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Named after Japanese sword-smith Muramasa Sengo, the Guernsey-born musician comes armed with deft beats, exotic instrumentation and heartbreaking lyrics.
Like his namesake, he says he wants the music "to cut like a knife".
Only 19 years old, he has already created a strong body of original material, incorporating Asian soundscapes (Shakuhachi flutes, thumb pianos) into his glitchy electronica.
His most recent track, Love For That, is a sumptuous, string-drenched ballad which found its way onto the BBC 1Xtra playlist after being played more than a million times on SoundCloud.
The musician, whose real name is Alex Crossan, talked to the BBC from the flatshare in Brighton where he records all of his music.
Congratulations on making the top five Sound of 2016. How does it feel?
Sort of baffling. It's an honour, but it's scary and exciting.
You grew up in Guernsey, which isn't a place that's renowned for cutting-edge dance music.
There was a footballer, Matt Le Tissier, from Guernsey. But as far as music, no, not many people have come out of there.
Did that sense of isolation from the music scene help you develop your own sound?
I think so. If you grew up in London's East End you'd probably be inclined to be into something like grime music. But if you're removed from it, like in Guernsey, you can have a wider set of influences, and you're not tied down to any genre or any scene. I think that affects my sound, for sure.
What sort of music did you grow up listening to?
At a young age, I was introduced to Joni Mitchell by my mum. My dad was into progressive rock. But when YouTube came around in 2005 or 2006, suddenly all the music was available and you just had to do your own research.
There's a strong oriental theme to your music - how did you work out those sounds and scales and styles of playing?
Just a lot of time and patience, really. A lot of people say they're influenced by things, but they don't actually listen to what's happening in the music.
If you do your homework properly before you try and write it becomes simple.
Did you have musical training?
I started playing violin when I was about five years old and I learned to read a little bit of music, but that's all been long, long forgotten! I actually quit violin to teach myself guitar and just went from there.
Do you remember the first song you produced?
Oh gosh. It was a really, really terrible dubstep track. It had a sample of Robin Williams in it shouting "Gooooood Morning Vietnam!" It was awful.
You started uploading music to the internet very quickly. What was the impetus for that?
Because I'm from Guernsey, I couldn't swap music with many people. I had a couple of friends who were making music but I think online was just the natural way for me to get heard. I come from the internet generation, so it kind of made sense. There wasn't any deep thought put into it.
The first track I uploaded was called Death Grips - but it doesn't exist any more. I deleted it because it's so bad!
When did you first realise people were taking notice?
I put out a mix tape at the end of last year called Soundtrack To A Death and it was just a beat tape - but Jo Whiley played it on Radio 2, and then Huw Stephens made it album of the week on Radio 1. It was all very strange.
But I think that was when I started developing my own sound and I think people started tuning in to that.
How would you describe that sound?
Gosh, this is always the question I dread! But it takes everything that I love about hip-hop and electronic music and mashes it together in the setting of lo-fi, oriental-influenced beat music.
Is the flute part in Lotus Eater a sample?
I wrote that, actually.
That's incredible. It sounds like its come from a dusty old piece of vinyl.
That's what's great about it, I think, because you can write a part and retroactively make it lo-fi and make it sound like a sample. That's something I love doing.
That song would fit perfectly on a film soundtrack - specifically a Quentin Tarantino film. Do you approach music visually?
For definite. I didn't start writing my debut album until I'd sorted the cover art. It's an intrinsic part of the whole process. The first music I really loved was Gorillaz and I think the way the visuals played into the music and told a story was very important to me.
It's funny you should mention Tarantino. I have two posters in my room - one's of the White Stripes and the other one is Pulp Fiction.
The strings on Love For That really emphasise the emotions of the song. Are they live instruments?
Yeah they are - and I think I'm going to be doing that a lot more on the album. It just makes it quite special hearing the bow moving on the strings.
It's cool to make people remember that, although electronic music is obviously produced electronically, it's still real music.
Your album is due out in the first couple of months of 2016. Is it finished?
I'm about half-way done. The way I work, everything tends to come together last minute. It's called To Fall Out Of Love To and it's got a story arc to it.
Is it a concept album?
Erm… yeah. But to me, whenever I hear the words "concept album", it means the music isn't that good but there's a really cool idea behind it. I want to hit the target of really good music and really meaningful lyrical content.
You've already been played on daytime radio - is the ambition to crossover into the mainstream?
If you go into this expecting a number one single then you're a pop artist - and I don't think I am a pop artist… yet.
At the end of the day, my personal ambition is just to make really, really, really good music that's culturally relevant and stands the test of time. That's all I want. | Bedroom pop artist Mura Masa has come joint fifth in the BBC Music Sound of 2016 with R&B group WSTRN. | 35167132 | [
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The film, directed by British film-maker Saul Dibb and starring Michelle Williams and Kristin Scott Thomas, is, according to Williams, "entirely dedicated and a tribute to Irene Nemirovsky and her descendants," a Jewish author from the Ukraine who settled in Paris.
Despite her conversion to Roman Catholicism, she was arrested by the Nazis and died, aged 39, at Auschwitz concentration camp in 1942.
"It's quite overwhelming, the level of emotion you feel when you even think about Irene's story as it's more extraordinary than anything she wrote, even Suite Francaise," says the actress.
"As soon as I read the script, I could see Irene, and hear her voice around me. It very rarely happens, but her words sounded like music to me."
Williams, the winner of a Golden Globe in 2012 for playing Marilyn Monroe in Simon Curtis's My Week With Marilyn, adds that "when you are dealing with the legacy of a real life person, it's a responsibility heaped on you.
"You want to be true to that person, and in this case, I wanted to be faithful to Irene. The fact that this story was very nearly never published makes it more precious."
Williams plays the role of Lucille, a young wife in the French provincial town of Bussy, who waits for news of her husband, fighting for France, under the disapproving eye of her mother-in-law, played by Kristin Scott Thomas.
She meets a young German officer and falls in love, even as the town is brutalised under occupation from its invaders.
In the novel, Lucille's love affair is just one of many stories Nemirovsky weaves of life under Nazi control. But Suite Francaise, written in tiny handwriting in a notebook as paper became more scarce, was never completed.
Nemirovsky was taken to Auschwitz, and her notebook was passed to her youngest daughter, Denise Epstein, who didn't open it until 2004, thinking it contained her mother's journals.
Upon discovery and publication, Nemirovsky was posthumously awarded the prestigious French literary prize, the Prix Renaudot, and her other novels were also successfully republished.
Expressing her sorrow that Epstein died in 2013, "just before we made the film, and so I never got to meet her," Williams calls meeting the author's descendants "the most special day of filming; they came to the set, and it was emotional for everyone".
And Scott Thomas added: "It just really is all about the incredible story of Irene and her book, and I just hope the film has done it justice, because its publication was very important - it's a historical document for France.
"This tale of violent occupiers - this is recent history we are re-telling, from the time of our grandparents, and it has terrible poignancy for today as well, all over the world.
"I think what was interesting is that Irene had no Jewish characters in her book, or anything to say about their persecution.
"Some commentators have called her anti-Jewish as she hadn't embraced or exposed what was going on with her people at that period in France.
"However, in our film version, we have a moment where you do see what is happening to the Jewish people, and that was our own tribute to the fate of Irene."
Director Dibb, whose previous work includes The Duchess, starring Keira Knightley, describes adding those scenes as "a necessary piece of artistic licence".
"Irene wrote so generously about her occupiers. The book was written in 1940, in the early stages of the war, and she doesn't even refer to them as Nazis.
"She had no perspective on what happened to her people, and what happened to France. However, she was killed by her occupiers, and killed by those French collaborators too, who helped deport their Jewish populations."
Williams defends the choosing of just one storyline from the original novel, saying, "the book itself is incomplete and so fragmented that it would be difficult to tell as a film unless one story is picked out.
"I'm glad they chose Lucille's love story - I think many people will identify with the story of love in hopeless circumstances.
"But what's also interesting for me is my character starts out as fragile and naïve, and becomes a revolutionary. The circumstances we live in dictate who we become.
"I'm just sorry that I never got to see or hold the original manuscript of the book, and actually see Irene's writing, although I do have a first edition of the book. But I hope we have also helped her to live on."
Suite Francaise is released in the UK on 13 March. | It's a book that lay undiscovered for 60 years and which went on to become a phenomenon: Irene Nemirovksy's epic French novel Suite Francaise, written in the early years of the World War II, not only became a worldwide bestseller upon its publication in 2004, but is now an English language movie. | 31858404 | [
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Real Madrid's Gareth Bale will hope to prove his fitness and win a third European major title in his home town on Saturday, 3 June and watching with interest will be another high profile Cardiff-born football figure.
Terry Yorath was the first Welshman to play in a European Cup final, as it was then, when his Leeds side of 1975 lost 2-0 to Bayern Munich in Paris.
For a man raised in the city's Grangetown area, the sight of club football's biggest global game being staged in Cardiff is still something Yorath finds hard to believe.
"I never thought a European Cup final would be here in Cardiff in my lifetime," said Yorath.
"We have a fantastic stadium and when the Italians and Spaniards come here they will enjoy the city and make it one big party. We should be proud of that."
Bale will aim to fulfil the dream of playing in his home city as he hopes to shrug off an injury which has sidelined him for almost a month.
"I hope Gareth plays because it would be great for him," said Yorath.
"When you look back 12 months when the game was announced, he would have been thinking 'I hope we are there'. His family must be so proud.
"He is injured at the moment, but it would be fantastic if he scored and Real Madrid won."
While Bale might be the latest Welshman to appear in a European final, Yorath was the first as he played his part during Leeds' controversial 2-0 defeat to a German side captained by Franz Beckenbauer in the French capital 42 years ago.
A series of refereeing decisions went against the English champions that day and crowd trouble involving Leeds fans marred the Parc des Princes occasion in which fellow Welshman, goalkeeper Glan Letheran, was an unused Leeds substitute.
"You never dream about it, but afterwards you look back and think how many people have actually played in a European Cup final," said Yorath.
"I am one of the lucky few and nobody can ever take that away from you.
"But we got beaten and the crowd trouble at the end marred everything.
"The Leeds crowd weren't good that day. I got substituted about 15 minutes before the end and had to walk behind the goal where the Leeds fans were and it was then the Leeds crowd started throwing seats.
"As I was walking by with the seats coming over the top of me, I thought I hadn't played that bad had I?
"But the referee wasn't good either. We were cheated, but we were used to that at Leeds."
Being the first Welshman to play in a European Cup final allied with captaining his country in 42 out of 59 internationals and managing his nation formed the bedrock for Yorath becoming the 21st footballer to be inducted into the Welsh Sports Hall of Fame dinner in Cardiff.
Yorath was added to the roll of honour alongside Wales and Lions rugby star Graham Price, Olympics sprinter Christian Malcolm and ex-Glamorgan cricketer Peter Walker.
"It fees fantastic because when I came here down from Leeds, I didn't have a clue and believed I was just being invited here as a guest," said Yorath.
"I am not sure how this has happened. I thought I would just go down and see my sister who lives in Cardiff.
"To be honoured in such a way is something I never expected.
"I thought my days of being named in a Hall of Fame or recognised by anyway with Wales were over. I am 67 now although I don't feel it.
"This is probably one of the best things that has ever happened to me in football including playing in European Cups and Cup finals.
"Nothing will ever surpass this as far as sport goes.
"I now live in Leeds and nobody understands what being Welsh is.
"They don't understand how involved I get involved with whatever sport Wales play, why I have tears when the national anthem is played.
"I love everything about Wales. This is just such an honour." | In three weeks, the eyes of the sporting world will be on Cardiff when Real Madrid and Juventus arrive in town for the Champions League final. | 39908649 | [
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Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters Moscow was tired of the accusations.
He said a report released by US intelligence agencies detailing the allegations was groundless.
It is the first official reaction from Russia since President-elect Donald Trump received the report on Friday.
The unclassified report contains allegations that Russian President Vladimir Putin had ordered the hacking of Democratic Party emails to damage Donald Trump's Democrat rival, Hillary Clinton, and influence the election.
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In his comments on Monday, Mr Peskov said Russia "categorically denied that Moscow had been involved in any hacking attacks".
"Groundless accusations which are not supported by anything are being rehearsed in an amateurish, unprofessional way. We don't know what information they are actually relying on."
The claims amounted to a "witch-hunt", he added.
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Mr Trump used the same "witch-hunt" term last week in a New York Times interview to disparage the hacking claims, which he has repeatedly rejected since winning the presidential election in November.
But his incoming chief of staff, Reince Priebus, told Fox News Sunday that the president-elect had accepted the findings of the report, which was presented to him by intelligence chiefs on Friday.
"He's not denying that entities in Russia were behind this particular campaign," Mr Priebus added.
He did not clarify whether Mr Trump believed the report's assertion that Russian President Vladimir Putin had directly ordered the hack.
Mr Trump described his meeting on Friday with National Intelligence Director James Clapper, CIA Director John Brennan and FBI Director James Comey as "constructive" and said he would ask, within 90 days of taking office, for a plan on how to stop cyber attacks.
But he declined to single out Russia, saying it was one of several countries, outside groups and people who "are consistently trying to break through the cyber infrastructure of our governmental institutions, businesses and organizations including the Democrat(ic) National Committee".
With less than two weeks until his inauguration, Mr Trump is under increasing pressure from both Democrats and Republicans to respond to the allegations.
President Obama has already expelled 35 Russian diplomats from US soil over the hacking. Russia said it would not reciprocate. | Russia says US allegations that it ran a hacking campaign to influence the American presidential elections are "reminiscent of a witch-hunt". | 38558377 | [
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Bennett, 66, was appointed head coach in February, succeeding Steve McNamara.
"As a patriotic Englishman, you always want everything to be English and everyone involved to be from England," O'Loughlin, 33, told BBC Sport.
"But I think that sport has changed and it is not always about that now."
England face Australia, New Zealand and Scotland in this year's Four Nations, which will be broadcast on the BBC and conclude at Liverpool Football Club's Anfield stadium.
Bennett is the most successful coach in Australian rugby league history, with seven Grand Final wins.
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He has been given a two-year contract with England until the 2017 World Cup and will continue in his role as Brisbane Broncos boss.
"Wayne is someone who has a lot about him," added Wigan forward O'Loughlin. "You know what he has achieved in his career. When I first met him, I was impressed with his focus on the job and the preparations he wanted to do.
"Sometimes you introduce people in order to improve you and that is what the powers that be see Wayne doing.
"Whether we need an Aussie or Kiwi to do that, as long as it is pushing our sport forward, that is the main decision that comes into it."
During McNamara's five-and-a-half-year reign, England were runners-up in the 2011 Four Nations and also reached the semi-finals of the 2013 World Cup.
The former Bradford coach's last game in charge saw his side complete a 2-1 series win over New Zealand, the world's number one side.
Despite improvement on the international stage, Australian National Rugby League sides thrashed their Super League counterparts in all three games during the World Club Series earlier this year.
"Looking at the World Club Series games, you will see we haven't bridged the gap. But, with the number of top English players we have produced at international level, we are bridging the gap there," added O'Loughlin.
"We won the series against New Zealand last year, which was a massive step forward for us. We have teams who are more than capable of competing in the NRL. If Wigan went there, we would improve because of the strength of the competition.
"We may not win more games but it would improve our players massively. Coaches and players over here are always looking to get better and we keep trying to bridge the gap."
Full-back Sam Tomkins returned to England with Wigan Warriors after a two-year spell with New Zealand Warriors, but has been unable to play this season because of a long-term knee injury.
Forward Sam Burgess also returned to rugby league with the South Sydney Rabbitohs after a one-season spell with English rugby union side Bath.
"Just having a bloke like Tomkins back at the club is great," said O'Loughlin. "He has been good for the youngsters who have been playing in his position. He is always there to give his opinion at the club, he is a is positive influence.
"Burgess is a phenomenal player and it is great to have him back in an England jersey. He is is an inspirational player and does his job very well. He is very influential on the team and gets the best from the players around him.
"He is a good leader too. With him in the side, you have a better chance of winning." | England captain Sean O'Loughlin says he would have preferred an Englishman in charge of the national team, but is looking forward to working with Australian Wayne Bennett. | 36106975 | [
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City Quays 3 has a proposed cost of £46m and will be 16-storeys tall.
With a target completion date of late 2019, it will provide Grade A space for 3,000 staff.
The harbour said it will support 600 jobs during its construction phase.
It will be situated beside a hotel, which is currently being built, and two other office developments.
Graeme Johnston, the harbour's property director, said the move "is a reflection of how strong the demand for quality office space in Belfast is".
He added that at 250,000 sq ft, City Quays 3 will be one of the largest office developments in Northern Ireland.
City Quays 1 is home to, among others, US law firm Baker & McKenzie, while City Quays 2 is nearing completion. | Belfast Harbour has submitted a planning application for what would be a third major waterfront office block. | 39929502 | [
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Smith, 34, lost WBO title bouts with Arthur Abraham in 2014 and 2015, and trainer Joe Gallagher said Saturday's fight was a "last roll of the dice".
The Briton has now been beaten seven times in his 45 professional fights.
The three judges in Wetzlar, Germany, each ruled the fight 119-108 in Zeuge's favour.
It was Zeuge's third defence since he won the WBA title from Italian Gioavanni de Carolis in November 2016.
In a largely one-sided contest, Smith was given a count by the referee in the closing seconds of the final round despite appearing to slip.
"Is it the end at world level for him? 100%. Is there another level he wants to compete at? That is one for Paul Smith," promoter Eddie Hearn said on Sky Sports.
"We talked about last-chance saloon before the fight, he left it much too late. I think he will be kicking himself for that.
"He had a good spell in the third round when he wobbled Zeuge, and he did in the 11th and 12th rounds too. We would have liked to see that earlier, but it's easy for us to say. Zeuge was very good and countered well." | Paul Smith lost a third attempt to win a world title as Tyron Zeuge retained his WBA world super-middleweight belt with a unanimous points decision. | 40316885 | [
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The 38-year-old slow left-armer took 5-3 against New Zealand during Sri Lanka's 2014 World T20-winning run.
He claimed 18 wickets in 17 matches in the shortest format and also took 74 wickets in 71 one-day internationals.
Herath will continue at Test level and needs only three more wickets to become the third Sri Lankan to reach 300 after Muttiah Muralitharan and Chaminda Vaas.
Some of his best performances have come in the five-day arena and he was the world's leading Test wicket-taker in the calendar years 2012 and 2014.
He is the only left-arm bowler in the history of the game to take nine wickets in a Test innings, capturing 9-127 against Pakistan in Colombo in August 2014 - one of only two Test nine-wicket hauls by any bowler in the 21st century.
While more successful on the subcontinent than abroad, he had brief spells in county cricket with Surrey and Hampshire.
Sri Lanka play three Tests against England, who beat them in the World T20 quarter-finals last month, in the summer.
The series begins at Yorkshire's Headingley ground on 19 May and there are also matches at Chester-le-Street, Durham on 27 May and Lord's on 9 June. | Sri Lanka spinner Rangana Herath has announced his retirement from limited-overs internationals. | 36066632 | [
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Sir Kevin has referred himself to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, Kathryn Hudson.
It follows a Daily Telegraph report saying he received fees for sponsoring dinners and a breakfast on the Parliamentary estate.
In a letter to Ms Hudson, he said all the fees were paid to charity.
According to the Commons Code of Conduct, MPs' use of public resources should always be "in support of their parliamentary duties" and should not "confer any undue personal or financial benefit on themselves or anyone else, or confer undue advantage on a political organisation".
in his letter to Ms Hudson, Sir Kevin wrote: "My own understanding is that due to the fact that I made no personal gain and all the fees were paid to a charity, I had not breached the rules on usage of parliamentary facilities for personal or business use.
"It is a matter of record that I followed the rules in registering this interest and that I deposited an agreement for the provision of services, as the rules required.
"In light of the allegations that I may have breached House of Commons code of conduct or rules, I refer myself to you for you to consider whether any breaches of the rules or the code of conduct have taken place." | Labour MP Sir Kevin Barron has stood aside as Commons Standards Committee chairman over allegations he hosted events at Westminster for a drugs firm. | 35777273 | [
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It decided to reorganise the way patients were diagnosed by GPs and specialists by bringing in a new approach, especially to deal with those cancer cases which are not initially obvious.
A team of cancer specialists, GPs, NHS and public health experts from Wales have just returned from a fact-finding visit to Aarhus, Denmark's second city.
So what was the problem?
Prof Frede Olesen of Aarhus University said the changes followed "quite alarming" cancer survival statistics more than 15 years ago showing Denmark was performing poorly compared to other European countries, including the rest of Scandinavia.
Part of the problem was that waiting times patients faced before getting diagnosed were too long.
It was not so much the most serious cases where patients came to the GP with obvious symptoms. They could be fast-tracked to specialists in hospital.
It was the cancer cases where patients either had vague or more difficult to diagnose symptoms - or the small number of cancers found in patients who said they were ill but mostly needed a quick test or scan to rule something serious out.
"We looked at 30,000 cancer cases - and more than 25% of all cancer cases were from this group where we didn't think it was something but it suddenly showed as being something and so it's important to find those cases," said Prof Olesen.
What were the changes?
The model of care introduced in Denmark has three routes.
First - for patients with " alarm" symptoms of specific cancers - there are fast-track diagnosis and treatment routes with strict time targets.
In addition to that, by law, any patient with a physical illness in Denmark must be investigated within 30 days of a GP referral.
Second, the Danish health service from 2007 set up diagnosis centres - at existing hospitals and clinics - where patients with symptoms which GPs cannot diagnose are given a range of tests and scans quickly to find out what is wrong with them, whether it is cancer or something else.
GP Dr Hanne Heje, who works in Aarhus - a city slightly smaller than Cardiff - said the new system helps doctors who suspect something is wrong but not necessarily cancer.
It also stops the "ping pong" between GPs and different specialists.
"Now we know there's a department meeting the patient with open arms saying 'we welcome you', even though there's not a diagnosis written on their forehead," she said.
The third route deals with the group of patients with minor symptoms, which are very unlikely to be cancer but in rare cases could be.
These patients go to so-called "yes-no" centres which offer a simple test or scan so they can be seen quickly and any problems identified.
"This can be solved within hours in some cases but 1% will have a serious disease and this can be detected," said Prof Olesen.
"For these patients before - they might have had to wait four to six months, so for the small percentage where something is found, they'd start treatment six months behind the time schedule."
The results so far
Prof Olesen - a former GP himself - said the changes have not led to a "flooding of the system" by more GP referrals but better organisation of how patients are diagnosed within existing resources.
Importantly, he says it has also led to better survival rates.
"We've got very optimistic results showing Norway, Sweden and Finland are becoming better year by year," he said. "But very clearly in the data Denmark is becoming better, a faster pace than before and catching up and getting closer to where we should be."
Denmark has a similar health system in how it is funded and organised to Wales.
He said there could be lessons shared between Wales and Denmark on how better organisation can help "in catching up the elite in Europe".
Dr Tom Crosby, medical director of the Wales Cancer Network, said he had been impressed with how the Danish health service had broken down the barriers between GPs and specialists to work better together.
He said: "People are not just doing tests in isolation - they are working together to achieve a diagnosis." | Denmark's health service - which is similar to the NHS - started to look in depth at the problem of cancer survival rates in 2000. | 35998182 | [
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Hamilton's Ali Crawford passed up a golden opportunity when he fired over when played through by Alex D'Acol.
That miss proved costly when Danny Swanson's corner was headed into the net by Cummins.
Cummins tapped in Blair Alston's low ball before Murray Davidson headed in Brian Easton's cross.
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It was symbolic of the nature of this game that one of its most refined figures mislaid his composure. Crawford tends to be at the heart of Hamilton's best work, but this was a game that left him grimacing in frustration.
He swept a first-half free kick onto the roof of the net, but it was after the interval that he truly stood out. Sent clear through on goal by D'Acol, the midfielder sliced his shot wide from inside the area.
Hamilton manager Martin Canning stood with his head in his hands. There had been other occasions for regret, with Darian MacKinnon's shot from 20 yards beaten away early on and Craig Watson failing to hit the target from 16 yards out just before half-time. The worst was yet to come, though.
St Johnstone were always at their most threatening when the ball was in the air, either through Cummins and Steven MacLean in open play or through Steven Anderson and Joe Shaughnessy at set-pieces.
Moments after Crawford's miss, St Johnstone worked the ball up field and earned a corner that Swanson swung into the penalty area. Despite plenty of practise during the game, the Hamilton defenders weren't able to cope with this delivery, and Cummins leapt to head the ball past the goalkeeper Gary Woods.
Cummins was not finished, and five minutes later he was on hand to convert Alston's cross to further reward St Johnstone's dogged display. Sometimes, a win just has to be ground out, and the home side completed their scoring when Davidson's header from Easton's cross bounced off the post and rolled behind the goal-line.
This was a game that lacked drama and intensity, and even a moment of controversy failed to assert itself. When the Hamilton defender Dan Seaborne slid to stop the ball from going out for a corner, he appeared to handle it twice.
Yet none of the St Johnstone players in attendance, or any of the match officials, spotted the contact, so no penalty claim was made. Relief for Seaborne, and little consequence in the end since St Johnstone went on to win the game.
It was that kind of day for the visitors. Once St Johnstone had established their lead, Crawford sent one free-kick straight at home goalkeeper Zander Clark, then another just wide of the upright.
St Johnstone manager Tommy Wright: "We'll play better and lose, but we got the job done. We upped the tempo in the second half and looked more like ourselves. It was a comfortable win but not a comfortable game.
"[Finishing in the top four] will be the aim. We're level with Hearts now, so we've got to see if we can finish off the season better than them.
"We've tried [to make new signings], but we're in a strong position in the league and the main concern is targeting for next season and keeping ones here. There might be something happens, the chairman does like a last-minute one, and if someone comes out who we think is better than what we've got then we'll do some business. I'm more than comfortable to go with what I've got for the rest of the season."
Hamilton manager Martin Canning: "I've talked about key moments before and there's none more key than [Ali Crawford's miss at 0-0]. When you're through one-on-one, you've got to put the ball in the back of the net. Had we gone 1-0 up, it would have been a deserved lead, we were the better team up until that point.
"We are playing well, and we played particularly well at times today, but we've got to win games. It doesn't matter how we win, we need to become a different team, maybe not so pleasing in terms of knocking the ball about.
"Hopefully we can get one [player] in before Tuesday. It's not easy and we're trying hard to bring players in. We've got a bad run of injuries just now as well, five or six guys out who would be starting or coming on to have an influence. We're stretched, but that doesn't excuse defending like that."
Match ends, St. Johnstone 3, Hamilton Academical 0.
Second Half ends, St. Johnstone 3, Hamilton Academical 0.
Foul by Murray Davidson (St. Johnstone).
Ali Crawford (Hamilton Academical) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Hamilton Academical. Ross Cunningham replaces Daniel Redmond.
Murray Davidson (St. Johnstone) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Alejandro D'Acol (Hamilton Academical).
Substitution, St. Johnstone. Liam Craig replaces Steven MacLean.
Attempt missed. Alejandro D'Acol (Hamilton Academical) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses the top left corner from a direct free kick.
Foul by Steven Anderson (St. Johnstone).
Alejandro D'Acol (Hamilton Academical) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Hamilton Academical. Eamonn Brophy replaces Rakish Bingham.
Goal! St. Johnstone 3, Hamilton Academical 0. Murray Davidson (St. Johnstone) right footed shot from long range on the left to the centre of the goal.
Substitution, St. Johnstone. David Wotherspoon replaces Danny Swanson.
Attempt saved. Ali Crawford (Hamilton Academical) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Corner, Hamilton Academical. Conceded by Steven Anderson.
Foul by Steven Anderson (St. Johnstone).
Alejandro D'Acol (Hamilton Academical) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Alejandro D'Acol (Hamilton Academical) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right.
Foul by Paul Paton (St. Johnstone).
Darian MacKinnon (Hamilton Academical) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt saved. Daniel Redmond (Hamilton Academical) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Goal! St. Johnstone 2, Hamilton Academical 0. Graham Cummins (St. Johnstone) right footed shot from outside the box to the high centre of the goal. Assisted by Blair Alston.
Goal! St. Johnstone 1, Hamilton Academical 0. Graham Cummins (St. Johnstone) header from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Danny Swanson.
Corner, St. Johnstone. Conceded by Ali Crawford.
Joe Shaughnessy (St. Johnstone) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Alejandro D'Acol (Hamilton Academical).
Attempt missed. Ali Crawford (Hamilton Academical) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high.
Foul by Blair Alston (St. Johnstone).
Daniel Redmond (Hamilton Academical) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Second Half begins St. Johnstone 0, Hamilton Academical 0.
First Half ends, St. Johnstone 0, Hamilton Academical 0.
Attempt saved. Alejandro D'Acol (Hamilton Academical) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Danny Swanson (St. Johnstone) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Craig Watson (Hamilton Academical).
Attempt missed. Craig Watson (Hamilton Academical) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high.
Foul by Paul Paton (St. Johnstone).
Alejandro D'Acol (Hamilton Academical) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt missed. Blair Alston (St. Johnstone) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.
Daniel Redmond (Hamilton Academical) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. | Graham Cummings scored twice as St Johnstone moved level on points with fourth-placed Hearts by beating Hamilton Accies. | 38701012 | [
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The South Africa-born 23-year-old had been playing club cricket in the East Anglian Premier League this season.
"Sean shows a great maturity with the bat and understands his game well," Kent's high performance director Simon Willis told the club website.
"The number of runs he has scored in all formats is testament to his focus and concentration."
Dickson, who has a British mother and holds a UK passport, has previously played first-class cricket for Northerns in South Africa.
He also bowls medium pace and could make his first-team debut for the club in their T20 Blast match against Glamorgan on Friday.
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They're also increasingly participating in a war of words over illegal immigration and how the candidates could best address the more than 11 million undocumented workers currently living in the US.
Mr Cruz initiated the fight on Thursday, attacking Mr Rubio by name for his bipartisan work in the Senate to pass immigration reform in 2013.
He said the Florida Senator - and other members of the "Gang of Eight" leading reform - backed legalisation that would give a pathway to citizenship for undocumented workers and blocked his attempts to offer amendments to strengthen border protection.
"Talk is cheap," Mr Cruz said. "You know where someone is based on their actions."
By scheduling happenstance, Mr Rubio and Mr Cruz were the first two speakers on Friday at the Sunshine Summit presidential forum in Orlando, Florida. They offered a distinct contrast in styles.
Mr Rubio, a gifted politician, offered a polished set-piece, delivered from behind a lectern - compelling but traditional.
In contrast, Mr Cruz paced the stage with a wireless microphone. He waved his arms as he spoke and encouraged audience interaction. His appearance was more akin to a religious tent revival.
During a news conference after his speech, Mr Rubio was asked early and often about his record on immigration and Mr Cruz's criticism.
He fired back that he was "puzzled and surprised" by Mr Cruz's words, since the Texas senator was on record supporting a legal status for undocumented workers as well and that their positions aren't "dramatically different".
"Everyone running for president on the Republican side in one way or another supports legalisation of some people who are here illegally," he said.
Earlier in the day, Mr Cruz had told a radio interviewer that attempts by Mr Rubio to draw comparisons between their immigration views make him "laugh out loud".
While he supported some legal status, his objection was to Mr Rubio's support for eventual citizenship for those who had entered the country illegally.
"That's like Obama saying my position is the same as his on Obamacare," Mr Cruz said. "That's like the Ayatollah Khamenei saying my position is the same as his on the Iranian nuclear deal. It is laughingly, blazingly, on-its-face false."
At a rally in an evangelical church later on Friday, Mr Cruz announced an immigration plan that would cap legal immigration and end automatic citizenship for those born on US soil.
He also took another not-so-veiled swipe at Mr Rubio, saying that those who supported the 2013 immigration reform effort - "including some Republicans" - were opting for the "Washington cartel" over "hardworking American men and women".
The two candidates are increasingly being viewed by pundits and Washington insiders as leading candidates to be the last two men standing when the Republican field eventually narrows. Such a theory is predicated on outsider candidates like Ben Carson and Donald Trump eventually fading, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush's campaign continuing to flounder and the other cast of candidates unable to gain traction.
If this turns out to be the case, then the fight between Mr Cruz and Mr Rubio over controlling illegal immigration - a topic that stirs passionate feelings among many Republican voters - isn't just a rhetorical November sideshow, it could help define how the Republican race plays out in the coming months. | Marco Rubio of Florida and Ted Cruz of Texas are both US senators, they're both the children of Cuban immigrants, they're both running for president, and they are both surging in the polls thanks to strong performances in Republican candidate debates. | 34812707 | [
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Defender Phil Edwards and midfielders Lee Williamson, Callum Reilly and Charlie Gatter are also leaving.
Keeper Stephen Bywater, Tom Flanagan, John Mousinho, Ben Turner, Marvin Sordell, Lloyd Dyer, and Shaun Barker have all been offered new deals.
The Brewers have taken up one-year extensions to retain Marcus Harness, Marcus Dinanga and Sam Hornby.
McLaughlin, 29, played all but the final three games of Burton's maiden Championship season, when he was sidelined by an arm injury.
Bywater took his place for the matches against Leeds, Barnsley and Reading - and boss Nigel Clough now hints that the 35-year-old former West Ham and Derby keeper could play a bigger role next season.
"We just feel that we want to move into a different direction with a different kind of goalkeeper," Clough told Burton's official website.
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A letter sent by party activists in north Wales claimed Michelle Brown has been "abrasive and discourteous" to them.
It was sent to UKIP's national executive committee (NEC) before a row over racial slurs about a Labour MP, for which Ms Brown apologised.
But UKIP chairman Paul Oakden said the letter did not follow proper process.
A UKIP assembly group spokesman said the letter was written by a group with a "long-standing grudge" against the AM.
The ruling NEC body discussed the issue at a meeting on Friday, where they also decided to allow a controversial anti-Islam campaigner to run for the UKIP leadership.
Mr Oakden said: "A member of the NEC had contacted the person that is putting this forward and said to them they need to follow the proper process of completing the necessary forms and submitting them to the NEC.
"Members simply emailing the NEC saying we want you to do this is not the correct disciplinary process for the party, by any stretch of the imagination.
"A member of the NEC has gone back and given advice on what they need to do."
Shaun Owen, secretary of UKIP's Delyn branch, wrote to the NEC saying: "For some time we have been appalled by the abrasive and discourteous manner of Ms Brown towards UKIP locally.
"Her lack of effort in pursuing the aims of the party both locally and nationally is of concern to members across the region."
Mr Owen added he believed members would stop supporting UKIP if Ms Brown remained in the role.
However, a spokesman for the party's assembly group dismissed the letter as written by a "tiny and insignificant group".
In February, Ms Brown denied an allegation she had smoked recreational drugs in a hotel room.
Later that month, she said she had acted "with propriety" after it was revealed she had discussed how an advert for a job in her assembly office could be changed to help her brother get an interview for the post.
Meanwhile, UKIP's NEC confirmed that 11 hopefuls in the contest to succeed Paul Nuttall as leader will be able to run as candidates.
The list includes Anne Marie Waters, the founder of the Sharia Watch pressure group, who has described Islam as evil.
UKIP AM David Rowlands had said Ms Waters is probably "too extreme" to be allowed to stand but she claimed the party was trying to "ostracise" her.
Other candidates who have also cleared the NEC's vetting process and are going forward to a vote of the membership include Welsh activist John Rees-Evans, London Assembly member Peter Whittle and Scottish MEP David Coburn.
Mr Nuttall resigned after the general election in June when the party failed to win any seats and saw its vote plummet. | A call to deselect a UKIP member of the Welsh assembly has been rejected by the party's ruling body. | 40888797 | [
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Leicester's Selby, who beat Ding Junhui in last year's final, looked on course for a whitewash by going 8-0 ahead.
Irishman O'Brien claimed the ninth and 11th to avoid becoming only the second player to exit without winning a frame, but Selby wrapped up the match.
He will face either Wales' Ryan Day or China's Xiao Guodong in the next round.
Selby has enjoyed a stellar season - claiming four ranking titles, including this month's China Open, though no player has followed that by winning the world title in the same season.
The world number one made top breaks of 92, 77 and 66 as he began his attempt to win his third title at the Sheffield venue, which is holding the event for a 40th year.
"I'm very happy to get through and happy with the scoreline but my performance could have been better," Selby said. "I was not killing enough frames off in the first visit and would have liked to have capitalised on them.
"I would like to win every tournament I play in. I am confident and I am playing well enough.
"Even if I don't play well, I have a never-say-die attitude and you have to scrape me off the table.
"I was gutted not to go 9-0 because I know the history that there has only been one whitewash here. I was devastated to go in after the first session at 8-1."
Having made light work of O'Brien, Selby has almost a week off, returning to action next Saturday.
Dubliner O'Brien came through qualifying by beating David Gilbert in a final-frame decider - the longest frame in snooker history, timed at two hours, three minutes and 41 seconds.
But he struggled badly in the first-round encounter, managing a high break of just 32, although he avoided the ignominy of joining Eddie Charlton - who lost 10-0 to John Parrott in 1992 - as the only players not to win a frame at the championship.
He has now lost six successive meetings against Selby, claiming just four frames in a run stretching back to 2006.
"When I won my first frame, it was good because the crowd were so supportive and willing me not to get the whitewash," said O'Brien.
In an all-Scottish tie, qualifier Stephen Maguire claimed eight frames in a row to trounce Anthony McGill 10-2.
Maguire, who has won five ranking titles, has fallen to 24th in the world but was in good scoring form, compiling breaks of 97, 66 and 60 to go through.
Meanwhile, five-time champion Ronnie O'Sullivan was pegged back to a 5-4 lead over debutant Gary Wilson.
Former taxi driver Wilson fell 5-1 behind but took the last three frames of the session, including the ninth having needed snookers.
On the other table, Kyren Wilson leads 5-4 against Crucible first-timer David Grace.
Media playback is not supported on this device | Defending champion Mark Selby reached the second round of the World Championship by thrashing Fergal O'Brien 10-2 at the Crucible Theatre. | 39609089 | [
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Mellor, 25, joined Widnes on a dual registration contract with Wigan in 2011 before moving permanently in 2013.
"For him to commit to continuing his development with us in pursuit of realising his own ambitions is an honour," head coach Denis Betts said.
"He knows the way that we want to play and he has the attitude and energy that will keep enhancing the team." | Widnes Vikings scrum-half Joe Mellor has signed a new three-year contract, keeping him with the club until 2019. | 35929208 | [
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The Department for Social Development has confirmed that a total of 51 refugees will arrive in Belfast from Lebanon, under the Vulnerable Persons Relocations Scheme.
Eleven of them are children under the age of five, including a baby.
The PSNI team will also investigate any crimes against the Muslim community.
The Syrian families will be housed in the private rental sector until alternative arrangements are made.
This is the first time Northern Ireland has participated in a refugee resettlement program.
Muslims and Christians are among those due to arrive in mid-December.
The first group will be settled in the Belfast area.
The second group of refugees will arrive in the first quarter of 2016 and will be settled in the north west.
Prime Minister David Cameron announced the expansion of the Vulnerable Persons Relocation Scheme on 7 September.
The scheme will resettle up to 20,000 Syrian refugees across the UK over the next five years.
Refugees from countries neighbouring Syria will be resettled under the scheme, mostly Turkey, Jordan and Lebanon.
It does not extend to those who seek asylum in Europe or countries like Libya. | A special operation team set up by the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) will manage the arrival of 11 Syrian refugee families on 15 December. | 34999042 | [
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After years of decline, the number of public authority homes sold in the year to March rose from 1,209 to 1,526.
Ministers announced last year that right-to-buy, previously abolished for new tenants, was to end altogether.
Statisticians concluded that the announcement was "likely to be responsible" for the upturn in sales.
Over the same period, 1,140 new council homes were built in Scotland, the highest total in 25 years.
The number of affordable homes also rose by 17%, with 7,012 completed.
Housing minister Margaret Burgess said: "Over 4,000 new council houses have been delivered through the Scottish government's council house building programme since 2009.
"The supply of affordable housing continues to be a high priority for us and we are working with the entire sector to increase the supply of affordable homes and deliver vital support for construction and housebuilding companies throughout Scotland.
"Since 2011 we have delivered more than 21,000 new affordable homes, bringing us over two-thirds of the way towards our five-year target of 30,000 new homes."
Across Scotland the total number of new homes increased by 7% over the past year to 15,957 - with Aberdeenshire, Edinburgh and Glasgow accounting for more than a quarter.
The increase is the first since 2007/08 but the supply of new homes still remains well below pre-recession levels.
Ms Burgess said: "This is the first annual increase since before the recession, reflecting the growing confidence within the housing market, which the Scottish government has helped to stimulate through investment in initiatives designed to support the sector and help people into home ownership.
"Nonetheless, new housing supply remains well below pre-recession levels and I recognise that the housebuilding industry continues to face a number of challenges."
The Scottish Federation of Housing Associations (SFHA) broadly welcomed the new statistics.
It said: "The recognition, however, that we still have a very long way to go to recover from the 42% decrease in completions since then, is sobering and reflects the challenge to all providers of new housing.
"The drop in housing association completions represents the time lag between the introduction of the new subsidy levels in 2013 and the time taken to kick-start many projects previously unviable because of lower grant levels.
"However, the increase in approvals for housing association projects - up from 1,620 in 2012/13 to 2,875 in 2013/14 - gives some hope that we are beginning to recover from a devastating slowdown in the construction of social housing, at a time when almost one million Scots can't afford adequate housing conditions."
Responding to the figures, trade body Homes for Scotland warned that sustained increases in production were now under threat after last month's announcement that the Scottish government's Help to Buy scheme had run out of money for this financial year.
Chief executive Philip Hogg said: "The figures show that the increase in supply was driven by the private sector and this clearly demonstrates the huge impact made by the very successful Help to Buy (Scotland) scheme, which has generated over 4,300 sales and reservations since launch less than a year ago.
"Whilst we applaud the Scottish government for introducing the scheme, funding for this year has already run out, leaving both buyers and builders very frustrated.
"The industry has effectively had the rug pulled from beneath it before any firm recovery has had the opportunity to take hold.
"And the impact is already apparent with significant drops in sales in the weeks since the budget expired in July. We therefore fear a return to decline in the months ahead. | Council house sales in Scotland rose by 26% following the decision to scrap tenants' right-to-buy, according to official figures. | 28879203 | [
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Mr Matheson has served as a Labour councillor in the city for 17 years - five of those as leader.
He stepped down from the leadership last September and was replaced by Frank McAveety.
A by-election will be held for his Anderston/City ward, the date of which has yet to be confirmed.
Mr Matheson said: "As a cities man, I am delighted to accept this prestigious appointment which comes at a perfect time for me.
"Having served as a city leader I am fortunate to be in a position to still contribute to the development of international cities in a non-political capacity."
Mr Matheson will be a visiting professor at Strathclyde University's Institute for Future Cities - part of its economics department.
In his role he will be expected to write, lecture and assist with research projects across the UK and abroad.
The move appears to mark the end of Mr Matheson's political ambitions for the moment.
Last year he stood for the depute leadership of the Scottish Labour Party and came second in the first round of voting.
He later decided against putting himself forward as a possible Labour candidate for Holyrood. | The former leader of Glasgow City Council, Gordon Matheson, is to leave the authority to become a visiting professor at Strathclyde University. | 35783591 | [
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The Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information said that the social network had not obtained effective approval from WhatsApp's 35 million German users.
Facebook bought WhatsApp for $19bn (£14.6bn) in 2014 as a way to reach out to a younger audience.
It is to appeal against the order.
"We will work with the Hamburg DPA in an effort to address their questions and resolve any concerns," it said in a statement.
The data watchdog said that Facebook and WhatsApp were independent companies and should process their users' data as such.
"After the acquisition of WhatsApp by Facebook two years ago, both parties have publicly assured [users] that data will not be shared between them," said commissioner Johannes Caspar in a statement.
WhatsApp caused controversy in August when it announced that it was changing its privacy policy to allow its data to be shared with its parent company.
It said that better co-ordination with Facebook would help it to fight spam as well as allowing Facebook to offer "better friends suggestions and show you more relevant ads if you have an account with them".
It will share phone numbers and the details of the last time that users signed on to WhatsApp.
EU and US regulators reacted with caution, saying that the update needed to be investigated. The UK's Information Commissioner is also looking into the changes. | Facebook has been ordered by a German privacy regulator to stop collecting and storing the data of German users of its messaging app WhatsApp. | 37485589 | [
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The substitute headed in a Cristiano Ronaldo cross after it appeared Clint Dempsey had sent the Americans through.
Portugal took an early lead through Nani, but Jermaine Jones' superb strike levelled the scores just after an hour.
A draw between Germany and USA will see both through, while Portugal must beat Ghana to have a chance of progressing.
Portugal are relying on a Germany win and must also achieve a six-goal swing if they are to pip the USA to second place and reach the last 16.
Realistically, they had needed to win in the Amazonian rainforest after a 4-0 thrashing by Germany in their opening game, but their performance was at least a marked improvement on that showing in Salvador.
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For the USA - who had opened with a late win over Ghana - this was a performance characterised by attacking verve and defensive slackness, the latter allowing the European side to race into a fifth-minute lead, and also to hit back with the final whistle seconds away.
Their first defensive lapse came when Geoff Cameron sliced an attempted clearance across the face of his goal to Nani, the Manchester United winger finishing emphatically past Everton keeper Tim Howard.
The early goal stung the Americans into action, and they chased the game to create decent chances from which Clint Dempsey and Michael Bradley failed to test Portugal keeper Beto.
But while Portugal looked vulnerable to the USA's rapid counter-attacks, they remained a threat going forward themselves and went close to doubling their lead just before the break when Nani struck the post from outside the area, and Eder's follow-up was brilliantly pushed over by Howard.
"Michael Bradley, one of our most experienced players, loses it which gives Cristiano Ronaldo the chance.
"Now USA are in a dangerous position, and it could come down to goal difference against Ghana - who look a better side than Portugal on this evidence."
Ronaldo's participation had been in some doubt following a bout of tendonitis in his left knee, and while the World Player of the Year looked good when supplying his team mates, his finishing was wayward.
Ten minutes into the second half, Bradley should have equalised, but the midfielder's side-footed shot from close range was superbly cleared off the line by Ricardo Costa.
The miss was soon forgotten, though, when Jones side-stepped Nani before bending in a brilliant shot from outside the box beyond the static Beto.
With less than 10 minutes to go, Dempsey stooped to guide the ball in off his midriff from close range for what looked to be the winner, until the defence switched off again in the 94th minute and Varela dived to meet Ronaldo's cross and claim what might still turn out to be a crucial point.
USA coach Jurgen Klinsmann: "When you concede in the last second it is unfortunate, but it was an amazing game from us - I can't ask for any more. Now we have to get a result against Germany and that is what we are going to do.
"We will take even more confidence into the next game. It will be another final but that is what the World Cup is about.
"Germany played yesterday and so have more time to recover. We played in the Amazon and they haven't had to travel much. Everything has been made easy for the favourites, whereas we have to struggle to go through, but that is what we will do."
Portugal manager Paulo Bento: "It's clearly not a good result for us. The 2-2 doesn't put us out of the World Cup mathematically, but it does leave us in a very difficult situation.
"Not just because of what we'll need to do against Ghana, but also because we'll need a favourable result from the Germany-United States game.
"We were unlucky late in the first half, but it was a great effort to level the match (in second-half stoppage time).
"Now all we can do is to give everything in our very last game and try and make the most of the very little chance that we have left." | Silvestre Varela's equaliser deep into injury time kept Portugal in the World Cup as their Group G clash with the USA ended in a dramatic draw in Manaus. | 25285256 | [
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Nearly 1.85 million requests for support were made last year, but just over 650,000 people received help.
Councils have been warning for a number of years that a shortage of funding is causing problems.
But the Health and Social Care Information Centre figures shows how difficult it is for people to get help.
Only 144,000 of the requests for help resulted in long-term care, which includes places in care homes or help in the home for tasks such as washing and dressing.
Nearly 220,000 got short-term help, such as rehabilitation after discharge from hospital, and another 300,000 got low-level support such as walking aids and telecare.
The rest either received nothing or were advised to seek help from charities, the NHS or from housing services.
Unlike the NHS, social care is not free and most people will pay something towards the cost of their care, with some covering the entire cost.
Meanwhile, a separate survey of nearly 70,000 people who did get help revealed their experiences of care.
Some 65% said they were extremely or very satisfied with their care and 26% were quite satisfied, but one in 10 was not.
One in 20 did not feel clean or presentable and the same proportion said they did not always get enough food and drink.
Janet Morrison, chief executive of the charity Independent Age, said the figures painted an "alarming picture of services cut back to the bare bones".
"This is a direct result of £4.6bn cuts to social care budgets since 2010 and comes despite an ageing population which is increasing the need for these services," she added.
The figures come after a coalition of health and care groups wrote to the Treasury last month warning that the care sector needed to be protected as the "deepening crisis" was putting people in danger.
The government said its spending plans would be revealed in November, but pointed out that a £5.4bn fund - the Better Care Fund - had been established in April to ensure NHS money was used for services that support council-organised care.
But Izzi Seccombe, of the Local Government Association, said: "We need to see a change to the current perverse funding system which, over the last five years, has seen an increase in funding for the NHS but a decrease in funding for social care.
"This threatens to leave councils struggling to commission the essential support which keeps people out of hospital and living healthier and happier lives in their communities." | Two-thirds of older and disabled people in England who turn to their local councils for help with care are turned away, figures show. | 34415364 | [
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The 10-part Channel 4 and Sony Pictures Television series, based on Dick's short stories, will star Breaking Bad's Bryan Cranston.
Other writers on the project include Matthew Graham (Doctor Who) and 50 Shades screenwriter Kelly Marcel.
Filming is expected to begin early next year.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas writer Tony Grisoni is also one of the scriptwriters on board.
The new writers were revealed at a dinner ahead of the Edinburgh International Television Festival.
Each episode of Electric Dreams will be a standalone piece, adapted by a team of authors which also includes Masters of Sex's Michael Dinner and Outlander's Ronald D Moore.
Dick, who died in 1982 at the age of 53, had 44 novels published. His first was Solar Lottery in 1955.
He is best known for works including The Man in the High Castle and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - the basis of 1982 film Blade Runner.
Other films based on Dick's books include Total Recall and Minority Report. He also wrote more than 100 short stories.
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, the West End stage play written by Thorne, is set 19 years after the seventh and final book in the series by JK Rowling.
Presented in two parts and running to more than five hours, it shows the main characters from the books as adults in their mid-30s as their own children head off to Hogwarts.
Demand for tickets for the two-part show has been huge. The show is sold out, although there is an online lottery every Friday in which 40 tickets are released for every performance the following week.
Thorne's other TV credits include two Bafta-winning series, This is England and The Fades.
Follow us on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, on Instagram, or if you have a story suggestion email [email protected]. | Harry Potter and the Cursed Child writer Jack Thorne is joining new TV drama Electric Dreams: The World of Philip K Dick. | 37167500 | [
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The Islamic State (IS) group captured Qaraqosh overnight after the withdrawal of Kurdish forces.
IS has been gaining ground in northern Iraq since June, and also controls some of Syria.
The US has warned that the situation for Iraq's minority groups threatens to become a "humanitarian catastrophe".
``We are gravely concerned for their health and safety," said White House spokesman Josh Earnest.
But he refused to confirm a New York Times report that the US is considering air strikes to help the Yazidi community, another minority group in northern Iraq that has been targeted by IS.
About 50,000 Yazidis are thought to have been trapped in the mountains after fleeing the town of Sinjar - although the UN says some of them have now been rescued.
The United Nations Security Council is due to meet in emergency session later on Thursday to discuss the situation.
Tens of thousands of religious minorities have been forced to flee since IS, a Sunni Muslim group formerly known as Isis, launched its onslaught.
IS says it has created an Islamic state in the territory it controls.
In other developments:
A majority of Nineveh inhabitants left their homes overnight, according to Fraternite en Irak, an international Christian organisation based in Paris.
As many as 100,000 people are believed to be fleeing toward the autonomous Kurdistan Region.
Pope Francis has made an impassioned appeal to the international community to do much more to address the crisis.
A Vatican statement said the Pope had appealed for "all necessary help" to be given to those forced to flee their homes, "whose fate depends entirely on the solidarity of others".
And Minority Rights Group International has warned that Iraq's multi-ethnic future is now at grave risk.
Kurdish forces, known as the Peshmerga, have been fighting the IS militants' advance for weeks.
The Peshmerga's commander in Qaraqosh reportedly told the town's archbishop late on Wednesday that the forces were abandoning their posts.
Several senior clergymen in Nineveh confirmed the town had fallen.
"It's a catastrophe, a tragic situation: tens of thousands of terrified people are being displaced as we speak," said Joseph Thomas, the Chaldean archbishop of the northern city of Kirkuk.
Eyewitnesses in Qaraqosh said IS militants were taking down crosses in churches and burning religious manuscripts.
The town - referred to as Iraq's Christian capital - is located 30km (19 miles) south-east of the city of Mosul, which was captured by IS in June.
Last month, hundreds of Christian families fled Mosul after the Islamist rebels gave them an ultimatum to convert to Islam, pay a special tax or be executed.
Iraq is home to one of the world's most ancient Christian communities, but numbers have dwindled amid growing sectarian violence since the US-led invasion in 2003.
Christians
Yazidis
Iraq: The minorities of Nineveh
Yazidi eyewitness: 'They want to slaughter us'
Meanwhile, the UN said it was mobilising resources to assist Yazidis rescued from Mount Sinjar over the past 24 hours.
Members of the ancient Kurdish ethno-religious community sought refuge there at the weekend.
Almost 200,000 civilians have been displaced from Sinjar town, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has warned.
Those trapped on the mountain are facing dehydration, and 40 children are reported to have died already.
"This is a tragedy of immense proportions, impacting the lives of hundreds of thousands of people," said UN spokesman David Swanson.
"Many of the displaced are in immediate need of essential life-saving humanitarian items, including water, food, shelter and medicine." | Up to a quarter of Iraq's Christians are reported to be fleeing after Islamic militants seized the minority group's biggest town. | 28686998 | [
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When the hand of God strikes, nudging a major GCSE exam into the path of an England World Cup match, it can be a teachers' worst nightmare.
A clash with the Muslim month of fasting may also cause concern in some schools wanting their pupils to do their best.
And as exam timetabling is something of a long game, there can be no last-minute changes to scheduling to take into account a major football fixture.
With so much hype over world sporting events such as the Olympics or the World Cup, most people will want to watch, says former exams doctor George Turnbull.
"With the best will in the world, it is very difficult to talk young people down from taking time out of their revision to watch such events, and staying up late is not the best way to prepare for examinations," says the former adviser for exams regulator Ofqual.
"Of course young people should be preparing long before hand, but we all know that it doesn't always work like that
The exam itself should be the major event because it has so much potential to affect the young person's life chances," he adds.
The public exams timetable is drawn up by the Joint Council for Qualifications at least 18 months in advance of the exams themselves, following consultations with a wide range of stakeholders including religious groups, schools and colleges.
And because of the narrow window in which exam boards can hold examinations and get them marked, they are always in a fixed period of six weeks in the education calendar.
The JCQ has reiterated that there were only minimal changes carried out to the draft timetable for 2016 before it was published.
"In such a large, complex system where there is a large number of candidates taking examinations and a diverse range of subjects available, it is not always possible to meet each and every request," it says.
"Exam boards will always aim to be as fair as possible to all.
"If a small change can be made for any one group that does not impact negatively on most students, it will, quite rightly, be considered - but these are made before the timetable is published."
And even as that timetable is drawn up, there is very little room for manoeuvre, says Andrew Harland, chief executive of the Exam Officers' Association.
He cites the example of one local authority that complained, unsuccessfully, their students were going to have to sit a maths exam during their half-term holiday.
Exam boards have to get GCSE papers marked in time for schools and colleges to decide places on sixth-form courses, he explains.
Equally, A-level papers need to be graded so universities can confirm places to potential undergraduates.
In recent years, the exam season has moved from June to July to late May to June, in part, to enable boards to get enough markers.
Mr Harland says exams used to run up to the end of term, when people were going on holiday.
"The days of markers taking a bundle of papers down to a cottage in Cornwall are over, as marking has moved online," he says.
There may be a few cases where students taking unusual sets of subjects may have exam clashes, Mr Harland says.
This can mean they have to take a paper at a later time of day and will thus need supervision so the integrity of the examination paper is maintained.
But the major change in exam timetabling in recent years has been to what he describes as a "one-hit summer exam system" in which all exams are taken at the end of a two-year period and retakes have been discouraged.
This, he argues, has put even more pressure on exam boards to get timetabling right first time. | As it emerges that GCSE and A-level exam timetables have been drawn up to minimise clashes with the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, we take a look at what influences and restricts scheduling. | 35252821 | [
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It marks the final instalment in British director Christopher Nolan's trilogy, starring Christian Bale.
The Telegraph
said "a breathless, bravura final act" brings the story to "a ferociously satisfying close".
However the
Daily Mail
branded the film, released in the UK on 20 July, "humourless" and "overlong".
Awarding The Dark Knight Rises just two stars, the paper said new baddie Bane, played by Tom Hardy, was "practically inaudible" because of the character's facemask worn throughout.
But Bane "steals the show" according to
The Mirror
: "The headline act may be a man in a black rubber suit but the real star of The Dark Knight Rises is Batman's nightmarish nemesis, Bane."
Reviewer David Edwards called the film, "the sulky, brooding brother of the recent Spider-Man flick".
The Telegraph writer Robbie Collins singled out Joseph Gordon-Levitt's rookie cop John Blake as the character Bruce Wayne is forced to share the limelight with.
He called the film
: "A lucid, sinewy crime epic closer to Michael Mann's Heat and Coppola's second Godfather film than anything Marvel Studios has yet produced".
The Guardian
agreed the film stands apart from other recent comic book movies, calling it "a corrective to the jumpsuit antics of The Avengers".
"Here is a film of granite, monolithic intensity; a superhero romp so serious that it borders on the comical, like a children's fancy-dress party scripted by Victor Hugo and scored by Wagner," wrote Xan Brooks.
Many praised Nolan's directing skills, along with Anne Hathaway's turn as cat burglar Selina Kyle, while Matthew Leyland from
Total Film
magazine was impressed with the action film's more tender moments.
"Gruff, gritty and gothic though it is, TDKR may bring a lump to your throat that isn't popcorn-related," said Leyland.
He also championed Christian Bale's performance as "never more vulnerable, likeable or willing to get his gloves dirty, pushing to new emotional depths for his final Gotham go-around".
Giving the film another five star review,
Empire
magazine called it "superhero filmmaking on an unprecedented scale".
Referencing the other films in Nolan's trilogy, Nev Pierce said: "Rises may lack the surprise of Begins or the anarchy of Knight, but it makes up for that in pure emotion. A fitting epitaph for the hero Gotham deserves." | Critics have rushed to praise new Batman film The Dark Knight Rises, calling it "spectacular" and "bleak, black and brilliant". | 18868049 | [
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In an interview with newspaper Die Zeit, Hitzlsperger said he was coming out to advance discussion of a topic that was "simply ignored" in German football.
He is the most prominent footballer to publicly reveal his homosexuality and his former team-mates were quick to praise his announcement.
Arsenal and Germany forward Lukas Podolski wrote on Twitter: "Respect to Thomas Hitzlsperger! That was a courageous and correct decision and an important step."
And retired defender Arne Friedrich, who played with Hitzlsperger at Euro 2008, wrote: "Proud of you Thomas. A good decision and in my opinion the right time."
There was also support for Hitzlsperger from leading figures in German football administration.
"Finally, a footballer has the courage to make his sexuality public," said Theo Zwanziger, the former president of the German Football Association.
Bundesliga president Reinhard Rauball said in a statement: "The decision of Thomas Hitzlsperger to be the first prominent footballer to make public his homosexuality is - even after his active career - a huge and courageous step, and surely leads the way in the fight against homophobia."
Gary Lineker @GaryLineker
Congratulations to Thomas Hitzlsperger on bravely being the first player to have played in the PL to 'come out'
Joseph Barton @Joey7Barton 15m
Thomas Hitzlsperger has shown a lot of courage today. Sad times when people have to wait till they retire from their chosen profession...
...before the feel other people will judge them solely on who the human being is. Shame on all of us as a society.
John Amaechi OBE @JohnAmaechi
Congratulations to Thomas Hitzlsperger - welcome to the club!
Bayern Munich, the club where Hitzlsperger began his career as a junior, also tweeted their support for the midfielder's "brave step".
Hitzlsperger's announcement is seen as a watershed moment in Germany, which like England has struggled with the problem of homophobia in football.
Zwanziger admitted that football was "now as ever a hard business, where unfortunately an open discourse about homosexuality is still not taken for granted".
Current Germany captain Philipp Lahm created controversy in 2011 when he wrote in his autobiography that he would encourage gay footballers to keep quiet about their sexuality.
"I would not encourage any gay professional footballer to come out," he wrote at the time. "I would fear that he would end up like Justin Fashanu [the English footballer who killed himself after revealing that he was gay]."
The last German footballer to come out was second tier player Marcus Urban, who told Die Welt in 2007 that he knew of at least three gay footballers in the Bundesliga who were too scared to reveal their sexuality.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel's spokesman Steffen Seibert praised Hitzlsperger for going public.
"It's good that he's spoken about something which is important to him," Seibert told a media briefing.
"We live in a country where nobody should be worried about making his sexuality known or concerned about intolerance.
"We judge footballers on whether they have behaved well and worthily on and off the pitch and I believe that both are the case with Mr Hitzlsperger."
Openly Gay German politician Volker Beck said he hoped Hitzlsperger's announcement would encourage others to do the same.
"I hope that Hitzlsperger's courageous step contributes to finally breaking down this taboo," he said. "It's now the job of the German FA to embolden active players [to do the same]."
And Zwanziger said he was optimistic that Hitzlsperger's announcement would lead to greater openness about sexuality in German football.
He said: "I'm confident that sexual orientations will soon not be an issue in football at all." | German football has rallied around Thomas Hitzlsperger after the former international midfielder revealed he was gay. | 25654437 | [
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The rouble fell to a rate of 57 to the dollar on Monday, a fall of more than 6%, after some gains last week.
Russia's economy, heavily reliant on energy exports, has been hit by the oil price slump and Western sanctions.
The sanctions, imposed because of Russian support for separatists in eastern Ukraine, target the oil and gas industries as well as banks, arms manufacturers and the wealthy elite close to President Vladimir Putin.
Russia blocked most imported Western food in retaliation for the measures.
The rouble has lost half its value against the dollar this year.
The Russian ministry for economic development said the manufacturing, construction, agriculture and service sectors all contracted in November. Energy, mining and the retail trade showed continued growth.
President Putin signed a law on Monday doubling the deposit guarantee for bank accounts, to 1.4m roubles (£16,290; $25,370).
The last time Russia suffered a major economic crisis, in 1998, many ordinary Russians saw their bank savings wiped out.
Mr Putin has also given the Russian central bank the power to recapitalise the country's biggest retail bank, Sberbank, directly with soft loans. The total must not exceed Sberbank's capital as measured on 1 January 2015.
The "subordinated debt" issued by the central bank, if Sberbank needs it, will not have to be repaid until other loans have been paid off. It is a cushion in case Sberbank gets into financial difficulty.
Other banks can be recapitalised by the central bank through Russia's deposit guarantee agency, using federal government bonds. | The Russian economy contracted by 0.5% in November, the first fall in national output - Gross Domestic Product - since October 2009, official figures show. | 30623489 | [
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Striker Nelson, 19, went off injured just minutes after being introduced as a substitute in Saturday's 1-1 draw with Plymouth Argyle.
He has played four games for Pools since joining in January.
"It's doubtful that he will be able to play again this season," head physio Ian Gallagher told the club website.
Manager Dave Jones said: "It's so unfortunate for Andrew and for us.
"He's come here looking to gain some senior experience, had done well in the games he's played and has slotted in well with the rest of the lads." | Hartlepool United loanee Andrew Nelson has returned to parent club Sunderland for treatment after scans showed he has damaged medial knee ligaments. | 39052289 | [
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Dinesh and Tarakeshwari Rathod said last year that they had successfully reached the 8,850m (29,035ft) summit.
But police in Maharashtra state on Monday confirmed the couple had "morphed photographs" to show a successful ascent on 23 May.
The inquiry was launched after the pair's claims were queried by climbers.
Additional Commissioner Sahebrao Patil told the PTI news agency that the couple "shared misleading information" and "brought disrepute to the Maharashtra Police department".
It's not clear if the couple will also face charges.
Nepalese authorities also imposed a 10-year mountaineering ban last year on the couple after concluding that their claim was fake.
The country's tourism department had initially certified their ascent but rescinded that decision after conducting an investigation.
Mr and Mrs Rathod initially told reporters that their pictures were real.
But a climber based in the southern Indian city of Bangalore, Satyarup Sidhantha, later told the media that the photographs presented by the Rathods as "proof" of their climb actually belonged to him.
Suspicions were further aroused because of the time lag between the day the Rathods claimed to have reached the summit and their news conference announcing their achievement.
It was alleged that the couple could not possibly have reached the summit so soon after they were seen to have arrived at the base camp, and that the photos appeared to show them in two different sets of clothes and boots while on the climb.
Many of those who have succeeded in scaling the 8,848m (29,029ft) mountain have subsequently gone on to have lucrative careers as motivational speakers and authors.
Mountaineering is a major source of income for impoverished Nepal.
More than 450 people, including more than 250 foreigners, climbed Everest during the spring season last year. It followed two consecutive years of poor weather - made worse by the Nepal earthquake of 2015 - which resulted in almost all Everest attempts being abandoned.
Get news from the BBC in your inbox, each weekday morning | Two police officers have been sacked after an inquiry found their claim to be the first Indian couple to climb Everest was fake. | 40859155 | [
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21 February 2015 Last updated at 13:18 GMT
Mo Farah was a big star of the London 2012 Olympic Games.
He started athletics aged 12 and went on to win two gold medals at London 2012.
Now he has his sights set on the next Olympic Games, Rio 2016.
He shared his tips for young athletes with Newsround.
Mo said: "Focus on yourself. You don't become a better athlete if you have one bad race."
"Keep working, listen to coach and believe in yourself," he added. | Athletics stars Mo Farah and Greg Rutherford have shared their tips for young athletes with Newsround. | 31564982 | [
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The vessel's engine failed a mile north east of Muck Island on Thursday evening.
Weather conditions at the time were described as good with a Force 3 wind and a slight swell running.
A volunteer crew from the Larne RNLI launched two lifeboats at about 18:30 BST.
The lifeboat towed the yacht to Carrick Marina.
Larne RNLI Deputy Launching Authority Philip Ford-Hutchinson said the call-out was "a great example of both our inshore and all-weather lifeboats working well together to assist the four people onboard the casualty vessel". | Four people have been rescued after their yacht got into difficulty off the County Antrim coast. | 36747957 | [
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Chris Clark said he has uncovered a crucial pathology report showing she was strangled, which was never told to the jury.
The Home Office said it would send any new criminal evidence to the police.
Evidence of police misconduct would be referred to the Independent Police Complaints Commission, the Home Office added.
Derbyshire police said the case was closed after a reinvestigation in 2002.
Mr Clark, a retired Norfolk police officer, said he has sent his findings to the Home Office after obtaining the original pathology report last month.
He said he believed the report showed Mrs Sewell had clear signs of being strangled.
She was found battered in a Bakewell cemetery in 1973 and died in hospital two days later.
Mr Downing admitted beating her with a pickaxe handle but later retracted that statement, only to be found guilty by a jury.
"I'm reporting the facts as I see them. The pathologist had evidence in his report that could have exonerated Stephen Downing," Mr Clark said.
He said the pathologist's report showed bruising on her neck consistent with a "knotted ligature" used to garrotte her and a rash in her lungs and airways, possibly caused by strangulation.
Mr Clark said none of this was used in Mr Downing's trial. He added the evidence may mean her death was linked to the Yorkshire Ripper, Peter Sutcliffe.
Mr Downing was 17 at the time of Mrs Sewell's murder but was assessed as having a mental age of 11.
His father Ray Downing and Matlock Mercury editor Don Hale campaigned for his release and in 2002 the Court of Appeal found his conviction unsafe because of "procedural reasons".
Mr Hale said the pathology report directly conflicted with the evidence the police presented at the time and called for an independent investigation into the murder.
"This information was available within two or three days of Mr Downing being arrested and it completely contradicts this so-called confession," he said.
But Derbyshire police said the murder was reinvestigated following the quashing of the conviction and it considered the matter closed.
"All possible lines of inquiry were exhausted during the re-investigation. Twenty two people were ruled out of the enquiry but officers were unable to eliminate Stephen Downing as a suspect," a spokeswoman said.
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Mylan said it expected to start selling a cheaper generic product "in several weeks" at a list price of $300 (£230).
That is about half the list price of the existing product, which is used in emergencies for severe food and insect allergies.
The cost of EpiPens in the US has risen by 500% in less than a decade.
Mylan said the generic version would be identical to the branded EpiPen, which costs $600 for two doses.
Allergy sufferers often have several pens - one to keep at home, as well as others at school or work, or in the car. They also expire after 12 months.
Mylan chief executive Heather Bresch said the company had spent hundreds of millions of dollars improving the product since buying the product from Merck in 2007.
"Our decision to launch a generic alternative to EpiPen is an extraordinary commercial response," she said. "We determined that bypassing the brand system in this case and offering an additional alternative was the best option."
The move is unusual because the branded version is still under patent and other rival treatments have failed to get regulatory clearance. The product generates annual sales of $1bn for Mylan.
Bernstein analyst Ronny Gal said: "We suspect Mylan will continue to receive some heat for its price increases and there will be heightened pressure on FDA [regulator the Food and Drug Administration] to bring competition to the market."
Ms Bresch also blamed the complex US health care system for the price rises and said that Mylan took just $274 of the $600 list price, while insurers, pharmacies and other parties shared the rest.
How much individuals pay for an EpiPen prescription can depend on their insurance coverage.
Politicians and parents have challenged the price hikes, with Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton calling them "outrageous" and unjustified.
The outcry over EpiPen price rises sent Mylan shares falling about 12% last week. The stock was flat at $43.04 in afternoon trading in New York.
Actor Sarah Jessica Parker, who had endorsed EpiPens, said last week she was ending her relationship with Mylan. She had previously spoken about the importance of the treatment to her family because of her son's peanut allergy.
Other drug makers including Valeant, Turing and Pfizer have come under fire in recent months for sharp price increases. | The maker of the EpiPen will start selling a generic version in the wake of criticism about steep price increases. | 37215189 | [
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The company has been negotiating with the pension regulator and the PPF in a bid to offload its pension liabilities and a decision is expected soon.
Most, if not all, members of the scheme would see a reduction in benefits.
Those under retirement age would receive an immediate 10% cut in their pension pot.
In addition, annual payments to most members, including those already retired, would be less in the PPF than if the Hoover scheme continued.
At about £500m, the pension scheme is roughly the same size as BHS.
BHS pensions is already receiving compensation from PPF which acts as a lifeboat for pensions so people are paid even when a company goes bust or is about to and if there are insufficient assets in the scheme.
BHS is being assessed for take-over by the organisation.
The Hoover scheme has a deficit of about £250m.
Parent company Hoover Candy stopped producing washing machines in Merthyr Tydfil in 2009, blaming competition in the marketplace.
More than 300 workers lost their jobs although there is still a head office and a distribution warehouse in the town.
It is believed about half of the Hoover pension scheme's 7,800 members live in Wales.
Pensions expert Stuart Price, partner at Quantum Advisory, said: "Members of the pension schemes will lose out on their benefits but, on the flipside, those still employed by the company will retain their jobs.
"At the moment they [members] don't know what's happening so they can't really plan for their short-term future.
"If they get a 10% reduction [for those under 65] and lower increases in the future they might find it very hard to overcome."
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Please include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. | Up to 4,000 people in Wales could be affected if the Hoover pension scheme goes into the Pension Protection Fund (PPF), BBC Wales understands. | 40095465 | [
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He died in hospital after suffering "catastrophic" head injuries in a fall at home, Cambridge Crown Court heard.
Mr Constant, of Richmond Road, Wisbech, did not enter a plea to the murder charge before his death.
Cambridge Crown Court heard he had attempted to kill himself at the same time as his wife was killed last August but survived and faced court proceedings.
His barrister, Sally Hobson, said he suffered a fall at home on April 27 after celebrating his grandson's birthday and that there was "no suggestion he took his own life".
She said: "When he retired to bed, he spoke briefly to his great-granddaughter, then went upstairs and fell and suffered catastrophic head injuries."
Mr Constant was taken to Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge and his family agreed to switch off his life support machine the following day.
"He had hoped to end his life together with his wife in August last year in circumstances they hoped would cause the least distress and discomfort," Mrs Hobson said.
Judge David Farrell voiced concerns over the fact Mr Constant had been granted bail and fell at home.
He said: "Everyone thought he was in a safe environment so I'm concerned all proper care was given to him."
A post-mortem examination concluded that Mrs Constant died of asphyxia in association with heart disease.
Her body was discovered by police who were called to Poppyfields care home in Chapman Way, Eynesbury, near St Neots, on August 22. | A man charged with murdering his wife at a care home has died before his court case could be heard. | 39793294 | [
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"Maduro won't be ousted by a referendum because there will be no referendum," Mr Isturiz said.
Opposition politicians began the process two weeks ago by handing in a petition signed by 1.85 million people.
Meanwhile, the government has published details of the state of emergency it declared on Friday.
It said the emergency would last for 60 days and could then be extended for another 60.
Mr Isturiz said the opposition had "acted too late" over the recall referendum, had "done it wrong and had committed fraud".
The opposition have previously warned the referendum may be hard to push through, as they alleged that the National Electoral Council (CNE) is staffed by government loyalists.
Many Venezuelans blame Mr Maduro for the economic crisis the country is experiencing.
Its economy contracted by 5.7% last year and is expected to shrink further this year. Inflation is at 180%, according to official figures, and there are shortages of medicines and basic food items.
On Friday, President Maduro declared a state of emergency to "denounce, neutralise and overcome the external and foreign aggressions against our country", which he blames for Venezuela's economic problems.
In measures published in the government gazette on Monday, the armed forces and local committees will now have powers to distribute and sell food.
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The new measures also allow the government to take control of basic goods or services, which analysts say opens the way to the expropriation of companies.
On 2 May, opposition politicians handed in 80 boxes containing 1.85 million signatures to the CNE, well above the 1% of voters on the electoral roll needed to kick-start the process.
Opposition politicians say the authorities are trying to stall the process and have called on their supporters to march to the offices of the CNE on Wednesday to demand they verify the signatures so the process can go ahead.
The timing of a potential recall referendum is key because the outcome could be radically different depending on when it is held.
Under Venezuela's constitution, if President Maduro were to be removed by a recall referendum in his last two years in office, he would be replaced by his Vice-President, Mr Isturiz.
But if Mr Maduro were to be recalled before that, new elections would be triggered.
The opposition sees it as essential to have new elections rather than have Mr Isturiz take power, as he is seen as a loyal member of Mr Maduro's Socialist Unity Party.
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Mental health campaigners Time to Change said the video played into a "sad and tired" stereotype.
The BBC has contacted Kasabian for a response.
The video sees the celebrity stars and Kasabian band members wearing flesh-coloured hospital gowns and taking medication before gathering their fellow residents for an aerobics-inspired dance routine.
Time to Change, a movement trying to change public attitude towards people with mental health problems, said the video - combined with the use of the word psycho - was "unhelpful".
Singer Tom Meighan has previously talked about his own mental health. In an interview with Q magazine, he discussed the impact of a friend's death and how he made himself ill.
Director of Time to Change, Sue Baker, said: "As so many musicians have recently talked openly about their experiences of mental health problems it is disappointing to see this video.
"The use of the word 'psycho' in a song and accompanying music video featuring people pretending to be psychiatric inpatients is unhelpful, damaging and disappointing when society is moving on from this sad and tired stereotype."
She said while the harm may have been "unintentional, or misjudged irony", the video will "only serve to fuel stigma".
Ms Baker added: "If fans think it is OK to call people with mental health problems who have been psychiatric inpatients 'psychos', then we are turning back the tide of progress on public attitudes that are more respectful and less judgemental of people living with mental health problems.
"We are keen to work with the band and the music industry to help shift outdated stereotypes and stigma."
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In May, the programme will move from Sunday to Friday evenings.
CBBC will also launch a TV version of the Official Chart Show, presented by Cel Spellman.
The new programme will be broadcast live from the Radio 1 studios and presented by Greg James and will play the top 20 songs of the week. | The Official Chart Show is being moved from Sunday to Friday evenings, as part of a big shake-up of the music charts. | 32035739 | [
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BHS entered administration in April. Since then, efforts have been continuing to rescue it from closure and save the jobs of its 11,000 staff.
Last week, a surprise late bid led by retail veteran Greg Tufnell transformed the race to acquire the retailer.
His team, said to be backed by Portuguese money, is the front-runner.
But if a deal cannot be struck, the business may still have to be liquidated.
The remaining bidders have faded into the background. Another consortium led by Matalan tycoon John Hargreaves and Turkish retail entrepreneur Cafer Mahiroglu has reportedly run into difficulties, while other suitors have apparently failed to impress with their proposals.
Some of those involved in the different bids have impressive retailing histories.
But then Sir Philip Green, who controlled BHS from 2000 to 2015, also had a brilliant track record. And he ended up selling the business for £1.
So what are the chances of saving BHS from the liquidators? And just who are the people aiming to do it?
In the public eye, Greg Tufnell is easily overshadowed by his more famous brother Phil, the former England cricketer.
But that could change if his bid for BHS is successful, because he hopes to become the firm's next chairman.
And as far as his credentials for the job are concerned, the 54-year-old executive certainly talks the talk.
He describes himself as "a highly experienced managing director with Mothercare and Arcadia, a blend of entrepreneur, strategist and hands-on operator with significant commercial business turnaround, acquisition and fund-raising experience".
His record shows that he was buying and merchandising director at Next from 1991 to 1994.
He then spent three years as managing director of menswear retailer Burton, part of the Arcadia group, followed by another three years as managing director of Mothercare.
He currently appears to occupy a portfolio of different jobs, including the chairmanships of leather accessories brand Zatchels and recruitment consultancy hga Group.
Earlier this month, he registered a new firm, Richess Group, at Companies House.
Its other directors are Nick de Scossa, a Swiss banker, and Lisbon-based entrepreneur Jose Maria Soares Bento.
Until Mr Tufnell's bid turned up, many observers had assumed that BHS would be snapped up by Matalan founder Mr Hargreaves.
But it appears that the cost of a deal may have proved too high. Sources say Mr Hargreaves was asked to improve his offer and balked.
Like Sir Philip Green, 71-year-old John Hargreaves also enjoys the life of the super-rich. He has an estimated fortune of £1bn, according to the Sunday Times Rich List.
But in stark contrast to the ebullient Sir Philip, Mr Hargreaves is described by industry insiders as quiet-spoken, someone who shuns the limelight.
Mr Hargreaves is no longer directly involved in the business he founded. He sold his 69% stake in Matalan in 2000, then in 2006 took it private through Missouri Bidco, a company 53.5% owned by him and his family.
As a partner in Mr Hargreaves' bid, there is also Cafer Mahiroglu, the owner of Select Fashions. At 50, he is the youngest of these High Street players.
Mr Mahiroglu's family owns a music store chain in Turkey and, crucially, factories across Turkey, Romania and Vietnam, which supply about 80% of Select's clothing merchandise.
Names that had been mentioned included Poundstretcher boss Aziz Tayub and Mike Ashley's Sports Direct, although Mr Ashley's proposal was reportedly rejected for being too low.
One factor that has complicated matters is that BHS has been selling off much of its stock in a discount sale, reducing the value of its assets and making it more expensive for any new owner to replenish the items.
If no deal can be struck, Duff & Phelps have already lined up three firms to act as liquidators. Alteri, Hilco and Gordon Brothers would then break up the business and sell it off piecemeal.
The 164-store chain includes about 40 loss-making shops. Freed from the need to take them all, many other bidders might be prepared to cherry-pick parts of the once-prosperous empire. | The fate of ailing department store BHS is likely to be decided later on Thursday, with an announcement expected from administrators Duff & Phelps. | 36379212 | [
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But images of famous civil rights campaigners, including Martin Luther King Junior, Nelson Mandela and Bob Marley with the same string around their heads have appeared on the singer's Facebook page.
It's causing controversy with some people claiming she's comparing herself with them and exploiting their images to promote her album.
Next to anti-apartheid campaigner, Nelson Mandela, Madonna wrote 'This #rebelheart fought for freedom!'
But the promo campaign's faced criticism on social media.
The star later posted another picture of Princess Diana saying "Yes Princess Diana was. #rebelheart! Anyone who fights for freedom is a #rebelheart" -Madonna".
She also issues an apology: "I'm sorry, I'm not comparing myself to anyone. I'm admiring and acknowledging there (sic) Rebel Hearts. This is neither a crime or an insult or racist!"
Some of the songs from Madonna's latest album, Rebel Heart, were recently leaked online.
She compared it to 'artistic rape' and urged fans to wait for their official release on March 10.
Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube | Madonna's new artwork for her album Rebel Heart shows her with black string tied around her head and face. | 30665328 | [
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The Columba Declaration commits the Churches to "grow together in communion and to strengthen their partnership in mission".
Founded in two different branches of Protestantism, England's Church is Anglican and Scotland's Presbyterian.
The two Churches will be debating the report over the coming months.
The Church of England's General Synod will hold a debate in February and the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland will consider the report in May.
The Columba Declaration appears within the Growth in Communion, Partnership in Mission report, which sets out the history of partnership between the two Churches and their shared beliefs.
The report states: "The new arrangements we are proposing are modest and 'light touch' with a small contact group meeting yearly and reporting to the ecumenical bodies within each Church."
The declaration has been authored by Kirk minister the Reverend John McPake, and the Church of England's Bishop of Chester, Peter Forster.
They say the agreement will allow clergy and lay people from each Church to be welcomed into the other when they move across the border.
The pact also recognises that the two Churches have constitutional responsibilities in separate parts of the UK.
Rev Alison McDonald, convener of the Church of Scotland's ecumenical relations committee, said: "The joint report sets out clearly the shared foundations of faith of the Church of England and the Church of Scotland, which enable us to recognise one another formally for the first time.
"This provides a sound basis for our ongoing co-operation and for exploring future partnership."
The Reverend Dr Jeremy Worthern, Church of England secretary for ecumenical relations and theology, said the Church valued its "ecumenical relationship with the Church of Scotland and our relationship within the Anglican Communion with the Scottish Episcopal Church".
He added: "There are opportunities for deepening both relationships as this report continues to be discussed and received by the Churches." | A report proposing an agreement between the Church of England and the Church of Scotland has been published, ahead of a debate by the Churches' ruling bodies. | 35442126 | [
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He was seen walking to a waiting car with the help of a walking stick.
The duke, who undertakes a large number of official royal engagements and has close associations with many charities, suffered a "mild stroke" in 2013.
He is perhaps best known as president of the All England Lawn Tennis Club, in which capacity he has presented trophies to winners at Wimbledon.
He is also grand master of the main organisation of Freemasons in England, the United Grand Lodge.
He became Duke of Kent in 1942 at the age of six after his father, brother of King George VI, died in an RAF plane crash.
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Eighth-tier Taunton were playing their ninth game in this season's competition and were the lowest-ranked side left after Westfields' exit on Monday.
Centre-half Ed Palmer drew them level with a superb free-kick in the 73rd minute, cancelling out a fine 48th-minute opener by Barrow winger Williams.
But the hosts went back in front within two minutes when a Ryan Yates cross appeared to be deflected into his own net by Josh Searle, and that was enough to send the National League side into the second round for the first time since 2012/13.
Taunton frustrated the hosts in the first half, with Barrow defenders Nick Anderton and Danny Livesey both having headers cleared off the line in quick succession.
Williams then fired wide while Palmer had a free-kick deflected over.
But Williams then latched on to a poor clearance to cut inside and curl a superb right-footed effort into the top corner from 20 yards.
Palmer stunned the home crowd by curling a 20-yard free-kick into the top corner.
But Barrow soon restored their lead and keeper Lloyd Irish prevented Ross Hannah, Richie Bennett and Williams making the victory more emphatic.
Report supplied by the Press Association
Match ends, Barrow 2, Taunton Town 1.
Second Half ends, Barrow 2, Taunton Town 1.
Ed Palmer (Taunton Town) is shown the yellow card.
Attempt saved. Jordan Williams (Barrow) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Foul by Alex-Ray Harvey (Barrow).
Adam Kelly (Taunton Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Myles Anderson (Barrow) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Matthew Wright (Taunton Town).
Attempt saved. Richard Bennett (Barrow) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Corner, Barrow. Conceded by Matt Villis.
Attempt saved. Ross Hannah (Barrow) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Matt Buse (Taunton Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Liam Hughes (Barrow) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Matt Buse (Taunton Town).
Jordan Williams (Barrow) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Matthew Wright (Taunton Town).
Attempt missed. Ross Hannah (Barrow) left footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Substitution, Taunton Town. Matt Buse replaces Brett Trowbridge.
Alex-Ray Harvey (Barrow) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Shane White (Taunton Town).
Corner, Taunton Town. Conceded by Nick Wilmer-Anderton.
Goal! Barrow 2, Taunton Town 1. Ryan Yates (Barrow) left footed shot from long range on the right to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Shaun Beeley.
Goal! Barrow 1, Taunton Town 1. Ed Palmer (Taunton Town) from a free kick with a right footed shot to the top right corner.
Foul by Shaun Beeley (Barrow).
Ed Palmer (Taunton Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner, Taunton Town. Conceded by Myles Anderson.
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Substitution, Taunton Town. Adam Kelly replaces Ollie Chamberlain.
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Owen Irish (Taunton Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Jordan Williams (Barrow) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Owen Irish (Taunton Town).
Shane White (Taunton Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Ryan Yates (Barrow) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Shane White (Taunton Town).
Shaun Beeley (Barrow) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Matthew Wright (Taunton Town).
Substitution, Taunton Town. Craig Veal replaces Jordan Rogers.
Corner, Barrow. Conceded by Lloyd Irish. | Winger Jordan Williams helped end Taunton's FA Cup adventure as Barrow earned victory in their first-round replay at Holker Street. | 37904959 | [
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Across the world, drug laws are being relaxed, from Uruguay to Portugal, Jamaica and the Czech Republic.
Does this mean the war on drugs has been lost?
The BBC World Service's The Inquiry hears from four expert witnesses, including a former Colombian president and a drugs prosecutor turned defence lawyer.
After many years prosecuting drugs offences as an Assistant US Attorney, growing frustration with the approach inspired Bonny Klapper to become a defence attorney.
"About 10 years into my career, it really hit me that the people I was prosecuting were not just drug traffickers. They were mothers, they were fathers, and I really began to take an interest in why these individuals got involved in drug trafficking."
One Colombian drug runner had a big impact:
"At 14 he had a choice: go work in the emerald mines, or do something else. So he started in the emerald mines, and it was a horrible experience. And then he was offered the chance to work as a driver for one of the leaders of the Norte Valle Cartel. He started as a driver, and ultimately rose up through the ranks.
"In countries like Colombia, sometimes if you want to support your family - and you don't come from a wealthy family or you're not highly educated - drugs is the only path that you have to get yourself out of poverty."
She noticed other problems back in the US at the other end of the chain:
"[We] would prosecute money remitter houses in Queens that were sending drug money to Colombia. We prosecuted one, we shut it down, and the next day another one opened up in the same location. Or we prosecuted very high level traffickers, either in the US or in Colombia, and once they were extradited, someone else came in to take their place.
"We've shifted the problem from Colombia to Mexico. Now all of Central America is inundated because the traffickers got sophisticated, and they're moving through Guatemala and Honduras, and those countries are turning into narco states."
She argues the approach to drugs users is equally flawed:
"The prison system is a disaster. There's virtually no rehabilitation. Locking up low level individuals who have drug problems or who have limited other options is not effective, because they go to jail, they come out, they get involved with drugs again, and they go right back to it.
"I have nothing but praise for the law enforcement agents I've worked with [but] so many of them have said to me 'we're fighting a war that can't be won the way we're fighting it'.
"The war itself is at a draw. And I believe that draw will be maintained indefinitely unless there's a dramatic change in our approach to drugs and drug trafficking."
Former Colombian President Cesar Gaviria worked on the Global Commission on Drug Policy report in 2011 which called on states to decriminalise drugs.
"Our recommendation is regulation for everything. That's what Portugal did.
"If you look at the last 50 years, what has been done? In the US, 600,000 people in jail, $40bn (£27bn) of spending a year. The highest rates of consumption of the whole world. You have to say that it doesn't work. It's a failed policy, and public opinion knows that.
"Ten years ago it was unthinkable that the US would move massively to the legalisation of cannabis.
"That taboo has been broken. In the US, a majority of people are talking about approving legalisation of marijuana."
He cites the example of Uruguay, the first country to legalise the marijuana trade.
"All Latin America's looking at Uruguay. It's a country that also looks how to deal with the production, with the supply of the marijuana that is in the state hands.
"I don't expect any major set back of the policy that the Uruguayans have put in place.
"From the beginning in 1961, the objective of the UN Conventions has been to live in a world free of drugs, but it's a utopia. It's something unreachable. It's not to recognise human nature."
Former chief scientist in the White House Office of National Drug Policy Control David Murray insists the billions of dollars spent tackling drug traffickers and destroying coca crops were well spent:
"A 75% reduction in the productive capacity of Colombian cocaine was achieved by strategic initiatives of supply reduction in partnership with the leadership and political will of the Colombians themselves.
"That's been a sustained achievement that then resulted in a more than 45% drop in the prevalence rate of cocaine use in the United States on the streets
"This is a global business. As a global business they have their preferred mode of operation where they would like to be with regard to supply routes - ungoverned safe havens where they would like to be to carry out their business with maximum efficiency.
"When you push them off of that spot they will adapt but they are diminished.
"We may have an idealised world where prevention and treatment and recovery happen in a certain way and we don't have to do the hard and dirty work, but that's not the reality on the ground.
"The reality is it's a tough slog, it is a cancer and it is worth fighting. Sure it's discouraging to see drug use continue but it actually is diminished if you take a long perspective over time and we actually are making progress with regard to it."
Professor Peter Reuter from the school of public policy at the University of Maryland has been a leading academic in the field of drugs policy for decades.
"The war on drugs was partly defined by its rhetoric.
"The need for national leaders to stand up and talk about the scourge of drugs, and signal to the population that [being tough on drugs] was a priority was an important part of the war itself.
"There's going to be less and less of that. I think there's going to be a change both in tone and substance, so the 'war on drugs' will become a less and less plausible metaphor for describing policy. I think it's going to be a public health rhetoric for the foreseeable future.
"I do believe that we have in a sense had an experiment with trying to be very aggressive about controlling drugs through use of prohibition. And we have a sense that that did not work well. And so we're now trying to find better ways of managing the problem, and I think that's welcome.
"If you look at the number of people who are in prison for drug offences, at least in the US, that's an important indicator of the change in real policy, and those numbers are starting to go down. Not dramatically, but they are definitely going down, and many states are making changes that are likely to accelerate that decline."
As drug laws soften he argues the question of regulation becomes key, as happened when gambling was legalised:
"Lottery play was always seen as a bad thing, you legalised it because you wanted to take money away from organised crime, but the result was that the state lotteries became the most aggressive promoters.
The Inquiry is broadcast on the BBC World Service, Tuesdays from 13:05 GMT
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"You have slogans like 'Why be a mug and work when you can play the lottery and win easily?', just the kind of slogan you'd associate with the worst commercial promotion, but done by the state.
"Alcohol is still heavily promoted, and it's promoted in states that have state liquor monopolies, and we've only recently really been able to restrict smoking promotions.
"So I think there's considerable risk that even if there was a monopoly there would be promotion of marijuana, and clearly what we see in the state of Colorado where it is commercially available, it's regulated, like alcohol, what we see is very aggressive promotion, advertising.
"You cannot with a straight face say that marijuana legalisation won't lead to more marijuana dependence.
"Choose your problem. There is no solution. Use of psychoactive drugs is a social problem like a whole lot of other social problems. We manage it. And we may manage it better or worse, but the notion that we solve a problem is simplistic. We're simply managing a problem."
The Inquiry is broadcast on the BBC World Service on Tuesdays from 13:05 GMT. Listen online or download the podcast. | Forty-four years after President Nixon declared "war on drugs", four US states have now agreed to legalise the sale of marijuana and most Americans support legalisation. | 31922609 | [
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Police said they were called to Wingfield Road, Alfreton, at about 03:55 BST on Monday, where the body was discovered.
Detectives said the man had suffered head injuries and has not yet been formally identified.
The road was closed in both directions and police have appealed for people who were in the area between 03:00 and 04:00 to contact them.
Officers also want to hear from anyone who have noticed any damage to a car that could have happened overnight. | A man has been found dead in a road in Derbyshire. | 34106374 | [
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The cases have all been uncovered in the past seven months - an average of two cases per week.
On Tuesday, the police issued a warning after it received "several local reports of cyber-related blackmail".
Recordings of the sex acts were used by blackmailers who threatened to publish the footage online if they did not pay.
The victims were told to transfer money to an account based in west Africa.
Ch Supt George Clarke said women, as well as men, are being deceived into performing sex acts online, which are recorded and later used to try to blackmail them.
Previously it was thought that only men had been targeted.
Organised crime gangs, at home and abroad, are being blamed.
Mr Clarke urged any victims of the crimes to come forward and ring police on the non-emergency 101 number.
He said that although it was difficult to trace and delete the images and recover any money handed over, it was not impossible.
The crimes happened in the Newtownabbey, Carrickfergus and Antrim areas of County Antrim.
The PSNI posted the warning on its Newtownabbey and Carrickfergus Facebook page.
In the statement, Det Sgt Neil Maxwell said: "In the most recent cases men of various ages have been asked to perform or participate in a sexual act online which is recorded and then used to blackmail the individual with threats to upload the material on to social media platforms.
"Some victims have paid money because they have felt embarrassed and this usually involves a Western Union transfer to an account in the Ivory Coast.
"We want anyone who has been the victim of this type of crime to come forward. Do not feel pressurised into paying money as this is unlikely to resolve the issue," the officer added. | Sixty-two men and women from Northern Ireland, who responded to requests to perform sex acts online, have been targeted by blackmailers. | 35364187 | [
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Kemp, who last played Grant Mitchell in 2006, said it would be "a brief return".
"When I was approached about returning to EastEnders for Barbara's final episodes, it was something I could not turn down," he said.
Following her surprise return to Albert Square, Dame Barbara announced her character would be killed off.
Her character reappeared on Friday, having left in 2010, to tell her eldest son Phil, played by Steve McFadden, that her cancer had returned.
After the episode, producers revealed that Peggy would die from the disease in emotional scenes to be screened in the spring.
Now Kemp, who played Grant from 1990-1999 and then again in 2005 and 2006, will return to bring the Mitchell family back together.
"Barbara is a very close friend, so when I learned of the storyline it felt right that the Mitchell brothers are reunited with their mother for the last time," he said.
"I am really looking forward to going back to EastEnders and filming what are set to be some classic EastEnders episodes."
Grant Mitchell has been one of the soap's most memorable characters in its 30-year history, arriving in 1990 along with brother Phil.
He was involved in repeated family dramas including having an affair with his brother's wife, Kathy, and having his brother go on to marry his ex-wife Sharon.
"Grant Mitchell is an EastEnders legend and finally he is returning home to Walford to say goodbye to his mother and be reunited not just with his old loves but also his brother," said EastEnders executive producer Dominic Treadwell-Collins.
"To have the Mitchell brothers come face to face again, having to face losing their mother, is an opportunity to show Ross Kemp and Steve McFadden at their very best." | Ross Kemp is returning to EastEnders as part of a storyline that will see Dame Barbara Windsor exit the soap for good. | 35337082 | [
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24 February 2016 Last updated at 20:49 GMT
Mark Coshever, 39, of Eaton Place, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, admitted "affray" and entering the field of play at the Southend Roots Hall ground earlier this month.
Coshever was given an eight-week sentence, suspended for 12 months.
Southend magistrates also gave him a five-year football banning order.
This means Coshever is not allowed within one mile of Southend four hours before or after any games at Roots Hall. | A football fan, filmed running onto the pitch at the Essex derby between Southend and Colchester, has been given a suspended prison sentence. | 35653069 | [
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The 23-year-old made 116 as Tim Groenewald and Lewis Gregory rattled through the rest of the hosts line-up.
Jennings, who hit 15 fours, finally fell top-edging Josh Davey to gully before Durham were bowled out for 256.
Tom Abell and Davey fell lbw to Rushworth, then Onions bowled Marcus Trescothick as Somerset closed on 30-3.
Durham batsmen Mark Stoneman and Scott Borthwick both fell cheaply as Somerset started brightly before Jack Burnham (33) helped repair the innings in a 79-run third-wicket partnership with Jennings.
Burnham eventually fell when he was bowled by Davey.
Gregory then claimed two wicket in two balls, including uprooting Paul Collingwood's middle stump first ball, as Somerset looked to gain some momentum.
Rushworth became Gregory's fourth victim of the day, departing to an exceptional slip catch from Jim Allenby it left the visitors with 12 overs to face.
And last year's Division One leading wicket-taker struck in his fourth when Abell was trapped playing across the line before nightwatchman Davey was caught out in the next over when the ball nipped back.
Onions' inswinging yorker then dismissed the Somerset captain as the away side limped to the close, trailing by 226 runs. | Keaton Jennings' century and three quick wickets from opening pair Chris Rushworth and Graham Onions gave Durham the edge against Somerset on day one. | 35960530 | [
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He banked more than £1.1m from 18 wins, nine at the highest level - Grade One.
The total included a rare hat-trick of success at all three of the major spring festivals - at Cheltenham, Aintree and Punchestown in 2013.
But more than that, with his ability and striking dark colouring - trainer Nicky Henderson nicknamed him an 'equine James Bond' - Sprinter Sacre gained a vast following amongst the racing public.
That only grew when a heart condition was diagnosed and, though successfully treated, the horse spent nearly two years out of form and written off by many.
It was a year to the day before his retirement was announced at Cheltenham's Open fixture that Sprinter Sacre returned to the big time on the track with an emotional success in the course's Shloer Chase.
He completed what turned out to be his final season unbeaten with further wins at Kempton, at the showpiece Cheltenham Festival - when he regained the Champion Chase crown - and at Sandown, when Henderson believes he was back to his best.
The plan had been for Sprinter Sacre to race three times this season - in Sandown's Tingle Creek Chase in December, in January's Clarence House Chase at Ascot, and in the Champion Chase.
Jockey Barry Geraghty, who rode the horse 17 times, winning on 13 occasions, said the horse was "just unbelievable".
"He's something special and he is to be celebrated," he said.
"I've never sat on a horse over fences like him - he was electric. He was just unbelievable."
Speaking before the Open meeting at Cheltenham got under way on Friday, Henderson acknowledged the vast public affection for Sprinter Sacre.
"We are the curators of this beautiful, very special racehorse," he said.
"It's very humbling to think that he gave, and he gives, so many people in national hunt racing, which is a great big family affair really, so much pleasure."
Later in the day, another Henderson-trained horse Simonsig was put down after breaking a leg during the Shloer Chase.
Henderson added: "Sprinter Sacre's retirement was not a funeral, but a celebration of life, but now we've got the funeral and the tears all of a sudden go the other way.
"It is not fair for the team more than anything."
Cornelius Lysaght, BBC horse racing correspondent
What was it about 'Sprinter' that meant the horse was such a hit?
Obviously, he was utterly brilliant, unbeatable indeed for the first two years of his racing career [2011-2013], and achieving that string of wins with a style that was positively transfixing with its power and jumping flamboyance.
Then the wheels famously fell off when the heart condition was diagnosed, but we know the public loves a sporting patient and kept the faith even when their favourite proved a shadow of his former self.
His return to the top was greeted with cheers and tears, and some of the sport's most emotional times of recent years. He's sure to be a star turn on the racehorse retirement circuit - do they still open supermarkets as Red Rum did? | Sprinter Sacre, the jump racing superstar, has been retired after suffering a tendon injury. | 37967091 | [
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The third death was announced on Monday and five are critically ill in hospital, following the event in Haaksbergen in Overijssel province.
Video footage shows the modified pick-up with outsized tyres driving over a row of cars as part of the show, but then veering off course.
A boy, a man and a woman died.
Besides the five critically injured there are another 18 with lesser injuries, the Haaksbergen mayor's office said.
Helicopters helped ferry the injured to hospitals in three nearby towns.
"A so-called monster truck drove into a crowd of spectators. A terrible accident with two dead victims," town authorities said on their website on Sunday.
Video of the accident posted on social media showed the truck revving hard and then riding over six cars before suddenly heading towards spectators who were separated from the show by metal barriers.
Screaming, some managed to get away but others had no time to escape.
The driver of the truck has been detained and an inquiry has been opened, police said, quoted by local media. | Three people were killed when a "monster truck" ploughed into a crowd of onlookers at an annual motor show in the east of the Netherlands. | 29405190 | [
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Liverpool-bound striker Dominic Solanke picked up Lewis Cook's pass to score the winner shortly after the interval.
England played the last 17 minutes with 10 men after Josh Onomah was sent off.
Freddie Woodman was required to make key saves late on as Paul Simpson's side held on to reach the semi-finals for the first time in 24 years.
Italy beat Zambia 3-2 after extra time and will face England in Jeonju on Thursday.
The other semi-final sees Uruguay take on Venezuela.
After a goalless first half, Bournemouth midfielder Cook split the Mexico defence with an exquisite ball from deep that Solanke, who will join Liverpool from Chelsea next month, ran on to before firing past Abraham Romero.
England also saw a goal-bound deflection cleared off the line and Onomah hit the post before the Tottenham midfielder was dismissed in contentious circumstances.
The 20-year-old appeared to make accidental contact with Juan Aguayo as he ran past his marker but was shown a second yellow card that rules him out of the Italy game.
England Under-20s last reached the final four of this competition in 1993, when a squad featuring Nicky Butt and Nick Barmby lost to Ghana in the semis before beating Australia to finish in third place.
BBC sports editor Dan Roan
These are encouraging times for English youth football. Last season, the Under-21s won the Toulon tournament for the first time in 22 years. Last month the Under-17s reached the final of the European Championships.
The U20s have now done something no England team has managed since 1993.
In fact, England failed to qualify for five of the last 11 Under-20 World Cups, and did not win a game in the other six.
The FA believes this current success is testament to the continuity and technical support representative teams receive at the National Football Centre at St George's Park, and improved trust with clubs over the release of young players.
But with the top clubs awash with TV money and increasingly able to buy proven foreign talent, the concern will be that the path to first-team football for home-grown youngsters is harder than ever. | England will face Italy in the semi-finals of the Under-20 World Cup in South Korea after a 1-0 victory over Mexico in Cheonan. | 40158561 | [
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The conference, organised by Mankind Initiative and held at the Keepmoat Stadium, was chaired by former abuse victim Ian McNicholl.
His ex-girlfriend is serving a seven year prison sentence for GBH and assault.
Mankind Initiative said men too often are "too ashamed" to report abuse.
Mr McNicholl, 52, from East Yorkshire, said: "Far too many men feel they're to blame, they're weak and they're alone often because they do not think there is support for them.
"We aim to change that so no man suffers in silence and realise they can escape and rebuild their lives."
Mankind Initiative said male domestic abuse figures are particularly high in South Yorkshire.
In the last three years, police received 19,459 calls from men but the charity said the real figures are likely to be higher because of under-reporting by men.
Mr McNicholl, who was in an abusive relationship for 18 months, said:
"By the time I was rescued by police I had a fractured skull, multiple fractures to my cheekbone, I've had the septum on my nose replaced, I have a scar from an assault with a steam iron.
"It almost took my life. She told me in her last assault she was going to kill me. I was also on the point of suicide."
He said he did not report it earlier because he feared for his life and was "emotionally and physically ground-down".
130 delegates from around the country attended the conference.
Mankind Initiative said men often do not report abuse because they feel "embarrassed", feel it "undermines their identity as a man" and "fear they won't be believed." | One in five domestic violence victims in Yorkshire are men, according to a charity holding a conference in Doncaster. | 34859242 | [
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A group of about 400 people, made up of the 15-year-old's friends, relatives and neighbours, took part in the Wear Pink for Paige walk on Saturday.
The walkers stopped at the spot in Clydebank where Paige's body was found and a single balloon was released.
John Leathem, 31, has appeared in court charged with murdering Paige.
He was fully committed for trial at Dumbarton Sheriff Court on Friday. He made no plea or declaration and was returned to custody.
Paige's body was found in a wooded area just off Great Western Road in Clydebank at lunchtime on 21 March.
The teenager was last seen near a deli in the town before setting off for her part-time hairdressing job.
Hundreds of people gathered for a memorial event a Clydebank park on Saturday 26 March.
The Titan Crane in Clydebank was also illuminated pink in memory of the teenager. | Hundreds of people have paid their respects to schoolgirl Paige Doherty by walking through the streets of her home town wearing pink. | 35953899 | [
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This baby can survive a 1400 revolutions per minute spin in the washing machine. You could say it makes for easy laundering.
The Bank of England says it is cleaner and more secure than the cotton paper notes which have been used for the past 100 years.
But we're a conservative lot in Northern Ireland: Perhaps we like our lucre filthy.
For people in Northern Ireland, plastic fivers are nothing new. To celebrate the Millennium, the old Northern Bank (now Danske) introduced the slippery clean fiver to local pockets in 2000. Two million of the notes were issued in October 1999.
It did not fold quite the same into the back trouser pocket. But then again, neither did it attract the dirt from fingers fumbling in a greasy till or handbag to quite the same degree.
That was more than 16 years ago, and the trusty paper notes are still going strong. If you get a polymer note these days in Belfast, look up and you might see a pig soar past city hall.
In 2005, the Northern Bank reprinted all of its bank notes shortly after £26.5m was stolen from its head office by the IRA.
The plastic fiver was the only type of note not replaced.
Paul Black from Danske Bank said that when the plastic fiver was introduced, it meant Northern Bank was "away ahead of its time."
"We wanted to be innovative and be first on the market. Over time that was eroded a little, because other banks did not follow. At the time it was quite popular," he said.
"It did create a real buzz. People found it unusual. They compared it to monopoly money."
Down the backs of which sofas do the lost plastic fivers reside?
Who knows? But on a well-known internet auction site one seller is asking for £125 for the plastic note.
The governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, said the new note would be cleaner, safer and stronger.
"The use of polymer means it can better withstand being repeatedly folded into wallets or scrunched up inside pockets, and can also survive a spin in the washing machine," he said.
While the notes are not indestructible, they are expected to last an average of five years compared to the current fiver's two years.
New security features - such as a transparent window - will make the note harder to counterfeit. | It's a big day for plastic money in England and Wales: The new £5 polymer note has been released by the Bank of England. | 37350386 | [
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The "bemusement park" at a derelict seaside lido in Weston-super-Mare attracted thousands of visitors when it opened last summer.
Other awards nominees include electronica band Years and Years and the BBC Two adaptation of Wolf Hall.
The winners will be announced at a ceremony, hosted by Lord Melvyn Bragg, at London's Savoy Hotel on 5 June.
Now celebrating their 20th anniversary, the awards honour "the very best of British culture and achievement".
Banksy competes in the visual art category against Cornelia Parker for Magna Carta (An Embroidery) at The British Library and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: Verses After Dusk at the Serpentine Gallery.
Historical drama Wolf Hall is joined in the TV drama category alongside Channel 4's Humans and Doctor Foster (BBC One).
In the pop category, Benjamin Clementine, Years and Years, and Sleaford Mods go head to head.
The film category features Ex Machina, 45 Years and Brooklyn, while the theatre contenders are Oresteia, People, Places and Things and Hangmen.
Lord Bragg said the South Bank Sky Arts Awards were a "freeze-frame on a unique moment in British cultural history".
He added: "This is the 20th of these annual awards and a ripple through the records shows an extraordinary tapestry of talent, ever-changing but always the same in its high quality."
2016 FULL LIST OF NOMINEES | Elusive artist Banksy has landed a South Bank Sky Arts Award nomination for his Dismaland theme park. | 36191055 | [
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The Duke of Rothesay laid a wreath on a visit to a new memorial cairn built by the community of Cabrach in Moray.
The cairn commemorates the farming community and neighbouring parishes at Rhynie, Lumsden and Dufftown.
The Imperial War Museum suggests that, between battle and disease, the number of war dead could be several hundred.
Along with those officially acknowledged "lost in battle" are the many who died from disease in France and Belgium. It is thought that coming from such a remote rural area, they had little resistance.
A recent BBC TV programme, examining the effects of World War One on rural Scotland, quoted an eminent Dutch historian speaking on behalf of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, who referred to the ruined crofts and farm buildings of the Cabrach as representing "perhaps the biggest War Memorial in Europe".
Charles, wearing a Gordon Highlanders kilt, took part in a short service with local residents, followed by a minute's silence.
He then laid a wreath which said: "In special memory of those from the Cabrach, and the parishes of Rhynie, Lumsden and Dufftown who lost their lives during the First World War."
The prince chatted to locals, including Royal Observer Corps veteran John Gordon, 88, who laid a wreath on behalf of the community. His family has farmed in the Cabrach area for more than 300 years.
The memorial project was led by Marc Ellington, a leading authority on Scottish cultural heritage, who said: "Each and every aspect of the construction of the cairn has involved members, both young and old, of the Cabrach Community working closely with master craftsman Euan Thompson, a specialist in traditional dry stone construction.
"As well as being one of the finest memorial cairns to be built in Scotland in recent years, this is an outstanding example of what a local community, working together with energy and determination, can achieve." | Prince Charles has joined tributes to a Scottish community whose loss of lives in World War One may have been greater than previously thought. | 34034324 | [
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Commuters posted pictures of themselves wading through water outside New Malden station on Thursday evening.
Thames Water said the flooding was caused by a burst water main on Coombe Road. It apologised to customers but said it could not estimate how many people were affected.
Police and London Fire Brigade attended the scene, while trains were not stopping at the station.
A Thames Water spokesman said: "We are sorry to anyone affected by the flooding in the New Malden area and to any customers who may be experiencing low pressure or no water.
"Our engineers are on site and are working to isolate the burst pipe and stop the leak." | A burst water main has caused flooding outside a south-west London station. | 33193774 | [
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The advert for its invisible deodorant range said "white is purity" across an image of a woman.
It was posted on the firm's Facebook page, geographically aimed at its followers in the Middle East. Nivea accepted the post was "misleading".
Many on social media complained the post was racist, but it was also widely-shared among alt-right users.
The advert on the Nivea Facebook page (since deleted) was posted alongside the caption: "Keep it clean, keep it bright. Don't let anything ruin it."
The post was directed at its audience in the Middle East, although the company has 19 million fans globally on its page.
Many on social media complained about the post's racist connotations.
But it was also picked up by alt-right social media accounts who trolled the Nivea account with comments, including of Hitler and Pepe the frog, who was branded a hate symbol last year.
One alt-right account said: "#Nivea: the official moisturizer/anti-perspirant of the #AltRight."
A spokesperson for Nivea's owners Beiersdorf said: "There have been concerns risen about ethnic discrimination due to a post about NIVEA Deodorant Invisible for Black & White on our NIVEA Middle East Facebook page.
"We are deeply sorry to anyone who may take offense to this specific post. After realizing that the post is misleading, it was immediately withdrawn.
"Diversity and equal opportunity are crucial values of NIVEA: The brand represents diversity, tolerance, and equal opportunity.
"We value difference. Direct or indirect discrimination must be ruled out in all decisions by, and in all areas of our activities." | German skincare brand Nivea has apologised and removed an advert that was deemed discriminatory. | 39489967 | [
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Three people were left seriously injured in the incident on Marine Drive, Rhos-on-Sea, Conwy county, at about 14:25 GMT on Wednesday.
A black Citroen came off the promenade, down a grassy slope and through iron railings before rolling on to rocks.
Two adults and a teenager, all believed to be women, were taken to hospital.
An adult and teenager were airlifted to Ysbyty Gwynedd in Bangor, Gwynedd, while a second adult was taken by ambulance to Glan Clwyd Hospital, Bodelwyddan, Denbighshire. | A woman has been arrested on suspicion of dangerous driving after a car crashed through a seafront barrier and fell on to rocks. | 34658452 | [
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North Wales Chief Constable Mark Polin said the police were likely to "bear the brunt" of further cuts to the Home Office budget by 2020.
Dyfed-Powys Commissioner Christopher Salmon has urged ministers to take rural needs into account when changing the police funding formula.
The Home Office has said no decisions have been taken beyond this year.
Mr Polin sent an email to North Wales force employees responding to a UK government statement that by 2020 the Home Office would have only half of the funds it had in 2010.
He said: "The police service represents the largest slice of the Home Office budget and therefore it is a realistic assumption that we will bear the brunt of any such reduction.
"Indeed, a further cut of between 25% and 40% is being suggested and you won't need me to tell you how this would represent a significant challenge for us (and other forces) to achieve in addition to that we have already saved and plan to save."
North Wales Police and Crime Commissioner Winston Roddick said the force had achieved "tremendous success during a time of great challenge".
"Further cuts are inevitable and will put greater pressure on staff and resources," he added.
Meanwhile his Dyfed-Powys counterpart Christopher Salmon - supported by three of the region's Conservative MPs - called for "fair funding" for rural areas in the current consultation over changes to the Police Allocation Formula, which the Home Office says needs updating.
In a letter to ministers, Mr Salmon and the MPs - Chris Davies, Glyn Davies and Simon Hart - claimed the new formula would favour heavily-populated urban centres and make little allowance for the extra costs associated with policing rural areas.
"We urge, on behalf of the people of Dyfed-Powys, that the government recognises the limitations of urban-based statistics in describing rural areas," the letter said.
"We also urge that the government does not neglect the additional cost of providing services to those areas, from additional fuel costs to the additional infrastructure required to maintain a reasonable emergency response." | Senior figures at two Welsh police forces have raised fears about their funding in the coming years. | 34173731 | [
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The news comes as a major boost to Britain's technology sector.
Sundar Pichai, the chief executive of Google, told the BBC that the UK was still an attractive place to do business.
He said open borders and free movement for skilled migrants were "absolutely" important to the success of the technology sector in the UK.
It was Mr Pichai's first European broadcast interview since he became chief executive last year.
Sources at the technology company also said if barriers were thrown up to skilled immigration following the vote to leave the European Union, some of Google's investment could be at risk.
Turning to the "fake news" controversy in America - and choosing his words very carefully - Mr Pichai said that, at the margin, false stories about Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton could have affected the outcome of the US election as the margins were "very narrow".
And that it was important that companies like Google and other social media businesses promoted "accurate" stories to their billions of users.
Although Google refused to be drawn on the cost of the UK investment, development experts said the new building in King's Cross and the cost of employing thousands more staff was likely to put the figure at over £1bn.
At present, Google employs around 4,000 people in the UK, a figure that could now rise to 7,000.
The office space owned by Google in King's Cross will more than double.
"The UK has been a tremendous market for us," Mr Pichai told me.
"We see big opportunities here. This is a big commitment from us - we have some of the best talent in the world in the UK and to be able to build great products from here sets us up well for the long term."
The new 650,000 sq-ft headquarters has been designed by Thomas Heatherwick, the designer behind the "garden bridge" across the Thames.
He was brought in by Google after its founders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, rejected initial designs for a new headquarters as "too boring" in 2013. Danish architects Bjarke Ingels Group are also involved in the project.
Many companies raised fears before the referendum that if Britain voted to leave the European Union, foreign investment would be affected.
Questions were raised over whether Google would commit to the new building.
But Mr Pichai made it clear the strength of the UK economy went far beyond the Brexit vote.
"The innovation we see here, the talent we have available here and how on the cutting edge of technology we are able to be here makes it an incredible place for us to invest," he said.
"We do value how open and connected it is and we can bring in talent from anywhere in the world and we value those attributes and we are optimistic that those will stay true over time.
"So we did [make the investment decision] taking into consideration [the referendum], but we are very optimistic."
He said Brexit may have complicated "secondary effects" over the longer term but it was too early to say what they may be.
I asked Mr Pichai what the government's approach should be to immigration controls.
"I want to be respectful," he answered.
"These are important questions for the citizens of the UK to answer.
"I think there are thoughtful debates to be had.
"In our experience as a company, when we have been able to bring people together and operate in an open and connected way it achieves tremendous impact over time.
"Those are the values we cherish, and we have been open and public about how we think about these things.
"When I look at London [I see] a place in which we are able to attract great talent, find great talent in the UK, thanks to a great educational system here, but it has also been a place where people are willing to come from anywhere in the world.
"Increasingly, for the kinds of complex things we do, we need to bring people who are across many disciplines - with many different backgrounds - together to solve problems. That's how you can build newer things, so that is particularly important for us."
He said that he would "worry" if controls on skilled migration were made more stringent.
Turning to events in America and the election of Donald Trump, Mr Pichai said it was clear the country was "deeply divided".
"I come from India, I am used to a vibrant democracy, and it is the same in the United States.
"It is important to remember that we had a democratic process and there has been an outcome.
"As you can see the country is deeply divided so I tend to look forward and I think we need to figure out how to constructively engage with the new administration and hear the voices of people, as at Google we care about certain values - be it freedom of expression, the notion of inclusion and fairness, building open systems, building a connected world.
"But it is also important to acknowledge that there are people, through a process like this, who feel left behind, and I am glad the democratic process gives voices to everyone."
I asked him if the atmosphere in America had become nastier during the campaign and in its aftermath.
"The rhetoric, for sure, did bother me, as it did many people during the election but I am hopeful there are a lot of founding principles - what makes the US the country it is - and I hope post the campaign season, as we move back into a governing phase, I think people will come together and we have a lot of important problems to work through."
Following the presidential election, Facebook and Google have faced protests over the dissemination of "fake news", with their computer systems often promoting stories about Mr Trump and Hillary Clinton that were false.
Some have even suggested that the stories may have affected the way people voted, and ultimately, the outcome of the vote, an argument dismissed by Mark Zuckerberg as "pretty crazy".
In his interview with me, Mr Pichai was more circumspect, saying that social media companies needed to do more to promote accurate stories.
"This is very important to us," he said.
"At Google we have always cared about bringing the most relevant, the most accurate results to users and that is where almost all of our work goes at the end of the day.
"It is important to remember that we get billions of queries every day.
"There have been a couple of incidences where it has been pointed out and we didn't get it right.
"And so it is a learning moment for us and we will definitely work to fix it.
"Just in the last two days we announced that we will remove advertising from anything we identify as fake-news.
"Over the last year we have looked at things like how do we fact check articles, the notion of trusted sources in journalism - how do we promote those better.
"So there are a lot of initiatives we are undertaking so hopefully all of that will help us do it even better."
I asked Mr Pichai whether he believed fake news could have affected the outcome of the election.
"I think there is a lot of discussion about this in the context of social media.
"I am not fully sure.
"Look, it is important to remember this was a very close election and so, just for me, so looking at it scientifically, one in a hundred voters voting one way or the other swings the election either way.
"So, when you talk about such narrow margins, obviously there are many, many contributing factors and so I think there is enormous debate because of that - I am not fully sure what caused this."
Given those tight margins, I asked, could fake news have affected some people's vote - and maybe enough people's vote to affect the outcome.
"Sure," he answered after a pause.
"You know, I think fake news as a whole could be an issue.
"From our perspective, there should just be no situation where fake news gets distributed, so we are all for doing better here.
"So, I don't think we should debate it as much as work hard to make sure we drive news to its more trusted sources, have more fact checking and make our algorithms work better, absolutely."
Mr Pichai said it was too early to say whether Google would change its corporate tax structure if Mr Trump followed through with his campaign pledge to cut American business taxes.
With business tax rates currently above 30%, many global companies like Google shelter a substantial proportion of the profits they make in offshore tax jurisdictions.
"We have always said that the US corporate tax structure is part of the problem in the overall corporate structure globally for multi-nationals," Mr Pichai said.
"To the extent that there is progress there I think it will help us arrive at a better construct but the solution needs to be comprehensive and needs to work for all companies involved."
I asked the Google chief executive about the controversies the company has faced over the payment of taxes and over accusations it has used its market dominance to crush opposition businesses.
"As a company, we want to be a good citizen in every market we are in and that is true for the UK as well," he said.
"To your question on tax - today, we contribute a lot to the UK economy and we enable for example small businesses to be the engine of any economy.
"We are happy to pay our fair share of tax.
"As you know tax is a global construct. We are a multi-national company in well over 100 countries and we have advocated comprehensive tax reform so we can engage and get to a better place.
"But I think it is important to remember that we are one company in a global system and it is more important for governments and citizens to sort out the right structure and we are always happy to engage in a thoughtful and constructive manner."
On criticisms from competitors and in Brussels that Google has acted anti-competitively, Mr Pichai said "there has never been a day at Google where we have had a construct like that".
He said the company developed technology that was shareable and focused on what consumers wanted. | Google is to open a new headquarters building in London which could see 3,000 new jobs created by 2020. | 37988095 | [
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The shows will be filmed in early June at Westminster's Central Hall, around 18 miles from where the actor, TV host and Hillingdon native was born in 1978.
"To bring The Late Late Show to the UK is a dream come true for me," said the 38-year-old, who now has to make do with a five-storey property in Malibu.
"We're going to do our best to make this week in London memorable."
The three episodes will air on 7, 8 and 9 June on Sky 1 and will also be available on Now TV.
In a video posted on YouTube, Corden and his bandleader Reggie Watts can be seen packing up his show's Los Angeles set.
Watts ruefully assumes the show has been cancelled, only to learn it's merely heading across the Atlantic.
Corden has been a big hit in the US since taking over the late-night talk show slot on the CBS network in 2015.
His Carpool Karaoke segments, which have seen him pootling around La La Land with such luminaries as Beyonce, Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber, have proved a particular viewers' favourite.
Sky 1's Adam MacDonald said he was "beyond excited" to see "what he and The Late Late Show gang have in store for us".
Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email [email protected]. | James Corden has had a capital idea - to film three episodes of his late night US talk show on home turf. | 39494591 | [
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Ddydd Mawrth, pleidleisiodd pum aelod o'r cabinet o blaid cau'r ffrwd Gymraeg, gyda dau yn erbyn, ac un yn ymatal.
Mae rhieni yn yr ardal wedi codi pryderon am effaith posib y newidiadau, gyda sawl un yn cwestiynu beth fydd dyfodol addysg cyfrwng Cymraeg o fewn y dref.
Roedd y cyngor yn dweud bod cwymp yn nifer y disgyblion oedd yn astudio drwy'r Gymraeg yn y blynyddoedd diwethaf.
Mewn cyfarfod llawn o Gyngor Powys yr wythnos ddiwethaf, roedd yna gefnogaeth i gadw'r ffrwd Gymraeg yn Aberhonddu.
Ond yn ôl y cyngor mae niferoedd y disgyblion sy'n astudio trwy'r Gymraeg yn yr ysgol "wedi gostwng yn sylweddol dros y degawd diwethaf".
19 o ddisgyblion sy'n astudio trwy gyfrwng y Gymraeg yn Ysgol Uwchradd Aberhonddu ar hyn o bryd. Y pynciau sy'n cael eu cynnig yw Gwyddoniaeth, Hanes, Daearyddiaeth, Astudiaethau Crefyddol, Ffrangeg a Thechnoleg Gwybodaeth a Chyfathrebu.
Cyn y bleidlais, dywedodd yr aelod cabinet sydd â chyfrifoldeb dros addysg, Arwel Jones, bod "y disgyblion sydd yno ar hyn o bryd yn debygol o gael gwell addysg mewn ysgol ddwyieithog newydd yn Llanfair-ym-Muallt".
"Mae 'na fwy o gostau teithio yn mynd i fod," meddai, "ond dydi o ddim i gyd i lawr i arian, addysg y plant sy'n bwysig."
Mae rhieni yn poeni bod colli'r ffrwd Gymraeg yn Ysgol Uwchradd Aberhonddu yn peryglu addysg cyfrwng Cymraeg yn Ysgol Gynradd y Bannau.
Dywedodd Angharad Woodland, sy'n rhiant ac yn llywodraethwr yn Ysgol y Bannau: "Mae hyn yn mynd i gael effaith ofnadwy ar y Gymraeg yn Aberhonddu."
"Mae rhieni yn sôn yn barod am symud eu plant o'r ysgol gynradd.
"Y teimlad sydd wedi bod yn y dref dros y blynyddoedd diwethaf yw bod y Gymraeg yn dod yn ei flaen yn dda iawn, ond mae pobl wedi colli diddordeb oherwydd y penderfyniad yma.
"Mae'r iaith yn mynd i ddiflannu o Aberhonddu dros nos heb yr ysgolion yma." | Mae cabinet Cyngor Sir Powys wedi pleidleisio o blaid cynllun i gau'r ffrwd Gymraeg yn Ysgol Uwchradd Aberhonddu. | 39260481 | [
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The BBC Two production comes from the same team as the award-winning Hollow Crown series and will be directed by Dominic Cooke.
Cumberbatch said he "can't wait... to bring this complex, funny and dangerous character to life for the BBC".
His Sherlock co-star Martin Freeman will play the same role in London's West End later this year.
Freeman, who plays Dr John Watson in the BBC One drama, will take to the stage at Trafalgar Studios in the play, directed by Jamie Lloyd, .
Lloyd directed the theatre's production of Macbeth last year, starring James McAvoy.
BBC Two's new adaptation of the Shakespeare play will also mark the TV debut of director Cooke - a former artistic director of the Royal Court theatre.
Executive producer, Pippa Harris, said: "Neal Street Productions worked with Benedict on both Stuart: A Life Backwards for the BBC and the film Starter For Ten. His range and dexterity as an actor make him the perfect choice to bring one of Shakespeare's towering characters to television."
Ben Stephenson, the controller BBC Drama, described Cumberbatch as "one of the world's most brilliant and in-demand actors".
The 37-year-old will also star in William Shakespeare's classic tragedy Hamlet at London's Barbican Theatre in August next year. | Sherlock star Benedict Cumberbatch will play Richard III in the BBC's second series of Shakespeare's History plays. | 26920159 | [
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The former five-weight world champion submitted a necessary waiver to the Nevada Athletic Commission (NAC) on Wednesday, hours before the deadline.
The NAC, which sanctioned the bout, told BBC Sport it expected to receive a request from McGregor on Wednesday.
NAC rules state fights at 154 lbs require 10oz gloves and the matter will now be debated on 16 August.
Lighter gloves offer less cushioning for the hands but theoretically lead to punches being more punishing.
Last week Mayweather posted an Instagram message stating: "I'll be wearing 8oz Grant gloves."
But the undefeated fighter - who will come out of retirement for the bout - had not submitted a necessary waiver document at that stage. Instead, his team had asked the authorities what the process of using lighter gloves entailed.
At the time, NAC executive director Bob Bennett told BBC Sport he had never seen a move to 8oz gloves at 154lbs before.
Rules state that 10oz gloves are used from 135lbs upwards but bouts between 135lbs and 147lbs can use 8oz gloves if waivers are signed and the NAC feels the move is justified.
"Even if they are both in agreement, our number one policy is the health and safety of the fighters," said Bennett. "To deviate from our regulations at a difference of 7lbs would be for the chairman and commissioners to determine."
During his UFC career, McGregor has used 4oz gloves and he welcomed Mayweather's Instagram post last week, stating: "I am coming sprinting at you with bricks. Know that. Brittle hands."
The NAC will debate the matter publicly before announcing its decision.
McGregor, 29, will make his boxing debut in what could be the richest fight in history. The UFC lightweight champion's move from the octagon to the ring to face Mayweather, 40, has prompted criticism from major boxing personalities such as Oscar De La Hoya and Gennady Golovkin.
But Bennett says he studied a "litany of information" on the Irishman before telling his chairman there were "several reasons to approve the fight".
Bennett said that McGregor's UFC rival Nate Diaz played a role in him forming his opinion.
"I spoke to Virgil Hunter, who trains many top fighters and has worked with the likes of Andre Ward," said Bennett. "He used Nate Diaz a dozen times for sparring and said he rated him as an outstanding boxer.
"Then you put Nate in the ring with Conor and Conor knocks him down with several shots. Add in that Conor has a granite-like chin, add in that he's 12 years younger than Floyd, and add in that he's taller and longer.
"Floyd is probably one of the smartest fighters, he has the art of getting in getting shots and getting out. But he hasn't knocked anyone out in 10 years. Ricky Hatton was probably the last one in 2007 because when he KO'd Victor Ortiz in 2010, he wasn't defending himself.
"That in essence is it. There were several reasons to approve this fight."
McGregor floored Diaz three times on his way to a points win in August 2016, avenging a defeat via submission five months earlier.
Since sanctioning the fight, Bennett has had access to three videos showing McGregor's progress and told BBC Sport: "He's good to go."
He also advised McGregor's camp to employ a boxing referee in order to feel comfortable with the rules, advice which led to the hiring of Hall of Fame official Joe Cortez, 73.
Cortez said he oversaw an "out of control" sparring session between McGregor and Paulie Malignaggi. The former two-weight world champion has since left the camp after reacting angrily to images of him on the canvas during a sparring session. | Floyd Mayweather has formally requested to use 8oz gloves when he fights Conor McGregor in Las Vegas on 26 August. | 40883148 | [
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Daniel Jason Shepherd, 23, from Skewen, Neath Port Talbot, pleaded not guilty to the manslaughter of Jonathon Robert Thomas, 34, who died following an incident on Princess Way in November.
Mr Thomas played for Swansea RFC along with his brother, Nicky.
At a hearing at Swansea Crown Court, Mr Shepherd was bailed to appear for trial on 16 May. | A man will go on trial charged with the manslaughter of a rugby player in Swansea. | 35347398 | [
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Dr Adesina said providing millions of farmers with seeds and fertilisers was vital to boost development.
He added that 98% of the world's 800 million undernourished people live in Africa.
Since 1986, the World Food Prize aims to recognise efforts to increase the quality and quantity of available food.
Dr Adesina told BBC News that he was "very humbled" to win the award.
"For me, the award is not just about recognition for me, it is also about putting the wind behind the sails of what still needs to be done in African agriculture," he said.
He added that the critical issue that needed to be addressed was that the level of productivity of the African agricultural sector was "so, so low".
"One of the things that I have worked on was how to accelerate our efforts," he observed.
"You know, you can find Coca-Cola or Pepsi anywhere in rural Africa, so why can't you find seeds or why can you not find fertilisers?
"It is because the model that was used to distribute those farm inputs were old models based on government distribution systems, which are very, very inefficient.
"So I thought the best way to do that is to support rural entrepreneurs to have their own small shops to sell seeds and fertilisers to farmers.
"We started these agro-dealer networks and they spread over Africa. It brought farm inputs closer to farmers and it encouraged the private sector into the rural space."
The World Food Prize was founded in 1986 by Dr. Norman E Borlaug, recipient of the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize.
Dr Adesina will receive the US $250,000 prize at the Borlaug Dialogue international symposium, which is held in the US to "help further the discussion on cutting-edge global food security issues and inspire the next generation to end hunger".
President of the World Food Prize Foundation, former US ambassador Kenneth Quinn, said the judging panel hoped awarding Dr Adesia this year's prize would help provide "further impetus to his profound vision for enhancing nutrition, uplifting smallholder farmers, and inspiring the next generation of Africans as they confront the challenges of the 21st century".
Considering what work still need to be done, Dr Adesina told BBC News: " I am really somebody who came out of poverty myself, and poverty is not pretty.
"I know that in order to create opportunities for the several tens of millions of young people in rural Africa today we have to make agriculture a business.
"For me it's not a job. It's my mission." | African Development Bank president Akinwumi Adesina has won the prestigious World Food Prize for his work to boost yields and farm incomes. | 40374294 | [
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The Latvia international, 24, made just three appearances in all competitions last season for the Royals in an injury-affected campaign.
He could make his competitive debut for Lech in their Europa League qualifier against Macedonian club Pelister on Thursday.
Rakels joined Reading in January 2016 from Polish club Cracovia.
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The chain says it will commit to paying 28p per litre for 100% of its liquid milk throughout its entire range.
It is less than the 30-32p farmers estimate it costs to produce each litre but the farming union welcomed it.
Asda's announcement comes after protests by dairy farmers at branches of Asda, Morrisons, Lidl and Aldi over the price they are paid for their milk.
The National Farmers' Union (NFU) said it was pleased Asda had recognised the "plight of the dairy industry" in its "hour of need".
The industry says a reduction in global demand for milk has led to an over-supply in the UK, creating difficult conditions for many dairy farmers.
Asda said it would increase the price it paid per litre to its milk supplier Arla from Monday, with the intention that it be passed directly on to farmers.
"Asda's origins are in dairy farming which is why we are acting in the best interests of our farmers and our customers by increasing the price we pay, introducing the Farmer's Marque label and not passing on any of the costs to customers - our retail price stays the same," he said.
It is not yet clear whether Arla, Britain's biggest milk co-operative, will pass on the increase in price to farmers.
Meurig Raymond, NFU president, urged Arla to ensure it passed the extra payment on "with immediate effect".
Asda previously announced a price cut of 0.8p per litre - taking the standard litre price to 23.01p for its UK members.
On Tuesday, Morrisons said it was launching a new milk brand which will see 10p per litre extra paid to farmers.
The Milk for Farmers brand, to be launched in October, means a four pint bottle (2.27 litres), which now sells for 89p, will cost an extra 23p.
The four main farming unions - the NFU, the NFU Cymru, NFU Scotland and the Ulster Farmers Union - held an emergency summit on Monday to develop an action plan to tackle falling milk, lamb and arable prices.
There have been days of protests by farmers including milk trolley challenges, blockades at distribution centres and even bringing cattle into supermarkets.
The average price paid to dairy farmers for milk across the UK is 23.66p - following a drop of 25% in a year.
The NFU said that currently Waitrose, Marks & Spencer, Tesco, Sainsbury's and the Co-op have arrangements where a farmer is paid a price above the cost of production for milk. Asda, Lidl and Aldi currently do not offer such deals to farmers.
Why is the milk row happening?
NI agriculture minister seeks EU lobby support
Welsh farming leader suggests cow cull | Asda is to increase the price it pays its milk supplier to "a level that will assist" farmers, the supermarket says. | 33915371 | [
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Charlie Austin put the home side ahead with a penalty after Shane Long was fouled by Martin Kelly's challenge.
Saints deservedly doubled their lead through midfielder Jake Hesketh's first goal for the club just after the hour.
Connor Wickham had Palace's best chance but failed to latch on to a loose back header from Jose Fonte inside the box.
Austin's fourth goal in the space of six days and three games gave Claude Puel's Southampton a deserved lead after half an hour.
Palace lost captain Scott Dann early on to a suspected hamstring injury and it was his replacement Kelly who was at fault in the build-up to the opening goal.
The central defender failed to control the ball with his chest and as it ran away from him Long gave chase and was tripped inside the box.
Long almost netted a goal of his own in the closing stages of the first half when he rounded Palace goalkeeper Wayne Hennessey, but his finish lacked power and allowed Damien Delaney to clear off the line.
Saints' continued pressure in the second half finally told as they doubled their lead through 20-year-old Hesketh.
Long drove into the box and when his shot was saved by Hennessey the rebound broke to Hesketh, who calmly swept a left-footed finish into the bottom corner.
Southampton midfielder Jake Hesketh told BBC Radio Solent:
"First and foremost we're through in the cup, but to score a (first senior) goal was perfect for me.
"It's a bit of a whirlwind really. It's come back to me nicely and then I've just run off.
"In my head I'm thinking, 'what am I doing here?' as I wasn't sure whether or not to celebrate with a knee-slide. But, it was brilliant.
"It's really nice and you feel really appreciated by the fans and to get a goal for them, I'm really happy.
"Training with the lads day-in, day-out is really beneficial. You try to take everything on board and take it into situations like tonight."
Crystal Palace manager Alan Pardew:
"Shane Long is quick and has got a bit of history in those situations. He was definitely going over, I know that, but the video I saw was inconclusive.
"The players felt it (the penalty) was a bit harsh but it was difficult to see unless you see it clearly on television.
"The best team won for sure. They were very sharp. Their passing and movement caused us problems.
"It is always a risk when you make a lot of changes and we had one or two players that looked a bit rusty. We didn't have enough imagination to find a route to goal."
Match ends, Southampton 2, Crystal Palace 0.
Second Half ends, Southampton 2, Crystal Palace 0.
Offside, Crystal Palace. Joel Ward tries a through ball, but Christian Benteke is caught offside.
Corner, Southampton. Conceded by Wayne Hennessey.
Attempt saved. Nathan Redmond (Southampton) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Matt Targett.
Christian Benteke (Crystal Palace) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by José Fonte (Southampton).
Foul by Joel Ward (Crystal Palace).
Jordy Clasie (Southampton) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Southampton. Dusan Tadic replaces Shane Long.
Wilfried Zaha (Crystal Palace) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Harrison Reed (Southampton).
Yohan Cabaye (Crystal Palace) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Yohan Cabaye (Crystal Palace).
Nathan Redmond (Southampton) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Yohan Cabaye (Crystal Palace) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left.
Attempt saved. Christian Benteke (Crystal Palace) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Wilfried Zaha with a cross.
Lee Chung-yong (Crystal Palace) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Shane Long (Southampton).
Matt Targett (Southampton) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Wilfried Zaha (Crystal Palace) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Matt Targett (Southampton).
Substitution, Southampton. Pierre-Emile Højbjerg replaces Jake Hesketh.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Maya Yoshida (Southampton) because of an injury.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Substitution, Crystal Palace. Jason Puncheon replaces Jordon Mutch.
Delay in match José Fonte (Southampton) because of an injury.
Yohan Cabaye (Crystal Palace) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by James Ward-Prowse (Southampton).
Attempt saved. Jake Hesketh (Southampton) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Nathan Redmond.
Substitution, Crystal Palace. Christian Benteke replaces Bakary Sako.
Goal! Southampton 2, Crystal Palace 0. Jake Hesketh (Southampton) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the top right corner.
Attempt saved. Shane Long (Southampton) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by James Ward-Prowse.
Attempt missed. Matt Targett (Southampton) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right following a corner.
Corner, Southampton. Conceded by Damien Delaney.
Connor Wickham (Crystal Palace) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Maya Yoshida (Southampton).
Substitution, Southampton. Nathan Redmond replaces Charlie Austin.
Jordon Mutch (Crystal Palace) wins a free kick in the defensive half. | Southampton made light work of Crystal Palace in their all-Premier League tie, with a goal in either half sending Saints into the EFL Cup fourth round. | 37357875 | [
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The 58-year-old, who drew his first game in management with Bournemouth in 1992 on a plastic pitch at Preston, admits that a return to Stoke "could not have been scripted better".
"Players live a different life now," he said. "In a world where they get everything, they've become film stars."
Pulis managed the Potters for 464 matches over two spells and comes up against his old side with them bottom of the early Premier League table.
But the Welshman - who has also managed Crystal Palace in the Premier League - expects current Stoke boss Mark Hughes to steer his side away from trouble.
"You couldn't have scripted it better to be honest, the fact that I'm going back to Stoke," Pulis said.
"It's fantastic. Whichever way the result goes, my 1,000th game will be at Stoke and I had great times there.
"Everything changes so quickly. A couple of games and Stoke could be two-thirds of the way up the table. What you've got to do, and I don't have to tell Mark how to manage, is to keep your feet on the ground. Keep looking ahead, keep pointing ahead and hope that things change.
"They have a very strong squad there and it's a surprise that they are down at the bottom. I'm sure they will get out of it - I just hope that it's not on Saturday that they start."
Pulis first took charge of Bournemouth in the third tier of English football in August 1992, as the first Premier League season got under way.
His big signing that summer was striker Steve Fletcher for £30,000. This summer he broke West Brom's transfer record to spend £13m on Nacer Chadli.
He has been in charge for 277 Premier League games, 282 in the second tier, 258 in the third and 46 in the fourth.
Pulis has also won games in the FA Cup, League Cup, Football League Trophy and the Europa League.
"I could sit here all afternoon and talk about what has changed," Pulis said.
"Human beings have changed, the world has changed. Professional football, especially the Premier League, is no reflection on real life to me now.
"I would never have changed apprentices coming in and doing apprenticeships and realising how fortunate they are, even to be apprentices, never mind make the professional grade. But we can't change life - you have to move with the times.
"Everybody wants change now. If you don't like a programme straight away you can turn it over. Years ago we had ITV and BBC and that was it. You were stuck with it. Today there are a million channels.
"People are like that. You have a brand new phone, two months later a new one comes out and the lads are queuing up for it. I've had my phone for about 30 years and I still can't use it properly.
"But I still love the game. I have been very, very lucky. I have been blessed really. I understand how lucky I have been."
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The A&E unit at Telford's Princess Royal Hospital could be downgraded, leaving the Royal Shrewsbury as the only hospital in the county to offer emergency and critical care.
Women and children's services would also be moved to Shrewsbury, despite a £28m centre opening in Telford in 2014.
The proposals have been made by the NHS 'Future Fit' board.
More updates on this and other stories in Shropshire
Urgent care centres would be based at both sites, which Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust said would attend to the majority of patients who are currently seen at A&E.
These "preferred options" will be considered by Telford and Wrekin Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and Shropshire CCG, who will formally decide if a public consultation can begin.
The board is also recommending three other options be put forward for public consultation.
No formal decisions will be made until at least Summer 2017, Telford and Wrekin CCG said.
The NHS Future Fit programme was launched in 2014 to review the health system across Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin and mid-Wales and is set to finish in spring 2017.
Princess Royal Hospital in Telford:
Royal Shrewsbury Hospital:
There has been criticism of the plans to move women's and children's services from Telford.
Shaun Davies, leader of Telford & Wrekin Council, described the announcement as "a total farce that is being railroaded through" and said he opposed the idea of downgrading Telford's A&E department.
"If there is to be only one, then it makes sense from a financial and clinical perspective to locate it at Princess Royal Hospital; in the area where there is a growing population." | Shropshire could have one emergency and trauma department under recommendations being put forward by NHS bosses. | 38160361 | [
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He was responding to reports Beijing has deployed surface-to-air missiles on a disputed island in the region.
China dismissed the reports as "hype", but said it had the right under international law to defend itself.
Several nations claim territory in the resource-rich South China Sea, which is also an important shipping route.
A spokesman for Mr Kerry said satellite images appeared to confirm China had deployed anti-aircraft missiles on Woody or Yongxing Island in the Paracels.
The island is claimed by China, Taiwan and Vietnam and the presence of missiles would significantly increase tensions.
Mr Kerry said the US expected to have a "very serious conversation" with China over its presence.
"There is every evidence, every day, that there has been an increase of militarisation from one kind or another. It's a serious concern," he said.
The latest images of Woody Island were captured by ImageSat International.
A picture dated 3 February shows a beach on the island empty. By 14 February it contains several missile launchers and support vehicles.
But the Chinese Foreign Minister, Wang Yi, said reports were a Western media invention.
He defended "the limited and necessary self-defence facilities" on islands inhabited by Chinese personnel as "consistent with the right for self-preservation and self-protection.... under the international law".
China has been carrying out extensive land reclamation work in the region, which it says is legal and for civilian purposes.
But the work has angered other countries which also claim the territory, and there is growing concern about the implications of the area becoming militarised.
The South China Sea dispute has been a topic of debate at a meeting of South East Asian regional leaders in California.
US President Barack Obama said the members had discussed the need for "tangible steps" to reduce tensions.
Rival countries have wrangled over territory in the South China Sea for centuries, but tension has steadily increased in recent years.
Its islets and waters are claimed in part or in whole by Taiwan, China, Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia and Brunei.
China has backed its expansive claims with island-building and naval patrols, while the US says it opposes restrictions on freedom of navigation and unlawful sovereignty claims - by all sides, but seen by many as aimed at China.
The frictions have sparked concern that the area is becoming a flashpoint with global consequences. | US Secretary of State John Kerry says Washington is seriously concerned about increased Chinese militarisation in the contested South China Sea. | 35600599 | [
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The latest picture was taken by the rover at "Buckskin", which is the seventh rock target on its mission.
Curiosity does this planetary photography in the same way we would take a selfie - by holding a camera at arm's length and framing itself.
The pictures must then be stitched together to make this final scene.
Nasa is trying to take one at every location where the robot drills into the surface of the red planet.
The robot has now been on Mars for three Earth years. It is in what's known as Gale Crater.
Curiosity is currently climbing through what's known as Mount Sharp, examining the rocks as it goes.
Scientists want to understand when and how Mars became so barren. | The US space agency Nasa has issued a "selfie" portrait from its Curiosity rover on Mars. | 34013741 | [
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Arlene Foster was speaking after a meeting of the executive on Thursday afternoon.
She told the BBC there were no solutions on the table.
The Stormont parties failed to pass the Welfare Reform Bill on Tuesday.
Mrs Foster said failure to pass the legislation meant that there was a £600m hole in her budget.
She said she cannot move the budget bill required to give Stormont officials the legal authority to carry on spending money after the end of July.
The minister said she is seeking a meeting with the Treasury in London early next week to assess her options.
Sinn Féin's John O'Dowd said Stormont ministers should present a united front and seek a joint meeting with Prime Minister David Cameron.
However, both the Alliance Party and Ulster Unionist ministers said they were pessimistic about the chances of a resolution to the executive's difficulties. | The finance minister has said she cannot move the budget bill forward because of the inability of the Stormont parties to resolve the deadlock over welfare reform. | 32924780 | [
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Nicole Clark used her mother Avril Stewart's bank details to set up online accounts.
The 30-year-old, from Woodside, admitted stealing the money between 8 August and 26 August last year.
Depute fiscal Robbie Brown told Perth Sheriff Court that the accused's mother had not recouped any of the stolen money.
Sheriff William Wood deferred sentence for the preparation of social work reports. | A Perthshire woman lost £2,020 she had stolen from her mother gambling at an online casino, a court was told. | 38809064 | [
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Reprinting the anti-Semitic book was banned after WW2 by Bavaria's regional government, which held the copyright.
The copyright has now expired and Munich's Institute of Contemporary History is to publish a new edition.
New versions are expected in many countries. Historians say the book helps academics understand what happened in the Nazi era.
Its annotated version, with thousands of academic notes, will aim to show that Mein Kampf (My Struggle) is incoherent and badly written, rather than powerful or seductive.
Many Jewish groups have welcomed this particular publication, saying it is important to have access to a critical edition to help explain the Holocaust, reports the BBC's Damien McGuinness in Berlin.
Mein Kampf was originally printed in 1925 - eight years before Hitler came to power.
After Nazi Germany was defeated in 1945, the Allied forces handed the copyright to the book to the state of Bavaria.
The local authorities have refused to allow the book to be reprinted to prevent incitement of hatred, although the book was so widely printed during the war that it remained relatively easily available.
Under European copyright law, the rights of an author of a literary or artistic work runs for the life of the author and for 70 years after his death - in Hitler's case on 30 April 1945, when he shot himself in his bunker in Berlin.
Those rights cease on the first day of January 70 years after the author's death, and so publishers now have free access to the original text.
However, German officials have said they will limit public access to the text amid fears that this could stir neo-Nazi sentiment. | For the first time in 70 years, Adolf Hitler's Nazi manifesto Mein Kampf is to be available to buy in Germany. | 35209185 | [
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They say that 17 million people will benefit - by saving £100 a year on their bills.
But many in the industry think it is a bad idea, as it will reduce competition in what is supposed to be a free market.
And while the majority of householders may benefit, at least in the short term, millions of people who are currently on cheaper deals could end up paying more.
So, if the Tories win the election, how would their plan work?
Even though there was pressure on suppliers not to raise bills, five of the big six have gone ahead with some large price increases this year.
Among the more eye-catching increases, EDF will raise electricity prices by more than 18%, and Npower put up electricity prices by 15% in March.
While the suppliers blamed an increase in wholesale and environmental costs, the regulator, Ofgem, said such sharp hikes were not justified.
The cap would be an upper limit on what suppliers could charge. It would follow the model introduced for the 16% of households that use pre-payment meters.
Since April, these customers have had their bills capped, according to where they live in the country.
Ofgem would base the precise level of the cap on the cheapest standard variable tariffs in each part of the UK, taking into account the variable costs for transporting energy there.
In other words, the cap would vary in different parts of the country and be re-set every six months.
About 17 million households would be affected. They consist of customers who are on standard variable tariffs, which are typically much more expensive than fixed-rate deals.
Ofgem and consumer groups have repeatedly tried to persuade more people to switch to the cheaper deals, but with limited success. As a result, 66% of consumers remain on standard variable tariffs.
The remaining 8.5 million customers who have switched to cheaper deals would not be affected by the cap immediately. However, if the industry has its profitability constrained by a cap on variable tariffs, it is likely that the very cheapest deals would disappear.
Yes. There will still be cheaper deals on offer, but the concern is that the savings - compared with the most expensive tariffs - will be smaller than they are now.
As the chart above clearly shows, there is some evidence that this is already happening. Since the middle of last year, the gap between the cheapest tariffs and the most expensive have been narrowing. SSE, for example, has raised its cheapest dual fuel deal by 37% since October last year, according to the comparison site Uswitch.
However, consumer groups believe fewer people would switch supplier if there was cap - as there might be less incentive to do so.
Prices are likely to rise for some, especially those on fixed-rate deals. For the majority, prices will be capped. But should wholesale costs rise, it's worth remembering that Ofgem will raise the level of the cap, so it is possible that all prices will rise anyway.
Equally well, the level of the cap could fall, cutting bills for those on svts.
The truth is that suppliers will try to adjust prices to maintain their profit margins. According to Lazarus Research, the profit margins of five of the big six suppliers rose to 5.6% last year - the largest since 2009.
In February, shadow chancellor John McDonnell promised that Labour would also introduce a cap on energy charges.
However at this stage, we do not know how this would work. In the 2015 election, the Labour leader, Ed Miliband, promised to freeze prices for a 20-month period. | The Conservatives have released more details about their proposed cap on energy prices. | 39855747 | [
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About 10 caravans arrived at the King George V playing fields car park in Topsham Road, Exeter on Friday.
Nigel Parker, the Central Youth Football Club chairman, said he could not have children walking through their campsite to the changing rooms and had cancelled all games this weekend.
He described the situation as "irritating".
"They are parked next to the changing rooms. I couldn't take the risk," said Mr Parker.
The site has a number of full-sized football pitches, a youth rugby pitch and a children's playground.
Labour councillor Marcel Choules said: "It's disastrous that the football matches have had to be cancelled as a result.
"People aren't against travellers, what people are against is the disruption caused."
A spokesman for Exeter City Council, which owns the site, said they have attended for an initial inspection.
The travellers are yet to comment. | Fourteen football matches have been cancelled after travellers set up camp next to playing fields. | 31778946 | [
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Zimbabwe's nine-wicket defeat by Group A winners India on Monday ensured Ireland's place in the top three.
The Irish lost to India and hosts Sri Lanka but beat Zimbabwe and Thailand.
Ireland retain their one-day international status by making the Super Six, from which the top four qualify for the World Cup this summer.
Sri Lanka finished second in the group while tournament favourites India boasted a 100% record from their four games.
Ireland are are also joined in the Super Sixes by South Africa, Pakistan and Bangladesh.
Their next game is on Wednesday when they face Bangladesh, before taking on Pakistan on Friday and South Africa two days later.
Zimbabwe required a victory over India in Colombo, along with a significant improvement to their net run rate, to overtake Ireland and make the last six.
Ireland completed their group matches on Saturday with a 46-run win against Thailand, who ended bottom of the group.
Kim Garth hit an impressive 98 and Laura Delany added 50 while seamer Lucy O'Reilly took 3-28.
All matches played in Colombo & start at 04:30 GMT. CCC = Colombo Cricket Club; MCA = Mercantile Cricket Association Ground; NCC = Nondescripts Cricket Club; PSS = P Sara Oval | Ireland have progressed to the Super Six stage of the Women's World Cup Qualifier after finishing third in their group in Sri Lanka. | 38955202 | [
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Mageean's coach Jerry Kiernan told BBC Sport NI that both he and the county Down woman had been informed too late about the offer of a place in the team.
The meeting takes place in Vaasa, Finland from 23-25 June.
"Ciara has already committed to running an 800m in Sligo next Wednesday (21 June)," said Kiernan.
"She ran a 1500m in Rome on Thursday and an 800m at the Northern Ireland Championships on Saturday and has other races planned over the coming period.
"She has a racing programme mapped out and also needs to find the time to do the necessary training.
"When she ran in Belfast last weekend, she was totally unaware of the European Team event and that was also the case with me until 48 hours ago."
Mageean ran the second fastest 1500m of her career in Rome as she clocked a world championship qualifying standard of 4:04.49.
With Mageean unavailable, Claire Tarplee will run the 1500m in Finland with Naas athlete Claire Mooney picked for the 800m.
While Mageean will be absent, a number of Northern Ireland athletes have been selected.
Rio Olympian Kerry O'Flaherty is picked in the 3,000m steeplechase despite being troubled by a calf injury in recent weeks.
Emma Mitchell's fine recent form earns her selection in the 3000m while Finn Valley high jumper Sommer Lecky is also picked after equalling the Irish junior record recently with a leap of 1.85m.
Amy Foster is picked for the 100m and 4x100m while Christine McMahon (400H), Ben Reynolds (110H), Adam McMullen (long jump), Dempsey McGuigan (hammer), Christian Robinson (4x100m) and Andrew Mellon (4x400m) are also selected.
In addition, Donegal-based athletes Mark English (800m) and Ann Marie McGlynn (5,000m) are picked. | Ciara Mageean is a notable absentee from the Ireland squad for the European Team Championship meeting in Finland later this month. | 40255831 | [
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He could make his debut for Super League's bottom side in Friday's trip to Hull FC.
"With Jordan Tansey having returned to Wakefield, the opportunity for another outside back to come into the squad was there," managing director Richard Thewlis said. | Huddersfield Giants have signed Warrington Wolves winger Gene Ormsby on a one-month loan deal. | 35970356 | [
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Six authorities have told BBC Wales a meltdown in waste markets has hit their budgets.
Pembrokeshire council has seen the price it gets for steel drop by 88% over the year - while Flintshire has seen the price for plastics halved.
Experts say a slump in oil prices, cheap steel imports, and China's economic slowdown are to blame.
"We try to play the markets as best we can," Harvey Mitchell, the waste services manager for Flintshire, said.
"It makes it difficult when we do have a drop in issues we can't control, such as the global price of oil, or when larger countries flood the European market with steel."
Flintshire has been celebrating a record year for recycling household waste - up to 58% of everything thrown away now ends up at its waste recover facility in Buckley.
"But while we've seen an increase in the amount of material we've collected, we've actually seen a drop in the income because of the market prices," Mr Mitchell said.
Recycled waste netted the council £537,000 in revenue in 2015/16, but this represented a drop of 45% in the expected income - more than £400,000 in lost cash.
The pattern has been repeated in Pembrokeshire, where £360,000 has been wiped off the council's expected income, while four other councils saw a combined drop of £335,000.
"This is an issue which is impacting upon Wales as a whole, not just Pembrokeshire," a council official there said.
"Fortunately quotes for the coming months are starting to look more positive with prices starting to increase."
The impact on most of the other Welsh councils which responded to BBC Wales has been minimal, as they said are tied into long term contracts dealing with their recycling services.
But one academic expert said authorities and the public in Wales will need to refocus as they face ever increasing targets on recycling.
By 2025 Welsh authorities are being asked to recycle 70% of waste - by 2050, it should be 100%.
"Waste prevention is what this is all about," Rebecca Colley-Jones, from Bangor University's Sustainability Lab, said.
"It's about buying smartly, being able to think about what you do with it so it can be reused, because reuse is a form of waste prevention.
"Together we can provide solutions for the future." | A collapse in the global price paid for recycled waste has cost Welsh councils more than £1m in lost income. | 35805844 | [
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The former Nova Centre in Prestatyn will be given a new gym, cafe and pool-side changing rooms as part of the £4.2m revamp.
Three promenade-side retail units and a soft play facility will also be built.
The centre shut last February after the trust running it had its funding pulled by Denbighshire council.
The work, starting on Monday, is expected to be finished by July. | A multi-million pound refurbishment of a Denbighshire leisure centre which was closed because of council cutbacks is due to start. | 30664993 | [
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In Konta's match against Sorana Cirstea, Nastase was sent off after swearing at the umpire and abusing Konta and her captain Anne Keothavong.
The world number seven lost her serve in the next game and was visibly upset before play was halted for 25 minutes.
The International Tennis Federation is investigating Nastase's conduct.
The world governing body said it was looking into "this matter as well as previous comments made by Mr Nastase during the week".
Nastase - a former world number one - had caused controversy in the build-up to the tie after being heard making a derogatory comment about Serena Williams' unborn child.
While Romanian player Simona Halep was answering a question in English about Williams' pregnancy on Friday, the 70-year-old turned to one of his other team members and added in Romanian: "Let's see what colour it has. Chocolate with milk?"
He also put his arm tightly around Keothavong and asked for her room number, in earshot of the watching media.
Before play had even started on Saturday, Nastase insulted a British journalist over their reporting of Friday's events, calling the Press Association's tennis correspondent "stupid".
And as he was finally escorted away from the venue by a group of security guards, he abused the reporter again, calling her "ugly".
WARNING: Some people may find the language below offensive
The incident that led to him being dismissed on Saturday happened when Cirstea was 2-1 up in the second set of the World Group II play-off tie in Constanta.
After Konta and Keothavong had complained of calling out from the crowd at 1-1, Nastase was involved in a discussion with officials in which he used foul and abusive language.
Nastase called both Konta and Keothavong "a bitch" multiple times, as well as swearing at them.
He was sent off the court by referee Andreas Egli and, after initially taking a seat in the stands, was then escorted back to the locker room.
Konta went 3-1 down after her serve was broken in the next game and was in tears before the umpire suspended play.
Romania player Halep spoke to the crowd during the suspension to try to calm the situation.
When play resumed in a subdued atmosphere, Konta won five games in a row to win the match 6-2 6-3, levelling the tie at 1-1.
The ITF explained Nastase was asked to leave "for unsportsmanlike conduct, having already received two official warnings".
A statement added: "Mr Nastase was also removed from the grounds due to his serious misconduct. His accreditation was removed and he will play no further part in the tie."
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"It was not something anyone should experience," Konta told BBC Sport.
"It did upset me quite a lot and that was shown. I am not one to cry on court. It was slightly embarrassing but it affected me more than I would have liked.
"I know that Fed Cups can be quite emotional and can sometimes take an unexpected turn but it wasn't something I was prepared for.
"Obviously, it left me slightly unnerved but the best I could do was to make it as much about the tennis as possible. I felt I did that and am looking forward to that again tomorrow."
Keothavong said she had "expected a patriotic crowd", but did not expect "abusive language to be used".
"It's unacceptable. No-one deserves to be spoken to in that way," she told BBC Sport.
"We've come here to play tennis. The referee made the right call to suspend the match, and during the break I was just trying to keep Johanna calm.
"All of the players - from both teams - handled the situation incredibly well. It's happened, it's done and there is a lot to play for tomorrow."
The Lawn Tennis Association said it was "deeply shocked" by Saturday's events.
"There is no place in sport for that type of behaviour, it's not acceptable and the integrity of the sport must always be paramount," it said in a statement.
"We will be submitting an official complaint to the ITF after this tie and expect a full investigation into the actions by the Romanian captain."
However, Cirstea claimed Konta had "overreacted".
"Someone crying cannot stop a match," she told BBC Sport.
"From a tennis point of view, Johanna deserved the win - she is a better player than me - but the behaviour of the British team was exaggerated.
"Why did we stop? Only because Johanna cried? I have never cried on the court because someone told me something. You have to toughen up.
"OK, at 2-1 you take our captain out, that was the right decision, but then at 3-1 I break you and now you cry. I am not saying it was fake, but it was not logical.
"Next time I'm in trouble I will cry, maybe I can go off the court. As Romanians we get double insulted because of our nation but it's OK, we are tough. Tougher than British people apparently."
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Before play started on Saturday, Nastase went into the media centre to seek out British journalists over their reporting of the comments he made about Williams at Friday's news conference.
Press Association Sport reported that their tennis correspondent Eleanor Crooks was the only member of the British media present in the room at the time and that he said to her: "Why did you write that? You're stupid, you're stupid."
PA Sport has sent details of Nastase's remarks to the International Tennis Federation.
"He repeatedly called me stupid, asked me why what he said was racist," said Crooks.
"I explained we simply reported what he said and that it was unnecessary to make such a comment about colour. He said the English were out to get him and called me stupid a few more times.
"Fortunately he was across the other side of the room from me and there were other journalists around so it was unpleasant rather than threatening.
"But it is certainly not the behaviour you would expect of someone in his position and wholly unnecessary, especially given he did not dispute the accuracy of what was reported."
And when Nastase was escorted from the venue on Saturday he confronted Crooks again, calling her "ugly" as he was being led away by security.
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Romanian Tennis Federation president George Cosac defended Nastase.
When asked about the comments made about Williams and to Keothavong on Friday, he told told BBC Sport: "That's Nastase. He was all the time with a lot of jokes. That's why everybody likes him.
"He didn't make any mistakes. It was not racist, you cannot take it seriously. I'm sure it was just a joke," Cosac added.
"What I know is that he is a very good friend with Yannick Noah and he played many tournaments together with Arthur Ashe [Noah and Ashe are the only black men to win Grand Slam singles titles] - I'm sure he didn't say something wrong."
Earlier on Saturday, Romania took the lead when Halep won 26 of the last 33 points on her way to comfortably beating Heather Watson 6-4 6-1.
World number five Halep increased her intensity at 4-4 and broke Watson to love before serving out to take the opening set for the hosts.
Watson, ranked 113, struggled to cope with her rival as she lost her serve twice to love in the second set.
Russell Fuller, BBC tennis correspondent
This was a very decorated player, but an increasingly isolated man, losing his cool on a spectacular scale.
Nastase appears to have no concept of why I, and my three British colleagues here in Constanta, felt his slurs and actions of Friday needed highlighting.
Having targeted one of the journalists in the morning, he turned his ire on his opposite number and her star player when battle was joined on the court.
ITF president Dave Haggerty says Nastase's conduct is "unacceptable". They have issued more than one stern statement this weekend, but will be judged on their deeds, rather than their words.
If the ITF do not act, then the Romanian Federation clearly will not either. Their president cannot understand why we do not appreciate Nastase's sense of humour.
Why can't we see that his captain is more than entitled to make derogatory comments about Serena Williams - because many of his best friends are black? | Romania captain Ilie Nastase was banned from the Fed Cup tie against Britain after an incident that left Johanna Konta in tears and her match suspended. | 39677397 | [
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The military says all but eight of the 129 girls have escaped, but parents of the girls say many are still missing.
It is thought Islamist militant group Boko Haram took the girls to forested areas near the Cameroonian border.
The group is waging a bloody campaign for an Islamic state in northern Nigeria.
Nigerian students living in fear
What is Nigeria's Boko Haram?
Also on Wednesday, 18 people were killed in an attack in the Gwoza district of north-eastern Nigeria, local officials told the AP news agency.
The BBC's correspondent in Lagos, Will Ross, says the Nigerian military's statement that most of the girls had escaped their captors contrasts sharply with other information available to the BBC, including the claims of parents of pupils at the school. They insist "many" of their children are still missing.
The raid on the boarding school is a great source of embarrassment for the Nigerian authorities who say their military campaign against the militants is succeeding, he adds.
Hours before the military issued its statement, the governor of Borno state Kashim Shettima said the vast majority of the girls were still missing and offered a reward of 50m naira ($308,000; £184,000) for information.
The air force, army, police, local defence units and volunteers have all been involved in the search for the schoolgirls.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon condemned the "shocking" mass abduction and called for the girls' immediate release.
"The targeting of schools and schoolchildren is a grave violation of international humanitarian law," he said in a statement.
"Schools are, and must remain, safe places where children can learn and grow in peace."
The BBC's Hausa Service says Boko Haram has kidnapped civilians in the past - usually women to work as sex slaves.
Gunmen reportedly arrived at the school in Chibok, a remote area of Borno state, late on Tuesday, and ordered its teenage residents on to lorries.
A local politician said about 50 soldiers had been stationed near the school ahead of annual exams, but were apparently overpowered.
Local residents reported hearing explosions followed by gunfire.
"Many girls were abducted by the rampaging gunmen who stormed the school in a convoy of vehicles," local education official Emmanuel Sam told the AFP news agency.
A girl who managed to escape and did not want to be named told the BBC that she and fellow students were sleeping when armed men burst into their hostel.
The girl said she and her schoolmates were taken away in a convoy, which had to slow down after some of the vehicles developed a fault, at which point 10 to 15 girls escaped.
"We ran into the bush and waited until daybreak before we went back home," she said.
Nigerian media reported that two members of the security forces had been killed, and residents said 170 houses were burnt down during the attack.
The militants know the terrain well and the military has had only limited success in previous efforts to dislodge them from their forest hide-outs.
Militants from Boko Haram - which means "Western education is forbidden" in the local Hausa language - frequently target educational institutions.
This year, the group's fighters have killed more than 1,500 civilians in three states in north-east Nigeria, which are currently under emergency rule.
The government recently said that Boko Haram's activities were confined to that part of the country. However, bombings blamed on the group killed more than 70 people in the capital city of Abuja on Monday. | Mystery surrounds the fate of more than 100 teenage girls who were abducted from a school in the remote north-east of Nigeria. | 27049803 | [
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Speaking from South Africa, Mr Machar told the BBC that his rebel faction could still negotiate a peace deal with President Salva Kiir.
His statement comes despite last week's heavy fighting in the city of Malakal.
Mr Machar, who first fled to the Democratic Republic of Congo, is now being treated in Johannesburg.
In July, Mr Machar's bodyguards and President Salva Kiir's presidential guards fought each other, sparking days of violence.
Hundreds of people died and more than 100,000 fled across the border.
The fighting erupted less than a year after a peace deal was signed to form a unity government and end the civil war.
Riek Machar profiled
Speaking to the BBC's HARDtalk programme, Mr Machar said: "I'm going to return to South Sudan."
"Because President Salva Kiir doesn't want democratic and transparent and fair elections to be conducted, he attacked us, he has restarted the war.
"But I am hoping that wise leaders in the region, and in Africa, and the rest of the world will throw up a political process which will bring about peace again, and the resuscitation of the peace agreement, and the reconstitution of the transitional government of national unity."
Mr Machar also denied that claims that he was a warmonger, saying that his troops were simply defending themselves against government attacks.
President Kiir's officials accuse Mr Machar's forces of starting the attacks.
Both sides in the bitter conflict have been accused of perpetrating atrocities, the BBC's Karen Allen in South Africa reports.
More on South Sudan's crisis: | South Sudan's sacked Vice-President Riek Machar - who fled the country in August - has vowed to return, saying his credibility is intact. | 37687326 | [
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Police said a boy on the bank saw his father's boat capsize on the River Wey in Guildford at about 13:10 BST on Monday.
Insp Claire Sutherland said the boy jumped into the fast-flowing river to try to save him but members of the public shouted to come back.
Divers are trawling the river in Millmead.
Members of the public have been urged not to go into the water if they spot the missing kayaker, but to call 999 immediately.
A flood warning is in place for parts of the River Wey, following heavy rain and storms over the weekend.
A police helicopter, firefighters and ambulance crews were all at the scene on Monday.
The river from Millmead to Stoke Lock is a popular with kayakers.
Wey Valley Kayak Club, which has about 400 members, is situated about about one mile down river from where the man capsized.
It tweeted on Monday morning the Wey from Godalming Wharf to Thames Lock was not safe. | A search has resumed for a man missing after his kayak overturned on a river in Surrey. | 35914850 | [
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It comes after a jury concluded the death of a man from St Austell was suicide, while undergoing care 140 miles from where he lived.
David Knight was killed by a train near St Austell after going on leave from a Somerset hospital.
The Department of Health has admitted "unacceptable" patients "are receiving care far from home".
Click here for live updates on this story
BBS South West Political Reporter Tamsin Melville said county coroner Dr Emma Carlyon was understood to be satisfied there was a commitment locally to continue to work hard to ensure the lowest number of patients possible leave the county for treatment.
An inquest in June heard that in May last year Mr Knight died of multiple injuries when he was hit by a train on the viaduct.
The 29-year-old had been suffering from paranoid schizophrenia when he died.
A jury said his death was contributed to by an inadequate risk assessment and support while he was on leave from Cygnet Hospital in Kewstoke, Somerset.
The inquest heard Mr Knight was being treated there because there were no acute psychiatric inpatient beds available in Cornwall.
The NHS said 30 adult mental patients were placed out of Cornwall in 2015/16, 150 the year before when a key unit was closed for six months, and 60 the year before that.
The Department of Health said it had increased mental health funding to £11.7bn and had accepted the recommendation of the Mental Health Taskforce that the inappropriate use of out of area treatments for adults in acute care "must be eliminated by 2020/21".
"We will work to a faster timetable if at all possible," said a spokeswoman.
"We will consider Dr Carlyon's letter in detail once it arrives." | Cornwall's coroner will raise concerns with the health secretary over the care of mentally ill patients far from home. | 36729220 | [
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Last month, the board of crofting's regulatory body apologised for its handling of the dispute with crofters.
It also asked convener Colin Kennedy to resign.
But Mr Kennedy told BBC Scotland's Sunday Politics Scotland he was staying in the post.
The dispute relates to the running of common grazings, including at Mangersta and Upper Coll on Lewis.
Mr Kennedy said: "I have no intention of resigning.
"As matters stand, I believe the commission have acted wholly within the law at all times and until such times as we have legal advice to the contrary, I will maintain my position."
Last week, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said Scottish government ministers had the power to intervene in the affairs of the troubled commission.
She said ministers would not ordinarily get involved in the internal operations of the commission.
However, during First Minister's Questions in Holyrood on Thursday, she said legislation did give them the power to intervene if required. | The convener of Scotland's Crofting Commission has reiterated he will not stand down amid a heated public dispute over common grazings - unless he is forced to by the Scottish government. | 37601537 | [
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"[The Renewable Heat Incentive scandal] may have been the excuse but it certainly wasn't the cause of the election.
"The cause of the election was Sinn Féin and republicanism wanting to rerun the election, they have mobilised their vote in a very effective way."
"We fought a positive campaign and the public responded well. We will be at Stormont on Monday and have a job of work to deal with.
"I have said when Sinn Féin win, we win for all."
"I am the one who suggested that in a normal society people would vote on performance and that the DUP and Sinn Féin did not earn another mandate.
"They certainly did not give me a mandate big enough to feel justified in continuing in this position, so I shall not."
"This is a victory for those who chose devolution over direct rule, for those who want power sharing to work.
"It is now incumbent on all parties to ensure that power is retained in our Assembly, not handed back to Theresa May and James Brokenshire."
"It has been a good day for Alliance. Our vote is up and in constituencies where we have been weak, we have seen the effort we put in trying to build the vote, pay off in terms of vote share.
It's very positive and I hope that translates into something positive for trying to get devolution established."
"What will now concern people is the very existence of this place as a political entity. People have rejected the middle ground, the non sectarian power-sharing approach. These two parties (DUP and Sinn Féin) are not going to share power."
"Everyone now has a shared responsibility to engage intensively in the short period of time that is available to us, to ensure that a strong and stable administration is established.
"It is with this positive intent that the UK government approaches the days ahead."
"Mike Nesbitt did the right thing by resigning because if he hadn't, there would have been an unpleasant discussion (within his party).
The talks now will be between the DUP and Sinn Féin and the SDLP and UUP are brought in as a decoration."
"We now have a situation where the two parties are neck-and-neck and that is a reality we have to deal with, and we have to listen to the concerns of people expressed during the election.
"Like all parties there are lessons that we need to learn."
"The high turnout demonstrates the continued support of the people of Northern Ireland for the institutions of the Good Friday Agreement and devolved power-sharing government.
"Now the politicians they elected must come together to establish an executive which can operate effectively and deliver for all of the people of Northern Ireland in a spirit of partnership and mutual respect." | Senior figures from across Northern Ireland's political spectrum have been reacting to the results of the March 2017 Northern Ireland Assembly elections. | 39166351 | [
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Glasgow-based photographer Craig Mann, whose work usually features landscapes from around the world, used Photoshop to make the pictures.
They feature characters such as Princess Leia, Darth Vader, bounty hunter Boba Fett and Ewoks.
The firth is used for anchoring rigs during winter and downtime from work.
Mr Mann, who is from Shetland and now lives in Glasgow, works on the rigs and created his Star Wars collection of photographs in his free time. | A photographer has created images that place some of Star Wars' best-loved characters on oil rigs parked up in the Cromarty Firth in the Highlands. | 35292994 | [
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Craig Harvey, 31, denies assaulting consultant radiologist Marcel Strauss at Wishaw General on 24 February.
He is also accused of assaulting a prison officer and wrestling with three others before trying to escape from the ultrasound department on the same day.
Mr Harvey pled not guilty to all the charges during an appearance at the High Court in Glasgow.
It is alleged that he repeatedly struck Dr Strauss on the arm with a blade, which was attached to a piece of plastic, to the doctor's severe injury and permanent disfigurement.
Prosecutors also say that he assaulted prison officer James Muncie when he was "in lawful custody" and that he tried to detain the guard against his will in a toilet while holding the razor blade.
The charge further alleges that Mr Harvey demanded the prison officer remove his handcuffs and attempted to strike him with the blade before struggling with him, which resulted in Mr Muncie striking his head.
It is also claimed that he struggled with three other prison officers and attempted to escape from their custody in an attempt to defeat the ends of justice.
Mr Harvey faces a third charge of being in possession of a weapon.
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Analysts say the revision may be enough to mean the overall economy narrowly avoided falling into recession for a second time.
The ONS is due to give official confirmation of this in June.
The revised figures show the construction sector shrank by 5% in the first three months of 2012, less than the 5.4% contraction initially reported.
The ONS gives its final estimates for growth in June, and if other parts of the economy remain unchanged, the economy as a whole would register zero growth, rather than a contraction of 0.1%.
The economy needs to register two consecutive quarters of negative growth to be in recession.
By Stephanie FlandersEconomics editor
However, the ONS may also revise the growth of other parts of the economy when it publishes its final estimates in June, such as the much larger services sector, which may offset the gains in construction.
Construction accounts for less than 7% of the UK economy, whereas the services sector makes up about three quarters of output.
Despite this, the construction sector's weakness has been blamed for dragging down economic growth.
The ONS figures showed that construction output fell again in the first three months of this year, reaching its lowest level in 15 years.
It was down 2.4% compared the last quarter of 2012. Output has fallen by nearly a fifth since the height of the construction boom in 2008.
The ONS will publish the Quarterly National Accounts on 27 June. | A revision by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has cast doubt on the UK's double-dip recession last year. | 22484394 | [
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The review follows an e-petition set up by Millie's mother Joanne Thompson and a debate at Westminster Hall on Monday.
The government said it would consider making paediatric first aid mandatory.
Childcare and Education Minister Sam Gyimah said Millie's tragic death was "a wake-up call" and an independent review of early years educators was of "utmost importance".
He said: "We will produce guidance and, in due course, a national review which will include the question of mandatory training."
Mrs Thompson received more than 102,000 signatures in her online campaign to change the law and make it compulsory for all nursery staff to be trained in paediatric first aid.
Mr Gyimah praised Mrs Thompson and her husband Dan for setting up Millie's Trust, which provides paediatric first aid courses.
He said he would work with the couple to "ensure that there will not be another awful tragedy" like Millie's.
At the inquest into her death, South Manchester coroner John Pollard returned a verdict of misadventure and said no-one was to blame.
He said paediatric first aid training for all nursery staff was "matter of national importance".
The jury at Oldham Magistrates' Court heard that Millie started coughing and crying in a high chair while being fed shepherd's pie from a supervisor whose basic first aid certificate had expired.
The supervisor passed Millie to a colleague who had paediatric first aid training and gave the baby back slaps.
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Today in Paris he went further.
He said there had been too much focus on what would happen on day one after Brexit. Ominously for the UK, he said that how many more jobs would go to centres all around the EU was no longer in the UK's control.
"What happens next is totally up to the EU, it's not up to Britain. And so once you have that first step, if the EU determines over time that they want to start to move a lot more jobs out of London into the EU, they can simply dictate that. The regulators can dictate it, the politicians can dictate it."
France's former President Francois Hollande once labelled finance "the enemy". Today the Prime Minister Edouard Philippe - speaking at the same event - promised that era was over.
Lower personal and corporate taxes, making it easier to hire and fire, English law courts conducted in English, and three brand new English-speaking schools are among the incentives on offer to bankers prepared to relocate.
Another heavyweight banker, HSBC chief executive Stuart Gulliver, welcomed the proposed reforms.
He has already said he will move up to 1,000 bankers to Paris but he also expressed some reservations - saying it would take time to forget how reviled they were in France.
But under new President Emmanuel Macron it seems France means business with its pro-banker message and as Jamie Dimon said today, his ears are wide open. | In capital cities around Europe there is a smell of blood in the water - a sense that the UK's financial services industry has been wounded by Brexit and that presents a chance to take a bite out of its dominant position. | 40574650 | [
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The £35m facility will work on developing personalised cancer treatments for thousands of patients across the UK.
A university spokesman said the announcement was a "fantastic boost".
Chris Cox, the university's director of development, said the research centre would translate discoveries made in the laboratory into new treatments.
He said it would house 150 additional researchers who will be developing new ideas and treatments.
Research will focus on radiation therapy, lung cancer, women's cancers, melanoma and haematological oncology.
The centre is the result of a partnership between The University of Manchester, The Christie NHS Foundation Trust and Cancer Research UK.
The Christie's chief executive Caroline Shaw said the funding would "help facilitate groundbreaking research right here in Manchester".
"The MCRC is a major step forward that will maximise our potential to benefit not just cancer patients on our doorstep but across the world."
The Christie treats more than 40,000 patients a year, with about a quarter of patients referred from other parts of the country for specialist treatment.
The announcement was made by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills to "progress cancer research development in Manchester."
David Willetts, Minister for Universities and Science said the centre "will address the key issues we face" in tackling cancer.
Revised plans for the research centre were given the go-ahead in March after a proposal for a multi-storey car park on the site was dropped.
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