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The eBay-owned business said it planned to launch the service in the US before April 2012.
Paypal's president, Scott Thompson, told the Bloomberg news agency that his firm would use its knowledge of its 103 million members' past purchases to tailor offers.
The move poses a challenge to the sector's two biggest players, Groupon and Livingsocial.
Daily deal businesses offer their members the chance to buy goods or services - from spa treatments and sushi to cheap flights and theatre tickets - at a steep discount.
Buyers are usually limited to using the coupons within a restricted time span.
The daily dealer business then splits the revenue with the organisation providing the goods. Companies may make a loss on the specific offer, but profit if customers return for repeat business.
According to the daily deal data aggregator Yipit, four of the biggest players
sold close to $210m (£135m) worth of coupons
in the US in October. The firms surveyed were Groupon, Livingsocial, Amazonlocal and Google Offers.
Mr Thompson said Paypal's service would be "different" because the firm would only offer unique and relevant offers rather than "bombard" its members.
A spokesman for the company hinted it might launch coupons in the UK soon after the US.
"We don't have any specific plans to bring this to the UK at this stage," said spokesman Rob Skinner.
"But Britain is Paypal's second biggest market after the United States, and the past shows that the big developments in the US tends to travel across the Atlantic to the UK very quickly."
Although analysts forecast growth for the sector, they have repeatedly warned that the firms involved are likely to face increasing competition because the barrier to entry is relatively low.
In the past two years KGB Deals, Time Out, Grabone, the Telegraph newspaper, Discountvouchers, STV and Mightydeals are among those to have started targeting the UK public with discounted coupon offers.
However, while it may be relatively easy to enter the market, some firms are finding it hard to replicate Groupon and Livingsocial's success.
"Daily deals are hard to do - the key to success is flawless execution of the sales process," said Shane Hayes, founder of the deal aggregator service Siftie.
"Groupon has proved it can do this and its barrier to entry is more than 5,000 local sales people knocking around doors of businesses around the world.
"What we will probably see is next is 'Daily deals 2.0' where things like better targeting, using consumer data, will be used to change consumers' experience of the phenomenon. This may give Paypal an opportunity."
In the meantime Groupon intends to maintain its lead by increasing its range of offers.
Earlier this week, the firm made headlines when it offered a pair of business class tickets to fly around the world with up to 10 stopovers. The asking price was $20,000 (£12,900). | Online payment service Paypal plans to enter the discount coupon market. | 16178266 |
But they add that the drop will roughly be balanced by slow uplift due to tectonic activity.
And they have yet to analyse satellite images of the region in which the most famous Himalayan peak - Everest - is located.
However, there continues to be debate over exactly how tall Everest is.
"The primary stretch that had its height dropped is a 80-100km stretch of the Langtang Himal (to the northwest of the capital, Kathmandu)," said Richard Briggs, a research geologist with the United States Geological Survey (USGS).
The Langtang range is the region where many locals and trekkers are still missing, presumed dead, after the avalanches and landslides that were triggered by the 7.8 magnitude earthquake on 25 April.
Scientists believe the height of a handful of other Himalayan peaks, including the Ganesh Himal to the west of the Langtang range, may also have dropped.
The satellite images they have analysed so far have focused on central Nepal, which was the hardest hit by the quake. Everest is to the east of this main shaking zone.
Scientists say whether or not the world's highest peak saw a change in its height by few centimetres will have to be further confirmed by ground survey and GPS or an airborne mission.
"But what we see in the data that we evaluated further away from the plate boundary, to the north of the capital Kathmandu, is a clearly identifiable region with subsidence of up to 1.5m," says Christian Minet, a geologist with the German Aerospace Centre (DLR), which processed the Nepal earthquake data sent by the Sentinel-1a satellite.
Scientists with DLR's Earth Observation Centre of compared two separate images of the same region sent by the satellite, before and after the quake.
"The positive value we have received (from the satellite image) after the quake means the area (the mountains in and around the Langtang region) is further away from the satellite and it is lower now," said Mr Minet.
"But with this result we cannot say that a specific mountain is one-point-something-metres lower; it is the general area that we can assess."
He said the satellite images showed the area of the mountain range had dropped by 0.7m-1.5m.
The study has also found that areas including the capital, Kathmandu, to the south of the Himalayan mountains have been uplifted by the quake.
"The negative value we have received from the acquisitions of the before and after earthquake images means that some areas (Kathmandu and its surroundings) are now closer to the satellite, and that means they have seen an uplift," says Mr Minet.
Scientists say the drop and the uplift are normal geological behaviour during an earthquake of this scale.
"The fault underneath Kathmandu has slipped and it's moved the overriding part of the crust to the south towards the southern end of the part that squashes the crust; and to the northern end it stretches it," says Tim Wright, professor of satellite geodesy at the University of Leeds.
"From where it is squashed, which is more or less underneath Kathmandu, we get uplift. And where it stretches, which is in the high mountains to the north of Kathmandu in this case, we get subsidence.
"The biggest amount of slip on the fault was actually just north of Kathmandu, so it's the mountains north of Kathmandu that have subsided the most in this particular case."
Normally, the Himalayas are on the rise because of the collision between the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates.
But during major earthquakes the process gets reversed, experts say.
"Between earthquake events, Nepal is being squashed and the part (including Kathmandu) nearest the big fault underneath it is being dragged down by the Indian plate, and [areas] further back are being lifted up as you imagine squashing something is going to push things up," says Prof Wright.
"Now, during the earthquake itself what happens is the opposite. The part that was dragged down because it was stuck at the fault - that slips freely and rebounds up, and the part that was being squashed upwards drops down."
Authorities in Nepal say they are yet to assess the impacts of the earthquake on the Himalayas as they are still occupied with rescue and rehabilitation after the devastating earthquake. | The height of a swathe of the Himalayas has dropped by around one metre as a result of the devastating Nepal earthquake, scientists say. | 32625431 |
The Home Affairs Select Committee was told about "apparent corruption right at the heart of New Scotland Yard".
Officers investigating Nigerian fraudster James Ibori were accused of taking cash payments for information.
The former inspector has denied any wrong-doing and the two serving officers have declined to comment.
The allegations surfaced during a parliamentary hearing on the role of private detectives.
During evidence from lawyer Mike Schwarz from solicitors Bindmans, MPs were told of documents which allege that private investigation firm, Risc Management Ltd, was involved in "wining and dining and paying" officers working on the James Ibori case.
Ibori was the former state governor of the oil-rich Delta region in Nigeria, a corrupt official who stole hundreds of millions of pounds from his homeland. He was sentenced to 13 years imprisonment last month after pleading guilty to laundering millions of pounds in the UK.
Mr Schwarz, representing Ibori's London lawyer who was jailed as part of the case, said: "The key culprits appear to be the key players who are the senior investigating officer, DI Gary Walters, and two of the key investigators who are DC John McDonald and DC (Peter) Clark."
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Mr Schwarz told the committee there were records that "show about half a dozen payments totalling £20,000 over eight or nine months."
The allegations were originally made in an anonymous bundle of documents sent to former Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson and the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) last summer.
In October last year, the IPCC instructed the Metropolitan Police's Directorate of Professional Standards (DPS) to conduct an internal investigation.
The paperwork included what purported to be detailed invoices and expense ledgers from Risc Management Ltd, headed at the time by two former Scotland Yard detectives, Keith Hunter and Cliff Knuckey.
Among the entries in the documents are details of what were said to be payments made to sources for confidential information about the on-going police investigation into Ibori.
One entry, dated shortly before police were due to interview James Ibori's London solicitor, reads: "Engaged with source in eliciting information re: forthcoming interviewing strategy to de (sic) deployed by police."
Immediately below, the entry states: "Cash payment made to above source for information provided. £5,000.00."
The DPS has said it has "an open mind" as to whether the documents are genuine or an elaborate forgery designed to pervert the course of justice.
Mr Schwarz criticised the internal inquiry into the corruption allegations as having "huge failings".
"Two of the key officers are still on duty on the same case and one has retired and joined Risc Management," he told the committee.
In a statement the Metropolitan Police said: "The MPS is investigating an allegation that illegal payments were made to police officers for information by a private investigation agency.
"The DPS referred the matter to the IPCC in October 2011 which agreed to supervise a DPS investigation into the allegations.
"This is an ongoing investigation and it would be inappropriate to comment further at this stage whilst the investigation is under way."
The BBC has confirmed that in the seven months since the DPS inquiry was launched, neither Risc Management, nor the law firm who hired them on behalf of James Ibori, have been contacted. No police officer has been asked about the allegations.
Already under fire for not properly investigating allegations of phone hacking, and with officers facing allegations they accepted cash from News International journalists, the new claims heap further pressure on the Metropolitan Police.
It is not possible to be certain whether the documents at the heart of the corruption allegations are genuine or elaborate fakes nor whether corrupt payments were actually made.
Risc Management denies it has ever paid money to any police officer. | Two Scotland Yard detective constables and a former detective inspector have been named as "key culprits" in bribery allegations revealed to MPs. | 18158372 |
Sue York - who has had type-1 diabetes since she was seven - would shake uncontrollably and vomit when injecting herself with insulin.
Ms York told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme the operation had "completely altered my life".
Doctors said her life expectancy had now doubled.
Ms York, 55, from Lincoln, told the programme that, following the operation, at Manchester Royal Infirmary, she felt "incredible" and full of energy.
"No longer am I struggling to walk up a flight of stairs, getting breathless walking into the wind. No longer is my skin yellow or grey. No longer do I look constantly exhausted," she said.
"I've had to get new glasses because my eyesight has improved and feeling has returned to areas on my feet where I'd begun to lose sensation."
Ms York said her phobia had reached a critical point in 2012, when the DVLA had changed its regulations in relation to diabetic drivers, insisting they checked blood glucose levels - requiring her to prick her skin - before driving and once every two hours behind the wheel.
"It was just too many needles, too many invasions into the flesh," she said.
Ms York had decided to give up driving, she said, but her body had been too weak to walk long distances - leaving her at risk of becoming housebound.
She had tried hypnotherapy and cognitive behavioural therapy in an attempt to cure her phobia, but without success.
And injecting herself with insulin would frequently take 20 minutes.
It took more than two years for Ms York to be placed on a waiting list for the transplant, during which time she said she appeared in front of a panel three times to discuss her eligibility.
She said questions had been raised over her need for the transplant, given that she did not have any kidney complications, and over whether her phobia was a strong enough reason to undergo major surgery.
Surgeon Dr Raman Dhanda said guidelines were currently in place nationally and internationally to ensure those with the greatest need received transplants.
In Ms York's instance, he added: "It was a very hard decision to make, because [her] case was clearly very exceptional."
Ms York, who said a phobia of needles was common among long-term diabetics, believes her story could give hope to others.
"I don't know who my donor is, but I thank them and their family from the bottom of my heart," she said.
The Victoria Derbyshire programme is broadcast on weekdays between 09:15 and 11:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News channel. | A British woman has become the first person in the world to have a pancreas transplant because of a severe needle phobia, her doctors have said. | 35421459 |
Adam Johnson's penalty before half-time gave the hosts an undeserved lead, after Coloccini was penalised for a push on Steven Fletcher and dismissed.
The furious visitors saw Aleksandar Mitrovic denied by Costel Pantilimon.
But Billy Jones' close-range finish and Fletcher's volley sealed the win.
Sunderland's controversial first-half penalty changed the match after the Magpies had dominated the opening 45 minutes.
The victory sees Sam Allardyce's men move ahead of Newcastle on goal difference and up two places to third from bottom in the table.
Relive Sunderland's win here
Newcastle were furious with referee Robert Madley's decision because the penalty and resulting dismissal of their skipper changed the shape of what was a crucial Wear-Tyne derby.
The Black Cats had been second best throughout the first half, with just three shots compared to Newcastle's 12, but were handed a route into the game when Coloccini was adjudged to have fouled Fletcher.
The defender ran across Fletcher as he attempted to latch on to a through-ball but appeared to ease him out of the way with his shoulder with the ball running to goalkeeper Rob Elliot.
Madley though believed there was an infringement and, having awarded the penalty, was left with little choice but to send him off for preventing a goalscoring opportunity.
The Football Association's law on impeding an opponent says: " A player who places himself between an opponent and the ball for tactical reasons has not committed an offence as long as the ball is kept within playing distance and the player does not hold off the opponent with his arms or body.
"If the ball is within playing distance, the player may be fairly charged by an opponent."
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Allardyce has never been relegated from the Premier League as a manager, keeping the likes of Blackburn, Bolton and West Ham in the top flight.
Rarely can he have taken such a tough job on though, with the Black Cats bottom of the table going into Sunday's match on the back of a 12-game winless run.
He has never lost his opening Premier League home game in charge of a club though and became the fourth consecutive Sunderland boss to beat Newcastle in his second game in charge.
Allardyce will know his side have a battle to stay up but the manner of Fletcher's final goal, volleying home a sweeping move late on, and a first clean sheet of the season will be reason for hope.
To rub salt into the wound for Newcastle fans, Allardyce had an unpopular spell in charge of the Magpies in the 2007-08 season.
And these fans have not had much reason for optimism in recent months, with just one win now from the last 21 league matches.
They must have thought the corner had been turned when, after thrashing Norwich 6-2 last time out, they controlled the first 45 minutes of the derby.
But, following the dismissal of Coloccini, their afternoon took a turn for the worse as Steve McClaren's 200th Premier League game as a manager ended in an 82nd defeat.
Sunderland boss Sam Allardyce told BBC Sport: "We've carried that precious piece of history on - the fourth manager to beat Newcastle in their second game as Sunderland boss.
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"This was quite an achievement considering the low ebb we're in at the moment - facing a rival with the extra pressure of having won the last five derbies."
Newcastle manager Steve McClaren said: "We were the better side by a distance. We controlled it, created chances and never looked like giving away anything at the back. Even with 10 men in the second half we still controlled it. Referee decisions are out of your control.
"It was never a penalty. The penalty and red card was a double whammy. In the first half the team were excellent. I was totally relaxed. We were in control. I said to players that's what we must continue. If we continue doing that and get decisions right then we'll do OK."
Sunderland will look to build on their first win of the season away to Everton next weekend, while Newcastle entertain Stoke in the Premier League.
Match ends, Sunderland 3, Newcastle United 0.
Second Half ends, Sunderland 3, Newcastle United 0.
Hand ball by Ayoze Pérez (Newcastle United).
Hand ball by Jamaal Lascelles (Newcastle United).
Foul by Vurnon Anita (Newcastle United).
Adam Johnson (Sunderland) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Goal! Sunderland 3, Newcastle United 0. Steven Fletcher (Sunderland) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Younes Kaboul following a fast break.
Florian Thauvin (Newcastle United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Sebastian Larsson (Sunderland).
Foul by Jamaal Lascelles (Newcastle United).
Sebastián Coates (Sunderland) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Newcastle United. Conceded by Younes Kaboul.
Substitution, Sunderland. Sebastian Larsson replaces Jeremain Lens.
Attempt missed. Florian Thauvin (Newcastle United) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Moussa Sissoko.
Attempt blocked. Florian Thauvin (Newcastle United) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Moussa Sissoko.
Corner, Newcastle United. Conceded by Sebastián Coates.
Substitution, Newcastle United. Florian Thauvin replaces Paul Dummett.
Attempt missed. Aleksandar Mitrovic (Newcastle United) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Daryl Janmaat with a cross.
Foul by Jamaal Lascelles (Newcastle United).
Steven Fletcher (Sunderland) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt blocked. Paul Dummett (Newcastle United) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Vurnon Anita.
Attempt missed. Vurnon Anita (Newcastle United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high following a corner.
Corner, Newcastle United. Conceded by Younes Kaboul.
Adam Johnson (Sunderland) hits the bar with a left footed shot from outside the box. Assisted by Jeremain Lens.
Attempt missed. Ayoze Pérez (Newcastle United) left footed shot from the left side of the box is high and wide to the left following a corner.
Corner, Newcastle United. Conceded by Costel Pantilimon.
Attempt saved. Georginio Wijnaldum (Newcastle United) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Moussa Sissoko.
Goal! Sunderland 2, Newcastle United 0. Billy Jones (Sunderland) right footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Yann M'Vila following a corner.
Attempt blocked. Yann M'Vila (Sunderland) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Adam Johnson with a cross.
Corner, Sunderland. Conceded by Chancel Mbemba.
Attempt blocked. Steven Fletcher (Sunderland) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Jeremain Lens.
Hand ball by Daryl Janmaat (Newcastle United).
Offside, Newcastle United. Robert Elliot tries a through ball, but Aleksandar Mitrovic is caught offside.
Ayoze Pérez (Newcastle United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Lee Cattermole (Sunderland).
Attempt saved. Ayoze Pérez (Newcastle United) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt saved. Aleksandar Mitrovic (Newcastle United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Attempt blocked. Jermain Defoe (Sunderland) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Adam Johnson.
Ayoze Pérez (Newcastle United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by DeAndre Yedlin (Sunderland). | Sunderland moved off the bottom of the Premier League table with a record sixth consecutive win over north-east rivals and fellow strugglers Newcastle, who had Fabricio Coloccini sent off. | 34564966 |
The attack targeted a meeting of community leaders and vigilante groups in Galadima village, Zamfara state, a police spokesman told AFP news agency.
The meeting was discussing action against robbers and cattle rustlers.
Fulani herdsmen and farmers from other ethnic groups have frequently clashed in Nigeria over land and faith.
At least 100 villagers were killed in central Kaduna state last month in an attack that was also linked to a dispute between local farmers and the semi-nomadic Fulani herdsmen.
"The governor and other officials were today at Yar Galadima village where they participated in the burial of 79 people killed in the attack by cattle rustlers," governor's spokesman Nuhu Salihu Anka told AFP.
The unrest is not connected with the Islamist insurgency waged by the Boko Haram group, which wants to impose Sharia law in the north. | Seventy-nine people are said to have been killed in northern Nigeria, in an attack blamed by police on gunmen from the Fulani community. | 26913046 |
It is in joint second place with the Left-Greens - with 10 seats each. But their centre-left coalition fell short of a majority to form a government.
The governing Progressive Party lost more than half of its seats in the poll triggered by the resignation of Prime Minister Sigmundur Gunnlaugsson.
Its junior partner, the Independence Party, has come top with 21 seats.
Prime Minister Sigmundur Gunnlaugsson stepped down in April in the wake of the leaked Panama Papers which revealed the offshore assets of high-profile figures.
Current Prime Minister Sigurdur Ingi Johannsson resigned on Sunday.
The anti-establishment Pirate Party, which was founded in 2012, had said it could be looking to form a coalition with three left-wing and centrist parties.
The Independence Party and the Pirates have ruled out working together, although correspondents say this could change as negotiations take place in the coming days.
Pirate Party founder and MP Birgitta Jonsdottir said she was "very satisfied" with the result.
"Our internal predictions showed 10 to 15%, so this is at the top of the range. We knew that we would never get 30%," Ms Jonsdottir told Reuters news agency.
The party won support from many in the wake of Iceland's 2008 financial crisis and the Panama Papers' revelations earlier this year.
It calls for more political transparency and accountability, free health care, closing tax loopholes and more protection of citizens' data.
Opponents, however, say the Pirate Party's lack of political experience could scare off investors and destabilise Iceland's recovering economy. | Iceland's Pirate Party has tripled its seats in the 63-seat parliament, election results show. | 37813564 |
Beamish Museum is replicating an end of terrace shop from Bow Street in the town for its new 1950s attraction.
A public vote is being held to decide whether it should be a hairdresser's, a toy shop and dolls' hospital or an electrical goods store.
The £10.75m 1950s-style development will also include shops, a cinema, cafe, community centre and houses.
People will be able to cast their vote during a series of events, starting on Tuesday at Captain Cook Square Shopping Centre.
The decision will be announced at the museum during the October half-term holiday.
Lisa Peacock, from Beamish, said: "This shop will be a replica of the one in Bow Street, Middlesbrough, so we wanted people from the town to choose what type of shop it will be.
"We'd also love to hear people's memories of shopping in Middlesbrough during the 1950s and see any photographs they may have." | Middlesbrough residents are being asked to choose what a 1950s shop in a County Durham open air museum should "sell". | 37213206 |
The quokka, a small marsupial considered an endangered species in Australia, survived the attack.
Thibaud Jean Leon Vallet, 24, and Jean Mickael Batrikian, 18, were each fined A$4,000 ($3,130; £2,080).
In a video taken by Vallet, Batrikian was seen igniting an aerosol spray producing a 30cm (10 inch) flame which singed the quokka's head and body.
The incident caused a public uproar.
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported that the two men could not pay the entire fine so were spending one night in jail.
Fairfax Media said the pair were backpackers on a working holiday and had spent three months on Rottnest Island, where quokkas are commonly found. They have since lost their jobs.
The judge called their behaviour "abhorrent" and said the decision to film the act was "perplexing".
"One can only imagine the impact caused to the quokka... Obviously it would have been fearful as a result of what occurred," she said.
Both men pleaded guilty and expressed remorse in court. But Vallet also told Fairfax outside the court: "You think we're monsters. We didn't hurt the quokka. We have pets at home."
Quokkas shot to Internet fame earlier this year when the trend of taking "quokka selfies" emerged, where tourists would take pictures with the small cat-sized animals, known to be inquisitive and fearless of humans.
But their curiosity has cost them on occasion.
In the 1990s, a craze of "quokka soccer" - which involved kicking the animals around like a football - broke out on Rottnest Island.
Authorities launched a crackdown and imposed a A$10,000 fine on those caught harming quokkas.
In 2007 a rugby club fined two players for abusing quokkas, and in February this year, five quokkas were found dead and stuffed into tree protectors on Rottnest Island.
The International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources Red List states that there are between 8,000 to 17,000 quokkas left in the world, most of which are in Australia. | Two French tourists who filmed themselves burning a quokka have been fined by a court in Perth, Australia. | 32346835 |
Crews were called to the property in Seaview Road, Sandend, between Portsoy and Cullen, at about 01:00.
The man was taken to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary for treatment. He was not thought to be seriously injured.
Four fire engines attended and had extinguished the blaze by about 02:15. No other properties were affected. | A man has been taken to hospital following a house fire in Aberdeenshire. | 38674111 |
Eubank was set to make a second defence of his title on 22 October in Cardiff.
However, the 27-year-old's team said he was hurt sparring a "14-stone opponent" on Thursday.
The statement added that the injury has been verified by a British Boxing Board of Control doctor. A rescheduled date has yet to be announced.
Unbeaten Langford could still fight for the title against another opponent on 22 October, with a statement expected from promoter Frank Warren.
Writing on social media, the 27-year-old said he was "extremely disappointed" and called Eubank Jr a "time-waster".
But Eubank Jr's team described his injury as a "blessing in disguise" due to a "vast chasm" between their fighter and recent challengers.
In claiming the title from Nick Blackwell in March, Eubank Jr was ordered by his father and trainer Chris Eubank Sr to avoid hitting his opponent in the head before the fight was stopped.
Blackwell suffered a bleed on his skull and was subsequently put into an induced coma. He has since retired from the sport.
"There has not been a fighter in the history of British boxing who has had such a vast chasm of fighting prowess between him and the contenders for the British Championship in ability, speed, strength, accuracy and skill," the Eubank Jr team statement added.
"The relinquishing of the British Championship due to injury sustained in a sparring session is perhaps a blessing in disguise.
"Chris Eubank Jnr's management team will use the injury as an opportunity to step aside and fight high-calibre world competition."
Eubank Jr had been expected to vacate the belt before the Langford fight was organised, with a world title bout against Gennady Golovkin rumoured to be close - before Briton Kell Brook was announced as the Kazakh's challenger.
Brook moved up two weight divisions to face Golovkin, but was stopped in five rounds on 10 September. | Chris Eubank Jr has vacated the British middleweight title, pulling out of his fight against Tommy Langford with a "severe" elbow injury. | 37399948 |
David Shepherd, of Bridport, Dorset, admitted a number of offences earlier this month but denied raping four children, including an eight-year-old.
During three trials at Dorchester Crown Court, the 60-year-old was convicted of numerous offences including child rape and paying for sex with children.
Shepherd was jailed for 28 years and told he must serve at least 14 years.
The former pub landlord was found guilty of facilitating child sex offences, raping children, paying for child sex, making indecent videos of children and holding 20,211 indecent films and images of children.
The judge described him as an "arrogant, manipulative and devious man" with a "deeply engrained interest in children whose ages were in single figures".
Shepherd had travelled to the Philippines to abuse children in "the most vile manner", Dorset Police said.
He also directed live sex shows involving children as young as 17-months-old using internet messaging services, and recorded himself committing serious sexual offences, including rape, against young children.
Following his arrest in November last year, he was found with a large collection of videos he had produced as well as tens of thousands of indecent images and videos of children on his computer and hard drives.
The case was split into three trials. The first dealt with offences in the Philippines; the second related to possession of images; and the third involved offences over the internet.
Following guilty verdicts at the first trial, Shepherd pleaded guilty to the remaining charges.
Det Con David Baker, of Dorset Police's paedophile and online investigation team (Polit), said: "Such was Shepherd's arrogance [that] he pleaded not guilty, despite the overwhelming visual evidence against him.
"This evidence showed harrowing images of very young children being abused and degraded in the most vile manner."
Trial one, 3 August:
Trial two, 4 August:
Trial three, 8 August: | A prolific paedophile who filmed himself raping children in the Philippines has been jailed for life. | 37230848 |
The game was stopped shortly after kick-off as stewards cleared the playing surface at Emirates Stadium.
Under Uefa rules, clubs are liable for the conduct of their fans and may be subject to disciplinary measures for acts including the throwing of objects.
Bayern beat Arsenal 10-2 on aggregate.
A group of visiting fans also held up a banner which read "without fans football is not worth a penny", having made a similar protest in a Champions League group match at Arsenal last season. | Bayern Munich could face a fine after their supporters delayed Tuesday's Champions League tie at Arsenal by throwing rolls of paper onto the pitch in protest over ticket prices. | 39200785 |
Michael Fallon will tell MPs that a new parliament should consider afresh the case for attacking the forces of Isis or the so-called Islamic State not just in Iraq but in Syria as well.
He will insist that there is no legal barrier to British military attacks and point out that both the Canadian and Jordanian air forces have already attacked Syrian targets.
David Cameron was defeated in the Commons just under two years ago when Tory rebels joined forces with Labour to oppose airstrikes on Syrian government targets designed to deter the use of chemical weapons.
Ever since August 2013 the prime minister has said he would respect the vote.
Today the Defence Secretary will repeat Mr Cameron's assurance that no military action in Syria will be taken without another vote in the Commons but he will say that following the election it is time to reconsider the arguments.
He will point to the possibility that terrorist attacks, like the murder of up to 30 Britons in Tunisia this week, may have been planned in Raqqa in Northern Syria which is known as Isis's capital city.
Ministers would not risk losing another vote on Syria unless they knew they had the support of the Labour Party.
I understand that there has been contact between the two parties to discuss the possibility of another vote on Syrian military action in the future though nothing is expected imminently. | The defence secretary will open the door to RAF airstrikes against terrorist targets in Syria in a speech today. | 33358262 |
The 22-year-old heads to Budapest, Hungary to defend the 50m and 100m.
Peaty's first 100m heat on Sunday will be his first major meet since making his Olympic debut in Brazil last year.
"The Olympics was a long time ago. It's in the past and I am ready to race," he told BBC East Midlands Today.
"I am looking to do what I did there and hopefully improve. Maybe the times won't be there, maybe they will. But the process of trying to put something in place for Tokyo 2020 is really important.
"My mental preparation is off the chart now. It's looking good going into Budapest."
Peaty dominated the 50m and 100m breaststroke to win gold at the World Championships in Kazan, Russia in 2015. He now holds world records in both events, but wants more.
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'Project 56' is the target in the 100m, as he seeks to become the first man to dip under 57 seconds.
And a new world's best in the 50m is also on his mind - something he came very close to achieving when he was outside his time of 26.42 seconds by six hundredths of a second at the British Championships in April.
"I can hopefully get near to that world record," added the former City of Derby swimmer. "I was so close in April and I am in much better shape now. I am a lot learner and a lot lighter. Hopefully I will get that.
"I am not saying I will do it; it's not that easy because you don't know what the environment will be like."
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Peaty says the physical preparation has been ideal, with the tapering of the past couple of weeks leaving him full of confidence about his ability to deliver in the pool.
Resting his body pre-competition is as much a part of the process as the intense training sessions.
"Tapering is like fine-tuning a car," he explained. "You can drive it all day long, but when it comes to a race you have to fine-tune it, you have to strip it and polish it.
"I have worked so hard this season. Coming back from Rio, a lot has changed. I have moved away from home to focus on the next season. I am so ready." | Olympic champion Adam Peaty says his mental preparation is "off the chart" as he looks to back up his 100m breaststroke gold at Rio 2016 with more success at the World Championships. | 40653396 |
This time last season the Foxes were about to embark on a 12-game unbeaten run before going on to clinch the Premier League title in remarkable style.
Now, they find themselves in 17th place, one point above the relegation zone and in danger of becoming the first champions since Manchester City in 1938 to be relegated the following season.
Of the title winners, only midfielder N'Golo Kante has departed - to Chelsea in a £30m move - but how have his replacements and his former team-mates performed?
This content will not work on your device, please check Javascript and cookies are enabled or update your browser | Leicester City manager Claudio Ranieri was sacked on Thursday - but how much responsibility should the players take for his dismissal? | 39075271 |
It is a major cemetery of the Wari culture, a civilisation which flourished in the Andes between the seventh and the 12th Century.
The site was discovered by Julio Tello and Toriba Mejia Xesspe in 1925. The two Peruvian archaeologists found more than 300 bundles containing mummies.
Heavily looted by grave diggers in the 1980s and 90s, Huaca Malena is now looked after by archaeologist Rommel Angeles Falcon.
Helen Soteriou travelled to Huaca Malena to speak to him about his work watching over the dead.
The area around Huaca Malena, located in a valley about 4km (2.5 miles) from the coast, is believed to have been inhabited by an ancient agricultural society as far back as 2,000 BC.
Centuries later it became one of the most important burial places for the Wari, a pre-Columbian society living in parts of what are now Peru, Colombia and Chile and considered to be one of the first great empires of the Andes,
Thousands of Wari fabrics and tapestries have been found at here, indicating that those buried in Huaca Malena were of high rank.
Many of the woven fabrics were abandoned by grave robbers, locally known as huaqueros.
Rommel Angeles Falcon says the bones found in Huaca Malena are exceptionally well preserved.
He says the main challenge for the archaeologist working here is not a race against the elements - as the desert conditions preserve the bones well - but one to keep the grave robbers away.
They appear on nights with a full moon, and with bribes of alcohol, cigarettes or coca leaves gain access to the site.
If their spade hits the hard surface of a tomb, they will dig it up and take anything inside that they think may be of value.
Most of the 4,000 textiles found by archaeologists at the site are believed to have been discarded by grave robbers.
It is impossible to know how many were originally there.
"They don't respect anything," Mr Falcon says.
Some of the textiles not looted from Huaca Malena have been taken to the Municipal Museum in the nearby village of Capilla de Asia.
Mr Falcon holds the key and shows me around.
The museum does not have the funds to meet the conservation and restoration needs for the textiles, so the team behind it has created an adopt-a-textile project, trying to get members of the public to donate enough to ensure their preservation.
Mr Falcon explains that textiles are one of the finest legacies from the Wari. They are characterised by geometric patterns depicting animals and human forms.
Some are believed to have been worn as tunics by the Wari men, but there are also some well-preserved bags used and feather head pieces at display at the small museum.
Mr Falcon knows that the Huaca Malena site and the small municipal museum in Capilla de Asia cannot compete with such well-known tourist draws as the Inca trail or the Machu Picchu.
But he is adamant small sites like this one should not be ignored, especially as the Wari artefacts and fabrics found here actually predate those of the Incas, giving the visitor a rare glimpse into the lives, and above all, death rites of a little-known culture. | Huaca Malena is an ancient Peruvian burial site located approximately 100km (62 miles) south of the capital, Lima. | 29832634 |
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United were 3-0 up at half-time with Tony Kane scoring two and Joe McKinney netting the other while Dungannon's Andrew Burns got an early red card.
Kris Lowe pulled a goal back for Dungannon on 64 minutes but Johnny McMurray restored the three-goal gap.
Jamie Glackin got a second while Kyle Owens headed a fifth for Ballymena who will play Glenavon in Friday's final.
Dungannon, who finished seventh in the Irish Premiership, had gone into the match on the back of four straight league victories.
But they made a terrible start as Kane's shot took a lucky bounce which beat Swifts keeper Stuart Addis for Ballymena's third-minute opener.
Things quickly got worse as Burns was dismissed for a dangerous tackle on Leroy Millar in the fifth minute.
McKinney got his first goal for Ballymena with a curling shot to make it 2-0 and Kane's penalty - after Dougie Wilson's pull back on McMurray - had David Jeffrey's men three up at the break.
Lowe rifled a low shot past United keeper Ross Glendinning in the 64th minute but McMurray got Ballymena's fourth by converting Willie Faulkner's cross.
Glackin steered a shot for Dungannon's second but United defender Owens headed in from a corner for 5-2. | Ballymena United clinched their place in the Europa League play-off final by beating 10-man Dungannon Swifts. | 39849874 |
Bill Palmer phoned Alex Dyke's programme on BBC Radio Solent and told him how lonely he was because his wife is in a nursing home.
After Dyke arranged for Mr Palmer, from Southampton, to get to the studio his story was picked up across the world.
Mr Palmer said: "Picking up the phone was one of the greatest things I did."
But he has been unable to see any of the online coverage of his tale - because although he has a computer he does not know the password for it.
The story has gone viral on social media and featured in the news media around the world, including on the ABC7 Morning Show in the US, the Russia Today website, the Washington Post and WFTV in Canada.
Mr Palmer said he had received a phone call from a Canadian journalist, photographers from national newspapers had been to his house - and he was recognised in his local chip shop.
"The attention is wonderful, I don't mind," he said.
"It was the highlight of my life.
"It was getting a bit lonely but suddenly my life perked up."
Mr Palmer married his wife Sheila, 85, on 2 June 2014 after they had been friends for 30 years.
Shortly afterwards Mrs Palmer - who has dementia and colitis - fell and was taken into hospital. She now lives in a nursing home.
A nurse showed her the pictures of Mr Palmer visiting Broadcasting House in Southampton.
"She thought it was wonderful, she couldn't get over it," he said.
The radio station has received phone calls from people who want to take Mr Palmer out to lunch or for a day trip, but he has turned them down so he can visit his wife.
"I am the only bright spark in my wife's life, as I go and spend a few hours with her.
"It is better to be a little dim light and make someone else happy."
Mr Palmer, of Sholing, said he was recognised in the chip shop on Thursday night and was asked for a photograph.
He said: "Alex Dyke has changed my life."
Mr Palmer said his son Tony has been on holiday and was "in for a shock" when he got back, as he was unaware of what had been happening.
The nonagenarian is planning on making a scrapbook of the newspaper cuttings to show his wife. | A 95-year-old man who sparked international media attention with an appearance on BBC radio has said the visit was the "highlight of my life". | 34617883 |
The rapper, whose hits include Stronger and Gold Digger, is set to play the Pyramid Stage on Saturday, 27 June.
More than 130,000 people have signed a petition protesting his appearance - seven years after Jay-Z became the first rapper to headline the festival.
"It was not a pleasant world we unwrapped," Eavis told the Times. "I had death threats and stuff."
She added: "It was horrible. It was just crazy."
Eavis, who organises the festival with her father Michael, said she had become accustomed to her decisions being criticised - with fans expressing outrage when Metallica and The Rolling Stones were booked for the event in 2014 and 2013.
But the scrutiny surrounding West's booking was unprecedented.
"It was getting out of control. We had Time magazine, all the American news channels saying they were going to come down. This incredible onslaught worldwide.
"It was quite upsetting because we were talking about something that was so exciting and interesting and fresh and brilliant for the festival.
"Kanye West is making the most exciting music at the moment. He is an amazing force as a performer. For us getting the biggest star in the world was an amazing coup."
Eavis, who oversees the line-up of the annual music festival, acknowledged that the pressure sometimes got to her.
"The scrutiny is daily. Whatever we do is torn apart and analysed. It's hard to concentrate on the job because you can get easily distracted by the hoo-ha," she said.
This year's festival opens its doors on 24 June. The other headliners are Foo Fighters and The Who, while Florence + The Machine, Pharrell Williams, Alt-J, George Clinton, Jamie T and Motorhead are also on the diverse bill.
The BBC is to broadcast more than 30 hours of coverage from the event and, for the first time, all of its online streams will be presented in full HD.
A live webcam from Somerset's Worthy Farm site is helping count down the final four weeks before the music starts. | Emily Eavis says she received death threats after booking Kanye West to headline Glastonbury. | 32929196 |
This year's record low mountain snowpack, which the state relies on to get through its dry summers, means that already reduced reservoir levels will not see many gains from the melting of late spring and early summer.
The state is in a process of learning to live with drought.
Our historic drought conditions have many looking for silver-bullet solutions such as increasing supply through more storage, desalination or water reuse.
Others might propose controlling demand by conserving or restricting water use by people in urban and agricultural areas.
Many of these steps are already being taken where they make sense - for example, recently imposed mandatory water restrictions are now making an impact on all urban residents.
At the same time, many cities in California have been striving for water independence for years.
By conserving more water and increasing supplies through desalination (removing salt from seawater) and water reuse, the urban sector is continuing to become more efficient and less dependent on state and federal water supplies.
This means that future droughts will be likely to affect cities less, but they will also have fewer options to reduce their water use.
Agricultural users are also continuing to look at conservation and supply augmentation to increase resilience and even expand production.
But because there is a nearly endless supply of land to be brought into production, agriculture will always face years of plenty and years of scarcity.
For many farmers, this is already a way of life. For others, the lesson is just now being learned.
Meanwhile, environmental flows - that is, water that stays in rivers and streams for fisheries and ecosystems - will also continue to vary, as they always have.
But environmental protections must remain. Ecosystem restoration and other environmental enhancement projects may increase the effectiveness of these environmental flows, but eliminating variation in flows is neither desirable nor possible.
To understand California's water situation we have to recognise a fundamental paradox: enough will never be enough.
We are a land-rich, but water-limited state and increased supply leads to more demand, which makes answers to California's water challenges complex and context-dependent, involving a combination of policy, technology and conservation.
California is blessed with an abundance of productive agricultural land in a climate that allows us to grow crops that thrive in only a few places in the world.
The state's agricultural sector is also its largest consumer of water.
Our abundant water supplies have helped create an incredible agricultural industry that leads the world in production.
At the same time, given the size of the state, we will always have more land available to bring into production than we will have water to put on it.
This paradox - that enough water will never be enough - means that efforts to increase supply of water or reduce demand for water will ultimately lead to more agricultural lands being brought into production, more water available for cities to grow and more water to remain in streams to ensure a healthy environment.
But eventually we will face more drought and water supplies will again be inadequate to meet the new higher levels of demand.
There are other arenas where this kind of phenomenon is well understood.
For example, when it comes to motorways, congestion leads to demand for more lanes to be built.
More lanes temporarily reduce congestion and lead to increased housing construction and, over time, that increased housing construction leads to more congestion. That, in turn, leads to demand for more lanes.
Accepting the fundamental paradox of enough water not being enough doesn't mean that we should throw our hands in the air and do nothing - and in fact, we aren't.
We need to pursue all options in order to have healthy communities, healthy agriculture and a healthy environment.
We also need to recognise, however, that these options will never fully eliminate future scarcity.
Californians have always accepted, and at times even embraced, the uncertain nature of life in this beautiful, diverse state.
From the boom and bust of the Gold Rush to a new population living on the fault lines, California's uncertainty is built into our lives.
Drought is no different.
We will always face times when water is scarce, so we must optimise water use while accepting uncertainty as an integral part of the California lifestyle.
There is no solution to drought, only a change in our way of thinking about water and drought.
Doug Parker is director of the California Institute for Water Resources at the University of California, where Faith Kearns is a water analyst. They also write for The Conversation. | California is now well into a fourth year of severe drought. | 32843398 |
Allchurch played more than 600 League matches in a career which started in 1950 and ended in 1971, helping the Blades gain promotion to the First Division in the 1960-61 season.
He was the younger brother of legendary Wales international Ivor Allchurch.
The winner of 11 caps, Len Allchurch was in the Wales squad at the 1958 World Cup but did not play a game.
Former Swansea and Wales team-mate Cliff Jones paid tribute to Allchurch.
"We grew up together and we played our football together," said the Tottenham Hotspur legend.
"We were in the same Swansea schoolboy team for a couple of seasons and after leaving school we worked in the docks - he was an apprentice coppersmith and I was an apprentice sheet metal worker.
"We were related closely in our working life and in our sporting life at Swansea Town.
"He was a very skilled right winger and had great control and a wonderful temperament and great company was Lenny."
The 1950s were a golden period for football in Swansea, with some of the finest talent in the history of the game in Wales emerging from what was in those days called Swansea Town.
As well as the Allchurch brothers, John and Mel Charles and Spurs legends Jones and Terry Medwin all came through the club's ranks - with John Charles the only one not to play for his hometown team.
Len Allchurch played 276 League games for the Swans before joining Sheffield United for £18,000 in 1961, where he scored five goals in the last seven games of the season to help John Harris' side gain promotion to the First Division.
He left Sheffield in 1965 to join Stockport County - helping them to win the Fourth Division title in 1966-67 - and in 1969 returned to his home town club, by which time Swansea Town had become Swansea City.
He made a further 71 League appearances for the Swans before retiring in 1971.
Although in the squad for the the 1958 World Cup in Sweden, Len did not get to play alongside his brother as Wales reached the quarter final before being knocked out by 1-0 by Brazil, with Pele scoring the goal.
He did play in the 2-0 win over Israel in the first leg of the play-off which Wales won to reach the finals for the first and so far only time. | Former Swansea, Sheffield United and Wales winger Len Allchurch has died at the age of 83. | 38004715 |
Hull, 20, shot a five-under round of 66 to move to eight under, two adrift of South Korean leader Inbee Park.
American Stacy Lewis produced the best round of the day - an eight-under-par 63 - and is one shot behind Park at the halfway stage.
Britain's Catriona Matthew, 46, moved from tied 26th at the start of play to a share of 13th position on five under.
This is the first women's Olympic golf event since 1900 and the third round will be played on Friday before Saturday's final round.
Hull made a mixed start on day two, posting a birdie at the first, but bogeying the second before further birdies at the sixth, seventh, 16th, 17th and 18th.
"I hit some great shots," said Hull. "I've played the course a few times and know where to hit it.
"I feel I am representing my country every week, but this week you know you are part of a team.
"It's pretty cool, not many people can say they're an Olympian. It's a good thing to have on my CV."
Matthew, level par after day one, started her second round with birdies at the first, third and fifth holes.
The Scot also picked up shots at the 10th, 16th and 18th, with her only bogey of the day coming at the 14th.
Park, ranked fifth in the world and a winner of seven major women's titles, claimed three birdies in the final four holes to take the lead at the halfway point.
The leaders go out in reverse order on Friday, with Hull beginning her round at 15:09 BST and in the same three-ball as Park and Lewis.
Matthew starts her third round at 14:25 BST.
Meanwhile, Brazil's Victoria Lovelady became the first player in the Olympic Games to be penalised for slow play during her second round.
Lovelady, 29, was given a one-shot penalty on the 15th hole, turning what should have been a par into a bogey.
"I tried to refute it, tried to appeal, but I didn't have enough argument to convince them," Lovelady said after a 75 left her 12 over par.
"There was a lot of interruption noise from the crowds, which is normal. I had to back off a lot of shots."
Subscribe to the BBC Sport newsletter to get our pick of news, features and video sent to your inbox. | Great Britain's Charley Hull is tied third, two shots off the lead, after two rounds of the women's Olympic golf. | 37123506 |
The 29-year-old made eight appearances for the Wildcats last season after joining them from Castleford Tigers.
Huddersfield have been hit by injury problems, with Scott Grix and Craig Huby both set for lengthy lay-offs.
"A new face will give us a great lift after the difficulties we have faced in this first month," director Richard Thewlis told the club website.
The Giants, who are currently bottom of the Super League table, have yet to win a game this season. | Huddersfield Giants have signed Wakefield Wildcats full-back Jordan Tansey on an initial month-long loan. | 35765474 |
Cumbria Police said it was thought that the 48-year-old had fallen ill at the wheel of the HGV, which had crossed on to the opposite side of the road before leaving the carriageway.
Mr Ewart was found unresponsive at the scene of the crash, which took place at about 18:10 on Monday evening.
No other vehicle was involved in the incident. | A driver who died after his lorry crashed off the A7 near Longtown has been named as Ian Ewart from Langholm. | 40679218 |
One officer was shot in the face and one in the shoulder, St Louis County police chief Jon Belmar said.
Both suffered "very serious gunshot injuries" but were conscious, he said.
They were shot during a demonstration after the resignation of Ferguson's police chief, which followed a report alleging racial bias in his department.
Protesters had gathered outside Ferguson police headquarters late on Wednesday, in what was a relatively low-key demonstration.
But at about midnight at least three shots were fired as the crowd of protesters was starting to break up, Mr Belmar said.
Several witnesses said the shots had come from a hill on the other side of the street from the crowd of protesters.
In a press conference on Thursday, Mr Belmar said the shots were fired from about 125yds (114m) away, but he did not specify from which direction.
"We were very close to having what happened in New York last year," Mr Belmar said, referring to two police officers shot and killed while on duty. He said he thought it was a "miracle" that such an incident had not occurred during earlier protests in Ferguson.
He also said he would "have to imagine" that some protesters "were among the shooters". Detectives were still investigating who was responsible, and no-one had been arrested.
The St Louis County police chief said after hearing the gunshots many officers had drawn their weapons but no-one had fired.
One protester, Keith Rose, said he saw an officer "covered in blood", and that other officers were carrying and dragging him, leaving a trail of blood on the ground.
Demonstrators were calling for further action to be taken over the federal report, and for more resignations in the police department, Mr Rose said.
In the hours after the policemen were shot, use of the hashtag #BlueLivesMatter spiked on Twitter, driven by self-identified supporters of gun rights and other conservative causes, as well as supporters of the police.
Police chief Thomas Jackson was the sixth Ferguson official to be fired or step down. He had initially resisted calls from protesters and some state leaders to resign.
Mr Jackson was widely criticised after the shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown in August and the weeks of demonstrations that followed.
How Ferguson unrest spread
Report on Ferguson police report - key findings
Brown's killing was one of several recent cases around the US in which the deaths of black men at the hands of the police have triggered protests.
In November, a St Louis County grand jury found that white police officer Darren Wilson did not break any laws when he shot Brown.
However, Brown's shooting and the riots that followed spurred a federal investigation. It found overwhelming racial bias in the town's policing practices, though Darren Wilson was cleared of civil rights violations.
The report noted public officials regularly made tickets and other minor violations "go away" for white friends, while some black residents spent nights in jail for non-payment of fines.
93%
of people arrested are African Americans, whereas only:
67%
of Ferguson population is black
96% of people arrested for outstanding municipal warrants are African American
95% of "Manner of walking in roadway" charges were against black people
90% of documented force was against African Americans
30% of searches of white suspects resulted in a contraband finding - compared with 24% of black suspects
A local Democratic party leader, Patricia Bynes, said "a lot of anger" had built up in Ferguson because more action had not been taken sooner.
The names of the two officers wounded on Thursday have not been released.
The one shot in the face, under his right eye, is a 32-year-old from a police department in another St Louis suburb, Webster Groves, and the other a 41-year-old from St Louis County police department. | Two US police officers have been shot in Ferguson, a Missouri town hit by riots over the killing of an unarmed black teenager last year. | 31846425 |
The raider hit the mayor's driver with the hammer as he loaded a briefcase containing the chains into the boot of the mayoral car on Thursday night.
The robbery took place at about 22:25 GMT while the car was parked in the Stand Lane area of Radcliffe.
The chains, said to be worth about £200,000, were gifted by Queen Victoria in 1877 and 1897.
The balaclava-clad robber was driven off in a green VW Polo that was waiting nearby.
The mayor, Councillor Michelle Wiseman, and her daughter Danielle, who is serving as mayoress, had been attending a service of remembrance for Radcliffe's RAF Cadets.
Ms Wiseman said: "Everybody's shocked and outraged.
"The violent nature of the incident is absolutely appalling."
The mayor's chain was given by Queen Victoria in 1877 with the mayoress's chain a gift to mark the monarch's Diamond Jubilee 20 years later.
The jubilee chain is regarded as rare as it depicts the queen dressed in white, rather than her customary black.
Supt Karan Lee said: "This is a robbery that hits at the very heart of our town in more ways than one.
"Our mayoral party had just left a service commemorating the lives lost in the Second World War, protecting the lives and liberties of every one of us, to then be attacked in this way, by persons who have no pride or respect."
Supt Lee said the robbers were "ruthless and calculated", adding: "It is only by good fortune that the victim was not seriously hurt."
Councillor Mike Connolly, leader of Bury Council, said "Everyone connected to the borough of Bury and Bury Council will be appalled at this dreadful crime.
"The chains are an irreplaceable part of our heritage and so we are offering a substantial reward for their safe return." | A hammer-wielding robber has stolen the ceremonial chains of the mayor and mayoress of Bury in a violent attack. | 29846996 |
Stella Downing, 37, admitted murdering 56-year-old Glyn Evans at his home in Walsall Street, Willenhall, on 28 December, 2015.
She and a friend, Martin Stokes, had gone to his home and Downing launched her attack following a row.
Stokes was jailed for a year after lying to police about how long he had been in the house.
The 49-year-old, of St Giles' Road, Willenhall admitted perverting the course of justice at Wolverhampton Crown Court.
Police were called to the house where they found Mr Evans lying slumped against a chest of drawers.
A post mortem revealed he died of stab injuries to the stomach and back.
Alcoholic and unemployed Downing, of no fixed address, and Stokes were arrested by officers near the scene the same night.
Det Insp Jim Munro said the pair had attempted to clear up the bloody scene.
He said: "Glyn was well liked in the local community and I'd like to thank those local people who came forward to assist in this investigation.
"I cannot say what exactly happened in that flat which led to Glyn's death only that evidence suggests he was at no fault whatsoever and was unarmed when attacked by Downing with a knife."
In a statement, Mr Evans' family described him as a "happy-go-lucky chap with a heart of gold".
It said: "He died in tragic circumstances and didn't deserve to die like this.
"He will be sadly missed and the family are still grieving and don't think they will ever get over it. The family are glad justice has been served." | A woman who stabbed her former lover to death after a drunken argument has been jailed for 13 years and four months. | 36670685 |
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Cooper, 47, was confirmed as Jamie Fullarton's replacement on Sunday, with the Scot having lasted just 70 days.
Fullarton's sacking came at the end of a spell that has seen a public row with Aborah, fans' protests and owner Ray Trew putting the club up for sale.
"It's time to come together," Cooper told BBC Radio Nottingham.
"We need everybody behind the club and the players to make sure it is a really good end to the season.
"I have had a chat with Stan. On both parts maybe the situation could have been dealt with differently. But I want to put as many good players as I can in the team.
"Stan comes into the reckoning as much as anybody. He is a good footballer and if he can help then he will play."
Cooper, the third Notts manager this season after Ricardo Moniz and Fullarton, takes over with the club on 40 points, 13 above the relegation zone with 10 games remaining.
But he played down the talk of achieving a set points total that will guarantee him continuing as manager when his initial contract expires at the end of the season.
"It's not as cast-iron as that," Cooper said. "It will be a case of me looking at the club and the chairman can have a look at me and we will see what we do at the end of season.
"If we can bring some stability and unity to the playing staff, the club and the supporters, then the future will be bright.
"The players were very receptive to what we are trying to put in place. We are trying to take the reins off them and give them a bit of a freedom.
"It's a fresh start and sometimes a new broom sweeps clean."
You can see Mark Cooper's first interview as Notts manager at BBC Radio Nottingham's Facebook page. | New manager Mark Cooper has called for unity at Notts County and has said out-of-favour midfielder Stanley Aborah has a future at the ailing League Two side. | 35865744 |
Simpson was with the Robins from the age of six, but did not make a first-team appearance.
The 18-year-old is Forest Green's 10th signing since winning promotion from the National League.
"He's box to box, he's good on the ball, so he should be a good addition to the squad," Rovers boss Mark Cooper told the club website.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | Forest Green Rovers have signed former Swindon Town midfielder Jordan Simpson on a two-year contract. | 40658703 |
The single, featuring Charlie Puth on vocals, is on the Fast & Furious 7 soundtrack, paying tribute actor Paul Walker who died while filming the blockbuster in 2013.
It is the quickest-selling single of the year and has clocked up 3.72 million listens in the last seven days.
Khalifa told OfficialCharts.com: "I hope we did him [Paul Walker] proud."
OMI's Cheerleader, which had 3.33 million streams this week, was still at number two while former chart-topper Jess Glynne was at three with Hold My Hand.
Clean Bandit are at number four with the track Stronger, which features vocals from Glee star Alex Newell and Sean Bass. It is the group's fifth UK Top 40 track.
Nick Jonas was at number five with his track Jealous.
The album chart was led by US singer/songwriter Josh Groban, who has his first number one with Stages, a compilation of Broadway covers. It features collaborations with Kelly Clarkson, Chris Botti and Audra MacDonald, with tracks from Les Miserables, The Wizard Of Oz, Carousel, Chess and The Phantom of the Opera.
It pushed Paul Simon's The Ultimate Collection down to number two, with Ed Sheeran's X at three. Sam Smith is just below at number four with In The Lonely Hour, which is now in its 48th week in the top 10.
The 2015 Brits critics' choice award winner James Bay is at five with his debut Chaos and the Calm.
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BBC Radio 1's Official Chart Show | US rapper Wiz Khalifa has set a new streaming record with See You Again, as it topped the chart for a second week. | 32474862 |
Stephen Cahoon beat Jean to death, when she was pregnant with his child, at her home in Cornshell Fields back in 2008.
It emerged after the trial that Cahoon had a history of violence against women.
Jean's mother Emma McBride said she broke down in tears after the verdict.
Cahoon had denied murdering Jean, a 30-year-old mother-of-four.
But a jury at Dublin's Central Criminal Court on Thursday found the 43-year-old guilty of the murder at Cornshell Fields in Derry on 26 July 2008 by unanimous verdict.
He had previously been convicted of the murder in 2012, but that was quashed earlier this year.
Cahoon had admitted strangling Ms Quigley, who was 10 weeks pregnant with his child at the time of her death, but had denied it was murder.
Emma McBride said that she thought about her daughter every day.
"How does anybody assault a woman?" she said.
"The fact that I found Jean and the condition I found her in, my heart was tore out.
"It is never going to leave me. It was very hard to sit in the trials.
"Even yet, I would walk the floor at night sometimes because I can't sleep." | The mother of murdered Londonderry woman Jean Quigley has said she is relieved that justice has finally been done after her killer was convicted of murder for the second time on Thursday. | 35003762 |
The developer's most recent title was the PlayStation VR release Rigs. Prior to that it had worked on Killzone, LittleBigPlanet and MediEvil games.
The studio has been in existence for 19 years. A spokeswoman for Sony said about 50 people were currently employed there.
She added that all staff were at risk of being made unemployed.
"It is regrettable that this decision will lead to compulsory redundancies," Sony said in a statement.
"Whilst we accept that this decision will mean that we risk losing high calibre staff, by focusing on other studios with exciting new projects in development... we believe we will be in a stronger position going forward and able to offer the best possible content of the highest quality to our players.
"This decision should not take anything away from the incredible games and services that Guerrilla Cambridge has delivered."
The move follows the closure of Sony's Cheshire-based Evolution Studio - best known for its Driveclub game - last March, and Studio Liverpool - which made the Wipeout series - in 2012.
However, Sony did open a development base in Manchester in 2015, and continues to operate studios in London and Guildford.
"It is a shock, because the Cambridge studio had been in existence for so long," said Piers Harding-Rolls, a video games industry analyst at IHS Technology.
"But the games sector as a whole is growing, and it's not unusual for the big companies to realign their resources."
Microsoft also closed a long-established British studio - Lionhead, the developer of the Fable series - in 2016.
But the games industry trade association Tiga said that a tax relief scheme, which came into effect in 2014, had helped create jobs elsewhere.
"It's very sad to hear what is happening to Sony Guerrilla Cambridge, but the actual size of the UK games industry is almost at an all time high and we are in a very strong position," said Richard Wilson, the body's chief executive.
Guerrilla Cambridge's last game - Rigs: Mechanized Combat League - was launched three months ago as a launch title for the PlayStation's virtual reality headset.
It was generally well reviewed.
The Gaming Age described it as "the very best VR experience that this system has to offer".
Sixth Axis said: "So long as you're not affected too heavily by motion sickness... you'll find a fast and fluid multiplayer shooter that gets the best out of PSVR."
However, the title was not a bestseller.
"Guerrilla Cambridge's games have been for the [handheld] PlayStation Vita and most recently PlayStation VR, which have low install bases," said Chris Dring, from the GamesIndustry.biz news site
"So, even though its games have been critically well received, commercially they have struggled.
"That may not have been that important to Sony - obviously it wants to make money from its titles, but platform-holders also use their own games to help sell the hardware in the first place and to help show the way for other studios.
"The move suggests that there's a broader strategy at play, where perhaps Sony is slowing down slightly on its internal VR development to give more opportunity to third-party studios."
Sony said that its Guerrilla Games studio in Amsterdam would not be affected by the cuts. | Sony is closing its Cambridge-based video games studio, Guerrilla Cambridge. | 38598919 |
Sam Habergham sliced Jake Cassidy's cross into his own net to gift Guiseley a 12th-minute lead at Sincil Bank.
The Imps responded with an Alan Power penalty on 57 minutes before Adam Boyes was sent off for Guiseley with 10 minutes remaining.
Lincoln took full advantage to score late goals through Sean Raggett and Nathan Arnold, while Danny Lowe was also given his marching orders in a frantic finish.
Report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Lincoln City 3, Guiseley 1.
Second Half ends, Lincoln City 3, Guiseley 1.
Substitution, Guiseley. Elliot Green replaces Jordan Preston.
Substitution, Lincoln City. Callum Howe replaces Matt Rhead.
Goal! Lincoln City 3, Guiseley 1. Nathan Arnold (Lincoln City).
Second yellow card to Danny Lowe (Guiseley) for a bad foul.
Goal! Lincoln City 2, Guiseley 1. Sean Raggett (Lincoln City).
Substitution, Lincoln City. Jack Muldoon replaces Alan Power.
Second yellow card to Adam Boyes (Guiseley) for a bad foul.
Bradley Wood (Lincoln City) is shown the yellow card.
Terry Hawkridge (Lincoln City) is shown the yellow card.
Goal! Lincoln City 1, Guiseley 1. Alan Power (Lincoln City) converts the penalty with a.
Ashley Palmer (Guiseley) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Lincoln City. Adam Marriott replaces Theo Robinson.
Marcus Williams (Guiseley) is shown the yellow card.
Second Half begins Lincoln City 0, Guiseley 1.
First Half ends, Lincoln City 0, Guiseley 1.
Alan Power (Lincoln City) is shown the yellow card.
Adam Boyes (Guiseley) is shown the yellow card.
Own Goal by Sam Habergham, Lincoln City. Lincoln City 0, Guiseley 1.
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up. | Lincoln leapt to the top of the National League with a late victory over nine-man Guiseley. | 38429756 |
Joy Robson, 51, from Skye, died after a rally car crashed at the Snowman Rally near Inverness in February 2013.
She had been watching the motorsports event with her son Dean.
He told the FAI that they had tried to move from where they were standing because they felt it was becoming dangerous, but it was too late.
The FAI at Edinburgh Sheriff Court was shown video footage of the moments leading up to the crash, with cars getting closer to spectators.
The same inquiry will also examine the deaths of three people - Iain Provan, Elizabeth Allan and Len Stern - at the Jim Clark Rally near Coldstream in the Borders in 2014.
On Wednesday, a rally driver told the hearing how his car somersaulted out of control before hitting Ms Robson at the Highlands event.
Graeme Schoneville said he hit a rock on wet gravel before the car rolled off the forest track.
Giving evidence on Thursday, Mr Robson said he saw a car coming down the track which looked like it was losing control before his mother was hit.
The 25-year-old, from Skye, said he and his mother were standing with others up the track from a hairpin bend.
Watching footage recorded by another spectator, he said: "We thought the position we were standing in was no longer safe as cars were coming down the hill and coming closer and closer.
"We made the decision at that time to move, but unfortunately it was too late.
"As the track was getting more ripped up, the cars were sliding a lot closer and closer to us. It was in that moment we started thinking, 'this is actually quite dangerous'."
He said he and his mother moved from where they were standing and planned to leave the rally stage as there was "potentially a hazard in every direction".
When the accident happened, he said he had started moving down the track and thought his mother was right behind him.
Mr Robson said he heard a car coming and turned round to see it looked like it was "potentially going to crash", and he moved into the trees at the side of the track then fell down a hidden dip.
He said: "It was only a split-second. She would have been behind me. I thought she was following me.
"I could hear trees crunching, screams and shouts. I looked to see where my mother was and saw that my mother was on the floor. There was a tree hanging over her."
Mr Robson told the inquiry how others helped him lift the tree off his mother and said he felt it was a "long time" before paramedics arrived.
He said: "She was in and out of consciousness, screaming and shouting and then passing out."
Mr Robson said his mother was taken to an ambulance and was successfully resuscitated two or three time before a fourth attempt failed and a doctor informed him she had died.
The inquiry continues. | A man has told a fatal accident inquiry of the moments leading up to his mother's death at a car rally in the Highlands. | 40670377 |
The motion won more support than it has done in the past, with 191 members of the 193-member body voting in favour.
Only the US and Israel opposed the resolution, which is non-binding.
The US had earlier said it may abstain if the resolution's language differed significantly from previous ones.
The UN General Assembly (UNGA) has voted in favour of the resolution condemning the US embargo on Cuba for every year since 1992.
Last year, the US and Israel voted against the resolution, while three countries abstained.
In July, the US and Cuba reopened embassies in each other's capitals and restored full diplomatic ties.
Relations had been frozen since the early 1960s when the US broke links and imposed a trade embargo on Cuba.
US President Barack Obama last month told UNGA he expected the US Congress to ultimately lift the embargo.
However, the move is opposed by the Republicans, who control Congress.
According to the BBC's Will Grant in Havana, there had been speculation that the US might abstain from the UN vote this year, thereby isolating the US Congress in the eyes of the world - and pressurising them to lift the embargo.
However, the US deputy ambassador to the UN, Ronald Godard, said shortly before the vote that the US would not abstain, as the Cubans had not sufficiently changed the language of the motion.
"We find it unfortunate that despite our demonstrated bilateral progress the Cuban government has chosen to introduce a resolution that is nearly identical to those tabled in years past," he said.
"Nevertheless, the United States will not be bound by a history of mistrust."
Cuba's Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez told the assembly that the "lifting of the blockade" would "give some meaning" to the progress achieved recently, and "set the pace towards normalisation".
The resolution welcomes the renewed ties and recognises Mr Obama's "expressed will" to end the embargo.
Our correspondent says the vote is unlikely to derail the process of normalisation between the US and Cuba on its own.
He says Mr Obama still wants to see the embargo lifted, and behind the scenes, the Castro government has appreciated his support in that endeavour. | The United Nations General Assembly has almost unanimously voted to condemn the US embargo on Cuba, in the first such resolution since US-Cuban diplomatic ties were restored earlier this year. | 34652652 |
The club have been up for sale for most of the season, following the revelation of Morgan's intentions in September.
But long-serving Moxey told BBC WM: "We don't just want to sell to anybody.
"Many of our older fans remember when this club nearly went out of business. We don't want a return to those days."
He continued: "Despite what many people think there are not many people around with tens of millions that want to buy a football club. So many clubs are up for sale. So few get sold.
"It requires someone, who will continue to run the club in a sensible, positive way without risking its future. This is a very precious, national sporting institution that stands for so many positive things, with its fantastic history and what it means to the people."
"You can end up like Eddie Davies at Bolton," warned Moxey.
"He has invested £175m, is no longer the owner, is not getting that money back and has taken all sorts of stick since Bolton were relegated out of the Premier League and now have been again out of the Championship. It can be a thankless task."
Wolves found that out themselves when they were relegated from the Premier League in 2012 - and ended up falling all the way through to League One in the space of a year.
After 18 months of managerial turmoil, they then found the right man to lead them back to the Championship in head coach Kenny Jackett - and Moxey said it helped having such a supportive owner as Morgan, who took over from club legend Sir Jack Hayward in 2007.
"When you have an owner, you need to cherish them," he added. "The good ones are so few and far between. The next owner has got to carry on or improve on what Sir Jack Hayward and Steve Morgan have done."
Moxey was speaking at Wolves' press launch to announce the new club's main sponsors, The Money Shop, the nationwide money-lending firm.
They have been associated with the city since 2001, and the club for seven years, as sponsors of the 'home end', the Sir Jack Hayward Stand.
The company have signed a three-year deal to become the new name on Wolves' shirts next season, but Moxey insisted it is the only deal that has been done so far.
"There's nothing further to report," he said. "Other than that we're having conversations. People might hear rumours of me speaking with this person or seeing me in a meeting with that person. But, of course that's going on. My job is to find a new owner."
Jex Moxey was talking to BBC WM's Mike Taylor. | Wolves chief executive Jez Moxey says selling the Championship club on behalf of owner Steve Morgan is not proving easy as there are so few of the right potential buyers out there. | 36038269 |
The comments came in a briefing filed on Monday to a US judge who asked for Apple's input in a case.
A US Department of Justice request has tried to force the company to help prosecutors access a seized iPhone.
According to Apple, 90% of its devices running iOS 8 or higher can't be unlocked.
The phone that is the subject of the justice department's request is an older device, but Apple has so far resisted unlocking it for authorities.
"Forcing Apple to extract data in this case, absent clear legal authority to do so, could threaten the trust between Apple and its customers and substantially tarnish the Apple brand," the company said in its briefing.
US magistrate Judge James Orenstein, of Brooklyn in New York, has scheduled a hearing for Thursday though it is not clear whether an Apple representative will be present.
In order to decrypt the data on newer devices, the encryption key - known only to the user - would have to be entered.
Meanwhile, Apple chief executive Tim Cook has told an audience in California that the company does not allow intelligence agencies to access data via "back doors" in its software.
"We think encryption is a must in today's world," said Mr Cook, speaking at the Wall Street Journal's WSJDLive conference.
"No-one should have to decide privacy or security. We should be smart enough to do both."
The data encrypting services that come with the latest smartphone and computer operating systems can only be unlocked when a specific key is used, according to Dr Joss Wright of the Oxford Internet Institute.
"Apple may supply the device and system but if they don't have that key they're not able to unlock it any more than the US state department," he told the BBC.
He added that law enforcement agencies often found themselves attempting to circumvent this problem.
This can be done by getting the user to voluntarily give up the key or by installing malware on the user's phone that snoops on the key as it is typed in.
"The core encryption is as near to unbreakable as you can get," he said.
"The point is you don't try to break the encryption, you break the software - you try to get the password from the user's computer so you can unlock it."
In another privacy-conscious step, Apple also recently removed more than 250 apps from the app store which used Chinese advertising software to extract personally identifiable information about users.
According to the company, this information included email addresses and data that could identify individual devices.
Apple said it would work with developers to get updated versions of their apps back on the app store "quickly". | Apple has said that encrypted data on newer iPhones can't be accessed, even by Apple, though the firm could in theory help police unlock older phones. | 34591864 |
His is the first elected government in Pakistan to serve a full term.
But since taking the helm in September 2008, Mr Zardari has presided over an increasingly fragile country, a growing militant threat, a turbulent relationship with the US, an uneasy relationship with the military and nationwide flooding.
Furthermore a separatist insurgency in the south-west has not eased, and both the economy and the energy situation have worsened.
In May 2011 he had to cope with the fall-out in Pakistan of the killing by US special forces of al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden in the town of Abbottabad.
Recriminations over the killings reflected the traditionally poor relations between his Pakistan People's Party (PPP) and the army as well as tenser relations with Washington, already strained because of continued US drone strikes against militant targets in the north-west of his country.
The fall-out from Bin Laden's death exposed the uneasy relationship between the PPP and Pakistan's military and intelligence services in the governance of the country.
During his period in power, Pakistan was hit by numerous suicide bombings - some directed against military and political targets and some more sectarian in nature. Because of militant attacks, the PPP has been all but unable to campaign for the general elections due on 11 May.
Among the many opponents ranged against him are some of the country's most popular politicians, including former PM Nawaz Sharif and more recently former cricketer and Movement for Justice party leader Imran Khan.
Both have been critical of President Zardari's support for the US and Nato in the battle against Taliban militants in Afghanistan.
Yet in spite of the wide array of problems he faces, President Zardari has remained doggedly in position - outlasting Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani who in 2012 was forced out of office after the Supreme Court convicted him of contempt for failing to pursue a corruption case against the president.
Mr Zardari's mercurial career has taken many a dramatic turn since his marriage in December 1987 to the charismatic former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.
He was thrust into the centre of politics when Ms Bhutto was assassinated 20 years later.
Since then and now his career has veered from being imprisoned for corruption - complaining that he was tortured when behind bars - to taking the country's top job by leading the PPP to victory in general elections after his wife's death.
Perhaps the high point of his political life came in 2008 when he played a pivotal role with former political enemies to force President Pervez Musharraf to resign.
But he has also been the subject of unfavourable scrutiny - in 2010 he was widely criticised for visiting Europe at the height of some of the worst floods to hit Pakistan in recent years.
In November 2011 he was dealt another blow by the resignation of Pakistan's ambassador to the US, Husain Haqqani.
Both Mr Haqqani and the president were accused of drafting a controversial memo in which they allegedly sought US military help against a possible military coup in Pakistan. They denied the charges.
But his political struggles today are still a far cry from the period before Ms Bhutto's death, when Mr Zardari's public image was so bad that the PPP kept him out of the public eye as much as possible during the campaigning for national elections in February 2008.
Mr Zardari was seen then as a political liability.
He spent several years in jail on charges of corruption. He was labelled "Mr 10%" for all the kick-backs he is alleged to have received.
He found himself in major trouble in 1990 when he was accused, among other things, of tying a remote-controlled bomb to the leg of a businessman and sending him into a bank to withdraw money from his account as a pay-off.
Those charges were never proved. The PPP had then accused the country's powerful intelligence apparatus of maligning Mr Zardari to damage Ms Bhutto's image.
In 1993, when then President Ghulam Ishaq Khan sacked the government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, Mr Zardari was escorted from the prison straight to the presidency where he was sworn in as a minister in the interim government.
Later, when the PPP won the 1993 elections, Mr Zardari moved with his wife to the Prime Minister's House in Islamabad where he lived for the next three years.
In 1996, when another president sacked the PPP government, he was arrested and charged with a number of offences including the murder of Mir Murtaza Bhutto, his wife's brother.
He was later charged, along with his wife, and convicted in a kickbacks scam involving a Swiss company, SGS.
But a mistrial was declared by Pakistan's Supreme Court following a major scandal involving the accountability bureau and the judge who had issued the verdict.
His last prison sentence lasted eight years until 2004, during which time he says he was tortured.
It ended as the then General Musharraf was engaged in protracted negotiations with Benazir Bhutto, then in self-imposed exile, for some form of political reconciliation.
Mr Zardari resolutely stood by his party as well as his wife - although at times he disagreed with the politics of both.
His friends say this was entirely in character and that no-one can deny his personal courage.
A close friend recounts an incident in the 1980s when as a horse-riding bachelor he personally rescued the daughter of a German diplomat who had fallen into a bog with her horse.
Asif Ali Zardari was born in Karachi to Hakim Ali Zardari, head of one of the "lesser" Sindhi tribes, who chose the urban life over rustic surroundings.
He grew up in Karachi and was educated at St Patrick's School - also the alma mater of Pervez Musharraf.
The young Zardari's main claim to fame was that he had a private disco at home, helping him gain the reputation as a "playboy".
After his release from prison in 2004, Mr Zardari kept a low profile, undergoing medical treatment in the US.
In addition to his heart problems he is reported to suffer from diabetes and a spinal ailment - which sometimes prevent him from easily moving around.
Ms Bhutto appreciated her husband's loyalty, saying that "despite his failings, he always stood by his family no matter what". | Asif Ali Zardari is one of Pakistan's most controversial political figures who survived a series of personal and political setbacks to gain the presidency. | 16066406 |
Several express concern at Mr Trump's claim that the election will be rigged and at his threat that he may refuse to accept the outcome if he loses.
These concerns are summed up succinctly by a headline in France's Le Point: "Trump can no longer win, but can refuse to admit defeat".
Spain's El Mundo says that Mr Trump's aggressive attitude during the debate "once again made Clinton a winner 'by default' over her rival".
The paper adds that Mr Trump's suggestion that he could refuse to accept the election result is likely to overshadow the remaining days of the campaign, and predicts that his remark will not help his cause.
Massimo Gaggi comments in Italy's Corriere Della Sera that Mr Trump is now "one step away from the abyss".
Mr Gaggi writes that it had earlier seemed that Mr Trump could not do his campaign any more harm. However, "on Wednesday night Trump managed it, openly threatening to provoke an institutional crisis without precedent by refusing to accept defeat if Hillary beats him".
In Germany, Christoph von Marschall writes in Berlin's Tagesspiegel that "We are used to such things... from states with authoritarian governments. But not from western democracies!"
He is in no doubt over who emerged as the winner of the debate: "Trump is not an equal partner when it comes to objective argument. He can only curse and rant - and dole out insults."
The pattern is repeated in the Middle Eastern press, with many papers seeing Mrs Clinton as now having a clear lead over her rival.
The UAE's Al-Bayan daily says that "Clinton surpasses Trump", while the Libyan news website Al-Mostakbal declares: "Clinton ahead of Trump three weeks before elections".
A commentary by Hesham Melhom in Lebanon's Al-Nahar focuses on Trump's "unfounded" allegations that elections will be rigged against him: "Trump is trying to prepare himself for losing, intimidate the Democrats and spread a climate of tension to dissuade voters from going to the polls".
Boaz Bismuth writes in the Israeli daily Yisrael Hayom: "There is no doubt that the road to the White House today seems easier for Hillary Clinton."
However, a gloomy analysis in the left-of-centre Israeli broadsheet Ha'aretz says that even if Trump is heavily defeated in the election, "the darkness is already here... liberal democracy is under attack."
The Russian business channel RBC TV says the debate "was again won by Hillary Clinton", an opinion shared by the Gazeta.ru news website.
"Clinton demonstrated her iron self-control", it writes. "Trump... lost all his energy. He kept silent more often and attacked less."
The pro-Kremlin business website Expert Online thinks the two candidates fought a draw: "A great majority of polls still show that Clinton is beating Trump... But Trump is obviously winning on social networks."
Russian TV station, Rossiya 24, focuses on the mention of President Putin: "It took Hillary Clinton less than 30 minutes to once again accuse Russia of committing cyber attacks against the USA and Donald Trump of liking the Russian leader", it reports.
China's Global Times says that the candidates' final encounter "looked more like a fight than a debate" .
BBC Monitoring reports and analyses news from TV, radio, web and print media around the world. You can follow BBC Monitoring on Twitter and Facebook. | Most media outlets across the globe say that Hillary Clinton won the third and final US presidential candidates' televised debate with Donald Trump. | 37713548 |
If they were to go ahead, they would be the first high-level talks since 2015.
A senior official said talks should aim to stop "all hostile activities that raise military tension" at the fortified border between the Koreas.
South Korea's President Moon Jae-in has long signalled he wants closer engagement with the North.
North Korea has not responded to the South's proposal yet.
In a recent speech in Berlin, Mr Moon said dialogue with the North was more pressing than ever and called for a peace treaty to be signed.
He said such dialogue was crucial for those who seek the end of Pyongyang's nuclear weapons programme.
However, the North's frequent missile tests, including the most recent one of an intercontinental ballistic missile, are in consistent violation of UN resolutions and have alarmed its neighbours and the US.
South Korea's Vice Defence Minister Suh Choo-suk told a media briefing that talks could be held at Tongilgak, a North Korean building in the Panmunjom compound in the demilitarised zone between the two countries, which was used to host previous talks.
He proposed that the talks be held on 21 July, and said: "We expect a positive response from the North."
South Korea's Unification Minister Cho Myoung-gyon also urged the restoration of communication hotlines between the two Koreas, cut last year after a North Korean nuclear test.
The BBC's Karen Allen in Seoul says the ultimate aim of these talks would be to end the military confrontation that has dominated relations between the two Koreas for decades.
But it could begin with confidence-building measures such as ending the infamous loudspeaker propaganda broadcasts along the border, she says.
The Red Cross and the government have also proposed a separate meeting, aimed at discussing how to hold reunions of families separated by the Korean War, which ended in 1953.
But analysts say these could be highly fraught with Pyongyang still angry at the South's unwillingness to repatriate high-profile defectors. | South Korea has proposed holding military talks with the North, after weeks of heightened tension following Pyongyang's long-range missile test. | 40627608 |
Both Smith and Berki scored 16.066 but the Hungarian was awarded the Olympic gold for a higher execution score.
GB team-mate Max Whitlock scored a superb 15.600 on his Olympic debut, handing the 19-year-old bronze.
Smith, 23, adds silver to the bronze medal he won at Beijing 2008.
That medal, achieved at the age of 19, made him the first Briton in a century to win an individual gymnastics medal.
There, his score tied with that of Croatia's Filip Ude and Smith came off worse, missing out on silver.
Four years later, with Smith the favourite for Olympic gold and the last to compete in the North Greenwich Arena, the same happened again. This time, arch-rival Berki took the spoils.
"Louis was under huge amounts of pressure and he had to deliver the goods. In fairness to him he increased the difficulty and to get the same score as the Olympic champion is just fantastic. We've come so far in the sport. We are now the strongest team in the world on the pommel horse. I cannot believe it. This is terrific for British gymnastics."
"It was tough. It's happened twice now, at two Olympic Games, being bumped down," he told BBC Sport.
"I guess I'm used to it now. But to come second against one of the best pommel-horse workers the world has ever seen? I'm a happy guy."
He could not have done more, losing out by a fraction in a battle between two greats of the discipline.
When scores are level in gymnastics, the mark awarded for execution - as opposed to difficulty, which is the other half - is counted first to break the tie.
Berki had a difficulty score of 6.9 and an execution score of 9.166, to Smith's higher difficulty of 7.0 but lower execution of 9.066.
The Hungarian's victory means he has still to lose to Smith in a major final, but Smith's relief at getting through his routine was palpable, having fallen in the same arena at the 2009 World Championships.
Smith did not watch Berki's routine, instead opting to continue his warm-up in the depths of the arena. When a rehearsal of his hardest routine did not go to plan, he opted for a slightly safer set of moves and was happy with his decision.
"I can't sit here with my face screwed up when I've got a silver at an Olympic Games. It's such a journey, not just for me but for every Olympic athlete," said Smith.
"To perform one of my hardest routines cleanly knowing all my friends and family have come to watch, regardless of what medal it won, was an amazing feeling.
"I said this final would be a clash of the titans if we both went through our routines, and getting the same score shows how close it was."
Whitlock kept his composure remarkably and went through a clean, strong routine in his first Olympic individual final. Not only did it pick up a medal, it hinted at a brighter future in four years' time.
"I'm so happy with how my first Olympics has gone, I couldn't ask for more," Whitlock said.
"To come second to Louis Smith, to start with, is really good. He was so close to that gold. He's upped his medal from bronze to silver and he should be really happy with it. He's done well."
Kristian Thomas and Beth Tweddle are Britain's remaining gymnastics hopes in the men's vault and women's uneven bars respectively. Both finals take place on Monday. | Louis Smith won a dramatic gymnastics silver medal on the pommel horse, missing out on gold by the narrowest margin after his overall score tied with Krisztian Berki. | 18907323 |
The 27-year-old heptathlete was honoured at a ceremony on Wednesday hosted by Lord Mayor John Campbell.
She was watched by family, friends and civic dignitaries as she signed the scroll granting her the honour.
Ennis said: "To become a freeman of Sheffield is the biggest civic honour anyone can get and I'm so proud to receive it."
She joins other sporting heroes including fellow athlete Lord Coe and cricketer Michael Vaughan as Sheffield freemen.
Ennis said: "Winning the Olympics in Britain has exceeded everything I could have ever wished for and the reception I have received from my home city has been unbelievable.
"I have to say a big thank you to the people of Sheffield who have believed in me and backed me over the years."
Mr Campbell said: "Becoming a freeman of Sheffield is the highest civic honour we can display and Jessica truly deserves it.
"Jessica is an amazing sportswoman, with incredible success and worldwide appeal.
"For this alone she is worthy of receiving the freedom of the city, but let's not forget the other things she does in Sheffield.
"A patron of two charities that mean so much to the people of Sheffield - the Children's Hospital and Weston Park charities. Her support helps them raise so much for their causes."
Ennis, who was born in Sheffield, went to school and university in the city and continues to live and train there.
Earlier this month, the city council decided the Don Valley Stadium, where Ennis trained, was to be demolished as part of cost-saving measures. | Olympic gold medallist Jessica Ennis has been officially granted the freedom of her home city of Sheffield. | 21965769 |
The bans are suspended for two years and both clubs have also been fined 100,000 euros (£83,800).
The tie at Parc Olympique Lyonnais, which ended 2-1 to Lyon, kicked off 45 minutes late.
The return leg in Turkey takes place on Thursday (20:05 BST).
A Uefa statement said the charges against Lyon related to crowd disturbances, setting off of fireworks, blocked stairways, insufficient organisation and field invasion by supporters after their second goal.
The charges against Besiktas related to crowd disturbances, setting off of fireworks and the throwing of objects. | Lyon and Besiktas have been given suspended bans from European competition by Uefa after crowd trouble marred their Europa League quarter-final first leg in France on 13 April. | 39645333 |
Bryony Charles, 23, was injured at Foxhall Stadium in Ipswich on Saturday, 13 June.
She has had two separate operations to put a pin in her right ankle and repair ligaments on her right knee.
"I now want to focus on getting better and returning to the job that I love," she said.
Ms Charles has returned home to Ipswich where she lives with her partner and she praised the support she had had from the team at Ipswich Hospital and her St John Ambulance colleagues.
"I would like to thank everyone who has sent me messages of support - these have kept me positive and motivated for my recovery," she said.
Debbie Charles, her mother, said: "We've still got a long journey ahead of us, but she's recuperating well and getting used to her wheelchair.
"She's missing her full-time job and voluntary work, which are both with St John, but we don't expect her to be up and walking for six months."
Ms Charles had been due to volunteer for St John Ambulance at Kylie Minogue's concert in Newmarket the following weekend, but was unable to make it.
The singer sent her a personal message instead.
"The picture of Kylie is still in the living room," Mrs Charles said. | A St John ambulance volunteer hit by an out-of-control stock car is unlikely to return to work for six months as she recovers from her injuries. | 33480811 |
Called Amazon Business, the online marketplace offers firms VAT-free pricing, VAT invoices, and software to track and limit spending.
The new venture adds to Amazon's huge range of businesses from online video, to groceries to cloud computing.
Amazon has had success with a similar service launched in the US in 2015.
In its first year of operation in the US, the business supply service generated more than $1bn (£800m) in sales. It launched a similar service in Germany last year.
The UK online business-to-business market was worth £96.5bn in 2015 according to the ONS, only slightly lower than the £119bn spent by consumers.
Amazon said there would be more than 100 million products available on the new marketplace, which would include ordinary office supplies and storage solutions as well as more specialist products such as microscopes and test-tubes.
Bill Burkland, Head of Amazon Business UK said the service would offer "a new set of unique business features - from reporting and analytics to spending limits and purchasing workflow approvals". It will also offer free one-day delivery on orders of £30 or more.
"For many small businesses this will be a welcome opportunity to get everything in one place," said Bryan Roberts a retail analyst at TCC Global.
Laith Khalaf, senior analyst and stockbrokers, Hargreaves Lansdown said further competition was likely to mean keener pricing for business supplies. He said Staples and Office Depot were the businesses most likely to be affected by the increased competition.
"I can't speak to the quality or function of what [Amazon has] got, but if you're in scenario that you're ordering lots of stuff, having a service that tracks and analyses your purchases is very useful."
For Amazon it represented a logical move, he added. "It is a more natural extension of their business than video content or expanding into groceries. Its nearer to its core business than those enterprises."
"They have got the infrastructure in place in terms of the website, the suppliers who'll want to sell their services and the logistic services... so it makes sense to extend that to business customers as well." | Amazon is targeting companies with a new service selling business supplies, such as laptops, power tools and cleaning products. | 39485199 |
"There were a few eyebrows raised when I suggested it," the 33-year-old dad-of-two recalls. "I think it was a big surprise to people."
Rob's career had always been successful and demanding. As a forensic accountant in Birmingham, he specialised in large scale corporate fraud and corruption, a career which took him to far flung corners of the world often at short notice.
His wife works for the same company and her job is just as demanding.
But with two small boys under five, the couple realised that something had to give.
"It was just proving too much of a challenge for us to keep both our careers progressing as they had been whilst also making sure we actually spent time with the boys."
It is a scenario that will sound familiar to many couples juggling work and family. But it was Rob who decided to cut his hours.
"It seemed to make sense for me to move down to working part-time, to give me more time for the boys, let my wife continue with her career and allow more time for me to write."
Rob was the first full-time male in his department to seek part-time work.
"There definitely is a stigma, but I ignore it,"
"Certainly I have had a lot of raised eyebrows within the office from some of the more senior men in the organisation and I am sure there have been whispers about it. But it doesn't affect me at all as it is something I decided to do and my wife supports me."
Since October last year, he has been working three days a week and is now the main carer for their two children. The move has also allowed him to develop his passion for writing thrillers. He has a book due out in spring.
Although he has had a small income from his writing, the family, from Sutton Coldfield, has had to make do with less income. It has not been easy, but Rob believes in the long term it will be worth it as his wife can dedicate herself to climbing the corporate career ladder. He also hopes his writing career will take off.
So far, he says he has absolutely no regrets, "I feel much more relaxed, life is on a more even keel.
That is exactly what Richard Steele had in mind when he went part time.
He had been working flat out in retail for 10 years and decided to change his pace of life.
"With emails, tablets and mobile phones it meant there was no barrier to when work finished," explains Richards.
He now works as finance director for the frozen foods business, Cook, based in Kent. He takes Fridays off.
"It is a sort of transition from a very busy week to re-charging and having time for me and to build-up again so that I can spend quality time with the family at the weekend."
Those extra hours also allow him to really enjoy time with his three boys at the weekend as well as do voluntary work, including a role as a school governor.
Richard sees it as flexible working instead of part-time.
It is women, of course, who do the vast majority of part-time work. But more and more men are choosing to do fewer hours.
The number of men choosing to work part-time has tripled since 1995. Over the past two years the pace has picked up with the figure leaping 100,000.
It now stands at 994,000, according to the Office for National Statistics.
"This is the future of work as we know it and it is refreshing. Those who choose to work flexibly - be it reducing their hours or increasing their home working - are shaking up the status quo for both businesses and employees," says Karen Mattison, the joint chief executive of Timewise.
Her organisation helps businesses and workers to work flexible hours.
"The challenge we face is debunking the myth of the outdated perception of what flexible working means and for whom. Just as there is no one reason for needing flexibility, there is no one gender who needs it either," she says.
But according to the Office for National Statistics, it is older men who are driving this trend.
Some 38% of those choosing to work part-time are men in their 50-60s.
Most of the men who choose to work fewer hours are in public administration - which includes the vast majority of public sector workers - education and health. Banking, finance, insurance and other business services is the second most popular area followed by distribution, retail, hotels and restaurants.
Opting for part-time work is something that older men may find easier to do.
Bernard Brody could have retired two years ago after a long and varied career, latterly in the motor trade.
But he chooses to work three six-hour days at B&Q in Stockport and loves it.
"The money helps and I can't sit around doing nothing," Bernard chirps as he helps customers find what they are looking for.
Bernard has no intention of stopping anytime soon. And there are seven others aged over 65 working alongside him.
Bernard, Rob and Richard are three men with very different personal stories about why they chose to work part-time.
They also give a glimpse into how the way we work is changing in today's demanding world. | Rob Sinclair remembers the moment when he asked to go part-time at work. | 31535163 |
Gatland, 52, controversially dropped the Ireland legend from the decisive Test win against Australia in 2013.
O'Driscoll told the Daily Telegraph that Gatland and Ireland boss Joe Schmidt are the best options for 2017.
The 37-year-old added Gatland's style "is probably something that lends itself to the short lead-in time".
The Lions face New Zealand three times in a five-week tour in 2017, with the first Test coming after six build-up games over three weeks.
British and Irish Lions chief executive John Feehan has said Gatland is the leading contender to take charge again.
The Welsh Rugby Union would again back their national coach, who was assistant to Ian McGeechan for the 2009 tour to South Africa that ended in a 2-1 defeat.
Gatland selected Wales' Jonathan Davies ahead of O'Driscoll to partner Jamie Roberts for the crucial Test in Sydney three years ago.
Former Ireland captain and Lions hooker Keith Wood described the decision as "a terrible mistake".
The Lions won 41-16 without O'Driscoll, but Wood stood by his comments.
O'Driscoll says he would partner Davies with England's Manu Tuilagi were he selecting the team now.
"I will get absolutely lambasted in Wales for not picking Roberts, but I think you have to have Manu in there and I don't think you play him and Jamie together," said O'Driscoll. | Former British and Irish Lions captain Brian O'Driscoll has backed Wales coach Warren Gatland to lead the 2017 Lions tour to New Zealand. | 35995209 |
Two blocks of flats in Edinburgh have become the 50th and 51st buildings whose construction was completed after World War Two to be given Category A listed status.
Historic Environment Scotland puts important buildings into three categories.
Those in Category A are considered to be buildings of national or international importance, either architectural or historic.
Post-war structures to be given Category A status include the Forth Road Bridge, the Burrell Collection, numerous churches, hydroelectric power stations and two swimming pools.
Cables Wynd House and neighbouring Linksview House in Edinburgh are the 50th and 51st post-war building to be given Category A status. | . | 38826248 |
With the help of popular local memes, the BBC explains why the PAP keeps winning - and why results may not remain predictable for much longer.
Like a blockbuster film, Singapore's elections are often a colourful spectacle with an all too predictable ending - much like the Chinese war film Red Cliff, parodied in this movie poster by designer PixelGod.
The PAP has long enjoyed widespread support and political legitimacy, especially among older Singaporeans who have seen the country swiftly develop into a first-world economy.
Pragmatic voters have been willing to trade in some freedoms in exchange for prosperity and stability. The country's massive jubilee celebration last month reminded Singaporeans how far the country has come - and may have helped to shore up voter goodwill for the PAP.
But younger Singaporeans have also been calling for greater government accountability, particularly with recent stumbles over immigration and infrastructure.
The PAP has tried to address these problems, but that has not quelled the demand for more opposition representation.
The PAP is synonymous with its charismatic and deeply respected leader Lee Kuan Yew, whose presence looms large over this election, the first to be held since his death in March.
He led the country as prime minister from independence in 1965 to 1990 and his personal popularity helped to ensure the party's non-stop electoral success.
His death in March triggered an outpouring of grief and tributes, which may contribute to greater PAP support this election.
Lee was also known for his merciless attitude towards opponents with defamation suits, which critics say created a culture of fear and stifled dissent.
This election is the first to see all constituencies contested, as more opposition candidates step forward into the political spotlight.
These include Chee Soon Juan, who was bankrupted by Lee's suits and is staging a comeback this election.
Singapore has a democratic system largely seen as clean and fraud-free. But there are aspects of the political structure that critics say undeniably benefit the PAP.
One is grouping constituencies into blocs, known as group representation constituencies (GRCs).
(This is to ensure ethnic representation in parliament, as Singapore is a multi-racial country. Each party that sends a team to contest must have at least one ethnic minority candidate.)
But with Singapore's winner-takes-all, first-past-the-post system, whichever team gets the most votes wins the whole GRC, which makes it difficult for opposition parties to make gains.
Some say it also allows less popular PAP candidates to ride on the coat-tails of more popular ones into parliament.
The constant moving of constituency boundaries by a non-independent election committee - convened by the prime minister and usually led by his secretary - has attracted allegations of gerrymandering, particularly when neighbourhoods that are far apart are grouped together.
The PAP has denied these accusations, saying that some of the changes have disadvantaged them too.
But the practice has been mocked in election haikus by Facebook group Haiku Party.
Another point of contention is the close relationship between the ruling party and government machinery, and controlling taxpayer-funded resources to shore up political dominance.
Design collective A Good Citizen has parodied this dominance with this cartoon of opposition supporters under attack.
Opposition MPs say they face significant hurdles in getting government funds and community resources for their constituencies, and that these tend to be dispensed through PAP-friendly community groups.
Until recently the PAP also used to promise that opposition constituencies would be served last when it came to housing improvement works - a significant issue as most Singaporeans live in government housing.
Such practices have resulted in calls on the PAP to create a more level playing field in politics. | Singaporeans head to the polls on Friday, and with the same party in power for 50 years, it's all but certain that the People's Action Party (PAP) will once again form the government. | 34171284 |
The 17-year-old, who cannot be named, stabbed 16-year-old Irfan Wahid in the chest in Leeds on 10 February.
The defendant, who was cleared of murder at Leeds Crown Court, said Irfan had punched him to the ground after seeing him chatting with the girl.
Jurors heard the girl, 16, dated the defendant in 2016 and spent time with Irfan in the days before he was killed.
Irfan was getting off a bus on Harehills Lane when he spotted the 17-year-old with her.
Read more about this and other stories from across Yorkshire
The defendant told the jury he had swung a knife, which he carried in his bag to defend himself, only after being attacked and had not intended to kill Irfan.
Sentencing will take place on 15 September.
Hundreds attended Irfan's funeral in February.
Cousin Sadia Khan said: "He was very open, he was the loud one and he was just so friendly to everyone."
Another cousin, Idrees Fazil, said: "Even at school I think with his friends he was obviously a very popular kid - for his smile, his laughter and his jokes." | A teenager who stabbed a boy to death in a fight over a girl has been convicted of manslaughter. | 40936140 |
Police in Wyoming, Minnesota, tweeted on Sunday that drink drivers would be forced to watch Bieber's Super Bowl advert "the entire way to jail".
The pop star is seen performing celebratory end zone dances in a tuxedo during the mobile phone commercial.
Fortunately, no drink driving arrests were made on Sunday night.
Canada police to punish drink-drivers with Nickelback
Bieber's advert aired during the Super Bowl, in which he is heard saying: "This guy's got the shimmedy sham-sham shimmedy shake right there".
Twitter users lauded the police for the tongue-in-cheek tweet, which was retweeted nearly 10,000 times.
Wyoming Police Chief Paul Hoppe told the Pioneer Press that the tweet helped push the public service announcement about responsible drinking during the Super Bowl.
"It gets people to actually stop and read the message," Mr Hoppe said.
After the New England Patriots won the game in a historic 34-28 comeback, the Wyoming police changed their message, poking fun at the way many Americans love to hate the Patriots.
The alternative punishment is not the first time police have turned to Canadian artists to help deter drink driving.
Last November, a Canadian police force threatened to force festive drink-drivers to listen to Nickelback, a local band often derided as the world's worst band. | A Minnesota police force has threatened to punish drink drivers with Justin Bieber's dance moves if they get behind the wheel while intoxicated. | 38888018 |
When a call came through to west Belfast priest Fr Des Wilson that she was keen to move to the city, his delight was surpassed only by his disbelief.
The call came from his friend, Methodist clergyman the Reverend Roger Greeves, who had met Mother Teresa at a conference in London.
"He told me that she expressed great interest in the situation in Northern Ireland and said she wanted to do something to help," said Fr Wilson.
Although thrilled by the news, Fr Wilson had some concerns about her proposal to set up home on a peace line.
His fear was not just for the nuns' safety - he felt their presence on one of the many borders that separated Catholic and Protestant neighbourhoods could represent a simplification of the Troubles.
"I worried that if they set up on an interface, it could strengthen this notion that the conflict was about Protestants and Catholics warring with each other, as opposed to what it was really about, which was bad governance and inequality."
At the time, the reconciliation group Pace (Protestant and Catholic Encounter), which Fr Wilson helped establish, was being lambasted by DUP leader Ian Paisley, and he did not want the nuns' presence to be seen as provocative to unionists.
Mother Teresa arrived in Ballymurphy on 2 October 1971. Her attendance at Sunday mass the following day was a source of huge excitement in the parish of Corpus Christi.
"She got a standing ovation and then the congregation just swarmed around her," said Fr Wilson.
Later that day, Mother Teresa met the Bishop of Down and Connor William Philbin to discuss her plans.
"He was very taken by her and gave her his blessing.
"We were astonished and delighted in equal measure - we never expected that the bishop would offer his approval so quickly."
Further surprise came when Mother Teresa chose to live in Ballymurphy - an estate which had been marred by horrific violence only two months previously.
In August 1971, a Catholic priest and a mother-of-eight were among 11 people killed by the Parachute Regiment in what became known as the Ballymurphy massacre.
"You have to understand, this was the estate everyone wanted out of," said Fr Wilson. "And then along came this renowned, celebrated person doing the exact opposite."
Two houses on Springhill Avenue were provided for the Missionaries of Charity sisters, which Mother Teresa founded in 1950, and people set about making the properties as welcoming a space as possible.
"The houses were a wreck but they were done up very quickly," said Fr Wilson.
"The nuns lived in one of the houses, and the other was used as a place for the community to come and learn new skills."
From the beginning, the nuns were known simply as "Mother Teresa's Sisters".
Fr Wilson said the work of the makeshift convent lifted the morale of the community.
"It wasn't what was done that was important but that something was being done - somebody out there believed in the people of Ballymurphy," he said.
"The young people gathered in the sisters' house and sang and worked. Some learned to read and write."
The convent was also one of the few places in the area with a working phone, and often anxious mothers would arrive to make desperate enquiries about the non-arrival of social welfare payments or news about imprisoned family members.
But despite winning the hearts of the people, the nuns failed to gain the support of some senior clergy in the Catholic Church.
Fr Wilson suggested some in the Church did not want Belfast to be seen as a "charity case".
"From their perspective, missionaries were sent by us to other countries - we didn't need missionaries coming here. There was a perception that they brought shame on us because their presence suggested we couldn't deal with our own problems."
Although resilient at the beginning, as time went on, the nuns' treatment by the Church became harder to bear.
"It became quite personal and very hurtful in the end," said Fr Wilson.
"Eventually, in the autumn of 1973, I was preparing for a trip to Lourdes and Sister Frederick [one of the Missionaries of Charity nuns] told me that by the time I got back, they would be gone.
"I couldn't believe it."
"I suppose it would be described as constructive dismissal today - they went of their own free will but only because their lives were made so difficult."
The Catholic Church denied they had forced Mother Teresa and the other nuns to leave and said the Sisters of Charity had left of their own free will.
Fr Wilson pleaded with Mother Teresa and the sisters to change their minds but to no avail.
"She said: 'Des, there are 32 other dioceses who are asking us for help, who need us to come. We can't continue to stay in a place where we're not wanted."
But their presence in west Belfast left a lasting legacy.
A month after they left, a petition was drawn up by parishioners and circulated around Ballymurphy.
It called for a new approach to the administration of the parish, including the establishment of a parish council with a say in the election of the new priest and on all matters affecting the local community.
And Mother Teresa never forgot Ballymurphy.
Writing in July 1981, she said: "This brings my prayer and gratitude for all you did for our sisters when in Belfast.
"My prayer is and was very close to you all this time. I still pray that you may grow in the likeness of Christ through love and compassion, and so become an instrument of peace." | In 1971, Mother Teresa was something of an international celebrity, revered around the world for her work with the poor. | 37247857 |
The Glasgow-based company, which has been restructuring in order to improve efficiency, has forecast a pre-tax profit of between £250m and £270m.
The figures match those given in the summer when it issued a profits warning.
It also reported a 7% fall in underlying third-quarter revenue.
In a trading statement, Aggreko said sales from its rental solutions division were down 1% on last year.
It added that the ongoing weakness in the oil and gas and mining sectors had been largely offset by continued growth in other sectors, such as petrochemical and refining.
Aggreko also reported an 11% fall in revenue from its power solutions arm, with the "continuing weak economic backdrop in Brazil" having an impact on its business.
In August, Aggreko reorganised the group into two units following a business review.
It also announced plans to add more engineering resources to its Dumbarton manufacturing facility as part of a consolidation process.
Chief executive Chris Weston said Aggreko continued "to demonstrate its resilience against a challenging market backdrop".
He added: "Whilst we are at an early stage in delivering the specific actions identified at our business review in August, I am encouraged with the progress we are making which, regardless of the prevailing market conditions, will strengthen Aggreko and position it well for the future."
By lunchtime on Monday, Aggreko's shares were up by more than 7%. | Temporary power provider Aggreko has said it is sticking to its full-year profit guidance, despite reporting a drop in sales in the third quarter. | 34765509 |
Croatian border police are stopping all Serbian vehicles from entering the country in protest at Serbia's decision to transport migrants to the border.
But Croatia's interior minister said the ban did not apply to Serbian people.
The Serbian authorities have responded by banning cargo traffic from Croatia.
Amid escalating tension, Serbia's foreign ministry said the measures were "discriminatory" and "can only be compared with measures taken in the past, during the fascist Independent Croatia", referring to the Nazi puppet state proclaimed in Croatia in 1941, which sided with Berlin.
Croatia's Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic, speaking in Brussels where EU leaders have been discussing a response to the migrant crisis, said Serbia's behaviour was "not normal".
Some Serbian nationals were not let into Croatia early on Thursday, but the Croatian government blamed this on a computer glitch.
Croatia has blocked cargo transport from Serbia since last week, shutting all but one of its crossings in order to prevent more migrants entering the country after a surge of almost 45,000 people arrived in a week.
The Croatian authorities are angry that Serbia has been bussing migrants straight to its border after Hungary sealed its southern border with a metal fence.
Croatia in turn sends them north across its own border with Hungary, which passes them on to Austria, but Zagreb says it cannot cope with the pace of the influx.
The border closures have damaged the economy in Serbia, which is a conduit for cargo to western and central Europe. | Serbia has compared Croatian border restrictions to racial laws enforced by a Nazi puppet state during World War Two, in a deepening row over migrants. | 34348167 |
On Monday, it seemed half of the country's journalists were up on the Gold Coast covering a Hollywood A-Lister and his wife Amber Heard as they tried to extricate themselves and their pet dogs Pistol and Boo from the so called War on Terrier.
The other half were down in Canberra as the prime minister (A-lister or D-lister depending on your political persuasion) confirmed he intended to dissolve both houses of parliament and call an early general election on 2 July.
One of those stories is big news, right? The other tittle-tattle?
Well, the BBC's online stats man tells me our stories on Depp's dogs garnered a total of around 3m page views.
Our most popular story on the double dissolution managed just 136,000 views.
Of course, not too much can be read into figures like this. After all, one of the BBC's most popular online stories was for many years Man Forced to Marry Goat.
Sex and animals is a potent combination in terms of online traffic. I guess you could say the Depp story featured two dogs and the world's sexiest man.
Malcolm Turnbull's double dissolution had none of the above.
But I do think news that the country is likely going to the polls in July has generated little political fervour in Australia and has generally been greeted with a collective shrug.
Down under, general elections come thick and fast as it is.
They have to take place every three years, whereas in most democracies it's every four or five.
It was only in September 2013 - barely two-and-a-half years ago - that the country last went to the polls.
Add into the mix the fact that Australia's political parties have a persistent habit of ousting their leaders mid-term - there have been four different prime ministers in the last three years - and you get the sense that the country is in a constant state of churn.
For outside observers it's easy to lose track.
I once did a live interview with a BBC presenter in London and rather awkwardly had to explain to him that the person he thought was the Australian prime minister had actually been ousted six months earlier.
Of course, it gives journalists lots to talk about but I sense the mood among the public is less enthusiastic.
Anyone who is familiar with the US system, where Congressional elections for the House of Representatives are held every two years, knows what a sense of constant political grind it creates.
The result is relentless campaigning, lobbying and fund raising, with only a brief window to actually get anything done before you have to start worrying about the next election.
Another problem with having elections so frequently is that it's all too easy for a prime minister to blame current problems on a previous government.
In Australia this year, nobody really seems that clear what the election's defining issues will be.
In 2013 it was asylum seekers and Tony Abbott and Kevin's Rudd's pledges to "Stop the Boats".
But in 2016 the boats have been stopped and the government and the opposition Labor Party are largely on the same page in terms of asylum seeker policy.
It could be the economy.
But while there are perennial concerns that the good times may be over after a quarter-century of consecutive economic growth, Australia is not in the midst of an economic crisis.
It may well come down to personality - and there's not much of that around either.
After the political soap opera of the Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard era and the gaffe-prone Tony Abbott, this year's principal protagonists look rather bland.
On the D theme, you might even say dull or dreary.
Both Malcolm Turnbull and his challenger, the Labor party's Bill Shorten, seem rather sensible and not terribly far apart politically.
But if it does come down to personality, Mr Shorten definitely has some catching up to do.
While polls show Labor neck-and-neck, if not marginally ahead, as a party, Malcolm Turnbull is still streets ahead in terms of personal approval ratings.
What is clear is that with the announcement of his intention to call the election early, this will be one of the longest campaigns in Australian history.
There are still 71 days to go until D-Day.
Hands up anyone who's feeling election fatigue already. | Like an ill-conceived edition of Sesame Street, this week in Australia has been brought to you by the letter D - from Depp's dogs to double dissolution. | 36108551 |
The blaze in the Aberdeenshire town's High Street in May in 1998 claimed the life of 43-year-old Gordon Graham.
Barry Henderson, 42, denies killing Mr Graham and attempting to murder his wife Anne.
The prosecution at the High Court in Glasgow claims Mr Henderson wilfully set fire to materials in the ground floor and the blaze spread.
Jurors were read out a joint minute of agreed facts in the case.
They were told that two flats at 74 High Street were occupied by Mr Graham, his wife, and family members, and that the Graham family were known locally as "the family from hell".
The jury also heard that Mr Graham died of smoke inhalation and his body was scorched by fire.
At the time of his death he was said to be "substantially under the influence of alcohol and cannabis".
Mr Henderson is also accused of assaulting a woman in a nightclub in Fraserburgh in 1998.
He faces another charge that he behaved in a threatening manner on a bus between Crimond and Fraserburgh last November.
Mr Henderson, who is represented by defence QC Brian McConnachie, denies all the charges against him and has lodged special defences of alibi and incrimination.
Judge Lord Ericht told the jurors: "It is estimated this trial will last for five weeks."
The trial continues. | A man has gone on trial accused of murdering a 43-year-old man in a fire in Fraserburgh 19 years ago. | 40774849 |
Mr Trump tweeted: "Boeing is building a brand new 747 Air Force One for future presidents, but costs are out of control, more than $4 billion. Cancel order!"
The government has a contract with Boeing to build two or more new planes.
The White House appeared to cast doubt on the figures quoted by Mr Trump.
"Some of the statistics that have been cited, shall we say, don't appear to reflect the nature of the financial arrangement between Boeing and the Department of Defence," White House spokesman Josh Earnest said.
The new planes would enter service around 2024.
Boeing shares fell more than 1% after the president-elect's tweet, but recovered most of their losses in afternoon trading.
Mr Trump would not fly on the new planes unless he won a second term in the 2020 election.
The president-elect also announced on Tuesday that Japan's SoftBank has agreed to invest $50bn (£39.4bn) in the US aimed at creating 50,000 new jobs.
Mr Trump revealed the plan after meeting SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son at Trump Tower.
"Masa said he would never do this had we (Trump) not won the election!" he tweeted.
In other developments:
As president and commander-in-chief, Donald Trump will have the power to cancel the contract with Boeing for the new planes.
But if he does, it could cost the US taxpayer even more as the new president tries to save money. The US government has already signed a contract with Boeing for $170m (£134m; €158m). Additional funding has also been earmarked for the two new planes.
The Government Accountability Office - an independent government auditor - estimates the final cost will be $3.2bn. The planes are still in early design phases, though - much of the money has yet to be spent and has not had a chance to overrun the cost estimates.
Negotiation between Boeing and the US government could cut some of the costs, but if Mr Trump pulls out of the Boeing contract entirely the country may lose the money it is already contracted to pay.
Mr Trump now uses his own plane, but as president he would travel aboard Air Force One, which is equipped with special safety, defensive and communications equipment.
He is known for his admiration of his Trump-branded Boeing 757 jet, boasting to Rolling Stone last year that his aircraft was "bigger than Air Force One, which is a step down from this in every way".
"Did you know it was featured on the Discovery Channel as the world's most luxurious jetliner?" he said at the time.
The president-elect told reporters on Tuesday at Trump Tower in New York that Boeing was "doing a little bit of a number" and the cost was "ridiculous".
"We want Boeing to make a lot of money, but not that much money," he added.
Mr Trump's remarks came after the Chicago Tribune published a column early on Tuesday in which Boeing chief executive Dennis Muilenburg suggested the president-elect roll back his anti-trade rhetoric.
"If we do not lead when it comes to writing these [trade] rules, our competitors will write them for us," Mr Muilenburg told the newspaper.
The Government Accountability Office estimates that the project's overall cost will be $3.2bn, a figure that is expected to rise.
The US Air Force said it had budgeted $2.7bn for the project, "but expects this number to change".
Boeing spokesman Todd Blecher, in a statement, said: "We are currently under contract for $170m to help determine the capabilities of these complex military aircraft that serve the unique requirements of the president of the United States.
"We look forward to working with the US Air Force on subsequent phases of the programme, allowing us to deliver the best planes for the president at the best value for the American taxpayer." | US President-elect Donald Trump has said he wants to cut government costs by cancelling the order for new planes to carry the American president. | 38221579 |
According to leaks, the game is set during the Victorian era with players getting to travel on stagecoaches from the time.
An insider told gaming website Kotaku that the game will be out next year on PS4, Xbox One and PC.
The game's developer Ubisoft said: "It is always unfortunate when internal assets, not intended for public consumption, are leaked."
It's not been a good month for the video game developer.
Ubisoft has apologised after the latest Assassin's Creed was plagued with bugs and unexpected technical issues.
The French firm said it was providing the upcoming Dead Kings expansion pack for free to fix problems on Assassin's Creed Unity.
The leak shows a video with an assassin climbing up a tower and looking out over what looks like Victorian London.
It then shows some of the game's side activities; gambling in a pub and street-racing with carriages.
It seems the game's task is to kill a man named Roderick Bulmer, who has been trafficking young children for the assassins' ancestral enemies.
Ubisoft told PC Gamer: "While we certainly welcome anticipation for all of our upcoming titles, we're disappointed for our fans, and our development team, that this conceptual asset is now public.
"The team in our Quebec studio has been hard at work on the particular game in question for the past few years, and we're excited to officially unveil what the studio has been working on at a later date.
"In the meantime, our number one priority is enhancing the experience of Assassin's Creed Unity for players."
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GB, among the bottom set of seeds for the draw, will be based in Istanbul for the tournament, hosted jointly by Turkey, Finland, Israel and Romania.
It begins on 31 August, with the final scheduled for 17 September.
Joe Prunty's team, who failed to qualify in 2015, will be making their fourth appearance after competing in 2009, 2011 and 2013.
Rio 2016 silver medallists Serbia are among the favourites.
Great Britain's women missed out on a fourth Eurobasket finals appearance as they lost 71-52 to Italy at the weekend.
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A misfit who grew up hating school, Ms Amoruso left home at 17, intent on a life of anarchy and getting by for free in Olympia, Washington.
She says she received a rude wake-up call one day when she was caught shoplifting (but let off), which she had been doing in order to support her lifestyle.
"I learned the hard way that taking shortcuts and living for free is not really living free," she says.
Now 30, Ms Amoruso says that her early mistakes were crucial in helping her build Nasty Gal from a simple eBay store selling vintage items in 2006 to a $100m (£60m) business with more than 350 employees selling cool, quirky new and used clothing items to millions of women around the world.
"It was like throwing myself at the wall the way you throw spaghetti - to see if it sticks," she says.
It goes without saying that Ms Amoruso is not your typical entrepreneur, and certainly not cut from the same cloth as the legions of technology bosses who flock to Silicon Valley in search of funding and riches.
After the shoplifting incident in 2003, Ms Amoruso moved to San Francisco, California.
A community college drop-out, she developed a hernia and so started work as a security guard checking IDs at an art school - a job she took for the health insurance it provided.
Bored, she decided to open an eBay store re-selling vintage clothing after reading a book called Starting an eBay Business for Dummies.
She named her eBay store Nasty Gal Vintage, after a song and album by the jazz singer Betty Davis, second wife of the legendary Miles Davis.
In her memoir, #GIRLBOSS, she says eBay was a crucial platform because she learned to respond to every customer comment, to really understand who was buying her finds and what they wanted.
That helped her beat other vintage sellers because she knew how to style the pieces she found - using young models who were paid a salary of burgers at a local restaurant - to appeal to her demographic.
After a spat with rival sellers ended with her getting kicked off the auction platform, she struck out on her own, buying the domain name NastyGalVintage.com (NastyGal.com was initially owned by a porn firm) and communicating with her customers through social media sites such as MySpace and eventually Facebook and Twitter.
"Using social media allowed me to have a conversation with our customers - I would say it was the number one reason we created awareness," she adds.
That put Ms Amoruso ahead of competitors who were just realising the power of social media to drive business.
"Every other fashion brand out there - including those that I call competitors - are run by mostly old white men, and the customer knows it," she says.
"This generation is super savvy - it doesn't matter who you hire to run your social media if the person behind the scenes pulling the strings is far from the customer."
Ms Amoruso says Nasty Gal amassed its 1.2 million Instagram followers and millions of Facebook likes by aggressively styling the firm's clothing in unique looks that "you can't find at the mall".
She pioneered the idea of styling outfits from head to toe and mixing old and new, expensive and cheap and made sure that Nasty Gal wasn't just a retail website, but a lifestyle that could appeal to a certain type of woman.
That has helped to build loyalty - most customers are women in their 20s who return again and again to the site, buying up 93% of Nasty Gal's inventory at full price. Half of the site's business comes from return customers - something almost unheard of in retail circles.
Even after Nasty Gal started taking off - moving from a tiny office to a large space in Los Angeles - Ms Amoruso initially resisted taking outside investment, a rarity among tech firms, most of which aren't profitable in their early years.
"I had the luxury of a profitable business," she says.
That allowed her to wait for the right investor - which took some time.
"When I decided to raise money, every guy was on to the fact that women like to shop as if it was the newest thing. They all had their theses and were ready to invest in any company that was making clothing for women, but there's no soul to that," she says.
Although she eventually found the right match in Danny Rimer, of Index Ventures, who pledged $9m in March 2012, she still retains a large amount of control, which has allowed her to hire smart people.
However, she does add: "It's only in the last six months that I can say my team has better ideas than I do - and how much of a relief that is."
Ms Amoruso has big plans for Nasty Gal - including opening physical retail stores later this year - and while she knows her rags-to-riches tale of a naive ingenue is appealing, she is careful to emphasise just how much hard work and what she calls "sweat equity" got her to where she is today.
As she counsels future "girlbosses" in her memoir: "Don't act like you've arrived when you're just receiving the invitation." | The first thing Sophia Amoruso - chief executive of Nasty Gal, the fastest growing e-commerce site in the US - sold on the internet was something she had stolen. | 27414760 |
Kajsa Tylen, 38, from Nottingham, is intending to ride about 36,000 miles (58,000km).
Her mother, Tina Tylen, 65, will travel as back-up with a caravan during the challenge across Europe.
Mustafa Sarkar, a sports psychologist, said having her mother alongside could be a key factor in breaking the 77-year-old record.
Ms Tylen, who is originally from Sweden, felt inspired after reading about Billie Fleming who pedalled for 29,603 miles (47,641km) in 1938, to encourage others to adopt a healthy lifestyle.
Tina Tylen retired from her job at Specsavers and has since been planning her role in the journey.
The two have not always been so close.
"I moved out of home when I was 16 and we have both lived a fair distance apart since then," said Kajsa Tylen.
"We both worked abroad for a while too and didn't really talk much then either."
Tina Tylen later moved in with her daughter in Nottingham, which Kajsa said was "tough" to begin with.
"Once we got to know one another again, it worked out well. She [now] knows to feed me if I start getting tetchy."
Dr Sarkar said: "Having her mum by her side will definitely help.
"A crucial part of motivation is about relatedness, the feeling of support.
"Messages from her mum will have to be positive but she will also have to allow [Kajsa] to persevere herself. Knowing she's by her side will be important."
The cyclist said she had been boosted by "incredible" support for the challenge which begins on New Year's Day at Leisure Lakes Bikes in Breaston.
This has included promises of places to stay, offers of food and bike maintenance, as well as ferry tickets when she reaches Denmark, and messages from people on social media.
"Sense of purpose is important" - Dr Mustafa Sarkar, Nottingham Trent University
"One of the key aspects will be motivation. Her reason of wanting to motivate other people to exercise and this sense of purpose will be really important.
"Some people do [big challenges] for the wrong reasons. [Her own motivation] will really help drive her.
"The notion of self-talk, what she is going to say to herself throughout the challenge, will be important. There will be critical points especially during difficult moments where self-talk will be key.
"This personal link of wanting to motivate other people to exercise will give her a sense of purpose and might help drive her on especially during difficult moments of the challenge." | A cyclist is beginning her attempt to break a long-standing long distance cycling challenge over the next year. | 35025075 |
Straddling the continents of Europe and Asia, Turkey's strategically important location has given it major influence in the region - and control over the entrance to the Black Sea.
Turkey's progress towards democracy and a market economy was halting in the decades following the death of President Ataturk in 1938.
The army saw itself as the guarantor of the constitution, and ousted governments on a number of occasions when it thought they were challenging secular values.
Efforts to reduce state control over the economy also faced many obstacles. After years of mounting difficulties which brought the country close to economic collapse, a tough recovery programme was agreed with the IMF in 2002.
The austerity measures imposed then meant that by the time the global financial crisis came round in 2008, Turkey was in a better position to weather the storm than many other countries.
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The level of public debt was already relatively low, and, although the effects of the recession were still felt, by 2010 the Turkish economy had started to bounce back and resumed growth.
Concerns over the potential for conflict between a secular establishment backed by the military and a traditional society deeply rooted in Islam resurfaced with the landslide election victory of the Islamist-based Justice and Development Party (AKP) in 2002.
Since 2008, hundreds of senior military officers and others received hefty jail sentences in connection with two alleged plots to overthrow the AKP government.
In 2015, all suspects in one of the two plot cases were acquitted after some evidence was found to be invalid.
Critics accused the government of staging show trials to neutralise the anti-Islamist influence of the armed forces in politics.
In 2013, concerns at creeping Islamisation and the growing authoritarianism of the prime minister since 2003, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, spilled over into mass protests in a number of cities. Later that year, the government was implicated in a major corruption scandal.
But the AKP's electoral support remained steady, and Mr Erdogan became the country's first directly-elected president in 2014.
Joining the European Union has been a longstanding ambition.
Since becoming an EU candidate country in 1999, Turkey has introduced substantial human rights and economic reforms in an effort to bring itself into line with EU practices - including easing restrictions on the minority Kurdish language
Formal membership talks were launched in October 2005, but progress has been glacially slow.
Turkey has long been at odds with close neighbour and EU member Greece over the divided island of Cyprus, although a breakthrough came when Turkey agreed to recognise Cyprus as an EU member, albeit without full diplomatic recognition.
The expedition of Turkey's EU accession talks was proposed in some quarters as a sweetener to persuade the Turkish government to agree to a plan to ease the European migrant crisis triggered mainly by the Syrian civil war that began in 2011.
However, many European countries continue to have serious misgivings over Turkish EU membership. Several European leaders insist that there can be no short-cuts for Turkey and that it must fulfil all the criteria set down for EU accession before it can proceed to the next stage.
A 2015 European Commission report on Turkey's progress towards fulfilling these criteria highlighted many areas of difficulty, particularly in the sphere of human rights.
Turkey has long seen itself as the eastern bulwark of the Nato alliance.
It also maintained close ties with Israel, but under Mr Erdogan it has more recently taken an openly confrontational approach to it over the Palestinian issue, partly in a bid to boost its regional standing among Arab countries.
After long following a policy of good relations with its neighbours, Turkey adopted a strongly pro-rebel stance when the Syrian civil war broke out, but stopped short of military assistance.
Turkey is home to a sizeable Kurdish minority, which by some estimates constitutes up to a fifth of the population.
The Kurds have long complained that the Turkish government was trying to destroy their identity, and that they suffer from economic disadvantage and human rights violations.
In 1984, the militant Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) launched a guerrilla campaign in 1984 for a homeland in the Kurdish heartland in the southeast.
Thousands died and hundreds of thousands became refugees in the ensuing conflict, and the 1999 capture of PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan prompted only a temporary lull.
Turkey, the US and the European Union deem the PKK a terrorist organisation.
In 2009, the government announced a "Kurdish initiative" that pledged to extend linguistic and cultural rights and to reduce the military presence in the mainly Kurdish southeast.
Following protracted negotiations with the government, Abdullah Ocalan announced the end of the armed struggle in 2013, leading many to assume that the insurgency was close to resolution.
However, after a relatively peaceful two years, spillover from the ongoing Syrian civil war - in which Kurdish fighters played an important role - caused old wounds to reopen, and in July 2015 the ceasefire between the Turkish government and the PKK finally crumbled, plunging swathes of south-eastern Turkey back into conflict.
The government reacted to a spate of deadly bombings in Turkey's biggest cities, Ankara and Istanbul, by launching another security crackdown. By early 2016, the peace process between Turkey and the PKK appeared to be in tatters. | Once the centre of the Ottoman Empire, the modern secular republic was established in the 1920s by nationalist leader Kemal Ataturk. | 17992009 |
The PM said 22,000 such offenders had been deported since 2010, but that "too many obstacles" hampered the process - including human rights legislation.
But shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said "tough talk" from the government was simply "not enough".
A report found the number of foreign prisoners in the UK had gone up. Last year £850m was spent managing them.
The National Audit Office (NAO) report found the increase in foreign national offenders (FNOs) had occurred despite a near tenfold increase in officials working on their cases.
There were 12,250 FNOs in the UK at the end of March this year, the report found.
Officials estimated that between January 2009 and March 2014, 151 left prison without being considered for deportation and one in six in the community - 760 convicted criminals - had absconded.
Addressing the issue at Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Cameron said the government was "making progress" on a "difficult issue to get right".
"The report is very clear that, since 2013, for the first time we've got a proper cross-government strategy to deal with this," he added.
But said there remained "too many obstacles in the way in terms of human rights legislation that we need to change".
Taking an urgent House of Commons question, Home Secretary Theresa May said the issue had "beset successive governments".
She said the main problem the government faced was around "litigation" - saying appeals by offenders had increased by 28%.
"The countless appeals and re-appeals lodged by criminals attempting to cheat the system cost us all money and are an affront to British justice," she said.
And pointing the finger at the previous Labour administration, she said the Home Office "did not prioritise the removal of foreign national offenders before 2005".
However, shadow home secretary Ms Cooper said fewer foreign criminals were being deported each year than in 2010 - despite the prime minister labelling it a "major priority".
Dominic Casciani, BBC home affairs correspondent
There have been six commitments or legislative changes since 2006 which ministers have claimed would lead to more removals of foreign national offenders - but the performance hasn't improved. So what's to blame? Ministers, officials, bureaucracy or human rights law?
The law is part of this picture - but the frank reality is that removing some FNOs is legally extremely difficult if they have a genuine and provable connection to the UK - such as British-born children.
But page after page of the NAO report shows there have been huge bureaucratic failings - missing case files, officials from different parts of government incapable of sharing information. Some 35 offenders stayed last year because somebody forgot to take their passport to the airport. Another seven removals failed because nobody had booked them a plane ticket.
That's why many, many critics say the real problem is the dysfunctional nature of an immigration service that, in the infamous words of former Home Secretary John Reid, is not fit for purpose.
"It's no good blaming appeals and human rights because the NAO has found that over a third of failed removals were the result of factors within the Home Office's control," Labour's Ms Cooper told MPs.
"Failure to fill in the forms, failure to get the papers there, failure even to book the plane tickets that were needed."
The government was "simply not doing enough", she added.
BBC assistant political editor Norman Smith said the Commons exchanges had been a "pretty ugly blame game" with a lot of "finger pointing".
And Tania Bassett, of the National Association of Probation Officers, said "massive" cuts to the Ministry of Justice's budget had led to ongoing issues with "failing IT systems and antiquated systems of processing data and offenders".
She added: "The Ministry of Justice, in terms of working with foreign national prisoners, has actually very little contact with the Home Office, and we need a government policy that actually brings those two systems and those two departments much closer together." | David Cameron has said the "buck stops with me" when it comes to deporting foreign criminals from the UK. | 29726764 |
Details of the comments emerged after the written judgement was published.
Rowntree told the board Hartley was "very close to having been made captain and might well soon become captain".
It is not known whether the England coaching team's opinion remains the same after Hartley, 26, was banned.
Last week an independent Six Nations disciplinary committee found the Northampton hooker to have bitten Ireland's Stephen Ferris.
He was suspended until 14 May following the incident during England's 30-9 Six Nations victory last month.
Hartley could have faced a much lengthier penalty given he was suspended for six months in 2007 for eye-gouging Wasps players Jonny O'Connor and James Haskell in the same match.
But the panel decided to "ignore" the gouging incident - and they reduced the ban from a potential 12 weeks - following "glowing" character references from Rowntree and Northampton director of rugby Jim Mallinder.
Dylan Hartley scored a Test try only three minutes after stepping off the bench when winning his 20th cap, against New Zealand at Twickenham in November 2010
Rowntree insisted on attending the hearing to speak on Hartley's behalf and detailed the "massive change" he has seen in the player since his "struggle in 2007".
The full written judgement details Rowntree describing Hartley as "a beacon and a leader" during England's recent troubled times and he added "no-one had more credibility with his peers".
Harlequins flanker Chris Robshaw was made England skipper for the Six Nations, but Rowntree said Hartley "was very close to having been made captain of the national team and might well soon become captain".
The panel accepted Rowntree and Mallinder's plea for them to recognise Hartley as being "very different from the man who committed the offence in 2007".
"The easy course for the committee to follow was to ignore what they had heard and take the player's previous suspension into account," the 13-page report, signed by chairman Roger Morris, says.
"However to do that would have been to rely on the anecdotal baggage surrounding the player and not on the facts before them.
"It would also fail to acknowledge that the purpose of sanction is also to cause an offender to think again about his behaviour and that, the committee felt compelled to conclude, was what the player had done." | The panel which banned Dylan Hartley for biting an opponent was told he "might soon" be made England captain by national forwards coach Graham Rowntree. | 17579531 |
Four people died after the helicopter plunged into the sea on 14 March.
Cpt Dara Fitzpatrick died after she was rescued from the sea.
Captain Mark Duffy's body was recovered at the weekend. A search for the bodies of winch operator Paul Ormsby and winch man Ciaran Smith continues.
The search for the missing crew is entering its 13th day. Weather and sea conditions on the west coast have made the operation very challenging for divers.
The helicopter wreckage was found a short distance from Blackrock island, about 10 kms (6.2 miles) off the coastline, at a depth of about 40m.
On Friday, the black box recorder from the rescue helicopter was recovered.
R116 lost contact with the Irish coastguard at about 01:00 on 14 March, as it made its final approach to Blacksod refuelling depot.
The crew had been providing communications support to another coastguard helicopter that had been deployed to take an injured fisherman to hospital.
The wreckage of R116 was pinpointed after search teams deployed a remotely-operated vehicle (ROV), fitted with an underwater camera. | Divers are working to recover the wreckage of crashed Irish Coastguard helicopter R116 from the sea bed off the Mayo coast in the Republic of Ireland. | 39404386 |
Riots rocked the city's run-down suburb of Villeneuve on Friday night as people protested at the death of a suspected armed robber during a police chase.
At least 50 cars were burnt and police were fired on.
Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux promised to restore order when he visited the scene after the unrest.
"There is a simple and clear reality in this country: there's no future for hoodlums and delinquents because in the end the public authority always wins," he told reporters.
Nobody was injured in the riots, said police, who arrested two men aged 18 and 20 for setting fire to vehicles and three more for attempted looting of shops, France's AFP news agency reports.
Correspondents say the unrest in Villeneuve recalls the civil unrest which exploded amid immigrant communities across France in 2005 after two teenagers from a Parisian suburb died as they fled police.
Mr Hortefeux made a lightning 15-minute tour of the suburb and promised quick action by the authorities.
"When I say quick, I mean immediately, that's how we are going to re-establish public order and the authority of the state," he told reporters outside police headquarters.
He said he had asked the regional government to use all means to secure the suburb neighbourhood "for now and for as much time as necessary for calm to return".
While the suburb appeared calm on Saturday, some local residents listening to the interior minister were not totally reassured, AFP reports.
One unnamed shopkeeper told the agency the minister's visit was reassuring on one level but it could "only stir up the hatred of some people".
"The minister's visit only risks aggravating the situation," said another resident, who also asked not to be named.
According to the police union SGP-FO, violence has been on the rise in recent months in Grenoble, a city of half a million at the foot of the French Alps.
"Police are at breaking point," said regional union chief Daniel Chomette, who called for reinforcements.
Prosecutor Jean Philippe said police had acted in legitimate self-defence when they were fired on at least three times after a car chase which ended in Villeneuve.
The police fired back, hitting Karim Boudouda, 27, in the head.
A post-mortem was due to be carried out on Saturday on Mr Boudouda, who had three convictions for armed robbery.
He was shot after allegedly fleeing by car with another suspect from the scene of a hold-up at a casino near Grenoble.
More than 20,000 euros (£17,000; $26,000) was taken in the robbery. | The French government has vowed to restore order after rioting in the eastern city of Grenoble over a shooting by police. | 10674539 |
During a weekend of great British sporting success, Chris Froome, Mark Cavendish and Adam Yates played their part at cycling's premier event.
Team Sky's Froome is in the yellow jersey chasing his third title, Yates, 23, is the leading young rider in white (and in second place overall) and Cavendish is still in the points leaders' green jersey.
But what colours will they be wearing by the time they finish on the Champs-Elysees in Paris on Sunday, 24 July?
Can anyone stop him from joining Greg LeMond, Louison Bobet and Philippe Thys as a three-time champion?
He holds a 16-second lead over second-placed Yates, but is only 23 seconds ahead of main rival and two-time runner-up Nairo Quintana of Colombia.
Froome is faced with two key stages this week. On Thursday, Bastille Day, the riders have to deal with a climb of the legendary Mont Ventoux and a 1,912m summit finish.
The 31-year-old won a similar stage that ended atop the 'Beast of Provence' in 2013, catching Quintana before finishing 29 seconds ahead of the Movistar rider. The Briton went on to win his first Tour.
Froome said: "Ventoux was kind to me, but when I got to the top last time I had to get straight on to oxygen support I was so tired.
"It's a massive climb, one of the most iconic of this race and to win up there again would be unreal.
"But it's going to be pretty hard knowing there's a time trial the next day. It will be interesting to see who is going to go that deep for victory up there."
That time trial is on Friday when the riders contend with the 37.5km Bourg-Saint-Andeol to La Caverne du Pont-D'Arc route, which has an uphill finish.
"If Froome is unbeatable at the moment? I feel Nairo is, too," said Quintana's Movistar team-mate Alejandro Valverde.
"There's still a long way to go in this Tour - you must attack when it's your real time. You never know when it will come."
With two-time champion Alberto Contador withdrawing last weekend, it appears Froome only has Quintana to contend with.
This is only the Bury-born rider's second Tour, but the expectations of what he can achieve have grown tenfold.
Yates said his primary objective was to win stages, but he now finds himself in the mix for the final podium.
"I'm still here for stages, I came to race for stages," he said.
"I am doing good on general classification (GC) but it's a background objective. I'm not too bad where I am and we have the rest day tomorrow. I'll rest up and see how the legs come out after."
South Africa's Louis Meintjes is 39 seconds behind Yates in the race for the young riders' white jersey, with Frenchman Warren Barguil almost another two minutes further adrift.
Team Sky boss Sir Dave Brailsford said Orica-BikeExchange rider Yates should not dismiss his hopes of making an impact in the GC.
"He should continue racing as long as he can for three weeks, manage himself and see how he gets on," he said.
"I don't think that if he drops off a little bit that he should sit up and go for stage wins. [He should] keep on persevering with the whole adventure because I think that will stand him very good stead for future years."
The 31-year-old Manxman has taken his tally of Tour stage wins to a remarkable 29 - the second highest total ever and only five behind record holder and five-time race winner Eddy Merckx.
He leads the points classification but expects to be replaced by Slovak Peter Sagan, who has finished with the green jersey in the last four Tours.
"Once we hit the mountains, there's no way," he said last Thursday.
"Peter is on a different level to everyone else and when he decides to do something he just does it. It's nice to wear green but there's nobody targeting it in Paris other than Peter."
After Sunday's first major stage in the mountains, Cavendish said: "It was hot, I hate it in the Pyrenees. It's just too hot for me, I'm from the Isle of Man."
The 2011 green jersey winner did hold a 29-point lead over Sagan, but that is now down to seven. | Nine stages gone, 12 remaining, three Britons dominating the Tour de France. | 36765422 |
Talks are continuing between the English, Northern Irish, Scottish and Welsh Football Associations.
Ford expects a decision 'within six months' with the FAW softening its previous opposition to the plan.
"From a football merit basis, we can see the merits more than we did in the past," Ford told BBC Radio Wales.
Men's and women's sides competed under the GB banner during the 2012 Olympics, but plans for the teams to compete at the 2016 Games were scrapped after opposition from the Irish, Scottish and Welsh FAs.
All three associations had expressed concerns that a GB team could threaten their independent status in world football.
However, Ford says there is now more goodwill to the notion of participation for Wales' women.
"For the women, I think most people would understand that allowing our players, coaches and managers the experience of going to major tournaments, including the Olympic Games, is worthy of consideration," he said.
"I think people are open and are discussing it, but we will see where the conversation takes us."
Ford reiterated that discussions have only concerned the possible involvement of a women's team.
"You have heard that there have been discussions amongst the British associations," he said.
"We met at the Uefa Congress recently and further discussions ensued. We still have a long way to go to be honest and when those discussions are finalised, hopefully we will be back with some news.
"It is with a view to a women's team.
"I think everyone has been very clear that from a men's perspective it is a scratch team, it is a team that is age-capped bar for a few players and that isn't part of the Olympic spirit.
"In terms of the men's football calendar, it really doesn't galvanise the men in quite the same way at the European Championships or the World Cup."
However, Ford says Wales are determined any participation cannot threaten their future independence as a footballing nation and says no decision will be reached without assurances.
Ford says it is also important all the relevant football associations make their position clear, so they can't be accused of being 'hypocritical.'
"From a men's football perspective we want to play under a Welsh umbrella, nothing has changed on that front," he said.
"In order to qualify for 2020, timing is important, so I would anticipate a decision within the next six months.
"We have got to make sure our messaging is correct and we will make sure discussions are had so we are not seen to be in a bit of a hypocritical position.
"There are some assurances we would be seeking, but doing it for the right reasons and football reasons, is the key.
"We don't want to take away from the notion that Welsh teams will be playing for Wales in the future."
Wales boss Chris Coleman has previously said he is not in favour of the idea.
The FA have already stated their support for fielding a women's team, as have British Olympic chiefs. | Chief executive Jonathan Ford says the Football Association of Wales (FAW) can see merit in a GB women's football team competing at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. | 39529596 |
Consensus Action on Salt and Health found salt targets were exceeded in all but one category of packaged food.
Galaxy Ultimate Marshmallow Hot Chocolate powder had just over 0.6g of salt per 25g serving - or 2.5g per 100g - more than the 0.15g per 100g target.
Mars Chocolate said the drink was an "indulgent treat" but Public Health England said more work was needed.
The confectionery company said some of the salt came from the intrinsic sodium in milk and other ingredients and some was added "to enhance the chocolaty flavour".
She said the company continually worked to improve products' nutritional profile.
The Cash researchers looked at various food products and found only bread rolls had met PHE's voluntary targets.
The group's survey compared two shopping baskets, each containing similar food items but with different amounts of salt, using the FoodSwitch UK app.
The free smartphone app allows users to scan the barcode of packaged food and drinks to receive "traffic light" colour-coded nutritional information along with suggested similar, healthier products.
The researchers found the difference in salt content between the "unhealthy" and "healthy" baskets of products was 57g of salt.
It is recommended that adults eat no more than 6g of salt a day - about one teaspoon - and children should eat less.
Cash, based at Queen Mary University of London, also found that:
A standard 32.5g packet of Walkers Ready Salted Crisps contains 0.46g of salt.
The Department of Health first set the voluntary salt reduction targets, which vary according to the category, in 2006. These were last revised in 2014, with the aim that they would be met by the end of 2017.
The government's Public Health Responsibility Deal sets out the 28 main categories of food, including beverages, canned fish, canned vegetables and processed puddings, that were tested by Cash.
Katharine Jenner, nutritionist and campaign director for Cash, said: "Salt is the forgotten killer.
"The findings from our FoodSwitch shopping basket survey are alarming and we are shocked to see that many food manufacturers and retailers are still failing to meet the salt reduction targets, despite having had years to work towards them."
Professor Graham MacGregor, professor of cardiovascular medicine at Queen Mary University of London and chairman of Cash, said the results were a "national scandal".
Dr Alison Tedstone, chief nutritionist at PHE, said: "The food industry has reduced the amount of salt found in our foods by 11% in recent years, which is encouraging progress.
"We know there is more to do. This is why we're talking to retailers, manufacturers, and the eating-out-of-home sector on how they go further and faster to reaching the 2017 salt reduction targets."
Baxters said many of its products were within the guideline levels for salt content and that it monitored its recipes for nutritional content.
An Aldi spokeswoman said it was "fully committed" to the 2017 salt targets and was working to reduce the salt used in its Fishmonger Piri Piri Smoked Mackerel Fillets.
Source: NHS Choices | A mug of hot chocolate can have more salt than a packet of ready salted crisps, a campaign group says. | 39324886 |
Fury has made controversial comments about women and has appeared to equate homosexuality with paedophilia.
The protest at the SSE Arena has been organised by lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) groups.
The event has attracted some of the biggest names in sport.
John O'Doherty, director of the Rainbow Project, said: 'It is very disappointing that the BBC have ignored public opinion and refused to remove Tyson Fury from the shortlist.
"An excellent boxer Tyson Fury may be, however his extremely callous and erroneous remarks about our community make him an unworthy candidate to be recognised among the UK's excellent sporting personalities and ambassadors."
Northern Ireland's Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness and Stormont Sport Minister Carál Nà ChuilÃn met the protesters and expressed solidarity with them.
"We believe that the remarks that were made by Tyson Fury were disgraceful, they were appalling, they were misogynistic, they were homophobic, and they have no place in a modern society," Mr McGuinness said.
"I think that those remarks should be withdrawn and an apology should be made. But apart from that it's hopefully it's going to be a great night."
Fury was one of 12 contenders in the running for the award. | About 40 people have protested outside the BBC Sports Personality of the Year venue in Belfast over the nomination of boxer Tyson Fury. | 35143892 |
The Australian was hit on the head by a stray Bhuvneshwar Kumar throw on day one of the fourth Test and did not take any further part in that game.
Scans gave Reiffel the all clear but he was advised to continue resting.
He is set to return to duty for the one-day series between New Zealand and Bangladesh, starting on 26 December.
Fellow Australian umpire Simon Fry, who is on the International Cricket Council's second-tier international panel, has stepped in for the fifth and final Test in the series, which India lead 3-0.
Subscribe to the BBC Sport newsletter to get our pick of news, features and video sent to your inbox. | Umpire Paul Reiffel is missing the fifth Test between India and England in Chennai after suffering concussion during the previous match. | 38338559 |
Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike star in David Fincher's film, which tells of a husband suspected of killing his wife after she mysteriously vanishes.
Fincher previously launched the annual festival in 2010 with his Oscar-winning Facebook drama The Social Network.
The 52nd New York Film Festival runs from 26 September to 12 October at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.
Last year's event kicked off with Captain Phillips, Paul Greengrass's fact-based film about the 2009 Maersk Alabama hijacking.
Gone Girl will be released in the UK and Ireland on 3 October. | Gone Girl, the film version of Gillian Flynn's best-selling thriller, will open the 2014 New York Film Festival. | 28341536 |
The 26-year-old batsman, who has been playing for Rising Pune Supergiants, is returning home for treatment, Cricket Australia has confirmed.
Australia start a tour of the West Indies for a triangular one-day series involving the hosts and South Africa at the end of May.
Smith scored his first Twenty20 century in his penultimate match for Pune. | Australia captain Steve Smith has been forced to end his Indian Premier League stay early because of a wrist injury. | 36185490 |
A message sent on Twitter by a freelance sports journalist, Fraser Paterson, said Ms Sturgeon should be hanged from a tree in Charlotte Square Gardens in Edinburgh.
The gardens are outside Bute House, the first minister's official residence.
Mr Paterson has since tweeted that he had crossed a line.
He said his comment was unprofessional and he meant no harm to Ms Sturgeon.
His original tweet had said: "..Save Bute House, but hang Sturgeon. A tree in Chltte Sq Gardens will do #SNPout".
He subsequently tweeted: "My 'hang Sturgeon' comment was over the white line and unprofessional of me. I mean no harm to her".
A spokeswoman for Police Scotland said they had received a complaint about the original tweet and were looking into it. | Police are investigating a comment on social media suggesting that the Scottish first minister and SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon should be hanged. | 32170390 |
IAEA director-general Yukiya Amano said Iran had handed over environmental samples from the Parchin military site, which he was able to visit on Sunday.
But Mr Amano cautioned that "much work" remained before the investigation could be completed by December's deadline.
Western powers suspect that nuclear weapons research took place at Parchin.
But Iran has denied this and insists that its nuclear programme is entirely peaceful.
The completion of the IAEA's investigation is crucial to the implementation of July's comprehensive agreement between six world powers and Iran, under which the country will limit its sensitive nuclear activities in return for the lifting of sanctions.
The complex at Parchin, south of Tehran, is dedicated to the research, development and production of ammunition, rockets and explosives.
Concerns about its possible role in Iran's nuclear programme emerged in 2004, when reports surfaced that a large explosives containment vessel had been built there to conduct hydrodynamic experiments. The IAEA says they are "strong indicators" of possible nuclear weapon development.
Inspectors did not observe any unusual activities during a visit in 2005 and environmental samples did not indicate the presence of nuclear material, but suspicions persisted.
Until Sunday the Iranian government had repeatedly rejected requests by the IAEA to revisit Parchin, and extensive landscaping, demolition and new construction was observed.
Mr Amano was given a tour of Parchin on Sunday along with the head of the IAEA's Department of Safeguards, Tero Varjoranta.
At a news conference in Vienna on Monday, Mr Amano said they were able to inspect a building that the agency had previously only observed using satellite imagery. They found no equipment inside, but did see indications of recent renovation work.
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Mr Amano also said environmental samples were taken from "places of interest" at Parchin last week, and that "the Iranian side played a part in the sample-taking process by swiping samples".
He did not reveal whether IAEA inspectors were present at the time of the procedure, but stressed it was carried out in a way that verification processes were "not compromised".
"The agency can confirm the integrity of the sampling process and the authenticity of the samples," he said. "The process was carried out under our responsibility and monitoring."
The collection of samples at Parchin by Iranian experts is believed to be part of a confidential "road map" agreement signed by the IAEA and Iran in July. | The International Atomic Energy Agency says significant progress has been made in its probe into the possible military dimensions of Iran's nuclear programme. | 34315492 |
The 29-year-old, who has 35 international caps, joined from French side Bordeaux and had a $4.45 million release clause in his contract.
"I would like to thank Bordeaux for allowing me to make the move and Werder Bremen for having faith in me," Sane told the club website.
"I am excited to play in the Bundesliga, because I have followed it for many years.
"To play in these stadiums and with this atmosphere, especially at Werder, is something I am really relishing. I want to make my contribution to a successful season as quickly as possible."
He could come up against his younger brother Salif Sane, who plays for Hannover in the second division in Germany.
Also on the move in Germany is Nigeria international forward Victor Obinna, who has penned a one-year contract with Bundesliga outfit SV Darmstadt.
He joins after a successful trial but will miss his new club's first four matches of the new season through suspension.
The 29-year-old was sent off in his last match for second division side MSV Duisburg in their relegation play-off against Würzburger Kickers.
The striker has 46 caps and 11 goals for Nigeria as well as being part of the Super Eagles squad at the 2010 World Cup as well as the 2006, 2008 and 2010 African Cup of Nations.
The former Inter Milan, Chievo Verona, West Ham, Malaga and Lokomotiv Moscow player was an integral part of the Nigeria squad that won silver at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games in China.
His compatriot Chinedu Obasi has signed a short-term deal with Swedish topflight club AIK.
The 30-year-old Nigeria international was released by Bundesliga club Schalke last summer after making just 10 league starts in three years.
"It's a great opportunity and also a great honour for me to be part of this fantastic club," he told AIK website.
Like Obinna he has a silver medal from the 2008 Beijing Games, and was at 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
He is the only Nigerian to have appeared in all Fifa World Cups [Under-17, Under-20 and Senior] as well as the Olympics. | Senegal defender Lamine Sane has joined German Bundesliga club Werder Bremen on a three-year deal for an undisclosed fee. | 36986077 |
The 32-year-old former Malmo left-back has Champions League experience with the Swedish club and was most recently with Azerbaijan club Gabala FK.
"I've always had a dream to play in England," he told BBC Radio Oxford. "I'm really looking forward to enjoying the atmosphere at this club."
Ricardinho has the option to extend his Oxford deal by a further year and is available to face Oldham on Saturday.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | Oxford United have signed Brazilian defender Ricardinho on a one-year deal. | 40813177 |
Germany international Zieler, 28, joined the Foxes from Hannover in June 2016 but made just 13 appearances last season.
Stuttgart will be back in the Bundesliga next season after winning promotion under Hannes Wolf.
Zieler said: "I have the feeling that something can develop at the club."
Zieler's departure means that Leicester have Ben Hamer as back-up to first-choice Kasper Schmeichel.
This summer the Foxes have signed Sevilla captain Vicente Iborra for £10.5m and Hull defender Harry Maguire for £17m.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | Leicester have sold goalkeeper Ron-Robert Zieler to Stuttgart for an undisclosed fee after a year with the Premier League club. | 40576804 |
The changes will see the loss of department and deputy manager positions.
The cuts are part of a plan announced in November to save £500m over the next three years.
"These are exceptionally difficult decisions to make and we have not taken them lightly," said Roger Burnley, retail and operations director.
The company said it would also replace night shifts with early-morning and evening shifts in some stores as part of an effort to improve customer service.
Last month, Sainsbury's warned that the trading outlook for the rest of the financial year would "remain challenging for the foreseeable future" after reporting a drop in like-for-like sales for a fifth consecutive quarter.
BBC business correspondent Emma Simpson said Sainsbury's has already cut 500 jobs at its head office, and the changes follow similar moves at rivals Morrisons, Asda and Tesco.
"All the big established supermarkets are trying to cut costs and simplify their business as they grapple with falling sales, the rise of online and changing shopping habits," she said.
Sainsbury's employs about 161,000 staff across 1,200 stores, depots and support centres. | Supermarket Sainsbury's is cutting about 800 jobs as part of a restructuring at its stores. | 32428938 |
The 20-year-old Barcelona native impressed while on trial at the Welsh Premier League club.
"Anderson is an exciting prospect and another good signing for the club," Bangor manager Kevin Nicholson said.
The former CE Artesa De Segre player is the third Bangor recruit within the last week, along with ex-Wrexham striker George Harry, 20, and York City defender Danny Holmes, 28. | Bangor City have signed Spanish forward Anderson Cayola. | 40624266 |
A 30-year-old man was stabbed during the attack in Waveney Road on 29 October.
The suspect, who is 24, was arrested on Tuesday evening.
He is due to appear at Ballymena Magistrates' Court on Thursday morning. | A man has been charged with attempted murder in connection with a stabbing in Ballymena, County Antrim, two months ago. | 35201963 |
The Real Madrid star was caught speeding on New Year's Day on his way to training, and refused to stop.
Police said he was driving at 200km/h (124mph), double the speed limit.
The fine is for refusing to stop when police told him to pull over. The fine for speeding has yet to be announced.
The incident happened on 1 January as Mr Rodriguez was driving in his Audi R8 on the M-40 motorway in the outskirts of Madrid.
Police in an unmarked vehicle caught the player speeding and hailed him over loudspeaker, telling him to pull over.
The player did not stop and was followed by the police car with a flashing siren all the way to the training ground.
The officers said Mr Rodriguez told them he did not stop because he feared they were trying to kidnap him.
Carjackings are not uncommon in his native Colombia but rather more rare in Spain.
He also said that he had not heard the siren because the music in his car had been too loud.
He has 15 days to appeal against the fine. But if he pays within the next two weeks, the sum due will be halved.
The player earns €7.6m per year.
James Rodriguez is not the only current Real Madrid player to have been in trouble on the roads.
His team-mate Karim Benzema was caught driving at 195km/h (121mph) in February 2012.
He had his driving licence suspended for eight months and was fined €18,000 (£14,012). | Colombian footballer James Rodriguez, 24, has been fined €10,400 ($11,300; £8,090) by the Spanish authorities for refusing to stop for police, Spanish media report. | 35698646 |
Kim Edwards and her boyfriend Lucas Markham murdered Edwards' mother Elizabeth, 49, and her younger sister Katie, 13, at their home in Spalding, Lincolnshire, in April 2016.
The killers, who were 14 at the time, were both jailed in November.
A bid to stop their names being made public was rejected in the High Court.
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Edwards and Markham were originally jailed for at least 20 years each, but judges have reduced the sentences to 17 and a half years.
Markham, who admitted the killings, used a kitchen knife to stab both victims in the neck a total of ten times as they slept.
Edwards, who helped to plan the "cold, calculated and callous" killings, denied murder, claiming to be suffering a mental abnormality which impaired her ability to form rational judgments, but was found guilty by a jury.
The teenagers were both jailed for life at Nottingham Crown Court in November and told they must serve at least 20 years before being considered for parole.
The court heard Markham walked for around 30 minutes along Spalding's Coronation Channel to reach Edwards' home before knocking three times on a bedroom window as a pre-arranged signal that he had arrived.
Edwards then opened a bathroom window to allow Markham to climb into the house from the roof of a shed, and gave him advice on moving quietly around the property.
Evidence heard in the trial, but unpublished until now, revealed that the couple remained at the house in Dawson Avenue immediately after the killings where they had sex, shared a bath and watched the vampire-themed teen romance Twilight films.
They were discovered and arrested at the home Edwards shared with her mother and sister 36 hours later, having been reported missing to police.
Kim Edwards and Lucas Markham planned a double murder born out of an intense relationship.
Kim resented her mother, Elizabeth, and disliked her sister, Katie, for the close relationship she had with their mum.
Drawn together by suicidal thoughts the couple convinced each the solution to the grudge she held against her mum was to kill her and her teenage sister.
Lucas wounded Mrs Edwards terribly before smothering her with a pillow. It wasn't quick - she struggled and fought for her life while Kim watched on.
Despite Kim's reservations about killing her sister, they weren't strong enough to stop Markham.
The details of the murders are some of the most harrowing I have heard in 17 years of court reporting.
The ban on naming the two teenagers was lifted by Mr Justice Haddon-Cave on 8 December but their identities remained secret until now to allow their lawyers to appeal against the ruling.
Outlining his reasons for lifting the ban, the judge said: "It is impossible for the public properly to understand this case without knowing the identity of the defendants and that these murders took place in a closed family context.
"This singular fact informs and colours one's entire understanding of the case... unless one knows this singular fact, it is impossible to understand the true motive behind these murders."
Upholding the trial judge's view, the ban on naming the pair was lifted by Sir Brian Leveson, Mr Justice Blake and Mr Justice Lewis.
Sir Brian said: "In the circumstances of this case, notwithstanding that the appellants are only 15 years of age, we have no doubt that the lifting of reporting restrictions is in accordance with law, pursues a legitimate aim and is a reasonable and proportionate measure ... properly balancing the welfare of the appellants ... against the Article 10 rights of the press and the interests of the public."
Det Supt Martin Holvey, of Lincolnshire Police, said the "horrific and brutal" murders had shocked the community and the naming of the teenage killers would only add to that.
"I'm sure that sense of disbelief and horror will be deepened now it is known that it was Elizabeth's own daughter who was responsible for plotting with her boyfriend to carry out the murders," he said.
He said the extra details now made public, including how the couple stayed in the house after the killings and the lack of remorse showed by Edwards and Markham, were "chilling".
"These new revelations will undoubtedly focus attention on Spalding once again. I would like to repeat sentiments I have made earlier, thanking the community for their cooperation throughout the case and paying tribute to the courage of Elizabeth and Katie's family," he said.
"They have endured a terrible ordeal and faced the additional anguish of knowing that this horrific crime was committed by a family member." | The couple believed to be Britain's youngest double murderers have been named, after a judge lifted a ban on identifying them. | 37907410 |
Didier Deigna, known by the stage name Pepito, drowned at a beach in the small town of Jacqueville in southern Ivory Coast on Sunday, it said.
Magic System are particularly popular in French-speaking West Africa and in France.
Reports say Pepito died while trying to save another person who was drowning.
"For the last 16 years, Pepito was our backing vocalist, our drummer, but above all the conductor with our group Magic System," the band added in a statement.
Pepito's tragic loss comes a week after the sudden death of influential Congolese musician Papa Wemba, who collapsed on stage while performing in Ivory Coast's main city, Abidjan. | The drummer of Ivory Coast's famous Magic System band has drowned at the age of 46, the group has said in a Facebook post. | 36188191 |
The NHS is planning to cut services at the Friarage Hospital in Northallerton, claiming they are unsustainable.
Last month the health secretary rejected calls for an independent review of the plans, saying a public consultation was appropriate.
The consultation is expected to start at the end of July or early August.
The preferred option of NHS Hambleton, Richmondshire and Whitby Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) is to replace overnight children's care at the Friarage with a day care assessment unit, and to have midwife-led maternity services instead of consultant-led.
It would mean pregnant women at risk of complications travelling to hospital in Middlesbrough, 22 miles (35km) away, to give birth.
Dr Vicky Pleydell, the CCG's chief clinical officer, said: "The case for change is clear, and it would not be safe for the service to remain as it is currently.
"The number of sick children requiring inpatient care and number of high-risk births are too small to support the size and experience required of medical teams to ensure a safe and high-quality service.
"Our preferred option would mean that the vast majority of children's and maternity services at the Friarage would be retained and women would still be able to choose the Friarage for low-risk births.
"We aim to start the consultation as soon as we have a project team in place." | A public consultation into plans to reduce maternity and child services at a North Yorkshire hospital is to be held in the next two months. | 22911938 |
Campbell was killed instantly on Coniston Water when the craft flipped over while travelling at more than 300 MPH during a 1967 record attempt.
Divers recovered the wreckage in 2001 and it is now being restored.
About a third of the boat is being moved to the Ruskin Museum in Coniston, where it will be shown in a wing dedicated to Campbell.
It includes two massive spars, originally clad in lightweight aluminium fairings to give Bluebird her sleek shape, which have been fully restored.
There are also replicas of the boat's four-metre long outer hulls, or sponsons, from the original drawings.
The originals were ripped away in the accident, and recovered floating but subsequently scrapped.
A team of volunteers at a workshop in North Shields will now fit the centre hull with its engines and systems.
Vicky Slowe, curator of the Ruskin Museum, said: "There's about one and a half tonnes of Bluebird going on show.
"We have a life-sized footprint of the Bluebird on the floor of the Bluebird wing, where the complete boat will go in due course, and the idea is to display these pieces on top of that so people can see how they fit together."
The parts will be fully reassembled at the Ruskin Museum and Bluebird will then be taken for a run on Coniston Water, before going on permanent display at the museum. | A large part of Donald Campbell's Bluebird is set to go on display at a museum in the Lake District. | 33288493 |
Could it be DCI Roz Huntley's husband Nick? Or lawyer Jimmy Lakewell? There are plenty of other suspects in the mix.
As the climax approaches, we caught up with series creator and writer Jed Mercurio to give him an AC-12 style interrogation.
Is it true a sixth series is not confirmed?
We definitely have a fifth, not a sixth... but we haven't started working on it yet. I need to think what the character is first.
Did you instantly think of Thandie Newton for the role of DCI Roz Huntley or were other people in the running?
It just evolved. I don't normally think of a specific actor, I concentrate on the character and then when we get into pre-production that's how names come up.
I always knew Thandie was top talent, she was a real laugh on set. It was the easiest casting process I've ever been through.
Did Thandie's status as a Hollywood star have an impact?
We were flattered she wanted to do the role - most of her career she's been doing Hollywood movies so it was a boost for the whole team.
How do you come up with the plots for Line of Duty?
I come up with the story ideas on my own. I like to sit at my desk... sometimes I get inspiration when I'm going about my normal day-to-day life.
Then when I've come up with some sort of story, I get the editorial team on board and we try to develop it.
I then write an outline of the first episode which takes about a week. Only when we are happy with the first episode do we start on the second.
Can we expect any surprises for the final episode?
(pauses, laughs) You will just have to watch!
How do real-life police officers react to the plot?
One of our intelligence advisers for the show said his team have been trying to crack who balaclava man is - it's quite funny.
What would you like to explore in the next series?
I want to look at the personal lives of all the regulars in series five - they've taken a backseat in this series to Roz Huntley, so it would be good to explore that side of things a bit more.
The regulars are definitely up for doing more... that's if they survive the final episode!
What's more important, ratings or awards?
I always try and distinguish between facts and opinions. I am just pleased the show is being watched. Ratings are the most important thing.
What advice do you have for budding crime series writers?
Just write, write, write. Watch lots of shows and films in that genre. Read lots and think about story and characters.
Are you tempted to write over in the US?
I actually went over there for a while when my career was quiet over in the UK. I wrote pilots for shows over there for about five years. I like the differences between American and British television dramas.
The final of Line of Duty is on BBC One on Sunday night at 9pm.
Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email [email protected]. | It's had the nation gripped and now finally it's time to find out who Balaclava Man is in the police drama Line of Duty. | 39745422 |
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A bright loft-style dance studio in a converted Glasgow factory may seem an unlikely venue for an employment scheme.
Yet it is here that social enterprise Street Step aims to kick-start young people's journey into work, training or education by raising their heart rates first.
Manager Carla Jack says many of the young people arrive with low confidence and motivation.
"Some of them have never worked - they've never even considered applying for a job," she says.
"After the eight week programme, they are speaking in front of groups, performing in front of large audiences, and they're also applying for loads of jobs."
Street Step currently runs sessions in Glasgow, London and Birmingham. | For more information about getting into dance take a look at the Get Inspired page on the subject. | 35250393 |
Jay Liptrot, 43, from Prestatyn, Denbighshire, was on trial for manslaughter but the case was dropped after he admitted a lesser charge.
Lee-Anna Shiers, 20, Liam Timbrell, 23, their son Charlie, Ms Shiers' nephew Bailey, four, and niece Skye, two, died in his flat in Prestatyn in 2012.
He was sentenced at Caernarfon Crown Court on Friday.
Melanie Smith was jailed in 2013 for their murder after starting the fire in a row over Ms Shiers' pushchair, which was left in a shared hallway.
Landlord Liptrot denied manslaughter but admitted one count of failing to take general fire precautions, exposing people to risk, which the prosecution accepted after consulting the family of the victims.
The court heard he was one of the firefighters who "was at the forefront of brave efforts" to rescue the five from the flat after the blaze was started.
In a statement read in court, Steve Allen, who lost two children, his sister and nephew in the fire, said: "We hope Jay learns his lesson, not just for him but all landlords."
Ms Shiers' father Peter Shiers also read a statement which said: "That night was horrendous. But Jay has been a great guy to the family for 18 years. He's been an honest and loyal friend.
"We don't think he's to blame for the fire but was responsible for the safety measures."
Liptrot's defence barrister Gordon Cole said all of his client's other properties have now been brought up to the required safety standard but said he will never forget the events of that night.
Passing sentence, Mrs Justice McGowan said: "Jay Liptrot has generally been a good and conscientious landlord. However, his culpability must be categorised as high."
North Wales Fire and Rescue Service's chief fire officer Simon Smith said Liptrot would now be the subject of an internal investigation, adding a custodial sentence meant he "cannot continue as an employee".
"As a responsible employer whose priority is the safety of the public, it is of course of deep concern to us that an employee, as a landlord, failed to take precautions to ensure this property was safe which not only goes against legislation but also against the core values of our service," Mr Smith said. | A fireman who owned the flat where five people died in a blaze has been jailed for 15 months. | 34877184 |
Photographer Raj Shetye's images show a model fighting off men on a bus, in a scene reminiscent of the rape and murder that shocked India.
Many social media users said they found the photos "disgusting" and "horrible".
Mr Shetye said the shoot was "just a depiction of the situation of women in our country" and not based on the rape.
The photos were taken down from the Behance site after angry reactions on Twitter and Facebook.
The gang rape and murder of the 23-year-old physiotherapy student - dubbed Nirbhaya (fearless) by the media - led to days of protests and forced the authorities to introduce tough new anti-rape laws.
Four men were sentenced to death. A fifth, a juvenile at the time of the crime, is serving a three-year sentence.
Mr Shetye, a Mumbai-based photographer, published his photofeature The Wrong Turn last week, prompting widespread criticism on social media.
"Did I just see a fashion-spread depicting the Delhi gang rape of Nirbhaya? Disgusting! I hope all associated, die of shame! Insensitive swine!," Bollywood music director Vishal Dadlani tweeted. "Whoever you are... I hope you go to jail for this," he added.
Actor Amrita Puri tweeted: "Rape is not inspiration for a fashion shoot. I don't know what the photographer was thinking doing an editorial shoot inspired by Nirbhaya."
"Raj Shetye, photographer, came up with a bus-rape inspired shoot. How much lower before we hit hell?" wrote Ceteris Paritosh on Twitter:
Myra called it "beyond disgusting" and said the photo shoot "Trivialises Sexual Assault Through 'The Wrong Turn'.
Mr Shetye did not immediately respond to BBC attempts to contact him, but in a report published on BuzzFeed.com on Tuesday, he denied that he had attempted to recreate the infamous gang rape.
"It is not based on Nirbhaya," he said. "But being a part of society and being a photographer, that topic moves me from inside... I stay in a society where my mother, my girlfriend, my sister are out there and something like this can happen to them also."
Mr Shetye said he was not trying to "glamorise the act, which was very bad".
"It's just a way of throwing light on it," he said, adding that it could happen to anyone, rich or poor.
He said the clothes worn by the models had all been made by top designers, but none had been credited publicly because the shoot was not for commercial gain. | An Indian fashion shoot showing a woman being groped on a bus has caused anger, with social media users saying it glamorises the 2012 Delhi gang rape. | 28670663 |
Sean Ziemelis was arrested in Reginald Street, Luton, after an incident in which some adults were also injured at about 02:00 BST on Tuesday.
Mr Ziemelis, 30, of Reginald Street, Luton, has also been charged with two counts of assault by beating and one count of actual bodily harm.
He appeared before Luton Magistrates' Court on Thursday and will have a further hearing on 18 September. | A man has been charged in connection with the attempted murder of a baby. | 40830749 |
There are hopes that the poll will help turn the page on years of religious conflict.
None of the 30 presidential candidates secured the required 50% majority in the first round of voting on 30 December.
Ex-Prime Ministers Anicet Georges Dologuele and Faustin-Archange Touadera are facing each other in the run-off.
Mr Dologuele served under President Ange-Felix Patasse between 1999 and 2001, and Mr Touadera was prime minister under President Francois Bozize between 2008 and 2013.
Mr Bozize was ousted by mainly Muslim rebels in 2013, and is now in exile.
Mr Dologuele, a businessman, is the candidate of the Central African Union for Renewal (URCA).
He is supported by Mr Bozize's Kwa Na Kwa party, which signed a pact with the URCA in December.
He won the largest share of the first-round vote with 23.78%.
Mr Touadera , a former professor who secured 19.42% of the December vote, is backed by former allies of Mr Bozize who are unhappy with the URCA-Kwa Na Kwa pact.
Security, communal reconciliation and the economy are the main campaign themes.
Mr Dologuele has promised voters a break from the country's recent violent past.
His campaign slogan is "united we will win".
Mr Touadera is portrayed by supporters as a peacemaker who can bridge the Christian-Muslim divide.
Whoever wins will inherit serious challenges - disarming the armed groups in the north, reconciling warring factions, and ensuring the integration of the minority Muslim population.
The race is too close to call. Mr Touadera was an outsider in the December poll, but made an unexpectedly strong showing.
Much may depend on political patronage. Both contenders have forged alliances with losing candidates from the first round.
As well as the support of Mr Bozize, Mr Dologuele has the backing of Desire Kolingba's Central African Democratic Rally. Mr Kolingba came third in December.
Mr Touadera is backed by Martin Ziguele's Movement for the Liberation of the Central African People. Mr Ziguele came fourth in December. Another 21 first-round candidates are reported to back Mr Touadera.
If voting patterns are similar to those in December, Mr Dologuele may prevail given that on paper the numbers still stack up in his favour.
But both candidates' ties with Mr Bozize may jeopardise the fresh start many voters are seeking.
Observers praised the calm nature of the December vote, and no major security incidents have marred the run-up to the second round. Security is supplied by UN and French peacekeepers.
A protest in the capital, Bangui, in late January, by supporters of losing candidates who alleged fraud during the first round of voting and demanded that the result be annulled, passed off peacefully.
Nonetheless, electoral officials and human rights groups fear the security deployment is stretched too thin across the country, and have urged the authorities and the UN to boost troop numbers to secure rural polling stations.
BBC Monitoring reports and analyses news from TV, radio, web and print media around the world. You can follow BBC Monitoring on Twitter and Facebook. | Voters in the Central African Republic have gone to the polls for the delayed second round of presidential elections. | 35543348 |
The 34-year-old back row, who won eight caps for his country, was part of the Chiefs side that won promotion from the Championship in 2010.
In 2012 he became the first Exeter player since 1972 to represent England.
"I've been very lucky and privileged to be part of Chiefs for so many years and I will never forget the experiences they have given me," Johnson said.
"Being part of the club for all these years has been amazing. Yes, I've been frustrated at times, but that happens."
Johnson made 81 Premiership appearances for Exeter over seven seasons in the top flight, but featured just eight times in all competitions last season as the Devon side were crowned Premiership champions.
The ex-Coventry forward will now start a career as a personal trainer.
"Personally, I've gone from the Championship to playing for my country and then being part of a squad that's just won the Premiership. Not too many can say they've done that," he added. | Former England international Tom Johnson has retired after 10 years with Premiership champions Exeter Chiefs. | 40121220 |
Adam Thompstone went over for the first and last Tigers tries with Ospreys wing Eli Walker scoring a second-half brace.
Ex-Cardiff Blue Luke Hamilton was among the Leicester scorers with Dan Borrow and Ed Slater also crossing.
Tom Habberfield, Dafydd Howells, Ashley Beck and Hugh Gustafson added Ospreys tries. | Leicester Tigers and Ospreys scored six tries apiece in their pre-season friendly at Welford Road, where the hosts triumphed. | 37201881 |
The Sinn Féin MLA issued a statement in response to calls for her to clarify what she knew about safety concerns over the planned new GAA stadium.
It emerged at a Stormont Committee on Thursday that some safety fears were raised with the minister's department more than a year ago.
In spite of this, the planning application still went ahead.
The concerns were over the emergency exiting arrangements at the 38,000-capacity venue and fears they were inadequate.
Basil McCrea MLA said today: "It was clear from the evidence provided at the committee yesterday that people in her department did know, a lot of people knew actually.
"They may not have realised the significance of what they'd been told but they certainly knew, and she (the minister) needs to go and clarify that position."
A stadium safety expert, Paul Scott from Sport NI, claimed recently that the emergency exiting arrangements were so inadequate that they could have led to a Hillsbrough-type stadium disaster.
In her statement, Ms Ní Chuilín said: "I was unaware of the safety concerns at Casement Park, to the extent raised by the Sport NI official, until his evidence to the CAL (Culture Arts and Leisure) committee on 30 April."
She pointed out that after hearing his claims, she launched an investigation.
She said: "I initiated the independent project assessment review on the back of Paul Scott's evidence.
"This will look at all the facts and to what extent issues were reported, and to whom.
"I have already undertaken to publish the report of this review. I have asked this review is progressed urgently."
The minister's former permanent secretary Peter May admitted at the CAL committee hearing on Thursday, that he was aware of concerns regarding emergency exiting arrangements as far back as late 2013.
However, he insisted a potential Hillsbrough-type disaster was never mentioned by Sport NI. It was not raised as a "show-stopper" or "red flag" issue, he said.
Instead, it was presented as one of a number of issues still to be resolved.
Planning permission for the proposed multi-million-pound Casement Park stadium was reversed in December last year.
The GAA intend to submit a new application in the near future.
It is not clear whether it will include a new design, with more emergency exits or a reduced capacity. | Sports Minister Carál Ní Chuilín has defended her handling of the Casement Park project. | 33030258 |
Ex-Det Con Michael McMillan, 32, contacted women "who looked to him for support" at Merseyside Police's Family Crime Investigation Unit.
Appearing at Liverpool Crown Court, he pleaded guilty to seven counts of misconduct in public office.
McMillan, from Crosby, was dismissed from the force in February.
He sent hundreds of texts to domestic abuse victims and convinced two of them to have sex with him, the Liverpool Echo reported.
The newspaper said he was caught when his phone was examined and a vast amount of sexual texts and images were found from between June 2011 and June 2014.
Ch Supt Karen Cummings said: "He manipulated women who looked to him for professional support, for his own sexual gratification and his behaviour is despicable and unforgivable.
"Sadly, the actions of Michael McMillan have the propensity to seriously undermine the good work of the majority."
An investigation was carried out by Merseyside Police and managed by the Independent Police Complaints Commission. | A former detective who "manipulated" domestic abuse victims for "his own sexual gratification" has been jailed for four years. | 36014973 |
PPI expert Cliff D'Arcy told the BBC Lloyds had saved more than £60m over the past year by cutting compensation.
Lloyds refused to be interviewed on the issue. It was offering the correct level of compensation in line with regulatory guidance, a statement said.
Lloyds cites a little-known regulatory provision called "alternative redress".
Alternative redress - also known as comparative redress - allows a bank, in specified circumstances, to assume that customers to whom it wrongly sold single-premium PPI policies would have bought a cheaper, regular premium PPI policy instead.
In such cases, a bank is entitled to deduct the cost of the regular premium policy from the full compensation they would otherwise have had to pay.
For claimants, this deduction can make a large difference to the compensation Lloyds offers.
Mr D'Arcy, who previously worked at HBOS's PPI operation, told BBC Radio 4: "Frankly I'm amazed that this problem has existed throughout the last year and hasn't emerged into the light."
Care worker Veronica Rayner had two loans from Halifax, now part of Lloyds Banking Group.
Mrs Rayner told the BBC that when she had taken out her loans she had been unaware that the bank had sold her PPI policies as well.
Payment protection insurance was designed to cover loan repayments if the policyholder became ill, had an accident or lost their job.
However, the policies were mis-sold on a huge scale to those who did not want or need it, or would have been unable to make a claim.
Her £2,300 compensation offer from Lloyds was set out in a seven-page letter with an additional two-page appendix of calculations.
Mrs Rayner said she hadn't realised from the offer letter that the bank had applied alternative redress to her claim.
But after her claim was referred to the Financial Ombudsman, Lloyds was told to pay her an additional £1,200 of compensation - over 50% more than it had originally offered.
"I don't think it's very fair. I think they should just offer people the right amounts and get it done. It's cheating people in a way," Mrs Rayner said.
Lloyds told the BBC 11% of offers it made in the fourth quarter of 2013 on loan complaints were made by applying alternative redress.
Analysis of a large survey of PPI offers undertaken by the PFCA, a trade body representing claims management companies, suggests in some months more than 25% of Lloyds's offers were made by applying alternative redress.
But Lloyds told the BBC only 5% of offers made last year were made in this way.
Mr D'Arcy told the BBC such use of alternative redress was unjustifiable. He said such reductions could legitimately be applied in fewer than 1% of PPI cases.
"A taxpayer sponsored bank is depriving taxpayers of their rightful compensation by using a loophole. It's a scandal coming out of a scandal," he said.
Claims management companies have told the BBC they have routinely been challenging alternative redress offers from Lloyds by referring them to the Financial Ombudsman Service.
Martin Baker, of Swindon-based company Renaissance Easy Claim, said the ombudsman had so far ruled on more than 100 of his clients' cases.
"In every single case our challenge has been upheld, and clients will now be entitled to full redress," Mr Baker told the BBC.
Mr D'Arcy is unsurprised that so many offers are being overturned by the ombudsman.
But he warned that, since nine out of 10 PPI compensation offers were not referred to the ombudsman, most of Lloyds' alternative redress offers were likely to go uncontested.
As a result, Mr D'Arcy told the BBC, "Lloyds is making substantial savings of millions of pounds a month, and customers are being short-changed".
Lloyds Banking Group has refused to say how many alternative redress offers were made in total last year or by how much offers were reduced as a result.
But in a statement it said: "The numbers that have been provided to the BBC by the claims management companies are incorrect and deeply misleading.
Since we started making comparative redress offers last year, that equates to 5% of the total number of complaints that we have dealt with.
For these, we have used a formula agreed with the Financial Conduct Authority. The overturn rate for loans claims is the same whether it is for comparative redress or for other reasons." | Lloyds Banking Group has been cutting the compensation it pays to payment protection insurance (PPI) claimants, a BBC investigation has revealed. | 26715982 |
"Rydyn ni eisiau i lywodraeth y DU fod yn rym er gwell ar draws yr holl wlad," meddai'r blaid yn eu maniffesto Cymreig ar gyfer yr etholiad cyffredinol.
Cafodd y ddogfen ei lansio ddydd Llun gan Theresa May, a ddywedodd fod angen i bleidleiswyr ddewis rhyngddi hi neu Jeremy Corbyn.
Roedd ei haraith hefyd yn cynnwys tro pedol ar bolisi gofal cymdeithasol gafodd ei chyflwyno ym maniffesto DU y blaid yr wythnos diwethaf.
Cyn y lansiad cafodd dyn ei arestio y tu allan i'r digwyddiad ar ôl iddo brotestio yn erbyn cynlluniau'r Torïaid ar hela llwynogod.
Dywedodd Mrs May yn ei haraith y byddai'r Ceidwadwyr yn gosod cap ar faint y byddai'r henoed yn orfod ei dalu am ofal cymdeithasol - tro pedol ar y manylion yn y polisi gafodd ei gyflwyno ym maniffesto DU y blaid.
Ond yng Nghymru mae'r mater wedi ei ddatganoli i Lywodraeth Cymru a'r Cynulliad.
Dywedodd maniffesto'r Ceidwadwyr Cymreig: "Mae llywodraeth y DU yn y gorffennol wedi tueddu i 'ddatganoli ac anghofio'. Bydd y llywodraeth Geidwadol hon yn cywiro hynny.
"Rydyn ni eisiau i lywodraeth y DU fod yn rym er gwell ar draws y wlad gyfan.
"Felly byddwn ni'n lywodraeth gweithgar, ym mhob rhan o'r DU. Byddwn ni'n gweithio'n agos gyda Llywodraeth Cymru er lles ein pobl i gyd - ond nid dyna fydd terfyn ein gweithredoedd yng Nghymru."
Yn y cyfamser mae pôl piniwn newydd wedi awgrymu fod Llafur bellach ar 44% yng Nghymru, gyda'r Ceidwadwyr ar 34%.
Roedd polau gan YouGov ar ran ITV a Chanolfan Llywodraethiant Cymru yn gynharach yn yr ymgyrch wedi dangos y Torïaid ar y blaen.
Dywedodd Theresa May hefyd "nad oes amser i'w wastraffu" wrth gyflwyno'r fargen Brexit orau ar ôl yr etholiad.
Mae'r UE yn awyddus i ddechrau trafodaethau am Brexit 11 diwrnod ar ôl canlyniad yr etholiad, meddai.
Fe wnaeth hi bwysleisio addewid ei phlaid i ddiddymu'r tollau ar Bont Hafren, a dweud y byddai'r Ceidwadwyr yn gweithio tuag at fargen dwf i ogledd Cymru.
Dywedodd hefyd y byddai cronfa o'r DU yn cymryd lle'r grantiau presennol sydd yn dod o'r UE, er mwyn ceisio lleihau anghyfartaledd rhwng y gwledydd.
Mae'r Ceidwadwyr wedi dod dan bwysau i ymrwymo i brosiect morlyn llanw Bae Abertawe, ac i gadarnhau y bydd y brif linell reilffordd yn ne Cymru yn cael ei thrydaneiddio hyd at Abertawe.
Mae'r blaid yn gobeithio y gall gipio nifer o seddi ychwanegol yng Nghymru ond mae wedi bod dan y lach am ei chynllun i dorri nôl ar fudd-daliadau i'r henoed.
Wrth lansio maniffesto Prydeinig ei phlaid wythnos yn ôl, cyhoeddodd Theresa May mai dim ond rhai pensiynwyr fyddai'n cael hawlio arian am danwydd i gynhesu eu tai yn y dyfodol.
Ar yr un pryd dywedodd y byddai newidiadau i ofal cymdeithasol yn Lloegr, ac mae 'na feirniadaeth go hallt wedi bod i'r polisïau dros y penwythnos.
Dywedodd Mrs May y bydd pob pleidlais i'r Ceidwadwyr yn cryfhau ei llaw hi pan fydd hi'n wynebu arweinwyr UE yn y trafodaethau i ddod.
Ychwanegodd y byddai sedd y DU wrth y bwrdd trafod yn cael ei llenwi "gen i, neu gan Jeremy Corbyn".
"Dwi'n gwybod fod yr ymdeimlad o ddadrithiad yn rhywbeth sy'n cael ei deimlo yng Nghymru yn enwedig," meddai.
"Fe welsom ni hynny pan wnaeth pobl ar draws Cymru benderfynu anwybyddu rhybuddion hysterig gwleidyddion Llafur, Plaid Cymru a'r Democratiaid Rhyddfrydol ym Mae Caerdydd, a phleidleisio i adael yr UE.
"Rydyn ni'n gweld hynny nawr yn y ffordd mae'r un gwleidyddion yn gwrthod parchu'r bleidlais yna a cheisio canfod ffyrdd newydd o osod rhwystrau yn ein ffordd."
Fe wnaeth y Democratiaid Rhyddfrydol ymateb i faniffesto'r Ceidwadwyr drwy ddweud fod "y blaid gas wedi dychwelyd".
"[Maen nhw am] gael gwared ar y tri chlo ar bensiynau, dad-gapio costau gofal, a pheryglu llwyddiant busnesau a diwylliant Cymru drwy lusgo Cymru allan o'r Farchnad Sengl," meddai Mark Williams, arweinydd y blaid yng Nghymru.
"Ni all Cymru fforddio llywodraeth Geidwadol arall sydd allan o gysylltiad, ac yn ddrwg i'n swyddi, ein siopa wythnosol, ein busnesau a dyfodol ein plant."
Dywedodd Jonathan Edwards o Blaid Gymru fod dogfen y maniffesto yn dangos "nad oes gan y Torïaid unrhyw fwriad o fuddsoddi yng Nghymru".
"Mae'r maniffesto yn crisialu'n union pam fod Cymru wedi dod mor ddibynnol ar Lundain, pam fod cyflogau Cymru mor bell tu ôl i weddill y DU, a pham nad yw ein heconomi ni ddigon da," meddai.
"Hyd yn oed pan mae plaid yn lansio maniffesto ar wahân ar gyfer Cymru fel pe bai hi'n etholiad Cynulliad, dydyn nhw dal ddim yn crybwyll trydaneiddio'r rheilffyrdd na'r morlyn llanw." | Mae'r Ceidwadwyr wedi addo na fyddan nhw'n parhau i "ddatganoli ac anghofio" pwerau i Gymru o hyn ymlaen. | 39998109 |
The Marine Conservation Society said the apparent increases "can no longer be ignored", and called for more research to understand what it means.
Most sightings in 2014 were in south west and south England, it said.
There were also about 30 reports of the potentially deadly Portuguese man-of-war in Devon and Cornwall in July 2015.
In Guernsey, an unprecedented number of Mauve stingers were reported in the same month.
The National Jellyfish Survey involves thousands of people recording jellyfish sightings on the Marine Conservation Society (MCS) website.
In 2013, the survey received over 1,000 reports involving hundreds of thousands of jellyfish.
Last year, the number of reports increased to over 1,400 reports and by July this year the survey had already received over 1,000 reports.
Barrel jellyfish: Reported throughout the year all around the UK, but most 2015 reports from South and SW England. 75% of records this year have involved barrel jellyfish.
Moon jellyfish: Started to appear in May, by July were reported all around the UK
Blue jellyfish: Started to appear in May, by July were reported all around the UK
Compass jellyfish: Started to appear in June, with most reports in July from South West England, South West Wales and North West England
Lion's mane: Started to appear in May, by July were reported all around Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales.
Portuguese Man o War: About 30 reports from Devon and Cornwall in July
Mauve stinger: Unprecedented numbers recorded off Guernsey in July
By the Wind Sailor: Several reports from SW England in January, then a few in July
The MCS said August was usually a peak month for jellyfish sightings.
Dr Peter Richardson from the society said: "We know that our seas are changing through climate change, resulting in rising sea temperatures and increased ocean acidification, and we know our seas are also heavily fished.
"At the same time we seem to be witnessing increases in jellyfish around the UK.
"Is this an anomaly, a coincidence, or are the jellyfish telling us something about fundamental changes in the condition of our seas?" | "Massive" barrel jellyfish have been spotted in record numbers in UK waters for a second consecutive year, a leading marine charity has said. | 33988083 |
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