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The light pink spiky stilettos are covered in real human hair, have a four inch heel and a pointy toe.
The award winning artist, Zhu Tian, who created them, hasn't said exactly which part of the body the black strands came from.
But just keep imagining it's head hair and think of someone nice, clean and good-looking.
However, you won't be dancing in these shoes (made from someone nice, clean and good-looking).
They weren't invented for this year's Christmas party, they're part of an exhibition in London.
The artist wanted to play with the "fetishist sexualisation of high heels", she said.
"I was invited to create a work using a pair of Dior's stilettos."
Even though the designer's stamp was on the project and it was commissioned by ELLE China, the shoes failed to impress some of the fash pack world.
"The stuff of nightmares" said one website, "creepy" and "the grossest shoes of all time." were some of the other comments.
Tian, who won the Broomhill National Sculpture Prize this year said: "I was trying to question and play with the fetishist sexualisation of high heels in contemporary consumerist culture."
She compares today's high heel shoes to foot binding feet in China in ancient times.
The artist said: "Women who had small highly twisted feet were considered sexy but nowadays people would find the same thing vile.
"High heels have been proven to be harmful to a women's body. So we will look back in 100 years in the same way we now think of foot binding?"
So who cares what the fash pack have said on their websites, the shoes weren't intended for them to wear at a 'launch' or a 'red carpet event'.
But still, as fetishes go there is bound to be someone out there who would like to sniff these flesh coloured hairy stilettos.
Zhu Tian's work will feature in the Young Gods 2015 Exhibition in London between 8 January - 6 February 2015. She is also featured in The Catlin Guide 2015 of New Artists.
Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube | These hairy high heels have been called "creepy" and "the grossest shoes of all time" by some fashion websites. | 1.613292 | 2 |
Writing in the Sunday Telegraph, Amanda Spielman said it stopped the children developing resilience and grit.
She wants the education watchdog Ofsted to prepare new guidance for schools inspectors in England.
Ms Spielman said making pupils wear high-vis vests on trips made them look like mini-builders minus the hard hats.
She said schools had developed an over-cautious culture that made it difficult for young people to cope with everyday events.
Ms Spielman said every minute enforcing a ban on conkers and yo-yos was a minute away from tackling a multitude of real dangers.
"I want Ofsted to make sure that schools are properly focused on pupil safety but that it doesn't come at the expense of opportunities to broaden and enrich young minds," she said.
"My message to schools is this - keeping children safe from harm should always be your overriding concern but in doing so make sure you distinguish between real and imagined risk.
"Trying to insulate your pupils from every bump, germ or bruise won't just drive you to distraction, it will short-change those pupils as well, limiting their opportunity to fully take advantage of the freedom of childhood and to explore the world around them."
Next month, 1,800 school inspectors will take part in sessions to ensure they focus only on the safeguarding of vulnerable children.
Ms Spielman said she looked forward to seeing more eager young faces on trips in the next school year but hopes "fewer of them will be auditioning for Bob the Builder". | Teachers must stop trying to wrap children in cotton wool with over-the-top health and safety policies, the chief inspector of schools has said. | 2.321208 | 2 |
Launching the party's manifesto, Peter Whittle said the housing crisis could not be solved by setting "arbitrary targets" but by addressing both demand and supply.
He also promised establish a London-wide homelessness register.
Conservative Zac Goldsmith has pledged to boost house-building to 50,000 a year.
Liberal Democrat candidate Caroline Pidgeon has promised to fund 50,000 council homes, while Labour's Sadiq Khan has vowed to "name and shame" poor landlords.
Mr Whittle said: "The chronic housing shortage and the huge strain on our infrastructure in the capital are not being addressed by the other candidates and in this manifesto UKIP outlines the only real way to provide a credible solution - and that is dealing with the rise in immigration."
Other plans in the manifesto include:
Mr Whittle said UKIP would take a zero-tolerance approach to "cultural crimes", including female genital mutilation.
He also wants to give borough commanders more responsibility for local policing.
He added: "Only UKIP are advocating a 'leave' vote in the upcoming European Union referendum as we know this is the only way we can regain control of our borders.
"We are giving the people of London a new voice to fight their corner."
Read more about the other mayoral and London Assembly candidates | The UKIP mayoral candidate says immigration is causing a "chronic housing shortage" in London. | 1.289017 | 1 |
The grey-coloured machinery was taken from the AMD site on Newton Road at about 22:45 on Thursday after the security gate was breached.
At about the same time, the nearby premises of JG Findlay on Old Irongray Road were also broken into and hedge trimmers taken.
Det Con Ryan Kirk said it appeared that the thefts may have been linked.
"We are keen to trace a white or silver-coloured van which was seen in the Newton Road area at around 22:45 on Thursday night and which contained three men in dark-coloured clothing," he said.
"Anyone who may have been in the area and who saw anything suspicious is asked to call police at Dumfries on the 101 number." | Two rock breakers worth £10,000 in total have been stolen from a plant hire yard in Dumfries. | 0.515156 | 1 |
Stella Davis at law firm SPW confirmed the company is insolvent as it "owes money to companies and people".
The Easter weekend raid saw thieves drill a hole into a vault before ransacking 73 safety deposit boxes.
Nine men are due in court on 4 September charged with conspiracy to burgle.
They are also charged with conspiracy to conceal or transfer the jewellery. | Hatton Garden Safe Deposit, which had up to £200m of jewellery stolen in April, has gone into liquidation. | 0.702774 | 1 |
The attack happened in Meadow Road and Milford Road, near the Readipop studio, at about 23:20 BST.
A number of men had been seen running along the road with traffic cones and other items before the fight started.
The victim was taken to the Royal Berkshire Hospital then transferred to the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford.
Det Con Tim Lloyd said the attack started inside the Readipop venue, where a private function was taking place.
"There were in excess of 200 people at the event, therefore a number of people are likely to have witnessed the altercation," he said.
"I would appeal to these people to come forward and speak to police if you saw what happened." | A 21-year-old man is in a critical condition after receiving head injuries during a brawl involving up to 20 people in Reading. | 0.635247 | 1 |
The earnings estimate is higher than analysts predicted and would mark its highest quarterly profit since 2013.
In October, the world's largest smartphone maker had to scrap the Note 7 after batteries caught fire and even replacement devices went up in smoke.
The strong results are due to Samsung's semiconductor and display businesses.
The South Korean tech giant said it expected to post 9.2tn won ($7.8bn, £6.2bn) in operating profit for the months from September to December.
"When you look at the headlines over the last couple of months it's always been about exploding batteries and doom for Samsung," Bryan Ma, technology consultant with IDC told the BBC.
"But we've got to keep in mind that that's not their only business - what's really driving these earnings is strong demand for memory and displays. And they are really, really profitable businesses."
In an earlier profit forecast for the fourth quarter, Samsung had said it expected the Note 7 recall would mean a $2.1bn hit to their profits.
The company first issued a recall for the Galaxy Note 7 in September following complaints about exploding batteries.
After replacement devices deemed safe were also found to overheat and catch fire, the company scrapped the phone entirely.
"Yet the end of the day, what happened with the Note 7 - as painful as it was - bounced right off of Samsung because all their other business helped offset it," Mr Ma said.
Samsung said that it will "very soon" share details of its inquiry into the cause of the Note 7 problems.
The company will disclose a detailed earnings release for the quarter in late January which will give more insights into the performance of its individual businesses. | Samsung Electronics has reported a 50% profit surge in its guidance for the fourth quarter despite the fiasco with its flagship Note 7 phone. | 1.198864 | 1 |
Jeremy Kerr sent anonymous letters containing packets of pesticide-laced milk powder to dairy giant Fonterra and a farming body in November 2014.
The exercise sparked an international scare and cost Fonterra and authorities NZ$37m ($25m; £18m) in investigations.
New Zealand is the world's largest dairy exporter.
The dairy industry forms the backbone of its economy.
Kerr had pleaded guilty to two charges of attempted blackmail in sending the packages, which appeared to be a protest against the widespread use of 1080 in New Zealand.
A judge ruled that Kerr, who owned a company that manufactured an alternative pesticide, had done it knowing that he would benefit financially if 1080 was banned.
Justice Geoffrey Venning said Kerr's actions had "posed a major threat to trading relationships between New Zealand and other countries," reported NZ Herald.
Fonterra alone reportedly spent NZ$20m as it secured supply chains and conducted checks.
Fonterra faced a food scare in 2013 when it said contaminated products that could cause botulism had been exported overseas.
It was later found to have been a false alarm, but it led to many countries blocking imports of those particular products. China lifted its ban in October 2014.
Prime Minister John Key was quoted in local media as saying that New Zealanders would be "appalled" by Kerr's behaviour and would be "pleased" at his jail sentence.
"To go out there for commercial and profiteering gain, put out the scaremongering campaign and at least argue that they are going to carry out the threats that could kill babies is just despicable behaviour," he said. | A New Zealand businessman has been jailed for eight and a half years for threatening to spike baby milk formula with controversial pesticide 1080. | 1.670011 | 2 |
The former Chelsea CEO replaces Nigel Howe, who moves to the role of vice-chairman of the Championship club.
Gourlay, 54, succeeded Peter Kenyon at Chelsea and was also previously a senior director at Manchester United.
"I'm delighted to take up this new position and I consider it a real honour to be presented with the fantastic challenge of guiding the club to the next level," he said.
Gourlay worked at Chelsea for 10 years - five of them as chief executive - and oversaw the appointment of four different managers before leaving Stamford Bridge in 2014.
The club also won the double in his first season as CEO and went on to win the Champions League and Europa League.
At Reading, he is expected to work closely with manager Jaap Stam and director of football Brian Tevreden on footballing matters.
His predecessor Howe, chief executive since 1995, will now focus on the Royal Elm Park development around the Madejski Stadium, as well as plans for Reading's new training ground.
BBC Radio Berkshire's Tim Dellor
Ron Gourlay has a tough act to follow.
Nigel Howe has been central to Reading's success as a club in the past 20 years. It's good he's still going to be involved as vice-chairman, ensuring some stability in the boardroom.
He will continue to have a huge influence, pulling the strings behind the scenes.
Gourlay arrives at Reading with a glowing CV, having done well at Chelsea and Manchester United. He will need all his skills to ensure the new Chinese ownership is a successful chapter in the club's history. | Reading have appointed Ron Gourlay as their new chief executive. | 0.941048 | 1 |
The National League club's ground is undergoing refurbishments this summer.
The Hive, home of Barnet, hosted Arsenal for the 2017 Spring Series as a new pitch was laid at Meadow Park.
"We're delighted to continue our long-standing relationship and pleased to contribute to these improvements," said Arsenal club secretary David Miles.
Boreham Wood chairman Danny Hunter told his club's website: "This long-term partnership and a grant from the Premier League, through the FSIF (Football Stadia Improvement Fund), have helped us to undertake an incredible range of Premier League-type ground improvements."
Meanwhile, former WSL 1 champions Arsenal have given a new deal to Netherlands international goalkeeper Sari van Veenendaal.
The 27-year-old, who joined the Gunners in 2015, has agreed an undisclosed-length contract with Pedro Martinez Losa's side. | Arsenal Ladies have agreed a deal to continue playing their home games at Boreham Wood's Meadow Park home until 2027, along with Arsenal's youth teams. | 0.748632 | 1 |
Cardiff have seven games of the Championship season left and are seemingly safe from relegation.
Warnock is already planning ahead and said he had learnt a lot about his squad in the 3-1 defeat at Wolves.
"I saw a lot more out of the game looking to next season than I have done for quite a few games," he said.
"It's reiterated certain things that I know that we need. We've got a decent squad. We need three or four good players to supplement that."
Warnock succeeded Paul Trollope in October 2016 and sought financial backing from the Bluebirds' board before committing to the club for another season.
The 68-year-old former Sheffield United and QPR boss has previously said he does not think it would take big money to launch a promotion bid in 2017-18.
"We haven't spent a penny yet because I didn't think it was wise in the January transfer window," Warnock added.
"I thought we really need to keep our powder dry and then go for it in the summer and that at the end of the season we can bring two or three in without hanging about.
"I think I'll be allowed to spend what I've asked them to. I think they want to me to do well."
Warnock felt his side were responsible for their own downfall as their three-game unbeaten run came to an end at Wolves.
Danny Batth opened the scoring for the hosts before Kenneth Zohore's ninth goal in nine games brought Cardiff level.
But Batth's second goal and a third from Helder Costa sealed victory for Paul Lambert's side at Molineux.
"We had some great opportunities," Warnock said.
"Every time we crossed the ball we looked dangerous but we couldn't finish on ours and Wolves took the chances that they did.
"People were not listening to who they should be marking and that's the cost." | Manager Neil Warnock says Cardiff City need to add "three or four good players" during the summer transfer window. | 0.895237 | 1 |
The Yomper statue is currently located in front of the Royal Marines Museum at Eastney.
The National Museum of the Royal Navy has started consulting over a proposed move to Portsmouth Historic Dockyard.
Campaigners insist it is a local memorial to the conflict and "belongs" at Eastney.
The Yomper statue was created by Philip Jackson, depicting a royal marine marching across the islands during the 1982 conflict and was unveiled by former prime minister, Lady Thatcher, in 1992.
The National Museum of the Royal Navy (NMRN) is planning to relocate the Royal Marines Museum from Eastney to Portsmouth Historic Dockyard as part of a £13m lottery funded project and wants to take the statue with it.
An online petition against moving the statue has attracted more than 1,800 signatories, saying it was "now considered as our local Falklands War Memorial".
Sheila Mackie who set it up said: "The imposing scale of The Yomper needs space and adequate distance to be fully appreciated, and the visualization of the part in the major campaign that the statue represents couldn't be achieved in an interior space."
Conservative-led Portsmouth City Council also voted to express a "clear preference" that the statue remain where it it is.
Its motion stated: "The Yomper statue has graced the seafront for many years, serving as a reminder of both the Falklands War and of the Marines' historical association with Eastney."
NMRN director Jon Rawlinson said the new museum site would potentially have 750,000 visitors a year, compared to 40,000 at the current museum.
"He would be seen by far more people at the historic dockyard, but of course he was built for here [Eastney] and is part of here. "
He said no decision had been made and it would consider all comments submitted to its public consultation. | Plans to move a statue depicting a Royal Marine in the Falklands conflict away from Portsmouth seafront have been criticised. | 2.377757 | 2 |
The public have been warned not to approach Shane O'Brien, who is wanted following the killing of Josh Hanson.
Mr Hanson, 21, of Kingsbury, north-west London, was killed at the RE bar in Eastcote, Hillingdon, early on Sunday.
Scotland Yard said up to 40 people were in the bar when he was killed and directly appealed to Mr O'Brien, 27, of Ladbroke Grove, to contact them.
Mr Hanson, a roads planner, was confirmed dead at the scene, after being stabbed in the neck at about 01:10 BST.
"We are very keen to speak with Shane O'Brien as part of our ongoing inquiries," said Det Ch Insp Noel McHugh.
He described Mr Hanson as "a hard-working young lad, up at 5am for his job as a roads planner and often working seven days a week".
He said: "He had everything to live for and when he went out that Saturday night, no-one could have imagined what would happen to him. His family is in pieces.
"I would appeal directly to Shane to contact us, or ask that anyone who has seen him or who knows where he is to contact us as well."
The day after Mr Hanson died, his mother Tracey said those who knew him had "only good things to say".
"And this is being reflected in the offers of condolence to myself, his friends and family," she said.
"Please, if you know anything, come forward and tell police who committed this horrific murder." | Detectives investigating the murder of a man in front of customers at a bar in London have named a suspect. | 1.069589 | 1 |
Seven graves in Ferndale Cemetery were deliberately toppled in January and rubbish left strewn across the site.
More than 20 children from nearby Ferndale Community School took part in the litter pick on Tuesday.
A local stonemason has agreed to repair the headstones and South Wales Police is still investigating.
The children collected more 20 bags of rubbish including a broken bicycle and several traffic cones.
PC Steve Davies said he noticed the rubbish when he was examining the area.
"I have a little son who passed away. I know the price, I know the cost implications and the emotional impact it would have on someone to come and visit a grave and seeing that their headstone has been damaged or destroyed," he told the BBC.
"It's just getting people together in response to what's happened to the headstones to build the respect up amongst the community and let them know that we will work together as a team and that people like that won't destroy the image of Ferndale and Maerdy."
Among the pupils helping was Rachel, 14, who said she found the experience upsetting.
"My ancestors' gravestones haven't been damaged and I'm quite grateful but when I see the others, it makes me wonder how their relatives must feel," she said.
"It's upsetting, it's left me quite distraught to be honest." | School pupils have carried out a major clear-up at a cemetery in Rhondda Cynon Taff targeted by vandals. | 1.37839 | 1 |
McBryde leads Wales against Samoa and Tonga this summer in the absence of Warren Gatland and Rob Howley, who coach the Lions in New Zealand.
"The game on Saturday gives players a stage to be measured," he said.
"We'll see how they react to pressure of playing at the Principality."
Cardiff Blues face the Ospreys at the Principality Stadium on Saturday before the Newport Gwent Dragons play the Scarlets in the double header with Gatland naming his Lions squad on 19 April.
"I can only speculate in regards to the selection on the 19th [of April] for the Lions," said McBryde.
"We are just expecting there to be a few players from the teams that are playing this weekend to be selected.
"But we are just looking forward to seeing how they react to playing at the Principality and looking forward to the good occasion.
"There were some quite consistent performances during the Six Nations, so there could be as many as 9/10 Welsh players selected for the Lions tour."
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McBryde says he will be picking a squad to win both Tests when he names the Wales touring party for the summer of 24 April, and that Judgement Day could also have ramifications for the Wales squad.
"We have always said that we would measure the players by their performances in the Pro12, their performances against one another in the derbies and in Europe, especially against the Irish provinces." he told BBC Wales Sport.
"But this game is a big one from a selection point of view. We are looking to name the squad on the 24th to allow the players to prepare both physical and mentally prepare for the tour ahead. So the double-header does allow us to focus on the players with a close microscope.
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"We are going there with the mentality to want to win both Tests. That is in the forefront of our minds and the selection will be based on this.
"We can't control injuries or players being asked to join the Lions, we know we can't account for that.
"We can take a strong squad down there and make sure our squad is right for the two games against Samoa and Tonga.
"Maybe there will be one eye on the short term and one eye on the long term with the World Cup just two years away." | Robin McBryde says there is still an opportunity for players to play their way into the British and Irish Lions and Wales squads if they impress at Judgement Day. | 0.820421 | 1 |
They had previously agreed to end the search by July or August if no "credible new information" was found.
The plane, with 239 passengers and crew, disappeared in March 2014.
Many of their relatives have said they do not want the search to end until the plane is found.
The search, led by Australia, has been using underwater drones and sonar equipment to scour a 120,000 sq km search zone in the southern Indian Ocean where the plane is presumed to have crashed. Nothing related to MH370 has been found in the area.
However a few pieces of debris confirmed to be from a Boeing 777 have washed up on various islands thousands of miles from the search zone. MH370 is the only missing Boeing 777 in the world.
There is little detail about the circumstances under which a search might be resumed, but Reuters quotes Malaysia's transport minister as saying this does not mean the authorities have given up on finding the plane.
After a meeting of ministers from the three countries in Malaysia a letter was sent to the families with the decision, Channel News Asia reported.
"The ministers agreed that should the aircraft not be located in the current search area, and in the absence of credible new evidence leading to the identification of a specific location of the aircraft, the search would not end, but be suspended upon completion of the 120,000 square kilometre search area," it said according to Channel News Asia.
More than 110,000 sq km of the seafloor has been searched so far, but poor weather has caused delays to the search operation in recent weeks, the Joint Agency Coordination Centre said earlier this month. | China, Malaysia and Australia will suspend rather than shut down the search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, after the current area has been scoured. | 1.959895 | 2 |
The Britain and his Brazilian partner, who are seeded second, beat Treat Huey and Max Mirnyi 6-4 7-5 at the O2 Arena.
The match ended on a disputed line call with Scotland's Murray challenging after a Mirnyi mis-hit was called in - replays showed the ball was out.
"I was not going to get bad, having maybe lost the match and not challenged that call," said Murray.
Earlier on Sunday, the Bryan brothers Bob and Mike defeated Marcelo Melo and Ivan Dodig 7-6 (7-3) 6-0.
The Americans will play Murray and Soares on Tuesday in their second matches in the Edberg/Jarryd group.
Murray and Soares are in contention to end 2016 as the number one doubles team in the world, but must overhaul French duo Nicolas Mahout and Pierre-Hugues Herbert.
"Our goal is just to try to win when we step on the court this week," said Murray.
"If it ends up that we're the number one team, that will be a huge achievement for us.
"If it doesn't work out that way, we'll still have had a great year, lots to be proud of, lots to look forward to going into 2017." | Jamie Murray and Bruno Soares won their opening doubles match at the ATP World Tour Finals in London. | 0.97491 | 1 |
Erik Konstandinos "Kosta" Scurfield, 25, from Nottingham, was killed in March 2015 in Syria.
The former Royal Marine had been fighting with Kurdish armed units, YPG.
On Saturday, Mr Scurfield's family, Kurdish activists and former YPG fighters gathered at his grave to mark the two-year anniversary of his death.
His father, Chris Scurfield, thanked the Kurdish community for their support: "It means such a lot to us.
"The Kurds are brave and deeply honourable people and I wish the British would support them more. They deserve our full recognition as they stand against Isis."
Houlia Mola, from the Nottingham Kurdish Solidarity Campaign, said: "Kosta gave his life defending humanity from fundamentalism and also trying to build a new reality in the Middle East with the Kurds.
"He is a hero in the eyes of the Kurds and all people believing in freedom and democracy."
Also at the memorial were the family of Aiden Aslin, a care worker from Newark, Nottinghamshire who spent 10 months fighting with the Kurds, and was arrested when he returned last year.
Since Mr Scurfield died, two other British men are also known to have died fighting in Syria with the Kurds - Dean Evans, 22, from Reading and Ryan Lock, 20, from Chichester.
The Foreign Office continues to advise against all travel to Syria.
It is estimated dozens of western volunteers have travelled to Syria to join the Kurdish fight against so-called Islamic State.
Their stories leave many people back home questioning the attraction to this highly dangerous cause.
A search for adventure perhaps?
But many western volunteer fighters feel a deep connection to the Kurdish comradeship that runs through the YPG.
They are inspired to see that in the midst of this Middle Eastern conflict, the Kurds are fighting for values that Britain also believes in - freedom, democracy, equality.
This sense of solidarity with the Kurds is also felt by some families of British fighters in the UK.
Mr Scurfield's death shone a spotlight on the Kurdish struggle against IS and two years on, Kurdish people love him still. | Kurds living in the UK gathered at the grave of a man they have hailed a hero after he died fighting against so-called Islamic State. | 1.597227 | 2 |
They had already been held up in Atlanta, USA, because of a problem with the payment for their flight.
"The players were uncomfortable with the size of the plane," team media officer Timi Ebikagboro told BBC Sport.
He said they would leave on a bigger plane and arrive in time for kick-off against Japan (01:00 GMT Friday).
"The [Nigerian] government stepped in," he added.
"The players have been assured of adequate medical care on the plane. It's been challenging but most importantly we will be ready for the first game."
Their flight is set to depart at 1200GMT for the seven-hour flight to Manaus, where their Group B opener kicks off just 13 hours later.
The squad had originally been stranded in Atlanta because of a problem that seemed to be caused by money having to go through different bank accounts and currency conversions.
"The money paid by the [sports] ministry for the charter flight did not hit airline's account on Tuesday so they refused to fly the team to Brazil," a source close to the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) said.
"It is a cumbersome exercise but they should have started the process much earlier, which NFF was pointing out. This issue has nothing to do with the NFF," the source explained to BBC Sport.
One of the players explained to the BBC on Wednesday: "We've been told to get ready to fly out in few hours but that's been the story since last week."
Nigeria, who are in Group B of the Rio Games alongside Sweden, Colombia and Japan, boast a proud Olympic record.
In 1996, they became the first African and non-European or South American team to win the gold medal.
They also finished runners-up at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, where current under-23 coach Siasia also coached the 'Dream Team' in China. | Nigeria's Olympic football team will arrive just hours before their opening Rio 2016 match after being delayed because their plane was too small. | 1.238885 | 1 |
Transport minister Keith Brown said Abellio, Arriva, FirstGroup, MTR and National Express had passed the pre-qualification stage of the process.
ScotRail provides passenger train services throughout Scotland.
FirstGroup currently holds the franchise, which is due to expire on 31 March 2015.
ScotRail operates more than 2,000 train services a day, delivering more than 76 million passenger journeys and 1.6 billion passenger miles a year.
The franchise employs a total of 4,300 staff.
Mr Brown said the five shortlisted companies had demonstrated, in their responses to the pre-qualification questionnaire, "an understanding of, and a commitment to realise, our ambitions for a transformed rail service".
He added: "I am convinced that this strong competition will deliver a great public rail service for the people of Scotland."
A draft invitation to tender will be published on 19 November. | Five rail companies have been shortlisted by the Scottish government to bid for the ScotRail franchise, which is due for renewal in 2015. | 1.329617 | 1 |
Witnesses said the rocket was only briefly visible before making its way into the clouds.
The launch was made from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The rocket booster successfully landed on the ground nine minutes after taking off.
The touchdown is part of the company's strategy of returning rockets to earth so they can be reused rather than jettisoning them in the ocean after a single launch.
Moments after the rocket landed, the SpaceX Dragon supply ship successfully reached orbit, prompting cheers inside the SpaceX Mission Control room.
The Dragon is now making its way to the International Space Station, and is expected to arrive on Wednesday.
On 14 January SpaceX resumed flights by launching a Falcon 9 vehicle from the Vandenberg Air Force Base on the California coast.
It was the first mission by the company since one of its vehicles exploded on the launch pad in September.
Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX, wants his company to be at the forefront of the race involving several companies to deploy satellite-based internet services over the next few years.
The company also has a long queue of customers all waiting for a ride to orbit - including America's civil space agency (Nasa), the US military and multiple outfits in the commercial sector.
But September's launch pad mishap was a spectacular reminder of just how unpredictable rockets can be sometimes. | Private rocket firm SpaceX has successfully launched a rocket carrying a cargo ship for the International Space Station following the postponement of take-off on Saturday because of technical problems. | 2.589972 | 3 |
Samson Lokayi, 40, was arrested on Sunday.
He did not submit a plea because he does not understand English or Swahili, the languages used in court.
Mr Voorspuy, a founder of luxury safari company Offbeat Safaris and a former British army officer, was killed on 5 March while inspecting his lodges.
Traditional pastoral herders were suspected of being behind the killing.
They have invaded private ranches in the area to seize pasture amid an ongoing drought.
Mr Voorspuy's body was left at the scene for more than 24 hours owing to the volatile security situation.
Kenya's government has dispatched police units to the region to improve order.
Mr Lokayi is expected to appear again in court on Tuesday. | A suspect in the murder of British rancher Tristan Voorspuy in the Laikipia region of northern Kenya has appeared in court. | 1.298608 | 1 |
The Cambridge Bikers' Christmas Toy Run was organised by Peter Vasey, from Ely.
About 250 motorbikes made the 45-minute trip from Harlton to Addenbrooke's Hospital carrying donated toys.
"We're talking about a large number of toys and if that can bring a smile to someone, well that's great," Mr Vasey said.
It is the second time the group has organised a "Santa run", and Mr Vasey said it had been "incredibly popular".
Many of the participants brought their own toys along for the nine-mile trip, but others were donated to the group by businesses and individuals.
Mr Vasey worked closely with staff at Addenbrooke's Charitable Trust, who will help to give out the toys, to organise this year's event. | Hundreds of motorcyclists, many wearing Santa Claus suits, took to the streets of Cambridge earlier to deliver gifts to sick children in a city hospital. | 1.159472 | 1 |
Some 92% of the population live in places where air pollution exceeds WHO limits, which can contribute to lung cancer, heart disease, and strokes.
The south-east Asia and western Pacific regions account for nearly two out of every three such deaths, it said, with poorer countries "getting worse".
Around three million deaths every year are linked to outdoor air pollution.
When "indoor" air pollution - which includes pollutants like wood smoke and cooking fires - is added, air pollution is linked to one in every nine deaths worldwide, the WHO said.
The air quality model used in the data measures the smallest particles, less than 2.5 micrometres across - which can enter the bloodstream and reach the brain.
Country-by-country data showed that Turkmenistan has the highest death rate connected to outdoor air pollution.
Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, and Egypt rounded out the top five.
"Rich countries are getting much better in improving the quality of the air," Dr Carlos Dora from the WHO told the Associated Press.
"Poorer countries are getting worse. That is the overall trend."
However, he said, North America is doing better than Europe, mostly because Europe depends more on diesel fuel and farming practices that create ammonia and methane.
China, the country with the sixth-highest death rate linked to air pollution, is relatively wealthy, but is plagued by smog in its cities and polluted air from industrial sources.
The WHO pointed to sustainable transport, waste management, and renewable energies as possible ways to reduce air pollution.
It said its latest data represented the most detailed study it has ever released. The analysis combined satellite measurements and more than 3,000 monitoring stations on the ground with air transport models.
The report is based on 2012 figures, which are the most recent available. | Nine out of 10 people on the planet breathe polluted air, even outdoors, the World Health Organisation said. | 3.120334 | 3 |
Chris Borasinski's mother Janina was admitted to Croydon University Hospital on Saturday and was later discharged.
After failing to return home, Ms Borasinski was reported missing but was in fact stuck in a hospital toilet for hours, her son said.
Croydon Health Services NHS Trust has launched an investigation.
Mr Boranksi welcomed the move saying it would mean systems could be changed so "they are not going to lose any more patients".
He added: "It beggars belief that this could have happened."
Ms Borasinski was admitted to the hospital after becoming distressed at home but, following tests, she was deemed well enough to be discharged.
Her son, who lives in Germany, flew into the country after learning she was unwell and made his way to the hospital.
When he arrived at 21:15 BST he was told by staff that his mother had been discharged.
Mr Borasinski said: "I said that she probably would not have been able to take herself home as she had no money, no travel card, and she wasn't appropriately dressed as she in came in by ambulance.
"The nurse said as she was 84 they would have organised transport home."
He tried to contact his mother and when he arrived at her home in Waddon, Croydon, found she was not there.
Mr Borasinski phoned the police to report that his mother missing and officers and hospital staff began a search.
At about 08:30 BST on Sunday Mr Borasinski received a call to inform him his mother had been found in a toilet cubicle at the hospital.
After she was found Ms Borasinski told her son she was quite weak when she was admitted and once she entered the cubicle she was unable to leave or trigger the alarm.
His mother has since been readmitted and is currently undergoing further tests.
Following the incident, first reported in the Croydon Advertiser, a spokesperson for Croydon Health Services NHS Trust said: "We are very sorry for the distress Mrs Borasinski experienced over the weekend and we have apologised to her and her family.
"An investigation is taking place to determine exactly what happened.
"We are speaking with the family and our findings will be shared with them first." | A hospital has apologised after an 84-year-old woman was found locked in a toilet cubicle 12 hours after being reported missing. | 1.023901 | 1 |
The 44-year-old will play Plutarch Heavensbee, the architect of the bloodthirsty, televised games which give the series its title.
Filming is due to start in September, with Jennifer Lawrence returning as heroine Katniss Everdeen.
The first instalment has taken $678m (£437m) at the global box office.
In the US, it is the second highest-grossing film of the year to date, behind superhero movie The Avengers.
The series is based on a trilogy of teen novels by Suzanne Collins.
The books are set in a future North America where civil war has led to the creation of a dozen "districts", controlled by an amoral, pampered elite.
Every year, to assert their dominance, two dozen young citizens are subjected to a bloody fight to the death.
Hoffman will play the head gamesmaker in Catching Fire and his character goes on to have a pivotal role in the third book.
The actor won an Oscar for his portrayal of journalist Truman Capote in 2005 and recently received a Tony nomination for his role in a Broadway revival of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman.
Also returning for the second instalment are Josh Hutcherson, who plays Everdeen's ally Peeta, and Donald Sutherland, as President Snow.
Directed by Francis Lawrence, the film is slated for release in November 2013. | Oscar-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman has signed up for a role in Catching Fire, the sequel to hit action film The Hunger Games. | 0.849025 | 1 |
He was lying on Neilston Road at about 01:45. He is being treated at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley, where his condition is said to be serious.
Officers investigating the incident said the man left a local pub at about 01:30.
They want to trace the drivers of a white Ford Transit pick-up and a dark saloon car which were in the area.
Sgt Mark Miller said: "We know from CCTV that the injured man had been in a nearby local pub which he left around 0130 hours.
"He is then seen five minutes later lying on the road. It is believed from CCTV that he was struck by a vehicle.
"Neilston Road is a busy area - a main route out of Paisley heading towards Barrhead. The local pubs were spilling at the time and I am confident someone will have seen what happened to the man.
"I would stress again that at this time we need to establish the circumstances surrounding the incident, and I am keen to trace the drivers of a white Ford Transit pick-up and a dark saloon car that were seen on CCTV on Neilston Road at the time." | A 64-year-old man has been seriously injured after he was hit by a vehicle shortly after leaving a pub in Paisley. | 0.802132 | 1 |
The baked portrayal of East Lindsey is on show in the seafront's Compass Gardens.
Skegness Cake Fest was organised in a bid to create "a 100 sqm fully-edible map of the area".
Community groups and individuals were invited to create a baked version of their favourite landmark, building or place in the county out of cake.
Organisers SO Festival said: "We are so excited to present Cake Fest, a giant edible map of East Lindsey.
"One more thing, in case you were wondering - yes, when the map has been completed and suitably admired by the crowds, we'll eat the lot."
Similar Cake Fests have been held in Edinburgh and Stirling in Scotland. | Creators of a giant edible map in Skegness will literally be able to have their cake and eat it later. | 1.349514 | 1 |
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Whiter, 24, was helping his friend change a tyre when he was struck by another car near Newmarket in Suffolk.
Jan Adamec, 40, admitted two counts of causing injury by dangerous driving and will be sentenced in September.
"People have been in touch from the Paralympic side, I'd love to get involved," Whiter told BBC Look East.
"I can only dream and hope that one day I could be there. If I can focus with sport, it is going to help me progress more within myself and get me through these times."
Whiter's friend and Soham Town Rangers player, Joey Abbs, suffered serious leg injuries in the incident.
Although he expressed an interest in disability sport, Whiter did not specify which sport he would attempt.
Speaking at a fundraising event for his rehabilitation in Exning, Suffolk, Whiter said: "You've got to have a dream, you've got to start somewhere.
"I know how hard it is to win a medal at the Paralympics, I'm not saying I am going to turn up and do it, but I would love to go." | Former Newmarket Town footballer Shaun Whiter hopes to reach the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics after losing both his legs in a hit-and-run incident. | 1.22524 | 1 |
Claudio Ranieri's side are one of eight seeded teams in the draw, which is scheduled to take place at 17:00 BST.
Barcelona, Real Madrid, Bayern Munich, Paris St-Germain and Juventus are also seeded and will not face Leicester.
Arsenal, Tottenham, Manchester City cannot be drawn with Leicester but Scottish champions Celtic could be.
Celtic qualified for the group stage by beating Israel's Hapoel Beer Sheva 5-4 on aggregate.
The other seeded sides are Portuguese league winners Benfica and Russian champions CSKA Moscow.
Leicester produced one of the great sporting shocks to win last season's Premier League title and qualify for the Champions League for the first time.
The Foxes' last involvement in European football saw them knocked out in the first round of the Uefa Cup by Red Star Belgrade in 2000.
They could potentially be drawn in a group with last season's beaten finalists Atletico Madrid of Spain, Dutch champions PSV Eindhoven and Turkish league winners Besiktas.
Manchester City, who lost to champions Real Madrid in the semi-finals last season, qualified for the group stages thanks to a 6-0 aggregate win over Romania's Steaua Bucharest on Wednesday.
Pot 1: Real Madrid (Spain), Barcelona (Spain), Leicester City (England), Bayern Munich (Germany), Juventus (Italy), Benfica (Portugal), Paris Saint-Germain (France), CSKA Moscow (Russia).
Pot 2: Atletico Madrid (Spain), Borussia Dortmund (Germany), Arsenal (England), Manchester City (England), Sevilla (Spain), Porto (Portugal), Napoli (Italy), Bayer Leverkusen (Germany)
Pot 3: Basel (Switzerland), Tottenham Hotspur (England), Dynamo Kiev (Ukraine), Lyon (France), PSV Eindhoven (Netherlands), Sporting Lisbon (Portugal), Club Brugge (Belgium), Borussia Monchengladbach (Germany)
Pot 4: Celtic (Scotland), Dinamo Zagreb (Croatia), Monaco (France), Besiktas (Turkey), Legia Warsaw (Poland), Ludogorets Razgrad (Bulgaria), FC Copenhagen (Denmark), Rostov (Russia)
Take part in our new Premier League Predictor game, which allows you to create leagues with friends.
Subscribe to the BBC Sport newsletter to get our pick of news, features and video sent to your inbox. | Leicester City will find out who their first ever Champions League opponents will be when the draw for the group stage takes place on Thursday. | 1.001687 | 1 |
The Warriors are chasing the Chicago Bulls' record of 72 regular-season wins but blew a 17-point lead to lose 124-117 to the Minnesota Timberwolves.
Golden State made 24 turnovers, while Stephen Curry missed 18 of 25 shots.
The Western Conference leaders have 69 wins, with two games against second-placed San Antonio Spurs to come.
The Chicago Bulls side of 1995-96, who set the record with Michael Jordan, Dennis Rodman and Scottie Pippen in their line-up, are also the only team to have recorded 70 or more regular-season wins.
Curry's side also lost on Saturday, when defeat by the Boston Celtics ended their 54-match home winning streak - the longest in NBA history. | The Golden State Warriors must win their four remaining regular-season matches to make NBA history after suffering a surprise defeat on Tuesday. | 1.018603 | 1 |
Willie Rennie wants to increase income tax rates by 1p in order to raise £2.5bn for nurseries and colleges over the next five years.
It would also pay for a "pupil premium" for pupils who need extra help.
But Mr Rennie admitted he could not ensure councils spent the extra money on education.
All of Scotland's main political parties have put education at the heart of their campaigns ahead of the Holyrood election on 5 May.
The Liberal Democrats have said they would "reverse the damage of SNP cuts" to schools and colleges, and extend free nursery provision to all two-year-olds.
Mr Rennie told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme that increasing income tax rates by 1p would raise £475m every year - £170m of which would go towards his party's flagship "pupil premium" plan.
The scheme would be worth £1,400 for primary pupils who require extra support and £900 for secondary pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds.
Mr Rennie said the pupil premium "would be part of the council spending programme and it would include the part of the £2.5bn over the five years".
Asked if he would guarantee a real-terms increase in education funding, Mr Rennie replied: "Yes we would."
However, he would not guarantee that local authorities would ring-fence the additional cash for education.
He said: "Since half of what councils do is education, I think it would be one of their top priorities to invest it in schools.
"We want to trust local authorities to be able to invest in areas within their communities.
"I believe that, especially with Liberal Democrats in charge of local authorities, that investment will go directly to schools."
Mr Rennie said councils "would see the sense" of using the money to invest in education. | The Scottish Liberal Democrat leader has pledged that education funding would rise every year if his party forms the next Scottish government. | 1.719132 | 2 |
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The 24-year-old midfielder becomes the first Algerian to win the award, which is decided for by football fans.
Brahimi told BBC Sport: "It's a big honour for me to receive this wonderful trophy. I owe it to my country, Algeria, and to all the people who voted for me."
BBC Focus on Africa presenter Peter Okwoche presented the Porto player with the award. | Yacine Brahimi has been voted the BBC African Footballer of the Year 2014. | 0.777799 | 1 |
On the mainland, the Shanghai Composite benchmark closed down 3.52% at 3,005.17 points.
Hong Kong's Hang Seng index closed down 0.49% at 21,455.23 points.
Investors ignored government data that showed that Beijing boosted fiscal spending by 26% in August from a year ago.
The move was an attempt to aid the flagging economy.
Regulators also tried to ease fears that the most recent crackdown on margin financing - a type of lending which involves borrowing money to buy stocks - would not affect the market.
Amid ongoing volatility in the markets however regulators have moved to punish some of the country's big brokerages for not verifying trading accounts properly.
Overall caution has set in, with many investors remaining on the sidelines ahead of the US Federal Reserve's decision on whether to raise interest rates for the first time in nearly a decade later this week.
Shares in Japan headed higher despite a survey indicating that manufacturers' confidence fell the most in a year this month.
The Reuters Tankan - which closely tracks the Bank of Japan's quarterly Tankan survey - showed slumping morale among businesses.
Meanwhile, the central bank kept its monetary policy unchanged, as widely expected, but warned about exports and production being hit by slowing demand.
The Nikkei index closed up 0.3% to 18,026.48 - the first gain for four trading days.
Australian shares headed lower as investors turned cautious after the country appointed a new prime minister on Tuesday.
A Liberal Party vote resulted in Malcolm Turnbull ousting Tony Abbott to take the top job, potentially ending months of policy turmoil in Canberra.
The S&P/ASX 200 index ended down 1.5% at 5,018.40. The benchmark index has lost more than 10% since last month.
In South Korea, the benchmark Kospi index dropped 0.3% to 1,973.56. | Chinese shares continued to head lower on Tuesday, extending the previous session's losses. | 1.175962 | 1 |
Italian midfielder Bianchi, 25, joins on a four-year deal from Serie A side Sassuolo and spent last season on loan with Modena in Serie B.
"He can play on the left, right or in the number 10 position and he can score goals," said Leeds boss Dave Hockaday.
Senegal striker Doukara, 22, has arrived from Italian club Catania.
He was on loan with Serie B's Juve Stabia last season, scoring six goals in 20 appearances.
"He is a big, powerful and fast player with a hunger to succeed," added Hockaday. "He is exactly what we need at the club."
The Championship club's tally of signings this summer is now four following the arrivals of goalkeepers Marco Silvestri and Stuart Taylor.
The latest transfers come after Scotland international striker Ross McCormack left Leeds to join Fulham for an undisclosed fee, believed to be £11m. | Leeds United have signed Tommaso Bianchi on a permanent basis and Souleymane Doukara on a season-long loan. | 0.880156 | 1 |
It wasn't only memes, however. Mrs Trump's rapidly changing expression also led to the "Free Melania" campaign, as people around the globe speculated the former model was being forced into a role she did not want, by a husband she potentially wasn't overly fond of.
But like all good stateswomen, Mrs Trump refused to be drawn into the speculation.
On Tuesday, that appeared to change.
The Slovenian-born First Lady "liked" a tweet which seemed to suggest she either finds the jokes funny, or that the Free Melania campaigners were right.
It all started when left-wing blogger Andy Ostoy sent this tweet:
So far, so normal. It's Twitter, and memes - and speculation - are par for the course.
Then, this happened:
Only, it is the real Mrs Trump's account - albeit one she has not used since 8 November last year, when she urged voters to back her husband's presidential aspirations. Mrs Trump now favours the "@FLOTUS" account, belonging to the position of the First Lady.
What's more, it is only the second tweet Mrs Trump has ever liked - the first being her own tweet, perhaps suggesting she is not particularly au fait with how Twitter works.
Which may point to a third option: not that she found the tweet funny, not that Free Melania campaigners were right, but that the swiftly removed "like" was, in fact, the work of a Twitter novice.
Of course, there are other possibilities. Mrs Trump may have been the victim of a hack, or someone else could have logged into her account.
It will remain a mystery for now. Attempts to get the White House to comment on the "like" by US media have so far yielded no results.
Either way, those watching the Trumps' marriage closely will no doubt use this as further proof all is not well between the First Couple. | It was the inauguration look that spawned 1,000 memes: the elegantly-dressed Melania Trump's wide smile, turning to a cold stare of derision the moment her husband - the newly appointed US president - Donald's back was turned. | 1.080915 | 1 |
30 January 2017 Last updated at 08:57 GMT
Freerunning or parkour has been made an official sport in the UK.
That could mean more of you doing it in your PE lessons - or it might even be in the Olympics one day.
But what exactly is it? Ayshah went to meet kids who already do it to find out more. | You might have seen it online, in the movies or watched someone doing it in the park. | 1.694685 | 2 |
Frank-Walter Steinmeier was speaking near Berlin after talks with his French counterpart, Jean-Marc Ayrault.
Mr Steinmeier warned against "a nationalism that pits one European state against another".
Leave campaigners in the UK have previously dismissed similar warnings as scaremongering.
The referendum on whether to leave or remain will be held on 23 June.
Germany is the UK's biggest trade partner in Europe.
"A vote to leave would shake the union," Mr Steinmeier said at a joint news conference in Brandenburg.
"It would not just carry on as 28 [members] minus one. It would require concerted efforts to ensure that the union holds together and that a decades-long, successful integration effort does not end in disintegration."
Mr Ayrault said the EU would keep evolving with the times.
"Europe can't be static, it must keep moving," he said. "Today it faces contradictions, slow-downs, difficulties, anxieties and fears. We want to give Europe a new dynamism." | If the UK votes to leave the EU next week, the move could ultimately lead to the bloc's disintegration, Germany's foreign minister has warned. | 1.607214 | 2 |
She was speaking to the BBC's Andrew Neil days after Scotland's deficit was shown to be almost 10% of its output - nearly double the UK as a whole.
Ms Sturgeon said that despite difficulties particularly relating to North Sea oil revenues, Scotland's economy was "fundamentally strong".
The SNP leader has been attending her party's two-day conference in Glasgow.
In an interview on the BBC's Sunday Politics, Ms Sturgeon was asked what she would do to reduce Scotland's deficit.
She said: "In the year that we had figures published for just this past week, we have had a very challenging and difficult set of figures. I am not denying that for a second."
However, Ms Sturgeon believed it was important not to focus on just one year's figures.
She said: "Over the past 10 years our fiscal position has been broadly similar to the UK and in some of those years it has been significantly better."
Ms Sturgeon acknowledged particular difficulties in the North Sea oil and gas sector.
"Those are difficult principally for the people who work in the North Sea and for the north east of Scotland, but it doesn't take away from the fact that the economy of Scotland is fundamentally strong," she added.
The MSP went on to say that she did not oppose getting the deficit down, but she opposed the UK government approach for "both the speed at which it is happening and the way it is happening".
Ms Sturgeon said she wanted to look to the future and focus on "the real strengths of the Scottish economy".
Projections for onshore revenues - excluding offshore gas and oil - are expected to grow by £14bn in the next five years, the politician pointed out.
The annual GERS figures, which are produced by Scottish government economists, independently of ministers, came out four days ago, also showed;
The GERS figures are widely used to inform the debate about Scotland's potential for independence or for the full range of tax-raising powers.
They looked much more positive when oil and gas tax revenue was in the billions.
But with the fall in the price of oil and gas, as well as high levels of investment, producer profits have plummeted, and taxes with them. | Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said she did not deny the country faced economic challenges. | 1.472461 | 1 |
In the seven months since the Brexit referendum result, Berkeley said new home sales had fallen by 16%.
But in the last two months reservations were higher than a year earlier.
The London-focused developer also said inquiry levels remained "robust" and pricing continued to be "resilient".
It said the market had been adversely affected by a number of factors apart from Brexit uncertainty, including changes to stamp duty, the challenges of securing planning permission and the demands to provide affordable housing.
As a result, new housing starts have fallen by 30% in the capital.
However, the company said: "Berkeley is uniquely placed to maintain its high levels of production in London and the South East and we are onsite in production on 58 sites."
It added that there were a further 22 sites in the pipeline.
Shares in Berkeley rose by 5.26% to £31.19 in early trade. | Housebuilder Berkeley Group has said it expects profits at be at the top end of forecasts this year, as it signalled the housing market in London and the South East had "stabilised". | 1.044997 | 1 |
The 29-year-old, who beat Novak Djokovic in the ATP World Tour Finals on Sunday, has been tipped to be named in the New Year honours list.
However, the Wimbledon champion and successive Olympic gold winner said he could "still mess up" and "make mistakes" in his career.
Murray was previously honoured with an OBE after winning the US Open in 2012.
In order to receive an honour, the names of nominees must be put forward by members of the public or government departments before being considered by a selection committee.
Their assessments are then passed to the Queen through the prime minister, who then informally approves the honours.
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Murray became tennis world number one at the beginning of November after a year which saw him reach 12 finals in 13 events and achieve an impressive 24 wins in a row.
Among those calling for him to be recognised are businessman and TV personality Lord Sugar, while former prime minister David Cameron said back in 2013 that he could not think of anyone "more deserving" than Murray of a knighthood.
Speaking about the possibility, Andy Murray said: "Obviously it is the highest honour you can get in this country. I don't know, I feel too young for something like that.
"I don't think about that stuff much, really. When I win any award or am presented with anything it is nice because it is recognition for what you have given your life to, up to now anyway.
"I am still young and there are still a lot of things that can go wrong, I could still mess up and make mistakes. Do stuff wrong. I am just trying to keep doing what I am doing, working hard, and achieving stuff."
While a knighthood remains a possibility, Murray is now favourite to be named this year's BBC Sports Personality of the Year - an accolade he has already won twice.
However, he said his focus now was the impending wedding of his father, which would make it difficult for him to attend this year's ceremony.
He added: "I don't think I am going to be able to go this year. I've got my father's stag do next weekend, then he is getting married the following weekend.
"So I will go up to Scotland on Saturday, come back down to London for four or five days then come back up to Scotland. Then I go to Miami the day after my dad's wedding." | Tennis world number one Andy Murray has said he is "too young" for a knighthood. | 1.161365 | 1 |
Find out the latest team news here.
Saturday
Arsenal v Hull City (12:30 GMT)
Manchester United v Watford (15:00 GMT)
Middlesbrough v Everton (15:00 GMT)
Stoke v Crystal Palace (15:00 GMT)
Sunderland v Southampton (15:00 GMT)
West Ham v West Brom (15:00 GMT)
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Sunday
Burnley v Chelsea (13:30 GMT)
Swansea v Leicester (13:30 GMT)
Monday
Bournemouth v Manchester City (20:00 GMT)
Preview to come
Saturday
Aston Villa v Ipswich (15:00 GMT)
Brighton v Burton Albion (15:00 GMT)
Derby v Bristol City (15:00 GMT)
Fulham v Wigan (15:00 GMT)
Leeds v Cardiff (15:00 GMT)
Norwich v Nottingham Forest (15:00 GMT)
Preston v Brentford (15:00 GMT)
QPR v Huddersfield (15:00 GMT)
Reading v Barnsley (15:00 GMT)
Rotherham v Blackburn (15:00 GMT)
Wolves v Newcastle (17:30 GMT)
Find out how to get into football with our special guide. | Manchester United are in rare Saturday 15:00 GMT action while the bottom three are all on show in the Premier League. | 0.704868 | 1 |
While some top stars have opted not to compete in Rio in August, four-times major winner McIlroy says he will be going all out to win.
"I might look back in 20 years' time and a gold medal might be one of my crowning achievements," said McIlroy.
Golf is being included in the Olympics for the first time since 1904.
Adam Scott, Louis Oosthuizen, Charl Schwartzel and Vijay Singh have made themselves unavailable for selection for August's Games.
And this week Australian Marc Leishman has pulled out over concerns about the Zika virus.
McIlroy said in January that major championships would always be more important to him than an Olympic medal.
But the 27-year-old Northern Irishman, who will represent Ireland at the Games, explained why he would be playing in Rio.
"Two reasons. Because of how it's being approached in golf circles, it's being played in Rio this year and Tokyo in 2020," he said.
"But I'm not sure if we're going to have another opportunity to win a gold medal after that, depending on what happens.
"The second thing is that Paul McGinley is the Irish team captain and he is so into it.
"He's more into it than I am quite honestly. I would feel like I am not only letting him down, I'd let the country down as well."
He added that it was a chance to do something he had never done before.
"I get that a lot of players aren't playing because of family matters and other things, but while I don't have those issues of a family it's a good opportunity," he said.
"If nothing else it will be a great experience."
McIlroy is defending his title in the Wells Fargo Championship at Quail Hollow this week. | Rory McIlroy believes he might only get two attempts to win an Olympic medal if the sport's return to the Games proves to be short-lived. | 1.041902 | 1 |
It named the four as Abdul Rahman Mustafa al-Qaduli, Abu Mohammed al-Adnani, Tarkhan Tayumurazovich Batirashvili and Tariq bin al-Tahar bin al-Falih al-Awni al-Harzi.
They join a list of suspects sought under the Rewards for Justice Program.
On Tuesday, Islamic State said it was behind an attack in Texas.
It said "two soldiers of the caliphate" had attacked a Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest being held at a conference centre in Garland near Dallas.
The US State Department offered up to $7m for information on Qaduli whom it described as a senior IS official who originally joined its precursor, al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI).
It offered $5m each for Adnani and Batirashvili and up to $3m for Harzi.
It describes Adnani as an official IS spokesman, Batirashvili - who is also known as Omar Shishani - as a battlefield commander in northern Syria, and Harzi as chief of the group's suicide bombers.
IS has seized swathes of territory in eastern Syria and northern Iraq, declaring them a caliphate and imposing a harsh interpretation of Islamic law on the inhabitants.
The state department said the group was responsible for systematic human rights abuses, including mass executions, rape and the killing of children.
The highest reward offered under the Rewards for Justice scheme is up to $25m for Ayman al-Zawahiri who was named leader of al-Qaeda in June 2011, shortly after Osama Bin Laden's death.
It also offers up to $10m for IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
On Tuesday, a report on IS's al-Bayan Radio said the exhibition in Garland had been "portraying negative pictures of the Prophet Muhammad".
The contest had offered a $10,000 (£6,600) prize for a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad. Depictions of Muhammad are offensive to many Muslims.
Both gunmen were shot dead by a police officer after they opened fire outside the venue on Sunday.
US officials later said they doubted the group's direct involvement. | The US government is offering rewards totalling $20m (£13m) for information on what it says are four leaders of the Islamic State (IS) militant group. | 1.572694 | 2 |
The civil servants, many of them from HMRC, will be relocated from offices in Whitehall, the Cabinet Office said.
Barclays said the deal would save £35m a year as part of a cost-cutting plan.
The bank has about 3,300 staff in the office - mainly back office teams for the investment bank and other support staff.
The Barclays staff will move to Barclays' two other Canary Wharf sites - its main headquarters at 1 Churchill Place and its building on 5 North Colonnade, where its investment bank is based.
The UK Cabinet Office lease on the 10 South Colonnade building will run for 15 years. The building is owned by Canary Wharf Group.
"This new hub will provide a better working environment for many London-based civil servants at considerably less cost to the taxpayer," said minister for the Cabinet Office Ben Gummer. | The UK government has agreed a deal to sublet a Barclays office in London's Canary Wharf for about 5,700 civil servants. | 0.683526 | 1 |
The incongruous sight greeted shoppers at Ringwood Market in Hampshire.
Passerby Brian Case said: "I actually passed it and saw a car in a market stall. It was only when I walked to the post box and walked back that I realised what I'd seen."
One of the town's traffic wardens presented the beleaguered car with a parking ticket.
Mr Case said: "At one point there was an elderly lady looking at the clothes and not even looking at the car."
He added that none of the clothes rails were touching the car, which appeared to be completely unscathed.
The car was still in situ after the stall came down at about 15:00 BST on Wednesday.
Market organiser Edward Morant told the Bournemouth Echo the car was a "nuisance".
"The trader was not in the least bit happy," he added. | A trader placed his market tent around a car after it was illegally parked in the middle of his plot. | 0.75916 | 1 |
Sheila Boon, 55, transferred money from the woman, who was in a nursing home in Bournemouth, to herself.
She then claimed her relative had no money and made claims for care costs to the local borough council.
Boon, of Weybridge, Surrey, had denied fraud by abuse of position but was found guilty after a three-week trial.
She was sentenced at Bournemouth Crown Court on Monday.
Boon spent the money on property, travel expenses and tried to buy a car, police said.
Det Sgt Paul Smith, of Dorset Police, said the investigation into Boon had been "protracted and difficult" due to the fact the victim could not be interviewed "because of her age and frailties".
"The defendant took the decision to secure her inheritance and invested her relative's money without her consent before it was all spent on care fees," he said. | A woman who stole £105,000 from a "frail" elderly relative's care fund and used it to buy property has been jailed for 18 months. | 0.652058 | 1 |
The actor was killed by his own car at his home in Los Angeles in June.
It struck him after rolling backwards down the steep drive, pinning him against a brick postbox pillar and a security fence.
Court records show Victor and Irina Yelchin filed to become administrators of their son's estate on Friday.
The filing states Yelchin left behind at least $641,000 (£486,000) in personal property and had $731,000 (£554,000) in equity in his home.
Yelchin was best known for playing Pavel Chekov in the new Star Trek films.
TMZ reports that Yelchin's parents plan to file a wrongful death lawsuit against Fiat Chrysler, which made the Jeep that killed their son.
They are expected to announce their intentions to file the suit at a press conference on Tuesday.
In April, the company recalled 1.1m vehicles worldwide over the risk they could roll away after drivers exit.
The vehicle that killed Yelchin, who was 27 years old, was one of those subject to a recall because the gear shifters confused drivers, causing the vehicles to roll away unexpectedly.
Fiat Chrysler offered their sympathies to Yelchin's family in a statement, but said it could not comment on their plans for a lawsuit.
The company added it was speeding up its recall of the vehicle.
Follow us on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, on Instagram, or email [email protected]. | Anton Yelchin did not write a will before he died and left behind a $1.4m (£1.06m) estate, according to court documents filed by his parents. | 1.024806 | 1 |
Approximately 200 ex-players aged over 50 will be tested, comparing their neurological health with a separate study of the general population.
The Rugby Football Union said "evidence is accumulating" on possible increased risks of neurodegenerative diseases in former contact sport athletes.
England captain Dylan Hartley has said further concussion may end his career.
Hartley was knocked unconscious during the Six Nations match against France on 19 March and only returned to action with his club Northampton on 7 May.
The RFU said the purpose of the study is to see what links can be established between rugby union-related head trauma and conditions such as dementia, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Parkinson's disease and chronic traumatic encephalopathy.
Simon Kemp, the RFU's chief medical officer, said: "The RFU has worked extremely hard to increase the education of those involved in the game about concussion and to improve the management of the risk of the injury based on the evidence available.
"The next step for us a union and as a sport is progress beyond delivering 'recognise, remove, recover and return' and try to understand more about the possible longer-term effects on the health of the brain."
The study will be conducted by academics from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Queen Mary University of London, the Institute of Occupational Medicine, University College London and Oxford University.
Professor Neil Pearce, from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, will lead the study.
He said: "Each sport is different and there is currently little evidence from rugby players. This study will start to fill this gap, and will allow us to assess whether there are long-term health problems and what their causes may be." | Former England internationals will take part in a study examining the potential effects of concussion on the brain. | 2.282125 | 2 |
Lincoln County Hospital has also restricted admissions to five more wards following the outbreak.
United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust, which manages the hospital, said the ward closures were to prevent the virus spreading.
The trust declined to specify which wards were shut, but said no children's wards had been affected.
Michelle Rhodes, director of nursing at the trust, said the "highly contagious" virus could spread rapidly in hospitals.
"Symptoms of norovirus include diarrhoea and vomiting and, just like flu, the virus can seriously affect vulnerable patients," she said.
"If you have norovirus symptoms, please do not attend A&E. The best thing you can do is rest and take plenty of non-caffeinated drinks to avoid dehydration."
A trust spokesman said some areas of the hospital were expected to reopen following deep cleaning over the next few days. | Four hospital wards have been closed after patients and staff were hit with the winter vomiting bug norovirus. | 1.807095 | 2 |
The second rower, 29, was placed on the transfer list by the Giants last month after an internal investigation.
He helped England to a Test series win over New Zealand in November.
"The Rhinos are a fantastic organisation and I am looking forward to being part of the squad next season," said Ferres.
"The last year has seen plenty of ups and downs for me, however this move gives me an opportunity to finally look forward to the future with confidence and be part of something special at the Rhinos." | Leeds Rhinos will sign Huddersfield's Brett Ferres for an undisclosed fee, subject to the forward passing a medical and agreeing personal terms. | 0.552499 | 1 |
Richard and Angela Maxwell, both 67, from Boston, won £53,193,914 in the EuroMillions jackpot draw on Tuesday.
It is the 10th-biggest UK lottery win, with the couple saying they would help family and friends.
Mr Maxwell said he waited for four hours to tell his wife as she did not answer her mobile phone and then thought it was an April Fool's joke.
Mr Maxwell said he checked the results online on Wednesday and was left "in shock" when they matched.
Teenage millionaire: Life as one of the youngest lottery winners
But he could not tell his wife as she was out at a luncheon club.
"When she came back later that afternoon, she was carrying a basket of tea towels and she started asking me about our dinner plans that evening," he said.
"I immediately told her we weren't going out for dinner. I said 'We can't go out for dinner Angela, I've got something to tell you'."
Mrs Maxwell said: "I didn't know what to think. Richard just went red in the face and then said 'We've won £53 million'.
"I just said 'Don't be stupid' - he's always playing jokes so I thought it was an April Fool. I just didn't believe it then he showed me the numbers on the website and I dropped the basket of tea towels on the floor.
"I then just sat down in the chair for about half an hour stunned."
The couple, who have two daughters, said they were still planning what to do with the money but that helping their family, and their wider community, was top of the list.
On Wednesday, another couple revealed they scooped a £1m lottery win for a second time.
Dave and Kathleen Long, from Scunthorpe, won their first jackpot in 2013. | A Lincolnshire woman told her husband "don't be so stupid" when he revealed they had won £53m on the lottery. | 0.940157 | 1 |
On Friday, Shane Long's first-half goal looked set to give the hosts victory before Luuk de Jong's late equaliser.
"I was very pleased - I thought we did fine," said O'Neill.
"The Dutch had good possession of the ball (early on), which was actually very good for us because we had to play without it for a little while."
He added: "Then we scored the goal, which obviously gave us a big lift. I thought we played fine, we kept possession of the ball reasonably well after that."
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However, O'Neill rued de Jong's 85th-minute equaliser as the striker punished a spot of ball-watching from central defender Shane Duffy although the manager described the Blackburn man's overall performance in only his third cap as "excellent".
Bournemouth midfielder Harry Arter appeared to do his chances of inclusion in O'Neill's Euro 2016 squad no harm as he was named man of the match after winning only his second cap.
"I think Harry did well, young (Stephen) Quinn did well also," added the Republic boss.
Goalscorer Long was again bothered by a cut on his knee in Friday's game and O'Neill hinted that the Southampton striker may be rested in the final warm-up game against Belarus in Cork on Tuesday.
Long's likely absence could see Republic record goalscorer Robbie Keane returning to the side for his 144th appearance. | Republic of Ireland boss Martin O'Neill was happy with his team's display in the 1-1 draw against the Netherlands in the Euro 2016 warm-up friendly. | 0.9272 | 1 |
Her comments follow a BBC investigation that looked into so-called "puppy farming".
Under current legislation, those found guilty of dog breeding offences can be jailed for six months and fined up to £5,000.
Michelle O'Neill said increased penalties alone were not enough.
Last year, the minister launched a review of animal welfare legislation to see if it should be improved.
"I think there's possibly room for increasing the custodial sentences, the maximum penalties you would face if you were convicted of any sort of animal cruelty," she said on Thursday.
"We could, in fact, increase the sentencing and increase the financial penalties that are there. For me that's a very strong deterrent in itself.
"But the one thing I would definitely say is that legislation alone won't solve the issue of puppy farming or other deliberate organised animal cruelty activities.
"It's about individuals, when buying pups, that they're aware of being alert to the circumstances in which they're buying the pups."
BBC Scotland Investigates: The Dog Factory, included secretly filmed footage of Furnish Kennels in Fivemiletown, which claims to be the largest licensed dog breeding establishment in the UK.
Sheila Voas, chief veterinary surgeon with the Scottish government, tells the programme: "It was barbaric. It was a production line. It was using animals as a commodity."
However, the firm's solicitor said the premises are run in accordance with the law and Fermanagh District Council said the premises complied with legislation. | The agriculture minister has said jail terms and fines for dog breeding offences could be increased. | 1.766229 | 2 |
The 27-year-old Commonwealth Games silver medallist suffered serious head injuries in a motorbike taxi accident in Vietnam last month.
She has been receiving treatment in Edinburgh after being flown back to Scotland from south east Asia.
Soon after the accident, doctors said she had just a 1% chance of survival.
A post on Facebook said: "Today marks another great step for Stephanie, this week her doctors acknowledged her great progress on her medical recovery, hence this morning Stephanie has been moved to a specialist rehab unit."
Stephanie, who is from Daviot, near Inverness, but has been living in Dunfermline, had previously received treatment in Vietnam and Thailand.
She had been in Vietnam for about four months, teaching underprivileged children, when the motorcycle accident happened.
Her skirt is believed to have become unravelled and caught in the wheel.
Friends and family set up a crowdfunding campaign to pay for her medical costs after it emerged her travel insurance was not valid because she had been in the country more than 31 days. | Scots judo star Stephanie Inglis has been moved from a hospital ward to a specialist rehabilitation unit, her friends and family have said. | 1.187015 | 1 |
Until now, images shared via the site could only be uploaded in a square format.
Disney, maker of the new Star Wars film, has already taken advantage of yesterday's change to upload a landscape-orientated teaser video.
Instagram recently announced plans to carry more advertising.
"It turns out that nearly one in five photos or videos people post aren't in the square format, and we know that it hasn't been easy to share this type of content on Instagram," the firm said in a blog post..
"Friends get cut out of group shots, the subject of your video feels cramped and you can't capture the Golden Gate Bridge from end to end."
The move will also appeal to advertisers, said analyst Debra Aho Williamson.
"It boils down to giving advertisers and users more options," she told Reuters.
"You want people to be able to see more of your ad. It's something advertisers are definitely going to be interested in."
Instagram announced in June that it would be opening up its platform to all potential advertisers in the coming months, via its parent company Facebook.
"There are more than two million advertisers who actively use Facebook to market their business and we want to leverage the best of Facebook's infrastructure for buying, managing and measuring the success of ads on Instagram," the firm wrote on its business blog. | Facebook-owned image-sharing platform Instagram is allowing its 300 million users to post landscape and portrait videos and pictures for the first time. | 1.296775 | 1 |
Louise Kelton, 57, has been formally sworn into the post, which holds legendary status in the United States.
It is the oldest federal law enforcement office in America and marshals track down some of the country's most wanted fugitives.
Ms Kelton, who moved to Louisiana aged 23, is marshal for the Middle District of Tennessee.
She was born on a US air force base in Wales to an American serviceman and a Welsh mother, and was brought up in the Butetown district of the capital, where her mother and brother still live.
In 1978, she gave up her job as a physiotherapist and moved to Louisiana, where her father was from.
She only intended to stay in the States for year but ended up studying and graduating with honours from Texas Southern University in 1992 with a bachelor's degree in Criminal Justice.
She said: "My dad was an American serviceman and I just wanted to see where he was from.
"Basically my idea was to come over here for a year and bum around and then come back home, but I ran out of money money in Nashville, so I got a job."
Ms Kelton also holds a master's degree in Public Service Management from Cumberland University, Tennessee.
She spent 33 years with the Metro Nashville police department, rising through the ranks from patrol officer through sergeant, lieutenant, captain and finally commander of the city's North Precinct before becoming deputy chief five years ago.
Marshals are also charged with protecting the federal courts and their officers, transporting prisoners and serving arrest warrants.
The role was most famously portrayed by John Wayne and Tommy Lee Jones in Hollywood movies such as True Grit and The Fugitive.
She is only the second black woman to hold the post.
Ms Kelton's mother and brother still live in the Cardiff home she grew up in.
Brother, David Watkins, said: "She's a very high achiever. I've always been proud of my sister. She's my big sister."
Former teacher and family friend Betty Campbell said: "She's made us feel really really proud." | President Barack Obama has nominated a physiotherapist from Cardiff to become a US marshal. | 1.624667 | 2 |
She was fined €20,000 (£17,200; $22,600) by a court in Berlin.
A video showing Lohfink having sex with the two men in 2012 and saying "No" found its way on to the internet. She insists the incident was rape.
But at a subsequent trial the two men were cleared of rape and Lohfink was accused of making false testimony.
Lohfink is a former competitor on reality TV show Germany's Next Top Model, and the high-profile case partly informed a recent change to Germany's rape laws.
A new law was passed in July clarifying that "no means no" even if the victim did not fight back.
Prosecutor Corinna Goegge said: "Ms Lohfink was not a victim of a sexual offence.
"She lied and deliberately misled investigators."
The court found that the sex was consensual but that Lohfink was saying "No" to it being filmed.
But Lohfink has continued to insist that she was raped.
"I'm not here to become famous," she told the court.
"I didn't want the sex, nor the filming," she said in her final testimony, according to Tagesspiegel.
After the verdict was read out, she cried, "I don't need to put myself through this" before storming out of the courtroom.
Lohfink's defence lawyer described the verdict as "a scandal".
Burkhard Benecken said he would discuss with her whether she had the strength for an appeal.
He was now concerned for all women who wanted to report a rape, he said.
One of the two men involved in the case pleaded guilty to a charge related to distributing videos showing the sex act.
The case has been extensively covered throughout the German media.
Tabloid Bild reported the verdict as "a bitter setback" for Lohfink, and said the verdict was greeted with boos from the public gallery.
Die Zeit said that Monday's trial showed "how disrespectfully we treat people, when it comes to the accusation of rape". The case will stigmatise all parties in the long run, the paper said. | German model Gina-Lisa Lohfink has been convicted of making false rape allegations against two men in a case that has sparked debate across Germany. | 0.845936 | 1 |
The embassy condemned the "deplorable behaviour" and said the staff member would be strongly disciplined.
Israel's ambassador was summoned by the Singapore government over the incident, local media report.
Singapore's foreign ministry said the "misuse" of its flag was considered a serious offence.
Images of the flag draped over a table at a party allegedly hosted by the diplomat were posted online on Monday by a user who said a police report had been filed.
He accused the foreign party host of having "no respect for our country and our flag".
In a press statement, the Israeli embassy said it "was appalled to learn of the deplorable behaviour displayed by one of its junior staff members and expresses its sincere apologies". | Israel has apologised after a junior diplomat working at its embassy in Singapore reportedly used the country's flag as a tablecloth at a party. | 0.990433 | 1 |
The technology was once one of the most widely used ways for people to watch video clips and play games online.
But it also attracted much criticism, particularly as flaws in its code meant it became a popular way for hackers to infect computers.
In recent years, much of its functionality has been offered by the rival HTML5 technology.
One of HTML5's benefits is that it can be used to make multimedia content available within webpages without requiring users to install and update a dedicated plug-in.
Apple was one of Flash's most vocal critics. The late Steve Jobs once wrote a public letter about its shortcomings, highlighting concerns about its reliability, security and performance.
The plug-in was never supported by Apple's iOS mobile devices.
Adobe's vice president of product development, Govind Balakrishnan, said the firm had chosen to end Flash because other technologies, such as HTML5, had "matured enough and are capable enough to provide viable alternatives to the Flash player."
He added: "Few technologies have had such a profound and positive impact in the internet era."
Apps developer Malcolm Barclay, who had worked on Flash in its early days, told the BBC: "It fulfilled its promise for a while but it never saw the mobile device revolution coming and ultimately that's what killed it."
When Adobe acquired Flash in its 2005 purchase of Macromedia, the technology was on more than 98% of personal computers.
But on Chrome, now the most popular web browser, Flash's usage has fallen off dramatically.
In 2014 it was used each day by 80% of desktop users, according to Google. The current figure is just 17%.
"This trend reveals that sites are migrating to open-web technologies, which are faster and more power-efficient than Flash," Google added. "They're also more secure."
Google phased out full support for Flash software at the end of last year.
Mr Balakrishnan said it did not expect the demise of Flash to affect profits at Adobe.
"We think the opportunity for Adobe is greater in a post-Flash world," he said.
But the firm added that it remained committed to support Flash up until the end of 2020 "as customers and partners put their migration plans into place".
There was immediate reaction to the news on Twitter. | Adobe Systems has said that it plans to phase out its Flash Player plug-in by the end of 2020. | 2.340836 | 2 |
Children from St Ives School, Cornwall, were uninjured in the crash on the A30 near Penzance at about 12:00 GMT.
Witness John Mackie said children were climbing out of the 62-seater coach owned by Williams Travel on to the grass verge.
The A30 was closed in both directions between Newtown Roundabout and Crowlas Cross while the coach was recovered.
For more on the coach crash and other news
The coach was travelling towards Penzance and swerved across the wrong side of the road before going up the verge.
St Ives School said all of the children, aged between 11 and 16, were "safe and well". | A coach carrying 30 schoolchildren to a swimming gala veered across a main road and crashed through a hedge. | 0.980431 | 1 |
Ahmed has accepted a scholarship from the Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development, where he will study.
He met US President Barack Obama at the White House on Monday.
After Ahmed was detained over the clock last month, his case went viral on social media.
Some alleged he was unfairly treated because of his name and religious background. Officials in Irving Texas defended their decision, saying they were only concerned with the safety of students.
The Qatar Foundation is providing a full scholarship for his secondary and undergraduate education, according to a news release.
"Our family has been overwhelmed by the many offers of support we have received since the unfortunate incident of Ahmed's arrest," the Mohamed family said in the release. "From the White House to Sudan, to Mecca, we have been welcomed by a variety of individuals, businesses and educational institutions."
According to his family, Ahmed will be enrolled in the Qatar Foundation's "Young Innovators" program and his whole family will relocate with him to Qatar.
"Qatar was a cool place to visit. I loved the city of Doha because it's so modern. I saw so many amazing schools there, many of them campuses of famous American universities," said Ahmed in the news release. "The teachers were great. I think I will learn a lot and have fun too."'
Ahmed withdrew from his Texas school shortly after the clock incident.
He was arrested on 14 September after his teacher mistook his clock for a bomb, sparking outrage and the trending hashtag #StandWithAhmed.
In addition to being invited to the White House, Ahmed received an outpouring of support from scientists, politicians and celebrities including Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
Just what is a 'suspicious' object? | Ahmed Mohamed, a 14-year-old Muslim boy from Texas whose teacher mistook his homemade clock for a bomb, will move to Qatar with his family. | 1.791818 | 2 |
Clandon Park House near Guildford, which housed a collection of furniture, porcelain and textiles, was reduced to a charred shell during the blaze.
A fire report said it was most likely the result of a faulty connection in the electrical distribution board.
The National Trust said a full review of fire prevention policies had begun.
A lack of fire protection to the fuse cupboard ceiling and the stately home's historic design allowed the fire to spread, the Surrey Fire and Rescue Service report said.
Such buildings are adapted over the years to add amenities, producing hidden voids that may or may not be known because of the loss of buildings plans and records, it added.
"It is the hidden voids in this type of building that allow unpredictable and uncontrollable fire to spread," it said.
Assistant chief fire officer Simon Moore said the National Trust had been advised of the findings.
National Trust director general Helen Ghosh said the fire had come as a "terrible blow".
Staff evacuated the house safely and no-one was injured. A salvage plan helped to save contents and fire detection systems operated as they should have done, she said.
"We're certainly not complacent and we now will be working with the fire service to identify any areas for improvement in any of our properties."
She said a full review of fire prevention policies had begun, including checks on distribution boards at all the trust's historic mansions.
The trust said none of its staff would have been able to identify the fault as a potential issue, and it had not been detected during professional checks by electricians.
Mr Moore said the fire service had begun work with the trust to consider what more could be done to improve the fire safety of their other buildings.
Fire broke out at the Grade-I listed building in April, reducing it to a shell.
One room - the Speakers' Parlour - survived and hundreds of items have been rescued. | A fire that destroyed an 18th Century mansion started accidentally and was probably caused by an electrical fault, investigators have said. | 1.882422 | 2 |
Following an inspection, the officials decided that areas of the playing surface were unsafe.
No new date has yet been set for the game to be played. | Saturday's National League game between Dagenham & Redbridge and Bromley has been postponed because of a frozen pitch. | 0.306117 | 0 |
Pixie Griffiths-Grant weighed just 1.1lb (0.5kg) when she was delivered by emergency Caesarean section in Plymouth, Devon.
Doctors tucked her into the bag emblazoned with the Tesco logo to stop her temperature dropping dangerously.
Mother Sharon Grant, 37, from Goonhavern in Cornwall said: "The bag acted like a greenhouse, bless her."
Ms Grant was taken to Derriford Hospital for the birth after Pixie stopped growing inside her.
"We were told this awful news, so it was a really stressful time. I did not know if she was going to survive.
"When I got to Derriford my blood pressure was really high so they put on Ben Howard to help bring it down.
"There were 10 doctors dealing with Pixie and they put her in a sandwich bag straight away to keep her warm."
Pixie, named because of her size at birth in May, is now 7.5lb (3.4kg).
"She's doing really well," said Ms Grant.
"It's amazing because we couldn't even imagine her being there."
Premature babies have very thin skin which can lead to life-threatening heat loss, according to a study in US journal Pediatrics.
The use of plastic bags was pioneered in Zambia where doctors wanted a cheap way to keep premature babies alive. | A baby born three months early was kept alive with the help of a supermarket sandwich bag. | 1.966305 | 2 |
Fury, 28, has not fought since beating Wladimir Klitschko in November 2015 and has twice withdrawn from rematches.
The Briton had his boxing licence revoked in October as he focused on mental health problems, but said on social media on Monday that he is "working on an opponent".
The British Boxing Board of Control told the BBC Fury is still suspended.
He would have to appear before the board to be given permission to fight.
Promoter Frank Warren has also tweeted: "The man who ended @Klitschko's reign. The Real Heavyweight King is coming back for his crown."
Fury was charged with a doping offence by the UK's anti-doping body in June and an appeal hearing was scheduled for November.
In October, Fury - who appeared to announce his retirement on Twitter, before backtracking several hours later - also revealed in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine that he was taking cocaine to help deal with depression.
He then vacated his WBO and WBA world heavyweight titles, saying he was unable to defend them because of his health.
The BBBofC said at the time that Fury's licence was suspended "pending further investigation into anti-doping and medical issues".
His uncle and trainer Peter Fury had suggested the former champion would be back in the ring by April. | Former heavyweight champion Tyson Fury has suggested he could be making his comeback on 13 May. | 1.099675 | 1 |
Two Vietnamese men are alleged to have hacked into email providers in the US and stolen one billion addresses.
It is believed the two then profited by sending junk mail or spam to tens of millions of the stolen addresses.
A third man also charged is alleged to have helped the hackers launder the money made from the large-scale spamming scheme.
According to allegations in a US Department of Justice statement, Viet Quoc Nguyen and Giang Hoang Vu hacked into eight separate email providers in the US between 2009 and 2012. The DoJ said they used this access to steal more than one billion email addresses in what it said was the "largest" data breach in US history.
The DoJ also alleges that the pair used their access to the internal systems of the email providers to help them despatch junk messages to tens of millions of people. The trade earned them millions of dollars from spam and from websites that paid to have traffic directed to them via junk mail, said the DoJ.
Some of the spam sent sought to make people pay for software they could get free elsewhere.
Vu was extradited to the US from Holland in 2014 and has pleaded guilty to committing computer fraud. He is due to be sentenced next month. Nguyen remains a fugitive, said the DoJ.
Also charged is Canadian David-Manuel Santos Da Silva who, the US alleges, helped Vu and Nguyen generate cash from their stolen email addresses and by laundering the money they made. Da Silva was arrested in Florida last month and is due to be arraigned before a judge this week.
"Large scale and sophisticated international cyber hacking rings are becoming more problematic for the law enforcement community that is faced with the challenges of identifying them and laying hands on them," said FBI agent J Britt Johnson who led the agency's investigation into the breach. | Three men have been charged by US authorities for their alleged involvement with a huge email breach. | 1.44851 | 1 |
The proposals for a former industrial site in the Cathays area include a social science research park and an entrepreneurship centre.
The other buildings would host research on semiconductor technology and turning academic work to practical uses.
Last month the university moved back into the top 125 of world universities.
The university said it aims to put innovation and entrepreneurship at the heart of its strategy to be an "engine for future prosperity, health and growth in Wales, the UK and the wider world".
The innovation centre would offer advice to local firms as well as business "spin-outs" from the university itself, while the semiconductor research institute would test the technology "in realistic environments", college officials added.
The social science research park would be the first in the world, the university said, and would provide an environment for "creating, sharing and applying new knowledge".
Practical "real-world applications" for society, healthcare, culture and the economy would be the focus of a research facility for academic research, according to the university's leaders.
"What we're going to do is come up with a new way of doing innovation," Prof Riordan told BBC Radio Wales.
"We want to orientate the university and all of its capacity towards innovation in a way that I don't think has been done before."
The university, which has 28,000 students, is a member of the Russell Group of UK universities. | Cardiff University is unveiling £300m plans for four new research centres in the city focused on innovation and building the Welsh economy. | 1.837929 | 2 |
The music producer called the film "disrespectful" and the reason why "people should never remake movies".
The 42-year-old, who worked closely with the singer before her death in 2001, criticised the Lifetime biopic during its airing on Saturday.
One message warned the film's producers that they will "feel [his] wrath tomorrow morning".
Much of the criticism centred around the film's casting.
Many fans felt Izaak Smith and Chattrisse Dolabaille who played Timbaland and Missy Elliot in the film, were called too thin and fair.
Others were more angry at the network's "romanticising" of Aaliyah's relationship with R Kelly.
The pair reportedly married illegally when Kelly was 27 and Aaliyah was just 15.
Aaliyah: The Princess Of R&B has had troubles long before its airing at the weekend.
Aaliyah's family didn't allow the studio to use her music, and Zendaya Coleman, who was originally picked to play the Rock The Boat singer, backed out after describing the project as "rushed".
But executive producer Debra Martin Chase insisted the team tried to keep the movie tasteful.
"Biopics are hard," Chase told the Washington Post.
"People have an opinion and social media allows them to voice that opinion. But at the end of the day, our goal was to make the best movie possible."
Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube | Timbaland has slated the new Aaliyah biopic in a series of pictures and memes posted on his Instagram page. | 1.00076 | 1 |
Littergram invites people to share pictures of rubbish and report the location to their council.
Lawyers for the US photo-sharing giant, which was bought by Facebook for $1bn (£629m) in 2012, said the name was "not acceptable".
Owner Danny Lucas has sent Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg a video asking him not to "kill" his project.
Mr Lucas, 48, from Wrotham, Kent tried to register his brand littergram in December 2015 and has since met lawyers for Instagram to explain his campaign.
He said his mission was to make littering as anti-social as drink-driving and to educate children.
In his video plea to Mr Zuckerberg, he said changing his brand would "destroy all our ingenuity and hard work".
Bristows' letter said Instagram appreciates the project's social objectives and Mr Lucas's time, money and effort but the name littergram was "still not acceptable".
It said the brand "utilises and relies on social media usage" and they could not allow its use "in relation to services which are core to its world renowned activities in this area".
The firm gave Mr Lucas three to six months to phase out the name.
Mr Lucas said he created the not-for-profit app after sending "telegram postcards" of litter photos to councils in 2014.
A Facebook spokesman said the motivation behind littergram was admirable and it had engaged in a conversation to see if there was a way for them to have an app which operated in a way that was different enough to Instagram to not risk infringing their trademark.
But Facebook said ultimately littergram was a photo-sharing app which operated in a similar way to Instagram and Facebook had therefore asked them to change their name.
The social network company said it hoped an agreement could be reached before the case reached the courts. | Instagram has ordered the owner of a British anti-litter app to change its name. | 1.413023 | 1 |
A woman in her 30s and two boys in the car were taken to hospital suffering head, chest and pelvic injuries.
Three people travelling on the bus - a woman, a seven-year-old girl and a man in his 20s - went to hospital with minor injuries. The driver was unhurt.
The collision occurred at the junction of Langley Green Road and Causeway Green Road, Oldbury at about 20:00 GMT.
West Midlands Ambulance Service said the boys in the car were believed to be 11-years-old.
"The woman suffered serious head, chest and pelvic injuries. The one boy suffered serious leg injuries with the second boy suffering pelvic injuries," a spokesman said.
"All three received emergency treatment at the scene and the woman was then transferred to Queen Elizabeth Hospital Major trauma unit, with the two boys being transferred to Birmingham Children's Hospital, all in separate ambulances.
"A woman and a seven-year-old girl received treatment and were transferred by response car to Sandwell Hospital.
"A man in his 20s also received treatment for minor injuries and decided to make his own way to hospital with a friend." | Six people have been hurt, two seriously, following a collision between a bus and a car. | 1.121643 | 1 |
Under the all-share deal, Alcatel-Lucent shareholders will own 33.5% of the new combined firm, and Nokia shareholders 66.5%.
Both firms said their boards had agreed the takeover and they expected it to go through in the first half of next year.
The merger will form a European telecoms equipment group worth more than €40bn (£29bn). | Nokia says it has agreed to buy smaller French rival Alcatel-Lucent in a €15.6bn takeover deal. | 0.543323 | 1 |
The aircraft came down at an old airfield near Margam Country Park, Port Talbot, just after 11:00 GMT on Sunday.
The two men are being treated for non life-threatening injuries at the Princess of Wales Hospital, Bridgend.
South Wales Police is investigating on behalf of the Air Accident Investigation Branch. | Two men have been taken to hospital after a microlight crashed in Neath Port Talbot. | 0.478895 | 0 |
Martin, 28, has scored seven goals in 17 appearances for Fulham in the Championship this term.
He "made himself unavailable" for Friday's abandoned game at Reading, but Jokanovic insisted he would stay.
"I'm not going to send him back to Derby - he's going to stay with us and respect the contract," said Jokanovic.
"He stopped in training, but I have information from the medical staff that he is available to play. He decided to take a day off."
He continued to BBC Radio London: "We're not a train station, you can't come in and out when you want. We need to respect ourselves, we are the oldest London club.
"I don't know if he will play for Fulham, but I'm sure he's not going to play for Derby."
Earlier this month, Derby manager Steve McClaren said he was surprised Martin was allowed to leave the club under previous boss Nigel Pearson. | Fulham manager Slavisa Jokanovic has dismissed reports that striker Chris Martin could return early to Derby from his season-long loan at Craven Cottage. | 0.678185 | 1 |
The figures, released by publisher Penguin Random House, include both print and e-books.
Many bookshops around the country stayed open all night to cope with demand when the novel went on sale on Tuesday.
The book is set 20 years after the events of Lee's 1960 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird.
"It's so fabulous to see a book dominating the news agenda and to be reminded of just how important literature and reading is to all of us," said publisher Susan Sandon.
"I speak for everyone at Penguin Random House when I say how privileged we are to be part of this piece of publishing history."
The novel has had mixed reviews, with many Harper Lee fans shocked to discover that Atticus Finch, the moral centre of To Kill a Mockingbird, is painted as a racist "bigot".
Lee wrote Go Set a Watchman in the mid-1950s - but her editor persuaded her to turn some of the story's flashback sequences into a separate novel.
That novel became To Kill A Mockingbird, which went on to be regarded as one of the greatest novels of the 20th Century.
Penguin Random House wouldn't comment on how Watchman's first-day sales compared to EL James' Fifty Shades spin-off novel, Grey, which was published in June.
It said last month that Grey had broken the first week UK sales record for adult books, selling 647,401 copies in its first three days, beating record holder Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol, which sold 551,000 copies in five days in 2009. | The new novel by Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman, sold more than 105,000 copies in the UK on its first day. | 2.022693 | 2 |
Kevin Ewing, 31, hid more than 5,000 items of mail between 2009 and 2014. He told Perth Sheriff Court he was finding it difficult to cope.
Ewing, from Perth, was caught after Royal Mail set up surveillance to monitor him.
Sheriff Lindsay Foulis sentenced Ewing to carry out 300 hours' unpaid work.
He said: "It might be fair to say a significant number of these items might have ended up in the recycling anyway. It all falls within the category of what the public might call junk mail.
"You pled guilty at the first opportunity, you have co-operated and - to a lesser degree - taking into account the actual character of the items you failed to deliver I am persuaded to deal with it by the direct alternative to custody."
Among the items Ewing failed to deliver were 2,915 packages destined for one street.
He also admitted delaying 1,150 unaddressed door-to-door postal packets in 2013, which were recovered from a delivery frame and a car.
Ewing told the court he was struggling to deal with the pressure of work and his personal life.
He said: "I was finding it difficult to concentrate or cope with the demands of work and general daily life. I can genuinely say that when I did not deliver mail I had every intention of delivering it next day.
"Before I realised, things had become too bad to resolve and I felt unable to confide in anyone about what had happened. I took it upon myself to try and dispose of the mail I had not delivered.
"I realise how serious these charges are and I feel deeply ashamed of my actions. I feel sorry for the stress and anxieties I have caused for members of the public who have not received items of their post." | A postman who dumped thousands of letters over a four year period has avoided prison after a sheriff said the material was junk mail. | 1.38073 | 1 |
"Ms Foster should follow the precedent set by her predecessor and resign to restore confidence in the office of first minister while these questions hang over her".
"She has lost all credibility and anything less will further erode faith in our institutions. If the first minister will not stand aside, then the assembly must act to remove her from office and fully scrutinise this scandal."
"There are 108 MLAs. Our priority must be to come together and protect the reputation of the institutions."
"A matter of serious public concern, and it is actually damaging the institutions and will continue to do that unless there is full disclosure."
"Massive issues for Arlene Foster to explain not just as a former minister for Enterprise, Trade and Investment, but as the current first minister and leader of the DUP."
"To date, responses and explanations have been utterly inadequate."
(That the DUP believe) "they can simply bat all this away and that the public can be treated in this manner is adding to the rising temperature of fury about this". | Senior figures from across Northern Ireland's political spectrum have been reacting to the revelations regarding DUP ministers and a botched heat scheme that could cost taxpayers £400m. | 0.912458 | 1 |
The battery could be used in wearables such as watches, fitness bands and smart-clothing.
Its capacity is small, meaning it would not be suitable for power-intensive smartphones at this stage.
Experts said it was "an exciting development" but Panasonic was not the first company to work on this.
Ben Wood, an analyst with research company CCS, told the BBC: "Other manufacturers such as LG and Samsung are also putting huge efforts into more flexible technology, be that in batteries, screens or more."
"I'd wager that Panasonic's new technology is just one piece of a more complex jigsaw, and it will be some time before we see truly disruptive devices emerging."
Designed for use in "card-type and wearable devices", Panasonic's flexible battery is 0.55mm (0.022in) thick with a maximum "bend" of 25 degrees.
The company said that the battery could "retain its characteristics" even after being repeatedly bent.
Smart-cards, often carried in wallets and pockets, require internal components that can withstand bending and twisting, but they can also degrade as they are flexed.
Curved smartphones have been around for a while, but foldable displays remain conceptual.
Designing such batteries could "provide scope for disruptive new curved designs," said Mr Wood, something all manufacturers craved as they "seek to deliver exciting new devices in the growing sea of sameness that characterises electronic products".
But, he added, there remained challenges ahead.
"Flexible batteries alone do not solve all the design challenges as the other materials and components also need to be flexible," he said.
Samsung is believed to be working on a flexible phone, and recent patents revealed on Patently Mobile appear to show designs for a rolled up smartphone.
Panasonic's bendable batteries would begin shipping at the end of October, the company said.
BBC Click will have more from Ceatec on this weekend's television show. Find out more at BBC.com/Click and @BBCClick. | Mass market bendable devices may be a step closer as Panasonic unveils a flexible lithium ion battery at Japanese technology fair Ceatec. | 2.056266 | 2 |
The Italian team have failed to win a race so far in a season they started with expectations of challenging Mercedes for the world championship.
"We failed the targets. I don't think there's a doubt in my mind," Marchionne said on a visit to the Italian GP.
"It's no use putting sweeteners on the stuff. The car isn't there and I don't think we developed it."
Marchionne has conducted a major internal organisation of Ferrari in recent months, and the team parted company with their highly regarded technical director James Allison in July.
"I feel quite comfortable that this team are capable of turning the fate of the 'scuderia' around. Unfortunately we don't have a lot of season left," Marchionne said
"Let them finish the season, I think we'll do the best we can for the rest of '16 and the fight starts in 2017 with the first race."
Subscribe to the BBC Sport newsletter to get our pick of news, features and video sent to your inbox. | Ferrari have "failed" to meet their expectations in Formula 1 this year, president Sergio Marchionne has said. | 0.958519 | 1 |
Warburton would not talk about the midfielder, who has been told to stay away from the club following a training ground row.
The Rangers manager ended the post-match press conference after being asked questions about Barton.
"It's an internal matter that is being dealt with," he said. "We won't make any comment on any internal matter."
Following a frustrating result at home, Warburton insisted the headlines it has generated by Barton's absence had not hindered his team.
"It didn't affect our preparations," he said. "It's just another matter that you deal with, it's part of the challenge of day-to-day working life.
"We did very well, we trained well and we gave a good performance but didn't get the rewards that I felt we deserved."
Andy Halliday, who was involved in an argument with Barton in training following last weekend's 5-1 loss to Celtic, returned to the starting line-up against Ross County and was cheered by the home support.
Rangers dominated possession and created more chances than the visitors, but could not make the breakthrough.
Despite the scoreline, which leaves Rangers three points behind Premiership leaders Celtic, who have two games in hand, Warburton was positive about his side's display.
"I'm never happy about dropping two points at home but I'm very pleased with the performance," he said. "That's our best 90-minute performance of the season.
"We wanted to go back to basics. I always go back to the money markets. If you lose a bunch of money you don't try to win it back the following day. You build slowly.
"We said come in and move the ball quickly, show an energy and desire. Get bodies forward and create chances. We did that. I'm sure you'll agree we created more than enough chances to win two or three games. We just hit every part of the goalkeeper's body.
"It was one of those days but we've got to be much happier with the quality of performance. Nine times out of 10 that will be enough to win games." | Rangers manager Mark Warburton refused to discuss Joey Barton's future after his side's 0-0 draw with Ross County. | 0.932607 | 1 |
On Friday UUP MLA Robbie Butler posted a 'joint statement' from the DUP, UUP, SDLP and Alliance on Facebook.
It said that each party had signed up to a voluntary ban during their respective campaigns.
It was also posted by the DUP's Paul Givan and SDLP councillor Pat Catney.
However on Friday evening, spokespersons for the SDLP and the Alliance Party said no final agreement has yet been reached.
The so-called joint statement read: "As political parties in Lagan Valley, we recognise the desire from the public to minimise disruption during this election campaign and believe this is the right step to take.
"Engagement with the electorate will be focused on the door step."
According to the statement, the agreement is in place until 18:00 GMT on 1 March, at which point candidates may place a limited number of posters outside each polling station.
Current MLAs in the constituency, which takes in Lisburn and Banbridge, include Paul Givan, Edwin Poots and Brenda Hale of the DUP, Jenny Palmer and Robbie Butler of the UUP and the Alliance Party's Trevor Lunn.
The statement said that no posters will be placed on main or arterial roads unless directly outside a polling station, adding that it does not extend to billboard or mobile advertising.
"If this agreement is broken by one party, it is no longer valid," the statement added.
The spokesman appealed to other parties campaigning in Lagan Valley to follow the lead being given by the agreement.
A Northern Ireland-wide ban was proposed by Ulster Unionist chair Lord Empey last year.
At the time, the idea was dismissed by the DUP as "a stunt". | There is confusion over whether agreement has been reached by assembly candidates in Lagan Valley on banning election posters in the constituency ahead of the election in March. | 1.338849 | 1 |
Moores, 52, was sacked as England coach on Saturday after Andrew Strauss was appointed national director of cricket.
But the news was leaked on Friday during England's washed out one-day international with Ireland in Dublin.
Stewart said Strauss is an "excellent person" who "knows cricket inside out".
The 52-year-old told BBC Sport: "The ECB should hang their head in shame, the way it's been dealt with.
"The fact that all these leaks came out the day before the man was officially told - you've got to show a bit of respect to employees."
England assistant coach Paul Farbrace will take charge for the two-Test series against New Zealand, which starts at Lord's on 21 May.
"They've either got someone lined up already, to have made this decision, or they're going to have to find someone pretty quick," said Stewart.
He is positive about the appointment of Strauss, also a former England skipper, and confident the team can beat Australia in the Ashes, which begin in Cardiff on 8 July.
Stewart, who played in 133 Tests, said: "He's captained his country and when you're captain you make bold decisions, you make brave decisions, you make decisions you believe in.
"I don't take it that Andrew Strauss is a 'yes' man or he's too close to that dressing room. If he has to be cut-throat then he will be.
"Yes, it's going to be tough - Australia are best side in the world. Yes, they're going to start as the underdogs, but the underdogs do sometimes win."
Stewart was contacted about the role taken by Strauss but wished to remain in his position as director of cricket at Surrey.
"My views on how the role could be done were obviously different to the ECB's, so I was never going to be a candidate," he said.
"My job is to try and make Surrey successful and to provide players to Andrew Strauss and England."
Another former England captain who said he was approached about the director's job, Michael Vaughan, says the ECB needs to show some "quiet authority and integrity".
"The ECB brought this on themselves," Vaughan told the Telegraph. "They had the ideal opportunity to remove Peter at the end of the World Cup.
"We could have had a new coach bedding in with the team in the West Indies, but instead the ECB dithered and we have wasted another month with an Ashes series looming." | The England and Wales Cricket Board should "hang their heads in shame" over the treatment of Peter Moores and must act quickly to appoint his successor, says former captain Alec Stewart. | 0.954362 | 1 |
Deserae Turner, 14, was discovered clinging to life in a dry canal last Friday by friends of her family after a six-hour search of Smithfield.
Two 16-year-old boys were arrested over the weekend and have been charged with attempted murder.
One of the teens allegedly told police the crime was motivated by "greed".
Police say the two teens - who have not been identified - lured Deserae to a dry canal bed near the Sky View High School in Smithfield under the guise of selling her a knife.
But instead, the boys had planned to kill her and take her money, iPod and mobile phone, according to the charges.
The ninth grader is in a medically induced coma at a Salt Lake City area hospital, and is "in the fight of her life", a family spokesman said.
In a prepared statement the family wrote: "We know that our Father in Heaven is watching over her, and all of us have been touched by her.
"We know that He hears and answers prayers, and we can see His hand at work as Deserae continues to make progress."
Deserae was found early Friday morning by friends who had tracked her location using her mobile phone information, which authorities provided.
The case has unnerved the small community.
"This has kind of shaken up our citizens," Chief of Police Travis Allen told reporters after the charges were revealed.
"We haven't seen things like this before."
He said many of the girl's possessions were found with the two boys.
Police were advised that the original plan was to murder [the girl] using knives," Cache County Attorney James Swink wrote in charging documents.
But one of the teens also carried a .22-calibre revolver as a "secondary weapon," if the original plan failed, Mr Swink charged.
After the boys were arrested, the alleged gunman told them where to find the gun, and the shell casing - which the other boy had taken to keep "as a memento".
He also penned a letter to the girl's family in which he wrote that he is "so, so, so sorry", authorities say.
The police later found the shell "displayed" on the boy's window sill.
Investigators also say they found shoe prints in the soil that match the Nike and Vans sneakers worn by the two boys.
"I haven't seen anything like this case in the 18 years I've worked in Cache County," the prosecutor said at Tuesday's news conference. | A teenage girl found shot in the back of the head in the US state of Utah was targeted for her valuables and $55 (£44) in cash, authorities say. | 0.857043 | 1 |
The suspected bomber was reportedly blown out of the plane in the incident shortly after take-off from Mogadishu.
More than 20 people have been arrested in connection with the incident, a government spokesman told BBC Somali.
Most of the passengers, including the alleged bomber, were said to have been originally booked on Turkish Airlines.
No group has said it carried out the bombing but al-Shabab, part of al-Qaeda, is based in Somalia.
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Most of the 74 passengers on board the flight to Djibouti were transferred from Turkish Airlines, according to Mohamed Ibrahim Yasin Olad, head of Daallo Airlines, which operated the Airbus 321 that was bombed.
"We were informed about the change a few hours before departure time," he told the BBC.
Mr Olad said he was told the Turkish Airlines flight was cancelled because of bad weather.
Local media had reported that Turkish Airlines had suspended its flights from Mogadishu in December following a failed al-Shabab attack on the airport.
Turkish Airlines spokesman Yahya Ustun told Reuters news agency the carrier had cancelled a flight to Mogadishu last week due to atmospheric conditions and said the company would not make any further comment.
In the video, a man in an orange hi-visibility vest is shown walking with a man in a blue shirt holding what looks like a laptop. Another man in a hat approaches them and it is alleged that the laptop is handed over.
Aviation expert David Learmont, however, is sceptical that the video is all that conclusive.
"I don't think that anybody knows for sure if this is the transaction that was behind the bombing," he told the BBC's Focus on Africa radio programme.
The explosion on the Daallo Airlines flight happened about 15 minutes after take-off, when the plane was only at around 11,000ft (3,350m) and the cabin was not yet pressurised.
It was able to make an emergency landing at Mogadishu airport.
Serbian captain Vlatko Vodopivec said at the time he and others were told the explosion was caused by a bomb.
Daallo Airlines flies regularly from its base in Dubai to Somalia and Djibouti.
Somalia is battling militant Islamist group al-Shabab that has been carrying out deadly attacks in its quest to establish an Islamic state. | Somali authorities have released a video showing a passenger being given a laptop they say contained a bomb that blew a hole in a passenger plane. | 1.450037 | 1 |
Martin Evans was speaking at an event to showcase the industry to 200 high school pupils from around the region before they select their GCSEs.
Teen Tech was held at Wrexham's Glyndwr University on Wednesday.
It was organised by TV's Maggie Philbin who founded the event to address perceptions about certain careers.
She said girls "self eliminate" themselves from engineering careers at an early age because they wrongly think it meant being "knee deep in axle grease" all day.
"This is the igniting spark," she said.
Ms Philbin explained how such events lift the lid on industries and careers behind devices like laptops and mobile phones where their moving parts are not visible.
"You can't aim for something you haven't seen," she said.
The former Tomorrow's World presenter said research from three previous Teen Tech events at Swansea and Wrexham showed how 77% of 900 pupils said they were interested in science and engineering after speaking with industry experts compared with 53% at the beginning of the day.
Mr Evans, a former Airbus apprentice, said the company's sponsorship of event which featured firms like Samsung and Toyota was to "encourage the next generation of young engineers".
"We still have a job of work to do to sell engineering as a job," he said.
Airbus employs about 400 apprentices at its factories at Broughton and Filton, near Bristol.
Among them is Nathan Wong, 19, who is studying engineering at Glyndwr University.
He said the Teen Tech event opened pupils' eyes to wider possibilities and showed how studying stem subjects like maths and science can influence their future careers.
"You don't get to see what is happening outside of school... so these events put the things together," he said.
Pupil Katie, 13, from Castell Alun school, Hope, near Wrexham, enjoyed learning about forensic science.
"It's the way you are able to find out so much from one little detail," she said. | Work is needed to encourage more youngsters into an engineering career, says Airbus' head of manufacturing at the wingmaker's factory in Flintshire. | 2.184495 | 2 |
His latest work The Prague Cemetery, a thriller set in 19th Century Paris, is joined by another Italian writer, Diego Marani.
Works by Chinese, Icelandic, German and Israeli authors are also in contention for the £10,000 prize.
The IFFP, which awards literature translated into English, announces its winner in London on 14 May.
Eco's novel, The Prague Cemetery follows adventurer and forger Captain Simone Simonini, who is called upon to investigate assassinations and political intrigue which affect Europe's future.
The author is best known for his book The Name of the Rose, which was made into a film starring Sean Connery.
Dream of Ding Village by China's Yan Lianke is about a community in China devastated by an Aids epidemic through contaminated blood and was banned by the Chinese authorities.
The other nominated authors include Germany's Judith Hermann and Israel's Aharon Appelfeld.
The second Italian author in the running for the honour, Diego Marani, tells a tale of a soldier who discovers his Finnish homeland through a rediscovery of language.
The IFFP also awards the translators and their ability to bridge the gap between language and culture, who are awarded half the £10,000 prize.
Previous winners of the award include Czech Milan Kundera, WG Sebald for his novel Austerlitz and Peruvian Santiago Roncagliolo, who won last year with Red April. | Italian Umberto Eco is among the writers nominated for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize (IFFP). | 1.288552 | 1 |
Gifford, 71, is working with England Lions all-rounder Moeen Ali, Shaaiq Choudhry and Brett D'Oliveira, grandson of his old New Road team-mate Basil.
"We have enrolled the services of Norman to help out with our spin bowlers and he has been brilliant," said director of cricket Steve Rhodes.
The former England spinner took 1,615 first-class wickets for the county.
Gifford claimed 33 wickets in his 15 Tests, the majority of them between 1971 and 1973, having made his England debut against Australia in 1964.
The Lancashire-born slow left-armer spent nine years as skipper at New Road, leading Worcestershire to the 1974 County Championship title.
Gifford left New Road in 1982 to join neighbours Warwickshire, who he also skippered for two seasons, taking his haul of first-class wickets to 2,068.
And he also came out of international retirement in the week of his 45th birthday to play two one-dayers in Sharjah in March 1985, taking 4-23 against Pakistan.
Gifford's return to New Road came in the wake of delivering one of the eulogies for Basil D'Oliveira at Worcester Cathedral in late January, at his recently-departed county and country team-mate's memorial service.
Gifford is also expected to find himself working with international cricket's most high profile spinner, Saeed Ajmal, this summer.
The Pakistan test star, England's destroyer in the 3-0 series defeat in the United Arab Emirates, is due to rejoin Worcestershire for this summer's Twenty20. | Former Worcestershire captain Norman Gifford has returned to New Road to help as a part-time spin-bowling coach. | 0.883979 | 1 |
Rangers beat Dumbarton on Tuesday to secure the Championship title with four games of the season remaining.
"There's no question Rangers being back in the top flight will help Scottish football," Doncaster told BBC Scotland.
"It will certainly drive more interest in the game."
Doncaster said he hoped Rangers playing in the top tier would further increase the appeal of Scottish games to TV audiences abroad, with a recent deal extending reach to more than 100 countries.
"It creates the return of Celtic-Rangers matches in the league," added Englishman Doncaster.
Mark Warburton's Rangers also face Celtic in the Scottish Cup semi-final on 17 April.
"We've got an appetiser in 11 days' time and up to four main courses to follow next year in the league," said Doncaster.
"Those are genuine global events. For a lot of people around the world that's what Scottish football means.
"They will turn the eyes of the world towards Scotland and help to commercialise the game for the benefit of all member clubs."
Doncaster denied that phrases such as "financial Armageddon", used by senior football administrators in 2012 when Rangers went into administration, had been proved wrong.
"There's no question that the absence of Rangers from the top flight hurt attendances at some of the clubs," he said.
"I think the warning at the time was fair.
"It was only with the support of the commercial partners at the time that the game has been able to emerge in the health that it is now in."
Doncaster's preference is to look forward "in the better interests of the game to celebrate what will be a stronger commercially focused top flight with Rangers back in it".
He said: "So much of the tumultuous times needs to be put behind everyone.
"We need to look forward and to work together for the benefit of the game overall." | Rangers' promotion to the Premiership will boost the commercial appeal of Scottish football, says Scottish Professional Football League chief executive Neil Doncaster. | 1.020213 | 1 |
The 25-year-old suffered the problem bowling on day four of the second Test, which England won by 330 runs at Old Trafford.
The Durham player will have further tests next week to determine the severity of the injury.
Seamer Jake Ball is included in the 13-man squad alongside paceman Steven Finn and leg-spinner Adil Rashid.
This is Stokes' third notable injury in the last nine months. He damaged his shoulder in the third Test against Pakistan last October, and consequently missed the four-match one-day international series and three-match T20 series.
The all-rounder then injured his knee in the first Test against Sri Lanka in May which resulted in a month on the sidelines.
Stokes made his competitive return in a T20 Blast fixture for Durham on 24 June and played five T20s and two first-class games, but was left out of England's squad for the first Test against Pakistan, which the visitors won by 75 runs.
The New Zealand-born cricketer is currently walking unaided, but England will wait until next week to make an assessment.
England's 13-man squad for the third Test against Pakistan:
Alastair Cook, Moeen Ali, James Anderson, Jonny Bairstow, Gary Ballance, Jake Ball, Stuart Broad, Steven Finn, Alex Hales, Adil Rashid, Joe Root, James Vince, Chris Woakes | England all-rounder Ben Stokes has been ruled out of next week's third Test against Pakistan with a calf injury. | 1.046497 | 1 |
Leeds Crown Court heard James Carragher was jailed for seven years in 1993 and 14 years in 2004 for sex offences.
He denies 50 counts of indecent assault between the 1970s and the 1990s at St William's in Market Weighton, East Riding of Yorkshire.
Two other former staff at the home also went on trial earlier.
The home for boys with behavioural problems was run by the Catholic De La Salle order. It has since closed.
Mr Carragher - who was head of St William's from 1976 to 1990 - and two other men are accused of abusing 19 former pupils between them.
Opening the case for the prosecution, Richard Wright QC said Mr Carragher was a man who had a "committed sexual interest in children and young boys in particular".
Mr Wright said: "He hid behind a cloak of respectability.
"Who would believe the word of a delinquent boy set against those of a respected teacher of a Catholic order," Mr Wright added.
Mr Carragher went on trial along with former chaplain at St William's, Anthony McCallen, 69, and former teacher Michael Curran, 62.
The jury was told how Mr McCallen was convicted of abusing two boys in the 1990s.
Mr Curran has no previous convictions, the prosecutor said.
Mr Carragher, of Cearns Road, Prenton, Merseyside, denies 12 other serious sexual offences alongside the counts of indecent assault.
Mr McCallen, of St John's House, Ecclestone, Merseyside, denies 18 indecent assaults and seven other serious sexual offences.
Mr Curran, of Whernside Crescent, Ingleby Barwick, Stockton-on-Tees denies one count of assault occasioning actual bodily harm and another of indecent assault.
The trial continues. | A convicted sex offender who was a principal at a children's home and school has gone on trial accused of further sex offences against boys. | 1.151913 | 1 |
Vafaei, 22, won the first two frames and made a century break in the fourth to take a 3-1 lead before world number two Trump, 27, hit back to level.
But Vafaei made a superb break of 106 in the seventh frame before edging the eighth to secure victory.
He will face Mark Williams in his first ranking semi-final.
Williams saw off fellow former world champion Shaun Murphy 5-1.
World number one Mark Selby was a 5-1 winner against Stephen Maguire to set up a meeting with Kyren Wilson, who beat China's Ding Junhui by the same score.
Saturday's semi-final draw
Hossein Vafaei v Mark Williams
Kyren Wilson v Mark Selby | Defending champion Judd Trump was knocked out of the China Open as he lost 5-3 to Iranian world number 76 Hossein Vafaei in the quarter-finals. | 0.967527 | 1 |
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He has told Get Inspired how he started playing tennis "on his feet running around" as a six-year old in Helensburgh.
The 24-year-old Scot contracted Transverse Myelitis when he 13. He spent six months in hospital and lost use of his lower limbs. He discovered wheelchair tennis shortly after this in 2005.
For more information on how to get into wheelchair tennis, or any other version of tennis, take a look at our tennis . | Britain's number one wheelchair tennis player Gordon Reid won his first Grand Slam singles title by beating Joachim Gerard 7-6 (9-7) 6-4 in the wheelchair final at the Australian Open. | 1.319978 | 1 |
There was controversy at last year's event, when some competitors said they thought the course was shorter than the stipulated 13.1 miles.
Four cyclists set off from the city's George Square at 04:30, and finished in two stages at Glasgow Green at about 07:00.
They were accompanied by a police escort whose job was to stop traffic.
The riders' bikes were equipped with specialist measuring equipment.
The course should be 13.1 miles, but after last year's event, some runners said they thought it was up to 200 metres shorter.
That difference could be crucial for professional runners - including last year's winner Callum Hawkins, who also set a new course record.
If the course is found to be a different length, it mean's the winner's record, and that of all the other runners, could be in doubt.
The riders cycled the full half-marathon course, including going through a darkened Pollock Country Park.
The time and date were kept secret in advance, chosen in order to allow the officials an unimpeded ride.
The results of the measuring exercise will be announced on Monday by the run organisers, The Great Run Company. | The organisers of the Great Scottish Run half-marathon have been out measuring the distance of the course. | 1.306537 | 1 |
Wayne Rooney ended United's run of more than six-and-a-half hours without scoring with the winner in the 1-0 Champions League win over CSKA Moscow.
Former midfielder Paul Scholes said United had a "lack of creativity".
However, Carrick said the squad were not worried by the criticism and denied United had become "more conservative" since Van Gaal took over in 2014.
"There are so many opinions out there," said Carrick, who started the win over CSKA at Old Trafford - a result which ended a run of three successive 0-0 draws.
"If you start worrying about what people are saying about you on TV or in the papers then you are in trouble.
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"There is nothing wrong with those comments. You have to take the rough with the smooth and if you accept the pats on the back then you have to accept the criticism when it comes. I have respect for Scholesy and that isn't going to change."
Carrick was also asked if he felt the days of playing "cavalier" football under former manager Sir Alex Ferguson were over.
"What do you do?" he replied, "throw it in the box and hope or do you play football and try and pass it and break them down?
"There is a lot made of tactics and things at the minute but as players we can't get too involved in that. We just do what the manager tells us."
Carrick won five Premier League titles and the Champions League, in 2008, under Ferguson, but admitted that they did not always play well during that period.
"It's how people remember things isn't it?" he added. "Your childhood was always great wasn't it?" | Michael Carrick has defended Manchester United's style of play under manager Louis van Gaal. | 1.011773 | 1 |
Suratman, 94, said he was approached by a driver and asked to enter a vehicle to sell his fruit.
When inside, two men forced Mr Suratman to empty his pockets. They kicked him out afterwards and drove away, he said.
Tommy Reza posted a video online of a distressed Mr Suratman, which has since drawn sympathy and donations.
In the post, Mr Reza said Mr Suratman told him he was planning to use the stolen money to buy new furniture in celebration of the Eid al-Fitr festival later this month.
The incident happened in the province of Jambi on Sumatra island. Tommy Reza told BBC News that he came across Mr Suratman in tears.
"I just happened to be in the area when I saw a man shouting for help," he said.
Mr Reza told his story on Facebook and friends started getting in touch to help. That's when he decided to start a fundraising collection to get Mr Suratman his money back.
"Many people from Jambi and even overseas from places like Hong Kong and Malaysia got in touch to ask me where they could donate money," he said.
Many people also posted comments about their outrage and anger at the incident.
"This is disgusting on so many levels," wrote Calista Primalia on Facebook.
"First, it says a lot about you if you pick on an old man who is just trying to earn a living. And to think anyone would have the heart to carry out such an ugly deed during fasting month. Shame on them all."
Angie Kuron, who watched the video, said: "I cried because of the unfairness of it all. Is this what our country has been reduced to? I hope that the authorities will catch these crooks soon."
Since the viral post, more than 37m rupiah has been raised for Mr Suratman. The local governor later also donated 5m rupiah and bought his remaining banana stock.
Mr Reza posted pictures of himself delivering the money to the family.
"He was very grateful and he was praying. I told him that I was only the messenger," Mr Reza said.
"Indonesians are amazing. I'm touched by their compassion towards one another."
Reporting by the BBC's Heather Chen and BBC Indonesia. | Netizens in Indonesia have rallied together in support of an elderly banana seller who said he was robbed of more than 1m rupiah ($80; £62). | 1.233412 | 1 |
Princess of Wales dental surgery staff in Bridgend put patients at ease by letting them play their favourite film or video game as they go to sleep.
Workers said it helped reduce stress and helped staff gain their trust.
The Spa - Soothing Patients' Anxiety - approach has won two health board awards.
Operating department practitioner Paul Harris said: "Often some patients have very rigid routines and if they become distressed it can cause complex behavioural issues.
"They have a very unique view of the world and we have to tap into that view and try to fit their norm into our environment.
"We try to keep their anxiety manageable so it doesn't distress them and trigger behaviour that could cause harm to themselves or to others."
Items such as toys, balloons, bubbles and magic tricks are popular, along with sensory toys such as disco lights and torches.
Mr Harris said characters including Doctor Who and Thomas the Tank Engine were among the favourites with patients, but one of the department's earliest success was bubble wrap.
"... and you cannot get much simpler than that," he added. | Disco lights, music and Doctor Who are helping to take the fear out of surgery for patients with learning disabilities at a south Wales hospital. | 1.656263 | 2 |
Burling, 25, and Tuke, 27, held an unassailable 34-point lead going into Thursday's medal race, which they won.
Australian duo Nathan Outteridge and Iain Jensen took silver, with Germany's Erik Heil and Thomas Ploessel third.
Britain's Dylan Fletcher-Scott and Alain Sign were last in the medal race to finish sixth overall.
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Their boat capsized around the fourth mark, ending their chances of a top-five finish.
Victory for Burling and Tuke means they remain unbeaten since winning silver at London 2012.
Fletcher-Scott was pleased with how the British pair had performed during the competition.
He said: "It's been a week of two halves really. The first two days were really hard and we weren't sailing very well, but we turned it around and we're really happy how we got back into contention.
"We picked the wind out of the start wrong today. It went left and we didn't pick it up and got caught up in the boat. We knew we got that wrong and tried to nibble away at the leaders.
"We got ourselves up into a reasonable position but pushed it a little hard and capsized, which was game over."
Subscribe to the BBC Sport newsletter to get our pick of news, features and video sent to your inbox. | Four-time world champions Peter Burling and Blair Tuke won Olympic gold for New Zealand in the men's 49er two-person skiff class. | 0.861698 | 1 |
Her confirmation means she will be the first black woman to take up the post.
The 56-43 vote comes after a five-month delay during which the confirmation became entangled in a dispute over President Barack Obama's recent immigration reforms and other issues.
Ms Lynch replaces Eric Holder, who has served since the beginning of Mr Obama's presidency.
Welcoming the news of the confirmation, President Obama said "America will be better off for it".
She had waited since November for the vote, which became ensnarled in a bitter political debate that started with the immigration reforms announced that month, and ended most recently with contention around an unrelated bill to combat sex trafficking.
Ultimately, 10 Republicans voted in favour of her nomination and she is expected to take over as head of the US Justice Department on Monday.
During her confirmation hearing, Ms Lynch told the panel that, if nominated, her focus would be on fighting terrorist threats, cyber-crime, and improving relations between law enforcement and minority communities.
When she assumes office, she will take on major financial cases involving some that allege prominent banks helped clients evade US taxes and manipulated the currency markets, Reuters reported.
Ms Lynch grew up in North Carolina. She most recently served as the US Attorney for the Eastern District of New York.
Janet Reno, who served from 1993 until 2001, was the United States's first female attorney general. | The US Senate has confirmed the nomination of Loretta Lynch as the next attorney general. | 1.912339 | 2 |
The footage shows police officers firing on the car that Paul O'Neal, 18, was driving, before chasing him on foot.
The panel called the footage "shocking and disturbing".
New rules dictate that Chicago police must release video footage of a fatal police shooting within 60 days.
The video rules are part of series of reforms put in place after the police officers shot and killed 17-year-old Laquan McDonald in October 2014.
Video footage of McDonald's death, which contradicted the official police account, was released in November. The video sparked protests and led to the dismissal of the police chief.
McDonald and O'Neal's deaths follows a long line of high-profile incidents involving African-Americans dying at the hands of the police, igniting a national debate about the use of lethal force.
Police said O'Neal stole a car on 28 July, leading to a police chase.
The shooting starts after O'Neal rammed the car into a police cruiser as he tried to flee the scene.
A post-mortem exam found O'Neal had been killed by a gunshot wound to the back. The moment of death is not shown in the released footage.
Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said the fatal shot was not recorded because an officer's body camera was not operating.
He said the officer may have been unfamiliar with how to use the camera or the camera malfunctioned.
"We don't believe there was any intentional misconduct with body cameras," Mr Guglielmi said.
Michael Oppenheimer, a lawyer for the O'Neal family, said the officers took "street justice into their own hands".
Three of the officers involved in the shooting have been suspended. A preliminary investigation found they had violated department policy. | An independent police review panel in Chicago has released video showing the moments that led to the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager. | 1.53053 | 2 |
Visitors to the park were told to stay indoors when the female animal, named Ember, was discovered outside the perimeter fence at 11:00 BST on Friday.
The park's managing director said staff tried to tranquilise the three-year-old Eurasian wolf, but it was out of range.
Earlier this year Ember gave birth to five cubs, the first wolves to be born at the park in its 47-year history.
Visitor Penelope Bennett said on Twitter: "Wolf on the loose at the Cotswold Wildlife Park and we are all shut in the walled garden."
Managing director Reggie Heyworth said when keepers realised the animal was not in its enclosure the park's "emergency plan" was activated immediately.
He added: "As a precaution, all visitors and other staff were notified immediately. Those that were indoors were asked to remain where they were.
"At no time were members of the public in any danger as the wolf was away from the visitor area throughout."
The wolf was found just outside the park's perimeter fence, towards the A361, and was shot by a member of staff.
Mr Heyworth said staff were "devastated" and a full investigation into the incident was being carried out.
Ember and two-year-old male wolf Ash arrived at Cotswold Wildlife Park from Sweden in October 2016 as part of a breeding programme. | A wolf has been shot dead after it escaped from Cotswold Wildlife Park in Oxfordshire. | 2.239588 | 2 |
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