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Him again. Him that always seems to have a say in these games against Derek McInnes' team, him that had already scored three times in this fixture this season, him that brought up the treble in the most dramatic way.
Rogic, in running at Andy Considine, was at a major advantage. Considine, like many of his team-mates, was a weary soul, a fighter who had given everything he could and who was now living on the ropes and hoping for a miracle. The boxing analogy is not out of place.
This was toe-to-toe and blow-for-blow for the longest time. Then, it was a one-way pummelling, Celtic on the front foot but the Dons refusing to go down.
The Australian went by the spent Considine like he wasn't there, then fired in the winner that brought an end to a great final and a heroic resistance.
The Dons can't chastise themselves. They can't really have regrets. They met a special team and took them to the wire. This was one of the great cup finals.
Aberdeen's pre-match checklist would have been long, their must-dos stretching down one page and on to another. They had to have an inspired goalkeeper - and they did.
They had to have a brave defence - and they had. They needed a rugged midfield capable of upsetting Celtic's totem, Scott Brown, and shaking them out of their natural rhythm - they had that, too. And they needed the first goal - that was theirs as well.
The underdogs were fired up, no question. Fired up by five-straight losses to Celtic, fired up by the memory of their limp surrender to Brendan Rodgers' team in November's League Cup final and the wretchedness of the opening stages of their last meeting, when Celtic scored three times in the first 11 minutes.
When Jonny Hayes rifled in the first goal, there was an edge and energy about Aberdeen that made you shift forward in your seat. Before kick-off, they were 6-1 to win, but not now.
Another of the things on McInnes' list of must-haves was luck - and they got a chunk of it when Jayden Stockley, sent off for catching opponents with his arms earlier this season, avoided censure after connecting with Kieran Tierney.
Stockley pleaded innocence but his previous made you doubt him. He got away with it. Tierney, alas, did not. He left the field with a bloodied mouth.
His manager said later that he might need surgery. Scotland coach Gordon Strachan may have winced as surely as Rodgers in these moments. Scotland versus England is only two weeks away.
What every neutral wanted from this cup final was a contest, a game that put Celtic under the cosh and forced them to fight. We got it.
The champions, who levelled through Stuart Armstrong, had to dig deep and it was because they had to go to a place they have so infrequently gone to this season that made this all the more joyous for them. They were drawn into a game that tested not just their ability but their fitness and their heart, and they came through.
Some of the Aberdeen players sank to their knees on the full-time whistle. One or two did what they steadfastly refused to do all day and lay down and played dead on the pitch. They were broken.
Through the disappointment, McInnes saw hope. There are stories linking him to the Sunderland manager's position right now, but in the aftermath of the final he didn't sound like a man who was going anywhere bar back to Aberdeen to rebuild and come again.
There is a job to be done. Ryan Jack has played his last game for the club. So, too, Niall McGinn and Peter Pawlett. Nobody is expecting Ash Taylor to be around either. Meanwhile, Kenny McLean is said to be wanted by QPR. There's no surprise there. McLean is a fine footballer. Holding on to him is a thumping priority.
McInnes will comfort himself in the fact that Celtic surely can't have the same domestic dominance next season as they've had this campaign, that in the pursuit of progress in Europe they will show a little weakness at home. If that's the case - still a big if - then he'll bank on his team remaining in the box-seat to take advantage.
He has a big summer ahead, a summer when new players must be found on a budget, players who can build on what was, yes, a trophy-less campaign, a season of seconds, but one to be proud of all the same.
No Aberdeen supporter went skipping out of Hampden, but they retreated knowing that their team emptied themselves out there. Against these Celtic boys, sometimes everything is still not enough. | More than 90 minutes had been played in this epic Scottish Cup final when Celtic's Tom Rogic went at Aberdeen, like some vision of a footballing apocalypse to a jaded Dons defence. | 40073324 |
Leonard "Chip" Hawkes, 70, and Richard Westwood, 73, were due to stand trial next year over allegations they assaulted the teenager in a hotel room in Chester in April 1968.
However, a judge at Reading Crown Court ordered both men be found not guilty.
Prosecutor Owen Edwards said there was no evidence to offer.
Outside the court, Mr Hawkes - father of 90s' pop star Chesney Hawkes - said he and Mr Westwood were delighted a "black cloud" had been taken away by the verdict.
"The past two years and seven months have been the worst time of our lives," he added.
"Our families have had to endure the stress and media publicity and it's taken its toll on all of us."
Mr Hawkes, from Surrey, has undergone treatment for bone cancer.
He said the case had badly damaged his career and revealed he had been attacked by a member of the public before a previous court appearance.
He thanked the two men's families, friends and fans for their "unfailing loyalty and putting up with two grumpy old men".
Mr Westwood, from Berkshire, said his 50-year career had been "tarnished" on the basis of "spurious allegations" and added the accusations had caused "years of trauma".
In a statement, read by his solicitor, he said: "It is too late for me and my family to get back the years of our life that have been destroyed in this process.
"We were punished and suffered for something that was simply not true."
He added he had faced trial by media before police had gathered evidence.
"It is a disgrace and wholly misleading that a single claim dating back more than 48 years ago was never properly investigated before my good character was attacked," he said.
The Tremeloes formed in 1958 in Dagenham, London, and first charted in the UK in July 1963 with a version of Twist and Shout.
They had a string of hits throughout the 60s, including a number one with Silence Is Golden.
Guitarist and vocalist Mr Westwood left in 2012. Bass player and vocalist Mr Hawkes left in 1988. | Two former members of the 1960s' pop group The Tremeloes have been acquitted of indecently assaulting a 15-year-old girl after a gig almost 50 years ago. | 36865947 |
Ivorian striker Bony, 26, has scored eight of the Swans' last 13 goals in the Premier League.
And with Swansea winning only one of their last five league games, Williams, 30, has urged his side to ease the scoring burden on Bony.
"We need to chip in with more goals as a team. We need to find goals from other places on the pitch," he said.
Swansea could be without Bony for a lengthy period when he joins the Ivory Coast squad for the African Cup of Nations.
With the Elephants expected to convene early in January and with the final taking place on 8 February, the Swans might be shorn of their top-scorer for a month.
Bony scored Swansea's only goal in Sunday's 2-1 defeat by Tottenham, a match Swans manager Garry Monk felt they could have won had they been more clinical.
It was their second loss in succession following their 3-1 reverse at West Ham, and Williams says Swansea must improve in front of goal to turn their fortunes around.
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"We need to take our chances, we all know that," said Williams.
"We get a lot of chances in most games, especially at home. You've got to take them.
"This is the Premier League. The amount of chances we get, you can't keep missing and expect to win games."
Swansea are ninth in the table and travel to relegation-threatened Hull on Saturday.
But Williams warns his side could come unstuck against the Tigers if they continue wasting goal-scoring opportunities.
"It's pretty simple really. We need to convert chances. We have to take them," he added.
"When I say we need to take chances, as a team we need to share the goals out a lot better.
"It hurts. We have to pick ourselves back up and go to Hull, which is always a difficult place." | Swansea City cannot rely on Wilfried Bony alone for goals, says captain Ashley Williams. | 30483587 |
The NHS Confederation said doctors and nurses from Europe may be put off accepting jobs after the referendum.
If that happened the NHS could face some major problems, it said.
The organisation, which represents health managers, said there were currently 130,000 EU health and care workers in the UK, including 10% of doctors and 5% of nurses.
Elisabetta Zanon, the director of the NHS Confederation's European office, said: "There is a real risk the uncertainty and the falling value of the pound will make people think again.
"If that happens, we could see shortages in some key areas get worse."
A report earlier this year from the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee warned the front line in England may be as many as 50,000 staff short - out of a workforce of slightly more than 800,000 clinical staff.
Ms Zanon also said Brexit could have an impact on medical research and the free healthcare Britons received when abroad.
But she said the workforce issue was the most pressing, as the impact could be felt straightaway.
And there were signs this had already started happening, with reports that an EU recruitment drive in West Yorkshire had already run into difficulties.
To counter the problems, the NHS Confederation has even launched a Twitter campaign called #LoveOurEUStaff.
Speaking at a conference in London, the former Health Secretary and Tory peer Lord Lansley agreed there were many areas of concern.
"The EU may not tell us how to manage our NHS, but it impacts in many ways," he said.
Lord Lansley said the medical research community was clearly "distraught" and leaving the EU would require steps such as writing the UK's own competition law for the public sector.
And he called on the sector to help put the case in the coming months for why it was important to protect the rights of people from the EU working the NHS.
"If we don't have enough people coming from the EU, our care sector cannot deliver."
Sarah Pickup, of the Local Government Association, which represents councils, which are in charge of services such as care homes and home help, said that sector would be affected too - an estimated 5% of care workers come from the EU.
She said while it was still early days, the impact on social care "needed thinking about".
Jeremy Hunt, England's health secretary, has tried to reassure EU health workers. "You do a brilliant job for your patients, you are a crucial part of our NHS and as a country we value you.
"We must all now do everything we can to ensure our whole workforce feels secure - because that is the only way we'll ensure we can deliver high-quality care for all."
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Follow Nick on Twitter | The vote to leave the EU risks making staffing shortages in the NHS worse, health leaders are warning. | 36664094 |
It allows people to subtly ask for help by going to the bar to 'Ask for Angela' - alerting staff that they need help.
A total of 25 Aberdeen venues are taking part in the campaign, with posters advertising the venture in participating establishments.
It was the brainchild of Lincolnshire County Council, and was endorsed by Hollywood star Ashton Kutcher.
It is now being rolled out, and is being introduced in Aberdeen this weekend, including venues such as Soul, Revolution and Espionage.
The Angela code aims to notify bar staff to situations where people may feel uncomfortable or unsafe, allowing them to step in.
Aberdeen City Council licensing board convener Marie Boulton said: "I am delighted that we have now launched the Ask for Angela campaign in Aberdeen.
"It has been hugely successful in Lincolnshire and well received from people across the UK and worldwide."
Hayley Child, who works as the sexual violence and abuse strategy co-ordinator for Lincolnshire and came up with the idea, said: "Angela was a play on the word (guardian) Angel." | A code word campaign for people feeling unsafe on a date is being adopted in Aberdeen. | 39204210 |
The UK's "best preserved Bronze Age dwellings", found at a Cambridgeshire quarry, date from about 1,000-800 BC.
They were preserved in silt after falling into a river during a fire.
The "delicate task" to uncover the contents has just begun but the finds have been called "amazing artefacts".
The two or three circular wooden houses uncovered by archaeologists were built on stilts, and formed part of a settlement partially destroyed by fire 3,000 years ago.
The site, at Must Farm quarry near Whittlesey, has been described as "unique" by David Gibson, from Cambridge Archaeological Unit, which is leading the excavation.
Most Bronze Age sites have no timber remaining, just post-holes - but here, the stilts, roof structure and walls have been unearthed.
It is thought the roof fell in during the fire, covering the contents of the houses. Much would have been preserved as it sank into the Fenland silt.
Only a small section of one of the house interiors is being examined at the moment.
One of the first items found was "a very small, delicate wooden box that is mostly complete".
Archaeologists said they were "thrilled" to discover such a well-preserved artefact.
The contents appear to be inside still, but work to examine what those might be will not take place until next week.
An intact "fineware" pot and animal bones have also been found, all of which must be "meticulously" cleaned and documented.
The "cluster" of fish and animal bones uncovered inside "could have been the kitchen waste of the time," they said.
The team is currently about half-way through the eight-month dig to uncover the secrets of the site and the people who lived there.
Although they are in the very early stages of examining the house interior, the quality and quantity of what has been uncovered so far has left archaeologists "very excited".
The site has the "potential for more uncommon household objects including tools, cutlery and even furniture," they said.
The excavation is being jointly funded by Historic England and quarry owner Forterra.
Pompeii, in ancient Rome, was hit by a volcanic eruption in AD 79.
Tonnes of ash fell, preserving much of the city for thousands of years.
BBC History - Bronze Age Britain
BBC Bitesize - What was Bronze Age life like? | A tiny wooden box with its contents still inside, an intact pot and animal bones are some of the first items unearthed inside a roundhouse at what has been dubbed "Britain's Pompeii". | 35492599 |
Fifteen vehicles took the remains from the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner to a repository under the World Trade Center site.
The move has split opinion among the families of victims, with some holding a protest at the memorial site.
The 11 September 2001 attacks killed almost 3,000 people in New York, the Washington DC area and Pennsylvania.
The remains consist of 7,930 fragments of human tissue that could not be identified by forensic teams.
They were placed in metallic boxes, covered in the American flag and taken in a convoy comprising fire trucks and police vehicles to the site of the attacks in downtown Manhattan.
Uniformed firemen and police then placed the boxes in a dedicated facility located underneath the 9/11 Memorial Museum.
The repository is 65 ft (20m) underground and will remain under the control of the Office of the New York Medical Examiner. Only family members and forensics teams will be allowed direct access.
Authorities say this will allow further identification attempts to be carried out if there are advances in forensic science.
Some family members held a silent protest at the site of the move, ending their vigil just before the transfer ceremony took place.
Sally Regenhard, the mother of a fireman who died in the attacks, told AFP that city authorities had not canvassed opinion among families because the majority were against the plan.
"The human remains of my son and all of the 3,000 victims should be in a beautiful and respectful memorial, not in the basement of a museum," she said.
"We are outraged. There is anger and anguish. It's an insult and a sacrilege," she added.
Rosaleen Tallon, whose brother was also killed, said: "Putting them in a museum is so hard to explain to my children."
However, the New York mayor's office said ahead of the ceremony that it would be "conducted in a dignified and respectful manner".
Other families also spoke out in support of the decision. Charles Wolf, who lost his wife Katherine, said: "I was proud when I saw the caskets with the American flag."
Of the 2,753 who died at the World Trade Centre, 1,115 have not been identified.
A new skyscraper, One World Trade Center, has been built on the site of the twin towers. It is now the tallest building in the western hemisphere. | Thousands of unidentified remains from the 9/11 attacks have been returned to "Ground Zero" in a solemn ceremony. | 27357255 |
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The 23-year-old Exeter prop committed the offence in Wales' 25-21 defeat on Saturday.
He will now miss the rest of his club's regular season games, although he would be eligible to play in the European Champions Cup final if Exeter make it.
Francis can return on Monday, 9 May.
Wales assistant coach Rob Howley says Francis was unaware of what he was doing in the incident that led to him being disciplined.
"When you look at it, his [Francis'] eyes are closed and I don't think he knows what he's doing," said Howley.
"He went to clear someone out."
The second-half incident was reviewed by the television match official and resulted in a penalty against Wales.
World Rugby's recommended sanctions for those found guilty of such offences range from between 12 and 208 weeks but the body said it viewed the offence "as being at the lower end of the scale".
"The disciplinary committee was then required to consider aggravating and mitigating factors, which it did before concluding that the appropriate sanction be a playing suspension of eight weeks," World Rugby added.
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Wales coach Warren Gatland was unsure in his initial assessment of the incident.
"I haven't seen it again, and I listened to the TMO comments on it and he said there was only one view of it and it was inconclusive," said Gatland after the game.
"He thought there was contact with the face.
"I'll be honest and say my initial reaction to it was it didn't look great, but I haven't had a look at it since then."
Francis was a second-half replacement for Samson Lee at Twickenham. | Wales prop Tomas Francis has been banned for eight weeks after appearing to make contact with the "eye or eye area" of England's Dan Cole and will miss the Six Nations match with Italy. | 35796218 |
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United went ahead in the last-16 second leg tie before Nani was controversially dismissed for a high challenge.
Cristiano Ronaldo, on his return to Old Trafford, then tapped in the winner after Luka Modric's stunning equaliser.
"Independent of the decision, the best team lost. We didn't deserve to win but football is like this," Mourinho said.
Following a 1-1 draw in Spain, United had edged a tight second-leg opening in which captain Nemanja Vidic struck the post with a powerful header.
They finally took the lead - on the night and on aggregate - at the start of the second half, when Sergio Ramos deflected Nani's cross into his own net.
The match then turned in Real's favour just before the hour mark when referee Cuneyt Cakir dismissed the Portuguese for a high boot that made contact with Alvaro Arbeloa's rib-cage.
Mourinho's side took advantage of the decision in clinical fashion. Former Tottenham player Modric curled in a sublime equaliser after he came off the substitute's bench, and Ronaldo scored from close range after a stylish move.
"My feeling is that Manchester United were playing very well, were very compact and aggressive in a good way," Mourinho added. "I doubt that 11 v 11 we win the match.
"I know Manchester United are giants, not just physically but mentally. I know they have a manager who can motivate then, but I was waiting for us to play in a different way."
Before kick-off, Ronaldo was given a warm reception by supporters at the club where he had played a pivotal role in the winning of the Champions League in 2008, as well as three Premier League titles, in a six-year spell in England.
The attacker - who moved to Real for a record £80m fee in 2009 - admitted he had been overwhelmed by the reaction.
"It was unbelievable," he said. "It was an emotional moment for me, for both games, but especially tonight.
"I do not have words to explain how I feel. The supporters made me feel shy. I did not play how I play all the time."
When asked to comment on rumours of a potential return to Old Trafford, he replied: "The future I never know, but the supporters here and the club are massive.
"At this moment I am very happy in Madrid and I want to be there." | Real Madrid manager Jose Mourinho has claimed "the best team lost" after 10-man Manchester United were knocked out of the Champions League. | 21679307 |
George Elder, 63, of Brodie in Moray, was accused of grabbing the woman's breast at Inverness Ice Centre.
It was claimed that he did this to distract the woman's husband from his last shot in a curling bonspiel.
He denied the assault, which happened last February, but was convicted after a trial at Inverness Sheriff Court.
Sentencing Elder, Sheriff Chris Dickson said: "This must have been an unpleasant and upsetting experience for your victim.
"But I am pleased to see from the background report that you have expressed regret.
"In view of the fact that it is unlikely you will re-offend, I can deal with it by a community payback order whereby you will remain under supervision to promote your rehabilitation." | A curler convicted of sexually assaulting the wife of a rival player has been placed under social work supervision for six months. | 35560693 |
The 21-year-old picked up the injury racing at an event in Belgium.
"Local doctors told me it takes four to six weeks to recover and I shouldn't really be riding my bike," Garner told BBC Radio Leicester.
"But I have spoken to sports doctors and they said whenever you feel you can ride, then you can. I only had one day off, then I was back on the rollers."
Garner, who rides for the Wiggle Honda team, crashed in the Keukens van Lommel Ladies Classic race in Herselt.
"I had just started the race," added Garner. "I was actually at the front of the peloton, making sure I was ready for any attacks that might happen.
"Suddenly I saw this girl just in front of me and she just flew to the left. I was on the right and although I had to move a little bit, I thought I would miss it.
"But suddenly I found myself over the handlebars, flying to the other side of the road, and I just landed straight onto a barrier with my ribs.
"I knew straight away something wasn't right and I had a lot of pain. I was on the floor gasping for breath and I knew it wasn't good and I needed to go to hospital."
Despite Garner being back on the bike, the injury means she is missing from the Women's Tour which got under way on Wednesday.
"This is most serious injury I've had," added Garner. "I knocked a few teeth out when I was 12 on my bike.
"But I can already manage three hours on the bike on the road. I am actually happy with how it is going considering it has been just over a week." | Leicester cyclist Lucy Garner says she is already back in training, despite breaking two ribs only a week ago. | 36549402 |
A Defence Ministry spokesman said he saw "nothing specific and nothing new" in the report.
He also denied the Russian military used cluster munitions in Syria.
The human rights group said it had evidence that the first two months of Russian air strikes in Syria had killed at least 200 civilians.
Some of the attacks "may amount to war crimes", one Amnesty official said.
Amnesty is also researching concerns about the US-led coalition air strikes in Syria, its report said.
The US has rarely acknowledged civilian deaths in its air bombardment of the so-called Islamic State (IS), which began in September 2014, although some monitoring groups say the toll could run into hundreds.
'Russian strikes kill scores' in Syria
Activists criticise Raqqa air strikes
Russia began air strikes in September 2015, saying it was acting at the request of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. It is targeting IS and other groups it designates as terrorists - some of which are backed by the West.
"We examined this report," Defence Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov told a briefing in Moscow.
"Once again there was nothing specific or new that was published, only cliches and fakes that we have already repeatedly exposed."
In the report, Amnesty said it had "researched remotely" more than 25 Russian attacks that took place in Homs, Hama, Idlib, Latakia and Aleppo between 30 September and 29 November.
It said there was evidence that Russia's military "unlawfully used unguided bombs in densely populated areas and inherently indiscriminate cluster munitions".
It had interviewed witnesses to the attacks by phone or over the internet - and had audio and video evidence, as well as "advice from weapons experts".
However Maj-Gen Konashenkov said that as Amnesty International carried out its research remotely, it had no way of checking on the ground that there were no military targets in areas where civilians were killed.
He pointed out that militants used weapons mounted on vehicles and that "each vehicle is considered a tactical unit and represents a legitimate military target".
As for cluster munitions, "Russia does not use them... we have no such weapons on our base in Syria."
Attack on market : Idlib province : 29 November 2015
One of the deadliest attacks detailed in the report occurred in Ariha, Idlib province, on 29 November. Amnesty says at least one suspected Russian warplane fired three missiles into a market when there was no obvious military target nearby.
A local activist group said 49 civilians were either dead or missing feared dead.
"It was a normal Sunday - there was nothing unusual. People were buying goods - children were eating," activist Mohammed Qurabi al-Ghazal told Amnesty.
"First there was a loud explosion - dirt flying in the air - followed immediately by shock. In just a few moments, people were screaming, the smell of burning was in the air and there was just chaos."
The armed group Jaysh al-Fateh controlled the area, but did not have any presence inside Ariha itself, he said.
A report by another group, Human Rights Watch, three days ago accused Syrian government forces and their Russian allies of making "extensive" use of cluster munitions against rebel groups.
Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday Russia was "conducting its operation in strict conformity with principles and norms of the international law".
The Kremlin has previously described similar reports as "information warfare" aimed at discrediting its operations in Syria.
President Vladimir Putin said in October that reports of alleged civilian casualties had emerged before the first air strikes were even carried out.
More than 250,000 people are believed to have been killed and millions of people have been forced to flee their homes since the conflict began in Syria in March 2011. | Russia has dismissed as "total lies" a report by Amnesty International accusing it of indiscriminate air strikes in Syria. | 35173474 |
Smoke started pouring from the 31ft (9.4m) vessel at about 18:30 BST on Saturday, with the man and woman immediately issuing a mayday call.
They were later taken to shore by coastguard volunteers, who hosed down the burning vessel.
Anne-Marie Clark, from Poole Lifeboat, said the couple were in shock.
The fire began while the yacht was in the Swash Channel outside the entrance of Poole Harbour. Hundreds of other vessels were in the area at the time.
Ms Clark said: "A mayday call is used to signal a life-threatening emergency - that they are in grave and imminent danger.
"The next call came through that... they were abandoning ship."
The couple jumped onto a passing motorboat that came to their aid as flames consumed the yacht. They were uninjured.
The area around the burning boat was cordoned off by the lifeboat crew as there were a lot of vessels in the area, Ms Clark said.
Gavin McGuinness, volunteer senior helmsman, said: "The boat on fire required immediate action, as it was a hazard to shipping.
"It could have been an environmental issue if it had gone down, as there were a lot of vessels in the area who were also at risk if the fuel or canisters had gotten alight." | A couple leapt from a burning yacht onto a motorboat after its engine erupted into flames off the coast of Poole. | 36819013 |
The council has warned of "significant traffic delays" during the September 4-5 event and has told head teachers closing their school is an option in what is the first week of term.
Newport has 48 primary schools and nine secondary schools.
Up to 60 world leaders, including US President Barack Obama, are expected at Newport's Celtic Manor Resort.
In a statement, Newport council said: "The decision for a school to close lies with the individual school, however, the council has outlined to schools the different options they could choose to take such as having no adjustment to their school day, utilising inset days or closings as well as adjusting the school hours and finishing earlier."
The last time Britain hosted the Nato summit was 24 years ago in London. The event in Wales will also mark the 65th anniversary of Nato. | Newport schools could close on the two days world leaders are in the city for the Nato summit. | 27868828 |
Labour MP Simon Danczuk said police had told him they wanted to bring 22 historical charges against Lord Janner, dating between 1969 and 1988.
The director of public prosecutions (DPP) announced in April that he would not be charged because of his dementia, although that decision is under review.
The ex-MP denies any wrongdoing.
Lord Janner's family has said that the peer "is entirely innocent of any wrongdoing".
DPP Alison Saunders said Lord Janner's dementia was so severe that he could "play no part in a trial".
Police condemned the CPS decision as "wrong", and the Labour Party has suspended the 86-year-old peer.
Speaking in a Westminster Hall debate about the Crown Prosecution Service, Mr Danczuk said: "I have met with Leicestershire police and discussed the allegations in detail.
"Children being violated, raped and tortured - some in the very building in which we now sit."
The Rochdale MP continued: "If Lord Janner really is too ill to face prosecution, then why can't the courts establish this with a fitness to plead process?
"This would clear up doubts that still linger, for example why he was still visiting parliament on official visits after he was declared unfit to face justice."
He said that a "trial of the facts" would allow the victims to tell their stories, but he said the DPP had said that would not be in the public interest.
"Personally I fail to see how the knowledge that a peer of the realm is a serial child abuser is not in the public interest," the MP added.
Mr Danczuk was repeatedly warned by the chair of the debate, Conservative MP Anne Main, against criticising Lord Janner.
A former DPP-turned-Labour MP, Sir Keir Starmer, said: "The decision before the DPP was not an easy decision. It was a stark and difficult choice between two unattractive approaches.
"We should respect the independence she brought to the decision making, and the fact she's had that decision out for a review.
"To that extent I think we should inhibit our comments on the case." | Lord Janner has been accused in Parliament of being a serial abuser who attacked children inside the Palace of Westminster. | 33243782 |
The match on 14 January will be the American basketball league's sixth regular-season game in the capital.
Orlando played two pre-season games in London in 2003, while the Raptors played there twice in 2011 as the NBA visited Europe for the first time.
NBA commissioner Adam Silver said: "This underscores our commitment to growing basketball in the region." | Orlando Magic and the Toronto Raptors are to play an NBA fixture at London's O2 arena at the start of next year. | 33621759 |
The Mountain Goat, which is based on one of the original chassis from 1895, was delivered to Gwynedd from Derbyshire where it was built.
It follows the Snowdon Lily, a similar carriage which was introduced in 2013.
The Mountain Goat arrived at Llanberis station on Wednesday morning. | A new £150,000 steam carriage has been lifted into place by crane at Snowdon Mountain Railway. | 32304725 |
He was one of a number of defendants accused of passing documents to Qatar.
Morsi's lawyer told AFP that he had been acquitted of spying in this case, but convicted of leading an illegal organisation.
Six others on trial, including two journalists for the broadcaster al-Jazeera, were sentenced to death.
The two journalists were not in court and were sentenced to death in absentia.
Morsi was deposed in 2013. He has already been given a life sentence and condemned to death in earlier, separate court cases.
What's become of Egypt's Morsi?
All of the rulings can still be appealed.
They come against a background of scathing criticism of the Egyptian judicial system by international human rights activists.
Tens of thousands of people are believed to have been jailed by Egyptian authorities, most of them supporters of Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood, since the former president was overthrown following mass protests against his rule.
Al-Jazeera says Ibrahim Helal, its former head of news in Arabic, and Alaa Sablan, who was employed by the news organisation until last year, were among those sentenced to death.
The Doha-based channel also said a journalist with the pro-Muslim Brotherhood Rassd News Network was given a death sentence.
Egyptian authorities have accused al-Jazeera of serving as the mouthpiece for the Muslim Brotherhood and for Morsi. Qatar backed the Brotherhood, and its ruling family partly funds the news channel.
Three journalists from al-Jazeera, including the Australian Peter Greste, a former BBC correspondent, arrested in 2013, were jailed for broadcasting false news following two trials in Cairo. Their case caused an international outcry. All three men have since been released. | The Islamist former President of Egypt, Mohammed Morsi, has been sentenced to life in prison at the end of an espionage trial. | 36567761 |
Alana MacInnes, of Uist, and Caitlin McNeill, from Colonsay, sought views on Tumblr about whether it was gold and white or blue.
The debate was picked up by fashion bloggers, Buzzfeed, the Washington Post and US magazine Wired.
On Twitter the debate's hash tag #TheDress was the top trending tag.
Other tags included #TheDressIsWhiteAndGold and #TheDressBlueAndBlack and the much less popular #TheDressIsBlue.
Wired has even looked at the science behind why people are seeing the dress as gold and white, blue and white, blue and blue or blue and black.
Professors have also joined the scientific discussion on Twitter, while celebrities including US singer Taylor Swift, talk show host Ellen DeGeneres, actor Will Smith's son Jaden and reality TV star Kim Kardashian have been tweeting about the debate.
Kardashian said she saw white and gold - but her husband Kanye West saw blue and black.
One possible explanation may be down to an optical illusion, stemming from how the human brain processes colours.
The brain's perception can be thrown by the colours of nearby objects, and their reflected light falling on the object in focus - in this case the dress.
Prof Stephen Westland, chair of colour science and technology at the University of Leeds, said the way people see colours varies hugely.
He said: "One in 12 men is colour blind. But what people don't know is that even if the rest of us are not colour blind we don't always see colour in the same way.
"The surprising thing is that this doesn't happen more often. People think if they take a photo of something, people will see the same thing but of course that is not true."
Prof Westland said that the "strange" lighting in the picture had probably contributed to the confusion.
He said: "If it hadn't been taken under very strange lighting this probably wouldn't have happened because if you look at the manufacturer's picture, it is indisputably blue and black."
Prof Westland explained that the confusion could stem from how we name colours, as there are often blurred lines between how we interpret what colour something is.
But he said this is an extreme case as "there is a huge difference between black and gold, blue and white".
He said: "It is possible that people could literally be seeing different colours but it's impossible to know what is in someone's head."
Buzzfeed's online story about the dress has been shared more than 20 million times.
Its post about the story also set a record for the website when 670,000 people went on to the site at the same time.
Dr Paul Coxon, a physicist at Cambridge University, has tweeted that if the dress was combined with social media users' love of cats "the universe would explode".
The picture of the dress was taken by Ms MacInnes and posted on social media by Ms McNeill.
Ms McNeill asked her followers: "Guys please help me - is this dress white and gold, or blue and black? Me and my friends can't agree and we are freaking... out."
The women are members of the Gaelic band Canach.
Ms McNeill told Newsbeat that it all started when her friend's mother wore the dress at a wedding.
She said: "Two of my very good friends were getting married and they asked me to put together a band to come and play at the wedding.
"This was a wedding on the tiny island that we come from on the west coast of Scotland called Colonsay and about 100 people were there.
"A week beforehand the bride had been sent by her mother a picture of the dress she was going to wear and when the bride showed her fiance, they disagreed about what colour it was.
"She was like, 'It's white and gold' and he said, 'It's blue and black'.
"So they posted it on Facebook to try and see what their friends were saying but that caused carnage on Facebook."
She said they had forgotten about the dress until the mother of the bride wore it at the wedding, when it was "obviously blue and black".
Ms McNeill described the numbers of retweets, messages on Tumblr and celebrity interest in the debate as "unbelievable".
A spokesman for Roman Originals, which is based in Erdington, Birmingham, said the dress was also available in three other colours, including a red and black version.
He added: "It's black and blue but we're definitely looking into a white and gold version." | A debate between family and friends about the colour of a dress for a wedding has become an internet sensation. | 31656935 |
The 20-year-old scored his first goal in professional football as they sealed a vital win against the Grecians.
The result meant the Exiles are just three points of safety in League Two.
"We've definitely got momentum but that doesn't count for nothing, we're still behind two teams," Flynn said.
He continued: "There's five games to go and I'm going to be demanding. He's got to keep it going. There's competition for places.
"Riggy [Sean Rigg] will be back, [Joss] Labadie has got two more games before he's back. It is what it is, everybody is fighting now and we've got to keep going."
Flynn's side moved closer to escaping the relegation places with the win by virtue of Hartlepool United and Cheltenham Town both drawing on Saturday.
"I would prefer it if they had both lost but I've said from the start, we've got to look after our own business," Flynn added.
"We've got to keep going, working hard, resting right and we've got to keep believing.
"It's a big statement [to the rest of the league]. We're going to keep fighting and they're not going to stop fighting, not as long as I am here." | Newport County boss Mike Flynn has challenged young forward Tom Owen-Evans to keep up his good form after scoring the winner in their 1-0 win against Exeter City. | 39548677 |
The accident happened near Whittlebury in Northamptonshire when a tractor overturned, dumping the hay on top of a Mercedes Benz car.
Northamptonshire Police tweeted photographs saying it was a "lucky escape for this driver".
The ambulance service said a woman was taken to hospital but could not give details of her condition.
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East Midlands Ambulance Service said the accident happened at about 11:50 BST on Tuesday at the Wood Burcote roundabout on the A413.
They were called to "reports of hay bales on a car" and one female patient was taken to Northampton General Hospital, a spokeswoman said. | A woman had a "lucky escape" when her car was buried underneath a pile of hay bales, police said. | 40653083 |
More than 90% of the islanders are ethnic Melanesians, but there has been intense and bitter rivalry between the Isatabus on Guadalcanal, the largest island, and migrant Malaitans from the neighbouring island.
Fighting broke out in 1998 when the Isatabu Freedom Movement began to force Malaitans out, accusing them of taking land and jobs. Around 20,000 people abandoned their homes, with many subsequently leaving Guadalcanal.
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A rival militia group, the Malaitan Eagle Force, staged a coup in June 2000 and forced the then prime minister to resign, saying he had failed to deal with the crisis, which had left up to 100 dead.
An Australian-brokered peace deal was signed in October 2000. But lawlessness continued and an Australian-led peacekeeping force arrived in July 2003.
The force arrested many rebel commanders, collected thousands of illegally-held weapons and oversaw a slow return to order. The military contingent withdrew in 2013 leaving solely a policing mission.
The Australian intervention also provided for the appointment of foreign nationals to government posts and included financial assistance; Australia says it aims to make the country self-sustaining.
Prosperity remains elusive. Civil war left the country almost bankrupt, and post-election riots in April 2006 sent some of the advances made since 2003 up in smoke.
The World Bank says the Solomon Islands, one of the Pacific's poorest countries, has been hit by successive global food, fuel and financial crises. In 2009, with a fall in log exports and a major drop in international commodity prices, growth fell to just one percent.
Economic hopes have been pinned on the resumption of palm oil production and gold mining.
The Solomon Islands chain consists of several large volcanic islands to the south-east of Papua New Guinea, as well as outlying islands and atolls. The terrain is mountainous and heavily forested.
During World War II the island of Guadalcanal saw some of the fiercest fighting in the Pacific theatre as the US battled to wrest control of the territory from Japanese occupiers. | The Solomon Islands, a former British protectorate in the Pacific, is striving to recover from a civil conflict that brought it to the brink of collapse. | 15896399 |
Olivia Watling, a 15-year-old student from Ramsey in the Isle of Man, was admitted to Liverpool's Alder Hey hospital in November.
Her wish was granted by Little Mix singer Jade Thirlwall after the campaign #littlemix4livvy was launched by pupils at her school.
Jade said the band wanted to send "all their love" to Olivia.
Referencing the nickname given to Little Mix's fans, Jade said she had heard Olivia was a "massive Mixer".
A spokeswoman for the campaign, said: "Livvy woke up to the message and has been showing it to all her nurses.
"Well done to everyone that made this happen - just to see the smile on Livvy's face is so very special."
Her aunt Andrea Holroyd said: "Liv went to see Little Mix last year, she knows all the songs and all the dances.
"I can't tell you how amazing Liv is - she is in so much pain but she is so incredibly strong and brave. We are just finding things to lift her spirits." | A girl battling leukaemia has received a "get well soon" video message from her favourite band Little Mix. | 38635794 |
Burke, 18, has made three Europa League appearances for the Hammers this season and has signed a one-month deal.
Evans, 21, who will stay with the Bantams until 9 January, has made 46 league appearances for Wolves since joining from Newport in January 2013.
The pair could make their debuts for the Bantams in Saturday's trip to Yorkshire rivals Barnsley.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | Bradford City have signed West Ham defender Reece Burke and Wolves midfielder Lee Evans on loan. | 34006855 |
Dora Strickland, 90, jumped from a window at Red Lodge, New Earswick near York, in 2011 and died in hospital.
The Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust was convicted on Thursday of failing to have a proper risk assessment in place in relation to the home's windows.
In addition to the fine the trust was also ordered to pay £28,000 in costs.
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The trust was cleared by a jury of a second charge of failing to protect the safety of residents.
It emerged during the trial at York Crown Court, that Mrs Strickland had informed staff she was depressed and wanted to take her own life just weeks before she jumped from the second floor window.
The trust said since 2011 it had implemented a "robust" risk assessment relating to windows in the care homes it managed and had fitted restrictors, which prevent windows from being opened fully. | A care home that failed to properly assess a suicidal resident has been fined £50,000. | 39445254 |
The Lib Dem leader said those with most assets should "pay their fair share".
He also told BBC One's Andrew Marr Show he would "not flinch" amid growing speculation about his future.
Mr Clegg also unveiled plans to allow people receiving large sums of money on retirement to use them to help underwrite their children's mortgages.
Work and pensions minister Steve Webb has been asked to look at developing such a policy.
The Liberal Democrats are holding their annual conference in Brighton, with the leadership keen to promote a sense of discipline amid poor opinion poll ratings.
The theme of the event is "fairer tax in tough times". Mr Clegg is promising to ensure that the next government spending review will not include further spending cuts without a measure of wealth tax.
He said: "I think many people of considerable wealth in this country want to pay."
He added: "The vast majority of people in this country won't find it acceptable if further fiscal austerity was implemented on the backs of the poor...
"I'm not saying something as big as welfare is immune from further savings but I'm saying that the burden has to be spread fairly."
The Lib Dems already have a policy of imposing a 1% charge - a "mansion tax" - on expensive properties above a threshold of £2m and are investigating further proposals.
But the Conservatives oppose introducing a wealth tax, saying it would be unfair to impose it after a home or other large asset had been purchased.
Mr Clegg said that "so far I have failed" to persuade Prime Minister David Cameron and Chancellor George Osborne to accept his party's arguments, adding: "But the mansion tax is not the only way in which you can make people at the top make a fair contribution to this huge national effort of balancing the books.
"We have already illustrated through capital gains tax, through stamp duty, through tax avoidance and many other measures ... the top 10% pay more and we can do more of that.
"There are numerous ways that we have already done it and numerous ways that you can do more of it."
In an interview with the Mail on Sunday, Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander promised an extra 100 HM Revenue and Customs staff devoted to fighting tax avoidance by people with assets worth more than £1m. Previously the threshold was £2.5m.
Earlier this week Mr Clegg apologised for breaking his pre-election promise not to support an increase in tuition fees.
But he said he would not be deterred from the coalition's main stated aim of cutting the budget deficit, telling the Andrew Marr Show: "When you are half-way up a mountain you should not bail out.... I am not going to flinch."
For Labour, shadow chief secretary to the Treasury Rachel Reeves said: "Nobody will be fooled by Nick Clegg's empty words on tax...
"Nick Clegg is the Deputy Prime Minister of this government and he must take responsibility for its actions. After so many broken promises, people will judge the Liberal Democrats on what they do, not what they say."
The latest poll by Opinium, published in the Observer newspaper, puts Labour on 42% and the Conservatives on 30%.
It places the Lib Dems on 8%, behind the UK Independence Party, on 10%.
The poll represents the views of 1,681 people who indicated they were likely to vote from 1,984 online interviews. | Nick Clegg has insisted the coalition will not make future spending cuts "on the backs of the poor" and urged the Conservatives to back a "wealth tax". | 19690327 |
The 23-year-old Switzerland international, who has 46 caps, has signed a five-year contract to become the Potters' ninth summer recruit.
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"He's a dynamic and explosive player who will bring something different," said Stoke boss Mark Hughes.
The club's previous record signing was striker Peter Crouch, whom they paid Tottenham £10m for in 2011.
A month after Stoke pulled out of a move for Shaqiri, the player was at the Britannia Stadium on Sunday as the Potters lost 1-0 to Liverpool.
A Basel youth team product, he joined Inter Milan from German champions Bayern Munich in January, scoring three goals in 20 games for the Italians.
Shaqiri has scored 17 times for his country.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | Stoke City have completed the signing of Inter Milan winger Xherdan Shaqiri for a club-record fee of £12m. | 33847333 |
The Prime Minister told BBC Radio Kent that he "wasn't particularly happy" about what he had heard about her.
"I don't think she's making a very good fist of her job... the people of Kent elected her, they can un-elect her at the next available opportunity."
The BBC has been unable to contact Mrs Barnes for her reaction to his comments, as she is away on holiday.
Mr Cameron's remarks follow a Channel 4 documentary last month, in which Mrs Barnes admitted she should not have taken part.
The "fly-on-the-wall" TV programme Meet the Police Commissioner, saw Mrs Barnes talk about her £85,000-a-year role.
At points in the broadcast, she struggled to explain an approach to policing priorities called "the onion", brought her dogs into the office and failed to write her title correctly on a whiteboard.
Mrs Barnes was also criticised last year after she appointed teenager Paris Brown as Kent's first youth commissioner.
Ms Brown later resigned over comments she had posted on Twitter.
However, earlier this month, within days of the Channel 4 programme, it was claimed Ms Brown's replacement had been involved in a relationship with 50-year-old former county councillor and youth leader Robert Burgess.
Kerry Boyd, 20, has since not undertaken any public engagements.
The BBC has also learned that Mrs Barnes will still be on holiday when a new policing model for Kent is introduced on Tuesday.
When asked about this, the Prime Minister said that while she was responsible for her own movements, "that doesn't sound particularly impressive".
"As I've said, I don't think she has impressed in this role," Mr Cameron added. | Ann Barnes has failed to impress in her role as Kent's Police and Crime Commissioner, David Cameron has said. | 27959441 |
The Briton suffered the injury in last month's IBF world welterweight title loss to American Errol Spence Jr in front of his home crowd in Sheffield.
Former world champion Brook, 31, underwent surgery last Friday.
"I will talk to my team in the coming weeks about what we can do next and I am looking to get back into camp this summer," said Brook.
It is the second time Brook has had surgery in nine months.
He had an operation after breaking his right eye socket in a loss to Gennady Golovkin in September 2016, before returning to the ring on 27 May.
"The last scan I had revealed the healing has started really well and the bone already looks strong," added Brook, who has won 36 of 38 fights.
"So I expect to make a full recovery and I want to fight again in 2017." | Kell Brook says he wants to fight again in 2017 after a successful operation on his fractured left eye socket. | 40353694 |
The Microsoft founder urged the UK to keep spending at least 0.7% of national income on foreign aid, saying it was proof of its goodwill and humanity.
Theresa May has refused to say if she will retain the spending pledge in the Conservative's election manifesto.
But the Scottish Tory leader pledged her own "absolute" commitment to it.
More than £12bn was spent in aid in 2015. Some newspapers and Conservative MPs argue the figure is too large and too wasteful, and some of it would be better spent on schools and hospitals in the UK.
Ruth Davidson told BBC Newsnight: "I think that international aid not only benefits… the countries that receive it but we benefit too.
"It takes moral courage to be one of the leading countries that espouses that, when there are a lot of countries that don't do it."
Culture Secretary Karen Bradley has also defended the commitment, saying she was "very proud" of the UK's track record in "helping the most in need".
At a speech in London, Mr Gates said Mrs May had made it clear during her visit to the US in January that she saw the 0.7% aid commitment as a "critical pillar" of Britain's foreign policy.
"Britain should be praised, not ridiculed, for sticking to this commitment," he told the Royal United Services Institute.
"It was a well-considered decision that sets an example for other wealthy Western countries. It also is visible proof of the UK's goodwill and humanity.
"Withdrawing aid would cost lives - which is reason enough to continue it," he added.
"But it would also create a leadership vacuum that others will fill, undermining the UK's influence in these regions."
There has been growing speculation that the Conservatives will attempt to row back on the aid commitment in their manifesto.
Newsnight political editor Nick Watt said there was pressure in Whitehall to subsume aid spending in a larger budget, which would include defence and trade, to give the government more flexibility in how the cash was spent.
The commitment to spend 0.7% of national income - or GDP - on foreign aid was enshrined in law with the backing of the Tory-Liberal Democrat coalition in 2015.
Former International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell told Newsnight: "Around the world we are lauded and respected for the lives we are saving, but in Britain it receives very hostile treatment from elements of the press."
But former No 10 policy chief Camilla Cavendish said "many" people thought the commitment was too much, and pointed out that UK was the second biggest aid donor in the world.
Mr Gates, who has conducted a round of interviews on the issue, told the Spectator that aid was "applied in places where the interventions are at least a hundred times more effective than anything you'd do domestically".
"If you can't save a life for less than 1,000 dollars, it's not done.
"Nor is it done unless there's a strategic goal - in terms of reducing pandemics, or creating stability to avoid war and migration.
"So you're getting something back, avoiding problems for the UK and in particular the US."
Mr Gates also questioned whether the UK was stepping away from its international commitments amid the backdrop of Brexit.
"Are you just getting away from the rule-setting on migration and tariffs, or is it a statement about stepping away from the entire world, and being generous to others?" he said.
In the past, the prime minister has praised Britain's aid spending as proof of its global leadership.
But in the Commons on Wednesday, Mrs May refused to confirm that her election manifesto would renew the commitment, saying only that the Conservatives were committed to "ensuring the defence and security of this country and to working for a stronger world".
A Conservative spokesman said: "This government takes its international responsibilities seriously and as a global, outward-looking country we will continue to support the poorest people around the world.
"As for our manifesto going in to the election, we will set out our plans in due course," he said. | Reducing the UK government's commitment to foreign aid spending would cost lives, American billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates has warned. | 39650012 |
The 65-year-old was found with serious injuries in Ardbeg Street on Saturday night.
He was taken to the Victoria infirmary but later died from his wounds.
A spokeswoman for Police Scotland said officers were following a "positive line of inquiry". | A murder investigation is under way after the death of a man in the southside of Glasgow. | 30568774 |
Almost certainly the answer is not as much as you think.
But the people of the town are hoping all that is about to change, as they prepare to embark on a year of celebrations to mark the 950th anniversary of it being founded.
Picnics, lectures and pageants will tell the story of battles, castles and bridges which made this small Monmouthshire town a leading force in engineering advances now echoed across the globe.
The area has been occupied continuously since at least the Mesolithic Period of about 5,000 BC, through the Iron Age, and up to the Silures tribe, who put up fierce resistance to the early Roman invasion.
But it was with the arrival of the Normans that the area took on huge strategic importance.
Less than six months after the Battle of Hastings, William The Conqueror's right-hand man, William FitzOsbern, was dispatched to secure the western-most fringes of the occupation from the marauding Welsh.
For the site of his first castle he picked Chepstow - named Striguil by the Normans - as it was the lowest bridging point of the River Wye and close to its confluence with the Severn.
Local historian John Burrows said the stronghold was an early example of "shock and awe" and "the space-race" of its day.
"From the outset Chepstow Castle was intended to be a statement as much as a fortification, to a people who would probably never have seen a stone building before," he said.
"A wooden castle would have done the job just as well, but he wanted to prove the military and technological dominance of the Normans without having to go to battle."
A market, port wall and town gate, and the first of its many bridges came during the 12th and 13th centuries, transforming Chepstow into Wales' largest medieval port.
It was a title which Chepstow would hold right up to the end of the Napoleonic Wars.
From 1790 to 1795 the port handled more shipping than Swansea, Cardiff and Newport put together, with vessels leaving Chepstow for Iceland, Turkey, Italy, France and Portugal.
Chepstow's dominance was only halted by the Industrial Revolution.
Swansea and Cardiff were much better suited to transport coal due to tidal issues and the invention of larger ships, and so Chepstow re-invented itself as a ship-building community.
"The shipyard produced light-weight, low-cost, pre-fabricated ships which could be floated down the river and assembled elsewhere," said Mr Burrows.
"That led to bridge building, and eventually to the construction of wind turbines, which sadly ceased in 2015. "
In 1816 the Grade I listed Chepstow Bridge began the town's legacy for bridge building which would put it on the engineering map.
Built by John Urpeth Rastrick, it remains the only five-arch bridge of its kind to survive.
In 1966 the Severn Bridge opened. Using much thinner "aero-deck" the platform was much more stable and revolutionised suspension bridges all over the world.
The town's connection with bridges is celebrated each January with Welsh Mari Lwyd's face-off against English wassailers on the Old Wye Bridge.
Chepstow was also home to Britain's first black high sheriff. In 1794 St Kitts slave-turned-slave-owner Nathaniel Wells set up home at Piercefield estate, now the site of the racecourse, before becoming only the second black man to hold a commission in the British Army.
Today the town is twinned with Cormeilles, the Normandy home of William FitzOsbern. An arrangement dating back to 1976.
Mr Burrows said Chepstow should look to the French commune to bring people back to the town centre.
"Chepstow has been an important part of the Wye tourist trail since the 18th Century, but visitors tend to go to the castle and on to Tintern Abbey, missing out the town centre," he said.
"Part of the problem is that most of the shops and bars are at the top of a steep hill, so maybe some sort of funicular system might encourage visitors into the town, and itself become a tourist attraction." | How much do you know about the sleepy town of Chepstow, nestling on the banks of the River Wye? | 39443021 |
Foreign currencies like the US dollar and South African rand have been used for most transactions since 2009.
Local dollars are not used except high-denomination notes sold as souvenirs.
But from Monday, Zimbabweans can exchange bank accounts of up to 175 quadrillion (175,000,000,000,000,000) Zimbabwean dollars for five US dollars.
Higher balances will be exchanged at a rate of Z$35 quadrillion to US$1.
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The move has been "pending and long outstanding," central bank Governor John Mangudya said, quoted by Bloomberg.
"We cannot have two legal currency systems. We need therefore to safeguard the integrity of the multiple-currency system or dollarization in Zimbabwe."
Zimbabweans have until the end of September to exchange their local dollars.
Correspondents say this is likely to only affect those with savings accounts.
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Hyper-inflation saw prices in shops change several times a day, severe shortages of basic goods and Zimbabweans taking their money to market in wheelbarrows.
Ahead of the abandonment of the Zimbabwean dollar in January 2009, officials gave up on reporting official inflation statistics.
Towards the end of 2008, annual inflation had reached 231m%, pensions, wages and investments were worthless, most schools and hospitals were closed and at least eight in 10 people were out of work.
The highest denomination was a $100 trillion Zimbabwean dollar note.
A four-year unity government, that ended in 2013 with President Robert Mugabe's re-election, helped stabilise the economy but it still faces huge challenges.
One of the problems has been the shortage of coins that kept prices high as retailers often rounded them up and shoppers were given change in sweets or pens.
Over the last six months, the central bank has introduced about $10m (£6.4m) worth of "bond coins" into circulation, but they have not been popular with consumers who fear that it is the first step in the re-introduction of the Zimbabwe dollar.
During campaigning ahead of the last election, some ruling Zanu-PF party supporters had suggested this could happen, but the central bank governor has since ruled that out.
Zimbabwe's economy has struggled since a government programme seized most white-owned farms in 2000, causing exports to tumble.
Mr Mugabe has always blamed the economic problems on a Western plot to oust him. | Zimbabwe is phasing out its local currency, the central bank says, formalising a multi-currency system introduced during hyper-inflation. | 33105400 |
The 53-year-old, son of the late Worcestershire and England legend Basil D'Oliveira, played for the county between 1982 and 1995.
During his career he scored more than 9,000 first-class runs, with a career-best single innings of 237.
He also discovered many of the county's current first-team squad, which includes his son Brett.
The club said the players were informed of the news of his death shortly before the start of Sunday's County Championship match with Glamorgan.
In a statement, the club said: "Worcestershire are sad to report that academy director Damian D'Oliveira passed away in the early hours of this morning.
"D'Oliveira has bravely been battling cancer for the past two-and-a-half years."
Mr D'Oliveira's father, who was fondly known as Dolly, was born in South Africa and moved to the UK in the 1960s because of the lack of opportunities for non-white players.
He went on to play for England but his selection for the 1968 tour of South Africa led to a political storm, the cancellation of the tour and sporting isolation for his former country.
In 2011, Mr D'Oliveira told the BBC the reaction to his father's death had been "absolutely overwhelming".
"He was a man of very few words who did his talking on the field," he said. | Former Worcestershire batsman and academy manager Damian D'Oliveira has died from cancer. | 28078433 |
The mobile phone company reported a net loss of 969m euros ($1.27bn; £787m) for the three months to the end of September, compared with a 68m euro loss in the same quarter last year.
But the shares rose 9% as the results were still better than had been expected.
The Finnish company's sales were down 19% from the same period last year.
Nokia was the world's leading mobile phone maker for more than a decade, but has struggled in the face of competition from Apple and Samsung.
Its third-quarter results were boosted by record profits from its telecoms equipment company, Nokia Siemens Networks.
Nokia is releasing new Lumia 820 and 920 phones next month, which will use Microsoft's latest Windows 8 software.
"We expected that Nokia's third quarter was going to be tough for its smartphone business due to the announcement of Windows Phone 8," said Pete Cunningham at Canalys.
"The fourth quarter will be a tough one as it will take a couple of quarters to ramp up Windows Phone 8 volumes due to the competitive landscape."
The introduction of Windows smartphones has been the big change under chief executive Stephen Elop, who phased out the Symbian operating system shortly after he took control of the company in 2010. | Nokia shares have risen sharply in Helsinki despite the release of another set of quarterly losses. | 19987529 |
George Osborne told me that he would not give the go-ahead until the markets had calmed, saying that "now is not the right time".
He said he still supported encouraging wider share ownership in Britain.
So this looks like a significant delay rather than a cancellation.
The sale of the final part of the government's stake in Lloyds was a general election pledge made by David Cameron.
It was expected to raise £2bn, making it one of the largest privatisations since the 1980s when BT and British Gas were sold, raising £3.9bn and £5.6bn respectively.
Mr Osborne announced the details of the Lloyds sale to hundreds of thousands of small investors last October.
It was thought the sale would take place in the spring.
But since then Lloyds' share price has fallen and the trading environment for banks has become tougher.
Low interest rates also make profits harder to come by across the sector.
In October, Lloyds share price was 78p, above the 74p considered to be the "in price" the government paid to rescue the bank during the financial crisis - when it used billions of pounds of tax-payers money to shore up the financial system.
That share price is now down at 64p, so the government would be selling the shares to the public at a considerable loss.
Yesterday, the Royal Bank of Scotland announced billions of pounds of new provisions to pay for fines and legal actions connected to the financial crisis.
Its share price has also fallen.
The government owns 73% of RBS and just under 10% of Lloyds. It doesn't look like it will be selling either stake any time soon. | The Chancellor has postponed the sale of the Government's final stake in Lloyds Banking Group, saying the global turmoil in the markets and slowing growth had sparked the delay. | 35427377 |
The Spanish champions have the option to buy the 23-year-old, who is currently on loan at AC Milan, for £10.2m (12m euros).
He left Barca for the Toffees for £4.3m in 2015 but has only started four Premier League games this season under Ronald Koeman.
Deulofeu has impressed during his Milan loan spell, scoring twice in 13 games.
His form at the San Siro earned him a second Spain cap, scoring in a 2-0 win over France last month.
Barca sporting director Robert Fernandez confirmed to Catalan station TV3 on Sunday: "The club are firmly considering the option to bring him back to play for the first team next season." | Barcelona are considering activating a clause to re-sign Everton winger Gerard Deulofeu this summer. | 39615035 |
"Barack Obama lifts America one last time," says the website of the UK's Guardian, and its reporter admits that she, and many in the audience were "in tears".
"A fiery plea for democracy" is German public broadcaster ARD's assessment of the speech.
The UK's Daily Telegraph highlights Mr Obama's "urgent and fearful warning" about the state of American democracy.
But the paper offers criticism of his legacy in terms of the UK, with a commentary declaring his departure an opportunity for "Britain and America to rebuild the special relationship" under Donald Trump.
A commentator in Germany's Die Welt finds Mr Obama's political achievements meagre and his foreign policy record even "catastrophic", accusing him of being too timid on Iran, Russia and Syria.
But "we will still miss Barack Obama", he adds - for his style, sense of humour and as a symbol of the hope that the US might still pull itself out of the "moral swamp of racism".
India's Hindustan Times strikes a similar note, but is more critical, especially on Mr Obama's perceived policy failings over Pakistan, Iran and Cuba.
"We will miss Obama for a while," it concedes. "But his misses, and their consequences, will be with us for a long, long time."
A commentator in the English-language Saudi paper Arab News says Mr Obama leaves a world "bitterly divided", and adds that his "untidy withdrawal" from the Middle East and lack of decisiveness on Syria strengthened Iran and frustrated the US's allies in the region.
"It is fair to say that the world, and much of the US, is disappointed with Obama," he concludes.
Spain's La Razon sees in Mr Obama a "man trampled by reality", whose initial idealism was replaced by the need to take the "same decisions that he rejected in his predecessors".
The harshest and most unequivocal criticism of Mr Obama's legacy comes from Russia's pro-Kremlin media.
"Obama will be remembered first of all for a complete failure in foreign policy, in particular the Middle East," says a report on Channel One TV.
Recalling Mr Obama's original "Yes, we can" campaign slogan, state news channel Rossiya 24 sneers that "in the end it looks more like 'he did what he could'".
The channel's US correspondent says Mr Obama's pledge to make the handover of power as smooth as possible "sounds like a cruel joke" in light of the "organised bullying" of Donald Trump.
The Kremlin has previously described accusations that it intervened in the US election on Mr Trump's behalf as a "witch-hunt".
A more nuanced take comes from China, which has already publicly clashed with Donald Trump.
Official Chinese broadcaster CCTV quotes a poll that suggests most Americans feel that Obama "tried but failed" to keep his campaign promises.
But at least US relations with Beijing have been "stable" during the past year, the broadcaster says.
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. | Barack Obama's farewell speech evokes wistful regret about his imminent departure amongst some commentators in the world's media - but others offer an at times harsh assessment of his record. | 38581599 |
Ricardo Hunter, 34 from Coulsdon in south London, was found dead at the private event in Church Lane, Headley, near Epsom, on 25 July.
A woman was also shot in the leg and a man suffered minor should injuries.
Surrey Police offered the reward saying some of the 300 people who attended the party had yet to speak to officers investigating Mr Hunter's death.
A post-mortem examination showed Mr Hunter had died from a single gunshot wound.
Most of party-goers were from the London area, Surrey Police said.
A 27-year-old man from London, arrested on suspicion of murder, attempted murder and possession of an offensive weapon, has been released on bail until 7 February. | A £10,000 reward has been offered for information after a man was shot dead at a pool party. | 38253112 |
The "unique" underground shelter stands in the Woodside Road industrial estate on the outskirts of Ballymena, County Antrim, and can house up to 235 people.
It was commissioned by the government during the latter stages of the Cold War and construction began in 1987.
It contains dormitories, kitchen facilities, decontamination chambers, and has been kept in a "fit and ready state" for emergencies since 1990.
The bunker is in the ownership of the Office of the First and deputy First Minister (OFMDFM), which hopes to raise about £575,000 from the sale of the 3.74-acre site.
BBC News NI reported the existence of the bunker in 2007, after submitting a Freedom of Information request.
The following year, the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) questioned Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness about an alleged list of people "to be taken there in a moment of peril".
Mr McGuinness replied that he knew nothing of the bunker and hoped he was not on the list.
The then Environment Minister Arlene Foster, who has since become first minister of Northern Ireland, joked at the time that she had not granted it planning permission.
The shelter is one of almost 1,600 nuclear monitoring posts built across the UK since 1955.
The property agent Lambert Smith Hampton said the Ballymena bunker was "believed to be one of the last and most technically advanced buildings of its kind ever built in the UK".
It has "interlocking double blast doors", a BBC audio visual broadcasting facility, bathrooms, conference rooms and storage facilities.
The firm's surveyor, Andrew Fraser, described it as a "one of a kind property".
"This is an extremely rare listing and offers a unique opportunity for potential buyers," he said.
The agents suggested it could be used for tourism, media or storage purposes. | Northern Ireland's leaders are selling off their nuclear bunker. | 35469639 |
A police spokesperson told the BBC they had received a "disturbance call" on Monday afternoon, but did not name the singer.
The disturbance was later deemed a medical incident, he said, and the fire department responded.
A spokesman for the LA Fire Department said an unnamed man had been taken to hospital for "further assessment".
"At 13:20 Pacific Time, the Los Angeles Fire Department responded to an unspecified medical aid request," a spokesperson for the service said.
"An adult male described as medically stable was taken to an area hospital for further assessment."
West's wife Kim Kardashian West was photographed getting off a private jet at Van Nuys Airport in Los Angeles a few hours after he was taken to hospital.
Further details of the incident naming West varied in conflicting reports from multiple news sources.
NBC News said officers had been responding to a "medical welfare call" and the decision to hospitalise West was for his own health and safety, citing "multiple authorities familiar with the case".
Gossip website TMZ said that West was taken to hospital for "psychiatric evaluation" and had been seeking treatment for "severe sleep deprivation".
The Los Angeles Times reported that there had been a 911 call from the address, citing a fire department source.
Neither West nor his representatives have made an official statement about the incident.
Before news broke of West's hospital treatment, Kardashian West's mother, Kris Jenner, spoke to US media about the rapper's reasons for cancelling his shows.
"He's exhausted, he's just really tired. He's had a gruelling tour and it's been a grind so he just needs some rest," she told US TV show Extra.
Some celebrities took to social media to voice their concern and offer well wishes to West.
Rapper 9th Wonder tweeted: "Been knowing the brother upwards of 13 years. Mental healing is a serious thing, no matter what. Stay strong Kanye West."
US actor and comedian Ronald Funches wrote: "I wish Kanye West love and support through his journey. Mental health is no joke and a constant battle and I hope he makes more dope music."
Chance The Rapper, who was performing in BBC Radio 1Xtra's Live Lounge on Tuesday, began a song by saying: "I want to extend a very special prayer to my big brother Kanye West."
Kardashian West was expected to appear at a New York City social event on Monday - her first public appearance since she was robbed in Paris in October - but she did not attend.
The rapper had cancelled all remaining dates on his current tour after abandoning a Sacramento performance at the weekend.
He had performed just three songs on Saturday night, before embarking on an unscripted rant, criticising Facebook, Jay Z and Hillary Clinton.
He criticised Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg for failing to give him $53m (£42.5m) to get out of debt and said he was hurt that Jay Z failed to visit his family after last month's robbery.
West then appeared to suggest that Jay Z employed hit men, saying: "Jay Z, I know you got killers, please don't send them at my head."
"Get ready to have a field day, press, because the show's over," he said, as he dropped his microphone and walked out.
His promoter, Live Nation, has announced refunds for all tickets from the show.
No reason has been given for the cancellation of the remaining dates. | US rapper Kanye West has been taken to hospital following an emergency services call, media reports say. | 38060498 |
Warwickshire were bowled out for 449, missing out on full batting points.
But after reaching tea on 107-1, Surrey collapsed in the final session.
Patel took 5-61, to follow his first-innings 5-62, as Surrey slumped to 177 all out, before the Bears took five balls to reach 5-0 for a 10-wicket win.
Ian Bell's men claimed the extra half hour to avoid having to come back for the fourth day.
Surrey have now failed to beat Warwickshire in their last eight home meetings.
The visitors climb to the top of Division One for the first time this season with only their second Championship victory of 2016 - and Bell's first since being appointed county captain.
After Keith Barker had earlier cracked 65 in 70 balls with 11 fours, Rory Burns led Surrey's fightback against a daunting 176-run first-innings deficit.
But after his departure for 68, the Surrey batting folded, only Worcestershire old boy Steven Davies (44) and Zafar Ansari (50) making double figures.
Patel's match figures of 10-123 were the best of his first-class career, beating the 10-163 he took in an innings victory over Sussex at Edgbaston in 2011.
With the rest of the current round of Championship games still to be completed, Surrey, who last week put in 28 days' notice to sign Durham duo Scott Borthwick and Mark Stoneman, climb 18 points clear of bottom club Hampshire.
Surrey director of cricket Alec Stewart told BBC Radio London:
"Burns and Ansari showed the way. They played tough cricket. Unfortunately, there was then a collapse. The batting is faulty.
"We bowled well. Our bowling is moving in the right direction, but our batting isn't. That is an issue.
"If you are only making scores of 270, and not batting four sessions, you are making it very hard. There are players with talent, but they are not battle-hardened cricketers."
Warwickshire spinner Jeetan Patel told BBC WM:
"It is so hard to win games in this league. Every team is really good. "There is still a long way to go. No-one is talking about being top.
"We went in at tea and the conversation was all about doing the hard yards and then eventually it will pay you back.
"We were lucky when Rory played on, then we got Zafar. All we wanted was a sniff. We knew if we got one wicket we would get two or three." | Warwickshire spinner Jeetan Patel took his second five-wicket haul of the match as the Bears went top of the County Championship by beating Surrey inside three days at Guildford. | 36704773 |
Susan Billingham said rubbish had not been collected from Cedarhurst estate, Harborne, for nearly six weeks and it was "becoming a health risk".
Rubbish was not picked up two weeks prior to the start of a workers' strike in a job losses dispute, she said.
The city council said 52 teams were out over the weekend prioritising areas where rubbish bags had built up.
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But Ms Billingham said she had not seen this in Harborne.
She has telephoned the council several times about the rubbish which she said for "some unknown reason" had not been collected since 8 June, while the recycling bins had not been picked up for eight weeks.
Many of the large container bins were overflowing and some had "50 to 60 bags" next to them, she said.
"It is piled up and is surrounded by the rat population of Birmingham. "We've got mice, foxes, we've got the lot here," she said.
She said residents could hear animals at night and found "rubbish strewn everywhere" in the mornings.
Lisa Trickett, cabinet member for clean streets, has told the BBC it plans to work with other organisations to clear rubbish.
"We have actually to be able to ensure our streets are clear of waste where it is a detriment to health and that our residents are listened to," she said.
Refuse workers are set to strike until September. The Unite union says the council is cutting some 120 jobs and that members have received notice letters. The council said workers had been offered other opportunities under restructuring plans. | A Birmingham resident says uncollected rubbish is attracting rats, foxes and mice as a refuse strike continues. | 40704763 |
The figure puts annual growth in the 19-country bloc at 2.1% since a year ago.
First-quarter growth was revised down slightly from 0.6% to 0.5%.
Other figures released on Monday showed unemployment in the zone was at its lowest since 2009, building on the picture of improving economic health across the area.
On Friday, figures showed Spain's economy, one of the worst-hit by the financial crisis, grew by 0.9% in the second quarter, suggesting the country's economy had finally grown back to the size it was before 2008.
The International Monetary Fund last week said the outlook for several eurozone economies was brighter than initially thought, with countries including France, Germany, Italy and Spain seeing growth forecasts revised up.
The European Central Bank is planning to tighten up monetary policy after years of pumping up activity through low interest rates and bond-buying.
It intends to begin the process in the autumn, although inflation remains low at 1.3%, well under the 2% target for the eurozone.
Low inflation is often one of the side effects of weak economic activity. | The eurozone notched up growth of 0.6% in the second quarter of the year, official Eurostat figures showed. | 40788169 |
Set up just a few years ago, Provenance says it is lighting a fire under the retail world.
The company is based around an app which allows retailers and customers to see where a product comes from, from its origins to its point of sale.
"Behind every product is a complex chain of people and places and that's a really important part of why people buy things," Ms Baker explains.
"Provenance is all about making that information transparent to shoppers but also to businesses all along the supply chain."
But it began with her mother Jenny.
"She's a pioneer of conscious consumption," Ms Baker says.
"She raised me, my brother and sister, to care about what we eat and buy, but also helped us understand from an early age where things come from.
"For a long time, I think most of our meals came from under one mile from our home in Wiltshire, vegetables from the garden and animal products from our neighbour's farm."
While training to be a manufacturing engineer, Ms Baker visited dozens of supply chains to see how different products were sourced and created. But the breakthrough came in 2013, when she was studying for a PhD in computer science and started to look into the emerging blockchain technology.
"You can think of a blockchain," Ms Baker says, "as a shared data system that everyone can use in order to be able to trust information. What it's allowed us to do is to have a shared system of record that nobody can tamper with and everybody can see."
Provenance uses this technology to log and store every stage of a supply chain in a way that anyone can access.
Now the company, which started as a part-time interest while Ms Baker was studying, has become a full-time business. She has put her PhD on hold, as she's busy running a company with 10 staff based in four countries: the UK, the US, France and Germany.
"We have no physical things apart from our laptops," Ms Baker points out. "So we can move the team wherever we want to around the world."
The company started out working with small brands and, in July 2016, signed its first commercial client, the UK's fifth largest food and grocery retailer, the Co-op. Provenance is now helping the Co-op track fresh products through its supply chains.
"We've attracted lots of pioneering food and drinks businesses," Ms Baker says.
"It's as much about reassuring businesses that they are selling things that are correct and trustworthy as it is about consumers being able to understand that as well."
Provenance's first victory for sourcing ethical products came with a humble fish.
In early 2016 in Indonesia, Provenance tracked the first fish on the blockchain.
Working with a non-governmental organisation to certify a socially sustainable catch of fish, the company in effect created a digital passport for the fish.
Provenance has now set up partnerships with tagging, DNA scanning and digital imaging companies to strengthen the connections between physical products and their digitised claims.
As well as fish, Provenance now tracks other foods, such as eggs and dairy. It says that lots of products, not just food, can be tracked and sourced in this way.
But Ms Baker admits that there are still some issues with the scaling up of the technology.
"We're on the bleeding edge of a new technology and occasionally having to wait for it to get developed a bit more in order to be able to develop on top of it," she says.
Another problem is the reputation of blockchains.
"The main challenge for Provenance is that it's being built upon a technology that is relatively immature," says Chris Haley, an analyst from innovation specialist, Nesta.
"There are still some risks that are unclear, but we're beginning to see blockchains being used in really quite a wide variety of applications. It is potentially a much simpler way of transacting." he says.
But Ms Baker has a long-term vision.
"We are disruptive and we're trying to disrupt the industry for good." she says.
"The ultimate goal of Provenance is that one day it will be impossible to buy a product that compromises your health and morals. Businesses that have very opaque supply chains and are not taking active steps to make them transparent should really fear us." | Jessi Baker thanks her mother for the inspiration to start her company, Provenance. | 38773878 |
Work has begun to take down the building in Pearl St, Adamsdown, following the blaze on Monday.
It ripped through the three-storey property and 60 residents who lived nearby have been temporarily re-housed.
Homes in Pearl St, Agate St and Diamond St were affected and the Old Illtydians Rugby Club on Splott Road remains sealed off.
Many residents are now staying with friends and family and others are being put up in hotels.
A Cardiff council spokesman said the operation would be "slow" as a police and fire service investigation must be completed before demolition work can begin.
Once it starts, work will be initially carried out by hand because of the risk of damage to homes from a wrecking ball.
The British Red Cross has set up a rest centre at the Star Centre nearby.
Cardiff council says the owner of the property will have to bear the cost of the demolition work. | A derelict bingo hall destroyed by a large fire is being demolished by hand, Cardiff council has said. | 31618441 |
The hardware business of the former Hewlett-Packard announced the plans as part of a larger restructuring effort.
It is hoped the cuts will generate some $200m (£163m) to $300m in annual savings for the firm, but they are expected to cost up to $500m in charges.
HP also issued a lower-than-expected earnings guidance for next year.
The company said it expected adjusted profit for the fiscal year 2017 to be between $1.55 and $1.65 per share.
Hewlett-Packard split into two businesses last year: HP Inc, which focuses on printers and computers; and Hewlett Packard Enterprise, which sold its software business to focus on data storage.
"I'm proud of the progress we have made in our first year as the new HP. Our focus is clear, our execution is solid, and we are positioned well for the next step in our journey," Dion Weisler, the company's president, said in a statement.
The job cuts come as sales of personal computers around the world continue to decline.
Earlier this week, research company Gartner said PC shipments declined 5.7% in the third quarter of 2016 compared with a year earlier.
Hewlett-Packard has in the past seen profits hit by declining sales of personal computers and has already had tens of thousands of job cuts in recent years. | US computer company HP Inc has said it expects to cut 3,000 to 4,000 jobs over the next three years. | 37651831 |
The alleged incident happened in Cumbernauld on 21 July.
The boy's injuries were said to be serious but not life-threatening, BBC Scotland understands.
The matter was referred to the Police Investigations and Review Commissioner (Pirc) by the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service.
Pirc said it would investigate what took place and report back in due course. | Claims that a 14-year-old boy was seriously injured when he was arrested in North Lanarkshire are to be investigated by a police watchdog. | 40904712 |
Seven charities will use the cash to fund specialist services including employment training.
Support for the families of prisoners and social care support will also be offered.
Justice Secretary Michael Matheson said the work done by charities was a "vital part" of the government's vision to reduce reoffending rates.
The organisations receiving funding include Apex Scotland - which specialises in criminal justice social work - and Families Outside, which helps support the families of those in prison.
Mr Matheson added: "I want to see fewer ineffective short-term prison sentences used, and more community sentences, which also help people to turn their lives around, keep crime down and communities safe.
"From early intervention to supporting reintegration back into the community, these charities are dedicated to working with people who have offended at all possible opportunities and supporting them to become contributing members of the community."
The other organisations to benefit are Sacro, Positive Prison? Positive Futures, Turning Point Scotland, Venture Trust and Supporting Offenders with Learning Disabilities. | Organisations working to help offenders and their families are to share almost £3m of Scottish government funding. | 39249699 |
The federal prosecutor said that an attack could not be ruled out if further suspects felt cornered.
Anti-terror police are holding two brothers and found guns, ammunition and police uniforms during raids in Brussels.
"We're still searching for various terror suspects after last night's raids," said Eric Van der Sypt.
"We fear that they will feel driven into a corner after the raids. We're also afraid of the same reaction as the 22 March," the federal prosecutor told public broadcaster VTM.
Thirty-two people died in bombings in March 2016 at Brussels airport and a city metro station. Mr Van der Sypt said there was no indication yet that a similar attack had been planned.
No details were given of the suspects still on the run and Belgian officials said the terror alert would remain at three, the second highest level. Last month, a man set off a bomb at Brussels Central Station before being shot dead by soldiers.
Three Kalashnikov assault rifles, ammunition, detonators and a riot gun were seized during police raids in the Anderlecht area of Brussels on Wednesday.
Across the border in France, raids also took place in a suburb of the northern city of Lille and a man was detained.
Police were also alarmed by the discovery of uniforms belonging to police and other security agencies. Police union president Vincent Gilles said the suspects may have been planning to attack the public or a police station.
The two brothers detained by Belgian police have been linked to a motorcycle gang called the Kamikaze Riders, whose members have been caught up in previous alleged plots, including an alleged plan to target the capital on New Year's Eve in 2015. | Belgian authorities say at least one man is on the run a day after police arrested two suspected militants. | 40518175 |
Roofe has joined for an undisclosed fee understood to be about £3m, a club-record sale for the U's.
The 23-year-old started his career at West Brom, who are owed a share of the transfer fee due to a sell-on clause.
Grimes, 20, has struggled to break into the Swansea first team, making only one Premier League start.
The England Under-21 international joins up with former Swans boss Garry Monk, who signed him as a teenager from League Two side Exeter City for £1.75m in January 2015.
He played 13 times for Blackburn Rovers during a loan spell last season.
Roofe scored 18 goals in 40 league games for Oxford last season to help the U's earn promotion to League One, and he also contributed nine assists.
The Walsall-born player joined Oxford on an initial loan deal in February 2015, before making the move permanent in May of that year.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | Leeds have signed Oxford United forward Kemar Roofe on a four-year deal and brought in Swansea midfielder Matt Grimes on a season-long loan. | 36733108 |
Amanda Watts, 43, from Suffolk, pleaded guilty to one count of misconduct in public office and was told a prison sentence was "inevitable".
The Old Bailey heard that details of Michael's time in Highpoint Prison in 2010 led to five stories in the Sun.
Watts, who was arrested under Operation Elveden, will be sentenced next month.
Judge John Bevan QC told her: "You should understand the fact I'm bailing you until [16 October] is to enable you to make appropriate arrangements.
"A prison sentence is inevitable. I'm sure you understand."
The court heard she received £2,000 for the information she gave.
Operation Elveden is a Metropolitan Police investigation into alleged inappropriate payments by journalists to police and other public officials.
Michael was jailed for eight weeks in September 2010 for crashing his Range Rover while under the influence of cannabis. | A former prison officer has admitted selling information about singer George Michael's time in prison to the Sun newspaper for £2,000. | 34314806 |
You have been sharing your stories about the moment you met one of Britain's best-loved entertainers, who has died at the age of 72.
Many will remember her as the host of TV shows like Surprise Surprise and Blind Date.
Sophie Cousens, in London, took part in the final series of Blind Date in 2001 and won:
"I was at university when I decided to apply. I was so excited by the experience. She's the reason I chose a career in TV production. She really inspired me.
I was one of the three girls to be picked for a date. Before the show, Cilla came to say hello to us. She was glamorous, elegant, classy.
She had an old school TV glow about her. She was so warm and friendly. Then it hit me - I was on Blind Date with Cilla Black!
My date (Alex) and I went to Houston, Texas for our prize. It was wonderful. Cilla's son came on the trip too. When we came back to tell our story, Cilla was genuinely interested.
That's why the show lasted so long. There was a real authenticity about the show and she was very proud of it.
Alex and I dated for a month only, but we're still friends."
Adult actress and Cosplayer Tanya Tate appeared on Blind Date in the late 1990s:
"The first time I met Cilla was when we came out in front of the audience. I felt really nervous meeting her, she's such a big star.
I got my answer muddled up - it was about being tongue tied - and she was patient and professional.
It was my first big experience of appearing on UK television but it gave me the confidence to be in front of the camera, saying a line and playing a role.
It's a bit surreal looking back - no one would have thought I'd be where I am now, making and producing adult movies as well as doing Cosplay and collectables on Youtube.
When you've messed up a line on a big British telly show, you think it's OK, I can mess up elsewhere. I've come a long way from Blind Date - I was number two, he picked number three."
Phil Collins, in Surrey, was a contestant on Blind Date:
"It was an amazing experience about 15 years ago. I was one of the guys amongst the three hoping to be chosen.
We met Cilla two hours before the show. She was adorable. She made you feel very welcome and at ease.
One thing that stands out is after filming there was an after show party and she came to have a drink with us all.
It was so nice of her to do that. It showed a side that she happily mixed with contestants.
I remember her sense of humour. We made a few jokes. She was very humorous even off camera. I didn't get picked. I was gutted."
Carolynne Oates was on Blind Date in 1987:
"I was the chooser and picked Richard from Guernsey who was 6'7" tall. I quipped his height must have been down to the milk! Cilla was hilarious. She had great comedy timing.
I thought she was adorable and very down to earth.
After the date, Richard took me to a restaurant for a meal, and all of a sudden we heard Cilla's voice. What are the odds of that? We sat with her, Bobby and Christopher Biggins. I don't know who was shocked more, Cilla or me!
When we went back on the show, that was the main topic of our conversation - how we bumped in to each other after our date.
The show was a phenomenon - the biggest TV show at the time.
People didn't go on with idea of becoming famous, they just wanted to be on the show. It changed your life. To this day, people still talk about my appearance on the show."
Janet Brown was on Surprise Surprise:
"I met this lovely lovely lady in 1990 after I was on Surprise Surprise.
It was filmed in my house with a house full of crew. Such a funny and lovely time.
I feel so blessed that my husband and I got to meet her and Bobby later at the TV studio. What a lovely down-to-earth couple.
I was quite sad when Bobby died. You could see how devoted to each other they were. Now they are reunited, I bet she's bossing him about like mad!"
Interviews by Sherie Ryder and Alex Murray. | Meeting Cilla Black proved to be a life-changing moment for many people. | 33755326 |
The green, red and white of the Mexican flag will be everywhere as tens of thousands of Mexican-Americans and other Chicagoans gather to celebrate the Fifth of May or Cinco de Mayo.
That is the day the Mexican army defeated the French invasion against all the odds in the Battle of Puebla in 1862.
In Pilsen, they will mark the occasion with a parade of elaborate floats, mariachis, local beauty queens and talented horsemen. And, being a celebration of Mexico, you'll be able to find good food, music and chelas (beer).
Particularly the beers.
"In Chicago, the Cinco de Mayo is a marketing ploy to sell alcohol," says Vincent Rangel, the President of the Mexican Civic Association of Illinois, and long-time resident of the city.
"I've been in Chicago for 63 years, and we're dumbfounded at how the date has taken on a life of its own. Especially when you consider that it's really not celebrated in Mexico, unless you're actually from Puebla."
That, says Mr Rangel, is the great irony of the raucous Cinco de Mayo party in the United States: it's a far bigger affair north of the border than it is in Mexico itself.
These days, it has an important political dimension too.
President Barack Obama celebrated the Cinco de Mayo with a group of prominent Hispanic leaders on the Rose Lawn. They were served tuna ceviche and lamb in tamarind mole as President Obama used the occasion to garner support for the Dream Act, a bill to grant legal status to undocumented young people.
Meanwhile in Mexico City, the day is likely to pass off like any other Saturday. Few bars will be doing anything out of the ordinary, and there is no sense that this is the "Day of Mexican Pride" as it has been dubbed in the United States.
Apart from in one particular neighbourhood towards Mexico City's international airport, Penon de los Banos. Here, the recreation of the Battle of Puebla has been held for decades and all day the small barrio will reverberate to the sounds of muskets, canons and blood-curdling battle cries.
And, of course, there will be a huge event in Puebla itself.
The picturesque city is where, 150 years ago to the day, the Mexican army under the command of General Ignacio Zaragoza, supported by indigenous warriors carrying machetes, drove out the French troops of Napoleon III.
"Mexico was between two fires," says Juan Pablo Salazar, the official historian of Puebla. "Either we embraced the United States or we embraced Europe."
At that fork in the road, he says, the Battle of Puebla was crucial in determining the future direction of Mexico by choosing to defend its fledgling sovereignty from the invading forces.
The nature of the victory was crucial too.
"The French assumed they'd flatten everyone, particularly the indigenous tribes who had no military technology," the historian says. But the Indians, supporting a vastly outnumbered Mexican army, came out to fight from all over Puebla.
"They were very poor, simple people and they fought with their souls. You can imagine the political importance the United States made of the victory. It was a way of telling France: 'This is ours, America is for the Americans'."
The tale of the outnumbered and weaker Mexicans claiming an unlikely victory against one of the most powerful militaries in the world adds to the romance of the Cinco de Mayo, says Juan Pablo Salazar. It is a story which has been celebrated by successive Mexican governments for a century and a half.
On Saturday, thousands of modern-day soldiers will take time away from military matters in Mexico to recreate the battle in front of President Felipe Calderon.
Back in the US, there are still a lot of misconceptions about the Cinco de Mayo, says Mexican-born Chicago resident, Vincent Rangel.
"Most people think it's Mexican Independence Day," he chuckles. (That's actually on 16 September.)
"We home-grown Mexicans laugh a bit at the half-price margaritas and the buckets of Corona beer for five dollars. I know of Irish pubs that have Cinco de Mayo specials, it's bizarre."
But, he adds, for fear of sounding like a killjoy, the older generation aren't trying to rain on the parade.
"I think it's encouraging when people ask us 'What is this Cinco de mayo thing all about?' "
"I explain to my friends who are Germans or Poles or Jewish that, for me at least, it's a moment for quiet reflection about the great sacrifice people made 150 years ago to get us to this point." | If you find yourself on Cermak Road in the Pilsen district of Chicago on Saturday, you might be forgiven for thinking you had stumbled into a Mexican town in the middle of its fiestas. | 17955239 |
The court heard how the teenager, who called himself DJ Stolen, earned more than 15,000 euros (£13,260) by breaking copyright laws and hacking personal information from a number of singers.
The hacker used phishing emails and Trojan horse software to steal unpublished songs and then offer them for sale on the internet.
Anti-piracy teams in the UK and Germany noticed a growing number of pre-release tracks being leaked much earlier than normal.
Tracks were stolen from Lady Gaga, Justin Timberlake, Leona Lewis, Ke$ha and Mariah Carey in 2009 and 2010.
The teenager, referred to in court as 'Deniz A' because of his age, was also found guilty of downloading explicit private photos from Kesha's computer.
The court in the German city of Duisburg also heard how a letter of apology was published in the Bild, a German tabloid newspaper, from the teenager.
It said: "Dear Lady Gaga, I am ashamed of what I have done. I did not think about the consequences."
The judge ruled that the teen was "driven more by a desire for recognition than by criminal intent".
The 18-year-old was also ordered to have therapy for an addiction to the internet.
Another hacker, 23, whose name wasn't released, was also given an 18 months suspended sentence.
Jeremy Banks, from the International Federation of the Phonograhic Industry (IFPI), which helped with the investigation said the sentences acted as a "deterrent" to others.
He said the crimes caused "huge damage to artists and record companies". | An 18-year-old computer hacker who stole songs from artists including Lady Gaga has been sentenced to 18 months detention in Germany. | 13807773 |
G-Joey, which has a fan club, flew from Southampton to Alderney and then to Guernsey, arriving 10 minutes late at 19:40 BST after celebrations en route.
The Trislanders, operated by airline Aurigny, are due to be phased out next year, and replaced by Dornier 228s.
Pilot David Rice described the atmosphere on the final flight as "strange" and "interesting".
Capt Rice, flight operations director, said in Alderney "people were quite chatty on the aircraft and all waving as we taxied out".
"We landed in Guernsey, had the water salute, and as we taxied round and eventually parked on stand, I shut the engine down and the whole aircraft was just silence - it's really quite surreal," he said.
"I did notice several of [the passengers] just sort of patting Joey on the nose before they went off."
Susie Gallienne, author of the book Joey and the Penguins, has flown about 1,500 times on Trislanders commuting to Alderney once a week.
She said it was "the end of a bit of an era - it's a little bit sad".
Capt Rice said books about the plane with the registration G-Joey were first released in 1982.
He said: "The red nose was done back in 1988 when the BBC did their very first Comic Relief... later that year our engineers decided to paint the rest of the face.
"It's just grown since then with Joey flights, Joey certificates, Joey club and for the last few weeks we've had people coming from all over... to come and do a flight before he retires."
Capt Rice said: "I really wanted to do this last flight myself. I've been flying Joey and the other Trislanders for over 26 years and you do get emotionally attached."
It's not yet clear what the future holds for the little yellow plane - but more than 5,300 Facebook users hope for a "fitting place to rest". | An aircraft that has served the Channel Islands for nearly 40 years completed its final flight on Sunday. | 33306732 |
Smyth clinched a fourth world title in the T13 100m, winning his final in emphatic fashion against a marginal head wind in a time of 10.63 seconds.
Glengormley runner McKillop was well clear of the field in 2:00.93 to continue his dominance of the T38 800m.
The pair will also take in the 200m and 1500m respectively later in the week.
World record holder Smyth, from Eglinton, came home ahead of Polish sprinter Mateusz Michalski, who was second in 10.95.
Brazilian Gustavo Henrique Araujo was disqualified for a false start but the field got away cleanly at the second attempt.
Chad Perris of Australia took third behind Smyth and Michalski in 10.96.
The County Londonderry man will compete in the 200m heats on Monday evening, with the final on Tuesday night.
The visually-impaired athlete was a double Paralympic gold medallist at the same stadium in 2012 and has a career best of 10.22 seconds in able-bodied competition and a world record of 10.46 for Paralympic competition.
Smyth, who recently turned 30, has been unbeaten at Paralympic level since beginning his international career at the 2005 European Championships.
Since 2012, the Eglinton man's track times have been slowed by injury but he has remained far too good for the opposition at Paralympic level - most recently last year's Rio Games when he took a third successive 100m gold.
Defending champion McKillop ran a good tactical race to maintain his unbeaten run in the 800m, bettering his time in the heats by almost seven seconds.
Australian Deon Kenzie, leader at halfway, was second in 2:02.15, with Saidi Abbes of Tunisia clinching bronze in 2:02.38.
Canada's Liam Stanley, the fastest qualifier, was denied a medal when he fell to the track just short of the finishing line.
McKillop, who also won two gold medals in London five years ago, will defend his T37 1500m title on Saturday 22 July. | Ireland athletes Jason Smyth and Michael McKillop secured gold medals at the World Para-athletics Championships at London Stadium. | 40624676 |
The 5km event, which started in Liverpool's Stanley Park, was held in memory of the 96 football fans killed in a crush at an FA Cup match in 1989.
Mrs Aspinall, whose son James died in the tragedy, shook hands with runners as they started the race.
Ex-Liverpool player Alan Kennedy ran and former boss Rafael Benitez watched.
The event raised funds for the charities Liverpool FC Foundation and Everton in the Community.
Mrs Aspinall said of the memorial race: "It is brilliant. It shows the spirit of the people of Merseyside and it raises funds for two great causes which go back into the community.
"What a tribute to the 96 this is."
Benitez - who managed Liverpool between 2004 and 2010 and is now in charge at Newcastle United - said he was not running because he only knew at the last minute that he would be able to go but he was supporting his wife and daughter who were racing.
He said: "It is a great legacy for the future to remember [the 96] in this way."
The 96 fans were killed in a crush at the FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest at Sheffield Wednesday's Hillsborough stadium on 15 April 1989.
Among those taking part in Sunday's race were Steve Rotheram, Labour MP for Liverpool Walton, Everton fans' favourite Speedo Mick and Invictus gold medallist Andy Grant.
Former Everton player Pat Van Den Hauwe also turned out to support the second annual race.
You'll Never Walk Alone and Z Cars - the anthems of Liverpool and Everton respectively - were played out during the warm-up for the race.
The race then started after a plane flew past the park with the message "Always Remember 15.04.89" and a minute's applause.
In April, jurors at the two-year inquests into the disaster concluded the 96 fans were unlawfully killed. | Hillsborough activist Margaret Aspinall cheered on 2,000 competitors who took part in the Run for the 96 race in memory of the victims of the disaster. | 36345389 |
The charges relate to a match at the Traralgon Challenger tournament in Victoria last October, according to a statement from Victoria Police.
Anderson, 18, beat Uzbekistan's Jurabek Karimov to claim the Australian Open boys' singles title in January 2016.
"Oliver is cooperating fully with authorities. He now awaits the legal process," said a family spokesman.
He will appear before magistrates on 2 March.
Anderson, who is from Brisbane and ranked 743rd in the world, was first named by the Age newspaper in Melbourne on Thursday.
A Victoria Police statement added: "Sporting Integrity Intelligence Unit detectives and bookmakers assisted with the investigation.
"The Queensland man was charged with engaging in conduct that corrupts a betting outcome."
In the match at the centre of the allegations, Anderson lost the first set against Harrison Lombe after being broken at 4-4 before going on to win the next two sets.
Anderson then lost to John-Patrick Smith in the second round of the second-tier event in Latrobe City.
Last year, a joint BBC/Buzzfeed investigation alleged that the Tennis Integrity Unit, the organisation responsible for policing the sport, failed to act on suspicions that 16 top-50 ranked players have been involved in match-fixing.
World number one Sir Andy Murray was asked about the issue of match fixing following his straight sets win over Nicolas Almagro in the Qatar Open quarter-finals.
"It's disappointing for the game any time something like that comes out," said the Briton.
"However, if people are caught and charged, I see that as being a positive thing.
"If it's going on and nothing is happening about it that's much worse for the future of the sport. So, if it's happening, there should be the most severe punishments for whoever is involved in it."
Russell Fuller, BBC tennis correspondent
The tennis authorities robustly defended their anti-corruption record when the BBC and Buzzfeed published their allegations on the first morning of last year's Australian Open.
The independent review panel which was established in its wake is due to issue an interim report in the next few months, but there have already been a number of changes made to the Tennis Integrity Unit.
Its staff has been doubled in size; it now publishes the number of match alerts it receives from betting organisations on a three-monthly basis; and on the education front, there is an app presented in six different languages for players to download. | Australian Open junior champion Oliver Anderson has been charged with match-fixing in his native Australia. | 38523812 |
Thomas Killen, 32, of North Lawn Court, Exeter, appeared before Plymouth Magistrates' Court via a videolink.
He was remanded in custody and is due to appear at Exeter Crown Court on Wednesday.
He is charged with the murder of 30-year-old James Woodhouse who was found at a bedsit in Okehampton Road on Monday 21 November.
More on the wheelie bin body find, and other stories
Last week Brett Williams Edwards, 37, of Okehampton Road, Exeter, was also charged with the murder of the Mr Woodhouse, who worked as a fundraiser.
A third man, a 47-year-old local, was also arrested on suspicion of murder and he has been bailed by police until February while inquiries continue.
Mr Edwards is due to appear at Exeter Crown Court again on 22 December. | A second man has appeared in court charged with the murder of a man whose body was found in a wheelie bin. | 38132082 |
The American Civil Liberties Union and Amnesty International are ready to launch the "Pardon Snowden" campaign.
They are urging President Barack Obama to act before he leaves office in January 2017.
The launch this week coincides with the release of an Oliver Stone biopic about the former NSA contractor.
The campaign group has created a website, pardonsnowden.org, though its content remains behind a password-protected login. The campaign has also registered social media accounts in preparation for the launch.
Mr Snowden, who is living in exile in Russia, is expected to speak by video link at the launch.
But on Monday the White House reiterated President Obama's position that Mr Snowden should face charges in the US because his leaks "damaged the United States".
Mr Snowden would be "treated fairly and consistent with the law" if he returned to the US, said White House spokesman Josh Earnest.
Amnesty International, one of the supporters of the new campaign, has repeatedly backed Mr Snowden since he released details of mass phone and internet surveillance by his former employer, the NSA.
They have said that no-one should be prosecuted for exposing human rights violations, which, they claimed, is what "indiscriminate mass surveillance of communications" amounts to.
The ACLU acts as Snowden's legal adviser, and has called him "a great American who deserves clemency for his patriotic acts".
The chances of Barack Obama pardoning Edward Snowden before he leaves office stand somewhere between zero and infinitesimal.
The head of an administration that aggressively prosecuted Chelsea Manning, that has shown little sympathy for government whistleblowers and leakers of all stripes, will not find last-stroke-of-midnight sympathy for a man who has caused endless headaches for the US intelligence community.
Yes, past presidents have made headlines with surprising moves before they exited the Oval Office. Bill Clinton aided big-money donor Marc Rich.
George HW Bush pardoned former Defence Secretary Caspar Weinberger and others who were implicated in the Reagan-era Iran-Contra affair.
But Mr Obama owes Edward Snowden nothing - and the president would elicit a firestorm if he forgave a man that many Americans still view as a traitor and a spy who should only set foot on US soil again to stand trial.
Mr Snowden is the subject of a biographical film from acclaimed director Oliver Stone, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival last week.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays the titular NSA contractor in Snowden, and the cast includes stars Melissa Leo, Zachary Quinto and Shailene Woodley.
In a press conference, Gordon-Levitt - who met Snowden while preparing for the role - said he hoped the whistleblower might receive a presidential pardon.
"Mr Snowden would come back and face trial if he could get a fair trial," he said.
"Maybe the movie could help."
Director Oliver Stone, meanwhile, spoke about the government's "illegal" activity.
"This is a secret underworld and no-one in the NSA has come forward," Stone told a press conference on Saturday.
"It's a detective story - it goes into something we don't know. The government lies about it all the time and what they are doing is illegal - and they keep doing it.
"This is a very upsetting story but at the same time it's a drama - it's a great combination." | Two of the most prominent human rights organisations in the United States are about to launch a campaign for the presidential pardon of Edward Snowden. | 37341804 |
28 January 2015 Last updated at 12:06 GMT
He gave his own dramatic reading of an article from satirical website The Onion.
The article includes the line "the furious hoarfrost bearing down upon us knows neither mercy nor reason, and all within the five boroughs will perish, cowering in their brittle dwellings".
"It's so brilliant I had to do a reading of it," said Mr de Blasio, to the delight of gathered journalists.
Video produced by Michael Hirst; apologies for the poor sound quality of this recording | New York Mayor Bill de Blasio has turned to humour to deflect criticism that he overestimated the dangers of the US winter storm. | 31019235 |
PC Neil Doyle, 36, died after being struck by a "pile driver" punch in the early hours of 19 December 2014.
At Liverpool Crown Court, Andrew Taylor, 29, was jailed for seven years and six months and Timmy Donovan, 30, of Huyton, for six years and 10 months.
A third man, Christopher Spendlove, was cleared of manslaughter in July.
The trial judge, Mr Justice Turner, told the pair, who were convicted under joint enterprise law: "There is no such thing as a death-proof punch."
The judge rejected any suggestion the men acted in "excessive self-defence."
Andrew Taylor's barrister, Lord Carlile, said the family may never know who struck the fatal blow and had the punch landed slightly to the left or right "the consequences would have been entirely different."
PC Doyle suffered an injury to an artery in his neck, which led to bleeding over the surface of the brain.
It was the same injury that killed Australian cricketer Philip Hughes, the trial heard.
Two of his colleagues, Merseyside officers Michael Steventon and Robert Marshall, were also injured in the confrontation.
In a victim impact statement read in court, PC Doyle's widow Sarah said her world had been "torn apart".
She said they had been "inseparable" and "soul mates" and "I still hold the belief my husband was targeted because he was a police officer."
"I feel numb, emotionless, lost, like I am among the outside of the situation looking in."
As the statement was read to the court, she sobbed in the public gallery.
"Seeing him lying in the gutter like a dying cat, not one person going over to help, I will never get the image out of my head," the statement said.
Less than six months after their July 2014 wedding, she was "standing at the bottom of the aisle with Neil in a coffin" and felt it was a "life sentence."
Taylor's barrister, Lord Carlile, said PC Neil Doyle was a "victim of a terrible set of circumstances."
CCTV of the build-up to the incident shows the two groups of men outside a club.
The footage was released by Merseyside Police following sentencing in court.
In a letter read to the court, Taylor, a former Forest Green Rovers footballer, said: "I offer my most sincere apologies to the family.
"I will regret walking up Seel Street every day."
He said he had brought great shame upon his family and accepted full responsibility.
The trial heard Donovan, a sports events manager, had travelled to Germany on the day of PC Doyle's killing.
He was also sentenced for causing wounding with intent.
His legal representative Howard Godfrey said: "I do not accept that it is fair to conclude that it was Mr Donovan who struck the fatal blow."
The judge replied: "Well he shouldn't have gone to Germany, should he?
"Instead of staying behind and facing the music, he decided he'd skip the jurisdiction."
Det Supt Mike Shaw, of Merseyside Police, said: "We hope the prison sentences that Andrew Taylor and Timmy Donovan are now starting will serve as a stark reminder about the devastating consequences of alcohol-fuelled violence that can have on so many people.
"Neil Doyle lost his life because of this moment of aggression and PCs Robert Marshall and Michael Steventon suffered serious injuries, too."
He said Taylor and Donovan had also ruined their lives and the incident could have been avoided "had the defendants not chose to inflict violence on three men enjoying an innocent Christmas night out".
"No-one's night out should end like this." | Two men who killed an off-duty policeman in a "joint and repeated attack" during a night out in Liverpool have been jailed for manslaughter. | 34219165 |
This is more than two-thirds of their original entry list of 389 athletes, despite the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) recommending a blanket ban after a state-sponsored doping scandal.
Russia's Olympic Committee president Alexander Zhukov said his country will have "the cleanest team" at the Games.
The Olympics opening ceremony takes place on Friday.
"The Russian team may have experienced the toughest checks of the Olympics, because they had to go through multiple tests and checked," said Zhukov.
"On top of all that, Russian athletes are going through additional testing which is taking place at the Olympic Village.
"So, as of now, the Russian team is probably the cleanest in Rio."
Zhukov said it was a "flagrant injustice" that some Russian athletes would not be in Rio.
He said: "Athletes such as Yelena Isinbayeva and Sergey Shubenkov who have never been associated with the issue of doping and who are absolutely clean cannot take part in the Olympics Games, but many sportsmen like, for example, the American runner Justin Gatlin, who have served doping bans, will."
Isinbayeva won Olympic gold in the women's pole vault at London 2012 while Shubenkov is the world 110m hurdles champion.
Read more: In or out? The Russians in Rio
The IOC asked individual federations to decide whether Russians could compete after an independently commissioned Wada report found evidence of a four-year, state-run "doping programme".
It said federations should not allow Russians to compete if there could be any doubt about their doping record - and that any athletes previously sanctioned should not be in Rio.
A three-person IOC panel then ratified the governing bodies' decisions - and announced on Thursday that 271 athletes had satisfied its strict criteria.
But the ROC says another five cases are still pending - three track cyclists, one wrestler and one canoeist.
Additionally, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas) has asked for the cases of another three athletes to be looked at again after they appealed against being banned.
In partially upholding the appeals of rowers Anastasia Karabelshikova and Ivan Podshivalov, and swimmer Yulia Efimova, Cas said the IOC could legitimately block Russian athletes from competing if it had any doubt over whether they had ever doped.
But it said the IOC was wrong to insist Russian athletes who had previously been sanctioned could not go to the Games, calling the decision "unenforceable".
This supports an earlier Cas decision - known as the Osaka rule - which established athletes could not be punished twice for the same doping offence.
And it means athletes banned from Rio because they have previously been sanctioned for doping could now challenge the decision to make them stay at home.
Cas has already heard 18 cases since its division in Rio was opened on 26 July, a record for one Olympics. | Russia will have 271 athletes eligible to compete at the Rio Games, says the International Olympic Committee (IOC). | 36970627 |
Sir Alex Ferguson's side had already won the Premier League when goals by substitute Teddy Sheringham and Paul Scholes secured victory over Newcastle United at Wembley.
On Saturday, the roles are set to be reversed with former England striker Teddy, 50, likely to be at Stonebridge Road to see his son, 28, in action for Ebbsfleet United against Havant and Waterlooville, one of 40 FA Cup third qualifying round ties taking place this weekend.
"It was amazing to see my dad score in the FA Cup final, especially as he had only just come on," Sheringham Jr told BBC Sport. "But if I'm being honest, it was a bit of a blur. I was very young and it was a hectic few days."
Four days after Wembley, Sheringham was at the Nou Camp to see his dad again come off the bench to score against Bayern Munich as United came from behind to win the Champions League final in dramatic fashion.
"My dad always told me that FA Cup final day used to be like a Bank Holiday and everything would come to a stop," added Sheringham. "At Wembley, I remember being sat with all the other players' families.
"I didn't go into the dressing room after the game but I did manage to make it into the dressing room after the Champions League final. It was a pretty special time."
Charlie Sheringham, also a striker, is in his third season with Ebbsfleet, who three and a half years ago were broke and going out of business.
"Things were so bad that some of the older fans were turning up at the ground with cameras wanting to take one last picture before it was gone," said Peter Varney, vice chairman of the Kent club, who play in the the sixth-tier National League South.
In 2008, Ebbsfleet were bought by community fan website MyFootballClub whose members paid £35 for the privilege of owning a say in a club. However, membership, which originally stood at over 27,000, fell to about 1,000.
They were issued with a winding-up order for unpaid rent before being rescued at the 11th hour in 2013 by Kuwaiti investor Dr Abdulla al Humaidi, the chairman of KEH Sports Limited which has healthcare and property interests.
"He was looking to build a football club in England. He loves football and wanted to get involved and understand what it's all about," added Varney, the former Charlton Athletic chief executive.
Work on a new £5m stand, which will feature a community centre and club shop, is well under way, while striker Aaron McLean, who played for Hull City in the Premier League three years ago, is part of manager Daryl McMahon's squad.
Al Humaidi's ultimate aim is to see Ebbsfleet United win two promotions to the Football League. Despite being based in Kuwait, he is a regular visitor to Stonebridge Road on match days.
"When he's in London, he travels to games on the train. He's not interested in turning up in a chauffeur-driven car," added Varney. "Some owners have to cower at home games, but he's treated like a hero."
Of the 366 teams that entered this season's FA Cup at the extra preliminary round stage, nine have battled through four rounds to make it to within 180 minutes of the first round proper - including Brimscombe and Thrupp.
None of the players at the Gloucestershire ninth-tier village club get paid yet they are banking on a former England blind football team goalkeeper who once shared a pitch with David Beckham to get past Weymouth on Saturday.
Lewis Skyers represented his country more than 30 times - the keeper is the only fully sighted member of the blind team - and featured for ParalympicsGB at the 2012 Games in London.
His experience with ParalympicsGB's five-a-side football squad also saw him rub shoulders with former England captain Beckham.
"He wanted to experience what it was like to play blind football and was very keen to get involved in a training session" said former Worcester City keeper Skyers.
"David was very enthusiastic about it. He even scored a penalty against me while he was wearing a blindfold."
Brimscombe and Thrupp play in the Hellenic League Premier Division, two tiers below Southern League Premier Division Weymouth.
Before this season the Lilywhites had not advanced past the preliminary round - but this is now their fifth tie in what is a club-record run in the competition.
"We get between 60 and 80 people watching us on an average Saturday," said boss Sam Prior, who works for his family's carpet fitting business. "We've got zero budget so to have got through four rounds and earned almost £11,000 in prize money is ridiculous.
"If we end up driving to a game then we'll put five in one car and pay a bit of petrol money to the driver.
"Weymouth is our FA Cup semi-final. If we make it to the fourth qualifying round that will be our final. Anything beyond that is dreamland."
Not many players at this early stage can claim to have appeared in an FA Cup semi-final at Wembley.
Stockport County striker Kayode Odejayi did just that - and managed to secure the shirts of John Terry and John Arne Riise along the way.
Striker Odejayi, 34, was part of the Barnsley side who in 2008 shocked Rafael Benitez's Liverpool at Anfield and Avram Grant's Chelsea at Oakwell before losing to Cardiff in the semi-finals in front of 82,752.
Odejayi was carried on the shoulders of delirious Barnsley fans at the final whistle against Chelsea after his header secured the club's first FA Cup semi-final since 1912.
"I could have gone out afterwards and celebrated like crazy, but the truth is I had a chilled night in with the family who had come up from London to watch the match," recalled Odejayi.
"I did manage to get John Terry's shirt. He was gracious in defeat and he signed it too. The round before I had come on as a substitute at Liverpool and managed to get Riise's shirt."
Stockport entertain neighbours Salford City, the club co-owned by former Manchester United stars, in an all-National League North tie at Edgeley Park. | Charlie Sheringham was 11 years old when he witnessed his dad score in the 1999 FA Cup final as Manchester United took a giant stride towards the Treble. | 37453983 |
Major Peake sent the greeting from the International Space Station after his mother-in-law Madeleine King spent time as a patient at the hospital.
The astronaut posed for a photograph of himself holding up a sign which read: "Thank you NHS PRI for all you do!!"
Staff on ward 8 at the hospital said they are going to frame and display the photograph.
Senior charge nurse Samantha Edmonds said: "It was a lovely thing for Major Peake to do and it has given all the staff on the ward a real lift."
Associate nurse director Jim Foulis said: "The brightest stars are those who shine for others and I am very proud of the staff here in PRI that the high quality of care they provide for their patients has been recognised in the highest of places."
Major Peake described his first walk in space last month as "exhilarating". | A group of staff at Perth Royal Infirmary have received a message of thanks from UK astronaut Tim Peake. | 35578594 |
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After striking a new 17-year deal to host the race, the British Racing Drivers' Club (BRDC), which owns the circuit, agreed to the redevelopment.
The upgraded Silverstone 'Wing' has cost £27m.
"There was a real threat the grand prix would go," said BRDC president Damon Hill. "So this is very important."
Hill was one of five British world champions alongside John Surtees, Sir Jackie Stewart, Nigel Mansell and Jenson Button, who attended the opening of the new facility.
Mansell, winner at Silverstone three times in the British Grand Prix, said: "This track is the best in the world for me bar none. The crowd gets behind the driver if there's a sniff of a win."
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Button, who is determined to end his winless streak on home soil with McLaren this season, agreed that driving at Silverstone was a thrilling experience.
"It was pretty emotional coming here as a world champion," said Button, who won the title in 2009.
"Even through the difficult times for a British driver you get so much support here. It would mean so much to win here."
Silverstone first staged the British Grand Prix in 1948 and the former airfield in Northamptonshire has undergone a major facelift after securing the rights to hold the race until 2027.
That deal was struck after a proposed move to Donington Park fell through because of a lack of funding but Formula 1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone warned that a revamp of Silverstone's pit building was a non-negotiable part of the agreement.
Ecclestone has always expected more from Silverstone, once describing the British Grand Prix as "a country fair masquerading as a world event".
It's a great shame it couldn't be completed 10 years ago but well done
The 80-year-old Ecclestone was unable to attend the ceremony but sent a message of congratulations.
"I'm delighted with the progress and prospects for the future of Silverstone," Ecclestone's statement said.
"The pits and paddock complex is a state-of-the-art facility and will form the backbone of Silverstone's plans to be a world-class facility.
"It's a great shame it couldn't be completed 10 years ago but well done."
Hill added: "Bernie has acknowledged that Silverstone has come up to the requirement that he stipulated.
"So much of this is the way it is because it is the way Bernie wanted it."
The towering three-storey pit complex has been designed by the architects - Populous - behind the London 2012 Olympic stadium.
It includes 41 garages, the race control building and podium, hospitality suites, a media centre and a new spectator area towards the end of the lap.
Silverstone's transformation began in 2010 with the introduction of a new layout which blended a series of corners after Abbey before rejoining the old track at Brooklands and lengthened the track by almost half a mile.
Now the start-finish line, in use for the F1 race and June's MotoGP event, has been moved between Club and Abbey corners.
There's an enticing prospect of a full field of cars streaming together into the brilliant new flat-out Abbey right-hand kink
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The relocation of the start-line could alter the racing, with the competitors flowing into Abbey's fast first corner.
The first F1 car to get a taste of the new pits was Mark Webber's Red Bull which roared into the opening ceremony setting the assembled guests' ears ringing.
Webber took the chequered flag at Silverstone last season and when he emerged from the cockpit the Australian commented: "It's an absolute no-brainer to hold the event here."
The new facility, which is 390m in length and 30m high, was officially opened by the BRDC president in chief, His Royal Highness The Duke of Kent, who praised the "dedication" of the club's members.
The opening of the 'Wing' is just the first phase of Silverstone's continued redevelopment as the BRDC is now focused on providing better facilities for British motorsport fans, such as the building of more permanent grandstands.
"We've got big plans and this is just the beginning," added managing director Richard Phillips." | Silverstone has unveiled its new multi-million pound pits and paddock complex, two months ahead of its flagship event, the British Grand Prix, on 10 July. | 13418172 |
It seems Chinese netizens are more enthralled by the popular British TV export Sherlock than Mr Cameron, regard London Mayor Boris Johnson as an "insane" sportsman, Chancellor George Osborne as Mr Bean's doppelganger and Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond as "somebody's grandpa".
David Cameron is one of the world's few leaders to have an account on the popular Chinese networking site Sina Weibo. But despite amassing more than 910,000 followers since joining in 2013, he is not well-known in China, with many believing Tony Blair is still prime minister.
Even those aware of who the current British prime minister is know little about him, regarding him as little more than a potential conduit for gaining access to the producers of Sherlock.
Following a recent post, most users asked him if he could "be troubled to provide timely update reminders about Sherlock".
"When will the new series be?" asked user Tianyu Xiang C.
"Dear Prime Minister, the best way to promote relations between China and the UK is: Sherlock season four. By the way, I'm gay and I love you," says another.
Boris Johnson has more than 120,000 followers on Sina Weibo and, even though he hasn't posted anything for two years, still manages to be an occasional talking point.
Popular Chinese Global People magazine recently posted images of Mr Johnson with many Chinese liking his "visit to Japan" and commenting on his "playing football with super strength".
During his last visit to China in October 2013, the Guardian newspaper said he "shamelessly upstaged" Chancellor George Osborne when he was pictured playing the drums in a Chinese shopping centre.
However, it seems Mr Johnson's involvement in sport and outdoor activities has won him the most favour with Chinese netizens.
User Zhou Meng praised him for being "insane" and a "maverick mayor" in June, for promoting Formula 1 at Battersea Park, and riding a bicycle to work, both of which are popular pastimes in China.
Despite being one of the UK's most vocal advocates for closer trade ties with China, George Osborne registers little with most Chinese people.
A search on Sina Weibo for Osborne results in endless commentary on Mark Osborne, director of English language film The Little Prince, which has been a huge talking point in China in recent months.
Recent comments about the chancellor have been largely derogatory. User jilijames calls him "big and slippery".
Others say they like seeing "finance minister Osborne in the news", because he "exclaims like Mr Bean".
"I sometimes forget and call him Mr Osbean," says user zj_232232.
Chinese state television showed Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond as one of the first people to greet President Jinping when he arrived in the UK.
But like George Osborne, a search on Sina Weibo generates results about a better known TV personality in China with the same surname, former Top Gear host Richard Hammond.
However, Philip Hammond did register with Chinese social media users for the wrong reasons when he sent a message of condolence following the factory blast in north China's Tianjin in August.
Although netizens thanked him, they were largely underwhelmed by his appearance. "The minister has a boring, mediocre face," said Zhang Chi 2015, while user Mi Huyang described him as "an old aristocrat, who looks like somebody's grandpa."
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. | Many Chinese people are hailing President Xi Jinping's visit to the UK as a sign of China's global standing but what do they really think about British Prime Minister David Cameron and his cabinet? | 34586385 |
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After battling injury, the Munsterman was a fringe player for Ireland in the Six Nations, and before the showdown with England in Dublin at the end of March, few would have expected him to be in Warren Gatland's thoughts.
But Jamie Heaslip pulled out through injury minutes before kick-off, O'Mahony started and had a blinder, catapulting himself onto the plane to New Zealand.
Now, in the ultimate sporting 'sliding doors' moment, he is the Lions Test captain.
Stephen Ferris - a former Ireland team-mate - says there is only one player who hates losing as much as the legendary Irish lock Paul O'Connell; that man is O'Mahony.
A bit of a throwback to the old school, O'Mahony is a lead-by-example captain - typical of Munster - softy spoken but intense, demanding to the point of intimidating according to the Thomond Park folk that know him best.
"He's confrontational, he's aggressive, he walks a fine line between intimidating other players at training, and making people raise their standards," his coach at Munster Jerry Flannery told BBC 5 live.
"He had a huge performance against England and I think he's just gained momentum as the tour's gone on.
"This is a culmination of all the hard work he's put in during his career. It's a proud day for him, his family and for us at Munster. We're delighted. It's a huge honour."
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Gatland himself has cited the "Munster mongrel" in O'Mahony - and it's that uncompromising approach that will be needed in the Eden Park cauldron.
"The Munstermen have natural motivation skills, they are incredibly focused and incredibly passionate," says three-time Lions tourist Martyn Williams.
"The greatest captain I played under was Paul O'Connell - and obviously Peter O'Mahony has grown up watching him.
"What better role model to have than Paul O'Connell? O'Mahony comes across as that sort of player.
"He's very intense, very emotional - the complete opposite of someone like Sam Warburton, who doesn't show much emotion - but O'Mahony seems to have grown as the emotional leader of the tour and has done a fantastic job when he's been captain."
Another proud man of Limerick, Keith Wood, also paints a picture of a 'doer', not a talker, someone who you would want alongside you in the rugby trenches.
"He's the most perfect nuisance," Wood said.
"You just want him on the field, you want him in the jersey. He'll annoy everybody."
Flannery adds: "Anyone can tell from looking at him he's a confrontational character when he plays on the field.
"That's what he built his game around, he's pretty old school in his approach to rugby and that's refreshing.
"He's always been the most mature guy in the group coming through age-group rugby, so he's always come through as a captain.
"He's probably old before his years."
O'Mahony has had to grow up fast: a Munster debut at 20, he was an Ireland international two years later.
But events of this season have tested his character in very different ways.
On a Sunday morning in October, before a European Cup match in Paris against Racing 92, news emerged of the tragic death of Munster head coach Anthony Foley, a hero of Shannon, Limerick, Munster and Ireland; and therefore, a hero of O'Mahony's as well.
"Every team I supported, he was in," reflected an emotional O'Mahony back in October.
And speaking on Thursday after being handed the Lions captaincy, the current Munster skipper was visibly emotional when asked about the impact Foley's death has had on him as a person, and as a leader.
"You would hope he would be proud," O'Mahony reflected.
"It's been a difficult season, but you try and take as many positives out of it as you can.
"It's Lions against the All Blacks and you have got to use everything you have had over your entire rugby career and try and use it all for Saturday."
Foley - a "rugby man", according to O'Mahony - would have had some simple words of advice before games like these.
"He would have told us all 'play your game, play what you do and what you know'," O'Mahony added.
"He'd have said there's a reason there's 45 players here now who have been selected.
"You've been picked for a reason, so if you go out and play as well as you can, no-one's going to fault you for that."
It's the sort of advice O'Mahony may well be passing on to his own men come Saturday evening.
Media playback is not supported on this device | Peter O'Mahony wasn't even meant to be on this Lions tour. | 40364482 |
Gloucester meet Stade Francais on Friday, a year on from Scott's final appearance for Edinburgh.
"Whenever you move from somewhere, you wonder whether you've made the right decision," Scott told BBC Points West.
"But having the chance to run out at Murrayfield will vindicate my move. I'm desperate to be involved."
Scott suffered a hamstring injury on Six Nations duty with Scotland and was out for two months, only making his return in Saturday's 34-20 defeat by Exeter.
But the 26-year-old, who has scored 13 tries in 24 appearances for Gloucester, is pleased to be fit for the showpiece final, having missed a chunk of last season with injuries.
"It's the same with all these big games - if you're not involved it's a horrible feeling watching from the sidelines, so I feel incredibly lucky to be fit at this time of the season for a change," he added.
Gloucester finished ninth in the Premiership but know victory over Stade Francais will open up a route to the Champions Cup, as they will go into the play-offs instead of seventh-placed Northampton.
Director of rugby David Humphreys said: "Everybody is well aware of the significance of this game and winning a trophy, but also of the potential to still achieve what we set out at the start of the year to do, which was to qualify for the Champions Cup.
"The players are looking forward to trying to finish our season, which has been a little bit disappointing up to now, on a high.
"Knowing the quality of the team that Stade Francais will put out, we've got to be at our best again and make sure that now we've got this far, we go on and win the competition." | Centre Matt Scott says ending his first season at Gloucester with a Challenge Cup final appearance at Murrayfield will have justified his move south. | 39871139 |
This year's Tough Mann Adventure Challenge, held at Ballamoar Farm, features 25 obstacles including muddy bogs, rope scrambles and monkey bars.
Co-organiser Richie Cryer said it is a "real challenge just to complete the gruelling course".
The event will get under way at 13:00 BST.
Competitors will have to climb 1,000ft (300m) in the first 2km of the course on a climb known as "killer hill."
The obstacles also include more than six tonnes of ice.
Mr Cryer added: "The obstacle course has been designed to test physical strength and mental courage." | About 750 hardy souls in the Isle of Man will test themselves over a 10km obstacle course in Ballaugh later. | 33717100 |
You look at your phone but the number is not in your contact list. So is it important enough to run out of the room with your phone held half-up in signal to the others that this is a call too important to miss?
Truecaller may be able to help with that.
"If you download Truecaller you will never have to worry about saving contacts to your phone book, everything will be in the cloud." says Alan Mamedi, chief executive and co-founder of Truecaller.
He recalls his own phonecall-in-a-meeting dilemma as being his motivation to help create the app, which he believes could be on every smartphone across the globe.
"If you receive a call from a number you don't have we'll show that information, if there is a sales call coming in we will warn you about that.
"Or if you just want to make an outbound call in a much better way; by knowing if your friend is available or your friend is on a phone call then you can use Truecaller."
Truecaller uses a database of more than two billion phone numbers to tell you who is phoning you.
On certain smartphone operating systems it will show that person's name, where they are from, and in many cases even display their picture.
It then uses crowd-sourced information to recognise nuisance calls and prevent them ever taking a second more of your time.
"In the UK or US every sixth call would be a spam caller," says Nami Zarringhalam, co-founder of Truecaller.
"People in general get more spam calls than they receive calls from family members. So this is a big issue we're pinpointing and providing a solution for."
Alan Mamedi, goes on to explain how the data is collected: "If you receive a call from a number and we can't detect it, then you, as a user, can actually add that information.
"But we also partner with different data providers to fill in the empty gaps".
However according to Nishanth Sastry, senior lecturer in the centre for telecommunications research at King's College, London, it's this aspect of the company that is open to scrutiny.
If a phone user shares the names and numbers in their contacts book with an app, that then relays those details to the world, it's not that phone user's information to share, he says.
"It's not their own information they are sharing, it is their friends' information they are sharing.
"And they are sharing this information with people that they don't know. That's a privacy issue for friends - who have never seen the terms and conditions of Truecaller."
Alan Mamedi, doesn't believe this to be an issue: "We made it super easy for anyone to un-list their number on our website, we don't require any verification or such.
"This has been the case since day one. It's part of our philosophy that it should be super simple to just un-list your number.
"You just go on our website and then it's gone forever."
Now Alan, Nami and their team occupy a series of plush offices. It's a long way from where they first began back in 2009.
"We were sitting in my one room apartment, which was basically just my kitchen and bedroom in the same room," says Nami.
"We started to build Truecaller with servers that we had bought, building an application for our own mobile phones."
They then decided to release it and within the first week say they had 10,000 new users.
"We decided to start a company and so resigned from our full-time jobs," says Alan. "Since then we've grown really, really fast.
"We have 200 million users globally. Just last year we went from 100 million users to 200 million. We've definitely seen an exponential growth globally, especially in the emerging markets."
Truecaller, he says, also has a few, less obvious uses.
"One of the cases we've seen in India is women who before they jump in a cab actually verify the cab driver who is calling them.
"We with some confidence can say, hey this is a cab driver who's calling you. Or even say if you have friends in common with this cab driver - and that adds a safety layer which we never thought about in the past."
Despite adding 63 new users a minute on average since its creation in 2009, Alan has even bigger ambitions.
"The number one app that people are using everyday is your phone app and no one has innovated in that space.
"Truecaller is changing that. It's making your phone experience more trusted and safer, but also more delightful.
"Our aim is to make a great product that everyone will adopt and have it on every single smartphone across the globe." | It's a common scene, you're sitting in a meeting and the speaker has been going on for hours, then your phone starts vibrating in your pocket; do you take the call? | 36015547 |
Two floodlight pylons were demolished by high winds in storms that hit mid and west Wales on Thursday.
The damage led to the postponement of Friday's scheduled Welsh Premier League match against Cefn Druids.
Director David Evans said £30,000 would be needed "just be to re-instate the floodlights" but loss of sponsorship and bookings would add to the bill.
"Two of the pylons on the clubhouse and the Rhun Owen Stand side of the ground have been literally been blown over, the columns have buckled," said Evans.
"I've never seen wind like that in Aberystwyth and they've been blown down onto the pitch."
Evans told BBC Radio Wales' Good Morning Wales programme that in addition to the repair bill the club would lose revenue because of cancelled bookings for their newly-opened artificial pitch and sponsorship for the postponed match.
The storms caused extensive damage in the area, with the RNLI station in Aberystwyth recording a strongest gust of 94mph shortly after 10:30 GMT. | Aberystwyth Town football club faces a repair bill in excess of £30,000 after a storm hit their Park Avenue ground. | 38023859 |
There are plans to shut Bancffosfelen and Llanedi primary schools with children travelling to other schools.
Officials are also considering closing Llanmiloe, Tremoilet and Laugharne schools, and setting up a new one.
Carmarthenshire council education scrutiny committee voted to visit some of the schools before making any recommendations to the executive board.
School governors at Ysgol Bancffosfelen have called on the council to allow an educational trust to be set up by the community to run the school.
Parents at Llanedi say school numbers are expected to increase with new houses proposed for nearby Hendy and Pontarddulais.
At Wednesday's meeting, councillors requested to see a business plan from the governors of Ysgol Bancffosfelen.
Councillors voted to recommend the closure of Llanmiloe, Tremoilet and Laugharne schools.
Any final decisions will be made by the executive board at a later date. | The future of five small schools in Carmarthenshire hangs in the balance, with supporters fighting to save them. | 35762756 |
The Scottish government plans to introduce consistent testing across Scotland.
It hopes this will lead to better data to help show which schemes work best.
The society's paper says the data may have value but it would not help individual children do better.
The government plans standardised tests in P1, P4, P7 and third year of secondary schools which would replace the various systems used by different councils.
It insists these will not amount to a return to "high stakes" national tests abolished in the early years of devolution but may help show which schemes are helping to close the gap between how well children from relatively rich and poor backgrounds perform.
Critics argue the data could be turned into league tables. They also fear teachers could simply teach children to do well in the tests - undermining the principles of Curriculum for Excellence.
The Royal Society of Edinburgh recently held a discussion between education researchers and senior education officials from the Scottish government.
In its report on the meeting, the society says the kind of assessment proposed has some value but would not offer the kind of diagnostic assessment which could help individual students improve.
Its report also says there would not be the kind of formative assessment to help evaluate the effectiveness of teaching or the contributions made by parents.
It also touches on the concerns over whether the tests could challenge the greater level of autonomy given to schools and teachers through Curriculum for Excellence.
The report says: "Recognition of the need to avoid unintended consequences of standardised assessment is reassuring, but the Government needs to articulate how this is to be achieved."
The paper also highlights a number of important points from the meeting:
• The assessments are to be developed by experts who are familiar with the Scottish curriculum and its context
• Care needs to be taken to ensure that assessment is not driven by a desire to assess outcomes which are capable of easy measurement
• Data analysis will require advanced statistical tools to avoid making simplistic, causal inferences
• Timely provision of the assessment data to schools and teachers to maximise its usefulness
• Teachers should be given training and support in how to use data to inform practice
• Assessment results should not be used to separate pupils into ability groups.
The planned tests are proving controversial - especially amongst secondary teachers.
It's expected that they will start to be rolled out during the 2016 school year. | Planned standardised assessments in schools could only play a limited role in closing the attainment gap, according to a paper from the Royal Society of Edinburgh. | 34910024 |
Torwoodlee Tower plays a part in Galashiels' Braw Lads Gathering.
Work to stabilise the "increasingly precarious" structure started in 2015 and was recently completed.
Galashiels' Braw Lad and Lass for 2017 - Greg Robertson and Amy Thomson - visited the site ahead of celebrations in the town later this month.
A campaign to find the £150,000 needed for repairs was launched by James Pringle, the 14th and current Laird of Torwoodlee, some years ago.
The two-year project finally got under way in 2015.
Mr Pringle said: "Torwoodlee Tower has been part of the local landscape for centuries and has a rich and fascinating history."
He said they were grateful for funding from the Fallago Environment Fund, Historic Environment Scotland and members of the Pringle family from across the globe.
Luke Comins, director of the Tweed Forum, which manages the Fallago fund, said it had been happy to support the project "in recognition of the building's significance in the region".
Thomas Knowles, HES head of grants, said: "We're very pleased to have supported the restoration of Torwoodlee Tower to help give a new lease of life to this significant local landmark.
"It is vital that we preserve our historic environment, both for now and for future generations, and I hope that visitors will take this opportunity to come and explore the fascinating history of Torwoodlee Tower." | The completion of repairs to a historic Borders building, which dates back to 1601, has been celebrated ahead of its role in summer celebrations. | 40260003 |
After resuming on 34 from the overnight score of 95-3, Clarke was helped by George Rhodes (45) in a 131-run stand.
Backed by 57 not out from captain Joe Leach, he eventually finished on 142 out of the hosts' total of 336, paceman Matt Coles claiming 6-84.
Josh Tongue then took two wickets but Joe Denly helped Kent rally to 120-3.
From 64-3, Denly (67 not out) has so far put on 56 with Joe Weatherley (20 not out) to earn Kent a 44-run lead.
Weatherley's first target will be becoming the fourth Joe in this match to pass 50, following Clarke, Leach and Denly's earlier efforts.
Worcestershire batsman Joe Clarke told BBC Hereford & Worcester:
"It is a relief, if anything. I've struggled really. I've been wanting to get big scores all season and it hasn't quite happened for me.
"I've been getting starts and not being able to go on. I've felt in good nick all year. It's just been one of those things. I've kept getting to 20 and 30 and giving it away. It was nice to go on and get a hundred.
"There is a bit in the pitch with the new ball. There is carry in it for the bowlers. It's just once it get past 20 overs, it gets a bit slower and if you can get in, you can score runs."
Kent head coach Matt Walker told BBC Radio Kent:
"It is a better position than we were in about an hour before stumps. We fought pretty hard during the course of the day.
"As was the case in our innings there were patches when they scored quite freely and then us clawing it back and bowling in good patches and then wickets coming in a bit of a cluster.
"We didn't want to lose three wickets this evening. We hoped one, maybe a maximum of two, but the two Joes played really well at the end and stuck in." | Worcestershire youngster Joe Clarke made his first century of the season to help his side earn a 76-run first-innings lead against Kent. | 40335960 |
His Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) and Sinn Féin reached a new deal on Tuesday but it did not include legacy issues.
The Northern Ireland Victims Forum has demanded an apology from politicians over the failure to agree new agencies to investigate the Troubles legacy.
Mr Robinson has said it was not the DUP which held up this aspect of the talks.
"There were two essential documents in relation to legacy issues," Mr Robinson told the BBC's Inside Politics.
"The Democratic Unionist Party has approved both, so the problem is not with the Democratic Unionist Party.
"So, if apologies are being sought, then they should go and seek those who have difficulties in giving approval to those documents."
Reacting to Mr Robinson's remarks, Sinn Féin MLA Gerry Kelly said that "great difficulty" had been created by the government's insistence on maintaining a veto over the release of classified information about Troubles incidents.
He accused Northern Ireland Secretary of State Theresa Villiers of "blocking" access to Troubles documents, including some that had already been in the public domain.
He said many victims' families supported the stance that Sinn Féin has taken.
"The families have said very clearly to us 'bad legislation is worse than no legislation at all'," Mr Kelly said.
"We need to get this right."
However, Ms Villiers has defended the government's position on disclosure of information about Troubles incidents, citing national security concerns.
"We want families to have as much information as possible but there is a certain amount of sensitive information which, if it was publicly known, would potentially give assistance to terrorists and we simply couldn't compromise on that," she said.
The Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) said it has urged the secretary of state to publish the government's latest draft of the Legacy Bill "to inform victims, survivors and the wider public of what was being proposed" during the talks.
Peter Robinson's interview will be broadcast as part of Inside Politics on BBC Radio Ulster at 18:05 GMT on Friday 20 November, and will be repeated at 13:35 on Saturday 21 November. | Key documents on the legacy of the Troubles, discussed at recent talks, should be published so victims' groups can read them, Peter Robinson has said. | 34883903 |
Domestic abuse and sex offences now make up 18.6% of CPS cases, with prosecutions and convictions at record levels. In Wales 76.3% of cases are successfully prosecuted.
A spokesman for Welsh Women's Aid said: "While we welcome the progress that has been made we are also aware that this report does not cover the thousands upon thousands of women who feel too scared to report or to pick up the phone to ask for help."
Ellie* was one of these women. After a whirlwind romance she ended up married to an abusive husband.
She was left partially deaf in one ear and has permanent damage to the tissue inside her mouth from a year of abuse.
Eventually she went to the police and her husband was convicted of actual bodily harm.
Here, she tells her story.
I was in school with Sam*. I knew of him but he was in the year below me.
I moved away when I was 16, but when I moved back home 20 years later he kept sending me messages on Facebook.
I finally went out on a date with him in January 2012 and we just hit it off straight away.
I had been married before, but had been single for a long time and I just thought "wow". He seemed like a lovely guy, down to earth, and we just were inseparable.
I moved in with him in June with my children aged nine and six in tow. And it was amazing, everything was great.
Within a couple of weeks of me moving in we went out for a meal, and as we came back he was basically quite offish with me, and I just didn't understand.
When we got back to the house I put some music on and he said: "I don't like this effing music."
I went upstairs into my daughter's bedroom, my children weren't there at the time. He came upstairs screaming at me and was shouting in my face.
He grabbed me by the back of the head and threw me down to the floor, and dragged me from my daughter's room into the other room.
He hit me back on the back of the head and he raped me. That was the first time.
He began to be very controlling of me. It would be little outbursts of him coming up to me and shouting in my face, just screaming.
It could be one little thing that he thought I had done wrong, but I hadn't. But it would just be a trigger. It was like the film Sleeping With The Enemy.
If there was something out of place he used to get worked up. But it wasn't like arguing, it would just be out of the blue, a sheer force of violence from him.
He never did anything in front of the children, he always waited until his and mine were gone.
He wasn't very tall but he was strong. When he kicked off he was like an animal. It was a rage. It was something else.
Once, when we were out, I called him by my ex-husband's name when he was shouting at me. With that he just punched me full force in the side of my head. I could feel the blood pouring down the side of my head.
I learnt to not fight back. I knew if I did he would snap my neck.
We had planned to get married that October, and I honestly didn't want to do it.
Prior to that everything was worse, the rapes were worse and he was very manipulative. Even on my wedding day I had a big bruise on the inside of my arm from where he had held me down.
One of my best friends was up in the room with me before the wedding begging me not to marry him, but I was gone. I wasn't the person I am now. I lost myself.
I was just so under his control, so scared and so intimidated by him.
I thought he would change, because he was my soul-mate and it was so amazing between us at the beginning.
England were playing Wales in the Six Nations, so I dropped him to town with his friends to watch it.
Even though Wales won convincingly, I knew I was going to get in trouble as I always would when there was a match. He would drink so it was inevitable.
I went out with my friends, but he called me at about 7pm saying he was on a train coming back and told me to meet him from the station.
He was an hour late because something kicked off on the train. I knew he would be annoyed.
When he got off his face was like thunder. We got in a taxi and as soon as we got home I knew I would get it.
He hit me on the back of my head and raped me, and I remember thinking it was getting worse and worse.
When I told him I was thinking about leaving him he was trying to be as nice as possible.
The next day we went to the wedding of one of his friends in Margam Park. He bought me a dress to wear because he wanted me to be the best looking person there with him. That's all it was for him, a façade.
He wanted us to go out the next night, but I said: "No, I don't want to go out with you anymore, you're so horrible, you're vile. Look at all the things you do to me."
I went upstairs and he came after me and was swearing and screaming in my face. Then he punched me in my mouth so hard I thought he could have killed me.
The pain was awful. I thought he had broken my teeth and I was screaming. He just stood there as if to say he didn't care. I ran into the bathroom and leant over the bath and the blood was just pouring out.
He locked me into the house. I tried to get out, but he wouldn't let me. He took everything off me, my keys and my phone.
I was just sat on the settee bleeding. It was horrific. And he was still having a go. I had to have every strength I could just to be quiet and sit there.
He went up to bed and my face was throbbing, I was sobbing. I thought I can't go on like this anymore.
The next day Sam wanted to go to the pub down the road. I said I needed to go to the hospital.
He said: "Man up. I've had more injuries in rugby than that."
And that was it. I turned around and walked away. It was May 2013, so I had been with him for just over a year.
Obviously when I left him I lost my husband, I grieved for that as well. But friends of mine rallied around me, put me up and helped me get back on my feet.
I moved into a new home six weeks after leaving him, and in that time he got cautioned three times for following me. My house was put on police watch as I was by myself with my two children.
At Cardiff Crown Court he was found guilty of two offences of ABH and given a community order for two years. I found out I wasn't the first woman he had abused.
You can rebuild your life. Money, bricks, whatever, you can restore all that.
I'm back on my feet but I'm still healing, it's been a very long journey.
I have been left partially deaf in the one ear from the head injury, I've got permanent damage to tissue inside my mouth from where he punched me, and my speech has also been affected very badly.
I've met somebody else now, and I never thought in a million years I would be with someone else, but he is amazing. He has picked me up off the floor so many times.
But there's still days when I come home and just burst out crying. Things will trigger it off.
Our divorce came through last month and now I look at him for what he is - a monster. It took me a long time to get that through my head.
*All names have been changed | As the latest domestic abuse figures show more people are being prosecuted and convicted for domestic abuse, a victim of abuse who was beaten, locked in her house and controlled to the point she could not see any way out tells her story. | 32032991 |
The bird now joins just one other corvid - the New Caledonian crow - in this exclusive evolutionary niche.
Dr Christian Rutz from St Andrews University described his realisation that the bird might be an undiscovered tool user as a "eureka moment".
He and his team published their findings in the journal Nature.
"I've been studying New Caledonian crows for over 10 years now," Dr Rutz told BBC News. "There are more than 40 species of crows and ravens around the world and many of them are poorly studied.
"So I wondered if there were hitherto undiscovered tool users among them."
Previously, Dr Rutz and his colleagues have reported that New Caledonian crows have particular physical features - very straight bills and forward-facing eyes. The researchers suggested these might be tool-using adaptations.
They then searched the crow family for species with similar features, and Dr Rutz said he quickly realised that the "Hawaiian crow was the perfect candidate for further investigation".
Though it will now be something of a scientific celebrity, the Hawaiian crow has recently been rescued from the very brink of extinction.
Dr Rutz worked with colleagues at San Diego Zoo Global, who had brought the last remaining wild birds into captivity to start a breeding programme to save the species - those birds provided the scientist with a unique testing ground.
"We effectively tested the entire species," Dr Rutz told BBC News.
"At the time, there were 109 crows in captivity - we tested all of them, presenting them with a foraging task."
Crow in crisis
The Hawaiian crow or 'alalÄ | A bird so rare that it is now extinct in the wild has joined a clever animal elite - the Hawaiian crow naturally uses tools to reach food. | 37354588 |
Terry Coles was struck near Rotherham's football ground in 2000 and an inquest concluded his death was accidental.
John Morse Solicitors called for a fresh review as the findings of a police watchdog inquiry were not known at the time of the inquest.
South Yorkshire Police has been asked to comment.
Mr Coles' widow, Christine Coles, said she hoped to ask the force to "reconsider the evidence" and "re-address all the issues".
"At the end of the day, nobody deserves to go to a match and die. It was an accident that should never ever have happened," she said.
"I feel this is our last chance really. There's no good being bitter, you have to move on with your life but it was a very traumatic experience and something that will always be with us," she added.
Mr Coles had travelled to Rotherham's Millmoor ground with other Swansea City fans for the final game of the season on 6 May 2000.
But before the match started, trouble broke out between opposing fans and Mr Coles died after suffering abdominal injuries after he was struck by a police horse.
An inquest at Doncaster Magistrates' Court in 2003 heard the incident was unavoidable as Mr Coles, who was four times over the drink-drive limit at the time of his death, had walked into the horse's path.
A later review by the Independent Police Complaints Commission found the actions of three officers; Supt Dave Turner, Ch Insp Paul Cropley and PC Dave Lindsay amounted to "a failure of duty".
Supt Dave Turner, received a verbal warning, but no action was taken against the others who had retired and were no longer subject to the police disciplinary code.
Mrs Coles took civil action against South Yorkshire Police but lost the High Court claim for compensation in 2005.
John Morse Solicitors, who previously acted for Mrs Coles and her family, backed her call for a review of evidence.
"South Yorkshire Police and the IPCC should release their files in their entirety to Mrs Coles and her lawyers to consider whether an application should also be made to the court to allow an appeal out of time against the findings of the judge in striking out part of the claim and a rehearing ordered," the firm said. | The widow of a Swansea football fan who died after being trampled by a police horse 16 years ago has called for a review of the evidence. | 36371844 |
New York, Massachusetts and Maryland all filed lawsuits on Tuesday.
New York's Attorney-General called the use of "defeat devices" a "widespread conspiracy" and a "cunningly cynical fraud" committed by all levels of VW management.
The company said the allegations were "not new" and that the carmaker had been cooperating with US authorises.
"It is regrettable that some states have decided to sue for environmental claims now, notwithstanding their prior support of this ongoing federal-state collaborative process," VW said.
Last month, it announced a $15.3bn (£11.6bn) settlement with federal regulators, several states and thousands of owners of the affected vehicles.
That deal included a "partial settlement" with New York and 43 other states worth $603m.
Volkswagen admitted last year to installing "defeat devices" that disguised the level of emissions from its diesel cars when the vehicles underwent environmental testing. The devices were placed in 11 million cars worldwide.
Massachusetts Attorney-General Maura Healey said VW damaged the environment and "plotted a massive cover-up to mislead environmental regulators".
"With today's action, we want to make clear to all auto manufacturers that violating laws designed to protect our environment and our public health is unacceptable and will be punished with significant penalties," she said.
The lawsuits accuse VW executives, including former chief executive Martin Winterkorn, of covering up the scandal for over a decade.
The lawsuits publically identify management officials who knew that many diesel models could not meet clean-air standards without reducing their level of driving performance.
When regulators began to investigate the emission issues, VW officials gave an overly technical presentation designed to confuse authorities, the lawsuits alleged.
New York Attorney-General Eric Schneiderman said the company had a "culture of deeply-rooted corporate arrogance, combined with a conscious disregard for the rule of law".
The New York legal action claims that VW chief executive Matthias Mueller was part of the cover-up as he was head of project management at Audi at the time. It claimed that in 2006 he decided not to equip certain Audi vehicles with the parts needed to meet US environmental standards.
"It's clear Mr Muller was aware of the problem at least from July 2006," Mr Schneiderman said in a press conference.
The lawsuits also alleged that members of VW's engineering department deleted incriminating data in August 2015. Mr Schneiderman said some of that data had since been recovered.
Speaking at a press conference the New York and Massachusetts attorneys-general stressed the importance of the lawsuit to send a message to other carmakers not to defraud the US public.
VW also faced legal action from shareholders and criminal investigations in many other countries. | Three US states have taken legal action against Volkswagen in the wake of the carmaker's emissions scandal. | 36837951 |
The Togolese led after 13 minutes as Emmanuel Adebayor played in Serge Gakpe, who fired home from an angle.
Tunisia levelled through a penalty from Khaled Mouelhi shortly after, but the same player missed another spot-kick in a match Tunisia had to win to qualify.
Adebayor was denied a penalty at the other end but Togo held on for history.
Togo have qualified for their first quarter-finals, having made the first of their seven Nations Cup appearances back in 1972
The West Africans will now meet Burkina Faso in Sunday's quarter-final in Nelspruit, whose sand-filled surface has attracted scrutiny and criticism in equal measure.
Togo's passage came at a cost after Nibombe Dare and Jonathan Ayite both picked up their second yellow cards of the tournament, so ruling them out of the clash against their northern neighbours.
Dare's booking was highly controversial after South African referee Daniel Bennett, whose performance was littered with poor decisions, erroneously booked the tall defender for a challenge on Youssef Msakni when the foul had actually been committed by Serge Akakpo.
The decision for Hawks coach Didier Six, who cut an animated figure on the sidelines, is whether to appeal against the booking since Akakpo himself received a caution in the 2-0 win over Algeria.
The Frenchman's side dominated the early exchanges, with the front three of Floyd Ayite, Gakpe and captain Adebayor all combining well.
Ayite had the first chance, Adebayor then side-footed wide from 12 yards before the Togo captain slipped in Gakpe after 13 minutes.
Despite being in an offside position when the pass was played, the striker's low finish across Moez Ben Cherifia from just inside the box was allowed to stand.
Togo's 1-0 lead meant Tunisia needed to score at least twice to reach the last eight and Msakni - whose stunning strike enabled the 2004 champions to win their opening game against Algeria - launched Tunisia's first attack moments later with a strike that lacked venom.
Tunisia's exit means that no North African team has made the last eight of the Nations Cup for the first time since 1992
Adebayor threatened at the other end when volleying wide but Togo's control on the game was checked when Tunisia were thrown a lifeline.
The Carthage Eagles won a penalty as defender Dare - who played at the 2006 World Cup - belied his experience by pushing Walid Hichri at a corner, with the Tunisian making the most of the challenge.
Despite the pressure, Mouelhi was seemingly nerveless as he wrong-footed Togo goalkeeper Kossi Agassa and slid the ball into the left-hand side of the goal.
Goals may have been in short supply in the second half but there was no shortage of incident as Bennett had a half to forget.
Shortly after the break, Togo defender Vincent Bossou brought down Oussama Darragi for what seemed a stonewall penalty - but after a long look, the official decided against it.
It was then Adebayor's turn to claim two penalties, the first of which was unconvincing whereas the second not only seemed clearcut but could also have warranted a red card for Cherifia after he got nothing on the ball and everything on the Togo striker.
After Darragi forced Agassa into a comfortable save from a free-kick, Msakni also called the Togo keeper into action - but Tunisia's best chance came after Dare conceded his second penalty as Saber Khlifa went down under another slight touch.
Mouelhi stepped up for a second time with the chance to put at least one North African side into the last eight, following the early exits of Morocco and Algeria, but he hit the post with a well-struck effort.
Tunisia coach Sami Trabelsi rang the changes as he searched a much-needed winner and he must have thought substitute Fakhreddine Ben Youssef had decided the game only for the striker to be denied by two superb saves by Agassa in stoppage time.
Six punched the air in delight at the final whistle as Togo reached the quarter-finals at a tournament from which they were originally banned by the Confederation of African Football following their withdrawal from the 2010 Nations Cup - a decision that Fifa later helped to overturn.
Togo coach Didier Six:
"This is huge for Togo - the first time they have qualified for the quarter-finals. We were the little team in this group, and we've made it.
"I think there will be a big party in Lome tonight."
Tunisia coach Sami Trabelsi:
"We did what we had to do, we dominated the play, but we lacked a bit of finishing.
"Am I satisfied with the outcome? Not really." | Togo qualified for the Africa Cup of Nations quarter-finals for the first time by drawing with Tunisia in an incident-filled Group D encounter. | 21045428 |
Amid pageantry in Tampa, delegates formally nominated Mitt Romney as Barack Obama's White House rival.
Later, there will be speeches by Ann Romney, South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley and a keynote address from New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.
Concerns remain over Isaac, which is nearing New Orleans and the Gulf Coast.
The storm has strengthened into a hurricane, and appears set to affect a stretch of coast several hundred miles wide between Louisiana and Florida.
It comes almost seven years to the day since Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans.
Tuesday's proceedings began at 14:00 EST (18:00 GMT) with the singing of the US national anthem and the first addresses.
After the roll-call of party delegates during the afternoon, the official nomination of the presidential and vice-presidential candidates Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan took place.
Tuesday: Ann Romney, House Speaker John Boehner, South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, former US senator Rick Santorum, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie
Wednesday: New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez, Arizona Senator John McCain, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan
Thursday: Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, Florida Senator Marco Rubio, presidential candidate Mitt Romney
In pictures: Republican convention
After a recess, the first of three days of speeches are to begin in the evening.
Mr Romney's wife, Ann, is expected to seek to "humanise" her husband, a former business star who remains something of an unknown quantity to many voters.
She told reporters her husband would attend her speech, adding: "It's going to be fun for him to be there."
Other highlights will include a slew of recently elected governors including Wisconsin's union-busting Scott Walker, South Carolina's rising star Nikki Haley, and New Jersey's Chris Christie, who was touted as a potential vice-presidential pick.
Gov Christie told reporters that for those Americans who are not yet sold on Mr Romney, "you start turning it around tonight".
Mr Romney, a former Massachusetts governor, travelled to Tampa on Tuesday.
Isaac's path past Tampa meant Monday's events were limited to a symbolic opening and an immediate adjournment, with the evening agenda compressed into the following three nights.
Several Republican governors have stayed away from the convention because of the storm, including Louisiana's Bobby Jindal, who was originally scheduled to speak.
A carefully chosen line-up of Republican speakers from across the country will continue on Wednesday and Thursday, with each evening capped by the two nominees - Mr Romney and vice-presidential running mate Paul Ryan.
Mr Ryan, a Wisconsin congressman known for his work on Republican budget plans, will face by far his biggest national exposure when he takes to the stage on Wednesday night.
Ahead of his appearance at the convention, Mr Ryan said on Monday: "We're not just picking the next president for a few years. We are picking the pathway for America for a generation."
By Mark MardellNorth America editor
During the convention, Republicans are expected to focus on their economic message of tax and entitlement reform, and to blame Mr Obama's policies for the slow recovery.
As convention week began, a Washington Post/ABC News poll suggested the two candidates were essentially tied among registered voters.
Correspondents say the presidential race will ultimately be decided in a handful of battleground states - including Florida, Ohio, Virginia, Michigan and Nevada - where opinion polls show the race is tightest.
A candidate must amass at least 270 electoral college votes out of a total of 538 in order to win, and the votes are allocated according to population size.
Many opinion polls also suggest that Mr Romney trails Mr Obama in "likeability" ratings, something analysts say the Romney campaign is hoping to boost over the course of the convention.
Mr Obama was still campaigning on Tuesday, with trips planned at college towns in Iowa and Colorado.
The Democrats will hold their own convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, next week. | US Republicans have begun the first full day of their re-organised national convention, after a one-day delay because of Hurricane Isaac. | 19400722 |
Michael Dynes, 38, from Rossin View in Dungannon, allegedly targeted young people through advertisements seeking life models on the Gumtree website.
He would then "audition" them by webcam and try to incite them into committing sexual acts, a court was told.
He is facing a series of sex charges.
They include making and possessing indecent images of children, having what are described as extreme images and committing an act outraging public decency.
He is also accused of engaging in sexual acts in the presence of children and inciting children to watch another person engaging in sexual acts.
Mr Dynes was arrested as part of the first joint operation between the National Crime Agency (NCA) and the Police Service of Northern Ireland, known as Operation Jarra.
His home was searched at the start of June.
The charges relate to various dates between 2009 and this year.
Mr Dynes appeared in Dungannon Magistrates' Court as the charges were read out.
He had been on bail since June while a forensic examination of what was found in his home took place.
That report revealed that his computers contained hundreds of images, the court heard.
Other extreme material was also recovered.
An NCA officer in court opposed bail and said the investigation had revealed Mr Dynes was chatting with boys and girls online and trying to incite them into committing sexual acts.
The judge refused bail and Mr Dynes will appear again by video-link next month. | A County Tyrone man is at the centre of "one of the most serious cases of sexual exploitation of children" the National Crime Agency has ever had to tackle, one of its officers has said. | 34621399 |
The group was travelling between Beziers and Perpignan in the southern Pyrenees region when they commandeered the train's intercom system.
They then played a Muslim call to prayer and told passengers to hand over their phones or face an attack.
They were found guilty of extortion and sentenced to up to 30 months in prison.
One of their lawyers said it was "a joke in very bad taste by foolish youths".
None of those sentenced, aged between 19 and 23 and from Beziers, was named by the court in Perpignan.
"It wasn't serious," the main defendant told the court. "We were just joking around. I have always condemned Islamic State and everything that happened in Paris."
One of the men, who is 21 years old and had converted to Islam, was also found guilty of supporting terrorism after police found pictures of him posing with an assault rifle and a jihadist banner on his phone. | Three men in France have been jailed for faking a terror threat on a train to steal passengers' phones - only five days after the Paris attacks. | 35056991 |
Natalia Sharina was arrested in 2015 after a search of her Library of Ukrainian Literature found what officials described as anti-Russian propaganda. She denied the charges.
Her arrest came amid tensions between Russia and Ukraine following the annexation of Crimea in 2014.
Rights groups have condemned the case.
Natalia Sharina, who is Russian, was charged with inciting hatred against Russians and also of embezzlement of library funds.
A judge in a Moscow court gave her a four-year suspended sentence. She said she would appeal.
Speaking in court, Natalia Sharina, 59, said she was shocked, and insisted that the banned literature had been planted in the library by police.
"The state prosecutor admitted herself during the proceedings that this was a political case," she told reporters after the ruling.
"A librarian is such a good, peaceful profession. You sit there, reading books. So the fact that this is happening in the 21st century will probably be remembered in decades to come - like we remember the doctors plot and 1937," she said, referring to Stalin-era public show trials.
It took the judge well over two hours to read her guilty verdict. Every argument presented in the librarian's defence was dismissed, including testimony by witnesses who said they saw police planting the controversial material.
The prosecutor described Natalia Sharina as an agent of Ukrainian nationalism. Her lawyer, Ivan Pavlov, called the high-profile case a farce that was seeped in politics.
She will now have her electronic tag removed, after 20 months under house arrest.
But the library she once ran - that was a symbol of Russian-Ukrainian friendship - has been dismantled. "I'm sorry for the library. That what was created has been destroyed. The books have been packed up and removed," she said.
Her library was closed in October 2015, and her trial started in November 2016.
Human rights group Amnesty International said the case "highlights serious flaws in the independence of Russia's judiciary".
"The prosecution has exploited the highly charged anti-Ukrainian atmosphere that is prevalent in Russia at the moment, while the court simply dismissed key evidence for the defence," Amnesty's Denis Krivosheev said in a statement. | The former head of a Ukrainian library in Moscow has been found guilty of extremism and embezzlement, in a case she says is politically motivated. | 40162173 |
The research by the London School of Economics looked at responses from 200,000 people on how different factors impacted their wellbeing.
Suffering from depression or anxiety hit individuals hardest, whilst being in a relationship saw the biggest increase in their happiness.
The study's co-author said the findings demanded "a new role from the state".
The study was based on several international surveys from around the world.
On a scale of one to 10, the doubling of someone's pay saw their happiness rise by less than 0.2. The researchers said this was down to people caring more about how their incomes compared to other people's than how it affected them.
However, having a partner saw happiness rise by 0.6 - losing a partner by separation or death saw the same impact downwards.
The biggest effect was caused by depression and anxiety, which saw happiness levels dip by 0.7 on the scale. Unemployment also saw the same reduction in points.
Report co-author Prof Richard Layard said the findings meant that the state needed to play a new role in its citizens' happiness - focusing on "wellbeing creation" rather than "wealth creation".
He added: "The evidence shows that the things that matter most for our happiness and for our misery are our social relationships and our mental and physical health.
"In the past, the state has successively taken on poverty, unemployment, education and physical health. But equally important now are domestic violence, alcoholism, depression and anxiety conditions, alienated youth, exam-mania and much else. These should become centre stage." | Good mental health and having a partner make people happier than doubling their income, a new study has found. | 38285223 |
A disputed penalty in the last three minutes handed the under-23 team the title in the annual southern African championship in front of a boisterous crowd at the Sam Nujoma Stadium, with the team using the tournament in Namibia to prepare for the Olympics in Brazil in August.
It is the fourth time that South Africa have won the trophy, meaning they now share with Zimbabwe the mantle of the most successful side since the tournament was first introduced almost two decades ago.
Botswana were playing in a first final and their English coach Peter Butler was in a sour mood after the game. "If this region wants to progress then they must do something about the disgraceful refereeing," he said after Janny Sikazwe of Zambia had sent him off in the quarter-final and then returned to haunt Botswana in the final with a call that looked to have been hastily made and without proper sight of the incident.
The referee had already handed South Africa a penalty in the first half when Judas Moseamedi was brought down but the decision against Joel Mogorosi looked ill judged.
Butler had good cause for his rant although Botswana did get themselves back into the game at 2-2 with a horror error from South Africa goalkeeper Reyaad Pieterse who let a free kick - which hit his near post - slip through his hands and into the net in an embarrassing blunder.
Well supported by fans that travelled across the Kalahari Desert to watch their team in the final, Botswana will know a good chance escaped them.
The tournament also proved disappointing for Namibia, who as surprise winners last year sought a successful defence in front of their home support.
But they went out at the first hurdle despite fielding a full strength side and played on in the plate event, which they won on Friday.
The tournament was originally scheduled for mid-May and was designed to be held before the round of the African Nations Cup qualifiers in June. That would have meant a warm-up and countries would have taken their strongest squads to Windhoek.
Instead it was moved to after the qualifiers and as a result South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe left their first choice players at home to enjoy the post-season holidays. Angola sent an under-20 side and Madagascar and Mozambique were among others who did not call up any of their European-based contingent. As a result a chance to enhance the credentials of the event was missed.
The Democratic Republic of Congo were invited as guests - as the Comoros Islands had pulled out - and also used only a home-based squad although it was largely similar to that which won the African Nations Championship in Rwanda and were therefore highly fancied.
Swaziland's progress over the last 12 months exemplifies the value of the annual event in increasing international competition, affording countries a chance to develop faster than they might on an ordinary diet of warm-up friendlies.
They showed their potential at the 2015 tournament and straight from that went on to beat Guinea away at the start of the 2017 Nations Cup qualifiers.
They have since given themselves a chance to reach the finals in Gabon, and at this Cosafa Cup came through the first round of group matches - eliminating Zimbabwe - before going on to finish third by beating the Congolese 1-0 in the third place play-off on Saturday. | South Africa warmed up for their upcoming appearance at the Olympic Games with a morale-boosting, if controversial, success in the Cosafa Castle Cup on Saturday, winning the title with a 3-2 victory over Botswana in the final in Windhoek. | 36631726 |
The youngster was found with stab wounds on the Moorlands Estate, Brixton, at about 17:50 GMT on Friday and died on the way to hospital.
It followed the stabbing of another boy hours earlier in nearby West Norwood which left the victim critically hurt.
Police are examining whether the attacks were linked to five separate stabbings on 25 February.
It means there have been a total of seven knife attacks all within a small geographical area.
Details of the five stabbings last weekend have only just been released.
Referring to the fatal stabbing, a Metropolitan Police spokesman said it is believed the victim was with a friend when he was chased by two young men and attacked.
Commander David Zinzan, in charge of policing in south-east London, said: "Following the fatal stabbing of a 17-year-old boy in Brixton and other serious stabbings in Lambeth borough in the last few days, police have increased patrols.
"Extra officers have been drafted in to reassure and protect the public, and to act as a strong deterrent to anyone thinking of committing further violence in the aftermath of these incidents.
"Our priority is to bring to justice those responsible, and to prevent any further incidents in the coming days and weeks."
Cindy Butts, a community leader who advises police, said: "This is a time when people should be binding together and supporting one another in the community.
"People should also be supporting the police's efforts to apprehend the people responsible and bring them to justice.
"We need to restore a sense of peace and order on the streets."
Nick Mason, chairman of the Lambeth Independent Advisory Group, said: "In the last few days we have seen the tragic loss of a young person's life and other incidents in which other young people have been seriously injured.
"Serious youth violence and knife crime has a significant impact on young people, their families, schools and the wider community.
"This is not just a problem for police - we all have a responsibility to reduce serious violence in our communities." | A 17-year-old boy has died after being stabbed in south London following a spate of knife attacks. | 17247711 |
It has also published an editorial expressing concern that the validity of the study was "seriously in question".
The authors said they were "extremely disappointed" and that the editorial was "premature".
An expert in the UK said any link with chronic fatigue syndrome, or ME, was a myth and the decision was inevitable.
In 2009, a study at the Whittemore Peterson Institute was published in Science which showed that DNA from a mouse virus, XMRV, was present in 67% of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome, but only 4% of the general population.
Science's editor in chief, Bruce Alberts, said at least 10 studies had since failed to reproduce those results, including two studies published at the same time as his editorial.
One concluded that the mostly likely explanation for the 2009 finding was that laboratory samples were contaminated with XMRV.
The other looked at 61 patients with chronic fatigue syndrome who took part in the original study, but it found no trace of XMRV.
As a result, Science asked for the authors of the 2009 research paper to voluntarily retract their findings. They declined.
Annette Whittemore, President of the Whittemore Peterson Institute, said: "We are extremely disappointed that the editor of Science has published an 'editorial expression of concern'".
She said that other studies had not used the same experiments as the original study and that: "The authors of the Lombardi study believe that it is premature to conclude that the negative studies are accurate or change the conclusions of the original studies.
"Much of the work on this new retrovirus has yet to be performed, and we look forward to new studies which will support the results and findings described by these accomplished scientists."
Dr Jonathan Stoye, virologist at the Medical Research Council National Institute of Medical Research, said: "It comes as no great surprise, in fact it was inevitable since a series of studies failed to reproduce the original results."
"It should be made as definitive as possible that XMRV is not linked to chronic fatigue syndrome. It is a myth."
He said the implication was that the samples were contaminated, however this had not been definitively proven.
He added: "Science could have gone one step further and withdrawn it off its own bat. In football this is somewhere between a red and a yellow card." | The journal Science has asked the authors of a research paper, which linked chronic fatigue syndrome to a virus, to withdraw their findings. | 13604050 |
John Maughan, from Bishop Auckland, was charged in 2008, when police said they found hundreds of indecent pictures on his computer.
But after arguing he was out of the country at the time and that his computer had been hit by viruses, the charges were eventually dropped.
Following a civil claim against the force, Mr Maughan settled out of court.
But despite the settlement - made up of £15,000 in compensation and £20,000 in costs - Mr Maughan says he is now unemployed with his life "destroyed".
The engineer was contacted by Durham Police while working in the United Arab Emirates in January 2008. When he returned he was charged with downloading almost 600 indecent images, the Northern Echo reported.
Mr Maughan claimed a virus on the computer was responsible for downloading the images, but police told him they could find no evidence of viruses on the machine.
But when Mr Maughan had the computer independently checked, more than 250 viruses were discovered.
After several court appearances at which Mr Maughan denied all charges, the case was dropped in May 2009.
A protracted civil claim against the force followed and he accepted an out-of-court settlement in October.
But Mr Maughan, who cares for his wife who has Alzheimer's, says the ordeal has cost him his job and his friends and he is now living on state benefits.
He said: "Initially I didn't really know what it was all about. Even when I was arrested I didn't understand what was going on.
"When you're faced with being charged with something like this it is absolutely horrendous.
"People don't look you in the eye and avoid you in the street.
"I've had eight long years to get to where I am now. Once the charges were dropped I had to go and clear my good name.
"I just hope some members of Durham Police can sleep at night, because my life has been utterly destroyed."
A spokesman for Durham Police said: "Following the pursuit of a civil claim against Durham Police after the arrest of a man in 2008, the force and the individual in the case have come to an agreement to settle the matter out of court." | A man wrongly accused of downloading child abuse images eight years ago has been paid £35,000 by Durham Police. | 38004705 |
The English midfielder has been suspended by manager Mark Warburton for three weeks following a training ground incident.
However, Barton, responding to fans on Twitter, has pledged that he is "not going anywhere".
He wrote: "Can't wait to get back and show what (I) am about. Came to be successful. Nothing's changed."
In another tweet to the same fan he reiterated his desire to stay at Ibrox.
"Not going anywhere, happy to be judged after the season," he continued. "Played eight games. Had to use some for fitness as had no pre season."
And to another fan he said: "Never ran from a challenge in my life, Amy. Not about to start now."
He also backed Rangers to bounce back from their disappointing start to the Scottish Premiership season, with just nine points from six games leaving them already four points behind champions Celtic, having played one game more.
Barton was heavily criticised for his performance in the 5-1 defeat by Celtic.
"People far too quick to write (us) off," he said. "Celtic game was [Barton's own] first competitive loss since 28th Dec 2015, that includes training. Thirty plus games." | Joey Barton has told Rangers fans he "can't wait" to get back playing for the Ibrox side despite his club ban. | 37444113 |
The deal includes a 100MW development at the Ness of Duncansby in the Pentland Firth and a 10MW project at the Sound of Islay in western Scotland.
The projects were acquired by Atlantis's development vehicle, Tidal Power Scotland Limited (TPSL).
In exchange, SPR has gained a 6% shareholding in TPSL.
The project assets include lease agreements with The Crown Estate for both sites, while the Sound of Islay development also has a grid connection offer and construction consents from Scottish ministers.
Atlantis said the two projects would sit alongside its flagship 398MW MeyGen tidal energy scheme in the Inner Sound of the Pentland Firth, which separates the north Caithness coast and Orkney.
The firm eventually plans to have up to 269 turbines installed on the seabed there.
Earlier this year, Atlantis bought Marine Current Turbines from Siemens AG, providing it with lease agreements for two further Scottish tidal sites - at the Mull of Galloway in south-west Scotland and Brough Ness, to the north of the MeyGen and Ness of Duncansby sites.
Atlantis is in the process of adding these two projects, with a combined capacity of 130MW, to the TPSL portfolio.
By 2022, the company aims to have at least 640MW of installed capacity in the UK through developing its existing portfolio.
Atlantis chief executive Tim Cornelius said: "The UK is now synonymous with tidal power in the same way tech is with Silicon Valley.
"Thanks to the dedicated support provided by the Department for Energy and Climate Change and the Scottish government, the UK tidal sector is leading the world.
"In a transformational 12 months, we have increased our UK projects portfolio by almost 80% in terms of potential capacity, through the acquisition of Marine Current Turbines from Siemens, and this transaction with SPR."
ScottishPower Renewables chief executive Keith Anderson said: "The MeyGen project has moved the tidal power sector forward in Scotland and Atlantis is now the world's leading developer.
"This agreement will drive momentum in the sector."
In a separate development, Orkney-based Scotrenewables Tidal Power Ltd announced it had secured a further £5.7m from investors to allow it to demonstrate the world's largest tidal turbine.
The company is close to completing the construction of its SR2000 (2MW) system in the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast.
The machine is due to be launched early next year before being towed to the European Marine Energy Centre in Orkney to commence grid-connected testing.
The latest funding was provided by existing shareholders - including ABB, Total New Energies, Bonheur ASA and Ganger Rolf ASA - as well as new stakeholders DP Energy, Harland and Wolff and Scotmarine. | Atlantis Resources has boosted its tidal energy portfolio by acquiring two projects from ScottishPower Renewables (SPR) in an all-share deal. | 35120995 |
It says that it is taking steps to combat it. But the official anti-piracy policy is stalling.
The government seems undecided on how to tackle the issue. Many Russians think online content should be free.
While chairing a meeting on cinema on 17 February, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev embarrassed officials by accessing RuTracker, Russia's most popular file-sharing website.
The connection worked despite earlier assurances that the site had been blocked forever.
"So how's your Roskomnadzor blocking it?" Mr Medvedev asked Communications Minister Nikolay Nikiforov, referring to the ministry's media watchdog.
Various explanations followed, ranging from suggestions that Medvedev's government-issue iPad could somehow circumvent restrictions, to claims that he accessed a different, permitted website.
But the incident points to possible failings in the government's efforts to fight online piracy.
According to Vedomosti, a business daily, Mr Medvedev was responding to remarks by Konstantin Ernst, the head of state-owned Channel One TV, who said that the government's anti-piracy policy was simply not working.
The moment illegal content is removed from one website, it appears on another, and even blocked platforms such as RuTracker remain accessible, Mr Ernst reportedly said.
President Putin's plain-speaking adviser for the internet, German Klimenko, is similarly downbeat.
"This is madness, it's not working and therefore it puts the government to shame," he says of the whole idea of blocking access to websites.
According to Mr Klimenko, copyright holders - whom he calls "greedy ghouls" - are themselves to blame for the piracy problem.
"Incomes are falling, so why demand people pay for watching a movie?" he wonders.
Earlier, questions were raised about Mr Klimenko's determination to eradicate piracy amid claims that he was linked to Torrnado, another popular Russian torrent-tracking service. He denies this allegation, saying that he does not own the website "in the legal sense".
Despite the criticism, the government has had some success in stopping Russians from visiting RuTracker.
LiveInternet, an online research firm that happens to be owned by Mr Klimenko, has registered a steady decline in traffic to the website from an average of 1.7 million daily visitors in February 2015 to just 758,000 in February this year.
But even if access to Russia's most popular file-sharing website becomes problematic, content remains freely available elsewhere.
There is little incentive to pay for films or music if they are just a couple of clicks away on the country's most popular social networks, VKontakte and Odnoklassniki.
A report by the International Intellectual Property Alliance says VKontakte will generally take down specific content when notified, but "that is not an adequate enforcement mechanism" for a problem that VKontakte created.
Stiff resistance from a public used to decades of consuming pirated content remains one of the most serious obstacles to any anti-piracy efforts in Russia.
In a recent poll, two-thirds of Russians admitted accessing file-sharing platforms, and more than a half said films, music and books should be available on the web for free.
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. | The Kremlin admits that Russia has a serious problem with online piracy. | 35615521 |
Rovers fans showed their opposition to Indian owners Venky's by not taking their seats until the 18th minute and then walking out in the 75th minute.
Sam Gallagher's superb early volley put Blackburn ahead at the break.
Dave Edwards headed in Matt Doherty's cross to level but Wolves, who sacked Walter Zenga on Tuesday, are now without a win in their last six games.
Blackburn fans held a protest outside the ground before kick-off, while the timing of their late entry and early departure reflected the date of the club's founding in 1875.
Several banners criticising the club's owners were visible in the sparsely-populated stands at Ewood Park throughout the match.
After falling behind the visitors, with caretaker boss Rob Edwards in the dugout amid reports Nigel Pearson has been interviewed to replace Zenga, looked bright and could have levelled through Edwards or Conor Coady before the break.
Substitute goalkeeper Andy Lonergan denied Rovers striker Gallagher a second goal just after the hour mark and the hosts may have complaints about the equaliser, with Doherty narrowly offside when he picked up the ball after Blackburn keeper Jason Steele palmed away Joao Teixeira's shot.
Victory would have lifted Rovers out of the relegation zone, but they are now 23rd, while Wolves are three points above the bottom three in 17th.
Match ends, Blackburn Rovers 1, Wolverhampton Wanderers 1.
Second Half ends, Blackburn Rovers 1, Wolverhampton Wanderers 1.
Attempt missed. Matt Doherty (Wolverhampton Wanderers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Ivan Cavaleiro.
Attempt missed. Danny Guthrie (Blackburn Rovers) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Ben Marshall.
Attempt missed. Stephen Hendrie (Blackburn Rovers) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Anthony Stokes.
Attempt missed. Sam Gallagher (Blackburn Rovers) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Anthony Stokes with a cross.
Attempt missed. João Teixeira (Wolverhampton Wanderers) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left following a corner.
Attempt blocked. Matt Doherty (Wolverhampton Wanderers) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Corner, Wolverhampton Wanderers. Conceded by Stephen Hendrie.
Corner, Wolverhampton Wanderers. Conceded by Jason Lowe.
Corner, Blackburn Rovers. Conceded by Kortney Hause.
Corner, Blackburn Rovers. Conceded by Danny Batth.
Attempt saved. Craig Conway (Blackburn Rovers) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Ben Marshall.
Attempt missed. Matt Doherty (Wolverhampton Wanderers) left footed shot from outside the box is too high following a corner.
Corner, Wolverhampton Wanderers. Conceded by Jason Steele.
Attempt saved. Ivan Cavaleiro (Wolverhampton Wanderers) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner. Assisted by Conor Coady.
Substitution, Blackburn Rovers. Anthony Stokes replaces Marvin Emnes.
Goal! Blackburn Rovers 1, Wolverhampton Wanderers 1. David Edwards (Wolverhampton Wanderers) header from very close range to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Matt Doherty with a cross.
Attempt saved. João Teixeira (Wolverhampton Wanderers) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Hélder Costa.
Attempt missed. João Teixeira (Wolverhampton Wanderers) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left from a direct free kick.
Danny Guthrie (Blackburn Rovers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Conor Coady (Wolverhampton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Danny Guthrie (Blackburn Rovers).
Attempt missed. David Edwards (Wolverhampton Wanderers) header from the left side of the six yard box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Hélder Costa with a cross.
Substitution, Blackburn Rovers. Stephen Hendrie replaces Charlie Mulgrew because of an injury.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Charlie Mulgrew (Blackburn Rovers) because of an injury.
João Teixeira (Wolverhampton Wanderers) is shown the yellow card.
Foul by João Teixeira (Wolverhampton Wanderers).
Craig Conway (Blackburn Rovers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Gordon Greer (Blackburn Rovers) header from the right side of the six yard box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Craig Conway with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Blackburn Rovers. Conceded by Conor Coady.
Substitution, Wolverhampton Wanderers. Ivan Cavaleiro replaces Jed Wallace.
Foul by João Teixeira (Wolverhampton Wanderers).
Craig Conway (Blackburn Rovers) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt saved. Sam Gallagher (Blackburn Rovers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Marvin Emnes.
Offside, Blackburn Rovers. Charlie Mulgrew tries a through ball, but Craig Conway is caught offside.
Attempt blocked. Darragh Lenihan (Blackburn Rovers) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Sam Gallagher with a headed pass.
Corner, Blackburn Rovers. Conceded by Conor Coady.
Ben Marshall (Blackburn Rovers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. | Championship strugglers Blackburn drew with managerless Wolves in a game marked by protests by home supporters. | 37736610 |
The system at Addenbrooke's and Rosie hospitals in Cambridge means nurses can access patient records on handheld devices instead of waiting for notes.
Addenbrooke's said it is the biggest patient care investment it has made.
Chief information officer Dr Afzal Chaudhry said patients should get medication quicker and leave sooner with the system in place.
The hospital is the first in the UK to use Epic's eHospital system, which is used in hospitals in the US.
The software currently contains more than 2.1m patient records from the last five years and it can be used on 7,000 computers and devices at the hospitals.
Nurses can quickly access and update patient records using 500 iPod Touch devices and using its barcode scanner, run tests such as measuring blood pressure.
The software can also be accessed on staff smartphones.
Last week the Cambridge News reported some staff were "panicking" and there was a "sense of doom" about the new system, which has required 200,000 hours of staff training.
A spokesman for Cambridge University Hospitals said no specific concerns had been highlighted up to chief executive level, but staff would be given 24-hour support.
It is expected to take a year until the system works entirely without paper.
Dr Chaudhry said: "It is the biggest single investment the Trust has ever made in the quality of patient care, and will make a real difference for everyone who comes into the Trust.
"Patients will get their medication quicker, nurses can spend more time with their patients and people who are treated here will get home sooner." | A £200m electronic patient record system that will eventually make two hospitals paperless has gone live. | 29777262 |
The claim: Former Paralympian Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson says that "leaving the EU would prevent British people with disabilities from benefiting from upcoming legislation on accessibility".
Reality Check verdict: If Britain left the EU, it wouldn't benefit from future EU legislation. The EU has been influential in the development of disability rights legislation, but leaving would not necessarily mean those rights would be lost.
In December 2015, the EU proposed the European Accessibility Act, with the hope of setting requirements for certain key products and services.
They include cash machines, banking services and TV equipment.
And Baroness Grey-Thompson is concerned a UK exit would mean Britons missing out.
An impact assessment has been carried out as well as consultations with small and medium businesses that the act will affect.
A proposed text has been published, and it will now be debated and amended by the European Parliament and European Council.
It could go back and forth for debate and amendment between the European Commission, the European Parliament and the European Council several times until an agreement is reached.
But how much has existing UK disability law has been influenced by the EU?
In 1970, the UK passed the Chronically Sick And Disabled Persons Act, the first legislation in the world to recognise and award rights to disabled people.
Later, in 1995, the UK introduced its first disability discrimination legislation, the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA).
It covered education, transport, and the provision of goods, facilities, services, premises, employment and occupation.
Under the DDA, businesses with fewer than 20 employees were protected if they discriminated on grounds of disability.
The first European Union-constituted piece of legislation against disability discrimination was the Framework Directive for Equal Treatment in Employment and Occupation in 2000, setting out to protect individuals in employment against direct and indirect discrimination on account of race, sexual orientation, religion and disability.
Unlike the DDA, the directive did not provide protection for companies smaller than 20 people, making the UK to remove this exemption from its law in 2004.
The EU had a further impact on disability legislation in the UK in 2008.
Discrimination against employees due to their carer status or relationship to a disabled person became unlawful in England, Scotland and Wales as a result of a European Court of Justice Judgement.
UK carer Sharon Coleman said she had been harassed into resigning from her job because of her disabled son and had suffered "discrimination by association".
The European Court of Justice ruled in her favour, saying the Employment Equality Directive "must be interpreted as meaning that the prohibition of direct discrimination laid down therein is not limited only to people who are disabled".
In terms of transport, EU directives introduced between 2006 and 2011 ensure disabled people are entitled to assistance by trained staff when travelling by plane, train, bus or ship.
However, in the UK, the Transport Act in 2000 set out more clearly what was meant by disability in terms of applying for travel concessions, and further defined the rights of disabled travellers and commuters and what rail companies were expected to do to ensure disabled people's safe and effective travel.
Disability benefits are another area in which the European Court of Justice has intervened.
Because of the Regulation on the Co-ordination of Social Security Systems 2004 (and relevant decisions of the EU Court of Justice), in certain circumstances, people from the UK can live in other EU countries and still receive some benefits, including Personal Independence Payment and attendance allowance.
Law professor and director of the Centre for Disability Studies Anna Lawson has said in a paper that many positive changes in UK laws have resulted from European initiatives.
If the UK were to leave the EU, Prof Lawson said, "EU law would no longer prevent UK governments from rolling them back - nor from rolling back other disability rights measures currently set out in both UK and EU law".
"It would jeopardise much needed financial support for UK disabled people from EU Structural and Investment Funds - which have just been changed to place more emphasis on anti-poverty and social inclusion measures," she said.
However, a report by charity The Papworth Trust suggests the UK is one of the more progressive of the 28 EU member states in terms of treatment of disabled people, and that direct lobbying of the UK government for changes to legislation would be more effective.
Leave campaigners say that the EU slows down the UK's ability to make and implement laws.
A representative said: "The UK acted to address disability discrimination before the EU and provides for much more extensive rights.
"EU governments have a bad track record in protecting the disabled.
"They should not be able to influence our policy."
EU disability legislation has done much to positively change UK disability rights laws, but we do not know how they would have been amended without input from the EU.
EU law governs workers' rights, but other areas of social policy are left to the governments of nation states, meaning UK law on disability is by nature more comprehensive than the EU's.
However, a Brexit would remove the UK's recourse to the European Court of Justice to ensure equality rights are not interpreted too narrowly, and the UK would not automatically benefit from future developments.
Read more: The facts behind claims in the EU debate | Former Paralympian Baroness Grey-Thompson warned leaving the European Union could prevent people with disabilities benefiting from plans to boost accessibility. | 36594664 |
A* or A grades were achieved in 30.4% of entries, a rise of 0.9% on 2016.
More than 30,000 students received their A-level and AS-level results on Thursday and the overall A*-E pass rate was 98.3%.
However, the gap between girls and boys has widened: One third of entries (33.3%) from girls achieved A* or A grades - a significant rise on 2016.
That compared to 26.8% of entries from boys getting those grades, a fall of 0.4% on last year.
There was a fall of just over 1,000 in the number of A-level subject entries this year to 30,684.
However, that is mainly due to a drop in the Year 14 demographic.
Maths remains the most popular A-level subject.
Biology, history, religious studies and English Literature complete the list of the top five most popular subjects.
However, there have been steep falls in the number of A-levels taken in subjects like psychology, geography and physics.
Students were able to access their exam results from 07:00 BST on Thursday, but many went to their schools to discover their grades.
Many of those getting their results have already applied to university and will have their place confirmed if they get the grades they need.
Figures from the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) show there has been a 4% fall in Northern Irish students applying to go to university this year.
Other pupils will go into further education, work or an apprenticeship.
Students can call UU's inquiry line on 028 7028 7028 on Thursday and Friday, and the university is holding an advice day at all four campuses on Friday.
As of Thursday morning, the university had a small number of places for approximately 39 courses available through clearing.
QUB's enquiry line is on 028 9097 3838 and it will operate on Thursday and Friday, and on selected days over the following weeks.
The university is holding advice sessions on Monday 21 August and Monday 28 August in the Whitla Hall between 14:00 and 17:00.
Many students getting their grades will also pursue other options including apprenticeships, entry into further education, employment or a gap year.
The Department for the Economy's careers service will run an extended online advice facility from 09:00 to 19:30 on Thursday and Friday.
Careers advisers are also available by phone on 0300 200 7820.
BBC News NI will also be hosting a special Facebook Live to answer any questions that students and parents might have.
Please join us on Friday 18 August at 10:00 and put your questions to our panel of experts. | The proportion of top A-level grades achieved by Northern Ireland students has risen significantly. | 40949731 |
Alexander Perepilichnyy had collapsed on a road early on the evening of 10 November, Surrey Police said.
Police are treating the 44-year-old's death as unexplained, pending toxicology tests after an inconclusive post-mortem examination.
Reports have connected Perepilichnyy to the Sergei Magnitsky affair.
Magnitsky, a lawyer for London-based Hermitage Capital Management, died on remand in a Moscow prison three years ago after allegedly uncovering a web of corruption involving Russian tax officials.
According to an article in the Independent newspaper on Wednesday, Perepilichnyy had been giving evidence to Swiss investigators about Russian fraud involving Swiss-based bank accounts.
He had sought sanctuary in the UK three years ago after "falling out with a powerful crime syndicate", the paper said.
A Russian media report described Perepilichnyy as a former business partner of one of the people accused by Magnitsky of fraud.
News of Perepilichnyy's death more than two weeks ago only emerged on Wednesday.
Police were called to Granville Road in Weybridge shortly after 17:15 GMT, following a report a man had collapsed there.
An ambulance had attended, but Perepilichnyy had been pronounced dead just before 17:40 GMT, Surrey Police said. The force would not confirm suggestions he had been out running.
"We were made aware of Mr Perepilichnyy's link as a witness in an ongoing trial during the course of the investigation," the police said.
According to an article in the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Perepilichnyy had lived on a "luxury private estate shared with seven multi-million pound properties".
The Swiss Attorney General's office told the Independent Perepilichnyy had given evidence to federal prosecutor Maria Antonella-Bino.
The paper quoted a "source with knowledge" of the Swiss fraud inquiry as saying Perepilichnyy had "brought all the evidence they needed to open the investigation".
Evidence he had reportedly provided included records of shell or "front" companies - which serve as vehicles for business transactions without themselves having any significant assets or operations - bank accounts and property transactions.
Magnitsky had uncovered the alleged theft by Russian tax officials of more than $200m (£125m).
Himself detained on suspicion of tax evasion, he died in custody aged 37.
His cause was taken up by human rights groups as one of the most glaring examples of corruption and prison abuse in modern Russia.
He had suffered from pancreatitis and gallstones, and had been found with broken fingers and bruising to his body, the Kremlin's Human Rights Council said in July 2011.
There were, it said, grounds to suspect that he had died as the result of a beating. | A Russian businessman linked as a witness to a high-profile corruption scandal has been found dead near his home in Weybridge. | 20526631 |
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