he told the court how he had turned his victim's "world upside down".
Mr Wright said: "I understand Sylvia was a much-loved lollipop lady, who was loved by the children.
"I am truly sorry for what I have done to her and her family."
Mr Wright's VW Golf failed to stop for a red light, the jury heard.
The married mother-of-three, a lollipop lady for 20 years, had been on duty in Bedford Road as pupils left school.
When the traffic lights turned red, Mrs Blackburn, who was wearing appropriate clothing, stepped out to escort a woman and her six-year-old daughter across the road.
Prosecutor Sally Mealing-McLeod said traffic in the other direction had stopped, but the defendant did not, and hit her.
Mr Wright, of The Dell, said he could not remember if the traffic lights were red or green.
"I was totally blinded by the sun," he said. "I just heard a bump. I was in total shock.
"Since that day I have thought of nothing else other than Sylvia Blackburn and her family and the position I have put them in."
The court heard the sun was 10 minutes from setting and could have been shining into Mr Wright's eyes.
The trial continues. | A driver who knocked down a lollipop lady broke down in tears in court as he said he was "truly sorry" for her and her family. | 35051818 | [
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Fawzi al-Odah, 37, was released after a US review panel concluded he was not a "continuing significant threat".
He had been at the US facility in Cuba since 2002 after his arrest in Pakistan on suspicion of links to al-Qaeda and the Taliban - a charge he denies.
He had challenged America's right to detain him in the US Supreme Court.
Mr Odah boarded a Kuwaiti government plane on Wednesday morning US time.
"There's no bitterness, there's no anger," his lawyer Eric Lewis was quoted as saying by the Associated Press news agency.
"There's just excitement and joy that he will be going home."
The release came after Guantanamo's Periodic Review Board in July determined "that continued law of war detention of (Mr Odah) does not remain necessary to protect against a continuing significant threat to the security of the United States".
But he now faces at least a year at a militant rehabilitation centre in Kuwait, according to the terms of the release.
The Kuwaiti government had pushed hard for the release of all Kuwaiti detainees at Guantanamo.
Mr Odah had argued that he travelled to Afghanistan and Pakistan to teach the Koran and provide humanitarian aid.
He is the first inmate to be freed since May, when five Taliban detainees were exchanged for US Sgt Bowe Bergdahl, who had been kept by the insurgents in Afghanistan.
Mr Odah's release brings down the total number of inmates at the US naval base to 148.
The US opened the facility in January 2002, following the 11 September 2001 attacks in America.
President Barack Obama has repeatedly promised to shut it down. | One of the longest-held detainees at the US facility at Guantanamo Bay, a Kuwaiti man, has been sent home, officials say. | 29928061 | [
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Prof Vic Grout said the aim is to meet monthly to share good practice.
Security agency GCHQ said people and businesses could adopt basic cyber security principals to keep safe. | Police and experts in cybercrime are meeting in Wrexham to discuss ways to tackle the issue and keep people safe online. | 33634796 | [
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Jessica Chisnall, 15, was hit by the bike on Ashton's Green Drive in St Helens as she walked home from school on 13 January.
She suffered a severe head injury which resulted in bleeding on the brain.
Her parents, Carl and Sara Chisnall, said their "smiling, laughing" daughter had "a long road to recovery".
They said Jessica, who was due to take her GCSE exams this summer, "suffered a very severe head injury" with "eye socket injuries and deep cuts from head to toe".
She remains in the neurology department at Alder Hey Children's Hospital.
Police said two males were arrested and released on bail, and appealed for witnesses to come forward.
"The depth of some of her injuries are still unknown so we are unsure how this will affect her in the future", her parents said.
"We have not left her side and are sleeping with her."
They described Jessica as a studious girl who is full of energy and very close to her two big sisters.
"We say she is like the Tasmanian devil with all her energy. She will help anyone and has a heart of gold," they added.
They thanked well wishers for their support and said Jessica was currently stable and "taking very small steps on to the road to recovery". | The parents of a teenage girl who was hit by a scrambler bike and put into a medically-induced coma say her future remains uncertain. | 38682080 | [
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The businessman has been at the helm at the St Lawrence Ground since 2008.
Last year he clashed with the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) when his side were overlooked for promotion after Durham's enforced relegation.
Kent were Division Two runners-up, in most seasons normally a promotion spot, but the ECB decided instead to reprieve Hampshire from being relegated.
Kennedy said: "I've really enjoyed the challenge of helping the club navigate through some tricky times but I firmly believe Kent cricket is in much better health than it was in 2008.
"Last season gave us a glimpse of what could be achieved and I know that the club is in good hands.
"I'd like to thank all the members and supporters for their loyalty, patience and understanding and look forward to seeing Kent thrive in all competitions under (head coach) Matt Walker and (captain) Sam Northeast."
He added: "Relations with the ECB have been difficult with the advent of T20 discussions, and the battle over promotion and relegation along with various other issues, but I am happy to hand over to a new regime who will continue the work to return Kent to the top table."
Under Kennedy, Kent had voted against the ECB's proposed T20 city franchise scheme.
His reign saw the club record a £1m improvement in its finances through cost-cutting, and increased sponsorship and ticket revenues.
He will leave the club following its AGM on 28 March. | Kent chairman George Kennedy is to leave his position at the Championship Division Two club at the end of March. | 39139644 | [
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The Sky Blues currently play in Coventry's Ricoh Arena but had a long dispute with the stadium's previous owners.
The council said the club wanted to meet to understand how it would deal with a planning application.
The club said it was not commenting "at this stage".
The club's owners, Sisu, have been involved in a long-running stand off with the previous operators of the Ricoh that saw the Sky Blues play the 2013/14 season in Northampton.
The arena is now owned by Premiership rugby team Wasps.
In a statement, Rugby Borough Council said its leader and the council's executive director and head of planning had met with Coventry City in March.
"The club requested the meeting to understand how the council would deal with any planning application for potential stadium sites in the borough of Rugby," it said.
It said the plans would need to be finalised by September to be included in the council's local plan, but added that a site had yet to be identified.
Peter Ward, from Sky Blues Supporters' Consultative Group, said he was pleased to hear that things were "moving" with the club's search for a new home.
"It's good that finally there is some evidence things are happening," he said.
"As we've heard from the club's directors, there is a need to take control of and have access to all the revenue streams."
However, he said that fans could find a move out of Coventry difficult - particularly as they only moved from their previous home, Highfield Road, to the Ricoh in 2005.
"The move from Highfield Road to the Ricoh was a big emotional move for the fans," he said. "This would be another big change." | Planners in Rugby have revealed they have been in talks with Coventry City Football Club about building a stadium in the borough. | 32612168 | [
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Fraudsters posing as TalkTalk workers have switched their caller ID - the incoming number which appears on mobile phone screens - to that of The Flower Shop in Caversham, Reading.
The shop said "confused" callers asking for the telecoms firm had started contacting them on Friday.
The case is being assessed by the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau.
A TalkTalk spokesman said: "We can confirm that this incident is not related to TalkTalk."
Shop manager Denika Potter said some of those ringing the business had been abusive after the fraudsters had tried to dupe them into providing their bank details.
She said many people recognised they were being targeted by scammers, but mistakenly thought the call had originated from the florist.
"Most customers are nice, accept it and apologise," said Ms Potter.
"Some are very annoyed, which you obviously may be if you are getting lots of missed calls from a number."
She said the calls were "disturbing" her staff's daily work and added: "We are a small business and we're having to stop to answer the phone all the time."
An Action Fraud spokesman said it could take up to 28 days to determine whether there were "sufficient lines of enquiry for an investigation based in the UK". | A family-run florist says it is being besieged with up to 120 calls a day in a phone cloning scam. | 40445370 | [
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The Germans overturned a 3-1 first-leg deficit against Porto, winning 6-1 to advance 7-4 on aggregate.
Guardiola's side scored five goals in a thrilling first half at Allianz Arena.
"I know how very important it was," the 44-year-old ex-Barcelona boss told ZDF Television. "It is about winning just like at Barcelona."
He added: "It's easy to love my players now. I am the coach of extraordinary players. I didn't expect such a first half.
"We can still play better. We lost the ball here and there and we can improve on that. We had a few problems in the second half. They had only a few chances in the second half but you should never relax in the Champions League."
Speaking before the game, Guardiola admitted the expectation at the Bundesliga club was to win the Champions League, and not just settle for domestic league and cup glory.
Striker Robert Lewandowski scored two and Thiago Alcantara, Jerome Boateng, Thomas Muller and Xabi Alonso also netted as Bayern dominated their Portuguese visitors.
Porto barely troubled Bayern in the first half, and Guardiola added: "We played a different game. We knew Porto better after the first game.
"Now we have to fight otherwise we will not achieve what we set out to do."
Bayern scored their first four goals inside 28 minutes and their fifth in the 40th minute, and even prolific goal-scorer Lewandowski was surprised at the half-time scoreline.
"Many people thought we couldn't do it, but we are FC Bayern Munich," said Lewandowski. "We knew we had to step on the gas, but to go five goals up at half-time is really crazy."
Germany striker Thomas Muller added: "It couldn't have gone better. Sometimes it's fun to play with your backs against the wall. We all had hopes, but no-one expected that."
BBC Radio 5 live's Pat Nevin at the Allianz Arena: "Bayern were ruthlessly efficient in the first half. They were brilliant, scored great goals against a poor team.
"But they made some tactical changes and looked bordering on anaemic in the second half. They didn't look up for it. They could have been pulled back in the end but there's more to come from this team.
"The Champions League got predictable a long time ago. It's a little bit of a shame. We try not to be biased during commentary but Porto were the last of the little teams and they've been absolutely whacked, swatted like flies out of the way.
"There's always Spanish and German teams in the semi-finals, the odd time an Italian or English team but that's it. And even then it's the same teams. But it doesn't mean it's not exciting."
Porto coach Julen Lopetegui accepted his side were beaten in a disastrous opening spell.
"We are very disappointed because we had a lot of expectations," he said. "But it just turned bad very early on and it became difficult for us to play our game against such a good team. We lost the game in those 20 minutes in the first half.
"We tried to change things in the second half and I think we improved a bit but it was too late.
"We are sad, but we made a great campaign in this Champions League. In 11 matches this was our only defeat.
"Bayern is one of the best teams in the world and the favourite to win the title."
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The secretary of state was, by all accounts, a member of the "Remain Campaign" lobbying against a US withdrawal from the Paris Agreement.
So President Trump's "Climate Brexit" was a blow to him - in an ironic twist the fossil fuel company he used to head supports the accord while the government he now represents does not.
It was also a blow to the State Department, and to diplomacy.
How much of a personal setback is not clear because on this, as on other issues, Tillerson kept a low profile.
Twenty-four hours after the decision, the only comment he'd made was an aside at a photo-opportunity. He declared that the US would continue its efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and appealed for partners to keep things "in perspective".
Tillerson had previously said the US should "maintain its seat at the table" on international climate conversations, a sensible position for the nation's top diplomat and one that he reportedly maintained in White House debates on the Paris Agreement.
But publicly he showed none of the passion demonstrated by his predecessor, John Kerry, who powered negotiations on the deal. It seems the president's daughter, Ivanka, took the lead in fighting the corner for the Remainers. And the role of super-engaged interlocutor apparently fell to the climate change sceptic in the administration, Environment Protection Agency head Scott Pruitt, who spoke at the Rose Garden ceremony.
Mr Tillerson did not attend, whether out of resignation or as an everyday-act-of-resistance, we don't know. A State Department official said only that he was in his office and "maintained his schedule, preparing for his trip today to Australia and New Zealand".
No doubt Pruitt (and his ally, White House adviser Steve Bannon) had an easier task than Tillerson, given that he was preaching to a president sympathetic to his economic and nationalist arguments.
But the results are another professional blow to the secretary of state. He's already facing a proposed budget cut that looks to gut his department. And the president's son-in-law Jared Kushner, who has even less diplomatic experience than he does, has forged a parallel foreign policy track from the White House.
Clearly, the Paris withdrawal was also bad news for the State Department, which has yet to issue a statement.
Where it once straddled the front lines of global climate negotiations, it's now been dropped off the map.
The US does remain a member of the UN framework for climate change issues, the UNFCCC, but those meetings have become mostly about the Paris Agreement.
Finally, it's a rejection of a monumental diplomatic effort by more than 190 countries over many years to strike all the balances that needed to be struck.
"We have now slapped every country in the world in the face," says Todd Stern, the US Special Envoy for Climate Change in the Obama administration.
"We've said we know this matters to you a lot, we know this is a huge potentially epic issue for the world, we know that some of you are particularly vulnerable, but we drop out. It's the worst way you could treat other countries."
To be fair, this is not entirely untravelled ground - remember George W Bush's decision against ratifying the 1997 Kyoto climate change treaty.
But it is more starkly isolationist, and this is a different Washington - in private chats, international diplomats from across the global spectrum complain that normal channels for getting and giving information at the State Department and White House are still unstaffed. They struggle to find the people who can listen to their concerns or tell them what's going on.
So while this will not break alliances, it could be more difficult to pick up the pieces and say we can still be friends.
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"I'm feeling the joints for any kind of heat or swelling."
Veterinary surgeon Dr Sandra Corr puts Daisy the sheep through a very hands-on physical examination.
"I'm looking for any signs of crepitus or lameness," she says, "Anything that might indicate the onset of disease or osteoarthritis."
But Daisy is not just any sheep. She's a clone. One of a flock of 13 cloned sheep currently living out their lives on a farm owned by the University of Nottingham, and one of only four (the others are Debbie, Denise and Diane) cloned from the same adult ewe as Dolly the sheep - the first cloned mammal born in 1996.
This, despite the passage of a couple of generations in sheep-years, says Kevin Sinclair, professor of developmental biology at Nottingham and lead author on the study, makes them Dolly's - and that original ewe's - identical twin sisters.
"Where there was one Dolly, with these four girls, now there are five," he says.
We're standing in a straw-lined pen in a barn on the university's Sutton Bonington Campus and one-by-one all 13 sheep are put through the same set of exacting, methodical tests.
As far as I can tell it's a process the sheep seem well used to. If not exactly enthusiastic, they stoically endure the joint manipulations with something approaching world weary resignation.
But if the sheep seem unfazed by all the attention, that may be because they are among the most closely monitored and studied animals anywhere in the world.
According to Prof Sinclair, the fate of the whole science of cloning may hang on the results.
He tells me: "One of the big questions that surrounded the creation of Dolly, and all the cloning work that has gone on since, is: do these animals age in a normal way and how healthy are they?"
Underpinning this question is a fundamental concern about the cloning process. Because it involves extracting DNA from the cell of an adult animal - a cell that is fully differentiated and has been through multiple cell divisions - some "age-memory" might be transferred into the next generation.
"That would mean that the cloned animal was somehow much older that you might expect," says Prof Sinclair.
"A new born clone might look like a lamb, but in terms of cellular senescence it would be much older, and the animal would start to develop diseases associated with aging at a much younger age."
The original Dolly died at the relatively modest age for a sheep of six-and-a-half. Along with several other members of her flock she had contracted a virus that caused lesions to develop in her lungs and she had to be put down.
But by then Dolly was already suffering from osteoarthritis which, although not unheard of in a sheep of her age, did raise concerns about premature aging. The decision was taken to go back to the original cell line and to produce more clones.
"We wanted to know if Dolly's untimely death was just unlucky", recalled Prof Sinclair, "or if it was something to do with the cloning process itself. If illnesses like arthritis that are associated with old age were more common in cloned animals."
Getting the answers to those questions has involved putting the dollies, and nine other sheep cloned from different cell lines, through an exhaustive battery of tests and assessments including regular joint X-rays and a series of full-body fMRI scans.
Prof Sinclair said: "We focused on three co-morbidities: cardiovascular disease, diabetes and osteoarthritis - the three co-morbidities most associated with aging. Were these animals any different from the wider population of sheep with regard to these particular co-morbidities."
The results of the study, which could have profound implications for the future of cloning, will be published next week. But for now, the dollies, which are approaching their ninth and tenth birthdays, seem to be in rude health.
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At times it felt disjointed as the local parties fought over different territory.
The DUP emphasised its potential role in a hung parliament, while Sinn Féin portrayed the contest as a battle against austerity; a stepping stone towards next year's Dáil and Stormont elections.
However it was certainly packed with incident.
The local parties complained about being excluded from the UK-wide debates, but threats of legal action came to nothing.
The two main unionist parties were accused of playing sectarian politics when they agreed a pact in four seats.
Sinn Féin faced the same allegation after distributing a leaflet in North Belfast that equated Catholics with nationalists and Protestants with unionists.
The DUP had to defend including a feasibility study for a tunnel to Scotland in its manifesto. Sinn Féin had to explain an apparent promise from one of its candidates to pay off people's credit card debts.
SDLP leader Alasdair McDonnell kept a low profile during debates and hustings. The former leader Mark Durkan didn't seem to bother defending Dr McDonnell against criticism of his double jobbing in the BBC's final election debate.
Mindful of the pact, the Ulster Unionists muted their criticism of the DUP, whilst working to try to make up the ground against the bigger party in a couple of key seats.
Other parties such as the TUV and UKIP targeted the Northern Ireland Executive parties' track record at Stormont and the mandatory coalition system that makes it so hard to change the make-up of the devolved government. The Greens emphasised their opposition to any welfare cuts.
The DUP endeavoured to keep the focus on the UK-wide position and the need to strengthen the union.
But same-sex marriage - now the subject of a referendum in the Republic of Ireland - forced its way on to the agenda.
That eventually led to the big political story of the campaign - the resignation of Stormont Health Minister Jim Wells after making controversial comments on homosexuality and child abuse at a Downpatrick hustings.
On the lighter side, I haven't covered a campaign before where a candidate (the UUP's Robin Swann) says he was been mistaken for a male stripper while canvassing a house.
Nor have we seen a candidate (Sinn Féin's Gerry Kelly) soliciting a Star Wars stormtrooper for support (even though criticism of his party's leaflet led some social media wags to joke about whether it was "a Protestant stormtrooper or a Catholic stormtrooper").
Once the votes are cast and the ballot papers counted, we will know whether the local parties will be in a position to make a difference in a hung parliament.
Either way, some difficult negotiations between our representatives and a new Northern Ireland secretary are inevitable, as the unresolved deadlock over welfare reform means the current Stormont budget has a black hole that needs to be filled. | While it hasn't been an epic encounter like the referendum on the Good Friday Agreement or the following struggles for dominance within unionism and nationalism, I don't agree that the 2015 Westminster campaign has been lacklustre. | 32610109 | [
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In a tough breeze, 22-year-old Spieth carded a one-over 73 to lead for a record seventh consecutive round.
Smylie Kaufman will play with his fellow American on Sunday, with former champion Bernhard Langer and Japan's Hideki Matsuyama a further shot behind.
McIlroy, 26, started the day one behind Spieth, but ended five back after a 77.
The Northern Irishman started his third round with genuine hopes of winning the Green Jacket after a late rally on Friday.
But his bid to become only the sixth man to win all four majors suffered following a birdie-free round featuring three bogeys and one double bogey which left him in a tie for 11th place.
McIlroy will tee off at 18:55 BST on Sunday, with the final pairing of Spieth and Kaufman going out at 19:45.
Sunday's tee-off times
Relive Saturday's third round at Augusta
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Saturday was billed as a showdown between the final pairing of Spieth and McIlroy, but the expected battle between golf's youthful poster boys failed to materialise.
World number three McIlroy struggled to find his rhythm throughout, allowing Spieth to take control without the defending champion being at his fluent best.
But while McIlroy was unable to pick up any shots, blowing a decent chance at the last by pushing wide a nine-foot putt, his rival still managed to grind out five birdies.
However, Spieth's card suffered considerably with two rare double bogeys.
The Texan three-putted on the 505-yard, par-four 11th, offering hope to his nearest challengers who, at this stage, were Matsuyama and Langer.
He rectified that sloppy mistake with three birdies in the next four holes, opening up another four-stroke lead over 24-year-old Kaufman, who had emerged from the pack with three birdies of his own in the final six holes.
But Spieth's poor final hole - driving right into the trees before falling 50 foot short of the pin with an undercooked third shot - gave renewed belief to the rest of the leaderboard.
"Two under with three to go and the wind at your side, I just got really wayward from there," said Spieth.
"I just have to absolutely throw away the finish to this round, pretend it's a new round, everyone is tied and you have to shoot the best score to win.
"I have to understand it's the position I wanted to be in after 54 holes and not think about the finish to this round."
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Spieth had earlier extended his lead with a two-putt birdie on the par-five second, where McIlroy had to settle for a par after missing from nine feet.
McIlroy dropped his first shot on the par-four third, whereas Spieth recovered from a wayward drive to save par and extend his lead to three.
By the turn, the world number two was four shots ahead, before McIlroy's challenge faded when he pulled tee-shots at 10 and 11 on his way to dropping three shots.
That may have all but ended his Masters quest for another year, despite the four-time major winner arresting his decline with seven straight pars on his way back to the clubhouse.
"I couldn't get anything going really," McIlroy said. "I am disappointed. I felt like I righted the ship a little on the back nine but couldn't take the few opportunities I gave myself.
"If I am to take heart from anything then it's the fact Jordan has just let a lot of people in after his finish."
While Spieth and McIlroy struggled to impress, it was a player at the other end of his career who threatened to steal the show.
Former world number one Langer, who won the Green Jacket in 1985 and 1993, was five shots adrift of overnight leader Spieth at the start of Saturday's third round.
But the veteran German carded three birdies in a front-nine 35 to make the biggest progress on 'Moving Day' - the penultimate day of a major where contenders on the fringes know they must perform well.
Langer dropped a shot on the iconic par-three 12th, but bounced back with three straight birdies to take a share of second place with Matsuyama.
A loose tee-shot out right on the 18th left him scrambling, but he managed to limit the damage by holing a tricky seven-foot putt for bogey.
The Augusta galleries showed their appreciation for the unlikely challenger, now ranked 1,080 in the world, with a standing ovation.
"I believe I can win. Obviously it depends how the others do," said Langer.
"If I play my best, I can shoot four or five under tomorrow, I think, if the conditions are a little bit better."
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The world's best golfers struggled to tame Augusta in a testing third round caused by winds gusting up to 30mph.
Only five of the 57-man field managed to finish under par, Kaufman carding the best round of the day with a three-under 69.
But the course was described as "brutal" by another American, Kevin Kisner, who shot a 76.
"Every shot is just guessing and hitting and praying. I never felt comfortable even on wedge shots all day and putts are just brutal," he said.
"I watched [playing partner] Justin Thomas hit a four-footer that went 55 feet. I mean you don't see that stuff. It's not supposed to happen."
Asked what he could learn from the experience, he joked: "Yeah, you go home and have a beer and sit on the couch and laugh at everybody else."
Never want to miss the latest golf news? You can now add this sport and all the other sports and teams you follow to your personalised My Sport home. | Jordan Spieth will begin the final day at the Masters with a one-shot lead but playing partner Rory McIlroy's bid faltered on day three at Augusta. | 36007122 | [
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The £21.5m Castle Mill development at Port Meadow, by the River Thames, has been widely criticised as ugly and spoiling the view of Oxford's skyline.
The Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) will put its case to a High Court judge on 23 October.
The five-storey university blocks provide 439 accommodation units.
The flats overlook a Site of Special Scientific Interest and a Scheduled Ancient Monument.
CPRE is seeking the judicial review on the basis of Oxford City Council not carrying out an environmental impact assessment.
The council has said the challenge was late as the housing had already been built, and it believed the group's claims were unfounded.
Helen Marshall, director of CPRE Oxfordshire, said the West Area Planning Committee "should under no circumstances be rushed into making further poor decisions".
"We are not yet convinced that the planning condition on contamination has been met," she added.
"And the mitigation proposals currently suggested by the university are woefully inadequate to counteract the devastating impact of the buildings on Port Meadow and Oxford's historic skyline.
"A few trees growing to approximately half the height of the buildings in 15 years' time will not meet the brief of 'hiding the buildings in summer and softening their impact in winter'
"Key issues such as the height of the buildings and light pollution still need to be addressed."
A University of Oxford spokesman said it had "thought carefully" about how best to mitigate the impact of the buildings.
"Some measures have already been put in place, and discussions with the city council and others are ongoing about what more we can do," he added.
"The University will be making representations at the interim hearing in October on the procedural issues raised by the challenge.
"In the meantime, we intend to finish and occupy the buildings by the start of the next academic year in October as planned."
The city council said last month it was carrying out an independent review into the case.
An online petition against the development on Roger Dudman Way has attracted more than 3,000 signatures. | A campaign group has been granted a hearing to examine the case for a judicial review of the decision to build student flats near a beauty spot. | 23606507 | [
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With colleagues in BBC News, we have been tracking where the party leaders are going. And, frankly, the Conservative game plan seems extremely straightforward.
To illustrate that, here is a chart: each block represents a Tory-facing Labour seat (in red) or a Labour-facing Tory seat (in blue). And each stack of blocks tells you how many seats each party gains if they improve their polling, in 2 percentage points increments.
So, for example, the red stack left of the centre line is nine high. If the Tories were to uniformly poll 2 percentage points higher on election day than they did in 2015 relative to Labour, they would take nine seats. Conversely, a two-point improvement for Labour relative to the Tories would yield 12 seats.
Of course, at the moment, the Conservatives are well ahead of where they were at the last general election, while Labour are doing much the same. Political scientist Dr Chris Hanretty from the University of East Anglia estimates the likely result is for the Conservatives to take seats, roughly as follows.
That dark blue zone is the area where, according to Dr Hanretty's maths, about 70 seats are now likely to go Conservative, having been Labour seats in 2015. Those seats - and seats like them - are the front line in this election.
We can overlay that graph with black blocks that show the sort of places where Theresa May has visited.
What does this mean? Well, Mrs May is spending the bulk of her time in front line seats. She made one visit to Maidenhead, her own seat, which is the block to the far right. But it is very clear where she thinks the fight is - and it is roughly where Dr Hanretty thinks it is.
There is, though, a subtler game being played. We do not talk much about the importance to campaigns of getting on local TV and radio bulletins, which have huge audiences and credibility. But parties obsess over it. More people tune into BBC One's regional news bulletins at 6:30pm than the national news at 6pm.
You could divide the country into BBC radio or TV regions to illustrate this. But here, for example, are the number of days in which Mrs May has made a visit to each ITV region or sub-region.
That emphasis on the West Midlands and Yorkshire is telling: 28 of the seats that Dr Hanretty currently expects to flip are in those two areas.
This way of thinking may also clarify things for some activists who were puzzled as to why Theresa May went campaigning in rural Aberdeenshire. It put her into STV North, which covers a few target seats currently held by the SNP. And note, she only has one region yet to reach.
Mr Corbyn's visits, though, are harder to make sense of. Reproducing the same charts, you can see few of his visits have been into the seats that polling currently implies will change hands. On this chart, the black blocks represent his campaign trips. Of the battleground seats, Mr Corbyn has been to three.
Mr Corbyn is holding events in safe Labour seats and in Tory seats which, the polls suggest, are very unlikely to be won. But he is not doing much in the zone in between, where seats are most likely to change hands. Why?
The simplest answer is that Mr Corbyn's team simply think the polls are wrong. They think the Tory seats he's going to are going to go red - and the Tories are wasting their time fighting in seats that will stay with Labour. We will see. A less simple answer is that his campaign has chosen not to take him to the front line. Several Labour MPs in those seats have made it clear that they think his presence will not help them persuade swing voters.
This pattern has been noticed by some of his critics who wonder if this is about life after 8 June. Mr Corbyn, some Labour insiders say, is visiting safe seats where Labour activists are over-represented to bolster his place in the next Labour leadership race. Two Labour MPs suggested to me he is trying to maximise the popular Labour vote to help bolster his argument for staying on in the event of a defeat.
Broadcasting, though, is a factor to consider in all this. ITV audiences in target seats may not notice exactly where he is. Mr Corbyn has been getting into the TV regions - and it is possible he is generating better pictures, addressing big crowds, by visiting safer Labour seats.
Whatever the rationale, the only thing that's utterly clear is that Mrs May and Mr Corbyn aren't fighting this election in the same way.
Additional work by Jack Evans and Daniel Dunford | One of the most striking factors about this election campaign is that Labour and the Conservative Party appear to be running two entirely unconnected election campaigns. | 39927866 | [
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Dr Ben Clark, 40, was one of three air ambulance staff to be honoured at the Pride of Britain awards for treating victims of the Alton Towers Smiler crash in June.
Former England captain Beckham decided to join in when Dr Clark was photographed at Monday's ceremony.
The Midlands Air Ambulance Service later tweeted the photo.
Beckham was among celebrities attending the event at London's Grosvenor House, which honours brave members of the public.
Dr Clark and his colleagues previously said they "broke every rule in the book" to rescue those stuck on the ride after it crashed.
Speaking about the rescue, Dr Clark, a volunteer with North Staffordshire BASICS emergency doctors, said: "I didn't know if it was going to work and if they were going to stay alive.
"When you see people dying in front of your eyes and you know you can't do anything any quicker - it was very difficult." | A medic has been "photobombed" by David Beckham at an awards show while tucking into a sausage roll backstage. | 34395666 | [
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Christine Lacson Abad, 27, of Cary, North Carolina, was charged with arranging a child sex offence, attempting to groom a 15-year-old in Wrexham and two more sex offences.
But the Crown Prosecution Service said it was no longer pursuing the case.
It said the decision followed further information from North Wales Police.
A spokesman for the CPS added: "Having undertaken this review, it is not now considered that there is a realistic prospect of obtaining a conviction and accordingly, a decision has been made to stop the proceedings." | An American woman accused of travelling thousands of miles to commit a child sex offence in north Wales has been cleared after her case was dropped. | 38856072 | [
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They then vowed to put their careers on hold for 23 years.
That time is now up.
So at 23 seconds past midnight on Wednesday they made their comeback at a book launch in Liverpool.
The duo were greeted by 500 fans as they arrived at the News From Nowhere book shop in an ice cream van that played their hit What Time Is Love? and O Sole Mio.
That marked the start of a three-day festival of talks, performance and live art, which will continue on Wednesday with a debate on the topic "Why Did the K Foundation Burn a Million Quid?"
However, fans have been told that The KLF's Jimmy Cauty and Bill Drummond will not be performing any music.
Their new novel 2023, described as "a utopian costume drama set in the near future written in the recent past", is due to be performed in full in the city on Thursday.
The event will finish on Friday with a "Graduation Ball" headlined by a hitherto unknown artist named Badger Kull, who is billed as having just one three-minute song, titled Toxteth Day of the Dead.
The KLF - who also went by names including The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, The K Foundation and The Timelords - had hits like 3AM Eternal, Last Train to Trancentral and What Time Is Love? in the late 1980s and early '90s.
As well as their electrifying pop-trance hits, Cauty and Drummond became known for sabotaging their own success and subverting the music business in a serious of infamous stunts.
Here are four of them:
The duo were ordered to destroy all copies of their 1987 debut album after a complaint from Abba, who objected to the unauthorised sampling of Dancing Queen.
Cauty and Drummond travelled to Sweden to try to track Abba down in person. But they failed, so they presented the gold disc they had brought with them to a Swedish prostitute instead.
As you do.
They burned some of the LPs in a field before throwing the rest overboard from the ferry on the way home.
The album was eventually released with large stretches of silence where the samples had been.
After getting to number one as The Timelords with Doctor Who theme rip-off Doctorin' the Tardis (fronted by Gary Glitter), they published a book called The Manual (How To Have A Number One The Easy Way) with instructions about how to top the charts.
Austrian Eurotrash band Edelweiss followed their advice and sold five million records.
When The KLF won best British group at the 1992 Brit Awards, they made their disdain for the music industry clear by performing 3AM Eternal with death metal group Extreme Noise Terror.
The appearance ended with Drummond firing blanks from a machine gun into the stunned audience before an announcer said: "The KLF have left the music business."
Not satisfied with that, they dumped a dead sheep on the steps of the after-show party with a note reading "I died for you", and deleted their back catalogue.
After their resignation from the music industry, they rejected everything that had gone before in the most extreme way in 1994 - taking the £1m they had left in royalties to the island of Jura and burning bundles of £50 notes.
That led to howls of protests from those who said it should have gone to a worthy cause.
Despite saying they wouldn't talk about it, they actually have. "There's plenty of people who want to give money to charity," Cauty told Irish TV. "We want to do something that we found more interesting with the money."
Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email [email protected]. | On 23 August 1994, The KLF - one of Britain's most incendiary bands, in more ways than one - burned £1m on a remote Scottish island. | 41022272 | [
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Three other people in the grey Ford Mondeo, an 82-year-old woman, a 77-year-old woman and a 67-year-old man, were taken to hospital with minor injuries.
The crash happened at 23:00 GMT on Wednesday on Sheffield Road at Hoyland Common.
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In previous years crime figures have seen a significant rise during the annual celebration.
Good weather on Saturday meant a larger number of spectators than usual turned out to the event.
However, Insp Stuart Wilson said that other than a "few minor incidents" it had passed peacefully.
He said: "The annual Guid Nychburris celebrations started early with police cyclists escorting about 200 horses through the traffic in Dumfries.
"The good weather meant that there were a large number of spectators out to watch the horses, the crowning ceremony and the parade in the centre of Dumfries but it was a good family atmosphere and there were no policing issues.
"Local police were assisted by police horses and Operational Support Division from Glasgow to make sure the crowds were safe." | Police have praised the "good family atmosphere" among the thousands of people who turned out to watch Guid Nychburris events in Dumfries. | 33229965 | [
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Janice Farman, originally from Clydebank, was killed at her home in front of her son earlier this month.
Three men have appeared in court in connection with her murder.
Her parents said they heard about her death through social media and cannot attend her funeral due to ill health.
Alexander and Doreen Farman, from Clydebank, said their daughter's death had left a "huge void" in their lives.
The men accused of involvement in Ms Farman's murder are Anish Soneea, 18, Ravish Rao Fakhoo and Kamlesh Mansingh, both 25.
Last week, they returned to the crime scene as part of the police investigation and took part in a reconstruction of alleged events.
It had previously been reported that Ms Farman's mother had gone to Mauritius following her daughter's death.
However, in the letter, her parents said they were unable to travel to the Indian Ocean island due to serious health issues.
They said: "We are both unable to travel to Mauritius and wish to thank all our friends there for assisting us with funeral arrangements for which we are very grateful.
"We are confident that you will give Janice the send off which she richly deserves.
"We feel humbled by the outpouring of love and support we have received from her friends."
The BBC's World Service correspondent in Mauritius, Yasine Mohabuth, obtained a copy of the letter.
It went on: "To us, Janice was an outstanding daughter, a devoted mother and a fiercely loyal friend."
"We are sure that she will be remembered by many both in Scotland and in Mauritius for the love and care which she extended to people and abandoned and injured animals. These memories we will cherish forever."
Ms Farman's parents said they learned of her death via social media and had still not received any official contact from the Mauritian authorities.
They added: "The shock and pain of all this will haunt us all our days.
"We try to cope by remembering all the good deeds she did throughout her life. The love she shared with so many and her jovial fun loving nature. Janice has left a huge void in our lives."
Ms Farman first visited Mauritius in 1999 and later went to live in the country after her first husband went there to work.
She had been working as the managing director of PECS (Mauritius) Ltd, a privately-owned group of companies providing data services.
She had recently moved to Albion, in the west of the island. | The parents of a Scottish woman murdered in Mauritius have written a letter to her friends and colleagues there, thanking them for the love they had shown to their daughter. | 40713752 | [
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The oldest fixture in international football is the first competitive meeting of the sides since 1999.
With only one team guaranteed a place at Russia 2018, England top Group F after three games with Scotland fourth.
Wayne Rooney returns to captain England with Scotland captain Darren Fletcher saying a draw would be a good result.
The sides - who first met in 1872 - played friendlies in 2013 and 2014 but last played competitive matches in a two-legged play-off for Euro 2000 in November 1999.
Scotland won at Wembley but England won 2-1 on aggregate.
England Under-21 boss Gareth Southgate was put in charge of the senior team for four games following the departure of Sam Allardyce after only one match.
Allardyce left following a newspaper investigation claiming he offered advice on how to "get around" rules on player transfers.
Under Southgate, England beat Malta 2-0 and drew with Slovenia in World Cup qualifiers.
After the match against Scotland, England meet Spain in a friendly at Wembley on 15 November.
Asked if he wanted the job on a permanent basis, he said: "I'm really enjoying being in the role.
"What happens to me is not important. We have to win this game for the country, and because we want to be top of the group and heading to [the 2018 World Cup] in Russia.
"What happens to me is important to my family, but other than that it isn't the purpose of the game. I want the players to enjoy the football and play well.
"My focus is 100% on the match and it would irresponsible and unprofessional for it to be any other way."
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Scotland manager Gordon Strachan - who has faced scrutiny coming into the game - says he does not need to impress on his players the importance of the match.
"My players are intelligent enough to understand the fixture," Strachan said. "I don't think I have to show them anything.
"They know the fixture, everybody knows the fixture. It's known throughout the world. So I don't have to show them the importance.
"The importance is not to become caught up in the emotion of the game. It's important to use your emotion and passion, to run further than you've ever run before, to jump higher than you've ever jumped, to concentrate more.
"I don't think you get too emotional. If you get too emotional then you can lose focus. So we're looking for that emotion and passion to play better than we've ever played before."
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The match at Wembley is a 90,000 sell-out, which is expected to include at least 14,000 Scotland fans.
"It doesn't get much bigger than this - there will be a little more fire in the belly, it being England v Scotland," Scotland captain Darren Fletcher said.
"Every time you lead your country out it is important but there is no bigger stage than Wembley in front of 90,000 fans."
England midfielder Jordan Henderson, who captained the team against Slovenia, said: "It is a massive game. If you look at the history of the fixture, it's not a normal game.
"We watched a video of a lot of the past games. There was a few I can remember, especially Paul Gascoigne's goal at Euro 96.
"The lads know the importance of the game, not only because it's England v Scotland but also because we want to qualify for the World Cup."
Henderson also addressed criticism that England are a team lacking in leadership.
The Liverpool captain told BBC Radio 5 live: "Everyone's entitled to their opinion - I've learned that over the years - but it doesn't really matter what other people think, it only matters what the team thinks and what the manager and the management team think.
"They are the only important opinions that matter to us. I know there are leaders in the team, I know we've got great characters so that isn't a question in our dressing room.
"The question is can we got out there and perform at the highest level to win the game. I'm confident we can."
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New tennis world number one Andy Murray is expected to be among the huge Scotland support at Wembley, with Fletcher confident his side can be inspired by Murray's rise through the ranks.
Murray became the first British singles player to be world number one since computerised rankings began in 1973 last week.
"For us, he is an inspiration for what he has achieved in tennis," said Fletcher.
"His never-say-die attitude, looking to keep improving and battling for a number of years against arguably some of the greatest tennis players of all time and to keep driving himself forward to try to improve those small margins.
"He has fought to be the number one tennis player in the world so we can take inspiration from him as a sportsman, showing that there is no real ceiling on what you can achieve if you dedicate yourself.
"If you have real dedication and desire, you can achieve almost what you wish."
The Football Associations of England and Scotland have said they will let players wear black armbands with poppy emblems as the game takes place on Armistice Day. Fifa believes that could breach football's rules on displaying "political, religious or personal slogans, statements or images" and has warned the countries could face sanctions as a result. Both FAs said they are willing to face any punishment - though they insist it will not come to that.
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"We're just pleased everything was resolved last week, that we can honour the sacrifice of those who have gone before us," said Southgate.
"It's part of our identity as a nation."
Henderson added: "The poppy is very important for the country and the players to remember what those people did for this country, the sacrifice."
It's not meant to be easy! Use our shortlist and pick who you think would make the greatest modern-day England-Scotland XI.
Subscribe to the BBC Sport newsletter to get our pick of news, features and video sent to your inbox. | England and Scotland meet for the 113th time at Wembley on Friday night as a rivalry which "is known throughout the world" returns. | 37934864 | [
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Ross Simons, 34, and his wife Clare, 30, died at the scene of the incident in Hanham, near Bristol, on Sunday.
The matter has been referred to the police watchdog, the IPCC.
Police arrested a 38-year-old man on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving and a 35-year-old woman, on suspicion of dangerous driving.
In a statement, the families of the couple said they were "completely devastated".
They added: "A very special couple have been taken from us and we have no words to describe our loss."
Meanwhile friends said the couple had desperately wanted children and had just been given the go-ahead to start IVF treatment.
Avon and Somerset Police said an officer was alerted to a Citroen Picasso travelling along Lower Hanham Road at speed, shortly before 16:00 GMT on Sunday.
A spokesman said the officer indicated to the car to stop but it made off.
The officer began to follow the car but lost sight of it.
Police said that shortly afterwards the car struck another vehicle and then collided with the cyclists.
They confirmed the Independent Police Complaints Commission was investigating.
Friends of Mr and Mrs Simons said they had been married for about 18 months and had been together for several years.
Diane Pullin, from Kingswood, said she got to know the couple because her son-in-law Darren worked for Mr Simons' father.
"They are a lovely family, so kind and so helpful," she said.
"They don't deserve this. They'd just had news that they were able to have fertility treatment... everything to live for.
"It's just terrible and it shouldn't have happened.
"Two young people with their lives in front of them... snapped away just like that."
Mrs Pullin said her daughter Shelley and her husband had been out for a meal on Saturday night with Mr and Mrs Simons.
"They desperately wanted children and it wasn't happening," she said.
"They'd just been given the go-ahead. They were so happy on Saturday night.
"My daughter says she's got helium balloons at the top of her stairs wishing them luck and she can't even look at them."
Speaking after laying flowers, family friend Steve Camm said: "They were like two peas in a pod.
"They were never apart. They could never do enough for anybody. They were caring people.
"They always did random stuff. You could never stop them from having fun."
And the Reverend Peter Cook, of Hanham Baptist Church, said the incident had "ripped the community to its heart".
He said: "I was just told about it when I was about to start my evening service and I really thought the person telling me was having me on.
"We stopped the service and prayed for what was going on - it seemed just so implausible."
Insp Frazer Davey said: "Following investigations overnight the circumstances of this collision have become much clearer.
"However I would appeal to anyone who witnessed this incident or saw this car in the area shortly before the collision to come forward and contact us." | A car involved in an apparent hit-and-run with a couple on a tandem bicycle was being followed by police at the time, it has emerged. | 21226126 | [
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Roedd Jason Cooper wedi bod o flaen llys o'r blaen ar gyhuddiad o geisio llofruddio Laura Jayne Stuart, ond clywodd y llys ddydd Gwener bod Ms Stuart wedi marw.
Ymddangosodd Mr Cooper, 27 oed o Ddinbych, ar gyswllt fideo o garchar Altcourse yn Lerpwl.
Mae'n wynebu cyhuddiadau o lofruddio Ms Stuart yn Ninbych ar 12 Awst, ac o glwyfo David Roberts gyda'r bwriad o achosi niwed corfforol difrifol iddo.
Doedd dim cais am fechnïaeth ac fe gafodd y diffynnydd ei gadw yn y ddalfa nes i'r achos yn ei erbyn ddechrau ym mis Chwefror, 2018.
Er bod dyn wedi ei gyhuddo, mae Heddlu Gogledd Cymru yn pwysleisio fod eu hymchwiliad yn parhau, a bod swyddogion yn dal i chwilio am y gyllell gafodd ei defnyddio i drywanu Ms Stuart.
Mae'r heddlu yn gofyn i unrhyw un sydd â gwybodaeth i gysylltu drwy ffonio 101 neu 0800 555 111 gan ddefnyddio'r cyfeirnod RC 1712 2068. | Mae dyn wedi ymddangos o flaen Llys y Goron Yr Wyddgrug i wynebu cyhuddiad o lofruddiaeth. | 41035472 | [
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It is the third time UK industry has been in recession in eight years.
Although industrial production rose 0.3% from February to March, it fell 0.4% both in the first three months of 2016 and in the last three of 2015.
Compared with a year ago, manufacturing production in the first quarter fell 1.9%, the biggest fall since 2013.
The biggest fall in output came from the basic iron and steel sector which saw production drop in March by 37.3% percent compared with a year earlier.
However, the oil and gas industries saw sharp gains, increasing production 17% in February, and 10.9% in March from the same months a year earlier.
Manufacturing and construction is proving to be a drag on the whole economy, helping slow UK economic growth from 0.6% in the last three months of 2015 to 0.4% between January and March, according to the ONS.
Earlier this month a survey by Markit/CIPS also showed manufacturing contracting. Chris Williamson, chief economist at Markit said: "The goods-producing sector therefore looks to be on course to act as a drag on the economy again in the second quarter, contributing to a slowing in economic growth to near-stagnation.
"Growth could be even weaker if the surveys disappoint in coming month, which seems probable given the intensifying uncertainty over the outcome of the EU referendum."
Despite this, economist Ruth Miller from Capital Economics is optimistic for the rest of the year.
She said: "We still expect things to look up as the year progresses. Sterling's recent depreciation and our expectations that global growth will pick up slightly in 2016 should allow the sector to return to modest growth later this year." | UK industry fell back into recession as it shrank for the second quarter in a row, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). | 36266178 | [
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Zeid Raad Al Hussein described the incident, in which 10 people were wounded, as "extremely shocking".
Cizre has been the focus of an offensive by Turkey's army against the Kurdish rebel group, the PKK.
Mr Al Hussein also expressed concern over reports that the man who filmed the incident was arrested.
"Filming an atrocity is not a crime but shooting unarmed civilians most certainly is," he said.
"It is essential that there is a thorough, independent, impartial investigation into this and any other events that have led to the wounding or killing of civilians."
The incident in Cizre, a predominantly Kurdish city, occurred on 20 January. Video footage posted online purporting to be of the immediate aftermath of the shooting shows people being loaded into ambulances amid screaming and the sound of explosions.
Reports suggested that the group who came under fire were attempting to rescue people wounded in an earlier clashes.
The video footage also appears to show that some of the group were pushing a cart loaded with bodies across the street, watched by an armoured military vehicle.
Mr Al Hussein, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, said the victims had been "apparently cut down in a hail of gunfire".
The unrest came just days after security forces killed 20 Kurdish militants in clashes in nearby Diyarbakir, according to the Turkish military.
Three Turkish soldiers also died in a rebel attack, the military said.
The region has suffered its worst violence in two decades since a ceasefire between the Turkish government and the PKK collapsed in July.
The PKK, which has fought for autonomy for Turkey's Kurdish minority for decades, has been attacking security forces, while the army has been besieging Kurdish-dominated towns.
The Turkish Human Rights Foundation says at least 198 civilians, including 39 children, have died in areas under curfew since August.
Since July, more than 200 Turkish soldiers and policemen have been killed in attacks by the PKK, which is listed as a terrorist organisation by Turkey, the EU and US.
The European Union has called for an immediate ceasefire. | The top UN human rights official has urged Turkey to investigate an apparent shooting by security forces of unarmed civilians in the city of Cizre. | 35460006 | [
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Quins, seventh in the top-flight, go to an Exeter side hoping to reach the final for the third time in a row.
Welsh regions Dragons, Scarlets, Ospreys and Cardiff all failed to make it into the last four.
The Anglo-Welsh Cup did not take place last year due to the 2015 Rugby World Cup.
The semi-finals will take place between 10-12 March, with the final to be staged at the Twickenham Stoop. | Reigning champions Saracens will host Leicester, with Exeter at home to Harlequins in an all-Premiership semi-final line-up in the Anglo-Welsh Cup. | 38875774 | [
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Juno captured the data last weekend as it made its first close approach to the planet since going into orbit in July.
The flyby took the spacecraft just 4,200km above Jupiter's multi-coloured atmosphere.
The 6MB of data downlinked to Earth from the encounter is still being analysed, but principal investigator Scott Bolton said new things were already obvious.
"First glimpse of Jupiter's north pole, and it looks like nothing we have seen or imagined before. It's bluer in colour up there than other parts of the planet, and there are a lot of storms," the Southwest Research Institute scientist explained in a Nasa statement.
"There is no sign of the latitudinal bands or zones and belts that we are used to - this image is hardly recognisable as Jupiter.
"We're seeing signs that the clouds have shadows, possibly indicating that the clouds are at a higher altitude than other features."
Jonathan Nichols from the University of Leicester, UK, is a member of the Juno mission's science team.
He told the BBC that his colleagues were bowled over when they first saw the pictures: "The team's reaction was amazement. 'Look at these images; they are coming from Jupiter; we're flying over the pole for the first time!' It's just jaw-dropping."
When the Juno probe arrived at Jupiter in July, its instruments and camera were switched off.
It had to perform a critical rocket manoeuvre to get into orbit - and engineers did not want the complication of taking pretty pictures at the same time. But after successfully turning around the planet, Juno booted up its other systems, and last Saturday's return pass was the first opportunity to get a good look at the gaseous world.
The probe's Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper (JIRAM) has acquired unique views of Jupiter's southern aurora.
Earth telescopes have tried but failed to get such images.
And Juno's Radio/Plasma Wave Experiment (Waves) has recorded the blizzard of particles moving through the planet's super-strong magnetic field.
Juno's quest is to investigate the secrets of the Solar System by explaining the origin and evolution of its biggest planet.
The spacecraft's remote sensing instruments will look down into the giant's many layers and measure their composition, temperature, motion and other properties.
We should finally discover whether Jupiter has a solid core or if its gas merely compresses to an ever denser state all the way to the centre.
We will also get new information on the famous Great Red Spot - the colossal storm that has raged on Jupiter for hundreds of years. Juno will tell us how deep its roots go.
And Dr Nichols said Jupiter was a wonderful laboratory to try to understand even more distant places.
"We can go to Jupiter and kick the tyres to see how it works, but that then gives us some insights on lots of other objects in the Universe.
"We can use Jupiter as an analogue for things like brown dwarfs and exoplanets - basically, any fast-rotating body with a magnetic field can be modelled in some way like Jupiter."
The spacecraft is currently flying on an ellipse around Jupiter that takes 53 days to complete. Its next close approach is due on 19 October, when the probe will fire its main engine to tighten the circuit to just 14 days.
This configuration will then be held until February 2018 when the spacecraft will be commanded to make a destructive dive into Jupiter’s atmosphere.
By that stage, however, scientists hope to have built a formidable data-set to help answer their most pressing questions about this vast world.
[email protected] and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos | The US space agency (Nasa) has released spectacular new images of Jupiter acquired by its Juno probe. | 37259937 | [
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The six male athletes also said they engaged in disruptive behaviour.
The admission follows a report that assessed Australia's poor swimming performance at the London 2012 Games which pointed to a "toxic" team culture.
Swimming Australia said the swimmers will face an inquiry panel.
Stilnox, used to treat insomnia, is not considered a performance enhancer and is not a banned substance, but the Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) put it on the prohibited list ahead of the Games.
In their statement, the six members of the men's 4x100 freestyle relay team said the prescriptions "were filled in Australia before their departure to their staging camp in Spain and prior to the AOC's announcement the drug was (prohibited)".
But they "acknowledge that at the time Stilnox was consumed it had been recently prohibited for use".
"We stand here collectively to confirm that we did take part in a bonding exercise during which members of the relay team took Stilnox," the six swimmers said.
"We acknowledge by our recent action in continuing a recent tradition in the Australia swim team, we have let ourselves down and the people who have supported us."
All but one team member took the medication, they said. Then they engaged in pranks they described as "childish" and "stupid", such as knocking on the doors of other athletes and making phone calls. They said they were asleep by 22:30.
"I think one of the reasons I agreed to go along with it was all the pressure I was under," one of the swimmers, James Magnussen, said. "Completely inappropriate in hindsight."
The relay team, nicknamed Weapons of Mass Destruction before the Olympics, came in fourth in the event, in which they had been expected to deliver a medal.
Magnussen, a favourite to win the men's 100 metres freestyle, won a silver.
Their admission follows the release of a review of the sport after the country's worst Olympic swimming performance in two decades.
It found that amid a lack of leadership a "toxic" team culture developed that led to bullying and misuse of prescription drugs, and that standards and discipline were "too loose".
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In a follow-up search at a D'Olier Street apartment, police found ecstasy tablets worth an estimated 418,000 euro (£353,176) and cocaine worth 24,000 euro (£20,278).
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Home Secretary Theresa May and French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve will tour the Eurotunnel site and meet aid associations helping migrants.
They will also discuss humanitarian support for migrants.
Neither government has given full details of what the deal will involve.
Thousands of migrants are living around Calais - many of them in the camp known as the Jungle - and each night hundreds attempt to reach the UK by breaching security around the port and Eurotunnel.
After the meeting with Mrs May, Mr Cazeneuve will travel to Berlin to meet his German counterpart for talks on Europe's migration policies.
The UK government has offered France help with security around Calais - including £7m for fences - but police there have said such measures are only a "short-term solution".
The Calais situation is part of a much larger migration issue in Europe.
More than 240,000 migrants have crossed the Mediterranean already this year, arriving on the shores of Greece and Italy.
Meanwhile, it has been suggested that the number of refugees seeking asylum in Germany could surge to 750,000 this year - and a UN High Commissioner has said more European countries should share the responsibility. | UK and French ministers will meet in Calais on Thursday to agree a new deal to tackle the migrant crisis there. | 33982018 | [
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"Wales manager Chris Coleman said to have a better chance of going in the summer he'd like to see me playing regularly," Crofts told BBC Radio Kent.
"I wasn't guaranteed that with Brighton, so it was a tough decision."
Crofts has featured 18 times for the Seagulls, who are second in the Championship, this season but his last outing came in the defeat by Cardiff on 20 February.
The former Norwich man has won 27 caps for Wales, with the last of those coming against Serbia in September 2013.
However, he could add to those in the friendlies against Northern Ireland and Ukraine during the international break.
"With the Euros coming up for Wales it was important for me to get some games under my belt before the end of the season," he added.
"After speaking to Chris, my place isn't guaranteed even if I play, but it gives me the best opportunity."
Crofts began his career at Gillingham and has returned to Priestfield Stadium until the end of the campaign, although Brighton have a 28-day recall clause as part of the deal.
He scored 19 goals in 191 games in his first stint at the Kent club and he hopes he can help the Gills, who are fourth in League One, win promotion to the Championship.
"This year I have got three massive goals; Brighton to get promoted, Gillingham to get promoted and a place at the Euros," he said.
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The factory's owner was among the dead and several members of his family were either dead or missing, said local mayor Francisco Lopes.
Some of the victims were found outside the factory, apparently propelled from the building by the force of the blast.
An initial explosion happened shortly after 17:30 (16:30 GMT) on Tuesday, followed by two more blasts, reports said.
Five bodies were found late on Tuesday and emergency workers found a sixth victim some 200m (650ft) from the site, minister Jorge Gomes told Portuguese media. The search was being extended to a radius of 800m, he added, because of the scale of the explosion.
The factory was described as a family business.
As investigators tried to identify the victims, the mayor said that almost all of the eight caught up in the blast were members of Egas Sequeira's family. Mr Sequeira was among those feared dead along with one of his daughters and a son-in-law, Portuguese media said.
The owner's wife had left the building just before the explosion and survived but two other family members were among the missing.
Officials were initially unable to enter the site because of the potential risk to their safety. Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa was due to visit the scene on Wednesday. | Six people died and another two were missing after an explosion on Tuesday evening destroyed a fireworks factory near the Portuguese town of Lamego. | 39500649 | [
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Messi and his father Jorge are accused of defrauding Spain of more than €4m (£3.1m; $5m). They deny any wrongdoing.
Lawyers acting on behalf of the tax authorities demanded 22-month jail sentences for both defendants.
Prosecutors allege that Jorge avoided paying tax on his son's earnings by using offshore companies in Belize and Uruguay in 2007-09.
Messi's lawyers had argued that the player had "never devoted a minute of his life to reading, studying or analysing" the contracts, El Pais newspaper reported earlier.
"There are rational signs that the criminality was committed by both accused parties," wrote the judge in a court filing, according to the AFP news agency.
No date has been set for the trial of the 28-year-old footballer - the four-time World Player of the Year and one of the richest athletes in the world.
In June, the high court in Barcelona ruled that Messi should not be granted immunity for not knowing what was happening with his finances, which were being managed in part by his father.
The income related to Messi's image rights, including contracts with Banco Sabadell, Danone, Adidas, Pepsi-Cola, Procter and Gamble, and the Kuwait Food Company.
Messi and his father made a voluntary €5m "corrective payment" - equal to the alleged unpaid tax plus interest - in August 2013. | Argentina and Barcelona footballer Lionel Messi and his father should stand trial on tax fraud charges, a court in Spain has ruled. | 34478784 | [
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Photos on the internet appear to show Diouf in a nightclub, just hours before the match at Southampton on 24 March.
"I've made some inquiries and I've asked him about it and he denies he was there," Saunders told Radio Sheffield.
"It's still ongoing and I want to get to the bottom of it. It's something I can't comprehend if it is true."
Rovers lost the match at St Mary's 2-0, with Diouf playing the full game, and are currently six points adrift of safety with six matches to play.
Diouf has scored six goals in 22 games since joining the club in October. | Doncaster Rovers boss Dean Saunders says the club are continuing to investigate claims that forward El-Hadji Diouf breached club discipline. | 17626561 | [
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Ecuele Manga, 27, last featured for Cardiff in their 2-1 defeat at Fulham.
"It might be the case that he has malaria. He is out of hospital and will be commencing training later this week," manager Russell Slade told BBC Radio Wales.
"That is good news, having suffered a virus of that kind of capacity. We see it all at Cardiff City." | Cardiff City centre-back Bruno Ecuele Manga is recovering from malaria having been released from hospital. | 36084322 | [
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US researchers say the slow-is-more-accurate rule generally applies.
In a series of calculations, they looked at the physics behind releasing a projectile with the human arm.
Their equations suggest a slow underarm throw is the best strategy for getting a piece of paper into a nearby bin.
Lead researcher Madhusudhan Venkadesan, assistant professor of mechanical engineering and materials science at Yale University, said faster throws tend to be less accurate.
This is because the ball travels in a nearly straight line, so any errors in the angle at which the object is released tend to be amplified.
In slow and curved flight paths, small errors in the angle of release have little effect, he said.
"What we find is that almost the slowest arc is often the most accurate," said Dr Venkadesan.
"We've compared these calculations to published data of people throwing into wastebaskets; we've compared it to a study in dart throwing."
In sports such as basketball or darts, the strategy depends on conditions and the trade-off needed between speed and accuracy.
For example, experienced darts players throw overarm at about 5.5 metres per second, optimally releasing the dart 17 to 37 degrees before the arm becomes vertical.
On the cricket pitch, fielders are more likely to strike the wicket with a fast underarm throw.
And in basketball, the underhand free throw, nicknamed "the granny throw", has a marginal advantage over overhand, despite almost disappearing from the game.
Accurate throwing is uniquely human - a skill relied upon by our ancient ancestors for hunting with spears or stone tools.
The researchers say monkeys also throw things, but they are really bad at it.
The study is published in the journal, Royal Society Open Science.
Follow Helen on Twitter. | Scientists have calculated the optimal strategy for throwing something accurately - whether it's a dart or a crumpled-up piece of paper. | 39712282 | [
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Culture Minister Helen Grant told MPs their future was "unresolved" and bookmakers must take immediate action to increase protection for players.
People can wager £100 every 20 seconds on fixed-odds betting terminals.
Labour said they were "an example of David Cameron's Britain" and councils should have new powers to curb them.
But following a Commons debate, Labour's call for local authorities to be given new powers to restrict the growth of the machines was defeated by 314 to 232 votes.
There are more than 33,000 fixed-odds betting terminals in the UK.
The last Labour government relaxed the gambling laws, allowing bookmakers to start installing them.
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They would also review the number of high-speed, high-stakes fixed-odds betting terminals allowed on bookmakers' premises and would take steps to make the machines less addictive by requiring pop-ups and breaks in play.
Shadow culture minister Clive Efford said the last government had always maintained the machines should be kept under review.
The "world had changed" since they were first licensed, he said, with the online gambling industry now worth more than £2bn.
"These machines are an example of Cameron's Britain - one rule for constituents and another for big business which operate the betting shops," he said.
Another Labour MP, Brian Donohue, said fixed-odds betting terminals had been "likened to cocaine" as they were "absolutely and totally addictive".
Ministers insist that local authorities can already reject applications for new gambling premises and review existing licences.
But Ms Grant acknowledged the growth of the machines was "concerning" and she expected the industry to introduce voluntary player protection measures, such as suspensions in play and automatic alerts when stakes hit a certain level, by March.
She said the government was waiting for the findings of a study into "how [the machines] are used and the real impact on players" before deciding what further action may be needed.
"There is no green light for these machines. Their future is unresolved pending the research we have started," she told MPs.
Labour, she added, had liberalised gambling laws and accused them of "rank hypocrisy, total cynicism and outright opportunism".
"Labour bought these machines into being and they have the audacity to bring forward a motion blaming the government for any harm caused," she said.
The gambling industry insists it does not target deprived areas and has introduced a code of conduct for player protection and responsible gaming.
"Betting is a pursuit enjoyed by millions of working class people throughout Britain and we seek to reach the widest audience possible by being present on High Streets," the Association of British Bookmakers said.
"We accept there are concerns about these gaming machines and are always open to a constructive dialogue with politicians about the appropriate powers for local authorities."
It added: "The claims of widespread problem gambling on machines is just not supported by evidence. The industry continues to develop its approach to harm mitigation for the small number of gamblers who do experience problems."
MPs have previously rejected calls from Labour to reduce the maximum stake from £100 to £2 and to cut the top prize from the current £500. | Ministers have said the growth of high-stakes roulette machines on the High Street is "concerning" and they do not rule out action to restrict them. | 25619683 | [
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Mr Innes was a coach with Middlefield Wasps FC.
The club said in a statement: "He was a genuine nice guy and would do anything for anyone. Kieran also ran our disability football. He loved all his players who will miss him dearly."
'Mark of respect'
The statement added: "The Wasps family has lost a true gent who will be sorely missed. He loved the Wasps. Thoughts go to the Innes family.
"As a mark of respect we will be doing a minutes applause at each Wasps game this weekend - Kieran didn't do silence."
Police Scotland in Tayside renewed an appeal for information. | Tributes have been paid to a 24-year-old youth football coach who died in a crash in Angus. | 37494221 | [
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The house of Pietro's owner collapsed as a result of the quake. The cat was taken to a veterinary clinic and is said to be in a critical condition.
He was found when his owners returned to the house to get some belongings.
Nearly 300 people died in August's magnitude-6.2 earthquake.
Read more
Tales of survival
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He was 86 years old. He is best remembered for his broadcasts in both Irish and English.
He was born in Cork and is the former head of Irish language programmes, controller of programmes and deputy director general at Irish state broadcaster, RTÉ.
But he is probably best known for presenting a bilingual variety show, Trom agus Éadrom.
He was also involved in politics - standing as a Fianna Fáil candidate in Cork North Central in 1982.
Mr Ó Murchú left RTÉ in 1988 to set up his own production company, but still worked occasionally as a broadcaster.
He wrote a number of books and a column for the magazine Ireland's Own.
Mr Ó Murchú was predeceased by his wife Margaret and is survived by eight children, grandchildren and great grandchildren. | The former Irish broadcaster and writer, Liam Ó Murchú, has died. | 33317600 | [
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Riot police quelled skirmishes between rival fans behind one of the goals just before kick-off in England's 3-0 win.
An English FA statement said the incidents had not taken place in the area where fans who bought tickets from the FA were located.
The cases will be dealt with on Thursday, 22 October.
"We would encourage the authorities to identify anybody involved in disorder and deal with them appropriately through the criminal system and with banning orders," the English FA said.
"We will, of course, fully cooperate with Uefa."
When fighting broke out, local police quickly intervened to form a barrier between fans to prevent the violence escalating.
Some England fans appeared to have purchased tickets for sections of the ground designated for home supporters.
Lithuania's FA has also been charged by European football's governing body over breaches of ticketing rules and for having blocked stairways.
BBC Radio 5 live reporter Alan Green reported he had seen missiles being thrown by fans.
And BBC Sport's chief football writer Phil McNulty added there had been "a few brief skirmishes between rival fans at one end of this tiny stadium where some England fans have posted themselves near Lithuania supporters".
England won 3-0 with goals from Ross Barkley and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, either side of an own goal from Lithuania keeper Giedrius Arlauskis.
The victory meant Roy Hodgson's side won all 10 of their qualifying matches for next summer's European Championship in France. | Uefa has charged the English and Lithuanian Football Associations over crowd disturbances at their Euro 2016 qualifier in Vilnius on Monday. | 34527298 | [
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An area of the town near the swimming pool had been evacuated for most of the morning and early afternoon.
Other residents close by had been advised to open windows, stay indoors near walls and to avoid going outside.
An exclusion zone remains in force on the river while experts make safe the sea mine which was spotted on Monday.
It is thought to be a British mine, dating from the 1940s or 1950s.
The evacuation affected three streets, with wider safety advice issued to residents within 500m of the device.
There was also an exclusion zone at sea of about half a mile, and small boat owners were told not to sail during the operation.
Caledonian MacBrayne reported some disruption to ferry services, affecting sailings from Gourock and Rothesay.
Ch Insp Elliot Brown, the local area commander for Inverclyde, stressed that the evacuation had been a precautionary measure, and that there was no immediate danger to the community of Gourock.
Lt Cdr Tim Castrinoyannakis, the officer in charge of the Royal Navy's Northern Diving Unit, said that due to the deterioration of the mine it was not possible to conclude how much explosive material it still contained.
He said that because of this it was decided to move it to a safer place before dealing with it.
Inverclyde Council said: "Thanks to residents and businesses in Gourock for their patience while the cordon and safe evacuation procedures were carried out today." | Residents are returning to their homes after an operation to move an unexploded mine discovered in the Firth of Clyde. | 34536537 | [
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The Reds looked in control when Roberto Firmino converted James Milner's pass and Daniel Sturridge backheeled to Sadio Mane to clip home a second.
But Leicester were given hope when Lucas inexplicably passed the ball to Jamie Vardy to shoot into an empty net.
However, Adam Lallana sealed the win by firing a shot into the top corner and Firmino got a second from Mane's pass.
Jurgen Klopp's Reds are up to seven points from four games, having played their first three matches on the road because of the expansion of Anfield's Main Stand.
Meanwhile, Leicester remain on four points as they prepare for their Champions League debut against Club Brugge on Wednesday.
Liverpool keeper Simon Mignolet picked up blood injuries to his nose and then eye, but he lasted the 90 minutes with summer signing Loris Karius remaining on the bench.
Liverpool, as has often been the case under Klopp, looked brilliant in stages, especially in the first 35 minutes when they could have been out of sight.
Their opener was a good passing move, which ended in left-back Milner playing a great ball through to Firmino, who stepped inside Robert Huth to steer the ball into the bottom corner.
The Foxes defence were again caught out by Jordan Henderson's ball forward for the second and Sturridge squared it with his heel for Mane to score on his home debut.
But there will be cause for concern as Brazilian midfielder Lucas started at centre-back, with Mamadou Sakho not in the squad, and he let Leicester back into the game.
He miscontrolled a simple pass from Mignolet and - under pressure and in a panic - played the ball across goal to Vardy, who just had to tap into an unguarded net.
That gave Leicester hope and they could have had an equaliser when Robert Huth headed a Luis Hernandez long throw-in off the bar.
Luckily for the Reds, they got their act together in the second half and Lallana scored his second goal in a week, after his England winner against Slovakia, to wrap up the win, from Georginio Wijnaldum's lay-off.
And they added a late fourth when Kasper Schmeichel - who made seven saves in an otherwise good performance - came flying out of his goal with Mane rounding him and unselfishly passing to Firmino to steer the ball past several Leicester defenders.
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After record deadline day signing Islam Slimani only returned from Algeria duty on Friday night, Leicester boss Claudio Ranieri decided to wait before giving the striker his debut.
Leicester lined up with 10 of their 11 regular starters from last season's title-winning team, with Daniel Amartey in for N'Golo Kante, who was sold to Chelsea earlier this summer.
And they were outplayed throughout the game, with their only good spell inspired by Lucas' mistake.
Ranieri's side only had three shots on target, including the goal, with Vardy also forcing a save from Mignolet from Riyad Mahrez's ball forward.
Last season that combination ended so often in a goal - but this year they might need new ideas, so Ranieri will be eager for £29m Slimani to give them fresh impetus up front.
Former Foxes captain Matt Elliott, in his role as BBC Radio Leicester summariser, said: "I didn't see anybody have a glaring howler of a game for Leicester, it was more of a general lack of quality.
"At times last year maybe the intensity was a little bit more, and the opposition weren't as good as Liverpool, Manchester United, Manchester City are going to be this season."
The game was played in front of Anfield's biggest crowd since 1977, with a 54,000 sell-out in the newly expanded stadium. Some 8,500 seats were added to the Main Stand this summer.
Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp told BBC Sport: "It was a tough game against a really strong opponent.
"This team is really capable of a lot of exciting things. We played quick but then we conceded and had to show we could fight and stay in the game.
"I don't think about where we can reach. We have to be really strong in this league. We have had four away games to begin with, so let's go for it, enjoy it and today I saw some really wonderful things."
Leicester boss Claudio Ranieri: "Liverpool played well and deserved to win. We started well, but after the first goal we lost our shape a little.
"We tried in the second half, but everything Liverpool tried came good. We created chances, but were a little unlucky.
"We have to clear our minds for the next match. When we have lost in the past, we have always had a good reaction."
Leicester play their first ever Champions League match on Wednesday, when they go to Club Brugge in their Group G opener (19:45 BST kick-off). They host Burnley in the Premier League next Saturday (15:00).
Liverpool do not have any European football this season, with their next match coming at Chelsea on Friday in the league (20:00).
Match ends, Liverpool 4, Leicester City 1.
Second Half ends, Liverpool 4, Leicester City 1.
Corner, Leicester City. Conceded by Joel Matip.
Attempt blocked. Philippe Coutinho (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by James Milner.
Substitution, Liverpool. Alberto Moreno replaces Sadio Mané.
Goal! Liverpool 4, Leicester City 1. Roberto Firmino (Liverpool) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Sadio Mané.
Corner, Leicester City. Conceded by Lucas Leiva.
Attempt saved. Sadio Mané (Liverpool) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Roberto Firmino.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Simon Mignolet (Liverpool) because of an injury.
Robert Huth (Leicester City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Lucas Leiva (Liverpool) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Robert Huth (Leicester City).
Attempt missed. Jordan Henderson (Liverpool) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Roberto Firmino.
Attempt saved. Jamie Vardy (Leicester City) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Ahmed Musa with a cross.
Attempt blocked. Philippe Coutinho (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Roberto Firmino.
Offside, Liverpool. Philippe Coutinho tries a through ball, but Sadio Mané is caught offside.
Substitution, Liverpool. Kevin Stewart replaces Georginio Wijnaldum.
Substitution, Liverpool. Philippe Coutinho replaces Daniel Sturridge.
Attempt missed. Daniel Amartey (Leicester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left following a corner.
Corner, Leicester City. Conceded by Roberto Firmino.
Attempt blocked. Daniel Drinkwater (Leicester City) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Riyad Mahrez with a cross.
Corner, Leicester City. Conceded by Jordan Henderson.
Attempt blocked. Riyad Mahrez (Leicester City) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Daniel Amartey.
Offside, Liverpool. Daniel Sturridge tries a through ball, but Roberto Firmino is caught offside.
Attempt missed. Robert Huth (Leicester City) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Luis Hernández with a cross.
Offside, Liverpool. Roberto Firmino tries a through ball, but Daniel Sturridge is caught offside.
Joel Matip (Liverpool) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jamie Vardy (Leicester City).
Substitution, Leicester City. Leonardo Ulloa replaces Marc Albrighton.
Adam Lallana (Liverpool) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Daniel Drinkwater (Leicester City).
Attempt saved. Jamie Vardy (Leicester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Riyad Mahrez with a through ball.
Foul by Roberto Firmino (Liverpool).
Marc Albrighton (Leicester City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Goal! Liverpool 3, Leicester City 1. Adam Lallana (Liverpool) right footed shot from the right side of the box to the top left corner. Assisted by Georginio Wijnaldum.
Attempt saved. Daniel Sturridge (Liverpool) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Roberto Firmino.
Adam Lallana (Liverpool) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Daniel Amartey (Leicester City).
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Stokes smashed 158 from 131 balls and Taylor compiled a stylish 114 before both were retired out.
Nick Compton, batting at three, marked his return with 58.
That helped England recover from 56-3 as Alastair Cook managed only two and new opening partner Alex Hales eight.
Hales is set to become the eighth man tried at the top of the order since Andrew Strauss retired in 2012 when the first of four Tests against South Africa begins on 26 December.
In this first of two warm-up matches, the Nottinghamshire man faced nine balls, one of which was an edge through the slips, before the 10th took his off stump as he offered no stroke to Junior Dala.
Cook had already been trapped lbw Thandolwethu Mnyaka and, after Joe Root edged behind for a 28 scored exclusively in boundaries, the tourists were wobbling.
Enter Compton, given the chance at number three ahead of Gary Ballance, to play with the sort of control England require after the omission of Ian Bell.
He was eventually pinned lbw on the back foot, allowing Taylor and Stokes to push the innings into a higher gear.
Stokes, in particular, dished out some brutal treatment, going from 50 to 100 in only 38 balls. In all he struck 23 fours and five sixes, the last of which left the fielding side unable to find the ball.
When both men were called to the pavilion, Jonny Bairstow (35) and Moeen Ali (33 not out) were afforded some time at the crease. | Ben Stokes and James Taylor both made unbeaten centuries as England reached 470-5 on the opening day of their warm-up match against a South African Invitation XI in Potchefstroom. | 35105380 | [
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Mr Dutton has accused The Guardian and Australian Broadcasting Corp. (ABC) of "trivialising" allegations relating to treatment of asylum seekers.
The Guardian last week published more than 2,000 leaked reports from the immigration centre on Nauru.
These revealed widespread abuse and trauma among asylum seekers.
Australia asylum: Why is it controversial?
"I've spent much of my professional career investigating sexual assaults and assaults against people and arresting people for that. I take these issues very seriously," the former police officer told Sydney radio station 2GB.
"The trouble, frankly, with the approach of The Guardian and the ABC has been to trivialise the very serious issues by trying to promote the 2,100 reports as somehow all ... being serious when they're not."
Mr Dutton said many of the reports described corporal punishment of children by their parents and minor assaults by detainees on other detainees.
He also claimed that non-government organisation Save the Children, which provided counsellors for the centres, was responsible for releasing the cache of "incident reports".
The child advocacy group denied that it leaked the documents.
Australia agreed on Tuesday to close a controversial asylum seeker detention centre on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea.
The Manus Regional Processing Centre, which currently houses 854 men, will be closed by both countries as quickly as possible.
Mr Dutton said the men would not be relocated to Australia. | Peter Dutton, Australia's immigration minister, says he will not "be defamed" by media coverage of the country's offshore detention centres. | 37114400 | [
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Polling booths opened at 07:00 BST in the area's 15 constituencies, with results expected to be declared after midnight.
Votes will be counted after the polls close at 22:00 BST.
For the latest news from all the counts on Merseyside, go to our election live service or check the results on your constituency profile page. | People are voting across Merseyside in the general and local council elections. | 32610327 | [
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The English rider crashed at this year's TT and the Fireblade bike has been plagued by mechanical problems.
Martin told MCN that he was quitting road racing but he later clarifying his position on Facebook.
"I've not given up on racing or road racing but I've got no plans to do anymore road racing on the Hondas this year," he said.
Martin didn't race at the North West 200 after team-mate John McGuinness crashed in practice and he will not compete in next month's Ulster Grand Prix.
He added: "The TT was a bloody disaster, aside from walking the dog and racing the Mugen, I didn't enjoy it.
"It was clear even before that we were going to struggle and then it turned into me really being a test rider, which I did.
"But after we did more testing at Cadwell a few weeks back, I said to the team the bike won't be competitive at the Ulster Grand Prix and they decided to withdraw me from the event, although they didn't tell me, which is OK as the decision was made for me.
"There's no unfinished business and I want to race classics and oddball stuff." | Road racer Guy Martin says he will not compete for Honda for the rest of 2017 after a frustrating season. | 40726537 | [
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They were found guilty of breaches surrounding a £1.3m ($2m) "disloyal payment" made to Platini in 2011.
The Fifa ethics committee found Blatter and Platini had demonstrated an "abusive execution" of their positions.
"I will fight for me and for Fifa," Blatter, 79, said at a news conference.
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Platini said the decision was a "masquerade" intended to "dirty" his name.
Both men continue to deny wrongdoing and intend to appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas).
Swiss Blatter and 60-year-old Frenchman Platini have also been fined £33,700 ($50,000) and £54,000 ($80,000) respectively.
Despite the ban, both Blatter and Platini will be allowed to attend matches - including Euro 2016 in France - if they buy tickets in a private capacity.
Fifa boss since 1998, Blatter had already announced he was quitting with a presidential election in February.
Platini was tipped as a future leader of football's world governing body and is a three-time European Footballer of the Year.
He is also a former captain of France and has been in charge of Uefa - European football's governing body - since 2007.
Unshaven and sporting a plaster over his right cheek, Blatter was in defiant mood at a news conference he had called in advance of the punishments being made public.
"I will fight," he said. "I will fight for me and for Fifa."
He said he was "really sorry" that he is still "a punching ball" and that he has become tainted in the eyes of humanity.
He added that he thought he had convinced the Fifa ethics tribunal that the payment from Fifa to Platini was legitimate.
He plans to appeal, first to Fifa, then Cas. He may also take legal action under Swiss law if needed.
Blatter: Key quotes from hour-long news conference
"The decision is no surprise to me," he said in a statement. "The procedure initiated against me by Fifa's ethics committee is a pure masquerade.
"It has been rigged to tarnish my name by bodies I know well and who for me are bereft of all credibility or legitimacy."
In the meantime, Uefa has issued a statement, revealing it is "extremely disappointed" with the decision.
It added: "Once again, Uefa supports Michel Platini's right to a due process and the opportunity to clear his name."
Former Asian Football Confederation general secretary Peter Velappan added: "This is very harsh, especially for Blatter because he dedicated his life to football and Fifa. Eight years is like a death sentence."
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Isha Johansen, the president of Sierra Leone's Football Association, said: "I'm not saying Blatter was a saint, but the way everything has been piled on his head to make it look like it was all his fault... I think it's most unfair."
French Football Federation president Noel Le Graet added: "Michel Platini's suspension is shocking and saddens me. It seems unbelievable.
"But it does not surprise me as the ethics commission president had already announced that Michel would be suspended for several years. Michel's guilt was decided in advance."
Football Association chairman Greg Dyke and Fifa reform campaigner Damian Collins believe it is the end for Blatter and Platini.
Dyke told BBC Radio 5 live he had "no sympathy" for Blatter but that the FA "didn't know about Platini" and "were clearly disappointed".
"We thought he had done a very good job as president of Uefa," he added.
British MP Collins said: "The fish rots from the head down and we know how rotten the head of Fifa was."
Former FA chairman David Bernstein told BBC Radio 5 live Blatter was "a drowning man really, there's no coming back from this".
"He'll fight, I'm sure of that. He's not a soft touch. He will fight but he is doomed. He is yesterday's man."
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Blatter and Platini were found guilty of ethics code breaches over the "disloyal payment".
Both claimed the payment was honouring an agreement made in 1998 for work carried out between 1998 and 2002 when Platini worked as a technical adviser for Blatter.
The payment was not part of Platini's written contract but the pair insisted it was a verbal agreement, which is legal under Swiss law.
German judge Hans-Joachim Eckert, the chairman of Fifa's adjudicatory chamber, held disciplinary hearings for the pair last week.
Charges included conflict of interest, false accounting and non co-operation, with investigators submitting a file of more than 50 pages.
World football's governing body has been in turmoil for several months, following numerous allegations of corruption.
Seven Fifa officials were arrested at a Zurich hotel at the end of May.
And US authorities have charged 39 football officials and sports business executives over more than £134m ($200m) in bribes for football television and marketing deals.
Swiss prosecutors are also investigating Fifa's management as well as the award of the 2018 and 2022 World Cups to Russia and Qatar.
There is also pressure from governments and the International Olympic Committee for Fifa to push through major reforms aiming at making governance more transparent and accountable.
The presidential election is due to take place on 26 February.
There are currently five candidates to take over:
Voting will take place by secret ballot, with all Fifa's 209 member states having a vote each.
BBC Radio 5 live sports news correspondent Richard Conway: "You've got this Shakespearean drama between Platini and Blatter - two men who were once the best of friends but have become the best of enemies.
"They have now effectively destroyed each other and their chances. Platini was at one point the favourite to become Fifa president but those hopes lie in tatters.
"Fifa wants to move on and try to re-establish its reputation, it's going to be difficult do that with Blatter and Platini continuing to make noise in the background."
Joseph 'Sepp' Blatter was born in the alpine town of Visp in 1936. Blatter has been married three times and has one daughter.
After finishing school, he did his obligatory service in the Swiss army, rising to the rank of colonel.
He did not play football professionally but worked in the watch industry, then as a sports writer and in sports management, serving at the Swiss Ice Hockey Federation.
Blatter moved to Fifa as its technical director in 1975, before working as the general secretary from 1981.
He was elected, to much fanfare in his homeland, as the eighth Fifa president in 1998, succeeding Dr Joao Havelange.
He has split opinion with his sometimes controversial statements about the game but remains hugely popular with countries in Asia and Africa.
In 2004, he said female footballers should wear skimpier kits to increase the game's popularity and, following the decision to award the 2022 World Cup to Qatar, said gay fans going to the Gulf state, where homosexuality is illegal, should "refrain from sexual activity".
Platini has been boss of European football's governing body since 2007 but rose to fame as one of France's greatest footballers.
The son of a former professional player, he played for Nancy and St Etienne before joining Italian giants Juventus, with whom he was named European Footballer of the Year on three occasions.
A midfielder, Platini also made 72 appearances for France, captaining them to victory at the 1984 European Championship and helping them reach the semi-finals of two World Cups, in 1982 and 1986.
He retired as player at 32, turning to coaching and managed the French national team with mixed results from 1988 to 1992.
After turning down an offer to coach Spanish giants Real Madrid, he was asked by French president Francois Mitterrand to organise the 1998 World Cup in France and, shortly after, was appointed vice-president of the French Football Federation.
Since 2002, Platini has been a member of the executive committee of Fifa and was elected president of Uefa in 2007. He was re-elected and also became Fifa vice-president.
Platini, married with two children, worked as Blatter's technical adviser between 1998 and 2002, but later fell out with his former boss. | Fifa president Sepp Blatter and Uefa boss Michel Platini have been suspended for eight years from all football-related activities following an ethics investigation. | 35144652 | [
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A consultation prompted 620 responses, with 98% saying owners should clean up after pets and 69% saying dogs should be excluded from play areas.
But 70% did not want to see dogs excluded from beaches.
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Some of Nigeria's governors control huge budgets and are among the country's most influential politicians.
The vote comes two weeks after Muhammadu Buhari defeated incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan to become the country's first opposition candidate to win a presidential poll.
Gen Buhari won by more than 2.5 million votes.
Polling stations opened at 08:00 local time (07:00 GMT).
While presidential polls two weeks ago encountered some problems with the electronic card reader, the process this time appears to be taking place without any hitches, reports BBC Hausa's Mansur Liman.
In many of the states, Saturday's gubernatorial and state assembly elections could prove to be a tight race between Mr Jonathan's People's Democratic Party (PDP) and Gen Buhari's All Progressives Congress (APC).
Nigeria's 36 governors enjoy wide powers and some, especially in oil-producing areas, control bigger budgets than those of national governments in some neighbouring West African countries.
The key battlegrounds include commercial hub Lagos, and the oil-rich Rivers state.
Tensions are reported to be especially high in Rivers. The AFP news agency reports that an overnight curfew was imposed on the eve of the election to prevent any violence.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (Inec) spokeswoman for Rivers state, Tonia Nwobi, told AFP that they were working with security agents to ensure a "hitch-free election".
Results are not due until Sunday.
Biometric voting cards are to be used again, despite some problems with their debut in last month's election.
Technical problems slowed down voter registration, even affecting President Jonathan.
But Abubakar Momoh from Inec told Reuters that the new system was crucial.
"The card reader is the only way that rigging on a large scale can be stopped in this country," he said.
Observers have generally praised the recent presidential election, though there have been allegations of fraud even with the use of biometric voting cards. | Nigerians are going to the polls to vote for state governors in the final round of the election process. | 32261544 | [
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Wayan Mirna Solihin, 27, met with two friends in a Jakarta cafe on January 6.
She collapsed after complaining about her coffee's taste and died a short time later.
Traces of cyanide were found in her coffee and tests confirmed she had been poisoned, but Indonesian officials have not named a suspect.
Ms Solihin's best friend Jessica Kumala ordered the coffee, but has denied any knowledge of the cyanide.
Ms Kumala's lawyer and uncle Yudi Wibowo said a third friend, Hani, had also tried the coffee.
"That means Mirna did not die because of the coffee. Two people drank the same coffee but Hani is alive and well," Mr Wibowo was quoted as saying in the Jakarta Post.
The friends had reportedly studied together in at design colleges and university in Australia.
Australian Federal Police (AFP) confirmed in a statement that they had been asked to investigate the women's links from their time in Sydney and Melbourne.
The statement said the AFP would consider the request but did not make further comment on the case. | Indonesian police have asked for Australia to help investigate the case of a woman who died after drinking cyanide-laced coffee. | 35378520 | [
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The man said he found the metal object floating on a remote river in the municipality of Salinopolis.
The debris has been confirmed as coming from a satellite launched from the Kourou base, in neighbouring French Guiana, last July.
The piece bears the logo of the UK Space Agency and Arianespace - the European satellite company.
A spokeswoman for the UK Space Agency, Julia Short, confirmed that the debris was from the launch of Europe's largest telecommunications satellite last year.
"It is the launch vehicle payload shroud from the Alphasat launch last year. It probably landed in the Atlantic and then floated inland,"
Alphasat, described as Europe's most sophisticated telecommunications satellite, was launched from the Kourou base on 25 July.
Brazilian authorities in northern Para state said they would contact the UK Space Agency and ask them to collect the object.
According to local reports, it took more than 10 people to retrieve the panel from the riverbank.
"It is big, the size of a car," local resident Gilson dos Santos told O Globo.
Residents have been told to report immediately any symptoms of illness, but rescue teams do not believe the wreckage is radioactive.
The local fisherman who came across the unusual catch - 73-year-old Manuel Alves dos Santos - said the authorities initially did not believe him.
"It hit my fishing line and I pushed to the bank of the river to see what it was. It is the first time I see something like that," he told O Liberal newspaper.
The object was found on Saturday night, but according to residents the authorities failed to respond to their initial calls.
Recovery teams only arrived in the area after the finding was reported in the media. | A fisherman in Brazil's Amazon region has found a large piece of debris from a European space launch. | 27215788 | [
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Donors, including actress Jodie Foster, raised more than $200,000 (£122,000).
The 42 radio telescopes, in northern California, search space for potential signals from alien life forms.
Ms Foster was one of more than 2,400 people who contributed to the fund to save the Allen Telescope Array. She played the lead role of an astronomer looking for evidence of aliens in the 1997 film Contact.
In a statement on the fund-raising website she explained her support: "The Allen Telescope Array could turn science fiction into science fact but only if it is actively searching the skies."
Another donor was the Apollo 8 astronaut, Bill Anders.
The SETI Institute says the fund should be enough to keep the telescopes operating until the end of the year, though the plan is still dependent on the institute receiving money from the US Air Force to track space debris that could damage satellites.
SETI Institute Astronomer Seth Shostak told BBC News, the deal with the Air Force is not yet done but he said he is fairly confident it will go through. Even then the money will need to be ratified by Congress and so there may be a delay. He hopes the array will re-open in September or October.
Thomas Pierson, SETI chief executive, agreed that a deal with the Air Force, combined with the donations, should allow the array to start listening for space chatter once again.
He said: "For those who are interested in understanding whether intelligent life might be out there elsewhere in our galaxy, the Allen Telescope Array and our SETI team doing the research are the best bet."
The array began operating in 2007 and is named after its major benefactor, Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft. It consists of 42 dish-shaped antennas which work as a single radio telescope.
It is part of the Hat Creek Radio Observatory, run by the University of California, Berkeley. Originally the array was a joint project between SETI Institute and the UC Berkeley Astronomy Laboratory but Berkeley had to pull out because of the loss of National Science Foundation grants and state budget cuts.
SETI is hoping to raise more money to contribute to the $2.5m (£1.5m) annual operating and staffing costs of the telescopes and keep them going beyond the end of this year. Ultimately the plan is to use the array to observe planets outside our own Solar System.
Dr Shostak said: "People still think this very fundamental question - is there somebody out there as intelligent or more so than us - is important and worth doing."
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A memo from BlackRock's president Rob Kapito and chief operating officer Rob Goldstein said the job cuts have not been finalised.
BlackRock declined to comment.
The last time BlackRock cut a significant number of jobs was in 2013 but the firm ended the year with a higher headcount.
The new round of layoffs comes following months of volatility in the financial markets, which has negatively impacted the income made by traditional banks and other investment houses.
Rivals like Franklin Resources, AllianceBernstein and State Street are also shedding jobs as part of their cost-cutting efforts.
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The call was made by Scottish Conservative Mary Scanlon and backed by SNP MSP Mike MacKenzie.
The state of Holyrood's coffee was raised during questions about staff and services at the Edinburgh building.
Linda Fabiani suggested the complainers could use "very good coffee bags" and "some really hot water".
She was answering on behalf of the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body which runs the parliament.
After taking a question about food waste disposal, Ms Fabiani was informed by Ms Scanlon that she would like to "increase the amount of food disposal" in some areas, namely the coffee for committee meetings.
Ms Scanlon, the MSP for the Highlands and Islands, told the chamber: "On behalf of my colleague on the audit and education committee, Colin Beattie, and colleagues across this parliament from all parties can I ask if the corporate body will ensure that new and existing MSPs get a decent cup of coffee in committee in session five [after the next Holyrood election]."
Ms Scanlon was backed by Mr MacKenzie who said he "shared the concerns".
He had also observed that the quality of the coffee diminished the longer it sat in their flasks.
Ms Fabiani responded by saying: "I guess it is all a matter of taste I quite like the coffee that we get in committee."
However, she added that it was a complaint she had heard "over the last couple of years".
Ms Fabiani said the fact the coffee urns were being emptied each day suggested that most people were "quite happy" with what was being offered. | Pleas have been made by members of the Scottish Parliament for better quality coffee to be served to them during committee meetings. | 35720104 | [
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It comes after Newport council said it planned to stop its funding due to budget cuts.
The new site will allow freeze-drying of the ship's remaining timbers to continue, completing its conservation.
Supporters of the Newport Ship raised concerns about its future in August when it emerged there was no plan in place for an alternative home after the lease on its current building expires in October.
Council officers have since looked at six options, including relocating it to a National Museum of Wales facility in Nantgarw, storing it in a shared warehouse in Pill or at vacant council-owned premises.
It also considered disposing of the timbers, but a report to councillors says that would leave the authority "accountable for the destruction of one of the most remarkable archaeological finds of the last 50 years".
Instead the report recommends renting a warehouse to store the ship, which would be part funded with a grant offered by the Welsh government.
This would allow freeze-drying of the ship's remaining untreated timbers to be completed and allow the public to visit it, as they do on open days held at its current home in Maeglas.
It is hoped the Friends of Newport Ship, a charity which supports the conservation project, will eventually take over its management.
The 500 year-old vessel was found on the banks of the River Usk during construction of the Riverfront theatre 12 years ago.
Dating back to 1460, it is the most complete surviving example of a ship of its time and experts think it was used for trading along the Atlantic seaboard.
It is thought it was built in south-west France, the Basque country or Portugal, but how it came to rest in Newport remains a mystery. | A new home could soon be found for Newport's medieval ship, safeguarding its future restoration. | 29378231 | [
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Greater Manchester Fire Service said engines from Wigan and Hindley were mobilised at about 13:55 BST.
A spokesman for the fire service said it had received reports that a 28-year-old man was stuck up a tree in Green Lane as he tried to recover his pet. | A man has been rescued from a tree after getting stuck while trying to recapture his parrot. | 34057098 | [
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A government spokesman said the bodies were found near the city of Al Bayda, close to the site of the kidnapping.
The crew was taken in August while travelling through territory largely controlled by extremist militants.
Libya has been in turmoil since the fall of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011 and now has two competing governments and numerous militia groups.
Faraj al-Barassi, a district army commander in eastern Libya, told Reuters that militants loyal to Islamic State (IS) were responsible for the killings.
IS-affiliated militants have established a strong presence in parts of Libya, including Derna where the kidnapping is believed to have taken place.
Parts of Libya have descended into lawless chaos following the overthrow of Gaddafi, allowing extremists to gain ground.
A February report by Human Rights Watch said there was a "climate of impunity" in the country that "allowed militias to assault, threaten, kidnap, or even kill journalists".
Libya's internationally recognised government has fled from the capital Tripoli to the eastern city of Tobruk, while a rival parliament has been established in Tripoli itself. | Five journalists belonging to a Libyan TV crew have been found dead, eight months after they were kidnapped. | 32490239 | [
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The Communication Workers Union said the walkout would start on Monday 19 December and include Christmas Eve.
It will involve thousands of workers from the Crown Post Offices.
The Post Office said despite the walkout it would be "business as usual" with "at least" 97% of its 11,600 branches not involved.
Crown Post Offices are the larger branches that are usually located in High Streets.
In April 2016, the Post Office announced plans to transfer up to 61 branches into WH Smith stores over the following year.
It said the move was part of a 10-year plan to cut costs and save cash, and would act as a way of "safeguarding the future of the network."
"Our members want the Post Office management to pause its closure and privatisation programme, hold off on its planned pensions changes, and commit to sitting down with us and with the other key stakeholders of this Great British institution and, together, construct a lasting vision," said CWU assistant secretary Andy Furey.
The Post Office said it was "extremely disappointed" by the CWU's action.
"Just today, we agreed with the CWU that we would resume talks, which have been ongoing throughout the summer, on Wednesday," added Kevin Gilliland, the Post Office's network and sales director. | Post Office workers will stage five days of strikes from Monday in a continuing dispute over jobs, pensions and branch closures, their union says. | 38296460 | [
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Locals rush about their business, the shops are full and crowds of tourists gather here to watch the Glockenspiel, the chiming carillon, with its dancing figures and little chirping golden bird.
But a glance under the Mariensaeule, a column topped with a statue of the Virgin Mary, tells you that all is not well here.
Flowers and candles have been laid at the foot of the monument in memory of those who died in the shootings on Friday at a shopping centre in the north-west of the city.
Their killer was an 18-year-old German-Iranian, David Ali Sonboly, who was obsessed with guns.
"To the victims of the 23rd of July" one message reads. "Love is stronger than hate," says another.
The series of violent attacks in the past few days has shaken people here.
What is going on in Germany?
What drives individuals to commit mass killings?
"I'm trying not to let it affect me too much in my daily life," Xenia, a student, told me. "But when one thing after another happens like this, you can't help thinking that the world is totally crazy."
"Do you think the government is doing enough in this situation?" I asked her. "Have they let in too many refugees and migrants?"
"I feel generally safe in Germany," she said. "Attacks have been prevented in Duesseldorf and Bonn, and you can't do much against lone wolves.
"And we can't just blame it all on the refugees. That makes it far too simple. There will always be problem cases, but in general the refugees risk their lives to come here."
On the other side of the square, Alois Frank shook his head.
"I think there will be more attacks like this if the government doesn't take action," he told me. "They are doing much too little.
"They need to check very carefully who these migrants are, whether they are real asylum seekers or not."
"What do you think about Chancellor Angela Merkel?" I asked him.
"I always used to like her very much," he said. "But since she has accepted so many migrants, I am strongly against her.
"I always voted for the CDU [Mrs Merkel's party]," he said, "but now I am re-considering."
He looked around at a couple walking with their little girl.
"I'm not worried for myself because I am 83 years old and if something happens to me, my God, who cares! But I am concerned for my family."
Lothar Plomitcer, 48, agreed. "Our government seems to be controlled by the EU and Brussels. What kind of experiment is it, when a million people flee here? I know they have a good reason to leave Syria and Iraq, but it's uncontrolled. People need borders."
Others in this cosmopolitan city are worried for other reasons.
Wandering through a shopping street with her friend Nadia, Kadidja told me the attacks made her concerned for her safety.
"As a Muslim woman with dark skin who wears a headscarf, I find the current atmosphere quite charged," she said.
"I notice that lots of people are looking at me and are a bit scared of me. The mood is quite tense.
"I grew up here, I see myself as a German, but people still don't totally accept me. There are still so many prejudices against Muslims. I hope that will change one day."
The oppressive heat of the afternoon gave way to a violent thunderstorm, and I took shelter in the doorway of a shop, along with a middle-aged woman with brown hair.
"These are strange times for Bavaria," she told me. "Even the weather doesn't like it."
"Are you worried?" I asked her.
"I was worried on Friday during the shootings," she said. "And I was a bit careful on the underground today. But what can you do? You can't let it stop you." | At first glance, everything seems normal in Marienplatz, Munich's central square, which is dominated by the great neo-Gothic Town Hall. | 36888897 | [
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Now without a win in 12 league matches on home soil - a run that dates back to March - the Dons twice held a two-goal lead before Taylor rescued an unlikely point for Rovers.
Dean Bowditch opened the scoring for the hosts after 16 minutes from close range when goalkeeper Kelle Roos spilt a 20-yard strike from Ben Reeves.
Lively winger Ryan Colclough thundered a shot against the crossbar before defender George Williams nodded his first Dons goal via a post in the 24th minute.
Bowditch headed inches wide on the half hour as the hosts went close to making it 3-0.
Taylor threw Rovers a lifeline just 66 seconds after the break with a superb right-foot strike from 20 yards.
Dons' nerves eased again when Reeves cut inside in the 66th minute to restore the two-goal gap.
Rovers' more physical second-half approach left Dons boss Karl Robinson livid on the touchline and his back line finally cracked as Taylor pounced twice from close range in the 87th and 89th minutes.
Reports supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, MK Dons 3, Bristol Rovers 3.
Second Half ends, MK Dons 3, Bristol Rovers 3.
Attempt missed. Ben Reeves (MK Dons) left footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high from a direct free kick.
Ed Upson (MK Dons) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Chris Lines (Bristol Rovers).
Corner, MK Dons. Conceded by Tom Lockyer.
Corner, Bristol Rovers. Conceded by Ed Upson.
Goal! MK Dons 3, Bristol Rovers 3. Matty Taylor (Bristol Rovers) right footed shot from very close range to the bottom right corner.
Attempt saved. Lee Brown (Bristol Rovers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Corner, Bristol Rovers. Conceded by David Martin.
Hand ball by Samir Carruthers (MK Dons).
Goal! MK Dons 3, Bristol Rovers 2. Matty Taylor (Bristol Rovers) right footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Jake Clarke-Salter.
Corner, Bristol Rovers. Conceded by George B Williams.
Corner, MK Dons. Conceded by Lee Brown.
Attempt saved. Ben Reeves (MK Dons) right footed shot from long range on the right is saved in the bottom right corner.
Ben Reeves (MK Dons) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Cristian Montaño (Bristol Rovers).
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Substitution, Bristol Rovers. Cristian Montaño replaces Ollie Clarke.
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Foul by Chris Lines (Bristol Rovers).
Attempt missed. Ellis Harrison (Bristol Rovers) header from the right side of the six yard box is close, but misses to the right.
Substitution, MK Dons. Daniel Powell replaces Ryan Colclough. | Matty Taylor's second-half hat-trick earned Bristol Rovers a late draw at MK Dons in a six-goal thriller. | 37615027 | [
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He realised it was the 189-million-year-old remains of an ichthyosaur - an extinct marine reptile.
Further study confirmed it to be a previously unknown species.
The finding has now been published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.
Dean Lomax, the 25-year-old palaeontologist who studied the specimen, said it was so well preserved he could determine the contents of its stomach.
"We could see tiny hook-shaped features that were actually the hooks from the tentacles of squid," he said.
"So we know what its last meal was."
Mr Lomax worked with Prof Judy Massare, from the State University of New York, comparing the specimen's fossilised bones with those of almost 1,000 other ichthyosaurs in museums in the US and Europe.
Mr Lomax explained that subtle anatomical features in its fin bones set the species apart from others.
It is not uncommon to find ichthyosaur fossils in England. The sharp-toothed marine reptiles swam in large numbers in the seas around Britain when the dinosaurs roamed.
This particular specimen was found in the rocks of Dorset's Jurassic Coast in the early 1980s and brought to the museum, so it is not clear how it was eventually mistaken for a copy.
Dr Silvia Danise from Plymouth University said its "rediscovery" was a "striking example of how important museum collections are for scientific research".
"Collections are treasures that show their value each time we're able to look at them with a different perspective, and by asking new scientific questions," she told BBC News.
Dr Blanca Huertas, from the Natural History Museum in London, pointed out that there were still many species to discover in museum collections.
"Sometimes we discover things in the field," she said, "but the collections are an incredible source of opportunities, since visiting them, people can study specimens and collections from hundreds of places across the entire planet and travel in time."
Source: Encyclopaedia of Paleontology.
This new species has now been named Ichthyosaurus anningae - in honour of Mary Anning, the British fossil-hunter who discovered the first ichthyosaur on the Dorset coast in about 1811.
The hope now is that news about the significance of this ancient specimen might help track down the fossil hunter who found it.
Dr Stephen Brusatte, a palaeontologist from the University of Edinburgh added that there was "a whole lot more still to find out there".
He told BBC News: "Palaeontology is a unique science because you don't need an advanced degree or specialised training to find a fossil, just patience and a keen set of eyes." | A fossil stored in a Doncaster museum for 30 years and thought to be a plaster copy has turned out to be a new species of ancient reptile. | 31521719 | [
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The army said their column had stashed explosives and weapons near a pipeline connecting a gas field to the capital.
Last month the army freed 39 captives, mostly women and children who had been kept as slave labour by the group after being kidnapped.
Some of the captives said they had been seized some 30 years ago.
The defence ministry said 26 of them were children, some of whom had been born in captivity.
The victims said they were forced to work in fields.
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Shining Path was largely dismantled after the capture of its leader, Abimael Guzman, in 1992.
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US prosecutors allege he made about $875,000 (£600,000) from the move.
He faces 22 charges in the US, including fraud charges, all of which he denies.
The charges include "spoofing" - the practice of buying or selling with the intent to cancel the transaction before execution.
He was arrested in April after being charged by the US Justice Department.
After spending four months in custody in the UK, he was released on bail last year.
The "flash crash" on 6 May 2010 sent the Dow Jones Industrial Average briefly plunging by more than 1,000 points before recovering.
Mr Sarao, 37, is accused of using software to "spoof" markets by generating large sell orders that pushed down prices.
He then cancelled those trades and bought the contracts at the lower prices US authorities allege.
They claim he made roughly £27m in profit over five years from illegal trades.
Mr Sarao has denied doing anything wrong and previously told the Westminster court in May he was simply "being good at my job".
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A 9mm self-loading pistol, ammunition, four Enfield pistols and a rifle component were found at Albert Patterson's house in Hereford, the Hereford Times reported.
The 65-year-old was jailed for 15 months at the city's Crown Court.
He had already admitted three firearms offences, possessing prohibited ammunition and possessing ammunition without a certificate.
More on this story and others from Herefordshire
West Mercia Police said Patterson was arrested in January last year and charged in December.
Two charges of possessing a prohibited weapon and a second charge of possessing ammunition without a certificate will remain on file following Wednesday's hearing.
Former SAS soldier Lofty Wiseman who helped train Patterson, described him as a "good lad" who had been naive.
"He broke the law unfortunately. He had to get punished," he said.
"If he wanted a weapon as a keepsake, you could have had it de-activated, but by having a weapon, a serviceable weapon and ammunition, I think it's the ammunition that's really been the nail in the coffin.
"If you have a weapon in a house with ammunition, there's always that temptation... you can never say you're going to use it but different circumstances, state of mind, if it's there, it can be used so that's where you must have laws." | A former SAS soldier has been jailed for possessing weapons and ammunition. | 36045265 | [
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University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust was rated as inadequate in an inspection by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
It said the Royal Lancaster Infirmary and Furness General Hospital in Barrow needed to improve the quality of care.
The trust said it was "part-way through a process of significant improvement".
Last year, a separate trust covering the north of the county, North Cumbria University Hospitals Trust, was one of 11 put into special measures after the Keogh review found higher-than-expected mortality rates.
The CQC inspection took place in February and while inspectors said care in services such as maternity and A&E had improved since previous checks, they added other areas of concern had not been addressed.
Medical care in one part of the Royal Lancaster was said to be "of particular concern".
The overall recruitment of nurses and doctors was identified as a "fundamental" worry with "too much reliance" on temporary staff.
The chief inspector of hospitals, Professor Sir Mike Richards, said: "There is a long history of concern with the quality of service provided by the trust, so it is disappointing to report that a number of the issues that have been identified in the past remain unresolved.
"I do not believe that the trust is likely to resolve its challenges without external support."
As well as the hospitals in Barrow and Lancaster, inspectors also visited the Westmorland General Hospital, near Kendal, which was said to be providing a good service overall.
The trust's chief executive, Jackie Daniel said: "The reports reflect the fact we are part-way through a process of significant improvement which is still going to take a number of years to complete.
"It isn't an overnight job to change the culture of a large, complex organisation."
Full reports of the inspection have been published on the CQC website. | A failing health trust has been placed in special measures, meaning all Cumbria hospital trusts are now getting extra help to boost performance. | 28023415 | [
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Judges said their work laid "an intellectual foundation" for policies in areas such as bankruptcy legislation and political constitutions.
The pair will receive 8 million Swedish krona (£744,652) from the committee.
Mr Hart, who was woken with the news at 4.40am, said his first reaction had been to hug his wife and wake his younger son.
Mr Holmstrom said he felt "very lucky" and "grateful".
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said that Mr Hart and Mr Holmstrom's work was "valuable to the understanding of real-life contracts and institutions".
It also said it could identify "potential pitfalls in contract design."
Working separately, the two created tools to help determine whether public sector workers should receive fixed salaries or performance-based pay, and whether providers of public services should be publicly or privately owned.
Mr Holmstrom in particular is known for his research into how contracts and incentives affect corporate behaviour.
The former Nokia board member declined to say whether he thought executive pay was too high these days, but commented: "My personal view is that [top executives' contracts] are too complicated today."
Mr Holmstrom, aged 67, is a professor of economics and management at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, while Mr Hart, born in 1948, is an economics professor at Harvard University in the US.
The pair saw off competition from the World Bank's new chief economist Paul Romer, who was widely tipped to win.
New York University's Stern Business School, where Prof Romer teaches, sparked controversy last Thursday when it accidently published a press release naming him as the winner.
It quickly took down the release, saying it was only preparing for a possible win.
Others believed to be the running included Olivier Blanchard, a former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund, and Edward Lazear, a fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.
The economics prize is the only Nobel not created by Alfred Nobel, and was instead launched in 1968, long after the philanthropist's death.
To date Americans have dominated the award, with 55 of the 76 laureates holding US citizenship, including those with dual nationalities.
Last year Scottish-born economist Angus Deaton won the prize for his use of data to investigate income inequality and inform economic policy.
It is the fifth Nobel to be announced this year, after prizes for physiology or medicine, physics, chemistry and peace were awarded last week.
The Nobel prize for literature will be awarded on Thursday. | UK-born Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmstrom of Finland have won the Nobel economics prize for work on contract theory. | 37605685 | [
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Japan should learn "profound lessons from history", China's defence ministry said after Japan's parliamentary vote.
The vote allows Japanese troops to fight overseas for the first time since the end of World War Two 70 years ago.
Tensions between China and Japan have escalated in recent months over a group of islands to which both lay claim.
The security laws were voted through Japan's upper house late on Friday, with 148 lawmakers voting in support and 90 against.
It followed nearly 200 hours of political wrangling, with scuffles breaking out at various points between the bills' supporters and opposition members attempting to delay the vote.
Compiled by BBC Monitoring
The government says that the changes in defence policy are vital to meet new military challenges such as those posed from a rising China.
But China's defence ministry said on Saturday they "run counter to the trend of the times that upholds peace, development and co-operation", the Xinhua news agency reports.
"The move has breached the restrictions of Japan's pacifist constitution," the ministry added.
Many Japanese who opposed the bills - which prompted large public protests - were also attached to the pacifist provisions in the constitution that banned fighting overseas.
China also urged Japan to "heed the security concern" of its Asian neighbours and do more to promote regional peace and stability.
South Korea, which also has a tense relationship with Japan, has warned Tokyo not to exercise the new defence laws without its approval.
But the US, Japan's ally, and the UK have both welcomed the changes.
UK Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said he looked forward to Japan "taking an increasingly active part in peacekeeping operations".
Japan's post-World War Two constitution bars it from using force to resolve international conflicts except in cases of self-defence.
The new security legislation allows Japan's military to mobilise overseas when these three conditions are met:
What's behind Japan's military shift?
Critics say the changes violate the pacifist constitution and could lead Japan into US-led wars abroad.
Supporters of the measures insist they are essential for the defence of Japan and its regional allies, and will permit greater involvement in peacekeeping activities around the world.
Critics have focused on what they say is ambiguity in how the principles of the legislation will be interpreted, and the possibility that future governments will interpret them more broadly. | China has said Japan is endangering peace in the region after it passed controversial laws expanding the role of its military abroad. | 34301456 | [
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He had rejected a move to Birmingham on Wednesday but has now agreed personal terms and passed his medical.
Stewart, who was in the final year of his contract at at Dens Park, had scored six goals in three games for Dundee already this season.
He could make his Blues debut in Saturday's Championship match at Leeds.
Stewart is Birmingham's second signing of the week following the arrival of striker Che Adams from Sheffield United.
Birmingham opened their Championship campaign with a goalless draw against Cardiff City and were knocked out of the EFL Cup by League One side Oxford United in Tuesday's first-round tie. | Birmingham City have signed Dundee forward Greg Stewart on a three-year deal for a fee believed to be around £500,000. | 37037060 | [
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The men were trying to descend Bla Bheinn when they got into difficulty in fading light on Thursday.
They raised the alarm at 20:40 and a rescue operation involving the coastguard, Skye Mountain Rescue Team and Police Scotland was launched.
A coastguard helicopter from Stornoway in Lewis airlifted the men.
They were flown to an airfield at Broadford on Skye. They were uninjured and did not need medical treatment.
The Maritime and Coastguard Agency said it had been a tricky rescue operation carried out on what it described as a dangerous cliff ledge.
A spokesman said: "Winch operator Robert Glendinning and winchman Peter Wood had to use all their skills to rescue the four - the winchman even climbing the cliff at one point to reach them." | A group of four hillwalkers have been airlifted to safety after getting stuck on a "dangerous ledge" 2,000ft (609m) up a mountain on Skye. | 36110151 | [
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Seven firms, including major supermarkets such as NTUC FairPrice and IKEA, have been asked declare they are not doing so within a week.
The forest fires in Indonesia have deteriorated Singapore's air quality, causing a blanket of haze in the city.
FairPrice has said it removing products from one Indonesian firm.
The state-owned supermarket giant said that it was removing all paper products sourced from Asia Pulp and Paper Group (APP), following the notification from the government.
APP has been named by Singapore authorities as one of the companies suspected of contributing to the haze.
What is behind the South East Asia haze?
In a joint statement, the Singapore Environment Council (SEC) and Consumers Association of Singapore (CASE) said they had asked the retailers to declare that they have "not procured or used wood, paper and/or pulp materials" from firms accused of contributing to the fires.
The SEC said retailers were "a good starting point" for firms to show their commitment to sustainable procurement processes and "for consumers to show their support for brands that have environmentally friendly practices"
The haze has caused hazardous air quality across the region. It has led to the cancellation of public events and schools closure over the past month, in Singapore as well as in Malaysia and Indonesia.
Anger has been rising in the region, with increasing pressure on the Indonesian government to control the annual burning of forests to clear land for palm oil and rubber plantations. | Singapore is putting pressure on major retailers in Singapore to not use or sell materials produced by firms linked to fires in Indonesia. | 34461949 | [
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Trinidadian Simmons, who has led the Irish since 2007, is believed to have been interviewed for the job prior to the current World Cup.
BBC Sport has been told that Simmons, 51, has been offered the West Indies post but that negotiations have yet to be successfully concluded.
Simmons's Irish exited from the World Cup after Sunday's defeat by Pakistan.
The coach is under contract with Ireland until December but Cricket Ireland are not expected to stand in his way if he decides to accept the West Indies offer.
A quick Simmons appointment would see him take charge for the Test series against England in the Caribbean next month.
Stuart Williams has been in temporary charge of the Windies since they parted company with Ottis Gibson last August.
Simmons, who played 26 Tests from 1988 until 1997, has been linked with the West Indies job on a number of previous occasions.
And his stock has risen further over the last month given Ireland's impressive performances at the World Cup.
Since replacing Adi Birrell after the 2007 World Cup, Simmons has guided Ireland to the 2011 and 2015 tournaments and earned wins over Test nations England, the West Indies and Zimbabwe.
Simmons's Ireland squad defeated the West Indies in their opening World Cup game in Nelson last month but missed out on a quarter-final spot on run-rate despite further group victories over the United Arab Emirates and Zimbabwe.
During Simmons's tenure, he has guided Ireland to six successive ICC global tournaments while his side have also won 10 trophies contested by Associate countries. | Ireland coach Phil Simmons is mulling over whether to accept an offer to take charge of his native West Indies. | 31924512 | [
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O'Donnell returned from injury to play four games at the end of the season.
Captain Hogan, full-back Smith and midfielder Mafuta were all regulars for Neil Aspin's team.
Manager Aspin has retained 14 players, and released five in Mitch Brundle, Toby Ajala, Nick Cassidy, Shaun MacDonald and Jack Elliott.
The Tynesiders missed out on the play-offs, finishing three places and twelve points behind fifth-placed Aldershot.
Retained players: James Montgomery, James Bolton, Manny Smith, Jamal Fyfield, Wes York, Danny Johnson, Danny Burns, Dan Hanford, Jordan Burrow, Macaulay Langstaff, Nyal Bell, Luke Hannant, Paddy McLaughlin and Tom White. | Gateshead are in discussions to offer new deals to JJ O'Donnell, George Smith, Liam Hogan and Gus Mafuta for next season's National League campaign. | 39794288 | [
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Leigh Griffiths scored a penalty after Patrick Roberts had been fouled by Callum Booth.
Griffiths turned provider for Tom Rogic's close-range finish and Roberts netted a stunning third before the break.
Callum McGregor scored with a shot off the underside of the bar and Roberts then curled in his second.
Celtic boss Brendan Rodgers continued to rotate his squad but no strength was lost as the likes of captain Scott Brown and defender Erik Sviatchenko came in to give others a rest.
From the moment referee Andrew Dallas blew his whistle it was Celtic at their scintillating best.
The swagger witnessed for most of this season was in evidence from a side that had at least four players who would not be considered first-choice picks.
The wide men in particular gave the Partick full-backs a torrid evening with Roberts looking completely unplayable at times. The man on loan from Manchester City floated and jinked past defenders all night.
McGregor and Brown provided the drive from the middle of the park - keeping the tempo high and their team-mates hungry. It was quite simply a side with complete belief in their abilities and evidence for anyone who needed it about just how far Celtic are ahead of the rest.
The opener came from the spot - Griffiths with his 17th of the season after Roberts was brought down by Booth.
The second was a rare scrappy effort from Rogic that bounced off both posts before nestling in the net.
Roberts' brilliance was rewarded when he curled in the third before the break. It followed fine build-up play on the edge of the box.
McGregor grabbed his fourth in five games as the clock ticked down in the second half. His effort smashed the crossbar and went over the line. The ball bounced out but the assistant referee called it in.
Roberts cloned his first and made it five with just minutes left. It was a fitting end to his and Celtic's night.
Like so many before them this season, the home side were simply outclassed. They had a couple of chances in the second half but in truth Celtic were toying with them for long spells. In terms of the season, their work was already done and it looked that way.
It's 46 games unbeaten in all competitions, 104 league goals and a current total of 103 points.
The records just keep tumbling under Rodgers. The big one will be confirmed on Sunday if they can avoid defeat at home to Hearts at Celtic Park and become 'the invincibles'.
A draw or a win will give them their biggest points tally in a 38-league game season, with the Scottish Cup final against Aberdeen and the chance to complete a domestic treble following on 27 May.
Match ends, Partick Thistle 0, Celtic 5.
Second Half ends, Partick Thistle 0, Celtic 5.
Corner, Celtic. Conceded by Danny Devine.
Attempt blocked. Patrick Roberts (Celtic) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Attempt saved. Tomas Rogic (Celtic) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Erik Sviatchenko (Celtic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Adebayo Azeez (Partick Thistle).
Foul by Scott Brown (Celtic).
Adam Barton (Partick Thistle) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt saved. Adebayo Azeez (Partick Thistle) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is saved in the bottom left corner.
Goal! Partick Thistle 0, Celtic 5. Patrick Roberts (Celtic) left footed shot from outside the box to the top left corner.
Attempt saved. Tomas Rogic (Celtic) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Goal! Partick Thistle 0, Celtic 4. Callum McGregor (Celtic) right footed shot from outside the box to the bottom right corner.
Attempt missed. Nir Bitton (Celtic) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high.
Attempt missed. Scott Sinclair (Celtic) left footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Attempt saved. Tomas Rogic (Celtic) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Callum McGregor (Celtic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Steven Lawless (Partick Thistle).
Attempt saved. Scott Sinclair (Celtic) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Scott Brown (Celtic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Adam Barton (Partick Thistle).
Substitution, Celtic. Nir Bitton replaces James Forrest.
Substitution, Partick Thistle. Adebayo Azeez replaces Chris Erskine.
Substitution, Celtic. Scott Sinclair replaces Leigh Griffiths.
Substitution, Celtic. Kolo Touré replaces Dedryck Boyata.
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Erik Sviatchenko (Celtic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Kris Doolan (Partick Thistle).
Second Half begins Partick Thistle 0, Celtic 3.
Substitution, Partick Thistle. Ryan Edwards replaces Abdul Osman because of an injury.
Substitution, Partick Thistle. Mark Ridgers replaces Tomás Cerny because of an injury.
First Half ends, Partick Thistle 0, Celtic 3.
Attempt missed. Adam Barton (Partick Thistle) header from the left side of the six yard box is close, but misses to the left.
Corner, Partick Thistle. Conceded by Dedryck Boyata.
Foul by Scott Brown (Celtic).
Adam Barton (Partick Thistle) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Goal! Partick Thistle 0, Celtic 3. Patrick Roberts (Celtic) left footed shot from outside the box to the top left corner. | Champions Celtic are one game away from an unbeaten Premiership season after a dominant victory over Partick Thistle. | 39879798 | [
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Leading by 37.2 seconds heading into the last stage, the Briton narrowly missed parked cars as he went off the road with under one kilometre left.
However, he managed to quickly regroup as he finished 13.8 seconds ahead of world champion Sebastien Ogier.
"I'm a lucky boy. I got caught out on a bump," said Citroen driver Meeke, 37.
"Certainly one way to finish a rally."
Hyundai driver Thierry Neuville finished third, 45.9 seconds behind Ford's Ogier.
Leading by 30.9 seconds after bossing the first two days, Meeke won Sunday's penultimate stage to extend his lead to 37.2 seconds.
That left him having to negotiate the final 21.94km stage around Derramadero.
The county Tyrone man's late mishap left him only seventh fastest on the final stage but it proved enough to clinch a crucial victory following his disappointing performances in the opening two events of the season.
After being strongly fancied to contend for this year's title, Meeke crashed out in Monte Carlo and could only finish 12th in Sweden after another mistake.
Meeke, who competed in the championship for the first time in 2011, earned his first WRC win at Rally Argentina in 2015 and took further victories in Portugal and Finland last year.
The Northern Irishman's gamble of opting for hard compound tyres on Saturday's nine stages despite the threat of rain was crucial to his victory as he extended his lead to take firm control of the event. | Northern Ireland's Kris Meeke survived a late scare at Rally Mexico to clinch his fourth win in a World Rally Championship event. | 39243554 | [
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The Scottish National Party had argued that its Commons leader enjoyed the support of more MPs than Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.
There are currently 54 SNP MPs but only 40 of Labour's 229 MPs expressed support for Mr Corbyn on Tuesday.
Speaker John Bercow said he had sought expert advice.
He said Labour "currently constitutes" the official opposition and its leader is recognised by the Speaker "for statutory and parliamentary purposes" as the leader of the opposition.
Mr Bercow was replying to a point of order raised by SNP MP Pete Wishart, who told the Speaker that Labour had lost two-thirds of its shadow cabinet and its leader no longer commanded the majority of his backbench MPs.
The SNP MP said: "It can now longer provide shadows for large departments of State. It is in clearly in no shape to assume power and meet these key responsibilities and obligations as outlined in Erskine May (the parliamentary rulebook)."
The SNP said it would be able to fill all of the relevant shadow posts to the government.
Mr Corbyn has still not appointed a shadow Scottish secretary.
The previous incumbent, Ian Murray, has not been replaced after becoming one of more than 20 members of Labour's shadow cabinet to quit earlier this week in an effort to force Mr Corbyn to resign.
Mr Corbyn subsequently lost a vote of no confidence by 172 votes to 40 but said the ballot had "no constitutional legitimacy" and that he would not "betray" the members who voted for him by resigning.
His allies have challenged Mr Corbyn's critics to trigger a formal leadership contest if they want to replace him.
Earlier, Labour's shadow chancellor John McDonnell - who has remained loyal to Mr Corbyn - said the SNP would "always play a few stunts and you can't blame them for that".
The SNP won 56 seats at last May's election, but Michelle Thomson and Natalie McGarry have since withdrawn from the party whip amid police investigations. | The SNP's attempt to be made the official opposition at Westminster has been rejected by the Speaker of the House of Commons. | 36660386 | [
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The 1,905 claimants had alleged they suffered harm while being held on PNG's Manus Island between 2012 and 2016.
The government said it "strongly denied" the allegations but that settling was a "prudent" decision.
Australia turns away any refugees and asylum seekers arriving by boat and sends them to PNG and Nauru.
It says this deters migrants from attempting the life-threatening voyage to its shores in trafficking boats.
But the policy has been heavily criticised both at home and internationally, including by the United Nations.
The Manus case was due to be heard in the Victoria Supreme Court on Wednesday.
But shortly before the trial began, lawyers for the claimants said the government and its service providers had offered a last minute settlement of A$70m.
They also offered to cover costs estimated to be more than A$20m.
The full details of the settlement and the financial package are yet to be fully approved by the court.
Despite the millions of dollars it has cost, and the critical headlines it has generated, the Australian government is unlikely to regret its policy of sending asylum seekers offshore.
Telling refugees that they will not be allowed to enter Australia until their case has been processed seems to have been a powerful deterrent.
Just yesterday the prime minister boasted that more than 1,000 days had passed without a successful people-smuggling expedition to Australia.
The more pressing problem is what to do with the hundreds of refugees who remain on Manus Island and Nauru.
While the US has agreed to honour a deal to consider them for resettlement, it seems unlikely that all would pass the "extreme vetting" procedure.
And with the Manus Island centre due to close in October, time is running out for a long-term solution.
The principal lawyer for the claimants, Andrew Baker, said the settlement would help them to "put this dark chapter of their lives behind them".
But Australia's Immigration Minister Peter Dutton said the government "strongly refutes and denies the claims made in these proceedings".
In a statement, he said that had the case gone to trial it would have cost "tens of millions of dollars in legal fees alone, with an unknown outcome", and the government decided a settlement was a "prudent outcome for Australian taxpayers".
As of last year, residents were allowed to freely come and go from the facility but the debate over their resettlement is ongoing.
Australia has insisted that no-one held on Manus or Nauru will ever be re-settled in Australia. | The Australian government and its contractors have offered compensation totalling A$70m (£41m; $53m) to refugees detained in Papua New Guinea. | 40269543 | [
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The findings, reported in the journal Science, could lead to cheaper and greener cars, planes and electronics.
It is the first time that durable "thermoset" plastic has been produced in a recyclable form.
Dr Jeanette Garcia, from IBM's Almaden Research Center in San Jose, stumbled upon the first new class of thermosets in many years when she accidentally left one of three components out of a reaction.
"I had this chunk of plastic, and I had to figure out what it was," Dr Garcia told the BBC. "I had to smash my round-bottomed flask with a hammer."
That chunk of plastic, produced from unexpectedly simple ingredients, proved to be tremendously hard and stable. Crucially, it could be digested in acid, reverting to its original components.
This digestion reaction allows the chemical building blocks, or monomers, to be reused.
"It was definitely fortuitous," Dr Garcia said. "The first thing I did, of course, was to hit the literature, to try and see if it'd been done before. I just assumed that it had been - it's such a simple reaction."
But her search turned up nothing. This was new.
Once she understood what she had created, Dr Garcia set about repeating her finding. "We wasted a lot of flasks," she said.
Because they are strong and light-weight, thermosets are used throughout modern cars and aircraft, often mixed with carbon fibres to form composites. Some 50% of the new Airbus A350 jet, for example, will be made from composites.
Yet until now, none of this thermoset plastic could be recycled.
"The potential impact here is phenomenal," said Dr Charl Faul, a materials chemist at the University of Bristol. He says the study offers a "very simple, elegant answer to a very old problem".
Dr James Hedrick, who was in charge of the research at IBM, is excited by the possiblities. When a large or expensive component is damaged or reaches the end of its useful life, he explained, it could be repaired or recycled instead of thrown away.
"The ability to rework saves a tremendous amount of money and mitigates waste."
Beyond replacing thermoset-based composites in current technology, Dr Hedrick sees the potential for many more innovative applications. "We're at the discovery phase," he said. "Every time you discover a new polymer-forming reaction it leads to all sorts of new materials."
As well as very hard and durable plastics, the researchers adapted their procedure to a different monomer and produced flexible, self-healing gels. These could be useful in anything from cosmetics, to paint, to the design of drug capsules, because of their particular solubility properties.
"Applications are running like water," Dr Hedrick said. "We don't even know where to go with this yet." | Researchers have developed a collection of new plastics that are recyclable and adaptable - and the discovery began with a laboratory mistake. | 27424318 | [
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"Nothing is known about the culprits yet but we can guess that this involves local crime gangs," investigators told German media.
The suspects fled and the area was quickly cordoned off.
The shots were fired in Friedrich-Stoltze Square, a busy area of bars and cafes, as local people enjoyed the Ascension Day holiday in the sunshine. | At least three people were wounded, two seriously, when shots were fired in the German city of Frankfurt on Thursday. | 36213484 | [
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The Welsh pop legend accused the BBC of "sub-standard behaviour" when it dropped him from the contest last year.
But ITV has bought the rights to broadcast the programme from 2017 and has now invited him back.
He will be joined in the big red chairs by long-serving judge Will.i.am, Oscar-winning actress and singer Jennifer Hudson and rock star Gavin Rossdale.
Sir Tom said: "I had some great times on the show and I can't wait to again discover and help some brand new talent. And of course be back with my pal Will.i.am."
The 76-year-old appeared as a judge on the first four series but was not involved in the latest run.
Last year, he said he was disappointed BBC executives told him "with no consultation or conversation of any kind" that he would not be returning.
Sir Tom is known for hits including It's Not Unusual, Green Green Grass of Home, Delilah and Sex Bomb.
Jennifer Hudson, who appeared on American Idol in 2004, won an Oscar for best supporting actress for Dreamgirls in 2007 and a Grammy Award in 2009.
She said: "I couldn't be more excited to join the amazing panel of coaches on The Voice UK."
Rossdale is the frontman of rock band Bush, the former husband of singer Gwen Stefani and father of model and Strictly Come Dancing contestant Daisy Lowe.
He said he was "so thrilled to be joining The Voice UK" after appearing as a guest on the US version of the series two years ago.
He added: "I have always been extremely proud to fly the flag for British rock music and I can't wait to join this incredible panel and help discover some new talent."
ITV Network head of entertainment Siobhan Greene said she was "absolutely chuffed to bits with the line-up".
She continued: "All four coaches are global artists in the music industry and are at the top of their game."
Follow us on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, on Instagram, or if you have a story suggestion email [email protected]. | Sir Tom Jones is to return as one of the judges on talent show The Voice UK when it moves to ITV next year. | 37497858 | [
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PwC's Northern Ireland economic outlook said this was despite overall unemployment having fallen by more than 10,000 since June 2014.
It said poor productivity remains the single biggest challenge to Northern Ireland's sustained recovery.
PwC's Esmond Birnie said the pace of recovery was "decelerating".
"Over the past seven months business confidence has been mixed, sometimes negative but always lagging the GB regions," Mr Birnie, who is PwC's chief economist in Northern Ireland, said.
"There have also been recent mixed messages around consumer confidence, with June 2015 seeing the first rise in unemployment for more than two years; this may simply be a blip - or it may be indicative of a deeper malaise.
"Currently, Northern Ireland's output is still 8% below the pre-crisis peak of 2008 and is something of a two-speed economy with employment contracting in public sector and financial services but growing fairly rapidly in advanced manufacturing, pharma, food processing and tourism.
"PwC forecasts that Northern Ireland's economic growth will remain the lowest of the 12 UK regions at around 1.8% in 2015 - lower than the 2.2% growth experienced in 2014 - and will fall again in 2016 to around 1.7%."
The report said that Northern Ireland's unemployment claimant count increased by 200 between May and June, the first month-on-month increase since December 2008.
It said that 62% of those registered as unemployed have been out of work for more than 12 months, while 19.7% of young people aged 18-25 are unemployed - well above the UK average of 13.2%.
PwC said the recent budget "confirmed that welfare reform and austerity will continue and that Northern Ireland probably faces a further four years of challenging economic circumstances, particularly around public spending". | Northern Ireland's economic growth will remain the lowest of the 12 UK regions in 2015, a new report has said. | 33797206 | [
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The woman told Sheffield Crown Court she was just 12 when she was picked up from a children's home and abused by Basharat Hussain and two other men.
She also said she had been taken to Blackpool and raped by several men.
Mr Hussain, who denies the claims, is one of seven people on trial over alleged child abuse in Rotherham.
The witness, who cannot be named due to the nature of the allegations, told jurors said she was first abused after she and a friend were taken out for a meal by Mr Hussain and a number of other Asian males.
She said: "I felt very grown up. They took us out and paid for the meal. I did not feel I could say no."
She went on to tell the court that she was taken to Blackpool aged 16 and made to work in a restaurant, in a move prosecutors say was orchestrated by Mr Hussain.
She said that she was kept there for several months and was forced to have sex most days.
She said that when she returned to Rotherham she discovered she had several sexually transmitted infections.
Arshid Hussain, 40, High Street, East Cowick, Goole, faces 30 charges, including five counts of rape.
Qurban Ali, 53, Clough Road, Rotherham, faces four charges, including rape and conspiracy to rape.
Majid Bostan, 37, Ledsham Road, Rotherham faces one charge of indecent assault.
Sajid Bostan, 38, Broom Avenue, Rotherham faces seven charges, including four counts of rape,.
Basharat Hussain, 39, of no fixed abode, faces 15 charges including two counts of rape.
Karen MacGregor, 58, Barnsley Road, Wath, South Yorkshire, faces four charges, including conspiracy to rape.
Shelley Davies, 40, Wainwright Road, Kimberworth Park, Rotherham, faces three charges, including conspiracy to rape.
Cross-examining the witness on behalf of Mr Hussain, Gillian Batts said: "The truth of the situation is you've never met Basharat Hussain have you?"
The witness replied: "Yes I have."
It is alleged Mr Hussain was one of seven people involved in the sexual exploitation of children between 1987 and 2003.
It is claimed the children were "targeted, sexualised and, in some instances, subjected to acts of a degrading and violent nature".
The trial continues. | An alleged victim of child sexual exploitation in Rotherham said she felt she had no choice when asked to perform sex acts on several men. | 35103984 | [
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The incident happened as the 33-year-old walked under a railway bridge on Dumbarton Road, near the junction with Cable Depot Road, at about 22:00 on Saturday 10 September.
Both boys were described as being white, aged about 14 or 15 and wearing dark-coloured sportswear.
One of them had brown hair in a quiff.
The woman was taken to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital for treatment and later reported the incident to police.
Det Sgt Kevin Mulvenna, of Police Scotland, said: "This was a completely unprovoked and senseless attack on this woman, which has left her blind in one eye. The youths responsible must be caught as soon as possible.
"To point a laser pen at someone is highly irresponsible. Extensive inquiries are ongoing to trace the two boys, with officers carrying out inquiries in the local area and studying CCTV footage to identify them."
He asked anyone with information to contact police. | Police are searching for two teenage boys after one of them shone a laser into a woman's eye in Clydebank, leaving her blind in one eye. | 37396748 | [
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Nick Hardwick said staff shortages, population pressures and prison policy all contributed to problems, with a 69% rise in self-inflicted deaths.
The Ministry of Justice said there was no evidence linking the rise in such deaths to government policy.
Presenting his annual report, Mr Hardwick also pointed to problems involving so-called legal highs.
He highlighted the growing availability of the drugs as a cause of debt, bullying and health problems, warning their use had grown sharply.
According to the HM Inspectorate of Prisons annual report, cannabis substitutes Spice and Black Mamba were particular "causes for concern" in more than a third of the jails inspected.
It says current mandatory random drug testing does not detect legal highs and reduced staffing had made some "suspicion" testing programmes "virtually inoperable".
Mr Hardwick said profits for prisoners selling legal highs outstripped other drugs because they sold for 10 times as much as they would outside jail.
He told BBC Radio 4's World at One: "We all want prisoners to come out of prison less likely to commit offences than when they went in and if they [prisons] are not safe places where people aren't working and are not doing rehabilitation activities, then that's not going to happen."
But warning cracks in the system had "widened", Mr Hardwick's report said: "Of most concern, the number of self-inflicted deaths rose by 69% from 52 in 2012-13 to 88 in 2013-14, the highest figure in 10 years."
The term "self-inflicted deaths" includes suicides and any death as a result of the prisoner's own actions.
Bullying was a factor in "many cases", the report said, warning that adult male prisons were becoming "more violence every year".
Andrew Selous, the Conservative prisons minister, said it had been a "challenging year" for prisons staff dealing with "major organisational change".
But he added: "During this time we have always had enough staff to deliver decent and safe prison regimes, and this will continue to be our top priority.
"We remain committed to reducing violence and understanding the reasons for the recent rise in self-inflicted deaths.
"But this is a complex issue and the chief inspector has failed to provide any evidence to support his assertion that this is linked to the reforms made under this government."
Labour's shadow justice secretary Sadiq Khan said the report "lays bare the deteriorating conditions in our jails under David Cameron's government" and showed ministers were "burying their heads in the sand".
"The government should be alarmed at reports of prisoners idling away their time in their cells rather than being on courses or working," he added.
"It does nothing to improve rehabilitation and puts the safety of communities at risk from unreformed prisoners drifting back into a life of crime and creating more needless victims."
Andrew Neilson, director of campaigns at the Howard League for Penal Reform, said: "This report spells out in painstaking detail the mounting challenges faced by prisons and gives the lie to repeated assertions by the Ministry of Justice that the system is not in crisis.
"If prisoners are spending most of their days locked up in their cells doing nothing, while regimes are violent and wracked with drug abuse, then how can we magically expect people to be safer citizens when they are released?
He added: "The end result will only be more crime and more victims of crime." | There has been a "rapid deterioration" in prison safety in England and Wales, the prisons inspector has warned. | 29706890 | [
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Classed as "external communications", such activity can be covered by a broad warrant and intercepted without extra clearance, spy boss Charles Farr said.
The policy was revealed as part of a legal battle with campaign group Privacy International (PI).
PI labelled the policy "patronising".
It is the first time the UK has commented on how its legal framework allows the mass interception of communications, as outlined by US whistleblower Edward Snowden in his leaks about global government surveillance.
The former National Security Agency contractor revealed extensive details of internet and phone snooping and has since fled the US and sought temporary asylum in Russia.
Charles Farr, director general of the Office for Security and Counter-Terrorism, told PI that Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and web searches on Google - as well as webmail services such as Hotmail and Yahoo - were classified as "external communications", which meant they could be intercepted without the need for additional legal clearance.
Internal communications between citizens can only be intercepted when a targeted warrant is issued. Warrants must be signed by a minister and can only be issued when there is suspicion of illegal activity.
But when someone searches for something on Google or posts on Facebook they are sending information overseas - constituting an act of external communication that could be collected under a broader warrant which does not need to be signed by a minister, explained Mr Farr in a 48-page written statement.
However, he said data collected in this way "cannot be read, looked at or listened to" except in strictly limited circumstances.
Mr Farr said there was a "significant distinction" between intercepting material and a person actually reading, looking at or listening it.
Although this is the first time Mr Farr has publicly commented on the matter, the issue was previously raised by privacy researcher Caspar Bowden.
He briefed the House of Lords in 2000 ahead of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act coming into effect, which granted GCHQ the relevant power.
However, he told the BBC that his testimony was only presented to a near-empty House of Lords and was not reported outside of Hansard.
British intelligence has always said that its activities are lawful.
But one of the problems has been that the law surrounding interception is incredibly hard to understand. Charles Farr's statement provides new details of how the government believes it applies to different forms of communications.
It reveals that a Google search by someone in Britain may be considered an external communication because the request and the result go abroad to Google's computers.
That means it could be swept up under the broader warrant covering "external "communications.
However, Mr Farr says that actually reading or examining a Briton's communications swept up in this way would still require a domestic, more targeted warrant.
Much of the debate over whether the state does conduct mass surveillance comes down to a central question - does the act of computers collecting information constitute surveillance or does it take a person reading or accessing that data for someone's privacy to be invaded?
Speak to privacy advocates and government officials and you get a radically different answer.
Mr Farr did not reveal the extent to which GCHQ used its power to intercept external communications.
In a statement, GCHQ said all its work was "carried out in accordance with a strict legal and policy framework which ensures that our activities are authorised, necessary and proportionate".
But civil liberty groups were outraged by the revelations.
James Welch, legal director of human rights group Liberty, said: "The security services consider that they're entitled to read, listen and analyse all our communications on Facebook, Google and other US-based platforms.
"If there was any remaining doubt that our snooping laws need a radical overhaul there can be no longer."
Meanwhile, Eric King, deputy director of Privacy International, said the revelation showed that spy agencies operated under their own laws.
"Intelligence agencies cannot be considered accountable to Parliament and to the public they serve when their actions are obfuscated through secret interpretations of Byzantine laws."
But some others did not find the revelations surprising.
Alan Woodward, a security expert who has undertaken consultancy work for GCHQ, said: "I think what is happening is that people are just becoming familiar with legislation that has been in place for many years, probably because of all the civil liberty groups raising concerns. As you can see from the Act, it has never been a secret.
"The bit that people tend to forget is that RIPA [Regulation of Investigatory Powers] has protections as well, something you won't find in many other countries. The difference in the UK is that civil liberty organisations have the right to challenge these things, a right which they would not have in, say, Russia."
However, Mr Bowden suggested the relevant statute had been obscurely worded.
"Interpreting that section requires the unravelling of a triple-nested inversion of meanings across six cross-referenced subsections, linked to a dozen other cross-linked definitions, which are all dependent on a highly ambiguous 'notwithstanding'," he said.
The legal challenge, brought by PI, Amnesty, the American Civil Liberties Union and six other national civil liberties organisations, was a direct response to the revelations made by Mr Snowden about the UK's global digital surveillance. | UK intelligence service GCHQ can legally snoop on British use of Google, Facebook and web-based email without specific warrants because the firms are based abroad, the government has said. | 27887639 | [
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Ministers want all pupils in England to study maths, English, science, one of history or geography and a modern language at GCSE.
But some young people "will find it a problem" Sir Michael Wilshaw, told the Times Educational Supplement (TES).
Sir Michael said vocational subjects would suit some pupils better.
In particular he questioned whether the academic subjects included in the government's Ebacc would be the best thing for pupils who wanted to take apprenticeships when they left school.
"I can think of youngsters, even at the highest-performing schools, who will find it a problem and who would have been better suited to do English, maths and science and a range of vocational subjects," he told the magazine.
In June, the Education Secretary Nicky Morgan confirmed she wants all pupils to have to study the five traditional subjects included in the Ebacc school performance measure.
According to Mrs Morgan the move would ensure all pupils received a rigorous academic education and avoid pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds being put off academic subjects.
In addition, the Conservative manifesto pledges that schools which do not have 100% of pupils studying this set of subjects at GCSE should not be able to obtain Ofsted's top rating of "outstanding".
Both policies will be subject to a government consultation later in the autumn.
Sir Michael told the TES he agreed more young people should be studying these subjects - but said the combination was not suitable for everyone.
The Association of School and College Leaders, which represents secondary heads, welcomed Sir Michael's challenge to government policy.
General Secretary Brian Lightman said the union shared his concerns.
He said a recent survey by the union found almost 90% of school leaders disagreed with making these subjects compulsory for all pupils.
"It is unfair on young people to take a one-size-fits-all approach to their education.
"We are concerned that creative, technology and vocational subjects will be squeezed out of the curriculum."
Mr Lightman said the union would urge ministers to make the choice of GCSE subjects more flexible.
The Department for Education said an additional league table measure, Progress 8, allows pupils to study a wider range of subjects.
"As part of Progress 8, pupils will be able to study up to three of our new gold-standard Tech Awards which will provide a real foundation for progression on to vocational courses including apprenticeships," said a spokesman. | A key government policy to force all pupils to sit GCSEs in core academic subjects could be difficult for some students, the head of Ofsted has said. | 34358020 | [
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Doors to the event at Glasgow Green will open at 14:00.
TRNSMT is being held on what was traditionally the weekend of the T in the Park festival, which is not taking place this year.
Other bands appearing over the weekend include include Kasabian, Biffy Clyro and The Kooks.
The acts will play across three stages at Scotland's newest music festival, with highlights being broadcast every evening on a BBC Scotland programme presented by Edith Bowman.
Radiohead will headline the opening night, with Kasabian headlining on Saturday and Biffy Clyro closing the festival on Sunday.
Organisers DF Concerts announced TRNSMT in January, two months after saying it was suspending T in the Park to "take stock" of a challenging two years since the festival moved to Strathallan from Balado.
The promoter said "continued restrictions" had had a "negative impact" on festival-goers.
T in the Park's first year at Strathallan in 2015 was plagued by traffic problems.
Two teenagers died at the 2016 festival in separate incidents, while witnesses reported fights and illicit drug use in the campsite area.
Police Scotland said on Wednesday that security would be tight at TRNSMT following the recent terror attacks in Manchester and London, with armed police patrolling near the venue and bag searchers being carried out on festival-goers.
Officers also warned there would be a zero-tolerance approach to drug-taking and anyone found with illegal substances would be arrested.
Flares, smoke devices and other pyrotechnics are banned from the festival area and anyone who is drunk will not be allowed entry. | The three-day TRNSMT music festival in Glasgow is to start later with a Friday line-up of acts including Radiohead and Belle and Sebastian. | 40524107 | [
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Volunteers from The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park used eBay to track down the keyboard of the Lorenz machine.
It was advertised as a telegram machine and was for sale for £9.50.
The museum, in Buckinghamshire, is now asking people to search for the motor, another key piece of the equipment.
"My colleague was scanning eBay and he saw a photograph of what seemed to be the teleprinter," said John Wetter, a volunteer at the museum.
He then went to Southend to investigate further where he found the keyboard being kept, in its original case, on the floor of a shed "with rubbish all over it".
"We said 'Thank you very much, how much was it again?' She said '£9.50', so we said 'Here's a £10 note - keep the change!'"
The teleprinter, which resembles a typewriter, would have been used to enter plain messages in German. These were then encrypted by a linked cipher machine, using 12 individual wheels with multiple settings on each, to make up the code.
Andy Clark, chairman of the trustees at The National Museum of Computing, said the Lorenz was stationed in secure locations as "it was far bigger than the famous portable Enigma machine".
"Everybody knows about Enigma, but the Lorenz machine was used for strategic communications," said Clark.
"It is so much more complicated than the Enigma machine and, after the war, machines of the same style remained in use."
The museum has just received one on loan from Norway's Armed Forces Museum, and has a video of how top secret transmissions might have sounded.
Volunteers are hoping to recreate the whole process on Friday 3 June, from typing a message in German to cracking the code using wartime equipment.
"This gives us the chance to show the breaking of the Lorenz cipher code from start to finish," said Andy Clark.
"We can show every single point in the process."
When volunteers took the teleprinter back from Essex to the museum, they found it was stamped with the official wartime number from the German army that matches the one on the machine from Norway.
But one key part is still missing and volunteers are still searching for it.
"It looks like an electric motor in black casing with two shafts on each side, which drive the gears of the Lorenz machine," explains volunteer John Wetter.
Volunteers hope the public will look out for it and if all else fails are hoping someone might want to build them a new one until they find it.
For more on this story listen to Broadcasting House at 09:00 BST on Sunday 29 May, or catch up on iPlayer. | A historic machine used to swap top secret messages between Hitler and his generals has been found languishing in a shed in Essex. | 36401663 | [
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Murray, who won the men's doubles at the Australian Open, is made an OBE.
Along with with brother Andy - a former recipient - he also helped the British team win the Davis Cup for the first time in almost eight decades.
Singer Rod Stewart has been given a knighthood, while Prof Sue Black, a world-leading expert in forensic anthropology, becomes a dame.
Prof Black, 55, originally from Inverness, has helped secure convictions in several high-profile criminal cases, including one of Britain's worst paedophiles Richard Huckle, who was given 23 life sentences earlier this week for abusing up to 200 children.
She also helped to convict Scotland's largest paedophile ring in 2009. She was previously awarded an OBE for her work in exhuming mass graves in Kosovo.
The Dundee University professor said she was "deeply honoured" by the recognition, "if a little embarrassed".
Rod Stewart, 71, who is famous for songs such as Maggie May and Sailing, was born in London, to an English mother and a Scottish father.
The famous Celtic supporter receives his knighthood for services to music and charity.
Lord Smith of Kelvin, the man tasked by the prime minister with chairing the cross-party commission on Scottish devolution in the wake of the 2014 independence referendum, is being made a Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour, which is "conferred on persons for having done conspicuous national service".
Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour - Lord Smith of Kelvin (for public service, particularly in Scotland).
Knighthoods - Rod Stewart (for services to music and charity), Labour MP David Hamilton (for political and parliamentary service), Alex Fergusson (For services to politics, Scottish Parliamentary process and public life).
Damehoods - Sue Black (For services to forensic anthropology) Dr Denise Coia (for services to mental health and the NHS), Prof Anna Dominiczak (for services to cardiovascular and medical science).
Read the full honours list here.
The Smith Commission produced a package of recommendations which has led to new tax and welfare powers being devolved to Holyrood.
Lord Smith also had a key role in delivering the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.
Labour MP David Hamilton, a former miner who spent two months in jail on remand during the miner's strike in the 1980s before being cleared, is given a knighthood for political and parliamentary service.
Alex Fergusson, former presiding officer of the Scottish Parliament is also given a knighthood for services to politics. He has now retired as a Conservative MSP.
Dr Denise Coia, is being given a damehood for services to mental health and the NHS while Prof Anna Dominiczak is being given the same honour for services to cardiovascular and medical science.
Another tennis star being recognised this year is Glasgow-born Leon Smith, captain of the successful Davis Cup team, who also receives an OBE.
Award-winning composer John McLeod, from Edinburgh, is honoured with a CBE for his services to music.
Born in Aberdeen, he is said to be one of the UK's busiest and most prolific composers, although he initially studied the clarinet at the Royal Academy of Music in London before later changing direction to take up composition.
Dr Brian Lang, who stepped down as chairman of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra (RSNO) in 2015, also receives a CBE.
The honour comes after his seven years in the post saw audience figures rise to the highest in a generation.
Steven Torrie, former HM Chief Inspector of the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service, is awarded a CBE for services to fire and rescue in Scotland.
Shirley Spear, a well-known figure in the food-and-drink industry is being awarded on OBE. She is the founder and former head chef of the Michelin-star winning Three Chimneys restaurant on Skye.
Businessman Sir Ian Wood, who was knighted in 1994, has been appointed Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire for services to the oil and gas industry.
Many local people who have contributed to Scottish life were also honoured by the Queen with MBE's and British Empire Medals. | Tennis star Jamie Murray is among the Scots being honoured in the Queens Birthday Honours list. | 36501460 | [
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It goes on. A first Olympic diving gold, a first Olympic gymnastics gold, and then a second, from the same man, a few hours later. Multiple Formula 1 world titles, Lions series won. The first woman in history to win an Olympic boxing gold, the first to retain one too.
And now another bequest, from a man who has already provided so much. A British tennis player as world number one is an idea as ludicrous to recent memory as anything else in that giddy list, but with Andy Murray, we should no longer be surprised.
To a nation systematically unable to produce tennis champions despite finances and facilities at the elite level to embarrass others as well as itself, Murray is the gift that keeps giving.
Only 26 men have held that solitary ranking since the calculations went computerised 43 years ago. It is not a gimmick, or a marketing exercise, or even a reward in itself, but a defining benchmark. You cannot fluke it or get lucky with a judging panel. It is deserved. It is definitive.
"Being number one is the pinnacle of all the ambitions of every player," said Novak Djokovic, the man just deposed, when he began his own long reign three years ago. "This is the dream."
It hasn't made every player happy. The only certain thing about being world number one is that the day will come when you will no longer be world number one.
Andre Agassi has described how miserable it made him, how the achievement seemed to legitimise his father's cruel ambitions and obsessions rather than his own. John McEnroe, who spent a cumulative total of 170 weeks at the top of the pile, found it lonely atop the exposed summit.
"You're out there on your own island," he once said. "And you feel like you're disengaged, not only with the rest of the world, but the rest of your competitors, some of them friends."
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Climbing the mountain is often an easier task in sport than defending your splendid isolation.
The England rugby union team who won the World Cup in 2003, having gone into that tournament as Grand Slam winners and on an unbeaten home run stretching back 22 games and four years, finished third in the subsequent Six Nations and fourth in the next two.
"In a game, thousands of decisions are being made, but it only needs a few to be the wrong ones for the team's fortunes to reverse," says Matt Dawson, scrum-half in that team. "When it goes, it goes quickly."
It was the same for the England cricket team who rose to number one in the Test rankings after beating India in the summer of 2011: whitewashed in their next Test series, against Pakistan in the UAE, and then dismantled at home to South Africa the following summer, losing their captain Andrew Strauss and, for a while, their star batsman Kevin Pietersen.
Being world number one gets you respect. It also makes you a target. Everyone wants your scalp. Every defeat is automatically a headline.
Even your own motivation can begin to slide, if only subconsciously, if only by minute fractions. How to focus on the next target when you can climb no further? Where can you go from the top but down?
Murray's character may insulate him from those uncertainties for a while yet.
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The 29-year-old's new position reflects both his own remarkable consistency over the past 12 months and the personal and physical problems that have shackled Djokovic, but it is also testament to a desire for self-improvement only occasionally found in sportsmen of his age.
Ranked 17th in the world a decade ago, he was gloriously log-jammed at four in those four seasons from 2008 to 2011, the unprecedented trio of Djokovic, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal seeming to block any further ascent.
He dropped to sixth in 2014 after his back surgery and then appeared stymied at second for the past year as 12-time Grand Slam champion Djokovic went through the peak of his reign.
The belief and the hard work never dropped off. Different coaches, tweaked training, a renewed focus on the basics that, in this year alone, has seen his second serve refashioned and accelerated.
In defeat by Kei Nishikori in the US Open quarter-finals in September and Juan Martin del Potro in the Davis Cup semi-finals soon afterwards, he seemed physically spent - only to emerge revitalised in the past two months on this celebrated spree across first east Asia and now western Europe.
And it is testament to self-belief too - that in an era decorated by three of the greatest players of all time, he could be crowned the best; that seven years and two months after first reaching number two, he could still take that final special step.
Plenty of fine Grand Slam-winning players have never been world number one, Michael Chang, Goran Ivanisevic and Michael Stich among them.
Many who have got there are arguably now in Murray's shadow: Pat Rafter, Carlos Moya, Marcelo Rios; definitely Yevgeny Kafelnikov and Thomas Muster; quite possibly Marat Safin and Andy Roddick, Ilie Nastase, Gustavo Kuerten and Lleyton Hewitt too.
Rankings in sport do not always reflect the accepted wisdom. Angelique Kerber may sit above Serena Williams in the women's tennis rankings, but with Williams having won five of their past six meetings and seven times as many career titles, the debate over who is the better player would be short.
Triathlon's world rankings, based only on the year's World Series results, have Spain's Mario Mola as world number one, when every judge in the sport would define double Olympic champion Alistair Brownlee as the best in the world.
Few could dispute Nick Faldo's claim to be the best golfer in the world when he topped golf's rankings. A few days after going to number one himself, Ian Woosnam would win the Masters.
Luke Donald's ascension in 2011 was deserved - he was the first player in history to win the money title on both European and PGA tours in the same season - but because he had never finished as runner-up in a major, let alone won one, there were those who disputed the algorithm's accuracy. So too with Lee Westwood, number one in the same year, still to win a major five years on.
The number alone can be less important than the aura a player brings to it. After an unparalleled 12 months - that Davis Cup triumph, winning BBC Sports Personality for the second time, reaching his first French Open final, winning his second Wimbledon, taking Olympic singles gold yet again - Murray has that too.
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And this may yet be the start of something even more beautiful, rather than the pinnacle.
After five defeats in the Australian Open final, never will Murray have a better chance of winning it than this January, Federer and Nadal faded, Djokovic - his nemesis in four of those finals - jaded.
The French Open title could conceivably be the next unprecedented prize to be pouched. And then Wimbledon again, and why not, after all that has been before?
It is dreamy, fanciful stuff. But that has been Murray's motif: ripping up precedent, making the impossible real. | This has been the era where British sport has blessed its loyal followers like never before: fourth, third and second places in the Olympic medal table; the Tour de France yellow jersey won in four of the past five years; the miracle of a first male Wimbledon champion in 77 years, a marvel repeated three years on; the Davis Cup won for the first time since tennis was played in slacks and cable-knit jumpers. | 37882468 | [
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The fire started at South Wales Wood Recycling in Heol Llan, Coity, just before 03:30 BST on Monday.
Firefighters from Pencoed and Bridgend have isolated the burning material and they will resume work on Tuesday.
South Wales Wood Recycling said they were working around the clock to help stop the blaze.
In a statement the company said the blaze had affected an estimated 1,000-2,000 tonnes of recycled wood chip.
The cause of the fire is not yet know, but the company said the "circumstances were suspicious".
Natural Resources Wales officials are also at the scene in case of any environmental impact. | Firefighters have been battling a blaze at a recycling business in Bridgend after about 2,000 tonnes of wood chips set on fire. | 37406842 | [
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The move is part of Police Scotland's cost-cutting plan to centralise control rooms.
If a decision is taken at a board meeting on 22 March it is thought likely that the centre will close quickly afterwards.
SPA chairman Andrew Flanagan said he had been consulting widely on the move.
He told BBC Scotland: "I think there are a number of local concerns about the closure. It's important we take account of local concerns.
"We need an assurance it's going to be effective." | The chairman of the Scottish Police Authority has said Aberdeen's emergency control room will only be closed if it is safe to do so. | 39230163 | [
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The Californian singer has provided backing vocals for Stevie Wonder, Elton John, Josh Groban, Carole King, Robbie Williams and Rod Stewart in her stellar career.
Most famously, she was due to be a featured singer on Michael Jackson's ill-fated This Is It tour in 2009 - and can be seen performing a spine-tingling duet with the star in the posthumous film of the rehearsals.
She went on to appear on the US version of The Voice - where her shock elimination prompted judge Adam Levine to declare: "I hate this country".
Hill's efforts to launch a solo career were then documented in the Oscar-winning film 20 Feet From Stardom - which turned the spotlight on the (mainly African-American) back-up singers who have propped up rock's biggest stars.
But the catalyst for her solo career turned out to be Prince - who read about the star in a newspaper, and invited her to record an album at his Paisley Park Studios in Minneapolis.
Hill tells the BBC about their collaboration, her experiences as a backing singer, and the day that Michael Jackson died.
What's the first song you remember hearing?
Walk With Me by Vanessa Bell Armstrong
Who was the first person who told you you could sing?
My mother was the first person to tell me I could sing. She tells the story of how I was singing in the back car seat as a little girl, and she saw that I had talent. We wrote our first song together when I was four.
How did you land a job on Michael Jackson's This Is It tour?
I did a small gig in Los Angeles and became friends with some musicians there. One of them knew Michael's musical director and he invited me to audition. I did a small audition at the vocal director's house and a couple weeks later I was hired. I remember them telling me, "Michael is on your Myspace page. Change the picture!" At the time, I was also hired to work at a clothing shop, so I quit that job and joined the This Is It tour.
He was a master of stagecraft - what tips did he give you?
Michael was fascinating to watch. Working with him taught me the importance of seizing every moment on stage. He painted pictures with every lyric and movement in his body.
What do you remember of the day he died?
I was sitting at a restaurant when my phone started blowing up. There were rumours of his death but I didn't believe it. It wasn't until later that day when this nightmare became a reality as I arrived at the Staples Center for rehearsal. It was a very tragic day. They had already begun to collapse the stage and pack up the gear. Just the night before we were rehearsing… It was surreal.
What was it like to sing at the memorial service?
It was an overwhelming experience. I mean, that was the same stage we rehearsed with him [on] two weeks prior. But it was a beautiful service.
You were eliminated from the US version of The Voice - what did that experience teach you?
When I was on The Voice, I made discoveries about my vocal style. No matter what the song was, I always managed to turn it into a soul song whether I wanted to or not. I learned that at the heart of it, I'm a soul singer. My roots run deep, starting from the early days of jamming with my parents on Sly and the Family Stone and Curtis Mayfield songs.
What difference did 20 Feet From Stardom make to your career?
20 Feet From Stardom was a special project that resonated with so many people. We were honoured with an Oscar and Grammy and many wonderful opportunities have come my way because of it. People were inspired by the stories in the film and they continue to follow my story to see what happens next.
How much of a struggle was it to make the leap to solo artist?
It's a very rough road - that 20 feet from being a backing singer to an artist is a long 20 feet! But what keeps me going is a passion for music. No matter what, it makes me happy to do it.
What's the biggest difference between working as a backing vocalist and fronting your own material?
Working as a backing singer is being a part of a group effort to give the artist what they need. It's a fun community to be a part of. Being a solo artist is a totally different experience. There is more responsibility and pressure, yet it is very rewarding. I love sitting in the driver's seat, directing everybody to achieve the sound I'm looking for. There's nothing more fulfilling than making the sounds you hear in your head become a reality.
Who's the most demanding artist you've sung for?
The most demanding was Natalie Cole. It was a short show, but she was very particular about how she wanted the vocals. I have much respect for her. She kept the singers on their toes!
How did you end up working with Prince?
I did an interview and was asked who is my dream collaborator. I said "Prince!" He saw the interview and personally reached out to me. I remember receiving the unknown call on my cell phone and freaking out while I was talking to him. I officially met him at his album listening party in Los Angeles. Shortly after, he invited me to Paisley Park and that was beginning of the collaboration.
He's got a wicked sense of humour... Has he ever caught you out with a prank?
He once called me and I didn't recognize his voice because he pretended to be someone else. He can do great impersonations.
What did he contribute to your album?
He's a fantastic producer and arranger. He played many instruments, sang, arranged, and even wrote. He was very involved in the process, yet it was a great collaboration between his ideas and my ideas. Most of the songs were already written and he helped me come up with great grooves and effective edits.
Why did you call it Back In Time?
I wanted people to feel like they have travelled back into a golden era of funk/soul music. For me, personally, this record celebrates my childhood and upbringing in a musical family. Many of the lyrics are autobiographical - describing where I came from, my old stomping grounds, and the amazing musical community that inspired me along the way. The whole record feels like a dusty jam session in the basement of my parents' house.
What song means the most to you?
Angel In The Dark. I think about the many times I felt like I was trapped in a dark tunnel, yet God has always managed to rescue me at the right time. He is that Angel in the dark.
Judith Hill's debut album Back In Time is out now on NPG Records. | You may not have heard of Judith Hill, but you've almost certainly heard her voice. | 34789836 | [
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St James' Park and West Ham United's ground were raided in April by HM Revenue and Customs as part of a £5m National Insurance fraud investigation.
Newcastle's managing director Lee Charnley was among several men arrested and later released without charge.
The ban remains in force until a court hearing on 22 June.
High Court judge Mr Justice Supperstone imposed the ban after lawyers for Newcastle United applied for a judicial review against HMRC.
He directed that any material retained by HMRC must be returned to the club.
He also directed that the legal action involving the Magpies, who have just secured promotion to the Premier League, must return to court on 22 June.
It is expected the club will then have to show that it has an arguable case to take to a full judicial review hearing.
No details of the grounds of the challenge were revealed during Thursday's short court hearing.
Lawyers for both the club and HMRC said they could not provide any further information.
During the raids HMRC said it had seized business records and financial records as well as computers and mobile phones. | Tax officials have been banned from examining material seized from Newcastle United's ground, following a legal challenge mounted by the club. | 40206406 | [
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Sakho, who is currently on loan at Crystal Palace, tested positive for the fat burner higenamine in March 2017 and served a provisional 30-day suspension.
Uefa dismissed the case in July.
European football's governing body blamed "gaps in communication" between Wada and two of its laboratories.
A Uefa report released on Thursday said it was "clearly not possible" for anyone to tell whether higenamine is a prohibited substance by reading Wada's banned list.
"The fact that the Cologne laboratory tested for higenamine but had to check with Wada before making a determination indicates a problem, as does the fact that the Lausanne laboratory does not test for it," it added.
"The onus is clearly on Wada to communicate to its laboratories what is and what is not on the prohibited list.
"There are clearly gaps in communication with regard to higenamine, something which also tends to support the suggestion that Wada's own internal procedure and analysis in respect of this substance is incomplete."
Sakho, 27, admitted taking the substance without Liverpool's knowledge but contended it was not on the banned list, which was supported by the report into the case by Uefa's control, ethics and disciplinary body.
The France international has not played for Liverpool since testing positive and moved to Palace on loan in February. | Liverpool centre-back Mamadou Sakho was suspended last season for taking a substance that was not on the World Anti-Doping Agency's (Wada) banned list, according to a Uefa report. | 39664838 | [
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The Commonwealth super-lightweight champion defends his title against South Africa's Warren Joubert at Meadowbank on 24 March.
And the 26-year-old plans to then have one more fight before meeting Burns.
"I feel that if I fought Ricky next week I'd win," said Taylor. "I have confidence in my ability but I want to gather experience and develop."
Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games gold medallist Taylor remains unbeaten as a professional, having outclassed Alfonso Olvera in Las Vegas in January.
"I feel as if I need a little bit more experience at the level I'm at just now, get more rounds under my belt and be involved in a few good, testing fights before I get that chance to have a world title fight," Taylor told BBC Scotland.
"It's just a matter of being patient and developing as an athlete. I'd fight against any super-lightweight in the world but I don't want to rush, I want to develop and gain more experience so when that chance comes I'm ready for it.
"I don't want to jump into fighting for world titles when I don't feel as if I've had enough experience. The rate I'm going at now is perfect."
And while he says when the time comes he will happily fight WBA super-lightweight champion Burns anywhere, Taylor does have an ideal venue in mind.
"It would sell out anywhere but the dream would be Edinburgh Castle," added Taylor.
Taylor, who has been sparring with a host of top names including former welterweight world champion Shawn Porter, is keeping his sights firmly set on Joubert for now and is expecting a difficult night.
"Training hasn't really stopped since Vegas so I've never been out the gym," he added. "I'm already in good shape and ready to go.
"I just know about Joubert's record. He's had 35 fights, only four defeats and has avenged one of them.
"From what I have seen he's a come-forward fighter, he's aggressive, so it's looking like it's going to be another step up in class and another good fight for me." | Josh Taylor wants a Scottish super-fight against Ricky Burns at Edinburgh Castle - but not quite yet. | 38984108 | [
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Pierre Cornlouer from Tredegar spent 30 years in the Navy, serving in the Falklands, the Gulf and Bosnia.
He wrote The Adventures of Mrs Orangeleaf to explain to his daughter what life was like for servicemen.
An animation of it is narrated by Simon Weston and voiced by 40 other veterans.
They are all aged 20 to 85, with many of them people Mr Cornlouer has met in his role as chaplain for the Alabare charity - which helps those struggling to cope with life outside the military.
The Armed Forces Covenant funded the animation and radio play adaptations and they will be premiered in Portsmouth to coincide with the 35th anniversary of the Falklands conflict later this year.
Mr Cornlouer said recording them helped many veterans "feel part of something" for the first time since leaving the forces.
"My daughter asked 'what are you doing daddy?' when I spoke to her [while away]. I replied 'giving Benjamin [HMS] Illustrious his breakfast'," he said.
"I described oil sandwiches, Norman the Harrier taking off from it and lights on the Hormuz strait between Iraq and Iran being pirates."
Trying to explain to a child what he was experiencing was the inspiration behind him putting pen to paper.
He was an assistant steward on the QE2 after it was commandeered to take soldiers to the Falklands when the conflict over the South Atlantic British colony broke out with Argentina in 1982.
"We got to know many of them and gave them a can of beer [as they got off] and wished them luck," he said.
"But then we had to pick up survivors from the Coventry and Antelope [British boats that had been bombed] and realised the Galahad [another ship] had also been hit.
"We lost some of them. That is when we realised the nature of the war."
While flashbacks of what he saw, such as the badly injured servicemen he helped, can be triggered any time such as through television shows, his books give a different perspective of the conflict.
Instead of the horrors, details on the Falklands War are limited to a story about "two penguins, a seal and a ship stuck on ice".
Mrs Orangeleaf and the Pirates has sold 10,000 copies, while he has written two others, including Mrs Orangeleaf Goes to Santa's rescue - based loosely on the Army helping out after floods hit England over Christmas 2013.
"The idea is to let children and adults know that the Army, Navy and air force don't go around killing people," he said.
"You see on the news stories about places like Syria and some things are very graphic.
"There are messages in the book, like don't bully people, with a liar on the ship getting the worst jobs and details of the humanitarian work."
Through his chaplaincy work, he runs coffee mornings for veterans around south Wales.
He said being able to joke and make light of things they had experienced was part of the "healing process" for many ex-servicemen, with the project being an extension of that.
Mr Cornlouer added: "A lot of people come out of the forces and find life difficult. Their children can just see daddy has been in a war and is not very happy.
"But a soldier is a human being and they are just valleys guys. This [Mrs Orangeleaf] can hopefully mean they can explain things better and are film stars instead."
Veterans taking part include Alice Robinson, who was in the Women's Royal Army Corps, who is the voice of Mrs Orangeleaf.
Falklands veteran Simon Weston, whom Mr Cornlouer met on the QE2, agreed to narrate the animation.
"It is nice for all veterans to get together. One thing they miss is the camaraderie," he said.
"This works tremendously well - when they stop acting, they have a laugh."
His words were echoed by Barry Edwards, a former corporal in the Royal Regiment of Wales, who met Mr Cornlouer at Alabare's Pontypridd's accommodation for veterans who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless.
He believes involvement in Mrs Orangeleaf has been "inspiring" for many who served in the Falklands, Northern Ireland, Iraq and Afghanistan.
"This has shown that the teamwork and comradeship still exists now as it did then," Mr Edwards said.
"It has allowed teamwork to flourish and banter to prevail, it has allowed the veterans to have a sense of belonging." | A book explaining to children how the armed forces "don't just kill people" is now being used to help veterans suffering from issues such as post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). | 39113887 | [
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