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The Cardiff University initiative hopes to highlight the experiences of soldiers who served in the Middle East during the conflict.
Funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund, it will display the images collected from the public on a website.
It aims to "reveal the often-overlooked Middle Eastern front in a way not seen before".
Professor Paul Nicholson, from Cardiff University, said: "Egypt and Palestine in the First World War are often overshadowed by the Western Front, but they are important areas and this project seeks to make them better known."
More than 2.5 million British troops served in the Middle Eastern theatre during World War One.
The 'British views of an antique land' project will begin with a collection road show at the Firing Line Museum in Cardiff Castle at the weekend.
Further shows are planned for 11 and 12 July, at the Regimental Museum of the Royal Welsh in Brecon, Powys. | A World War One centenary project is asking for photographs of Egypt and Palestine from 1914 to 1918. | 32723525 |
Mandoza, 38, took to the stage in recent weeks at a concert at Orlando Stadium in Soweto, despite having lost his sight due to illness.
His friends and family say he was determined to perform until the end.
The musician's hit song Nkalakatha has been praised for unifying black and white South Africans.
Nkalakatha, a Zulu word which loosely means "the big boss", was about celebrating success.
South Africans have taken to social media to send condolences to Mandoza's family, and it has also become a way of honouring and celebrating the star for his contribution to the local music industry, says the BBC's Pumza Fihlani in Johannesburg.
Many are calling him a "legend", and he is being lauded for putting up a brave fight and insisting on performing even when his health was failing, our correspondent says.
Mandoza's friend Kevin Ntaopane, who says the musician died in his arms, spoke to SABC news about his last words.
"He was sick and was under doctor's orders but he said 'I'm going to perform and prove to the people that I'm not dead. I'll die on the stage‚ I'll die singing.
"'I was born to do this. And no sickness is going to stop Mandoza.'"
Kwaito is a South African genre of music which emerged in the 1990s, it is a unique dance and house style often likened to US hip-hop.
With most songs being about street culture, it was the sound of South Africa's new found freedom from white minority rule.
It was a chance for musicians to speak out about equality, poverty, oppression but also hope and overcoming great odds.
His son Tokollo spoke proudly of his father.
"I think I'm just happy that my dad died a proud man because he had everything he wanted in life. Every time he'd tell me that he never got a chance to spend time with his dad‚ so all he ever wanted was to raise his children‚" Tokollo said in an interview with SABC news.
Mandoza was born in 1978 in Zola, a notoriously rough area, in Soweto, a large township in the country's main city Johannesburg.
When he was 16 years old he was arrested for stealing a car and spent over a year in prison. After his release he was determined to make a life for himself and formed the group Chiskop, which went on to win multiple local awards.
He used his music to encourage young people in the township to turn away from crime.
Mandoza had not released a new song in years but his hits, Nkalakatha, Respect Life, Sgelekeqe and Tornado still remain crowd pleasers, transcending race. | Tributes are pouring in from across South Africa for kwaito musician Mduduzi "Mandoza" Tshabalala who died after a year-long battle with cancer. | 37407154 |
Over 60 groups, including doctors, are backing a 20p tax per litre, which would go to the government.
Food and farming charity Sustain thinks it'd raise more than £1 billion a year, which could be spent on healthy school meals, free fruit and veg, and cooking classes.
But soft drink companies say it's not necessary and they're already helping to fight child obesity.
The British Soft Drink Association said that 61% of soft drinks "now contain no added sugar".
Alcoholic drinks and cigarettes have taxes put on them to try and stop people from buying too many of them.
So do you think raising the cost of sugary drinks would work?
Would it put you off if sugar drinks cost a bit more? Or perhaps you reckon it won't make a difference?
This comments page is now closed. Here are some of the comments you sent it.
"Taxing sugary drinks won't make people want to buy it less, they will still buy it. However it will make the government richer and the people poorer."
Holly, Suffolk, England
"We should have our own free choice on drinking pop. I am sensible and do not need to be forced to drink less by making pop too expensive!"
Olivia, Lancashire, England
"We think that the price of fizzy drinks should not be increased. It should be parents that prevent their children from buying the drinks. We also think it will not make a big difference in the number of people that buy the drink, but the government will definitely benefit!"
Form 8O The Compton School, London, England
"I think we should pay more because then people wouldn't buy them so often and we would be healthier!!"
Hana, Lancashire, England
"I don't think we should put a tax on soft drinks because right now they are just about pocket money price. I only have sugary things on a Saturday so I like to treat myself by buying a fizzy drink with my pocket money."
Ava, Kilbarchan, Scotland
"Yes soft drinks are very fattening and there should be a small tax on them to try and get people to drink a healthier alternative like water."
Ben, Hampshire, England
"I am diabetic so when I hypo, which means that my blood sugar goes low, I need fizzy drinks to put it up, so raising the price is not fair."
Laura, Wigan, England
"I think it is a good idea because it may be too expensive for children to buy. If children can't buy the high sugar drinks then they will be healthier."
Emma, Dumfries, Scotland
"No we should not pay more for fizzy drinks as already we pay enough."
Emily, Liverpool, England
"Fizzy drinks should stay the same but lower the prices of water and juice because more people will buy them as fizzy drinks and juice are the same price at the moment."
Molly, London, England
"The price of drinks is already ridiculous! How do we know that's where the extra money would go?"
Ellie, Cheltenham, England
"No because it is already too pricey. It should stay the same because kids are just spending more of their money."
Chloe, Stratford-on-Avon, England
"I think that they should raise the price because then when we go to the dentist it won't hurt!"
Nicky, Worcestershire, England
"I think they should tax sugary drinks. If people find that it costs more then they won't buy it. Less people will get ill and it will help kids health."
Mathumye, Coventry, England
"I think they should not put sugary drinks up because it is a bit too expensive already!"
Courtney, London, England
"I think that fizzy drinks cost too much already. If the price goes up they will be bought a lot less and the government won't get any tax."
Jake, Waterlooville, England
"No, because there is no point in taxing things that people like. If you tax them them it's not really going to make a difference."
Marina, Huddersfield, England
"I think we should tax sugary drinks but not the ones with sweeteners. All the money raised should be spent on schools or stuff for kids because we buy most of the bottles and cans."
Freya, Manchester, England | There are calls to up the cost of sugary drinks - to help kids' health. | 21241761 |
Alan Mendoza, executive director of think tank the Henry Jackson Society
"The UK is already engaged in air strikes against IS in neighbouring Iraq. But some of the major IS command and control points are located within Syria. For us to take an arbitrary approach when IS itself does not take account of this border when pursuing its nefarious activities means that our campaign against it cannot be as effective as it would be with full freedom of manoeuvre.
Strategically, we need to end IS's control of its territory in both Iraq and Syria in order to drive it back into the shadows from where it emerged. We cannot do that by only air striking in Iraq.
Equally, we have important allies who are engaged in Syria against IS. We face the same threat from IS as they do - as seen with tragic such consequences in Paris - and for us to stand aside while they carry the full burden of responsibility in fighting it would be morally shameful.
Operationally, UK strikes are likely to be limited in impact, as we would simply be one component of a larger strike force. However, collectively, the strike force will have the capability to degrade and destroy IS units and infrastructure and weaken its ability to control its territory. As this is a prerequisite for beating IS, we will therefore be making an important contribution."
Peter Ford, former UK ambassador to Syria
"The added value of UK air strikes in Syria will be piddling - IS leaders have mostly moved to Mosul or are hiding among the civilian population - and because British people will die and be maimed as a direct result.
Labour MPs planning to vote for bombing should pause to consider the effect on their careers of exposing themselves to recrimination from the families of the soon-to-be bereaved after we see carnage on our streets.
The government are being economical with the truth about already being targeted by IS: they don't say the seven thwarted attacks were actually "by" IS but "linked to" or "inspired by". Weasel words.
If the government was sure of its legal case, why is it unwilling to seek an unambiguous UN Security Council resolution? Because it knows it would not pass.
Bombing in Syria - where a complex multi-sided conflict is going on - is different from bombing in Iraq, where we are supporting an elected government. Also because actions have consequences and the inevitable blowback on our streets will be severe." | As UK MPs are to vote on whether British armed forces should attack so-called Islamic State (IS) targets in Syria, commentators consider why they are - respectively - for and against air strikes. | 34974297 |
The visitors took the lead when Paul Caddis' cross took a deflection and reached Jon Toral who turned it home.
Charlton equalised six minutes later through Johann Berg Gudmundsson whose shot bounced off Paul Robinson and in.
The hosts sealed all three points in added time when Teixeira rose to meet Ademola Lookman's corner.
Teixeira's goal was his second in his last three matches for Charlton, who remain next to bottom of the Championship table and six points from safety despite the victory.
Birmingham's outside hopes of making a late charge into the play-off places looks unlikely as they stay ninth in the table, eight points below sixth-placed Derby County.
The match was delayed by four minutes when Charlton fans threw hundreds of small sponge footballs on to the pitch seconds into the match and chanted against owner Roland Duchatelet.
Addicks supporters carried out a similar protest at their 2-0 win against Middlesbrough on 13 March when a number of beach balls were thrown onto the playing surface.
Charlton head coach Jose Riga:
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"I know that there are two stories from today's game and I want only to be involved in the sporting one, but we really felt that the fans were pushing us today for the whole 90 minutes.
"When you show your passion sweating for the club and fighting for the club, English fans will be behind you.
"We cannot master the other results and we can't expect help from the other teams, but today I just want to share my happiness with the players and the crowd.
"We knew from Birmingham's results that all of their games are very close, but at the end I think we deserved the win today."
Birmingham manager Gary Rowett:
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"It was a hugely frustrating afternoon to lose right at the end, but that was the state of the game.
"Both teams were doing everything they could to try and get a winner. They had breakaways, we had lots of breakaways in the second half and really should have made more of them.
"I would rather concede a counter-attack than from a corner when everyone is back and two or three players were stood watching while their player heads it in. That was particularly galling but a point wouldn't have been a lot of good for us either.
"We've got a hell of a lot to do to make the play-offs now, but I have a really honest bunch of players here so I can't be too disappointed with them." | Jorge Teixeira scored a 94th-minute winner as struggling Charlton Athletic came from behind to seal a vital win against Birmingham City. | 35902203 |
The incident at Penrhiwceiber Road, Mountain Ash, happened on 3 September.
The boy is believed to still be at Cardiff's University Hospital of Wales.
A 29-year-old from Mountain Ash is on bail after his arrest earlier this month and South Wales Police say a second man, 27, from Gilfach Goch has now been arrested. | Two men have been arrested on suspicion of dangerous driving after a 10-year-old boy was hit by a motorcyclist who left the scene in Rhondda Cynon Taff. | 34289333 |
The head of the AU team overseeing the poll, Olusegun Obasanjo, said turnout stood at between 30-35%.
He said some voters may have felt the result was a forgone conclusion and so abstained from casting a ballot.
President Omar al-Bashir is expected to extend his 25 years in power, after opposition parties boycotted the poll.
Voting in the presidential and parliamentary elections started on Monday and was extended until Thursday in a bid to boost turnout and enhance the legitimacy of President Bashir and his National Congress party.
The 71-year-old, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court on genocide charges, was virtually unopposed in the race.
He faced 13 minor challengers, after the main opposition parties pulled out, claiming the vote would not be free or fair.
Polling centres in the capital Khartoum were largely deserted, according to the Associated Press.
However, the party's vice president Ibrahim Ghandour said the government was "quite satisfied" with the turnout.
Election results are expected on 27 April. | Voting in the Sudanese elections has ended, with only a third of the electorate casting their ballots, according to African Union observers. | 32346244 |
All flights to and from the resort were stopped on Wednesday because the British government wanted to make sure the airport was as safe as possible.
The decision was made after a Russian plane crashed near there last weekend.
There are currently 20,000 British tourists on holiday in Sharm el-Sheikh.
Only eight out of 29 planned flights to bring British holiday makers back will operate.
Two planes have already taken off from the Egyptian resort, but it is unclear which others will be allowed to.
Egypt said this was because there was too much check-in luggage left at the airport.
British passengers are allowed to take only hand baggage on board with a plan in place to take suitcases and bigger bags on separate planes.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has now ordered that all Russian passenger flights to Egypt be stopped until the cause of the crash is established.
Find out more about the crash by clicking here. | Planes have starting bringing some of the British tourists stranded in the Egyptian holiday resort of Sharm el-Sheikh back to the UK. | 34746678 |
The pub has been shut since a police helicopter crashed through its roof in November 2013.
Three people in the helicopter and seven others in the bar died. Many more were injured.
Building work is now under way at the pub, which had remained almost untouched after the emergency services left.
Owner Alan Crossan said the adjoining Victoria Bar will be refurbished, and the beer garden at the back of the Clutha will be covered over.
But he said he still does not know what he will do with the area of the building where the helicopter crashed.
"It's difficult, it's taken me a year and a bit to even get to this stage," he said.
"Maybe in six months, maybe in a year, I'll know better what to do with this."
"Obviously, when we get people back in and the music starts again, we'll get a better idea of what we can do."
The bar owner added: "The name will stay. The Clutha, before the accident, was pretty famous anyway, so the name will always stay. The Clutha means the Clyde and we're right next door to the Clyde, so we'll retain that.
"Obviously in its day it was a pub that was really happy and it was always a good pub, there were never any issues in it, so it's got a feeling now where it's strange, I could take a long, long time to figure out what to do with it."
Pilot David Traill, who was attached to the Police Scotland air support unit, and police constables Tony Collins and Kirsty Nelis were killed when the Eurocopter EC 135 crashed on to the building.
Those killed in the pub were John McGarrigle, Mark O'Prey, Gary Arthur, Colin Gibson, Robert Jenkins and Samuel McGhee. Joe Cusker was pulled from the wreckage alive but later died in hospital.
An initial report said the aircraft suffered engine failure. The final conclusions of the Air Accidents Investigation Branch are expected to be released later this year. | The owner of The Clutha bar hopes to reopen it at the beginning of May. | 31697272 |
The Spaniard, who will join Ducati in 2017, produced a good start from pole position and led throughout.
Three-time champion Lorenzo, 29, ended the 30-lap race 1.19 seconds ahead of Honda's Marc Marquez and 6.60secs in front of Andrea Iannone of Ducati.
Marquez, 23, had already sealed his third world championship title with three races of the season to spare.
He paid the price for a slow start at Circuito Ricardo Tormo, and while he battled to finish second, Lorenzo made the most of the open track to move into a five-second lead.
As Lorenzo's front tyre showed wear late on, Marquez ate into the advantage but could not overhaul the 2015 champion.
In a farewell letter to Yamaha issued earlier this week, Lorenzo said his nine years with the team were "unrepeatable" and "unforgettable".
The result means he ends the 18-round season third in the championship table, behind Marquez and Yamaha's Valentino Rossi, who finished fourth on the day.
Repsol Honda rider Dani Pedrosa crashed out on his return, just four weeks after he fractured his collarbone, leg and foot in a crash in Japan.
1. Jorge Lorenzo (Spa) Yamaha 45 minutes 54.228 seconds
2. Marc Marquez (Spa) Honda 45:55.413
3. Andrea Iannone (Ita) Ducati 46:00.831
4. Valentino Rossi (Ita) Yamaha 46:01.896
5. Maverick Vinales (Spa) Suzuki 46:04.838
1. Marc Marquez (Spa) Honda 298
2. Valentino Rossi (Ita) Yamaha 249
3. Jorge Lorenzo (Spa) Yamaha 233
4. Maverick Vinales (Spa) Suzuki 202
5. Andrea Dovizioso (Ita) Ducati 171 | Jorge Lorenzo completed his nine-year stay at Yamaha with victory at MotoGP's season-ending Valencia Grand Prix. | 37967439 |
They found the copies held in Lincoln and Salisbury were written by scribes based at those cathedrals, rather than by someone working for King John.
The discovery was made ahead of the 800th anniversary of the historic charter on Monday.
Lead investigator Professor Nicholas Vincent, said to identify the authors was a "significant achievement".
He said after 800 years it was "certainly equivalent to finding needles in a very large haystack".
The new discovery sheds further light on the Church's role in the creation and distribution of Magna Carta - which sought to restrain the powers of the king.
Professor Vincent said: "It has become apparent, not least as a result of work undertaken for the Magna Carta Project, that the bishops of England were crucial to both the publication and the preservation of Magna Carta.
"King John had no real intention that the charter be either publicised or enforced. It was the bishops instead who insisted that it be distributed to the country at large and thereafter who preserved it in their cathedral archives."
The project, involving academics from the University of East Anglia and King's College London, found the Lincoln Magna Carta was written by a scribe who produced several other documents for the Bishop of Lincoln and Salisbury's was "probably" made by someone working for the cathedral's dean and chapter.
Project team member David Carpenter, a professor of medieval history at King's College, said: "We now know that three of the four surviving originals of the charter went to cathedrals: Lincoln, Salisbury and Canterbury. Probably cathedrals were the destination for the great majority of the other original charters issued in 1215.
"This overturns the old view that the charters were sent to the sheriffs in charge of the counties. That would have been fatal since the sheriffs were the very people under attack in the charter.
"They would have quickly consigned Magna Carta to their castle furnaces."
A replica of the Great Charter began its journey down the Thames on Saturday as part of events to mark its 800th anniversary.
The Royal Barge Gloriana is leading 200 boats from Hurley in Berkshire to Runnymede in Surrey, where the document was signed, over two days. | Scientists have identified the scribes who wrote two of the four original 1215 copies of the Magna Carta. | 33122722 |
The court had told the country's telecommunication authorities the two-week-old ban must be lifted as it was a breach of freedom of expression.
It may take a couple of hours for full access to Twitter to be restored.
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan had vowed to "wipe out Twitter" after users spread allegations of corruption.
Users across the country found many ways of circumventing the prohibition, which was widely criticised and ridiculed.
Access to Twitter was blocked in Turkey in the run-up to local elections, which Mr Erdogan's ruling Islamist-rooted AK Party won resoundingly.
On Wednesday Twitter's public policy team welcomed the Turkish court ruling, and said "we hope to have Twitter access restored in Turkey soon". The court told Turkey's telecommunication authority (TIB) to act on the ruling.
By James ReynoldsBBC News, Istanbul
In theory, the constitutional court's decision to lift Turkey's Twitter ban is an important moment.
A court has overruled the government to assert its own more expansive interpretation of freedom of speech - and the government now has obeyed the decision.
But, in practical terms, the decision is largely a footnote. The two-week Twitter blackout was largely ignored.
This country's Twitter users found their own way of keeping the lights switched on. As soon as the ban was imposed, most here simply changed their computer settings (a process which takes about 10-15 seconds) to get round the block. Traffic to the site even increased in the days after the formal ban.
Prime Minister Erdogan did not appear to be worried about alienating his country's Twitter users. He gets his political support from working-class and socially conservative voters who do not spend their lives online. This off-line base of support gave his AK Party a clear victory in the 30 March local elections.
'Welcome back Twitter'
Following the Twitter ban the government also banned access to YouTube, after a video on the website appeared to reveal top officials discussing how to stage an undercover attack inside Syria. Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu is heard asking about the possibility of sending tanks in.
The recording was posted on YouTube anonymously. Commenting on it later, Mr Davutoglu implied that it was genuine, not a fabrication. He said that "ordinary pawns are used in the wire-tapping... a cyber attack to a meeting where military and security options were being discussed is no different than a military attack".
Previously Mr Erdogan has alleged that such recordings are being fabricated to turn people against him.
The Washington Post published a transcript of the leaked security meeting, "courtesy of a veteran translator" who asked not to be named.
Mr Erdogan has lashed out at social media, accusing "plotters" of leaking recordings to deliberately undermine him. A US-based Islamic cleric, Fethullah Gulen, has denied allegations that he is involved.
Turkish President Abdullah Gul, a Twitter user, spoke out against the bans. Both bans should end, he told the Turkish daily Hurriyet on Thursday morning.
Referring to the security meeting leaked to YouTube last week, he said the person responsible for the leak must be "revealed" because a crime had been committed.
He also said the eavesdropping had taken place "from inside" - implying that it was not the work of a foreign government.
During the leaked recording national intelligence chief Hakan Fidan is heard saying: "I'll send four men from Syria, if that's what it takes. I'll make up a cause of war by ordering a missile attack on Turkey; we can also prepare an attack on Suleyman Shah Tomb if necessary."
Then the military's deputy chief of staff, Yasar Guler, says "what we're going to do is a direct cause of war".
Further on Mr Davutoglu is heard asking "if the Turkish tanks go in there, it means we're in there in any case, right?" Mr Guler replied: "It means we're in, yes."
Mr Erdogan ordered the Twitter ban after recordings of corruption allegations linked to him and members of his family were posted and shared online. He said the recordings were fake and edited.
During big anti-government demonstrations last year protesters made heavy use of both Twitter and Facebook to spread information. | The Turkish authorities have lifted a ban on Twitter following Wednesday's constitutional court ruling, officials and media reports say. | 26873603 |
The 52-year-old said on his website he was ending his nearly 40-year-career due to health issues.
"My health no longer allows me to live up to the high standard that I have always set for my art and myself," he said in a statement.
The singer said he would continue to teach at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin.
Born with serious physical defects caused by his mother's exposure, during pregnancy, to the drug thalidomide, Quasthoff stands four feet tall due to a shortening of his leg bones.
Initially denied admission to music conservatory owing to his condition, he has since appeared on stages around the world performing under the likes of conductors Daniel Barenboim, James Levine, Zubin Mehta and Riccardo Muti.
"I owe a lot to this wonderful profession and leave without a trace of bitterness," Quasthoff said.
"On the contrary, I am looking forward to the new challenges that will now enter my life.
"I would like to thank all my fellow musicians and colleagues, with whom I stood together on stage, all the organizers, and my audience for their loyalty."
He will also continue his role as artistic director of biennial song competition, Das Lied, which he created in 2009.
After making his mark as a Lied and concert singer, he took up opera in 2003, singing the minister from Fidelio at the Salzburg Easter Festival and following it up with a performance as Amfortas at the Vienna State Opera a year later. | German bass-baritone Thomas Quasthoff has announced that he is to retire from the concert stage. | 16532299 |
The Justice Department wanted an appeals court to overturn a block imposed after 26 states launched a legal challenge to the action.
But the court denied the government's request.
The states say the action is unconstitutional, but the White House says Mr Obama acted within his powers. | A US court has ruled that President Obama's plans to protect almost five million illegal immigrants from deportation must stay on hold. | 32893810 |
Small-scale studies in parts of Brazil, Panama and the Cayman Islands suggest engineered sterile mosquitoes can reduce wild insect populations by more than 90% when released into the wild.
Intrexon said the facility in Piraciciba, São Paulo, will be able to protect 300,000 people.
Aedes aegypti mosquitoes carry three viruses - Dengue, Zika and Chikungunya.
The studies were carried out by the only company currently trialling GM insects, Oxitec, based in Abingdon, Oxfordshire.
Oxitec, which was spun out from the University of Oxford, was bought by US company Intrexon for $160m (£106m) in August last year.
Oxitec CEO Hadyn Parry said: " As the principal source for the fastest growing vector-borne infection in the world in Dengue fever, as well as the increasingly challenging Zika virus, controlling the Aedes aegypti population provides the best defence against these serious diseases for which there are no cures."
Dengue fever, Chikungunya virus and Zika virus are spread by the bite of an infected Aedes mosquito.
Zika has been linked with birth defects in Brazil in babies of mothers infected with the virus.
The US Center for Disease Control and Prevention issued an alert last Friday advising pregnant women to avoid travelling to Brazil and other Latin American and Caribbean countries where outbreaks of Zika have been registered.
The travel alert applies to Brazil, Colombia, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Martinique, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Suriname, Venezuela and Puerto Rico. | A company producing GM mosquitoes says it is to open a new factory in Brazil as it expand its operations. | 35353768 |
On Monday morning, on a bitterly cold, damp day, more than 300 people gathered in the town's square to protest about school funding.
Most were parents who turned up with their children and homemade banners.
"Am I worth less?" read one damp cardboard placard clasped by a small girl.
The parents I spoke to told me they wanted an amount spent on their children's education similar to that in other areas around the country.
Until recently, many weren't aware this area was one of the lowest funded for schools.
The protest in Nantwich shows just how politically difficult it is for ministers to embark on the biggest shake-up of school funding in England for a generation.
There are limits to how much any school can gain or lose in the first couple of years - but that's barely taking the edge off the campaigns and protests bubbling up in areas such as this.
Nantwich is in the relatively affluent local authority of East Cheshire, a low-funded area where many schools hoped to do slightly better under a new formula.
As it turns out, some will get less in cash terms if the changes go ahead, because the new formula looks at deprivation at a local council area level.
Not far away is Crewe, also in East Cheshire.
It is a poor town where schools have coped with a growing number of children whose parents have moved from Poland and Slovakia.
Like other schools across England, Sir Thomas More academy in Crewe will have to find money for extra pay, pensions and national insurance costs in the next few years.
Despite school funding being at record levels, the bills are going up, so in real terms schools are feeling poorer.
Head teacher Clare Hogg, tells me the combined effect in the next couple of years of the background financial pressures and the new funding formula will be a hole in her budget of £450,000 - roughly equivalent to 11 staff.
The noise here is being echoed in some other counties, where every councillor is up for election in May and many of them are Conservative.
Cheshire East has four Conservative MPs, who are all being lobbied intensely by their local parents and schools.
As the Institute for Fiscal studies points out, this is also the first time schools in England have faced a real-terms funding squeeze for 20 years.
Whether your local school is starting from the top of the funding pile or the bottom just depends on where you live.
There is no easy solution, as it is the big cities that have received the most money over the past few decades.
That is in recognition of some of the intense poverty and social challenges that exist within them.
The new formula proposed would see cities such as Liverpool, Manchester, Nottingham and Leeds losing, as some money is shifted towards counties such as Lincolnshire and Somerset.
London is a big loser too, but starting from some of the highest levels of funding.
The Core Cities Group, which speaks for big urban areas outside London, has already expressed concerns about the effect on schools.
But there are no local elections in the cities this year.
The political pressure from the counties may lead the government to tweak some of the finer details of the planned formula.
The Education Secretary for England, Justine Greening, has been having a series of regional meetings with MPs, so she will be in no doubt that some are unhappy.
Against the background pressures of funding per pupil going down, this was never going to be an easy ride.
And after decades of campaigning for change, the counties also fear destroying the best chance they've had of getting some redistribution of money from the cities. | Nantwich isn't the kind of place that sees many demos. | 39103549 |
The 31-year-old, son of Derry City manager Kenny Shiels, spent the last four years at Rangers where he played in two promotion-winning teams.
Previously he had spells with Hibernian, Doncaster Rovers and Kilmarnock.
The attacking midfielder from Maghera won the last of his 14 Northern Ireland caps in 2012.
Dundalk have also signed former Galway United and Sligo Rovers defender Alan Keane.
Shiels was released by Rangers in June at the end of his four-year contract.
He told Dundalk's website: "I want to win things. I have won trophies in Scotland, and Dundalk have won trophies over the last couple of years, so that's what I have come here for.
"I want to win as many things as possible and the lure of European football helped too."
Dundalk will be in Friday's Europa League draw, having lost to Legia Warsaw in the Champions League qualifying play-off. | Northern Ireland international Dean Shiels has signed for League of Ireland Premier Division champions Dundalk. | 37185238 |
Chief executive James Whiting said he expected salaries to be paid eventually - but not by Friday, after the club's bank account was frozen.
Chairman David Cardoza plans to sell the club to ex-Oxford United chairman Kelvin Thomas.
The club owes Northampton Borough Council more than £10m.
Mr Whiting said the sale would only go through if Mr Thomas was able to do a deal with the council over the £10.25m loan, which was to have been used to redevelop the club's Sixfields ground, including the building of the new East Stand, along with a hotel and conference centre - none of which have been completed.
A winding-up petition has been sought by HM Revenue & Customs, to whom Mr Whiting said the club owed £166,000.
A council spokesman said: "We note that the outline of a deal to acquire the Cobblers is reported as having been agreed.
"The council will consider any proposal with due regard to its responsibility to protect the public purse."
At a public meeting on Monday, Mr Whiting thanked fans for their support.
He added: "We were asked a direct question about whether the players and staff would be paid on Friday. The situation is that because of the ongoing uncertainty it is likely that the wages will be paid late this month."
Skipper Marc Richards said: "These are difficult times, but we will all stick together, we appreciate being told face to face and we will help each other through this."
Mr Thomas is the owner of US-based radio station, Shaq-Fu. He took over at Oxford United in 2008, with the U's lying 19th in the Blue Square Premier.
In December 2008, he appointed current Cobblers boss Chris Wilder as Oxford manager.
Under his chairmanship, Oxford returned to the Football League and achieved two League Two top-half finishes.
More recently, he worked in an advisory role at Torquay United. | Financial problems at Northampton Town Football Club mean there is "every chance" players and staff will not get paid on time. | 34646154 |
Esso's South East pipeline runs from Fawley Refinery, in Hampshire, to Purfleet Fuel Terminal, in Essex.
The company said it discovered a section at Chevening, near Sevenoaks, had been tampered with.
The Sun reported 30,000 litres of fuel a day were stolen over seven months, with a value of £8.3m at the pumps.
Kent Police said thieves had used "highly specialist techniques" to siphon the fuel.
Chevening House Estate is shared by the Deputy Prime Minister and the Foreign Secretary, Philip Hammond.
An Esso spokesman said: "We recently strengthened our pipeline security and monitoring procedures, and on Wednesday detected criminal damage at Chevening on the South East pipeline.
"The section of pipeline was temporarily shut down to make repairs, which have now been completed.
"We strongly condemn the highly dangerous criminal action by those involved and are working closely with the police in their criminal investigations."
A Kent Police spokesman added: "Initial indications are that this was a well-organised crime, employing highly specialist techniques to siphon fuel from pipelines which operate at very high pressure." | Thieves have siphoned millions of pounds of fuel from a pipeline which runs under Deputy PM Nick Clegg's official country residence in Kent. | 28723670 |
The bright welcoming venue, framed by rice paddies, looks the picture of pastoral contentment.
But behind its creation lies an unsettling reality.
This upbeat community centre was built to address the devastating number of suicides both here on the scenic Essequibo Coast - and in Guyana itself, which holds the dubious distinction of the highest suicide rate in the world.
World Health Organization figures claim 44.2 in every 100,000 Guyanese take their own lives, compared to a global average of 16.
The Guyana Foundation, the charity behind the Sunrise Center in Zorg-En-Vlygt, has been integral in dragging the phenomenon into the national conversation in a country where stigma surrounding mental health issues has long hindered efforts to alleviate them.
A lack of adequate mainstream facilities and woefully outdated legislation - which still defines patients as "idiots" suffering "derangement" - are just some of the obstacles, says the centre's managing director Anthony Autar.
Attempted suicide is still technically illegal in Guyana, carrying a custodial sentence of two years, although measures are under way to decriminalise it.
"When considering mental health issues, we also look at people's ability to contribute to society," Mr Autar tells the BBC.
"Learning a skill like catering or floral arrangement can improve their sense of worth and outlook for the future."
Dress-making, tie-dye and yoga are also among the free courses open to the public at the facility which launched operations in June, ahead of its official October 29 opening.
"We often find people who come here are isolated and don't have many strong connections. We encourage students to build friendships with each other; those relationships can help save someone's life if they're feeling suicidal," Mr Autar adds.
Attendees are routinely invited to complete questionnaires assessing their emotional wellbeing and are informed about the free counselling services offered.
It's part of a proactive approach to tackle depression, anxiety and low self-esteem, and remove stigma by teaching people such feelings "are as common as diabetes", says counsellor Haimraj Hamandeo.
Participants are predominantly aged 25 to 45, and 75% are female. "Females are more open to assistance," Mr Hamandeo continues.
"They're also more likely to attempt suicide; men are more likely to be successful at it."
Opinion on just why Guyana tops the global suicide list is divided. A panel discussion organised by the University of Guyana to mark World Suicide Prevention Day in September cited relationship issues, political upheavals, poverty and high crime as contributory factors.
Indo-Guyanese account for 80% of suicides, despite making up just 40% of the population in the six-race nation. Most are aged 15 to 34, with almost four men to each female.
Poisoning by agricultural pesticides accounts for 65% of cases while one in five is by hanging.
For each successful suicide, there's up to 25 more attempted cases, says Dr Bhiro Harry, head of psychiatry at Georgetown Public Hospital.
"Many Indo-Guyanese are farmers so they have easy access to lethal pesticides," he explains.
"Culturally, Indo-Guyanese folks are 'babied'. For example, I have three children in their 20s all living at home; I still make my son's breakfast every morning. Afro-Guyanese tend to have less close families and are taught to be strong and resilient."
Conversely, social science lecturer Paulette Henry thinks "broken families" is a prime cause.
After being personally touched by suicide when a close friend killed himself, she testifies to the emotions affecting those left behind too.
"I dealt with anger, pain, a sense of loss and guilt," she says, "as a social worker I felt I should have recognised the signs."
Public Health Minister Dr George Norton describes Guyana's existing national psychiatric hospital as "not fit for human consumption".
He told the BBC mental health was his "personal priority" and that a national suicide prevention plan was currently being devised. That includes training additional psychiatrists and the creation of a psycho-social rehabilitation venue.
Back at the Sunrise Center, Mr Hamandeo says engagement in "productive" activities had seen great successes.
"Often people find an ability they didn't know they had. You see a change in the way they communicate, the way they greet you, their extra energy."
That is music to the ears of centre founder Supriya Singh Bodden who must raise $3,500 (£2,850) a month from donations to run the facility - and plans to establish more across the country.
"I got so depressed reading about the suicides every day, I just wanted to bring some hope into communities suffering poverty and lack of opportunity," she explains. "If we can touch people's lives in a positive way so they want to live to see another sunrise, then we have achieved something." | Chattering amiably, heads bent over plugs and wires, enthusiasm among students in the electrical installation class is palpable. | 37618854 |
Thousands of workers could strike in a dispute over proposed changes to pensions which could see workers retiring at 65 instead of 60.
Members of the Community, Ucatt and GMB unions have been voting on whether to protest at the plans.
Ballot results are expected on Friday, while Unite members will continue voting until next week. | Unions representing Tata Steel workers in Wales are expected to announce the results of a ballot for strike action. | 32926385 |
Proposals for the Cairngorms include affordable hoursing, increasing woodland, restoring peatland and investing in walking routes on Deeside and Speyside.
The park covers parts of the Highlands, Aberdeenshire, Perthshire, Angus and Moray.
The plan was launched by Environment Secretary Roseanna Cunningham.
She said: "Scotland's national parks conserve and enhance our rich natural and cultural heritage, while supporting the sustainable development local communities want and need.
"That's why I am delighted to launch the Cairngorms plan, which sets out how that balance will be achieved between now and 2022, and which has been developed in full consultation with those same communities."
The 4,528 sq km park is twice the size of the Lake District National Park and bigger than the whole of Luxembourg.
A target to have 200 new affordable homes built by 2022 and delivering superfast broadband to "hard to reach" parts of the park also form part of the five-year plan.
On a visit to the Cairngorms, Ms Cunningham also viewed the Still, an arts installation that acts as a marker on Snow Roads Scenic Route at Tomintoul.
The route runs from Blairgowrie to Grantown on Spey via Braemar and Tomintoul and forms the highest public road in Britain, according to the Cairngorms National Park Authority. | A plan for managing the UK's largest national park for the next five years has been officially launched. | 40119872 |
Dozens of shacks built on stilts have been demolished in Makoko, where wooden canoes are a common form of transport.
An Lagos state official told the BBC that all illegal buildings in the water would be demolished.
Makoko is one of Nigeria's best known slums. Many residents are fishermen and some have migrated from neighbouring Togo and Benin.
It featured in the 2010 BBC film
Welcome to Lagos
, which angered the Nigerian government. It accused the film-makers of showing Nigeria in a negative light.
A letter was served on residents last week, giving them 72 hours to vacate their properties.
Several told the BBC they did not know where they and their families would sleep.
The BBC's Will Ross saw men using machetes to chop down the stilts of the wooden homes, while police watched from nearby boats.
The letter from the Lagos state authorities says the illegal constructions constituted an "environmental nuisance, security risk and an impediment to the economic and gainful utilisation of the waterfront" and undermined the "megacity status" of Lagos.
The authorities have not said how many people will be affected but community leaders say tens of thousands of people live in Makoko, the AFP news agency reports.
The slum is easily visible from the bridge which connects the Nigerian mainland to the city's rich island districts.
Our correspondent says the slum destruction is part of efforts to clean up Lagos.
State governor Babatunde Raji Fashola says he wants to get the city ready for its predicted population of 40 million people.
The city is building a light railway and has widened the roads, easing the city's once notorious traffic jams. | The authorities in Nigeria have started knocking down slum dwellings built on the lagoon in its biggest city Lagos. | 18870511 |
An official survey indicated that manufacturing activity in China contracted at its fastest pace in three years in August.
The mainland's benchmark Shanghai Composite share index fell by 1.2% to 3,166.62.
In Hong Kong, the Hang Seng index dropped 2.2% to 21,185.43.
The slowing of the world's second largest economy and the extreme volatility on the mainland stock markets have weighed on global equities over the past few weeks.
Chinese mainland stocks have been on a steep downward slide over the past few months, shedding almost 40% since June.
Any fresh indication that China's woes are set to continue is likely to frustrate Beijing's attempts to reassure traders and stabilise the Shanghai and Shenzhen markets.
Authorities have injected money into the markets, allowed the state pension fund to start buying up shares and lowered lending rates.
So far though, none of those measures have managed to push the markets back into positive territory.
China has also cracked down on people accused of spreading online "rumours", and who the authorities say have been "destabilising the market".
The country's state media announced a number of confessions on Monday, including from a reporter who allegedly admitted to spreading false information that had caused panic and disorder.
Shares were also lower elsewhere in Asia. Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 index saw the region's biggest losses, closing the day down 3.8% at 18,165.69.
Australia's S&P/ASX 200 ended 2.1% lower at 5,097.40.
Traders in Sydney were cautious as any slump in China is likely to have an effect on Australia, which relies on the country as its main export destination.
The decision by the country's central bank not to cut interest rates also contributed to the downbeat mood.
In South Korea, the benchmark Kospi index also fell, dropping 1.4% to 1,914.23.
Affected by the slowdown in China, Seoul reported on Tuesday that exports fell 14.7% in August from a year earlier, worse than expected and the biggest drop in six years. | Chinese shares have continued their recent slide after fresh data provided further evidence of a slowdown in the country's economy. | 34111743 |
The £3,500 consignment was discovered after being abandoned at Carlisle railway station in August last year.
During a trial at Liverpool Crown Court, Barry Kelly and Craig Colquhoun denied trying to buy the stash.
Two other men who supplied the weapons, William Dempsey, a serving soldier, and Martin Ashdown, pleaded guilty to firearm offences.
The trial heard that Dempsey, 29, a private serving with the 5th Battalion the Royal Regiment of Scotland in Canterbury got off a Scotland bound train at Carlisle on 17 August 2012.
He was dressed in desert combat uniform and carrying two camouflage bags. He told station staff he thought he was being followed by police and asked them to look after the bags.
When he did not return British Transport Police opened the bags. As well as a form bearing Dempsey's name, rank and number, officers also discovered the illegal haul of guns and ammunition.
The consignment involved an Uzi sub-machine gun and silencer, a shortened 12 bore double barrel shotgun, a 6.35mm handgun - all in working order - and 136 cartridges for the weapons and a further 58 revolver cartridges.
Potential purchaser
A mobile phone was also found and data from this item led to the arrest of three other men, said Nicholas Kennedy, prosecuting.
Mr Kennedy said that Ashdown, 32, was the source of the firearms and Dempsey, through his friendship with him, was able to provide a potential purchaser for them and was facilitator of the deal.
He said that Kelly, formerly from Darvel in Ayrshire, was the purchaser and that Colquhoun, from Barrhead near Glasgow, was his "right hand man and played an important role in the sale and purchase of firearms".
He told the jury that the proof of the conspiracies lay in communications between the defendants in texts, Blackberry messages and phone calls.
Mr Kennedy said that £3,500 was paid into Dempsey's bank account by Colquhoun on 16 August and it was withdrawn in Canterbury the same day.
Dempsey was arrested in Carlisle and Kelly was arrested in December.
The court heard that when Kelly's home was searched more than £20,000 was found in his loft and a further £180 in a wallet in the living room.
Colquhoun was also arrested on the same day at a house in Barrhead and Ashdown was arrested in Canterbury.
The jury found Kelly and Colquhoun guilty of five offences involving conspiring to sell prohibited weapons and conspiring to purchase a shotgun and cartridges without a licence between 12 and 17 August last year.
The two men were remanded in custody and will be sentenced along with Dempsey and Ashdown on 25 October. | Two men have been convicted of being involved in a plot to buy guns and ammunition destined for Scotland. | 24501253 |
The pictures were taken by Nasa's Mercury Messenger spacecraft, which has been orbiting just tens of kilometres from the planet's surface.
This has allowed it to gather high-resolution data before the probe crashes into Mercury.
This will end its four-year mission around the first planet from the Sun.
You could be forgiven for wondering how a planet where temperatures soar above 400C could host water-ice.
But some impact craters at the north pole of this scorching world are always shadowed from the Sun, turning them into cold traps.
"We're seeing into these craters that don't see the Sun, at higher resolution than was ever possible before," Dr Nancy Chabot, the instrument scientist for Messenger's Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS), told a news conference.
Dr Chabot was speaking at the 46th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC) in The Woodlands, Texas.
Comets smashing into Mercury's surface probably brought both the ice and the dark, carbon-rich (organic) material that Messenger sees in these polar cold traps.
In the coldest of these craters, the researchers see mostly ice, which probably has the organic material within it as a small component.
But in those polar craters that get more sunlight, surface ice disappears, forming a concentrated layer of organic compounds that overlies and protects older ice deposits beneath.
These dark organic layers have sharp boundaries, which suggest the deposits are young. Otherwise, said Dr Chabot, the boundaries would have been disrupted by small meteorite impacts.
Messenger's final, low-altitude campaign is also allowing scientists to get a closer view at other surprising phenomena on the surface.
Early in the mission, scientists spotted strange hollows in the surface. They are found at locations all over the planet and ranged in size from tens of metres to several kilometres across, and tens of metres deep.
David Blewett, a participating scientist on the Messenger team, said the hollows probably formed when some ingredient of rocks on Mercury was exposed to the harsh environment of the planet's surface. Sublimation (or a similar process), where solids change directly into gas, could be the mechanism.
Together with other evidence, these paint a picture of a dynamic world, not the dead relic Mercury was thought to be decades ago.
Referring to one site on the planet, Dr Blewett said: "The really interesting thing to note in this scene is that there are little impact craters peppered all over the surroundings. But there are few, if any, inside the hollows themselves.
"Since impacts occur randomly all over the planet, and accumulate with time, the absence of craters inside the hollows means they must be very young in the geological sense - probably less than a few tens of millions of years, and they may very well be actively forming today."
But what component of the rocks is sublimating to form the depressions remains unknown, he added, and the answer will probably come only with a future mission to the planet.
Tom Watters told the conference that since the end of a period in Solar System history called the Late Heavy Bombardment, Mercury had been contracting - and geological evidence of this could be found across the planet. For example, a type of landform known as a lobate scarp is found all over its surface.
"Mercury's small scarps provide evidence that young faults are forming to accommodate the most recent phases of interior cooling and global contraction, raising the possibility that some of these small, young faults are active today," said Dr Watters, from the Center for Earth and Planetary Studies.
Messenger's altitude above the planet has been dropping since the last orbital correction manoeuvre on 21 January. Five further engine burns will be carried out before the probe finally slams into the planet on 30 April.
Despite the wealth of new information about Mercury, major questions remain - which may only be answered by future missions.
One of these is why Mercury has a disproportionately large core within a relatively thin rocky shell.
"A very popular model for a long time was that Mercury might have formed much larger and then had a giant impact that stripped off much of its pre-existing mantle and crust and that it formed a new crust from its small remaining mantle," said Larry Nittler, the deputy principal investigator on Messenger.
But he said this remained an open question: "That's the big one that I hope we can eventually answer."
The mission's principal investigator Prof Sean Solomon said he would like to go back to Mercury with a lander.
But he said finding a meteorite from Mercury could make a huge difference.
"The dynamicists tell us we have enough meteorites from the Solar System that there should be a population from Mercury. We now have a recipe for what a meteorite from Mercury should look like in terms of its bulk chemistry and the possible range of ages.
"We haven't found one yet, but unless the theorists are way off base, we ought to."
Follow Paul on Twitter. | Scientists have obtained the most detailed views yet of ice deposits inside the permanently shadowed craters at Mercury's north pole. | 31917308 |
Ofsted recorded 5,055 children as missing between April 2014 and March 2015, compared with 4,245 in the previous year - a 19% rise.
The number of missing incidents increased by 29%, to 17,175, between 2014-15 and 2013-14.
Ofsted said there were grave risks tied to children going missing from care.
The inspectorate defines "missing" as someone under the age of 18 who has run away from their foster placement, been abducted, or whose whereabouts is unknown.
The problem and dangers associated with children going missing from care were highlighted by the investigation into child sexual abuse in Rochdale.
Ann Coffey, who chairs the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Runaway and Missing Children and Adults, said: "Going missing is a key indicator that a child might be in great danger.
"When children go missing, they are at very serious risk of physical abuse, sexual exploitation and sometimes so desperate they will rob or steal to survive."
Ofsted said the rise in cases of missing children was likely to reflect improved reporting around missing children.
The figures also showed children placed through independent fostering agencies were more likely to be reported as missing than those in council-run placements.
Ofsted found 55% of children reported as missing had been placed through an independent agency.
However, the number of missing incident reports from council fostering services increased by 40% between 2014-15 and the previous year.
Children were also going missing for longer periods during 2014-15 than previous years, particularly those missing from council-placed foster homes.
In 2014-15, 68% of children who were missing for more than 28 days were in council placements, compared with 60% in 2013-14.
Eleanor Schooling, Ofsted's national director for social care, said: "We continue to see an increase in the number and frequency of children in foster care who go missing.
"While the rise may be a result of better recording and awareness from services, this remains an issue of concern given the grave risks associated with children who go missing."
The data shows that in a quarter of reports, the reason for the missing incident was unknown.
Ofsted added "this was particularly the case" for council fostering services.
The latest figures also show there were 85,890 children and young people placed in foster care in 2014-15, up 2% on 2013-14.
Over the same period, the number of fostering households fell by 1%, while the use of family and friends as carers for looked-after children increased by 6%. | The number of incidents of children going missing from foster care in England rose by nearly a fifth last year, new statistics show. | 35062615 |
Usain Bolt, Neymar, Michael Phelps and Mo Farah are just some of the stars on display in Brazil, but there are also a number of notable absences.
Injury, suspension, disputes and fear of the Zika virus are just a few of the reasons some of the biggest names in sport are not competing...
Why is she missing?
Five-time Grand Slam winner Sharapova was banned in June for two years for using the prohibited drug meldonium. The 29-year-old Russian has appealed against the decision but her case will not be heard until September.
What she said:
"I intend to stand for what I believe is right and that's why I will fight to be back on the tennis court as soon as possible."
Why is he missing?
The 17-time Grand Slam champion withdrew with a knee injury and will miss the rest of the season. The 34-year-old Swiss great won doubles gold at Beijing in 2008, but has never won an Olympic singles title and lost to Britain's Andy Murray in the final at London 2012.
What he said: "I have made the very difficult decision to call an end to my 2016 season as I need more extensive rehabilitation following my knee surgery earlier this year."
During the opening ceremony he tweeted: "Wish I was there with you" accompanied by a picture of the Swiss Olympic team.
Canada's world number seven Milos Raonic, Romania's world number three Simona Halep and Czech world number eight Tomas Berdych have also pulled out because of concerns about the Zika virus.
Why is he missing?
Kyrgios pulled out of the Games because of a dispute with the Australian Olympic Committee. In announcing his decision, Kyrgios accused the body of "unfair and unjust treatment" and "unwarranted attacks", adding: "The AOC has chosen to publicly and privately disparage me."
Australia's Olympic team boss had said Kyrgios' behaviour was being monitored in the build-up to Rio after he received a code violation for shouting at a ball boy and was fined for an audible obscenity at the French Open.
Last year the 21-year-old was given a suspended 28-day ban and fined by the Association of Tennis Professionals for making lewd remarks about Stan Wawrinka's girlfriend during a match.
What he said:
"Unfortunately, while I have expressed every intention of trying to win a medal for my country in Rio, it's very clear to me that the Australian Olympic Committee has other plans.
"AOC's unfair and unjust treatment of me over the last four weeks, as well as the organisation's crystal clear position on whether they want me to be a part of the Australian Olympic team, has solidified my final decision."
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Why are they missing?
The top four golfers in the world have pulled out of the Games because of concerns over Zika, and they are not the only withdrawals.
Golf is returning to the Olympic roster for the first time in 112 years but only four of the top 10 will be in Rio.
Shane Lowry and Hideki Matsuyama also blame Zika for them not being in Rio, Louis Oosthuizen is absent for family and scheduling reasons and Australian Adam Scott says he will not be going because the Olympics is not as important as other events in the calendar.
So far, only one female golfer has pulled out - South Africa's Lee-Anne Pace, who also cited Zika concerns.
Why are they missing?
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Cleveland Cavaliers star James will not play for the United States because he "could use the rest", while Golden State Warriors' Curry will also be absent. Curry, the NBA's most valuable player last season, made his decision due to "several factors - including recent ankle and knee injuries".
Russell Westbrook of Oklahoma City Thunder and James Harden of Houston Rockets have also pulled out citing family concerns, without explicitly mentioning the Zika virus.
Why is she missing?
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London 2012 silver medallist Gibbons missed out on a place in Rio after losing her spot to Natalie Powell. Commonwealth champion Powell, 25, will be the first Welsh woman to compete in judo at the Olympics.
She beat China's Zhehui Zhang in a -78kg bronze medal contest at the Mexico World Masters to seal her place, while England's Gibbons, who has been hit by injuries, lost her bronze medal match to Guusje Steenhuis of the Netherlands.
What she said: "I've given my all to this quest and to fall short is agonising but I will be OK. I may not get the chance to go for gold in Rio but I would not change my judo journey for the world."
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Why is he missing?
London 2012 gold medallist McKeever failed to qualify. The 32-year-old needed to make the top two in the K1 200m final of the Duisburg stage of the Sprint World Cup but finished fifth.
What he said:
"The two most important races of the last four years - the Worlds last year and today - were probably my worst. I can't explain why. I'm not going to dwell on it. It just didn't happen."
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Why are they missing?
Team bronze medallists four years ago, Purvis and Oldham missed out on selection for Rio. Max Whitlock, Louis Smith, Kristian Thomas, Nile Wilson and Brinn Bevan make up the men's gymnastics line-up instead.
What they said:
Oldham: "I'm absolutely gutted that I have not been selected for the Rio Olympic team. I'm incredibly proud of myself and all my loved ones and support team for what we have achieved in the past two years."
Purvis: "Gutted I haven't made the Olympic team. Really thought I'd done enough, gave it my all. Congrats to my team-mates and all the best in Rio."
Why is he missing?
Australian three-time Olympic champion Hackett came out of retirement in the hope of becoming the oldest Australian swimmer to compete at the Olympics but did not make it through qualification.
Shortly after failing in his bid, the 36-year-old was forced to issue an apology amid claims he groped and assaulted a fellow airline passenger by tweaking their nipple when allegedly under the influence of alcohol.
What he said:
"It's funny, I don't feel sad at all. I'm always disappointed when I don't get a great result but I actually don't feel sad about what I've done and have achieved coming back into the sport."
Why is he missing?
A silver medallist in 2012, Britain's Michael Jamieson says he may retire after failing to qualify for Rio. The Scot, 28, came fifth in the 200m breaststroke final at the British trials in Glasgow with only the top two considered for selection.
Jamieson has endured a difficult last two years, suffering a heart scare and losing out to rival Ross Murdoch in his home Commonwealth Games.
What he said:
"My body just can't take the intensity any more. Over the last couple of years there have been psychological challenges because I've been struggling for confidence, but I know my body well enough to know when it's responding and when it's not.
"I love to push myself to the limit and I'm not able to do that any more."
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Why is she missing?
American Harrison recently broke a 28-year-old world record in the 100m hurdles, clocking 12.20 seconds at the London Anniversary Games.
But the 23-year-old had already missed out on a place at Rio after only finishing sixth in the US trials.
The previous world record of 12.21 had stood since 1988 and was held by Yordanka Donkova of Bulgaria.
What she said: "The US team is the hardest to make, our country wants the top three from the trials and I was not that person. The pressure got to me on the day. I wish I could re-do that day.
"I knew I had it in me. I've still got a lot left in me, I'm definitely going to try and drop that time this season."
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Why is she missing?
Australian Olympic and Commonwealth 100m hurdles champion Pearson, 29, was ruled out after suffering a torn hamstring in training in June.
What she said: "Unfortunately, it is the biggest sporting event in the world that I am going to be missing out on. It's devastating that I can't be at Rio as the Olympic champ."
Why are they missing?: Athletics' world governing body the IAAF banned Russia's athletics federation over claims of state-sponsored doping. The Russian Olympic Committee and 68 Russian athletes attempted to overturn the suspension case but the Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled the ban would stand.
All 68 Russian athletes have been banned, though US-based long jumper Darya Klishina has been cleared to compete under a neutral flag. The biggest absence is three-time pole vault world champion Yelena Isinbayeva, who won Olympic gold in 2004 and 2008.
What Isinbaeva said: "Thank you all for this funeral for athletics."
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Why is he missing?
American Olympic 110m hurdles champion Merritt had a kidney transplant last year and missed out on a qualification place by a hundredth of a second. The 30-year-old still holds the world-record time of 12.80 seconds.
What he said: "To be where I am is a miracle, but it's a pity because in six weeks I'll be in much better shape."
Why is he missing?
Olympic silver medallist in the 110m hurdles in 2012, Richardson also narrowly missed out on a qualification place for Rio at the recent US trials.
Why is he missing?
American Van Garderen says he will not be competing at the Olympics in Rio this summer because of concerns over Zika. The virus is linked to serious birth defects and the 27-year-old's wife is pregnant.
What he said:
"If Jessica [his wife] were not pregnant right now, assuming I was selected, I would go. But I don't want to take any chances. If anything were to happen, I couldn't live with myself."
Why is he missing?
Spain's Contador ruled himself out of the Olympics after injury forced him to withdraw from the Tour de France. Contador pulled out of the Tour during stage nine on 10 July and said his recovery would take four weeks.
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Why is she missing?
King won team pursuit gold at London 2012 and was the second-highest ranked British rider when she failed to gain selection in the GB team. She appealed against the "unfair" decision but failed to gain a place in the Great Britain road cycling team.
What they said:
"I don't think there's much I can do any more, so I will just be on that reserve spot for Rio."
Why is she missing?
Double Commonwealth bronze medallist Varnish was dropped from the Great Britain cycling team after failing to qualify for Rio. She later said she was the victim of sexist comments from technical director Shane Sutton, who denies wrongdoing but resigned.
The sprinter decided not to appeal against her omission, saying it would be a "pointless" process, but believes she will compete for Britain again.
What she said:
"It's pretty plain to see that selectors' discretion would not be in my favour and appealing would be a pointless process.
"It's sad that an organisation that once prided itself on fact and data, now pick and choose riders on discretion. I know I'm not the only rider to feel like this."
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Why is she missing?
The Queen's granddaughter became the first member of the Royal Family to win an Olympic medal with silver at London 2012 but has been left out of the squad for the Rio Games.
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Why is he missing?
Brash was part of Britain's Olympic gold medal-winning showjumping team at London 2012 but will miss the Rio Games. The Scot, 30, has been ruled out after his top two rides picked up injuries. Brash was the top-ranked showjumper in the world last year and is still GB's leading rider in the global standings.
Why is she missing?
Rebekah Tiler won the battle for Britain's sole female weightlifting place after Smith failed to recover from injury.
Smith, who competed at London 2012 and won Commonwealth gold in 2014, was the favourite before dislocating her shoulder at the GB Championships in June.
What she said: "It would be an understatement to say I'm disappointed not to be going to Rio.
"I've been struggling with injury since the beginning of the year which has seriously hindered - and eventually ended - my road to Rio, so although I'd obviously rather be competing, I'm glad I can give myself the break from competing that my body clearly needs." | There are 10,500 athletes in Rio competing on the world's biggest stage in front of an audience of billions. | 36999263 |
Murray, 29, beat Rosol 4-6 6-3 6-2 in a heated match at the 2015 Munich Open.
British number eight Laura Robson set up a first-round match with fellow Briton Naomi Broady after a straight-sets win over Germany's Tatjana Maria in the final qualifying round.
British number two Dan Evans faces American Rajeev Ram while Kyle Edmund will play France's Richard Gasquet.
Johanna Konta, seeded a career-high 13th in the women's singles, meets American Bethanie Mattek-Sands, while Heather Watson plays Dutch qualifier Richel Hogenkamp.
Top seed and world number one Novak Djokovic begins the defence of his men's title against world number 120 Jerzy Janowicz, while Spaniard Rafael Nadal, the 2010 and 2013 champion, meets Denis Istomin of Uzbekistan.
Rosol, 31, shocked Nadal in the second round at Wimbledon in 2012.
Olympic silver medallist Juan Martin del Potro has been drawn against fellow Argentine Diego Schwartzman.
Women's world number one Serena Williams, a beaten semi-finalist last year, begins her campaign against Russian Ekaterina Makarova.
Williams is aiming for a seventh US Open crown and a record 23rd Grand Slam singles title in the Open era.
Murray, the second seed, said there is no ill feeling between him and Rosol after a dispute in Munich last year.
"I have actually got along fine with him apart from that day and he's a tough, tough opponent," said Murray.
"He's a big, strong guy, he goes for his shots and he takes a lot of risks. It's a tough opening round, for sure."
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Djokovic said he hopes to be close to full fitness for the start of the tournament, but admitted his left wrist has not healed fully.
He first felt pain in his wrist in the week before the Rio Olympics, where he lost in the opening round to Del Potro.
"I'm doing everything in my power to make sure that I'm as close to 100% as possible during the course of this tournament," said the 29-year-old.
"I'm just hoping that when the tournament starts I'll be able to get as close to the maximum of executing my backhand shot as possible."
Djokovic also said he was dealing with "private issues" when he lost to Sam Querrey in the third round at Wimbledon this year, but that those issues have now been resolved.
He added: "I am in a position, like everybody else, like all of you.
"We all have private issues and things that are more challenges than issues, more things that we have to encounter and overcome in order to evolve as a human being."
BBC Sport tennis correspondent Russell Fuller:
"Rosol is the man who beat Rafael Nadal on Wimbledon's Centre Court in 2012, and was told by Murray that "nobody likes you" after the Czech bumped into him while changing ends at an event in Munich last year.
"Murray could face Kei Nishikori in the last eight and Stan Wawrinka - or even Juan Martin del Potro - in the semi-finals, while chief rival Djokovic, still troubled by a left wrist injury, could play Marin Cilic and Rafael Nadal at the same stages.
"It would be wrong to describe Djokovic as an unknown quantity at this US Open. He is the defending champion and has a sensational record on hard courts, but he has had an emotional few months after completing the career Grand Slam at Roland Garros." | Olympic champion Andy Murray will meet Czech Lukas Rosol in the first round of the US Open, which starts on Monday. | 37200727 |
The botched RHI scheme is set to cost Northern Ireland taxpayers an extra £490m after it went vastly over budget.
The Ulster Farmers' Union (UFU) met Stormont officials in July 2015 and "warned of an imminent spike in demand" according to documents on its website.
The spike materialised three months later, adding millions to the bill.
Out of a total of almost 2,000 RHI applications, just under half were made in the space of seven weeks, and it was that flurry of applications which pushed the RHI budget beyond its limits, leaving taxpayers with an unexpected bill.
Details about the UFU meetings appeared on the union's website in February 2016, shortly after the then minister for enterprise, Jonathan Bell, announced his intention to close the RHI scheme to new applicants.
The UFU was among campaigners who were opposed the "sudden" closure of the RHI scheme at that time, arguing that many farmers had already invested in expensive renewable energy boilers and were "expecting support" from the government.
The union wanted a "phased closure" so that those who had committed resources could complete their applications.
The UFU said at the time it was "not seeking a blank cheque" for its members but argued it was "unfair that farmers should pay the price for poor decision making".
"A limit should have been placed on the RHI budget," the UFU stated in February 2016.
The union also claimed that Mr Bell's Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment (DETI) had "two opportunities to introduce a phased closure which would have avoided the sudden ending of the scheme".
"The UFU met with DETI in July 2015 and warned of an imminent spike in demand, and, in the following Spending Review in November, DETI were made aware of the imminent overspend," the union said.
After Mr Bell's closure announcement in February 2016, the UFU's rural enterprise chairman, Gary Hawkes, said he was "angry and frustrated" because it would leave farmers' plans in "disarray".
"A stepped closure would have avoided the overspend which led to this panic decision to put an overnight brake on a scheme around which many farmers have built long-term investment plans," he said.
"We are not seeking a blank cheque for farmers. We fully accept that tough spending decisions have to be made by government, but the problems which this scheme faced were not of farmers' making, they were working towards a deadline of 31 March 2016 in good faith," added Mr Hawkes.
Last year, DETI was replace by the Department for the Economy.
In a statement on Tuesday, a spokeswoman for the department said DETI's discussions with the UFU in 2015 "helped to inform the changes to the RHI scheme that were introduced in November 2015 and the introduction of a 400,000 kwh cap".
"The department recognises, with hindsight, that earlier introduction of cost controls and disincentives to excess use of the scheme might well have reduced or prevented the spike in applications which forced the sudden suspension of the RHI in February 2016," she added.
"Full understanding of why this happened will be the subject of the forthcoming independent investigation."
The RHI was set up in 2012 by Mr Bell's predecessor, the now First Minister and DUP leader Arlene Foster.
Mrs Foster has apologised for the scheme's lack of cost controls but has resisted calls for her resignation and for a public inquiry into the scandal.
Sinn Féin said if she does not step aside for an "independent investigation" her position as first minister will become "untenable". | Farmers warned Stormont of a potential spike in applications for the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) scheme months before it happened, it has emerged. | 38502317 |
Themes range from jewellery inspired by urban graffiti to laser etchings illustrating the progress of dementia.
Thousands of visitors are expected at the 10-day degree show, which opens to the public on Saturday following its traditional preview evening.
The university said the event generated more than £1.5m for the local economy.
The show takes place throughout the college of art and design's two buildings and 14 floors.
One of the students exhibiting is Amy Crawford, who is unveiling her work six weeks after she almost died from sepsis.
The college's previous alumni include fashion designer Hayley Scanlan, illustrator Johanna Basford and Star Wars animator Matt Cameron.
College Dean, Prof Paul Harris, said: "It is hard to describe how exciting and vibrant a time this is for everyone involved.
"The buzz has been building for months and the students who have poured their heart and soul into their work over several years are reaching the end of their undergraduate careers."
Despite representing the culmination of years of work, Prof Harris said the show was "far from the end" of the students' journey into art and design.
He said: "They may become practising artists or they may go on to work in film, games and animation studios.
"They might find themselves working with some of the world's largest tech companies or leading the next big start-ups.
"They may go on to do something completely different but we are confident that what they have learned in their years here will stand them in good stead, regardless of which field they choose to work in." | Almost 350 students will turn Dundee University into Scotland's largest art exhibition space for this year's Duncan of Jordanstone degree show. | 39965512 |
Not content with filling stadiums around the world, and selling more than 100 million records, the face-painted, fire-breathing US hard rockers also have their own navy.
Every autumn Kiss hire a huge cruise liner to sail around the Caribbean for a week with 2,300 of their diehard fans. This year will be their sixth voyage, or Kiss Kruise VI.
The band perform two shows on the ship, and fans get to meet and hang out with the four band members.
There are 13 bars on board, plus 12 restaurants, a swimming pool, a gym, a spa, a casino, an indoor theatre and a tattoo parlour for getting a new Kiss ink work.
Members of the so-called Kiss Navy fly into Miami from around the world to attend, and Kiss vocalist and bass guitarist Gene Simmons says the cruise is one of the highlights of his annual calendar.
"It's rock and roll all night and party every day," he says. "Anyone who has ever been on one of our cruises comes back raving to their friends.
"Imagine 2,300 crazy friends, swimming, shopping, gaming and visiting exotic ports of call with us."
While Kiss might not be to everyone's taste, the rock group has helped to transform the once staid world of cruise lines.
Whereas cruises were traditionally the preserve of elderly holidaymakers, over the past decade - and especially in the past five years - there has been an exponential growth in the number of "themed cruises" - cruises aimed at people with a specific interest.
This has opened up the world of cruising to a much younger demographic, and given the cruise industry hundreds of millions of dollars in additional earnings.
From music cruises - at which Kiss are leading the way - to cruises for people with specific political views, or cruises for poker players, or fans of Italian food, there is a ship sailing for pretty much everyone.
For example, if you are passionate about your constitutional right to bear arms, you might be tempted to join the Freedom Alliance and National Rifle Association's cruise down the River Danube in June. Guest speakers include US Republican politician - and former speaker of the US House of Representatives - Newt Gingrich.
Or if you are transgender, Transgender Vacations organises cruises around the Caribbean.
Disney holds regular sailings for fans of the Star Wars movies, where you can dress up as a stormtrooper or ewok and meet some of the actors.
Howard Moses, founder and president of the Cruise & Vacation Authority, says that more than 700 themed cruises now set sail around the world each year, compared with less than 30 a decade ago.
"Themed cruises are absolutely by far the biggest growth area in the industry," says Mr Moses, whose organisation is based in the US state of Georgia.
"It has enabled the cruise industry to reach beyond people who are our traditional customers, to people who are passionate about a certain subject.
"For music cruises, there can be a very young crowd.
"And for the political cruises we joke that the attendees are often people who said they would never go on a cruise, yet they have the time of their lives, and are the first to lead the conga line."
At Atlanta-based Sixthman, the world's largest organiser of music cruises, its communications manager Alaidriale Derway says the business has just wrapped up its busiest ever spring sailing season, with 10 back-to-back cruises.
Sixthman now has more than 500 acts on its books, including Kiss. Other acts for whom it organises cruises include Weezer, Paramore, Lynyrd Skynyrd and Kid Rock.
The company charters the ships and helps to organise support acts.
Ms Derway says: "More and more artists want to get involved.
"Cruises are a great way for artists to interact with their fans in a much more intimate environment, and collaborate with each other.
"In terms of the cost for a fan, they pay a set fee, and then pretty much everything is free except for alcohol and soda. All the food is included unless someone wants to pay for more speciality dining."
She adds: "Lots of people really hesitate to do the whole cruise thing, there is still a bit of a stigma attached, but you can really connect with people who are passionate about the same things as you are."
While the music cruise industry is very much based in the US, themed cruises are also a growing phenomenon on the other side of the Atlantic.
Mike Bugsgang, chief executive of the UK-based Association of Group Travel Organisers, says there has been a big rise in the number of cruises that include visits to locations that have featured in well-known movies.
One such cruise organised by Fred Olsen Cruise Lines is called "UK Scenes from the Silver Screen". Sailing around the UK and Ireland, the itinerary includes trips to settings from TV series Game of Thrones and the Harry Potter movies.
Back in the US, Kiss' Gene Simmons doesn't just have to prepare for performing live on the Kiss Kruise, he also has to brush up on his wedding officiating. An on-board extra for Kiss' hard-partying fans is the chance to splice more than just the mainbrace. They can tie the marital knot, with Mr Simmons or a fellow band member performing the service.
But one thing a Kiss Kruise is not is restful.
As Mr Simmons admits: "It's tough to get to sleep on the cruises... it is fair to say, both the band and the fans are completely exhausted once we leave the cruise." | Show-stopping rock band Kiss were always going to go the extra - nautical - mile. | 35924022 |
Ben Slee, 30, abused the women while in relationships with them at locations in Helensburgh, Garelochhead, Glasgow and Edinburgh between 2002 and 2015.
He raped one victim, attempted to rape another and subjected four others to beatings and sex attacks.
Sentence on Slee was deferred and he was remanded in custody.
At the High Court in Glasgow, judge Lord Beckett told Slee: "You have been convicted of many serious charges which represent a very concerning catalogue of bullying and domestic abuse."
One of Slee's victims, a 32-year-old woman, told the court how he pulled her head under water while she was having a bath.
She said: "I couldn't breathe and he was laughing. He said: 'That was brilliant. You should see your face. I could have killed you.'"
The woman said that on a few occasions she woke up to find Slee having sex with her.
She added: "He made out it was a laugh or a joke."
Another victim, a 29-year-old mother-of-two, said Slee was "manipulative" and could be "so aggressive" if her "eyes even looked in the direction of another man".
He forbade her from wearing a bikini during a holiday and also attacked her at a house in Helensburgh in 2004.
She said: "I was screaming. He just ignored me. The look in his eyes was pure evil."
A 27-year-old victim told the court she was subjected to "constant mental abuse".
"He called me ugly and fat and said I would never be anything without him," she told the court.
His fourth victim, whom Slee tried to rape, told the court that he threatened to pour acid in her face or petrol bomb her parents' home and car if she went to the police about him.
The court also heard how Slee often flew into jealous rages and had thrown the contents of an ice bucket over one woman at a hotel in Glasgow.
He fell out with another woman because she was showing her cancer-stricken sister more attention than him.
Slee also controlled another woman's Facebook account - despite working in the North Sea at the time.
In evidence, Slee claimed all his victim's were lying, adding: "They have ruined my life, they have done it, they have done what they wanted."
The jury did not believe him, however, and convicted him of 29 charges involving domestic abuse, including raping one partner and intent to rape another.
Two other rape charges against two former partners were found not proven. | A man is facing a lengthy jail term after being convicted of a catalogue of abuse charges against six women, including rape and beatings. | 37256629 |
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Three-time Olympic eventing medallist Fox-Pitt, 47, has been named in a 12-strong Team GB equestrian squad for this summer's Games.
He suffered a head trauma when he fell from his horse at the World Young Horse Championships in France in October.
"I felt maybe Rio was selfish but it gave me a kick into action," he said.
"I did think I'd been doing it for 32 years, did I need to carry on doing it?" he told BBC Sport.
But Fox-Pitt, who won Olympic team silver in Athens 2004 and London 2012 and team bronze in Beijing in 2008, said "an individual title would be marvellous".
"I think if I did win a medal my wife would make me give up.
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"I've been around a long time, I'm 47 and I'm hoping my wife thinks this will be my last Olympics. I'm not ruling myself out for Tokyo, if it happens brilliant.
"The Rio goal was a great drive personally, it gave me a good reason to get back", before adding of his ride: "I didn't want to let Chilli Morning down, I put everything into getting selected."
Fox-Pitt was competing at Le Lion-d'Angers when he fell from Reinstated, which was unharmed. "I've come off a lot of times in my life, and in being knocked out my memory has been very selective and I've been able to put it behind me."
He said the fall "affected my sight, my judgement and made me more dozy, in the beginning it was all a little bit of a dream".
"It's been an incredible journey, I've had incredible support."
Meanwhile world, European and Olympic champion Charlotte Dujardin will ride with fellow 2012 gold medallist Carl Hester in the dressage.
London gold medallist Nick Skelton goes to his seventh Games in the jumping.
Another gold medallist in London, Ben Maher, joins Skelton in the jumping team along with Los Angeles 1984 silver medallist John Whitaker, who will be competing in his sixth Games.
Younger brother Michael Whitaker, who also won silver in 1984, is heading to his fifth Olympic Games.
Fox-Pitt is joined in the eventing team by three Olympic debutants in Kitty King, Izzy Taylor and Gemma Tattersall.
There are two Olympic debuts in the dressage as Spencer Wilton and 2015 European team silver medallist Fiona Bigwood earn selection.
Squad:
Eventing: William Fox-Pitt, Kitty King, Gemma Tattersall, Izzy Taylor, reserve: Pippa Funnell MBE
Dressage: Fiona Bigwood, Charlotte Dujardin OBE, Carl Hester MBE, Spencer Wilton, reserve: Lara Griffith
Jumping: Ben Maher MBE, Nick Skelton OBE, John Whitaker MBE, Michael Whitaker, reserve: Jessica Mendoza | William Fox-Pitt says his dream to compete at a fifth Olympics in Rio gave him the "great drive" to recover from a fall and induced coma last year. | 36713809 |
The 31-year-old has agreed a one-year contract with the Silkmen.
Lowe began his career at Wolves and has also had spells with Burnley, Cheltenham Town and York City.
He helped Harriers finish second in National League North last season before they were beaten in the play-offs by Chorley.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | National League side Macclesfield Town have signed defender Keith Lowe following his departure from Kidderminster Harriers. | 40442642 |
No official reason was given for the government's resignation.
However, a senior source was quoted as saying the aim was to reshuffle the cabinet following a corruption scandal.
Last Monday, Egypt's agriculture minister was arrested in connection with the corruption inquiry.
In a statement, the presidency said Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab had delivered the government's resignation to President Sisi who accepted it.
It said the president had asked outgoing oil minister Sharif Ismail to form the new cabinet within a week.
The outgoing government is to play a caretaker role until then, the statement said.
A senior government official quoted by AFP news agency said the reshuffle was to "pump new blood" into the government following the arrest of agriculture minister Salah Helal.
Shortly before his arrest, Mr Helal had resigned on the orders of President Sisi.
Reports said the arrest was in connection with allegations that officials took bribes to help businessmen illegally acquire state land.
Mr Sisi has promised to make the fight against corruption a focus of his administration. | Egypt's government has resigned and the country's oil minister has been asked to form a new cabinet within a week, the office of President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi has said. | 34233720 |
Spittal leaves Dundee United under freedom of contract after two seasons at Tannadice.
He scored five goals in 40 appearances in the latest campaign as United lost out in the Premiership play-off final.
"He is an exciting player who will add a really strong threat to our wide areas," said Jags boss Alan Archibald.
"I think Blair will bring a creative force to our team and I hope he can continue the excellent form he showed at the end of last season.
"We have a really good group of lads and I definitely think Spittal compliments what is already here."
Thistle have also recruited goalkeeper Jamie Sneddon on a two-year contract.
The 19-year-old has been with Cowdenbeath since 2014, making 34 first team appearance over the past two campaigns.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | Partick Thistle have made Blair Spittal their first signing of the summer, landing the 21-year-old winger on a two-year deal. | 40288424 |
"We have to find out where they came from... and how they were financed," Francois Molins told reporters.
He said seven attackers had been killed, and that all had been heavily armed and wearing explosive belts.
Friday's attacks, claimed by Islamic State militants, hit a concert hall, a major stadium, restaurants and bars.
Prime Minister Manuel Valls has said France will continue with air strikes against IS in Syria and described the group as a very well-organised enemy.
Mr Molins confirmed that one of the dead attackers had been identified as a 29-year-old Frenchman who had a criminal record, but had never spent time in jail.
Omar Ismaïl Mostefai was identified after his finger was found at the Bataclan concert hall and matched fingerprints the police had on file, AFP reported.
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Mostefai came from the town of Courcouronnes, 25km (15 miles) south of Paris. He had been identified by the security services as having been radicalised but had never been implicated in a counter-terrorism investigation.
Investigators are trying to find out whether he travelled to Syria in 2014, judicial sources told AFP.
French police have taken Mostefai's father and brother into custody and searched their homes.
Mostefai's older brother attended a police station voluntarily.
"It's crazy, insane. I was in Paris myself last night, I saw what a mess it was," he told AFP before being placed in custody.
He said he had not had contact with his younger brother for several years.
Mr Molins also said the arrests of three men in Belgium on Saturday were linked to the attacks.
Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel said investigators were trying to establish whether one of the suspects picked up near Brussels might have been in Paris on Friday evening.
Speaking in Paris on Saturday evening, Mr Molins told reporters: "We can say at this stage of the investigation there were probably three co-ordinated teams of terrorists behind this barbaric act."
Mr Molins said all seven militants had used Kalashnikov assault rifles and the same type of explosive vests.
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Mr Molins also gave details about the state of the investigation, which he said was at a very early stage.
He said police were focusing on two vehicles. One is a black Seat used by gunmen at two of the attacks, and still untraced.
The other is a black Volkswagen Polo with Belgian registration plates found at the concert venue that was targeted.
He said this had been rented by a Frenchman living in Belgium.
He was identified while driving another vehicle in a spot check by police on Saturday morning as he crossed into Belgium with two passengers.
The BBC's Hugh Schofield in Paris says investigators are working on the theory that these three may be another team of attackers who managed to flee the scene.
The Greek authorities say two people under investigation by the French police had registered in Greece as Syrian refugees. A Syrian passport was found near the body of one the attackers at the Stade de France.
An Egyptian passport has also been linked to the attacks.
French President Francois Hollande imposed a state of emergency after the worst peacetime attack in France since World War Two. It is also the deadliest in Europe since the 2004 Madrid bombings.
The violence began soon after 21:00 (20:00 GMT) as people were enjoying a Friday night out in the French capital.
Gunmen opened fire on Le Carillon bar and Le Petit Cambodge (Little Cambodia) restaurant, near the Place de la Republique in the 10th arrondissement (district), killing 15 people.
"We heard the sound of guns, 30-second bursts. It was endless," resident Pierre Montfort said.
A few streets away, diners sitting on the terrace of La Casa Nostra pizzeria were also fired on, with the loss of five lives.
Mr Molins said 19 people had been killed at the Belle Equipe bar in the 11th arrondissement, while the toll from the attack on the Bataclan concert hall stood at 89.
At about the same time, on the northern outskirts of Paris, 80,000 people who had gathered to watch France play Germany at the Stade de France heard three explosions outside the stadium.
President Hollande was among the spectators and was whisked away after the first blast.
Investigators had found the bodies of three suicide bombers around the Stade de France, Mr Molins said. One other person died in the blasts.
La Belle Equipe, 92 rue de Charonne, 11th district - 19 dead in gun attacks
Le Carillon bar and Le Petit Cambodge restaurant at rue Alibert, 10th district - 15 dead in gun attacks
La Casa Nostra restaurant, 92 rue de la Fontaine au Roi, 11th district - five dead in gun attacks
Stade de France, St Denis, just north of Paris - explosions heard outside venue, three attackers and bystander dead
Bataclan concert venue, 50 Boulevard Voltaire, 11th district - 89 dead when stormed by gunmen
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The 1,500-seat Bataclan concert hall in the 11th arrondissement suffered the worst of Friday night's attacks. Gunmen opened fire on a sell-out gig by US rock group Eagles of Death Metal, killing 89 people.
"At first we thought it was part of the show but we quickly understood," Pierre Janaszak, a radio presenter, told AFP news agency.
"They didn't stop firing. There was blood everywhere, corpses everywhere. We heard screaming. Everyone was trying to flee."
He said the gunmen took 20 hostages, and he heard one of them tell their captives: "It's Hollande's fault, he should not have intervened in Syria."
Within an hour, security forces had stormed the concert hall and all three attackers there were dead.
Islamic State released a statement on Saturday saying "eight brothers wearing explosive belts and carrying assault rifles" had carried out the attacks on "carefully chosen" targets, and were a response to France's involvement in the air strikes on IS militants in Syria and Iraq.
Shortly before, President Hollande said France had been "attacked in a cowardly shameful and violent way".
"So France will be merciless in its response to the Daesh [Islamic State] militants," he said, vowing to "use all means within the law.. on every battleground here and abroad together with our allies".
Many officials buildings as well as Disneyland Paris have been closed, sports events have been cancelled and large gatherings have been banned for the next five days.
Are you in the area? Have you been affected by what has been happening? Do you have any information you can share? If it is safe to do so, you can get in touch by emailing [email protected].
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The UK-based makers of Johnnie Walker whisky and Smirnoff vodka said net sales fell 9% to £10.3bn for the year to 30 June.
Sales volume fell 5% in its Asia Pacific and Africa, Eastern Europe and Turkey divisions,
Sales were also slightly down in North America and Latin America, while Western Europe was flat.
Gross profit for the year fell from £6.9bn to £6.2bn.
Weak spots included China and South East Asia, where volume fell 20% and 25% respectively, and Venezuela, where a currency devaluation and inflation cut Scotch whisky sales by 47%.
Diageo said anti-extravagance measures in China had "severely impacted" the on-trade, and had continued to affect the performance of both its Chinese white spirits and Scotch businesses.
South East Asia was impacted by tax increases and social unrest in Thailand.
North America, Diageo's most profitable region, delivered top-line growth, driven by 5% growth in US spirits and wines.
John Kennedy, president Diageo Europe, described the results as "mixed" but said the company still had great hopes for business in emerging markets.
He said: "We know that the fundamentals around consumer demographics and wealth creation mean that we're going to have about half a billion new, what we call, high net worth individuals over the next few years and over a billion people coming in to the category where they can afford our premium brands.
"So there may be volatility from year to year but we feel very confident about the long-term growth prospects."
He added that the prospects were particularly good for the high end of the Scotch whisky category, with sales of single malts up 18% compared with the previous year. | Drinks giant Diageo's sales have been hit by a slowdown in China and other emerging markets. | 28580654 |
The alert was raised at about 13:10 BST after the man's kayak capsized on the River Wey at Guildford and he went into the water near a weir.
A police helicopter, firefighters and ambulance crews are all at the scene.
Ch Insp Dave Mason, of Surrey Police, said he had been seen in difficulty because of the strong current.
"We have a large number of officers out looking for this man alongside a number of fire crews," he said.
"The man was spotted in the water by several members of the public and was clearly in difficulty due to the extremely strong current.
"We are doing everything we can to try and find him."
He urged anyone who sees the man not to go into the river, but to call 999 immediately.
The man went into the water near Guildford Borough Council's offices.
A flood alert is in place for the Upper River Wey, including the Guildford stretch.
The Environment Agency said river levels rose on Sunday and were expected to continue to rise on Monday.
An update on River Wey conditions from the National Trust on Monday said all river sections were in flood and dangerous to navigation. | Searches are under way for a kayaker who overturned and disappeared from view after getting into difficulty on a flooded river. | 35911210 |
The 210-room hotel, will include a top-floor bar with panoramic 360 degree views, according to plans drawn up by architects Jestico + Whiles.
It is part of the £850m development which is to replace the St James Centre at the east end of Princes Street.
Work is due to start on the development by the end of the year.
The site, which is to have luxury apartments, 30 restaurants and a multi-screen cinema, is due to be completed in 2020.
Heinz Richardson, director of Jestico + Whiles, said: "We are thrilled to have been selected by TH Real Estate to be part of one of the biggest and most exciting regeneration projects currently under way in the UK.
"The contemporary design will be sympathetic to the surrounding World Heritage site and its history, providing a first-class destination for Edinburgh at the heart of the city's new retail quarter."
Martin Perry, director of development TIAA Henderson Real Estate, which appointed Jestico + Whiles, said: "Jestico + Whiles has a well-deserved reputation for its excellent work on a number of prestigious hotel and leisure facilities throughout the world.
"The team demonstrated a thorough understanding and imagination for what we would like to achieve for Edinburgh St James which was reflected in their proposals.
"The final hotel design is likely to be influenced by the operator and given Edinburgh is continuing to prove a highly attractive destination with a growing tourist economy and strong finance market, we are encouraged by the response we have received from interested parties so far." | Images of how the new hotel at the St James development in Edinburgh will look have been released showing it wrapped in ribbons of bronze cladding. | 31728877 |
Brett Rogers, 23, from Stansted Mountfitchet, Essex, denies murdering Gillian Phillips, 54, and David Oakes, 60, at her home in the village.
He told Chelmsford Crown Court the pair were attacked while he was at the supermarket for five minutes last July.
He was handcuffed to an officer on the stand after attacking guards last week.
During a court session on 5 May, Mr Rogers punched and struggled with dock guards while a forensic scientist was giving evidence.
Read more on this story and other news in Essex
Giving evidence, he told the jury he was stabbed in the hand in an alley near his mother's house by a mystery man as he walked back from the shop.
Afterwards, he said, he went into the house "where I found my mum dead and David Oakes dead".
He said: "I got into a panic, moved the knives and called police. I just started to get worried."
Mr Rogers told the court he put his clothes and the trainers in the bin along with the knives "because they were covered in blood" before calling police.
Under cross-examination by prosecutor Simon Spence QC, Mr Rogers admitted he was capable of extreme violence "for no reason at all".
He said an assault on his father that resulted in a prison sentence was in self-defence, and he had pleaded guilty when the case came to court.
When questioned about the mystery man who he claimed killed Mrs Phillips and Mr Oakes, he said the man was a "complete stranger".
Mr Spence pointed out Mr Rogers had not spoken about the mystery man's involvement until 4 April this year in a defence document.
The trial continues. | A man accused of the murder of his mother and her friend has claimed they were fatally stabbed by a mystery stranger while he was at the shops. | 36264964 |
Lab tests in mice by the team from Weill Cornell Medical College revealed a toxin made by a rare strain of Clostridium perfringens caused MS-like damage in the brain.
And earlier work by the same team, published in PLoS ONE, identified the toxin-producing strain of C. perfringens in a young woman with MS.
But experts urge caution, saying more work is needed to explore the link.
No-one knows the exact cause of Multiple sclerosis (MS), but it is likely that a mixture of genetic and environmental factors play a role. It's a neurological condition which affects around 100,000 people in the UK.
C. perfringens, found in soil and contaminated undercooked meat, comes in different strains.
Most cases of human infection occur as food poisoning - diarrhoea and stomach cramps that usually resolve within a day or so. More rarely, the bacterium can cause gas gangrene.
And a particular strain of C. perfringens, Type B, which the Weill team says it identified in a human for the first time, makes a toxin that can travel through blood to the brain.
In their lab studies on rodents the researchers found that the toxin, called epsilon, crossed the blood-brain barrier and killed myelin-producing cells - the typical damage seen in MS.
Lead investigator Jennifer Linden said the findings are important because if it can be confirmed that epsilon toxin is a trigger of MS, a vaccine or antibody against the toxin might be able to halt or prevent this debilitating disease.
She presented the group's latest findings at a meeting of the American Society for Microbiology.
Dr Susan Kohlhaas, Head of Biomedical Research at the MS Society, said: "Discovering potential causes or triggers for MS could enable us to develop better treatments or even, one day, prevent the condition. This is interesting research but the findings now need to be validated in larger studies to establish if this toxin really is a potential trigger for MS." | A food poisoning bacterium may be implicated in MS, say US researchers. | 25925658 |
Emergency services were called to a bungalow in Penhalls Way, Playing Place, at about 13:45 BST, after they received a package, police said.
Cornwall Fire and Rescue Service staff used breathing apparatus to enter the property and police and ambulance crews were all at the scene.
A police cordon was set up. No other properties were thought to be affected.
Although two people were left unwell, police said three people - aged 25, 30 and 54 - were examined at the scene by ambulance crews.
Chief Inspector Ian Drummond-Smith, of Devon and Cornwall Police, said the package would be sent off for forensic examination.
He said: "They did feel unwell. There were no serious injuries and no requirement for them to attend hospital."
Emergency services began winding down their operation at about 17:00. | A hazardous materials team were called out to deal with a suspicious package at a home near Truro. | 33155942 |
The figures - from the Office for National Statistics - are for the first full month after the Brexit vote.
They show that he average house price across the UK in July rose to £217,000.
The eastern region of England remains the area with the fastest growing prices. The annual rate of inflation there was 13.2% .
Prices in London grew at 12.3%, although they fell in parts of Central London, like Hammersmith and Fulham.
Earlier this month the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Rics) said that the UK housing market had settled down after the Brexit vote.
There was a sharp drop in the number of sales immediately following the referendum result.
Surveyors now expect prices to continue to rise by an average of 3.3% a year for the next five years.
However other economists have predicted a decline of up to 5% in house prices next year.
Where can I afford to live? | House price inflation across the UK fell to 8.3% in the year to July, down from 9.7% in June, according to official statistics. | 37348155 |
The men seized the building nearly two weeks ago seeking the release of "political prisoners" including opposition leader Jirair Sefilian.
A police officer was shot dead from inside the police station during the stand-off on Saturday.
The shooting came as police issued a deadline for the anti-government group to surrender.
When the deadline passed, thousands of protesters again took to the streets in support of the group.
The Interfax news service said all of those inside the police station had now been detained.
Mr Sefilian, a former military commander, has criticised the government's handling of the long-running conflict involving pro-Armenian separatists in the region of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Police issued an ultimatum to the group to surrender following violent scenes late on Friday when police with truncheons and stun grenades clashed with protesters.
About 60 people were injured, including some journalists, and more than 100 arrests were reported..
Three gunmen were also wounded on Friday, apparently shot in the legs by police snipers. Two of them were escorted to hospital under armed guard.
The group seized the police station on 17 July, killing one policeman and taking several hostages.
They released a video demanding the release of Mr Sefilian and a number of others, and urging supporters on to the streets.
The CivilNet newspaper identified the group as the Daredevils of Sassoun.
The group had said it would retaliate if attacked.
Nagorno-Karabakh lies within Azerbaijan but has an ethnic Armenian majority. A bloody war erupted after the end of Soviet rule in 1988, and there has been frequent unrest since, the latest in April, when clashes left dozens dead. | About 20 armed men who seized a police station in the Armenian capital, Yerevan, have surrendered, police say. | 36937346 |
The sabre-toothed cat lived alongside early humans, and may have been a fearsome enemy, say scientists.
Several feline teeth - and a chunk of arm bone - were uncovered at a site in Germany known for the oldest discovery of human spears.
The 300,000-year-old animal fossils are described as "spectacular".
Several types of sabre-toothed cat - once known as the sabre-toothed tiger - lived for over 40 million years, before becoming extinct about 12,000 years ago.
The predator had enormous teeth, which it used to rip through flesh.
Dr Jordi Serangeli, of the University of Tubingen, Germany, said the remains proved for the first time that the sabre-toothed cat was living in Europe alongside early humans.
"We can say that the humans - and the sabre-toothed cat - were living 300,000 years ago in the same area, in the same landscape," he told BBC News.
"The humans were hunters but they were not alone; they had to defend themselves from all the big carnivores."
Homo Heidelbergensis was among the first type of early human to use wooden spears.
Scatterings of animal bones found in their camps suggest they used the spears to hunt animals like the horse and deer.
The latest find of five teeth and a bone from two individual sabre-toothed cats at a former coal mine in Schoningen near Hanover gives a new insight into the perils faced by early humans.
"The discovery illustrates the possible day-to-day challenges that the Schöningen hominins would have faced and suggests that the wooden spears were not necessarily only used for hunting, but possibly also as a weapon for self-defence," Dr Serangeli, and colleagues at the University of Leiden, report in the Journal of Human Evolution.
The cat's humerus bone - worked by humans into a rudimentary hammer- is the first example of its kind anywhere in the world, he added.
Dr Mark Roberts of UCL, London, is an archaeologist at the Boxgrove site in southern England, which was home to one of Britain's oldest known human occupants, Homo heidelbergensis, 500,000 years ago.
Evidence shows "hominins (humans and their ancestors) were already the top predator at this time; they were able to kill and butcher, without interruption and competition, large animals such as rhino, bison, horse and giant deer", he said.
But it is uncertain if humans around at the time used weapons to kill the sabre-toothed cat, he added.
"If it could have been demonstrated that hominins killed the cat then that would have been very interesting but without more skeletal material that is impossible to demonstrate."
The Schoningen excavation is a cooperation between the University of Tübingen and the State Service for Cultural Heritage of Lower Saxony.
Follow Helen on Twitter. | Our ancient human cousins may have fought off big cats with spears, according to archaeological evidence. | 34944560 |
It said two children had been paralysed by the disease in the north-eastern Borno state, a part of Nigeria where Boko Haram militants are active.
The development is seen as a major setback for Nigeria, which was on track to be declared polio free in 2017.
Polio is an infectious viral disease that usually affects children. It can only be prevented through immunisation.
The disease is spread by poor sanitation and contaminated water.
A UN immunisation programme in Nigeria has had to contend with rumours that the vaccine was a plot to sterilise Muslims.
Polio vaccination centres in the country have also been attacked by Boko Haram Islamist militants. | The Nigerian government has reported two cases of polio - the country's first in two years. | 37054682 |
This time it's a biography of Dolores Umbridge, the pink-loving, sweet-smiling, Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher.
A complex personality, Umbridge dabbled in the kind of nastiness that was plastered over with a sweet childish grin.
With her love of kittens and teacups, she often manages to hide her true nature from authority.
She first appears in the Order of The Phoenix and was not only Professor of Defence Against the Dark Arts at Hogwarts but also worked at the Ministry for Magic as Senior Under-Secretary.
Her evil was different from Lord Voldemort's and she operated within the system.
Nonetheless her soft, fluffy exterior masks a dark, sadistic character.
It was perhaps first revealed when she made Harry write lines in his own blood after giving him a magical quill that etched whatever he wrote into his skin.
JK Rowling reveals that Umbridge is the character she hates the most.
"Her desire to control, to punish, and to inflict pain, all in the name of law and order, are, I think, every bit as reprehensible as Lord Voldemort's unvarnished espousal of evil," she says.
JK Rowling's dislike of Umbridge can be seen in some of the details in the books.
For example, Umbridge has a short stubby wand which is meant to reflect her stunted, imperfect character.
The author also says in the new Pottermore essay that Umbridge is based on a real person.
She said she once shared an office with a woman who liked "pictures of fluffy kitties" as well as frills, bows and undersized handbags.
She said this woman was also "the most bigoted, spiteful champion of the death penalty".
She explains: "I have noticed more than once in life that a taste for the ineffably twee can go hand-in-hand with a distinctly uncharitable outlook on the world.
"A love of all things saccharine often seems present where there is a lack of real warmth or charity."
It is also revealed that Umbridge is a half-blood in the 1,700 word essay.
This is important because Umbridge is particularly cruel to non-magical humans in her role as Head of the Muggle-Born Registration Commission, where she sends many supposed muggles to Azkaban, the wizarding prison, for "stealing magic" from magical beings.
The reason JK Rowling chose the name Dolores Jane Umbridge is also explained.
The author writes: "Dolores means sorrow, something she undoubtedly inflicts on all around her.
"Umbridge is a play on 'umbrage' from the British expression to 'take umbrage' meaning to take offence.
"Dolores is offended by any challenge to her limited world view; I felt her surname conveyed the pettiness and rigidity of her character."
Rowling published several other entries on the site on Friday, including a history of Azkaban prison and details of everyone who has held the post of Minister for Magic.
Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube | A new Harry Potter story has landed on JK Rowling's website, Pottermore. | 29848593 |
A Trooping the Colour ceremony and parade traditionally mark the day with honours given out in the Queen's Birthday Honours list.
These pictures recall the Queen's visits to Scotland over the years. | The Queen is celebrating her official birthday on Saturday, 13 June. | 32918428 |
The boat, with 25 people on board, overturned on Thursday while it was conducting tests near Zhangjiagang, in Jiangsu province.
Eight foreigners were among those on board, including Singaporean, Indian, Malaysian and Japanese nationals.
Three people have been rescued, and the boat has been hauled out of the water.
The foreigners on board were four Singaporeans, one Malaysian, one Indonesian, one Indian and one Japanese, state-run news agency Xinhua reported.
The three people rescued were all Chinese, Xinhua added.
Flooded 'within seconds'
The tugboat, the 30-metre (98-foot) long Wanshenzhou 67, was undergoing tests, with the ship's owner and a team of engineers on board.
The Wanshenzhou 67 was registered in Singapore.
One survivor who was rescued early on Friday, Wang Chenhua, said they had been taking the vessel for a trial voyage.
Mr Wang, who was in the cockpit with a 60-year-old Japanese engineer acting as his translator, said that soon after they had conducted a load test for the boat's main engine, the boat "suddenly turned over" to the left.
He said water rushed into the cockpit which was fully flooded "within 20 seconds". He survived by holding onto a hydraulic pump that was not submerged.
Mr Wang added that he had tried to hold on to the Japanese engineer, but they were separated as the boat sank further.
The boat was constructed in China's Anhui province last October. Local officials told Xinhua the boat had not properly reported its route and work plans to the port authorities. | Twenty-two people have been confirmed dead after a tugboat capsized on the Yangtze river in eastern China, state media report. | 30861821 |
Here, three creative artists from the worlds of music, photography and theatre reveal how they are commemorating those seismic events a decade on.
Like millions of people around the world, US composer Steve Reich knows exactly where he was when the planes hit the Twin Towers.
"On 11 September I was in Vermont, 300 miles from our apartment in New York City," recalls the 74-year-old Pulitzer Prize winner.
"We got a call from my son. He said, 'I think they bombed the World Trade Center again.'
"We turned on the TV and saw the second plane hit, which was terrifying. My son was there with his daughter and his wife, four blocks away.
"I told him, 'Don't hang up, close all the windows and stay home until our next door neighbour comes back and gets you out of the city.'"
The events of 11 September 2001 "had a very personal, direct effect," says Reich.
"It was something that really impacted on my life."
Yet this was not something he felt he wanted to immediately address through his art. Indeed, it was eight years before Reich realised that he had "unfinished business".
The impetus was a request for a new piece of music for Kronos Quartet, the chamber ensemble Reich has collaborated with since 1989.
Reich's response was to fashion WTC 9/11 - a three-part composition that combines urgent, haunting strings with pre-recorded voices from people directly involved or affected by the tragedy.
Some of them belong to air traffic controllers from the North American Aerospace Defense Command (Norad), the first to notice that the aeroplanes were off course.
Others belong to workers of New York's Fire Department (FDNY), which lost many employees in the attacks.
The music also incorporates the songs and chants of the women who volunteered to keep vigil over the dead.
Due to difficulties involved in identifying some of the remains, it was a ritual they performed in shifts for seven months.
"This is not my fantasy or personal expression," says Reich. "I deal with 9/11 through the people who were the participants.
"That's the essential ingredient. By dealing with the documentary reality, it makes doing a piece completely and inarguably legitimate."
'Distraction'
First performed in March this year, WTC 9/11 - released on CD later this month - has not been without its critics.
The disc's original album cover was attacked for featuring a darkened photograph taken the moment before the second plane hit the second tower.
Some considered this exploitative, prompting record company Nonesuch to replace it with a different design.
Reich admits the cover was "a distraction" but suggests the majority of complaints had come from "people who had never heard the music".
"I think that right now we're going to talk about this piece until everyone's blue in the face," he says.
"It's quite understandable. But WTC 9/11 as a piece will live or die on the quality of the music.
"It's been played in London, New York, Los Angeles and North Carolina, and the reactions have been quite moving.
"I'm very happy people are taking the piece seriously, that they engage with it and it seems to move them."
WTC 9/11 is released by Nonesuch Records on 19 September. Reich's Mallet Quartet (2009) and Dance Patterns (2002) are also included.
After the towers fell, sifting through the mountains of rubble and debris at Ground Zero required a Herculean effort.
In the months and years that followed, the empty Hangar 17 at John F Kennedy International Airport became a makeshift home for objects salvaged from the site.
In the spring of 2009, Spanish photographer Francesc Torres was given rare access to the hangar to record the stored items.
A selection of his 1,500 photographs are on display at the Imperial War Museum in London, alongside a section of steel thought to come from the World Trade Center's North Tower.
"It was such an extraordinary sight I felt we had to document it," says the softly-spoken Torres. "It's a huge place and it was filled to the brim.
"There were things that were absolutely unbelievable. And then there were all these little things that were incredibly powerful."
The items Torres recorded ran the gamut from crushed fire engines and abandoned subway cars to a solitary pair of spectacles.
Bicycles still chained to railings are shown in one image, while another shows the remnants of a 360 foot (109 metre) broadcast antenna.
Plastic reliefs of cartoon characters including Bugs Bunny and Tweetie Pie point to the Warner Bros store that once stood in the World Trade Center's underground mall.
And then there are what the photographer calls "composites" - compacted layers of what was once several floors of office space.
"It looks like volcanic magma, and within it you notice there are layers with different colourations and texture," explains the artist.
"You see clusters of what looks like black carbon that are compressed reams of office paper. If you touch it it cracks, but if you look closely you can still read what it says."
Largely left to his own devices, the only thing to stir Torres from his contemplation was the constant sound of aircraft taking off nearby.
'Emotional response'
"I was there alone with a plane flying over me every minute. I started to think, 'I'm in a building constructed to house a plane.
"'That was precisely the machine that was turned into a weapon that hit the towers, and now here's the result of that.'"
Some who lost loved ones in the tragedy may be unnerved by the idea of a stranger poring over their effects and putting them on display in a public setting.
Torres feels it is the duty of the artist to deal with traumatic events, provided it is handled with sensitivity.
"There are many different ways of addressing this event, and they're all good and effective," he says.
"I don't think art is better, but it's good at certain things and it can explain things in a way that elicits an emotional response.
"Nietzsche said consciousness was essentially pictorial and it's true. An image can extract aspects that you wouldn't be able to using other material.
"9/11 is too big for art, no question, but that doesn't mean art can't do anything. It just has to find its place."
Memory Remains: 9/11 Artifacts at Hangar 17 continues at the Imperial War Museum, London until 26 February 2012. It will also be exhibited in New York, Barcelona and Madrid.
Since 9/11, several playwrights have attempted to grapple with its cost, aftermath and significance.
This year's Edinburgh Fringe saw a number of shows staged to mark the 10th anniversary, while the current production at London's Royal Court also touches on the terror attacks.
In The Faith Machine, a young couple make a fateful decision on the morning of 11 September 2001 that sees their lives progress in radically different directions.
Yet it would be misleading to describe Alexi Kaye Campbell's three-act drama as a "9/11 play".
Decade, the latest production from theatre company Headlong, has also provoked interest.
A site-specific, multi-authored piece incorporating contemporary dance and music, it is, in the words of director Rupert Goold, "a kind of mosaic" that will tackle 9/11 and its legacy head on.
"Part of the piece addresses healing and what wounds are left behind," says Goold, whose previous productions include a celebrated Macbeth with Sir Patrick Stewart and the award-winning Enron.
"But it wouldn't be theatre if it wasn't provocative, and inevitably that provocation may offend some people."
Staged in a disused building in London's St Katharine Docks, Decade comprises a collage of scenes penned by a team of writers, all working independently.
Their number includes Abi Morgan, creator of BBC drama The Hour, historian Simon Schama and US playwright John Logan, whose other current projects include working on the script for the next James Bond film.
"A lot of the writers felt they couldn't do justice to all those who died, the size of the event and what it meant politically," Goold explains.
"It's really hard to see the whole thing, so there was something about fractured slivers and snapshots that seemed appropriate."
The issue of what is and isn't appropriate is never far from the director's mind. One of the reasons, Goold says, why Decade has not been presented in a conventional theatre space.
"I felt the idea of rocking up on [London's] Shaftesbury Avenue at 7.30pm to see a 9/11 show was a bit tasteless.
"However, I think theatre and drama in general has always been one of the great mediums at helping us understand trauma," he adds.
"I hope we will stir the pot a bit in terms of what 9/11 might have meant to different people and allow people to reflect interestingly on that."
So will this be the "9/11 play" some people have been waiting for?
"God no," the director shudders. "We're in no way trying to be definitive.
"But at least we will grapple with it, and even if we fail it will inspire other people to look at it.
"All I can say is we're having a go."
Decade runs at St Katharine Docks in London until 15 October. | The 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks is prompting many to reflect on how they have touched our lives. | 14744219 |
The Institute of Welsh Affairs (IWA) said a significant number of potential projects struggled or did not attempted to attract funding from within Wales.
It said a "lack of ambition and strategy" was holding back investment.
A Welsh Government spokesman said: "We are already delivering on many of the areas highlighted in the report."
The think-tank wants Wales to get all its energy from renewable sources by 2035.
Shea Buckland-Jones who worked on the report, Funding Renewable Energy Projects in Wales, said: "Wales needs to reach its renewable energy potential by taking advantage of its abundance of natural resources and should do so by investing in a way that ensures wider economic and social benefits are retained locally within Wales.
"Welsh Government, pension funds, local government, private sector and third sector organisations all have important roles to play in this and joined up thinking is required to make it happen."
The Welsh Government spokesman added: "Our innovative support for local energy has seen us support and de-risk the development of a pipeline of projects, many of which are already generating energy and income. We have made £25m available this financial year to develop a range of projects in the Welsh public and community sectors." | Wales has "missed opportunities" to invest in renewable energy and substantially boost its economy, a report has found. | 39490138 |
The Independent Police Complaints Commission found the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (Ceop) had not dealt with the material properly.
Toronto Police alerted Ceop to website users who had bought films thought to contain indecent images of children.
It was sent in July 2012, but had not been forwarded to police by late 2013.
It was only when Toronto Police again contacted Ceop in October that year for an update on progress that the oversight was found.
The intelligence from the operation, called Project Spade, has resulted in the jailing of Cambridge doctor Myles Bradbury, who abused young cancer patients, and Cardiff deputy head teacher Gareth Williams, who secretly filmed pupils.
Another person named was Essex deputy head teacher teacher Martin Goldberg, who was found dead a day after police questioned him.
A police officer, who had been seconded to Ceop at the time from a regional force, faced misconduct proceedings for allegedly failing in his duties and responsibilities.
At a meeting on Monday the allegations against him were found to be not proven.
In its report, released on Tuesday, the complaints watchdog said the initial handling of the material from the Canadian investigation had been appropriate.
But how it had been referred on afterwards was a concern.
It said: "There was evidence of a lack of a general understanding or agreement as to who had ownership of the issue for some time, disagreements as to which team within the organisation might have the capacity to take the lead and consider and process the information most appropriately."
At the time, Ceop was under the command of the Serious Organised Crime Agency. The National Crime Agency (NCA) replaced Soca in October 2013.
An NCA spokesman said of the report findings: "No NCA officers faced any misconduct charges but one has received words of advice.
"As the IPCC has noted, the NCA commissioned two internal reviews to ensure that processes were improved. All of the recommendations of these reviews were accepted and have been implemented."
He said the NCA's Ceop Command had "transformed significantly" during the last 18 months with the investment of £10m announced at the WeProtect summit in 2014.
And he added that in 2015 to 2016, 1,802 children were safeguarded or protected as a result of NCA activity. | Information on 2,345 British paedophile suspects supplied by Canadian police was "poorly handled" by the body set up to protect children, a report has said. | 37616825 |
The warship was discovered 18,000 feet (5.5km) beneath the surface.
The Indianapolis was destroyed returning from its secret mission to deliver parts for the atomic bomb which was later used on Hiroshima.
Of the 1,196 men on board, just 316 were rescued - the largest loss of life at sea in the history of the US Navy.
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, who led the civilian search team, said the discovery was "truly humbling".
The USS Indianapolis was destroyed on 30 July 1945 when, somewhere in the Philippine sea between Guam and Leyte, it was hit by a torpedo from a Japanese submarine.
Between 800-900 escaped the sinking ship. But no distress call was ever received, and by the time the survivors were found by chance four days later, just 316 were left alive in the shark-infested waters.
The ship's rapid sinking - in just 12 minutes - and the lack of a distress call meant the ship's location had long been a mystery.
Mr Allen's crew discovered the vessel on 18 August, after new research from a naval historian pointed them to a specific region of the ocean where the warship had been sighted the night before its destruction.
The ship is well-known for its final, secret mission, carrying parts for the atomic bomb nicknamed "Little Boy" as well as enriched uranium fuel for its nuclear reaction. Those supplies were delivered to Tinian island, an American base in the final year of the war which launched the world's first nuclear bombing.
Four days later, the Indianapolis sank - less than a week before the nuclear bomb it helped to make destroyed Hiroshima.
Along with the bomb named "Fat Man" dropped on Nagasaki, it forced the Japanese surrender and the end of World War Two.
"To be able to honour the brave men of the USS Indianapolis and their families through the discovery of a ship that played such a significant role during World War Two is truly humbling," Mr Allen said.
"As Americans, we all owe a debt of gratitude to the crew for their courage, persistence and sacrifice in the face of horrendous circumstances."
The USS Indianapolis remains the property of the US Navy, the search team's statement said. It will now be considered a protected war memorial.
A spokesman for the survivors, 22 of whom are still alive, said each of them had "longed for the day when their ship would be found".
Mr Allen's specially-outfitted research vessel, the Petrel, has been designed for exploration and research with a crew of 16.
It previously discovered the wreckage of both a Japanese warship, the Musashi, and an Italian naval vessel, Artigliere - both from the World War Two era. | The World War Two heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis has been found in the Pacific Ocean, 72 years after its sinking by a Japanese submarine. | 40991326 |
More than two-thirds of the Senate voted on Wednesday to remove Ms Rousseff from office for illegally manipulating the budget two years ago.
Hours after the vote her vice-president, Michel Temer, was sworn in.
Ms Rousseff said the impeachment proceedings amounted to a coup d'etat.
The proceedings against her in the Senate were flawed, said her lawyer, Jose Eduardo Cardozo.
He requested "the immediate suspension of the effects of the Senate decision" and a new vote at the Senate.
But analysts say Ms Rousseff's appeal has very little chance of succeeding.
Mr Temer is in China, where he will take part in a summit of the G20 group of major economies.
He was sworn in two hours after the Senate's vote to dismiss Ms Rousseff, which ended 13 years in power of her left-wing Workers' Party.
Mr Temer will serve out Ms Rousseff's term until 1 January 2019.
The centre-right PMDB party politician had been serving as acting president during the impeachment proceedings.
During his first cabinet meeting since the vote, Mr Temer said his inauguration marked a "new era of hope".
The dismissal of Ms Rousseff has caused a rift between Brazil and three left-wing South American governments that criticised the move later on Wednesday.
Brazil and Venezuela recalled each other's ambassadors. Brazilian envoys to Bolivia and Ecuador have also been ordered home.
Ms Rousseff lost the impeachment battle but won a separate Senate vote that had sought to ban her from public office for eight years.
Pledging to appeal against her dismissal, she told her supporters: "I will not say goodbye to you. I am certain I can say: 'See you soon.'"
Ms Rousseff was suspended in May after the Senate voted to go ahead with the impeachment process.
She was accused of moving funds between government budgets, which is illegal under Brazilian law.
Her critics said she was trying to plug deficit holes in popular social programmes to boost her chances of being re-elected in 2014.
Ms Rousseff fought the allegations, arguing that her right-wing rivals had been trying to remove her from office ever since her re-election. | Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has filed an appeal at the Supreme Court against the Senate's decision to dismiss her after an impeachment trial. | 37251388 |
For those of us who have watched and wondered when previously witnessing this enigmatic genius in action, his acrobatic, instinctive, outrageous, overhead kick from 30 yards was the moment any remaining doubters knew what the fuss was about.
The debate about whether this was the greatest goal ever scored began almost as soon as the ball flew past goalkeeper Joe Hart, with former England manager Graham Taylor instantly announcing in Stockholm that it was the best he had seen in the flesh.
Stoke goalkeeper Asmir Begovic: Take a bow #ZlatanIbrahimovic! Unbelievable tekkers!
Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand: Zlatan just silenced any doubters he had...ruthless tonight
Wigan defender Emmerson Boyce: Ibrahimovic what a goal, I'm still replaying it, #UnbelievableTekkers
Former Bolton midfielder Fabrice Muamba: He might be arrogant but Zlatan Ibrahimovic is a problem to any team he play against.
Marseille midfielder Joey Barton: If only the English FA could have given Ibrahimovic a cap or a run out before those pesky Swedes nabbed him...
Tottenham winger Aaron Lennon: Buzzing for Caulks and Huddz, also congratulations to Stevie G on 100 caps #legend, but what a performance by #Ibrahimovic
Huddersfield striker James Vaughan: OH MY GOSH #Zlatan #Unreal
England manager Roy Hodgson is a keen student of the game and, amid the pain of defeat, will appreciate the quality buried within a strike that made Ibrahimovic the first man to score four in a game against England - but his mind will soon turn to more pressing questions closer to home.
Hodgson returned to a country where he is still widely respected for his coaching feats with Halmstads BK and Malmo with experimentation on his mind and an eye on England's future.
So what will he have learned from an England XI that was, for the large part, a group of relatively inexperienced internationals and debutants given the chance to make a mark?
Hodgson was certainly satisfied with much of what he saw, despite the scoreline, saying: "I thought it was a good performance. I took the risk to give debutants a chance, obviously that will open things up and I was hoping we'd hold out.
"Ibrahimovic scored a wonder goal to put the icing on the cake, but for large periods of the game I can be more than satisfied. Many players who got a chance came out with great credit."
and did more than enough to confirm the rich promise of his performances this season and his temperament for international football.
He may have played a part in Sweden's first goal with a cheap concession of possession but more than made up for it with a willingness to be positive, a determination to take the direct route to goal and a very obvious refusal to shirk a physical challenge.
Fourteen years older and at the other end of his career, Everton's Leon Osman was another who will have made a favourable impression on the manager.
The midfielder grew into the game, keeping possession sensibly and showing quick feet and the sense to make a series of significant incursions into the Sweden penalty area after the break. He will feel he has done enough to justify his inclusion and warrant another chance from Hodgson.
Tottenham defender Steven Caulker was given a crash course in the need for awareness at all times when faced with a threat such as Ibrahimovic but gave the impression of a quick learner - and a goal on his debut made this a night the 20-year-old will cherish.
He left the action with England leading 2-1 to allow a 16-minute debut for Stoke City's Ryan Shawcross, who was unfortunate enough to run headlong into the ruthlessness of Ibrahimovic as he made it the perfect opening night for Stockholm's Friends Arena.
Shawcross switched off just long enough, a couple of seconds, for Ibrahimovic to steal in and volley an equaliser. England, who had looked in control until a series of perfectly understandable substitutions from Hodgson, were suddenly under siege and the Stoke defender was caught in the crossfire.
One youngster who left Sweden with his England reputation further enhanced was Manchester United's Danny Welbeck, whose goal made it five from five shots on target in his 14 internationals.
The experimental nature of Hodgson's starting line-up was reflected in the fact that only four players had more caps than Welbeck. He responded with another mature, rounded performance.
There is the lingering sense that Hodgson is still searching for the striker to complete his attacking strategy alongside Wayne Rooney and his Old Trafford team-mate makes a more compelling case with every appearance.
He is one of the new breed but has always looked a comfortable England fit. Once more he scored with expertise, showed great awareness and an ability to hold the ball up. Welbeck has all the parts that make the identikit international forward.
The irony, of course, is that as he becomes more integral to England's plans he has to fight even harder for game time at Manchester United since Robin van Persie's arrival.
England goalkeeper Hart has deservedly won his share of plaudits but this was a not a game he will recall with any affection.
Looking uncomfortable almost from the first whistle, Hart should have done better with Zlatan's third goal, a free-kick from very long range - and while it may seem churlish to inject a note of criticism into a moment of sporting magic, it was his poor headed clearance that allowed Ibrahimovic to score his goal of a lifetime.
Hodgson's focus will be on other matters when the applause for Ibrahimovic dies down.
While that goal will steal all the headlines, England's manager was left with plenty to think about on the journey out of Sweden. | Zlatan Ibrahimovic's tribute to technique, athleticism and sheer natural talent - all in the space of a few seconds - means England's 4-2 friendly defeat in Sweden will never be forgotten. | 20334939 |
A lack of nurses, nuclear safety engineers and airworthiness certifiers are among those highlighted in a report by the Commons Defence Committee.
Financial incentives should be offered to retain current staff, it argued.
Ministers said the restructuring of the armed forces had led to "temporary shortages" in some areas but front-line operations were being protected.
The cross-party committee said the number of "pinch-point trades" - specialist jobs where there are insufficient personnel to meet operational requirements - had risen from 19 to 26 in the Army and 11 to 15 in the Royal Navy between 2011-12 and 2012-13 - although there was only one in the RAF.
According to the Ministry of Defence's 2012-13 report, jobs where there is a 40% shortfall of staff include:
There are shortages at nearly all levels of the Intelligence Corps, from the rank of private to major, while there are also shortfalls of bomb disposal operators, dog handlers, veterinary officers, interrogators and qualified engineers.
The committee said it was particularly worried about shortages of medical specialists available to be deployed in field operations.
While it noted that there was also a general shortage of such qualified staff in the NHS, it found they were particularly hard to replace in the armed forces because of their technical experience and qualifications.
While issues of manpower and recruitment were delegated to the three services, it said the Ministry of Defence could assist by providing additional funds to retain or recruit in key personnel, such as nuclear technicians.
"The Ministry of Defence should support the services in addressing shortages in pinch point trades - key shortages which leave the armed forces vulnerable now and in the future," it said.
James Arbuthnot, the Conservative MP who chairs the committee, said he was worried "about how seriously these shortages really are taken" by officials.
Substantial cuts to the regular armed forces, which will eventually reduce total army personnel from 102,000 to about 82,000 while aiming to increase the number of reservists from 19,000 to 30,000, have proved controversial.
Earlier this week, the Army launched a £3m promotional campaign in an effort to recruit new regulars and reservists.
A poll commissioned by the Army to mark the campaign's launch suggested that 23% of serving personnel were not satisfied with their current career.
In their report, the MPs raised concerns about the number of military personnel choosing to leave voluntarily, which is above the long-term average at 4.1% for officers and 5.8% for other ranks.
They suggested that repeated tours of duty without breaks may be "exacerbating" problems with morale.
It said figures in the MoD's annual report showed the so-called "harmony guidelines" - the recommended maximum amount of time spent away from home - had been breached 5.1% of the time in the Army in 2012-3 and 3.7% in the RAF.
The figure was much lower, at 0.6%, for the Royal Navy.
The MPs said such breaches were "unsatisfactory" and the government should set out a plan to ensure they did not happen at all in future.
Labour said the shortfall in key posts was "worrying" and urged Defence Secretary Philip Hammond to act on the report's recommendations.
"They are vital roles needed to support our armed forces and keep Britain safe and secure," said shadow defence secretary Vernon Coaker.
The Ministry of Defence said it was confident that the UK had the "right personnel with the right skill sets to satisfy all strategic defence priorities".
"The armed forces are going through significant restructuring resulting in a small number of temporary shortages in some roles," a spokesman said.
"However, there are safeguards in place to ensure front-line operational capability is not affected." | Shortages of specialist personnel in the Army and Royal Navy are leaving the military "vulnerable", MPs have warned. | 25716863 |
The May Morning festival, whose origins are unclear, has been a tradition for more than 500 years.
It began with crowds listening to the Magdalen College Choir serenade the congregation from Magdalen Tower at daybreak.
The bells were then rung - the movement of which typically makes the tower sway up to 4in (10cm). | A record-breaking 27,000 people have descended on Oxford for its annual spring celebration. | 39769904 |
Inquiry chairman Sir John Chilcot said he could see "no realistic prospect" of publication before 7 May.
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said the delay was "incomprehensible", while former Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith called it "disappointing".
Here's what you need to know about the Chilcot Inquiry.
The Chilcot Inquiry is an independent investigation looking into Britain's role in the 2003 Iraq War.
It covers the period in the run-up to the conflict, the military invasion and then the aftermath of the conflict up until 2009.
The Labour government at the time, led by Prime Minister Tony Blair, agreed to British military involvement in the US-led invasion of the country.
The Conservatives backed British involvement in the war but the Liberal Democrats opposed it.
It was controversial because Tony Blair claimed to Parliament that intelligence reports showed Iraq had weapons of mass destruction but none of those weapons were ever found.
In 2009 Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced the inquiry to "learn the lessons" of the conflict in which 179 UK service personnel died.
It was to be led by Sir John Chilcot, a former civil servant.
More than 100 witnesses gave evidence.
They included dozens of politicians, government advisers, civil servants and lawyers involved in the decision to invade Iraq.
One of the main witnesses was Tony Blair who gave evidence over two days in January 2010.
British ambassadors to the US and Iraq also appeared before the inquiry as well as UK intelligence officials and senior military officials.
Evidence began in 2009 and the last public hearing was held on 2 February 2011.
Despite almost four years passing since the inquiry's final public hearing, Sir John Chilcot has now confirmed it will not be published before the General Election in May 2015.
He says the delay is to give the opportunity for several witnesses to reply to criticism of them contained in the report.
Some witnesses claim they only received the documents regarding the criticism just before Christmas.
In order to try to protect their reputation, they are being given time to analyse the claims so that it can be effectively challenged.
The delay of the report's publication until after the General Election is politically controversial.
There are claims the Labour Party is happy about the delay so that any criticism of the party's previous leaders won't distract from their campaign to win power in May.
The party says: "Labour established the Chilcot inquiry because it is crucial we learn the lessons of Iraq.
"While the timing is a formal matter for Sir John Chilcot we have always said the inquiry should report as soon as practically possible."
The Liberal Democrats, who opposed the invasion, say there are fears the report is being delayed while some of the evidence is "sexed down".
The Conservatives have also expressed their frustrations at the delay.
The Prime Minister has written to Sir John Chilcot to say he wanted the report published "well before" the election but that he understands it is important that the inquiry remains fully independent.
So far the inquiry has cost more than £9m.
The most recent expenses data shows it cost more than £1.5m in the 2013/14 financial year.
Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter, BBCNewsbeat on Instagram and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube | MPs have reacted angrily to news that the official inquiry into the 2003 Iraq War will not be released until after the general election. | 30916642 |
The former Leyton Orient boss took the Cardiff to the brink of play-offs despite wage cuts, enforced player sales and a transfer embargo.
Yet Slade's position is being scrutinised as owner Vincent Tan mulls over some key summer decisions - with the decision due soon after their final game of the season against Birmingham City.
The manager's unpopularity with many fans could feature heavily on Tan's mind as he deliberates on whether the man who has stabilised the ship can actually take the club forward.
Some would consider it miraculous that Slade kept Cardiff's battle for the Championship play-offs alive until the penultimate game of the season.
Their hopes were finally dashed with the 3-0 defeat by Sheffield Wednesday at Hillsborough, as the Owls claimed the final play-off spot.
Cardiff will finish no lower than eighth this season compared with 11th last term.
This was achieved against a backdrop of wage reductions and the loss of leading scorers Kenwyne Jones and Joe Mason in January when a transfer embargo was slapped on the club for breaching Financial Fair Play rules.
The previous season he was forced to reduce the bloated squad he inherited from Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.
Slade appears to have operated in conditions akin to having one hand tied behind his back, and yet the doubts over his ability never disappeared.
The hangover from the row over Tan's decision to switch the club's colours from blue to red - and then back again - appeared to affect Slade's early popularity early in his reign.
However, a visit from the owner in January not only bolstered Slade's position as manager, but appeared to placate the dissenters.
Cardiff attracted just over 15,000 for their important home win over Ipswich Town on 12 March, but a ticket offer ensured a club-record 28,680 were present to see them beat promotion chasing Derby on 2 April.
Despite a hibernation, the doubts over Slade re-emerged.
An almost inexplicable decision to "rest" consistent midfielder Stuart O'Keefe in the defeat against Fulham drew much criticism.
A perception he was reactive rather than proactive over substitutions has also attracted fans' disapproval, especially the belated entrance of Kenneth Zohore in the 2-1 defeat at Brentford.
His unwillingness to use young talent like Wales international Declan John has also drawn the ire of the fans.
But it's results that might ultimately have sealed his fate. One win in six league games since the victory over Derby on 2 April culminated in the dispiriting defeat by Sheffield Wednesday.
Fans who travelled to Hillsborough complained on the BBC Radio Wales Sport's phone-in of a meek, cautious performance when a win was needed to keep the season alive.
Slade can rightly point to the six sides above Cardiff having greater spending power.
Now it is up to Tan to decide whether Slade's "progress" is enough to justify him being given another shot at getting Cardiff back to the Premier League.
Slade's position is only one of the questions Tan has to answer this summer.
The indications are fans who want Tan to splash the cash this summer may be disappointed. Coming out of the transfer embargo will help, but a spending spree seems unlikely.
That could help Slade's prospects because he has shown he can keep the club away from the danger zone on a tight budget.
If Tan was to commit to spending big, then a manager proven at Championship level with a record of achieving promotion would have seemed an obvious target.
Cardiff fans have always wanted West Bromwich Albion's Welsh head coach Tony Pulis and would still want him if he was to leave The Hawthorns.
The fact that Slade was not Pulis is one of the reasons why they did not take the current boss to their hearts.
If Pulis is not an option, Tan could consider a manager with more presence and with a better track record of promotion or he could decide on a young, hungry coach.
Craig Bellamy, who is diligently educating himself to prepare for management, would be hugely popular with the fans, but whether Tan could cope with such a fiercely independent character is open to doubt.
The dressing room reaction would be interesting but Bellamy would undoubtedly help sell season tickets.
While Tan's ultimate quest is to find someone to take the club forward, change is a risk.
But after the failure to hit the target of the Championship play-offs this season - Tan might feel too many fans the club has worked hard to attract back will not accept the status quo. | Manager Russell Slade has done a good job at Cardiff City, but you'd be hard-pressed to find a Bluebirds fan to say so. | 36197880 |
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The 27-year-old would match compatriot Beryl Burton, who won her second title in 1967, with victory on the flat 134.5km course in Doha, Qatar.
"We have a young, dynamic team. I'm excited to have a go," said Deignan.
The 257.3km men's race takes place on Sunday, with Briton Mark Cavendish, 31, aiming for a second rainbow jersey.
No British man has won more than one world road race title - Cavendish's victory in 2011 and Tom Simpson's in 1965 are the only successes to date.
The women's and men's courses are flat, with both expected to end in a sprint finish.
Deignan won gold in the team time trial with Boels-Dolmans on Sunday.
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Dani King and Hannah Barnes are alternative options within a British team completed by Alice Barnes, Annasley Park, Laura Massey, Abby-Mae Parkinson and Eileen Roe.
"We'll have eight women in the race, which we've not really had before, and this course offers us opportunities," added Deignan.
"We have a lot of cards to play, which is quite exciting at a World Championships for us. It's not one that I've prepared specifically for but I think it's anybody's race."
Slovakia's Peter Sagan will attempt to defend the men's title, while Cavendish faces competition from fellow sprinters Andre Greipel, Marcel Kittel and John Degenkolb, who will all compete for Germany.
France's team includes Nacer Bouhanni and Arnaud Demare, Italy have Giacomo Nizzolo and Elia Vivani, and Caleb Ewan and Michael Matthews will represent Australia.
Adam Blythe, Steve Cummings, Dan McLay, Luke Rowe, Ian Stannard, Ben Swift, Geraint Thomas and Scott Thwaites complete the GB men's team.
Before the Olympics, Deignan - formerly Armitstead, she married Team Sky's Irish rider Philip Deignan in September - faced a possible two-year suspension for missing three drugs tests in a 12-month period.
But one test was declared void after an appeal in early August, allowing her to compete in Rio, where she finished fifth in the road race.
"I would be lying if I didn't say it was extremely difficult. It was traumatic to be honest," she told BBC Sport.
"But I am proud of the way we got through it as a family. I can say I have grown because of it, and am incredibly grateful for those who supported me.
"They are not great memories but I suppose you learn from everything in life. It's been a very up and down year but I'm proud of what I achieved." | Britain's Lizzie Deignan says Saturday's World Championships road race is "anybody's" as she bids to defend the title she won last year. | 37655115 |
Mr Corbyn met staff at Harris Tweed Hebrides and is to address a town hall rally in Stornoway to highlight his party's policies for rural areas.
He is to tour a series of marginal seats in Scotland over the next five days, attending speeches and rallies.
The Tories say his policies lack credibility, while the SNP were critical of his position on Brexit.
Labour gained six seats north of the border in June's snap election, having lost 40 in the previous poll in 2015.
However, they were less than 100 votes behind the SNP in two Glasgow seats, and less than 1,000 votes behind in six Scottish seats in total.
With the election result stripping Theresa May's Conservatives of their majority in government, Mr Corbyn has pledged to remain on an election footing. His party has identified up to 18 Scottish seats as potential targets.
The Labour leader is using his visit to the Western Isles to highlight Labour plans to "rural-proof" policies in government, so that all laws are assessed on their impact on rural communities.
Mr Corbyn said: "Rural communities have been taken for granted for too long. There has been chronic underinvestment in transport, broadband and public services, with rural infrastructure and industry neglected.
"Labour will invest in transport, broadband, public services, housing and environmental and coastal protections - vital for the economy and the rural way of life."
He pledged to visit Scotland "roughly once a month" to campaign, and called on the Scottish government to use "every power they've got" to combat austerity from the Westminster administration.
The SNP has a lead of just over 1,000 votes in the local constituency of Na'h-Eileanan an Iar, where Angus MacNeil held his seat in June's election by a majority of 6.8%, over a Labour challenger.
A spokesman for the party said Mr Corbyn's "backing for the Tories' extreme Brexit, outside the single market and customs union, is set to hit our rural communities hardest".
He added: "Rural areas benefit massively from our membership of the EU, having access to funding, tariff-free trade and a highly-skilled labour market.
"Sadly, rather than wanting to protect these benefits for rural communities, Labour are pledging to deliver an extreme Brexit. Jeremy Corbyn and Labour simply cannot be trusted to deliver for rural Scotland."
The Scottish Conservatives, meanwhile, said it wasn't long ago that Scottish Labour "dreaded the thought of Jeremy Corbyn coming north".
MSP Miles Briggs added: "Had he won the general election, Corbyn would have sold Scotland out in a heartbeat, and that ambivalence to Scotland's place in the UK hasn't changed." | Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has begun a tour of Scottish constituencies with a visit to the Western Isles. | 41016875 |
The benchmark Nikkei 225 index was up 1.69% to 15,695.33 in mid-morning trade, as a slightly weaker yen gave a boost to exporters' shares.
On Thursday, the yen soared after the Bank of Japan announced it would not add to its current stimulus programme.
Worried investors have also been drawn to the safe-haven yen in the lead up to the UK's upcoming EU referendum.
There has been global concern around the vote and impact it could have on global markets.
The possibility of a Brexit was one of the factors that led the US Federal Reserve to keep interest rates on hold earlier this week.
Japanese officials from the ministry of finance and the central bank, among others, are set to meet later to discuss worries around the equity and currency markets.
"Stability in currencies is extremely important," said Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso on Friday. "We'll closely coordinate with other countries on this issue," he added.
In Australia, the S&P/ASX 200 index was up 0.21% to 5,157. The index would need to close at 5,312 to avoid a third straight week of losses.
Chris Weston of IG Markets in Melbourne said, however, that the index was unlikely to end the week on a positive note.
"It's hard to see traders buying with any conviction given next week's event risk, but we could see some brave souls who see a 'remain' vote in the UK referendum tempted by adding selective risk to portfolios," he said.
In China, Hong Kong's Hang Seng index was up 0.88% to 20,212.33, while the Shanghai Composite was up 0.86% to 2,897.57.
Stocks in South Korea were also in positive territory, up 0.52% to 1,961.4. | Japan's stock market was in recovery mode on Friday after closing down below 3% for the second time in a week. | 36545853 |
Blamed for the bad weather they've warned us is coming, or pilloried for not warning us when that bad weather strikes.
The BBC's Michael Fish was never able to forget his reassurance that no hurricane was on its way to south east England, hours before the Great Storm of 1987.
Now BBC News NI's Barra Best is the latest weatherman to talk his way into trouble.
This time, however, the problem is that the snow forecast for the end of last week wasn't as widespread as expected.
In County Armagh, that, according to the PSNI in Craigavon, destroyed the dreams of both the area's schoolchildren and police officers.
A wanted poster for Barra has now appeared on the PSNI Craigavon Facebook page, with police saying: "We're keen to track this man down, Craigavon's new most wanted!
"Whilst initially we thought that, as with most things, the lack of snow would be blamed on us, in the last 24 hours we have had new information.
"The fact that there was some bloke on TV skiing in Coleraine, whilst in Craigavon we had to have a whip round to make a snowball is the fault of...THIS MAN!!
"Barra you may hand yourself in now. We will find you. We know there are many front rooms across Craigavon you'll be making an appearance in over the coming days. You broke our snow craving hearts. Craigavon is after you!"
A reward - two doughnuts - has been offered for information leading to his capture.
However, the intrepid weatherman isn't going down easy.
He responded defiantly to the appeal: "You better get the Feds and Interpol involved. I'm snowwhere to be found."
That, in turn, led to a more conciliatory message from the police: "Barra there is another way out of this. If you mark 'Roundabout F', Craigavon on your next weather map, we'll consider downgrading the offence to simple possession of class A hopes and dreams.
"That move would be appreciated by all in Craigavon. Roundabout/Roundabend F is our main tourist attraction."
Instead the BBC man has gone on the run, posting on his Facebook page: "I've fled across the border with [UTV weather presenter] Frank Mitchell."
So far Frank Mitchell has not commented on the controversy, but it seems treachery is afoot among some of Mr Best's colleagues, as Cecilia Daly has offered to turn him in if the reward is raised to six doughnuts.
Other people who responded to the police appeal have hinted at an RHI scheme-type aspect to the controversy.
Whatever happens, one thing is clear - it's snow joke being a weather presenter. | The plight of the weather forecaster is not an easy one. | 38635311 |
Data from admissions body Ucas suggests the number of places available has gone up but demand is rising even faster.
The figures also showed a further rise in the number of people from disadvantaged areas being offered places.
The Scottish government said it was committed to delivering access to higher education for all.
According to Ucas, the "offer rate" to Scottish applicants was 59.6% - a 1.6% drop on last year.
There was a similar drop last year.
Alastair Sim, director of Universities Scotland, said: "Whilst the Ucas figures do not give a full account of higher education recruitment in Scotland, the capped places system for Scottish and EU students and very high demand inevitably means that there will be pressure on places.
"This is reflected in the offer rate. Universities in Scotland are committed for offering as many opportunities to students, regardless of their background or circumstances."
There is a cap on the number of places available to Scottish students because the Scottish government pays for their tuition. Students from EU countries outside the UK are also entitled to these places.
The number of places available to Scots and EU students is at or close to record levels.
Universities support the free tuition policy. But they argue the number of places will need to rise in the future, so universities can meet targets to increase the proportion of students from disadvantaged areas without making it more competitive for others to get in as a consequence.
Students from other parts of the UK and countries outside Europe pay tuition fees. Scottish universities can take in as many of them as they feel they are able to.
This year there was a rise in the offer-rate to English applicants.
Mr Sim said the entry rate for 18 year olds from the most deprived areas of Scotland was 51% higher than 10 years ago.
He said: "It is the result of committed work with schools and others to raise aspiration and attainment. But we are committed to improving further. We will seek to encourage well-qualified applicants from all backgrounds with potential to pursue a university career.
"We look forward to the appointment of the Commissioner on Widening Access to help develop work that universities in Scotland are already undertaking."
Further and Higher Education Minister Shirley-Anne Somerville, said the figures showed an all-time high number of young Scots gaining a place at Scottish universities.
She added that the figures also showed a record for 18-year-olds from Scotland's 20% most deprived areas getting into university.
The minister said: "We remain firmly committed to ensuring that tuition is free for first time Scottish and EU domiciled undergraduate students.
"Over 120,000 students are supported in this way every year. This direct government investment helps ensure that average student loan debt in Scotland is the lowest in the UK ".
The Ucas figures do not provide a full picture of the number of Scots going into higher education.
This is because colleges in Scotland and other parts of the UK have a different role. A substantial number of young people in Scotland access higher education through further education colleges.
Liz Smith, education spokeswoman for the Scottish Conservatives, said: "Once again we are seeing Scottish students losing out when it comes to being offered a place at university in Scotland.
"Despite having outstanding grades, many Scottish students are finding it increasingly difficult to get into universities because of the constraints applied via the capping policy.
"The SNP have been warned that their discriminatory higher education funding policy would lead to this, but they have so far failed to take any action to address it."
Labour's education spokesman Iain Gray said: "Because places for Scottish students are funded, they are capped.
"So, while universities have expanded their offer to students from elsewhere in the UK, they have not been able to do so for Scottish students because the SNP government has squeezed the funding available.
"Labour supports free tuition, but if we are to widen access to universities for more Scottish students then the Scottish government has to stop cutting university budgets and use the powers they now have to start increasing education funding." | The chances of a Scottish university applicant being offered a place have slipped, according to official figures. | 38316717 |
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The team initially fell just short of the points required but the title was sealed when Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen was demoted from fifth to eighth.
The Finn was given a 30-second penalty for causing a last-lap collision with Williams driver Valtteri Bottas.
That saw Mercedes seal the championship with four races still to go.
Mercedes also clinched the title in Russia last year. Although there were three races to go in 2014, it is effectively the same stage of the season because double points were awarded at the final race of last year.
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The triumph confirms Mercedes' domination of the turbo hybrid engine formula that was introduced into F1 in 2014.
The team have lost only six of the 34 races that have been held since the start of the 2014 season.
Hamilton's victory means he can seal a second consecutive drivers' title at the next race in Austin, Texas on 25 October, if he out-scores Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel by nine points and his Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg by two in the US.
Full race results | Mercedes have won their second consecutive constructors' title following Lewis Hamilton's victory in the Russian Grand Prix. | 34500999 |
Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, "Kim" Philby and Anthony Blunt were recruited as Soviet spies while at Cambridge University in the 1930s.
There may have been a fifth spy in the ring, possibly John Cairncross.
Documents from the Mitrokhin Archive have been made publicly available for the first time.
The FBI described them as the most complete intelligence ever received.
Major Vasili Mitrokhin smuggled the information out of Soviet archives during 12 years working for the KGB.
He defected to Britain in 1992.
Among the thousands of pages of documents are profiles outlining the characteristics of Britons who spied for the Soviet Union.
They include references to Donald Duart Maclean and Guy Burgess, two of the five men recruited while studying at the University of Cambridge during the 1930s.
A short passage describes Burgess as a man "constantly under the influence of alcohol".
Written in Russian, it goes on to recount one occasion when Burgess drunkenly risked exposing his double identity.
"Once on his way out of a pub, he managed to drop one of the files of documents he had taken from the Foreign Office on the pavement," translator Svetlana Lokhova explained.
Moving on to Maclean, the note describes him as "not very good at keeping secrets".
It adds he was "constantly drunk" and binged on alcohol.
It was believed he had told one of his lovers and his brother about his work as a Soviet agent while he was the worse for wear, the file adds.
The notes also provide an insight into the extent of the group's activity as they helped the KGB penetrate the UK's intelligence network at the highest level.
They describe how Burgess alone handed over 389 top secret documents to the KGB in the first six months of 1945 along with a further 168 in December 1949.
Along with Kim Philby, Anthony Blunt and a fifth man, thought by many to have been John Cairncross, the Cambridge Five passed information about the UK to the Soviet Union throughout World War Two and into at least the 1950s.
After being recruited during their studies, the group went on to occupy positions within the Foreign Office, MI5 and the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS).
Shortly before the end of the war, Philby was promoted to head of the SIS's anti-Soviet section - meaning he was in charge of running operations against the Soviets while operating as a KGB agent.
Mitrokhin was a senior archivist in the KGB's foreign intelligence HQ and had unlimited access to thousands of files from a global network of spies and intelligence-gathering operations.
He became disillusioned with the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and began handwriting notes from the files which he believed would be of use to foreign intelligence. | Members of the "Cambridge Five" spy ring were seen by their Soviet handlers as hopeless drunks incapable of keeping secrets, newly-released files suggest. | 28143770 |
Police were called to the Castlerock Road shortly after 22:00 BST on Sunday.
The victim was taken to hospital for treatment to a serious head wound.
Police are investigating reports that up to 15 people were involved in the brawl and have appealed for anyone who witnessed the fight to contact them. | A 27-year-old man has been injured during a fight involving a number of people in Coleraine, County Londonderry. | 32873063 |
The 34-year-old world number three had initially intended to return at Indian Wells in March, but will instead wait for the Monte Carlo Masters in April.
The 17-time Grand Slam champion sustained a torn meniscus in January, the day after his Australia Open semi-final defeat by Novak Djokovic.
"As it is a long year, I don't want to push it too hard and come back too soon," he said.
Federer, who won his most recent Grand Slam at Wimbledon in 2012, will now come back to coincide with the beginning of the clay-court season.
"The rehab for my knee is going really well. I have now had a lot of great practices on the court and in the gym," he wrote on his Facebook page. | Roger Federer has delayed his comeback from knee surgery by a month. | 35673855 |
The speaker of the assembly said work on a new constitution and electoral law would resume once "dialogue commences".
There have been daily protests calling for the body to be dissolved since one of its members was assassinated.
Mohamed Brahmi was shot on 25 July, almost six months after fellow leftist politician Chokri Belaid was killed.
About 60 members of the National Constituent Assembly (ANC) withdrew in protest at the killings and organised a sit-in outside its headquarters in the capital, Tunis.
Later on Tuesday, tens of thousands of people participated in a protest in central Tunis called by the opposition to demand the assembly's dissolution and the government to resign, and to mark the six-month anniversary of the assassination of Chokri Belaid.
The powerful Tunisian General Labour Union (UGTT) called on its 600,000 members to join the rally.
On Tuesday morning, the ANC was convened despite the absences. An empty chair where Mr Brahmi used to sit was draped in a Tunisian flag and covered in flowers and a picture of him.
Prime Minister Ali Larayedh urged the assembly to "hurry and finish the constitution quickly" so that fresh elections could be held in December. The body has already gone eight months beyond its promised deadline.
However, on Tuesday evening ANC Speaker Mustapha Ben Jaafar announced on television that it would "suspend its work until dialogue commences, in the service of Tunisia".
Mr Ben Jaafar, whose Ettakatol party is part of the cabinet, condemned the failure of politicians to resolve the political crisis.
"Despite the gravity of the situation and instead of working towards unity, party leaders have unfortunately gone in the opposite direction - towards division," he said. "The people are fed up with this situation and can no longer tolerate this wait."
Mr Larayedh has refused to step down and appealed for "national unity".
The political unrest is the worst seen in Tunisia since President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali was overthrown by a popular uprising in January 2011.
In a separate development on Tuesday, police shot dead an Islamist militant in the Tunis suburb of Rawad, interior ministry officials said. | Tunisia's constituent assembly has been suspended until the Islamist-led government and secular opposition begin talks to resolve a political crisis. | 23596640 |
The prime minister, who is in Delhi to pave the way for the UK's first post-Brexit trade deal, said the UK was already able to attract "the brightest and the best" from outside the EU.
"Nine out of 10 visa applications from India are already accepted," she said.
But she said the UK could give ground if Indians who overstayed their visas could be returned more swiftly.
"The UK will consider further improvements to our visa offer if, at the same time, we can step up the speed and volume of returns of Indians with no right to remain," she told reporters.
Her government also intends to make it easier for wealthy Indian business executives to come to the UK.
A small group of high-net-worth individuals and their families will be offered access to the Great Club - a bespoke visa and immigration service - to make visa applications smoother.
Thousands of Indians on work visas will also be able to join the Registered Travellers Scheme which will mean they can get through UK border controls more quickly.
"As we leave the EU, we want to ensure that the UK remains one of the most attractive countries in the world to do business and invest," Mrs May said.
The prime minister flew into Delhi late last night to be greeted by the worst smog this city has seen in nearly 20 years.
Where better to get a taste of life beyond the EU - than India. With such deep historical links between the two countries - surely the UK can cut through the bureaucratic smog that saw Brussels spend nearly a decade negotiating, but ultimately fail to agree a deal with the world's fastest growing economy.
But Indian business leaders are confused. No-one knows what the UK's relationship with Europe will eventually look like, and many are unsure about how much can be usefully discussed until the UK has withdrawn from the EU - a point that is at least two years away.
Some things are clear and all too familiar. Trade and immigration are linked. If the UK wants better access to Indian markets, the government in Delhi wants a looser approach to UK work and student visas. This week saw Britain's visa rules for foreign visitors tightened.
Specific deals will be announced over the next 24 hours but more clarity around a trade relationship that has stagnated or even declined in recent years is likely to remain enveloped in the Delhi smog.
Visa issues risk dominating Theresa May's first trade trip since becoming prime minister.
India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi told a technology summit in Delhi he wanted to encourage "greater mobility" for its young people in education.
He said: "Education is vital for our students and will define our engagement in a shared future.
"We must therefore encourage greater mobility and participation of young people in education and research opportunities."
Cobra Beer founder Lord Bilimoria earlier said restrictions on staying in the UK after their studies meant the number of Indians attending UK universities had halved in the past five years.
He said "movement of people" would form a key part of any trade negotiations.
The number of study visas issued to Indian nationals fell from 68,238 in the year to June 2010 to 11,864 five years later, official UK figures show.
The solution, according to Karan Bilimoria, is to exclude foreign students from Britain's statistics on net migration, which Mrs May has pledged to cut to below 100,000 annually - down from 336,000 in the year to June 2015.
"We need to immediately get the government, Theresa May, on this visit to announce and say 'we're no longer going to include international students within the net migration figures,'" crossbencher Lord Bilimoria told BBC Radio 4's The World This Weekend.
He added: "The reality is Theresa May when she was home secretary did deliver very, very negative messages towards immigration."
"She has got a lot of bridge-building to do when she goes to India."
Mrs May will be accompanied on the three-day trip by International Trade Secretary Liam Fox and trade minister Greg Hands as well as representatives from 33 UK companies.
Deals expected to be confirmed during the trip include: | Theresa May has rejected calls to relax Indian visa rules, saying the UK has a "good system" for applications. | 37891734 |
The orange-sized growth was so large it was crushing Isabel Roberts's throat, leaving her unable to breathe naturally.
Doctors needed to rapidly fit a tube to help her breathing before she stopped getting oxygen from her mother.
The tumour has since been removed and doctors expect Isabel to make a full recovery.
Sometimes things go wrong during a baby's development in the womb and tumours can form. In 2012 surgeons in the US removed a tumour while the baby was still in the womb.
Doctors at Sheffield Children's Hospital and Jessops Maternity Hospital noticed an abnormal growth in a scan after 33 weeks.
The twins were delivered by Caesarean section and doctors then started a "race against time" as soon as Isabel's head was free.
Consultant anaesthetist Dr Ayman Eissa said: "We estimate the placenta will continue to supply oxygen through the cord for up to five minutes, but you can never be sure. It could break off at any time.
"The baby was so small and the tumour so big, it was a very difficult job to secure the airway."
While Isabel weighed 3lb 9oz (1.6kg), the tumour alone weighed 0.6lb (0.3kg).
"The relief when I secured the tube was unimaginable. It was definitely the most stressful few minutes of my career," Dr Eissa said.
Isabel's tumour was removed 10 days later.
She is now at home in Hoyland, near Barnsley, with her twin sister Alexandra, older sisters Sarah and Olivia and mother and father Maureen and Simon.
Mrs Roberts said: "The few weeks leading up to and after the twins' arrival were a blur. It's crazy to think just how much has happened to my baby. I can remember walking into the operating theatre to have the Caesarean and not knowing what was going to have happened when I woke up."
The consultant who removed the tumour, Neil Bateman, said: "When we weighed the tumour it accounted for one-sixth of her entire body weight.
"It is very rare for a baby to develop a tumour of this size in the womb."
The cancer did not spread, but Isabel is now on a course of chemotherapy. She is expected to make a full recovery and is "getting stronger every day". | A baby girl has been born in Sheffield with a huge tumour that accounted for a sixth of her body weight. | 21282781 |
Officers said they believed the material found in the vehicle was herbal cannabis.
A 23-year-old man has been arrested. A report will be submitted to the procurator fiscal.
The man detained by police is expected to appear at Dumfries Sheriff Court on Monday. | Police have seized drugs which they said are worth £100,000, after stopping a car on the M74 motorway near Lockerbie. | 33298753 |
De Villota, 32, lost her right eye after extensive surgery following a crash in testing for Marussia at the Cambridgeshire track.
She was in a critical condition but is now described as serious but stable.
She has undergone successful surgery at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge.
A statement issued by the Marussia Technical Centre, in Banbury, said: "Since the operation today (Friday), Maria's condition in relation to the head trauma she received has further improved, to the extent that she is now 'serious but stable'.
"Whilst Maria remains acutely ill, this confirms that she has been responding well to the treatment she has received since her accident."
Ms De Villota was hurt when the MR-01 race car she was driving hit a support truck.
She had been driving at up to 200mph but the car was travelling considerably slower at the time of the crash.
It was the first time the Spaniard had driven the car for the Oxfordshire-based Marussia team.
Speaking on behalf of the family, Isabel De Villota, Maria's sister, said earlier: "We, the family, are supporting each other here at Maria's side and we take great comfort from the remarkable medical care she has been receiving.
"We remain positive and this is due, in no small part, to the overwhelming expression of love for Maria from every corner of the world."
Messages of support for De Villota have come in from the motor racing world, including Ferrari driver and fellow Spaniard Fernando Alonso and top British racers Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton.
Inspectors from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) visited the test track on Wednesday. | F1 test driver Maria de Villota, who suffered head injuries and lost an eye in a crash on Tuesday, is improving after surgery and responding well to treatment, her team has said. | 18749569 |
That is up 16% on the same period last year, when work began on around 1,600 new houses.
The large majority of the 2017 housing starts, 1,699, were in the private sector.
In 2016/17 work started on a total of 7,724 new houses, the best performance since 2010/11.
That compares to more than 15,000 starts in 2005, which was the peak year.
A housing start refers to the beginning of work on a residential property, such as the laying of foundations. | Building work started on more than 1,800 new houses in Northern Ireland in the first quarter of 2017, according to the latest official figures. | 40863736 |
Particles called D-mesons seem to decay slightly differently from their antiparticles, LHCb physicist Matthew Charles told the HCP 2011 meeting on Monday.
The result may help explain why we see so much more matter than antimatter.
The team stresses that further analysis will be needed to shore up the result.
At the moment, they are claiming a statistical certainty of "3.5 sigma" - suggesting that there is less than a 0.05% chance that the result they see is down to chance.
The team has nearly double the amount of data that they have analysed so far, so time will tell whether the result reaches the "five-sigma" level that qualifies it for a formal discovery.
The LHCb detector was designed to examine particles containing so-called beauty quarks, watching them decay through time after high-energy collisions of other fundamental particles.
The LHCb Collaboration was looking at decays of particles called D-mesons, which contain what are known as charmed-quarks, which can in turn decay into kaons and pions.
LHCb, one of the six separate experiments at the Large Hadron Collider, is particularly suited for examining what is called "charge-parity violation" - slight differences in behaviour if a given particle is swapped for its antimatter counterpart (changing its charge) and turned around one of its axes (changing its parity).
Our best understanding of physics so far, called the Standard Model, suggests that the complicated cascades of decay of D-mesons into other particles should be very nearly the same - within less than 0.1% - as a similar chain of antimatter decays.
Other experiments, notably at the Fermi National Accelerator facility in the US, have not definitively found a notable difference between the two kinds of decay of D-mesons.
But the LHCb team is reporting a difference of about 0.8% - a significant difference that, if true, could herald the first "new physics" to be found at the LHC.
"Our result is more significant because our precision is improved - somewhat more precise than all of the previous results put together," Dr Charles told BBC News.
Spotting such a difference in the behaviour of matter and antimatter particles may also finally help explain why our Universe is overwhelmingly made of matter.
"Certainly this kind of effect, a new source of CP violation, could be a manifestation of the physics which drives the matter - antimatter asymmetry," Dr Charles explained.
However, he stressed there are "many steps in the chain" between confirming the collaboration's experimental result, and resolving the theory to accommodate it.
"This result is a hint of something interesting and if it bears out, it will mean that, at a minimum, our current theoretical understanding needs improving," Dr Charles said.
"It's exactly the sort of thing for which the LHC was originally built." | Large Hadron Collider researchers have shown off what may be the facility's first "new physics" outside our current understanding of the Universe. | 15734668 |
The bridge, made entirely from Meccano, has been built with the help of local school children across Belfast's Clarendon Dock.
It was unveiled to the public on Saturday.
The project is part of a Queens University Belfast programme to encourage kids to think more about careers in science, mathematics and technology and engineering when they're older.
Around 11,000 pieces of Meccano were used to build the bridge, which weighs 600 kilograms.
"If you count all the nuts and bolts and washers, there's approximately 70,000," said Dr Danny McPolin, in charge of the project.
"In terms of the longer pieces, if they're all laid out end-to-end I think it would be about 3.8 kilometres long. So it's a lot of Meccano".
"We see this event not only as an opportunity to celebrate the students' and staff's incredible work over the past year, but also a chance to give local children an insight into the exciting courses on offer". | Engineering students in Belfast have set a new world record for the largest ever Meccano construction. | 34302646 |
At the beginning of July, the government warned that 30 of the country's 36 states could be at risk.
Already, 16 states, including the commercial hub Lagos, have been badly affected.
Five years ago, the worst flooding in more than 40 years in Nigeria claimed 431 lives and displaced nearly two million people, according to the country's National Emergency Management Agency (Nema).
BBC Africa's Ishaq Khalid explores the causes and what needs to be done to protect Nigerians from the scourge of floods every year.
The rainy season usually runs from July to September in Nigeria and every year it poses the threat of devastation and destruction across the country, claiming lives and destroying property.
So far this year, several people have been killed across the country and hundreds of residential buildings, cars and other vehicles have been destroyed or submerged under water.
Thirty-seven-year-old tea seller Sa'adu Abubakar, lost his six children and two wives when water poured into their apartment in the city of Suleja, just north of the capital, Abuja.
"I held two of the children but I could not withstand the force of the water. The children slipped out of my hands," he told the BBC's Hausa Service.
"I was just desperately praying to Allah at that moment. When the day broke, we found my family's dead bodies a short distance from our home."
Another resident of Suleja told the BBC: "The rain started at 23:30 at night, we heard a loud 'boom'. Before I knew it, I was up to my neck in water.
"We couldn't salvage anything... we have to save our lives. My house was well built but the water brought it down.
"We need help. I haven't been able to cook food since yesterday and I'm living on the goodwill of other people."
The tragedy in Suleja has once again highlighted the magnitude of the devastation caused by floods in Nigeria. Yet despite the yearly loss of lives and property, it seems that so far the country has not taken many concrete measures to tackle the disasters.
Niger state in the north of the country has the highest number of casualties so far. Officials have confirmed that 15 people have died and many more injured. Other badly affected states are mostly in the south, near to the River Niger. Lagos has also been badly hit.
The frequency of the flooding differs across the regions, but the height of the rainy season tends to be from July to September, and it is often a time of anxiety for many communities living in flood-prone areas.
Heavy rains, combined with poor drainage systems and blocked waterways cause rainwater to flow through commercial and residential dwellings.
Town planning expert Aliyu Salisu Barau told the BBC that Nigerian authorities and ordinary citizens are ill-prepared for such disasters.
"Tackling persistent flooding requires long-term planning," he said.
"In most cases the authorities do not make provision to clear drainage systems until it is already rainy season," Mr Barau added.
Nigeria's swelling population could make matters worse.
Its currently home to 180 million people, and a recent UN report estimates that Nigeria will become the third most populous nation in the world by 2050, overtaking the United States.
This could put pressure on land as the need for more housing rises. But it is the lack of proper town planning and the authorities' inability to accommodate these changes which causes most alarm.
Some residents dump rubbish and waste in the streets, putting extra strain on the few existing urban drainage systems and preventing the steady flow of rainwater.
Nigeria's many dams are also seen to be part of the problem.
Used for irrigation and fish-farming activities, some are located close to towns and villages. But observers say these useful water reservoirs are poorly maintained and during the rainy season they can sometimes burst, releasing torrents of water into nearby communities.
The Lagdo dam in neighbouring Cameroon, which is on the Benue river that runs through Nigeria, also poses a danger of heavy flooding in Nigeria when the Cameroonian authorities decide to release the dam's excess water.
To add to the problem, the Nigerian authorities have very few arrangements for evacuating endangered communities - even in the face of imminent flood risks. And when warnings are issued they are rarely heeded by the least well off locals.
Analysts say something concrete must be done to prevent the high death tolls seen in recent years.
Destruction to property can be reduced by introducing effective town planning, respecting construction rules and regulations, and rooting out corruption in the building certification process.
The number of fatalities and the impact on communities could be reduced if the authorities prepared themselves to forcibly evacuate those who are at imminent risk.
Raising public awareness and encouraging people to become more aware of their urban environment are also key.
Unless these practical measures are taken, experts say, floods will continue to destroy lives and property. | Nigerians are facing at least three months of battling against heavy rains that could lead to deadly, destructive flooding. | 40720985 |
Monitor said it was also taking action against Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust because of its "board governance and financial performance".
The regulator said the hospital was in "significant breach" of the terms of its authorisation.
The hospital said it was making progress in meeting the targets.
It achieved Foundation Trust status - a supposed mark of excellence in the health service - in 2008.
The regulator has ordered the trust to improve its accident and emergency performance, take "rapid action" to strengthen its financial plan for 2012/13 and to have a review of its board governance.
Monitor's chief operating officer, Stephen Hay, said: "We have been tracking the trust's performance for some time and are requiring action to be taken because it is not acceptable that the trust is persistently failing its A&E patients.
"We now expect the trust to focus on immediately and sustainably resolving this issue."
The hospital serves 300,000 people in the north of the county.
Steve Hone, chairman of Kettering General Hospital Foundation Trust, accepted the hospital had "difficulty" meeting the two targets highlighted by Monitor but said progress was being made.
He said efforts were being made to find "cost and efficiency improvements" and establishing new ways generating income for the trust. | A Northamptonshire hospital "persistently" failed to treat emergency patients within four hours, a health watchdog has said. | 20094988 |
Biowatch contains a tiny camera that takes a photo of your wrist and stores a snapshot of your blood vessels.
The watch then checks that your veins match the photo every time you put it on.
That could stop imposters from accessing private information on a smartwatch if they put it on.
The Swiss company developing the device said it worked correctly 999 times out of 1,000 and are continuing to work on it.
Biowatch technology isn't available to buy yet but the company is working with smartwatch manufacturers to include the tech in future watches. | Watch technology that can identify a person by the veins inside their skin is being developed. | 32885745 |
Pitch Battle - a working title - will feature all musical styles, including rock, folk, gospel and a cappella.
The show will feature "riff-offs" between singing groups - an idea made famous by the popular Pitch Perfect films.
The series will consist of six hour-long episodes, the BBC said.
Pitch Battle will feature an a capella round as well as a soloists challenge across its five heats, before a winner is crowned in the live final.
Kate Phillips, the BBC's controller of entertainment commissioning, said the new show would have "shed loads of sass and spirit".
"There are millions of people in the UK of all ages and backgrounds who sing simply for the love of it, for the joy and sense of community it creates," she added.
The show was commissioned by Phillips and Charlotte Moore, director of BBC content.
It is the second music-based Saturday night series to be commissioned by BBC One in recent months.
From January the channel will also air Let It Shine, a talent contest searching for actors and singers to play Take That in a musical about the band.
The announcement of the two new series follow the confirmation that The Voice will move to ITV in the new year.
A cappella singing has become increasingly popular since 2012, when the first Pitch Perfect film, starring Anna Kendrick and Rebel Wilson, became a surprise hit.
The success of the movie led to a sequel, which topped the box office both in the US and the UK.
The new-found popularity of a cappella has also led to the success of Pentatonix, a vocal harmony group from Texas.
Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email [email protected]. | A new Saturday night entertainment show searching for the UK's best singing group will launch in 2017, BBC One has announced. | 38402151 |
Discus thrower Jones, 41, won bronze at London 2012 in the F37 category and will compete at her fifth Games.
Tait made her British debut at June's European Championships, where she won silver in both the T34 100m and 400m.
Both athletes were added to the squad after additional slots were made available to Paralympics GB for the Games, which start on 7 September.
Their inclusion takes Britain's squad to 258 competitors across 19 sports. | Beverley Jones and Carly Tait have been added to the ParalympicsGB athletics squad for Rio 2016. | 36926033 |
The 39-year-old has played for his hometown club his entire career but is out of contract this summer.
He has been used sparingly under Spalletti, but scored twice late on in Wednesday's 3-2 win over Torino.
Totti, who won the Serie A title with Roma in 2001, released a statement on his website on Saturday.
Former Italy international Totti's cameo on Wednesday, coming off the bench in the 85th minute at 2-1 down to score twice, left some fans in tears.
With 247 goals he is the second top scorer in Italian top-flight history and the third-highest appearance maker with 597.
However, this season he has only played 11 times, scoring four goals, and has been linked with Leicester and New York Cosmos.
His statement read: "The great beauty of Rome and Roma - like the fairytale we experienced at the stadium on Wednesday night - can only be truly appreciated by those who love these colours, as I do and as you do.
"My goals helped the team and the club I've always loved to win the game. That should unite people, not divide.
"We have a big match coming up on Monday and the only thing that matters to me - as always - is being able to celebrate with my team-mates, the coach, the club and our very special fans."
Spalletti, who took over in January and would not confirm if Totti will face Napoli on Monday, said: "I've had a non-existent rivalry with Totti thrust upon me. I'm pleased if he's doing what he loves.
"I really enjoyed Totti's message on his website. A true captain's statement.
"I need everyone in my squad, Totti included obviously. I have to make sure all the lads feel important. He is always an asset to us." | Roma coach Luciano Spalletti has thanked Francesco Totti for urging the debate about his future not to split the fans. | 36125099 |
The facility at Mumbai's Saifee Hospital will have an operating theatre and an intensive care unit.
Eman Ahmed Abd El Aty, 36, is expected to arrive in the city on a chartered plane at the end of January.
Her family says she has not been able to leave home for 25 years.
The estimate of her weight is given by relatives.
If confirmed, she would be the world's heaviest woman alive as the current Guinness record holder is Pauline Potter of the United States who weighed 292kg (643lb) in 2010.
Ms Abd El Aty will be treated by a team of doctors led by well-known bariatric surgeon, Dr Muffazal Lakdawala.
As the patient cannot use a regular commercial flight, she will be flown to Mumbai on a chartered cargo plane along with her sister who is her main carer, a doctor at the hospital told the BBC's Geeta Pandey.
She will first need to bring her weight down before an operation can be performed.
Ms Abd El Aty suffers from thyroid and cardiac issues and will need to remain at the hospital for at least six months, the doctor said.
Reports say the 278 sq metre (3,000 sq ft) new facility is estimated to cost 20m rupees ($293,762; £239,253) and will be ready by the end of the month.
Ms Abd El Aty's family says she weighed 5kg (11lb) at birth and was diagnosed with elephantiasis, a condition in which body parts swell due to a parasitic infection.
By the time she was 11, her weight had risen sharply and she suffered a stroke which left her bedridden. Her mother and sister care for her.
However, Dr Lakdawala told the BBC last month that he believes Ms Abd El Aty does not have elephantiasis but suffers from obesity-related lymphoedema which causes gigantic swelling of legs.
Dr Lakdawala's patients have previously included Indian ministers Nitin Gadkari and Venkaiah Naidu, who underwent weight reduction surgery.
The Indian embassy in Cairo had initially denied Ms Abd El Aty's visa request as she was unable to travel there in person.
She was issued a visa after Dr Lakdawala tweeted to India's foreign minister Sushma Swaraj who responded with an offer of help.
Bariatric surgery, also known as weight loss surgery, is used as a last resort to treat people who are dangerously obese and carrying an excessive amount of body fat.
In the UK, this type of surgery is available on the National Health Service only to treat people with potentially life-threatening obesity when other treatments have not worked.
Around 8,000 people a year in the UK currently receive the treatment.
The two most common types of weight loss surgery are:
Where are you on the global fat scale? | An Indian hospital is building a special facility so that an Egyptian woman, believed to be the world's heaviest at 500kg (1,102lb), can soon undergo weight reduction surgery. | 38594559 |
American Troy Bradley and Russian Leonid Tiukhtyaev landed safely, their Two Eagles Balloon team said.
They claim to have beaten the world distance and duration records by flying for more than 137 hours and travelling more than 5,209 miles (8,383km).
To set the records the team needed to beat the existing records by 1%.
"The Two Eagles balloon team is pleased to report the Two Eagles balloon has landed safely just off the Baja coast near La Poza Grande," their team said in a statement.
"The pilots made a controlled descent to a gentle water landing about four miles off the Baja coast. The balloon is stable and still inflated and the pilots are fine."
The two pilots left Japan on Sunday and had aimed to land in Canada or the US. However, weather forced them to change course towards Mexico.
They were met in the sea by a Mexican fishing boat.
The statement stressed that the sea landing was acceptable "under the international rules governing the establishment of world records".
"Two around-the-world attempts using a different type of balloon landed in the water and were approved as records."
The two pilots needed to beat the existing records - both set in 1981 - by 1%.
For duration that meant staying aloft for about 138 hours and 45 minutes, and for distance they needed to travel about 5,260 miles.
The Two Eagles Balloon team said the landing "occurred at six days, 16 hours and 37 minutes", with the pilots covering the distance of 6,646 miles.
Gas-air balloons are difficult to steer, relying on the differing wind speed and direction at different altitudes.
In order to change height the pilots have only a helium release valve to go down and sandbags to jettison to go up.
The hi-tech "Two Eagles" balloon is made of a strong Kevlar and carbon-fibre composite, but weighs only 220 pounds (100kg).
It is fitted with monitors and other instruments that track their course and compile data to be submitted to record-keepers.
The specially-designed capsule sits beneath a huge helium-filled envelope and is designed to stay aloft for up to 10 days. The pilots live in a closet-like space with a very low ceiling. | Two pilots in a helium balloon have completed their crossing of the Pacific with a sea-landing off Mexico, setting new milestones on a six-day trip. | 31073490 |
Canberra is the only city in the Australian Capital Territory, which led the regional ranking. Australia led the country rankings, followed by Norway.
The OECD ranked 362 regions of its 34 member nations in its survey.
It used nine measures of well-being, including income, education, jobs, safety, health and environment.
Five Australian cities including Sydney, Melbourne and Perth were also in the top 10.
Other top-scoring places included the states of New Hampshire and Minnesota in the US.
On the other end of the scale, Mexican states constituted all 10 of the bottom regional rankings.
On a country level, Mexico, Turkey, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia were ranked as the hardest places to live.
The OECD rankings were met with pride by some Australian media outlets and surprise by others.
While the Sydney Morning Herald headline said "Canberra the best place to live, in the world's best country", the rival Herald Sun headline went "Is Canberra really the world's best city? More like capital punishment".
"Canberra: Why wait for death?" was Bill Bryson's blistering judgement in his 2000 travelogue Down Under. "Pyongyang without the dystopia," was the verdict of the Economist in 2009.
If Sydney is brash and bold, and Melbourne is cool and classy, then Canberra, at least in the Australian public imagination, is dull and devoid of soul.
"Canberra: it's not that bad" is the caption on a well-known car licence plate in the capital city. Talk about damning with faint praise.
Madeleine Morris on Canberra at 100 (2013)
The Canberra Times said the rankings "yet again confirmed what many Canberrans have long known; that our city is the best place to live in the world".
An opinion piece on popular website news.com.au, owned by News Corp, said: "Canberra is not, as you might believe, a desolate wasteland of bleak suburbia punctuated by shiny expensive monuments, fake lakes, porn megastores, snake-riddled grasslands and endless, befuddling roundabouts."
The OECD study, while not comprehensive, is one of the few to analyse the quality of life in countries.
"Recent years have seen an increasing awareness that macro economic statistics, such as GDP do not provide policy-makers with a sufficiently detailed picture of the living conditions that ordinary people experience," the OECD said on its website.
"Developing statistics that can better reflect the wide range of factors that matter to people and their well-being (the so called "household perspective") is of crucial importance for the credibility and accountability of public policies and for the very functioning of democracy." | Canberra in Australia is the best city in the world to live, according to a report by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). | 29531850 |
Resuming on 100-2, the home side faced a thankless task, needing another 311 runs to make the visitors bat again.
But, despite 72 from ex-Warwickshire youngster Moeen Ali, the home side were bowled out just after lunch for 209.
That completed victory for the jubilant Bears by an innings and 202 runs.
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First-innings heroes Chris Wright and Keith Barker, who routed Worcestershire for just 60 on Tuesday morning, were again among the wickets as the Bears secured their seventh title and their first since 2004.
Barker weighed in with 3-39, getting the key wicket of home skipper Daryl Mitchell, who jabbed the ball into his stumps without adding to his overnight score of 42.
Wright took 4-65, the last three of them all clean bowled inside half an hour after lunch for a match, to finish with 9-89.
It also took the new-ball pair's combined haul to 112 wickets this summer.
Former Warwickshire fast bowler Alan Richardson, who played in their last Championship-winning team, was Wright's final victim, which meant there were two Bears old boys at the crease when the end came.
Warwickshire have won the County Championship six times before.
They lifted the trophy in 1911, 1951, 1972, 1994, 1995 and under Nick Knight in 2004 (pictured).
Warwickshire, who cruelly missed out on the title on the final day of the season to Lancashire a year ago, made no mistake this time round, their sixth Championship win of this rain-ruined summer earning them the title with one game to go - against Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge next week.
Victory also meant that Ashley Giles has now won the Championship as both player and coach.
Worcestershire's young side, by contrast, have won just once in 15 games to stand on the brink of relegation for the fourth time since the County Championship became a two-tier system in 2000.
With seventh-placed Surrey and eighth-placed Lancashire playing each other at Aigburth next week, only a freakish set of circumstances in that match, coupled with a 24-point victory for Worcestershire at Taunton, can save them.
The Bears achieved their triumph despite being without the services for much of the season of England duo Ian Bell and Jonathan Trott, who played just six games between them. Fast bowlers Chris Woakes and Boyd Rankin also missed half their matches.
Warwickshire captain Jim Troughton, who also played a big part in the Bears' 2004 title triumph under Nick Knight, admitted that he was "proud" to lead his side to Championship glory.
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"It couldn't have gone any better for us on the final day," Troughton told BBC Sport. "It's been a great effort all season and deserved reward for all the work we've put in since last year.
"We said in the dressing room at Southampton a year ago 'let's use that disappointment to fuel us for next year to do it with a game to spare' and it's amazing the way it's worked out that way.
"It's a proud moment for me to get my hands on that trophy again. I probably took it for granted when we won it in 2004, when I was a youngster, but this win means the world to me.
"Every single man in that dressing room has contributed. We've got a big squad and everybody has put their hands up with bat and ball. It's not just not the ones wearing the whites."
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Worcestershire coach Steve Rhodes added: "You have to pay tribute to Warwickshire. They almost got there last season and to do it two seasons on the trot is testament to the way they've batted.
"You've seen the difference over the last three days between a side with as much confidence as they have and a team like ours, who have had a few of our frailties exposed.
"When you're down, things kick you in the teeth and we haven't had the rub of the green. But, although we've had limited resources this season, I still feel we could have done better." | Warwickshire wrapped up the 2012 County Championship title as they completed a derby win over Worcestershire at New Road to effectively relegate their Midland neighbours to Division Two. | 19507008 |
The BBA will join up with Payments UK, the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML), the UK Cards Association and the Asset Based Finance Association.
The idea is to cut costs, and increase lobbying power.
The BBA represents both High Street and investment banks, while the CML covers banks and building societies.
It is not yet known what the new body will be called.
Nine of the UK's biggest banks including HSBC, Lloyds Banking Group and Barclays as well as building society Nationwide, called on the trade bodies to consider merging as it was considered that they often duplicated lobbying efforts.
They also raised concerns over the need to cut costs and have a stronger voice on European regulation.
"A new trade association would be able to represent the industry more effectively because its voice would carry greater weight," said Ed Richards, the former communications regulator who was appointed to lead the review.
"Having a single point of contact will also be welcomed by policymakers and will reduce duplication of effort."
The review also said trade association fees could be reduced by up to 30%.
The Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation think-tank estimates banks spend upwards of £50m on the top 10 trade associations they belong to.
It also found a significant overlap in membership with around 60% of UK Payments Council members also members of the BBA, for example.
The review called for the new to become a close partner with UK Payments Administration and Financial Fraud Action UK.
The Building Societies Association and the Finance & Leasing Association both said they did not want to join the merged group of trade bodies.
The various trade bodies expected to merge have yet to hold a vote of their members, which is not expected until the end of February. Should members of each lobby group vote to merge the timetable would see the enlarged trade body launch in May and be fully operational by November 2016. | Five financial services trade associations in the City - including the British Bankers' Association (BBA) - are to merge, following a review. | 34881093 |
James Gilbey, 25, from Bramley, died after he was hit by a Volkswagen Golf while crossing Stanningley Bypass on Monday night.
Five suspects aged between 22 and 29 are being questioned by police on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving.
A further man, 23, has been arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender.
Mr Gilbey was hit by the Golf as it travelled towards Pudsey.
The vehicle was discovered just after midnight in Fagley Crescent, Bradford, following a call from the public.
Officers have also recovered a second car in Bingley, a white Audi A5, which they believe was travelling in convoy with the Golf at the time of the collision.
Det Ch Insp Elizabeth Belton, of West Yorkshire Police, said: "James' family are completely devastated about his death and we are doing everything we can to provide the answers they need about exactly what happened." | Six men have been arrested in connection with a fatal hit-and-run crash in Leeds. | 33532763 |
Associated British Ports (ABP) said Dolffin Quay would bring hundreds of new homes and regenerate Harbour Drive.
But opponents are worried about the loss of park space and its impact on the nearby Norwegian Church.
Among them is Lord Crickhowell, who set up Cardiff Bay Development Corporation to transform the area in 1987.
ABP said the proposal would continue the redevelopment of the former industrial land and revitalise the wider bay area which began with Mermaid Quay and has since included Porth Teigr.
It said Britannia Park, opposite the Norwegian Church Arts Centre, would also be improved to enhance the surroundings of the existing pubs and cafes.
The plan also includes proposals to move the Grade II-listed Locky's Cottage, a former workmen's hut based at Sea Lock, to Roath Basin.
But those against it claim Dolffin Quay would destroy the bay's only green spaces, while Cardiff Civic Society said the plans "pose a real threat to the continuing success of the bay as a whole".
More than 1,500 people have signed a petition against the development.
Former Welsh Secretary Lord Crickhowell said: "It's clearly a breach of everything conceived and developed by the Cardiff Bay Development Corporation.
"The idea you would close off and shut down highly attractive parks would never have been thought of.
"It's a totally disastrous piece of planning. The whole thing will look dreadful."
Cardiff Civic Society chairman, Nerys Lloyd-Pierce, added: "This attractive area of the bay which also houses the Norwegian Church will be destroyed by this insensitive commercial development."
ABP said the development had been designed to ensure it resulted in a "public realm dominated by usable and attractive green spaces" and said the proposals would provide the eastern part of the bay with "an enhanced area of high quality open space".
A public meeting opposing the plans will be held at the site on Tuesday evening.
A planning application is expected to be submitted to Cardiff council shortly. | Plans to build a 24-storey building for flats, shops, bars and restaurants in Cardiff Bay will destroy the area's only parkland, campaigners have said. | 40681931 |
The Battle, also known as the Third Battle of Ypres, lasted from 31 July until November 1917, and led to the death, disappearance or wounding of 500,000 Allied and German soldiers.
Colonel Richard Kemp, the former British army commander in Afghanistan, shared his tribute to his great uncle Second lieutenant Philip Duncan, who was killed in the battle.
2nd Lt Philip Duncan was killed in action near Poelcapelle in Belgium during the Second Battle of Passchendaele on 30 October 1917 at the age of 26.
He died leading his men in battle just 21 days after joining his battalion on the Western Front.
Matt Pitcher remembered his great-grandfather, Sergeant William John Timbley, fought in the battle and survived to tell his story.
Matt told the BBC his great-grandfather was a career solider with the 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards. He turned 38 a month before the first battle of Passchendaele and saw action in the Boesinghe sector in Poelcapelle.
Before he fought in the battle, he was one of just 200 men who survived the first Battle of Ypres in 1914. After the war, he didn't speak of his time in the army.
Sam Barnett's also posted about his great-grandfather, Private Maurice Walter Barnett, who was killed in the opening attack of the battle on 31 July 1917.
Private Barnett served in the 12th Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment after a spell at the 9th Battalion. "It is hard to imagine what he went through, surviving Boar's Head and the Battle of the Somme," said Sam.
"It's easy for us to think of the casualties as just numbers of soldiers but, to Walter, they would have been his local shopkeepers, neighbours, and friends."
Russell Craig tweeted an image in remembrance of his great uncle, Private James Kelly, who was killed in the battle on 16 August 1917.
Kelly was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1897. He attempted to sign up for service with local military units, but he was rejected so he went to Randalstown in Ireland to enlist with the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers.
His body was never recovered. His name is commemorated in Tyne Cot Cemetery alongside 35,000 other missing soldiers.
Paul Brown shared the story of his great-grandfather, Richardson Robson Flinn. He served with the Northumberland Fusiliers Labour Corps in 1914, then aged 22.
He was gassed during fighting in 1915 and recuperated in Britain before going back to the frontline at Passchendaele.
"Richardson made it almost to the German lines before being felled by gunfire, and lay wounded in a shell hole," said Paul.
"Once the initial chaos had subsided, German officers emerged waving red cross flags. One German gave Richardson some water from his canteen. Eventually, the wounded from both sides were evacuated.
"Richardson was discharged in December 1917 with a disability shot wound, although it was the gas that had done the worst damage.
"He returned home, but never fully recovered his health, and died young. Unfortunately, none of his living relatives ever got the chance to know him."
Twitter user @DaveVForce shared his memory of his distant cousin who was killed in the battle.
Gunner William Potterton enlisted for service on 11 July 1916 and served with the 72nd battery Royal Field Artillery.
He was killed in action on 19 October 1917. He has no known grave and his memory is also commemorated at the Tyne Cot Cemetery.
Complied by Paul Harrison, UGC and Social news team | The centenary of the the Battle of Passchendale has been marked by those on social media with tributes to family who fought and died at Passchendale. | 40774469 |
It is thought the community-owned equipment - used on people in cardiac arrest - was taken from Newtonhill between 26 September and 10 October.
One was next to a cash machine at Tesco in Newtonhill Road, and the other was close to the pharmacy at Old Mill Road.
Police Scotland said it was a "reckless act" that had the potential to cause death, through misuse or by the equipment not being available.
PC Marc Camus said: "I know how much time and effort went into the fund-raising to obtain these crucial life-saving devices." | Two defibrillators have been stolen from an Aberdeenshire village. | 37622954 |
In a widely circulated video clip, the guide says in Swahili that the tourist wants Tanzanians to stop "complaining" about hunger.
The woman, in fact, says Tanzanians are "fabulously wonderful".
The guide was arrested on the tourism minister's order for casting the ministry in a "bad light", police said.
Tanzania markets itself as The Soul of Africa, and is popular with tourists because of its wildlife and spectacular scenery.
The unnamed guide, from the state-run Serengeti National Park in the north, has not been charged with any offence.
Regional police commander Jaffari Mohammed told the BBC that he had "misled" the tourist, and police were investigating whether he had circulated the video on social media in violation of cybercrime legislation.
The controversial law allows for a minimum fine of about $1,300 (£1,000) and a minimum jail term of three months for publishing false, deceptive or misleading information on a computer system.
The law was introduced in 2015, despite complaints by politicians, social media experts and human rights activists that it gave the police "too much power" without adequate oversight.
The BBC's Lizzy Masinga in the main city, Dar es Salaam, says some of the guide's words were similar to those used by President John Magufuli, when he called on people at a rally last month to stop complaining about hunger.
In excerpts of the video published by a Kenyan newspaper, the conversation goes:
Tourist: "Hi. My visit to Tanzania has been beautiful, gorgeous. The people are fabulously wonderful and friendly. Greetings are always jambo [the Swahili equivalent of Hello]. Happy to be here. The land is beautiful, beautiful. The animals are wonderful."
Guide (translating): "You Tanzanians complain/cry a lot about hunger. Everyday you cry about hunger when you have flowers at home. Why don't you boil the flowers and drink [them]. It is not good to cry/complain about hunger."
Tourist: "The variety of animals and people you see is incredible, unlike anywhere else. It is just fabulous."
Guide: "You are asking your president to cook for you. Do you think your president is a cook? Can you get busy, even boil your clothing and eat."
Tourist: "It will be an experience to savour for all of your life. It is fantastic and beautiful and incredible and just unremarkable.
Guide: "Get busy in every corner of the country. The president can't leave State House to cook for you. You have to cook for yourselves. | A tour guide at a Tanzanian game park has been arrested after wrongly translating a tourist's comments about the country and its people. | 38930058 |
The Dons slipped to a 2-1 defeat at Tynecastle and remain five points adrift of the league leaders.
"The title's gone for us, I would imagine," McInnes told BBC Scotland. "Celtic can only absolutely throw it away and I wouldn't expect them to now.
"It's not over, but Celtic will go on, I would imagine, and win the league."
Celtic play Motherwell in Saturday's early kick-off at Fir Park, their final fixture before the league split.
McInnes, meanwhile, was left ruing a spree of early missed chances after Simon Church had given his side the lead in Gorgie.
Spanish striker Juanma struck twice to seal the victory for Hearts, pouncing on the rebound from Alim Ozturk's long-range shot, before tapping home unmarked inside the area from Jamie Walker's cross.
Third-placed Hearts move nine points behind Aberdeen with a game in hand.
"The start was brilliant," said McInnes. "The first 25-30 minutes we should have been out of sight with the opportunities we created. We were making Hearts nervous, we took the sting out of the game, played properly in their half, won headers, won tackles.
"The first is such a cheap goal to give away. When Ozturk steps in, I think we can close him down a wee bit, and a shot from 40 yards, we should be dealing with that one.
"Second half, we were thinking of ways we could tweak it to get that winning goal, and (the second goal) is a ridiculous goal to lose at that level. I thought we beat ourselves today."
McInness added captain Ryan Jack is a doubt for the remaining five matches having been stretchered off with a knee injury.
Hearts head coach Robbie Neilson revealed his team selection was influenced by the virus that had besieged his squad midweek, resulting in the postponement of Tuesday's fixture in Inverness.
"There was a few of them here that were really struggling," he said. "I picked a team tactically to try and win it but also one that I felt would be freshest, that hadn't had the virus quite as bad as the rest.
"But there were still three or four of them that were out on their feet, and the fans getting behind them, the full house under the floodlights really gives them the energy to push through.
"Tonight was vital for us. If we didn't win tonight, we'd be finished, and Aberdeen would get minimum second-place." | Aberdeen manager Derek McInnes says it would take a huge collapse from Celtic for his side to snatch the Premiership title after losing to Hearts. | 36002569 |
Jack Adcock, of Glen Parva, died after being admitted to Leicester Royal Infirmary with pneumonia in 2011.
Dr Hadiza Bawa-Garba, who denies manslaughter due to negligence, believed he had a "do not resuscitate" order, Nottingham Crown Court was told.
Two nurses also deny charges of manslaughter by gross negligence.
Giving evidence, Dr Bawa-Garba, 38, said she was called to a ward where an emergency team was trying to save Jack's life after he had been admitted earlier in the day.
Before entering the room, she said she saw Jack's mother by the door and confused her with the mother of another child, who was marked do not resuscitate.
She told the crash team to stop, but when a doctor told her it was Jack, she ordered resuscitation to start again.
The jury was told the youngster was already beyond the point of no return, but the prosecution said the "remarkable error" showed how he was neglected by Dr Bawa-Garba.
Dr Bawa Garba said there was a lot of miscommunication and afterwards she was "blaming herself a lot."
The doctor also told the court how she missed two abnormal blood tests for Jack.
She said she had called a technician to get the results over the phone after the hospital computer failed, but added she could not remember writing them down.
Asked by her defence barrister if she had missed the abnormal results, she replied: "I have thought and reflected on this and yes I did miss these results."
Jack, who had Down's syndrome and a heart condition, was admitted to the hospital with pneumonia and died on 18 February 2011 from a cardiac arrest after sepsis was triggered by a bacterial infection.
The two other hospital workers on trial are Sister Theresa Taylor, 55, and 47-year-old Portuguese-born agency nurse Isabel Amaro.
The trial continues. | A doctor accused of the manslaughter of a six-year-old boy has told a jury she called off attempts to save him after mistaking him for another patient. | 34573273 |
He assaulted patients in bed, and claimed to have abused corpses, reviews into his conduct on NHS premises found.
The reports cover 28 hospitals including Leeds General Infirmary and Broadmoor psychiatric hospital.
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt apologised to victims, saying Savile's actions "will shake our country to the core".
Savile, a Radio 1 DJ who also presented the BBC's Top Of The Pops and Jim'll Fix It, died aged 84 in October 2011 - a year before allegations that he had sexually abused children were broadcast in an ITV documentary.
The reports on Leeds General Infirmary and Broadmoor are detailed and, at times, graphic.
They explain how Savile was allowed unsupervised access to vulnerable patients, with a failure to question the risks of his unconventional and promiscuous lifestyle.
The Leeds investigation found:
Mr Hunt told the Commons one victim being treated at Leeds General Infirmary feared she was pregnant after being abused.
There were also reports that Savile made jewellery out of glass eyes taken from dead bodies from the hospital mortuary, he told MPs.
Sixty people have recounted how they were abused by Savile at Leeds General Infirmary, many were young people and teenagers.
One victim "Jane" - who was 16 when she was assaulted - told the BBC Savile took her to a local shop to buy sweets and magazine, but soon afterwards sexually assaulted her in a hospital basement.
"He pulled me in immediately and started to kiss me with his tongue", she said.
"At the same time his left hand went on to my right thigh under my dress."
"There was no conversation up until that point. I couldn't have said anything even if I'd wanted to, because he had his tongue in my mouth, which wasn't pleasant".
After the assault she said she felt "dirty and ridiculously stupid". She said she began to tell nurses about the incident but when they laughed felt she couldn't finish.
"All the staff accepted it, patients accepted it, clearly the porters accepted it as well."
Mr Hunt apologised on behalf of the government and the NHS, saying of the victims: "We let them down badly."
The health secretary said there was a "deep sense of revulsion" over the findings.
By Nick TriggleHealth correspondent
Why the NHS must heed the lessons of Savile
He added: "As a nation, at that time we held Savile in our affection as a somewhat eccentric national treasure with a strong commitment to charitable causes.
"Today's report shows that in reality he was a sickening and prolific sexual abuser who repeatedly exploited the trust of a nation for his own vile purposes."
Mr Hunt is writing to all NHS trusts asking them to ensure they are confident about patient safety.
A spokesman for Prime Minister David Cameron said he was "deeply shocked", adding it was "important lessons are learned".
The Leeds report was clear that no one person is to blame for what happened at the hospital other than Savile. But it did describe a lack of curiosity about his activities.
Lesley McLean, Victim Support manager for West Yorkshire, said: "The parents of the children [Savile] abused in Leeds hospitals were already anxious about their child's health.
"What they thought was a treat for their loved one was actually their worst nightmare."
Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust issued a statement apologising to "each and every one of Savile's victims".
"There should have been far more scrutiny of him and what he was doing at our hospitals over the years, and more robust safeguards and internal controls in place to protect our staff and patients in our care," chief executive Julian Hartley said.
In 1988, Savile was appointed by the Department of Health as the head of a taskforce overseeing Broadmoor.
The report describes an inappropriate culture at Broadmoor that allowed sexual liaisons between staff and patients and discouraged reporting of concerns.
The Broadmoor report found:
The report said the numbers were very likely to be an underestimate of the true picture because so many former patients simply wished to forget their time at Broadmoor.
Noami Stanley, a psychiatric nurse who treated patients who told her they had been abused by Savile at Broadmoor, said police and senior medical staff dismissed her concerns as an "irritation".
She told BBC Radio 4's World at One: "I explained what I heard and what I believed was going on in Broadmoor.
"There was a pair of police officers who appeared surprised and looked immediately to my superiors as if to say 'do something about this woman, she's nuts'."
She said of the senior nursing officer present: "He gave me quite a severe ticking office and said if I ever ever spoke out of turn like that again I would receive a disciplinary and might get sacked."
Marjorie Wallace - now chief executive of the charity Sane - also visited the hospital regularly in the 1980s when she was researching a book.
She said there was "obviously something sinister" about the DJ and attempted to raise the alarm after witnessing his treatment of two female patients: "I went to the Department of Health and said 'What is Jimmy Savile doing here?"
But she says she was told Savile was bringing Broadmoor out of the "dark ages" and that he was a "good person, liberating this closed institution".
Labour's Andy Burnham said giving Savile "gold-plated keys" to the hospital was "one of the greatest failures in public protection and patient safety we've ever seen".
The shadow health secretary called for an over-arching, independent inquiry into the scandal.
"It would appear Savile was appointed to this role without any background checks at all," he told the BBC. "There needs to be more independent scrutiny of how the government of the day handled this."
Reports have been issued on: St Catherine's Hospital (Birkenhead); Saxondale Mental Health Hospital; Portsmouth Royal Hospital; Dewsbury and District Hospital (including Pinderfields Hospital); High Royds Psychiatric Hospital; Cardiff Royal Infirmary; Great Ormond Street Hospital; Exeter Hospital; Ashworth Hospital; Barnet General Hospital; Booth Hall; De La Pole Hospital; Dryburn Hospital; Hammersmith Hospital; Leavesden Secure Mental Health Hospital; Marsden Hospital; Maudsley Hospital; Odstock Hospital; Prestwich Psychiatric Hospital; Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead; Royal Victoria Infirmary; Queen Mary's Hospital, Carshalton; Whitby Memorial Hospital; Wythenshawe Hospital, and Woodhouse Eaves Children's Convalescent Homes in Leicester.
A report about Wheatfield's Hospice, which is run by the Sue Ryder charity, has also been released.
Leicestershire Police has launched an investigation after one victim of Savile, who was abused as a young boy at a children's convalescent home in Woodhouse Eaves, told an enquiry team the entertainer was involved in the death of another child.
However, no reference to a child's death could be found in the records of the home, Roecliffe Manor, which closed in 1969.
Since the allegations about Jimmy Savile came to light, the police have looked into how many victims there may have been. A review of why he was never prosecuted has also been carried out.
But this is the most comprehensive account of how he was able to offend and get away with it for so long.
Reviews into his behaviour at the BBC and care homes are expected later this year - and will no doubt shed even more light on the scandal.
But for now the failings of the NHS - an institution that is there to care for the vulnerable - are in the spotlight.
He enjoyed unsupervised access, particularly at two sites, Leeds General Infirmary and Broadmoor psychiatric hospital, and was able to use his fame to intimidate junior staff.
What is more, senior management were too unquestioning.
The reports are loathe to blame individuals.
But with cases of abuse and improper conduct being reported up until 2009 - albeit much less frequently than in the 1960s and 1970s - the NHS has a lot of soul-searching to do.
A key report into Savile's activities at Stoke Mandeville Hospital has been delayed after new information recently came to light.
Savile had a bedroom at Stoke Mandeville, where his now-defunct charitable trust was based, as well as an office and living quarters at Broadmoor.
Reports concerning two other hospitals - Rampton and Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health Trust - have also been delayed.
There are also new investigations at Springfield Hospital and Crawley Hospital.
It is understood investigations at two hospitals - the Royal Free Hospital in London and Pennine Acute NHS hospitals Trust - found nothing to report.
The revelations made in a 2012 ITV documentary about Savile prompted more than 100 people to come forward, giving accounts of how they were sexually assaulted by Savile on NHS premises and in other places.
A report by the NSPCC said Savile abused at least 500 victims, including some as young as two.
BBC health reporter Pippa Stephens said there have been many significant changes in the law since the time Savile committed abuse. | Ex-BBC DJ Jimmy Savile sexually assaulted victims aged five to 75 in NHS hospitals over decades of unrestricted access, investigators say. | 28034427 |
The BBC espionage thriller won for editing and sound in the awards that celebrate behind the scenes talent.
The Crown, National Treasure and Planet Earth II also won two awards each at the ceremony.
In the Bafta TV nominations only Tom Hollander from The Night Manager was nominated for best supporting actor.
This was a surprise after the show did so well at the Golden Globe awards where Tom Hiddleston, Olivia Colman and Hugh Laurie all won acting prizes and the drama also won an Emmy for director Susanne Bier.
Netflix series The Crown - which leads the Bafta TV nominations - picked up two craft awards.
The drama about the early reign of Queen Elizabeth II won for costume design and special, visual and graphic effects.
Sir David Attenborough's Planet Earth II won two of its nine nominations.
Those were the factual photography award for its cities episode (which was up against three other episodes from the series) and the factual sound category.
National Treasure, which starred Robbie Coltrane as a comedian accused of historic sex crimes, won for direction and original music.
Happy Valley writer Sally Wainwright picked up a Bafta craft award for writing. It was her third Bafta in this category and her fifth Bafta overall.
The writer of Mum, Stefan Golaszewski, won for best comedy writing, beating Phoebe Waller-Bridge for Fleabag, Julia Davis for Camping and Steve Coogan, Neil and Rob Gibbons for Alan Partridge's Scissored Isle.
War and Peace, which was up for five awards, won one for production design.
Other winners of one award were Black Mirror for make up and hair design, Hillsborough for factual editing, Rillington Place for photography and lighting and Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway for best multi-camera direction.
The Bafta special award for outstanding contribution to the industry went to prop master Bobby Warans.
He has made props for nearly 100 of the most popular British television programmes of the past 40 years, including The Morecambe and Wise Show, The Two Ronnies, Strictly, Absolutely Fabulous and Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway.
Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email [email protected]. | It was largely snubbed in the nominations for the TV Baftas, but The Night Manager has picked up two Bafta craft awards. | 39691630 |
The post was made after Welbeck netted the winning goal during an FA Cup quarter-final clash against his former club Manchester United on 9 March.
Manchester-born Welbeck joined the Gunners for £16m last summer.
The 15-year-old boy, from the Salisbury area, was arrested on suspicion of racial abuse and released on bail until 13 April, Wiltshire Police said. | A teenager has been arrested on suspicion of sending a racist tweet aimed at Arsenal striker Danny Welbeck. | 31906452 |
The film's ensemble cast includes Ralph Fiennes, Bill Murray, Edward Norton, Tilda Swinton and Jude Law.
Set in a famous European hotel between the wars, it tells the story of a stolen priceless painting and was partly filmed in Germany.
Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom opened Cannes Film Festival in 2012.
"With unmistakeable Wes Anderson charm, this comedy promises to kick things off in a big way," said Berlinale festival director Dieter Kosslick of Anderson's new film.
Its world premiere will launch the 11-day event in Berlin on 6 February, the first major European film festival of the year.
Three-time Oscar nominee Anderson has a large cult following thanks to films such as The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou and the stop-motion animation Fantastic Mr Fox, based on Roald Dahl's book of the same name.
The British-German co-production also stars Mathieu Amalric, Adrien Brody, Owen Wilson, Willem Dafoe, Jeff Goldblum, Harvey Keitel, Saoirse Ronan and Jason Schwartzman.
The off-beat story follows the adventures of a legendary hotel concierge, played by Fiennes, and the bell boy who becomes his most trusted friend. It premiered its first trailer online last month.
The Berlin Film Festival runs from 6 to 16 February 2014. | The Grand Budapest Hotel, the latest film from US writer and director Wes Anderson, will open the 2014 Berlinale film festival in February. | 24819279 |
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