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Edwina Hart, who was attending a crisis summit in Rotherham, warned that high energy costs and cheap imports were threatening plants in Wales.
Tata Steel has said it planned to mothball some operations at Llanwern, Newport, and Shotton, Flintshire.
UK ministers called the summit a chance to show support for a "vital industry".
"The steel industry in Wales and across the UK continues to be seriously disadvantaged by high energy costs and cheap imports," she said ahead of the summit.
"These combined pressures mean that a number of Wales-based companies are reaching a critical point and jobs are in jeopardy.
"More support to address these matters at a UK level will be key in allowing Welsh businesses to operate on a level playing field, not only in the UK but also within global markets.
"I hope today that we can reach agreement to try to secure a collaborative and sustainable way forward."
Welsh Secretary Stephen Crabb described the summit on Friday as an "opportunity to demonstrate our support for this vital industry, which is so important to the Welsh economy".
"I hope the discussions will result in a positive plan of action that will help the steel industry weather what are without question challenging global conditions," he said. | Hundreds more steel jobs could be lost unless the UK government takes urgent action to help the industry, the Welsh economy minister has said. | 1.692667 | 2 |
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Martin, who won quadruple sculls silver in 2012, came back at Drysdale in the closing stages with both men stopping the clock at six minutes 41.34 seconds.
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Only a photo could separate the pair.
Czech two-time silver medallist Ondrej Synek took bronze, finishing 3.24 seconds behind Drysdale and Martin.
The win is New Zealand's second rowing gold of the Games, out of a total of eight Kiwi medals in Rio.
Subscribe to the BBC Sport newsletter to get our pick of news, features and video sent to your inbox. | Defending champion Mahe Drysdale of New Zealand retained his Olympic title by the tightest of margins as he was given gold in the same time as Croat Damir Martin in the men's single sculls. | 0.930639 | 1 |
Moses Emmanuel got the breakthrough for Dover on the half-hour mark, smashing home after Aswad Thomas' fluffed effort on goal fell kindly for the former Bromley forward.
Ross Lafayette made it 2-0 after 56 minutes, smartly lifting the ball over Joel Dixon, and Sam Magri's header made it 3-0 with eight minutes left.
Barrow substitute Ross Hannah scored a consolation penalty in the 89th minute. Paul Cox's side had shown signs of growing into the game early on in the second half, but their two-match unbeaten run is now over at the expense of Dover's impressive winning streak.
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Match ends, Dover Athletic 3, Barrow 1.
Second Half ends, Dover Athletic 3, Barrow 1.
Goal! Dover Athletic 3, Barrow 1. Ross Hannah (Barrow) converts the penalty with a.
Steve Arnold (Dover Athletic) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Substitution, Dover Athletic. Mitchell Pinnock replaces Ricky Modeste.
Goal! Dover Athletic 3, Barrow 0. Sam Magri (Dover Athletic).
Substitution, Barrow. Richard Bennett replaces Byron Harrison.
Substitution, Dover Athletic. Tyrone Marsh replaces Moses Emmanuel.
Sam Magri (Dover Athletic) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Substitution, Barrow. Andy Haworth replaces Lindon Meikle.
Substitution, Barrow. Ross Hannah replaces Paul Turnbull.
Goal! Dover Athletic 2, Barrow 0. Ross Lafayette (Dover Athletic).
Second Half begins Dover Athletic 1, Barrow 0.
First Half ends, Dover Athletic 1, Barrow 0.
Goal! Dover Athletic 1, Barrow 0. Moses Emmanuel (Dover Athletic).
Jordan Williams (Barrow) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up. | Dover made it three wins on the bounce in the National League with a comfortable 3-1 triumph over Barrow. | 0.803858 | 1 |
Fe ddefnyddiodd 9,862 o deithwyr y gwasanaeth yn 2016-17, sef gostyngiad o 128 yn dilyn cynnydd bychan yn nifer y teithwyr mewn blynyddoedd blaenorol.
Dim ond hanner y seddi gafodd eu llenwi yn ystod y flwyddyn, yn ôl ffigyrau Llywodraeth Cymru a Swyddfa Archwilio Cymru.
Cafodd y gwasanaeth ei lansio yn 2007 ac mae wedi derbyn tua £1.2m o arian cyhoeddus yn flynyddol ers hynny.
Y llynedd, fe alwodd Llywodraeth Cymru am adolygiad o'r gwasanaeth, ac yn 2014 fe ddywedodd adroddiad fod y gwasanaeth yn tangyflawni.
Mae BBC Cymru wedi gofyn i'r llywodraeth am ymateb.
Yn ystod y ddwy flynedd gyntaf, defnyddiodd dros 14,000 o bobl y gwasanaeth ond mae'n niferoedd wedi gostwng i o dan 10,000 y flwyddyn ers hynny.
Mae'r gwasanaeth wedi dioddef problemau gyda'r cwmnïau sydd wedi bod yn ei redeg.
Ym mis Mawrth, fe gafodd cwmni Eastern Airways ei benodi i'w redeg, wedi i'r cwmni blaenorol, Citywing fynd i'r wal am i'r cwmni o'r Weriniaeth Czech oedd yn gyfrifol amdano, Van Air, golli'r hawl i wneud hynny gan yr Awdurdod Hedfan Sifil.
Yn 2015 fe ddaeth yr Awdurdod Hedfan Sifil a thrwydded cwmni Links Air i ben am resymau diogelwch, cyn i'r cwmni hwnnw hefyd fethu.
Mae'r gwrthbleidiau wedi galw am gael gwared ar y gwasanaeth, sydd yn rhedeg ddwywaith y dydd yn ystod yr wythnos, tra bod eraill wedi dadlau fod angen gwell cysylltiadau trafnidaeth a marchnata arno.
Cyfanswm nifer y seddi ar gael yn flynyddol: 18,720 | Mae gostyngiad wedi bod yn nifer y bobl sydd yn defnyddio'r gwasanaeth awyr rhwng Caerdydd ac Ynys Môn. | 0.857153 | 1 |
Syrian businessman Nicholas Daher, 85, was stabbed to death in Letchworth on 4 January.
Sammi Ozone, 60, admitting killing the father of his wife Samur at their Whitethorn Lane home, but denied murder.
A jury at Luton Crown Court found him not guilty of murder on grounds of diminished responsibility.
The jury was told how Ozone cut himself after the fatal stabbing and was taken to the Lister Hospital in Stevenage for treatment.
While there, with a police guard nearby, he is said to have made unprompted comments: "Is the devil alive? I didn't mean to do it. I saw the devil in front of me."
Father-of-two Ozone has been remanded in custody until 25 August for a psychiatric report to be updated prior to sentencing.
Judge Michael Kay QC said: "This has been a very sad case, but Mr Ozone should be prepared for a custodial sentence of some length."
During the case, prosecutor Robert O'Sullivan QC said: "For a number of years the defendant had ill-feeling towards his father-in-law. Mr Daher was a very wealthy man, who had funded their lifestyle in Syria where they came from.
"Mr Ozone resented his father-in-law's controlling behaviour."
When questioned by the police, he said something had "flipped" when he went in the kitchen.
He said his father-in-law had a devil face.
He said: "He was evil. He was mad. He laughed at every step in our life." | A man who claimed he "saw the devil" when he killed his father-in-law has been cleared of murder. | 0.888438 | 1 |
Firms north of the border are also much less confident than businesses in the UK as a whole, according to the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB).
However, its latest quarterly report found most firms still intended to recruit more staff and invest.
FSB said the findings should act as a "timely reminder that a sustained recovery is far from guaranteed".
A net balance of +6% of businesses surveyed reported an increase in revenue over the last three months, down from +17% at the same point last year.
The number of firms experiencing a rise in profits also fell, ending a run of five quarters of uninterrupted profit growth.
FSB Scottish policy convener Andy Willox said: "With revenues and profits taking a hit, it's little wonder that confidence has dropped.
"Even in these choppy waters, though, it's good to see small businesses continuing to do their bit by creating new jobs and investing for the long term.
"And the improving credit market will make it easier to turn firms' plans into reality.
"We need to make sure that the small businesses on whom resilient local economies are founded get paid for the work they do, get a fair deal from regulators, and can easily hire the right staff with the right skills."
In a separate development, manufacturers' organisation EEF said it was halving its 2015 manufacturing growth forecast for the UK to 0.7%.
Its latest quarterly outlook survey suggested there was a "rollercoaster of risks" ahead caused by global economic uncertainty.
It said bright spots provided by domestic consumer demand and construction activity were "not enough to hold the shadow of global factors at bay".
The report found export orders in particular had suffered, in response to continued problems in Europe over the summer and a slowdown in emerging markets. | Small business confidence has fallen in Scotland following a drop in revenues and profits, a survey has found. | 1.503145 | 2 |
The Eisteddfod council backed recommendations to hold the festival on the streets and in venues of the bay in 2018.
Buildings such as the Wales Millennium Centre are among sites that would be used.
The move has been described as a one year experiment.
As part of the plans, discussed at a meeting in Aberystwyth on Saturday, there would be no admittance fee to attend the main field, only charges for concerts and events.
There would also be no perimeter fence - something which organisers hope would attract more visitors, including those who would not ordinarily attend.
Eisteddfod officials will now discuss detailed plans with Cardiff council and other key partners, including the Wales Millennium Centre, over the coming months and a public meeting will be held in the city in the summer.
A traditional Maes on playing fields in Pontcanna in Cardiff had also been under consideration as a site for the 2018 event. It was the location of the Eisteddfod's last visit to the capital city in 2008.
The Eisteddfod, which travels to a different location in Wales every summer, has already scrapped the traditional pink pavilion. | The National Eisteddfod is one step nearer to being held in Cardiff Bay in two years time, with the traditional Maes (main field) being scrapped. | 1.078635 | 1 |
Thursday's 1-0 win in Cyprus meant Wales could have qualified with victory over Israel on Sunday, but they could only manage a 0-0 draw in Cardiff.
However, one more point against Bosnia-Herzegovina or Andorra will be enough.
"We still have two games to go and it's still on us. We're still top of the group so there's no panic," he said.
"We just keep the momentum going into the next two games."
Wales dominated Israel, who they had beaten 3-0 away earlier in the campaign, but were unable to find a way through.
Chris Coleman's side had a couple of penalty claims waved away by the officials, while substitute Simon Church had an injury-time goal ruled out for offside,
"I think we pushed and pushed and they obviously came for a draw," centre-back Williams said.
"They made it very difficult for us but it's another point. We didn't lose the game.
"We wanted to get it done and dusted today. We haven't done that but by no means are we going to go away today disappointed.
"It's been a positive week, four points. We kick on."
Wales travel to Bosnia-Herzegovina on 10 October and then finish their qualifying campaign at home to Andorra - who have yet to even manage a draw in Group B - three days later. | Wales captain Ashley Williams says there is no cause for alarm despite failing to beat Israel to secure a place at the Euro 2016 finals. | 0.941421 | 1 |
Sandy Phan-Gillis was sentenced to three and a half years in prison on Tuesday, but will not serve the time.
She had already spent more than two years in detention before her trial.
Phan-Gillis, who has Chinese origins but was born in Vietnam, was arrested in March 2015 while travelling in China with a business delegation from Texas.
Her husband Jeff Gillis said China had accused his wife of visiting the country twice on spy missions in 1996, and working with the FBI to capture two Chinese spies in the US and make them into double agents.
Speaking last year, he called the allegations "beyond ridiculous", and said her passport showed she did not travel to China in 1996.
The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention previously denounced China's handling of the case, saying it had not observed "international norms relating to the right to a fair trial, and to liberty and security".
Phan-Gillis was reportedly held in a secret location for six months, and later placed in solitary confinement.
Mr Gillis said his wife had left China on Friday from the southern city of Guangzhou, and arrived in Los Angeles the same day.
"Sandy is overjoyed to be reunited with friends and family, and sends out her thanks to the many people who worked tirelessly for her release," he said.
The 57-year-old's return removes a source of tension between Washington and Beijing, a marker of the current warmer relations between them.
Negotiations to secure her release are said to have intensified when US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson visited China in March.
President Donald Trump has repeatedly praised China's leader, President Xi Jinping, since the pair met in Florida this month.
On Thursday, Mr Trump called his Chinese counterpart a "good man" who was doing his best to press North Korea over its controversial nuclear programme. | An American businesswoman convicted of spying by China is back in the US, after a Chinese court ordered her deportation. | 1.410546 | 1 |
Colin White, 19, was convicted of displaying written material which was likely to incite hatred or cause fear in December.
White placed the offensive material on the eleventh night bonfire in the Ballycraig estate in 2014.
The judge said: "Not withstanding the serious nature of the charges, you were lead and influenced by others.
"Their hateful agenda, perhaps by your personal difficulties, you didn't understand the implication of it."
White did not deny being present at the bonfire, but denied writing the message.
The judge said that White was guilty of "pernicious conduct" in a society where there are almost weekly race-related attacks.
He said White's action was capable of stirring up "this type of behaviour."
Legal counsel for White said the father-of-one admitted his guilt, and described the incident as "unsavoury".
"He will do anything that makes him think he will fit into his peer group," his legal counsel said.
White's lawyer revealed that he had lost his job at the airport as a consequence of the incident.
The judge told White that if he co-operated with the probation, he could "get back on track and get away from this hateful behaviour, which is causing so much distress in this community." | A County Antrim man convicted of inciting racial hatred was given an 18 month probation order on Tuesday. | 1.144563 | 1 |
JAB Holdings also controls coffee brands Douwe Egberts and Peet's, as well as the luxury shoe maker Jimmy Choo and beauty firm Coty.
The acquisition is the biggest US restaurant deal, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence.
Shares in Panera closed more than 14% higher following the announcement.
JAB, a Luxembourg-based investment firm, is owned by the billionaire Reimann family, which paid $1.35bn for Krispy Kreme last year.
Panera's origins began 36 years ago, under the Au Bon Pain name, with one outlet in Boston.
In 1993 the company bought Saint Louis Bread Company which had 20 branches at the time. Four years later it changed the chain's name to to Panera Bread.
In 1999 it sold all its other businesses, including Au Bon Pain, to concentrate investment on Panera.
Panera now has more than 2,000 restaurants across the US. It employs about 100,000 people and has annual sales of $5bn.
The chain focuses on healthier, additive-free foods.
Founder and chairman Ron Shaich said: "Panera has been the best-performing restaurant stock of the past 20 years - up over 8,000%. Today's transaction is a direct reflection of those efforts and delivers substantial additional value for our shareholders."
JAB will also take on about $340m of Panera's debt, the companies said.
It is paying 41 times earnings to take control of Panera - a very hefty premium the level of which is more common in the technology sector.
Olivier Goudet, chief executive of JAB, said: "We have long admired Ron and the incredible success story he has created at Panera. We strongly support Panera's vision for the future, strategic initiatives, culture of innovation, and balanced company versus franchise store mix." | The owner of Krispy Kreme Doughnuts and Kenco coffee will pay $7.5bn (£6bn) to take control of US bakery and sandwich chain Panera Bread. | 1.240111 | 1 |
Neighbours told the BBC they had heard "a terrific crack" as part of the 30-metre Caucasian Elm, thought to have been planted in 1760, fell.
Firefighters helped residents from their homes in Park Drive, Worlingham. One of the properties was left structurally unsafe.
Suffolk County Council, which owns the tree, said it was inspected regularly.
Waveney District Council said the tree was considered of "national significance" because of its size and species.
Ray Pagram, who lives in one of the damaged bungalows, said he was woken at around 02:30 BST.
"There was terrific crack and I thought it was thunder at first," he said.
"Then I heard the sound of running water coming through the ceiling and I realised the tank in the loft had been struck."
No-one was hurt by the tree fall.
Derek Oldham, of Suffolk County Council, said the tree had a "visual inspection" in February 2015 and in January 2014 and there were no outward signs of damage.
They had installed a root barrier to stop "root infiltration" to other homes. Asked if this could have brought the tree down, he said: "It's a bit early to say.
"Our initial inspection suggests not - the side of the tree that is collapsed is not on the side where the root barrier is and there's no obvious sign of movement within the ground," he said. | An ancient Elm tree of "national significance" crashed into three homes and damaged two vehicles in Suffolk. | 2.253745 | 2 |
An Olympic gold medallist, he was also three-time world heavyweight champion and took part in some of the most memorable fights in boxing history.
He had a professional career spanning 21 years and BBC Sport takes a look at his 61 fights in more detail. | Boxing legend Muhammad Ali, who died at the age of 74, became a sporting icon during his career. | 0.851746 | 1 |
City are bottom of Group E after a 2-1 home defeat by CSKA Moscow.
But captain Kompany insists the side, who had two players sent off against CSKA on Wednesday, is still learning.
"Everyone will jump on the bandwagon," he said. "I go the other way. I believe in my team. I back everyone at this club 100% to turn it around."
Now in their fourth Champions League campaign, City have twice failed to make it out of their group and have never gone beyond the last 16.
That form contrasts sharply with their domestic achievements, with two Premier League titles and the League Cup won in the same period.
"Let's put things into perspective," said Kompany. "We are not a club who has been there for 20 years and you don't just go from never playing in the Champions League to winning it.
"We are trying to put milestones down every year and so far we have been quite successful."
The second-half dismissals of Fernandinho and Yaya Toure compounded a miserable night at the Etihad Stadium. And the fact that Greek referee Tasos Sidiropolous booked the wrong man when he should have sent off CSKA's Pontus Wernbloom added to Kompany's frustrations.
"Getting the wrong man is laughable," he said. "I do believe a bit in karma so we are being unlucky now [and] at some point in the season it has to go our way." | Vincent Kompany says he still believes Manchester City can succeed in Europe - despite the club being in danger of another early Champions League exit. | 0.912784 | 1 |
Greencore Ltd confirmed it is "proposing to discontinue production" at its Evercreech plant in Somerset where about 400 people are employed.
It said "there are no financially sustainable solutions" to repair the 126-year-old site and it was "in need of significant refurbishment".
Greencore said it could not comment further until after a 45-day consultation process. | Hundreds of jobs are at risk at a factory which makes chilled desserts. | 0.351078 | 0 |
31 August 2016 Last updated at 07:09 BST
Many of them are in areas under siege, which means that they are surrounded by soldiers and can't get out.
Sieges are against important rules called international law, because soldiers attack ordinary people who aren't fighting and can't escape.
There has been a civil war going on in Syria for five years.
It's difficult to contact children who are living under siege, but refugees who left Syria recently have told us what life was like for them when they were still there. | Around a quarter of a million children are still thought to be trapped in Syria in the Middle East. | 2.828105 | 3 |
South East Labour MEP Anneliese Dodds called for an investigation in an amendment to the parliament's annual competition report, which passed by 467 votes to 156, with 86 abstentions.
The European Commission could now launch an inquiry.
Dodds says smaller teams are "unfairly punished" because of the way F1 is run.
She has also previously expressed concerns over the sport's takeover by Liberty Media and its UK tax arrangements.
Dodds pointed to the recent collapse of the Manor team as an example of how the sport is failing some teams.
"Smaller teams are unfairly punished by an uncompetitive allocation of prize money that will always give the biggest teams more money, even if they finish last in every race," she said.
In 2015, two of F1's smaller teams, Force India and Sauber, asked the EU's Competition Commission to investigate the sport due to perceived unfairness over the way revenues were divided and rules decided. | Members of the European Parliament have backed a call for an investigation into "anti-competitive practices" in Formula 1. | 1.478606 | 1 |
A self-governing commonwealth of the United States since 1976, the islands lie just 1,500 miles south of the Japanese coast.
Those born on the islands are US citizens but not eligible to vote in US presidential elections. The territory receives millions of dollars in aid from Washington.
Most of the population live on the island of Saipan and only four other islands are populated. Native Micronesians outnumber the indigenous Chamorro and Carolinian populations.
Population 63,500
Area 457 sq km (176 sq miles)
Major languages English, Chamarro, Carolinian
Major religion Christianity
Life expectancy 74 years (men), 80 years (women)
Currency US dollar
Head of State: Barack Obama
Head of government: Ralph Torres
Ralph Torres was sworn in as governor of the Northern Marianas in December 2015 following the sudden death of his predecessor Eloy Inos.
At 36, he became the youngest governor in Northern Marianas history.
During his inaugural speech, Mr Torres pledged "to do what's right".
The Northern Marianas government has sought to rebuild public trust since former governor Benigno Fitial was convicted of corruption in 2015.
Broadcasting is regulated by the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC). | The Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, or CNMI, is a chain of 14 islands in the north-west Pacific. | 2.541265 | 3 |
The frequency of street cleaning and the number of children's play areas will also be cut under the Labour-run authority's plans.
It said its budget has reduced by £144m since 2011 and it must cut a further 15.4m by 2018 and find £11.5m for social care over the same period.
A spokesman said it would have a "major impact on nearly all council services".
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The proposals are to be discussed by cabinet on 14 February and, if approved, will be presented to full council on 28 February.
Among the plans announced, the council said it hopes to save £159,000 by reducing street cleaning and scrapping its dedicated fly-tipping removal team and £54,000 by reducing the number of play areas and ongoing maintenance.
It said it would save £650,000 through the closure of Knottingley Sports Centre and Castleford Swimming Pool.
It also plans to cut 100 full-time posts from its workforce of 4,916.
The council is also proposing to raise council tax by 1.99% and implement a 3% adult social care precept.
Council leader Peter Box said: "We are making tough choices and it will get even tougher, but the needs and welfare of our residents and this district remain at the heart of every decision we make." | Plans to axe more than 100 jobs at Wakefield Council have been revealed in a bid to cut spending by almost £27m. | 1.016701 | 1 |
Beijing and Shanghai traffic authorities this week started issuing verbal warnings and fines of 10 yuan ($1.50; £1.1).
Modified bicycles, scooters and segways have been growing in popularity in China as a way to beat traffic jams.
However, many do not have proper brakes or lights, and can exceed speed limits.
Electric scooters and segways are supposed to have a maximum speed of 20km/h, but the Beijing Consumers' Association found that most of them are able to exceed that.
China's third-largest city Guangzhou is also reportedly considering a ban on electric scooters.
There are no national safety standards for such vehicles, which do not fall in the category of either motor vehicles or non-motorised ones according to Chinese law.
Though the ban on stand-up electric scooters is now in place in Beijing and Shanghai, you can still see plenty of them on the streets.
There are only three possibilities: people are not yet aware of the new rule changes, some have decided to risk being busted or riders will simply pay the small fine if they get caught.
If you talk to the mostly young people who own and love these scooters, they say they're cheap, convenient and easy to recharge. They also say that the problem instead lies with the sea of cars clogging up China's major cities every day.
The government response is that this may be the case, but it doesn't make the scooters any safer.
People - using all manner of vehicles - can been seen doing crazy, dangerous things every day on China's roads, so when cool kids were seen standing up on their electric scooters and whizzing through traffic, nobody thought it was in the slightest bit strange.
Transport officials didn't see it this way.
To them, these scooters move way too quickly and brake way too slowly. | China's two biggest cities have banned the use of electric scooters and segways on public roads because of safety concerns. | 1.734177 | 2 |
Tributes have been pouring in for 20-year-old Abdelhak Nouri who collapsed in a game in Austria a week ago.
The club says the midfielder suffered "serious and permanent brain damage".
Nouri, known as Appie, has been transferred to an Amsterdam hospital for further treatment.
In an emotional display of support for the player, Ajax fans gathered outside his parents' home in the Geuzenveld district of Amsterdam, applauding, lighting flares and chanting "Appie, Appie".
Nouri suffered cardiac arrhythmias - heart rhythm problems - during the game against German team Werder Bremen, Ajax said in a statement,
He received emergency treatment on the pitch and was flown by helicopter to a hospital in Innsbruck.
The club has said there is no chance of him recovering from the damage.
"The diagnosis was made that a lot of [his] brain is not functioning. All this probably occurred due to a lack of oxygen supply," the statement said.
Shock at the news has been reflected in Dutch media.
"News that the Ajax super-talent Abdelhak Nouri has suffered severe brain damage burst like a bombshell," the Algemeen Dagblad newspaper said.
"It doesn't get more bitter than this," commented De Telegraaf, adding that the "friendly, soft-spoken but roguish Appie who once put a smile on everybody's face has now become the centre of dismay and sadness".
Nouri made his debut for Ajax last September and played 15 league and cup games, scoring a goal in a cup tie. | Hundreds of fans of the Dutch football team Ajax have staged an emotional rally outside the family home of a player who suffered brain damage after collapsing in a friendly match. | 1.059636 | 1 |
802 Works Ltd claims the club has not paid a bill for work at Ibrox and wants the cash frozen to ensure payment if Rangers go bust.
Rangers say the firm breached the contract as the system cannot be used by 50,000 people at the same time.
A sheriff will rule on Friday whether an arrestment warrant granted two weeks ago should remain or be lifted.
At Glasgow Sheriff Court, lawyers for 802 Works said the firm wanted the money ring-fenced to ensure payment if the club goes into insolvency.
The court was told that Rangers "over a considerable period", had been operating at a loss of £7.5m per year.
Various accounts were lodged at the court, including an audited report dated October 2015, showing financial information and an account showing more recent figures that were taken from the club's account system.
The most recent figures were objected to by the representative of 802 Works.
Solicitor advocate Simon Catto, representing 802 Works, said the audited report showed a full year's accounts and a loss of around £7.5m per year should be preferred.
He said: "These are the only documents that should be looked at when considering if there is a risk of insolvency."
Counsel for the club, Christopher Wilson, told the court that the sum sued for is 2% of the turnover.
He said: "The company is turning over that amount each week."
The court heard Rangers have repaid a £5m loan from Sports Direct.
Mr Catto said the defence case, that only 10,000 users could access the Wi-Fi in the stadium and that constituted a breach of contract, was "feeble".
The court was told it was "quite clear from documents" that there was no intention that anything like 50,000 people would be able to use the system simultaneously. | A company which provided Wi-Fi services to Rangers is bidding to have £300,000 of the club's cash ring-fenced. | 1.07987 | 1 |
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The robots were built by a team at the University of Hertfordshire, and put in a cracking performance last year by grabbing second place in Brazil.
Each robot is programmed with around 50,000 different lines of code to help them to know what to do.
The RoboCup is an annual football competition, which first started in 1997.
Around 500 teams from more than 45 countries will take part in this year's contest, which kicks off in China on 19 July. | Meet the UK's robo-footie team who've been training hard for this year's RoboCup World Championships. | 2.594747 | 3 |
Catalonia's regional government said it needed the money to pay down debts and meet deficit reduction targets.
It adds to the 5bn euros the debt-stricken region initially requested from Spain in August last year.
The move comes just a month after Catalonia's new leaders pledged to hold a referendum on independence.
Catalonia is prosperous and accounts for around a fifth of Spain's GDP, but faces debt repayments totalling 13.6bn euros this year alone.
The regional government said it would spend 7.7bn euros to pay down debt and the rest on meeting deficit reduction targets set by the Spanish government.
Last year Spain set up a regional liquidity fund to provide money to regions unable to borrow on the international markets as a result of the financial crisis.
This year it has 23bn euros available to regions struggling with debt, raised from the treasury, Spanish banks and the national lottery.
Spain has been among the eurozone countries worst hit by the financial crisis.
It has been forced to borrow heavily as a result of a collapsing property market, recession and the highest unemployment rate in the eurozone.
Catalonia's nationalist leaders have blamed the Spanish government for the region's financial problems, and the economic crisis has broadly strengthened nationalist sentiment.
Catalan President Artur Mas formed a pro-independence coalition following elections in November, and in December agreed with coalition partners to hold an independence referendum by 2014.
The Spanish government led by Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy is fiercely opposed to Catalan secession, and argues that a referendum would be unconstitutional. | The independence-minded region of Catalonia has asked the Spanish central government for an extra 9bn euros (£7.7bn) in bailout money. | 2.091441 | 2 |
Paul Hegarty was sacked last month, with the Gable Endies picking up one point from three games since his departure.
Petrie, 46, leaves his post as as assistant manager at Junior Super League side Broughty Athletic.
Born in Dundee, he played for Forfar, Dunfermline and Ross County and had spells in Australia and Singapore.
Petrie has previously served as assistant manager at Forfar and Arbroath.
"He is highly motivated and enthusiastic, comes with a wealth of playing and coaching experience and most importantly understands the lower leagues of Scottish football," said chairman John Crawford.
"I would like to thank John Holt for his support in stepping in and looking after the team since the departure of Paul Hegarty and wish him every success for the future." | Stewart Petrie is the new manager at struggling Montrose, taking over with the club at the foot of League Two. | 0.754325 | 1 |
Eileen Means said the cause of "hundreds" of suspensions was unclear as the party had failed to notify them.
She said the process was "extremely unfair" as those affected "don't know what offence they've committed".
A Labour spokesman said those suspended will also have their votes cancelled in the party's leadership elections.
The party added it has a "robust validation process" to ensure all votes meet "Labour Party rules".
Labour's ruling body, the National Executive Committee (NEC), issued new social media guidelines which party members had to sign up to this week.
Ms Means believes most of the suspensions - from the 6,700 strong Bristol membership - were down to infringements of the new guidelines.
She described the suspensions as "too heavy" for some of the "so-called offences".
"There's a grave suspicion that it is a purge and a lot of members are using that term," she said.
"I think they are suspending anybody who does abuse anybody [else] but there's no doubt that people who support [Jeremy] Corbyn outnumber the people who support Owen [Smith] - certainly in Bristol."
During the past month, three Labour councillors - Harriet Bradley, Hibaq Jama, and Mike Langley - have been suspended, pending further investigations, costing the party its majority on the city council.
In an open letter to the NEC, a number of Bristol Labour members protested against the councillors' suspensions claiming the move had "done serious damage to the local party".
It said the councillors were given "so little information" it was "nearly impossible" to determine why they were suspended.
In a statement, Labour said it would not comment on individual cases but confirmed decisions "about individual members" was taken by the NEC.
"Members who have been contacted by the Labour Party to confirm they are not deemed eligible to vote can contact the party to obtain the evidence considered by the NEC," it said. | Two hundred Labour members in Bristol have been suspended for allegedly breaking party rules, the chair of the local party has claimed. | 1.107704 | 1 |
No players were on board the tour bus involved in the accident on a highway in the south-western state of Arizona.
It had been on its way to a Dallas Cowboys fan event in Las Vegas when the collision happened 48km (30 miles) north of the city of Kingman.
Officials said all four fatalities had been riding in the van.
"All on the bus came through OK with some bumps and bruises," the Associated Press news agency quoted Cowboys spokesman Rich Dalrymple as saying.
It was not clear what caused the crash on Sunday afternoon, and investigations are under way.
After the Las Vegas stop, the bus had been due to go on to Oxnard in California for the team's training camp, AP reports.
The Dallas Cowboys topped Forbes' 2016 list as the most valuable sports team in the world, with a value of $4bn (£3bn). | A bus carrying staff from the Dallas Cowboys, an American football team, has collided with a van in the US, killing four people, authorities say. | 1.05899 | 1 |
The crew are charged with negligence and abandoning ship. The captain and three officers are also charged with "homicide through wilful negligence".
Captain Lee Joon-sok's lawyer suggested he would contest the murder charge because there was no intent to kill.
The Sewol ferry capsized and sank on 16 April, with 476 people on board.
A total of 304 people are believed to have died. Divers have conducted an extensive search of the sunken ship to recover their bodies and on Tuesday retrieved the remains of a female passenger.
That brings the number of bodies recovered to 293, with 11 people still unaccounted for. Most of those on board the ferry were teenagers on a school trip.
Prosecutors say the ship capsized because it was overloaded, with cargo improperly stowed. Five executives from ferry operator Chonghaejin Marine are also facing charges.
The tragedy has caused shock and outrage in South Korea.
The crew have been accused of prioritising their own safety over that of passengers, and also of causing more deaths by instructing people to remain in their cabins instead of evacuating the ship.
They are being tried at the district court in the southern city of Gwangju.
But, reports the BBC's John Sudworth from the court, questions are being asked about the possibility of a fair trial given the wide assumption of guilt in the South Korean media.
Students who survived the sinking are to testify next month at a court close to their homes near Seoul, instead of at the court in Gwangju, it was also announced on Tuesday.
The decision was aimed at minimising further stress to the students, court officials said.
Meanwhile President Park Guen-hye, whose government has also faced tough criticism over the disaster, suffered another blow when her second nominee for prime minister withdrew from consideration.
The incumbent, Chung Hong-won, has tendered his resignation over the handling of the ferry disaster.
But Ms Park's first choice as his replacement withdrew amid questions over his finances, and her second, Moon Chang-keuk, over controversial Japan-related comments that he made.
In 2011 Mr Moon had described Japan's 35-year colonisation of the Korean peninsula as "God's will". | A South Korean court has begun hearing evidence in the trial of the captain and 14 crew members of a ferry that sank in April, killing more than 300. | 1.268121 | 1 |
The Belfast bantamweight was in control of his bout against Tayfur Aliyev of Azerbaijan throughout and won all three rounds on all three judges' cards, posting a 30-27 victory.
European champion Conlan has already qualified for next year's Rio Olympics.
Light flyweight Brendan Irvine lost his quarter-final to Joahnys Argilagos.
Irvine fought well but had no answer to his Cuban opponent's tight defence and scoring punches.
The Belfast fighter lost each round 10-9, though one judge did award him the final round as he battled hard against elimination one fight before the medal bouts.
Conlan now has his sights set on upgrading his world bronze for silver at least in the semi-finals.
Ireland's other two remaining hopefuls, Michael O'Reilly and Joe Ward, also won through to the semi-finals and ensured at least bronze medals.
O'Reilly, the current European Games and Irish middleweight champion, ranked seventh in the world, defeated Kazakhstan's Zhanubek Alimhanuly, the world middleweight champion, via a split decision.
The Kazakh second seed won Asian Games gold in 2014 but didn't finish amongst the medals at the Asian Confederation Championships this year after going out at the last-eight stage.
Ireland's best gold medal prospect is light-heavyweight Ward and he made the last four by defeating Mikhail Baudhaliavets of Belarus on a unanimous 3-0 decision.
World number five Ward also beat Baudhaliavets on a unanimous decision en route to gold in the quarter-finals of the European Elite Championships in Bulgaria in August.
Ireland have now secured a record haul of three World Championship medals and Conlan and O'Reilly will be in semi-final action on Sunday.
Ward will face Elshod Rasulov of Uzbekistan in the last four on Monday. | Michael Conlan is assured of at least a bronze medal at the World Boxing Championships in Doha after winning his quarter-final in style on Saturday. | 0.966309 | 1 |
Ahmed al-Menhali, a businessman, was detained while wearing traditional robes in a hotel in Avon, Ohio.
Media in Ohio said a hotel employee feared he was pledging allegiance to so-called Islamic State group (IS).
The UAE's ministry of interior issued advice on Saturday urging citizens to be careful about what they wear abroad.
UAE nationals should avoid wearing traditional costume "to preserve their safety", the ministry said (in Arabic) without referencing the Ohio incident.
Ohio broadcaster WEWS reported that police received a call from the sister of a hotel clerk who had said there was a man "in full headdress with multiple disposable phones pledging his allegiance to Isis" [another name for IS].
Police later received a call from the employee's father alleging the same thing.
A video of Mr Menhali's arrest, filmed by police, was published by WEWS on Friday.
It shows armed police approaching him outside a hotel and forcing him to lie on the floor, before searching him.
Mr Menhali, who is wearing white robes, the ghutra headdress and the agal - cords to hold the headdress in place - is heard repeatedly asking why police had stopped him.
"They were brutal with me," Mr Menhali told the UAE newspaper The National. "They pressed forcefully on my back. I had several injuries and bled from the forceful nature of their arrest."
Avon's mayor and police chief have since apologised to Mr Menhali, who was recovering in Ohio after treatment following a stroke.
After meeting him, Muslim community leaders invited the officials to break fast with them as part of the holy month of Ramadan.
The UAE ministry of interior warning was distributed on Saturday. A day later, the ministry also issued travel advice to Emirati citizens, urging them to respect bans of the full-face veil where they are in place.
The note also urges people "to take caution while abroad due to the security developments in some European countries, triggered by the unfolding unrest in the Middle East region, and their fallout, especially the refugee crisis".
In April, an Iraqi university student in California was escorted off a Southwest Airlines flight for having a conversation in Arabic. | United Arab Emirates (UAE) nationals are being urged not to wear national dress outside the region, days after an Emirati man was detained in the US. | 1.611135 | 2 |
New research by the Institute for Fiscal Studies has found that one in five low-paid men aged 25 to 55 now work part-time.
While 95% of top-earning men normally work full-time, 20% of the lowest paid now work part-time.
That means wage inequality for men has risen over two decades, but for women the opposite is the case.
More women have had a better education in recent years and more have moved into full-time jobs. As a result their pay has improved and they have had less incentive to leave the workforce.
However, the research does not reveal why increasing numbers of low-paid men are working part time.
Jonathan Cribb, senior research economist at the IFS and author of the report, said: "To understand the drivers of inequality in the UK it is vital to understand the growing association between low hourly wages and low hours of work among men."
There are two schools of thought about what might be happening. It may be that increasing numbers of men want to work part-time, although this seems unlikely.
The second theory is based on the sectors where these low-paid jobs are found.
Six in ten of them are in the retail, wholesale or hospitality sectors.
That might suggest men who previously worked in low-paid but secure, full-time jobs in sectors such as manufacturing have lost that type of employment.
Instead they have been forced into the traditionally poorly paid and less secure services sector of the economy.
Yet those are the sectors of the economy that traditionally have employed large numbers of poorly paid and part-time female workers. | The number of men in low-paid part-time work has increased fourfold over the past 20 years. | 2.532434 | 3 |
A chicks' mother and father had returned to the nest in Bassenthwaite at Easter for the fourth year running, producing a trio of eggs in six days.
The first of the three chicks hatched on Thursday, with the other two birds arriving over the weekend.
But the Lake District Osprey Project said Monday was a "sad day", when the team saw only one chick was on the nest.
A spokesman said it was a "bleak" outlook for the remaining chick as it is "very likely" that the magpies would return.
It is not known if the birds, which often take scraps of fish from the osprey's nest, had eaten the chicks.
Ospreys returned to the area in 2001 after an absence of more than 150 years, and nearly 30 chicks have been raised at the nest since.
The birds fly south to Africa during late autumn, returning to the UK towards the start of April. | Two newly hatched osprey chicks have been stolen by magpies in Cumbria. | 1.935268 | 2 |
Harry Styles said the band was "very sorry" for cancelling Tuesday's show.
Fans were already inside the city's SSE Arena when the gig was pulled at 21:00 BST after singer Liam Payne fell ill.
Styles told BBC Radio 2's Chris Evans that the band had been "trying to get on and then it was just impossible".
Payne was "just very, very ill", he said.
"We very, very much apologise to everyone."
And Payne tweeted: "I'm so sorry to everybody I disappointed last night. I'm feeling better now.
"I really hope everyone can make the rescheduled date on Friday.
"I really can't wait to perform and make it up to everyone later."
Disappointed fans booed as staff instructed them to leave the venue, and one witness said "hundreds" of girls and women had been left weeping.
Concert promoter Aiken Promotions said: "The show tonight has been cancelled as Liam has taken ill, and whilst not serious, he is unable to perform tonight."
And in another statement on Wednesday, the promoter apologised for the cancellation.
That show has been rescheduled for Friday and original tickets are valid.
"We thank everyone for their understanding and their good wishes to Liam," Aiken Promotions added.
Fans unable to attend Friday's concert have been told they will be refunded.
It was the first time in the band's five-year career that they had been forced to cancel a show.
Previously, members had filled in for each other when illness struck.
"To be honest, we feel kind of lucky that we've got to this point and never cancelled one," said Styles.
But the rescheduled show has come at a cost for ice hockey fans in Belfast.
The Belfast Giants had been due to play a game against the Sheffield Steelers at SSE Arena on Friday night.
That has now had to make way for the One Direction gig.
Neil Walker, the arena's general manager, said "all possible options" had been assessed before the decision was made and he apologised to supporters of both teams.
"We are very grateful to them for their understanding and accommodation of the nearly 10,000 young concert fans who were so devastated by the cancellation last night," he added.
"We are now looking forward to three great nights of concerts." | One Direction have announced that a gig they cancelled at the last minute in Belfast on Tuesday will now take place on Friday, and two other concerts in the city will go ahead as planned. | 0.813718 | 1 |
The 24-year-old has also agreed an option to extend his Bees contract until the end of the 2017-18 season but moves to Spain for personal reasons.
Jota moved to Griffin Park from fellow La Liga side Celta Vigo in the summer of 2014, scoring 11 times in 51 games.
Brentford have the option to recall Jota during the next two transfer windows - this summer and January 2017.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | Brentford midfielder Jota has joined Spanish La Liga club Eibar on an 18-month loan deal. | 0.570841 | 1 |
Cross Keys Homes put the garages up in Fellowes Gardens, Peterborough, for its residents about five years ago.
However, after the receiver stepped in for the landowner, they were forced to pull them down, giving residents just days to remove belongings.
Cross Keys apologised and said it was working to find alternative garages.
The housing association said it built them to "help improve the amenities" but "unfortunately, it has recently come to light that some of the land in question was not in our ownership nor was it owned by the city council either".
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A spokeswoman said Cross Keys had made a "competitive offer" to buy the land from the receiver.
"[This] was sadly refused, leaving us with no alternative but to demolish the four garages and return the land to its previous state."
Although the company has not said who does own the land, or why it took the owner several years to complain, the situation was an "unfortunate oversight on our part", she added.
The garages were dismantled on Monday, leaving just the concrete bases and wire mesh fencing in their places.
One resident, whose garage was filled with her elderly mother's possessions, described it as "stupid" and said she did not know what she would do with the belongings.
Cross Keys said it would offer "interim suitable storage" while it looked for alternatives. | A social housing company was forced to demolish four garages after it discovered it did not own the land it had built them on. | 1.194369 | 1 |
Former Ch Supt David Duckenfield will face 95 charges of manslaughter and five other senior figures are to be prosecuted over the 1989 disaster.
Mr Duckenfield was match commander at the FA Cup semi-final when 96 Liverpool fans were fatally injured in a crush.
It has not yet been decided where the trials will take place, the Crown said.
The defendants, excepting Mr Duckenfield, will appear at Warrington Magistrates' Court on 9 August.
He was prosecuted privately in 1999 and the CPS is applying to the High Court to lift a court order imposed, which must be removed before Mr Duckenfield can be charged.
The judge will be updated on the progress of this application by 6 September and if successful, the case will proceed directly to crown court.
On the same day, the next hearing for the other five is due to be held at Preston Crown Court.
If each of the men plead not guilty, the CPS said it anticipated three separate trials being held.
One would comprise Mr Duckenfield and Graham Mackrell, who was the company secretary at Sheffield Wednesday at the time of the disaster.
A separate trial would be held for ex-South Yorkshire Police (SYP) Ch Insp Sir Norman Bettison.
Another trial would include Peter Metcalf, who was a solicitor for SYP, and two SYP officers - former Ch Supt Donald Denton and former Det Ch Insp Alan Foster.
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Last year, new inquests into the disaster at the Liverpool v Nottingham Forest match, held at Sheffield Wednesday's ground, concluded the fans had been unlawfully killed.
The inquests found that Liverpool supporters were not responsible for the dangerous situation at the Leppings Lane turnstiles.
The full list of individuals and charges are:
The CPS brought charges following referrals from the Operation Resolve investigation into the causes of the disaster and the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) probe.
£56.5m
cost of Operation Resolve
£42m
cost of IPCC investigation
17,000 lines of inquiry by Operation Resolve
11,000 statements taken by Operation Resolve
190,000 documents reviewed by IPCC investigation
23,000 images reviewed by IPCC investigation | Three separate trials are planned for the prosecution of the six men facing charges over the Hillsborough disaster, the Crown Prosecution Service says. | 1.08507 | 1 |
Kim Davis, an elected official, has said that her Christian faith should exempt her from signing the licences.
She was released from jail on Tuesday the under the condition she not interfere with her deputies as they issue licences.
The US Supreme Court declared gay marriage legal in June.
According to her lawyers, Ms Davis will return to her work on Friday or Monday.
Ms Davis and her lawyers would not say whether she would comply with federal Judge David Bunning's conditions. If she does not, she could be jailed again.
After she was released, Ms Davis was greeted by thousands of cheering supporters who gathered outside the Carter County Detention Center.
Ms Davis has become a heroine among conservative Christians who view marriage as only between a man and a woman.
Her case has also become an issue in the Republican presidential campaign with several candidates - including former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee and Texas Senator Ted Cruz - championing her cause.
Two federal courts and the US Supreme Court have ruled against Ms Davis after she repeatedly refused to issue marriage licences since June.
Ms Davis, a Democrat who serves Rowan County, a rural area in eastern Kentucky, was found in contempt of court on Thursday and jailed.
Because Ms Davis is an elected official, she cannot be fired. She could be impeached by the Kentucky legislature, but the body is not in session.
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Against: | The Kentucky clerk who was jailed for refusing to issue gay marriage licenses has said she "needs time to rest" before she returns to work. | 1.54962 | 2 |
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The WalkCar can reach a top speed of just over 6mph (10km/h) and can support riders weighing up to 120kg (265lbs).
Inventor Kuniaki Sato said the device was designed for recreational use as well as for business.
He told Reuters: "I want to show the world that Japan can also be innovative."
Mr Sato is hoping to secure crowdfunding before the gadget can be mass produced. | A motorised transporter the size of a tablet computer has been developed by a Japanese engineer. | 1.74418 | 2 |
Lutfur Rahman was banned from standing for office for five years in 2015 after being found guilty of electoral fraud.
It is understood Mr Rahman is starting the party with his former deputy Ohid Ahmad who is bidding to be elected at the 2018 mayoral election.
Mr Ahmad said "everyone has the right to start a new political party or to support and existing one".
Campaign literature featuring both Mr Rahman and Mr Ahmad appears under the banner of the "Tower Hamlets Together" party.
The same name and logo also appear on an application sent to the Electoral Commissioner to set up the new political party.
The government has sent a letter to the commission asking it to "forensically review" any application for a new party involving Mr Rahman.
In the note, Minister for the Constitution Chris Skidmore MP said he "would be grateful if you could indicate" if a disqualified individual "should be involved with the registration of a political party".
In a statement, Mr Ahmad said he was standing in the 2018 mayoral election but had "yet to finalise whether I will stand as an independent or under a party banner".
A group of voters took legal action against Mr Rahman in 2015 over a series of allegations of election fraud including ballot paper tampering.
Mr Rahman was removed from office and the 2014 mayoral election was declared void after he was found guilty of corrupt and illegal practices.
He maintained there was "little, if any" evidence of wrongdoing against him and later unsuccessfully challenged the ruling of the Election Commissioner Richard Mawrey.
Current Mayor of Tower Hamlets, John Biggs, who won a new election in June 2015 for Labour says Mr Rhaman "clearly hasn't learned".
"I'm hopeful the people of our borough will recognise that he left us in a dead end and that we need to move forwards" he added. | The disgraced former mayor of Tower Hamlets is trying to form a new political party, the BBC understands. | 1.115265 | 1 |
A poll of almost 20,000 motorists, commissioned by the AA, found 29% of 25 to 34-year-olds admitted to drinking and driving the following morning.
AA president Edmund King said that it is "relatively easy" to be over the limit the next morning.
"If you have got any doubt it is probably unsafe to drive," he said.
The Scottish Government reduced the alcohol limit for drivers from 80mg to 50mg per 100ml of blood in December 2014, but the legal level in England and Wales remains at 80mg.
Mr King told the BBC: "I think people have kind of got the message when they go out in the evening so they'll book a taxi or they'll have a designated driver and they'll be responsible.
"But once they get home, they go to bed, they have some sleep, and then they kind of think well I'm OK, it's the next day.
"So they're not equating the next day with what they've actually drunk and the problem is if you really have had a lot to drink, your body can only really break down one unit of alcohol per hour... it is relatively easy to be over the limit the next day."
He said 20% of those prosecuted for drink-driving are caught by police between 06:00 and 12:00, so more awareness is needed.
"If you know you've got to be up the next morning and driving then plan for it - don't drink so much the night before," he said.
According to the most recent Department for Transport figures, an estimated 240 people were killed in drink-driving related collisions across Great Britain in 2014. This number has fallen dramatically since 1979, when there were 1,640 deaths.
The first provisional estimates for 2015 suggest there were between 200 and 290 deaths in drink-drive accidents. | One in five motorists has driven the morning after a night of drinking, despite knowing they could be over the drink-drive limit, a survey suggests. | 1.908496 | 2 |
Aslef and RMT members are due to walk out for six days from 9 January.
The Confederation of Passenger Transport (CPT) said bus operators from Cornwall to Northumberland were ready to send vehicles to the South East.
Southern said it was still deciding what services might be offered.
A CPT spokeswoman said: "We have had a very good response from quite a few members."
It has sent Southern's parent company, the Go-Ahead Group, a list of operators including family-run firms which are ready to provide buses.
Southern said it planned to announce on Wednesday what rail replacement services might be offered "to some commuters" but warned there would be no trains at all during the strike.
Three weeks ago the government said officials were liaising with CPT "to determine how bus and coach operators can best assist with providing alternative transport".
BBC South East understands the Army was asked before Christmas to prepare contingency plans for soldiers to drive buses.
"Informal" talks between Southern and Aslef ended at ACAS today without agreement.
A commuter group in east Surrey has written to the prime minister to "find out what is wrong and create a solution" to the long-running dispute about drivers, rather than conductors, operating carriage doors.
It said passengers were "suffering daily, fainting or crying on trains, having health problems, receiving extreme mental anxiety and finding their financial position at high risk".
The government said it would respond to the group shortly.
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How bad have Southern rail services got? | Dozens of bus and coach companies across England have offered vehicles for rail replacement services during the next Southern train drivers' strike. | 1.150399 | 1 |
It says the yeast-based product is contributing to anti-social behaviour in some remote communities.
Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion described the salty spread as a "precursor to misery".
He said it was being bought in bulk to make moonshine.
Brewer's yeast is a key ingredient in the spread and is used in the production of beer and ale.
In communities where alcohol is banned because of addiction problems, Mr Scullion said Vegemite sales should also be restricted.
"Businesses in these communities... have a responsibility to report any purchase that may raise their own suspicions," he said.
The minister added that in some cases, children were failing to turn up to school because they were too hung-over, and that Vegemite was an increasingly common factor in domestic violence cases.
But Dr John Boffa of the People's Alcohol Action Coalition, who is based in Alice Springs, in Australia's Northern Territory, says the problem is not widespread.
"We're talking about an isolated problem in a couple of communities around a very large nation, and a nation where there is a very large number of Aboriginal communities, and every community is different," he told the BBC.
He said there might be a need for some local initiatives, but that these should be initiated by the communities themselves.
Vegemite started as a war-time substitute for Marmite, and is now something of an Australian culinary icon, says the BBC's Jon Donnison in Sydney. | Australia's government says some communities should consider limiting the sale of the popular Vegemite spread because it is being used to make alcohol. | 2.619489 | 3 |
A woman who was driving one of the cars was airlifted to hospital with serious leg injuries after the collision on the Old Armagh Road at Carnbeg.
The baby, who was in her car, sustained minor injuries and was taken hospital in Drogheda, along with a man in his 20s who was driving the second car.
The crash happened at about 11:00 local time and the road remained closed.
The injured woman, who is in her 30s, was airlifted to Tallaght Hospital in Dublin. | Three people including a baby have been injured in a two-car crash in County Louth, very close to the Irish border. | 0.656584 | 1 |
For the six months to June, net profit jumped to a record $1.1bn (£660m) from $873m one year ago.
Revenue rose by 24% to a record $3.5bn, due to higher sales volumes.
The company also benefitted from a new pricing regime at its Pluto LNG project off the Western Australian coast.
The price for LNG from Woodside's Pluto facility increased by 36%, and this rise was reflected in its customer contracts during the six months to June.
Woodside - Australia's biggest oil and gas producer - operates six out of the seven LNG "processing trains"- also known as purification facilities, that are available in Australia.
In a statement released with the earnings, chief executive Peter Coleman said: "Our record production is a testament to our assets' ongoing reliability.
Our half-year profit was up 27 per cent on the same period as last year, reflecting our record production, higher realised prices and increased sales volumes."
The company did not offer any guidance for the rest of the year. But it did reaffirm its recently raised production target of 89 to 94 million barrels of oil equivalent (mmboe).
Mr Coleman said the firm's international exploration strategy was also taking shape, with new acreage in Myanmar as well as entries into Morocco, Tanzania and Gabon.
Woodside's international portfolio includes interests in Ireland, New Zealand, Canada and Timor-Leste. | Australia's Woodside Petroleum has seen a 27% jump in first half profit, mainly driven by higher prices for its key product - liquefied natural gas (LNG). | 1.26107 | 1 |
Allan George Matthews, 56, admitted to "removing tissue" from the man "without consent or authority" at a motel in Port Macquarie, north of Sydney.
Police said 52-year-old victim posted an online ad "requesting assistance with a medical issue".
He had been suffering for years after being kicked in the groin by a horse.
Police became aware of the case in June when the man attended hospital after the the wound he suffered during the operation became infected.
Officers raided Matthews' home and seized medical equipment, firearms and four bottles of what they suspected to be amyl nitrate.
Prosecutors alleged that Matthews was not authorised to perform such a procedure as he was not a qualified or registered medical practitioner.
He also pleaded guilty in court this week to illegally possessing a gun and two counts of possessing or attempting to prescribe a restricted substance. | An amateur surgeon in Australia has pleaded guilty to removing the left testicle of a man who could not afford professional medical treatment. | 0.790709 | 1 |
The arrested include six tennis players, the country's interior ministry said, without identifying any of the individuals.
They are accused of deliberately arranging the loss of tennis games in at least 17 different events.
Authorities said their earnings from the manipulation were over €500,000 (£420,420).
A police spokesperson told the AFP news agency that players were offered between €500 (£419) and €1,000 (£837) to throw matches.
"Sometimes they promised €500 and in the end only paid €50. The players were above all the victims," he added.
The players involved are relatively lower-ranked - all are outside the top 800 worldwide.
In January, a joint investigation by the BBC and Buzzfeed News found widespread evidence of match-fixing at the top levels of world tennis.
The revelations included 16 players who have ranked in the top 50 during the past decade, but were repeatedly flagged to the Tennis Integrity Unit (TIU) over suspicions they had thrown matches.
All of the players, including winners of Grand Slam titles, were allowed to continue competing.
Tennis match fixing claims explained | Police in Spain have arrested 34 people in connection with a suspected match-fixing ring in both Spain and Portugal. | 1.46042 | 1 |
Elizabeth Coveney has spent a week in Sierra Leone with oncologists and surgeons from Velindre Cancer Centre.
She was invited due to her expertise in lymphoedema - a chronic condition that causes swelling in body tissue.
Ms Coveney, who works at Cimla Hospital, Neath, said: "The invitation came out of the blue but I knew straight away I wanted to do it."
Lymphoedema develops when lymph nodes or vessels are damaged or blocked and can lead to decreased mobility, pain, anxiety and depression.
Ms Coveney said women in Sierra Leone present with breast cancer in the advanced stage, which means they have also developed lymphoedema.
She has been passing on her expertise to clinicians in the country, including self-management techniques they can show their patients, including a bandaging technique women can use for support.
"You won't get outstanding results but it will give some relief for the weight of the arm, which can feel very heavy. It may also help stop it progressing as quickly," said Ms Coveney
The team have taken supplies of bandages women can wash and reuse.
"I am delighted to have this opportunity to support my colleagues in Sierra Leone in the management of this very debilitating and disabling condition," she added. | A specialist from a Neath Port Talbot hospital has travelled to Africa to help breast cancer patients. | 1.676401 | 2 |
Officers were called to a property in Beckbury Road in Weoley Castle at 10:00 BST on Saturday, police said.
The child was taken to hospital having suffered a suspected cardiac arrest but was later pronounced dead.
A 35-year-old woman from Weoley Castle remains in custody after police were granted more time to question her.
A 37-year-old man from Stourport in Worcestershire who was arrested on Sunday has been released on bail.
A second man, aged 34 and from Oldbury, has been released on bail and will return for further questioning next month.
A post-mortem examination was inconclusive and further tests will now be carried out. | Two men and a woman have been arrested on suspicion of murder after an 18-month-old girl was found dead at a house in Birmingham. | 0.636286 | 1 |
Finlayson, a director of recruitment company FW Park Brown, has been on the club's board since 2010.
Cameron also relinquished the role of chief executive.
And Finlayson said: "The board has decided to separate these two differing roles and will, in the near future, appoint a new general manager."
He added: "We have a tremendously loyal support and an equally supportive group of stakeholders. Collectively we can work together to meet the aspirations of all, specifically our ambition to make a swift return to the Premiership."
The Highland club were relegated from the top flight for the first time since returning in 2010, despite beating Motherwell last weekend.
More to follow. | Inverness CT have appointed Willie Finlayson as chairman hours after Kenny Cameron stood down following their relegation. | 0.911824 | 1 |
Mr Sanders is expected to perform well in West Virginia, despite Mrs Clinton's huge lead in overall delegates.
"We're going to fight for the last vote," Mr Sanders said on Monday.
Minutes after the West Virginia polls closed, Donald Trump was projected the winner in the Republican race.
And he later was declared the winner in Nebraska too, which was a Republican-only contest.
He is the party's presumptive nominee after his last remaining rivals left the race last week, although their names remained on the West Virginia ballot.
According to exit polls, the most important issue for voters in that state was the economy and jobs.
Mr Trump is now trying to unite the Republican Party after a contentious primary season.
Many top Republican leaders, including House Speaker Paul Ryan, have declined to support Mr Trump's candidacy, saying the New York businessman does not represent conservative values.
Mr Trump will meet Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Mr Ryan on Thursday in hopes of resolving their differences.
Some Republicans are concerned that Mr Trump will negatively affect other races, hurting the party's chances of retaining control of Congress.
Mr Trump is deeply unpopular among key voting blocs including women, Latinos and African Americans.
On the Democratic side, Mrs Clinton is on the defensive in West Virginia because of comments she made during a town hall meeting in March.
Addressing environmental issues, she said she wanted to put coal companies out of business.
Battered by dwindling demand and new environmental rules, coal companies are among the top employers in West Virginia.
Mrs Clinton later said she had misspoken and that she had wanted to bring new industries to the state.
Mr Sanders's message of economic fairness has also resonated in West Virginia, one of the poorest states in the country.
While a win in West Virginia will not derail Mrs Clinton's path to the Democratic nomination, Mr Sanders' continued success will give him leverage to influence the party's platform.
Full US election coverage from the BBC | The US states of Nebraska and West Virginia hold primary votes on Tuesday, with Bernie Sanders still battling to slow Hillary Clinton's march to the Democratic nomination. | 1.438181 | 1 |
A firearm and ammunition, subject to ballistic examination, were seized after police stopped and searched two cars at Kyletaun, Rathkeale, on Saturday morning.
Police said the three men who were arrested were aged in their mid 20s to late 30s.
They are being held at Henry Street Garda Station in Limerick. | Three men have been arrested in County Limerick as part of an investigation into dissident republican activity. | 0.231391 | 0 |
The 18-year-old victim was reportedly approached from behind in Old Christchurch Road, Bournemouth, at about 06:30 BST on Friday, police said.
He has since been released from hospital after treatment for a serious cut to his neck.
A 59-year-old Bournemouth man is due before Poole magistrates.
Two men, aged 32 and 56, who were also arrested on suspicion of attempted murder have been released pending further inquiries. | A man has been charged with attempted murder after a teenager had his neck slashed in a street attack. | 0.41599 | 0 |
Police say at least three prisoners have been decapitated at the Alcacuz jail.
Many others are thought to have been killed in fighting between rival gangs at the prison.
This is the third major riot in Brazil this year. Nearly 100 inmates died in riots earlier this month in prisons in the states of Amazonas and Roraima.
The violence inside Alcacuz jail began on Saturday afternoon, when members of one of the powerful criminal organisations present in most Brazilian jails attacked rivals in a separate wing.
Explosions and gunshots could be heard from outside.
Major Wellington Camilo, commander of the Rio Grande do Norte state prison system, said police would wait until the morning to enter the compound.
"Many people have died. But we simply cannot get into the prison now," he said.
No prisoners had escaped, he added.
Dozens of relatives have gathered outside, waiting for information.
Riots are not uncommon in Brazil's overcrowded jails, which are largely controlled by powerful criminal gangs.
But the scale of the violence this year has put pressure on President Michel Temer to address the problem.
After the Amazonas prison riot, the government announced plans to build five more high security jails and to create new intelligence units to try to curb the power of the gangs behind bars. | Inmates have seized control of the largest prison in the north-eastern Brazilian city of Natal. | 1.463051 | 1 |
24 August 2016 Last updated at 18:05 BST
Ch Insp Antony Hart, from Devon and Cornwall Police, said searches were continuing in Exminster in relation to the terrorism investigation. | Police have arrested a serving Royal Marine in Somerset over Northern Ireland-related terrorism. | 0.060062 | 0 |
11 July 2016 Last updated at 17:46 BST
She's expected to take over as the head of the government on Wednesday.
The 59-year-old politician will take over from David Cameron, who announced he would be stepping down from the job last month.
BBC political correspondent Ross Hawkins explains what's been going on for Newsround. | Theresa May is set to become the UK's next prime minister after Andrea Leadsom pulled out of the contest to become Conservative Party leader. | 0.745969 | 1 |
The 32-year-old has joined the Conference Premier leaders from Northampton on loan until the end of the season.
"He'll come into the squad if his clearance [comes] through" said player-manager Andy Morrell.
Artell has not played since October because of an Achilles injury.
Despite his lack of games and with centre-half Martin Riley out with a hamstring injury, Morrell has not ruled out Artell starting should he eligible in time.
"He hasn't played a game for a while but he's a good pro. He knows what to do, where to be on the pitch," Morrell added.
Another midweek loan signing, striker Dele Adebola is available to make his debut after being granted international clearance.
Wrexham will be without midfielder Jay Harris who has been handed a four-match suspension following his red card at Barrow.
"We're going to miss Jay Harris for four games. It was a bit of a foolish thing to do with the state of the game," Morrell said.
We'll pick a team that we think will go and beat Alfreton - another tough game
"It happens, you've got to deal with it [and] it's a chance for someone else to stake a claim.
"Kev [Kevin Thornton] did great [and] scored a goal [against Barrow] so more than likely he will be involved as will Glen [Little].
"We'll pick a team that we think will go and beat Alfreton - another tough game." | Wrexham are hopeful on loan defender David Artell will receive international clearance in time for Saturday's home game against Alfreton Town. | 0.819818 | 1 |
The 50-year-old pleaded guilty to driving at almost double the speed limit on the A259 at Black Rock, Brighton, on 14 October last year.
Coogan, of Greenways, in Ovingdean, was caught speeding in a Mazda MX-5 SE sports car, Sussex Police said.
He was disqualified from driving for 28 days and fined £670 at Worthing Magistrates' Court on Wednesday.
He was also ordered to pay a victim surcharge of £67 and costs of £85.
Coogan, who is known for comic characters including Alan Partridge and Paul Calf, did not attend the hearing, police said. | Actor and comedian Steve Coogan has been banned from driving after he was clocked doing 54mph in a 30mph zone. | 0.731122 | 1 |
The £12.4m purchase of a DHL depot is the fourth property deal completed by Portsmouth City Council since November.
Other purchases have included an industrial unit in Gloucestershire and a supermarket in Somerset.
Liberal Democrats said none of the investments were in Portsmouth, but ruling Conservatives said they were targeting the "highest yields".
Council leader Donna Jones said their property investments had generated £2m in the last year, helping to ease the impact of government spending cuts.
Ms Jones said: "It's not about the location, it's about the safest highest yield I can get, wherever that may be in the UK to generate the biggest return so I can keep libraries and public toilets open.
"We're trying to run the city more like a business and this is part of it."
But the leader of the opposition Liberal Democrat group, Councillor Gerald Vernon-Jackson, said the decision to invest elsewhere in England sent "a terrible message to the people of Portsmouth".
"This is another property where another council will get the business rates, not Portsmouth," he said.
Tom Southall, head of property investment, said Portsmouth's £110m budget for property was large in comparison to other authorities.
He said the money was borrowed at relatively low rates from the Public Works Loan Board, with income generated by renting to established tenants.
Mr Southall said: "All property has risk... but if you get good property in good locations, you're always going to be able to let it." | A Hampshire council has bought a parcel distribution warehouse near Birmingham as part of a new income drive. | 1.079678 | 1 |
But on closer inspection, it turns out the Barcelona striker has not swapped La Liga for the League of Ireland.
It is in fact 16-year-old Barry Cotter, who bears an uncanny resemblance to the Brazil World Cup star.
While Neymar will line-up in the Champions League, former Avenue United and Ennis Town forward Cotter will play in the under-17 National League after signing for Limerick.
But he shares his doppelganger's confidence telling the club website: "I'm looking to score at least one or two goals in each game for the rest of the season." | On first glance it looks like Limerick have pulled off the transfer of the century and signed Barcelona striker Neymar. | 0.584547 | 1 |
Michael Slager, who is white, could face decades in jail despite the state dropping the murder charge in a deal.
Walter Scott was killed after Slager shot him in the back five times in North Charleston, South Carolina.
A bystander filmed the 2015 incident on a mobile phone camera and Slager's actions were widely condemned.
It came as the US grappled with a series of police killings that sparked a debate about the use of force against African Americans.
Slager was fired by the force shortly after the video came to light.
The incident was viewed millions of times online, and led to calls for the officer to face severe punishment.
The plea deal does not carry a specific punishment, so Slager could face no prison time or life behind bars.
He entered a guilty plea in front of his family, Scott's relatives and about 50 people who had gathered in the court.
As part of the plea, he admitted to deprivation of rights under the colour of law, lying to state investigators, and using a firearm in a violent crime.
"Today is a victory for Walter," said Judy Scott, Walter Scott's mother.
"We got justice," she continued, adding that she forgave Slager for her son's death.
Andy Savage, a lawyer for Slager, said: "We hope that Michael's acceptance of responsibility will help the Scott family as they continue to grieve their loss."
Slager had maintained that he shot Scott after he had taken his stun-gun during a tussle that broke out after he pulled over Mr Scott for having a broken tail light.
An earlier murder trial in the state court ended in mistrial.
In March, a judge ruled that jurors could view the video, despite Slager's defence team trying to prevent that.
The plea deal makes no reference to Walter Scott's race.
"The defendant wilfully used deadly force even though it was objectively unreasonable under the circumstances," according to the plea agreement.
"The defendant acknowledges that during the time he used deadly force, he knew that the use of deadly force was unnecessary and excessive, and therefore unreasonable under the circumstances."
Slager's sentence is not expected to be handed down for several more weeks. | An ex-police officer has admitted violating the civil rights of a black man he was filmed shooting to death, in a case that sparked a national outcry. | 1.212565 | 1 |
A 44-year-old woman was attacked after being dragged into a car park in Warwick Road, Old Trafford, at about 03:15 BST on Tuesday.
A man was arrested in the Stretford area and will be questioned by detectives, police said.
Det Insp Carl Gilbert appealed for anyone with information to contact them. | A 44-year-old man has been arrested after a woman was raped in Greater Manchester. | 0.25552 | 0 |
They said the money was obtained illegally and not declared.
He denies the charges and says he is being unfairly targeted by the Prosecutor's Office.
Mr Cunha has been leading calls for the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff, but he is now facing calls from other parties to step down.
As speaker of the Chamber of Deputies, he holds the power to allow impeachment proceedings against Ms Rousseff.
The main opposition parties made public a demand last week for Mr Cunha to resign.
A request for his resignation had already come from government supporters in Congress.
Mr Cunha is being investigated for alleged corruption in a kick-back scheme at the state run oil company, Petrobras.
Brazil's Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that the Prosecutor's Office was allowed to investigate allegations of corruption against Mr Cunha.
Prosecutors said on Friday that he hid millions of dollars in Swiss accounts opened in his wife's and his children's names.
"There is sufficient proof that the foreign bank accounts were not declared and that at least in relation to Eduardo Cunha the money was obtained illegally," said a Prosecutor's Office statement.
A Brazilian audit court ruled earlier this month that President Dilma Rousseff broke the law in managing last year's budget.
She was accused of borrowing money illegally from state banks to make up for budget shortfalls.
Government supporters say calls for an impeachment less than a year after Ms Rousseff was re-elected are tantamount to a coup attempt. | Brazilian prosecutors have accused the speaker of the lower house of Congress, Eduardo Cunha, of keeping millions of dollars in foreign bank accounts. | 1.159106 | 1 |
It follows a court decision on Thursday which approved a government plan to clear the camp.
Authorities say around 1,000 migrants will be affected by the eviction plan for the southern part of the camp.
Overall, more than 3,700 migrants live in the camp, many of whom hope to cross the Channel to reach Britain.
Conditions there are squalid and its sprawling presence has become a controversial issue in both France and the UK.
Local officials said public areas such as places of worship or schools would not be cleared and that it would be a "humanitarian operation".
On Friday officials toured the southern part of the camp telling people it was "time to leave", volunteers there said.
The Help Refugees charity said 10 adults had taken up the government's option to leave on buses brought to the camp.
French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said the authorities would carry out the court order humanely.
Residents would be relocated to a nearby park of converted shipping containers or other centres within the country.
"There was never any question of the French government sending bulldozers on to the site," he said on Thursday.
Calais mayor Natacha Bouchart said the authorities would also seek to reduce the size of the northern part of the camp in the coming months.
This would enable work to start on a project to extend the city's port, she told Reuters news agency.
Neighbouring Belgium this week announced temporary controls on its border with France amid fears of an influx of migrants from the camp.
France described the Belgian move as "strange". Mr Cazeneuve said the very idea of Calais migrants heading for Belgium did not "correspond to reality". However, Belgian officials say dozens have already been stopped trying to cross the border.
Tea, rivalry and ambition at 'Jungle hotel'
Jungle migrants prepare to move
Migrants resist relocation to containers | The French authorities are conducting tent-to-tent visits to urge residents at the controversial "Jungle" camp in Calais to leave. | 1.749922 | 2 |
Heidi Cooke was born with BPAN (beta-propeller protein assisted neurodegeneration), a disorder that was only identified by researchers in 2006.
Her mum Kerry said Heidi has limited mobility and speech, and may die before reaching her 30s.
Ms Cooke said she hoped to raise money to fund research into a cure.
She said it was "devastating" to think she would outlive her daughter but was hoping to fund research into treatments.
Heidi is currently at stage one of the condition, but as she gets older will experience symptoms of dementia, is likely to lose her sight and suffer tremors and painful muscle seizures.
Ms Cooke, 38, from Leicester, said: "Everything has to be done for her. It's like having a baby in a nine-year-old's body.
"She has always been disabled and we thought she just had delayed development, but in fact she's declining.
"I would have been preparing for what happens to Heidi after I have gone, but now I'm expecting to outlive my own daughter.
"It is quite devastating."
Ms Cooke, a mother of two, is training to be an occupational therapist at the University of Northampton, in order to care for her daughter and help others in the UK who are diagnosed.
She has also begun fundraising for greater research into the condition and alternate treatments.
To date there is no cure or specific treatment for BPAN and Heidi has to be treated with medication give to people with Parkinson's Disease.
"She's [Heidi] going to die in middle age but I've tried to see the positive in this," added Ms Cooke.
"I'm hoping to spread the word and help find a way of treating this.
"I'd love for Heidi to live a long and happy life." | A nine-year-old girl is just one of 100 people worldwide diagnosed with a genetic disorder likened to Parkinson's disease in children. | 2.197166 | 2 |
The group claim they are owed $40,000 (£23,500) by the Illinois-based outfit WorldWide Fan Clubs.
The company had been charged with managing subscriptions and fan records for Duran Duran, with 75% of profits going to the musicians.
Its owners declined to comment when contacted by the Associated Press.
According to their legal action, filed in Cook County Circuit Court, Duran Duran also contend that the company - which operates out of the town of Glenview - failed to keep accurate accounts of fan club activity since they gained the contract for the work in 2010.
It also stated they have made repeated requests for the unpaid fees to be settled.
Part of their brief was to process subscriptions from fans, while their headquarters would also serve as a warehouse for the distribution of band merchandise.
They were entitled to keep 25% of proceeds for their activities.
Duran Duran were formed in Birmingham in 1978, with its core members Simon Le Bon, Nick Rhodes and John Taylor still in the line-up today.
They have enjoyed a string of hits in both the UK and US, including Hungry Like The Wolf and Rio.
In 2012, they performed at a concert to mark the opening ceremony of the London Olympics in Hyde Park.
The band are currently at work on their 14th studio album. | Pop band Duran Duran have taken legal action against the US company charged with running their fan club over unpaid revenues, court papers have revealed. | 1.031971 | 1 |
The Republican People's Party (CHP) accused broadcaster TRT of "abusing public office" and vowed to take legal action.
It has previously protested at TRT "bias" towards President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Justice and Development Party (AKP).
The election will take place on 7 June.
In a statement on the CHP website (in Turkish), deputy leader Bulent Tezcan said: "By taking the decision not the broadcast the advertisement, TRT has created a new scandal.
"The main purpose of state-funded television in all democratic countries is fairness of broadcasting. TRT's direction are committing the crime of abuse of public office," he added.
Mr Tezcan also reminded the broadcaster that it is "owned by the public".
TRT has so far declined to comment.
The opposition advert featured the slogan "we applaud as a nation" and criticised the "oppression" of justice, freedom and secularism in the country.
It urged voters to attend the party's first mass election rally on Saturday.
The controversy follows a ruling by a court in Ankara on Thursday, which ordered CHP leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu to pay damages for insulting President Erdogan in a speech in 2013. | Turkey's state television has banned the main opposition party's election campaign advert because it directly targets the government. | 1.470355 | 1 |
Lots of people have complained after racking up huge bills for including things like smiley faces in their texts.
The problem has been affecting people using older models of some mobile phones. When emoticons were used in a text message on those devices, some phones converted them into MMS (Multi-media service) messages which can cost up to 40p per message.
A woman in Scotland was recently charged £1000 for her phone bill, after using emoticons in her texts.
The mobile phone company O2 recommended that people don't use emoticons in text messages to make sure they avoid extra charges.
Experts say mobile phone operators need to be clearer about MMS charges and are advising that people check their bills regularly and use free-messaging services instead, if they want to use emoticons. | Using emoticons in text messages could cost you lots of money without you realising. | 2.129671 | 2 |
The group will invest £70m in the new shops, which will be spread throughout London, south-east England, Yorkshire and Scotland.
The Co-op is expecting to open five stores in London by the end of March.
The company is entering the final stretch of a three-year turnaround programme following a period of turmoil mainly involving its banking group.
Stuart Hookins, property portfolio and development director at the Co-op, said: "Whilst other retailers are scaling back their expansion plans, the Co-op continues to open new convenience stores.
"We opened 100 stores in 2016, and we plan to open hundreds more new stores over the next few years." | The Co-operative Group is planning to create 1,500 jobs in the new year by opening 100 stores across the country. | 0.856943 | 1 |
Sixteen category one academies will join the tournament next season.
"The decision to support the proposal (strictly for one season only) was not taken lightly," said Tagg in a statement on the club website.
"This is not a precursor to B teams entering the league structure, which Exeter City would be against should it ever be proposed."
Exeter have never made the final of the tournament, coming closest in 2011 when they lost to Brentford over two legs in the southern area final.
And Tagg feels the opportunity to play against the best young players in the country will help Exeter's players develop.
The club has a reputation of blooding youngsters from its own academy in the first team, while players such as Matt Grimes and Tom Nichols have left for large fees in recent seasons.
"The EFL Trophy will allow a unique opportunity for our own under-21s to gain genuine valuable first-team experience. The possibility of being drawn away to a category one Premier League academy/under-21 side at a Premiership venue, would provide both crucial player experience, and an event for fans to enjoy," added Tagg.
"Secondly, the much needed reboot of the competition, currently without a sponsor, will provide increased revenue from central funding, match-day receipts and TV and prize money (which is double next season); an opportunity the club could ill-afford to lose out on.
"Exeter City understands that many supporters may be surprised, or not agree with the decision. However, after careful consideration and discussion the club feels that it is important to support and explore ways to ensure the competition can survive." | Exeter City chairman Julian Tagg has backed plans for Premier League academy sides to play in the EFL Trophy. | 1.003602 | 1 |
The Borg El Arab Stadium will host the match on Sunday 13 November.
Restrictions on fans at matches in Egypt have been in place since 2012, when 72 Al Ahly fans died in violence at a match in Port Said.
The EFA will also allow 40,000 fans to watch the Champions League final second leg also in Alexandria.
Zamalek will host that match against South African side Mamelodi Sundowns on Sunday 23 October.
The first leg ended in a 3-0 defeat for the Egyptian side.
Egypt fared better in their opening World Cup qualifier, beating DR Congo 2-1 to move into an early two-point lead in Group E.
Only the group winners will earn a place at the tournament in Russia. | The Egyptian Football Association has announced it will allow 50,000 fans to attend Egypt's 2018 World Cup qualifier against Ghana in Alexandria. | 0.959282 | 1 |
The prints, which are part of a set of 10, were stolen in a break-in at the museum in the early hours of 7 April.
The prints have been on display at the museum since 1985 are valued at $500,000 (£351,000).
The screen print collection is based on paintings created by Warhol in 1962.
Each print is individually framed and the ones stolen are for soup cans with the labels beef, vegetable, tomato, onion, green pea, chicken noodle and black bean.
Museum director Nick Nelson has praised the "outpouring of support of the Springfield community and the quick response of the Springfield Police Department and FBI".
"For those of us who work at the museum and in Springfield's art community, the theft of these iconic Warhol prints that the museum has had in our permanent collection for 30 years feels like the loss of a family member," he said.
"We appreciate any assistance the public can provide to law enforcement to ensure the return of these treasured pieces of art."
The museum is remaining open to the public and is looking at its security measures.
"The museum is working with the proper authorities and being proactive in our security efforts as we remain open to the public. We are confident that the measures we are taking will protect the museum's treasures, while still making art accessible to our community," Nelson said.
The FBI has a specialised Art Crime Team to recover stolen items and prosecute art and cultural property crime.
BBC iWonder: How Andy Warhol became Pop Art's superstar | The FBI has announced a $25,000 (£17,500) reward for information leading to the recovery of seven Andy Warhol soup can prints stolen from the Springfield Art Museum in Missouri. | 1.765614 | 2 |
Wiltshire Police said it received three calls from people between 06:24 and 06:38 GMT saying they did not know where the noise had come from.
BBC Wiltshire received calls, texts and tweets from people in Rodbourne, Old Town and Pinehurst who heard the sound.
The British Geological Survey (BGS) said it was not thought to be down to an earth tremor, while the MoD scotched suggestions of a sonic boom.
The Wiltshire force said officers had not attended any explosion-related incidents.
A BGS seismologist scrutinised signals from the nearest seismograph sites to Swindon and found no evidence of a seismic disturbance of any kind, a spokesman for the society said.
"It may well be the case that people did experience something but, whatever it was, may have been so localised and too small to be recorded," he said.
Asked whether the noise could have been a sonic boom - the noise when jets break through the sound barrier - a spokeswoman for the Ministry of Defence (MoD) said: "There is nothing to suggest it was anything to do with us.
"There are no reports of activity from a military perspective." | A large bang or explosion sound has been reported in the Swindon area. | 1.843117 | 2 |
Musgrove Park Hospital said the cause of the "technical issues" in the hired facility was being investigated.
Surgery was carried out on 62 patients with just under half reporting complications while some 15 people had "more significant" corneal issues.
The use of the mobile facility was ceased when the issues were discovered.
All affected patients have been spoken to and care plans are now in place for their ongoing treatment, a hospital spokesperson said.
Vanguard Healthcare had been hired to provide the theatre to help clear a backlog for some ophthalmic services.
The unit, which consists of an anaesthetic room, operating theatre and two-bed recovery, is at the hospital until the end of the year.
Vanguard said it was "co-operating fully" with the hospital for the investigation which would focus on the drugs, equipment, sterilisation and protocols used.
"The majority of operations were successful, however a number experienced an unusual level of discomfort after surgery," added a spokesperson.
"We have, with the hospital, conveyed to the patients our concern and sympathy for the discomfort or distress they have experienced."
The hospital's chief executive, Jo Cubbon, said the issues meant many patients who had already waited longer than they should have, will now have to wait again for their operation.
"We are very sorry this has happened and are working to put a solution in place so that these patients will receive their treatment as soon as possible," Ms Cubbon said. | About 30 patients in Somerset who had cataract surgery inside a mobile hospital theatre have been left with blurred vision or other complications. | 1.224827 | 1 |
Following delays to the proposed regeneration of Old Oak, where the club had been seeking to build a stadium, they are now assessing alternatives.
One option could be a partnership with athletics club Thames Valley Harriers.
Harriers use the venue next to Wormwood Scrubs, which opened in 1967 and was renamed in 1993.
It was originally called the West London Stadium and was then named after Christie, who grew up in the area, the year after he won Olympic 100m gold.
It is situated just a mile from Loftus Road, which has been QPR's home for all but three of the past hundred years.
Rangers have held informal talks with Hammersmith & Fulham Council about the feasibility of building a new stadium and adjacent athletics track on the site.
The R's confirmed that the idea is being discussed but "is at a very early stage, with much work to do before any proposal is brought forward."
Chief executive Lee Hoos told QPR's website: "We are looking at all possible options to secure the future of the club in Hammersmith & Fulham and benefit the community.
"A potential partnership with an athletics club such as Thames Valley Harriers to create a new community stadium - and an adjacent athletics track - could bring huge benefits to both clubs, as well as to the local community that is our home.
"Before putting forward any formal proposal for a new community stadium we would consult fans, local residents, schools, charities and others to see how best we could achieve those aims." | Championship side QPR have confirmed they are looking into the possibility of building a new ground on the site of the Linford Christie Stadium. | 1.225744 | 1 |
Her death was made public by Stella Schnabel, daughter of painter and film director Julian, who said she had "never met a woman quite like" her.
"Go in peace my Roman mother," she wrote on Instagram.
Pallenberg was the girlfriend of Brian Jones but left him for fellow Rolling Stone Keith Richards.
She was also alleged to have had an affair with Sir Mick Jagger while they were making 1970 film Performance, though she always denied it.
Born in Rome in 1944 to German and Italian parents, Pallenberg began her career as a model and spent time in the 1960s at Andy Warhol's famous Factory.
She met Jones in 1965 but left him two years later for Richards. Jones went on to leave the band and died shortly afterwards.
In his autobiography, Life, Richards described Pallenberg as a "very strong" woman who was "extremely bright" and "a great beauty".
The couple had three children together, one of whom died as an infant, before they finally separated in 1980.
Pallenberg sang backing vocals on classic Stones track Sympathy for the Devil and was said to have had a "profound" influence on the band by their one-time PA Jo Bergman.
She had roles in films including 1969's Barbarella and 2007's Mister Lonely, and made a cameo appearance in BBC sitcom Absolutely Fabulous in 2001.
Pallenberg was accused of manslaughter in 1979 after a man named Scott Cantrell killed himself with her gun in the New York home she shared with Richards.
"I didn't feel anything," she said of the death, for which she was subsequently cleared. "That's one of the wonders of drugs and drink."
Known for her colourful lifestyle and fascination with black magic, Pallenberg sought help for her addictions in 1987 and went on to study fashion at Central St Martins in London.
She is survived by her two children and five grandchildren.
Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email [email protected]. | Anita Pallenberg, the model and actress best known for her relationships with members of the Rolling Stones, has died at the age of 73. | 1.221717 | 1 |
After losing two of their first three Premiership games, Wasps have now won back-to-back European Champions Cup pool games, capped by their impressive 32-6 win on Sunday over holders Toulon.
"The players have set the bar quite high," said 48-year-old Young.
"The challenge for us is to maintain those levels of performances."
Wasps' bonus-point victory over three-times champions Toulon followed a 33-6 win in Dublin against Leinster to give them an almost perfect start to their European campaign.
And Young said he had observed an uplift in his players' confidence as a consequence.
"It's been a bit of a rollercoaster start to the season, but the passes are now sticking when, in the first couple of games, they weren't," he told BBC Coventry and Warwickshire.
"We want to play and get the ball in hand and it wasn't quite clicking for us, our defence wasn't where it has been and our ball handling and retention was poor but we've improved that and reaped the benefits.
"Certainly over the last three to four weeks we've started to look more like a team."
Wasps return to domestic action against winless London Irish as part of Saturday's double-header at Twickenham, which also features Saracens against Worcester Warriors. | Wasps director of rugby Dai Young says the task now facing his side is to maintain the standards they have set over the last few weeks. | 0.863749 | 1 |
15 April 2015 Last updated at 07:03 BST
Although kids aren't able to vote, the decisions made at the election will have a big impact on the lives of all children across the country.
But with so many different political parties competing with each other, we're giving you the low down on the main ones.
Find out all you need to know about Plaid Cymru in Newsround's 60 second guide. | There's a General Election coming up on 7 May, where adults will vote to decide who will run the UK for the next five years. | 1.961817 | 2 |
The incident happened at Scarva Walk in Banbridge at about 16:00 BST on Friday.
The victim, who is aged in his 40s, was taken to hospital for treatment for head and facial injuries.
Two men in their 20s were arrested and are being questioned by police on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm with intent.
One of the men is also suspected of assaulting police and causing criminal damage.
He was taken to hospital for treatment for a hand injury.
Det Sgt Colin Patterson of the Police Service of Northern Ireland said: "Anyone who saw this assault taking place and has information that could be useful to police should contact us." | Two people have been arrested after a man suffered head injuries in an serious attack in County Down. | 0.817297 | 1 |
The graffiti, which appeared on the side of a shop at the junction of Tottenham High Road and Philip Lane in 2009, is to be sold for charity.
Janet Cooke, who works nearby, said an "iconic bit of Tottenham" had gone.
The firm managing the sale - the Sincura Group - said it had not been appreciated in situ.
Events company Sincura Group also put the Banksy mural Slave Labour up for auction in June.
The artwork, showing a boy making union jack bunting on a sewing machine, was taken from a wall in Wood Green, north London, in February.
It had been sprayed on to the side of a discount store just before the Diamond Jubilee celebrations in 2012.
The group's director Tony Baxter said he had been approached and asked if he could manage the sale of No Ball Games.
He declined to say who approached him.
He said the piece, one of Banksy's largest, had to be removed in three pieces.
The last section featuring a girl will be removed later, he said.
He said the artwork had been defaced a number of times and people's view of it had been spoilt by renovation work in the area and a "pylon" being placed in front of it with a security camera.
He said it would be restored over six months before being auctioned in spring next year with profits going to charity.
He added: "It's a beautiful piece."
Mrs Cooke, of Cooke Estates, said she saw workers plastering both sides of the wall on Thursday.
"Everybody knew it around here and went to have a look at it. It was a little iconic bit of Tottenham," she said.
"Now it's going to be famous for being a place where a Banksy was once."
Councillor Alan Strickland of Haringey Council said he was "very disappointed" that a "community landmark" had been removed.
Haringey Trades Council secretary Keith Flett said: "The Banksy was an important cultural feature of the area and if it has been removed it will be another indication that local people's wishes come second to the interests of profit." | A mural by street artist Banksy showing two children playing with a "no ball games" sign has been cut out of a wall in Tottenham, north London. | 1.553705 | 2 |
White, 24, who joined the Dragons from Livingston in May, is in hospital because of problems with his bloodstream.
"They're trying to get to the bottom of it but it more or less paralysed him for a while because he couldn't move," Wrexham manager Gary Mills said.
"He's got to go on a course of antibiotics for eight weeks without any exercise or anything."
Mills added: "We wish him well and hopefully we can get him back as quickly as possible."
White's illness could force Mills to sign a striker ahead of Wrexham's National League season opener against Dover Athletic on 6 August.
Mills has further added to his squad with the signing of former Northampton Town and Cambridge United goalkeeper Chris Dunn.
Dunn has signed a one-year contract and will also be the club's goalkeeping coach.
The 28-year-old has been training with the Dragons during pre-season and will provide competition for Shwan Jalal, who joined from Macclesfield Town in June.
"That gives me two top keepers in this league," Mills told BBC Wales Sport. | Wrexham will be without striker Jordan White for two months. | 1.029008 | 1 |
A 33-year-old and a 21-year-old were found dead on Sunday after getting into difficulty while swimming in Llanberis, Gwynedd.
Two others, aged 27 and 25, were treated in hospital before being released.
North Wales Police are continuing inquiries into what happened before the men died. | Investigations into how two men died while swimming near a waterfall in north Wales continue on Monday. | 0.364046 | 0 |
Archbishop Vincent Nichols delivered a message from the Pope to the Inclusive Capitalism conference in London.
He said: "You have to be willing to re-examine a system that seems to work very well for the few and not very well for the majority."
But he added that business was a "noble vocation".
Asked if there was any moral justification for paying anyone millions of pounds, the Archbishop said: "I would find it hard to find. I understand the argument of market mechanisms, we have to compete for the very best of talent, and we have to keep it in this country.
"[The Pope] does salute business leaders, he talks of their life as a 'noble vocation'. But it's a kind of conditional salute, it's conditional on their life being one of service, not self-service."
"As you would expect his [the Pope's] message is pretty challenging, because we know that his priorities lie with an attentiveness to the cry of the poor.
Asked if business leaders understood that inequality must be tackled, he replied: "I think many of the leaders do. They know they are in the midst of a crisis of trust, that people do have that corrosively cynical view of what business is for.
"I think the leaders do have that sensitivity and in many ways are engaged in trying to rethink their purpose." | The leader of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales has told the BBC moral justification for multi-million-pound pay is "hard to find". | 1.992138 | 2 |
The Room star will also produce and star in the movie, which will begin filming in October, Variety reports.
The film is about a woman called Kit who moves back in with her parents and then receives a mysterious invitation.
Larson previously co-wrote and co-directed short film The Arm, which won the jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival in 2012.
Unicorn Store is based on an original screenplay by Samantha McIntyre.
The project was originally to have been directed by Miguel Arteta, with Rebel Wilson set to star, but the timing didn't work out, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
Larson's other upcoming acting work includes Kong: Skull Island, the Captain Marvel movie, coming-of-age drama The Glass Castle and Ben Wheatley crime thriller Free Fire.
She was awarded the Academy Award for best actress earlier this year for her portrayal of a young mother held captive with her five-year-old son Jack (Jacob Tremblay) in Room.
When preparing for her role, Larson decided to isolate herself from the outside world.
"I stayed at home for a month," the US actress explained. "I was excited to see what would come up if I tuned out for a while."
Follow us on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, on Instagram, or email [email protected]. | Oscar-winning actress Brie Larson is to direct her first feature film, a comedy called Unicorn Store. | 0.990271 | 1 |
14 April 2016 Last updated at 08:24 BST
Today campaigners are still fighting for the girls to be rescued, and for all schools to be a place of safety for students.
The event in the town of Chibok in 2014 shocked the world.
Many people came together to support the campaign to find them called #BringBackOurGirls including Michelle Obama and Malala Yousafzai.
Since then, 57 girls have escaped, but 219 are still missing.
There's now no secondary school in Chibok or the surrounding villages some children now go to schools further away but many can't afford to do that.
The campaigners are hoping that by remembering the missing girls they can can remind people of the campaign to rescue them and fight for an education for all children in Nigeria.
Advice if you're upset by the news | It's two years since 276 girls were kidnapped from their school in Nigeria in west Africa by an extreme Islamist group called Boko Haram. | 2.132902 | 2 |
The incident happened near the Hand Hotel, Llangollen, on Saturday.
The Welsh Ambulance Service said an assessment was made over the telephone before the taxi was arranged.
Sonia Thompson, head of operations in north Wales, said the use of taxis in "appropriate cases" allowed ambulances to be deployed elsewhere.
"We are sorry for the wait this patient experienced and for any discomfort it may have caused him," she said.
The wait for ambulance assistance prompted criticisms from people on the Facebook group, Llangollen notice board.
It is understood the man had been on holiday with a group of off-road bikers when the incident happened as he was loading his bike on to a van. | Ambulance bosses have apologised after a man who severed part of his finger in Denbighshire had to wait over an hour for a taxi to get him to hospital. | 0.957001 | 1 |
He was arrested in connection with the stab death of Ian Dollery, 51, who was found on York Road, near Royal Lytham and St Annes Golf Club, on Thursday.
Police said a 47-year-old man, who was also arrested, is in a secure unit pending a mental health assessment.
A post-mortem examination said Mr Dollery died of multiple stab wounds. | A 54-year-old man arrested on suspicion of murder over a fatal stabbing in Lancashire has been released without charge, police have said. | 0.367899 | 0 |
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The Welsh swimmer achieved the qualifying standard for the 400 metres freestyle with a time of four minutes 4.33 seconds in Glasgow.
Carlin had won the 200m and 800m earlier in the week, but her final swim proved decisive.
"I did it on the last swim, so I left it a bit late but I couldn't be any happier right now," she said.
Carlin secured her berth in Rio along with Siobhan-Marie O'Connor and Ben Proud on the third day of the British Championships.
The 25-year-old, who failed to qualify for London 2012 after illness interrupted her preparations, said: "I was trying not to focus on the time too much.
"I was trying to relax and enjoy the race, enjoy the atmosphere, enjoy the Olympic trials, whereas towards the start of the week I was stressing myself out, being so tense and really moody with everyone around me."
Carlin acknowledged her 2012 heartbreak had pushed her on.
"I watched the Olympics. I had a month or so out of the water and I thought 'you know, I can give this one more shot'," she said.
"It was amazing to watch the GB swimmers race but I don't want to watch on the sidelines - I want to be there as part of the Olympics.
"There's a saying that failure pushes you to success and I've really used that, the real lows, to bring me up to where I am now.
"This week has been tough. I have really put pressure on myself, so it feels like a massive weight has been lifted off my shoulders." | Jazz Carlin experienced huge relief and joy after realising her Olympic dream with her third British title in a week. | 1.030292 | 1 |
The party's Brexit spokesman Nick Clegg said losing access to the Schengen Information System (SIS) would be "Euroscepticism gone mad".
The SIS allows police across Europe to access information on criminals and terrorists.
The Conservatives said the Lib Dems were "peddling nonsense".
Under the SIS, which the UK joined in 2015, police and border forces in EU member states and four "associated countries" enter and receive alerts about wanted and missing people, as well as potential witnesses and items that could be used as evidence.
Both the UK and EU backed close cooperation on security matters when they outlined their Brexit negotiating strategies.
In the document setting out its negotiation aims, the government lists the SIS as an example of the "mutually beneficial model of cooperation" in the fight against crime and terrorism.
It said the UK would "continue to cooperate closely with our European partners" on security matters, and "negotiate the best deal we can with the EU to cooperate in the fight against crime and terrorism".
But Mr Clegg said the UK would be "severing our ties" with the system by refusing to accept rulings of the European Court of Justice after Brexit.
"It is hard to overstate the importance of this database," said Mr Clegg, the former deputy prime minister.
"We check it 16 times a second, looking for security threats that have been flagged to us by other European countries. And we use it to tell other countries to stop and question people who we think are potential terrorists."
He added: "If she fails to back down, Theresa May's approach to Brexit poses a direct threat to our national security," he said.
The SIS is in use across the borderless Schengen area, with special arrangements for countries - like the UK - that are not part of the passport-free zone.
A Conservative spokesman said: "The Lib Dems are peddling nonsense - we've made clear that under Theresa May security cooperation will be an important priority in the negotiations, and it's not in the EU's interest to lessen that relationship." | The UK could be "cut off" from an EU-wide crime and security database after Brexit, the Liberal Democrats have warned. | 1.448144 | 1 |
22 September 2016 Last updated at 08:22 BST
Her three new gold medals means that she's now Great Britain's most successful female Paralympian of all time, with an incredible 14 golds.
"It was an incredibly emotional time getting the medals," Dame Sarah told Newsround.
She also said she couldn't believe how heavy the gold medal was!
Watch the Paralympic star answering your questions. | Dame Sarah Storey has just arrived home from a pretty successful Paralympics in Rio, even by her standards. | 0.804521 | 1 |
Circles of Support and Accountability (Cosa) is run across the six north Wales counties by charity Cais and the probation service, with 100 volunteers.
Offenders go through a rigorous risk assessment before they can sign up.
The money is coming from the North Wales police and crime commissioner.
Cais chief executive Clive Wolfendale said upon release from prison sex offenders were often relocated - making it more likely for them to reoffend.
"With no social connections or bedrock to make a go of life the prospect of them re-offending becomes more likely and presents a very real danger to society," he added.
"Cosa addresses that in a practical, direct way, putting the individual together with a team of volunteers to support them through rehabilitation techniques.
"The aim is to steer them towards a more meaningful, crime-free contribution to society and eventually productive employment."
The Cosa approach was launched in Canada and first trialled in the UK 15 years ago by Thames Valley Probation Area which achieved a 75% drop in re-offending. | A scheme where volunteers work with sex offenders to stop them reoffending has received a £30,000 funding boost after achieving a 100% success rate since it was launched in 2007. | 1.890953 | 2 |
Officers are carrying out "extensive inquiries" into the incident, which occurred between 21:45 and 22:05 on Sunday near a garage on Dundee Street.
They are keen to trace a slim white man in his 20s, who at the time was wearing a dark coloured long-sleeved top and blue jeans.
Officers have appealed to the public for information.
Det Insp Andy Patrick said: "This is a particularly distressing assault on a young girl and we are appealing for anyone who may have seen this man in the area of Dundee Street on Sunday to come forward and assist us with our investigation.
"We would reassure the public that we are using all available means of inquiry to identify the person responsible and we would urge anyone who has any information that may assist with our inquiries to contact us." | Police are investigating after a 13-year-old girl was sexually assaulted in Carnoustie. | 0.193635 | 0 |
Sam Northeast's unbeaten 54 guided his side to a revised target of 181 off 18 overs after Somerset made 197-6.
Middlesex moved off the bottom of the South Group, ex-New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum smashing 63 from 28 balls to help beat Essex by 72 runs.
In the North Group, Northants easily passed Worcestershire's 158 all out to earn a seven-wicket win.
Brett D'Oliveira (52) was the mainstay of a below-par Rapids total, in which seven players failed to reach double figures, with Richard Gleeson (3-12) and Rory Kleinveldt (3-25) doing the damage with the ball.
Reigning T20 champions Northants scored 160-3 to earn a third win in four matches and go second in the table.
Openers Richard Levi (47) and Adam Rossington (42) ensured a blistering start and Alex Wakely's unbeaten 46 got the Steelbacks over the line with 14 balls left.
A season's-best T20 Blast powerplay total of 77-0 by Kent openers Joe Denly and Daniel Bell-Drummond teed up an impressive victory at Canterbury.
Some ferocious hitting and fine timing saw Steven Davies (62) and Johann Myburgh (64) star in Somerset's 197-6.
But former England man Denly and Bell-Drummond were equally impressive, despite a brief wobble following the rain delay which saw the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern system set a new target of 181.
Both men fell soon after the resumption, however captain Northeast ensured Kent went up to fifth in a tight group with four points separating all nine teams.
Middlesex had no shortage of leaders as they batted Essex out of the game on their way to a total of 203-6 and a crushing 72-run win over Essex Eagles.
T20 Blast skipper McCullum was at his destructive best, reaching his half-century off just 19 balls and scoring 54 of his 63 runs from boundaries.
England ODI and T20 captain Eoin Morgan added a more considered 39 from 30, while wicketkeeper John Simpson (50) also made a half-century.
Pace bowler Tom Helm then took 5-11 from just 20 balls as Essex were all out for 131, with James Foster's 25-ball 50 the only show of resistance in a lacklustre reply.
The result takes Middlesex up to fourth in the table, with Essex dropping to bottom spot. | Kent earned a first win in four T20 Blast matches, beating Somerset by seven wickets in a rain-affected game. | 0.973485 | 1 |
The pitcher, 25, will not be able to play again until July and would be ineligible for the Major League play-offs if the Mets qualify.
"I know the rules are the rules and I will accept my punishment," Mejia said.
"But I can honestly say I have no idea how a banned substance ended up in my system." | New York Mets player Jenrry Mejia has been suspended for 80 games without pay after testing positive for the banned substance stanozolol. | -0.00002 | 0 |
The object, believed to be part of a wing, was flown to the French capital from Reunion in the Indian Ocean.
From there it will be transported to a defence ministry laboratory in Toulouse for analysis.
The Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 travelling from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing vanished in March 2014.
There were 239 passengers and crew on board.
Since then, an Australian-led search effort has been focused on a vast area of the southern Indian Ocean about 4,000km (2,500 miles) to the east of Reunion, a French overseas department to the east of Madagascar.
Experts have said the two-metre (6ft) object washed up on a beach could be a moveable piece of a Boeing 777's wing, called a flaperon.
A team from Malaysia Airlines has already arrived in Toulouse and French officials say analysis of the part should begin on Wednesday.
The military laboratory is expected to verify the serial number of the object and conduct further tests. Fragments of a suitcase found on the same beach are also to be examined.
The centre in Toulouse was also involved in analysing debris from the Air France flight AF447 which crashed on a flight from Brazil to Paris in 2009, killing 228 people.
Missing Malaysia plane: What we know
MH370: Behind the tenacious deep-sea hunt for missing plane
Earlier, Martin Dolan, chief commissioner of the Australian Transport Safety Bureau, said the agency was "increasingly confident that this debris is from MH370".
"There is no other recorded case of a flaperon being lost from a Boeing 777," Mr Dolan said.
However, he also said the discovery of debris might not help pinpoint where the plane went down.
"Over the last 16 or 17 months, any floating debris would have dispersed quite markedly across the Indian Ocean," he told AFP news agency.
Authorities believe the plane veered off course - for reasons unknown - and went down in the southern Indian Ocean. Its estimated last location was based on "pings" sent from the plane that were detected by satellite.
However, no physical evidence has been found and in January Malaysian authorities declared that all on board were presumed dead.
Australian officials and Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak have said the location of the debris on Reunion was consistent with drift analysis provided to investigators. | A piece of debris that experts believe could be from missing flight MH370 has arrived in Paris from the French island where it was found on Wednesday. | 2.456324 | 2 |
Wednesday saw the start of the journey for 12 amateur bakers who are vying to be crowned the latest Bake Off winner.
Last year saw the series move from BBC Two to One, and it attracted huge ratings thanks to headline-grabbing incidents such as "Flangate".
A record 12.3 million viewers watched Nancy Birtwhistle win the final.
The opening episode in 2014 was watched by 7.2 million people, while the previous year's premiere was seen by 5.6 million.
Last night 43% of all TV viewers were watching Bake Off, with a peak viewing figure of 10 million at 20:50 BST. The overnight figures are likely to rise once the consolidated figures are released, which add views from time-shifted and catch-up services.
The series premiere saw musician Stuart Henshall become the first contestant to leave, as his Madeira sponge, walnut cake and Black Forest gateau failed to impress judges Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood.
His failure was compounded by the fact that another contestant's signature bake completely collapsed after her chocolate mousse did not set. Dorret Conway's sunken gateau brought on the first tears of the series.
The Great British Bake Off is hosted by Sue Perkins and Mel Giedroyc, who in part are responsible for the popularity of the show, winning praise for their funny and caring presenting style.
Perkins returned to Twitter yesterday following a four-month sabbatical prompted by a barrage of hateful tweets over rumours she would take over Top Gear.
"Bake Off Series 6 spoiler! Format change means all-new Swimwear Round replaces Showstopper Challenge. (And hello BTW, I've missed you xx)," she wrote ahead of the premiere.
Meanwhile, Ladbrokes has suspended betting on the show after a flurry of wagers sparked fears the winner's name may have been leaked.
"A run of bets" was placed for one contestant, many at shops in the Ipswich area, the bookmaker said. | The return of BBC One's The Great British Bake Off attracted 9.3 million viewers - more than two million up on last year's opening episode. | 0.980152 | 1 |
The move will bring its total number of shops north of the border to 72.
Aldi said that by the end of this year it will employ about 2,500 people in Scotland - an increase of 200% since 2012.
In the UK as a whole, Aldi plans to hire 5,000 more staff this year and open 80 new stores.
Planned store locations in Scotland:
• Annan, Dumfries and Galloway
• Polmont, near Falkirk
• Fruitmarket Place, Edinburgh
• Portobello, Edinburgh
• Cornhill, Aberdeen
• Strathaven, South Lanarkshire
• Newton Mearns, East Renfrewshire
• Auldhouse Retail Park, Glasgow
The company also said it planned to continue growing its range of Scottish-sourced products, having increased the number of Scottish lines by 30% since 2013.
In the past year it has signed a number of large supplier deals, including a £250,000 contract with Montrose-based Stirfresh to supply fresh ready-to-cook vegetables and a six-figure deal with Dean's of Huntly to supply stores across the country with shortbread and oat biscuit selections.
Richard Holloway, managing director of Aldi in Scotland, said: "Our business model in Scotland has always been about working with the best local producers to bring top quality products to our customers at everyday low prices.
"In the year ahead, we want to grow relationships with existing suppliers and cultivate new ones too." | Discount supermarket chain Aldi has announced plans to open eight more stores in Scotland this year, creating more than 300 jobs. | 1.159931 | 1 |
The duchess presented sprigs of shamrock to some 300 soldiers on parade and Irish wolfhound Domhnall - the regiment's mascot.
Prince William was made an honorary colonel of the regiment in 2011.
The event, at Mons Barracks, dates back to 1901.
The presentation of the shamrocks was previously performed by the late Queen Mother. | The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have visited the 1st Battalion Irish Guards at their barracks in Aldershot to celebrate St Patrick's Day. | 1.306371 | 1 |
The Lloyd George Museum in Llanystumdwy will get £27,000 a year over three years from 2017/18.
It is the same amount Gwynedd council will cut from the venue's funding which put its future at risk.
Dion Hamer, from the museum, said the funding was "great news".
The museum was established in 1947, two years after David Lloyd George died. His second wife, Frances, left some land in the village to build a permanent memorial to her husband.
The museum launched a £250,000 centenary appeal earlier this year. | A Gwynedd museum dedicated to the only Welsh prime minister is set to be saved after receiving a financial boost in Chancellor George Osborne's Budget. | 1.456216 | 1 |
A World Cup winner with Italy in 2006, Toni has scored 156 Serie A goals in 343 games - for eight different clubs.
He became the oldest player - at 38 - to win the Serie A golden boot, finishing joint top with Mauro Icardi last season on 22 goals.
Toni also had a spell in Germany and was the Bundesliga's top scorer in 2007-08 with Bayern Munich.
In 2005-06, he won the European Golden Shoe, for the leading goalscorer in the continent, with 31 goals for Fiorentina. | Verona striker Luca Toni will retire from playing after Sunday's home game against former club Juventus. | 0.896221 | 1 |
Mr Duterte said the EU parliament was acting out of guilt after it called on him to halt "the current wave of extrajudicial executions and killings".
He said "hypocritical" former colonial powers like France and Britain were trying to atone for their own sins.
Since Mr Duterte took office on 30 June about 3,000 people have been killed.
They have been killed either by police or vigilantes, after the new president effectively sanctioned the murder of criminals and drugs dealers.
Saying the unsayable: Philippine President Duterte
The killings have been widely condemned internationally.
The European Parliament said it was concerned about the "extraordinarily high numbers killed during police operations... in the context of an intensified anti-crime and anti-drug campaign", and asked Mr Duterte to launch an "immediate" investigation.
Baron's daughter killed in Philippines
But the president hit back angrily, saying the European Parliament's colonial-era ancestors killed "thousands" of Arabs and other peoples.
"They're taking the high ground to assuage their feelings of guilt. But who did I kill?
"Assuming it to be true - 1,700, who are they? Criminals. You call that genocide," he told officials in Davao.
"Now the EU has the gall to condemn me."
Members of the European parliament are not the only ones to feel the sharp edge of Mr Duterte's tongue. Here are five other politicians and world leaders he has insulted:
The 71-year-old also swore repeatedly during the outburst, and raised his middle finger in a gesture of defiance.
Mr Duterte said on Sunday he needed to extend his crime war for another six months because the drug problem was worse than he expected, adding on Tuesday that he would shield police and soldiers from prosecution. | Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte launched an expletive-laden attack on the European Union after it condemned his brutal crackdown on crime. | 1.477249 | 1 |
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