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Although the athlete represents the peak of human athletic prowess, he still can only swim at a top speed of 5-6mph (8-10km/h) an hour, slower than the shark.
To even things up, the US swimmer wore a "monofin" for the open water race in South Africa, increasing his speed significantly but still not taking it anywhere close to the at least 25mph a Great White is capable of in short bursts.
And - spoiler alert - the athlete has revealed they were not in the water "at the exact same time" for safety reasons.
But humans have long pitted themselves against dangerous animals, often ones they know are much faster.
They have done this for money, to draw attention to a cause, to create a spectacle, and perhaps also out of an inflated sense of what humans are capable of.
Here are four other times man has raced beast.
Bryan Habana, one of the fastest players in international rugby, decided to take on the world's fastest land animal in 2007 as part of an event sponsored by a conservation group.
Habana is quick, but not Usain Bolt quick - running the 100m in 10.4 seconds at his best (compared with Bolt's 9.58 world record).
Still, the then 23-year-old, keen to raise awareness about the decline of the cheetah, fancied himself in with a chance.
But tempting the cheetah was a dangling leg of lamb, which it chased during the race as Habana, who was given a significant headstart, gave it all he had.
The end was close - but the cheetah just got over the line first. Habana asked for a re-run and was soundly beaten.
Filippo Magnini, a former world champ in the 100m freestyle, took on two dolphins in a pool near Rome in 2011.
Given the animals' clear advantage, the Italian only had to swim one length of the pool, while they had to swim two.
But that didn't make a difference and the man nicknamed 'Superpippo' was pipped at the post.
He said later that he fell "a bit in love" with Leah, one of the dolphins.
The black US track and field athlete won a string of victories at the 1936 Berlin Olympics in front of Adolf Hitler, who had been hoping for a games that would demonstrate the Aryan superiority he believed existed.
Owens later struggled financially back home in a country where racism remained rife and his sport was not professional.
To make money, he competed against racehorses in front of dazzled crowds.
He is said to have had the starting gun go off close to the horse, stunning it and allowing him to get away ahead (he also had a head start). Though this strategy worked most of the time, he didn't always win.
Later, more opportunities became available to Jesse Owens and, among other roles, he served as Ambassador of Sports under President Eisenhower.
NFL wide receiver Dennis Northcutt easily beat an ostrich named Thelma in 2009 for a TV show called Sport Science.
But in that initial race, a fence separated the pair, and it was obvious the animal wasn't giving it her best.
In a second race, this time inside the ostrich's enclosure, Dennis was soundly beaten, as the ostrich leapt away and he was left chasing it through the dust. | Michael Phelps, the world's most decorated Olympian and a swimmer nicknamed the "Flying Fish", has gone head-to-head against a Great White Shark in a 100m race set to be broadcast by the Discovery network. | 40680346 |
Tran Vu Anh Binh and Vo Minh Tri were both convicted by a court in Ho Chi Minh City and sentenced to six and four years in prison respectively.
Detained in late 2011, the two were sentenced after a five-hour trial.
Ahead of the trial, rights group Amnesty International described their treatment as "ludicrous".
As well as social issues, their work included songs that criticised China over its territorial claims in the South China Sea and the Vietnamese government's handling of the row.
Beijing and Hanoi have overlapping territorial claims in the South China Sea and tensions between the two nations have been rumbling for months.
In a statement on Monday Amnesty International called for the songwriters' release.
"This is a ludicrous way to treat people just for writing songs,'' said Rupert Abbott, the group's researcher on Vietnam.
''These men are prisoners of conscience, detained solely for the peaceful exercise of their right to freedom of expression through their songs and non-violent activities, and should be freed."
The sentencing comes weeks after three bloggers accused of spreading anti-government propaganda were jailed for between four and 12 years.
''There is a very disturbing trend of repression against those who peacefully voice opinions the Vietnamese authorities do not like," said Mr Abbott.
The Communist Party is currently riven by factional splits over corruption and mismanagement of a now shaky economy, and so is very sensitive to criticism, says the BBC's South East Asia correspondent Jonathan Head.
Earlier this month, the party was forced to issue a public apology for the behaviour of some officials who have become very wealthy during the recent boom years.
But the jailing of songwriters shows it will not tolerate ordinary citizens drawing attention to its failings, our correspondent adds. | Vietnam has jailed two musicians for spreading anti-state propaganda, after they wrote songs critical of government policy. | 20133840 |
Kane Hemmings slotted in the first on the rebound after Greg Stewart's shot was parried by goalkeeper Alan Mannus.
The on-form Dundee striker doubled his tally and the lead after Danny Swanson was caught in possession by Gary Harkins who played a neat through ball.
Greg Stewart hit the bar as the hosts continued to have the best of the game against lacklustre Saints.
Ten weeks had passed since St Jonstone had last recorded a win. That was eight games in all competitions, running adjacent to the Michael O'Halloran transfer saga.
O'Halloran is now a Rangers player but their luck has not changed. It is now nine in a row and just two points out of a possible 21.
They might be losing their grip on an astonishing record which sees them aiming for a fifth consecutive appearance in Europe.
Dens Park had been battered by rain up to kick-off time and the surface, patched up in places, threatened to cut up badly.
In truth, the players dealt well with the conditions and produced a match which flowed end to end with a series of chances, the best of which - in the first 15 minutes - fell to Dundee's player of the month Hemmings, who broke with a clear sight at goal, but could not hit the target.
But there was no denying him after Stewart's blasted shot had been stopped but spilled by Mannus, with Hemmings on hand to capitalise from just five yards out. It was predatory finishing.
Stewart and Hemmings, once a partnership at Cowdenbeath, were all over Saints and Perth goalkeeper Mannus had to look lively on a number of occasions with Dundee really sharp on the counter attack.
They even had a penalty claim denied when Steven Anderson challenged Rory Loy. St Johnstone manager Tommy Wright was of the view Loy should have been booked for diving.
But his frustration went beyond that decision and his team's failings even had him punching the dugout at one point.
The rain was incessant for the 90 minutes and so too was the flow of the game. St Johnstone, despite an occasional flurry of defiance, were a shadow of their former selves and it was no shock when Dundee went two up.
Swanson was robbed by Harkins, who played a wonderful pass through to Hemmings. He was single minded about his finish as he broke into the box.
Dundee continued to dominate. Stewart rattled the bar, they were nerveless at the back and Harkins waltzed round opponents, the mud no obstacle to his dancing feet.
St Johnstone, meanwhile, who have had a confusing season, endured a night as miserable as the Tayside weather and even three second-half substitutions could not ignite a turn of fortune. To be honest there was little about them.
Only a late deflected Darnell Fisher shot caused Scott Bain any distress, but even then he pushed it over the bar.
But it would be wrong to dwell on their failings and ignore the rising fortunes of Dundee. Manager Paul Hartley talked pre-match of them flying under the radar.
Well, they are bang in the spotlight now. | Dundee leapfrogged St Johnstone in the Scottish Premiership table with a dominant win at Dens Park. | 35489659 |
In January Lemina rejected a call-up to Gabon's 2015 Africa Cup of Nations squad in the hope he would be selected to play for France instead.
But the 22-year-old midfielder, who joined Juventus on a season-long loan on 31 August, has now announced his commitment to the Panthers.
"I chose Gabon, and I am very happy about it," he told France's RMC Radio.
"I have signed all the important papers and agreed with the federation.
"I am waiting for my first game with the national team, which had to be postponed as I was in the process of moving to Juventus.
"They understood, and I hope I will be able to play in Gabon's next match."
Under Fifa rules, Lemina is free to switch because he has not yet played for a country's senior national team.
Gabon will host the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations - only five years after they were co-hosts with Equatorial Guinea.
Lemina began his professional career at Lorient and spent eight years at the French club.
He left Lorient and signed a five-year deal with Marseille in August 2013 and scored twice in 50 appearances for the club before switching to Italian giants Juventus on loan with an option to buy. | France Under-20 World Cup winner Mario Lemina has pledged his international allegiance to Gabon. | 34209107 |
Since its general release two weeks ago, the film has sold more than $378m (£258m) of tickets around the world, figures from Box Office Mojo show.
The second highest grossing game-based film, Prince of Persia (2010), made about $336m in cinemas, over 17 weeks.
Most of Warcraft's ticket sales, $205m, have been in China, where the online version of the game, World of Warcraft, has long had a very loyal following.
The film has also proved popular in Germany, Russia and France and has made about $340m of its total receipts from filmgoers outside the US, where it made 73% less money in its second week on release than during the preceding seven days and has a 32% rating from film critics on Metacritic.
Angry Birds - another game-based movie - has made about $327m since its release earlier this year.
Rick Marshall, at tech news site Digital Trends, said: "While the US is still home to the largest movie market in the world, a film's performance overseas is rapidly becoming a more substantial factor in determining its overall success."
China is currently the world's second largest film market.
Legendary Pictures, the studio that bankrolled Warcraft, was bought by the Chinese Dalian Wanda group of companies in January for $3.5bn. | Warcraft has become the highest grossing film based on a video game. | 36585935 |
Ernest Sugira scored both of Rwanda's goals in an eventful game, whilst Yannick Zakri Krahire proved to be Ivory Coast's match-winner from the penalty spot.
Rwanda went top of Group A with a maximum six points as Ivory Coast moved up to second, three points adrift.
Rwanda, coached by Johnny Mckinstry (pictured), took the lead against Gabon shortly before half-time through Ernest Sugira.
He then grabbed a second moments after the break, firing a superb shot into the top corner from an angle.
Aaron Boupendza pulled one back for the Panthers, heading home in the 53rd minute.
Gabon's hopes of finding an equaliser were dented just four minutes later when Tchen Kabi was sent off for a second yellow card after he fouled Dominique Nshuti.
Despite being a man down, Gabon pushed for an equaliser and hit the woodwork shortly before the end of the match and then also squandered a good chance in injury time.
Rwanda held on to become the first team to qualify for the quarter-finals at the tournament for locally-based players who play in their own domestic leagues.
The second Group A fixture in Kigali proved to be much tighter, with Ivory Coast sealing the win over Morocco with a solitary goal on the stroke of half-time.
After both sides missed opportunities early in the first half, it was Ivory Coast who took the decisive lead.
Yannick Zakri Krahire scored from the penalty-spot to earn Ivory Coast the win and boost their campaign.
The victory brought them their first points of the 2016 tournament, after they lost 1-0 to Rwanda in their opening match. Morocco fell to the foot of the table, having already drawn 0-0 with Gabon in their Group A opener.
The final Group A matches are on Sunday, with Rwanda playing Morocco while Ivory Coast play Gabon at the same time. | Hosts Rwanda earned a place in the quarter-finals of the 2016 African Nations Championship with a 2-1 win over Gabon in Kigali as Ivory Coast secured their first points of the campaign with a 1-0 win over Morocco. | 35360395 |
The evacuees were flown back on Thursday morning on two air force planes from Djibouti.
They were earlier picked up by an Indian navy ship from Aden and taken to Djibouti.
A Saudi Arabian-led coalition has been targeting rebels in Yemen in support of President Abdabbuh Mansour Hadi.
The two planes carrying the evacuees landed in the cities of Mumbai and Kochi, from where people will travel to their homes.
The majority of the Indians, including more than 100 women and 25 children, come from the southern state of Kerala.
"I was scared when a missile or a bomb hit our hostel building. We were moved to the hospital. I was really scared. I just wanted to, somehow, return to India,'' Celina Iby, who worked as a nurse for over seven years in Aden, told BBC Hindi.
Simi, who worked for a hospital in Aden, said local authorities were helpful.
"They gave back our passports and even arranged transport for us to reach the port to board the ship to Djibouti. But they did not give last month's salary and [the] experience certificate,'' she said.
Reports say two more navy ships are expected to reach Yemen by Thursday to rescue other Indians, who are mainly stranded in Aden and Sanaa.
There are some 4,000 Indian workers, businessmen and nurses working in Yemen.
Yemen has suffered from political instability for years and Shia Houthi rebels control nine of the 21 provinces.
The Houthis have said their aim is to replace President Hadi's government, which they accuse of being corrupt. | More than 350 Indian nationals evacuated from conflict-hit Yemen have arrived home to be greeted by relatives and friends. | 32157218 |
The US followed by China are the world's most popular destinations, followed by France and Spain.
According to the UNWTO's figures, released earlier this month, international tourism grew by 4% in 2015 generating $1.4trn ($966bn).
In comparison, global trade increased by just 2.8% in 2015 according to the World Trade Organisation.
"Tourism is today a major category of international trade in services," said UNWTO Secretary-General Taleb Rifa.
In 2015, tourism accounted for 7% of the world's total exports up from 6% in the previous year.
Tourism spending, which includes accommodation, food, entertainment, and services, has helped to offset drops in exports that have occurred as commodity prices have fallen.
"Tourism has shown a strong capacity to compensate for weaker export revenue in many commodity and oil-exporting countries," said Mr. Rifai. "Tourism is increasingly an essential component of export diversification for many emerging economies as well as several advanced ones."
Falling commodity prices have lowered the overall value of imports for many countries. According to the CPB Netherlands Bureau of Economic Policy Analysis, 2015 was the worst year for world trade since 2009.
The increase in international tourism came even as attacks at transportation hubs and on airlines raised concerns about travellers' safety.
The US and China, along with the UK were the leading sources for outbound travellers.
The number of outbound tourist from China has risen every year since 2004 with their spending increasing by 25% last year. | The UN World Tourism Organisation says tourism spending has outpaced global trade for the fourth year in a row. | 36420693 |
The attack happened at a petrol station on the Crumlin Road on 22 January. The officer was hit three times in the arm.
Police believe 10 shots were fired from an AK assault rifle in the attack.
A number of cars at the petrol station were also struck by gunfire. Police revisited the scene on Sunday night and appealed for information about a car used in the attack.
A car identical to the dark red Audi A4 Estate, registration number KNZ 2862, which detectives believe the attackers used to leave the scene, was parked in Flax Street during the hour-long revisit.
Det Supt Kevin Geddes said: "The investigation into the shooting of a community police officer in north Belfast last week is progressing, however, I'm still keen to trace the movements of this dark red Audi.
"We know it was parked in Flax Street at 7.02 pm last Sunday night and it left the street just after 7.30pm and was driven through the Oldpark area before being burnt out around 8pm in Culmore Gardens in West Belfast.
"I am particularly interested in its movements during January in west and north Belfast."
Det Supt Geddes described the attack as "cowardly" and "completely reckless".
"It is my belief that the weapon used to fire indiscriminately at the filling station has been used before to attack police in Belfast," he said.
"I believe it is an AK type assault rifle."
"It is a busy thoroughfare for motorists at that time of night and anyone could have been hit.
"There are a number of strike marks on the forecourt and on cars belonging to members of the public which could quite easily have killed or seriously injured local people, including the children who were at the station.
"Had any of the bullets hit the fuel pumps we may have also been facing casualties from an explosion."
A dissident republican group known as the New IRA said it carried out the shooting.
Three men aged, 30, 36, and 39 who were arrested following the attack were all released unconditionally. | A gun used to injure an officer in Belfast last week had been used to attack police before, police say. | 38789998 |
Martha from Argyll, Scotland, began posting her lunch pics this week. She's now had more than 100,000 visitors and press attention from across the world.
Celeb chef Jamie Oliver even tweeted: "Shocking but inspirational blog. Keep going, big love from Jamie x."
The first pic (top) of her daily £2 lunch featured a pizza slice, a croquette, sweetcorn and a cupcake.
Martha wrote: "I'm a growing kid and I need to concentrate all afternoon and I can't do it on one croquette. Do any of you think you could?"
But Martha never set out to be a healthy food campaigner - her NeverSeconds blog started as a writing project with her dad Dave.
They decided on school dinners because it was a subject she could write about every day.
She gives each meal a 'food-o-meter' and health rating. She also counts the number of mouthfuls it takes for her to eat!
As well as improving her writing, Martha revealed: "The good thing about this blog is dad understands why I am hungry when I get home."
An Argyll and Bute Council spokesperson said: "Our school meal provision is fully compliant with nationally agreed nutritional standards.
"Young people make a choice from at least two meals and salad, vegetable, yoghurt and cheese options are available each day." | A nine-year-old girl's blog showing photos of her school dinners has become an unexpected internet hit! | 18036473 |
At times he strays into what one of his predecessors, Massimo D'Alema, described as "planetary gaffes".
Here is a selection of quotations from Mr Berlusconi on a range of topics over his years in and out of office.
"The best political leader in Europe and in the world."
"There is no-one on the world stage who can compete with me."
"Out of love for Italy, I felt I had to save it from the left."
"The right man in the right job."
"I don't need to go into office for the power. I have houses all over the world, stupendous boats... beautiful airplanes, a beautiful wife, a beautiful family... I am making a sacrifice."
Yet by May 2010, he appeared in a chastened mood when he told a news conference at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris: "As prime minister, I have never had the feeling that I was in power."
Mr Berlusconi - caught in a series of scandals over his private life, including his alleged dealings with younger women and prostitutes - has frequently turned to a pithy phrase in an attempt to shrug off the allegations.
For instance, in April 2011, he said: "When asked if they would like to have sex with me, 30% of women said, 'Yes', while the other 70% replied, 'What, again?'"
As allegations swirled about escorts and "Bunga, bunga" parties, Mr Berlusconi admitted: "I am not a saint, you've all understood that."
In an earlier interview with gossip magazine Chi, Mr Berlusconi denied he pays for sex, adding: "I never understood where the satisfaction is when you're missing the pleasure of conquest."
More bluntly, in November 2010 Mr Berlusconi hit out with the following: "It's better to like beautiful girls than to be gay."
In an angry video message broadcast after his prison sentence for tax fraud was upheld by Italy's highest court in August 2013, Mr Berlusconi said he had been the victim of "judicial harassment that is unmatched in the civilised world".
"In exchange for the commitments I have made over almost 20 years in favour of my country and coming almost at the end of my public life, I have been rewarded with accusations and a verdict that is founded on absolutely nothing. Is this the way Italy recognises the sacrifices and commitment of its best citizens?" he said.
On the same theme, he declared after his immunity from prosecution was lifted in 2009: "I am without doubt the person who's been the most persecuted in the entire history of the world and the history of man."
"In my opinion, and not only mine, I am the best prime minister we can find today."
And also: "I am the Jesus Christ of politics. I am a patient victim, I put up with everyone, I sacrifice myself for everyone."
In 2008, he described Italy's judiciary as a "cancerous growth".
On judges pursuing former Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti on charges relating to the Mafia: "Those judges are doubly mad! In the first place, because they are politically mad, and in the second place because they are mad anyway.
"If they do that job, it is because they are anthropologically different from the rest of the human race."
In November 2011, facing the biggest crisis of his leadership, he said: "I want to look those who want to betray me in the face."
In 2009, a spat with his former wife hit the paper, as she criticised his party's plan to field attractive young women as European election candidates. He contrasted his "cultured and well-prepared" candidates with the other parties' "malodorous and badly dressed people".
He is quoted as saying on 9 April 2008: "The left has no taste, even when it comes to women."
On left-wing voters at a conference of retailers during the 2006 campaign: "I trust the intelligence of the Italian people too much to think that there are so many pricks around who would vote against their own best interests."
Promising to put family values at the centre of his campaign for the April 2006 general election: "I will try to meet your expectations, and I promise from now on, two-and-a-half months of absolute sexual abstinence, until [election day on] 9 April." He later insisted the pledge was "just a joke".
"Mussolini never killed anyone. Mussolini used to send people on vacation in internal exile."
"The racial laws were the worst fault of Mussolini as a leader, who in so many other ways did well."
Speaking on 13 August 2011, as he announced a raft of new austerity measures: "Our hearts are bleeding. This government had bragged that it never put its hands in the pockets of Italians but the world situation changed. We are facing the biggest global challenge."
But on 4 November 2011, he told a news conference at the end of a G20 summit: "The life in Italy is the life of a wealthy country: consumptions haven't diminished, it's hard to find seats on planes, our restaurants are full of people."
"We must be aware of the superiority of our civilisation, a system that has guaranteed well-being, respect for human rights and - in contrast with Islamic countries - respect for religious and political rights, a system that has as its value understanding of diversity and tolerance...
"The West will continue to conquer peoples, even if it means a confrontation with another civilisation, Islam, firmly entrenched where it was 1,400 years ago."
His response to worldwide condemnation of the above speech: "They have tried to hang me on an isolated word, taken out of context from my whole speech."
"I did not say anything against the Islamic civilisation... It's the work of some people in the Italian leftist press who wanted to tarnish my image and destroy my long-standing relations with Arabs and Muslims."
On his alleged conflict of interest as prime minister and one of Italy's biggest tycoons, with major media holdings: "If I, taking care of everyone's interests, also take care of my own, you can't talk about a conflict of interest."
Of Barack Obama, upon his election as US president in November 2008, he said: "[Mr Obama is] young, handsome and suntanned."
His response to the wave of criticism following the remark: ''God save us from imbeciles... How can you take such a great compliment negatively?"
An unabashed Mr Berlusconi rehashed the jibe on his return from the G20 summit in Pittsburgh on 28 September 2009: "Ah, Barack Obama. You won't believe it, but the two of them sunbathe together, because the wife is also tanned."
In general, Mr Berlusconi won praise for his handling of an earthquake that hit central Italy on 6 April - except for his advice to homeless survivors that they should see their plight "like a weekend of camping."
In September 2010, speaking at a youth rally, saying women should marry rich, older men: "Women are lining up to marry me. Legend has it, I know how to do it."
In January 2007, Mr Berlusconi was forced to issue a public apology to his wife, after she accused him of flirting with two women.
"If I wasn't already married, I would marry you right away," Mrs Berlusconi accused him of telling women at a TV awards dinner.
"With you, I'd go anywhere," he was quoted as telling another woman.
On Italian secretaries (comments made at the New York Stock Exchange): "Italy is now a great country to invest in... Today we have fewer communists and those who are still there deny having been one. Another reason to invest in Italy is that we have beautiful secretaries... superb girls."
"In Italy, I am almost seen as German for my workaholism. Also I am from Milan, the city where people work the hardest. Work, work, work - I am almost German."
In June 2005, on enlisting the support of Finnish President Tarja Halonen for Italy to host the European Food Safety Authority: "I had to use all my playboy tactics."
Mr Berlusconi added insult to injury by saying that he had had to "endure the Finnish diet", such as smoked herrings.
To German MEP Martin Schulz, at start of Italy's EU presidency in July 2003: "I know that in Italy there is a man producing a film on Nazi concentration camps - I shall put you forward for the role of Kapo (guard chosen from among the prisoners) - you would be perfect."
During the controversy raging over the above remark: "I'll try to soften it and become boring, maybe even very boring, but I am not sure I will be able to do it."
At the Brussels summit, at the end of Italy's EU presidency, in December 2003: "Let's talk about football and women." (Turning to four-times-married German Chancellor, Gerhard Schroeder.) "Gerhard, why don't you start?"
On his first meeting with Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen in 2002, Berlusconi complimented him with the words: "Mr Rasmussen is not only a great colleague, he's also the best-looking prime minister in Europe."
A joke about Aids told by Mr Berlusconi: "An Aids patient asks his doctor whether the sand treatment prescribed him will do any good. 'No', the doctor replies, 'but you will get accustomed to living under the earth'."
His response to critics who said the joke was offensive: "They have lost their minds; they really have come to the end of the line, indeed they have gone beyond it. I would advise them, too, to undergo sand treatment..." | Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is famed for making his views known in blunt, colourful, sometimes combative language. | 15642201 |
The 29-year-old has signed a two-year deal with Karl Robinson's side after helping the Bantams to May's play-off final, where they lost to Millwall.
Clarke scored 25 goals in 122 games over three years for the Bantams.
"Billy is someone that I've tried to sign a number of times and I'm really excited that he will be joining us," boss Robinson told the club website.
"Billy ticks all of those boxes and on top of that he is also very talented. If you look on paper, he is up there with some of the best players in League One.
"He is very effective - can play in a number of positions - and he is certainly going to bring goals, creativity, energy and an aggressive streak to the team."
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | Charlton Athletic have signed forward Billy Clarke from League One rivals Bradford City for an undisclosed fee. | 40206774 |
The 21-year-old joined the Potters from Birmingham City in January 2013 and had loan spells with Barnsley and Leeds last season.
Butland comes in after Lee Grant was injured in the 3-0 win over Reading.
Derby boss Steve McClaren told the club website: "We know a lot about Jack and he is someone who [goalkeeping coach] Eric Steele rates very highly."
Butland has made two competitive appearances for Stoke this season, both in the League Cup, and six in total.
McClaren added: "Jack is a promising young goalkeeper and, after Lee Grant picked up an injury on Saturday, we quickly set about identifying someone to come into the group."
Butland was part of the England Under-21 side that recently saw off Croatia over two legs to qualify for next year's European Championships.
He will be available for the Rams' league trip to Blackpool on Tuesday. | Derby County have signed Stoke City and England Under-21 goalkeeper Jack Butland on a one-month loan deal. | 29688846 |
It comes after shadow chancellor John McDonnell said sharing a platform with the Conservatives "discredits" Labour.
A spokesman for Mr Khan said many Labour voters did not know the party's EU stance, and he would take any opportunity to spread the message.
Mr McDonnell later insisted he was not criticising Mr Khan personally.
While most Labour MPs support a Remain vote, Jeremy Corbyn is regarded as the most Eurosceptic leader of the party in a generation and the Vote Leave campaign is chaired by a Labour MP, Gisela Stuart.
Mr Corbyn is campaigning for the UK to stay in the EU, but he has been urged by some in the party to make a bolder case for membership.
Mr Khan made a joint appearance with the prime minister on Monday to launch a Britain Stronger In Europe battle bus and pledge card aimed at persuading voters to back Remain.
The show of cross-party unity came after Mr Cameron repeatedly attacked Mr Khan during the London mayoral contest for having a history of sharing platforms with extremists - a claim firmly rejected by Mr Khan.
According to a report by Politics Home, Labour's shadow chancellor, Mr McDonnell - who, along with Mr Corbyn, has refused to campaign with the Tories in the referendum, despite being on the same side as the government, appeared to criticise Mr Khan's decision.
Asked whether Labour should put aside its differences with the Tories to campaign for a Remain vote, Mr McDonnell was quoted as saying the two parties did not share the same vision of Europe, and accused Mr Cameron of wanting to do away with workers' rights.
"Sharing a platform with them discredits us. It demotivates the very people we are trying to mobilise," he is reported to have said at a Labour In for Britain event.
However, speaking to the BBC later, Mr McDonnell denied he was criticising Mr Khan, saying: "I never mentioned Sadiq Khan's name at all."
He said the party had "learnt the lesson" of the Scottish independence referendum, when it campaigned alongside the Conservatives.
And he added: "It doesn't help us appearing on platforms with Tories because they have a differing view of Europe. So this is a distinct Labour campaign, and as a result of that I think we'll be able to mobilise Labour votes."
A spokesman for Mr Khan said he had made it "crystal clear" he would campaign with the PM for a Remain vote.
He added: "It is deeply concerning that the polls today suggest that Labour voters are unsure where the Labour Party stands on the referendum.
"Sadiq won't miss a single opportunity to make it absolutely clear to those voters where Labour stands on the referendum."
According to a YouGov poll for the Times, almost half of Labour voters do not know that their party is campaigning for Britain to stay in the EU - and thought it was either split on the issue, supporting an EU exit, or they did not know.
Labour MP and Remain campaigner Emma Reynolds told the BBC the party had "a lot more work to do" to show it was behind a vote to stay.
"What's really important is that we get more Labour voices out there - so that our natural voters, who say they don't know which way we are campaigning, know that we are campaigning to Remain," she told BBC News. | Sadiq Khan has defended campaigning with David Cameron in the EU referendum, saying he wants to make it clear Labour supports a Remain vote. | 36419811 |
No action was taken but it does raise questions about whether the cars, in their current form, are too cautious.
In a post on Google+, the net giant joked: "Bet humans don't get pulled over for that too often."
An accident report recently filed by the California Department of Motor Vehicles described a Google automated car as "over-cautious".
In a blogpost about this week's incident, the Mountain View police department said an officer "noticed traffic backing up behind a slow-moving car in the eastbound lane".
"The officer stopped the car and made contact with the operators to learn more about how it was choosing speeds along certain roadways and to educate the operators about impeding traffic," it added.
The car was travelling at 24mph in a 35mph zone.
In its own post about the incident, Google said: "We've capped the speed of our prototype vehicles at 25mph for safety reasons. We want them to feel friendly and approachable, rather than zooming scarily through neighbourhood streets."
But it added that, in 1.2 million miles of autonomous driving tests, "we're proud to say we've never been ticketed".
In September, Google said it was working to make its cars drive "more humanistically" following complaints that they were too polite.
Google's fleet of autonomous cars are programmed to follow the rules of the road to the letter but this can cause problems when the vehicles are sharing the road with human drivers who do not.
Researchers in the field have acknowledged that getting autonomous cars to work well in the world of human drivers is one of their biggest challenges.
This problem is illustrated in a recent accident report published by the California DMV which described how a Google AV (autonomous vehicle) and its test driver exhibited "an abundance of caution" at a pedestrian crossing. The car braked and another vehicle went into the back of it.
The cars sustained damage and the Google test driver was taken to hospital suffering from "minor back pain".
Statistics suggest that 90% of all car accidents are caused by human error and most experts acknowledge that self-drive cars will drastically reduce the number of road traffic accidents. | A Google self-drive car has been pulled over by police in Mountain View, California, for driving too slowly. | 34808105 |
The 23-year-old left Eastleigh for Barnet for a club-record fee in January but made just four starts.
"We've got another one at a good young age with so much potential to do very well for us," said Ebbsfleet manager Daryl McMahon.
The National League club have not disclosed the length of Coulson's contract. | Ebbsfleet United have signed Barnet midfielder Luke Coulson for an undisclosed fee. | 40599305 |
The 14-time Grand Slam champion and top seed won a first-set tiebreak and saved two set points in the second, but was beaten 6-7 (6) 7-6 (3) 6-4.
"I lost an opportunity," Nadal said. "I have to accept it and keep working to try to change the dynamic."
World number 45 Cuevas will meet the unseeded Guido Pella in the final.
The Argentine won 6-1 6-4 against Austrian fifth seed Dominic Thiem, who beat world number five Nadal in the last four of the Argentina Open last week.
The consecutive semi-final defeats for Nadal continue a disappointing season, which began with a first-round loss to Fernando Verdasco in the Australian Open.
"I didn't win a title, so it wasn't a positive two tournaments," the 29-year-old Spaniard said. "I had my chances in both but I just have to look forward." | Rafael Nadal failed to reach his 100th ATP final after losing in three sets to unseeded Uruguayan Pablo Cuevas in the Rio Open semi-finals. | 35624684 |
RBS has been trying to reach a last-minute settlement with thousands of investors who say they were misled over the bank's financial health in the run-up to its near-collapse in 2008.
The civil case was due to begin on Monday.
But it was adjourned to allow settlement talks to continue.
On Tuesday, Mr Justice Hildyard granted a second 24-hour adjournment after being told discussions between the parties were making significant progress.
The claimants are demanding £520m from the bank and four former directors, including former RBS boss Fred Goodwin.
RBS has now offered the investors 82p a share, almost double its previous offer.
Jonathan Nash QC, for the claimants, told the judge: "The present position is that the majority of claimants have indicated their willingness to accept the latest offer from the defendant.
"There now appears to be a good prospect that within the course of today the remaining claimants, or nearly all, will confirm they will also agree in principle so as to bring a practical end to the proceedings."
The judge, in granting the further adjournment, said: "There is obvious interest in the court in seeking to facilitate a full and final settlement agreeable to the parties."
But he pointed out it was also important that the court's time was not was not taken up idly with adjournments and there had to be a "realistic timetable".
He said: "There will come a time when the claimants must simply realise that it is incumbent on them to make up their minds whether to continue with the litigation."
Mr Nash said, barring "unforeseen developments", an adjournment of a day would be sufficient.
He also said if the trial had to go ahead the parties were confident the case could be heard within the allotted time.
The case centres on a rights issue aimed at funding a multi-billion-pound deal to buy Dutch rival ABN Amro at the height of the financial crisis in 2007.
It involved asking existing shareholders to pump £12bn into the bank in exchange for discounted extra shares.
The bank and former directors deny any wrongdoing.
The bank has already settled the majority of claims over the issue, but has not admitted liability. | The majority of claimants suing Royal Bank of Scotland at London's High Court have indicated a willingness to settle the action, a judge has been told. | 40017729 |
The Club Players Association was officially launched on Monday and a news conference was told that its main aim is a more meaningful programme with a shorter season.
"Players want to play games," said CPA chairman Micheal Briody.
"They don't want endless training sessions and 13-month seasons."
Mr Briody added that players feel "last in line after administrators, CCC members, coaches, paid managers have all had their say".
"This is fundamentally a player welfare issue and together the time has come to address it before we do irreparable damage.
"Since the idea of the CPA was first floated in the autumn we have been inundated with emails and calls from club players expressing their frustration at the way in which our fixtures are managed," added Briody, who is chairman of the St Brigids club in Meath.
The new club players' body is not yet officially recognised but a Wexford motion calling for this to happen is due to be debated at next month's annual GAA Congress.
CPA secretary and former Monaghan selector Declan Brennan added that the GAA's current fixtures programme "is a mess".
"Other less important issues have been given prominence," added the CPA secretary.
"Players want regular meaningful games, they want to enjoy our games and they want some downtime during a recognised closed season." | A new body which aims to give a voice to GAA club players has suggested that the senior inter-county season could be concluded by early August. | 38562468 |
The fire broke out in Churchill Drive, Weybridge on Wednesday, but the only person in the house was the nanny who spoke no English.
The ambulance crew suggested using the mobile app to establish if anyone else was in the house.
However, the nanny had left her glasses inside, which then had to be retrieved.
Tony Pascall, from Surrey Fire and Rescue Service, said: "It was a kitchen fire and the whole cooker was ablaze, but the lady in the house, a nanny, did not speak a word of English.
"We were rushing around trying to find out if anyone was in the house and we were trying to ask how she was feeling and where were the house owners."
He said two paramedics came up with the idea of using Google Translate on their mobile devices.
"The nanny could not read the screen and had left her glasses in the kitchen, we had to go back in to get them.
"It was quite amusing in the end."
There was limited damage to the house, the fire service said. | Firefighters and ambulance crews had to resort to using Google Translate to communicate with a Russian nanny after being called to a house fire in Surrey. | 34552053 |
The 44-year-old's departure follows quarter-final defeat in both the One-Day Cup and T20 Blast.
He was promoted from second-team coach in July 2007 and guided them to Friends Provident Trophy victory in 2008.
Essex have since failed to win any silverware, and are sixth in County Championship Division Two with four games left to play this season.
Assistant head coach Chris Silverwood, a former England pace bowler, will take temporary charge until the end of the season.
"I have had 19 wonderful years at Essex, both as a player and as a coach, but I now feel the time is right for a new challenge," Grayson told the club website.
"I have always been a strong supporter of the club's policy of developing our own players into first-class cricketers and it is a pleasure to see so many doing well in the game.
"I would like to thank the players for their hard work and dedication, particularly the three captains I have worked with; Mark Pettini, James Foster and Ryan ten Doeschate." | Essex head coach Paul Grayson has left the county by mutual consent after eight years in charge. | 33960213 |
Arkadiusz Jozwik, 40, suffered head injuries in an unprovoked attack in Harlow, on Saturday night. He died on Monday evening.
Six teenagers have been arrested on suspicion of killing Mr Jozwik, whose death has shocked the Polish community.
The family of Mr Jozwik, also known as Arek, said he was a hard-working man who loved spending time with them.
Polish people react to the murder of Arkadiusz Jozwik
Essex Police have said that a suspected hate crime is just one of a number of lines of investigation.
In a statement, the family said: "We are all extremely devastated. This is obviously a very difficult time for us as Arek was taken from us so suddenly and unexpectedly.
"He loved IT and strategic gaming and enjoyed life as a bachelor."
Essex Police said Mr Jozwik was assaulted at about 23:35 BST on Saturday outside the TGF Pizza and Mr Luigi's takeaway shops in The Stow.
His friend, a 43-year-old man, suffered hand and stomach injuries. He has since been discharged from hospital.
Det Ch Insp Martin Pasmore told BBC Essex: "The widespread media are reporting this as a hate crime, but that is no more than one line of many inquiries that we're following.
"We must not jump to conclusions - let us do the investigation and get the facts right."
Harlow MP Robert Halfon said the killing would be "all the more disturbing and shocking" if the attack was motivated by Mr Jozwik's nationality.
In a statement published on Twitter, the Polish Embassy said it had been "shocked" by Mr Jozwik's death, and was liaising with Essex Police.
Ambassador Arkady Rzegocki visited The Stow, where the attack happened, to lay flowers, telling reporters his country and the UK must show solidarity in the wake of the death.
"We are shocked but we are also thankful for local support since the attack," Mr Rzegocki said.
Five 15-year-old boys and one 16-year-old boy, all from Harlow, were arrested on suspicion of murder. All but one 15-year-old have been bailed. | The family of a Polish man who died in a possible hate crime in Essex have said they are "extremely devastated". | 37234997 |
The CA magazine found that half of the Scotland-based directors polled thought growth would be "flat" or "negligible" over the next 12 months.
Only 42% expected to see "strong" or "modest" growth, compared with 82% of those who were polled last year.
Skills shortages and the low oil price were cited as major barriers to growth.
Weak confidence among consumers and in the business sector was seen as another significant barrier.
The survey suggested Scottish finance directors were more pessimistic about the economy than those based elsewhere in the UK, where one in three (37%) of finance directors think growth will be flat or negligible and 58% expect strong or modest growth.
The CA, which is the journal of chartered accountancy body ICAS, found 37% of respondents thought growth would be flat or negligible, while 58% expected strong or modest growth over the next year.
More than one in four (28%) said they anticipated redundancies in their organisations over the course of the rest of the year, compared with just 19% of those asked last year.
Controlling costs, growing revenues and staff recruitment and retention were once again highlighted as the top three priorities facing finance directors.
The survey elicited responses from a total of 108 members of ICAS, of whom 55 were based in Scotland. It was carried out in partnership with law firm DLA Piper.
ICAS chief executive Anton Colella said: "The new number one at the top of Britain's risk registers is the difficulty of recruiting the right staff with the right skills to grow our economy.
"The skills gap is not just a problem in construction, manufacturing and technology but a red flag across almost every sector in the UK.
"If we are to ensure sustained growth in the UK economy then this must be addressed and it requires a concerted effort by business, government, education, and the workforce." | Scottish finance directors are more pessimistic about the prospects of economic growth than counterparts south of the border, according to a survey. | 34144492 |
Engineer Mr Sharpe, 25, from Worcester walked for six weeks from Plymouth on 7 May to Bude in Cornwall.
His aim was to discover as many surfing spots as possible on the way and "absorb most of what the Atlantic swells have to offer".
He admitted that carrying his board tested his strength and led to some severe pain in his shoulders. | Surfer Dan Sharpe has completed a 300-mile trek around the South West coast path, carrying his surfboard. | 40369330 |
The focus at this weekend's British Grand Prix is all on Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton and Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel, and the latest twist in their fascinating battle - as indeed it has been for much of the season.
It's what F1 was hoping for - two world champions in different teams slugging it out, the races decided by small details, uncertainty at every grand prix.
But this season might not be as simple as that. Valtteri Bottas' victory in Austria on Sunday put him just 15 points behind his Mercedes team-mate, who is 20 behind Vettel, and suddenly all the talk in the paddock was about the quiet Finn as a title contender.
On paper, he genuinely is.
Bottas has won two races, while Hamilton and Vettel both have three victories. Hamilton has five pole positions to Bottas' two, but the Finn's average qualifying position is 2.3 and Hamilton's 3.1. And on average qualifying lap time, there is nothing to choose between them - Bottas is actually ahead of the man regarded as the fastest driver in the world by 0.026secs after nine races.
On the weekends on which Mercedes struggled with tyres - Russia and Monaco - Bottas delivered more effectively than Hamilton.
Bottas has even had a retirement - with an engine failure in Spain - which cost him third place, or 15 points. Without that, he and Hamilton would be level.
No wonder a somewhat downcast Hamilton said after the race in Austria: "When you look a the results, he has had a DNF as well so he has generally had a better season so far. But there was never a point that he wasn't in the fight."
What Bottas has achieved with Mercedes this year is highly impressive in any circumstances, especially as the 27-year-old only joined Mercedes in January after Nico Rosberg's retirement as world champion. And one imagines it will be enough to secure him a new contract at the end of the season.
As for whether he is a realistic title contender, though, there is an opposing argument.
First of all, Hamilton has been unlucky.
Had his head restraint not come loose during the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, he would have won that race, Bottas would have been third not second and Vettel fifth not fourth.
And had Hamilton's gearbox not needed to be changed for Austria, he would have finished at least third, not fourth.
All of which would have made the current gap to Bottas 36, and the two main contenders dead level.
Then there's the underlying performance of the two Mercedes drivers.
Yes, there is nothing to choose between them in qualifying - and Hamilton has had three below-par Saturday afternoons in Russia, Monaco and Austria.
But that has not generally been the case in races.
Only in one race - Bottas' superb victory in Russia - has he been unquestionably faster than Hamilton. In Monaco, it was impossible to tell, as Hamilton spent the race in traffic after qualifying 14th.
In all the others, Hamilton has been demonstrably faster. Even in Austria, which Bottas won impressively, Hamilton was 14.4 seconds down on his team-mate by the time he had cleared the Force India of Sergio Perez and Romain Grosjean's Haas but only 7.4secs behind at the finish.
At the same time, while Bottas has scored more points than either Hamilton or Vettel in the last four races, he has beaten Vettel only twice on merit - in his two victories. The other two times - Canada and Azerbaijan - came after Vettel hit trouble when he was ahead. If that ratio continues, Bottas simply can't overhaul Vettel in the championship.
Hamilton has beaten Vettel only three times - but was nip and tuck with him for the win in Australia and Bahrain, and would have done in Baku were it not for the head rest issue. In other words, Hamilton has been much more of a consistent threat to the German on raw race pace.
Perhaps this was what Mercedes F1 boss Toto Wolff had in mind when he said after Austria: "For Lewis, it was actually the best outcome today that Valtteri wins the race rather than Sebastian. We are not even half time and we start counting points.
"In my opinion, Lewis had all the bad luck that you can have. We have let him down with the head rest and the gearbox and now it is about time to fight back and hopefully that is going to happen at Silverstone."
Bottas himself says he has never had any doubt that he can be a title contender this year.
"For me, since the day I signed with Mercedes, what else can you put as a target?" he says. "It has always been the target. But I don't want to shout about it too much. It is still early days in the championship and more than 50% to go so a massive amount of points to get and with this team I am developing so much every single race.
"It is still a long year ahead and for sure we will be in the championship fight.
"I don't want to think about it too much, because it doesn't help anything to start thinking about it because the fact is to win the title you need to make the most out of every race weekend.
"By making a thing about winning titles it doesn't change anything, you need to go race by race, session by session, lap by lap. But I know in theory with the points and everything we will be in the fight and that is good to know."
It all adds up to a potentially interesting - for which read difficult - situation for Mercedes.
Vettel's team-mate Kimi Raikkonen is a de facto number two; may even be a contractual one, if the rumours are to be believed. Raikkonen is already 88 points behind Vettel and will act as a rear-gunner for him for the rest of the season, even if Ferrari are not ready to admit it yet. They used him strategically in that way in Austria only last weekend.
But Mercedes say they are not yet ready to adopt that policy, and are for now letting the drivers race freely. Wolff says he will handle the situation "like we have handled it in the past, with the difference that dynamics between the drivers are completely different".
That is a reference to the sometimes poisonous atmosphere between Hamilton and Rosberg over the previous three seasons, when the German would use political games behind the scenes to try to destabilise his team-mate - sometimes successfully.
There seems little chance of that happening with Bottas, who is a straightforward, apolitical character. Trying to mess with a rival's head appears not to be something that would even occur to him - he simply goes about his business in his own quiet way.
Of course, having an ultra-stable, impervious team-mate can bring its own issues for the other driver in a team, but at least Hamilton knows it will almost certainly stay cordial and uncomplicated internally at Mercedes.
Eventually, if the championship becomes a mathematical impossibility for Bottas - or close to it - he will be asked to support Hamilton and will probably do it uncomplainingly, just as he did when letting him by in Bahrain this year.
Until then, if Hamilton wants to get his title challenge back on track and ensure it really does become a two-horse fight with Vettel, the onus is on him to do it himself. | Is there an interloper in the Formula 1 title fight? | 40592546 |
The findings by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Rics) are in contrast to other parts of the UK, especially London, where both sales and new buyer demand fell sharply.
Rics said demand for new homes in Scotland grew in July.
It noted that more surveyors reported a growth in new buyer inquiries.
The number of homes coming onto the market also increased in July, with 8% of respondents reporting an increase in new instructions,
Rics said the continuing supply and demand imbalance was creating more optimism in the Scottish market, compared with the rest of the UK.
In July, more surveyors reported prices rise over the month, while 32% of respondents expected house prices to increase over the next three months.
However some surveyors said the Commonwealth Games, the school holidays and the approaching independence referendum led to a slowdown in house sales in their areas last month.
Rics director Sarah Speirs said: "The housing market in Scotland continues to show an imbalance between supply and demand in Scotland and this impacts on prices.
"With demand from new buyers at the highest rate since December 2013 and fewer properties coming onto the market, there is certainly the need for investment in regeneration and creation of new stock in order to keep prices at a sustainable level."
Last month, Registers of Scotland reported that the average price of a house in Scotland had risen by 5.9% in the past year.
It said the average cost of a home in the three months to June was just over £162,000.
The total value of sales across Scotland in the quarter increased by 29.7%, compared with a year ago, to stand at almost £3.95bn.
The number of sales also increased by more than 22%, indicating sustained growth over the past year. | House prices in Scotland are holding up as a result of growing demand and a lack of supply of homes, according to Scottish surveyors. | 28777882 |
The format, also known as 4K, offers four times the resolution of 1080p high definition video.
The matches - including a quarter final and the final - mark one of the first times a live event has been streamed over the air in UHD in the UK.
They will only be made available to a limited number of TVs at BBC sites.
But it could pave the way for more widespread use of the technology.
One of the biggest challenges of distributing UHD TV to the home is how to make it compatible with existing broadcast and broadband capacities.
Users need speeds of around 20Mbps (megabits per second) in order to watch 4K content without glitches, experts say.
"It's a good idea for the BBC to trial these things and the results on a large screen look impressive but it also needs to be realistic about the potential to push this across current broadcast networks," said Toby Syfret, an analyst at Enders research group.
Previously the BBC has worked with Japanese broadcaster NHK on such trials. Rival broadcaster Sky has also run 4K trials.
The live streams will be sent via satellite from Brazil, and then distributed via Digital Terrestrial TV (DTT) and Internet Protocol (IP) but only to a handful of UHD TV sets in selected BBC Research and Development facilities.
Matthew Postgate, controller of BBC Research and Development said: "The trials will prove hugely valuable in furthering our understanding of UHD technology, and potential distribution models for the future."
4K is the next great hope for TV manufacturers hoping to persuade viewers to upgrade their sets but like any fledging technology it has experienced teething problems.
There is not a great deal of content available yet in the format and the costs of 4K TV sets remain high.
Netflix recently made some of its TV shows - including House of Cards and Breaking Bad - available in the new technology but the decoder required to view the content was not compatible with some early 4K televisions. | Three World Cup football matches being played in Brazil this summer will be streamed in ultra high-definition (UHD), the BBC has announced. | 27713243 |
Carter was sent clear on goal and slotted past goalkeeper Allan Fleming.
Goalkeeper William Muir kept Queen's Park's lead intact when he kept out Robert Linn's effort.
Arbroath's chances of finding an equaliser were dented when Jamie Henry's foul on Sean Burns earned him a second booking. | John Carter's early goal earned Queen's Park a win against Arbroath, who ended the game with 10 men and had Craig Watson stretchered off. | 35568111 |
Barby Dashwood-Morris admitted renovating the 600-year-old property while chairman of Wealden District Council's planning committee.
Brighton Magistrates Court heard the work was a "substantial erosion" of history.
Her former partner and co-defendant, Alan Proudfoot, was also fined £48,000.
The changes to her Hellingly house, which included knocking down a wall and installing windows, were discovered when she tried to sell it.
District judge Teresa Szagun said she "intentionally disregarded the requirement for consent - focussing on [her] own needs".
Dashwood-Morris had earlier admitted six counts of breaching planning law, while Proudfoot pleaded guilty to four charges of breaching planning regulations.
Mitigating, Stephen Whale told magistrates: "There was certainly no intention to commit offences and neither were they reckless."
In a statement Dashwood-Morris told the court the pair "strongly believed at the time" the works did "not require authorisation."
Michael Sanders, of the Hailsham Historical and Natural History Society, described the changes as "historic vandalism".
He added: "We can't have people going around changing things whenever they like. It is very alarming."
The interior was filmed for Channel 4 show Double Your House for Half the Money, but it was never aired.
Kelvin Williams, the council's head of planning, said: "Owners of historic properties should be aware of their responsibilities to the property and future generations." | A former council planning boss has been fined £75,000 for making illegal and irreversible changes to her Grade II-listed home. | 39793404 |
Although medically safe and not illegal, the chemical can cause a drop in blood pressure, fainting and heart attacks when used on a regular basis.
But those using it publicly in Lambeth can now be issued with an on-the-spot fine of up to £1,000.
Councillor Jane Edbrooke said using the gas was "not harmless fun".
The Global Drug Survey says it is the UK's fourth popular recreational drug.
In 2013-14, some 470,000 people took nitrous oxide, according to the Home Office.
It is especially popular with young people, with 7.6% of 16 to 24-year-olds taking it that same year - a greater proportion than took cocaine (4.2%) and ecstasy (3.9%).
There have, however, been 17 fatalities related to the use of laughing gas in the UK between 2006 and 2012, according to research.
The Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs says there was one death in 2011 and five in 2010. The US records about 15 deaths a year.
It is illegal to sell to under-18s if there is a risk they will inhale it, but it remains available for adults to buy.
Lambeth Council has now used new powers allowing local authorities to make their own laws to tackle local problems.
Ms Edbrooke said the council hoped the ban would get a message across to the public.
"It's not healthy, just because they're caused legal highs does not mean they're good for your health," she said.
Local police and council officers will both enforce the ban. | Lambeth Council in London has become the first in the UK to ban the use of nitrous oxide, or laughing gas, as a recreational drug. | 33955823 |
The woman, known only as Ms C, was referred to Perth Royal Infirmary by her GP.
The Scottish Public Services Ombudsman said, despite her symptoms, a CT scan was not performed
She was sent home, but collapsed weeks later and died in hospital.
Its report states: "Ms C had reported sudden onset of pain in her head and neck with some visual disturbance.
"She was admitted directly to the acute medical unit in the hospital where she was medically assessed by a specialist trainee doctor.
"She was then reviewed by a consultant physician.
"She was subsequently discharged home with the problem felt to be musculoskeletal."
The ombudsman ruled that this diagnosis was "unreasonable" as Ms C had no significant headache history.
A consultant physician advising him said that she should have had a CT scan, and possibly a lumbar puncture on her first admission.
The report said: "Whilst we cannot say that Ms C's life would definitely have been saved if these tests had been carried out, the adviser (consultant physician) has stated that it was probable that Ms C's condition was treatable."
In addition to issuing an apology, the ombudsman's ordered the health board to ensure patients presenting with headaches are investigated in line with national guidelines.
NHS Tayside medical director Prof Andrew Russell said: "We have been in contact with the family over this tragic event and our thoughts remain with them.
"We will be writing to them again following today's Ombudsman's report.
"We accept the recommendations and have shared them with the appropriate clinical groups to take forward in an action plan.
"As an organisation we take every opportunity to improve and we will ensure we share learning from this across NHS Tayside." | Tayside NHS Board has been ordered to apologise to the husband of a woman who died after doctors failed to provide appropriate treatment for a suspected brain aneurysm. | 39719558 |
President Bashar al-Assad's forces are "losing more and more control and territory", deputy foreign minister Mikhail Bogdanov said.
He said Russia, one of Syria's staunchest allies, was making plans for a possible evacuation of thousands of its citizens.
Separately, Syria denied reports it had fired Scud missiles at rebels.
Nato's Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen earlier said the organisation had detected the launch of such short-range missiles, saying it showed an "utter disregard" for the lives of the Syrian people.
Russia, along with China, has used its veto at the UN Security Council to block resolutions condemning the Syrian government's use of violence.
But Mr Bogdanov said on Thursday: "Unfortunately, we cannot rule out the victory of the Syrian opposition."
By Steve RosenbergBBC News, Moscow
These comments are significant. Russia has been a firm supporter of President Assad, providing the Syrian government with political and military support; it has also protected the Syrian leader at the UN, by vetoing Security Council resolutions that would have increased the pressure on the Syrian president.
Now, for the first time, the Russians have publicly conceded that their ally faces possible defeat. Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov said it was time to "face facts" and admit that the victory of the Syrian opposition "could not be ruled out".
Moscow's critics will argue that Russia has been too slow to "face facts"; if President Assad is ousted, the Russians may struggle to retain influence in the region.
Mr Bogdanov repeated Russia's call for dialogue between the two sides, predicting that the fighting would grow more intense.
He said tens, possibly hundreds of thousands of people would be killed if that happened.
"If such a price for ousting the president seems acceptable to you, then what can we do? We consider it unacceptable," he said.
Mr Bogdanov said plans were being drawn up for a possible evacuation of Russian citizens.
"We have mobilisation plans and are clarifying where our citizens are located," he said.
Mr Bogdanov also raised concerns about "extremists" seizing chemical weapons arsenals, according to the Interfax news agency.
Western nations have in recent days raised the prospect of Syrian government forces themselves using chemical weapons.
Mr Bogdanov's comments do not mean Moscow has changed its official position, the BBC's Steve Rosenberg in Moscow reports.
Russia still maintains that the ousting of President Assad would deepen the conflict, but this is the first time Russia has publicly acknowledged that the Syrian president faces possible defeat, our correspondent adds.
In Brussels, Mr Rasmussen said the collapse of the Syrian government was "only a question of time", adding that President Assad should "initiate a process to accommodate the legitimate aspirations of the Syrian people".
Speaking in Jordan, a minister in the Iraqi government, Rafa al-Essawi, also said that "Syrian changes will take place shortly", telling AFP news agency: "I think, personally, it is weeks."
At a meeting in Morocco on Wednesday, more than 100 countries recognised an opposition coalition as the sole "legitimate representative" of the Syrian people.
A day earlier, the US had recognised the National Coalition, drawing a sharp response from Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, who said Washington had decided to place all its bets on the coalition achieving an "armed victory".
On Thursday, US state department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said that Washington wanted "to commend the Russian government for finally waking up to the reality and acknowledging that the regime's days are numbered".
In Syria itself, state-run news agency Sana reported a blast in the Damascus suburb of Qatana which it said killed 16 people, including seven children.
By Mark UrbanDiplomatic and defence editor, Newsnight
The state TV channel al-Ikhbariya later said a second bomb attack, in Jdaidet Artuz, close to Damascus, had killed eight people, most of them women and children.
Violence has been increasing in and around the capital in recent weeks as rebels try to close in on the city.
The Local Coordination Committees in Syria, the umbrella organisation of local Syrian groups opposed to the government, said "Syrians are closer to victory than ever before".
It said in a statement that the "Battle for Damascus" was approaching the heart of the capital.
It urged the Free Syrian Army and residents to protect property and places of worship, and preserve documents and records that "contain massive amounts of incriminating evidence... and will be required to hold the regime accountable".
Government forces have been mounting severe bombardments of areas with a rebel presence.
On Wednesday, US media quoted American officials as saying "Scud-type missiles" had been fired at rebels.
Blasts 'hit Damascus suburbs'
McCullin in final front-line trip
Nato confirmed short-range missiles had been launched, with Mr Rasmussen saying: "It is reckless and I strongly condemn it."
An army defector still in contact with his old brigade told AFP he had been informed that five missiles were fired north-westwards from army positions on the road between Damascus and Homs three days ago.
Syria on Thursday denied it had fired such weapons.
"The foreign ministry confirms that these missiles were not used in confronting the terrorist groups," a ministry statement carried by Sana said.
"Scuds are strategic, long-range missiles and are not suited for use against armed terrorist gangs," the ministry said. | A Russian official has said for the first time that the Syrian government may be defeated by opposition forces. | 20710561 |
Andrew Murrison was speaking during Northern Ireland Questions.
He was standing in for Secretary of State Theresa Villiers, who is chairing negotiations at Stomont.
"The outcome of these talks will have a big impact on security in Northern Ireland and we all need to understand that," Mr Murrison said.
"All parties need to understand the extent of the stakes. If this process fails, then I'm afraid the future will not look good."
Mr Murrison was responding to a question from SDLP leader Alasdair McDonnell.
Meanwhile, Ulster Unionist leader Mike Nesbitt has said he believes there is a parallel negotiation going on at Stormont Castle on budget matters between Sinn Féin and the DUP.
"There has been no discussion of the budget in the all-party talks for quite a number of sessions," he said
"It seems to me this is happening between Sinn Féin and the DUP exclusively, not at Stormont House, but at Stormont Castle, and that's wrong."
Prime Minister David Cameron and Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny will arrive in Northern Ireland on Thursday to try to help broker a deal.
On Monday, Northern Ireland First Minister Peter Robinson has said he hoped the government regards the end of this week as the deadline to reach agreement in the Stormont cross-party talks.
He said that when Mr Cameron and Mr Kenny joined the negotiations on Thursday, they may push the Northern Ireland political parties to get a deal over the line.
However, he added that they in turn would find themselves being pushed on issues that the parties want to see delivered.
The talks concern disputes on flags, parades, the past and welfare reform. | A Northern Ireland Office minister has told the House of Commons the outcome of the inter-party talks will have "a big impact on security". | 30412177 |
The Portuguese was sent to the stands by referee Mark Clattenburg for an incident "in or around the tunnel area during half-time" of Saturday's goalless draw with Burnley.
He will serve a touchline ban for the game against Swansea on Sunday and will have to pay an £8,000 fine.
He was also fined £50,000 for comments he made about referee Anthony Taylor.
The United boss said it would be "difficult" for Taylor to officiate their game with Liverpool prior to the match at Anfield on 17 October.
Managers are not supposed to speak about referees prior to matches, but Mourinho added that appointing Taylor for the Liverpool match had put "pressure" on the Manchester-based official.
An FA statement said Mourinho accepted that the comments "constituted improper conduct, but denied they brought the game into disrepute".
However, an independent regulatory commission "found the disrepute element of the charge proven and as well as being fined, Mourinho was warned as to his future conduct".
Mourinho "admitted using abusive and/or insulting words towards a match official and accepted the standard penalty", following the incident against Burnley on 29 October,
Mourinho appeared to be upset when United were not awarded a penalty during Saturday's match, after Jon Flanagan challenged Matteo Darmian inside the Burnley box.
The 53-year-old emerged for the second half during the match but was escorted to a seat in the stands before being moved a second time, this time to the directors' box. He declined to speak to the media after the match.
Last season when he was in charge of Chelsea, Mourinho was given a one-match stadium ban and fined £40,000 in November 2015 after he was sent to the stands after going to speak to referee Jon Moss in his room at half-time.
He was also fined £50,000 for saying that referees were afraid to award penalties against his side after the Blues were beaten 3-1 by Southampton in October 2015.
BBC Radio 5 live football pundit and ex-Republic of Ireland captain Andy Townsend
With Jose's 'previous', he has got off a little lightly. I don't understand what is happening to him and those closest to him must be seeing a different man.
In some ways he is unrecognisable to the charm and sparkle he had when he first arrived in England. People change, but I would love Jose to relax a little more, and let a bit more of what he had previously come to the fore. | Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho has been banned for one match and fined £58,000 for two separate offences. | 37854591 |
The passenger called police when he asked the driver to stop on the hard shoulder of the A1(M) near Stevenage at about 17:30 GMT on Thursday.
A breath test recorded 171mg of alcohol in 100ml of breath. The legal limit is 35mg.
The driver, from Cambridge, was arrested on suspicion of drink-driving.
Police said the 42-year-old man remains in custody in Hertfordshire.
More news from Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire | A taxi driver was found to be almost five times above the drink-drive limit when he was told to pull over on a motorway by a concerned passenger. | 38607899 |
The man was injured in a field next to Hapsford Road in Bootle, Merseyside, at about 22:00 GMT on Friday.
He is being treated in hospital for "what is thought to be shotgun injuries". His condition is not thought to be life threatening.
The motive for the attack is "unclear" and a cordon is expected to remain in place for most of the day while investigations take place, police said.
House-to-house inquiries have begun and witnesses are being urged to contact police. | A man has been shot in the legs with what police believe was a shotgun. | 35851066 |
Yet for several hours, that is what pro-government media outlets and even the current president's handpicked successor, Daniel Scioli, were doing.
"Scioli wins," read the rolling red electronic strap on the television screens in the packed media annex at the Front for Victory movement's headquarters in Buenos Aires.
Four hours after the polling stations had closed, Mr Scioli took to the stage, thanked his loyal supporters and set out his programme for government. Only indirectly and very subtly did he refer to the possibility that he might not have secured a clear first-round win and there might be the need for a run-off vote.
Two hours later, Mr Scioli had failed to return to the stage - as party officials had promised he would. With no exit polls or official results, there were whispers and rumours that things might be "going south" for the government.
The results, when they finally came, had everyone in shock.
Mr Scioli and his centre-right opponent, Mauricio Macri, were neck and neck.
The powerful Peronist party machine that dominates Argentine politics from the smallest provinces to the presidential Casa Rosada (Pink Palace) had been humbled.
The party faithful, who at the start of the evening had been in typically boisterous mood, were rolling up their huge banners and trudging out of the hall. Some were even in tears, fearful that this was the end of their progressive utopian dream.
Yes, they knew that their beloved Cristina - as the sitting President, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, is popularly known - had to stand down after eight years in power.
But through her chosen successor, Mr Scioli, the project of popular but expensive welfare programmes and interventionist politics that define the "Kirchnerist" government would surely continue.
The future course for Argentina looks much more uncertain today.
Not only did the ruling party fail to dominate the presidential vote, they also lost their congressional majority and - arguably as hurtful as anything else - the polemical government minister Anibal Fernandez, one of President Fernandez's top allies, failed in his bid to become governor of Argentina's most important province, Buenos Aires.
Divisions within the Peronist party are already being laid bare.
Some of those close to President Fernandez, the ultra loyal Campora movement, have always been lukewarm about Mr Scioli's ability to step into her shoes. They were suspicious, in particular, about his commitment to continue her radical but divisive style of government.
Others within the wider party argue it was that combative but divisive style of politics, personified by President Fernandez, that led to the meltdown.
As one newspaper headline succinctly but correctly put in the morning after the night before: "Two countries."
As the banners were falling to the floor at the governing party rally, across town at Mr Macri's Cambiemos (Let's Change) headquarters they were blowing up balloons, dancing on stage and promising a bright, very different Argentina.
Politicians are, of course, full of promises and some of the slogans in this election have been particularly bland and uninspiring, but Mr Macri and his movement have tapped into a deep dissatisfaction that opinion polls and overconfident government ministers missed or ignored.
Mr Macri, the former mayor of Buenos Aires, appealed for independent and undecided voters to back him in November's second round, saying that Argentina had clearly voted for change.
He will be painted, in these interceding weeks, as a charlatan who wants to slash government spending and abandon the expensive welfare programmes that are so popular with many of Argentina's Peronist-supporting working classes.
But he also recognises that the country is in desperate need of reform.
Inflation is running at worryingly high levels, the Central Bank coffers are almost empty and relations with the important agricultural sector are at an all time low.
Mr Scioli may indeed recover to become the next president of Argentina, with the help of the party machine and the votes of those who supported the independent Peronist candidate Sergio Massa in the first round.
But this is a changed country.
Whoever occupies the Casa Rosada in December, when President Fernandez returns to her Patagonian ranch, will need to be a bridge builder - one who can mend fences between conflicting sectors of Argentine society as well as rebuilding the country's reputation overseas. | Only the most ardent, committed and perhaps blinkered of governing Peronist party supporters could interpret Sunday night's elections in Argentina as a victory. | 34635937 |
Toyota's production lines will be closed until the end of Wednesday while John Deere suspended work indefinitely.
Renault also said its car deliveries in China may fall in August and September after the blast burned 1,500 of its imported cars.
And Volkswagen said 2,700 of its cars were damaged.
Evacuation advisories have been issued for the area around the blast site.
The site is likely to have housed hundreds of tonnes of highly toxic chemicals.
Toyota said more than 50 of its staff were injured.
At least 114 people died in the explosions, officials said on Sunday, and more than 700 have needed hospital treatment.
The blasts on Wednesday came during holidays for Toyota workers, so there has been no impact on production so far at its three lines near the affected area, the Japanese carmaker said in a statement.
"However, due to ongoing evacuation advisories, none of the three lines at Tianjin FAW Toyota Motor Co Ltd" will be in operation between 17 and 19 August, Toyota said.
US company John Deere also suspended operations near Tianjin after some of its workers were injured and several buildings were damaged.
The maker of tractors and agricultural machinery said it was halting work indefinitely.
A small number of employees were injured, and windows and doors at some of the company's plant had been blown out, a spokesman said.
The full scope of the damage is not yet established as the evacuation has blocked staff from returning to assess the plant.
The John Deere plant in Tianjin primarily manufactures agricultural and construction equipment as well as engines for the Asian market. | Toyota and John Deere have said they will halt work at plants near China's port of Tianjin where huge explosions last week killed more than 100 people. | 33955783 |
Resuming on 434-1, Dickson (318) and Joe Denly (182) took their second-wicket stand to 382, the biggest partnership in the county's history.
Dickson set a post-war Kent record before being dismissed by Max Holden (2-59) as the hosts declared on 701-7 - their second-highest first-class total.
Northants closed on 180-1.
Ben Duckett (101 not out) put on 113 for the first wicket with Rob Newton (57), but the visitors still require 371 more to avoid the follow-on.
Earlier, Dickson fell 14 short of equalling Bill Ashdown's Kent record of 332 against Essex in 1934, but did pass current Kent coach Matt Walker's highest post-war innings of 275 not out in 1996 against Somerset. | Sean Dickson hit the second-highest total in Kent's history on day two of their County Championship second division game against Northants. | 40488957 |
The findings, from tax-free experts Global Blue, are another illustration of the extent to which the fall in the rouble is curtailing rich Russians' ability to travel and spend.
A 50% fall in the value of the Russian currency means foreign spending is twice as expensive for them.
Some of the shortfall was made up by Hong Kong shoppers, who spent 9% more.
Russians had been among the top five biggest-spending non-EU tourists in the UK, but have now fallen out of the top ten.
Global Blue, which introduced the concept of tax-free shopping 30 years ago, processes 80% of all such spending in the UK.
Non-EU residents can shop and claim back the VAT - worth 20% - on spending above £30 at shops and hotels, basically by filling in a form.
Overall spending was down 3% from 2013 to 2014, although December spending helped make up some ground as it rose 11% to reach a record.
Christmas was becoming an increasingly popular time for non-EU visitors, said Gordon Clark, UK country manager of Global Blue: "2014 was a turning point for how Christmas is a key period for international spend, a trend which we expect to continue.
"Unlike domestic, globe shoppers are not simply drawn by the heavy discounts but also... at a time when the streets are festively decorated to look their best."
With revenue from Chinese tourists up 20% in December, Global Blue says services and the ability to avoid Chinese luxury taxes are another two reasons the UK is attractive to theose shoppers.
It said Middle Eastern nations' spending overall also rose strongly, with December spending by Qatari and Kuwaiti visitors up by 33% and 24%.
Qatari shoppers in fact spend the most per transaction - £1,406 - compared with the average of £633 per transaction.
This year, VisitBritain, which promotes tourism in the UK, is predicting a recovery of 4.5% in spending to £22.2bn.
It says the recent strengthening of the pound is expected to restrain growth, but easier access to the UK for affluent visitors from China should help to retain international spenders. | The UK's hotels and shops saw spending by Russians fall 28% last year largely thanks to the plunge in the rouble. | 30869979 |
Howe, 23, spent the first few months of the 2016-17 season on loan at Southport and started just four league games for the Imps after his return.
But the former Scunthorpe youngster, who joined Lincoln in 2015, has now agreed an extension to his contract.
Captain Luke Waterfall and goalkeeper Paul Farman have also signed new deals since promotion. | Defender Callum Howe has signed a new one-year deal with National League champions Lincoln City. | 40171844 |
It happened on the Saintfield Road shortly before 04:00 BST Sunday.
Only one vehicle was involved in the crash. The man's name has not been released.
Police have appealed for anyone who witnessed the crash to contact them. | A man has died in a car crash in Crossgar, County Down. | 39471719 |
Ali Qazimaj, 42, was detained in Luxembourg, in connection with the deaths of Sylvia and Peter Stuart, who were reported missing on 3 June.
Mr Stuart, 75, was found dead near their home in Weybread, Suffolk, later that day. He had been stabbed. Mrs Stuart's body has not yet been found.
Mr Qazimaj, from Essex, is understood to have caught a ferry to France the day after Mr Stuart was found dead.
Live: Latest on the Weybread double murder inquiry
Police named Mr Qazimaj, a Kosovan immigrant, as a suspect on 6 June.
He is known to have caught a ferry from Dover to Calais, at around 18:30 on 4 June, after leaving his silver Citroën C3, in a cul-de-sac close to the ferry terminal.
Mr Qazimaj, who also goes by the name of Marco Costa, was found in a hostel in Luxembourg City by a worker who identified him from pictures on the internet.
He is currently being held in custody in Luxembourg.
Mr and Mrs Stuart were last seen on 29 May when they were captured on CCTV walking into Goodies Farm Shop in Wood Lane in Pulham Market, at around 10:20 BST.
Although the body of Mrs Stuart, 69, has not yet been found, police confirmed late on Thursday they were treating her disappearance as murder.
Det Ch Supt Simon Parkes, leading the investigation, said the search for Mrs Stuart was continuing but he had "no expectation of finding Sylvia alive".
The couple's son-in-law, Steve Paxman, 61, of Leicester, was arrested earlier this month in connection with the inquiry and released on bail. | Police investigating the double-murder of a couple have arrested a man. | 36558528 |
The Historic Environment (Wales) Bill gives local authorities powers to make owners carry out repairs if they damage monuments.
Battlefields, prehistoric settlements and place names will also be recorded.
It follows concern that out of 119 cases of damage to sites between 2006 and 2012 only one resulted in a successful prosecution.
The new law will make it more difficult for people to claim ignorance of a monument's status or location.
Authorities will be allowed to take urgent action to stop unauthorised work on sites, and there will be measures to prevent historic buildings from falling into disrepair.
Historic environment records - including place names - will also be put on a statutory footing in a UK first for Wales.
Justin Albert, National Trust director for Wales, said: "Sustaining and enhancing our historic environment will undoubtedly show the world what a proud, caring and forward-thinking country we are - a country that people will be eager to visit and share with us."
In 2013, a stretch of the 1,200-year-old Offa's Dyke, on privately owned land between Chirk and Llangollen, was found flattened.
But police said there was insufficient evidence to bring charges over damage to the ancient earthwork, which was built in the 8th Century as a boundary between King Offa's domain and Wales. | A new law to protect historic monuments and buildings in Wales has been passed by the assembly. | 35525331 |
The tourists were travelling in four vehicles that entered a restricted zone in the Wahat area of the Western Desert, a ministry statement said.
Ten Mexicans and Egyptians were also injured and are being treated in a local hospital.
The ministry said it had formed a team to investigate the incident.
Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto condemned the incident and said he had "demanded an exhaustive investigation by the Egyptian government".
The Mexican foreign ministry confirmed that at least two of its national had been killed and said it was working to confirm the identities of the other victims.
In a statement, it said Mexico's ambassador in Egypt, Jorge Alvarez Fuentes, had visited the local hospital and spoken to five Mexicans who were in a stable condition.
The statement (in Arabic) from Egypt's interior ministry said the four vehicles the tourists were travelling in were "mistakenly dealt with" during a joint military police and armed forces operation.
It said the incident happened on Sunday in an area that "was off limits to foreign tourists" but it did not give an exact location.
The tour company transporting the tourists "did not have permits and did not inform authorities", tourism ministry spokesman Rasha Azaz told the AP news agency.
The vast Western Desert area is popular with foreign sightseers, but is also attractive to militants, reports the BBC's Orla Guerin in Cairo.
A joint force from the Egyptian police and military was pursuing militants in the area - which borders Libya - when the incident happened, officials say.
The region is a gateway to the long border and weapons are available on the other side, our correspondent adds.
On Sunday, the Islamic State (IS) group in Egypt claimed it had "resisted a military operation" in the desert.
A group claiming to be affiliated with IS also said on Sunday that it was present in Farafra.
The insurgency in Egypt gathered momentum after the army overthrew Islamist President Mohammed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood in mid-2013 following protests against his rule.
The government says hundreds of police and soldiers have been killed, many of them in attacks claimed by IS's Sinai Province affiliate.
Up until recently most of the fighting has taken place in the Sinai Peninsula with occasional attacks taking place in Cairo and other cities.
In July, Egypt vowed to rid the Sinai Peninsula of militants after major clashes with IS fighters there killed more than 100 people.
It said that operations will not stop until the area is cleared of militants. | Security forces in Egypt have mistakenly killed 12 people, including Mexican tourists, during an anti-terror operation, the interior ministry says. | 34241680 |
Named locally as Thomas Mair, the 52-year-old was arrested by police close to the home where he lived alone in Birstall, West Yorkshire.
There are reports that he had a history of mental health issues and that as a young man, he may have had sympathy for far-right groups.
Witnesses reported that during the attack he shouted "Britain first" twice.
West Yorkshire Police said they would not speculate about the motive but the area's Police and Crime Commissioner, Mark Burns Williamson, called the killing a "localised incident".
The force said it was working together with the North East Counter Terrorism Unit on the investigation.
Mr Mair's name appears on a website listing him as a past subscriber to the SA Patriot - a magazine published by a South African pro-apartheid group.
The magazine issued a statement confirming that he appeared to have been a subscriber back in the 1980s, but said his subscription was not renewed and that those involved in the publication had never met him.
Meanwhile a US civil rights group, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), claimed it had obtained records showing Mr Mair had links with the US neo-Nazi organisation National Alliance (NA) between 1999 and 2003.
The anti-hate campaign group posted images on Twitter showing what it claimed were receipts issued to him for books published by the NA, including a manual on how to make a homemade gun and a guide to explosives.
Richard Cohen, president of the SPLC, told the BBC that Mr Mair had also subscribed to a variety of white supremacist, neo-Nazi literature that the NA put out.
"The material presents this view that Aryan, white people are superior, that they need to separate themselves from other races and they need to do so violently if necessary," he added.
Prof Matthew Feldman, an expert on fascist ideology from Teesside University, said the receipts "appear to be genuine, appear to be in the weeks after the first neo-Nazi bombing spree that had been inspired by the internet in 1999".
It has emerged that the gun used to shoot Mrs Cox was not homemade, but was a real weapon shortened in some way.
The UK political party Britain First, which boasts of its hatred of white left-wing politicians, has issued a video statement condemning the attack and says that it had no connection with the incident.
Mr Mair had lived alone since his grandmother died 20 years ago.
His brother Scott, 50, told reporters on Thursday that his brother had a "history of mental illness" but that "he has had help".
Scott Mair told the Sun: "We are struggling to believe what has happened. My brother is not a violent man and is not that political. We don't even know who he votes for. I am visibly shaken at this news. I am so sorry for the MP and her family."
Mr Mair's half-brother, Duane St Louis, 41, told ITV he believed his brother "wouldn't hurt a fly".
"He's never expressed any views about Britain, or politics or racist tendencies. I'm mixed race and I'm his half-brother; we got on well," he said.
Thomas Mair spoke to a local newspaper six years ago about how volunteering at a park in Birstall had helped him with his mental health issues.
"I can honestly say it has done me more good than all the psychotherapy and medication in the world," he said.
Friends and neighbours of Mr Mair's mother Mary Goodall told the BBC she was devastated by the news and had been unable to sleep.
They said they did not know him as someone who had long-term mental health issues, although he may have been treated for depression a long time ago.
Known to them as Tom, the neighbours said he went to visit Mrs Goodall once or twice a week to do shopping and cleaning.
Police forensics teams searched Mr Mair's home on Thursday while his neighbours in Batley also described their shock over the news.
One man said: "He's a very quiet person. He likes his gardening and stuff like that. He was a man of few words really."
Another neighbour said she had seen him outside the house on the morning of the attack. "He just walked past like he does," she said.
Friend and neighbour David Hallas said: "When his image came up on the screen me and my wife said, 'not in a million years'. Of all the people in Birstall that I know, he would've been at the bottom of the list."
He described him as shy, a loner, a "gentle, kind chap", a well-read man with whom he had talked politics and someone who never hinted at extremist views.
Marjorie Wallace, from the mental health charity Sane, said living alone and feeling disconnected from society was "fertile soil for extreme ideas, beliefs and hatred".
Loneliness was one of Mrs Cox's many campaigns both in her constituency and Westminster. | Quiet, bit of a loner, keen gardener - these are the main observations from people who knew the man held over the killing of Labour MP Jo Cox. | 36558386 |
"We won't stop! We know everything about you," read one tweet, along with the names and phone numbers of military staff.
Another social media post shows people in uniform in an office, with the picture apparently taken by webcam.
Central Command is part of the US military responsible for regions of the world where combat operations may take place - in this case 20 countries including Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Syria.
"In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful, the CyberCaliphate continues its CyberJihad," says another tweet.
Some of the documents published appear to relate to foreign policy for China and North Korea.
They also say that Islamic State, which also goes by the name ISIS, has infiltrated "networks and personal devices".
It also appears that a YouTube site associated with Central Command was also hijacked - with a picture of a man wearing a scarf and the phrase "I love you Isis" appearing at the top of the page.
A Pentagon official has said the hacking of the U.S. Central Command Twitter feed was an embarrassment but did not appear to be a security threat.
Both the Twitter and YouTube accounts have now been suspended.
Analysis - Dave Lee, BBC technology reporter
The timing could not have been more embarrassing. President Obama was speaking about his big new plans for cyber-security - an announcement designed to reassure Americans that after a year of massive hacks, and the damaging Sony Pictures attack, personal information on the internet was safe. Read more
Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter, BBCNewsbeat on Instagram and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube | Central Command's Twitter account and YouTube channel were targeted by a group claiming to be associated with Islamic State. | 30781377 |
Island officials said a movement ban covering 15,000 hectares had been imposed and measures had been taken to "contain and eradicate its spread".
Experts describe Xylella fastidiosa as one of the "most dangerous pathogens worldwide".
It was first recorded in the EU in 2013, and has since spread westwards.
Spanish newspaper El Mundo dubbed the bacterium the "Ebola of olive trees".
Officials from the Balearics' Department of Environment, Agriculture and Fisheries said the subspecies of the pathogen had been detected in three cherry trees at a garden centre during a routine check.
They added that the subspecies found on the island has only been recorded infecting cherry and oleander plants, but measures were being taken to eradicate it.
The Xylella fastidiosa bacterium invades the vessels that a plant uses to transport water and nutrients, causing it to display symptoms such as scorching and wilting of its foliage, eventually followed by the death of the plant.
Since it was first detected in olive trees in Puglia, southern Italy, in October 2013, it has been recorded in a number of other locations, including southern France.
Experts warn that should the disease, which has numerous hosts and vectors, spread more widely then it has the potential to devastate the EU olive harvest.
Globally, the EU is the largest producer and consumer of olive oil. According to the European Commission, the 28-nation bloc produces 73% and consumes 66% of the the world's olive oil.
Reports suggested that the X. fastidiosa outbreak led to a 20% increase in olive oil prices during 2015.
Follow Mark on Twitter | A disease that poses a "very serious threat" to the EU's olive industry has been recorded on the Spanish island of Mallorca for the first time. | 38050625 |
Flight SQ368, which departed at 02:05 local time on Monday (18:00 GMT Sunday), was two hours into the flight when the pilot announced there was an engine problem.
The plane turned back and landed before the right engine of the Boeing 777 burst into flames.
All 222 passengers and 19 crew on board were safely evacuated.
"We were in the air for roughly an hour before we began to smell gas," one passenger who gave his name as Chuan told the BBC.
"The pilot came on the intercom and said that there was an oil leak in one of the engines and that they were going to turn and go back to Singapore."
Chuan added that all the passengers were very calm and that he actually "went back to sleep" after the announcement was made.
It was only after he got off the flight that he realised how "close to death" he and his wife had been.
Firefighters took about five to 10 minutes to extinguish the flames, he said.
Passengers will be transferred to another aircraft which is expected to depart for Milan later on Monday, said Singapore Airlines in a statement on Facebook. | A Singapore Airlines plane bound for Milan caught fire shortly after making an emergency landing. | 36637421 |
The 8-1 chance, ridden by Richard Johnson, beat stable-mate Champagne West (8-1) by four-and-a-half lengths for his third win of the season.
It was Hobbs's first win in the race since Monkerhostin in 2004, which had also been ridden by Johnson.
"I thought Richard was going too quick but it was just right and he kept going very well," said Hobbs.
"I could hardly have predicted they would be first and second.
"Village Vic looked to be very good and then had an injury but he has come back well."
The winner was carrying only 10st meaning Johnson, 38, had to watch his weight over the last few days.
"I wouldn't do 10st too often these days," he said. "But I always thought he had a great chance and it's been well worth the while."
Earlier, the Jonjo O'Neill-trained More Of That maintained his unbeaten record over fences by beating his two rivals in the Novice Chase and could be aimed at the Gold Cup in March.
The 2014 World Hurdle winner had almost a year off track before returning at the Gloucestershire track earlier this month.
And the fast-improving Old Guard put himself in contention for the Champion Hurdle at the Festival with a thrilling win in the International Hurdle for jockey Sam Twiston-Davies and trainer Paul Nicholls.
Old Guard fought it out with Sempre Medici and Hargam but favourite Peace and Co, who moved to the front early on, was unable to pick up when the pace quickened.
"The clue was perhaps in the weight achieved by Richard Johnson on Village Vic. Just like AP McCoy when he dominated the scene, Johnson, McCoy's runaway heir apparent, rarely diets down as low as 10 stone, the required weight here.
"And his hunger regime - he said afterwards he'd promised himself a big takeaway tonight - was spectacularly worthwhile as they led all the way for a storming success, Johnson's 156th of the first post-McCoy season when surely he will finally be champion." | Village Vic jumped superbly to lead home a Philip Hobbs-trained 1-2 in the Caspian Caviar Gold Cup at Cheltenham. | 35082355 |
Candystripes keeper Gerard Doherty denied Sean Maguire before Garry Buckley's clever flicked finish put the Leesiders in front on 34 minutes.
Karl Sheppard slotted between Doherty's legs to double the lead before Maguire rifled home after 64 minutes to give Cork an eighth win from eight games.
Aaron McEneff came closest for Derry with a late strike against the bar.
It's a second straight defeat for Derry since the tragic death of their captain Ryan McBride last month.
Maguire burst clear on 10 minutes but his low shot was blocked by the onrushing Doherty.
Cork keeper Mark McNulty saved efforts from Nathan Boyle and McEneff but the incisive attacking football came at the other end.
Doherty tipped over a curling Kevin O'Connor free-kick before Buckley netted from a Stephen Dooley cut-back.
Sheppard struck 10 minutes into the second half, racing through and sliding in from 14 yards to make it 2-0.
The dominant Leesiders added a third when Derry failed to clear and the ball broke kindly for Maguire, who sent a fizzing shot past Doherty.
McEneff was denied by the woodwork with two minutes left in what was a rare highlight for the visitors. | Derry have slipped to fourth in the Premier Division after this defeat by leaders Cork at Turner's Cross. | 39535689 |
Tuesday's 2-0 home defeat by Derby left Cardiff second from bottom in the table.
Their concerns were compounded by an injury to striker Rickie Lambert, but Trollope believes his players can recover from their poor start.
"We've got a belief within the camp we can dig ourselves out of it and move up the table," he said.
"We were hoping Saturday's win at Rotherham would be a catalyst for that - obviously it's not worked out in that manner, which is frustrating.
"Confidence is not going to be at its best - that's human nature.
"We've taken a few injuries over the last few weeks which we'll have to deal with, but football always gives you a chance to bounce back quickly."
Lambert scored both goals as Cardiff beat Rotherham 2-1 last Saturday to claim only their second win of the season.
However, a hamstring injury forced the transfer deadline day signing from West Brom to leave the field after just 12 minutes of the match against Derby.
With forward Anthony Pilkington already missing through injury, Trollope had to bring on the inexperienced Kenneth Zohore in Lambert's place.
"Losing Rickie so early in the game was a huge blow to us.
"That was a bitter blow on top of the strikers we were already missing," Trollope added.
"I am not here to make excuses. We do have players out but the structure we have means we should have belief we can cope with the quality of opposition we faced."
The loss to Derby was Cardiff's sixth from their 10 Championship games this season.
Next for the Bluebirds is Saturday's trip to Burton, who are two points clear of Cardiff in 18th place.
"We will dust ourselves down, look and learn from it very quickly, and try and get mentally, physically and tactically ready for a trip to Burton," said Trollope.
"The pressure is on. It's a big game and we've got to be ready for that." | Cardiff City boss Paul Trollope insists his side can drag themselves out of the Championship relegation zone. | 37491392 |
PC Declan Gabriel, a 26-year-old local response officer, faces one charge of rape and two counts of sexual assault.
He is also accused of misconduct in public office. The offences relate to 21 September last year.
Northamptonshire Police said the officer would remain suspended from duty. He is due to appear before Kettering magistrates on 30 March.
The inquiry was led by the force's professional standards department, with the Independent Police Complaints Commission aware (IPCC), a spokesman said. | A Northamptonshire police officer has been charged with the rape of a 17-year-old girl. | 35595493 |
Police were called to McDonald's on Eccleshall Road, in Stafford, on 18 April.
Two girls aged 17 and 18 were taken to hospital with respiratory and abdominal problems.
Christopher Wardle, 25, and Spencer Benham, 23, were arrested on Wednesday and will appear at Cannock Magistrates' Court later.
More on this story and others from Staffordshire
Mr Wardle, from Barrack Road in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, is charged with possessing a weapon for the discharge of a noxious gas and causing or administering a noxious gas with intent to injure, aggrieve or annoy.
Mr Benham, of Wilberforce Road in Leicester, is charged with possessing a weapon for the discharge of a noxious gas.
An 18-year-old girl and two 17-year old boys arrested following the incident have been released on bail. | Two men will appear in court after a canister was set off in a fast-food restaurant. | 36100035 |
The Grantown-on-Spey golfer was successful in a play-off in Perth to secure a spot in the final-day field of 24 at the European Tour event.
"I changed clubs to a different manufacturer and started working with a new coach," Stewart told BBC Scotland.
"Results over the past few days have proven things are on the right track."
England's Ryan Evans was the top British player at Lake Karrinyup Country Club after three rounds, six strokes behind Australian Brett Rumford, who was on seventeen under par after both had third-round 68s.
Stewart, 32, was a further three strokes back, along with England's Jordan Smith (70), after his 71, as eight Britons reached the final stage.
The Scot, who is now based in Edinburgh, regained his European Tour card after a 10th-place finish in the Challenge Tour's Road to Oman rankings in 2016.
Until the World Super 6, he had failed to make a cut in 2017, but his lowest-ever European Tour round of 65 on Friday helped him make the initial halfway cut.
"That was massive, but it had been coming," said Stewart. "I definitely knew it was possible.
"I played really well and got the momentum going, which put me in a strong position for today."
Another cut to the top 24 players was made after Saturday's third round and it is part of a new format the European Tour has introduced for this tournament.
In Sunday's final round, the remaining 24 players will be reduced to one winner by the match-play format, even though the previous three days had been stroke-play.
"There are a lot more people talking about it and it's going to be an exciting format tomorrow," said Stewart.
"None of us know how it's going to go. We've never done a six-hole match-play before.
"If someone gets off to a good start and you're two or three strokes down after three holes, all of a sudden you've only got three holes left and that could be the match over.
"It's all set up well with the holes close to each other, so I think the atmosphere will be good as well. You never know what can happen tomorrow." | Duncan Stewart says changing his clubs and coach recently are the main reasons behind his good progress at the World Super 6 event in Australia. | 39015160 |
Strikes from Sergio Aguero and Kevin de Bruyne twice gave City the lead in Manuel Pellegrini's farewell home game.
But Olivier Giroud and Alexis Sanchez goals mean new boss Pep Guardiola could take charge of a side outside European football's elite club competition.
Arsenal need a point against Aston Villa to clinch their top-four place.
Analysis: Why fifth place is not a disaster for Man City
A draw at home to the already relegated Midlands side would mean Champions League qualification for the 19th successive season for Arsene Wenger's men, who could yet overhaul their local rivals Tottenham for second.
Louis van Gaal's United, currently fifth, two points behind their neighbours with a game in hand, will finish above City if they win at West Ham and at home to Bournemouth, regardless of how Pellegrini's side do at Swansea on the final day.
Relive the dramatic draw at Etihad Stadium
How will Manuel Pellegrini go down in Manchester City history? Domestic underachiever in some eyes, European pioneer in others.
City were well placed to win a second Premier League title in three seasons when the affable Chilean announced on 1 February that he would be replaced by Pep Guardiola at the end of the season.
Since then the Blues have won only six of their 14 league matches, meaning Guardiola could arrive from Bayern Munich without Champions League football to plan for.
Pellegrini has led City to League Cup victory this season and taken them into the Champions League semi-final. But the solemn expression of chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak at the final whistle said everything - finishing fifth is not acceptable for the club's mega-rich Abu Dhabi owners.
Following second-placed Tottenham's 2-1 home defeat by Southampton earlier on Sunday, Arsenal knew victory would move them level with their arch-rivals going into the final weekend.
Arsene Wenger's side were unable to take all three points, but they showed character to fight back twice against top-four rivals City.
The Blues produced a lively attacking performance after being criticised for a laboured display in their narrow second-leg defeat at Real Madrid on Wednesday.
Pellegrini's side deservedly led when Aguero found space to turn and drill in from the edge of the area.
A defensive mix-up between Joe Hart and Gael Clichy conceded the corner from which Giroud equalised with a header, but De Bruyne's run and precise finish edged City back in front.
The home side threatened a third before Arsenal fought back to earn a deserved point through Sanchez's clinical strike from 15 yards.
Despite missing the chance to rein in Spurs, Wenger was satisfied with a point that puts them on the verge of Champions League football.
Only a shock loss against Villa, coupled with City and Manchester United taking maximum points in their remaining games, would see the Gunners finish fifth.
England manager Roy Hodgson was not present at the Etihad, having watched Spurs' 2-1 defeat by Southampton at White Hart Lane instead.
Hodgson will have been concerned to see television pictures of Arsenal striker Danny Welbeck - a trusted member of his squad - limp off midway through the first half with a knee injury.
But, consequently, there was some positive news for Hodgson for Euro 2016.
Manchester-born Welbeck was replaced by midfielder Jack Wilshere, who made only his second substitute appearance of the season after his own 10-month injury absence.
Wilshere, 24, showed signs of his undoubted ability, topping Arsenal's passing accuracy statistics, as well as - perhaps unwisely - launching into a couple of tigerish tackles.
"For me, 70 minutes - playing with high intensity and pressure - was great," he said.
"I don't want the season to end. I feel good and fresh so I will see what happens after that."
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Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini:
"We should have won that game, and I think we deserved it. We played very well. Our first 25 minutes were some of the best here this season. But Arsenal's goals were good.
"The effort, speed and character was good, and we were playing against a very good team."
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Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger:
"I am not disappointed because twice we were losing and twice we came back. It was a game that was very, very intense.
"I was surprised by the intensity of City's start. We expected an intense game but they really came out with strong pressure.
"The good thing is that we absorbed it and we've shown good character today."
Match ends, Manchester City 2, Arsenal 2.
Second Half ends, Manchester City 2, Arsenal 2.
Foul by Fernandinho (Manchester City).
Olivier Giroud (Arsenal) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Fernandinho (Manchester City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Fernandinho (Manchester City).
Olivier Giroud (Arsenal) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Nicolás Otamendi (Manchester City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Nicolás Otamendi (Manchester City).
Alexis Sánchez (Arsenal) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Wilfried Bony (Manchester City) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Gaël Clichy with a cross.
Wilfried Bony (Manchester City) hits the bar with a right footed shot from the centre of the box. Assisted by Bacary Sagna with a cross.
Offside, Arsenal. Alexis Sánchez tries a through ball, but Laurent Koscielny is caught offside.
Foul by Fernandinho (Manchester City).
Alexis Sánchez (Arsenal) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Fernandinho (Manchester City) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Aaron Ramsey (Arsenal).
Corner, Manchester City. Conceded by Jack Wilshere.
Nicolás Otamendi (Manchester City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Alexis Sánchez (Arsenal).
Sergio Agüero (Manchester City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Jack Wilshere (Arsenal).
Substitution, Manchester City. Yaya Touré replaces Fernando.
Substitution, Manchester City. Wilfried Bony replaces Jesús Navas.
Fernandinho (Manchester City) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Nacho Monreal (Arsenal).
Substitution, Arsenal. Francis Coquelin replaces Mohamed Elneny.
Foul by Eliaquim Mangala (Manchester City).
Olivier Giroud (Arsenal) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Sergio Agüero (Manchester City) left footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Kevin De Bruyne with a through ball.
Attempt missed. Sergio Agüero (Manchester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Kevin De Bruyne with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Manchester City. Conceded by Petr Cech.
Attempt saved. Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City) right footed shot from a difficult angle and long range on the left is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Gabriel Paulista (Arsenal) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Gabriel Paulista (Arsenal).
Substitution, Manchester City. Raheem Sterling replaces Kelechi Iheanacho.
Foul by Fernando (Manchester City).
Jack Wilshere (Arsenal) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Goal! Manchester City 2, Arsenal 2. Alexis Sánchez (Arsenal) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Olivier Giroud. | Manchester City could miss out on a Champions League place to neighbours Manchester United after Arsenal fought back to draw at Etihad Stadium. | 36180831 |
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Magnus Bradbury went over early for Edinburgh but Ulster hit back with tries from Paul Marshall, Darren Cave, Louis Ludik and Jacob Stockdale.
Stuart McInally touched down before the break to leave it 24-10 at the break.
Damien Hoyland's try and a Sam Hidalgo-Clyne penalty set up a tense finale but Ulster held on for a much-needed win.
Edinburgh beat Ulster in November and they made the perfect start in Belfast as Bradbury ran in at the corner for an unconverted try after just two minutes.
It was an impressive response from the hosts, securing the bonus point in a 22-minute burst.
Marshall darted through for the opening try before Cave finished a flowing move by stretching over on the line.
Charles Piutau was outstanding on the wing and he set up Ludik to sprint in for the third, with Stockdale surging clear for the bonus-point try.
Nelson converted the first and fourth tries and Ulster led 24-5 after 32 minutes although McIlnally barged over for Edinburgh before the break, with Tovey again missing out on the extras.
Ulster failed to capitalise on their pressure early in the second half and they suffered a blow when Piutau limped off injured.
Edinburgh were more clinical with a quick passing move ended by Hoyland touching down in the corner but with Sam Hidalgo-Clyne missing the conversion.
Marcell Coetzee put in a powerful display on his Ulster debut with the South African replaced on the hour mark.
There was also an injury concern for Edinburgh with lock Fraser McKenzie stretchered off following a collision with Tommy Bowe.
Hidalgo-Clyne reduced the gap to six points with a penalty but Ulster held on for the five points to remain sixth.
TEAMS
Ulster: Ludik, Stockdale, Cave, Olding, Piutau, Nelson, P. Marshall, Warwick, Andrew, Lutton, Treadwell, O'Connor, Diack, Henry, Coetzee.
Replacements: McCloskey for Cave (41), Bowe for Piutau (50), Shanahan for P. Marshall (67), Black for Warwick (55), Herbst for Lutton (41), Browne for Treadwell (63), J. Murphy for O'Connor (74), Reidy for Coetzee (60).
Edinburgh: Kinghorn, Hoyland, Dean, Burleigh, Brown, Tovey, Kennedy, Cosgrove, McInally, McCallum, McKenzie, B. Toolis, Mata, Ritchie, Bradbury.
Replacements: Scholes for Kinghorn (43), Allen for Burleigh (65), Hidalgo-Clyne for Kennedy (50), Turner for McInally (55), Beavon for McCallum (63), Carmichael for McKenzie (63), Fihaki for Mata (63), Appiah for Ritchie (67).
Ref: Nigel Owens (Wales). | Ulster brought a four-match losing streak to an end with a battling bonus-point Pro12 victory over Edinburgh at Kingspan Stadium. | 38919292 |
The torch will arrive at City Hall on 6 June, after having toured Northern Ireland and visited Dublin.
The free concert, staged in the grounds of the City Hall from 6pm to 8pm, will include former Olympians, dance act Twist and Pulse, traditional fusion group Sontas and the City of Belfast School of Music junior choir.
Tickets are limited to four per person and are available at Belfast Welcome Centre. | Indie rock band General Fiasco are to be the headline act in a free concert to mark the arrival of the Olympic torch in Belfast. | 18175463 |
Scientists had believed that the animals would enter a type of 'walking hibernation' when deprived of prey.
But new research says that that bears simply starve in hotter conditions when food is scarce.
The authors say that the implications for the survival of the species in a warmer world are grim.
Back in 2008 polar bears were listed as a threatened species in the US. At that time, the Secretary of the Interior noted that the dramatic decline in sea ice was the greatest threat the bears faced.
Polar bears survive mainly on a diet of seals that they hunt on the sea ice - but increased melting in the summer reduces seal numbers and as a result the bears struggle to find a meal.
Some researchers have argued that polar bears would deal with a reduced calorie intake by entering a low-activity state termed 'walking hibernation', similar to the way that many species of bear cope with winter.
To test this idea, scientists embarked on a dangerous and expensive trial where they attached satellite collars and surgically implanted logging devices to track the bears' movements and to record physiological details.
They studied more than two dozen bears in the Beaufort Sea, north of Alaska.
They concluded that in the summer seasons, the bears didn't slow down, they simply starved when food was short.
"Their metabolism is very much like a typical food limited mammal rather than a hibernating bear," said John Whiteman from the University of Wyoming, the paper's lead author.
"If you or I were to be food-limited for weeks on end we would look like the bears' data."
While the bears may not be able to change their behaviour when it comes to food, they do seem to have a significant adaption that helps them to cope with swimming in cold water.
"They have this ability to temporarily allow the outermost portion of the core of the body to cool off substantially and this protects the innermost vital organs - there was not an expectation of that, it was very surprising," said Whiteman.
The researchers detailed the extraordinary swimming ability of the bears in their study, with one female surviving a nine day, 400 mile swim from shore to ice.
When she was re-captured some seven weeks later, the bear had lost 22% of her body mass, as well as her cub.
The scientists say that despite this strong performance in cold water, it doesn't compensate for the lack of food and the inability of the bears to slow down their metabolism in response.
"We've uncovered what seems to be a fascinating adaptation for swimming in cold arctic waters, but I don't think that is going to play as big a role in determining their fate as the loss of hunting opportunities will," said Whiteman.
"We think this data also points towards their eventual decline."
The costs of the study were steep, requiring around 200 people, and the hiring of an icebreaker and helicopters. The researchers believe that the endeavour is unlikely ever to be repeated,
"The cost was extremely high for such a study but our results are indisputable so I doubt anyone will feel the need to repeat this," said Prof Merav Ben-David, from the University of Wyoming, another author.
The paper has been published in the journal Science.
Follow Matt on Twitter: @mattmcgrathbbc | Polar bears are unable to adapt their behaviour to cope with the food losses associated with warmer summers in the Arctic. | 33551569 |
Terry Lodge, 55, from Bassetlaw, said he was forced to work in a foundry, when he should have been in school.
Bassetlaw MP John Mann, who raised the case in parliament, paid tribute to Mr Lodge for his bravery.
Nottinghamshire County Council said the quality of care he received was "unsatisfactory".
Mr Lodge said he was sent to work on a farm when he was eight years old and to a foundry when he was 11.
He said he was forced to work by his original foster parents, up until the age of 15, and was beaten and sometimes starved while in their care.
He said when he complained no-one came to help.
Mr Lodge previously told the BBC that his childhood and adult life had been "spoiled".
Steve Edwards, the council's service director for children's social care, met Mr Lodge to apologise after the authority concluded he "suffered harm" after being placed in care more than 40 years ago.
He said: "There were opportunities to protect him which were sadly not acted upon.
"I would encourage anyone who has any concerns about the way they were treated while in care to come forward, no matter how long ago it was."
Mr Mann said: "It is right that Nottinghamshire County Council has now formally apologised and I pay tribute to the bravery of Terry Lodge in bringing this to light."
A spokesman for the NSPCC said: "Victims must be able to speak out no matter who their abuser was, or how many years have passed since it happened.
"Action must be taken when serious allegations like this are made by a vulnerable young person." | A man who said he was forced to work as a child slave after being taken into foster care has received an apology from his local authority. | 36366892 |
Redwan El-Ghaidouni was shot on his driveway by a man who approached him in Vine Lane, Hillingdon, west London, on 3 February.
Marwais Kakar, 34, appeared at Uxbridge Magistrates' Court earlier charged with perverting the course of justice.
He was bailed to attend Isleworth Crown Court on 6 July. | A man has appeared in court charged as part of an investigation into the death of a man who was fatally shot in his car outside his London home. | 33193770 |
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The 33-year-old is one of only three Scots to be competing in next week's US Open and believes that he needs to sharpen his short game and improve his mentality.
"I need to believe in myself," Ramsay said. "It's the Scottish mentality. We just need to be more confident.
"The mental game is probably 50%. You need to be in a good place to play."
Ramsay last played the US Open in 2007 at Oakmont, where he missed the cut after qualifying as the US Amateur champion, but he insists his game is suited to the demands of the tournament, which this year will be played at Erin Hills in Wisconsin.
Of the three Scots - Ramsay, Martin Laird and Russell Knox - who qualified, he is the only one based in Scotland and he has been working thoroughly on his mental preparations, fitness and refining his play ahead of the tournament.
"You need to be positive and patient, especially in a US Open, because the course is really tough," he said.
"The best players in the world cope with that strain and pressure. I'm very good under the pressure of the back nine on Sunday, but I need to be a little bit better Thursday morning, first tee.
"I drive the ball really straight off the tee and that's a big advantage at the US Open because the rough's really high.
"If you can keep it on the fairway and be good with my irons, which is an advantage for me because I'm fairly accurate with them, then it's just tailoring my short game.
"Saving shots around the green is a big thing, that's what the best players in the world do well and that's what I need to do well in order to be successful.
"Experience is a huge thing in majors. I remember the US Open in '07 in Oakmont was incredibly tough.
"I changed my game plan a bit and I should have just stuck to my guns and played my own game.
"My form has been good and the US Open is the perfect platform to show how I've come on as a golfer in the last few years.
"You've got to dream. I'm a big believer that success always comes with working hard."
Day one of the US Open is also the Aberdonian's birthday - and he is setting his sights on a top-20 finish at the tournament if all the strands of his game come together.
''I read a lot of books about attitude and patience and how the only thing you can control is yourself," Ramsay said.
"The golf course can unsettle you and push you into making shots you wouldn't ordinarily take on. That can lead to high scores.
"My game's built on solid ball striking, a good attitude and, if I can get the short game going, those three coming together can [make it] a really good week for me." | Richie Ramsay says he needs to be more "arrogant" to make his mark on a major tournament. | 40200958 |
The "Do Not Track" initiative stops firms tracking people as they visit several different websites.
The monitoring is done to help advertisers craft ads to a user's preferences and lifestyle.
Blocking the tracking depends on websites honouring requests from users to browse anonymously.
Do Not Track (DNT) has been brokered by the US Federal Trade Commission which wants people to be able to tell websites to stop gathering and sharing data when they visit.
Sites that decide to ignore users' requests to stop tracking them could be subject to FTC action.
A DNT option is available in the recent versions of the Firefox, Internet Explorer and Safari browsers. Turning on Do Not Track in Google's Chrome involves installing an add-on.
For DNT to work, websites have to agree to discard any data they would otherwise collect and share about what people do when they visit a site.
In a help document, Twitter said
it would now respect the Do Not Track option in all the browsers that supported it.
However, it said that those that turn on DNT would notice a change in the information Twitter presented to them.
"We stop collecting the information that allows us to tailor Twitter based on your recent visits to websites that have integrated our buttons or widgets," it said in its help document.
A survey carried out by Mozilla, which makes the Firefox web browser, found that 8.6% of the users of its desktop browser and 19% of mobile browser users were opted in to Do Not Track. | Micro-blogging service Twitter has declared its support for an initiative that lets people browse the web without being monitored. | 18114990 |
The fish deaths sparked mass public protests in May when activists demanded a government-led investigation.
Formosa Ha Tinh Steel admitted that toxic water released into the sea had caused the fish deaths, Vietnamese officials told a news conference.
The company has agreed to pay $500m (£371m) in compensation, they said.
Formosa Plastics' $10.6bn (£7.8bn) steel plant, located south of Hanoi, is one of the biggest investment projects in Vietnam.
Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc launched the investigation into the fish deaths three months ago after initial theories of blooming algae or "red tide" were dismissed.
The case has been seen as a test for his new government which came into power four months ago. | Toxic waste water from a huge steel plant run by Taiwanese Formosa Plastics caused massive fish deaths in April, Vietnam's government has said. | 36672621 |
The England international, 30, joined Surrey from Worcestershire in 2009.
He has scored 10,878 runs in 182 first-class matches, including 21 centuries.
"He is a player of high class. Steven still harbours ambitions of playing for England and we will all work hard to support him," director of cricket Matt Maynard told the club website.
Davies has been second-choice keeper to Ben Foakes at Surrey this summer.
"I have made no secret of my desire to play for England again and I hope that a new challenge along with a return to wicket-keeping will help kick my career onto the next level," he said.
The left-hander will make his last appearance for Surrey in Saturday's One-Day Cup final against Warwickshire, having scored 373 runs to help the county reach Lord's. | Surrey wicketkeeper-batsman Steven Davies will join Somerset on an three-year deal from next season after he rejected a new contract at The Oval. | 37372693 |
Judges at the Court of Appeal said the six year prison term that was imposed on James Richardson for killing Natalia Czekaj had been "unduly lenient".
The 35-year-old of Berridge Green, Edgware had admitted manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility.
His sentence was increased to 12 years.
It is believed that both Richardson and barmaid Ms Czekaj, 34, were functioning alcoholics and had been drinking on the evening of the killing.
The court was told that while they celebrated, the jobless plumber took three knives from the kitchen and stabbed his girlfriend more than 20 times.
Richardson, who was found to be four times over the drink-drive limit, then called 999 to report the attack.
During the original trial, prosecutors had accepted James Richardson's alcohol dependency was a medical condition that substantially impaired his responsibility.
His defence lawyer had told the court although his client could not remember the killing, "his remorse and shock have been wholly genuine".
However, Solicitor General Robert Buckland said he had referred the sentence imposed at trial as he "felt that it did not properly reflect the severity of the case".
He said Ms Czekaj had been "stabbed in the back deeply enough to penetrate her heart" and her throat had been cut "so severely that all the structures of her neck were severed".
"I hope this increased sentence gives some comfort to the victim's family," he said.
An extended licence period of five years originally imposed at trial remains in place. | An alcoholic who almost decapitated his girlfriend with a bread knife while celebrating the New Year has had his sentence doubled. | 35324686 |
Shaw became the fourth-most expensive defender in history when Manchester United signed him earlier this month from Southampton for £27m.
Mourinho says Shaw's reported wages of around £100,000 a week were too large.
"If we pay to a 19-year-old boy what we were being asked for, to sign Luke Shaw, we are dead," said Mourinho.
"We would have killed our stability with financial fair play and killed the stability in our dressing room, because when you pay that much to a 19-year-old kid - a good player, fantastic player - but when you pay that amount of money, the next day, we would have had players knocking on our door.
"They would have been saying, 'How is it possible I play 200 games for this club, won this and that, yet a 19-year-old comes here and gets more money than I get?"'
Shaw, a Chelsea fan as a youngster, made his Premier League debut in November 2012 and earned his first England cap in the friendly against Denmark in February.
The left-back has agreed a four-year contract with United, with an option to extend for a further year. The fee could rise to £31m, depending on his performance.
He became the youngest player to feature at the 2014 Fifa World Cup in Brazil when he played the entire 90 minutes of England's 0-0 draw with Costa Rica. | Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho claims he pulled out of a bid to sign left-back Luke Shaw this summer because his wage demands would have "killed" the club. | 28498546 |
The magnitude 7.2 quake's epicentre was 345km (215 miles) east of Dushanbe, the US Geological Survey said. There were no immediate reports of casualties.
Officials say information is likely to emerge slowly from mountainous Gorno-Badakhshan, where the quake occurred.
Schools in the capital and other towns closed and cracks appeared in buildings in the provincial capital, Khorog.
The quake was also felt in Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India, where some office workers ran into the streets as buildings shook.
A BBC correspondent in Dushanbe says the area around the epicentre - near Sarez Lake, about 100km to the west of the village of Murghab - is remote and very hard to reach.
Mobile networks in the region were down after the quake. | A powerful earthquake has struck remote parts of eastern Tajikistan, sending shockwaves into neighbouring countries. | 35027414 |
The 37-year-old mother of six has explained her reasons for having the surgery in the New York Times.
She said her doctors estimated she had an 87% risk of breast cancer and a 50% risk of ovarian cancer. "I decided to be proactive and to minimise the risk as much I could," she wrote.
Her partner, Brad Pitt, praised her choice as "absolutely heroic".
Ms Jolie said the process began in February and was completed by the end of April.
In an article entitled My Medical Choice, she explained that her mother fought cancer for nearly a decade and died at the age of 56.
DNA mapping for cancer patients
Breast cancer: drugs or surgery?
She said she had sought to reassure her children that the same illness would not take her away from them, "but the truth is I carry a 'faulty' gene, BRCA1, which sharply increases my risk of developing breast cancer and ovarian cancer".
She said that once she "knew that this was my reality", she had taken the decision to undergo the nine weeks of complex surgery required to have a double mastectomy, followed by reconstruction of the breasts with implants.
"There have been many advances in this procedure in the last few years, and the results can be beautiful," she wrote.
Her chances of developing breast cancer have now dropped from 87% to under 5%, she said.
She praised her partner, actor Brad Pitt, for his love and support throughout the procedure, and said she was reassured that her children had found nothing in the results "that makes them uncomfortable".
"I feel empowered that I made a strong choice that in no way diminishes my femininity," she said.
"For any woman reading this, I hope it helps you to know you have options," Ms Jolie went on to say.
"I want to encourage every woman, especially if you have a family history of breast or ovarian cancer, to seek out the information and medical experts who can help you through this aspect of your life, and to make your own informed choices."
In an interview with the Evening Standard, Brad Pitt said: "Having witnessed this decision firsthand, I find Angie's choice, as well as so many others like her, absolutely heroic.
"All I want for is for her to have a long and healthy life, with myself and our children. This is a happy day for our family."
Ms Jolie, an award-winning actress and director, is also a long-time supporter of humanitarian causes. She is currently a special envoy for the UN Refugee Agency.
During the period she was undergoing the double mastectomy procedure, Ms Jolie visited the Democratic Republic of Congo with UK Foreign Secretary William Hague and attended the G8 summit of foreign ministers in London to raise awareness over sexual violence in conflict.
She also helped launch a charity to fund girls' education set up by the Pakistani schoolgirl activist Malala Yousafzai, who survived being shot by the Taliban last October.
Ms Jolie has three biological children and three adopted children.
Emma Parlons, a 38-year-old mother from London who had the operation three years ago, welcomed her decision to raise awareness of the issue.
Ms Parlons said her risk of getting breast cancer was the same as the actress's. "If somebody said your flight across the Atlantic was 86% likely to come down, you wouldn't get on that plane would you?" she said in an explanation of her reasons for having the operation.
Professor Gareth Evans, of the Manchester Breast Centre in Britain, said the two genes BRCA1 and BRCA2 (breast cancer one and two) "were the first two majorly breast cancer pre-disposing genes that were identified" and are also linked to an increased risk of ovarian cancer.
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"The risk associated with the genes isn't simply an exact figure like 87%," he told the BBC.
"It does depend on other risk factors, and so the risk for someone with a BRCA1 mutation could vary anywhere between 50 and 95% for breast cancer."
Currently, women facing a strong likelihood of developing breast cancer have only two real options - to have both of their breasts removed (a double mastectomy) or hope that it will never actually happen.
In January, the drugs watchdog in England and Wales, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, recommended women at a high genetic risk of breast cancer should be given the option of taking the drug Tamoxifen, or another one called raloxifene, for five years to cut their lifetime risk of the disease. | Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie has undergone a double mastectomy to reduce her chances of getting breast cancer. | 22520720 |
The Toomebridge rider beat Aspar Honda team-mate Nicky Hayden by 0.093 seconds and has now accumulated 14 points in his first season in the class.
Jorge Lorenzo took victory and cut his gap to series leader Valentino Rossi by nine points to 14.
Rossi lost out to Dani Pedrosa in a titanic battle for second place.
Marc Marquez crashed out on lap two while trying to keep up with the early hot pace set by Lorenzo.
Laverty's best finish of the season remains a 12th position in Spain earlier in the year. | Eugene Laverty won the Open class for the first time at the Aragon MotoGP in Spain, collecting two points for finishing in 14th place in the race. | 34374025 |
The BCC said Mr Longworth had accepted his support for leaving the EU was "likely to create confusion".
He revealed his support for "Brexit" at the BCC annual conference on Thursday.
The BCC said Mr Longworth had breached the group's official position of neutrality on the referendum.
At the conference, Mr Longworth said the EU referendum was a choice between the "devil and the deep blue sea".
He added that voters faced "undoubtedly a tough choice".
One option was staying in an "essentially unreformed EU", with the other being the uncertainty of leaving.
He later said his comments had been made in a personal capacity.
His remarks and his subsequent suspension prompted a political outcry, with London mayor Boris Johnson and former defence secretary Liam Fox, both prominent campaigners for the UK to leave the EU, weighing in on his behalf.
Mr Johnson called Mr Longworth's treatment "scandalous", while Mr Fox said ministers should clarify "if they were involved in any way in putting pressure on" the BCC to suspend Mr Longworth.
Downing Street denied any pressure was put on the BBC to suspend its director general. | The head of the British Chambers of Commerce, John Longworth, has resigned after being suspended for saying the UK's long-term prospects could be "brighter" outside the EU. | 35741715 |
The incident, involving a motorcyclist and four vehicles, happened between the A4076 at Scotchwell roundabout and the A4075/B4314 at Canaston Bridge roundabout.
The road was closed for about three hours following the incident.
Traffic in the area is reported to have returned to normal levels following earlier queues. | Part of the A40 in Pembrokeshire has reopened following a serious multi-vehicle crash. | 33109910 |
The Toomebridge rider won by 0.23 seconds from James Ellison in the third race after finishing third in race two.
Carrickfergus man Glenn Irwin ended his Supersport campaign by coming in third in the feature race to finish fourth in the standings.
Josh Elliott secured another Supersport 1000cc victory as the champion from Fermanagh ended the season on a high.
Alastair Seeley, the Carrickfergus rider who was Elliott's closest challenger for the title, was forced out after five laps.
Laverty was ninth in the Superbike opener on his Tyco BMW before a third and first left him fourth in the series.
Superbike champion Josh Brookes won the opening two races on the English circuit.
Portadown's Marshall Neill finished ninth in Saturday's Supersport sprint race, in which Irwin was an early retirement. | Michael Laverty clinched his first British Superbike win of the season in Sunday's final race at Brands Hatch. | 34566044 |
The British astrophysicist amassed two million followers within hours of launching his account on Tuesday.
His first message was a greeting to his "friends in China" posted in both English and Chinese.
Some Weibo users were comparing the experience of interacting with Prof Hawking online to making contact with the universe.
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More than 230 million people use Sina Weibo, China's biggest social media platform, every month.
A growing number of international figures who have joined Weibo in recent years to connect to a Chinese audience.
Prof Hawking's second post, on Wednesday, described the interstellar project Breakthrough Starshot which he is backing, saying it was "exciting to be involved in such an ambitious project".
Both posts were quickly flooded with excited comments expressing admiration and awe.
One wrote: "I'm writing this comment, even though you probably won't read it and understand it, so that it will at least flash on your phone for a second... This fragile connection is like using my fingers to gently touch the universe."
"Since I was a child I would always cite you in my school essays, you are an example for all of us!" said one commenter, while another wrote: "OMG, you have pulled up the average IQ of all the users on Weibo."
Others urged fellow netizens to be on their best behaviour around him.
"I hope there won't be any idiots who ask the professor brainless questions, please do not take him as a joke, and do not shame us Chinese people," said a commenter.
Still others peppered him with questions on the existence of aliens and quantum physics.
Prof Hawking has enjoyed a substantial following in China, with a Xinhua article on his last visit in 2006 noting he has "a cult status among Chinese youngsters much like that of Tom Cruise".
"The appeal of Hawking largely comes from his ability to be a great thinker despite his physical challenges," it said. | Chinese netizens have given a warm welcome to Prof Stephen Hawking after he joined microblog network Sina Weibo. | 36032346 |
Abid Naseer, 29, was sentenced by a federal judge in New York.
US authorities said he had been part of a plot to attack Manchester, New York City and Copenhagen.
In March, a jury found him guilty of providing material support to al-Qaeda and conspiracy to use a destructive device.
FBI assistant director-in-charge Diego Rodriguez said that Naseer, who moved to the UK to study, failed to use the British education visa system to make the best of his life.
Instead, he exploited it "to take away the lives of many others in large numbers", said Mr Rodriguez.
Naseer was first arrested in the UK in 2009, along with 11 other men, suspected of planning a bomb attack on the Arndale shopping centre in Manchester over the Easter weekend.
No explosives were found but the men were ordered to leave the country. Mr Naseer avoided deportation after a judge ruled it was likely he would not be safe if he returned to Pakistan.
Abid Naseer says he's not guilty. He defended himself throughout the trial, but his legal advisers say they'll appeal - and not just against the sentence which they believe is overly harsh. They say this was not a fair trial and Naseer should have appeared in court in the UK, not in front of a jury in a post 9/11 New York.
But US prosecutors say the 29-year-old was capable of mass murder. They say he remains a threat and they're delighted by the sentence. They hope it sends a message to terrorists that they will be caught and they will be put behind bars for life.
Naseer appealed to the judge that he was not - nor had he ever been - a "career criminal". But Judge Raymond Dearie had a response.
"I know you're not," he replied. "You're a terrorist."
UK officials arrested him again in 2010 at the request of US prosecutors.
In 2013 he was extradited to the US, where prosecutors argued Naseer was part of a broader al-Qaeda conspiracy to attack various Western locations, including the New York subway system and a newspaper office in Copenhagen, Denmark.
The US Department of Justice said the plots were "directed by and co-ordinated with senior al-Qaeda leaders in Pakistan".
Evidence at Naseer's trial included a document found in the raid of the Bin Laden compound and MI5 officers testifying in wigs.
His defence was largely based on his own testimony and cross-examining prosecution witnesses.
Prosecutors brought in MI5 agents who had previously tracked Naseer in 2009 at a shopping centre in the UK.
They also relied on the testimony of two co-conspirators who pleaded guilty to the subway plot - Najibullah Zazi and Zarein Ahmedzay.
Prosecutors say coded emails show all three men were under the direction of the same al-Qaeda handler. | A Pakistani man extradited from the UK to the US has been sentenced to 40 years in jail for plotting attacks in several countries. | 34912242 |
Peter Zhurawel, a 61-year-old Czech national, is under guard in hospital with serious burns.
Australian authorities say the man has a history of mental health problems and ruled out links to terrorism.
Boxes of paperwork and two gas canisters were removed from his home in the Greystanes suburb of Sydney.
On Thursday, the suspect parked his outside Merrylands police station in Sydney's western suburbs just after 19:00 (09:00GMT).
He then set the car alight and drove it into the police car park's security door. Officers eventually smashed a car window to pull the man from the burning car. No police officers or members of the public were injured in the incident.
Assistant Police Commissioner Denis Clifford praised the officers who pulled the suspect out saying: "It is a miracle that no one else was injured."
The damaged vehicle was impounded for forensic testing and the car park has been designated a crime scene.
Court documents show Mr Zhurawel was due to appear in a local court on Friday morning over a violent dispute with a male relative.
A neighbour, Julia Di Salvia, said that hours before the attack Zhurawel revealed he was overwhelmed by the looming court case.
"There is a big family dispute over who looks after his 90-year-old mother," she told The Daily Telegraph.
The attack comes after a history of threats against Merrylands Police Station. Police said that although they did not believe the suspect has links to terror groups they were "keeping an open mind".
A student from the same high school attended by Farhad Jabar - the 15-year-old who shot dead police accountant Curtis Cheng - was charged in November after allegedly threatening to "shoot up" the Merrylands building.
Police say A$250,000 (£140,000, $185,000) had recently been spent on security upgrades at the station - including the installation of bulletproof glass. | Police in Sydney have raided the home of a man who set his car on fire and rammed it into the gate of a police station car park. | 36863321 |
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Forecasters first started talking politics after the Ukrainian anti-government protests in 2013, with some weather reports suggesting the temperature was affecting political sentiment.
It's now almost a daily phenomenon.
BBC Monitoring reports and analyses news from TV, radio, web and print media around the world. You can follow BBC Monitoring on Twitter and Facebook. | Russian journalists have recently been talking a lot about doomsday scenarios and Russia's likely response - and it's even intruding into the weather. | 37873986 |
Liberty Steel reopened the mothballed rolling mill in Newport in October and is now employing 170 people.
The company's executive chairman Sanjeev Gupta said he now believed restarting the site's arc furnace would be "100% viable".
Experts said the plans were interesting but challenging given energy costs.
Liberty recently bought parts of the Caparo steel company - including a plant in Tredegar, Blaenau Gwent, after it went into administration, saving 900 jobs.
The company has also started negotiations to buy two of Tata Steel's mothballed plants in Scotland, where almost 300 jobs are at risk.
It comes as the steel industry has lost thousands of jobs, most recently with Tata announcing 1,050 redundancies in January - most at its Port Talbot site.
On Monday, 5,000 steelworkers, including more than 50 from Wales, marched in Brussels demanding action from the EU to put an end to cheap imports from China.
Mr Gupta told BBC Wales restarting the arc furnace would see the company take scrap metal and recycle it into products that could be used in growing industries including automotives, aerospace and defence.
The process requires a lot of energy - Celsa in Cardiff follows a similar process and it uses 40% of the city's electricity. But the UK government has introduced financial support to help companies with energy costs.
The Gupta family, who own the nearby Usk power station, has invested in tidal lagoon proposals in an effort to reduce these costs longer-term - a key part of Mr Gupta's plan for the future of steel production.
He also said Liberty was developing an "integrated model" for the industry.
"We don't want to just make steel, we want to make products that are made out of steel, add value to them and complete the change from end-to-end," he said.
There are also "fundamental mindset issues," Mr Gupta said.
"We don't have any burdens, we don't have any debt. We operate as a small company. We make decisions quickly," he explained.
Cardiff Business School's Prof Peter Wells, an expert on sustainability and the automotive industry, said Liberty's plans were interesting but challenging given the world market.
"The longer term supply and demand position for steel is quite uncertain. It is likely that there will be continuing over-capacity in the sector which will depress global steel prices but it is not certain that supplies of sufficient quality can be guaranteed," he said
Steel production may not be seen as the best use of renewable energy in the UK in future, he added. | A south Wales steelworks could expand to recycle scrap metal and create 1,000 new jobs if it gets "better security on energy", BBC Wales can reveal. | 35600648 |
A labour court said the bank, Societe Generale, had dismissed him not because of his actions, which it must have known of, but for their consequences.
The court ordered the bank to pay him €450,000 (£350,000) in damages.
A lawyer for the bank said it would be appealing a "scandalous" decision that ran counter to the law.
Mr Kerviel, 39, served a three-year jail term after being convicted of breach of trust and fraud in October 2010.
He was charged with gambling €50bn (£39bn) of Societe Generale's money on trades without the bank's knowledge, which nearly brought down the business.
Although he had originally generated more than €1.4bn (£1.09bn) in profits in 2007, within months that had turned into enormous losses.
Mr Kerviel had argued at his trial that Societe Generale had known what he was doing but turned a blind eye.
One of the judges at the tribunal said that the bank could not pretend it was unaware of Mr Kerviel's fake operations and said he was fired "without genuine or serious cause".
His lawyer, David Koubbi, told Reuters news agency on Tuesday that the court's decision "tore apart the story which Societe Generale has presented from the beginning".
Mr Kerviel had appealed against his conviction but it was upheld in March 2014. He spent two months walking from Rome to France before going to jail. He was later let out on condition he wear an electronic tag.
Mr Kerviel has requested a retrial of the original criminal case. He is contesting an order to repay his losses to the bank. | The French ex-trader Jerome Kerviel, whose unauthorised transactions lost his bank €4.9bn (£3.82bn), has won a claim for unfair dismissal. | 36472099 |
The European Parliament voted to back a new Commission headed by Jean-Claude Juncker.
The UK commissioner is Jonathan Hill, with responsibility for financial regulation.
The view in Europe is that the UK got the post it most valued. Such a position had not been expected, particularly after Prime Minister David Cameron's open opposition to Mr Juncker.
In the European Parliament the Tories are part of the European Conservative and Reformist group (ECR).
When it came to the vote on the new Commission they could not disguise their differences.
They were split three ways. Some were in favour of the new Commission, a few were against and the majority abstained.
When, later, I spoke to the new European Commission president, he was clearly irritated by the way the British members of the ECR had voted.
"I took Jonathan Hill into my Commission," he said, "and the ECR abstained. Is this British coherence?" Mr Juncker believes there was an understanding with David Cameron that the Tories would be supportive.
Someone close to Lord Hill said his view was that it was a pity the ECR didn't feel able to give its full backing as he believed this was a very strong Commission ready to engage with the UK.
In his speech today Mr Juncker did not touch on freedom of movement, an issue at the centre of David Cameron's plans to re-negotiate the terms of the UK's relationship with the EU.
Afterwards, Mr Juncker told me: "We have a treaty. Freedom of movement since the fifties is the basic principle of the European way of co-operating. These rules will not be changed.
"What can be changed? The national rules against abuses. There are abuses as far as freedom of movement is concerned but we cannot change European rules."
In other words, there is flexibility in addressing the abuses connected with freedom of movement, but when it comes to capping or imposing limits on the numbers of EU migrants, then expect opposition. | In the European political calendar, today in Strasbourg warranted a big turnout. | 29730707 |
Formal discussions have begun between Irish and Hounslow Borough Council about playing rugby in west London.
Irish, relegated from the Premiership last season, currently play their home games at Reading's Madejski Stadium.
Planning permission has been granted for a 20,000-capacity ground to replace Brentford's current Griffin Park.
But construction at the site in nearby Lionel Road has been delayed since December 2013.
In April, Hounslow Borough Council was granted central government approval to allow a Compulsory Purchase Order (CPO) of the remaining land required by Brentford Football Club.
In a statement, Irish said "numerous discussions have taken place with a variety of clubs over the last five years" about a potential groundshare in London.
The Madejski Stadium has been Irish's home since 2000 and the club have committed to staying there for the coming season.
The Exiles are contracted to groundshare in Reading until 2025-26, but a get-out clause can allow the deal to break early should they wish to make the move to Brentford. | Rugby union club London Irish are exploring a return to London, with a groundshare at Brentford FC's proposed new stadium among the options. | 37094513 |
Labour's Rutherglen MSP, James Kelly, who is a Celtic fan, said it was "time Celtic remembered its origins" and paid all staff the £8.25 an hour rate.
However, the club said that he had "no knowledge of the workings of Celtic".
Last year, Celtic chief executive Peter Lawwell said the club was being used over the living wage campaign.
Mr Kelly's comments came one day ahead of Celtic's AGM, where fans will table a resolution calling on the club to become an accredited living wage employer.
The rate, set by an independent foundation to make wages match the cost of living, has been adopted by about 380 firms across Scotland.
It is nearly a fifth higher than the national minimum wage, set by the UK government, of £6.70 an hour and over £1 more than the new minimum wage premium for over 25s of £7.20 an hour that will come into force in April.
Last year, Hearts became the first football club in Scotland to implement the living wage.
Mr Kelly said: "The Celtic board has the opportunity to make a commitment to hundreds of the club's staff.
"Celtic has a proud history of combating poverty. But in 2015, they are refusing a guaranteed fair wage to a great number of staff, many of whom are on casual contracts.
"It's time Celtic remembered its origins and became an accredited living wage employer: tomorrow presents the board with this opportunity which I hope they grasp."
At its AGM last year, Celtic said it was prepared to enter discussions with its permanent workforce on the issue but not with others including part-time and external workers.
Now a club spokesman has accused Mr Kelly of using the issue for his own agenda.
"Mr Kelly has no knowledge of the workings of Celtic but yet again seems to be involved in this issue for his own political purposes," the club spokesman said.
"We have done all that we said we would do at last year's AGM. 98% of the colleagues with whom we consulted were in favour of the proposed pay rise and structure, because they would be significantly better off with the higher hourly rate, rather than a discretionary bonus that could not be guaranteed.
"We have also met with the Poverty Alliance, who have welcomed the positive steps we have taken. It is totally misleading to suggest that this is anything other than a very positive step, overwhelmingly welcomed and supported by affected staff." | An MSP who called on Celtic to become an accredited living wage employer has been accused by the club of using the issue for his own political purposes. | 34867305 |
Johnny Carroll, 26, defrauded 21 victims out of £108,000, Exeter Crown Court heard.
He quoted reasonable estimates for work to walls and roofing but once his team was on site the price rocketed and victims were bullied into paying, the court heard.
He admitted a single count of fraud.
Carroll of Cricklade, Wiltshire, used eight different company names and often set up local telephone numbers for just long enough to get business before he closed them down, the court was told.
Two victims have died since giving interviews to police and at least one more has had to hand over their financial affairs to their family as a result of the crime, the court was told.
The building work was carried out from July 2012 to May 2014 in locations including Portishead, Bath, Buckinghamshire, Bristol, Cornwall, towns across Devon and Llangynidr in Powys.
Carroll carried out the crimes while on a suspended sentence for previous fraud.
John Rice, aged 21, of Ceri Road, Swansea, admitted two charges of money laundering and was jailed for 12 weeks for his part in the operation. | The leader of a gang of rogue builders who preyed on elderly people across south-west England and south Wales has been jailed for more than three years. | 40016359 |
Proposals that would see groups of up to half a dozen schools under one head have been criticised for a lack of consultation for parents.
Plans for five clusters have been approved by councillors.
Two others involving feeder schools to academies in Farr, Sutherland, and Mallaig have been deferred.
The Mallaig set up involves the clustering of eight feeder schools.
Further consultation is to be done on a cluster involving Kinlochbervie High School.
Approved at a meeting of the council's education committee were the creation of clusters of feeder schools to six secondary schools - Dornoch, Kilchuimen, Lochaber in Fort William, Plockton and Millburn in Inverness.
Education chief Jim Stephen said the move was not about saving money, but about enhancing pupils' education.
The local authority has had issues recruiting head teachers to some schools.
Critics of the plans include Kate Forbes, MSP for Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch, who said there has been a lack of public consultation. | Councillors in the Highlands have voted to introduce changes that would see several clusters of primary schools overseen by just one head teacher. | 38756387 |
The formal adoption papers for Jacob came through last month, after he had already been living with his new family for a year and a half.
Scott, a senior manager for Adoption UK in the east of England, said the couple were initially approached to foster Jacob, as social workers were struggling to find a family for him.
This was not part of a formal foster-for-adoption scheme - but Scott and Tristan quickly decided to apply for adoption.
"It was sheer coincidence that he happened to fit with the structure of our family," said Scott.
Jacob was over seven years old before he met his permanent family - so he had quite a lot of history to come to terms with, some of it disturbing.
Part of the adoption process has been to ensure there is enough on-going support for Jacob in his new family.
But, according to Scott, Jacob is thriving and has "changed beyond recognition" in the 18 months he has been with them.
He has moved from a school for children with behavioural difficulties to mainstream education and has been able to "close some of the chapters on his previous life".
The family are planning a big party to formally welcome Jacob.
Life was not without its challenges - sometimes there was friction between the three boys, "but that is part and parcel of being a parent - it's a bit like a conventional family having to adjust to a new baby", said Scott.
Both Scott and Tristan admit to having "fought like cat and dog" with their own siblings as children, and this has helped them accept the challenges of parenthood.
"The thing I have come to accept is that there is never a normal day," said Scott.
"Socially and emotionally, they all have to face challenges every day.
"That's just life with children. We just suck it up and get on with it. | Scott Casson-Rennie and his civil partner, Tristan, already had two adopted sons Frasier, now 17, and Brandon, now 16, when they fostered Jacob, now nine, in April last year. | 34700790 |
In fact, some of the 24 unions - such as the civil service union the PCS - which have voted to have such funds aren't connected with Labour in any way.
So while proposals to introduce an "opt in" process for these funds could hurt Labour financially, they would also restrict the ability of union leaders to campaign more widely on political issues.
The legislation on political funds is more than 100 years old but was tightened substantially by the Thatcher government in 1984.
Unions which wanted not simply to contribute to political parties - usually Labour - but to campaign any issue that might be deemed "political" were required to ballot their members every 10 years to establish or keep a separate political fund.
Once a decision had been taken to have a political fund, individual members in England, Scotland and Wales then had to take a deliberate decision to "opt out" if they were unhappy with where their money was going.
By turning this round - proposing that trade unionists must now "opt in" - the object is clear.
Fewer members are likely to make a conscious effort to do so, and funds could therefore decrease as a result.
This is precisely what happened between 1927 and 1946 when the "opt in" system was introduced after the General Strike, only to be repealed by the post-war Labour government.
(The then devolved Northern Ireland parliament at Stormont did not follow suit. )
But what effect will this measure have on Labour Party funds today?
Changes introduced under Ed Miliband's leadership mean that those union members who want to be associated with the Labour Party - or, in the jargon, who wish to be "affiliated supporters" - must now consciously opt in.
It's estimated that affiliation fees from big unions, such as Unite and the GMB, will fall substantially as a result - without the need for any legislation from a Conservative government.
So if the government now applies the same principle to political funds as a whole, this would hit Labour less hard than it would have done before the Miliband reforms.
But if the government's plans result - as is likely - in smaller political funds, this would also make less cash available to union leaders to make, at their discretion, the separate party political donations on which Labour increasingly depends. | The proposed changes to trade union political funds won't simply have an impact on Labour Party funding. | 33537550 |
Fly-half Sexton trained in Kildare after having a head injury assessment (HIA) following Leinster's Pro12 semi-final defeat by Scarlets.
Flanker O'Brien missed that match because of a "tightness in his calf".
O'Brien has done some running but has yet to return to full training.
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The Leinster pair are training in Ireland along with the rest of Warren Gatland's squad before Monday's departure for the 10-game tour of New Zealand.
"Johnny has trained all week, he's absolutely fine," said Lions coach Andy Farrell.
"Sean is nearly there, he's progressed really well. He's back to a bit of straight-line running. They're just managing him making sure that we don't break him down too early." | The British and Irish Lions have been boosted by the news that Johnny Sexton took a full part in squad training on Thursday and Sean O'Brien is on the verge of a return to full fitness. | 40050773 |
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Two goals in three second-half minutes sealed their fate in Lyon.
"We have to be proud of ourselves," the forward said. "We have given everything on the pitch and off the pitch and tried to enjoy the experience."
Prime Minister David Cameron said Wales had "inspired a nation and made Britain proud" with their exploits in France.
First Minister of Wales Carwyn Jones said he was "sad it's over" but "very proud again".
Chris Coleman's side upset the odds to reach the last four as the likes of England, Italy, Spain and Croatia were knocked out in earlier rounds.
But he admitted: "It hurts that we lost. The players are gutted, but they need to look back and see they have done their country proud."
Reaching the semi-finals was a historic moment for Wales.
Their previous best tournament result came in 1958, when they reached the quarter-finals of the World Cup in their last appearance at a major finals.
After a goalless first half, Cristiano Ronaldo broke the deadlock on 50 minutes with a magnificent header.
Three minutes later, his shot was diverted past Wayne Hennessey in the Wales goal by former Manchester United team-mate Nani.
Wales began the tournament as one of the outsiders but caused a shock by topping Group B, finishing above England despite losing to their neighbours.
They then edged past Northern Ireland in the last 16 before upsetting a highly regarded Belgium side 3-1 in the last eight.
Their exploits earned rave reviews back home, securing a good luck message from the Prince of Wales before Wednesday's game against Portugal.
Footballers past and present, politicians, celebrities and other sportsmen and women were also full of praise for the Wales team.
Welsh rock band The Manic Street Preachers, who performed the country's Euro anthem Together Stronger, tweeted that the campaign had been "a beautiful dream" and thanked the team from "the bottom of our hearts".
Former Wales midfielder and BBC pundit Robbie Savage said: "The boys have made us all so proud of our country," while Wales rugby union wing George North tweeted: "Gutted but what an unbelievable tournament!"
Boxer Enzo Maccarinelli said Wales had achieved more than anyone thought possible, while cyclist Geraint Thomas, busy riding in the Tour de France, said: "The dream is over... but the boys have done themselves and Wales proud!"
Five months before Coleman was appointed in 2012, Wales were ranked 117th in the world. They reached a high of eighth in October last year, one month after moving above for England for the first time ever.
Wales were 26th before the tournament began but when Fifa updates its list on 14 July, they are set to rise to 11th - above England again.
Wales players had started referring to their fans as 'The Red Wall'.
"We want to thank the fans for all the support we have had, they have been absolutely incredible," Bale said. "I felt we deserved better.
"We wish we could have done it for them and we'd like to thank all the fans at home and all the ones who have travelled out and behaved themselves.
"It is difficult to analyse now as we are obviously massively disappointed.
"We tried our hardest to get back in the game, we fought until the last second and we are sorry we couldn't get to the final, but we gave it everything.
"It's been an amazing journey. We look forward to the future."
Coleman admitted a real sense of hurt but was proud of the performance.
"I have a dressing room full of disappointment unfortunately," he said.
"As much as I've told them that they should be proud of themselves, the nation is proud of them, they're still devastated.
"That speaks volumes for them and they'll get stronger from this experience.
"I always thought that whenever the time was to bow out it would hurt, but I didn't expect it to hurt this much. It was just one too far for us tonight."
Bale and Real Madrid team-mate Ronaldo shared a warm embrace at the final whistle.
Asked what he had said to Bale, Ronaldo replied: "I congratulated him on their run. They were the shining star, the revelation of the tournament."
Ronaldo is now hopeful of winning a major trophy with his country, 12 years after they were stunned by Greece in the final of Euro 2004 on home soil.
"I've always dreamed of winning something with my country and it's just one step away," he said. "Dreaming is free so let's keep dreaming."
Coleman believes the performances of the squad in France have set the tone for the future.
"It's not the end of this group," he said. "There's plenty of football left in them."
Bale also believes Euro 2016 can act as a spur for Wales as they turn their attentions to qualifying for the 2018 World Cup in Russia. Wales open their campaign at home to Moldova on 5 September.
"We've got confidence now for the future," he said.
"We're all going to be disappointed now but we're going to pick ourselves up, dust ourselves down and we'll go again for the World Cup qualifiers." | Gareth Bale says Wales "can have no regrets" after a 2-0 loss to Portugal in the Euro 2016 semi-final ended their hopes of a first major tournament win. | 36730203 |
Crowds of people chanting and setting fire to bins gathered in Gwilliam Court, in Monkton, Pembrokeshire, at about 21:30 BST on Tuesday.
Police were called and took two people from a property before the disturbance ended six hours later.
On Wednesday, about 100 protesters gathered outside a council office.
The crowd outside the office in Argyle Street, Pembroke Dock, were shouting and chanting about the situation in Monkton, with some saying they were not leaving until they had answers.
Dyfed-Powys Police said officers were present and "engaging with the community about their concerns".
It comes after the overnight protest on the housing estate.
Police issued members of the 100-strong crowd with dispersal orders and the incident ended at about 03:00 BST on Wednesday.
Nobody was arrested or injured.
Dyfed-Powys Police said it received additional help from South Wales Police and Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Team.
Officers remained at Gwilliam Court on Wednesday and extra patrols are being carried out in the area to reassure people.
Pearl Llewellyn, a local councillor, said she would contact the housing office.
"They'll be made aware of it," she said.
A Dyfed-Powys Police spokeswoman confirmed the force was "liaising with Pembrokeshire County Council housing officers, and the concerns voiced by the community during the incident will be raised with them".
Pembrokeshire council said it was aware of the incident on the council estate.
"Housing officers from Pembrokeshire County Council attended the scene at the request of police," a spokesman said. | Angry protesters staged a six-hour demonstration through the night after concerns a convicted criminal was living in their community. | 40578756 |
Details of a "minor criminal offence" were referenced in the stories regarding an individual, the ICO said.
Earlier links about the case had already been removed - but this act of removal itself later became news.
It is the links to those new articles, when searched for via the individual's name, which must now be removed.
In a statement, the ICO revealed that Google had refused to remove the links when asked by the complainant, which is why officials are now stepping in.
Being able to access the links by searching for the complainant by name constitutes a breach of the Data Protection Act, according to the ICO.
"Let's be clear. We understand that links being removed as a result of this court ruling is something that newspapers want to write about," said deputy commissioner David Smith.
"And we understand that people need to be able to find these stories through search engines like Google.
"But that does not need them to be revealed when searching on the original complainant's name."
The ICO says that Google must remove the links within 35 days of the order, dated 18 August.
Google has so far declined to comment.
The situation was described as a "messy compromise" by Ian Walden, professor of information and communications law at Queen Mary, University of London.
"You can search under 'right to be forgotten', 'takedown', and you can look at the whole discussion about whether it's being taken down," he told the BBC, "but if you search the individual's name you should get a different set of search results."
Dr Walden added that as the complexity of removal requests grows, it's possible that search engines like Google may become less willing to challenge them.
"In five years' time perhaps Google will say, 'It's not worth the hassle, let's take down more stuff, let's not spend as much time evaluating the case,' - they obviously have to employ people for this," he said.
"My concern is it [will become] easier and easier to get stuff taken down when in fact there continues to be a balancing act that needs to be carried out," he said. | Google has been ordered to remove nine links to news stories by the UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) under the "right to be forgotten". | 34015894 |
The Hang Seng closed down 742.37 points or 3.85% to 18,545.80.
Markets in China remained closed for a longer New Year break. Those markets that were open in the region over the past days had all seen hefty losses.
Japanese shares had tumbled in to bear territory after a two-day rout, but the Nikkei is closed on Thursday for a national holiday.
The continuing concern over the global economy and China's slowing growth was confirmed by US Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen in a speech to Congress on Wednesday.
She warned that financial conditions in the US had recently become "less supportive of growth", while China's "unclear" currency policy was fuelling global stock market volatility.
"This uncertainty led to increased volatility in global financial markets and, against the background of persistent weakness abroad, exacerbated concerns about the outlook for global growth."
While she said she was confident, China's economy was not facing a "hard landing", Ms Yellen said the overall uncertainty created by the world's second-largest economy was behind some of the steep falls in global commodity prices, which in turn were creating stress for exporting nations.
South Korean shares also resumed trade after the new year break and joined the regional downward trend.
Seoul's Kospi fell sharply by 2.9% to close at 1,861.54 points, after retreating as much as 3.1%, its biggest percentage loss since May 2012.
Car makers were among the worst hit as fresh data showed that vehicle exports dropped by almost 20% in January, because of falling demand in emerging markets.
Hyundai, Kia and Ssangyong all lost around 2%.
Australian shares, though, managed to edge higher on Thursday, providing some relief after two days of losses.
The ASX/200 closed 1% higher at 4,821.10 points after losing more than 4% since the beginning of the month.
Before the market opened, the Virgin Australia airline reported a swing back to half-yearly profit after cutting costs and profiting from lower fuel prices.
"All fundamental business metrics are in place for the group to report a profit for the 2016 financial year," Virgin chief executive officer John Borghetti said in a statement.
The forecast of full-year profitability comes after two years of net losses.
However, investors seem to have expected better results and remain cautious about the airline's prospects.
Virgin Australia shares fell by more than 6% throughout the day. | Hong Kong shares joined the downward trend across Asia as trading resumed after the Lunar New Year break. | 35547042 |
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The 40-year-old was given the fine and a two-match touchline ban after being sent to the stands during their game against Cheltenham on 17 December.
Bentley was not allowed in the dugout for Saturday's win over Notts County, at which the collection was taken.
He was visibly moved and almost lost for words when the money from fans was handed to him following the game.
The club is currently under serious financial pressure and operating under a transfer embargo because the Professional Footballers' Association have helped pay wages.
Brazilian businessman Diego Lemos bought the club in September, but has not been in the country since November.
Two directors resigned last month but following a board meeting, the club released a statement saying they were "united in their resolve to find solutions to the many problems facing Morecambe Football Club as a direct result of Mr Lemos' continuing absence and his failure to deliver promised funding". | Morecambe fans have paid £1,000 for the fine and costs imposed on boss Jim Bentley by the Football Association. | 38548124 |
The 35 trainers are working in the southern city of Mykolaiv and will spend about two months in the country.
They will train forces in eastern Ukraine in medicine and defensive tactics and give non-lethal equipment.
The Ukrainian PM said he "truly appreciated" the support, while the deployment was criticised by Russia.
The deal was announced by Prime Minister David Cameron last month.
It is the first time a Western nation has conducted a long-term military training programme in Ukraine since its war against pro-Russian rebels began last year.
According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, the Pentagon has delayed a training programme for Ukrainian soldiers because it fears it could give Russia a reason to end the the current peace deal.
A ceasefire took effect on 15 February following an agreement reached in Minsk, Belarus, and has largely held despite sporadic shelling.
The British government is also supplying first aid kits, sleeping bags and night-vision goggles as part of its pledge to provide assistance and more British teams are expected to arrive in Ukraine over the coming weeks.
BBC correspondent Tom Burridge said the deployment of dozens of military instructors was a symbolic move that would not alter the military balance of the war.
The Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk welcomed the assistance in his country, which he said was defending "peace and stability" in Europe.
He told the BBC the trainers would "help increase the durability of the Ukrainian military".
Mr Yatsenyuk said he saw the help as a "first step" and expected further assistance would come from other EU countries and the US, adding: "Please help us to defend our country and your peace."
Dmitry Pveskov, press secretary to President Putin, told journalists the deployment would not relax tensions in the conflict zone.
He said: "A presence of foreign instructors in Ukraine cannot facilitate the settlement of the conflict in this country.
"Of course, it has been stated repeatedly that it does not contribute to the strengthening of trust or relaxation of tension in the conflict zone.
"It can be clearly said that it does not contribute to the settlement."
The United States has already said it is planning to send a battalion to train three Ukrainian battalions.
More than 6,000 people have died since the fighting in Ukraine erupted last April, the UN has estimated, although the organisation believes the real figure could be considerably higher. | British military personnel have started training members of the Ukrainian army fighting pro-Russian rebels, the BBC has learned. | 31956657 |
The Greater Manchester Combined Authority aims to build at least 225,000 homes over the next 20 years.
But Denton and Reddish Labour MP Andrew Gwynne and Tory MP for Bolton West Chris Green have vowed to fight plans to use some green belt land in parts of the scheme.
A draft report on the scheme said the use of some green belt was "essential".
The plans, known as the Greater Manchester Spatial Framework, are to be discussed by the combined authority's 10 council leaders on Friday before the launch of consultation.
Mr Gwynne agreed there was a need for housing growth but is sceptical about the figures.
"It appears to be an open book for developers to pick and choose the most favourable sites to develop and those are very often in the green belt," he said.
"What really worries me is this green belt grabbing exercise will do nothing to spearhead the regeneration of urban parts of Greater Manchester that actually need the level of investment to ensure those communities continue to thrive."
Mr Green said he was opposing plans for 6,000 new homes near the M61.
He argued developers should make better use of existing brownfield sites and build more apartment blocks in town centres.
"We have to look at building up and having a higher population density... [which] makes it easier to walk to the shops and cycling around... and makes public transport far more viable."
Alex Ganotis leader of Stockport Council, which is part of combined authority, said it will do all it can to ensure the developments were done "in the right areas".
"We won't build in any of these areas unless we can demonstrate infrastructure will be provided such as schools, GP surgeries, roads, public transport to support this." | An MP has dubbed plans for thousands of new homes across Greater Manchester a "green belt grabbing exercise". | 37739205 |
Maria Derbyshire was so ill after having her son Joseph in 2009 she was placed in hospital under the mental health act.
On Tuesday, she joined health care professionals to lobby politicians at Stormont.
About 70 women a year in Northern Ireland require hospital admission.
But during treatment, as there is no mother and baby unit, the woman is separated from her baby.
In England and Scotland there are 17 specialist units.
Mrs Derbyshire said she decided to contact the BBC after hearing a report by health correspondent Marie Louise Connolly last week on perinatal mental health.
"After my first baby, life was very good for a few days. It just fell apart about ten days after my son was born," she said.
"I basically lost touch with reality - I ended up being sectioned.
"I remember going to hospital in the ambulance, I had all these delusions and hallucinations.
"I think I spent around three weeks in a general psychiatric hospital. When I came round I didn't remember I'd had a baby."
Last month the prime minister announced about £390m just for perinatal mental health care.
The way the money is divided across the regions means that Northern Ireland should also benefit.
Mrs Derbyshire joined health professionals at Stormont lobbying for the money to be spent entirely on perinatal care here.
Shona Hamilton from the Royal College of Midwives said she is frustrated by the current situation.
"We recognise that across the UK there has been significant investment in mental health services for women," she said.
"Some of that investment should come to Northern Ireland and we would really like to see that ring-fenced for services for women here and the development of very good services - both in the community and in a mother and baby unit "
The chair of the assembly health committee, Sinn Féin's Maeve McLaughlin, was among the politicians who met the group.
"It's very clear in terms of the research that to ignore the problem and to continue to treat the problem will cost five times more than actually putting intervention into place," she said.
"We need a regional approach to this - 20% of women will suffer some sort of mental health issue during pregnancy or within a year after birth. That needs to be tackled."
Mrs Derbyshire is now in good health and has had a second baby, a daughter called Lily.
She said her second pregnancy and post natal experience was entirely different and that it was due to the specialist care she received in the weeks before and immediately after Lily's birth. | A woman who suffered severe mental illness after giving birth, has said it is critical Northern Ireland gets a specialist mother and baby unit. | 35701044 |
The flight, known as the BBMF, is based at RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire, and has one of only two airworthy Lancaster bombers in the world.
It was formed to honour those involved in the Battle of Britain and has taken part in thousands of events over the years.
Prince William, who is the flight's patron, also spoke to veterans.
More on this and other local stories from across Lincolnshire
Veteran Rusty Waughman, 94, who was a Lancaster pilot from 1943 to 1944, spoke to Prince William.
He said he was 20 when he first piloted a Lancaster bomber.
He said 101 Squadron, which performed radio counter-measure duties, had a 60% "attrition rate".
"To survive, we were very fortunate," he said.
The Battle of Britain was the German air force's attempt to gain air superiority over the RAF.
Their ultimate failure was one of the turning points of World War II and prevented Germany from invading Britain.
1,023
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3,000 aircrew served with RAF Fighter Command
20% were from the British Dominions and occupied European or neutral countries
544 RAF Fighter Command pilots were killed
2,500 Luftwaffe aircrew were killed | The Duke of Cambridge has attended an air display marking 60 years of the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight. | 40568888 |
Thornton's only other major success in the PDC came at the 2012 UK Open.
The first four sets were shared before 48-year-old Thornton went 3-2 up as Van Gerwen, 26, missed eight darts at a double to wrap up the fifth set.
The Dutchman trailed 4-3 after missing two more darts to take the seventh set and Thornton took advantage, sealing victory a shot at with double top.
"It's one of my traits, I've got the heart of a lion. I never give in, I'll keep fighting until the end," Thornton told Sky Sports.
"To win a title, you need to beat the man [Michael van Gerwen]. If you want to win a tournament, this is the way to do it." | Scotland's Robert Thornton defeated world number one Michael van Gerwen 5-4 to win the World Grand Prix in Dublin. | 34496531 |
The Iraq Historic Allegations Team (IHAT) will close in the summer and around 20 remaining cases will be given to the Royal Navy Police, he said.
MPs have branded the probe, which has spent £34m but led to no successful prosecutions, an "unmitigated failure".
The IHAT was set up in 2010 to examine allegations made by Iraqi civilians.
The decision to close the team comes after a public inquiry exposed the behaviour of a human rights lawyer in charge of many of the abuse allegation cases.
Phil Shiner, from the now-defunct law firm Public Interest Lawyers, was struck off for misconduct last week.
As a result, IHAT's caseload would be reduced from 3,000 to 20 cases by the summer, a Ministry of Defence statement said.
"Exposing his [Mr Shiner's] dishonesty means many more claims he made can now be thrown out and the beginning of the end for IHAT," said Sir Michael.
"This will be a relief for our soldiers who have had allegations hanging over them for too long.
"Now we are taking action to stop such abuse of our legal system from happening again."
Earlier on Friday, an MPs' committee called IHAT an "unstoppable self-perpetuating machine, deaf to the concerns of the armed forces" and said it must be shut down.
More than 3,500 allegations of abuse had been taken up by the team despite many cases not having any credible evidence, said the Defence Committee report.
It blamed the MoD for empowering law firms to bring cases on "an industrial scale" which saw cases rocket from 165 into the thousands - with most generated by two firms, Public Interest Lawyers and Leigh Day.
"Those under investigation have suffered unacceptable stress, have had their lives put on hold, and their careers damaged," it added.
Conservative MP Johnny Mercer, a former army captain who chairs the committee, said the process had been "horrific" for those involved.
"Families torn apart, careers ended, and for what?" he told BBC Radio 4's PM programme. "It should have been shut down a long time ago."
The Ministry of Defence had been "extremely slow off the mark", he said, and there were a lot of questions to be answered about how it had been allowed to continue for so long.
The committee report said there had been a "catalogue of serious failings" in the way IHAT handled its investigations.
Service personnel and veterans had been contacted unannounced and covert surveillance appeared to have been used on serving and retired members of the armed forces, it said.
The report added: "IHAT investigators have impersonated police officers in order to gain access to military establishments or threaten arrest. Investigations which had previously been closed down were re-opened on the back of dubious evidence."
It said the most telling failure of the unit was the fact there had not been a single prosecution against the UK military.
The report went on: "IHAT has operated without any regard to its impact on the UK military which has directly harmed their reputation across the world, and negatively affected the way this country conducts military operations and defends itself."
The MoD said the department had done its "utmost" to support those under investigation, which included funding all their legal costs, providing pastoral support and tackling issues in the legal process.
It had been unable to shut down IHAT sooner because the investigations had been under scrutiny by the High Court and the International Criminal Court, it added.
A Leigh Day spokesman said it had referred 15 cases to IHAT and would continue to represent individuals against the government.
The firm went on to say it would defend itself against allegations made by the Solicitors Regulation Authority when they are heard in a tribunal later in the year.
The unit has cost the UK taxpayer £34m so far, but costs were predicted to reach nearly £60m had it remained active until 2019.
The department also announced the Royal Military Police would drop around 90% of the abuse cases involving British troops who had served in Afghanistan, many which were brought by Leigh Day.
Leigh Day said it had notified the MoD of 80 Afghan citizens who said they had been abused or illegally detained and a number involved allegations of unlawful killings. | A probe into allegations made against Iraq war veterans will be shut down within months, Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon has announced. | 38937053 |
The woman, from Plymouth in Devon, blamed a "lapse in memory" when she called the police early on Friday.
It followed claims that the man was a burglar who took a photo of himself using her mobile phone.
Plymouth Police said: "We want to apologise to anyone who has been distressed by initially reading this story."
The man was pictured in the woman's Barbican flat apparently taking a "selfie" on the mobile phone.
The unidentified woman had claimed she was unaware the man had been in her home until she discovered the photo.
And she reported that crisps had been reported stolen in the incident, which happened some time in October.
A police spokesman said: "We've had contact from the woman this morning whose phone the image was on, to say she now knows who the man in the picture is and that he was in her house legitimately.
"We are therefore assured this has been a mistake, the man in the photo is not a suspect of any crime and we will be making further contact with this person shortly to learn more.
"We assume this was a genuine lapse of memory by this woman and we want to apologise to anyone who has been distressed by initially reading this story."
The identity of the man who was using the woman's phone remains unclear. | A woman who claimed a burglar took a picture of himself in her flat has admitted she knows the man. | 24954984 |
Almost every state exists because of violence. Over the centuries world wars, civil wars, revolutions and genocide have helped create nation states across the world. Great empires were built on the violence of superior firepower.
Yet commemorating the violent birth of the modern Irish state raises difficult questions because the legacy of killing is so very recent, and because of the deep divisions which remain on the island.
For Brona Ui Loing, whose grandfather and two great-uncles took part in the Rising, this is a moment for celebration. "I think they were very brave men to do what they did… they wouldn't have been well-armed and I just think the fact that they all marched to Dublin… they are the bravest people I know.
"I don't know if we would have been as brave in our turn if we had been asked to do it."
In the Republic, where the population is overwhelmingly Roman Catholic, it is easier to revere the leaders of the 1916 rebellion as founding fathers. For Ulster protestants they have historically represented the old fear of destruction at the hands of Catholics.
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The fact that the rebels rose up without asking the people of Ireland what they felt, and did so in defiance of their moderate comrades, tends to be glossed over in the official remembrance of a modern democratic Ireland.
Yet it is precisely this belief in the right of a self-selecting group to strike on behalf of the Irish people which is still claimed by the republican dissidents who recently murdered prison officer Adrian Ismay in Belfast. For three decades it was used by the Provisional IRA to attempt to provide legitimacy for their campaign of violence.
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The anniversary of the Rising passed without significant attention in the Republic during the years of the Troubles. Fearful of stirring up republican sentiment the Irish state preferred a low-profile approach.
But with the end of any large-scale violence in Northern Ireland it became possible to commemorate without the risk of being seen to offer succour to the IRA.
However the former Irish Prime Minister, John Bruton, argues against what he sees as a "celebratory" tone around the 1916 centennial: "That murder indicates how dangerous it can be to commemorate something without properly understanding that what one is commemorating is the killing of a large number of people in Dublin."
Mr Bruton points out that for every rebel killed in 1916, three civilians died.
"It is important that in remembering and commemorating what happened that we don't glorify or justify it."
Both major political parties in Ireland, Fianna Fail and Fine Gael, as well as Sinn Fein, have their roots in the violence of the 20th Century when the 1916 Rising led to a guerrilla war against Britain, a civil war and finally an independent Irish state in 1922. With the anniversary has come a resurgence of debate about whether Ireland would eventually have won independence from Britain without revolution.
Historian Professor Diarmaid Ferriter, of University College Dublin, believes this "what if'' fails to take into account the political climate at the time: "Those who were committed to rebellion in 1916 did not feel they were living in a democracy."
The Ulster unionists were pledging to resist home rule for Ireland by armed force. They formed their own militia and imported weapons and ammunition. The unionists were encouraged by the leader of the Tory party, Bonar Law, who threatened to support an insurrection against the Crown if home rule was pushed through. This extraordinary declaration of disloyalty did not go unnoticed in the south.
The outbreak of war in 1914 also transformed the atmosphere. A looming civil war between unionist and nationalist Ireland was averted. Thousands of men from across the island went to fight against Germany.
The constitutional nationalist leader, John Redmond, whose brother was killed at the Somme, believed supporting the British war effort would help bring about home rule.
But with Britain distracted, the rebels saw an opportunity. "They were very conscious of the might of the British empire and the damage they felt it had done to Ireland," says Professor Ferriter. "They felt justified that this [revolution] would begin the process of Ireland becoming a republic. In the long term they were vindicated in that."
Schools across Ireland have been encouraged to commemorate the rebellion with drama, essays and discussion. All of the country's primary schools have written their own version of the Proclamation of an Irish Republic, signed by the rebel leaders in 1916.
I visited Knockanean school in County Clare where my great-grandfather Patrick Hassett was a pupil in the 19th Century. His story illustrates the complexity of the Irish relationship with Britain. On leaving school, he became an imperial policeman in the Royal Irish Constabulary.
But his son, my grandfather Paddy, was radicalised by the execution of the 1916 leaders and joined the IRA to fight against Britain.
At Knockanean school the children were being encouraged to look to the future while commemorating the past.
Head teacher Jim Curran spoke of the importance of issues like homelessness and unemployment to the generation of 2016. "We have asked them to remember 1916 but also to think about the country they live in now," he says.
That country will spend the next few days reflecting on the meaning of 1916, before moving on to the business of electing a new government after an inconclusive general election.
Ireland will get on with the patient and often undramatic work of building a state that tries to live up to the promise of the 1916 proclamation, to "cherish all the children of the nation equally". | Fergal Keane looks at Ireland's violent Easter Rising, and how it is being marked as its centenary approaches. | 35880779 |
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