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Neil Taggart, who also served as a West Yorkshire Police Authority chairman and city councillor, pleaded guilty to eight child sex offences at Leeds Crown Court earlier.
The 65-year-old has been sacked from the Labour Party after he was suspended in October, a party spokesman said.
The crimes took place between 2007 and 2016, according to the Yorkshire Post.
Taggart, of Marlowe Court, Garforth, is due to be sentenced on 4 July.
In a statement, Labour said it had suspended him "as soon as the party became aware of the allegations he was facing".
"Following his guilty pleas today, he has been auto-excluded from the Labour Party, as being convicted of a serious criminal offence means he is no longer eligible to be a party member."
Leader of Leeds City Council, Judith Blake, said: "I condemn these despicable crimes in the strongest possible terms."
Taggart served as Lord Mayor in 2003. He was a Labour councillor for more than 30 years before being deselected by the party in October 2013 ahead of the 2014 election. | A former Lord Mayor of Leeds has admitted making and distributing indecent photographs of children. | 40161436 |
Swiss fourth seed Wawrinka beat the 18-year-old 7-6 (7-4) 6-1 6-7 (2-7) 6-4.
Argentina's Del Potro, winner of the 2009 US Open, saw off France's Stephane Robert 6-1 7-5 6-0.
Del Potro is playing in his first Grand Slam since the 2014 Australian Open after a series of wrist surgeries.
Meanwhile, British number one Andy Murray, who beat Liam Broady 6-2 6-3 6-4, will next play Yen Hsun Lu after the Taiwanese player defeated Alexander Kudryavtsev of Russia 6-4 6-1 6-4.
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Australian Nick Kyrgios overcame veteran Radek Stepanek to reach the second round.
The 21-year-old Kyrgios, a quarter-finalist here in 2014, beat the 37-year-old Czech 6-4 6-3 6-7 (9-11) 6-1.
Stepanek was aiming to become the oldest man to win a Grand Slam singles match in almost 25 years.
He initially struggled against a player 16 years his junior, and Kyrgios' confidence came through when he played an outrageous between-the-legs winner early in the third set.
Kyrgios served for the match at 5-4 but Stepanek hit back, taking a marathon tie break 11-9.
It proved to be just a blip for Kyrgios, though, as he powered through the fourth set to win in two hours and 26 minutes.
"I do believe I can do good things in this tournament, potentially win it," said Kyrgios.
The 15th seed will next face the unseeded Dustin Brown on Thursday after the German beat Serbia's Dusan Lajovic 4-6 6-3 3-6 6-3 6-4.
Brown made Wimbledon headlines last year when he beat Rafael Nadal in the second round.
The 31-year-old, who used to travel to tournaments in a camper van to save money, is ranked 85th in the world and found himself two sets to one down to Lajovic on Tuesday and facing the prospect of an immediate exit.
However, he staged an impressive fightback to progress.
Brown is now looking forward to facing his friend Kyrgios, saying: "We played IPTL (International Premier Tennis League) together, he's a really nice guy.
"We are friends. We'll go out and have fun and play good tennis."
Serb Viktor Troicki, who beat Brown in the third round last year, is also through after beating Tristan Lamasine of France 6-4 6-2 6-2.
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga also progressed after the 12th seed beat Inigo Cervantes of Spain 6-4 7-6 (7-5) 6-4.
Frenchman Tsonga was making his return from a thigh injury that forced him to retire during his third-round match against Ernests Gulbis at last month's French Open. | Former French Open champion Stan Wawrinka defeated American teenager Taylor Fritz at Wimbledon on Tuesday to set up a second-round meeting with Juan Martin del Potro. | 36652154 |
Drivers for agencies contracted by the internet giant told an undercover reporter they were expected to deliver up to 200 parcels a day.
Some admitted breaking speed limits to stay on schedule, while others said time was not allowed for toilet breaks.
Amazon said it was committed to ensuring drivers drive safely and legally, and are "fairly compensated".
The retailer could face questions in parliament over the working conditions at the company.
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A BBC reporter got a job with AHC services, one of many agencies which supplies drivers to the firm's delivery wing Amazon Logistics in the south of England, and which the BBC had heard a lot of complaints about.
During a two-week stint with AHC at Amazon's Avonmouth depot in Bristol, he said he:
Several drivers told him they were paid the equivalent of an hourly rate below the national minimum wage of £7.20, mainly due to working long hours to deliver all the parcels they were assigned.
A day in the life of an Amazon driver
Some agency staff complained the system does not allow for traffic jams and does not factor in time for breaks, he said.
Former driver, Charlie Chikaviro, said the pressure to deliver parcels left him with no choice but to drive quickly.
"I had to, the way it was designed. You're going to have to do that," he said.
"I had a few crashes... but not bad crashes."
Cody Cooper, a former supervisor who left AHC services a year ago, said she ordered one driver, who fell asleep at the wheel, to stop driving because she feared he could "end up killing someone".
"It was coming up to school time and there could [have been] a group of schoolchildren walking along... and he could have steered off," she said.
"I wasn't willing to live with that."
Amazon Logistics requires agency drivers to be self-employed, and therefore not entitled to the minimum wage or employment rights like sick pay or holiday pay.
Tonia Novitz, professor of labour law at Bristol University, said in her opinion drivers contracted by AHC should not be classed as self-employed, because they do not determine their own routes, days of work or rest periods.
"From the evidence I've seen, which suggests [the undercover reporter] would be regarded as a worker or agency worker, he should be getting the national minimum wage," she said.
In a statement Amazon said: "As independent contractors of our delivery providers, drivers deliver at their own pace, take breaks at their discretion, and are able to choose the suggestion route or develop their own."
The company said it expected drivers to be paid a minimum of £12 per hour "before bonuses, incentives and fuel reimbursements", and it required independent delivery providers to ensure drivers were fully licensed and insured and obeyed "all applicable traffic and safety laws".
In the past six months, drivers drove a daily average of 8.5 hours and were on duty for 9.1 hours, it added.
Oxford-based AHC dismissed claims put to them by the BBC as "historic and based on isolated examples which occurred over a year ago" and said: "Since then we have made changes to the way our checks are carried out and taken a number of steps to improve our ways of working."
The firm said it took road safety and the welfare of its contracted drivers "extremely seriously", and that drivers were free to choose when they worked.
Iain Wright, the Labour MP and chair of the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy select committee, told the BBC: "These are serious allegations that call into question a lot of business practises carried out by Amazon.
"There are rising challenges in respect of what's happening with online retail and ever growing customer demand.
"It's a balance - it's making sure that the customer gets what he or she wants, at a time that is suitable for them. But it shouldn't be done on the back of exploitation of workers."
BBC Inside Out West's undercover report can be seen on BBC One in England at 19:30 BST on Friday 11 November, and afterwards on the BBC iPlayer. | Amazon delivery drivers regularly work "illegal" hours and receive less than the minimum wage, it has been claimed. | 37708996 |
The woman was walking to work when she was attacked in Lawmoor Street, part of Dixon Blazes industrial estate in the Gorbals area, at about 06:00
Emergency services attended and she was taken to Glasgow Royal Infirmary, where her condition is said to be stable.
Part of the street has been cordoned off while officers investigate and an appeal has been made for witnesses.
The suspect is described as a white, of medium height and build and aged between 20 and 30 years old.
At the time of the attack, he may have been wearing a red jacket.
Det Insp Colin Hailstones said: "This woman was stabbed in a brutal and callous attack as she made her way to work.
"The motive is not known at this time and police are currently treating the incident as an unprovoked attack.
"Officers have been carrying out door-to-door inquiries and checking CCTV in the area."
Det Insp Hailstones said that "a significant police presence" remained at the scene, including specialist forensic teams.
He added: "I would appeal to anyone who has any information that will help police with inquiries to come forward and contact us."
Ch Insp Graham McInarlin, area commander for Glasgow South, said: "I would like to reassure those in the local community that officers are doing all they can to trace the person responsible.
"Detectives from Cathcart CID are currently progressing the inquiry which is currently being supported by uniformed officers.
"We are increasing our high visibility patrols in the area and that level of resource will be maintained. Please contact us with any information and please speak to our officers who will be patrolling the area." | A 55-year-old woman has been stabbed by a man during a "brutal and callous attack" in Glasgow. | 35831000 |
The brewery, which originally aimed to raise £4m in six months, is now looking to raise a further £250,000 from selling more shares to "fanvestors".
The new target is the maximum sum which can be raised through such a scheme.
Crowdfunding is a way of raising equity by asking a large number of people each for a small amount of money.
Overall, Aberdeenshire-based BrewDog has raised almost £7m through investors buying shares in the business during three rounds of Equity for Punks.
The current round, which is due to be completed in January, has raised £3.7m so far.
The brewer said the extra funds raised would further boost the expansion of its bar division as well as fund a new series of "bottle shops" across the UK designed to cater for a growing demand for craft beer.
The company, which now employs 200 staff, reported it was on track to achieve turnover of £19m in 2013.
BrewDog co-founder James Watt said: "It has been an epic response to Equity for Punks this year, and we now have over 12,000 shareholders all over the world.
"It's this phenomenal response that has made it clear we are going to sell the full £4m allocation of shares well before our January deadline, so we are pushing the limit even further.
"Through Equity for Punks we have shown that far from a buzzword or a fad, crowdfunding is a legitimate alternative financial system.
"We have broken all records, and silenced all doubters, and now we want to ensure all the fans that have supported us have a chance to buy a share of BrewDog." | Scottish brewer BrewDog is extending the limit of its Equity for Punks crowdfunding scheme, following "an epic response" from investors. | 24851044 |
The incident happened at about 17:20 on the eastbound carriageway of the city's West Approach Road.
A female passenger who also fell from the motorbike was uninjured.
The carriageway remains closed while police officers carry out crash investigation work. Police Scotland urged anyone who saw the incident to come forward.
In particular, officers want to trace a male cyclist who was seen in the area, having joined the West Approach Road at its junction with Roseburn Street.
Insp Brenda Sinclair, of Police Scotland, said: "Tragically, a man has passed away as a result of this incident and my thoughts are with his family at this sad time.
"Our inquiries into this matter are ongoing and I ask anyone with relevant information to contact police on 101.
"I also appeal directly to the male cyclist to contact police immediately." | A 52-year-old man has died after crashing his motorbike on an Edinburgh road. | 38112698 |
Mohammed Istiak Alamgir, 36, Ziaur Rahman, 38, Yousaf Bashir, 35 and Rajib Khan, 37, were arrested on 2 December.
Seven properties and a number of vehicles in Luton were also searched.
All four have been remanded in custody and are due to appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on 9 December.
Mr Alamgir is charged with four counts of addressing a meeting, the purpose of which was to encourage support for IS, contrary to s12(3) of the Terrorism Act 2000.
Mr Bashir has been charged with one count of the same offence.
Mr Rahman, meanwhile, is charged with three counts of arranging, managing or assisting in arranging or managing a meeting which he knew was to support IS, contrary to s12(2) of the Terrorism Act 2000.
Mr Khan faces one count of arranging, managing or assisting in arranging or managing a meeting to encourage support for IS, and another count of addressing a meeting with the intention of encouraging support for IS.
All of the charges relate to alleged offences in June or July this year. | Four men from Luton have been charged under the Terrorism Act with encouraging support for the so-called Islamic State group, the Metropolitan Police has said. | 35046925 |
Allan Rubin said she died on Sunday of natural causes, AP reported. She was living in Princeton, New Jersey.
Her studies earned her numerous honours, including being the second female astronomer to be elected to the US National Academy of Sciences.
But many questioned why she was never awarded a Nobel Prize.
In 1974, Rubin discovered that the stars at the edges of galaxies moved faster than expected.
Gravity calculations using only visible matter in galaxies showed that the outer stars should have been moving more slowly.
To reconcile her observations with the law of gravity, scientists proposed there was matter we cannot see and called it dark matter.
Dark matter is an unidentified type of matter comprising approximately 27% of the mass and energy in the observable universe.
Vera Rubin's interest in astronomy began as a young girl and grew with the involvement of her father, who helped her build a telescope and took her to meetings of amateur astronomers, according to a profile of the American Museum of Natural History.
She was the only astronomy major to graduate from the prestigious women's college Vassar in 1948. When she sought to enrol as a graduate student at Princeton, she was told that women were not allowed in the university's graduate astronomy programme, a policy that was not abandoned until 1975.
So she applied to Cornell University, where she studied physics. She then went on to Georgetown University, where she earned her doctorate in 1954.
Later she moved on to work at the Carnegie Institute of Washington. In 1993 she was awarded the US National Medal of Science. | Astronomer Vera Rubin, whose pioneering work on galaxy rotation rates led to the theory of dark matter, has died at the age of 88, her son says. | 38440291 |
The Houthi-run government said the hall had been hit by an air strike carried out by the Saudi-led coalition backing the internationally-recognised government of Yemen.
The coalition has denied carrying out a strike, suggesting "other causes".
Thousands of civilians have been killed since the war began in 2014.
The attack targeted the funeral of the father of Houthi-appointed Interior Minister Galal al-Rawishan, an ally of the rebels and of former President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
One rescuer, Murad Tawfiq, described the scene as a "lake of blood", the Associated Press news agency reports.
Graphic photos circulating on social media show charred and mutilated bodies.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said it had prepared 300 body bags.
The ICRC's Rima Kamal told the BBC "several air strikes" had hit the venue where hundreds of civilians had been present.
The damage to the buildings was extensive.
A number of Houthi rebel military and security officials are believed to have been killed in the strike.
BBC correspondents say their presence could explain why the funeral was targeted, though it is likely many civilians were also there.
The government of President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi is fighting both the Houthis and forces loyal to Mr Saleh.
Thousand of civilians have been killed since the Saudi-led air campaign started last March, the UN's rights body says.
Nearly three million people have been displaced in Yemen, one of the region's poorest countries, since the war began in 2014.
The Houthis took the capital then, forcing Mr Hadi's government to flee. Some ministers have since returned to the city of Aden. | At least 82 people have been killed and more than 500 injured in a strike on a funeral gathering in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, rebel officials say. | 37598413 |
Vitalii Sediuk told the Victoria Derbyshire programme he disagreed with social media comments that he had sexually assaulted Kim Kardashian and model Gigi Hadid in recent incidents.
During Milan Fashion Week, the Ukrainian crept up behind model Hadid and lifted her off her feet as she left a fashion show.
The 27-year-old also tried to kiss Kim Kardashian's bottom last week during Paris Fashion Week, but was subdued by her security.
"You're giving a bad word to sexual assault," he told Victoria Derbyshire.
"Sexual assault is basically rape. Did I rape anyone? No. I disagree. It's not sexual assault."
After being challenged that there is a wide spectrum of sexual assault, he denied that his actions fell under that bracket.
After pictures emerged of Hadid elbowing him in the face, a debate began on social media about whether his actions were an assault or just a prank.
Hadid wrote in Lena Dunham's blog, Lenny Letter, that she felt "in danger" during her encounter with Vitalii.
"I had every right to react the way I did. If anything, I want girls to see the video and know that they have the right to fight back, too, if put in a similar situation.
"It sounds [a] cliche to say it, but in the moment, it wasn't heroic to me. It was just what I had to do. I know people are put in much worse situations every day and don't have the cameras around that provoke social media support."
The 21-year-old added: "I just want to use what happened to me to show that it's everyone's right, and it can be empowering, to be able to defend yourself."
Vitalii worked as a reporter for the Ukrainian TV Channel 1+1, but now appears to publish content to his own social media platforms.
At the time of his "prank" on Kim, he explained on Instagram: "I was protesting Kim for using fake butt implants.
"I encourage her and the rest of the Kardashian clan to popularise natural beauty among teenage girls who follow and defend them blindly."
Vitalii says he didn't plan the "prank" he pulled on Kim, saying he was sitting in a cafe with an ice cream and she turned up at a venue opposite.
"It was the perfect situation for me. And that's why I did that."
He added that he will not be "pranking" the reality TV star for a third time, "absolutely no".
"It's my kind of style of entertainment and my kind of style of exclusive.
"I would feel bad if I had bad intentions. My intentions is never to offend someone. So I would never cross the line by punching someone."
Brad Pitt, Bradley Cooper, America Ferrera, Ciara, Leonardo Di Caprio, and Will Smith are just a few of the celebrities who have encountered Vitalii.
His attack on Brad Pitt during the Maleficent premiere back in 2014 resulted in a community service order in the US and he was banned from all red carpets in Los Angeles.
Vitalii insisted that he is a "serious journalist", having interviewed people like "Bill Clinton and highlighted terror attacks in France and the United States".
According to the celebrity website, TMZ, Kim is seeking to press charges and get a restraining order against Vitalii.
He grabbed at her legs at the same venue during the 2014 Paris Fashion Week.
"Some pranks are funny, some pranks are less funny. It's up to you to decide. My intention is never to hurt anyone, never to offend anyone. I'm basically a normal guy."
Vitalii admitted that he does his "pranks" for "attention" and wants to be like Piers Morgan, the British journalist and television star.
"I'm doing this for attention, and the more attention I receive the bigger platform I can get to express my opinion on certain topics.
"I would be surprised if someone lifted me up from behind as well," he added. | The self-described "prankster" who has become known for physically accosting celebrities on red carpets says what he does is "not sexual assault". | 37539359 |
He starts with the opening games in each group, which include the repeat of the 2010 final between holders Spain and the Netherlands, and England's tough-looking start against Italy.
Lawro also picks his two teams to go through from each group into the knockout stage.
He is backing Argentina to win the World Cup, and believes England will reach the quarter-finals.
Lawro was speaking to BBC Sport's Chris Bevan.
Brazil 3-1 Croatia
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Mexico 1-0 Cameroon
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Lawro's pre-tournament picks to go through: Brazil and Mexico.
Spain 1-5 Netherlands
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Chile 3-1 Australia
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Lawro's pre-tournament picks to go through: Spain and Netherlands.
Colombia 3-0 Greece
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Ivory Coast 2-1 Japan
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Lawro's pre-tournament picks to go through: Colombia and Ivory Coast.
Uruguay 1-3 Costa Rica
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England 1-2 Italy
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Lawro's pre-tournament picks to go through: England and Italy.
Switzerland 2-1 Ecuador
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France 3-0 Honduras
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Lawro's pre-tournament picks to go through: France and Switzerland.
Argentina 2-1 Bosnia-Hercegovina
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Iran 0-0 Nigeria
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Lawro's pre-tournament picks to go through: Argentina and Nigeria.
Germany 4-0 Portugal
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Ghana 1-2 United States
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Lawro's pre-tournament picks to go through: Germany and the United States.
Belgium 2-1 Algeria
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Russia 1-1 South Korea
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Lawro's pre-tournament picks to go through: Belgium and Russia. | BBC Sport football expert Mark Lawrenson is predicting the outcome of every game at the 2014 World Cup. | 27712282 |
The world governing body this week confirmed its wish to expand the World Cup finals to a 48-team competition, comprising 16 groups of three.
Guardiola, 45, says adding games to a busy schedule will "kill the players".
"They are focusing on more and more and more - it affects the quality," the Spaniard added.
"I am thinking just for the players. They need to breathe, to [have a] break, to enjoy.
"It's just three substitutions now - why can you not make four, five or six? All the players [would be] involved more than before, the coaches can use different tactics."
Guardiola says increasing the number of substitutes available would lead to fewer injuries and more open games.
"Everything would be better," he said.
A decision on whether to expand the World Cup will be made in January and any change would be unlikely to take effect before 2026, but Guardiola is unconvinced by the idea.
"This kind of thing is impossible because we are going to finish [the season], then after one week the World Cup then after three weeks we go to the pre-season, we go to China, the States, Australia," he said.
"You play against Milan, Juventus, Madrid and you have to win. People demand you have to play good [with] no preparation. Then you come back and it's 11 months again and it's the European Cup."
Media playback is not supported on this device | Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola says Fifa should consider allowing "four, five or six" substitutes to combat the threat of burnout among players. | 38270906 |
Does the Chinese economy appear to be stronger or weaker than previously thought?
Where is steel production?
What about the explosion in service industries?
Of course there are the international implications: What do the numbers mean for other economies?
Will Asia's powerhouse look to buy greater volumes Australian iron ore?
Could a growing consumer sector mean more tourists heading to France or Vanuatu?
Then we have to remind ourselves… hang on!
Plenty of economists think that GDP is a massively flawed form of measuring the health of any economy but in this country it is even worse.
There is significant proportion of China watchers who don't believe the GDP figures are real at all.
For example, in 2016, the country's (year-on-year) GDP growth was exactly 6.7% for three quarters in a row.
While this seems numerically unlikely, I suppose it is possible that this could happen.
Yet suspicion regarding growth statistics in the Middle Kingdom is not a new phenomenon.
For years, some provinces are thought to have been artificially inflating their numbers in order to create an appearance of improved economic performance on the part of their local leaders.
Others may have underestimated their growth so as to attract more favours from the national government.
In 2012, when you added the GDP of all provinces together this came to a greater number than the national total.
Now, for the first time, we have official confirmation that GDP here has been fabricated.
According to the Governor of Liaoning, Chen Qiufa, his province has been "involved in a large-scale financial deception" from 2011 to 2014. He said that fake data from city and county level officials misled the central government about the area's economy.
His announcement was made a meeting of the local legislature giving it even more gravitas.
If China's GDP is not to be trusted then how to judge this country's economic health?
Some analysts turn to electricity consumption or seaborne cargo believing that these are actual measurable indicators of activity expanding or contracting.
Other potential yardsticks could include building construction per square metre or domestic freight volumes.
Using these measures there are those who think that, in recent years, China's actual GDP growth should have dropped much more dramatically from 8% down to more like around 4% rather than just below 7%.
However without solid, reliable figures this remains a debate with wide-ranging, conflicting views.
Mind you, even if at worse China's real GDP growth is around 4% at present, there are plenty of national governments which wouldn't mind a taste of those numbers. | Whenever China's GDP figures are released, foreign correspondents fly into action with plenty of analysis about what they might mean. | 38686570 |
The government today introduced its Data Retention Bill in a surprise move.
The bill would give law enforcement agencies access to two years' worth of customer "metadata" without a warrant.
The government says the laws could be used to target illicit downloading of movies or music, and make it easier to identify suspected paedophiles.
"Access to metadata plays a central role in almost every counter-terrorism, counter-espionage, cyber security, organised crime investigation," Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull told parliament.
He said criminal investigations had been hampered by authorities' lack of access to metadata.
The bill does not clearly define metadata but the government said it would not include the content of calls or emails, web browsing history or website addresses.
At a press conference, Australian Federal Police Commissioner Andrew Colvin said the scheme would help crack down on online copyright infringement.
"Illegal downloads, piracy, cyber crimes, cyber security, all these matters - our ability to investigate them is absolutely pinned to our ability to retrieve and use metadata," the commissioner said.
The bill is the second part of the government's national security reforms. On Wednesday, the Senate passed its "foreign fighters" bill that will allow the government to suspend passports at short notice and make it an offence to travel to certain areas without a valid reason.
There are concerns the bill would impinge on people's privacy but Attorney-General George Brandis said at the press conference the bill was not about granting security agencies greater powers.
"It is about consistent laws about metadata," he said. Mr Turnbull added that the bill did not aim to create new classes of data to be retained.
The Greens, Liberal Democrat Senator David Leyonhjelm and independent Senator Nick Xenophon are not expected to support the bill. The Labor party wants more community consultation before the bill is passed.
Meanwhile, Mr Brandis has sought to address concern that a new law carrying a prison term for those revealing information about certain secret operations - known as "special intelligence operations" - could hit journalists.
The attorney-general said the move was aimed at "a Snowden-type situation", referring to the US National Security Agency whistleblower who leaked classified information.
The law has sparked major concern from Australian media outlets.
Opposition leader Bill Shorten on Wednesday wrote to Prime Minister Tony Abbott, saying the legislation had the "potential to impinge upon public interest reporting on national security issues''.
Mr Brandis said a safeguard would be added giving the attorney-general of the day a veto over prosecutions of journalists.
"It's a very powerful, practical safeguard for a minister, who is a practising politician, to assume personal responsibility for authorising the prosecution of a journalist,'' he said. | Data about phone and computer use will be kept by telecommunications companies for two years if a bill introduced to the Australian parliament is passed. | 29828677 |
Wilson, who can play in defence or midfield, had two loan spells with the Cherries in 2007.
The 28-year-old spent six seasons at Stoke, making more than 150 appearances, and has been capped 24 times by his country.
He missed out on the Republic's Euro 2016 squad with a knee injury.
Stoke manager Mark Hughes said last week that Wilson was set to leave the club. "It's fair to say that Marc probably feels his future lies elsewhere and it's fair to say I probably agree with him," he said.
Wilson did not feature for Stoke in their 1-1 draw against Middlesbrough against Middlesbrough on the opening day of the Premier League season on Saturday.
"I enjoyed my years at Stoke but I spoke with the manager Mark Hughes and we both agreed it was time to move on - I am excited now to start a new chapter in my career," he told Bournemouth's official website.
"I didn't come to AFC Bournemouth to play in a team that's going to get relegated. I see a lot of positives in this team."
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | Bournemouth have signed Republic of Ireland international Marc Wilson from Stoke City on a two-year deal for an undisclosed fee reported to be £2m. | 37088606 |
They issued a statement via police following the death of Jim Harvey on Thursday.
He died when his motorbike was involved in a crash with a car.
His family said that while they were still coming to terms with their loss it was some comfort that he had died doing what he loved.
"At the age of 64, Jim was still living every day to the fullest," the statement said.
"His love and absolute passion for motorbikes really expressed his personality and outlook on life.
"He loved the freedom and enjoyed the thrill of the open road." | The family of a Prestwick man killed in a crash on the A77 between Stranraer and Portpatrick have said they cannot describe their "sense of loss". | 37606248 |
The judge indicated that the confiscation order could force Hayes to sell his family's home.
The Serious Fraud Office had targeted more than £2m of his assets, but described the order as "substantial".
Last year Hayes was jailed for 11 years for manipulating the Libor rate.
He was convicted an eight counts of conspiracy to defraud while working for UBS and Citigroup during the period between 2006 and 2010.
In his court ruling judge Judge Jeremy Cooke said: "I am satisfied that the defendant is unable to pay the full amount immediately and therefore order that whatever cannot be paid immediately to be paid within 3 months."
He added that if Hayes could only pay off the amount by selling his house, then the court could extend that deadline.
The court order identified several items that could used to pay off the order, including:
If Hayes fails to meet the terms of the confiscation order, then he faces another three years in jail.
Hayes's trading activities were based on Libor - the London interbank offered rate - an interest rate used by banks around the world to set the price of financial products worth trillions of pounds.
The ability to organise even minor movements in the rate had the potential to generate bumper profits for a trader.
During Hayes's trial, jurors were told that he promised to pay a broker up to $100,000 to keep the Libor rate "as low as possible".
The court heard that manipulating the Libor rate was so commonplace that an offer of a Mars bar could get it changed.
In January six City brokers were cleared of helping Hayes rig Libor.
Commenting on today's court order, Mark Thompson, head of the SFO's Proceeds of Crime Division, said: "The court acknowledged the challenges of quantifying the benefit from crime in this case.
"The SFO provided the court with all the available information and the outcome is a substantial confiscation order, which Mr Hayes will need to satisfy or face a further period of imprisonment." | Tom Hayes, the former star trader jailed for market rigging, could lose his home after being ordered to repay almost £880,000, deemed to be the proceeds of the crime. | 35879951 |
New government guidance suggests boycotts could breach an existing World Trade Organization agreement and weaken community relationships.
Cabinet Office Minister Matt Hancock will make a speech later, warning that such "divisive" action can also undermine national security.
Labour said the Conservatives were attacking local democracy.
But a government source said foreign policy was a matter for national government, not local councils.
The guidance will specify that locally imposed boycotts by public bodies - including councils - are "inappropriate" unless formal legal sanctions or embargoes have been put in place by the government.
It will warn such action risks breaching a World Trade Organization agreement signed by both the EU and Israel, which requires equal treatment for suppliers from all signatory nations.
The Cabinet Office said town hall boycotts could also "undermine good community relations, poisoning and polarising debate, weakening integration and fuelling anti-Semitism", as well as hindering Britain's export trade and harming international relationships.
Mr Hancock is making the announcement in Israel, which has often been the subject of boycotts in the past.
He is expected to say the guidelines, and new rules on investing pensions funds, will "help prevent damaging and counter-productive local foreign policies undermining our national security".
A spokesman for Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said the ban would have outlawed council action against apartheid South Africa.
He said: "People have the right to elect local representatives able to make decisions free of central government political control. That includes withdrawal of investments or procurement on ethical and human rights grounds." | Councils are being warned of "severe penalties" if they impose political boycotts on products from overseas. | 35580758 |
Gerard Pique headed the hosts in front but Real quickly equalised through Karim Benzema's spectacular volley.
Cristiano Ronaldo netted the winner only two minutes after the visitors had defender Sergio Ramos sent off for two bookable offences.
But which players impressed and who disappointed? These are the player ratings for both sides.
Had little chance with either of Real's goals, and punched out a drive from Cristiano Ronaldo in the first half. Solid enough when dealing with crosses and blameless in defeat.
Mindful of the threat posed by Ronaldo down his flank, the Brazilian was more restrained than usual in coming forward, and Barca perhaps suffered from his reduced service to Lionel Messi. Fired a long-range blaster over the bar.
Scored Barca's goal with a good header from a corner and generally defended well, making one excellent block to deny Benzema. Will have been frustrated to see Toni Kroos' deflected cross skim over his head and drop for Benzema to equalise.
A typical battling display from the Argentine, who was rightly shown a yellow card for a crude challenge on Gareth Bale. Generally contained Benzema but looked occasionally vulnerable against Ronaldo and Bale's inside bursts.
A match-up of two speedsters with Bale and he came off second best. Offered little coming forward and was fortunate to see Bale have a header disallowed for a supposed push after being beaten in the air. Also beaten by Bale's cross for the winner.
Forced a good save from Keylor Navas with a left-footed shot in the first half, and delivered the corner for Pique's goal. A classy performance and the team deteriorated when he was replaced by Arda Turan.
An unflappably calm presence in the centre of midfield when Barca were on top, with his precise and unfussy passing keeping his team's rhythm. But found himself overrun in the latter stages as Madrid grew in strength.
Some typically wispy runs from the dribbling wizard, who also had a powerful shot blocked by Ramos in the first half. But he was rarely able to penetrate the visiting defence and declined in influence as the game went on.
Played a little deeper and more centrally than usual but, as always, the Argentine was at the heart of his team's attacking efforts. Came close with two free-kicks, had a penalty appeal waved away and forced a good save with a deftly clipped shot.
A night to forget for the Uruguayan, who missed an absolute sitter in the early stages, was shown a yellow card for throwing his arm in Pepe's face and struggled to get much change out of Pepe and Ramos.
Made a very strong start, setting up early chances for Suarez and Iniesta, also curling a tough chance well over the bar. But he faded badly after the break and was regularly caught in possession in a weak second half showing.
Introduced for Rakitic but made little impact, with Barca losing control of the contest after he appeared. Had a late half-chance to level but saw his shot blocked.
The Costa Rica international has been outstanding this season after his club's botched attempt to sign David de Gea in the summer, and he delivered again here with two outstanding diving saves to deny Rakitic and Messi.
Was booked early for a lunge on Iniesta and initially struggled badly against Neymar. But he responded well to finish the game strongly, playing a role in the winner by feeding Bale.
Sent off in the latter stages after being booked for dissent and a foul on Suarez, but still played a full part with a committed and physically fearless performance. Made one great last-ditch challenge on Messi, prompting calls for a penalty that were rightly turned down.
The Portuguese powerhouse largely performed with resilience and determination to frustrate Suarez, but he was lucky to get away with a poor hashed clearance in the first half which resulted in Rakitic forcing a good save from Navas.
Was overworked in defence initially but slowly became more of an attacking force as the game went on, acting as the catalyst for the equaliser with a driving run to find Kroos. Appears to be blessed with never-ending supplies of energy.
Maybe lucky to escape an early booking for a foul on Busquets as his frustration at Barca's dominance became evident. But he never stopped working for his team and performed tidily in the second half.
Looked like a rabbit in the headlights during the early stages, when his technical deficiencies were laid bare as a number of passes went astray. But he is in the team for his defensive abilities and he played a key role in that respect, protecting his back four well.
Like Modric, he looked overwhelmed in the opening stages and couldn't get near the ball. But, reflecting his team's overall performance, he gradually gained strength and delivered the cross for Benzema's equaliser.
Man-of-the-match performance from the Welshman, who was his team's most dangerous player all night, regularly troubling Barca with his powerful running. Unlucky to see a header disallowed for a supposed push and picked out Ronaldo with a deep cross for the winner. Maybe his best game for the club.
Couldn't get involved at all in the first half, barely touching the ball before slicing a glorious chance over the top. Continued to contribute little but rescued another otherwise poor performance with an excellent finish for the equaliser. Substituted soon after.
Virtually nothing went right for the Portuguese star, whose frequent attempts to run at the home team defence generally led him down cul-de-sacs. But his frustrating night took a drastic turn for the better when he pounced for the winner, crisply finishing Bale's cross.
Came on at a perfect time as Barca were starting to tire, and took full advantage with his fast and direct running contributing to his team's late dominance.
A late time-wasting sub, with no chance to make an impact. | Barcelona's 39-match unbeaten run ended as they were beaten 2-1 at home by 10-man Real Madrid at the Nou Camp. | 35952644 |
Kwabs, Kate Tempest and Shura are also on the line-up for the festival from the people behind Ibiza Rocks.
There will also be DJ sets from Rudimental, Zane Lowe and B. Traits on the party beach of Zrce, on the island of Pag.
It comes as Ibiza Rocks celebrates a decade on the White Isle. Mallorca Rocks ended in September.
New acts including Brighton-based surf-rockers Black Honey and The Bulletproof Bomb will hit the Adriatic Coast.
While festival goers can also expect DJ sets from Fatboy Slim, Wilkinson, Waze & Odyssey and Jaymo & Andy George.
Croatia Rocks is working with the organisers of Hideout Festival, who have run their event in Zrce for the past four years.
Shane Murray, brand director of Ibiza Rocks said: "This is a genuinely exciting move for Ibiza Rocks and marks a significant new chapter in our story as we reach 10.
"Croatia has clearly evolved from an emerging to an established music destination and it's long been a wish of ours to bring the spirit of Ibiza Rocks to the beach."
Tickets for Croatia Rocks are now on sale, with more of the line-up being announced nearer the event.
Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube. | Clean Bandit and Jungle are among the acts who'll appear at the first ever Croatia Rocks this July. | 30411166 |
Women and a child were killed in the crossfire as clashes broke out earlier this week, the BBC has learned.
Most of Sirte, the hometown of former leader Muammar Gaddafi, fell to IS earlier this year.
IS is one of a number of groups battling for control of Libya and has made advances across the country.
Fighting broke out in a residential area of Sirte on Monday between Islamic State and a Salafist Muslim group backed by angry armed civilians.
It followed the death of a Muslim cleric who - along with others in the neighbourhood - had refused to comply with IS's order for residents to pledge allegiance or face death, a local journalist told the Associated Press.
The BBC has been told that most of the 25 people who had been killed were armed civilians who had joined the fighting.
One report said IS had taken back the neighbourhood, although this has not been confirmed.
IS faced a similar battle in the eastern port city of Derna in June - the first city outside Iraq and Syria to fall to the group - and was pushed back by an al-Qaeda affiliated group.
Since Col Gaddafi's death in Sirte in October 2011, Libya has descended into chaos, with various militias fighting for power. The internationally-recognised government has been forced to leave Tripoli.
In the past year, IS has set up checkpoints and established a presence in cities across Libya.
In January, an IS-affiliated group bombed the Corinthia Hotel in Tripoli, killing 10 people.
In February and April, videos were released showing IS militants in Libya killing two groups of mainly Egyptian and Ethiopian Christians.
Air strikes against IS positions have been conducted by the Egyptian air force and by Libya's internationally-recognised government.
Libya's rival power bases | At least 25 people have been killed in clashes between Islamic State (IS) and a rival Islamist group backed by armed civilians in the Libyan city of Sirte. | 33936291 |
Mr Santos said Colombia was on track to meet a deadline set for 23 March next year for ending the conflict.
The deal offers an amnesty for all but the most serious crimes.
An estimated 220,000 people have been killed as a result of the five-decades long war.
The Colombian leader said the two sides had tackled "one of the most sensitive and complex points of the peace talks" in the latest agreement.
Under the deal, special tribunals will be created to try former combatants, once a final peace deal is signed.
"2016 will be the year that Colombia sees a new dawn," said Mr Santos.
"The dawning of a country without war, in hopefully a united country that can move towards its maximum potential... The hour of peace has arrived in Colombia."
Chief Farc negotiator Ivan Marquez said the agreement showed reconciliation was possible.
"If you don't put adverse obstructions in the way of common sense, we can get closer to our higher purpose of reconciliation," he said.
Over the past 18 months, 60 victims of the conflict travelled to the talks in the Cuban capital Havana to give testimony.
Ten attended Tuesday's ceremony. Jineth Bedoya, spokesperson for the victims, said they were "celebrating that after so many decades of impunity a way has been found to recognise" what they went through.
Tuesday's agreement fleshed out the details of the transitional justice system which had been agreed by both sides in September.
In a joint statement, the two sides said that they hoped that "the implementation of these and all of the accords will ensure dignity for the victims, do justice, and lay the foundation for ending the violence of the conflict in our country once and for all".
Official peace negotiations between the Farc and government have been going on for more than three years.
The two sides have now reached agreement on four key issues that they had laid out in an agenda at the start of the process: victims' rights, land rights, the political participation of the rebels, and how to deal with the problem of drug trafficking.
They have yet to agree on how the rebels will disarm once a final agreement is signed.
The Farc is the largest of Colombia's left-wing rebel groups, founded in 1964 to overthrow the government and install a Marxist regime.
Special courts and a peace tribunal will be set up to deal with alleged crimes related to the conflict and will try all participants in the conflict, including members of the security forces.
Yes and no. Combatants will be covered by an amnesty, but war crimes and crimes against humanity will not fall under it.
That depends. Those who confess to the most serious crimes will see their "freedom restricted" and be confined, but not in ordinary jails. It is not yet clear where they would serve their sentence instead. Those who confess past a certain deadline or refuse to admit their crimes altogether will go to prison for up to 20 years.
Even those who are not sent to prison will have to carry out work aimed at repairing some of the damage caused in more than 50 years of conflict, such as helping to clear landmines and plant alternative crops where coca was grown. | Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos has said an agreement signed with Farc rebels on reparations and justice for victims of the country's civil war is an "important step" towards peace. | 35103709 |
Analysis of genetic material stuck to spiders webs also reveals what they have eaten weeks after catching their prey.
The research may have future uses in monitoring endangered species or tracking down spider pests, experts report in the journal, Plos One.
The study looked at black widow spiders kept in a zoo.
If the technique works on other types of spider, it could have widespread practical uses, say experts from the University of Notre Dame in Indiana.
Lead researcher, Charles Xu, extracted mitochondrial DNA from the webs of black widow spiders kept at Potawatomi Zoo in Indiana.
He found that both the spider species and its prey - in this case crickets - can be identified from DNA spider web samples.
Spider webs can potentially be used to collect DNA without having to capture the spiders themselves, he says.
"In the past, identification of spiders has relied on morphology, especially looking at the genitalia of spiders because they're very different between different species of spider," he told BBC News.
"But there are a lot of errors associated with these kinds of methods and now with the advent of new genetic technologies we can more accurately identify these species.
"The really cool part about our study is that we used non-invasive samples - so these web samples - where we don't even have to directly observe or capture these spiders to get their DNA."
The experts say DNA analysis of spiders webs may be useful for monitoring and conservation purposes.
For example, DNA "fingerprinting" of spiders webs could be used to find out where a poisonous spider is living or to map the locations of endangered species.
Spider webs have been used in the past by citizen scientists to assess spider biodiversity by examining the structure of webs.
Web DNA samples collected by citizen scientists around the world might also have potential in this area, say the researchers.
"Spider web DNA as a proof-of-concept may open doors to other practical applications in conservation research, pest management, biogeography studies, and biodiversity assessments," they report in Plos One.
Black widow spiders, found in temperate regions around the world, are feared for their venomous bite.
The female black widow spider can be twice as big as the male and will, on occasion, kill and eat the male after mating.
The spiders spin large webs in which females suspend a cocoon with hundreds of eggs.
They also use their webs to trap prey such as flies, mosquitoes, grasshoppers, beetles and caterpillars. | Spiders can be identified from the DNA they leave on webs, say US scientists. | 34922495 |
Mrs Crisp came under criticism last month after she sent email complaints to council officers about her accommodation and the mayoral chains.
She claimed she was being targeted in a "witch hunt".
In a statement, the Yorkshire and Humber Labour Party said: "Sonja Crisp has been suspended by the Labour Party pending an investigation."
In an email dated 20 July, Mrs Crisp asked council officers what facilities the city council would provide so she could spend Christmas Day with her family.
She said: "I've every right to expect that there is a plan to ensure the civic life of the first citizen is catered for if the Lord Mayor's home is not available through no fault of their own".
In an interview on BBC Radio York, Mrs Crisp confirmed sending the emails and said she was not told that the Mansion House would be undergoing a £2m refurbishment and would be unavailable to her for nine months.
"I have asked for nothing that every other Lord Mayor hasn't had," she said.
"What I actually went on to say in the email of the 20th July, was that much of it could have been planned by looking at what my three predecessors had been supplied with over their term of office.
"But when I came into the office there actually wasn't a plan. Nobody had made a plan."
In another email seen by the BBC, Andrew Docherty assistant director at City of York Council told Mrs Crisp that she needed to "be aware of the dignity of your office."
He added: "My strong view now is that you should be seeking advice from senior members of your own group [Labour Party], specifically the leader and whip, before continuing to act in a manner which I believe could create embarrassment for you, your office, your group and the council."
Mrs Crisp said she would continue in the role of Lord Mayor: "I feel this is a witch hunt and I feel am being targeted."
She added: "My inspiration was my father. He spoke out in Nazi-occupied Germany and then escaped from there.
"If he can do it at that level then this he would say to me 'carry on and be strong'." | The Labour Party has suspended York's Lord Mayor Sonja Crisp in a row over renovations to her official residence. | 34616889 |
The "milestone" was reached on Monday, when "1 in 7 people on Earth used Facebook to connect with their friends and family", he said in a post.
Facebook has nearly 1.5 billion users who log in at least once a month, but this was the most in a single day.
The company gained its billionth user in October 2012.
It was founded in 2004 by Mr Zuckerberg while he was a Harvard student.
In his post on Thursday, he predicted that Facebook's reach would continue to grow.
"This was the first time we reached this milestone, and it's just the beginning of connecting the whole world," Mr Zuckerberg wrote.
In July, Facebook claimed that over half of the world's online users visited the site at least once a month.
By Dave Lee, BBC North America technology reporter
It was only back in October 2012 when Facebook first announced it had one billion users using the site at least once a month - and now, just under three years later, the site has managed to pull in that many in a single day.
The question is how can it continue to grow? Surely it will plateau at some point, right? Yes - but we're a long way off that.
I've just come back from Facebook's headquarters in California to discuss some of the projects in the pipeline. On the wall, a map of the world highlighted countries with lots of Facebook users.
Sure, the US, Europe and India are almost at peak Facebook. But there are huge gaps - Africa, much of Asia, some of Latin America. That's where Facebook is focused on now.
One billion in a day? No big deal | For the first time over a billion people used Facebook on a single day, according to company founder Mark Zuckerberg. | 34082393 |
In 1923, the royal ring was fashioned from a gift of Clogau gold with enough left over for the weddings of The Queen in 1947 as well as those of the late Princess Margaret, the Princess Royal and the 1981 marriage of Prince Charles and Diana.
The stock of the original Clogau gift is believed to be almost exhausted, having been replenished over the years with donations from several other Welsh mines.
Clarence House is remaining tight lipped over the precise source of the Welsh gold for Kate's wedding band.
In a statement to dispel speculation and confusing merchandising, the palace announced: "The wedding ring that Catherine Middleton will wear will be made of Welsh gold. The gold was given to Prince William by The Queen shortly after the couple were engaged."
"It has been in the family's possession for some years and has been in the care of the royal jewellers. There are no further details on which mine the gold was mined from."
Yet that hasn't stopped people jumping on the Welsh gold bandwagon; with four shopping channels listing Welsh gold sales for the royal wedding period, and airlines and duty-free shops stocking up for an anticipated holiday rush.
Although Ms Middleton's ring is made of Welsh gold, it's not clear from source it has been made, with at least three gifts to the royal family over the last century.
But just how similar to Kate's ring is the Welsh gold on offer to the public? And what's so special about Welsh gold anyway?
Dr Mike Bassett, expert in minerals and mining, said: "From its discovery by the Romans, up until when the colonial gold rushes of the 19th Century opened up new sources, the gold produced in Wales played a reasonable part in the British economy; though it was never regarded as anything distinct from gold in general."
"Welsh gold only became fashionable when the Queen Mother chose it for her wedding ring in 1923.
"But it's really an 'Emperor's new clothes' vanity, as it's visually and very nearly chemically indistinguishable; gold is gold is gold."
Same Welsh gold
Indeed, how royal and how Welsh the gold products currently being marketed are, is a tangled web of claim and counter-claim.
Last week, the Clogau gold company, which now owns the trading name and a quantity of gold from the defunct Clogau St David's mine, retracted a press release after an over-enthusiastic press officer claimed the company were to create Kate's wedding ring.
But whilst Clogau Gold moved quickly to scotch any confusion, they stand by what they say is their unique selling-point, that their rings are made from "the same Welsh gold as Kate's".
Dr Bassett says whilst this could well be the case, would-be Kate Middletons still ought to be careful, as the only way of proving it for definite could be costly.
"The royal stocks of Welsh gold have become so mixed up over the years, that I don't think even they themselves can have much degree of certainty over its precise origins any more," he said.
"If Kate, and the other brides would like to give up their wedding rings for melting down and isotopic analysis of the numbers of neutrons per atom, we'd be able to get to the bottom of whether they came from the same Clogau mine.
"However I suspect that it's likely to remain a fascinating debate for the pub."
But the questions remains as to how to guarantee the Welshness of the gold.
The last working gold mine in north Wales, Gwynfynydd, closed in 1998; although extractions on anything close to a commercial basis ceased with the closure of Clogau near Dolgellau in 1911.
And with the world supply of Welsh gold ingots now believed to leave room to spare in an overnight bag, managing director of Clogau Gold Ben Roberts explains that they have to ration it to just "a touch" in each item of jewellery.
"We make no apologies about the small amount of Welsh gold that we put into each and every piece of our jewellery," he said.
"The precise amount is a common question but one that we try not to stipulate because it puts us on the hook to continue using the same percentage and it's one which might be subject to change in the future depending on supplies (although at present we have no plans to change the mix)."
Mr Roberts added: "We do however put a guarantee that all of our jewellery does contain our own gold and indeed we keep a very clear and concise audit trail to prove this." | When Prince William places a Welsh gold wedding ring onto Kate Middleton's finger, he'll be replicating an 88-year-old tradition dating back to the marriage of his great-grandparents, Elizabeth Bowes Lyon and the future George Vi. | 13196514 |
Watson, 40, has been in charge of the team since Iestyn Harris' departure in July 2015, going on to guide them to safety in his first season.
The former Salford and Wales scrum-half kept the club up after they beat Hull KR in the Million Pound Game last year.
"We're looking to get some stability within the club," said Blease.
The 52-year-old told BBC Radio Manchester: "We like where we're going at the moment on the field. I think we've got a good group of players and Ian's delivering the right culture for those players.
"We've had a chat with owner Marwan Koukash and we've decided to enter negotiations with Ian to see if we can sort a longer-term deal for him."
Blease also said they are in talks with their players who are out of contract at the end of the season and announcements could be made within the next few weeks. | Salford have opened negotiations with head coach Ian Watson over a new deal, according to Red Devils chief executive Ian Blease. | 39270500 |
Ms Jolie Pitt has been speaking as part of the BBC's World on the Move day of coverage of global migration issues.
She warned against a "fear of migration" and a "race to the bottom" as countries competed to be the toughest to protect themselves.
Earlier, the UNHCR's head said the refugee crisis was now a global issue.
UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi told the BBC that simply turning migrants away "won't work".
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You can follow the discussion and reaction to it, with live online coverage on the BBC News website.
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Ms Jolie Pitt said that more than 60 million people - one in 122 - were displaced globally - more than at any time in the past 70 years.
"This tells us something deeply worrying about the peace and security of the world," she said, adding: "The average time a person will be displaced is now nearly 20 years."
Ms Jolie Pitt said the "number of conflicts and scale of displacement had grown so large" the system to protect and return refugees was not working.
She said that UN appeals were drastically under-funded.
"With this then the state of today's world, is it any surprise that some of these desperate people, who are running out of all options and who see no hope of returning home, would make a push for Europe as a last resort, even at the risk of death?"
But Ms Jolie Pitt said that Europe was "only a fraction of the global refugee problem".
Highlighting Turkey, Pakistan, Lebanon, Iran, Ethiopia, and Jordan, she said: "We in the West are neither at the centre of the refugee crisis, nor - for the most part - the ones making the greatest sacrifice."
She warned that amid a "fear of uncontrolled migration" there was a "risk of a race to the bottom, with countries competing to be the toughest, in the hope of protecting themselves whatever the cost or challenge to their neighbours, and despite their international responsibilities".
Isolationism was not the answer, she said, adding: "If your neighbour's house is on fire you are not safe if you lock your doors. Strength lies in being unafraid."
Such policies would lead to an even greater set of problems, she said.
"It would amount to the worst of both worlds: failing to tackle the issue and undermining international law and our values in the process."
Urging the world to rally together, she said: "Whether we succeed will help define this century... the alternative is chaos."
Earlier, Mr Grandi told the BBC migration was now a global phenomenon needing a global response.
He said the burden of caring for refugees had so far fallen "on a few countries that host hundreds of thousands of refugees, usually those near wars, near conflicts and a few donors that alone, seven or eight of them, give 80%-90%, of the funding".
He admitted a solution would require "a very long and difficult discussion" but added: "There can't simply be a reaction whereby states shut down borders and push people away simply because it won't work."
Save the Children is calling for greater international commitment to ensure child refugees remain in school.
The charity's new report, A New Deal for Refugees, says only one in four refugee children is now enrolled in secondary school.
It is calling on governments and aid agencies to adopt a new policy framework that will ensure no refugee child remains out of school for more than a month.
It is an ambitious target but there is growing concern that this migration crisis is producing a lost generation of children which means conditions for even greater insecurity and poverty.
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A note on terminology: The BBC uses the term migrant to refer to all people on the move who have yet to complete the legal process of claiming asylum. This group includes people fleeing war-torn countries such as Syria, who are likely to be granted refugee status, as well as people who are seeking jobs and better lives, who governments are likely to rule are economic migrants. | Angelina Jolie Pitt, the UN refugee agency's special envoy, has warned that the international humanitarian system for refugees is breaking down. | 36303688 |
Before going to the Kashmir Valley that was devastated by floods last month, Mr Modi made a brief visit to the Siachen glacier.
The area is claimed by both India and Pakistan, which each have thousands of troops stationed there.
"The BJP... is hoping to cash in on the anger of the people against Chief Minister Omar Abdullah's patchy rehabilitation of the seven lakh [700,000] people displaced by the September floods," writes the Deccan Chronicle, referring to upcoming state elections in Jammu and Kashmir.
But it adds that the prime minister had tried "to kill two birds, domestic and international, with one stone".
With "Mission Kashmir", India's leader also wanted to tell Pakistan "that the status of Jammu and Kashmir is non-negotiable", the daily concludes.
The New Indian Express also thinks that Mr Modi's trip "was fraught with political significance that goes beyond the BJP's electoral imperatives".
"Having given the armed forces full operational freedom to respond to the escalation of ceasefire violations by Pakistan forces, Modi wants to give a clear message that the trust gap between the country's civilian authority and the armed forces that lurked during the UPA [Congress-led United Progressive Alliance] dispensation no longer exists."
Commenting on the $120 million aid package announced for the state, the daily argues that the prime minister "has offered a road map for reconstruction of the devastated region" that can "be effective in bringing Jammu and Kashmir into the mainstream of the country's growth story".
The ruling parties in the state, the National Conference and its coalition partner Congress, have criticised the assistance as a "big let down", arguing that it "doesn't go far enough".
Media report that the authorities have filed a criminal case against the school in Bangalore where a three-year-old nursery student was allegedly raped earlier this week.
Hindustan Times says that no arrests have been made yet, but that three staff members were supposedly picked up by the police for questioning.
The Deccan Chronicle quotes reports as saying that a school attendant has been detained.
The incident has led to angry protests in Bangalore. It happened just three months after a six-year-old girl was raped at another private school in the city.
BBC Monitoring reports and analyses news from TV, radio, web and print media around the world. For more reports from BBC Monitoring, click here. You can follow BBC Monitoring on Twitter and Facebook. | Media interpret PM Narendra Modi's Diwali trip to Indian-administered Kashmir not only as an attempt to woo voters but also as a message to neighbouring Pakistan that the status of the disputed area is "non-negotiable". | 29751900 |
The front-runner in the Republican race was on the defensive in Detroit as Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz piled in.
In a testy debate, Mr Trump admitted he had changed his stance on issues but said flexibility was a strength.
Senior Republicans say Mr Trump is a liability who would lose the election.
The debate began with Mr Trump being asked about an attack earlier in the day by Mitt Romney, the 2012 nominee, who accused the businessman of bullying, greed and misogyny. Mr Trump dismissed Mr Romney as a "failed candidate".
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Ohio Governor John Kasich was the fourth Republican contender to take part in Thursday's debate.
Leading the attack on Mr Trump, Florida Senator Marco Rubio said he was "not going to turn over the conservative movement to someone who thinks the nuclear triad is a rock band from the 1980s".
In one of the most bizarre moments, Mr Trump defended the size of his hands and then quipped about another part of his anatomy.
There were plenty of personal insults from Mr Trump, who labelled the Florida senator "little Rubio" and the senator from Texas as "liar Ted".
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Since Super Tuesday, Donald Trump has faced relentless, withering criticism from his own party.
He was challenged on his various policy changes, on his failed businesses, on his support for Democrats.
He told the audience he reserved the right to be "flexible" and change his mind on issues if he felt like it. He was shown tapes of all the times he'd done just that.
The mud-slinging continued and at one point Ted Cruz urged Mr Trump to "breathe, breathe, breathe". But it is the Republican Party who appear to be gasping. They are trying to stop the front-runner, fearing he will destroy the party. The problem is Trump supporters have so far proved to be loyal no matter what is flung at their man.
The New York businessman was forced to explain a civil lawsuit involving the collapse of Trump University.
He said he would win the case but Mr Rubio said he was trying to "con people into giving him their vote, just like he conned people into giving him their money".
Mr Trump was also challenged by the Fox News panel for changing his stance on Syrian refugees, the war in Afghanistan and President George W Bush.
He replied: "I have a very strong core. But I've never seen a successful person who wasn't flexible, who didn't have a certain degree of flexibility."
The debate, sponsored by Fox News, brought Mr Trump face to face with presenter Megyn Kelly, whom he dismissed as a "bimbo" after they clashed in the first primary debate.
This time he was all smiles and he complimented her looks when he took her first question.
Other debate highlights:
Hours earlier, Mr Romney led growing calls by leading Republicans against a Trump nomination.
Calling him a "phony" and a "fraud", the former standard-bearer of the party said Mr Trump's policies - like the deportation of undocumented migrants and banning Muslims from entering the US - would make the world less safe.
Others like Paul Ryan, John McCain and a host of national security committee members have also attacked the New Yorker.
Republicans in four states - Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana and Maine - go to the polls on Saturday. The billionaire has won 10 of the 15 states that have voted so far, with his promise to "make America great again".
His supporters value his perceived authenticity and business acumen, and say he is the strong leader the country needs.
With the effective departure of Ben Carson this week, the field of Republican candidates - once 17-strong - has now been narrowed to four.
In the Democratic race, Hillary Clinton has 10 states, five more than rival Bernie Sanders.
The two will take to the debate stage in Flint, Michigan, on Sunday.
5 March: Kansas caucuses, Louisiana primary, Kentucky and Maine caucuses (Republican), Nebraska caucuses (Democratic)
6 March: Maine caucuses (Democratic)
8 March: Hawaii and Idaho caucuses (Republican), Idaho primary (Republican), Michigan and Mississippi primaries
15 March: Florida, Illinois, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio primaries | Presidential contender Donald Trump has come under attack from his rivals at a Republican debate, after a day in which the party's veteran politicians urged voters to desert him. | 35722458 |
The veteran broadcaster presented the annual charity event for 35 years until poor health saw him pull out in 2015.
Friday night's BBC One broadcast was the first since Sir Terry died in January and a fundraiser of the year trophy was awarded in his memory.
Presenter Rochelle Humes said Sir Terry would have been proud of this year's "absolutely incredible" total.
Last November's Children In Need show raised £37.1m on the night.
The 2016 show featured special editions of Strictly Come Dancing with Team GB Olympic squad members and EastEnders.
The winner of the first Sir Terry Wogan Fundraiser of the Year Award was announced as Lauchlan Muir, from West Lothian, a boy who raises funds by being a "human statue".
Sir Terry's son Mark, who presented the award, said the late presenter's family were "hugely grateful" for the "amazing tributes".
He added that Children In Need was his father's favourite night of the year.
"The money raised tonight and throughout the year actually made a difference to people who need it. And that's why he loved it," he said.
Presenters Tess Daly and Greg James kicked off this year's show saying: "Sir Terry was somebody who embodied Children In Need and was someone we will all miss very, very much."
Graham Norton and Ade Adepitan later took over hosting duties and showed a montage of Sir Terry's best Children In Need moments, including clips of him performing with Madonna and showing some moves on the Strictly Come Dancing dance floor.
A host of celebrities appeared on screen as part of the night's entertainment.
Among highlights were Sue Perkins, Mel Giedroyc, Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood poking fun at The Great British Bake Off's move from the BBC to Channel 4 in a sketch also featuring Oscar winner Eddie Redmayne, and Ricky Gervais appearing in his David Brent guise.
There were also performances from Michael Buble and Little Mix.
Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email [email protected]. | Children In Need has raised a record £46.6m, on a night that saw tributes paid to late host Sir Terry Wogan. | 38036670 |
Ranked as one of the country's top festive events, the swim on North Beach is now in its 46th year - but its family origins date back 100 years.
It is organised by the Tenby Sea Swim Association (TSSA) and has raised over £250,000 for charities.
This year's fancy dress theme was The Music of the Sea.
Speaking on BBC Radio 2, TSSA chairman Chris Osborne said the swim was a "fantastic way of breaking out of the indulgencies of Christmas Day".
"As soon as you come out from the sea you're suddenly awake again and ready for action."
Mr Osborne said participants did not have to swim, they just have to "immerse themselves".
"The theory is you charge in, and if there's six or seven hundred people charging with you, you haven't got much of a choice."
Mr Osborne predicted the sea temperature would be around five or six degrees.
The event follows the 52nd Porthcawl Christmas morning swim which was held yesterday. | Around 700 swimmers braved the icy waters to take part in Tenby's Boxing Day Swim in Pembrokeshire. | 38436295 |
The Nanteos Cup, a wooden chalice named after the mansion in Aberystwyth, was stolen from a house in Weston Under Penyard, Herefordshire, in July 2014.
It had been loaned to a seriously ill woman because of its claimed healing properties but burglars struck while the woman was in hospital.
It was found following an appeal this month on BBC One's Crimewatch Roadshow.
The cup is claimed to have been brought to Britain by Joseph of Arimathea after the death of Christ and then taken to Nanteos Mansion by seven monks from Strata Florida, Ceredigion, during the reign of Henry Vlll. | A religious relic known as the "Holy Grail" will be reunited with its owners after it was stolen during a burglary. | 33267282 |
Three families were seeking judicial review of the government's decision to give priority to religious views in the new course, due to be taught from 2016.
But government lawyers argued equal consideration for religious and non-religious views is not required by law.
Mr Justice Warby said he would give his judgement at a later date.
Changes to the content of religious studies GCSE, announced in February, sparked complaints at the sidelining of non-religious world views, with former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams among 28 religious leaders who urged the government to rethink its decision.
The three families argue that Education Secretary Nicky Morgan has taken an unlawful approach to the subject and is failing to reflect the pluralistic nature of the UK.
Their QC, David Wolfe, told the High Court there was widespread concern "about the secretary of state's failure to comply with her duty of neutrality and impartiality as between religious and other beliefs".
But lawyers for the education secretary argued neither statutory provisions nor the European Convention on Human Rights requires equal consideration to be given to religious and non-religious views in the curriculum.
They said that although some schools rely on the religious studies GCSE to discharge their duty to provide religious education for 14- to 16-year-olds, provision has been made for non-religious beliefs to be studied and a school's curriculum is a matter "for local determination" by individual school authorities.
The three families come from Cumbria, Kent and Somerset.
The case is backed by the British Humanist Association. | The government has "skewed" religious studies teaching in England by excluding non-religious beliefs from the new GCSE, the High Court has heard. | 34775686 |
As news of Brexit broke, tech firms including BT, TalkTalk and software firm Sage reported share price falls.
For years, the UK - and particularly London - has championed the role of tech firms in buoying the economy.
Hundreds of start-ups have benefitted from the government's Tech City initiative, for example, and both employees and customers have been plucked from EU member states.
Much was once made of British companies' potential to compete with Silicon Valley - hence the nickname of the London hub of "Silicon Roundabout".
Earlier this year, the Tech City cluster of businesses reported that 1.56 million people were employed in digital companies in the UK, with 328,000 of those in London.
The report also noted that the digital economy grew a third faster than the UK economy as a whole.
But does this success now hang in the balance?
"I have concerns that the local market might slow down," said Drew Benvie, founder of London-based digital agency Battenhall.
"Over recent years, it's been clear to anyone in technology that London has become a major technology centre - all the major tech companies have big offices in London."
Mr Benvie, who employs 34 people, also told the BBC he was concerned because many of his staff are EU citizens or present in the UK via EU visas.
While he believes that trade will ultimately overcome boundaries, he said: "Uncertainty just does not help."
A survey of 1,000 European and British businesses by London law firm Pinsent Masons found that only a quarter had a "tangible plan" for dealing with the risks arising from Brexit.
"The vast majority of large technology companies have invested in a presence around the Reading and outer London area," said Theo Priestley, a Scottish tech evangelist and start-up mentor.
"The Brexit vote does call into question whether that remains as a sound decision."
In a statement, trade body TechUK, which represents British tech firms, expressed disappointment at the referendum result and said: "Without the benefits of EU membership, the UK needs to be at its very best to succeed."
Then there is the issue of EU funding - many firms, such as C-Tech Innovation in Chester, participate in collaborative research projects on future technologies that benefit from EU sources.
Some have met the news with optimism, however.
"Technology is a sector that will only increase in importance and works without borders," said Tudor Aw, head of technology at KPMG UK.
"I therefore continue to see the UK tech sector as one that will not only withstand the immediate challenges of the referendum result, but one that will continue to grow and thrive."
And David Cameron's former adviser Rohan Silva, who is credited with helping to forge Tech City in the first place, tweeted a rallying cry: "I also believe that Britain will always be open, creative and entrepreneurial."
How will London's position be affected, specifically?
There's always the possibility that some of the more mobile firms in the British tech sector will simply find it easier to migrate to hubs in the EU.
That's the hope of the German Startups Group, at least.
"We expect a significant decrease in new incorporations in London in favour of Berlin, as well as an influx of successful London start-ups," said chief executive Christoph Gerlinger.
And Mr Priestley thinks that in the event of a Scottish independence referendum that leads to reunification with the EU, it's possible some start-ups could move north of the border, perhaps to rekindle "Silicon Glen" - a 1980s attempt to compete in the semiconductor industry.
One London business, Techspace - which offers co-working spaces for new, fast-growing companies - has itself just announced an expansion in Berlin.
But chief executive and co-founder David Galsworthy said that, given how "interconnected" the world is, he had little doubt that London would continue to be "a central hub globally for this sector". | Now the UK has decided to leave the European Union, technology firms have been left to wonder what the future holds. | 36621115 |
Finding comparable data has always been a tortuous process, so this gives a revealing snapshot into waiting times across the NHS.
These are clearly difficult figures for Labour and I'd expect them to form the backdrop to many of the health debates in the coming months.
Is Wales' comparatively older, poorer and sicker population to blame? The well-respected Nuffield Trust says that while it may be a factor, it doesn't explain the extent of the divergence.
And then there's the question of how health services are managed. The system in England operates under a so-called targets and terror regime, in Wales the system is altogether cosier with no internal market, and a much better relationship between the government and health professionals.
Whatever the reason, the Deputy Health Minister Vaughan Gething took to the airwaves with the message that it's not all about waits, but about patient outcomes.
The problem with this defence is that if you have to wait too long, for a hip operation for example, the overall outcome isn't going to be good, no matter how high the quality of the surgery.
My sense is that few people question the quality of the treatment they receive.
As ministers are keen to point out to us on a regular basis, most people have a good experience in the NHS.
The issue for many is not the actual quality of the treatment, but the length of time they wait to be seen.
Ministers are also, in effect, appealing for people to give them time to implement a number of plans to help people receive treatment in their communities, rather than by taking up the time of consultants.
And there have been improvements in some areas. The waits for heart by-pass surgery are on average 54 days longer than in England, but in 2011 the waits were 120 days longer.
Time, of course, is one thing a government doesn't have as it approaches an election.
Opposition parties will claim these waits are a legacy of the decision not to protect health budgets in the early years of the administration.
Labour will be hoping to cancel that out with the latest Treasury figures showing that spending per head on the NHS is higher in Wales than in England.
Opposition parties have seized on the figures. In no particular order, they've been labelled "disgusting", a "cause for concern" and sufficiently serious to merit an apology.
It's all strong stuff but while these figures unquestionably make difficult reading for Labour, they also pose serious questions for the opposition parties.
For example, how would the Conservatives plan for directly-elected chairs of health boards wipe out four month waits for hip replacements?
And the same question goes for Plaid, with its plan for a major re-organisation of services. All questions that will need answering in the coming weeks. | It doesn't need much to kick start a debate on the NHS, but a new set of up-to-date directly comparable figures on waiting times between Wales and England is a good place to start. | 35428797 |
One hundred of those jobs are already in place as the company has been recruiting for almost a year.
Its main business is selling books and online materials to higher education students in the United States.
The company employs about 35,000 people worldwide.
Its UK operations include the Edexcel exam board.
The business has undergone significant restructuring in recent years, selling the Financial Times and its stake in The Economist.
The company has also moved to simplify its business operations and the Belfast investment is part of that process.
It said the Belfast centre was a "further significant step in a major efficiency drive".
Invest NI is supporting the centre with grants of £1.5m with a further £460,000 of skills training from the Department of the Economy. | Pearson, the education publisher, has formally opened a finance centre in Belfast which will employ up to 300 people. | 39843598 |
Police in Gloucester have agreed to surrender the 230-year lease on the 1960s' Bearland building to the county council in exchange for £400,000, .
It had become an "unwanted drain" on resources, according to Police and Crime Commissioner Martin Surl.
He said people would see "no difference" as a public access reception area would be retained.
The force will also retain its CCTV room and parking spaces as part of the deal.
Gloucestershire County Council is planning to redevelop the building, along with its adjacent Shire Hall base. | An "ageing" and "past its sell-by date" police headquarters has been offloaded after years of uncertainty. | 34665303 |
The 35-year-old roared from fourth on the last lap of the 500-mile race to beat Martin Truex Jr, with Toyota Racing team-mate Kyle Busch third.
It was the closest finish since the all-American stock car series NASCAR brought in electronic scoring in 1993.
"You couldn't have written a better ending," Hamlin said.
Hamlin, who won his first Daytona 500 at his 11th attempt, added: "I knew it was close, but I didn't know we had won."
Truex said: "I thought I could keep that foot or so. I lost it in the last second." | Denny Hamlin won the Daytona 500 by 0.010 seconds on Sunday in the closest finish to the 'Great American Race' in its 58-year history. | 35628520 |
England's bid to avenge a 5-0 defeat in 2013-14 begins on 8 July, with every ball covered live by Test Match Special on BBC Radio 5 live sports extra and online.
"They have to take Australia on with the mentality of 'we don't care about losing' because that will make the Aussies fear them more," said TMS pundit Vaughan.
"If they have any kind of worries or concerns, then they will get walloped."
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Alastair Cook's side will take on Australia with new coach Trevor Bayliss in place after displaying a revamped positive approach in the Test and limited-overs series against New Zealand.
And Vaughan, who led England to Ashes success in 2005, says he can see parallels between this summer and that successful campaign of 10 years ago.
"I can sense the country is really enjoying cricket and the way England are playing," said Vaughan.
"If England can play in the same spirit as we've seen in the ODI series, even though the Ashes are a different format, they have a chance of causing a shock.
"My concern is England haven't played this way for long enough. In 2005 we played it for 18 months, it was embedded into our brains. I don't know if this England have done it for long enough to trust themselves."
Test Match Special will have live coverage of every ball of the five-match Ashes series on BBC Radio 5 live sports extra and at bbc.co.uk/cricket.
You can follow it wherever you are, with commentary on your mobile or tablet via the BBC Sport App.
The BBC Sport website will bring you live text commentary every day from 09:00 BST, as well as all the latest news, features, votes and the best of social media.
Fans can also get push alerts via the BBC Sport app to know when a wicket has fallen.
If you are outside the UK you can listen to TMS' Ashes coverage via the England and Wales Cricket Board's YouTube channel (although some territories will be subject to ECB rights agreements).
Cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew will team up with commentators Ed Smith, Henry Blofeld, Simon Mann and Jim Maxwell.
Former England stars Michael Vaughan, Geoffrey Boycott, Graeme Swann, Vic Marks, Phil Tufnell and Alec Stewart will be providing their analysis and insight into the key moments throughout the series.
And they will be joined in the commentary box by former Australia fast bowler Glenn McGrath, who has already predicted a 5-0 whitewash for the tourists. | England must not be afraid of losing if they are to beat Australia and regain the Ashes, according to former captain Michael Vaughan. | 33194163 |
The two sites combined are more than double the size of the energy giant's operations in the UK.
The two farms will be off the coast of Massachusetts and North Carolina, and are expected to start generating power by 2022 and 2025 respectively.
The company refused to say how much it had paid to win the bids for two sites.
Thousands of jobs are expected to come from the development of the wind farms.
Keith Anderson, Scottish Power's chief corporate officer, said the firm's success was evidence of the UK industry's export potential.
"We as a country are seen to be the leaders in this type of technology. It's great to be creating opportunities and developing skills in the UK, but also to see these being exported.
Mr Anderson said the "huge amount of land" in the US had made "colossal wind farms possible onshore".
"The cost differential between onshore and offshore was so large that a lot of people never thought that America would be interested. But now we're staring to see the process pick up speed as the cost of offshore wind comes down," he added. | Scottish Power has won the right to build two offshore wind farms in the US which it says could eventually power 400,000 homes. | 39990688 |
The 33-year-old was sent off by referee Stuart Atwell during Friday's 2-1 win over Sheffield Wednesday for denying an obvious goal-scoring opportunity.
An independent panel upheld the decision at a hearing on Monday.
Murray, who had blocked a goal-bound shot with his hands, will miss Tuesday's home game against Cardiff.
The former Rochdale and Crystal Palace player has scored 15 goals in 26 Championship games after joining the Seagulls on a season-long loan from Bournemouth.
Meanwhile, under-23 striker Jonah Ayunga, 19, has joined League of Ireland club Sligo Rovers on a 12-moth loan deal. | Brighton striker Glenn Murray will serve a one-match ban after the Football Association rejected an appeal for wrongful dismissal. | 38725348 |
The 40-year-old has made 334 appearances for Boro since joining them in 2008 after leaving Millwall.
Day has won promotion twice with Boro, the first coming in 2010 when they reached the Football League, while the second came the following year through the League Two play-offs.
He will be on the coaching staff under new permanent Boro boss Darren Sarll. | Goalkeeper Chris Day has signed a new player-goalkeeper coach contract at League Two side Stevenage. | 36383414 |
Amunai Hobbs, 41, also known as Amunai Nicholson, from Oban, left the airport on Thursday saying she felt unwell.
There have been no confirmed sightings since she left Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley without treatment at 10:35.
However, one report has placed her about halfway between the hospital and the airport a short time later.
The witness said she may have been on Inchinnan Road, near Fleming Street, between 11:30 and 12:30 and did not appear to be wearing shoes.
Police have renewed their appeal for sightings of Ms Hobbs, who is from Thailand but lives in Scotland.
She is described as about 4ft 10 in tall, of slim build with short black hair.
At the last confirmed sighting she was wearing a beige-coloured fur coat, a purple dress with staining down the front, purple leggings and brown boots.
The reported sighting on Inchinnan Road described a woman wearing a grey cardigan with large buttons on the front, black cropped leggings and she was not wearing shoes.
Insp Gary Noonan said: "Searches are continuing using a number of resources including the force helicopter and specialist search officers, however we have yet to trace Amunai.
"This is a very distressing time for her family and friends and they are extremely concerned for her wellbeing and safety. It is out of character for her not to keep in contact with them.
"I would urge anyone with any information on her whereabouts, or has seen someone matching her description to contact Paisley Police Office on 101." | A woman who disappeared after missing her flight to Thailand may have been sighted walking without shoes in the street near Glasgow Airport. | 29498085 |
The Welshman, 28, was made to work hard in his first defence against 36-year-old Montiel, who is a former multiple weight world champion.
Selby struggled to impose himself and found his shrewd opponent tough to hit.
His difficulties were not reflected on the judges' scorecards, though, winning 119-109, 118-110 and 116-112.
This was Selby's debut in America and the Barry boxer was hoping to put on a show to his enhance his profile.
He will walk away with valuable experience having faced an obdurate opponent with 20 world-title fights to his name and only one stoppage in a 61-bout career, but it was far from a slick display.
An obvious height advantage gave the champion the air of physical dominance as he faced a former flyweight world champion moving up through the weights in the twilight of his career.
But what Montiel lacked in stature, he made up for with compact power and ring craft.
He gave Selby early notice of his strength in the first round as he connected with two right hooks.
The Welshman attempted to impose himself with combinations behind his jab, but the pattern of the fight was soon set as he struggled to land any meaningful shots.
Selby finally found his target in the third round with a good right that seemed to rock Montiel but the challenger recovered and began to make inroads.
The sixth round was particularly uncomfortable for the champion, who seemed to be bullied by his more experienced opponent and a cut developed above Selby's right eye.
Selby's spark reappeared in the eighth with his best shots of the middle rounds, and he was given further encouragement in the ninth as Montiel's work-rate dropped.
The Welshman's combinations finally landed in the 10th, but Montiel continued to succeed with single shots to ensure Selby had no room to relax.
A second wind for Montiel in the final two rounds kept his opponent occupied, and there were plenty of anxious faces in Selby's corner as the bell rang for the final time.
Those concerns were unfounded, though, as the three judges gave Selby a generous points victory for a performance that often lacked accuracy and control. | Lee Selby retained his IBF featherweight title with a unanimous points victory over Mexican Fernando Montiel in Phoenix, Arizona. | 34525496 |
The 115% rise in written complaints was the biggest among any water company in England and Wales, the Consumer Council for Water (CCWater) found.
Among the issues were more rigorous debt collection, a new billing system and poor communication with some customers from 2015 to 2016.
Welsh Water said it had taken steps to address the issues causing complaints.
However Dee Valley Water, which serves about 260,000 customers in north east Wales and north west England, saw complaints fall by nearly 13%, keeping its record of cutting complaints for a fifth successive year.
Severn Trent, which operates in parts of mid Wales, was one of the best performing companies, with complaints down by 28% on last year.
Tom Taylor, chairman of CCWater's Wales committee, said: "We are disappointed the good progress Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water had made in recent years has been undermined by such a sharp rise in complaints.
"The company has identified the steps it needs to take to put things right with its internal systems and communication with customers, but we will be watching closely to make sure these changes deliver significant improvements."
Overall, written complaints across England and Wales fell marginally by 0.5% in 2015-16.
CCWater said it had asked Welsh Water to provide a progress report by the end of October.
Welsh Water said it was disappointed to see an increase in the written complaints, citing the debt collection and new billing system as factors.
Chief executive Chris Jones said: "It was a bad year in terms of complaints in Wales last year - in terms of written complaints.
"The main reasons for that was we introduced a new billing system which meant that there were errors on some people's bills.
"We have had to apologise for that, put those errors right and we have been working hard to correct those problems and make sure that doesn't happen going forward." | The number of customers complaining about Welsh Water has more than doubled in a year, a watchdog has said. | 37420644 |
They say their review of 61 studies provides the "most conclusive evidence to date" that portion size affects how much we unwittingly eat.
The team at the University of Cambridge also said smaller plates, glasses and cutlery helped people eat less.
Experts said people were "reluctant" to leave a plate with food on it.
Their data, published in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, shows that when people are offered more food they will eat it.
And the team warns that in recent decades portion sizes have been increasing.
On average between 1993 and 2013:
Source: British Heart Foundation - Portion Distortion report
About two in three adults in the UK are either overweight or obese, which increases the risk of heart problems, type 2 diabetes and cancer.
The findings, which are based on 6,711 people taking part in a wide range of clinical trials, suggest that eliminating "large portions" could cut up to 279 calories a day out of people's diets.
Dr Ian Shemilt, from Cambridge's Behaviour and Health Research Unit, told the BBC News website: "This is the most conclusive evidence to date that people consistently consume more food and drink when given larger portions, packaging or tableware.
"Consumers do have a role to play - for example, all of us can reduce the size of plates or glasses we use and put pressure on the pubs and restaurants we visit by asking for a smaller portion."
The team also says government measures to force smaller packs to offer better value for money and upper limits on the size of energy-dense foods would help people lose weight.
Dr Alison Tedstone, chief nutritionist at Public Health England, said: "This study clearly demonstrates that reducing portion sizes is a successful way to cut calories.
"It's important to keep an eye on portion sizes when cooking, shopping and eating out to avoid overeating and help maintain a healthy weight."
Prof Brian Ratcliffe, emeritus professor of nutrition at Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen, said: "People seem to be reluctant to leave or waste food and so consume what they are served or find larger portions more attractive.
"A limited number of restaurants and food outlets already offer more than one portion size with appropriate pricing differentials and this seems to be a way forward to help people to avoid overconsumption." | Reducing the portion sizes offered in supermarkets, restaurants and at home would help reverse the obesity epidemic, say researchers. | 34246119 |
Thomas Leonard was caught when someone mistook him for a burglar on a shed roof after he had climbed up to film a semi-naked girl asleep on her bed.
Police found almost a million indecent images of children and pictures of child sex abuse on his laptop.
The 23-year-old, from Nottinghamshire, also had sex with a 14-year-old girl.
Leonard, of Bracken Avenue, New Ollerton, admitted 21 charges and was sentenced at Nottingham Crown Court on Monday.
Det Insp Pete Quinn, from Nottinghamshire Police, said Leonard's behaviour was extreme.
"I've been dealing with these offences for some time and this is the first case I've known of somebody going to these lengths," he said.
"Leonard was obsessed with sex and pornography. It pretty much defined his life and defined what he did, day-in day-out."
Police found hours of footage on his phone, including children in playgrounds and women he had followed in public.
"It was clearly something he took some sexual gratification from," said Det Insp Quinn.
"Some of the footage would be an adult female some distance away and maybe the camera would pan down to himself."
Leonard had sex with a 14-year-old girl he groomed on Facebook, but Det Insp Quinn believes he would have sexually assaulted a random woman or child if he had not been caught.
When his home was searched in October 2014 police found more than 900,000 indecent images of female children on his laptop, including images he had downloaded and some he created himself.
Some of the images were "pseudo" images, which he created by doctoring photos to make them pornographic.
There were so many indecent images that only a small percentage could be categorised, but they included more than 500 classed as Category A - the most serious type.
The 21 charges were: | A "pornography obsessed" man who spied on women and children - photographing and filming them with his phone - has been jailed for 12 years. | 34846180 |
Police issued an appeal amid concern she might need assistance after the sighting at 02:20 near Stracathro service station in Angus.
A spokesman later confirmed that she had been traced at her home nearby and she was in good health.
Officers thanked the media and public for their help. | A woman spotted walking near the A90 in her nightclothes in the early hours of Sunday has been found safe and well. | 39613261 |
Prosecutors had accused Jared James Abrahams of carrying out the attacks over a two-year period.
The current winner of the Miss Teen USA beauty pageant - Cassidy Wolf - had been identified as one of his targets.
The 19-year-old computer science student will be sentenced in March.
He faces up to 11 years in jail and $1m (£626,000) in fines.
According to prosecutors, at least two dozen women in the US, Ireland and elsewhere had their PCs hacked by Abrahams.
Court records state that the computer science student told the women - who ranged from the age of 16 to their early 20s - that he had taken pictures of them while they were undressed. He then threatened to post the images to social media sites unless they sent additional photos or stripped via a Skype video feed.
The authorities said at least two of the victims had complied.
Cassidy Wolf - a schoolmate of Abrahams - did not respond to his threats.
Abrahams later posted a naked photo of the beauty queen online and is reported to have sent her a message saying: "Your dream of being a model will be transformed into a porn star."
Appearing in court at Santa Ana, California, he pleaded guilty to three counts of extortion and one count of unauthorised computer access.
He also told the judge that he had autism - a factor his lawyer said should be taken into account when sentencing takes place.
The case is not the first of its kind.
In July another American, Karen "Gary" Kazaryan, pleaded guilty to hacking into women's computers, stealing their online identities and then using them to fool other women into removing their clothing on camera.
The previous year the US courts convicted Trevor Timothy Harwell for installing spyware on women's laptops and then sent an alert stating that they needed to place the machines "near hot steam" to fix an internal sensor. Many of the women took the machines to their bathrooms to do so, where he took photos of them getting undressed.
The charity, Childnet International, has become so concerned by such threats that in June it suggested webcams should be disconnected when not in use.
Cassidy Wolf posted a similar message in a tweet after Abrahams pleaded guilty: "Happy to know that this nightmare is coming to an end #ProtectYourselves #CoverYourWebcams." | A US teenager has pleaded guilty to hacking into the computers of young women, using their webcams to take photos, and then threatening the victims with blackmail. | 24929916 |
American Mayweather, 40, posted a video on Twitter confirming the bout will take place in Las Vegas on 26 August, with the message: "It's official."
He will go after Floyd Mayweather and he will try to knock him out
Irish UFC lightweight champion McGregor, 28, said: "The fight is on."
UFC president Dana White told ESPN: "The impossible deal is now done."
The fight - at light-middleweight - will be one of the richest in boxing history.
Mayweather, a former five-weight world champion and widely considered the best boxer of his generation, retired unbeaten in 2015 after 49 bouts.
That followed a successful defence of his WBC and WBA welterweight titles, a victory that meant he equalled Rocky Marciano's career record of 49-0.
Mayweather retired for the first time in 2008 after 39 fights.
McGregor, who has never boxed professionally, became the UFC's first dual-division champion in November 2016 and has previously challenged Mayweather to a fight under mixed martial arts rules.
His boxing licence was granted by the California State Athletic Commission in December, allowing him to box in the US state.
White, who took part in negotiations on behalf of McGregor, said: "We have been in talks for a while.
"They went smoothly. Floyd Mayweather surrounds himself with smart people and we got the deal done.
"The reason Conor McGregor's as big as he is is he'll fight anybody, anywhere, any time. He will go after Floyd Mayweather and he will try to knock him out."
White said the fight would take place at the T-Mobile Arena and would be at 154lbs, one category up from Mayweather's last bout in September 2015, when he gained a wide points win over compatriot Andre Berto.
When Mayweather defeated Filipino Manny Pacquiao on points in May 2015, the fight set a new American pay-per-view record of 4.6 million buys, and White expects that figure to be beaten.
"It's definitely going to be the biggest fight ever in combat sports history and probably going to be the biggest pay day ever - all sides involved are pretty happy with their deals," he said.
Leonard Ellerbe, chief executive of Mayweather Promotions, added: "There is a different feel from the Pacquiao fight. It is the unknown factor.
"There is not one place I go to with Floyd where he doesn't get asked the question: 'Floyd, are you going to fight Conor McGregor?' All Floyd thinks about is fighting Conor McGregor."
McGregor has won 21 and lost three of his 24 MMA contests, and White said his style would cause problems for Mayweather.
"Floyd Mayweather is 40 years old, he's always had problems with southpaws," added White.
"Conor McGregor is 28 and he is a southpaw. Whenever Conor hits people, they fall. He is 100% positive that he wins this fight, and I stopped doubting him a long time ago."
Speaking last month, boxing legend Oscar de la Hoya said the contest was "a farce" and "a circus" and feared the impact it would have on the sport.
"My interest is in the health of boxing as a whole," said De la Hoya, who won world titles in six different weight categories, in an open letter posted on Facebook.
"Floyd's and Conor's motivation is clear. It's money. In fact, they don't even pretend it's not.
"When the fight ends up being the disaster that is predicted, afterwards neither of them will need [boxing] any more. Floyd will go back to retirement and Conor will go back to the UFC. It's a win-win for them. It's a lose-lose for us.
"If you thought Mayweather/Pacquiao was a black eye for our sport - a match-up between two of the best pound-for-pound fighters that simply didn't deliver - just wait until the best boxer of a generation dismantles someone who has never boxed competitively at any level - amateur or professional.
"Our sport might not ever recover."
Mike Costello, BBC Radio 5 live boxing correspondent
One of boxing's all-time greats will take on a man who hasn't had a single professional boxing contest and it'll become one of the most talked-about sporting events of 2017.
Mayweather is coming out of retirement at the age of 40 for a fight some have dismissed as a farce and a mismatch. McGregor is 12 years younger and the biggest draw in UFC, the most successful and popular brand in mixed martial arts. Insults have been traded for two years - when they first started, nobody believed for a moment this fight would happen.
They both draw huge audiences on pay-per-view TV and the showdown is likely to generate tens of millions of dollars for each man.
It's likely to be televised in the United States by Showtime, a cable network and one of the biggest investors in boxing in recent years. Executives there are saying their digital traffic in the past few weeks is leading them to believe this will be nothing short of a monster event and it's been built by the hype generated by these two masters of the art of hype.
Steve Bunce, BBC Radio 5 live boxing pundit
This will be an absolute mismatch. McGregor is a terrific mixed martial artist, a sensational grappler, sensational at all of these things in five-minute rounds - but what he's absolutely hopeless at - and every now and again we see glimpses of it - is boxing.
That's when you have two feet on the ground, one of your hands is up somewhere near your chin and you are using your other hand as a jab. When he boxes, when he tries to box, whether that's in a gymnasium or a little break in a mixed martial arts fight, he is hopeless. | Boxing legend Floyd Mayweather will meet UFC champion Conor McGregor in a fight that has been described as a "farce" and a "circus" but could earn both men as much as $100m (£78.4m). | 40283206 |
The Tynecastle side will play FC Infonet of Estonia in the Europa League first qualifying round.
Hearts were drawn to play away in the opening game, but the three other Tallin-based clubs are at home that week so Infonet's tie was switched.
"It's a good draw. Hopefully we can get a result at Tynecastle, then finish it off," said head coach Neilson.
"We knew the five teams we could have got chosen against and it's a good one out of the five. It's going to be a tough game, they're in the middle of their season just now - they've played 17 games - but it's one that we're confident of winning.
"We've got a good squad here, a squad that's a bit more experienced than they were last year. They're ready, they're prepared.
"They had a short close season, four weeks, and have come back in really good condition. They're excited about playing these games and it bodes well for qualifying for the next round."
Hearts returned for pre-season training on Wednesday, 24 days after last season's league campaign ended with the Premiership play-off final second leg between Kilmarnock and Falkirk.
The players ended Monday morning's session early to watch the draw live and Neilson believes that the return to European competition is enhancing the feelgood factor around the club.
He is also confident that he and the coaching staff will gather enough information to form a game plan, with the first leg on 30 June.
"The players watched [the draw] in the meeting room," Neilson said. "There was a bit of a excitement there, to see who we got and where we were going.
"It will be great for the fans, they've been desperate to see European football at Tynecastle again. The players are looking forward to it.
"We'll do our research, so it won't be a problem. We have Wyscout [the football video platform], so we've got all their games from this season and last season.
"We'll be watching that because we're not going to have an opportunity to go out and watch them live because they don't have a game until they play us.
"It's a great challenge for us as a staff. We've already started putting some information together and trying to get things put together so that we're ready.
If Hearts progress, they will face either Birkirkara of Malta or NK Siroki Brijeg of Bosnia.
Neilson was part of the Hearts team that faced the latter side in the Champions League qualifiers in 2006, and he says they would be tough opponents, but his focus is on the first qualifying round tie.
"We got a good result at home [against Siroki Brijeg], at Murrayfield, winning 3-0, which carried us over there to get a 0-0 that took us through," Neilson said.
"We need to take care of the first game, that's the most important one. We've got two games and only 10 days prep before it, so we need to make sure we're ready." | Robbie Neilson is confident that Hearts can progress on their return to European competition after four years. | 36580950 |
In a speech read on his behalf at the ceremony in Sweden, he said he thought his odds of winning were as likely as him "standing on the moon".
The songwriter told those at the event in Sweden he was there "in spirit" and thanked the Academy for seeing his songs as works of literature.
Patti Smith performed his song A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall at the ceremony.
But the singer, who is a friend of Dylan's, had to apologise during her rendition after nerves got the better of her and she forgot the lyrics.
"Sorry, can we stop that section," she said as the audience began to applaud her. "I apologise, I'm so nervous."
In the speech, read out by the US ambassador in Sweden, Azita Raji, Dylan said he had joined the "rare company" of Nobel-winning writers.
He said from an early age he had read and absorbed the works of past winners and giants of literature such as Kipling, Shaw, Thomas Mann, Pearl Buck, and Ernest Hemingway.
But he said it was "truly beyond words" that he was joining those names on the winners list.
"If someone had ever told me that I had the slightest chance of winning the Nobel prize, I would have to think that I'd have about the same odds as standing on the moon," he wrote.
He said his win was surprising because he was a songwriter, rather than a writer of books and poems "taught in the schoolroom, housed in libraries across the world."
"Not once have I ever had the time to ask myself, 'Are my songs literature?'" he told attendees at the dinner, before thanking the prize-givers for "providing such a wonderful answer".
The folk singer explained that Shakespeare, the "great literary figure", probably thought of himself a dramatist.
"The thought that he was writing literature couldn't have entered his head," he said. "His words were written for the stage. Meant to be spoken not read."
Few predicted that Dylan would be awarded the prize when the announcement was made in October.
The 75-year-old singer waited two weeks to acknowledge the win and later said he would not travel to Sweden due to "pre-existing commitments".
The delay was deemed "impolite and arrogant" by Per Wastberg of the Swedish Academy, the body which awards the prize.
During his speech, Dylan said he was "out on the road" when he found out the news which took "more than a few minutes to properly process".
The Swedish Academy defended its decision to extend the award to a genre such as folk music.
Speaking at the dinner, Prof Horace Engdahl of the Swedish Academy, a literary critic, said the choice "seemed daring only beforehand and already seems obvious". | Bob Dylan said it was "truly beyond words" to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. | 38280402 |
Malmo winger Tobias Sana, 26, was warming up at the Gamla Ullevi stadium when the device bounced under his feet.
Former Gothenburg player Sana reacted by throwing a corner flag at home fans.
Players from both teams were taken off the pitch by the referee with the score 0-0 with 12 minutes remaining on Wednesday in the Allsvenskan fixture.
A decision to abandon the game was made after security in the ground could not be guaranteed.
"Now that I've gotten over the shock, I feel it was the stupidest decision of my life," Sana said on Thursday about his actions.
"There are many young people who look up to me so I really want to apologise."
Gothenburg posted an apology on their website directed at Malmo, match officials and the spectators.
The club could face sanctions from the Swedish football association's disciplinary committee.
"I heard the banger, I looked over and saw Tobias Sana bend down," said referee Jonas Eriksson.
"After that it went quickly, I blew the whistle and got the players in directly."
Gothenburg are seventh in the league with Malmo in sixth. | IFK Gothenburg's home match with Malmo in Sweden's top flight was abandoned when a firework exploded under the feet of a substitute. | 36157353 |
There were 16,426 convenience stores at the end of last year, a rise of 21%.
The fastest rate of openings was among the "big four" supermarkets.
However, the growth in the convenience sector appeared to have peaked with many towns seeing a decline in the numbers of such stores.
Research by the Local Data Company found that in each of the years from 2011 to 2015, Sainsbury's, Tesco, Morrison's and Asda opened convenience stores at a far faster rate than they did larger store formats.
Morrison's sold its M Local chain last year.
The research concluded that the convenience market has become saturated in many areas, with more stores than shoppers needed.
Meanwhile, convenience stores trading under the umbrella of a symbol group have come under pressure.
Symbol groups, such as Londis and Mace, are alliances that allow small retailers to improve their buying power and increase spending on marketing.
There has been consolidation among these types of retailers as well as store sales and closures.
Londis and Mace saw a reduction in their number of stores as they faced growing competition from the likes of Aldi and Lidl.
Independent convenience stores have proved more resilient, even when discount rivals have opened up, often because they can rely on loyal local shoppers.
"The way people shop has changed which has impacted the large superstores sales, which has been further impacted by convenience formats of the same supermarkets alongside the discounters and the symbol groups," said Matthew Hopkinson, director at the Local Data Company.
The sector is likely to see further changes in the future, he added.
"Last week's announcement of the launch of Amazon's new grocery service will be an interesting one to watch as it has the potential to compete with not just the supermarkets, but the discounters and the convenience stores."
Mr Hopkinson pointed out that online sales had not yet shaken up food shopping in the same way as in some other sectors.
However, he added: "Perhaps Amazon will be the catalyst to change this and if it does then we will see some retailers under significant pressures over the next five years." | The total number of convenience stores in the UK rose by more than a fifth in the five years to the end of 2015 as fewer people do big weekly shops. | 36546886 |
For decades there has been a consensus that globalisation brought more jobs, higher wages and lower prices - not just for richer countries but also for developing and poorer nations.
But there is now a growing movement of anger as people see jobs being taken by machines, old industries disappearing and waves of migration disturbing the established order.
Global trade flows are falling and trade deals are being ripped up.
The new US President Donald Trump has threatened to impose tariffs of up to 45% on Chinese goods, accusing the country of economically "raping" the US.
One of China's fiercest critics, Peter Navarro, has been appointed as a top trade advisor.
An executive order pulling out of the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership (the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership) aimed at deepening economic ties between the US and Japan, Malaysia, Vietnam, Singapore, Brunei, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Mexico, Chile and Peru, was one of Mr Trump's first acts on moving into the White House.
The future of free trade is looking very gloomy.
But what's behind the anger that threatens decades of relative global consensus on globalisation?
The sense of grievance in the US is clear: the manufacturing sector in the country has seen six million jobs disappear between 1999 and 2011, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Studies have shown that the decline in the US has been mirrored by gains in China.
But Chinese imports only explain 44% of the decline in employment in manufacturing in the US between 1990 and 2007, according to a report by the Institute for the Study of Labor in Bonn.
Part of the decline has been down to the outsourcing of jobs to other countries but automation and more efficient processes have also taken their toll.
"All countries end up with losers from technological development - whether it is telephone operators or bank tellers," says Gary Hufbauer, a trade expert from the Peterson Institute for International Economics.
"The problem in the US is that we don't do much to help those people who lose out through social security support or job retraining," says Mr Hufbauer.
The anger that flows from this has found a home in the protectionist rhetoric of politicians like Mr Trump.
"There has been no growth in household income during the last decade in Europe, the US and Japan. People are not happy and if you have to blame someone, it is easy to blame foreigners,"' says Mr Hufbauer.
The rise of political opposition to globalisation has coincided with - and contributed to - a period of declining world trade growth since the financial crisis of 2008.
Between 1986 and 2008 world trade grew at an average of 6.5%, according to the World Trade Organization.
Between 2012 and 2015 that rate has slowed to an average of 3.2% and is predicted to expand by just 1.7% in 2016.
That slowdown would make it the longest period of relative trade stagnation since the Second World War.
Since the financial crisis the slowing of the Chinese economy and political and economic stagnation in the eurozone have contributed to this flat-lining of world trade.
At the same time, in an attempt to insulate companies and industries at home, politicians have turned to tariffs and restrictions on imports from other countries.
"Governments worldwide have almost doubled their resort to trade distortions in the last two years," says Prof Simon Evenett, a trade expert at St Gallen University.
"The recent surge in 'beggar-thy-neighbour' activity predates Trump and Brexit, suggesting that populist pressures are likely to exacerbate protectionism," he says.
The flat lining of economic growth has increased pressure on politicians.
"Governments across the world are enacting protectionist policies often masquerading as 'industrial policy," according to Prof Evenett.
He says this often involves offering government subsidies to local companies, introducing import barriers and new '"local" standards for products from abroad.
Yet while protectionism may seem appealing to politicians assailed by angry workers, they often only end up raising prices for consumers.
For example, there was an outcry in 2012 when cheap Chinese tyres flooded into the US market, putting the viability of the domestic producers in question.
President Obama responded with punitive tariffs to get China "to play by the rules".
The protectionist measures were well received in the US, but a study by the Peterson Institute established that the tariffs meant US consumers paid $1.1bn more for their tyres in 2011.
Each job that was saved effectively cost $900,000 with very little of that reaching the pockets of the workers.
With the economic and social benefits of free trade coming increasingly under attack, proponents of globalisation have tried to launch a counterattack.
For example, The World Bank recently published a study of developing countries showing that average incomes for people living in the bottom 40% increased between 2008 and 2013, despite the impact of the financial crisis.
"There is a realisation in rich countries and among rich elites that there are problems with globalisation," says Branko Milanovic, an economist whose work on income inequality has driven much of the debate.
"They realise that for their own political self-preservation they have to tackle them."
But the solutions are not obvious, nor easy to implement.
"Most of the benefits of globalisation have been enjoyed by a relatively small group within each country.
"The question is not whether there are benefits to globalisation - there clearly are. But the question is about who is enjoying those benefits," says Andrew Lang from the London School of Economics.
Part of the anger might dissipate if economic growth was to stop its stubborn flat-lining trajectory, lifting incomes around the world.
"To help solve these problems you need to get the world economy revved up. Governments need to commit to fiscal stimulus to get their economies going again," says Gary Hufbauer.
Branko Milanovic points to the success of previous politicians in turning round seemingly intractably weak economies.
"It's not impossible for politicians to address these issues.
"Thatcher and Reagan managed to effect change in relatively short periods of time - a presidential term of four years should be enough to start making a difference," he says.
But Prof Evenett is pessimistic: "I expect the global plateau in world trade to continue in 2017 and that is before Donald Trump enacts any of the protectionist measures he has threatened." | Free trade and globalisation had a bad 2016, but it looks like 2017 could be even worse. | 38731812 |
The France international superbly kept out Javier Hernandez's close-range shot, and pushed away low drives from Charles Aranguiz and Admir Mehmedi.
Dele Alli should have done better at the other end when he powerfully headed wide from six yards out.
Team-mate Vincent Janssen hit the bar and, from the rebound, Erik Lamela had an effort tipped over by Bernd Leno.
Spurs will be thankful to man-of-the-match Lloris for keeping a clean sheet in a match in which they had more of the possession but their hosts had the better chances.
The former Lyon player made six saves at the BayArena, three of which were high quality:
Mauricio Pochettino's side remain second in Group E, and have conceded just seven goals in 11 games in all competitions this season. Their only defeat came in the opening group game against Monaco last month.
Tottenham are playing in European football's elite competition for the first time in five seasons, and - three games in - they have struggled to find their best form.
A draw is by no means a poor result away from home, but they will need to improve significantly in the final third if they are to progress.
Spurs had six shots, none of which were in the second half, and worked goalkeeper Leno only once. In contrast, Leverkusen had 13 shots in the second 45 minutes.
In the continued absence of Harry Kane, lone striker Janssen lacked service, while former Leverkusen man Son Heung-min, who scored 21 goals in 62 games for the Bundesliga side, barely had a sniff.
But among the positives was the performance of full-back Kieran Trippier, who was playing for only the third time this season. The former Burnley man made more tackles (four), clearances (seven) and interceptions (three) than any of his team-mates.
Tottenham goalkeeper Hugo Lloris: "You need a bit of luck in that kind of action and this time I saved (from Javier Hernandez).
"It was a key moment but it was not the only one. We should have scored in the first half and then the game would have been much different."
Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino: "I am not disappointed. After the game, I think it is a good point for us.
"It was a very tough game. In the first half we deserved more and in the second they got better. I am pleased with the point.
"In the second half I think they played better than us and started to dominate the game. We need to be positive - it is in our hands to go through to the next round."
Tottenham are back in Premier League action on Saturday as they travel to Bournemouth (kick-off 12:30 BST). Their next Champions League match is on Wednesday, 2 November when they welcome Leverkusen to Wembley (kick-off 19:45 BST).
Match ends, Bayer 04 Leverkusen 0, Tottenham Hotspur 0.
Second Half ends, Bayer 04 Leverkusen 0, Tottenham Hotspur 0.
Attempt saved. Julian Brandt (Bayer 04 Leverkusen) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Substitution, Tottenham Hotspur. Josh Onomah replaces Son Heung-Min.
Corner, Tottenham Hotspur. Conceded by Charles Aránguiz.
Substitution, Bayer 04 Leverkusen. Julian Brandt replaces Chicharito.
Attempt missed. Stefan Kießling (Bayer 04 Leverkusen) right footed shot from the left side of the six yard box misses to the left. Assisted by Kevin Kampl with a cross.
Corner, Tottenham Hotspur. Conceded by Kevin Kampl.
Victor Wanyama (Tottenham Hotspur) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Julian Baumgartlinger (Bayer 04 Leverkusen).
Danny Rose (Tottenham Hotspur) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Stefan Kießling (Bayer 04 Leverkusen).
Hand ball by Dele Alli (Tottenham Hotspur).
Substitution, Bayer 04 Leverkusen. Tin Jedvaj replaces Lars Bender.
Foul by Moussa Sissoko (Tottenham Hotspur).
Stefan Kießling (Bayer 04 Leverkusen) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt missed. Ömer Toprak (Bayer 04 Leverkusen) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left following a corner.
Corner, Bayer 04 Leverkusen. Conceded by Dele Alli.
Substitution, Tottenham Hotspur. Moussa Sissoko replaces Erik Lamela.
Foul by Erik Lamela (Tottenham Hotspur).
Charles Aránguiz (Bayer 04 Leverkusen) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Charles Aránguiz (Bayer 04 Leverkusen) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Foul by Victor Wanyama (Tottenham Hotspur).
Stefan Kießling (Bayer 04 Leverkusen) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Dele Alli (Tottenham Hotspur) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Lars Bender (Bayer 04 Leverkusen).
Attempt saved. Ömer Toprak (Bayer 04 Leverkusen) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Kevin Kampl with a cross.
Corner, Bayer 04 Leverkusen. Conceded by Hugo Lloris.
Attempt saved. Stefan Kießling (Bayer 04 Leverkusen) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Kevin Kampl with a through ball.
Foul by Mousa Dembélé (Tottenham Hotspur).
Julian Baumgartlinger (Bayer 04 Leverkusen) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Tottenham Hotspur. Mousa Dembélé replaces Vincent Janssen.
Erik Lamela (Tottenham Hotspur) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Charles Aránguiz (Bayer 04 Leverkusen).
Corner, Bayer 04 Leverkusen. Conceded by Hugo Lloris.
Attempt saved. Admir Mehmedi (Bayer 04 Leverkusen) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Stefan Kießling.
Danny Rose (Tottenham Hotspur) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Stefan Kießling (Bayer 04 Leverkusen).
Corner, Bayer 04 Leverkusen. Conceded by Danny Rose.
Attempt blocked. Chicharito (Bayer 04 Leverkusen) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Julian Baumgartlinger with a headed pass. | Tottenham goalkeeper Hugo Lloris made a string of saves to secure a Champions League draw against Bayer Leverkusen. | 37591318 |
But it seems the internet giant may just have found its politest searcher - 86-year-old May Ashworth.
The grandmother's request read: "Please translate these roman numerals mcmxcviii thank you."
Ben John, from Wigan, tweeted a photo of his nan's very polite search on Google that so far has been retweeted nearly nine thousand times.
The 25-year-old had been visiting his nan when he went on her computer and saw what she had typed into Google.
"I live with my boyfriend and we don't have a dryer at our house, so I usually go over to my nan's to do our washing," he said.
"While I was waiting I thought I'd go on the internet and that's why I opened her laptop."
Ben realised she had not switched it off, she had only closed the lid.
He glanced at the page she had open and nearly closed it before he noticed what she had put into Google.
Ben's nan likes to watch TV and it seems she has an interest in knowing when programmes were made.
Television shows still use Roman numerals on their credits to show the year of the programme.
"She saw a TV show the other day but couldn't work out from the credits when it was made, so she put the numerals into Google," said Ben.
"It made me chuckle so I thought I'd take a photo and put it on Twitter for my friends to see. I didn't expect so many other people to see it!"
But hundreds of thousands of people have seen the tweet - and many have expressed how much they loved it.
Ben said his nan doesn't use her laptop much. "She goes to a silver surfers' club at the local library to learn about computers and the internet, but she hardly ever uses her laptop."
"I asked my nan why she used 'please' and 'thank you' and it seemed she thinks that there is someone - a physical person - at Google's headquarters who looks after the searches.
"She thought that by being polite and using her manners, the search would be quicker."
As well as social media users, Google UK was also charmed with Ben's nan May. The company noticed the photo of the search and tweeted Ben's account with a message for her saying: "In a world of billions of searches, yours made us smile."
Ben said he's surprised at the amount of attention his tweet has received. "I posted the photo on Thursday, and it wasn't immediately picked up by the media. I've even had calls from the US for me to speak on their shows."
Produced by Catherine Ellis | Using Google to search for things on the internet has become a common part of most people's daily lives. | 36538356 |
Sanit Nitigultanon was faced with the typical photographer's challenge when tackling a wedding shoot for Thai couple Max and Mint.
"I asked the couple if there was anything special about them, but they said all they liked to do was go around and eat," said Mr Nitigultanon.
"So the first thing that came to mind was going to all their favourite restaurants."
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The couple sampled everything from chicken rice to egg noodles in the one day they spent travelling around Bangkok in search of food.
"All my friends told me that I have to lose lots of weight before my pre-wedding photoshoot," said Mint, 27.
"But I thought, why do I have to change into someone that I am not? I'm just going to be myself and have fun with it."
And the couple did just that.
"We've been together for two years and I think I've gained around 10kg during that time because we keep eating together!" said 28-year-old Max.
Reaction to the photographs have been huge, with the album receiving some 31,000 likes on Facebook.
This is only one of many pre-wedding photoshoots by Mr Nitigultanon, who is known for his creative ideas.
Pre-wedding photoshoots are especially common in Asia, with some even travelling overseas in order to capture the perfect moment.
"We just expected our friends and family to like the photos," said Max.
"Many other albums look cute or beautiful, but ours just shows us and our lifestyle as it is." | Reporting by the BBC's Yvette Tan. | 38400433 |
Second seed Federer lost his serve for the first time since Wimbledon but still easily won 6-3 6-4 6-4.
In the same half of the draw, fellow Swiss Stan Wawrinka and Britain's Andy Murray also progressed.
Second seed Simona Halep of Romania and fifth seed Petra Kvitova both won in straight sets.
Halep beat American qualfier Shelby Rogers 6-2 6-3, while Kvitova routed Slovak Anna Karolina Schmiedlova 6-2 6-1 to secure a last-16 meeting with Briton Jo Konta.
Konta, 24, beat German 18th seed Andrea Petkovic 7-6 (7-2) 6-3 to extend her remarkable winning run to 16 matches.
The British number two had never been past the second round at a Grand Slam before this week.
Since recruiting Stefan Edberg to his coaching team in December 2013, Federer has varied his game with more approaches to the net to counter the baseline prowess of the likes of world number one Novak Djokovic and Britain's Andy Murray.
However he revealed he stumbled on his recent habit of advancing in behind his return almost by accident during a jet-lagged practice session with Frenchman Benoit Paire during August's Cincinnati Masters event.
Federer explained: "I said, 'OK, I'm going to chip and charge and just keep the points short. I'm tired. I want to get off the court soon anyway.' That's when I started to run in and hit returns. I hit a couple for a winner. They were ridiculous.
"I tried it the next practice and it still worked. That's when coach Severin Luthi said, 'Well, what about using it in a match?' I was like, 'Really?'
'We sort of came up with that name, 'sneak attack by Roger' or 'Sabr' for short. I don't know. Call it 'Fed Attack', call it whatever you want."
Former world number one Victoria Azarenka beat German 11th seed Angelique Kerber 7-5 2-6 6-4.
The Belarusian 20th seed converted her sixth match point to end one of the best matches of the tournament on Arthur Ashe Stadium.
Azarenka is a two-time finalist but battling her way back up the rankings after two years interrupted by injuries.
"It's probably the most you can miss when you're an athlete, not just a tennis player. That intensity, that feeling of the battle, heat of the moment. Personally that's what I live for."
Richard Gasquet secured his spot in the fourth round by beating Australian Bernard Tomic in straight sets, 6-4 6-3 6-1.
The shot of the match came when a thick net cord allowed Frenchman Gasquet to play a winner around the net post and he continued running to receive a congratulatory fist bump from Tomic on his opponent's side of the net.
"Bernard is a great friend of mine so I think I can do it with him," said Gasquet about the fist bump. "You don't do it with guys you don't like."
Gasquet will play Czech Tomas Berdych, who beat Spain's Guillermo Garcia-Lopez 6-7 (2-7) 7-6 (9-7) 6-3 6-3.
Swiss fifth seed Stan Wawrinka saw off Belgian Ruben Bemelmans 6-3 7-6 (7-5) 6-4, while American 13th seed John Isner led Jiri Vesely 6-3 6-3 when the Czech retired with a neck injury.
In the men's doubles, Scotland's Colin Fleming and Treat Huey of the Philippines overcame Australia's likely Davis Cup team of Lleyton Hewitt and Sam Groth 6-3 6-4.
Fleming and Huey, who had never played together before the US Open, will face Leonardo Mayer of Argentina and Portugal's Joao Sousa in the next round.
"My voice feels like normal again. Still dull, obviously." Andy Murray is over the head cold he was suffering and back to his normal self.
"Between 'finish' and 'punish', he came up with 'pinish'". Victoria Azarenka reveals that hitting partner Sascha Bajin has been inventing a new motivational language to help her.
"It was 90% you guys, 10% me. I was on the other end of one of those against Andy Murray in Scotland so it is nice to have you guys 100% for me." American Donald Young, who was beaten in four sets by Murray in the Davis Cup in Glasgow in March, revels in the home-crowd support after coming from two sets down to beat 22nd seed Viktor Troicki of Serbia.
"For the coffees I'm going out, but otherwise I'm staying in the room." Petra Kvitova is taking a simple approach to her pre-match preparation.
"I have done mistakes when I was younger, you know. Playing video games until too late and feel tired the next day." Roger Federer reveals his past misdemeanours.
Maria Sharapova, missing from the tournament with a knee injury, is keeping the US Open's official Twitter feed honest. | Five-time US Open champion Roger Federer put in a commanding performance to beat Germany's Philipp Kohlschreiber to reach the US Open fourth round. | 34164496 |
Mr Burnham told BBC Radio Wales he had asked the first minister to lead a "constitutional convention" looking at the relationship between the UK Labour party and Welsh Labour.
But he rejected the idea of a more federal structure.
Ms Kendall pledged to introduce much closer working if she wins.
She was speaking in the Senedd after holding talks with the first minister.
Ms Kendall said focusing on Wales was as much a priority for her as the south of England, and Scotland, where the party suffered heavier losses.
She said: "We have a huge amount to learn from what Carwyn Jones and other Welsh assembly members are doing here.
"I think we need a much closer working between the Welsh government and Labour in future."
Mr Burnham said it would be wrong for the party to have different "messages" in different parts of the country.
Earlier this month, the Welsh government Public Services Minister Leighton Andrews renewed his calls for Labour to move to a federal structure that would give more autonomy to the Welsh and Scottish Labour parties.
He tweeted: "I really don't care who English Labour choose #federallabournow."
Mr Burnham said: "I think it would be a mistake to start saying 'oh we speak to this group of votes over here with this message and a different message over here'.
"In Wales, I think I saw similar factors that were in play in England [at the general election].
"People [were] going to UKIP because perhaps they had doubts about our record on immigration and leaving Labour for that reason."
On the UK party's relationship with Welsh Labour, Mr Burnham said the Labour party needed to get the right relationship between the two.
"That's why I've asked Carwyn Jones to lead a UK constitutional convention to really look at these questions in detail," he said.
"What is the right balance across the UK between the UK role and then a stronger Welsh role?
"I want to see a more autonomous Wales within a stronger UK.
"I want... Labour not always looking grudging on devolution and being dragged to positions.
"I think we now need to get on the front foot and I hope Carwyn's going to help us do that."
Ms Kendall added that she wanted to be a leader "working in strong partnership with Carwyn and Labour people around the country", and that the way Wales is funded needed to be looked at.
She said: "As we change the constitution and devolve more power and control, we need a fair funding formula in Wales, Scotland and England too.
"That is essential if we are to make sure the Welsh assembly has the power and the responsibility to improve people's lives." | Labour leadership candidates Andy Burnham and Liz Kendall have said the party's Welsh and UK branches must work together. | 33145154 |
The experiences of 50 of them will be heard by the Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry (HIA) either by oral or written evidence.
It is examining the extent of child abuse in religious and state-run institutions in NI from 1922 to 1995.
A team from the inquiry has already made two trips to Australia.
HIA chairman Sir Anthony Hart said his staff had made the trip for two reasons - to enable those who lived there to have the same opportunity to describe their experiences as others, and to allow the HIA's legal team to gather a considerable amount of information from their witness statements.
The chairman said it would become clear during their evidence that many had suffered severe hardship and "grave" sexual and physical abuse in the institutions to which they were sent in Australia.
The majority of witnesses for the migration scheme will provide their evidence via video-link over a three-week period.
Senior counsel to the Inquiry, Christine Smith QC, said it was her understanding that the HIA Inquiry was the first to consider child migration from any part of the UK to Australia.
She told the inquiry, sitting in Banbridge, County Down, that many of those the inquiry had spoken to had lost all contact with their parents and siblings.
She said for some, they had been reunited with their families in later life, but for others, it was "too late" - their parents had either died or the reunions were "unsuccessful".
She said the inquiry would hear about the "impact" of child migration on their lives.
Ms Smith outlined to the inquiry where the children had been living before they were sent abroad.
"A few were sent to Australia by county welfare committees or by voluntary organisations, such as Dr Barnardos or Manor House children's home in Lisburn, the numbers sent by these institutions were small," she said.
My life in institutions has had a profound impact on me.
I've always wondered what it would have been like to have had a family, a mother and a father and brothers and sisters.
I never got the chance to find out, because I was sent to Australia.
We were exported to Australia like little baby convicts.
It is hard to understand why they did it.
I know the theory, to populate Australia.
I still cannot get over the fact that I was taken away from a family I never got the chance to know.
I was treated like an object, taken from one place to another.
I found it very hard to show affection to my children when they were young.
I've improved as the years have gone on.
I have a nightmare every night of my life; I relive my past and I am happy when daylight comes.
"The great majority of those with whom the inquiry will be concerned came from four homes run by the Sisters of Nazareth in Northern Ireland - many came from Termonbacca and Nazareth House in Bishop Street in Derry, institutions about which the inquiry has already heard evidence.
"The remainder were sent from Nazareth House and Nazareth Lodge homes in Belfast."
She told the inquiry it had proved "extremely difficult" to obtain precise figures as to how many children from institutions in Northern Ireland, falling within the inquiry's terms of reference, were sent to Australia because "such records that were kept are not complete".
"From the information provided to the inquiry by the Sisters of Nazareth and from the inquiry's own searches in the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI), it appears that approx 131 children may have been sent to Australia," she said.
"The Sisters of Nazareth sent 111.
"Twenty-six were sent from training schools, local authorities or voluntary homes, that figure includes a number of children who were put forward for emigration, but as the records are incomplete, it may be the case that some of these did not actually go. The HIA can only identify 20 who were sent with any degree of certainty."
The inquiry heard that the children who were in the care of voluntary institutions or state bodies in Northern Ireland were sent to Australia between 1922 and 1995.
Sir Anthony said some of the children had little recollection of their time in Northern Ireland or the circumstances surrounding their travel to Australia because at the time some were aged eight or under.
BBC NI reporter Martin Cassidy attended the inquiry on Monday.
"The idea was that they would have a new life, a brighter life and prospects in a developing country like Australia, and for some of them it was the start or continuation of abuse and a cold harsh regime which met them in Australia," he said.
"There were a number of occasions that there were visits and checking procedures done on some of the homes in Australia.
"Some were found to be deficient and indeed, as time went on, three of them were actually black listed by the authorities in the United Kingdom.
"Nevertheless, children from Northern Ireland continued to be shipped out in considerable numbers to Australia and they now have come forward to this inquiry."
Because many of the witnesses are now retired, the HIA decided, because of logistical and other difficulties, to hear their evidence via a live link.
Sir Anthony said although the HIA inquiry did not have the power to investigate the abuse they had suffered in institutions outside Northern Ireland, he said their experiences would not be "swept under the carpet".
Local authority homes:
• Lissue Children's Unit, Lisburn
• Kincora Boys' Home, Belfast
• Bawnmore Children's Home, Newtownabbey
Juvenile justice institutions:
• St Patrick's Training School, Belfast
• Lisnevin Training School, County Down
• Rathgael Training School, Bangor
Secular voluntary homes:
• Barnardo's Sharonmore Project, Newtownabbey
• Barnardo's Macedon, Newtownabbey
Catholic Church-run homes:
• St Joseph's Home, Termonbacca, Londonderry
• Nazareth House Children's Home, Derry
• Nazareth House Children's Home, Belfast
• Nazareth Lodge Children's Home, Belfast
• De La Salle Boys' Home, Kircubbin, County Down
"I want to assure them that will not be the case," he said.
"Their evidence will be given in public, either in person or through their statements, and all of the evidence will be published on our inquiry website.
"Those who wish to familiarise themselves with these accounts will be able to do so, whether they live in Australia or elsewhere.
"In addition, at the conclusion of this module arrangements will be made to furnish these statements to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse which is presently carrying on its work in Australia.
"That will ensure that these matters are drawn to its attention."
The HIA is the biggest public inquiry into child abuse ever held in the UK and is investigating claims of physical, sexual, and emotional abuse, as well as childhood neglect.
More than 300 witnesses are taking part, including former residents who claim they were abused as children, the people who ran the institutions, health and social care officials and government representatives.
A total of 13 care homes and borstals in Northern Ireland are currently under investigation. | One hundred and thirty-one children from Northern Ireland, some as young as five, were sent to Australia as child migrants, an inquiry has heard. | 29006251 |
Saving suggestions include cuts to maternity services in the county and reducing beds in community hospitals.
The Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) said "things could not stay the same" and would have to be done "differently".
Trade union Unison South West said there was a "real urgency to deal with the problems facing our NHS".
Dr Matthew Dolman, of the Somerset CCG, said: "It's driven by the fact that people are having more complicated illnesses and those complicated illnesses come with an increased cost.
"So that is driving this really large figure if we do nothing - which is why things can't stay the same. We have to do things differently.
"Part of the problem is that health and care is fragmented. What we're doing is coming together to say, 'right we've got a real problem here, let's work together, let's do things differently'.
Helen Eccles, from Unison, said: "We want to work together with employers to deliver preventative, joined-up services to deal with the predicted 30% rise in the elderly population, public health problems and the challenges of a rural area." | Health services in Somerset warn they face a budget deficit of £596m over the next five years if they "do nothing". | 37933729 |
Commonwealth Games gold medallist Davies was beaten by Hungary's Katinka Hosszu who took gold with Kylie Jaqueline Masse of Canada second.
Kathleen Dawson continued her progress, finishing in fifth place.
Adam Barrett set a British short course record of 49.21 sec qualifying fastest for the men's 100m Butterfly
Mark Szaranek missed out on a finals birth of the 100m butterfly as he ranked 16th after his semi-final swim but set a new personal best of 51.48 sec. | Welsh swimmer Georgia Davies won GB's first medal of the World Short Course Championships in Windsor, Canada with bronze in the Women's 100m backstroke. | 38252012 |
The American accepted an honorary doctorate in civil law from Newcastle University on 13 November 1967.
Tyneside's Freedom City 2017 will see outdoor events, exhibitions and public art mark that occasion.
His Newcastle speech was the last he made outside the United States before his assassination in 1968.
King had recently been released from prison when he visited Tyneside for 24 hours.
Footage of the ceremony lay forgotten in the university's archives for more than 40 years.
The launch of the programme of events, running in Newcastle and Gateshead throughout 2017, coincides with Martin Luther King Jr Day, which is held on the third Monday of January in the US.
Professor Richard Davies, pro-vice-chancellor for engagement and internationalism at Newcastle University, said: "Awarding an honorary degree was the highest honour the university could bestow and came at a time when Dr King was an increasingly controversial figure.
"Indeed, Newcastle was the only UK university to honour Dr King in this way during his lifetime and it remains one of the most important moments in our history."
A bronze sculpture will be unveiled at the university in November.
The Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art will host a civil rights-themed exhibition, while Great North Museum: Hancock will tell the story of King's visit.
A series of drama, dance and art performances will focus on people who have campaigned for political and social change. | The 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr's visit to the north-east of England is to be celebrated with a year-long series of events. | 38610342 |
Drivers spend at least £6.60 crossing from England to Wales on the bridges, set to return to UK government ownership at the end of 2017.
All four party groups in the National Assembly supported the abolition of the charge during a Senedd debate led by UKIP.
The party's Mark Reckless called the tolls a "tax on Wales".
But Labour backbencher Lee Waters said the tolls should be retained with the money raised spent on the South Wales Metro project to upgrade public transport.
A Senedd vote calling for their abolition passed on Wednesday afternoon with 45 of the 60 AMs backing its motion.
There was one abstention in the vote and no politicians voting against.
The crossings - which are not devolved - could return to public ownership as soon as October 2017 when a private concession with Severn River Crossing (SRC) PLC ends.
The UK government has promised to halve the fee, with Welsh Secretary Alun Cairns suggesting a toll of £1.80-£1.90 either way could be charged if a free-flowing system was introduced.
UKIP tabled a debate in the Senedd on Wednesday calling for the charge's abolition once the crossings return to the public sector.
Mr Reckless, UKIP AM for South Wales East, said: "[There is] no other single measure which could give a boost to economic activity and the accessibility of Wales.
"Rather than spending money on subsidising schemes to try to help particular sectors of business, let's lift that extra tax that everyone pays for doing business in Wales."
The other three parties, including the Labour-led Welsh Government, put in amendments supporting the scrapping of the tolls.
The Welsh Conservatives' motion said the abolition should be a "priority" only if the bridges' future can be secured through existing budgets with no impact on other transport projects.
Party transport spokesman Russell George told AMs that if the tolls could be removed it had "real potential, I think, to to support motorists, provide significant investment in Wales, improve our infrastructure and encourage economic growth".
Plaid Cymru's amendment called for the bridges' ownership to be devolved so the tolls can be scrapped.
Infrastructure spokesman Dai Lloyd said the tolls were an "unfair tax" on motorists who use the bridges regularly, and "send the wrong message to potential investors".
The Conservative and Plaid Cymru motions were voted down, with AMs backing a Labour amendment.
That amendment said that there was "no case for continuing to charge tolls on the Severn bridges to fund ongoing maintenance" once they returned to public ownership as "they represent an unfair tax on the people and businesses of Wales".
But, Llanelli AM Mr Waters believes some tolls should be kept "to pay for improvements in public transport".
He agreed with Plaid that the bridges should be devolved, and said scrapping the fee would cause increased congestion around the Brynglas tunnels or even on the planned M4 relief road.
Mr Waters added that the second phase of the Metro needed £125m in EU funds.
"It seems to me to be a self defeating policy," he said.
"If we use all our money on doing that on building the M4, and as a result of Brexit we don't have EU funding, we won't have any money in order for provide people alternatives to driving," he said.
"I would much rather see us giving people an alternative in the form of an ambitious metro project."
He argued around £80m from the tolls could potentially be put towards the Metro or to support borrowing for that scheme.
But he said he would support the government on Wednesday. "It's a theoretical motion. We don't have the power. There's no point rebelling over it," he said.
A UK Department for Transport spokesman said: "The government announced its intention to halve the tolls on the River Severn Crossings in the 2016 Budget."
He said a consultation on the Severn crossings would be launched in due course. | Severn tolls should be scrapped, AMs from Labour, Plaid Cymru, UKIP and the Welsh Conservatives said on Wednesday. | 37994267 |
But the former, in the shape of the dramatic events which have played out since last week, is highly relevant to the progress of the latter. The key thing to remember is that David Cameron is involved in both.
The Government strategy on childhood obesity in England has been much talked about since last summer.
There was talk of a launch before Christmas, then early in the New Year, then in February. But still it has not appeared.
There is speculation now that it may not be published before Easter. The simple reason is the prime minister's overcrowded diary and his current preoccupation with Europe.
David Cameron knows the clock is ticking down to the end of his premiership before the next election.
He wants to make his mark on domestic policy and he has identified tackling obesity as an important potential part of his legacy.
It is seen at Number Ten as a priority second term issue, to rank with the dementia initiative in his first term of office. Much of the groundwork has already been done by the Department of Health and Public Health England.
The trouble is Mr Cameron just does not seem to have time to think about the obesity question, let alone put the finishing touches to a strategy which is seen in Whitehall as potentially the most ambitious of its kind in the world.
Europe and the drive to win a referendum dominate the prime minister's every waking hour. He told the House of Commons he would be making the case for staying in the EU "every day for the next four months".
The question now is when he can find a slot in his diary to unveil a policy which has been long awaited by the NHS and the food and drink industry.
The first question to address is whether a sugar tax should form part of the childhood obesity strategy.
A sugar tax is on the table having, last autumn, been left firmly on the shelf.
Mr Cameron has come round to the idea that such a move might be electorally popular, not least with Jamie Oliver and those of like mind.
Reports that a sugar tax will feature in the strategy have not been denied, although it's likely to be there in the form of a threat to the food and drink industry if other measures do not work.
The Prime Minister will also have to decide whether regulation is required for reducing sugar content of food and drink and restricting product promotions in supermarkets.
Public Health England's document on sugar reduction, published in October 2015, described how food price promotions are more widespread in the UK than anywhere else in Europe and how high-sugar products are promoted more than others.
The strategy seems likely to contain measures to limit sales of confectionery at checkouts and in prominent positions in supermarket aisles.
Restricting "buy one, get one free" offers for high-sugar or high-calorie food and drink products is another probable avenue.
Mr Cameron's anti-red tape and pro-business leanings might steer him away from such an approach and towards a voluntary deal agreed with the supermarkets. But officials and experts will make the case for government intervention.
You might imagine that leading retailers would throw their hands up in horror at the prospect of the government limiting their freedom to promote products as they see fit.
But perhaps surprisingly, the British Retail Consortium (BRC), which represents big names on the high street, has supported the idea of regulation.
The BRC argues that a voluntary deal won't work as some shops will fail to go along with it.
Better, the organisation argues, for everyone to be obliged to fall into line with new regulations.
Decisions are still needed from the prime minister. Much of the strategy is written.
Health officials are anxious to get it launched with measures put in place to start tackling the obesity threat to the nation's health.
But it remains off the menu in Downing Street, at least until Mr Cameron tires of his European diet. | The Prime Minister's battle against Brexit and the launch of the childhood obesity strategy would not at first glance appear to have much in common. | 35640299 |
The blaze, in Buckfast Close, Basingstoke, on Sunday morning led to the arrest of a 26-year-old man, but he was released with no further action.
Two people escaped the house and attempted to re-enter, but found it "impossible" due to the magnitude of the blaze, the fire service said.
Hampshire Constabulary said the woman has not yet been formally identified.
An investigation into the cause is still under way.
Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service received the first of seven calls about the fire in the ground floor of the end-terrace property shortly before 05:00 GMT on Sunday.
The woman was pronounced dead at the scene. | An "intense" house fire in which a woman died is not being treated as suspicious by police. | 31796387 |
The Swans have enquired about Leicester forward Leonardo Ulloa and are also keen on Sevilla's Fernando Llorente.
Curtis believes missing out on midfielder Joe Allen, who has joined Stoke, has deepened the frustration.
"I suppose we are all a little impatient, I guess even more so as we didn't bring in Joe Allen," he said.
"I think there is a lot of frustration, with the supporters but also with the players and maybe the board themselves.
"We all know there is a need for us to bring people in now."
Curtis said there was "lots of work happening behind the scenes" to get deals done.
He added: "The squad is getting stronger, but at this time of year there is an impatience to bolster the squad with a big-name signing and we are no different.
"I think the players like to see [other] players coming through the dressing room.
"Hopefully we can strengthen."
Curtis admits additions in attack are a clear priority for the Swans.
Portuguese striker Eder has moved to Lille, Italian Alberto Paloschi has joined Atalanta and Frenchman Bafetimbi Gomis has signed for Marseille on loan.
"There is two weeks to go now before the season starts and hopefully before the start of the season, of the players we are looking to bring in, someone will come through the door," Curtis told BBC Radio Wales Sport.
"We are aware of things going on, but not the details, that is with the chairman.
"It is time now to get a big signing in just to give everyone a big lift.
"It has been obvious to everyone and apparent that we need to strengthen up front."
Subscribe to the BBC Sport newsletter to get our pick of news, features and video sent to your inbox. | Swansea City need to sign a striker to improve morale among the players, management and supporters, according to coach Alan Curtis. | 36919252 |
The Londoner, born on 7 December 1899, was the last living British person to be born in the 1800s.
Miss Jones who lived in Bermondsey, south-east London, and was the sixth oldest person in the world, had a fall a few weeks ago and was treated at St Thomas' Hospital.
Mr Hughes said her memory and intellect were "undimmed" until the end.
Miss Jones was engaged during World War One but her fiancé died on active service, said Mr Hughes, Liberal Democrat MP for Bermondsey and Old Southwark, who visited her with other friends on Wednesday.
She worked as a seamstress and for the government during and after World War Two, until her retirement about 50 years ago, he said.
Mr Hughes said: "Grace's friends and neighbours and the wider Bermondsey community are very sad at the news of Grace's death.
"But we pay tribute to Grace for her wonderful long life, for her commitment to her faith, her family and her community, and we know that a woman of such strong Christian faith faced death with no fear."
He said that although she found her failing strength frustrating, right up until her last week she was mentally "as bright as a button with a brilliant memory".
She lived in her own flat until a few weeks ago and until a few years ago still did her own shopping.
Mr Hughes said enormous thanks were due to her neighbours, Carol and Sue, her friends Ron and Eileen, Joan and Fred and Sandra and Trevor.
He added: "All those who met Grace knew they had met one of London's most doughty individuals and she will never be forgotten."
Miss Jones's death means the oldest living British person is Ethel Lang, from Barnsley, who was born in May 1900. | The oldest person in the UK, Grace Jones, has died at the age of 113, her MP Simon Hughes has confirmed. | 24940663 |
Officers said there were "significant concerns" for Robert McLaren's welfare.
The 70-year-old was reported missing from his home in Appin Terrace, but was last seen at shops in Rannoch Road at 08:08 on 20 February.
Police are carrying out house to house inquiries and studying CCTV as part of the search for the missing pensioner.
He wearing a black donkey jacket, a beige baseball cap with a white logo on the front, blue jeans or trousers and brown shoes when he was last seen.
Mr McLaren is 5ft 7in, of large build, with a pale complexion, and a balding head with short grey hair around the sides.
He has connections to the Coupar Angus area and is known to walk in the area of Jeanfield Road and the North Inch, Perth.
Officers said they would welcome assistance from local businesses or residents who may have private CCTV.
A Police Scotland spokesman said: "Local residents are asked to check sheds, garages and outbuildings for any signs that someone might have taken refuge, either overnight or temporarily.
"There are significant concerns for Robert's welfare and anyone who knows him or has seen a man matching his description is asked to contact Police Scotland on 101." | Police have launched a new appeal to trace a pensioner missing from his home in Letham since 25 February. | 35686421 |
Some 1,000 soldiers backed up by 20 tanks captured three al-Shabab bases, a senior security official said.
African Union forces backing the government say they have advanced outside the capital for the first time.
Al-Shabab is under attack on several fronts, with troops from Kenya and Ethiopia also gaining ground recently.
Correspondents says this is the biggest joint offensive by the government and the AU force, Amisom, since August 2011.
Troops from Djibouti have recently arrived in Mogadishu to bolster Amisom's 12,000 soldiers, while the AU is asking the UN to approve a further 50% increase in troop numbers.
Al-Shabab controls many southern and central areas of the country.
The al-Qaeda linked group made a "tactical withdrawal" from most of the capital last year but has continued to stage suicide attacks in the city.
It confirmed that the pro-government forces had gained territory but vowed to hit back.
A photographer with AFP news agency said he had seen the bodies of three government soldiers and an official after a convoy was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade fired by al-Shabab fighters.
"It was chaotic, most of the trees along the road had been felled by mortar fire and houses were damaged," he said.
Witnesses say several al-Shabab fighters died but neither side has confirmed any deaths.
Amisom spokesman Lt Col Paddy Ankunda said pro-government forces had seized Mogadishu University and Barakat cemetery as they advanced north from the city after "intense" fighting.
Hundreds of people have fled the clashes.
"This is the first time Amisom has been able to secure an area outside the parameters of the city allowing them to defend greater Mogadishu," said Lt Col Ankunda.
BBC East Africa correspondent Will Ross says the operation appears to be a concerted effort to clear the Islamist militants right away from the Somali capital.
But he says this conflict no longer has front lines and, with al-Shabab carrying out suicide bomb attacks, it will still be very difficult to make Mogadishu safe.
On Thursday, six people were killed by a suicide attack in a refugee camp.
The victims included a security guard and a local aid worker, witnesses said.
The bomb exploded just 20 minutes after a team of international journalists had left the Mogadishu camp.
They had gone to the city to see the situation six months after the famine was first declared in parts of the country, following the region's worst drought in 60 years.
Tens of thousands of people have died, aid workers say.
About 300,000 people have flooded into Mogadishu to seek food and shelter, as al-Shabab has banned most international aid agencies from areas they control.
The UN says a quarter of a million Somalis are still suffering.
On Thursday, medical charity MSF closed two of its health centres in the centres in response to the killing of two of its workers in the city last year.
Somalia has been wracked by two decades of conflict and lawlessness. | Pro-government forces have launched a major offensive from the Somali capital, Mogadishu, to seize territory from al-Shabab Islamist militants. | 16646311 |
The promotion-chasing Bantams took the lead when Tony McMahon's whipped cross was headed in by Jamie Proctor.
But Akpa Akpro beat keeper Ben Williams to the ball with six minutes left to draw Shrewsbury level.
Fourth-placed City are six points off a League One automatic promotion place, while Shrewsbury are 20th, two points clear of fourth-from-bottom Blackpool.
Micky Mellon's side have two games in hand over his former club, but Town's next three matches are all against promotion-chasing sides.
They are now at home to eighth-placed Sheffield United on Tuesday night before trips to sixth-placed Gillingham and third-placed Walsall.
Shrewsbury Town manager Micky Mellon told BBC Radio Shropshire:
"You have to dig in and keep fighting. It's very tight at the bottom and tense, but we need people who can believe.
"We didn't compose ourselves in the first half - but we kept battling away. You always get an opportunity at some stage in the game and we got one fall our way.
"The substitutions worked and gave us the battling qualities we needed to get back in it, but it's frustrating because we're trying to find a system that works." | Jean-Louis Akpa Akpro's late header helped relegation-threatened Shrewsbury pick up a vital point against Bradford. | 36003037 |
Emery, half-sister of comedian Dick, also played Grandma in the original cast of the Billy Elliot stage musical.
Its director, Stephen Daldry, paid tribute to her "zest for life", saying she had been "at the heart of the Billy Elliot family for over a decade".
Born in London in 1930, her other roles included Mrs Rocket in the BBC's Julia Jekyll and Harriet Hyde.
Emery appeared with her half-brother in eight episodes of The Dick Emery Show before landing her Rentaghost role in 1976.
Together with her opportunistic husband Harold, her character rented out ghosts to members of the public in need of spectral assistance.
Emery played Billy's grandmother at London's Victoria Palace theatre from 2005 to 2010, going on to appear in the Cameron Mackintosh musical Betty Blue Eyes.
When that show closed, she returned to the Palace - a theatre she first performed in as a child - before announcing her retirement in 2015.
In 2010 she received a lifetime achievement award from the British Music Hall Society.
In his tribute, Daldry described her as "a child of the theatre... who never seemed old and never took the profession for granted."
"What a treat it was to have known her," he went on, saying the actress would be "remembered fondly" and "deeply missed".
Reece Shearsmith, with whom Emery appeared in Betty Blue Eyes, also paid tribute on Twitter, remembering her as being "tireless, funny and with boundless energy".
Similar sentiments were expressed by the choreographer Sir Matthew Bourne, who said she had been "beloved by everyone who knew her and had the joy of working with her".
Follow us on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, on Instagram at bbcnewsents, or if you have a story suggestion email [email protected]. | Ann Emery, the veteran actress who played Ethel Meaker in children's show Rentaghost, has died at the age of 86. | 37518602 |
One severe flood warning remains in Cornwall, and there are about 150 flood warnings in England and Wales, and about 20 in Scotland.
Houses have been flooded and evacuated in Stoke Canon, near Exeter, and Stonehaven, near Aberdeen.
Rail services in the south-west of England and between Dundee and Aberdeen have been hit by floods and landslips.
The Environment Agency has flood warnings in place across all of its English regions - South West, South East, Anglian, Midlands, North West and North East, as well as Wales.
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Up to 100 homes were evacuated in Stonehaven after the River Carron burst its banks and affected a number of streets in the centre of the town. Residents said water levels were waist-high.
"A significant part of the town has still got water in it and in the part that hasn't, there's a whole lot of mud and debris on the street," said David Fleming, a member of the local community council.
Scotland's environment minister Paul Wheelhouse said public safety was his priority and added: "People planning journeys home for Christmas can check on how their journeys may be affected through a range of resources, including the Traffic Scotland website and Sepa's floodline phone service."
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In Stoke Canon, north of Exeter in Devon, 30 properties have flooded, with at least 20 residents being moved to safety, after the River Exe burst its banks.
Steve Hawkins, from Network Rail, said the track at Cowley Bridge, north of Exeter, was last flooded 12 years ago but he added: "Unfortunately in the last four weeks it has happened three times."
Mr Hawkins said the railway line could be repaired only when the flood waters had receded, and he said it could take up to five days to repair.
BBC forecaster Matt Taylor said: "Heavy rain in the north of Scotland will slowly ease and wetter weather will return to central and southern parts of England and Wales overnight, bringing with it the threat of further flooding particularly in parts of Devon and Cornwall."
UK flooding minister Richard Benyon said: "It's terrible to have your home or business flooded at any time of year, but for the families affected it's especially distressing for it to happen during the Christmas season.
"It's crucial people continue to be vigilant by keeping a close eye on the Environment Agency's flood warnings and allowing the emergency services to do their work."
In Umberleigh, near Barnstaple in north Devon, a woman was swept away from her car in the early hours of Sunday after becoming stuck in fast-flowing flood water.
A police helicopter found her clinging to branches of a tree - where she had been for 50 minutes - on the banks of the swollen River Taw, and she was rescued by a RNLI lifeboat. She was treated for exposure to the water.
A man and child who remained trapped in the car were rescued by firefighters wearing drysuits.
Four people and two dogs trapped in two flooded properties in Bishops Tawton, near Barnstaple, were also rescued overnight by a fire crew and RNLI in-shore boat.
The River Caen in Braunton breached its banks for a second night and the village is bracing itself for more flooding on Sunday night.
Diane Cohen, 63, who runs the Mariners Arms pub, said: "We have a mound of sodden carpet out in the garden and are now moving sand bags around so we can get people safely in and out during the course of the day and will sandbag up again tonight because we've got more bad weather coming in and the River Caen is going to flood again."
Cornwall Council says it is expecting another band of bad weather, bringing with it an estimated 10mm to 20mm of rain, from Sunday evening into the early hours of Monday.
The river Severn is also high but flood defences appear to have succeeded in Bewdley, Kempsey and Upton-upon-Severn.
The Environment Agency's area manager said: "Levels are high, and particularly high in Worcester, where it is probably the highest it's been since July 2007."
But he added: "I think the Severn is now as high as it's going to get." | Flooding and heavy rain are continuing to cause problems in south-west England and parts of Wales and Scotland. | 20829807 |
Ms Sturgeon travelled to Wales with other political leaders for an "extraordinary summit" of the group.
The council normally meets annually, last convening in Glasgow in June.
Ms Sturgeon said the emergency meeting was "one of the most important ever" for the group, coming in the aftermath of the UK's vote to leave the EU.
Welsh First Minister Carwyn Jones, who convened the Cardiff summit, said afterwards that the devolved governments should need to give permission before the formal process of Brexit begins.
The group includes representatives of the UK and Irish governments, the devolved administrations of Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales and the governments of Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man.
Ms Sturgeon was joined by her Welsh and Northern Irish counterparts Mr Jones and Arlene Foster, the Irish Taoiseach Enda Kenny and Scotland Office minister Lord Dunlop.
The special session of the council was called by Mr Jones to discuss the implications of the Brexit vote, including questions over the land border between the UK and continuing EU member Ireland.
He said there would be "fundamental changes" as a result of the referendum, adding: "During this tumultuous time, it is more important than ever to maintain the strength of this relationship and work together to map out a successful way forward."
He said the session had been "hugely helpful" in identifying challenges, with the council resolving to work together to find solutions.
Ms Sturgeon said there had been a "frank and very robust" discussion at the meeting, with her focus on ensuring Scotland plays a full part in the Brexit discussions.
She questioned the process by which the decision to trigger Article 50, the formal process of leaving the European Union, will be made. Mr Jones said devolved governments should have to give approval for this, and Ms Sturgeon said she was broadly supportive of this.
Ms Sturgeon said: "I put forward very clearly the fact that a majority of people who voted in Scotland voted to remain, and that that meant we have a mandate to try to prevent the damaging consequences of Brexit for Scotland.
"Sometimes these discussions seem very abstract, but the consequences of Brexit are potentially severe, for jobs and for trade and for our universities, for skills, for our ability to grow our population, so my mandate is to seek to protect Scotland's interests, and I was very clear that that's my job.
"Much of the discussions focused on how the devolved administrations will now be heard in the process leading up to the triggering of Article 50.
"I've been very clear, as were many of the other administrations, that we need to be meaningfully and very closely involved, and there were some reflections on how the decision to trigger Article 50 should be taken, and how the UK government in taking that decision will make sure that the views of the devolved administrations are listened to."
For the UK government, Northern Ireland secretary James Brokenshire repeated the prime minister's line that "Brexit means Brexit", but insisted that Theresa May's administration is "in listening mode".
On the subject of the Irish border, Mr Kenny said "there will not be a hard border from Dundalk to Derry".
Ms Sturgeon has pledged to protect Scotland's links with Europe after Scottish voters backed remaining in the EU by a margin of 62% to 38%.
She said: "My position here is simple. Scotland voted to remain, so how do we protect that? Can we find a way of doing that within the UK? I would say that those in the UK government who back the union have a vested interest in trying to find that way.
"Or, do we need to look at the option of independence as a way of protecting our position? At the moment for me all options are on the table, but there must be a willingness to consider all those options."
The prime minister, who visited Scotland shortly after taking office, has voiced willingness to consider options - although she said at her first Westminster question session that some of those mooted were "impracticable".
Ms Sturgeon said she had not discussed "particular options in detail" with the prime minister, but noted that "we are in unprecedented times".
She added: "This is uncharted territory, and in these circumstances I think there's both a duty and an opportunity, to be prepared to put innovative solutions forward, and that's what the Scottish government will be doing.
"If the UK government wants to do anything other than send a message to Scotland that our voice doesn't matter, then surely they have an obligation to try to find ways of respecting how Scotland voted." | First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has had "frank and robust" talks with the British-Irish Council at a meeting to discuss the impact of the Brexit vote. | 36860758 |
According to the country's Minister of Health, the goal is that more than 90% of Ugandans will know their HIV status.
The Minister, Dr Elioda Tumwesigye, spoke of the plan on 'The Truth About AIDS' on the BBC World Service.
"We want to give an opportunity to every Ugandan at least one round to say yes or no to an HIV test," he said.
"We will go to every home, every village, and test."
Dr Tumwesigye claimed this door-to-door approach to testing counselling had worked well in the Western Ugandan district he represents as a member of parliament.
If the East African country can establish the HIV status of nine out of every ten people, it will have achieved the first of three targets of a new grand initiative led by UNAids (the Joint United Nations programme on HIV/Aids).
The 90-90-90 strategy is aimed at effectively ending the pandemic by the year 2030, by exploiting the preventative potential of well managed HIV/Aids treatment.
If a patient takes their antiretroviral drugs properly, the amount of virus in the blood and other body fluids is lowered to a level where it is essentially undetectable.
At these levels, the risk of transmitting the virus to other people is much reduced.
The second 90 of the UNAids formula requires that 90% of those identified as HIV positive should be on antiretroviral therapy.
The final criterion is that 90% of the patients on treatment must maintain complete virological suppression.
In other words, therapy must be well enough administered and managed that the virus is unable to replicate in the body.
UNAids has set a goal for countries to implement this regime by 2020.
If nations can achieve this, computer modelling shows that the rate of new infections would be curbed drastically by the year 2030.
The expense of ramping up services might be high in the short-term, but economic benefits are reaped later on as the cost of treating far fewer new patients plummets.
Joshua Musinguzi, head of Uganda's Aids control programme said that his country has some way to go to reach the targets, but that they are achievable.
"I like them because they are setting a stage for the country to move towards epidemic control.
"The idea now is to move towards an Aids-free generation for Uganda.
"In the last three consecutive years, we have actually enrolled more people on treatment each year than the number of new infections in those years.
"This is a tipping point in the epidemic."
That is a significant milestone.
However, Professor Vinand Nantulya, head of the Uganda Aids Commission, points out that currently the number of infected people on treatment is outnumbered by those who are not.
"In Uganda, it's about 1.7 million people who should be on treatment and so far we are reaching about 800,000", said Prof Nantulya.
"So we will need [more] money and [more] staff in the hospitals and clinics to put people on treatment, and then we need to follow up those on treatment to be sure that the treatment is having impact on the viral load in the blood."
Monitoring viral load requires expensive lab equipment that is not available in most Ugandan hospitals and clinics.
More than doubling the number of people on medication will more than double the antiretroviral drugs bill.
Currently about 80% of Uganda's HIV medication is paid for by international donors while the rest comes from the country's own coffers.
Both overseas funders and the Ugandan government will need to dig much deeper to meet UNAids' 90-90-90 targets.
According to Dr Medard Bitekyerezo, deputy chairperson of the Parliamentary Aids committee: "We are looking at levies on bank transactions and interest.
"We are looking at air tickets, beer, soft drinks and even cigarettes," as examples of goods and services which could be taxed to feed the AIDS fund.
Dr Bitekyerezo stressed: "This money is going to be specifically targeted for HIV-related issues".
Zimbabwe and Ghana are the only other African countries with similar HIV-dedicated funding mechanisms.
Listen to The Truth About Aids on the BBC World Service | Uganda's government is aiming to launch an ambitious campaign of HIV testing for its citizens. | 32917020 |
Residents on Montagu Estate in Kenton, Newcastle have launched a "Save our Green" campaign against plans for 10 homes on the field by Burnfoot Way.
Campaigner Mark Skelton said it was "the hub" of the entire estate, where people meet "on a daily basis" and where their children come to play.
Developer ISOS Housing has been approached for comment.
Resident Stephanie Sutton said: "Obesity is an issue, health is an issue, mental health is an issue.
"If our kids have nowhere to come out, and mix with other people, it's very sad for them."
Newcastle City Council said it had a responsibility to meet the housing needs of all its residents.
People were welcome to comment on the plans as part of the public consultation running until 7 December, it said. | A protest has been staged over plans to build houses on a housing estate's last remaining green space. | 38038928 |
The scrum-half came off the bench, kicked a penalty and converted his own try as the Wallabies beat the All Blacks for the first time since 2011.
Prop Sekope Kepu and winger Adam Ashley-Cooper also crossed for the Australians with Nehe Milner-Skudder scoring twice on his New Zealand debut.
The All Blacks led 19-17 with 11 minutes left before White took control.
Victory gives Michael Cheika's side a boost before next weekend's Bledisloe Cup decider at Eden Park, as well as the forthcoming World Cup.
Dan Carter kicked New Zealand into a 6-3 lead in the first-half, with Matt Giteau responding for the Wallabies.
Aaron Smith's sin-bin started the second-half drama, and Australia capitalised on the extra man as Kepu danced over for his first Test try - to make amends for his early yellow card.
Carter's third kick of the game made it 10-9 and it saw the All Blacks fly-half become the first person in Test rugby union history to reach 1,500 points.
With Nick Phipps in the bin, Milner-Skudder raced over to put the Kiwis ahead again but Ashley-Cooper restored Australia's lead when he snuck in to score in the corner, and Giteau converted.
Winger Milner-Skudder scrambled over for his second to make it 19-17, but Carter missed his second conversion, and White stole the glory to win it late on for the Wallabies.
Australia: Folau, Ashley-Cooper, Kuridrani, Giteau, Mitchell, Foley, Phipps, Sio, Moore, Kepu, Mumm, Horwill, Fardy, Hooper, Pocock.
Replacements: Polota-Nau, Slipper, Holmes, Skelton, McCalman, White, Toomua, Beale.
New Zealand: B Smith, Milner-Skudder, C Smith, Williams, Savea, Carter, A Smith, Woodcock, Coles, O Franks, Retallick, Romano, Kaino, McCaw, Read.
Replacements: Taylor, B Franks, Laulala, Whitelock, Cane, Perenara, Barrett, Fekitoa.
Referee: Wayne Barnes (RFU) | Nic White's late scoring burst gave Australia victory over New Zealand to claim the Rugby Championship in Sydney. | 33834620 |
They were called to Soccerworld on Croftcroighn Road in the Ruchazie area of the city at 10:50.
A car had collided with another but a police spokesman said they did not believe a firearm was involved.
One man had minor injuries as a result of the crash and was taken to hospital.
Police Scotland urged anyone with information to contact them.
The spokesman added: "There were no reports of firearms being discharged and upon attendance, it is not believed that a firearm was involved.
"One man sustained minor injuries as a result of the road traffic collision, he has been taken to hospital for observation.
"Officers are continuing to establish the circumstances surrounding the incident and remain in the area." | Police officers and a force helicopter were sent to an incident in the north of Glasgow after reports of a disturbance and a man carrying a firearm. | 37596743 |
When Alaynna Jetley marched out of a photo booth with a wallet in her hand, her mother, Ayesha, was at first intrigued, then full of pride.
"She went straight up to the helpdesk to hand in the wallet, and the woman behind the counter helped her fill in a lost and found form. I didn't think anything of it," Ayesha told the BBC.
But then things got interesting.
That same evening, they received a call from Matt, the owner of the wallet, and discovered just how important it was to him.
"As well as money, his HGV licence and passport photos ready for a move overseas were inside.
"Losing it would have been a huge hassle, and he wanted to thank Alaynna with a gift.
"I said there was no need, but he insisted.
"He wanted to give her something more substantial than chocolate, and asked what she likes.
"I mentioned she was keen on seeing the film Beauty and the Beast."
And so the fairytale began. Grateful Matt bought tickets for her to see the film and asked to bring them to her the following Saturday.
"It was going to be a surprise for her. She was already having her own princess birthday party that day so it was good timing. The icing on the cake was that she had even chosen a Beauty and the Beast cake. It was really magical," said Ayesha.
"My husband and son were also waiting to see Alaynna's face when Matt arrived with her present.
"He was amazing. She showed him her cake and asked him loads of questions."
She learned during his 15-minute visit that he was moving to the Philippines and that his granddaughter had been born in the back of a police car one snowy January day.
Ayesha was so moved by the kind gesture that she shared the experience with the website The Motherload, whose community has given it the thumbs up.
"She keeps telling my mum and my brothers all about Matt, who in turn wanted her to remember how good she had been.
"I thought it was such a lovely thing to do. That act of kindness in making the effort to get in touch was a wonderful gesture.
"To be honest, I thought the wallet would just be retrieved and that would be the end of it. If that had been me, I don't know if I would have done something like that."
And now proud Ayesha's little princess has her own fairytale to tell.
The End.
Compiled by Sherie Ryder, BBC UGC and Social News team. | Once upon a time, a six-year-old girl became part of her own fairytale after she found a wallet in a supermarket in Stafford. | 39417904 |
Plastic surgeon Dr Eduardo Rodriguez led the team that performed the 26-hour surgery to give injured volunteer firefighter Patrick Hardison, aged 41, a new face.
The donor was a 26-year-old, David Rodebaugh, who was fatally injured in a cycling accident.
The operation took place in August.
How to build a whole new face
At the time, the team at the NYU Langone Medical Center said the procedure had a 50:50 chance of working.
Mr Hardison, who was injured in a house fire as he attempted to rescue a woman he believed was trapped in the blaze, had third degree burns of his entire face and scalp.
He waited more than a year on a donor register for a perfect match - not only blood type but someone with fair skin and light hair.
Two operating teams worked in unison, one preparing the donor and the other the recipient.
Three months on from the million dollar procedure, Mr Hardison, a father of five, is healing nicely, although he will need to take anti-rejection drugs for the rest of his life to stop his body's immune system from fighting the transplant.
Dr Rodriguez estimates that no more than five of the other patients who have received facial transplants around the world died after the new tissue was rejected.
He told a press conference: "The amount of tissue transplanted in Patrick has not been done before.
"He is doing very well today for only day 93 [post-op]."
The procedure has restored his eyelids and blinking mechanism and he now has a full head of hair, as well as eyebrows, stubble and ears.
Mr Hardison will need more operations in a few months time to remove some of the loose skin around his eyes and lips.
Mr Hardison says he is deeply grateful to his donor and the surgical team.
"They have given me more than a new face. They have given me a new life."
In 2005, a French woman called Isabelle Dinoire - who had sustained severe facial injuries after being mauled by a dog - made history by becoming the first patient in the world to have a partial face transplant.
Since then, more than 20 other patients have received partial or full face transplants at institutes across the globe.
In 2010, a Spanish farmer, identified only as Oscar, was the first to have a full face transplant. His surgery replaced the nose and lips, but not the ears and scalp.
Dr James Partridge, Chief Executive of the UK charity Changing Faces, said an altered appearance can be psychologically difficult to adjust to.
"There are myriad ethical issues too, and we mustn't lose sight of the complexities by just celebrating a successful transplant operation. In many ways, Mr Hardison's journey is only just beginning." | US surgeons say they have carried out the world's most extensive face transplant to date, including the entire scalp, ears and eyelids. | 34831206 |
Analysing latest official statistics, the party said there were 9,661 nurses in training last year, a drop of more than 500 from the previous year.
The Scottish government said nursing and midwifery student intakes were based on "careful strategic planning".
But the Tories said "unnecessary millions" were being spent on using bank and agency nurses to "plug gaps".
Health spokesman Jackson Carlaw said that while the number of first-year entrants to nursing training increased in 2013/14, the intake of 2,911 was still the second lowest since the turn of the millennium.
"We are all too aware that with an increasing and ageing population, there is going to be more pressure on nursing resources in coming years," he said.
"So quite why the SNP has presided over a system where fewer are being trained up is a mystery.
"We've got the facilities to be developing our own nurses, but find ourselves in this incredible position where health boards are having to scour the globe for staff. On the basis of these statistics, that problem is only going to get worse."
He called on ministers to improve forward planning and enough nurses were recruited and trained to cope with "future challenges".
He added: "It's no wonder NHS budgets are so tight when so many unnecessary millions are spent plugging gaps."
A Scottish government spokeswoman said: "Over the past two years the Scottish government has increased the number of students entering funded nursing and midwifery pre-registration courses.
"We have supported national initiatives that improve recruitment and retention, and in recent years have seen an increase in the number of students completing the three-year course - from 1,906 in 2009/10 to 2,226 in 2013/14.
"In the last year alone, over 1,000 extra whole-time equivalent qualified nurses and midwives have started working in Scotland's NHS and we know that to increase this further we must continue to train the appropriate number of nurses and midwives to be able to provide the best possible care for the future." | The number of nurses training in Scotland is at its lowest level for six years, the Scottish Conservatives say. | 30561232 |
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It broke in Nottingham's Old Market Square, spraying a jet more than twice the height of a double-decker bus into the air.
The water also fell on buses and trams on Monday.
It was later repaired. | A fire hydrant showered shoppers with water when it burst, creating a 15m high fountain in a city centre. | 32053169 |
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The 50-year-old led Great Britain to eight gold medals at both the Beijing and London Olympics and has transformed the sport during his 10-year reign.
Chief executive: Ian Drake
Technical director with responsibility for rider performance: Shane Sutton
Programmes director responsible for development: Andy Harrison
Head of performance support: To be appointed
"It's a big step but the right decision for the team and for me," he said.
Head coach Shane Sutton will now become technical director responsible for rider performance ahead of the 2016 Rio Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Since taking charge of Team Sky in 2009, Brailsford masterminded Tour de France wins for Sir Bradley Wiggins in 2012 and Chris Froome last year.
The success of Team Sky has taken more and more of his time, leading to his decision to now concentrate all of his efforts on the road-racing team.
He is currently preparing for this year's Giro d'Italia, which starts in Belfast next month, and the Tour de France, which starts in Yorkshire on 5 July.
Andy Harrison will continue as British Cycling's programmes director and, along with Sutton, will work alongside a new "head of performance support".
London 2012
Men's Road Time Trial: Bradley Wiggins, Men's Keirin: Chris Hoy, Men's Team Sprint: Philip Hindes, Jason Kenny, Chris Hoy, Men's Sprint: Jason Kenny, Women's Keirin: Victoria Pendleton, Women's Team Pursuit: Laura Trott, Dani King, Joanna Rowsell, Men's Team Pursuit: Ed Clancy, Geraint Thomas, Peter Kennaugh, Steven Burke, Women's Omnium: Laura Trott,
Beijing 2008
Road Race: Nicole Cooke, Sprint: Chris Hoy, Keirin: Chris Hoy, Sprint: Victoria Pendleton, Individual Pursuit: Rebecca Romero, Individual Pursuit: Bradley Wiggins, Team Pursuit: Bradley Wiggins, Ed Clancy, Geraint Thomas, Paul Manning, Team Sprint: Chris Hoy, Jason Kenny, Jamie Staff
Athens 2004
Bradley Wiggins: Individual Pursuit, Chris Hoy: Kilo
Steve Peters, meanwhile, has stepped down as the team's psychiatrist.
Brailsford told BBC Radio 5 live: "It's been a little bit like running Liverpool and England, to use a football analogy, and it came to a point where it was getting so stretched that I felt it was the right time to step to one side and let the next team to step up.
"There are brilliant coaches who are still in place so there will be continuity and a smooth handover and I won't be far away. I'm still in the sport and hopefully at hand if anybody needs any help or advice."
He added: "I'd like to thank all the great staff who I've worked with, and of course the amazing athletes who ultimately deserve all the credit for their success.
"I have some extraordinary memories - not just from Olympic Games and World Championships but also just day-to-day, seeing cycling go from a fringe activity to a mainstream sport.
"I've always said that, more than any of the medals, the transformation of cycling in Britain is the single thing I'm most proud of having helped achieve."
British Cycling chief executive Ian Drake paid tribute to the contribution of Brailsford and Peters, and added: "In Shane and Andy, I'm confident we have the right management team to take us into Rio and beyond.
"The sport of cycling in this country has travelled a long way in the last few years but the best is yet to come."
Tour de France winner Sir Bradley Wiggins, who has worked closely with Brailsford, was also full of praise for his achievements.
"He has taken us from a team in Atlanta in 1996 who had to pay for their own kit and not medalling, to the best, most feared track team in the world," he said.
Brailsford joined British Cycling in 1997 and took over as performance director when Peter Keen left in 2003.
He revolutionised the sport with his attention to detail and focussing on "marginal gains" which brought Team GB 30 Olympic medals - mainly on the track - between 2004 and 2012.
He was made MBE in 2005, CBE in 2009 and was knighted after the London Olympics.
In December 2012 he won the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Coach Award for a second time. | Sir Dave Brailsford has quit as performance director of British Cycling to concentrate on running Team Sky. | 26984825 |
The Dragons raced to 26-0 ahead early on as Jodie Broughton, Dave Taylor, Pat Richards, Jason Baitieri and Glenn Stewart crossed.
The hosts got to within four points as Anthony Tupou, Joe Arundel, Reece Lyne and Tom Johnstone touched down.
But Richie Myler and two Tony Gigot tries secured the win for Catalans.
Former Dragons forward Mickael Simon crossed over for the late consolation score, but the Wildcats have now lost four of their opening five matches of 2016.
The French side, who had Remi Casty back from an eight-month knee injury, won just twice away from home last season and have now beaten Wakefield four games straight.
They have won back-to-back games after losses to Wigan and Hull FC in their first two matches.
Wakefield coach Brian Smith: "I was very disappointed with our defensive performance in the first half and, when we got ourselves back in the game, we let ourselves down with defensive problems.
"If you concede 42 points you are not going to win. That part was very disappointing, generally we're better than that.
"The boys were still putting in at the end but you get no medals for trying. In professional sport you've got to be better than that."
Catalans coach Laurent Frayssinous: "I think we were very good for the first 20 minutes and, although we let in some soft tries, we leave with two points.
"Defensively we need to improve but to come away and score 40 points is pleasing.
"Since the first day he arrived in Perpignan in November, Richie (Myler) has worked very hard. I know what he can bring to the team with the ball and defensively he's working very hard.
"His partnership with Todd (Carney) is improving, I'm very happy with Richie."
Wakefield: Jones-Bishop; Lyne, Arundel, Hall, Johnstone; Miller, Finn; Scruton, Howarth, England, Molloy, Ashurst, Simon.
Replacements: Sio, Tupou, Arona, Annakin.
Catalans: Gigot, Broughton, Inu, Duport, Richards, Carney, Myler; Anderson, Pelissier, Taylor, Stewart, Horo, Baitieri.
Replacements: Casty, Bosc, Bousquet, Mason. | Catalans Dragons ran in eight tries as they won in England for the first time this Super League season with a convincing victory at Wakefield. | 35698315 |
"Sexual predator" Jason Lawrance, 50, of Liphook, Hampshire, used two profiles to meet the seven women.
Lawrance, who will be sentenced on Thursday, committed three sex attacks months after marrying someone he met via the site, Derby Crown Court heard.
The attacks took place between June 2011 and November 2014.
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The court was told Lawrance used his profiles keepitstraighttoday and straightmanlooking on Match.com but was keen to talk to women offline.
His seven victims were from five English counties.
Officers began investigating Lawrance after Derbyshire Police received a call in November 2014 from a woman who claimed one of her friends was raped by him.
The court heard that in June 2011, Lawrance drove a woman down a remote country lane near Crick in Northamptonshire and raped her in the back of his van.
Two years later, in July 2013, Lawrance contacted a woman by saying "Boo! xx" 24 hours after attempting to rape her at her house in Spalding, Lincolnshire.
The jury was told he had consensual sex at a woman's house in Buxton, Derbyshire, in November that year, but the following day raped her despite her "screaming hysterically".
He then sent her a text message reading: "When you were crying out for me to stop I couldn't, I'm so mad at myself xxx" and another saying "I was disgusted with myself for hurting you. I am so sorry. I am too rough for you xxx xx".
Lawrance, described by police as a "sexual predator", was also convicted of sexually assaulting a woman in February 2014 by grabbing her right breast over her clothing in a car parked at a hotel near East Midlands Airport.
He was also found guilty of raping a woman in a hotel room in Cambridgeshire in October 2014, in an attack in which he slapped her face and bit her lip, neck and breast.
A month later, he raped two more women - one he had met through Match.com at a hotel in Leicestershire, and another at her home following a meeting at a coffee shop in Sheffield, the court was told.
Det Ch Insp Allison Rigby praised the victims for their "bravery" for giving evidence.
She said: "Jason Lawrance is a prolific, serial rapist who preyed on women he had contacted through Match.com.
"These women were looking for companionship and instead what they found was a man who was willing to commit serious sexual offences against them."
During his defence, Lawrance claimed he had consensual sex with all of the victims.
Derbyshire's Police and Crime Commissioner Alan Charles said more needed to be done to make people aware of the dangers of popular dating sites.
"Personal safety advice used to incorporate avoiding walking down dark alleys at night, but the internet can be the darkest alley of all," he said.
A Match.com spokesman said it had the "most heartfelt concern" for the victims and that "the safety of our members is our highest priority".
An acquaintance of Lawrance told the BBC he attended school with him in Hinckley, Leicestershire, in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
"Jason Lawrance had a reputation for being a hard boy; the hardest in his year," he said. "You didn't pick a fight with him." | A man has been found guilty of raping five women and attacking two more after meeting them on internet dating site Match.com. | 35699471 |
The 29-year-old was fatally shot by a police marksman in north London and his death sparked riots in Tottenham that spread nationwide in August 2011.
Hugh Southey QC said the coroner had given the jury an "unlawful direction" which made the original verdict unsafe.
The Court of Appeal judges have reserved judgement in the case and will announce the ruling at a future date.
Addressing the three Court of Appeal judges earlier, Mr Southey QC said: "No verdict is better than one based on an unlawful direction."
He said it was important to the family that the previous unlawful killing verdict be overturned and for it to be recorded as unsafe.
An inquest jury previously concluded by a majority of eight to two that Mr Duggan had lawfully been killed by armed police.
His aunt, Carole Duggan, has always maintained the death was an execution.
No gun was ever found on Mr Duggan but a weapon was discovered about 20ft (6m) away from where he died.
No date has yet been set for the Court of Appeal ruling. | Mark Duggan's family has urged judges to overturn an "unsafe" lawful killing inquest verdict delivered in 2014. | 39142080 |
Zohore has scored 11 goals this season having joined from Belgian club KV Kortrijk for an undisclosed fee in the summer of 2016.
The 23-year-old signed a three-year contract having spent the second half of the 2015-16 season on loan at Cardiff.
Zohore has scored six goals in 15 games for Denmark at under-21 level. | Cardiff City top scorer Kenneth Zohore has signed a contract extension to stay at the Championship club until 2020. | 39751940 |
But it said was still committed to bringing another 15,000 refugees from Syria by the end of February.
It had previously promised to take in 25,000 by the year's end.
Unaccompanied men will be excluded from the resettlement programme but officials said this had nothing to do with national security concerns.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he rejected the idea of "exclusion" for single men.
"We want them to have a roof over their head, and the right support," said Immigration, Refugee and Citizenship Minister John McCallum.
"It takes a bit of time to put that all in place. We're happy to take a little more time that originally planned to bring our new friends into the country."
Those who will be considered refugees include families, women at risk, and gay men and women.
The refugees will be both privately sponsored and government-assisted, either registered with the UN Refugee Agency or with the government of Turkey.
Government officials promised "robust" health and security screenings, to be done overseas, and said military and private aircraft would assist with transportation of refugees to Canada.
Refugees will go to 36 "destination" cities, 12 of them in Quebec.
Mr McCallum said the attacks in Paris did not affect the government's decision to slow down the transport of Syrian refugees, citing the logistical struggles with completing the pledge.
Mr Trudeau made Canada's acceptance of Syrian refugees central to his campaign.
After the Paris attacks, he reiterated his commitment to ending Canadian air strikes in Syria and Iraq. | The Canadian government says it will resettle only 10,000 Syrian refugees by the end of this year - less than half the number it promised earlier. | 34917532 |
Kick-off was scheduled for 19:45 BST but the game started over an hour late.
North Korea beat Colombia 2-0 in the second of the Olympic matches held at Hampden Park on Wednesday.
Games organisers in London have apologised to North Korean officials for the mistake.
The error occurred when a video package was being shown ahead of kick-off, with the North Koreans noticing that their faces were being pictured alongside the South Korean flag.
The squad walked off and could only be persuaded to return when the teams were announced again with each player's face displayed next to the North Korean flag.
The BBC's sports editor David Bond said it was an "embarrassing mistake" and not the start Games organisers would have wanted on the first day of sporting action, but "no great harm was done".
Relations between the two Koreas are tense - they remain technically at war following the 1950-53 Korean conflict, which ended in an armistice.
Speaking after the match, North Korea's coach Sin Ui Gun said: "Our team was not going to participate unless the problem was solved properly.
"Unfortunately it took some time later for the broadcast to be done again properly and we made the decision to go on with the match."
He added: "Our players cannot be shown especially with other flags, especially the South Korean one.
"If this matter had not been solved, continuing would have been a nonsense."
A statement released by London 2012 organisers said: "Today ahead of the women's football match at Hampden Park, the South Korean flag was shown on a big screen video package instead of the North Korean flag.
"Clearly that is a mistake, we will apologise to the team and the National Olympic Committee and steps will be taken to ensure this does not happen again."
It was not immediately clear who had produced the video shown in the stadium.
London 2012 spokesman Andy Mitchell said: "The South Korean flag was shown in the video package on the screen before the kickoff and the North Koreans were naturally very upset about that.
"We have made a full apology to the team and the North Korean NOC. A genuine mistake was made for which we apologise."
South Korea will face North Korea in the first round of the men's Olympic table tennis team event after the pair were drawn against each other on Wednesday.
The first event of the Olympics got under way at 1600 BST at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium on Wednesday and ended in a win for Team GB over New Zealand in the women's football. Two matches also took place at the City of Coventry stadium.
In other Olympics news:
Meanwhile, thousands of Games spectators have arrived in London, on one of the busiest days for Heathrow airport.
A strike by border staff, due to take place on the eve of Friday's opening ceremony, has been called off by union officials. | The North Korean women's football team walked off the pitch at their Olympic match in Glasgow after their images were shown on a screen beside a South Korean flag. | 18991619 |
Olympic champion Lizzy Yarnold finished a disappointing 15th place in Switzerland, with Dom Parsons 10th and Jack Thomas 18th in the men's race.
Donna Creighton won skeleton gold for GB in the North American Cup on Thursday.
Creighton took top spot in Lake Placid after a silver in the Intercontinental Cup competition in Calgary. | Wales' Laura Deas finished sixth in the women's World Cup skeleton event in St Moritz. | 38697508 |
Paul and Sandra Dunham "vehemently reject" allegations of fraud and money-laundering while working at a US company.
Last month their bid to avoid extradition was rejected by the High Court.
Their lawyers have now asked permission to appeal to the Supreme Court.
Mr Dunham, 58, was chief executive and president of Pace, a US company manufacturing soldering irons for the electronics industry.
He was indicted on 13 counts of fraud and money-laundering by a grand jury in Maryland, in December 2011.
Mrs Dunham, 57, is accused of aiding and abetting him.
Mr Dunham said he wanted the Supreme Court to recognise the "improper way the US criminal system has been exploited to cause Sandra and me the greatest personal, emotional and financial hardship imaginable".
The High Court heard the couple were in the US for a decade from 1999 to 2009. | A couple from Northampton who face extradition to the United States have asked to have their case heard at the Supreme Court. | 26423942 |
Rekawt Kayani, 34, was apprehended on a European arrest warrant at his home in Normanton, Derby, in May.
He is facing trafficking charges including facilitating the entry of migrants, which could see him jailed for 10 years.
The 34-year-old was one of three men detained as part of a joint investigation with French authorities.
The other two men - a 29-year-old from Derby and a 32-year-old from Gillingham - have since been released on bail.
District Judge Vanessa Baraitser told the hearing at Westminster Magistrates' Court she rejected three issues raised by his defence.
She said: "In light of the serious nature of the allegations, I have taken the view that extradition would not be disproportionate."
It is alleged Rekawt Kayani organised numerous smuggling runs, including one in June 2015 when 68 migrants were found inside four lorries at Harwich International Port in Essex.
Thirty-five of the migrants were from Afghanistan, 22 from China, 10 from Vietnam and one was from Russia.
The National Crime Agency (NCA) also believes he orchestrated runs from Dieppe in France to Newhaven, East Sussex. | A British-Iraqi man accused of smuggling hundreds of migrants into the UK is set to be extradited to France. | 37376593 |
Motorists, including taxi drivers, will be charged £1 to access the ground floor of the short stay car park opposite the terminal building.
Director of Radio Taxis, Perry McMillan said it was likely the charges "will get passed back to the customer".
The airport said the fees would "support future investment".
In a statement it said following a "full review of all facilities" the £1 charge would be introduced from September.
Free drop-off and pick-up will still be available at the long stay car park, but passengers will need to take a shuttle bus to get to and from the terminal.
Mr McMillan, whose firm employs 450 drivers, described the plan as a "money-making scheme" and called for an exemption for taxis.
"We're in a tip-driven industry where it will hit our earnings. It's just an inconvenience all round.
"We're all proud to have an airport and it brings in a lot of work to everyone, but let's have a process where they appreciate we're bringing their customers to them and getting them home safely," he added.
The airport said the charge replaces the current regulations in which taxi drivers are not allowed to return to the airport within 30 minutes of dropping off or picking up. | Plans to introduce pick-up and drop-off charges at Southampton Airport have been criticised by the city's largest taxi firm. | 36471493 |
When the law comes into effect on 1 January, the Golden State will become the first to outlaw the practice for people under the age of 18.
The bill was backed by mental health groups, and gay rights activists say reparative or "conversion therapy" can increase risk of depression or suicide.
Counselling and prayer is used to help some Christians deal with gay urges.
The bill was signed over the weekend along with more than 100 pieces of legislation sent to the governor by California's state legislature.
Two Christian groups, the California-based Pacific Justice Institute and the Florida-based Liberty Counsel will challenge the law.
The Liberty Counsel said it planned to argue in its lawsuit that the measure infringes on the First Amendment and equal protection rights.
In his statement, Gov Brown said sexual orientation change efforts "have no basis in science or medicine and they will now be relegated to the dustbin of quackery".
The Human Rights Campaign, an advocacy group, said: "We're grateful to Governor Brown for standing with California's children.
"LGBT [lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender] youth will now be protected from a practice that has not only been debunked as junk science, but has been proven to have drastically negative effects on their well-being," the gay rights advocate added, urging other states to take up similar measures.
But the National Association for Research and Therapy on Homosexuality said the bill was a "legislative over-reach".
Some conservative groups have said banning the therapy would restrict a parent's right to care for children going through gender confusion.
California is embroiled in a long-standing legal tussle over gay marriage.
A law called Proposition 8 banned same-sex marriage in California just months after it had been introduced. But a court overturned the ban in 2010.
After an appeal was upheld, the matter may now come before the US Supreme Court for a final ruling. | California Governor Jerry Brown has signed into law a ban on therapy aimed at making gay teenagers straight. | 19789505 |
The inquiry will also look at the adequacy of regulations, the tower's recent refurbishment, and the response of authorities in the aftermath.
Broader questions on social housing will not be included, which campaigners say are central to the situation.
Labour says the inquiry was "closing off criticism of government policy".
However, Prime Minister Theresa May said the government would meet social housing tenants to "discuss the challenges they face" and would be setting out further proposals "in due course".
At least 80 people are thought to have died in the fire in North Kensington, west London, on 14 June.
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The full terms of reference for the public inquiry, which have been accepted in full by the prime minister, are:
The judge heading the inquiry, Sir Martin Moore-Bick, had previously said its scope could be much more limited.
Karim Mussilhy is still waiting for the remains of his uncle to be found and identified.
Asked whether he has confidence in the inquiry, he said: "I support it…(but) confidence is a very strong word. I have more confidence in the criminal investigation than I do the public inquiry."
Joe Delaney from the Grenfell Action Group has raised concerns about how the inquiry will scrutinise Kensington and Chelsea Council.
Speaking on Radio 4's PM, Mr Delaney said: "If it is interpreted as narrowly as it seems Sir Martin Moore-Bick instinctively seems to interpret things then we may have a serious problem."
Meanwhile, campaigners including Justice4Grenfell (J4G) and Labour MP David Lammy, who knew a victim of the fire, have raised concerns over the exclusion of social issues.
The mayor of London said in a statement questions should be answered "if the community's shattered confidence is to be restored".
Sadiq Khan urged Sir Martin to do "everything in his power" to publish the interim report as quickly as possible.
J4G spokeswoman Yvette Williams said the group would consider working with Sir Martin if he appointed community advisers.
Local MP Emma Dent Coad said the scope "will not get to the heart of the problem".
The shadow fire minister said the terms "touch on concerns" but that political decisions need to be looked into after it was made "perfectly permissible to put combustible materials on a tower block".
The leader of Kensington and Chelsea Council said it was fully cooperating with the inquiry.
"We must find out what went wrong and make sure it never happens again, not only in this borough, but anywhere in the UK," Elizabeth Campbell added.
Meanwhile, Sir Martin has suggested that a failure to address the long-term immigration status of some survivors could hinder his work.
He urged the government to "take all necessary steps" to encourage those living in the building illegally to come forward, adding that it could deprive the investigation of "valuable" evidence if they didn't.
The government responded to his concerns by pointing to a 12-month amnesty that would allow such individuals temporary lawful residence in the UK.
The inquiry has now officially begun and will hold its first hearing on 14 September, with an initial report by Easter.
The terms of reference were determined following consideration of more than 550 submissions.
The Met has said it would investigate "all criminal offences that may have been committed".
The Institution of Occupational Safety and Health - a chartered body - submitted a response to the consultation. It says the inquiry should be "a watershed for fire safety". | The actions of Kensington and Chelsea Council are to be considered in the Grenfell Tower fire inquiry, the government has announced. | 40935955 |
The public service audit - announced over the weekend - is easy to dismiss as a gimmick; yet this is the same politician who, as home secretary, ordered the police to reduce the use of stop and search, which across England and Wales had seen black people seven times more likely to be stopped than white people.
Mrs May recognised that the use of this power had a corrosive effect on confidence in the police, particularly when, according to the Home Office's most recent figures, for 2013-14, only 12% of what are known as "Section 1 stops" lead to an arrest.
Yet the audit - which is not just about race but will also pull together statistics on issues such as the under-achievement of white boys in education, especially those from poorer backgrounds, relative to other groups - raises some important concerns Mrs May's team will need to answer if it is to become a catalyst for change.
Take the case of deaths in or following police custody. Last year, there were 14 deaths, according to the Independent Police Complaints Commission.
"We believe sometimes when the police come into contact with a black person who is of reasonable size, they say, 'We're going to have to take this one down heavy,' and the facts are, at the end of the day, if you're black, you're three times more likely to be Tasered than anybody else," Desmond Jaddoo, a community activist in Birmingham, told me, adding: "The figures speak for themselves."
The Taser statistics may do, but other figures need more clarity. For example, deaths after contact with police can include being hit by a patrol car on its way to an incident; few would argue that there could be a racial bias in who gets knocked down.
If the audit is going to tell us something of value, it needs to drill down into the figures and ensure different departments, councils and agencies are recording the same thing in the same way.
Figures can be made to look better or worse depending on over how many years you measure them, a tactic often deployed by politicians trying to put the best gloss on a policy.
Sam Gyimah, a junior minister at the Ministry of Justice, told BBC Radio 4's The World This Weekend programme the change of policy initiated by Mrs May at the Home Office meant black people were now four times more likely to be stopped than white people.
Yet this improvement could have been achieved by searching more white people rather than fewer black people. So, the audit needs to be qualitative as well as about numbers.
I asked Cdr Mak Chishty, who speaks for police chiefs in England and Wales on issues of race, religion and faith, whether, since crime did not appear to have increased as a result of fewer stop and searches, they had been a damaging waste of effort.
"You can say actually were they necessary in the first place, but the main important thing is our drive, principles, our values", he told me as he prepared for duty at the Notting Hill Carnival in London.
"We're not there to harass the public. We were doing them where we thought there was a risk."
Mr Gyimah said: "Government can act where there is evidence."
Yet, since much of the evidence that will appear in the audit already exists, the test will be whether it is acted upon.
Mr Gyimah is confident it will "drive real change in our public services"
"It will also empower the citizens," he said.
"Everyone in this country will be able to look at these data sets, and you hold public services to account."
Kedisha Brown-Burrell has been attempting to do that since 31 March 2011, the day her brother's life support machine was switched off. Kingsley Burrell died after an incident involving West Midlands Police.
"We didn't get any information until the inquest, which was four years later," she told me when we met in Birmingham.
"We started to realise how long Kingsley was under restraint, how long he was sedated, the use of force."
Ms Brown-Burrell is now waiting for a decision by the Crown Prosecution Service over whether or not anyone should be charged in connection with his death. Last week, the family and other campaigners held a demonstration outside the local office of the CPS.
Delays are frustrating, but she told me the worst thing had been the lack of information.
Her anger would have been lessened, she said, if someone in authority had sat down with the family soon after Kingsley's death to explain what was known and what questions still needed to be answered.
"In our culture, we see if anything's going to be prolonged for a long period of time, in our eyes it's being covered up," she said.
Her last remark reveals the challenge Mrs May faces in restoring confidence, particularly within the criminal justice system.
The information in the audit may shine a light on how our public services treat certain groups, but evidence will need to be followed by action.
Shaun Ley presents The World This Weekend during the summer, at 13:00 BST on Sundays, and afterwards available on the BBC Radio 4 website. | Theresa May didn't quote St Francis of Assisi when she spoke for the first time as Prime Minister outside Number 10, but her faith is if anything a stronger motivator than Margaret Thatcher's was for her. | 37230257 |
The 71-year-old man and 65-year-old woman were walking in the north of the city when the incident happened.
It took place at about 16:00 on Friday in the park at the junction of Boswall Parkway, Grierson Road and Boswall Drive.
The 49-year-old will now be reported to the procurator fiscal.
The unrestrained dog was described as being a pit bull type breed.
The couple, who had been walking their own dog at the time, were treated in hospital for their injuries, but were released the same day. | A woman has been charged with an offence under the Dangerous Dogs Act after an elderly couple were attacked by a dog in Edinburgh. | 30590422 |
Last year, Northern Ireland became the first part of the UK to pass legislation making the purchase of sexual services illegal.
Anyone caught breaking the new law could face up to a year in prison and a fine of £1,000.
Assembly members voted by 81 to 10 in favour of the measure, brought by the DUP peer Lord Morrow.
Supporters said it tackled one of the main drivers behind human trafficking.
Opponents included Justice Minister David Ford who claimed it would be difficult to enforce. | Legislation making it a crime to pay for sex has come into effect in Northern Ireland. | 32955767 |
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