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Jhanvi Ahuja was visiting the India Gate monument in Delhi on the night of 28 September with her parents and other relatives when she disappeared.
She was found on Sunday night with a placard around her neck with her name and her uncle's telephone number on it.
A passer-by who found her called her family and informed the police.
After the child went missing, her family launched a campaign - Bring Back Jhanvi - on Facebook, Twitter and the instant messaging service WhatsApp to find her.
"She was found standing on a road outside a gurudwara (Sikh temple) in Janakpuri area in west Delhi," Jhanvi's uncle Gaurav Chopra told the BBC.
"She had a little board hanging around her neck. It gave her name and her father's name. It said she was lost at India Gate and asked anyone who found her to call her father. The board had my mobile phone number written on it."
Mr Chopra said he asked the caller, a teenager, to sit with the child while he drove to the area.
"The people who had taken her had shaved her head but I immediately recognised her. I started crying, she also started crying. I gave her some chocolates. She looked a little tense, but she was fine and in good health."
Mr Chopra took her to the police station where Jhanvi's parents also arrived and identified her.
Her father Rakesh Ahuja told reporters that it was like "a rebirth of a daughter".
It is not yet known who took away the child but police say they suspect her kidnappers panicked and abandoned her following a widespread media coverage of the case and the social media campaign.
Some suspect that her head was shaved to change her appearance.
Child rights organisations says nearly 96,000 children disappear in India every year and that most of the missing children end up as labour, in brothels or in other exploitative situations.
Activists say the authorities are not doing enough to stop child trafficking but officials claim a lack of resources and co-ordination on a national level makes tracing missing children difficult. | A three-year-old Indian girl who went missing a week ago has been found after her family launched a massive social media campaign. | 29502319 | [
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England international Chase, 29, had been suspended pending an internal disciplinary investigation, but will now been given a free transfer.
Captain Hansen, 29, is also released while Salford owner Marwan Koukash says Paterson, 28, is moving to Leigh.
Half-back Fages had resigned from the club and will now be allowed to leave.
"We're very close with his advisers to reaching a deal and we want to wish him all the very best," Koukash said of 21-year-old Fages.
Salford secured their Super League status for next season with their win at Widnes and that will be the catalyst for their recruitment drive for next season, according to Koukash.
"Everything was on hold until we secured our position in Super League," he said. "Having done that now, it's a matter of finalising the deals.
"I have no doubt that there will be at least six to eight new arrivals." | Salford Red Devils will let Rangi Chase, Harrison Hansen, Cory Paterson and Theo Fages leave the club at the end of the season. | 34328482 | [
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Celtic completed a domestic treble after Tom Rogic scored a stoppage-time winner in a 2-1 win at Hampden Park.
"We asked for that near-perfect performance and thought there was more to come from us," said manager McInnes.
"But we ran out of legs. It is our 351st day today since we reported back for pre-season."
That was because they were in the Europa League qualifiers after finishing runners-up to Celtic last season in the Scottish Premiership.
It was the same story in the league this season and Aberdeen also lost the League Cup final to Brendan Rodgers' side.
"It was fiercely fought and the performance was what I expected and what I was looking for," said McInnes. "But we came here to win, so obviously there's real disappointment.
"When it goes into injury time, a goal against you is always a sore one to take, but when it's a cup final, it just compounds it even more.
"It was like two proper heavyweights scrapping and fighting each other and everybody trying to find answers."
Aberdeen went ahead through Jonny Hayes after nine minutes, but Stuart Armstrong equalised two minutes later before Celtic completed their sixth win over the Dons this season.
"It was a huge effort from everyone and a real confident display from us for large spells of the game," said McInnes, who lamented a stray pass in front of goal from Hayes to Kenny McLean.
"We had moments in the game when we could have got ourselves in front again.
"It is all about those big moments. Kenny's got a chance. If he stands still, maybe it goes in, but it's just been a misunderstanding between the two of them.
"We implemented how we wanted to go about our business and get after them and Celtic struggled to get any real flow or rhythm into their game and that was important.
"We've done that in our previous two league games against them and we've had good spells in the game, something similar to today."
Rogic proved a thorn in Aberdeen's side again, with his fourth goal against the Dons this season.
"Celtic have got class players that can constantly ask the question of you," admitted McInnes.
"Rogic shows a bit of class. You've got to applaud and commend that level of skill, but we're disappointed we haven't won the cup because we wanted to win it for so many people." | Derek McInnes says his beaten Aberdeen players gave him the "near-perfect" Scottish Cup final performance he asked for but paid for an extra-long season. | 40072386 | [
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Philippe Bianchi told France Info radio his son, who remains in a coma, had shown "no significant progress" since crashing into a recovery vehicle last October at Suzuka.
"In general, progress needs to be made in the first six months," Bianchi said.
"It has been nine months now and Jules has still not woken up."
Frenchman Jules Bianchi, 25, continues to receive treatment for his severe injuries in hospital in his home city of Nice.
Philippe Bianchi added: "As time goes by, I am less optimistic than I might have been two or three months after the accident when we could have hoped for better progress."
Bianchi admitted that if Jules did awake from his coma, it could lead to added difficulties.
He revealed that, prior to his son's accident, the two had spoken about the condition of seven-time Formula 1 world champion Michael Schumacher, who suffered severe head injuries in a skiing accident in December 2013 and faces a long road to recovery.
Philippe Bianchi said: "If he had a severe handicap, we are convinced that is not what Jules would want.
"We talked about it. He discussed with us that if one day he had an accident like that of Michael Schumacher, that even if his only handicap was not being able to drive, he would have a lot of difficulty living. Because it was his life."
Jules Bianchi joined Marussia in 2013 and raced in 34 grands prix, scoring two championship points in last year's Monaco Grand Prix.
Marussia came close to collapse over the winter but were rescued and are racing as Manor in 2015. | Jules Bianchi's father says he is "less optimistic" that his son will recover from head injuries sustained in a crash at last year's Japanese Grand Prix. | 33512672 | [
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The European Commission says it is Europe's most comprehensive study so far of bee colony deaths.
Winter mortality was especially high for bees in Belgium (33.6%) and the UK (29%) in 2012-13. But in spring-summer 2013 France was highest with 13.6%.
Bumblebees and other wild bees were not studied, nor were pesticide impacts.
The study, called Epilobee, described 10% as an acceptable threshold for bee colony mortality - and Greece, Italy and Spain were among the countries with rates below that threshold.
The mortality percentages are national estimates based on representative samples. All 17 countries applied the same data collection standards, the report says.
The survey covered almost 32,000 bee colonies.
But there is also much concern about death rates among wild bees, which are vital pollinators too.
Last year the EU introduced a ban on four chemicals called neonicotinoids which are used in pesticides.
They are believed to be linked to the collapse of bee colonies across Europe, though there is a heated scientific debate over the chemicals' impact and many experts say further studies are needed.
The Commission wanted pesticide impacts to be included in the Epilobee study, but it was overruled by member states' governments. | A new study covering 17 EU countries says that far more honeybees are dying in the UK and other parts of northern Europe than in Mediterranean countries. | 26923214 | [
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The witness also said her family had been forced to move to Spain to escape her daughter's alleged abusers.
Sheffield Crown Court also heard how police lost tapes of an interview with defendant Sageer Hussain in 2003.
Eight men, including Mr Hussain, deny sexually abusing three girls between 1999 and 2003.
The mother of one of the alleged victims said in a statement: "Her character changed from a lovely girl to an animal. She became horrible."
She said at one stage she discovered a mobile phone in her daughter's bedroom and rang a number stored under the name 'Waleed'.
She said a man picked up the phone and said "I ain't done owt, I ain't touched her. It isn't me".
When she asked her daughter about the phone she said she burst into tears and said "They're raping me, they're raping me".
She told the court after her daughter went to the police in 2003 her family were repeatedly threatened.
"We were so distraught that we sold the business and the home and moved to Spain," she said.
Det Con Andy Stephanek, of South Yorkshire Police, told the court the force had lost the tape of an interview with Mr Hussain when he was first questioned about the allegations.
He said it appeared that "due to the passage of time they've been destroyed".
The trial continues. | A woman who was allegedly raped and abused by eight men in Rotherham changed from a "lovely girl to an animal", her mother told jurors. | 37475201 | [
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The four drove a vehicle into the compound in Karakax county, and set off explosives that killed one person and injured three others, they said. State media said it was a terrorist attack.
The area, predominantly Muslim Uighur, has suffered years of unrest.
The authorities blame the history of violence on Islamist militants.
Human rights and exiled Uighur groups accuse the government of repressing the Muslim community.
State news agency Xinhua did not specify whether the four people were killed by authorities on the spot or later in the day.
Last month Chinese authorities began confiscating passports from people in the region, saying it was a move to combat violence.
Uighurs, which makes up about 45% of Xinjiang's population, have often complained about having restrictions put on their freedom of movement. | Chinese police have shot dead four people who attacked a Communist Party building in western Xinjiang province, local government officials say. | 38454095 | [
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Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said it was a "hurtful action" and that Australia had "belittled" the row. Jakarta would review co-operation, he said.
Australian PM Tony Abbott expressed regret but said he would not apologise.
The allegations published by Australian media came from documents leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden.
Mr Abbott said he regretted "any embarrassment" caused by the reports.
"I regard President Yudhoyono as a good friend of Australia, indeed as one of the very best friends that we have anywhere in the world," he said, speaking in parliament on Tuesday.
However, he added: "I don't believe that Australia should be expected to apologise for reasonable intelligence-gathering operations, just as I don't expect other countries or other governments to apologise for their reasonable intelligence-gathering operations."
Indonesia, The Jakarta Globe, editorial
There is no doubt that if Australia wishes to limit the damage from the fallout of the spying scandal, it needs to apologise to the Indonesian government and the Indonesian people.
Indonesia, The Jakarta Post, commentary
The argument that such tapping is normal practice is but an excuse, not a justification. The true inherent reason is that Australia is stuck in a mind-set of mistrust toward its northern neighbour.
Australia, Sydney Morning Herald, article
Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's furious and direct attack on the Australian prime minister shows just how deep the diplomatic schism between the two countries is, and how Tony Abbott has badly mishandled the crisis.
Australia, The Australian, article
Recalling its ambassador to Canberra represents a serious deterioration in the relationship and may well presage further real trouble, as more revelations from the rogue US consultant, Edward Snowden, are almost certain to follow.
Spy row: Media reaction
Indonesia recalled its ambassador on Monday, after the latest allegations emerged, and said it was summoning Australia's ambassador for questioning.
The leaked document showed that Australian spy agencies named Mr Yudhoyono, the first lady, the vice-president and other senior ministers as targets for telephone monitoring, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) and the Guardian said.
The presentation from the Defence Signals Directorate (now known as the Australian Signals Directorate) showed that agencies attempted to listen to Mr Yudhoyono's calls at least once, and tracked calls made to and from his mobile phone, in August 2009, they added.
It is the latest in a series of spying allegations that have strained relations between the two allies.
Earlier this month, Indonesia expressed anger over reports that Australia's Jakarta embassy was used as part of a US-led spying network in Asia.
On Tuesday, in a series of strong tweets, Mr Yudhoyono said: "These US & Australian actions have certainly damaged the strategic partnerships with Indonesia, as fellow democracies."
He said that Indonesia would review its "bilateral co-operation agenda" with Australia.
He also expressed "regret" at Mr Abbott's response to the allegations, saying that he had "belittled this tapping matter on Indonesia, without any remorse".
Speaking in parliament on Monday, Mr Abbott had said: "The Australian government never comments on specific intelligence matters."
"All governments gather information and all governments know that every other government gathers information," he said.
"I will never say or do anything that might damage the strong relationship and the close co-operation that we have with Indonesia, which is all in all our most important relationship."
The alleged spying took place in 2009, under the previous government.
Australia and Indonesia are key allies and trading partners.
Australia requires Indonesia's co-operation on asylum, as many asylum seekers travel via Indonesia to Australia by boat, but there are tensions on the issue.
Earlier this month, Indonesia declined an Australian request to receive a boat of asylum seekers whose vessel, bound for Australia's Christmas Island, had got into trouble after it departed from Indonesia.
Monday's leaked document, a slideshow presentation, appeared to show a list of Indonesian "leadership targets" and the handset models used by each target, as well as a diagram of "voice events" of the Indonesian president in August 2009.
One slide entitled "Indonesian President voice intercept (August '09)" appeared to show an attempt to listen to the content of a phone call to Mr Yudhoyono.
It is amongst a series of documents leaked by ex-US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, who has been granted temporary asylum in Russia and is wanted in the US in connection with the unauthorised disclosures. | Indonesia's president says ties with Australia have been "damaged" by reports that Canberra spied on his phone calls and those of his ministers. | 24986093 | [
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Some commentators feel the new constitution will further divide Egyptian society and may lead to more chaos.
However, the new constitution had some takers among the press as well, who hailed the referendum's results.
And a section of the press showed no interest in the referendum, commenting on the country's worsening economy instead.
Hilmi al-Jazzar from the Muslim Brotherhood, which backed the new constitution, questions whether its approval constitutes the end of a phase or the beginning of a new one.
In the independently-owned Al-Watan, he writes: "The phase of constitutional vacuum is about to end, and with it the political debate about all constitutional declarations will end." But, Hilmi al-Jazzar goes on, "a new political conflict is about to start", this time involving those members of the opposition who are opposed to the constitution and those who are prepared to live with it.
The commentator also urges the opposition groups to acknowledge the choice of the people, but expects the conflict to extend throughout the upcoming parliamentary elections.
In the same paper, former Muslim Brotherhood member Muhammad Habib comments on what may follow the referendum results.
He says: "He who believes matters will proceed smoothly is mistaken. The reasons for congestion, tension and conflict persist. The breaches and irregularities during the referendum will make the situation worse."
Source: Egyptian election commission
Constitutions compared
Ismail Ibrahim in the state-owned Al-Ahram al-Masai satirises the opposition which is calling for the new constitution to be abolished after the majority of voters approved it.
Addressing them, he says: "Those who participated in the referendum did not do so because the Muslim Brotherhood or religious groups gave them the choice, as some claim, between heaven and hell. They voted because they want to end a phase which threatened to make the country collapse over everybody's heads."
In the official Al-Ahram newspaper, Muhammad Jamal Hishmat calls on Egyptians to focus on the coming period.
He says: "After the constitutional referendum ended with more than two-thirds of voters saying yes, everyone should look forward to what they may do in the coming period; even if it is to amend articles of the constitution. It is time the Egyptian revolution moved forward to achieve its targets."
Writing in the Muslim Brotherhood's mouthpiece Al-Hurriyah wal Adalah, Asma Muhammad Ziyadah congratulates the Egyptian people on their "great new constitution".
She says: "The only people who would have benefited from the constitution not being approved are the remnants of the former regime who want the political, judicial and media authorities to be a field for their corruption, as the homeland is not in their minds and consciences."
Concern is also growing in Egypt's press over the country's failing economic fortunes. A bold red headline on the front page of state-owned Al-Ahram is about the "fear in the street" over economic insecurity.
Writing in the paper, Safwat Qabil urges politicians to leave the economy out of their squabbles. "The later we start treating the economic crisis, the more severe the treatment will be," he warns.
Independent Al-Watan ridicules Islamists' proclamations that the new constitution would bring prosperity to Egypt: the paper's main headline says stability will only be achieved once there are enough dollars.
BBC Monitoringreports and analyses news from TV, radio, web and print media around the world. For more reports from BBC Monitoring, click here. You can follow BBC Monitoring on Twitter and Facebook. | Egyptian press and commentators are divided over the approval of a disputed new constitution in a referendum. | 20843535 | [
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Schooling, 21, won in an Olympic record time of 50.39 seconds.
The Singaporean was always in control and won by 0.75 seconds from the trio of Phelps, South Africa's Chad le Clos and Hungary's Laszlo Cseh.
Phelps, 31, could win his 23rd gold in the 4x100m medley relay on Saturday.
The American was not part of his country's team that qualified for the final having taken the afternoon off after winning his 22nd gold in the 200m individual medley on Thursday.
Phelps, who was denied a fourth successive gold in the 100m butterfly by Schooling, will end his Olympic career by competing in the final race in the Rio pool.
"This is it. I'm not doing it. I swore in London I wasn't coming back but this is final," he said.
Schooling said of his win: "I'm just ecstatic. I don't think it has set in yet. It's just crazy.
"I hope that Michael can stay around long enough for me to race him again. I'd love that." | Singapore's Joseph Schooling won his nation's first ever Olympic gold medal with victory in the 100m butterfly as Michael Phelps was one of three men to finish joint second. | 37068610 | [
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Pte Cheryl James, 18, from Llangollen, Denbighshire, was found with a bullet wound to her head in Surrey in 1995.
Her parents said a dispute over the ballistics evidence could only be resolved if her body is exhumed.
Coroner Brian Barker QC said he would wait for a doctor's report before he made the decision.
He told the pre-inquest review at Woking Coroner's Court that exhumation was a "difficult and unusual" step.
Alison Foster QC, representing Pte James' family, said her relatives were "really dismayed to be at this point today".
"From our standpoint, an exhumation would be necessary for you to carry out a full and proper inquiry."
Bullet fragments in Pte James' body were yellow, while the SA80 rifle she was armed with used red bullets, Ms Foster said.
"There is no actual evidence that it was an SA80 that caused the bullet wound to Cheryl," she added.
The coroner said the full inquest on 1 February would consider whether there were "shortcomings" with the barracks's policies on sexual behaviour, supervision of young females, drugs, alcohol and accommodation.
Another pre-inquest hearing is to held on 10 September.
Pte James was one of four soldiers found dead at Deepcut, in Camberley, between 1995 and 2002.
Surrey Police's request that her inquest should be heard alongside fresh inquests into the deaths of Privates Sean Benton, Geoff Gray and James Collinson was turned down.
A spokeswoman for the force said: "[Surrey Police] has now completed the review of disclosure documents relating to Pte James."
She said arrangements for the inquest were a matter for the coroner.
"Surrey Police is supportive of the view that there should be a thorough inquest into circumstances surrounding the death of Pte James and our thoughts remain with her family." | The family of a soldier found dead at Deepcut Barracks has urged a coroner to let her body be exhumed so a "full inquiry" can be held into her death. | 32802672 | [
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The business was owned by John and Karen Blisard and began operating in 2007.
It now has five branches: two in Belfast, two in Dublin and one in Galway.
The firm's last set of abbreviated accounts suggest it made a profit of around £300,000 in 2014. It has been taken over by Belfast brothers David and Andrew Maxwell.
They are backed by the Dublin-based investment firm Renatus Capital Partners
Andrew Maxwell is a former professional rugby player with Ulster.
David has previously run restaurants in Arizona where he said he "fell in love with Mexican food and culture".
He said they planned to expand the chain.
"The management and crew at Boojum provide exceptional service which has been pivotal to the success of the business," they said.
"Our aim, in partnership with Renatus, is to preserve that success and build on it.
"We expect to create many new jobs as we bring the Boojum experience to new communities."
The deal was initiated by the Belfast-based corporate advisors HNH Group.
Matt McCullough from HNH played rugby at Ulster with Andrew Maxwell.
He said: "Knowing the Maxwells, who are high quality operators with a passion for Mexican food, we felt they would be capable of maintaining everything that is good about the Boojum brand, whilst moving the business forward.
"These aspects were key to making this deal happen."
The sale does not include the Blisard's barbecue restaurant, Bubbacue. | Boojum, the Belfast-based chain of burrito restaurants, has been sold. | 33654344 | [
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Belgium, ranked second in the world, are the next test for Chris Coleman's side as they look to continue their remarkable progress in France.
Legendary Wales strikers Dean Saunders and John Hartson, who between them won 126 caps and scored 36 goals for their country, explain how Wales can win and book a place in the semi-finals.
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Saunders: Belgium are going to dominate possession, which is fine, but we have got to stop them from hurting us - that is difficult because they have so many different weapons in their attack.
We will have to close down Kevin de Bruyne, who has been playing behind Romelu Lukaku and has got a stinging shot in him on either foot, but if Eden Hazard is fit then he will be Belgium's most dangerous player.
When we beat Belgium in Cardiff in June, Coleman kept Hazard quiet by bringing in Jazz Richards at right wing-back and moving Chris Gunter infield to be the right-sided centre-half in our back three.
Between them, they handled him really well down Belgium's left, but I don't see Chris doing the same this time because continuity has been a big part of why we have done so well in France, especially at the back where we have been unchanged in all four games.
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I can see Chris sticking with the same team that started against Northern Ireland, but our right-sided defensive midfielder - either Joe Allen or Joe Ledley - will have to get across to help Gunter as soon as Hazard gets the ball, along with James Chester, the right-sided centre-half.
Their job will be to stop Hazard from coming inside and to show him down the line instead. When that happens, Gunter will also try to stop the cross from coming in, but you have to be realistic - Hazard is so good, he is going to get some balls over.
So all our midfield players will have to pick their runners up around the box, not just De Bruyne, and the most important thing will be to mark Lukaku tightly because he will be trying to get between our other two centre-halves when the cross comes in.
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Saunders: When we clear those crosses, we have got to counter-attack like I know we can do, because while Hazard's attacking play is one of Belgium's strengths, it is also a weakness.
Jan Vertonghen's injury means we do not know who will play as Belgium's left-back against Wales but, whoever it is, we will be able to isolate them because Hazard does not run back.
Hungary did it effectively, and they do not have the same attacking threat as us.
The mistake they made was leaving their wide players too far up the pitch and that allowed Hazard to hurt them more - he was on fire in that game and Belgium should have won by more than 4-0.
After watching that game again on Wednesday, though, I now have a clearer picture of what Wales will have to do to win.
There is no way we will be as open as Hungary were from the start because we have so many unselfish and disciplined players like Allen and Ledley who do a lot of running just to support our defenders and ensure we do not lose our shape.
But, when we steal the ball back, we have to use it properly. That starts with the first header clear from one of those Hazard crosses.
I would be telling Gareth Bale or Aaron Ramsey to drift over to Belgium's left where they will have space - and the aim should be to get the ball to them and build the attack from there.
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Hartson: There is a decision to be made up front because Hal Robson-Kanu played in both games against Belgium in the qualifiers and did not let us down.
Hal is very mobile and gives us a threat in behind their defence with his pace, and he can also carry the ball better than Sam Vokes can.
Sam is a big centre-forward that you can hit the ball to, and he will keep hold of it. He has a similar role to the one I had up front for Wales - winning headers and winning fouls so the team can advance up the pitch.
It depends which way Chris wants to go, but Sam has started the past two games and I don't think he has done an awful lot wrong.
He will contain both of Belgium's centre-halves like he did against Russia and give them problems in the air and on the ground - you cannot get around him.
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Sam missed a good chance against Northern Ireland but the next one he gets like that, he will put it away. I have worked with him and I know how good he is.
I also think he will now be feeling like the Wales number nine, not a bit-part player, which is something else I can relate to.
At first I was always behind Ian Rush, Mark Hughes and Dean Saunders, but when Hughes became manager he made me first choice and my confidence went through the roof.
I took on the mantle of being the main striker and I think Sam is in that position now, as an important member of this team.
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Hartson: Coleman has got pretty much every tactical and selection issue right at this tournament so far but we have to appreciate how good this Belgium team is and what an incredible victory this would be.
For it to happen, we need to have total focus at the back and we will rely on our best two players again - Ramsey and Bale, who have been involved in every Wales goal at this tournament - if we are going to score.
I am optimistic we can get through, but I would not say I was overly confident about it because watching Belgium the other night was frightening, even if it was only against Hungary.
One big factor in our favour is that we are unbeaten in our past three meetings, including a win - so we do know how to get a result against them.
Saunders: Belgium are favourites for a reason but we have a good record against them, even going back to when I was in the team.
Wales have a winning formula and Bale is part of that. He is a proper match-winner and, for me, the best player in the tournament. With him in the team, anything is possible.
Pick the XI that you think can take Wales far at Euro 2016 - and then share it with your friends using our team selector. | Wales are the only home nation left in Euro 2016 and are in the last eight at the finals of a major tournament for the first time since 1958. | 36678854 | [
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It follows 55,000 job cuts announced earlier this year.
The losses will come in Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), which is splitting from the printer and PC business.
The company says the cuts will save $2.7bn (£1.76bn) in annual costs, although the plan will cost $2.7bn to carry out.
At a meeting for Wall Street analysts, chairman and chief executive Meg Whitman said: "We've done a significant amount of work over the past few years to take costs out and simplify processes and these final actions will eliminate the need for any future corporate restructuring."
The new structure proposed by Ms Whitman sees HP Enterprise focusing primarily on businesses and government agencies, and the PC and printing divisions on the consumer market.
The company currently has more than 300,000 employees.
"The number is sadly larger than some people might have expected, but I think it's a reflection of how much trouble HP has been having with its services," said Charles King, analyst at the Silicon Valley IT consulting firm Pund-IT.
"I'm frankly not sure if HP is finished with the layoffs."
The company will not say where the cuts will fall, but part of the plan involves changing the nature of the workforce.
The proportion of workers in what HPE calls "low-cost locations" is expected to rise from around 42% now to 60% by 2018.
The tech company has struggled over the last decade to keep up with changing demands as customers move away from desktop computers.
However, Hewlett-Packard is still one of the world's largest technology companies, with revenues this year expected to top $50bn.
The company famously started life in a Palo Alto garage in California in 1939 and grew to be the guiding light of what became known as Silicon Valley.
Its fortunes started to decline with a series of expensive and much criticised acquisitions including Compaq for $25bn in 2002, consultants EDS for $14bn in 2008 and Autonomy for $11bn in 2011.
In 2012 it lost its position as the world's leading supplier of PCs to Lenovo.
The share price peaked at the height of the dot.com boom in 2000, and, despite two surges in 2007 and 2010, it has lost some 60% of its value since then. | Hewlett-Packard says it will cut another 25,000-30,000 jobs, or 10% of its workforce, as it plans to split the company in two. | 34265094 | [
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Abdul Hafidah, 18, died in hospital from a stab wound to the neck after the attack in Moss Side.
Police believe he had been chased by a group of men near Greenheys Lane before he was hit by the car and then attacked.
His family said they were experiencing "the most difficult time in our lives".
They added: "Abdul was a composed and caring son, who bought us all so much joy. You felt his presence when he was there and you missed it whenever he wasn't.
"His strength was in his loyalty to his family and friends, and honesty whenever he spoke."
Mr Hafidah's family also urged young people to spend time with their parents and think about the community they wanted to grow up in.
Two men have been arrested on suspicion of murder.
A 17-year-old boy was also arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and later bailed. | A teenager who was stabbed after he was hit by a car in Manchester was "loyal and caring" and "brought so much joy" to others, his family has said. | 36336099 | [
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Last week's news that Nigeria's Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, wants all new recruits to the country's police force to undergo a lie detector test cannot have been an April fool's joke as it's now the end of August.
A police statement stated clearly that the "polygraph test is aimed at ensuring that candidates are not of questionable character", and that new police officers should "conform to acceptable standards necessary for an ideal police officer the Nigerian people deserve".
Tendai Biti, Zimbabwe's former finance minister:
"Whenever I see a policeman, I run away because he sees me as an ATM"
Just what sort of questions would be set for the future cops is not clear, but the move is innovative and opens up all manner of possibilities on the African political landscape in our search for the kind of public officials the continent deserves.
And why stop at just police recruits? Journalists could be asked: "Have you ever taken money to write or ignore a story?"
Football players in the Under-17 World Cup could break out in a sweat at the simple inquiry: "How old are you?"
Politicians and presidents, meanwhile, may find the truth-telling exercise a challenge too far.
The search for honest police officers who fulfil the "acceptable standards" sought by Nigeria's police chief could be extended to most African states.
Back in July, citizens in the Zimbabwean capital, Harare, vented their anger over phony police roadblocks, which crop up every few miles "to check the roadworthiness" of vehicles, but more importantly provide a pretext to spot-fine drivers and extract money from impoverished commuters.
And since the state is struggling to pay public workers, it is entirely credible that such fines exist to supplement the officers' meagre and late salaries.
"Whenever I see a policeman, I run away because he sees me as an ATM," declared Tendai Biti, former finance minister.
Encounters with African police forces can also be deadly.
Ethiopian police clashed with demonstrators demanding answers to human rights abuses in the north-west of the country, and several people lost their lives in the city of Bahir Dar in the Amhara region.
Farai Sevenzo:
"Following orders, history has sometimes instructed us, is not a credible excuse"
Force is the default setting for African police, with officers deployed on the streets willing to unleash tear gas in Nairobi, Harare, Lusaka, Addis Ababa or any other African capital.
Anti-government demonstrations in Harare last week saw water-cannon and yet more tear gas as the government blamed unknown "foreign elements" for trying to incite rebellion.
In the age of instant news and social media sharing, the evidence of African police brutality is a click away and all over the web.
So, would a polygraph test for new recruits lessen such incidents?
What kind of questions would the recruits have to answer?
Would there be questions about their sympathy for the beaten citizens?
Or would they be about their loyalty to entrenched police chiefs who have had jobs for life, much like the men who appointed them?
As governments face dissent, citizens are promoting the idea that those police officers firing live bullets into groups of demonstrators, or starring in their own brutality videos as they rain down truncheon blows on fleeing citizens, should be recorded, identified and have their details stored for future prosecutions.
Following orders, history has sometimes instructed us, is not a credible excuse.
Whatever becomes of the Nigerian inspector general's intriguing idea to introduce lie-detector tests, he should remember the double-edged nature of such an exercise.
The polygraph reveals the truth-tellers and may show him honest cops who pass the test, but it will also give him the best liars who will bluff their way through anything.
More from Farai Sevenzo: | In our series of letters from African journalists, film-maker and columnist Farai Sevenzo questions whether lie detectors could help promote honest law enforcement. | 37223902 | [
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On 17 December 2014, President Obama and President Raul Castro announced the historic decision to put decades of Cold War hostility behind them and re-establish long-frozen diplomatic ties.
The move caught most people by surprise.
But one of the few who knew it was coming was the US Charge d'Affaires in Havana, ambassador Jeffrey DeLaurentis.
"It was just an extraordinary day, as you might imagine," says ambassador DeLaurentis.
"I spent the very early part of the morning seeing off Alan Gross," he says in reference to a prisoner swap that saw a USAID sub-contractor in a Cuban prison on espionage charges exchanged for three Cuban intelligence agents in jail in the US.
He then gathered his staff at the US Interests Section to tell them of the détente.
"Everyone erupted into thunderous applause and at that moment I knew that we were on a whole new journey. You could just feel the sea change."
There was little time to dwell on the news or celebrate.
By January, a high-level diplomatic mission from Washington was in Havana for the first of several rounds of talks towards normalising ties.
There were some thorny issues on the table, as well as some initial practical difficulties.
"We hadn't had this sort of negotiation in over 50 years so we obviously had to develop a certain level of trust and confidence," recalls the ambassador.
The Cubans raised their key questions, including the future of the Guantanamo naval base, the US economic embargo on the island and the inclusion of Cuba on a US list of state sponsors of terror.
The State Department soon removed Cuba from that list and by July, both sides were ready to restore full diplomatic relations.
Did Washington's top diplomat to Cuba ever think that it might not happen?
"No. I don't mean to imply that the issues we had to work through were easy because they weren't," he told the BBC.
"But frankly I never doubted that we would get to the point we did in July."
Less than a month later, John Kerry became the first Secretary of State to visit Cuba since 1945 and reopened the embassy.
Ambassador DeLaurentis picks out the presence of the three marines who had lowered the flag in 1961 as a particular highlight.
He also recalls the mixture of Americans, Cubans and Cuban-Americans in the audience as he stood at the podium.
"At that point I realised that what we were really talking about here was reconciliation - that's pretty dramatic in my business," he adds with a wry smile.
Since the thaw was announced, there has been a subsequent rise in immigration to the US, often via Ecuador, and from there overland to the US border with Mexico.
Many Cubans hoping to flee to the US are fearful that special immigration privileges they receive as Cubans - under the "wet foot, dry foot" policy and the Cuban Adjustment Act - will soon disappear now that the two nations are becoming friends.
I put it to the ambassador that many would-be migrants now see this as a race against time.
"We have no plans to change our migration policy and that's the message the Cuban people need to hear and absorb," he told me.
That may be Washington's message, but many Cubans simply aren't hearing it.
Around 4,500 Cuban migrants are stranded in Costa Rica amid a stand-off with Nicaragua over their route north.
Meanwhile Ecuador has reinstated a rule requiring all Cubans to obtain a visa to visit and doctors have been told they need special permission to leave the island.
An apparent crackdown on outward migration in the wake of the thaw has begun.
That this year has been significant at a diplomatic level is in little doubt.
But the key obstacle to "normal" bilateral relations, the lifting of the US economic embargo on Cuba, still hasn't happened.
The US Congress is the only body which can take that decision.
President Obama has urged them to do so but some members of Congress want Cuba to take steps over human rights first.
As a result, there are no more products on the supermarket shelves in Cuba than there were before last December's announcement and most people say their monthly incomes haven't improved either.
2011: 2.1% (Latin American average: 4.7%)
2012: 2.1% (2.9%)
2013: 2.1% (2.7%)
2014: 2.1% (0.9%)
2015 Forecast: 2.1% (0.4%)
2016 Forecast: 2.1% (2.0%)
Source: World Bank
Little wonder many ordinary Cubans say the new diplomatic relationship has made little difference to their lives so far.
"What I've heard is a lot of hope. Maybe some of it was initially unrealistic in terms of the pace," admits the ambassador.
"But I think overall people are hopeful. Even after all these years there remains a reservoir of goodwill towards the United States."
Asked if he thought the embargo's days were numbered, though, he took a typically diplomatic position: "It's very hard to say."
Within the year, there will be another president in the White House.
Republican presidential candidates Marco Rubio and Donald Trump, among others, have opposed the move to re-establish diplomatic ties.
The US broke off diplomatic relations with Cuba in 1961 after Fidel Castro and his brother Raul led a revolution toppling US-backed President Fulgencio Batista. The Castros established a revolutionary socialist state with close ties to the Soviet Union.
The following year, the US imposed a trade embargo covering nearly all exports to Cuba. This was expanded by President Kennedy into a full economic embargo that included stringent travel restrictions.
The embargo is estimated to have cost the Cuban economy more than $1.1tn and the US economy $1.2bn a year.
In September, the US announced eased restrictions on business and travel with Cuba, the latest move by President Barack Obama to improve relations with the country.
US businesses will now be allowed to open up locations in Cuba.
But the ambassador wouldn't be drawn on the race for the presidency.
"It's my hope that when whoever is elected president enters the White House, he or she will make the determination that this was the right course because it's in the best interests of the United States," he says.
Maybe so, but others fear that the hard work put in to rebuild mutual trust could be easily undone.
A visit by President Obama to Cuba before he leaves office would certainly help cement the new relationship.
Again the Charge d'Affaires in Havana was reluctant to comment too far: "Any president who's taken this historic step to change dramatically a bilateral relationship I imagine would contemplate (a visit)."
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The 26-year-old has tweeted that she can "only take so much" and seems to have broken up with the singer via social media.
It follows claims he fathered a child with another woman.
According to US website TMZ, Chris Brown became a dad nine months ago with his friend and former model Nia.
The site claims the pair have known each other "for several years" and that Chris is "happy" to be a dad.
TMZ also says Chris and Nia are not together, but are on "very good terms".
It's been a turbulent four years for Chris and Karrueche, with the pair splitting up on several occasions before getting back together.
But Karrueche has tweeted that this time she has had enough of the drama.
Newsbeat has contacted representatives for Chris Brown, but has not received a response so far.
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The Council for Science and Technology (CST) wants "public good" GM varieties to be grown and tested in the UK.
It says GM crops should be assessed individually - like pharmaceuticals - taking potential benefits into account.
A new UK regulator similar to NICE (the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence) should be set up, it says.
The UK is a world leader in plant biotechnology research, but GM field trial applications have fallen from 37 in 1995 to just one in 2012.
By David ShukmanScience editor, BBC News
The controversy over genetically modifying plants is riddled with contradictions.
Take the European Union. Its internal politics have caused a logjam in approvals but the EU science budget is also funding some of Britain's research.
Europe grows very few GM plants but most of its imported animal feed is genetically modified.
It was America's agricultural giants whose hard sell of GM put off so many European consumers but it is also US science that provides the evidence, gathered over the past two decades, that supports the assurance that GM plants and food are safe.
And while Britain's leading plant scientists appeal to the prime minister to help foster this new technology, its leading supermarket chains avoid stocking GM products because no-one is asking for them.
So can anything shift? The key is whether ministers can change minds in Brussels - and that's no easy task given the hostility towards GM in big players like France and Germany.
A long haul lies ahead.
Environment Secretary Owen Paterson has spoken in favour of increasing UK research into GM, which he said offers the "most wonderful opportunities to improve human health."
The CST was asked by Prime Minister David Cameron for the latest evidence on the risks and benefits of GM technologies in agriculture, and for advice on UK and EU regulation.
In turn, it commissioned a group of leading plant scientists from Rothamsted Research, The Sainsbury Laboratory and Cambridge University to make recommendations to the prime minister.
The scientists say they are being held back by strict EU regulations - based on the principle that GM crops are inherently more dangerous than conventionally-bred varieties.
Only two GM varieties have been licensed for commercial harvest in Europe - despite the fact that 12% of the world's arable land is cultivating GM crops.
The CST report argues GM crops have now been shown to be safe - and may be necessary in future for Britain to grow its own food supply, rather than depending on imports.
It says the UK should regulate commercial GM varieties of wheat and potatoes based on their individual benefits and risks - rather than follow the EU's blanket approach.
It also recommends a new programme of publicly-funded field trials to test "public good" GM crop varieties, which it calls "PubGM".
"Public good" traits could include nutritional enhancement, such as antioxidants in tomatoes, or vitamin A in "Golden Rice".
They could also include "climate-proofing" properties such as drought resistance or heat resistance.
"With PubGM, seed companies, consumers and regulators will be able to decide, based on results of experiments, whether a GM trait has proved its worth in UK crops under UK conditions," said Professor Jonathan Jones from The Sainsbury Laboratory, one of the report's authors.
Sir Mark Walport, chief scientific adviser and CST co-chair, said: "We take it for granted that because our shelves in supermarkets are heaving with food there are no problems in food security. But there are.
"We're part of a global food market. Competition is likely to increase. The world is already malnourished and the population is growing.
"The challenge is to get more yield from the same area. GM is not a magic bullet, but it is one of a range of technologies that we should consider."
The report was welcomed by Dr Julian Little, chair of the Agricultural Biotechnology Council (ABC), which represents companies including BASF, Monsanto and Syngenta.
"Current EU regulation has moved in the direction of increasing political influence and undermining science.
"Europe risks being left behind and it therefore remains essential that action is taken to address the dysfunctional EU approvals process so that UK farmers may, in the future, be able to realise the potential of great British biotechnology research right here in the UK."
But the environmental group Friends of the Earth say GM will not make food more affordable or sustainable.
"GM crops have been hugely over-hyped. Despite decades of research they have failed to deliver the benefits they have promised - and have been an expensive distraction from real solutions to the challenges we face," said senior food campaigner Vicki Hird.
"Our food production system needs a radical overhaul to ensure everyone has access to healthy, affordable food that doesn't wreck the planet - but putting more power into the hands of multi-nationals is not the answer."
Prof Cathie Martin, of the John Innes Centre, one of the creators of GM purple tomatoes, said changing regulations would help scientists make progress with GM varieties that benefit society.
She told BBC News: "It takes 10 years to get European regulators to approve a new GM trial, and costs in the order of $150m. How can any small company do that?"
"NGOs complain that GM only benefits multinational companies - but that's because they're the only ones who can afford it. We can't afford to trial crops for the public good.
"If this promotes field trials where you can look at something for the public good that would be fantastic."
Dan Crossley, executive director of the Food Ethics Council, said: "This report, like many focussing on GM technology, is framed around the question 'how can science and technology help secure global food supplies'.
"Instead we need to ask people at the sharp end of food insecurity what can be done - by scientists and also by others - to help fix the food system.
"In a resource-constrained world where a billion people go to bed hungry and a billion are obese, we must also tackle the scandal of food waste, as well as the issue of what we eat." | A new report on genetically modified (GM) crops, commissioned by the prime minister, calls for more UK field trials and fewer EU restrictions. | 26554969 | [
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The curlew, Europe's largest wading bird, is recognisable by its long down-curved bill and evocative call.
It has been added to the red list in a survey of the 244 regularly occurring birds in the UK.
The RSPBNI said it could now be considered the "UK's most pressing conservation issue".
The curlew has suffered a severe population decline and has now been included on the red list of the British Birds of Conservation Concern 4.
There has been an 87% decline in its population in Northern Ireland between the mid-1980s and 2013.
The Antrim hills and County Fermanagh are two areas where the bird is most likely to be spotted.
Fermanagh holds 10% of the entire population on the island of Ireland.
Glenwherry in County Antrim is the only other place that holds what is considered a viable breeding population.
The number of pairs there has recovered a little in recent years and now stands at 39 pairs, down from 80 pairs in the mid-1980s.
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It is thought the numbers of pochard are dropping at Lough Neagh because milder winters mean they do not have to migrate so far south.
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The 2011 world silver medallist and partner Robert Blair beat Martin Campbell and Julie MacPherson 21-11 21-16 to extend her record in the event.
Hamilton's Kirsty Gilmour made it five singles titles in a row with a 21-13 21-9 win over Edinburgh's MacPherson.
And the Olympic hopeful won her fourth consecutive women's doubles title.
Gilmour partnered Erskine's Rebekka Findlay to defeat MacPherson and Beith's Eleanor O'Donnell 21-17 21-7, leaving MacPherson with a trio of runners-up medals.
Prior to the finals afternoon, Bankier, who has recently moved to Paris on a business venture, received a glass rock tablet from Badminton Scotland president Dan Travers.
She said: "I had nine National titles and I suppose the thought of trying to get 10 was tempting and another Nationals meant that I would be able to play one last time in front of my family and the people who have helped me so much in my career.
"I was really nervous before the final and I don't usually get affected like that. I had a sleepless night."
It was a good day for Blair as he finished with two Scottish titles, having partnered Mauchline's Adam Hall to his first men's doubles title and Blair's third with different partners.
The second seeds beat top seeds and defending champions Campbell and Patrick MacHugh in a high-quality final. The 21-19 21-18 win made up for Blair's defeat in last year's final when partnering Gordon Thomson.
There was also a first National title for Matthew Carder after two years as runner-up to Kieran Merrilees in the men's singles.
The South Queensferry player had to come from a game and 19-17 down against Glasgow's Thomson in the final against to win 18-21 21-19 21-17. | Imogen Bankier ended her badminton career with a 10th consecutive mixed doubles title at the Yonex Scottish National Championships in Perth. | 35518704 | [
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"Great to be here," he offered in a slightly less Americanised accent than I expected. "Raining as always."
"I can't wait to play this week," he enthused to the assembled journalists. "I've been looking forward to this for a long time, probably four or five years to be honest."
So have we Russell.
It's exciting, even for battle weary Scottish journalists, to see someone performing at the top of their game on a world stage with the potential to go further.
That's not beyond Knox and the next two weeks provide the perfect platform for him to deliver further on his potential and achieve many of his dreams.
Victory at the this week's Scottish Open in his home town of Inverness would certainly be one. That would push him right up the list for Ryder Cup qualification. Then there's the matter of next week's Open at Troon.
Currently 27th in the world rankings, 131 places above the nearest Scot, Richie Ramsay, Knox is Scotland's best hope to at least fight for these trophies.
He is a contender in most tournaments these days, primarily on the PGA Tour, and for a place in Darren Clarke's Ryder Cup team.
As his star rises, Knox remains adamant that playing in front of an expectant home crowd over the next two weeks won't be a hindrance, despite heightened expectation.
His demeanour backs that up. He seems philosophical - what will be, will be.
"It adds a little bit of pressure," he said. "We're used to it, every week you've got pressure. I put a lot of pressure on myself every time I play so I don't really feel added pressure.
"I've been wanting to do this my whole life. I've been wanting to play on the PGA tour, European Tour, all the majors and hey, it's starting to happen.
"I've been wanting to win tournaments, be in the top 20, 10 in the world, see how high I can get.
"This is what I've been dreaming my whole life. I'm not sure if you're ever really ready for it but you've just got to do your best and go for it."
There's a wider goal for Knox than doing well in his home country, or even achieving a dream Ryder Cup place.
Getting into the top 20 or 30 players in the world is tremendously hard. Staying there is just as difficult, if not more challenging, and plenty of players have been there and fallen away.
"Of course the goal is to stay inside the top 50 but you have to play well to do that," said Knox.
"It's so hard to stay there. To be honest I don't know how I'm going to do. I could quite easily move forward or quite easily move back.
"That's the hard thing about golf. It's such a hard game. One week you feel like you can hit any shot, then up comes a week like last week when you're like 'Am I even good enough to play golf?' I feel like I can keep improving."
Luke Donald addressed us shortly before Knox's arrival. He won this tournament at Castle Stuart in a rain-shortened Scottish Open in 2011, when he was the top-ranked golfer on the planet.
He is now 83rd in the world and struggles to get anywhere near the form he showed so consistently.
"Luke is a great player, and he's just one example of someone who has been at the top and slipped down," said Knox. "He's still a great player.
"It's so hard to stay there and this is really my first go at trying to stay there and trying to move up."
Such awareness can only be a positive for Knox and perhaps helps to keep his head on the ground despite his success.
"The whole journey's been crazy the last couple of years. I just hope I never wake up and it keeps going."
Victory here at home could be the launchpad for his life to get even crazier. | Russell Knox has every right to beam from ear to ear, as he did for the majority of his 15-minute media gathering, after flying in from his base in the United States to a sodden Castle Stuart. | 36719081 | [
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Johnson made his film debut in the 1950s and featured in numerous films, alongside stars such as Frank Sinatra, Laurence Olivier and Charlton Heston.
A founder member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, Johnson played several lead roles including Romeo and Mark Anthony in Julius Caesar.
He also appeared in several TV dramas such as Lewis and Silent Witness.
Johnson died after a short illness at the Royal Marsden Hospital in Chelsea, London. He is survived by his wife Lynne, who he married in 2004, and his four children.
Johnson was born in Upminster, Essex, and he left his training at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) to join Sir John Gielgud's company.
He joined the Royal Navy during World War Two and then made his film debut in 1959, when he appeared in the MGM film Never So Few, starring Frank Sinatra and Gina Lollobrigida.
He also appeared in The Haunting (1963) and Khartoum (1966), opposite Laurence Olivier and Charlton Heston.
His family said he was offered and turned down the role of James Bond after playing British spy Bulldog Drummond in Deadlier Than the Male (1967) and its sequel Some Girls Do (1969).
His most recent film credits include The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008) and Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001). | British actor Richard Johnson, whose career spanned film, theatre and TV, has died aged 87, his family has said. | 33036755 | [
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Dengue is a mosquito-borne disease which is prevalent in sub-tropical and tropical regions.
It is a major cause of illness worldwide, causing about 100 million episodes of feverish illness a year.
Its outbreak in Burkina Faso is causing alarm and officials are trying to avoid any widespread panic.
One man told BBC Afrique's Yacouba Ouedraogo in the capital, Ouagadougou, that the disease had killed his brother quickly:
"My younger brother did not even have a chance to say what was wrong. We just found him dead," he said.
Dengue fever particularly affects young children and adults, but is not normally fatal, specialists say.
Most people who get it will suffer from headaches and fever. Some get rashes, aches and pains and their symptoms usually last for two or three days.
An infected person can feel tired for up to three months, but will not usually need treatment.
Cases of the disease have been reported from all 12 districts of Ouagadougou, the World Health Organization says.
Two other regions - the Sahel Region in the north and the Hauts-Bassins region in the west - have also reported cases. | Dengue fever has killed at least 20 people in the West African state of Burkina Faso, where about 2,000 cases of the disease have been recorded. | 38078754 | [
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Ward was on loan with the Terriers from Liverpool in the Championship and does not want to leave after his penalty shoot-out heroics helped take them up.
The 23-year-old's saves helped them beat Sheffield in the semi-final and Reading in the play-off final.
"On a selfish point, yes, I would like to stay at Huddersfield," said Ward.
"I am only young for a goalkeeper and to have a chance of playing week-in week-out in the Premier League would be good experience for someone of my age."
Ward accepts Liverpool will decide his future as they contemplate a season in which they return to the Champions League, but he would prefer regular games with Huddersfield to the likelihood of sitting on the Reds' bench.
"It's in the hands of Liverpool because ultimately I'm their player," said Ward.
"They've got to decide what's best.
"Liverpool have my contract and their needs come first, especially with the Champions League."
Ward and his Wales team-mates are preparing for Sunday's 2018 World Cup Pool D qualifier against Serbia, but he is expected to be on the bench with Crystal Palace's Wayne Hennessey preferred.
He will go into the game having been congratulated for his efforts with Huddersfield by Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp.
"After the final he said, 'Congratulations and keep it up'," said Ward said.
"His relationship with the Huddersfield manager David Wagner has been well documented and that's been good for me.
"I know they were in constant contact and hopefully he (Klopp) has heard only good things." | Wales goalkeeper Danny Ward wants to remain at promoted Huddersfield after helping them rise into the Premier League. | 40208553 | [
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The supermarket's stock fell by more than 4% to close at 197.8p.
Over the weekend, press reports suggested the deal faced a lengthy investigation from competition regulators.
Shares in Booker also fell, with the FTSE 250 company down 3.6%.
Overall, the FTSE 100 ended down by 66 points at 7,118.48. Most major stock markets around the world fell after President Donald Trump's decision to impose a travel ban on seven Muslim-majority countries.
Among the gainers in the UK, Vodafone rose after the mobile phone company said that its Indian unit was in merger talks.
A combination of the two companies would create India's biggest telecoms firm. Shares rose 1.3%.
On the FTSE 250, shares in WS Atkins jumped 6% following a report in the Times that the engineering company had been approached by US company CH2M over a possible merger.
Flybe shares dipped 1.1% after the airline said it had seen a "slow start" to trading since the start of the new year, blaming "uncertain consumer confidence and poor weather".
That was despite the carrier reporting "solid" trading for the final three months of 2016, with revenues boosted by extra capacity. Flybe said passenger revenues rose 13.5% in the quarter, compared with 5.7% in the previous six months.
On the currency markets, the pound fell 0.5% against the dollar to $1.2484, but rose 0.4% against the euro to 1.1682 euros. | Shares in Tesco led the declines on the FTSE 100, giving up some of Friday's gains when the stock surged in the wake of news of its planned tie-up with food wholesaler Booker. | 38794865 | [
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Jackie Powell was arrested last year on suspicion of preventing the lawful burial of Brady's victim Keith Bennett.
The Crown Prosecution Service said no action would be taken against Ms Powell, of Llanelli, Carmarthenshire.
Brady is being held at high security Ashworth Hospital on Merseyside.
Brady, now 74, and Myra Hindley murdered five children between 1963 and 1965 in Greater Manchester.
Keith Bennett is the only one of their victims never to be found.
Ms Powell was arrested after she told a television documentary Brady had given her a sealed envelope to pass to Winnie Johnson, Keith's mother, in the event of Brady's death.
The letter was never found and Mrs Johnson died last August still not knowing where her son was buried.
John Dilworth, head of the CPS North West Complex Case Unit, said: "After careful consideration, we have decided that Ms Powell should not be charged, as it cannot be established that she knew the contents of the letter referred to, that the letter in question existed or what information it might have contained.
"The only evidence of the letter's existence was in comments given by Ms Powell to an interviewer and she stated only that she believed it may contain information about Keith Bennett.
"Even if it could be proved that this letter existed, there is insufficient evidence to prove that she genuinely believed it contained the information in question."
Mr Dilworth said the CPS had written to Keith Bennett's brother to explain the decision and have offered a meeting to discuss it.
Martin Bottomley, head of investigative review in Greater Manchester Police's major and cold case crime unit, said: "As soon as we were made aware of the existence of this alleged letter, we made exhaustive attempts to obtain it to establish whether or not its contents would assist us in finding Keith's body.
"That resulted in the warrants we carried out in the South Wales area and at Ashworth Hospital in August 2012.
"However, despite seizing numerous documents and a search of Brady's cell, no such letter has been recovered."
He said the letter may have been destroyed, hidden elsewhere, or it may have been handed to someone else.
"It may simply never have existed in the first place and this has been yet more mind games by Brady," he said.
He added: "Keith still has surviving relatives who deserve to know the truth and Greater Manchester Police will continue to act on any credible evidence to bring this torment to an end." | Moors murderer Ian Brady's mental health advocate will not face charges over allegations she failed to disclose information about the location of one of his victims' remains. | 21415723 | [
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Back-row Henderson has a hamstring tear while wing Bowe is recovering from a serious knee injury.
Rob Herring (hamstring), Paul Marshall and Alan O'Connor (both illness) are available to face Zebre on Friday.
Nick Williams (shoulder), Luke Marshall (ankle) and Ian Humphreys (hip/back) could also return against the Italians as Ulster's injury woes begin to ease.
The trio are rated doubtful but Sammy Arnold will be sidelined for up to three weeks because of a "low grade" hamstring tear.
Dan Tuohy will have exploratory surgery on a "significant" ankle fracture before a date is determined for his return.
Wiehahn Herbst will have a further assessment on a toe injury while Willie Faloon is set to see a specialist for a prognosis on a chronic foot injury.
The return of Ireland internationals Henderson and Bowe would be a massive boost for an Ulster side sitting fourth in the Pro12 standings. | Ulster pair Iain Henderson and Tommy Bowe are set to make a return from injury for the end of season run-in. | 35690173 | [
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Mayor John Hamilton said the move would "better reflect cultural sensitivity in the workplace", local media said.
Bloomington is a traditionally liberal city. Its county gave Hillary Clinton 58.6% in the presidential election.
But the move sparked a backlash on social media, with opponents condemning it as an act of political correctness.
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The change was announced on Friday by Mr Hamilton in a memo to city employees.
"We are terrifically proud of our diverse workforce at the city," he wrote, according to the Herald-Times.
"That diversity makes us stronger and more representative of the public we proudly serve. These updated names for two days of well-merited time off is another way we can demonstrate our commitment to inclusivity."
Bloomington city employees receive paid time off for Columbus Day and Good Friday.
Columbus Day became a federal holiday in the United States in 1937 and celebrates the arrival of explorer Christopher Columbus in the Americas in 1492.
The holiday falls on the second Monday of October.
However, it has drawn significant opposition from those who regard Columbus's arrival as a prelude to centuries of oppression.
A movement began in 1977 to replace it with a holiday that celebrates the indigenous peoples of North America. A few states now do not mark Columbus Day, or give it another title.
Good Friday is one of the most important dates of the Christian faith, marking the day Jesus Christ was crucified by the Romans.
It is not a federal holiday in the US but is a state holiday in some states.
Bloomington, with a population estimated at 84,067 in July 2016 by the Census Bureau, has long been regarded as a liberal city.
It is the home to Indiana University Bloomington and a number of other schools and institutes.
It enrolled in Tree City USA, a tree planting and tree care programme in 2015.
The renaming of the holidays drew strong social media responses, most of them condemning the move.
They included posts such as "How is the day Jesus died insensitive?" and "I'm guessing they will next rename Christmas to winter holiday". | The US city of Bloomington in Indiana has renamed Good Friday and Columbus Day as "Spring Holiday" and "Fall Holiday" to be more "inclusive". | 38045114 | [
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Down an alleyway in central Kano, I find one of the many Koranic schools which have changed little in generations.
About 800 boys are sitting on mats chanting verses of the Koran, which they have written out on wooden tablets with short sharpened sticks, dipped in ink.
They do this for hours each day. For most of these boys, this is the only education they get.
Many come from villages far away. They board at the school where conditions are basic, to put it mildly.
Across northern Nigeria, it is estimated that about 11 million children get no access to mainstream education.
But there is a growing belief that reforms are long overdue and a broader education is essential.
"When I was growing up I didn't get any Western education. I only attended a Koranic schools like this one," says Abdurrahman Muhd, the mallam, or religious teacher, as he shows the students how to write the Arabic script.
"But we have to change to compete with the challenges of modern society."
When they return from afternoon prayers, about 30 of his students are given lessons in maths, Hausa, English and social sciences.
"Some of my own children have finished secondary school and are going to the next level after studying the Koran alongside Western education," says Abdurrahman Muhd, mentioning the word "boko" in the local Hausa language.
Boko Haram, meaning "Western education is forbidden", is the nickname of the extremist group which has killed thousands of people in recent years during a brutal campaign of violence.
It has attacked many schools in north-east Nigeria - including the boarding school in Chibok, from where hundreds of girls were abducted, and in Buni Yadi, where dozens of boys were killed in their dormitory.
Who are Boko Haram?
Profile: Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau
The group wants a strictly Islamic education and for boys only.
Boko Haram used to be extremely active here in Kano. Security has improved in what is the largest city in the north, although a suicide bombing on 18 May was an ominous warning that the threat persists.
The relative peace offers a chance to make improvements to the quality of education.
"Those children who don't go to school only stay at home and then they go out to sell things on the streets," Fatima, 12, tells me as we chat outside her community-based Islamiyya school in a suburb of Kano.
"If they are asked to write something short and simple, they can't. But I can read and write now," she says, beaming proudly.
"I stay with my grandfather but when I go home every weekend, I teach my younger siblings how to read and write and my mother is happy about that," Fatima says, before heading back to her English class.
It is a short walk to the home of her grandfather, Al Haji Sani Jibril. He is convinced that Fatima's education is good news for the whole community.
"I believe sending Fatima to school is like educating our whole society, because my granddaughter will influence her peers to go to school," he says.
"During my time, we did not have this opportunity to learn. I wouldn't want my children to suffer from the experiences I had," he says, adding that educated people are the only ones who have a say in today's society.
British taxpayers are helping fund improvements to Nigeria's long-neglected education system, including these reforms to the religious schools.
Oil-rich Nigeria is not short of cash, but by offering technical expertise the goal is to improve the quality of education for both boys and girls.
There is a fear that more uneducated youth could end up as recruits for groups like Boko Haram.
The Kano state governor, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, has thrown his support and financial clout behind educational reforms, including the modernisation of Koranic schools.
"I believe it is important to engage them to make sure that they are employable, so we can reduce the challenges we are facing today," says Mr Kwankwaso.
His government has now introduced a law banning parents from sending their children away for religious education without offering them financial support.
"We are all aware that there is certainly a correlation between illiteracy, poverty and conflict," he says.
I asked if he was worried about the reforms, given Boko Haram's view on Western education.
"What we are doing here in Kano is to say that Western education is very relevant, Islamic education is very relevant and of course they have to go side by side," he says.
"That is the only way we can really make progress in this part of the country."
Controversy over education is not new here. Islam came to northern Nigeria more than 1,000 years ago. But secular education is a relatively recent arrival.
British forces, using mainly African troops, captured Kano in 1903. Since then, there has been a degree of resistance to "Western education" because of the link to colonialism and a perception that Islam was under threat.
So for those keen to see the old and the new integrated in the religious schools, there was initially some nervousness.
"From the beginning, some people thought the programme was going to be small in terms of numbers," says educationist Yardada Maikano.
"But the demand has been huge as more and more mallams are calling for basic education to be integrated in their schools. So this demand is now a challenge.
"I feel overwhelmed, I feel elevated and I feel happy," she adds.
"And that is why I continue with the struggle to make sure that those that have not been enrolled are given a chance to have religious and secular education at the same time."
Improving education in northern Nigeria was already an immense task, even before Boko Haram started its campaign of violence.
But every day, people are working hard here to give all children a fighting chance of fulfilling their dreams.
Fatima already has high hopes. "I want to be a doctor or a lawyer - that is my goal," she says. "I will not get married until I achieve this goal." | For Muslim children in northern Nigeria, memorising and reciting the holy Koran is an integral part of growing up. | 27658382 | [
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Ingeborg Rapoport (then Syllm) finished her medical studies in 1937 and wrote her doctoral thesis on diphtheria - a serious problem in Germany at the time.
But because of Nazi oppression she has had to wait almost eight decades before being awarded her PhD.
Her mother was a Jewish pianist.
So, under Adolf Hitler's anti-Semitic race laws, Ingeborg was refused entry to the final oral exam. She had written confirmation from Hamburg University that she would have received her doctorate "if the applicable laws did not prohibit Ms Syllm's admission to the doctoral exam due to her ancestry".
Now the university has set right that wrong.
Three professors from Hamburg University's medical faculty travelled last month to Ingeborg's sitting room in east Berlin to test her on the work she carried out in pre-war Germany.
They were impressed and a special ceremony took place at Hamburg University Medical Centre on Tuesday, in which she finally received the PhD that the Nazis stole from her.
"It was about the principle," she said. "I didn't want to defend my thesis for my own sake. After all, at the age of 102 all of this wasn't exactly easy for me. I did it for the victims [of the Nazis]."
To prepare for last month's exam, Ingeborg enlisted friends to help her research online what developments there had been in the field of diphtheria over the last 80 years.
"The university wanted to correct an injustice. They were very patient with me. And for that I'm grateful," she told Der Tagesspiegel newspaper.
1912 - Born in Cameroon (Germany colony)
1938 - After studying medicine in Hamburg, prevented by Nazis from defending PhD thesis on diphtheria
1938 - Emigrates to US, meets Mitja Rapoport
1952 - Moves to East Berlin with family
1958 - Qualifies as paediatrician, becoming professor in 1964
1973 - Retires but continues her work as scientist into her eighties
In 1938, as Germany became an increasingly dangerous place for Jews, Ingeborg fled to the US where she went back to university, finally to qualify as a doctor.
Within a few years she met her husband, the biochemist Samuel Mitja Rapoport, who was himself a Jewish refugee from Vienna.
But, by the 1950s, Ingeborg suddenly found herself once again on the wrong side of the authorities.
The McCarthy anti-communist trials meant that Ingeborg and her husband were at risk because of their left-wing views. So they fled again - back to Germany.
This time Ingeborg Rapoport went to communist East Berlin, where she worked as a paediatrician.
Eventually she became a paediatrics professor, holding Europe's first chair in neonatal medicine, at the renowned Charite hospital in East Berlin.
She was given a national prize for her work in dramatically reducing infant mortality in East Germany.
But for all her achievements, winning back at the age of 102 the doctorate stolen from her by the Nazis must rank among her most impressive. | A 102-year-old German woman has become the world's oldest person to be awarded a doctorate on Tuesday, almost 80 years after the Nazis prevented her from sitting her final exam. | 33048927 | [
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The "very confused" pensioner was stopped by police up on the 70mph-limit road near Crawley, West Sussex, on Friday.
Officers were alerted by a motorist who had seen the man heading away from the M23 on the A2011 Crawley Avenue and had stopped to help him.
PC Katie Breeds, of Sussex Police, said: "He didn't know where he was.
"We sat him in the back of our police car and waited for a colleague in a van to collect the mobility scooter and then we delivered scooter and driver back home to his warden-assisted accommodation in Crawley." | A 92-year-old man was found riding his mobility scooter on a busy dual carriageway after taking a wrong turn. | 35794013 | [
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Citizens Advice Scotland said the number of employment cases it had seen had risen by 12% in the last four years and was now at its highest level.
It said the most common issues involved low pay, withheld wages and unfair dismissal, as well as bullying and discrimination.
CAS has highlighted the issues in a report to MSPs.
Holyrood's Economy, Energy and Tourism committee is exploring how employment and job quality has changed since the 2008 recession.
CAS said it had gathered evidence showing workplace problems were growing in Scotland.
Staff across its 61 sites reported that they were increasingly advising clients who were in work but struggling to pay for essentials.
Delivering the report to the Scottish Parliament, the charity's spokesman Rob Gowans said: "What our report shows is the collected evidence of all the work-related cases that people have brought to the Scottish CAB (Citizen Advice Bureaux) service over the last few years.
"While we don't give away the identities of any of our clients, our evidence shows real-life experience. There is a growing crisis of low pay and poor conditions in Scotland.
"Around half of Scots who are in poverty are actually working. This reflects the fact that the minimum wage is not in fact keeping up with inflation, and many of the benefits that are meant to supplement low wages are being cut.
He added: "With wages falling in real terms, families are becoming trapped in poverty, less secure terms and working hours, and with basic employment rights becoming harder to enforce."
Mr Gowans also raised concerns about "too many rogue employers" who were "exploiting" workers under this environment.
"The growth in zero hours contracts has become a huge problem, which leaves thousands of Scots in huge financial uncertainty. And meanwhile it is becoming harder than ever to challenge unfair treatment," he added.
SNP MSP Christina McKelvie described the CAS report as "worrying" and called for the Scottish Parliament to be given more powers over employment policy.
She said: "This Citizens Advice Scotland report outlines the shocking impact of austerity, social security cuts and worrying examples of employers flouting employment law." | Scotland's workforce is "caught in a cruel trap" of low pay and poor conditions, according to a charity. | 34017556 | [
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For Fahad bin Mohammed Al-Attiya, it is the nightmare scenario. He is the executive chairman of the Qatar National Food Security Programme.
The small Gulf state is 100% dependent on desalinated water.
Mr Al-Attiya says such a scenario would threaten the very survival of Qatar and its population of more than two million.
"We need to have clean water," he says. "A situation like the Gulf of Mexico where BP lost two or three million barrels of oil - if that happens in the [Persian] Gulf the consequences would be severely different."
Qatar sits on the world's third largest gas field and is investing billions into mega-reservoirs at home to give it some kind of water security.
But water is not the only problem. Despite being the richest country per capita in the world, Qatar also needs to import 90% of its food.
"Qatar is... hydrocarbon-rich," said Mr Al-Attiya, speaking on a special In the Balance discussion on food security for the BBC World Service. "But certainly water-poor and food-poor.
"Not only that, but for our own development we have to import the... labour to develop our country so we need to import even further to feed the nation."
Where the solution to water security is largely domestic, food security involves a tangle of trade, diplomatic and political issues.
Qatar joins a growing list of countries that includes other Gulf states, India, China and South Korea, that are not just importing food but buying the land abroad on which it is grown.
These countries are often accused of "land grabs" - the buying up of millions of hectares of overseas agricultural land with scant regard for the livelihoods of local farmers or the environment.
The charity Oxfam claims land eight times the size of the UK was sold off globally in the last decade, enough to grow food for a billion people.
It says that more than 60% of investments in agricultural land by foreign investors between 2000 and 2010 were in developing countries with serious hunger problems.
Two-thirds of those investors plan to export everything they produce on that land.
But the truth is, for all its wealth, an investor like Qatar can itself be at the mercy of global weather, disease and politics.
The price Qatar pays for losing imports is not just financial - it is often the physical loss of food to eat.
Mr Al-Attiya points out that many of Qatar's trading relationships fell apart in 2010 when India, Russia and other countries blocked exports in the face of the worst droughts in a century. "That made countries like ours question how much faith we put in free trade."
So he says that Qatar has to have a bigger vision. "We will not go in and invest simply to service our population of 2.5 million people. It doesn't make any economic sense.
"We will go in and invest to service the country, and the region - and the globe at large.
"I say there is no direct link between investment in a foreign country and food security of the country that made that investment.
"Because the country that received that investment is a sovereign state and it could say, 'Thanks for the investment but in times of crisis I am not going to export that food.' What we do... is really enhancing the availability of a food at a global level."
Such a global perspective is not the norm. Land grabs get bad press - for good reasons.
Ahmed Soliman, research assistant on the Horn of Africa at Chatham House, says land grabs put pressure on local communities. "Many of the populations are involved in either subsistence agriculture or very low-level agriculture.
"Taking into consideration what is sustainable for them in terms of how they are able to feed their families and future generations is very important. And when it gets down to national level those concerns are not being met."
But there may be ways of meeting them.
Prof Jacqueline McGlade, chief scientist of the UN Environment Programme, says: "The kind of investments the Qataris are talking about is a very 'soft' power, because they are talking about raising the whole global food production system.
"But in a more aggressive world perhaps there is space for an investment bond that says if things go horribly wrong and you have denuded the land we're going to use that fund to reinstate some kind of productive farming."
But there is also a need for a relationship between investor and host country that works day-to-day as well as in a crisis.
"It's a very complex problem," says Ken Ash, director of trade and agriculture at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
"People are hungry because they are poor, because they don't have money to buy food when they need it. It isn't just about producing more grain or more rice. It's about generating income opportunities in rural areas so that people can increasingly feed themselves."
The question of food security could have some very prosaic solutions. For Prof McGlade it is a question of too much waste. "It's waste at the farm level, it's waste through the supply chains and delivery, and the lack of refrigeration.
"You look under just one tarpaulin and you see the extreme loss of potential at every stage of the food supply. So if we can tackle food waste at the very beginning then I think food security becomes something that is realisable."
In the Balance's discussion on food security is broadcast at 08:30 GMT on Saturday, 6 December on BBC World Service. | Imagine this: an oil spill the size of the Gulf of Mexico 2010 disaster, but this time in the Persian Gulf. | 30338558 | [
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The spelling error was spotted close to the High Street in Warsop, Nottinghamshire on Friday afternoon.
Eric Hill quickly photographed the sign, which should have read "right", prior to the error being painted over.
A spokesman for the Co-op said the contractors were made aware of their mistake and would amend the spelling "as quickly as possible". | Contractors were left red-faced after incorrectly painting the word "rihgt" on a road off a supermarket car park. | 29787077 | [
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The actress revealed in May last year she had had the surgery, after being told she had an 87% chance of the disease because of a high-risk gene.
The news encouraged women with genuine concerns about their family history to get advice, a study found.
About 5% of breast cancers are thought to be hereditary.
"The Angelina Jolie effect has been long-lasting and global, and appears to have increased referrals to centres appropriately," said a team led by Prof Gareth Evans of the University of Manchester.
The researchers looked at referrals to more than 20 genetic centres and clinics in the UK after the story hit the press in May 2013.
In June and July the number of GP referrals for genetic counselling and DNA tests for breast cancer mutations increased two and a half times compared with the same period in 2012.
The study, published in the journal, Breast Cancer Research, found referrals remained at twice the previous year's figure from August to October.
"Angelina Jolie stating she has a BRCA1 mutation and going on to have a risk-reducing mastectomy is likely to have had a bigger impact than other celebrity announcements, possibly due to her image as a glamorous and strong woman," said Prof Evans.
"This may have lessened patients' fears about a loss of sexual identity post-preventative surgery and encouraged those who had not previously engaged with health services to consider genetic testing."
Most breast cancers happen by chance but a small number of people diagnosed with breast cancer (5%) have inherited a fault in one of the known breast cancer genes; BRCA1, BRCA2 or TP53 which puts them at higher risk.
Angelina Jolie is not alone in influencing health behaviour.
Attendance for cervical cancer screening rose in 2008 and 2009, when the celebrity Jade Goody was diagnosed with cervical cancer and died.
Baroness Delyth Morgan is chief executive at Breast Cancer Campaign, which part-funded the research.
"Without Angelina Jolie's openness in talking about her BRCA1 mutation and decision to have a risk-reducing mastectomy, followed by the publication and publicity around the updated NICE guidelines soon after, many women may not have approached health services and so would never have had their risk and risk-reducing options explained," she said.
Funding for genetic services must be able to respond quickly to demand, to ensure risk counselling and genetic testing is available for everyone in need, she added.
"The current level of funding available for this service should be reviewed, to avoid unnecessary delays, which can be very stressful for patients."
Women in general have a one in eight chance of developing breast cancer during their lifetime, but genes can put some at higher risk.
In the UK, about one in 1,000 people will have inherited a BRCA1 mutation and a similar proportion will have inherited a BRCA2 mutation.
Women who are tested early can take steps to prevent themselves from developing the disease.
This may mean a risk-reducing mastectomy, cancer preventing drugs, such as tamoxifen, and certain lifestyle changes like a healthy diet and more exercise.
Lester Barr, chairman of Genesis Breast Cancer Prevention, said: "While a woman's risk of developing breast cancer and/or ovarian cancer is greatly increased if she carries the harmful mutation of the BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene, preventative surgery is by no means the answer for everyone.
"Of course, a preventative mastectomy is the most effective way to cut a woman's risk of breast cancer, however other options should also be considered. These include prevention drugs, such as tamoxifen, which has been approved by NICE.
"Alternatively, many women with a mutated BRCA gene opt for annual check-ups which can be arranged through the NHS." | Referrals to breast cancer clinics more than doubled in the UK after Angelina Jolie announced she had had a double mastectomy to prevent breast cancer. | 29251765 | [
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The child was critically injured in the incident and later died in hospital.
The freak accident happened at 15:00 local time (19:00 GMT) on Friday.
The Sun Dial restaurant, where the incident took place, has reportedly been closed until further notice.
According to a statement from Atlanta police, the restaurant's revolving floor automatically stopped moving when the child became stuck on Friday.
Employees managed to dislodge the boy, who suffered crushing injuries to his head and brain, according to a report by the Fulton county medical examiner.
"The kid was just wandering as kids will do. Somehow he found himself in a critical situation where he's lodged in between the rotating floor and the wall," police spokesman Warren Pickard told reporters on Saturday.
The boy's death has been ruled accidental.
The restaurant is located at the top of the Westin Hotel, an Atlanta attraction that offers a 360-degree view of the city. | A five-year-old boy has died after his head got lodged between a wall and a table fixed to a slow-moving floor of a restaurant in Atlanta, police officials said. | 39612092 | [
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Mr Khan is the city's first Muslim mayor, after beating Tory Zac Goldsmith by 1,310,143 votes to 994,614.
The result bolsters leader Jeremy Corbyn after Labour was beaten into third in Scotland by the Tories and lost some English councillors.
In Scotland, the SNP said it would form a minority government after winning its third election in a row.
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon is celebrating what she said was an "emphatic" victory, her first as party leader, after the SNP emerged as the largest party at Holyrood with 63 seats, ahead of the Conservatives on 31 and Labour on 24.
But she played down talk of another independence referendum after falling short by two seats of an overall majority.
In Wales, Labour remains as the largest party, with 29 out of 60 seats, but was denied a majority as Plaid Cymru and UKIP both made notable gains. Counting is continuing in Northern Ireland. | Sadiq Khan has been elected the new Mayor of London - boosting Labour after it slumped in Scotland's elections. | 36232392 | [
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A pedestrian was killed when he was hit by a car on the A22 Caterham bypass 23:00 GMT on Saturday.
Police say a man in his 20s was stabbed at an address on Croydon Road between 22:00 GMT and 22:55 GMT in an "altercation" with another man.
The stab victim is being treated in hospital.
Det Insp Claire Loving said: "It is believed the offender and victim were known to each other and officers believe there is no risk to the wider community".
Officers said they believed the "two incidents may be linked" and were trying to establish what happened. | The death of a man in a road crash in Surrey may be linked to an "altercation" at a flat nearby, police have said. | 35920247 | [
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Bernard Kenny, 78, was stabbed as he intervened when Thomas Mair attacked Mrs Cox in his home village of Birstall, West Yorkshire, a year ago.
PCs Craig Nicholls and Jonathan Wright - who arrested Mair - have also received Queen's Gallantry Medals.
Unarmed, they pursued him despite knowing he may have a gun and a knife.
The late politician's senior caseworker, Sandra Major, who witnessed the killing, receives an MBE for parliamentary services and service to the community in Batley and Spen.
Mrs Cox, the Labour MP for the Yorkshire constituency of Batley and Spen, was stabbed and shot outside Birstall Library on 16 June 2016.
After the attack more than 80,000 people signed an online petition calling for Mr Kenny to be awarded the George Cross for his bravery.
At Mair's trial at the Old Bailey, the jury heard Mr Kenny was waiting for his wife outside the library in Birstall when he saw Mair going "berserk".
He said in statement to police: "I thought if I could jump on to the back I could take him down.
"I thought he was thumping her until I saw the blood. I saw he had a knife in his hands.
"Just as I got short of him, he turned around and saw me. He shoved the knife in and it hit me in the stomach. The blood started pouring out between my fingers. I saw the blood and I thought 'Oh my God'."
Mr Kenny said: "I am honoured to receive such an award."
After the attack, Mair left the scene armed with a knife and a gun and was followed by PC Nicholls and PC Wright.
Realising the public could be in danger, the officers chased the suspect and arrested him.
'Heroic actions'
PC Nicholls said he was "honoured, surprised and humbled" to receive the gallantry award.
"Our thoughts remain with Jo's family and friends. We have met members of her family who are incredible and extremely positive.
"On the day this happened, we were not due on patrol but our training was cancelled.
"When we heard what was happening we went straight to the area - we knew who we were looking for and what we were going towards but we knew that if he wasn't stopped he could hurt someone else," he said.
PC Wright said: "I didn't expect this - it's taken me completely by surprise. I am really humbled and honoured to receive it."
West Yorkshire Police Chief Constable Dee Collins said: "I am delighted that the brave and heroic actions of Bernard Kenny, PCs Craig Nicholls and Jonathan Wright have been recognised in this way.
"They all showed tremendous courage putting other people's safety ahead of their own." | The man who tried to stop a right-wing extremist from murdering MP Jo Cox has been awarded the George Medal in the Queen's Birthday Honours List. | 40301429 | [
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An advance party of about 10 soldiers from Force Troop Command, 1 Div and Field Army training will support African Union peacekeeping efforts against the al-Shabab group.
About 70 personnel will eventually be in Somalia carrying out medical, logistical and engineering duties.
Around 300 troops are also be deployed to the conflict in South Sudan.
Al-Shabab - the Islamist militant group allied to al-Qaeda - is battling Somalia's government for control of the country.
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The British troops being sent to South Sudan will also carry out engineering work to strengthen infrastructure.
It follows a commitment by UK Prime Minister David Cameron at the UN in New York in September.
It formed part of a pledge in the Strategic Defence and Security Review to double the number of UK troops on UN "blue-hatted" peacekeeping tasks and support efforts to end some of the world's most destabilising conflicts.
Speaking at the time, Mr Cameron said operations "will help to alleviate serious humanitarian and security issues... helping to bring stability to the region and preventing these challenges from spreading further afield".
Announcing the arrival of the team in Somalia, Defence Secretary Michael Fallon said: "This deployment is another demonstration of the flexibility and global reach of our armed forces."
It showed the UK's "determination to tackle terrorism wherever it rears its head", he added.
The Ministry of Defence said the UK military's contribution to UN peacekeeping reflects a long history of supporting the organisation, including a lasting presence in Cyprus.
Britain has long been a large financial contributor to UN peacekeeping missions and is the fifth highest provider of funds.
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And I don't get to say that very often.
On the one hand, eurocrats were hurried - in wind and rain - into EU courtyards to stand in photo-op-ready groups to form the number 60.
(It's the EU's 60th birthday celebration this Saturday.)
And on the other - after months of cajoling, thinly-veiled frustration and angst from Brussels - the UK government finally made clear the date it will officially trigger the Brexit process.
Next Wednesday.
But whereas Saturday really is a huge deal for the EU - marking decades of togetherness at a time when the union is very much under threat from populist nationalism across the EU, inequality and discord in the eurozone, migration complications and Brexit itself, of course - next Wednesday, while an historic day in the UK, will not play out so big this side of the Channel.
There is a determination here that Brexit must no longer be allowed to dominate and overshadow EU politics as it has done since way before the UK referendum even.
One high-level source told me that after Brussels received Britain's formal notification of its intention to leave, Brexit would immediately be downgraded to one of many EU issues to be dealt with, rather than The Big Thing.
"There will be no major political apocalyptic show," he assured me.
But of course, the underlying EU fear remains that if a Brexit deal is too sweet for the UK, other countries may be inspired to also walk out the door.
Brussels officials are grateful that Theresa May did not trigger Article 50 this week, so close to the EU's birthday bash.
The tone there will be resolutely upbeat, rather than focused on one of its key members leaving the club.
As for the what-happens-next with Brexit, the rule in Brussels is: don't expect too much too fast. Ever.
The remaining 27 EU leaders, or at least their teams, began getting diaries together on Monday.
To fix a date (expected in around five or six weeks) for that all-important summit when they'll agree their red lines and guidelines for Brexit negotiations.
The European Commission will lead the UK talks from the EU side - but all the initial meetings will be about who will meet, when, in which country, discussing what and in which order.
Most probably little of substance will be achieved before the autumn.
The EU prefers to get the key elections coming up in big-hitters France and Germany out the way first.
But any delay is painful for the UK.
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Crofters have been working with Perth-based Kilmac Construction on the Glen Ullinish Wind Farm.
The development involves installing turbines between Ose and Struan at Allt Dughaill on Skye and could generate enough power for 23,000 properties.
Members of the north planning committee approved the planning application at a meeting Dingwall. | A 14-turbine wind farm proposed for Skye has been unanimously approved by Highland councillors. | 32039275 | [
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The 37-year-old made 64 appearances for his country, including three at the 2006 World Cup, and is Poland's most-capped goalkeeper.
Boruc has been mainly used as a back-up keeper to Lukasz Fabianski and Wojciech Szczesny in recent years.
"It has not been an easy decision for me and has been one that I've taken incredibly seriously," he said.
"However, after much thought and consideration I feel that now is the right time in order to focus fully both on my family and club career at AFC Bournemouth." | Bournemouth's Polish goalkeeper Artur Boruc has announced his retirement from international football. | 39127627 | [
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Gisela Stuart, who chairs the group, said promising to control numbers and then failing to do so was "corrosive" of public trust in politicians.
Voting Leave on Thursday was the only way to "take back control" on immigration, she said.
Mr Cameron said leaving the EU was "not the right way to control immigration".
Meanwhile, a report by think tank Migration Watch, that wants lower immigration, said overall, all migrants - both from the EU and elsewhere - in the UK "continue to be a net fiscal cost" to the Exchequer.
It said only recent migrants - who arrived from 2001 - from the old member states of the EU14 had made a "net positive fiscal contribution".
"Immigration has not been shown to have any significant impact, either positive or negative, on GDP per capita, a key measure of economic performance.
"There is therefore no economic case for mass immigration on the present scale," the report said.
Ms Stuart said the UK was an "open and tolerant nation" that had been made "better and stronger" by immigration and should be "proud" about helping refugees.
But the Labour MP said the EU's policies were "failing in humanitarian terms".
"The tragic scenes unfolding in the Mediterranean underline how badly the European Union is handling population movements and migration pressures," she said.
"If we are to maintain public confidence in migration and prevent extremists from dominating the debate, it is essential that elected politicians are accountable for decisions about migration."
Ms Stuart said voting to Remain meant there would be "no control" over migration from the EU, "no matter how great the pressure on schools, hospitals and housing becomes or how much wages in our poorest communities are pushed down".
She pointed to the fact that in 2015 net migration - the difference between the number of people coming to the UK for at least a year and those leaving - was 333,000, according to the Office for National Statistics.
This issue covers immigration and free movement within Europe.
That figure was the second highest on record, while the figure for EU-only net migration was 184,000 - equalling a record high.
Ms Stuart said: "It is clear that it will be impossible to reduce net migration below 100,000 if we vote to stay in the EU.
"The prime minister must now make clear that he will abandon this manifesto pledge if he wins the referendum on Thursday. He cannot continue to promise to do something that he knows is impossible.
"Inside the EU we don't control our borders and cannot control the movement of people coming here from the EU."
Ms Stuart said that by leaving the EU the UK would "take back control" and politicians would have to keep their promises on migration.
She said in the past Mr Cameron had ended up dropping promised policies on EU migration - such as EU migrants having to have a job offer to come to in the UK - "because Brussels would not allow them".
In a special edition of Question Time, Mr Cameron conceded that controlling immigration was "very challenging" but he said his EU renegotiation would make a "big difference".
He said there was "no silver bullet" and that leaving the EU and the single market was "not the right way to control immigration".
The PM also said the government would have to put up taxes or cut spending or risk "going back to square one" if the UK voted to leave.
If the UK votes to leave, he said: "That's it, we are walking out the door, we are quitting - we are giving up on this organisation."
"I do not think Britain, at the end, is a quitter," he added.
Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme on Monday, UKIP leader Nigel Farage said he wanted to see UK immigration come down to "post war" levels of between 30,000 and 50,000 people a year.
"At the moment, we have no control. A British passport is an EU passport, open to 500 million people," he said, but added that it would be up to Parliament to set the level.
Immigration has been a key battleground in the referendum campaign ahead of the vote on EU membership on 23 June.
On Sunday Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who supports Remain, told the BBC there could be no upper limit on the number of people coming into the UK while there is free movement of labour in the EU.
Pro-Leave Michael Gove said people wanted to feel numbers were controlled.
Meanwhile, Boris Johnson, another leading Leave campaigner, said that without border controls, "the substantial flows of migration.. show no sign of diminishing".
Writing in the Daily Telegraph, Mr Johnson said that by leaving the EU the UK would "take back control" of £10.6bn net per year, which he said would enable the country to "take back control of our borders, and install an Australian-style points-based system that is fair both to people coming from the EU and from non-EU countries".
Mr Johnson urged voters to "change the whole course of European history" by voting to leave, which he said would be "overwhelmingly positive".
"Now is the time to believe in ourselves, and in what Britain can do, and to remember that we always do best when we believe in ourselves," he added. | David Cameron's "impossible" pledge to reduce net migration to below 100,000 must be abandoned if he wins the referendum, Vote Leave has said. | 36573220 | [
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Roy Guest was sacked by West Midlands Ambulance Service (WMAS) in 2013 after posting comments hoping Julie Bailey suffered "a life-threatening illness".
The Health and Care Professions Council (HPC), suspended him for a year, pending a review.
He has now been permanently removed from the register.
The HPC panel heard how Mr Guest, who joined the trust in 1999, had written "several offensive and derogatory" posts which "caused emotional harm" on the "We support the front-line staff at Stafford Hospital" Facebook page.
Mr Guest, who was employed on the clinical support desk at West Midlands Ambulance Service, said he hoped Ms Bailey would suffer "a late-night life-threatening illness".
The HPC panel determined although Mr Guest "had an unblemished record, his repeated failure to engage with the regulatory process" made a striking-off order "the only appropriate and proportionate sanction". | A paramedic has been struck off over abusive comments made on Facebook about a Stafford Hospital campaigner, patients and members of the public. | 33793665 | [
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Officials say the photo of Ms Badu in The Star newspaper was "an insult to Islam". The paper has apologised.
The Grammy-award winner was due to perform on Wednesday in Kuala Lumpur and is said to be dismayed at the news.
Muslim-majority Malaysia has previously warned other international artists to dress modestly for their concerts.
Tattoos are forbidden in Islam and using the word "Allah" in a way deemed disrespectful offends many Muslims.
The photo of Ms Badu with several words in Arabic and Hebrew written on her body features prominently on her official fan site. It is not clear whether Ms Badu's body art is permanent.
The Culture, Arts and Heritage Ministry says it was not aware of the tattoos when it initially approved the concert, the BBC's Jennifer Pak in Kuala Lumpur reports. Some Muslims began protesting after The Star published the photo.
Now the culture ministry says it is justified in banning Ms Badu's concert because it breaches religious sensitivities and cultural values.
Information Minister Rais Yatim said a government committee had decided to cancel the show because Ms Badu's body art was "an insult to Islam and a very serious offence".
According to the statement, the body art "triggered public criticism that could jeopardise national security and cause a negative impact to the government's image".
Concert organisers are in touch with officials and hope the cancellation will be reversed, the Associated Press news agency reports.
Ms Badu, 41, had already arrived in Malaysia. She is "worried and dismayed" over the incident, according to the concert organiser.
The Home Ministry has asked The Star to explain why it published the photo. The Star has already apologised, saying its inclusion in Monday's edition was "inadvertent".
"We deeply regret any offence caused to Muslims and sincerely apologise for the oversight," the paper said on Tuesday. | Malaysia has cancelled a concert by US singer Erykah Badu after a publicity photo showed her with the Arabic word for "Allah" tattooed on her upper body. | 17187560 | [
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The 30 gigabyte dump of stolen data appears to include nearly 200,000 emails belonging to Noel Biderman.
Some experts have decided not to view the contents, but certain details are being distributed via Twitter.
There has also been more fallout from the release of an earlier batch of data including Ashley Madison user emails.
TrustedSec, a US security firm, has published a blog in which it verifies the basic details of the email data, released last week.
The company says the files amount to 30 gigabytes' worth and regard 6,800 unique senders and 3,600 unique recipients.
The veracity of the most recent data dump has also been confirmed by Norwegian security researcher Per Thorsheim, who was able to decompress the files.
"I saw one email or two emails and I could verify the sender, the recipient, the domains and everything so it has to be an email from the CEO's mailbox," he told the BBC.
"There's no doubt about that."
However, Mr Thorsheim says that beyond verifying that the dump is real, he is not interested in reading the contents of the emails.
Speaking to the BBC, the security firm hired by Ashley Madison to investigate the hack said it appeared to have been carried out through unusual means.
"I can say that unlike many similar attacks, where a remote attacker has been able to use a security vulnerability such as an SQL [programming language] injection in order to dump data directly, that was not the case here," said Joel Eriksson, a security expert at Cycura.
The Motherboard news site has published excerpts of several of the emails, which appear to contain discussions around Ashley Madison's security policy.
"This hack affects potentially millions of people," journalist Joseph Cox told the BBC.
"The massive email dump, which appears to be legitimate, gives some insight into what those who were in charge of the site really thought about security."
One screenshot of the emails published by Motherboard reveals one employee's suggestion that news of a different social networking site being hacked could be "used as a PR spin".
Meanwhile, users who have been linked to Ashley Madison by email addresses found in an earlier release of data have been the subject of uninvited scrutiny.
Troy Hunt, who has been blogging about the implications of the hack, has described the case of church leader (who he chose not to identify) who had contacted a member of their own congregation, whose email address was linked to an Ashley Madison account.
Hunt says that he has also received a "huge number of enquiries" from worried individuals who are concerned that they may be associated with Ashley Madison, whether or not they have actually created an account on the website themselves.
"People are desperate to get the data," he told the BBC.
"They're resorting to things that could get them into hot water, like trying to download the data themselves.
"I don't think it's right for the individuals in the Ashley Madison database to have their personal lives put on display," he added. "Very often these people are entirely innocent."
Mr Hunt and others have warned that users may be the subject of blackmail and extortion attempts.
Indeed, security blogger Brian Krebs reported last week that spam emails demanding Bitcoin payments were targeting email addresses found in the Ashley Madison data.
Although the implications of the data's release are still to be determined, some commentators are already pointing out that they could be far-reaching.
Two law firms have launched a class action lawsuit against Ashley Madison in recent days, and it is possible that the plaintiffs would seek to use information from the chief executive's leaked emails to help build a case, according to Mark Watts, head of data protection at London law firm Bristows.
"If the emails sent to/from the CEO are relevant to the case (ie to the class action) then I suspect that the lawyers involved would seek to rely upon them if they are helpful to the case," he told the BBC.
Watts explained that even though the emails have been obtained illegally, any relevant correspondence to the case would probably have been discovered later anyway as part of the legal process.
"Essentially, the claimants' lawyers would just be getting them early," he said. | A swathe of emails from the inbox of Ashley Madison's chief executive is now being scoured by a variety of security experts and journalists. | 34041039 | [
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Rikki Evans, 28, started playing the bagpipes at 11:00 on Wednesday and stopped playing more than 24 hours later on Thursday.
Under Guinness rules he was allowed to take a 10 minute break every two hours.
Mr Evans is now awaiting official confirmation from Guinness World Records that he is the new record breaker. | A man from Aberdeen hopes to have set a new Guinness World Record by playing the bagpipes for over 24 hours. | 33910478 | [
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Wigan followed up Warrington's win over Brisbane to secure a first World Club Series victory for the northern hemisphere over Australia's NRL.
Wane told BBC Radio 5 live sports extra: "One thing we're good at in this country is looking for negatives.
"Let's be positive. Let's give Super League a pat on the back."
National Rugby League clubs had won all six matches since the expanded World Club Series came into effect in 2015.
Wane, whose side became the first from England to be crowned world champions since Leeds in 2012, added: "Tony Smith did a great job with Warrington and we won fair and square.
"It's a fantastic feeling and I'm so pleased. The staff work hard but the players do their business out on the park.
"We did too much defending. I'm trying to stay positive and not think about how we played. I'm just glad to get the win."
Wigan had lost to Brisbane in each of the past two seasons and lost their last World Club Challenge fixture to Sydney Roosters in Australia in 2014.
But a hat-trick of tries from Joe Burgess against NRL champions Cronulla helped to add the 2017 title to those won by the Cherry and Whites in 1987, 1991 and 1994.
Warrington made their second appearance in the World Club Series, having lost to St George Illawarra in 2015, and ended an eight-match losing streak for Super League clubs against their NRL counterparts with their win over the Broncos on Saturday.
"We realise it's big," said Wolves coach Smith. "We knew that we were responsible for some of the credibility over here. They've shown that this is a good part of the world to play rugby league and we can play some pretty decent stuff.
"We want Super League to get stronger, but we also want to develop this concept as well. It would be great to go over and play the Broncos at their place.
"We're grateful they've come over here and given us the opportunity, and given our supporters the chance to see an iconic club play rugby league, and at the same time promote our sport worldwide."
Many observers had concerns about the long-term future of the World Club Series because of the NRL's dominance in its first two years, but the Rugby Football League say discussions are ongoing about the make-up of the 2018 competition.
A change of location and a return to the previous format of one match between the two competitions' respective champions have been suggested as alternatives.
RFL chief executive Nigel Wood said: "These two games have shown that the annual series between NRL and Super League clubs can be competitive.
"We are already in detailed discussion with our colleagues from the NRL about the format and potential locations for the 2018 World Club Series, and these discussions will advance over the coming weeks as we review the 2017 series.
"What is clear is that competitive international club rugby can showcase the very best in our sport to the world." | Wigan head coach Shaun Wane revelled in an excellent weekend for Super League after the Warriors beat Cronulla 22-6 to win the World Club Challenge. | 39023262 | [
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Antonio Conte's side delivered an impressive statement of intent as they cut City apart on the break after going behind to Gary Cahill's own goal on the stroke of half-time, when he diverted Jesus Navas' cross beyond keeper Thibaut Courtois.
The game turned on Kevin de Bruyne's 56th-minute miss with City in control, crashing Navas' cross against the bar from inside the six-yard box.
Chelsea were level on the hour when Diego Costa outmuscled Nicolas Otamendi to score and they were ahead 10 minutes later when substitute Willian raced clear to beat City keeper Claudio Bravo with ease.
Eden Hazard completed a magnificent win for Chelsea with another goal on the break, showing too much pace for Aleksandar Kolarov to wrap up three vital points.
Chelsea's renaissance since a 3-0 loss at Arsenal in September left them in eighth place, eight points behind then leaders City, has been hugely impressive - but this is their most powerful statement of the season.
Eight wins from eight and only two goals conceded tells the story and this win against City was the second week in succession they have come from behind to beat a team that could be regarded as realistic title rivals after overcoming Tottenham at Stamford Bridge last weekend.
They were tested by periods of City domination, but showed a ruthlessness to match their steely resilience and tore Pep Guardiola's side to shreds in the closing 20 minutes.
Conte's switch to a three-man defensive system and the rejuvenation of key men such as Costa and Hazard is making this Chelsea side resemble the full title package.
Manchester City have kept one clean sheet at home in the Premier League this season - in the 4-0 win against Bournemouth - and on this evidence it is easy to see why.
For all City's domination of possession and creation, Guardiola's side have an Achilles heel at the back that was ruthlessly exposed here.
Yes, De Bruyne should have put the game out of Chelsea's reach but City's defence offered the visitors hope throughout - and how they capitalised when given the chance.
Guardiola has been linked with defensive reinforcements, particularly Southampton's Virgil van Dijk, and the manner in which they were dismantled here now makes this a matter of urgency.
The jitters started early when John Stones was caught in possession in his own area, while defensive partner Nicolas Otamendi had a nightmare afternoon and was culpable for Chelsea's first two goals from Costa, where he was weak in the challenge, and Willian.
Guardiola gestured in despair towards his central defenders after Willian's goal - his displeasure will surely take the form of more decisive action in January.
It is unlikely either Manchester City or Chelsea have heard the last of a shameful conclusion to a high-class game of football as players and officials from both sides became embroiled in ugly scenes.
City's frustration at what they believed were a series of injustices at the hands of referee Anthony Taylor boiled over in injury time as Aguero caught Luiz high and late, which happened after the Argentina striker clashed with the defender at a corner earlier.
Chelsea's Nathaniel Chalobah joined in and was lucky not to see red, while Fernandinho was sent off for grabbing Cesc Fabregas.
Even then, Fernandinho had to be forced to leave the pitch and with the whole situation threatening to go completely out of control, it was fortunate referee Taylor was able to blow the final whistle seconds later.
It is hard to see how both clubs can escape censure for a failure to control their players.
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Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola on Sky Sports: "Congratulations to Chelsea - they won. We played really good, had a lot of control and created chances - but the ball in the box was not strong enough.
"Chelsea's approach was really different but that is part of the game. You don't expect Chelsea to create 25 chances - they created three and scored three."
When asked about Aguero's challenge on Luiz at the end of the game, Guardiola added: "Both players were strong there - that's all."
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Chelsea manager Antonio Conte on Sky Sports: "Today was very tough and the game was open until the end. There were lots of chances for both teams to score.
"I saw lots of character from my team and that's very important to grow - but we must continue to work and improve."
Speaking about Costa's role as peace keeper at the end of the game, he added: "Diego is showing he is using his passion in the right way and I'm very happy about that."
Jason Roberts, former West Brom striker, on Final Score: "Chelsea were incredible. They went behind but they kept their heads. I think Pep got it wrong and I think Conte got everything right.
"The performances from Willian, from Costa, from Fabregas - who came on and showed he has that bit of guile. This is the best game I've seen this season."
Manchester City have a home game against Celtic in the Champions League on Tuesday (19:45 GMT kick-off), followed by a Premier League trip to Leicester City on 10 December (17:30).
Chelsea's next game is a home match against West Bromwich Albion in the Premier League on 11 December at 12:00 GMT.
Match ends, Manchester City 1, Chelsea 3.
Second Half ends, Manchester City 1, Chelsea 3.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Cesc Fàbregas (Chelsea) is shown the yellow card.
Nathaniel Chalobah (Chelsea) is shown the yellow card.
Fernandinho (Manchester City) is shown the red card for violent conduct.
Delay in match David Luiz (Chelsea) because of an injury.
Sergio Agüero (Manchester City) is shown the red card.
Foul by Sergio Agüero (Manchester City).
David Luiz (Chelsea) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Chelsea. Michy Batshuayi replaces Eden Hazard.
Attempt saved. Willian (Chelsea) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Eden Hazard.
Attempt missed. Yaya Touré (Manchester City) header from the centre of the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Kevin De Bruyne with a cross.
Goal! Manchester City 1, Chelsea 3. Eden Hazard (Chelsea) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Marcos Alonso with a through ball following a fast break.
Attempt missed. Kelechi Iheanacho (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.
Hand ball by Eden Hazard (Chelsea).
Corner, Manchester City. Conceded by César Azpilicueta.
Foul by Aleksandar Kolarov (Manchester City).
Eden Hazard (Chelsea) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Kelechi Iheanacho (Manchester City) header from the left side of the six yard box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by David Silva with a cross following a corner.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Substitution, Chelsea. Nathaniel Chalobah replaces Diego Costa because of an injury.
Delay in match Diego Costa (Chelsea) because of an injury.
Corner, Manchester City. Conceded by Willian.
Jesús Navas (Manchester City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Jesús Navas (Manchester City).
Eden Hazard (Chelsea) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Fernandinho (Manchester City).
N'Golo Kanté (Chelsea) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Nicolás Otamendi (Manchester City) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Kevin De Bruyne with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Manchester City. Conceded by Eden Hazard.
Foul by Aleksandar Kolarov (Manchester City).
Eden Hazard (Chelsea) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Substitution, Manchester City. Kelechi Iheanacho replaces John Stones.
Substitution, Manchester City. Yaya Touré replaces Ilkay Gündogan.
Hand ball by Gaël Clichy (Manchester City).
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Willian (Chelsea) because of an injury.
Goal! Manchester City 1, Chelsea 2. Willian (Chelsea) right footed shot from the right side of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Diego Costa with a through ball following a fast break.
Substitution, Manchester City. Gaël Clichy replaces Leroy Sané. | Chelsea's eighth successive Premier League win cemented their place at the top of the table - but their victory at Etihad Stadium ended in chaos as Manchester City's Sergio Aguero and Fernandinho were sent off in injury time. | 38113781 | [
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However, it said the "masterminds" behind the murder of Gen Adolphe Nshimirimana were still being sought.
Prominent human rights activist Pierre Claver Mbonimpa was shot and wounded in an apparent reprisal attack following Gen Nshimirimana's killing last week.
Mr Mbonimpa has been allowed to fly to Belgium for treatment.
Heavy shooting was heard in the capital, Bujumbura, on Sunday night, but it was unclear who was behind it, the AFP news agency reports.
Burundi has suffered serious unrest since President Pierre Nkurunziza's decision in April to seek a third term in office.
Opponents argued this violated the constitution, and protests broke out in parts of the country.
There was also failed coup attempt in May, as renegade generals demanded that Mr Nkurunziza steps down when his term ends.
A presidential election was held last month which Mr Nkurunziza won.
The result was rejected by the main opposition parties, but one of its leading members, Agathon Rwasa, agreed to take the post of deputy parliamentary speaker to promote reconciliation.
The prosecutor's office said in a statement that a military vehicle was used by Gen Nshimirimana's attackers and it was subsequently burned.
"The identities of the perpetrators are now known. A certain number have been arrested. The rest of them and the masterminds are being sought," it said.
The attackers targeted the general's car with machine guns and rocket launchers in the Kamenge district of Bujumbura.
He was widely seen as the most powerful person in Burundi after Mr Nkurunziza.
Meanwhile, Mr Mbonimpa's daughter said the authorities had allowed him to leave for Belgium, the former colonial power.
"He will be treated there and they can do all the tests that we can't do here. We are also more reassured about his safety there," Amandine Nasagarare said, AFP reports.
The government condemned his shooting by a gunman on a motorbike last week as an act of "terrorism".
Mr Mbonimpa was a staunch critic of Mr Nkurunziza's bid to run for office again, and was said to be one of the few members of Burundi's civil society who had not fled the country.
In April, he was held without charge for more than 24 hours by the intelligence services after he called for protests against the president's efforts to secure a third term. | Several people have been arrested in Burundi over the assassination of a powerful general, the prosecutor's office has said. | 33846047 | [
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Parts of the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean are up to 11 kilometres deep, so we know little about what sea life there is.
So a team has been sending down a robotic submarine called Deep Discoverer with a camera on it.
Science fans or anyone who is just curious can check out what the camera is showing online.
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If victory in the Ashes series down under a year earlier was the highlight of England's rise to the top, then one moment during that time stood out as a clear illustration of team spirit.
The whole triumphant test team stood on the outfield performing the 'sprinkler', a daft dance dreamt up in the dressing room.
Fast forward three years and many of the same characters from that impromptu performance must be scratching their heads about went wrong following one of the most embarrassing weeks English cricket has ever gone through.
Here are five things we've learnt about the sport this week.
The image of a close knit collection of professionals pulling in the same direction is forever in tatters.
The man at the centre of the storm is Kevin Pietersen, one of the most destructive batsman ever to have padded up for England.
KP had a book to sell, and he's spared no effort in promoting his autobiography far and wide, making a number of damaging accusations in the process that talked of cliques in the dressing room.
He said some bowlers were responsible for a culture of bullying that left junior team mates cold, and him in tears.
Former Australian captain Ricky Ponting has backed Pietersen's claims saying some players abused each other for dropped catches.
KP suggested the spoof Twitter account set up to parody him in 2012 was done with the full knowledge and approval of England's bowling clique.
That claim appeared to have been lent credibility by former England captain Alec Stewart, who revealed the man behind that same Twitter account told him Stuart Broad, Graeme Swann and co were in on it.
So far reaching were the shock waves of the accusations that even the BBC's cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew felt compelled to quit Twitter after getting involved in the argument.
There is no doubting KP's skill but he was criticised too many times for going all Hollywood on the pitch.
He often went for the spectacular when safety was the better option.
It seems off the field he's the same.
The players on the receiving end of KP's cover drives have largely kept their council, although Tim Bresnan tweeted his disappointment at having been implicated, while Graeme Swann dismissed KP's ranting as "codswallop".
Swann is now said to be consulting lawyers while Matt Prior has promised to have his say at some point.
The group responsible for running English cricket, the ECB, has been forced to deny leaking a dossier on Pietersen's behaviour that led to his dismissal from the England set-up.
They've also been forced to write press releases providing the official version of events in an ineffective attempt at damage limitation.
KP always hoped there was still a chance he'd play for England again. Now though there isn't.
There are even more people in the way of that happening.
In cricket when you stop playing you often enter the stands.
Power travels onwards and often upwards.
When pushed too far, noughties pop stars fight back. Jessica Taylor was unhappy at commentator Jonathan Agnew challenging KP's character.
He said the real KP is "an anxious, nervous character". She was also unhappy he had access to the parody Twitter account.
They battled online. He later quit. Even Piers Morgan said he wouldn't mess with her. Neither would we.
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On Thursday, a human skull was found alongside the M54 slip road by workers doing a survey of the junction four roundabout, near Telford.
Police confirmed the skull was that of an adult male and had been there for at least two years.
West Mercia Police said "further skeletal remains" were found close to the skull.
The eastbound entry slip road remains partially closed.
Det Chief Insp Neil Jamieson said: "We are in the very early stages of this investigation and inquiries are ongoing."
He said further forensic examinations and excavations were being carried out and police had been in contact with neighbouring forces asking for information about people who had been reported missing.
Archaeological experts may be called in to help with the investigation.
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Greater Ardoyne Residents Collective (GARC) supporters, including spokesperson Dee Fennell, confronted the high-profile priest after the Orange Order Parade passed the Ardoyne shops.
A small crowd of protesters accused him of taking sides with Sinn Féin and the Orange Order against a majority of local residents.
Fr Donegan has ministered in the Ardoyne area for the last 15 years, and is due to take up new duties next week at the Tobar Mhuire retreat centre in Crossgar. | Fr Gary Donegan was confronted by a small crowd of angry protesters following Saturday's Orange Order march in north Belfast. | 37543648 | [
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The 31-year-old had publicly revealed she was expecting her third child during a concert in May.
A statement on her Twitter account on Monday said: "Charlotte and Jonny are very sad to announce that they lost their baby. Now is a time for grieving and being together as a family.
"We kindly ask everyone to respect that peace."
The Cardiff-born star and her partner, musician Jonny Powell, have been together for seven years.
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The man's bike was in collision with a car in the village at around noon on Sunday.
It happened close to the junction with the Kilkeel Road and Pat's Road. The man's name has not been released.
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The woman, 37-year-old Wu Shuoyan, is alleged to have been killed last May simply for refusing to hand over her phone number to cult members.
The murder, filmed on CCTV and on mobile phones, sparked outrage.
The Church of the Almighty God cult is banned in China but claims to have millions of members.
Following the brutal killing in May, Chinese authorities said that they detained hundreds of members of the cult, reports the BBC's Martin Patience in Beijing.
Interviewed in prison later, one of the defendants, Zhang Lidong showed no remorse.
He said: "I beat her with all my might and stamped on her too. She was a demon. We had to destroy her."
The group had entered a small McDonalds branch in Zhaoyuan in Shandong province last May soliciting phone numbers and hoping to recruit members to their cult.
Ms Wu was waiting in the restaurant with her seven-year-old son and when she refused to give her number, an act which prompted the beating while they screamed at other diners to keep away or they would face the same fate.
The public face of the Church of the Almighty God is a website full of uplifting hymns and homilies. But its core belief is that God has returned to earth as a Chinese woman to wreak the apocalypse.
The only person who claims direct contact with this god is a former physics teacher, Zhao Weishan, who founded the cult 25 years ago and has since fled to the United States, says BBC China Editor Carrie Gracie.
No-one knows exactly where he is, but much of the website's message of outright hostility to the Chinese government is delivered in English as well as Chinese. The cult complains that religious faith has suffered from persecution by the Communist Party.
Since the McDonald's murder, public outrage has forced the authorities to increase pressure on the Church of the Almighty God with almost daily arrests and raids. | The trial of a group of cult members in China who beat a woman to death at a McDonald's restaurant has opened in the city of Yantai in Shandong province. | 28857395 | [
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The Cambridge history student knew the "significance" of the monument but did not realise he was dangling from a war memorial, the Court of Appeal was told.
Gilmour, of Billingshurst, West Sussex, was jailed for 16 months for violent disorder in July.
The 21-year-old is appealing against his sentence.
Judges heard Gilmour had taken LSD and valium before joining the central London protests against increased tuition fees last December.
He was seen hanging from a Union flag on the Cenotaph and leaping on to the bonnet of a Jaguar - part of a royal convoy.
Gilmour was previously found by a judge at Kingston-upon-Thames Crown Court to have thrown a rubbish bin at the vehicle.
His lawyers are also challenging this ruling as part of the appeal.
The crown court judge had accepted that the incident at the Cenotaph did not form part of the violent disorder, but described it as "outrageous and deeply offensive behaviour".
During his several-hour-long rampage, Gilmour was also found to have kicked the window of Topshop's flagship store on Oxford Street.
He ended the day in possession of the leg of a mannequin.
Gilmour's defence QC, David Spens, said his client did not know what the Cenotaph looked like and, as he had lived "without a television for 10 years", this was "not actually as surprising as might have been thought".
The court heard he had turned to drink and drugs after being rejected by his biological father, the writer Heathcote Williams.
Mr Spens said he had "successfully reformed and rehabilitated himself" and addressed the "underlying drug and alcohol problems".
He added: "My submission is that this sentence was unduly harsh, unnecessarily so."
The court has reserved judgement pending other Court of Appeal rulings relating to the August riots, which may have a bearing on Gilmour's case. | Charlie Gilmour, the son of Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour, was unaware he was swinging from the Cenotaph during student protests, a court has heard. | 15189414 | [
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Cotter will leave the Scotland job and be replaced by Glasgow boss Gregor Townsend at the end of the season.
Strauss, who will start at number eight against Ireland on Saturday, says the Scotland players want to send Cotter out on a high.
"When people move on you want to give them a good send off," Strauss said.
"It does bring that little bit more of an incentive. You do try that little bit harder. You need emotion to play rugby and it does give you that little extra edge."
Scotland have not won an opening day Six Nations fixture since the victory over France at Murrayfield in 2006. Their record against Ireland in the championship does not offer much cause for optimism either. Ireland have won 14 of 17 Six Nations matches between the sides.
Moreover, Joe Schmidt's side have beaten South Africa, Australia and New Zealand since last summer, with Munster's CJ Stander a stand-out performer, and a player with whom Strauss is well acquainted.
"We shared a room at the Springbok camp for a week back in the day," Strauss said.
"He's a farmer from up north in South Africa and I'm more of a beach boy from down in the city in Cape Town. We get along well and he's a very nice guy.
"He's a very tough player. Even with the Bulls, I played for the Lions so there was a very big rivalry between our two South African teams. He was always one of the guys we watched out for. He's come over and he's done exceptionally well."
Scotland resource coach Nathan Hines, who will follow Cotter to Montpellier in the summer, warned that Schmidt will have pinpointed every Scottish weakness ahead of the Murrayfield clash.
"He brings an unbelievable tactical awareness," said Hines, who played under Schmidt at Leinster.
"He goes through the other team with a fine-tooth comb and finds their weaknesses. That gives his teams confidence.
"I was across at the end of last year and spoke to him. The door is never closed with Joe, unless it is and he hasn't told me yet! He's an open guy and we had some good times with Leinster so I'm sure he'll give me a cheeky smile on Saturday before kick-off.
"They're very good at what they do. They find weaknesses and they exploit those weaknesses and make it very hard for you to play. It's about how we combat that and how we make it as difficult as possible for them to execute."
Ireland captain and hooker Rory Best expects to wage a punishing set-piece battle with Scotland's inexperienced front-row.
Edinburgh's Allan Dell, and Glasgow duo Fraser Brown and Zander Fagerson have just nine Test starts between them (three each), but 100-cap Best warns their lack of international appearances will not make for an easy ride.
"When you get that two-three link that play together every week, train together every day, it helps a lot," he said. "There's no doubt that will play into their hands.
"They're inexperienced if you look in terms of Test rugby as a combination but if you look at what they've achieved individually so far this season….to go to Welford Road and dominate the way Glasgow did and the way they've been performing, we've played against them provincially and it's a very tough task scrumming down against that Glasgow scrum.
"They form two-thirds of the front row on Saturday. We're under no illusions that it's going to be a tough ask. They're quality players." | Josh Strauss believes Vern Cotter's impending departure will provide added motivation for Scotland to have a successful Six Nations. | 38859551 | [
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The 26-year-old German tore cartilage in his knee during the Premier League defeat by Chelsea on 14 December, coming off after 57 minutes.
Kirchhoff was making only his eighth appearance of the season, and had two months out with a hamstring injury.
Sunderland, who visit Manchester United on Boxing Day, are 18th in the Premier League and one point from safety.
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The 1962 document is said to be one of the most important contracts in popular music, marking the beginning of the band's journey to international fame.
The contract had been expected to fetch up to £500,000 in a sale of other rock memorabilia.
It last went under the hammer in 2008 at an auction in London when it went for £240,000.
It is the only managerial contract signed by both the final line-up of the Beatles - John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr - and their manager.
The contract was signed on 1 October 1962 at Epstein's office in Whitechapel, days before they released their first single, Love Me Do. It was witnessed by Epstein's secretary, Beryl Adams.
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Instruments, clothing and manuscripts from the collection of Cream bassist Jack Bruce sold for between £688 for a manuscript book to £9,750 for a Warwick Fretless Thumb Bass.
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It is the first time a country has considered the DNA-altering technique in embryos and approved it.
The research will take place at the Francis Crick Institute in London and aims to provide a deeper understanding of the earliest moments of human life.
It will be illegal for the scientists to implant the modified embryos into a woman.
But the field is attracting controversy over concerns it is opening the door to designer - or GM - babies.
DNA is the blueprint of life - the instructions for building the human body. Gene editing allows the precise manipulation of DNA.
In a world-first last year, scientists in China announced they had carried out gene editing in human embryos to correct a gene that causes a blood disorder.
Prof Robin Lovell-Badge, a scientific advisor to the UK's fertility regulator, told the BBC: "China has guidelines, but it is often unclear exactly what they are until you've done it and stepped over an unclear boundary.
"This is the first time it has gone through a properly regulatory system and been approved."
The experiments will take place in the first seven days after fertilisation.
During this time we go from a fertilised egg to a structure called a blastocyst, containing 200-300 cells.
The work will be led by Dr Kathy Niakan, who has spent a decade researching human development.
Earlier this year, she explained why she had applied to edit human embryos: "We would really like to understand the genes needed for a human embryo to develop successfully into a healthy baby.
"The reason why it is so important is because miscarriages and infertility are extremely common, but they're not very well understood."
Out of every 100 fertilised eggs, fewer than 50 reach the early blastocyst stage, 25 implant into the womb and only 13 develop beyond three months.
And at the blastocyst stage, some cells have been organised to perform specific roles - some go on to form the placenta, others the yolk sac and others ultimately us.
How and why this takes place is unknown - but some parts of our DNA are highly active at this stage.
It is likely these genes are guiding our early development, but it is unclear exactly what they are doing or what goes wrong in miscarriage.
The researchers will alter these genes in donated embryos, which will be destroyed after seven days.
The regulator, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA), has given its approval and the experiments could start in the next few months.
Paul Nurse, the director of the Crick, said: "I am delighted that the HFEA has approved Dr Niakan's application.
"Dr Niakan's proposed research is important for understanding how a healthy human embryo develops and will enhance our understanding of IVF success rates, by looking at the very earliest stage of human development."
Dr David King, the director of Human Genetics Alert, said: "This research will allow the scientists to refine the techniques for creating GM babies, and many of the government's scientific advisers have already decided that they are in favour of allowing that.
"So this is the first step in a well mapped-out process leading to GM babies, and a future of consumer eugenics."
Dr Sarah Chan, from the University of Edinburgh, said: "The use of genome editing technologies in embryo research touches on some sensitive issues, therefore it is appropriate that this research and its ethical implications have been carefully considered by the HFEA before being given approval to proceed.
"We should feel confident that our regulatory system in this area is functioning well to keep science aligned with social interests."
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The pastor and his family eventually fled Chibok in September after repeated attacks by the militants. They moved to the nearby town of Mubi until it also came under attack the next month and now live in Minna in the north-west.
The family now scrapes a living by selling firewood and as Rev Mark tells the BBC's Chris Ewokor, the 12 months since the abductions have felt like "like 10 years".
Since the abduction of Monica and Sarah we've been in some kind of condition but I cannot describe it.
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That day, 14 April, was a very dangerous day. I remember hearing gunshots - all the buildings in Chibok were shaking.
We have little mountains there and they were was echoing the shooting sound.
When we went to the bush, I asked them [my wife and small children] to continue walking but I watched what was going and and saw how they were setting fire on some buildings until the morning.
I managed to get back to my house and took my machine [motorbike]. I went to the school, no pupils were there.
I asked about them and was told that they have taken our daughters, and they showed me the direction they went.
We saw that the girls had dropped their head scarves and dropped shoes along the way.
So I used that as a guide to follow where they went. Somebody told me that my daughter jumped out of the vehicle and she was wounded and she could not walk. It encouraged me to continue to pursue them.
I went to a village which the kidnappers had set fire to and passed through it. I went to the next village and was told that the kidnappers had somebody and that should go back.
I just went into the bush to keep on looking and I met two girls - Sarah Lawan and a daughter of my watchman. I took them on my machine to the house. They [had] jumped out of the big lorry that was carrying them - if you would have seen the dust on them, you would have pitied them.
So it was those girls who gave me the information that they were kidnapped.
When I was in Chibok, there were some members of Boko Haram who mixed with us, so we did get some information though it was not first hand and we did not know if it was true or not.
I was told that my daughter was stoned to death soon after being kidnapped and I was told that my daughter had been asked her to receive the Prophet Muhammad as her saviour.
She refused [and] I was told that they dug a hole and buried her leaving her head outside and stoned her to death.
But [an envoy of the government who has been negotiating with the Boko Haram] just some three weeks ago he called me and told me that my daughters' names are among the names of the girls they are expecting [to be freed] which shows she is still alive, according to what he told me. I have hope.
Even if my daughter has been stoned to death, I am the happiest man as a man of God who has brought up my daughter with that kind of faith.
I always think that had it been President Goodluck [Jonathan], or the defence minister or the chief defence minister or the governor of Borno state or those senators, who had lost a daughter, how would they feel?
At the time these girls were kidnapped, had the federal government paid careful attention they would have rescued these girls.
I'm not blaming the federal government but it's their responsibility to bring the girls back.
When I remember the future of my [other] children it makes me to shed tears, I don't know how we will end up. Since the kidnapping none of my children has been to school.
Monica, she's very neat in everything and she's prayerful all the time.
And one thing that makes me to remember her all the time, [she said] "Daddy I'm praying for you that you will be able to sponsor me, I want to be a doctor I want to help the nation."
That's all these things that I remember - and her determination. | The daughter and adopted daughter of Reverend Enoch Mark were amongst the more than 200 girls kidnapped in the early hours of the morning from their boarding school by Boko Haram militants in northern-eastern Nigeria a year ago. | 32305622 | [
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Special Report: The Technology of Business
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Such digital technologies offer the potential to tackle some of the continent's chronic education challenges, including overcrowded classrooms, teacher shortages and the 30 million children in sub-Saharan Africa without any education at all.
As Africa becomes ever more connected, educators and publishers are finding new ways to reach young audiences and develop their burgeoning minds.
One such company is Via Afrika Publishers.
First and foremost a publisher of textbooks for over 65 years, Via Afrika began to investigate the move to digital content several years ago. Its early adoption seems to be reaping dividends.
"We decided about three years ago, after looking at what was taking place in the world, that e-learning was an important direction to go in," says Michael Goodman, the company's group content manager.
"We decided to design a set of e-learning books that matched our printed books and indeed matched the books we submitted to the education department. It was a sort of 'build it and they will come' mentality, because there was no call for any electronic books to be submitted," he added.
Mr Goodman points out that uptake has really mushroomed over the past year. While there were about 1,000 e-book sales in 2013, there have already been 64,000 in 2014, he says.
But he admits that as the South African government has invested heavily in printed materials, a widespread shift towards e-learning will require partnerships between private enterprise and government.
"We are seeing pockets of co-operation," he says. "Companies are coming up with their own initiatives in supplying tablets and then co-operating with government to implement them in schools.
"That needs to grow a whole lot. We feel that a very strong public and private partnership is needed to move us towards e-learning completely."
Via Afrika has formed just such a partnership with a non-profit organisation, Breadline Africa, to provide rural communities with digital education centres.
Breadline Africa is a Cape Town-based non-governmental organisation (NGO) that specialises in converting old shipping containers for community use.
The digital centres are being developed inside existing libraries and each is supplied with 15 Android tablet devices loaded with Via Afrika's latest educational programmes, apps and electronic textbooks.
The Via Afrika Digital Education Centre initiative is currently being rolled out in three primary schools in the provinces of Limpopo, Mpumalanga, and the Free State.
"I visited one school last week in Limpopo and to see how the kids have responded so positively in working with brand new media has been remarkable," says Mr Goodman.
"It's going to be interesting for us to see what the impact will be in a small rural school."
One of the challenges is educating the teachers as well as the children. So the centres will receive regular visits and updates to keep the educators aware of the latest developments, says Mr Goodman.
Look around one of these centres and you will see people consuming content and interacting online in a variety of social networking spaces.
One such space is social learning platform Obami.com. The Cape Town-based firm is making waves with its brand of educational tools and online connections.
Founded by Barbara Mallinson in 2007, Obami - which means "my" or "mine" in isiZulu - began as a generic social networking site.
But Ms Mallinson soon saw the opportunity to refine the concept and have an impact upon a key issue in South Africa - education.
"We are all very aware of the education crisis going on in South Africa and beyond. Social media was being used in entertainment and for business but no-one was really doing this in education," she explains.
Ms Mallinson and the Obami team wanted to see how social media in schools could be used to connect scholars, teachers and parents.
The first pilot study "went wonderfully", she says, although the teachers remained wary of social networking for social networking's sake.
"We looked at it again and thought social networking is very useful in many industries but it has to serve a purpose, and so we decided to change a few things and ended up with this idea of social media being applied to a learning management system."
This means uploading and sharing content, and setting and undertaking assignments, she explains. Sharing curriculum content online and monitoring learners through assessment were core principles "bringing the platform to life".
Over the past few years, Obami has continued to grow across South Africa and the continent with about 400 schools and organisations now using the platform to connect learners and partners.
As the platform is customisable it is equally suitable for an early stage learner as for an adult involved in distance learning, the company believes. It is accessible via PC, tablet or phone.
"Obami was traditionally a primary and secondary platform but we have now opened it up beyond schools," she says.
"We also found a demand from scholars whose schools weren't using the platform to get on to Obami, so we started our own school of sorts and now have nearly 4,000 individuals on the platform who can access its learning capabilities and content."
Few believe technology for its own sake will be the knight in shining armour that helps South Africa and the continent educate its youth more effectively.
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The 24-year-old, who played 16 games on loan at Kilmarnock last season, will compete with James Tavernier.
Hodson started his career at Watford and played 51 games in three seasons at MK Dons after a loan at Brentford.
He joins new faces Matt Gilks, Clint Hill, Joey Barton, Niko Kranjcar, Jordan Rossiter, Matt Crooks and Josh Windass at Ibrox.
Rangers paid an undisclosed fee for Hodson, who was part of Northern Ireland's squad at Euro 2016, but did not feature in any of their four matches. | Rangers have made right-back Lee Hodson their eighth summer signing on a three-year deal from MK Dons. | 36666760 | [
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The BBC will broadcast more than 3,000 hours of coverage, including 550 hours of television on BBC One and BBC Four.
BBC Radio 5 live and 5 live sports extra will have full coverage of the Olympics (5-21 August) and the Paralympics (7-18 Sept).
Up to 24 live HD video streams will show every moment online.
Fans will also be able to personalise their Rio 2016 experience on the BBC Sport website and in the app.
'My Sport' will enable audiences to follow their favourite sports, signing up for the latest news alerts, setting event reminders and sharing their favourite moments across social media.
Redgrave won rowing gold medals at five consecutive Olympics from 1984 to 2000, while Chris Hoy is the most successful British Olympian of all time with six cycling golds from 2004 to 2012.
"The BBC's coverage of London 2012 was the most watched TV event in UK broadcasting history and we are committed to bringing the same high quality, in-depth coverage to Rio 2016," said Barbara Slater, director of BBC Sport.
"The incredible offering across all our platforms will deliver every moment of the Games through a truly interactive, personalised experience while at the same time fully immersing audiences in this iconic sporting event just as we were so proud to do four years ago."
TV and radio coverage starts with the opening ceremony on 5 August, with live action from 12:00 BST until 04:00 every day until the closing ceremony on 21 August.
The BBC Breakfast sofa, which will move into the home of BBC Sport at MediaCityUK during the Games, will offer extended daily highlights from 06:00.
Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson, who won 11 Paralympic gold medals, will be part of the Radio 5 live and 5 live sports extra team which provides more than 80 hours of live coverage of the Paralympics.
Along with Redgrave and Hoy, American sprinting legend Michael Johnson - winner of four Olympic golds - and some of Britain's most decorated sporting figures will provide expert opinion and insight into the 28 Olympic sports at Rio 2016.
The line-up across radio and TV also includes former Olympic heptathlon champion Denise Lewis, two-time Olympic cycling gold medallist Victoria Pendleton, marathon world record holder Paula Radcliffe and England's Rugby World Cup-winning coach Sir Clive Woodward.
Double Olympic swimming champion Rebecca Adlington, 2004 sprint relay gold medallist Darren Campbell, three-time world champion gymnast Beth Tweddle and Anthony Joshua, the newly crowned IBF world heavyweight boxing champion, will also be part of the BBC team in Brazil.
Subscribe to the BBC Sport newsletter to get our pick of news, features and video sent to your inbox. | Olympic legends Sir Steve Redgrave and Sir Chris Hoy will be part of the BBC team offering comprehensive coverage of Rio 2016. | 36385237 | [
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Campaigners from action group Plane Stupid staged the demonstration on Monday in opposition to the airport's expansion plans.
The men and women have been charged with aggravated trespass and entering a security restricted area of an aerodrome, police said.
They will appear in court on 19 August.
The protest took place on the northern runway at 03:30 BST on Monday.
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A Munster statement said O'Connell, 36, would provide "invaluable technical expertise and advice" to the Irish province's next generation of players.
"Every club in the world would love to have an iconic figure such as Paul O'Connell involved in their set-up," said Munster chief Garret Fitzgerald.
O'Connell made 174 Munster appearances and earned 108 Ireland caps.
"As a Limerick native and proud Munster and Irishman who has played and led teams for Munster, Ireland and the Lions, we were very eager to secure his services in some capacity," added Fitzgerald.
"An appointment such as this is a further boost to our academy staff and young players, and to the organisation as a whole."
The Limerick man, who played on three British & Irish Lions tours, was forced to retire from the game in February after being unable to recover from serious hamstring injury sustained at last year's World Cup.
The injury meant that O'Connell was forced to cancel his contract with French club Toulon.
Former Lions captain O'Connell spent 14 seasons at Munster and helped the province win two European Cup titles and three Celtic Leagues.
O'Connell was also part of Ireland's Grand Slam winning team in 2009 and captained his country to successive Six Nations titles in 2014 and 2015.
Munster have appointed former South African international Johan 'Rassie' Erasmus as their Director of Rugby for next season with Anthony Foley's job title remaining as head coach. | Munster great Paul O'Connell will work with the province's academy in a part-time mentoring role over the next year. | 36767193 | [
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Messages posted on social media claimed the user planned to "kill as many people as possible" at Montgomery High School in Bispham on Monday, the Blackpool Gazette reported.
The planned attack was in revenge for alleged bullying, the post added.
Police confirmed officers were investigating the source and would ensure the school's safety.
The unnamed Facebook user also praised gun killers in schools in the United States and posted on the school's Facebook page: "Nobody talks to me or notices me except when they're calling me a nerd and pushing me around."
Responding to one student after the post was made, the user asked: "You think it's a joke? You'll see bullets, bodies, and blood."
Principal Tony Nicholson said in a statement to parents and carers the safety of pupils and staff was paramount.
It read: "Police have confidently reinforced the view that these online postings do not represent a credible threat. They, and we, wish to reassure our parents and the wider school community that Montgomery High School can open as normal on Monday morning."
A Lancashire Police spokesman said: "We are aware of posts on social media concerning Montgomery High School in Bispham and are investigating the source and content of these messages.
"If the matter is not resolved prior to Monday, parents, pupils, staff and the wider community should be reassured that an appropriate police response will be implemented prior to the school reopening after the Christmas holiday to ensure the safety of all." | Threats to kill pupils in a shooting at a Blackpool school are being investigated by Lancashire police. | 35217289 | [
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He was withdrawn from this year's race because of possible irregularities in his biological passport.
But the rider's Tinkoff-Saxo team said that 28-year-old Kreuziger is now free to continue racing.
"The team is very happy he has been cleared and that he is is now eligible to resume racing," a statement said.
"He was found not guilty for the alleged abnormalities in his biological passport profile."
Kreuziger began 2014 by finishing third at the Tirreno-Adriatico in Italy and claiming eighth in the Tour de Suisse.
But he was pulled from his team, although not technically suspended, before the Tour de France.
The International Cycling Union (UCI) decided to ban him provisionally in August pending the Czech Olympic Committee's ruling.
The UCI said in a separate statement it would consider an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport. It has one month to lodge a challenge.
The data in question is from Kreuziger's biological passport in 2011 and 2012, when he was riding for the Astana team. | Czech cyclist Roman Kreuziger, fifth in last year's Tour de France, has been cleared of any doping offence by his national Olympic committee. | 29318909 | [
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Matching Models in London describes itself as "an international temp agency for beautiful and talented people".
It advertised for a personal assistant with "a classic look, brown long hair with b-c cup".
The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) called it "appalling, unlawful and demeaning to women".
Rebecca Hilsenrath, chief executive of the EHRC, said it would be writing to Matching Models "asking for them to clarify their hiring practices immediately".
Meanwhile, women's equality campaigners said its ads were "straight out of the 1970s".
Sam Smethers, chief executive of the Fawcett Society, said: "It is extraordinary that they are taking this approach and almost certainly falls foul of equality legislation.
"If we ever wonder why the battle for gender equality hasn't been won, this is a timely reminder."
The agency's founder Nathalie Jansen said: "Our clients are important to us - and looks are important."
Another job advert on the agency's website asks a "sexy female driver" to drive a Porsche Cayenne two days a week for between £40,000 and £50,000-a-year for a Knightsbridge-based businessman and polo team owner.
Employment lawyer James Lynas, partner at Winckworth Sherwood, said the advert was "clearly unlawful", adding anyone could complain to the Equality and Human Rights Commission, who have powers to intervene.
He said an employment tribunal could find the use of phrases such as "beautiful and attractive" were really code for "young", and in reality discriminatory against older women.
He added: "A male driver who genuinely wanted the job could submit an application and sue for sex discrimination if rejected. Compensation for such claims is unlimited. "
A statement on the agency's website states: "It is almost politically incorrect to request someone to work for you that is both attractive as well as professionally equipped with the right set of skills.
"However, our company understands the importance of having the right people representing your company, because after all, first impressions count."
But Ms Hilsenrath said: "Matching Models are right about one thing; first impressions count, but the important stuff is not about your hair colour.
"If they wish to maintain their reputation, they should act like a business in the 21st Century and consign this type of sexism to the history books."
Under the 2010 Equality Act, it is against the law to say, or imply, that you will discriminate against anyone - including saying that you are unable to cater for disabled workers.
Employers are also not allowed to question a candidate's age, sexual orientation, marital status, number of children or plans to have children, disability, race or religion.
As for specifying clothing sizes, an employer has to be able to show that it is essential to the nature or context of the work.
Talking about the personal assistant advert, Ms Jansen said: "The client who wants the specific cup size is an older gentleman - he has a specific outfit he designed with Christian Dior. He wants a "Jackie O" look. And he wants a lady with a smaller cup size to fit into the outfit."
"I recently had an Indian businessman who interviewed 60 women from my firm. He wanted a blonde, blue eyed, Greek woman. He hired 6 of them to work on his plane."
Matching Models clients include MTV, Louis Vuitton, Coca-Cola, the Renualt Formula 1 team and Harrods.
Ms Jansen said she had hired 5,000 people worldwide and pointed out MTV wanted models with tattoos and piercings. | A recruitment agency has been criticised for advertising jobs only for "attractive women", as well as specifying bra size. | 37573886 | [
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 20 points to end at 20,914.62, while the broader S&P 500 index dipped by just three points to finish at 2,378.23.
The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite was unchanged at 5,901.
Among the individual shares to rise was jewellery firm Tiffany's after it reported better-than-expected results.
Strong demand in Japan and China, as well as higher prices, helped an overall rise in sales, but profit fell to $157.8m in the fourth quarter from $163.2m the same time last year.
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The king commissioned the piano for the palace from renowned maker Thomas Tomkison in about 1821.
The instrument displays the flamboyant taste Tomkison shared with the king.
It was bought by Brighton and Hove City Council with funding from Arts Council England and the Victoria and Albert Museum,
The piano is thought to have been removed from the Pavilion by Queen Victoria after she ascended the throne in 1837.
However, its whereabouts for many years are unknown and it is thought to have held in private collections.
A Brighton Pavilion spokeswoman described the instrument as "an elegant rosewood grand, extravagantly decorated, inlaid with brass, gilt mouldings and gilt turnbuckles, with elegantly carved legs".
Councillor Alan Robins said: "King George's piano has long been on a wish list of desirable assets for the Royal Pavilion and so we're thrilled to have brought it back to its rightful home.
"The piano is playable but as it's been dormant for 20 years will need some restoration. It would be amazing to be able to hear music of the period played on it." | King George IV's only known surviving grand piano has been returned to Brighton's Royal Pavilion after being bought at auction for £62,000. | 39599780 | [
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Cardiff North MP Jonathan Evans said it was "a tragedy" there was no agreement on who should chair the inquiry, set up after claims of paedophiles operating in Westminster in the 1980s.
The Conservative MP said cases should be investigated by the police first.
Child abuse survivors have urged the government to scrap the inquiry.
Instead, they want it replaced with a more powerful body.
It comes after Home Secretary Theresa May told inquiry members their panel might be disbanded.
The Met Police said earlier this month that detectives were investigating three alleged murders as part of their investigation into historical child abuse.
Mr Evans, who is chairman of the Welsh Tory party and a former deputy chairman of the Welsh NSPCC council, said: "Now I hear that a number of the groups who are representing victims have suggested the whole of the process should be stopped and a different sort of inquiry created.
"I don't know exactly what the terms of that inquiry should be and I'm not really sure what they mean by setting up a stronger inquiry because I think the inquiry that was being set up was a pretty strong one."
He said ongoing police inquiries introduced a "new dimension", and that they appeared to be proceeding on the basis of new evidence "in which the police have already made it clear to the media that there are real issues that are being investigated".
"It seems to me that those police inquiries have got to now take precedence. We ought not to have a situation in which we set up an inquiry and then we can only do half the job because police inquiries are ongoing."
Mr Evans, who was a Wales Office minister in the 1990s when the UK government set up the Waterhouse inquiry into abuse allegations at children's homes in north Wales, added: "It seems to me that the police inquiries are now at the forefront."
He said Mrs May should not be blamed for delays to the inquiry, which has been held up by the resignation of her first two choices of chairperson.
Victims must have confidence in the process, Mr Evans said, "and so the reason we are in the situation we are in is that we are struggling to find a chairman that the victims' groups will have confidence in". | Police investigations into claims of historical child abuse should "take precedence" over a UK government-ordered inquiry, a Welsh MP says. | 30578600 | [
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Berlin was seemingly bathed in yellow as the fanatical Dortmund fans travelled to watch their coach, who helped them to two league titles, try to end his tenure on a high.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang gave Dortmund the perfect start from close range.
But Wolfsburg hit back through Luiz Gustavo, Kevin De Bruyne and Bas Dost to win their first German Cup.
It was a brutal response by Wolfsburg, who finished the league season second in the Bundesliga, after Gabon forward Aubameyang had fired home ex-Manchester United midfielder Shinji Kagawa's delivery in the fifth minute.
Dortmund, league runners-up last season, have looked flimsy at the back during the 2014-15 campaign. They finished seventh in the Bundesliga, but struggled at the wrong end of the table up until Christmas.
And in the 22nd minute those frailties were exposed once more when Brazil international Gustavo collected the loose ball after keeper Mitchell Langerak had parried into his path from Naldo's low free-kick.
Dortmund were punished again moments later. This time former Chelsea midfielder De Bruyne, who has been one of Wolfsburg's players of the season, fired in from outside the area.
And the men in yellow suffered a third setback just before half-time when Dutch striker Dost, who scored 16 goals for Wolfsburg in the Bundesliga this season, was left unmarked at the far post to head in Ivan Perisic's cross.
Kagawa and Aubameyang went close for Dortmund in the second half, but Dieter Hecking's Wolfsburg side looked comfortable as they held on for a historic win. | Jurgen Klopp's final match in charge of Borussia Dortmund ended in defeat by Wolfsburg in the DFB Pokal final. | 32938029 | [
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The British Government permitted changing the name of the local authority to Derry City Council in 1985.
The council's town clerk was instructed to write to NI Secretary Douglas Hurd.
He asked that staff in government departments be allowed to use 'Derry' or 'Londonderry' in official letters.
In response, Londonderry Unionist Association said it reinforced the claim for a separate district council for the East Bank of the Foyle.
Pat Carvill, a Stormont official, said its real effect was to force council staff and the public to indicate where they stood on the name-change issue.
His advice was that government bodies should employ the current terminology, using Derry City Council, but Londonderry as the postal address.
The controversy over the city's name re-surfaced the following year.
DUP MLA Gregory Campbell protested to David Fell, the Permanent Secretary at the Department of Economic Development in Stormont, about the use of the word 'Derry' in a job advertisement for the local Shantallow Area Workshop.
Writing from the Stormont Assembly on 22 April 1986, Mr Campbell told the official: "As you are probably aware, the way in which advertisements are worded can very often affect the type of people who apply.
"An ad placed in Londonderry with the term 'Derry' is virtually certain to preclude many Protestants from applying."
In this case, it suggested that the business in question was exclusively Catholic.
The MLA said: "Whether or not this is the case I feel a workshop sponsored by the DED ought not to have an incorrect or politically-motivated version of the city's name in the advertisement."
He asked if action could be taken by the department or if he should refer the case to the Fair Employment Agency for investigation.
In a minute on the file, Trevor Pearson of the Stormont Central Secretariat said on 30 April 1986: "The issue of the use of Derry or Londonderry drags on interminably.
"The government position is simply that the correct address is Londonderry and that Derry is used only when referring to the council.
"In the case of bodies funded from public money it is more difficult to apply the policy," he said.
"If a body insists on using Derry as its postal address, the only sanction which the DED can impose is the cutting-off of funds."
He very much doubted if any government department would wish to contemplate such drastic action. | The controversy over the use of the terms 'Derry' and 'Londonderry' surfaces in state papers that have just been released. | 35166610 | [
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The star of TV series Dexter and Six Feet Under, Hall played the lead role in Bowie's musical Lazarus, which premiered shortly before his death.
He will perform the title song, which opens with the line: "Look up here, I'm in heaven", and was widely interpreted as Bowie's personal epitaph.
The song also appears on Bowie's Mercury-nominated Blackstar album.
Other nominees include Laura Mvula, The 1975, Kano and Bat For Lashes.
Radiohead are also shortlisted for their album A Moon Shaped Pool. It is their fifth nomination - but they have yet to win the £25,000 prize.
The band, who are on a brief break from their world tour, are not expected to perform at the ceremony, but most of the other acts will appear.
On the night, the 12 nominated albums will be cut down to six finalists, one of whom will be chosen by a public vote.
A panel of judges, including Jarvis Cocker, Annie Mac and Wolf Alice frontwoman Ellie Rowsell, will then choose the overall winner.
The full list of nominees is:
Read more about the nominees
The 2016 Hyundai Mercury Music Prize takes place at the Hammersmith Apollo on Thursday, 15 September.
There will be full coverage on BBC Music News LIVE, and the BBC red button and the ceremony will be broadcast live on BBC Four from 21:00 BST.
Follow us on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, on Instagram at bbcnewsents, or if you have a story suggestion email [email protected]. | Actor Michael C Hall is to perform a tribute to David Bowie at this week's Mercury Music Prize ceremony. | 37338508 | [
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Wurz, 41, retired as a racing driver this week and has been asked by owner Stephen Fitzpatrick to run the team.
The Austrian said: "I was approached. I would have preferred it not be out in public but I can't deny it."
Wurz would not say whether he would accept the role, which would be senior to the new one created for Ryan.
Manor team boss John Booth and sporting director Graeme Lowdon have resigned and their last race with the team will be the season finale in Abu Dhabi later this month.
Neither has said why they have chosen to quit but it seems they have lost confidence in the management of Fitzpatrick.
Ryan spent 34 years at McLaren before being forced to resign following the 'lie-gate' scandal in 2009, when he and Lewis Hamilton were found to have misled race stewards at the Australian Grand Prix.
It is widely believed in F1 that Ryan was not responsible for the incident, but was forced to take public responsibility.
He received a substantial redundancy payment from McLaren and has recently been running a team of McLaren cars in sportscar racing.
Ryan, 61, said: "I'm very excited to be joining the Manor Marussia F1 Team at a pivotal time in their development.
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"Having spent time with Stephen, and understood his vision for the future, it is clear he has ensured there is a strong platform from which the team can make big steps forward in the seasons ahead.
"Manor has all the hallmarks of a fiercely competitive racing team, but having grown up in a much more contemporary Formula 1 era, it is a very lean operation with a collaborative culture, which leaves it well placed to contend with the sport's future direction.
"There is clearly a big challenge ahead and a lot of work to do, but I can't wait to meet the wider team and get down to business."
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Northumberland County Council said the weather was now warm enough for its Jetpatcher machines to tackle the holes.
It is hoped that 145 potholes each day will be "filled in" over the next four months, the council said.
Extra staff will also be out repairing drainage systems damaged by heavy rain and to clear debris from gutters. | A county council has set aside £1m to fix almost 3,000 portholes created during Storm Desmond flooding. | 35903821 | [
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It means bloggers with more than 3,000 daily readers must register with the mass media regulator, Roskomnadzor, and conform to the regulations that govern the country's larger media outlets.
Internet companies will also be required to allow Russian authorities access to users' information.
One human rights group called the move "draconian".
The law was approved by Russia's upper house of parliament in April.
It includes measures to ensure that bloggers cannot remain anonymous, and states that social networks must maintain six months of data on its users.
The information must be stored on servers based in Russian territory, so that government authorities can gain access.
Critics see it as the latest in a series of recent moves to curb internet freedom.
Hugh Williamson, of New York-based Human Rights Watch, has called the law "another milestone in Russia's relentless crackdown on free expression".
"The internet is the last island of free expression in Russia and these draconian regulations are clearly aimed at putting it under government control," he added.
Opposition figures have used the internet to air their views, with some gaining millions of followers.
Commentators opposing Vladimir Putin often face restrictions in broadcast outlets and newspapers.
Analysis: Famil Ismailov, news editor, BBCRussian.com
Russian bloggers are bracing themselves for the moment when Russia's new "information security law" comes into force on 1 August. Some already share advice on how to use proxy servers in order to access social media sites that, in their view, are under threat of being closed.
It is hard to see how the law will be enforced. The servers for most of the popular social media platforms that many Russians use are based outside Russia.
Many popular bloggers are already looking for, and apparently finding, ways to "cheat" the feature that counts page visits and keep their daily unique visitor numbers just under 3000, or to make sure that the statistics are hidden altogether.
Anton Nossik, who is considered Russia's "internet guru", wrote in his LiveJournal blog that the new law didn't threaten individual bloggers directly, but provided legal grounds to block popular social networks like Facebook, Twitter, LiveJournal and Google.
"The issue of banning all these platforms in Russia is a political one and it will be decided by only one person", Mr Nossik wrote, with a thinly veiled reference to President Vladimir Putin.
Earlier in the year, Russia enacted a law that gave the government powers to block websites without explanation.
In March, Moscow blocked the blog of Mr Navalny, along with two news sites and a organisation run by Garry Kasparov - a vocal critic of the Russian government.
In a statement, Russia's prosecutor general's office said the blocks were imposed because of the sites' role in helping stage illegal protests.
Earlier this week, Twitter blocked access to an anti-Kremlin account that often publishes leaked government documents, following a request by Russia's federal communications agency Roskomnadzor.
For many years, Russia had relatively lax internet laws.
However Moscow has recently changed its tune, with Mr Putin branding the internet an ongoing "CIA project".
He also claimed that the popular Russian search engine Yandex was controlled by foreign intelligence.
Two years ago, Russia enacted a law enabling authorities to blacklist and force certain websites offline without a trial.
The government said the legislation was designed to protect children from harmful internet content, such as pro-suicide or pornography websites.
On Thursday, lawyers for US intelligence officer Edward Snowden said the whistleblower had filed for refugee status in Russia.
Mr Snowden received temporary shelter in Russia last year.
He had evaded US authorities after he leaked classified government documents revealing mass surveillance programmes undertaken by the NSA in the US and GCHQ in the UK. | A new law imposing restrictions on users of social media has come into effect in Russia. | 28583669 | [
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22 May 2017 Last updated at 07:13 BST
A team of researchers say they've come up with a new exercise that cuts the risk of kids getting hurt when playing rugby.
The exercise could now be introduced in schools.
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The book, which upholds the right to ridicule religion, was finished two days before Charb was killed by Islamic militants in January, publishers say.
It argues that the fight against racism is being replaced by a misguided struggle against "Islamophobia".
Charb and 11 others were killed during a Charlie Hebdo editorial meeting.
The attack on the Paris offices of the newspaper was carried out by two brothers, Said and Cherif Kouachi, who were later shot dead by police.
Charb had received numerous death threats following Charlie Hebdo's publication of cartoons featuring the Prophet Muhammad in 2006. The magazine's offices were firebombed in 2012.
Charb's book - which goes on sale on Thursday - is entitled An Open Letter to the Fraudsters of Islamophobia who Play into Racists' Hands.
It is both a defence of Charlie Hebdo's editorial stance and an attack on the paper's detractors.
"The suggestion that you can laugh at everything, except certain aspects of Islam, because Muslims are much more prickly that the rest of the population - what is that, if not discrimination?"
He condemns this position as "white, left-wing bourgeois intellectual paternalism".
Charlie Hebdo, which was launched in 1969, poked fun at conservatives and all religions. It had a small circulation and folded in 1981, but was resurrected in 1992. | A book written by the late editor of French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, Stephane Charbonnier - known as Charb - is set to be published posthumously. | 32325884 | [
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Wales was around 40th out of 68 in the last Pisa international school test results for science, maths and reading released last December.
Wales also fell behind the rest of the UK with an average score of 468.
Mr Lewis has set a new target score of 500. Conservatives said that amounted to "stagnation" not "aspiration".
As a comparison, Scotland scored over 500 points last year, which means that the new target for Wales in 2021 would put it on a par with Scotland in 2013.
Mr Lewis had told BBC Wales last December that ditching the target was the easy way out and he did not want to lower pupils' ambitions.
On Thursday he insisted the new approach was still ambitious.
"This is a better target, I think, because it relates to what teachers can aim for in their classrooms, in their schools, as regards the actual progress of young people," he said.
"If we say to a head teacher 'we need to be in the top 20', it's very difficult to translate that into how their 15-year-olds should do at GCSE.
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Conservative shadow education minister Angela Burns ridiculed Labour for seeking to "raise Welsh performance from the worst performing UK nation to the second worst by 2021".
"This isn't aspiration, but stagnation," she said.
"This feeble new target shows a poverty of ambition for young people."
But the National Union of Teachers (NUT) said it was "pleased" the minister was taking the "sensible approach".
Owen Hathway, of NUT Wales, said: "It was always a little unwise to have created such targets simply for the headlines they drew.
"Evaluating the progress of the points scored is a far better and more productive way of measuring progress."
Plaid Cymru education spokesman Simon Thomas said he was "glad" Mr Lewis had now "placed more realistic expectations on the teaching profession".
However Aled Roberts, who speaks for the Liberal Democrats on education, called on ministers to "make up their minds once and for all about their education strategy or hold up their hands up and admit they don't know how to fix our education system".
The new target was announced as part of an education improvement plan launched by Mr Lewis.
Qualified for Life sets out the Welsh government's vision for education up to 2020, with the ambition that every learner in Wales should benefit from "excellent teaching and learning".
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The company reported an 8% increase in profit to $391m (£273m) for the first three months of 2016.
Yum, which also owns Pizza Hut and Taco Bell, said sales at stores in China that have been open a year or more rose 6% compared to the same quarter last year.
The news boosted Yum's shares by 4% in after-hours trading.
Analysts had expected just a 2.1% growth in sales in China, where Yum is the biggest Western restaurant brand.
Chief executive Greg Creed said: "KFC China had an outstanding Chinese New Year bucket promotion."
"This is a transformational year for our company as we remain on track to finalise the separation of our China business by year end," Mr Creed said.
Yum wants to spin-off its 6,900 China restaurants, its most profitable business, by the end of 2016 in order to focus the company on US operations.
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Many people have been reluctant to seek medical treatment for Ebola, fearing that diagnosis might mean death as there is no proven cure.
A team of 30,000 people is going house-to-house to find those infected and distribute soap.
But critics say the lockdown will damage public trust in doctors.
Meanwhile in neighbouring Guinea, the bodies of eight missing health workers and journalists involved in the Ebola campaign have been found.
A government spokesman said some of the bodies had been recovered from a septic tank in the village of Wome. The team had been attacked by villagers on Tuesday.
Guinea's prime minister said an investigation was under way, and vowed to catch the perpetrators of the "heinous murders".
Correspondents say many villagers are suspicious of official attempts to combat the disease and the incident illustrates the difficulties health workers face.
Sierra Leone is one of the countries worst hit by West Africa's Ebola outbreak, with more than 550 victims among the 2,600 deaths so far recorded.
In the capital, Freetown, normally bustling streets were quiet, with police guarding roadblocks.
During the curfew, 30,000 volunteers will look for people infected with Ebola, or bodies, which are especially contagious.
They will hand out bars of soap and information on preventing infection.
Officials say the teams will not enter people's homes but will call emergency services to deal with patients or bodies.
Volunteers will mark each house with a sticker after they have visited it, reports say.
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On Thursday, President Ernest Bai Koroma said: "Extraordinary times require extraordinary measures."
He urged citizens to avoid touching each other, visiting the sick or avoid attending funerals.
Freetown resident Christiana Thomas told the BBC: "People are afraid of going to the hospital because everyone who goes there is tested for Ebola."
Another resident in Kenema, in the east of the country, told the BBC families were struggling because the price of food had gone up.
In the hours leading up to Sierra Leone's lockdown, there was traffic gridlock in Freetown as people stocked up on food and essentials.
The BBC's Umaru Fofana in Sierra Leone
Cities and towns across the country were quiet without the usual early morning Muslim call to prayer and the cacophony of vehicles and motorbikes that people wake up to here.
Thousands of volunteers and health workers have assembled at designated centres across Sierra Leone and started moving into homes.
But they had to wait for hours before their kit - soaps and flyers - could reach them.
MP Claude Kamanda, who represents the town of Waterloo near Freetown, told local media that all the health centres there were closed, hours after the health workers and volunteers were meant to assemble for deployment to homes.
He complained that the delays were not helping the campaign.
The UN Security Council on Thursday declared the outbreak a "threat to international peace" and called on states to provide more resources to combat it.
Meanwhile, the US military has started work in the Liberian capital Monrovia to establish an air bridge - a link by air transport - to take health workers and supplies to affected countries.
The UK has pledged to help build new treatment centres and provide 700 new hospital beds in Sierra Leone, although a majority of the beds could take several months to arrive.
Aid workers have welcomed the UK aid but say all of the beds are required immediately, the BBC international development correspondent Mark Doyle reports.
Medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has been strongly critical of the lockdown, arguing that ultimately it will help spread the disease as such measures "end up driving people underground and jeopardising the trust between people and health providers". | A three-day curfew is under way in Sierra Leone to let health workers find and isolate cases of Ebola, in order to halt the spread of the disease. | 29264550 | [
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First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the Transition Training Fund should help keep expertise in the energy sector, or in related roles in manufacturing.
She said job losses were "distressing".
The fund will offer grants for individuals to acquire specialised skills or further training.
Ms Sturgeon was meeting industry leaders and attending an energy jobs task force in Aberdeen.
She said: "It is absolutely crucial that we take every possible action to retain the expertise that the industry has built up over decades so that it remains flexible enough to capitalise on exploration investment and future oil price rises."
Also announced was £12.5m of Scottish Enterprise funding aimed at helping oil and gas firms sustain growth and compete internationally by developing new innovative technologies.
The announcements - and plans for a £20m Aberdeen International Airport revamp - came just days after a £504m package was announced earlier by the UK and Scottish governments to improve infrastructure in Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire, and to attract new jobs.
North East Scotland Labour MSP Lewis Macdonald said: "The Scottish government's offer of extra money to train those made redundant by the oil and gas industry is a step in the right direction but a year later than it should have been.
"This is the kind of initiative which should have been put in place when the North Sea saw the first signs of a crisis, not after an estimated 65,000 people have already lost their jobs."
North East Scotland Lib Dem MSP Alison McInnes said: "This is welcome support for the tens of thousands of people who have lost their jobs because of the downturn in the oil and gas industry.
"They are incredibly skilled staff whose experience cannot be wasted and who need to know the opportunities and help they need to retrain is available.
"What we now need to know is how exactly this fund will be distributed, who can apply and clear details as they come in of how many people are actually benefiting."
The cost of a barrel of Brent crude oil has decreased from more than $100 in January 2014 to less than $30 in January of this year.
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Kulbhushan Jadhav was arrested in the restive Balochistan province and accused of "espionage and sabotage activities against Pakistan".
Last month a top UN court told Pakistan not to execute Mr Jadhav until it had time to hear a case brought by India.
India dismissed the mercy petition and a "confessional video" by Mr Jadhav.
Pakistan on Thursday released a statement that said Mr Jadhav had sought "forgiveness for his actions" and had "requested the Chief of Army Staff to spare his life on compassionate grounds".
India, which denies Mr Jadhav is a spy, has dismissed Pakistan's statement and a second "confessional" video by Mr Jadhav saying, "India expects Pakistan to desist from attempting to influence the proceedings at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the case through false propaganda".
"The developments bring out once again the lack of transparency and farcical nature of proceedings against Jadhav on concocted charges, continued violation of his legal and consular rights and an attempt to introduce prejudice in the proceedings in the ICJ," external affairs ministry spokesperson Gopal Baglay told reporters on Thursday.
Last month India argued in the ICJ that Pakistan violated international laws by not allowing it access to Mr Jadhav since he was arrested in Balochistan in March 2016.
Meanwhile, there are differing accounts of how and where Mr Jadhav was detained.
Pakistan says he was detained on 3 March 2016 in restive Balochistan province, which has been hit by a separatist insurgency that Islamabad accuses India of backing. India says he was kidnapped by Pakistan while he was in Iran.
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Trevor Deely, 22, was last seen walking home from a Christmas party in December 2000.
A search of a site in Chapelizod in Dublin started early on Saturday morning, Irish national broadcaster, RTÉ reports.
The area is three acres of Woodlands beside the R112 which runs down to the River Liffey.
Gardaí said the search will involve excavations and is expected to take a number of weeks.
Earlier this year a team of six detectives began conducting a complete review of Mr Deely's disappearance.
CCTV footage from the night he went missing was enhanced using specialist technology.
It shows Mr Deely talking to a man dressed in black outside the Bank of Ireland on Baggot Street, where he worked.
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Detectives released the footage in April and appealed for the man to come forward.
They believe he was the same man captured on CCTV following Mr Deely, who was from County Kildare in the Republic of Ireland, a short time later on Haddington Road.
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Kent County Council said the continuing flow of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children (UASC) from across the English Channel had left it with no choice.
The authority currently has 924 such children in its care, compared with nearly 630 at the start of last August.
Councillor Peter Oakford said it was "not a position we want to be in".
The cabinet member for specialist children's services said Kent County Council had seen a 30% rise in looked-after children in the past seven months.
Other authorities elsewhere in the UK have accepted full responsibility for 56 unaccompanied asylum-seeking children.
Mr Oakford told the children's social care and health cabinet committee: "This has affected our ability to place citizen children within Kent ourselves.
"We have had to place Kent children outside of Kent due to the influx of UASC, which is not a good position to be in and is not a position we want to be in.
"It's actually costing us more financially because we have had to place, I think, six children into residential care either short-term or longer term, which is far more expensive than normal foster care."
The council's services have been stretched since the start of the migrant crisis last summer as Kent is the closest British county to Calais and Dunkirk.
The number of child asylum seekers coming into its care has slowed to about 15 a week during the winter, but Mr Oakford said if that increased with the arrival of the warmer months the authority would be "in significant difficulties". | Vulnerable children are being placed in care outside their home county of Kent due to the influx of child asylum seekers, according to council chiefs. | 35403862 | [
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The small aircraft came down in a field at Steve Powell's farm at Cwmbach, Builth Wells, Powys, just before 12:00 BST on Sunday.
The men from Holmes Chapel, Cheshire, have been named locally as Scott Penlington and Nick Jefferies.
Mr Powell said the aircraft appeared to have "fallen out of the sky into our field".
"It is a terrible tragedy and we've never had anything like this before," he added.
"The police are examining the wreckage but we don't know exactly what happened."
Dyfed Powys Police said recovery work has now been completed and the emergency services left the scene on Tuesday.
A spokesman for the Independent Air Accidents Investigation Branch, which is leading the investigation, said the wreckage was being recovered to its headquarters at Farnborough for a more detailed examination.
He added safety recommendations may be issued to prevent similar accidents in the future, if any issues were identified.
One Direction singer Harry Styles is a family friend of Mr Jefferies after he once dated his daughter Emilie, also 22.
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Sergeant Randy Johnson, 34, was killed in an explosion near Baghdad in 2007, Woolwich Crown Court heard.
The fingerprints of Anis Abid Sardar, from Wembley, London, were allegedly found on two other bombs at the scene, but not that which killed Sgt Johnson.
Mr Sardar, 38, denies murder, conspiracy to murder and conspiracy to cause an explosion.
Prosecutor Max Hill QC told the court: "This is an unusual trial in that almost all of the evidence you will see and hear comes from Iraq.
"The Crown's case is that the defendant Mr Sardar was directly involved in making bombs for use in Iraq during 2007.
"As you will hear, he seems to have been based in Syria, probably in the capital city Damascus at relevant times."
He explained that although the offences took place in Iraq, Mr Sardar is on trial in London as a British citizen.
Mr Hill said the bombs "were not off-the-shelf bombs, they were made with deadly intent".
They were later taken to an FBI laboratory in the US for examination by experts.
Sgt Johnson, of the 2nd Cavalry Regiment, was killed when the armoured vehicle he was travelling in hit a roadside improvised explosive device (IED).
Other US soldiers were seriously injured by the blast and also in a fire-fight while dealing with another IED, the court heard.
Fingerprints found on the bomb that killed Sgt Johnson belonged to another man, Sajjad Adnan, who worked with Mr Sardar, the prosecution said.
Mr Adnan, who is not British, was handed over to the Iraqi authorities after the bombings and his current whereabouts are unknown, Mr Hill said.
Jurors heard Mr Sardar was part of a group that left a number of IEDs buried under the roads west of Baghdad.
The bomb that killed Sgt Johnson was part of a sequence, Mr Hill told the court, "involving bombs concealed geographically quite close together".
Mr Hill said the bomb series was part of a "joint effort by the defendant Mr Sardar, together with Adnan and others".
"That is why it is unnecessary for Mr Sardar to have left his own finger mark on the bomb which killed Sgt Johnson," he said.
The prosecution made clear that this was an "unusual trial in that almost all of the evidence... comes from Iraq."
Nevertheless it is, according to them, lawful to try Anis Sardar here because he is a British citizen who lives and works in London.
It is the first time we have seen a prosecution in this country for charges of making improvised explosive devices (IEDs) during the insurgency in Iraq.
This has been a case a long time in gestation, since Mr Sardar was arrested seven years after the bombs were recovered from a dusty road west of Baghdad.
The jury was told they were forensically analysed by the US authorities in Iraq and America before being examined by British scientists.
Though Mr Sardar claimed to have travelled to Syria in 2007 to learn Arabic, the court heard that police found documents in his London home which suggested he already had an advanced understanding of the language.
Police searching the property also found a bomb-making manual written in Arabic.
The US-led invasion of Iraq began in 2003, amid claims Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. It sparked years of violent conflict with different groups competing for power.
British forces ended combat operations in 2009 and the US did so the following year. A total of 179 UK service personnel and nearly 4,500 US soldiers were killed during the conflict. | A British man worked on bombs planted in Iraq that claimed the life of a US soldier, a court has heard. | 32498234 | [
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Ibrahim Halawa, the son of the most senior Muslim cleric in the Republic of Ireland, was arrested during a siege on the Al-Fath mosque in Cairo in 2013.
The mass trial of Mr Halawa and 493 others began in March after being postponed five times since his arrest.
Mr Halawa, 19, could face the death penalty if he is convicted.
Mr Halawa was on a family holiday to his parents' homeland when he and three of his sisters were arrested by Egyptian security forces during a crackdown on protests in the country's capital.
He was 17 at the time.
His family said he had taken refuge in the building during violent clashes between supporters of ousted president Mohammed Morsi and the security forces.
His sisters were allowed to return to Dublin in November 2013.
On Wednesday, a hearing in his case took place, with Irish officials in attendance.
But it could not proceed as 16 defendants were not present in court, according to the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs.
Defence lawyers requested that the trial would not proceed during the forthcoming Ramadan period and the judge agreed to adjourn the matter until 2 August, the department added.
Amnesty International Ireland said Mr Halawa should be released immediately with all charges against him dropped.
Colm O'Gorman, the human rights organisation's executive director in Ireland, said the situation was "utterly unacceptable".
"No one should have to withstand the continual raising of hope that they might have their day in court, only to have that hope continually dashed," he said.
"This young man should be at home in Ireland, continuing his studies and getting on with his life."
He added: "I urge the Irish government and their EU partners to continue to work on Ibrahim's case as an absolute priority." | The trial of a Dublin teenager held in an Egyptian prison for almost two years has been adjourned for a third time. | 32993571 | [
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Police Scotland said two men broke into the farm house near to Corsock, Castle Douglas, between 23:30 on Thursday and 01:00 on Friday.
They stole items including a number of war medals, gold watches and antiques.
Officers have appealed for information and said the robbers may have been "casing" the property before the raid.
Det Sgt Graeme Robertson said: "I believe that whoever broke into this house knew what they were looking for - that is the medals, watches and antiques.
"Thankfully the householder, a woman, who was in the house at the time, was not injured but she is very upset by what has happened."
The men were described as being well spoken, with Scottish accents, of average height and build and wearing dark clothing.
One of the men was wearing a balaclava and gloves.
"Due to the rural location of the house and the items taken, we believe that the two men would have had to have the use of a car.
"It is also entirely possible that they may have been in the area before the break in 'casing' the house so I would ask anyone who may have witnessed any suspicious behaviour around the area during this time, or anyone who may have been offered these items for sale, to contact police." | A woman has been left uninjured but very upset after two men forced their way into her home and stole valuables believed to be worth thousands. | 36452041 | [
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Dyke, appointed in 2013, had intended to stand for a further year.
However, he said that opposition to proposed reforms from some FA councillors and a minority of board members had made him reconsider.
When he succeeded David Bernstein, Dyke, 68, said England should aim to reach the semi-finals of Euro 2020 and win the World Cup in 2022.
He believes football is in a better place financially, administratively and from a coaching standpoint than when he took over in 2013.
However, he said it would be a "fight" to convince the FA Council to see through other "much-needed, significant reform".
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In a statement, he added: "I had already decided that if no reform was possible I was going to leave anyway this summer, a position I had shared with a number of colleagues.
"What I now see is that even if we get the reform through, I am probably not the best person to pick up the pieces following the inevitable discord."
Dyke, a former director general of the BBC, has pursued policies aiming at modernising the FA and increasing the number of English players in the Premier League.
He made headlines by making a throat-cutting gesture when England were drawn in the same 2014 World Cup group as Italy and Uruguay.
Earlier this month, Dyke, an outspoken critic of Fifa under Sepp Blatter, said "we should shoot ourselves" if England failed to make it out of the group stages at Euro 2016 in France.
Listen to reaction to Dyke's announcement on BBC Radio 5 live's Football Daily podcast.
Berstein said he was "not particularly surprised" by the decision, claiming neither he nor Dyke had made "any substantial change" because pushing reforms through is "extremely difficult".
"I can understand his frustration, which matches my frustration," Bernstein told BBC Radio 5 live Sport.
He suggested only "outside intervention" from the Government or a regulator would make a significant difference.
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BBC Radio 5 live's sports news correspondent Richard Conway answers questions raised by Dyke's decision.
Q: Why is Dyke frustrated?
A: Back in 2014, Dyke called the FA Council "overwhelmingly male and overwhelmingly white" and believes its members, who are drawn from the professional and amateur ranks of the game, do not represent the modern English game.
However, they help decide major policy issues and a significant number of the 120 that make up the council will lose their positions if the changes being put forward are adopted.
Q: What will happen now?
Dyke has a reputation as a political bruiser.
Given he will now be leaving in June, he may feel liberated to try to push through the changes that he and the majority of the FA board believe are vital without needing to tiptoe around the sensitivities of FA members.
Q: Where does this leave the FA?
A: The FA are prepared for change because Dyke turns 70 in 2017 and would have been forced to step down any way, but this is a period of intense change for the FA.
There have been significant redundancies and cost cutting in an attempt to reshape the organisation's focus and provide the necessary finance for the proposed 150 football hubs due to be built across 30 English cities with FA and government funding.
Q: Who will succeed him?
A: There's no question that Dyke revels in his reputation as being outspoken. He is almost the exact opposite of his predecessor, the quiet and reserved Bernstein.
It's anyone's guess at this stage which direction the FA will seek to go in this time, but they have six months to find his successor. | Greg Dyke will not seek re-election as Football Association chairman when his term ends in June. | 35433251 | [
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The poster features an officer and a message to parents asking them not to use the threat of the police when disciplining their children.
Durham Constabulary wants children to see officers as people who can help rather than simply law enforcers.
And the force's poster has been shared more than 47,000 times and liked by almost 35,000 people on Facebook.
A force spokesman said: "Children should be taught from an early age that if they feel like are in danger and they need help, they can approach an officer who will reassure them."
However, the poster has divided opinion on Facebook.
Jeff Rowse said: "Telling them they will go to jail if they are bad is wrong how? Surely that is the major reason for having a police force? And jails?"
In response Paul Parry said: "Telling a three-year-old that if he doesn't eat his dinner the policeman will come and take him to jail isn't true and will only serve to instil fear into that child.
"The police shouldn't be used to reinforce bad parenting."
Others were more taken with the officer, with several people asking for him to be moved to their local force or saying they would happily go to him for help. | A poster urging parents not to use the police to scare their children has been seen more than 3.5 million times. | 32864662 | [
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Mr Farage had previously said he would stand down after failing to win a seat in last week's general election.
But the party said there was "overwhelmingly evidence" that UKIP members did not want Mr Farage to go.
Writing in the Telegraph, Mr Farage said he had been "reluctant", but decided he "owed it to the party to stay" on as leader.
UKIP won a 13% vote share in the election - some 3.8 million votes - and has one MP, Douglas Carswell, who held his Clacton seat.
It puts the party in third place behind the Conservatives and Labour in terms of share of the vote.
Mr Farage failed to gain the seat of Thanet South, losing out to Conservative candidate Craig Mackinlay.
Speaking about his defeat, he insisted he had "never felt happier", with a "weight lifted off his shoulders".
Who is more important to UKIP, Nigel Farage or Douglas Carswell?
The answer to that question came just before 16:00 BST when the party announced its ex-leader was now its leader again. Nigel Farage has been persuaded to stay on.
Technically he has managed to honour his pledge to stand down after he failed to get elected in Thanet South on Thursday.
Two things are now clear: UKIP can't countenance a post-Nigel world. He is the party's biggest asset and it thinks a big chunk of those four million votes last week were down to him.
But one senior figure has told the BBC Mr Farage's decision to stay is a "mistake" which will only undermine his reputation for straight talking.
I think it's a safe bet to say that UKIP's only MP, Douglas Carswell, will not be happy. He heaped praise on his leader this morning but he spoke about him very much in the past tense.
Party chairman Steve Crowther said the national executive committee believed the election campaign had been a "great success" and members had "unanimously" rejected Mr Farage's letter of resignation.
"He has therefore been persuaded to withdraw his resignation and remains leader of UKIP," a party statement said.
Writing in the Daily Telegraph, Mr Farage said he had initially been reluctant, but then "breathed deep, and thought for as long as I possibly had, given the meeting was ongoing".
"I decided that as much as I had earned my holidays. As much as I wanted to spend the summer fishing, walking, and of course, in the European Parliament where all hell is currently breaking loose - that I owed it to the party that got me here," he said.
He added there were "huge battles ahead", such as new EU proposals for Mediterranean migrant quotas and issues of electoral reform.
Mr Farage had said repeatedly ahead of and during the general election campaign he had no intention of staying in the leader's job.
In his autobiography, The Purple Revolution, he wrote: "It is frankly just not credible for me to continue to lead the party without a Westminster seat.
He added: "Was I supposed to brief Ukip policy from the Westminster Arms? No - if I fail to win South Thanet, it is curtains for me. I will have to step down."
The 51-year-old had recommended Suzanne Evans, the deputy chairman, to head the party until the leadership challenge was complete.
Suzanne Evans said she was "very pleased" Mr Farage had agreed to remain leader.
In a tweet, she wrote: "Very pleased @Nigel_Farage still at the helm. As stated previously, I tried to persuade him to stay and was never actually appointed leader!" | Nigel Farage is to remain as UKIP leader after the party rejected his resignation. | 32696505 | [
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David Skeen, 51, was last seen going for a run in Talgarth, near Brecon, at 09:00 GMT on Tuesday.
Firefighters, police and more than 45 mountain rescue volunteers had been out searching for Mr Skeen. A drone was used during the day.
Mr Skeen was last seen wearing an orange gilet, black running trousers, pale trainers and a blue hat.
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The Republican Party is too badly divided. His rhetoric is too incendiary. Republican voters may be "idiots", but the general public is wiser. The US electoral map, which places a premium on winning key high-population "swing" states, is tilted against the Republican Party.
About that last point. On Tuesday a survey of three key swing states - Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania - revealed a virtual dead heat between the two likely standard-bearers.
Those states - which account for 67 electoral votes - all went for Democrat Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012. Add them to the states Republican Mitt Romney carried in 2012, and it delivers 273 electoral votes - three more than the 270 necessary to win the presidency.
Throw in a national tracking poll released on Wednesday that has Donald Trump surging to within striking distance of Hillary Clinton, and it's a recipe for acute hyperventilation on the part of Democrats.
But… but… but… cooler-heads respond.
The Reuters/Ipsos national poll, which has Mrs Clinton ahead 41% to Mr Trump's 40% and 19% undecided, was conducted online.
That Quinnipiac swing-state poll oversampled white voters - a demographic group that is more inclined to Republicans. In addition, it doesn't represent that big a shift from the group's battleground-state poll from last autumn, which undermines the theory that Mr Trump's support is growing.
The news caused election guru Nate Silver to go on a Twitter tirade, asserting that it's way too early to start gaming out the state-by-state electoral map based on opinion polls.
"The election will go through a lot of twists and turns, and polls are noisy," he writes. "Don't sweat individual polls or short-term fluctuations."
Sweating polls is what US pundits and commentators do, however. And at the very least, signs that Mr Trump is within reach of Mrs Clinton should cast doubts on the early predictions that the Democrats will win in the autumn by historic, Goldwater-esque margins. Mr Trump has a pathway to the presidency.
He may not get there. It is not the most likely outcome. But it's real.
That linchpin of a Trump victory centres on the so-called Rust Belt - states like the aforementioned Pennsylvania and Ohio, as well as Michigan and Wisconsin. Even if Florida, due to its rapidly growing Hispanic population, goes to Mrs Clinton, Mr Trump could still win if he sweeps those states.
It's a strategy that Mr Trump already appears to understand.
"We'll win places that a lot of people say you're not going to win, that as a Republican you can't win," Mr Trump said at an April rally in Indiana. "Michigan is a great example; nobody else will go to Michigan. We're going to be encamped in Michigan because I think I can win it."
The challenge for Mr Trump is that the mid-west, particularly, Wisconsin and Michigan, have served as a Democratic firewall that Republicans have been unable to penetrate since 1988.
"These states constantly intrigue Republican presidential strategists because the Democratic advantage in them depends largely on an act of political levitation: the ability to consistently win a slightly greater share of working-class white voters here than almost anywhere else," writes the Atlantic's Ronald Brownstein.
If Mr Trump is to find success, then, he likely will have to finally win over this stubborn portion of the mid-western electorate or, perhaps, energise what Sean Trende of RealClear Politics has called the "missing white voters".
Trende points to a national drop-off more than 3.5 million white voters from the elections of 2008 to 2012, when population growth should have resulted in an increase of 1.5 million.
These voters, he theorised, were largely working-class whites who had previously supported iconoclasts like Ross Perot, the 1992 anti-free-trade independent candidate.
It's the type of voter that Mr Trump, with his populist economic pitch, has been turning out in the Republican primaries.
In 2012 Mr Obama beat Mr Romney by roughly 5 million votes. If Mr Trump can bring those disaffected white voters back to the polls in 2016, it would cut into that margin. If Mrs Clinton is unable to produce the record-setting turnout among young and minority voters that Mr Obama achieved, the gap shrinks further still.
That's a lot of "if's", of course. Young and minority voters - particularly Hispanics - may yet turn out to the polls in high numbers, if only to cast ballots against Mr Trump. There are already indications of record-setting Hispanic voter registration in places like California.
There's also the risk that Mr Trump's reliance on populist rhetoric and controversial views on immigration could lead white-collar voters to favour Mrs Clinton. For every disaffected member of the working-class he brings in, he could lose a suburban mum or college-educated businessman.
Even giving Mr Trump the benefit of the doubt, and viewing the recent polls as a trend and not a blip, there are still more electoral scenarios that end up with Mrs Clinton in the White House come 2017.
For Mr Trump, the political stars have to re-align in his favour. For Mrs Clinton, a general-election status quo likely means victory. | In the week since Donald Trump effectively secured the Republican presidential nomination, a great deal of ink and airtime have been devoted to explaining why he will have a difficult time winning the presidency in the autumn. | 36270326 | [
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