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The offence by Njoku, who came on as a substitute, went unpunished during the game, which Nigeria lost 2-0.
However Fifa's disciplinary committee later examined the video footage and handed the 20-year-old the ban.
With Nigeria unlikely to progress, she will miss the final game against the US plus their next two official matches.
Earlier in the tournament France striker Camille Abily escaped punishment for a similar incident with England defender Laura Bassett.
But the referee did not penalise Abily, Fifa did not review the incident and the Football Association did not contest Fifa's decision. | Nigeria's Ugo Njoku has been given a three-match ban for elbowing Australia's Sam Kerr during Friday's Women's World Cup Group D match. | 33133240 |
16 July 2017 Last updated at 12:33 BST
Roger Federer will be aiming to become the first man to win eight Wimbledon titles and the Swiss is in top form.
But, Croatian Marin Cilic will be feeling confident too after surprising many people by making it to the final.
But what do you guys think? We've been speaking to some big tennis fans at Wimbledon to find out their predictions ahead of the big match.
Take a look above. | The Wimbledon men's final takes place later today, and it's set to be a closely fought contest. | 40623332 |
It's a fitting interruption. We're here to talk about his latest album, Americana, which charts his love-hate relationship with the US - and there's nothing more American than chomping on a stick of Wrigley's.
Of course, our most recently-ennobled rock star is best known for his writing about England on songs like Waterloo Sunset, Muswell Hillbilly, Sunny Afternoon, Dedicated Follower of Fashion, but his obsession with the States started early.
As a schoolboy, he was captivated by black and white cowboy movies and the be-bop records his older sisters would bring home.
After receiving a guitar for his 13th birthday, he devoured records by Muddy Waters and Slim Harpo. His love affair with the blues was so strong that when he wrote The Kinks' first hit single, You Really Got Me he intended it to be "a blues song".
"Then it turned out to be a pop hit."
Somewhat disingenuously, he tells the BBC You Really Got Me was supposed to be The Kinks' only song (even though it was their third single).
"I wanted that to be a hit and then I was going to get out of town," he says.
"Unfortunately they asked me to write another one, and another one."
The Kinks' success meant Ray and his younger brother Dave could finally visit the Land of the Free - but things didn't go entirely to plan, as he describes on the new album.
"They called us The Invaders, as though we came from another world," he sings. "And the man from immigration shouted out, 'Hey punk, are you a boy or a girl?'"
The band could have overcome the prejudice if they weren't already in disarray - prone to fighting on stage, and let down by a promoter who refused to pay them in cash.
Things came to a head while taping Dick Clark's TV show Where The Action Is in 1965.
"Some guy who said he worked for the TV company walked up and accused us of being late," Davies wrote in his autobiography X-Ray.
"Then he started making anti-British comments. Things like 'Just because the Beatles did it, every mop-topped, spotty-faced limey juvenile thinks he can come over here and make a career for himself.'"
A punch was thrown, and the American Federation of Musicians refused to issue the Kinks permits to perform in the US for the next four years.
"It was a terrible blow to our career," says Davies. "We couldn't tour. We couldn't play Woodstock.
"Being a bolshie 21-year-old, I said, 'Let's make records and tour the rest of the world'.
"But deep down I was really hurt, because America was the inspiration for much of our music."
When the band were finally allowed back, in 1970, they had to start from scratch, plying their trade in tiny clubs and high school gymnasiums.
"It was quite a humbling experience after being really successful before," Davies recalls.
Yet the US became the band's lifeline in the 1970s, providing adulation, success and financial reward as interest dwindled at home.
"We ended up playing Madison Square Garden in 1980, which is a sign you've made it back. So it was a 10-year programme. It was hard work but, in a strange way, we built a loyal fanbase in that time."
So perhaps it's no surprise that Davies sings "I want to make my home/Where the buffalo roam" on the title track of his new album.
Indeed, he moved to the US for several years, finding his spiritual home - and sanctuary - in New Orleans.
"Nobody taught me how to write songs, I sort of picked it up as I went along - but it always helps me to have a narrative and a subplot. It helps me through the song, rather than just writing a catchy verse or chorus. So you could say I'm guilty of excessive back story."
"I'm just another person there, which is really nice," he says. "And I fitted in with the music scene."
Living across the road from a church, he would frequently witness the city's brass band funerals, which stretch through the streets in celebration of local musicians and dignitaries at the end of their life.
But his sojourn in the city ended badly one Sunday evening in January 2004.
Davies was strolling along an unusually deserted Burgundy Street with his girlfriend Suzanne Despies.
A car pulled up alongside them, a young man got out, and demanded Despies' purse. She handed it over without any resistance, but Davies suddenly decided to give chase.
His assailant was armed, and shot Davies in the leg, breaking his femur.
"Why did I do it? That's the unanswerable question," he says.
"I've never really been the sort of person who would chase a man with a loaded gun. But I did. Foolishly, perhaps, and irresponsibly. But I did it.
"It was one of those heat of the moment situations, and I have no explanation other than that."
He ended up in hospital, heavily drugged and, for the first 24 hours, an anonymous "John Doe".
The experience informed a song - Mystery Room - in which the star faces his mortality for the first time: "My brain's hit a brick wall / My body's in free-fall."
It's partnered with another track, Rock 'N' Roll Cowboys, which equates ageing rock stars with gunslingers about to hang up their holsters.
"Rock and roll cowboys, where do you go now?" asks Davies. "Do you give up the chase like an old retiree? Or do you stare in the face of new adversaries?"
It's a question that's flummoxed many of his 60s contemporaries. Has he ever contemplated giving up?
"Every writer who's written and toured for more than five years reaches a point where they think, 'Do I keep going?' or, 'Where do I go next?'" he says.
"Every day I wake up and say, 'I love writing songs but do I want to do this?' and the answer is I do.
"I love making records. I love playing in front of people."
For the new record, he sought the help of alt-country stalwarts The Jayhawks, whose deft arrangements provide a rich backdrop to Davies' wry and incisive lyrics.
Was it challenging, I wonder, for him to walk in and take charge of an already-established band?
"It was a diplomatic situation," he says... well, diplomatically.
"At first, they were trying to sound English in their backing vocals, but I deterred them from that.
"The reason I picked them is because they just play the songs. They don't embellish too much unless I ask them to, which is great."
The Americana sessions went so well that there are "another 20" songs waiting to be finished and released, all derived from Davies's 2013 book of the same name.
"It's a big work, but I hope it'll be put together for a deluxe record later on."
Is he tempted to write something more topical for that record, given the ongoing political turmoil in the US?
"Everyone who knows my work comes up to me and says: 'It's time to revive Preservation,'" he says, referring to The Kinks' 1973 concept album and tour, in which a comedian becomes a dictator, funded by big business and using the media as a tool of control.
"It was a fun show but it had quite serious undertones," says Davies, "and I think that sums up America at the moment: it's a fun show with very serious undertones.
"I do hope America balances itself out. It's slightly off-kilter at the moment.
"He [Trump] has still got to face Congress, and it's still a democratic country. I think the will of the people will be heard, and America's constitution is strong.
"It's a difficult time of re-adjustment for them - but I think in time it'll balance itself out.
"It's a beautiful place but a dangerous place, as I found out."
Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email [email protected]. | "Sorry, I'm chewing gum," says Ray Davies five minutes into our interview, before extracting the offending substance from his mouth. | 39665367 |
The 300m (984ft) long attraction will be built on the former site of the Brighton Wheel, which closed in May.
It will cost £1.7m to build, and have a 22m (72ft) high starting tower with two cables. It is expected to attract about 32,000 visitors a year.
A cafe seating up to 140 people, with an open glass-fronted terrace, was approved as part of the application.
A landing area shaped like the hull of a boat will be on the beach opposite Lower Rock Gardens and Atlingworth Street.
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The attraction will be open year round between 10:00 and 23:00.
The equivalent of just over 30 full-time jobs will be created by the investment, the council said.
Local residents had opposed the plans, saying "excessive screaming" from thrill-seeking customers using the wire would be intolerable.
One opponent, Trevor Scoble, said its purpose was "to excite people, to make them scream".
Councillor Julie Cattell, planning committee chair, said: "This fits well with the council strategy to bring new life to the seafront, particularly to the section between the pier and the marina.
"This should complement other businesses in the area, such as the pier and the Volks Railway, without affecting people's enjoyment of the beach."
The zip wire will be operated by the same company, Paramount Entertainment, that ran the Wheel. | A zip wire on Brighton seafront has been granted permanent planning permission by councillors. | 37634571 |
Josh Todd fired Annan ahead but Arbroath soon equalised through Jamie Reid's fierce drive.
The hosts regained the lead 60 seconds later. A mistake from Arbroath goalkeeper Allan Fleming left Lewis Guy a simple finish.
Todd made it five goals in his last three matches with a neat strike before Smart Osadolor sealed the win late on. | Annan Athletic trounced Arbroath to move up to second in Scottish League Two. | 35949585 |
The former Nottingham Forest manager, 48, will work alongside Redknapp, assistant manager Kevin Bond and first-team coach Joe Jordan.
A QPR spokesman said it was "an open-ended arrangement" with no fixed timescale.
Cotterill, who has managed six clubs, was sacked by Forest in July 2012 after nine months in charge.
QPR, who were without a win this season in the Premier League before Redknapp took over in November after the departure of Mark Hughes, have since secured nine points from nine matches, including a shock 1-0 win at Chelsea on 2 January.
"Steve Cotterill has just come in on a short-term deal to help us out. He's bright and has got something to offer," said Redknapp.
"He'll spend his time with the rest of the backroom staff. We need as many people helping us out as possible."
Cotterill began his career at Cheltenham, leading them out of the Conference in 1999 and then to promotion to League One three years later.
He had a short spell as Stoke boss and was then assistant to Howard Wilkinson at Sunderland before spending three years at Championship side Burnley.
He led Notts County to the League Two title in 2010 during a three-month stint at Meadow Lane, before taking over at Portsmouth in June of that year.
Pompey finished 16th in the Championship in Cotterill's one full season in charge before he replaced Steve McClaren at Forest, helping the club avoid relegation by finishing 19th but leaving in July last year following the takeover by the Al Hasawi family. | Steve Cotterill has joined QPR manager Harry Redknapp's backroom team in a short-term coaching role. | 20984599 |
The report, in the journal PLOS Medicine, analysed genetic data from 21 studies - a total of 42,000 people.
It found every 10% rise in body mass index (BMI) - used as an indicator of body fat - led to a 4% drop of available vitamin D in the body.
As vitamin D is stored in fatty tissue, the authors suggest the larger storage capacity in obese people may prevent it from circulating in the bloodstream.
BMI it is calculated by taking weight (in kilograms) and dividing it by height (in metres) squared. Those with a BMI of 30 or above are considered obese.
Lead author Dr Elina Hypponen, from the University College London Institute of Child Health, said the study "highlights the importance of monitoring and treating vitamin D deficiency in people who are overweight or obese".
Vitamin D is made in the skin after sun exposure and can be taken in dietary supplements.
Healthy levels are about 50 nanomole per litre - less than 30 nanomole per litre can cause the softening and weakening of bones, leading to rickets in children and osteomalacia in adults.
Prof David Haslam, from the National Obesity Forum, said: "Food intake and genetics all play a part in obesity - but this research is a reminder that physical activity, like walking the dog or going for a run out in the sunshine, shouldn't be forgotten and can help correct both weight and lack of vitamin D." | Obesity can lower vitamin D levels in the body, a study suggests. | 21339107 |
The striker pounced on keeper Ryan Esson's error to net the opener and made it 2-0 with a brilliant header.
Boyce scored twice from the spot after the break, with ICT's Liam Polworth sent off for giving away the second.
The result leaves bottom-of-the-Premiership Inverness five points behind Dundee with four games to play.
County, meanwhile, move up to seventh spot on 36 points, one above Kilmarnock who visit Hamilton on Saturday.
The Northern Irishman takes the plaudits once again with his quadruple dismantling Inverness and propelling County away from relegation concerns.
His opener was opportunistic as he sensed the possibility of an error which duly arrived.
His header for the second was superb. It was a great run before a stretch of the neck allowed him to meet Jim O'Brien's delivery and nod over Esson.
Boyce then brilliantly converted two penalties as he almost extinguished Inverness' survival hopes single-handedly.
David Raven clumsily bundled into Tim Chow for the first spot kick and Polworth pulled Ryan Dow back and was sent off.
It was a memorable night for Boyce and Ross County. One to forget in a season to forget for Inverness.
Not quite, but close. Richie Foran's side are snookered and cannot buy a break, although they undoubtedly contributed to their own downfall.
Things looked bright early on as the visitors controlled the opening quarter. Crucially, however, they could not capitalise before Esson, who was playing because of an injury to Owain Fon Williams, made a horrendous error that undermined his side's game-plan.
A Jamie McCart back-pass was not the easiest for the keeper to deal with but he still had to do better than fluff his attempted clearance, leaving Boyce with the simple task of finishing.
It became watch-through-the-fingers stuff for Inverness fans with their main weakness, defending, exposed once again.
No-one challenged Boyce for his second with the third and fourth goals conceded so cheaply.
Inverness may point to a penalty claim when two goals down as Tim Chow appeared to push Polworth to the ground but other than that they offered very little.
The main surprise was County failed to add to their tally when Inverness were down and out.
The latter stages of the game were like a training match for County, who can relax to an extent in the knowledge they are mostly likely safe, and can now focus on trying to secure seventh spot.
Everything went wrong for Inverness. They have only won four games this term and this result will give their confidence another kicking.
It is not over yet but Foran requires a remarkable turnaround if Inverness are to avoid relegation.
Match ends, Ross County 4, Inverness CT 0.
Second Half ends, Ross County 4, Inverness CT 0.
Corner, Ross County. Conceded by Ryan Esson.
Attempt saved. Michael Gardyne (Ross County) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Kenny van der Weg (Ross County) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Henri Anier (Inverness CT).
Christopher Routis (Ross County) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Henri Anier (Inverness CT).
Attempt saved. Henri Anier (Inverness CT) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Christopher Routis (Ross County) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Henri Anier (Inverness CT).
Jim O'Brien (Ross County) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Greg Tansey (Inverness CT).
Attempt missed. Louis Laing (Inverness CT) header from the centre of the box misses to the right.
Corner, Inverness CT. Conceded by Kenny van der Weg.
Corner, Inverness CT. Conceded by Jason Naismith.
Substitution, Ross County. Dylan Dykes replaces Tim Chow.
Foul by Michael Gardyne (Ross County).
Alex Fisher (Inverness CT) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Christopher Routis (Ross County).
Alex Fisher (Inverness CT) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Tim Chow (Ross County) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Billy McKay (Inverness CT).
Attempt blocked. Christopher Routis (Ross County) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Michael Gardyne (Ross County) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Ross Draper (Inverness CT).
Corner, Inverness CT. Conceded by Michael Gardyne.
Attempt blocked. Greg Tansey (Inverness CT) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Reghan Tumility (Ross County) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Substitution, Inverness CT. Ross Draper replaces Iain Vigurs.
Substitution, Ross County. Reghan Tumility replaces Liam Boyce.
Substitution, Ross County. Christopher Routis replaces Martin Woods.
Goal! Ross County 4, Inverness CT 0. Liam Boyce (Ross County) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.
Penalty Ross County. Ryan Dow draws a foul in the penalty area.
Liam Polworth (Inverness CT) is shown the red card.
Penalty conceded by Liam Polworth (Inverness CT) after a foul in the penalty area.
Hand ball by Billy McKay (Inverness CT).
Substitution, Inverness CT. Henri Anier replaces David Raven.
Tim Chow (Ross County) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Tim Chow (Ross County). | Liam Boyce bagged four goals as Ross County won the Highland derby to increase Inverness Caley Thistle's relegation fears. | 39663259 |
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8 December 2014 Last updated at 10:53 GMT
BBC London's Gareth Furby reports the best butlers - who provide special shopping services and specialise in "making things happen" as well as serving meals - can be paid more than £100,000-a-year.
"I think I'm pretty super, yeah," admits butler Mark Soar.
Andrew Coy of the British Butler Academy, trainee butlers Conor and Eric also appear in this report. | As a city among the world's top three for the super wealthy, London is seeing a growing rise in demand for so-called super butlers. | 30377403 |
The body of Keith Pettitt, 50, of Deene Thorpe, Corby was recovered from a Skoda Octavia in the River Nene off North Bank, Whittlesey, on Monday.
Police believe his car may have entered the water as early as 26 November.
Peterborough City Council said the speed limit had been reduced from 60mph to 40mph "as a precaution".
There have been five other accidents on the road since Wednesday but no serious injuries. However a month ago a teenage driver died on the same stretch.
Hannah Yates, 18, died after her car left the same 0.5-mile (0.8km) stretch of road and plunged into the River Nene on 3 November.
North Bank is expected to remain closed until Wednesday while investigations into Mr Pettitt's death are carried out, and Cambridgeshire Police have appealed to anyone who may have seen his Skoda being driven along the road between November 26 and 14:30 GMT on Monday.
Simon Machen, from the council, said initial inspections of North Bank had found "no defects with the road or its surface", both of which it maintains.
"However, we are aware of a number of incidents in the past week, and have therefore decided as a precautionary measure to introduce a temporary 40mph speed limit until we can fully investigate any road safety issues," he added.
"If new measures are required following consideration of the police investigation reports and our ongoing inspection, an appropriate scheme will be designed and implemented."
Road safety campaigners have called for barriers to be installed on North Bank.
Members of the Fenland Road Safety Campaign are currently raising funds for a 250m (820ft) barrier to be installed at a cost of £45,000.
Officials from the council are meeting the group on 12 December to discuss their concerns. | The speed limit has been temporarily cut on a stretch of road in Cambridgeshire after a man died in a sixth accident in six days. | 25198841 |
Carling said England lacked leadership and the players were treated "like schoolboys", prompting scrum-half Richard Wigglesworth to hit back.
England may struggle to reach the last eight if they fail to beat Australia.
"They sound really angry and that's the reaction you want," said Corry.
"Listening to them talking they are pulling together and now I expect something big to happen as a result against Australia," the former Leicester Tigers forward, 41, added on BBC Radio 5 live.
England face the prospect of becoming the first sole host nation not to reach the knockout stage of a World Cup if they are beaten by the Wallabies at Twickenham on Saturday.
Lancaster's team are third in Pool A after losing 28-25 against Wales - having led 22-12 with 30 minutes left - on Saturday.
England captain Chris Robshaw opted not to attempt a late penalty that could have secured a draw against Wales.
Carling, who captained England to the 1991 World Cup final, criticised the Red Rose camp on Monday, claiming head coach Stuart Lancaster had created a "classroom-orientated environment".
But 32-year-old Wigglesworth, who did not name Carling specifically, took exception to the criticism.
"We knew coming into this that it could be like this, but he doesn't know, hasn't played the game for how long and hasn't been involved in professional rugby for how long," said the Saracens scrum-half.
"Let's have a meaningful discussion about his knowledge, about what he knows about the game."
Carling, 49, responded in a short video posted on his Twitter account on Tuesday, admitting that Wigglesworth "did have a point".
But he added: "One of the things we did do was invest a huge amount of time, effort and emotion into learning the lessons of what we got wrong. And we got a lot wrong against Wales.
"Therefore the players and coaches have to be brutally honest with each other because that is how you get a team to be successful, not by ignoring serious issues."
Media playback is not supported on this device | England will use criticism from former captain Will Carling to create unity before their crucial World Cup match against Australia, says another ex-skipper Martin Corry. | 34397293 |
Washiqur Rahman was attacked close to his home in Dhaka's Begunbari area, a police official told AFP news agency.
Two students at an Islamic seminary have reportedly been arrested.
Last month, Avijit Roy, a US-based writer who had criticised religious intolerance, was killed in a machete attack while he was visiting Dhaka.
His death sparked fresh concerns for freedom of speech in Bangladesh, where several secular-minded writers have been targeted by militants.
Mr Rahman was killed on a busy street in Dhaka. Two of the suspected attackers, armed with meat cleavers, were caught near the scene.
The suspects told police they had targeted Mr Rahman because of his anti-Islamic writing, a police official told the Associated Press news agency.
Mr Rahman blogged under a pen-name, Kucchit Hasher Channa, or Ugly Duckling. According to the Dhaka Tribune newspaper, he had criticised irrational religious beliefs.
Imran Sarker, the head of a network of activists and bloggers in Bangladesh, told AFP news agency that Mr Rahman was "a progressive free thinker".
Asif Mohiuddin, a Bangladeshi blogger who survived an attack in 2013, said he had often talked to Mr Rahman about "criticising fundamentalist groups".
"I liked him for his satire, his sense of humour. He was a wonderful blogger and I'm very... upset right now," he said.
Last month's attack on Mr Roy prompted massive protests from students and social activists, who accused the authorities of failing to protect critics of religious bigotry.
A man accused of threatening to kill Mr Roy on social media was arrested in that case.
Farabi Shafiur Rahman, described as a "fundamentalist blogger", was said by police to be linked to Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir, which is banned in Bangladesh.
Mr Roy's wife was also badly injured in the attack. | A blogger has been hacked to death in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, a month after a prominent atheist writer was killed in a similar attack. | 32112433 |
"You're carrying a gun to class? Yeah well I'm carrying a HUGE DILDO," Jessica Jin, organiser of Campus (DILDO) Carry, wrote on Facebook.
About 3,000 people have signed up for the protest, which is planned for next year when the law takes effect.
Gun rights supporters have criticised the rally on the group's Facebook page.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott enacted the campus carry law in June. Under the law, university presidents are permitted to create so-called "gun-free zones".
"The State of Texas has decided that it is not at all obnoxious to allow deadly concealed weapons in classrooms, however it DOES have strict rules about free sexual expression, to protect your innocence," wrote Ms Jin, a student at the University of Texas at Austin.
"You would receive a citation for taking a DILDO to class before you would get in trouble for taking a gun to class. Heaven forbid the penis," she added.
Some students at the Austin university have appealed to University President Gregory Fenves to impose limits on the new law.
Daniel Hamermesh, an economics professor at the university, said last week he was resigning over concerns about his personal safety.
Supporters of gun rights have argued that mass gunmen target "gun-free zones" such as university campuses and cinemas so they do not meet resistance when they commit their crimes.
Others say encouraging armed civilians to engage an attacker could lead to more chaos and deaths.
A student was armed during a recent college shooting in Roseburg, Oregon, but he did not use his weapon.
He was not in the building where the shootings occurred, and he also said he feared police could have mistaken him for the gunman, putting his life in danger.
Gun rights supporters have flooded the protest's Facebook page, mocking the organisers.
"A grand example of the decline of value in American university education," read one of the responses.
"As a parent I feel more comfortable with my children having a weapon on campus rather than a dildo," read another. | Texas students are planning to hang sex toys from their bags in protest at a law allowing people to carry concealed weapons on university campuses. | 34507760 |
Figures from the charity Fertility Fairness show a steady decline in the number of providers offering the recommended three cycles of treatment.
Fourteen local health groups are currently considering whether to reduce or remove IVF provision.
The NHS says it does not have "unlimited resources".
Guidelines from the National Institute for health and Care Excellence (NICE) say women aged under 40 should be offered three cycles of IVF treatment on the NHS if they meet certain criteria.
The NHS in Scotland has promised that level of treatment from next year; in Wales couples are offered two cycles; in Northern Ireland one.
Claire Thomas travelled to the Czech Republic to have fertility treatment. Her son Eddie is now three-months-old.
She was not eligible for treatment on the NHS in her area because her husband already had two boys from a previous marriage.
"I totally understand, but in our situation it was myself who had the problem so, whether my husband had children previously or not, we would have still needed treatment to be able to have the family that we dreamed of," she said.
Ms Thomas said that while she delighted in being a stepmother, it broke her heart not to have children herself.
"It isolates you socially, I drifted away from my friends as they grew their families and it was not long until depression set in.
"It is a physical health problem as well as emotional."
Her treatment in the Czech Republic had cost £4,500, whereas she was quoted £10,000 for private treatment in the UK.
In England, fewer than one in five CCGs offer the recommended treatment to eligible couples. In three areas couples cannot get any IVF treatment on the NHS.
Bedfordshire CCG has deferred a decision, due on Thursday, about reducing or removing IVF provision. Thirteen other CCGs are also considering similar moves.
Fertility Fairness argues that continuing disinvestment threatens the very provision of IVF on the NHS everywhere but Scotland.
Sarah Norcross, co-chairwoman of the Fertility Fairness campaign, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "IVF does seem to be one of the first things that clinical commissioning groups consider [for budget cuts].
"It seems to be a soft option for them to take - to reduce the number of cycles.
"The NHS treats many, many conditions which are not life saving and IVF is one of those. It's a proven cost and clinically effective treatment and it's been recognised as that twice by NICE now."
Ms Norcross said there was a risk that people refused treatment on the NHS would go to private IVF clinics overseas and be tempted to have more than one embryo transferred in a cycle.
That increased the risk of multiple births of babies which might need expensive intensive care treatment in the NHS, she added.
The NHS Clinical Commissioners said they do not have unlimited resources, and tough choices have to be made for the good of the whole population.
Dr Amanda Doyle, GP, co-chair of NHS Clinical Commissioners and chief clinical officer at NHS Blackpool CCG said: "Clinical commissioning groups are led by GPs whose first priority is always to the patient.
"Wherever possible we want to give them what they need, including fertility treatment.
"Unfortunately the NHS does not have unlimited resources and ensuring patients get the best possible care against a backdrop of increasingly squeezed finances is one of the biggest issues CCGs face." | Campaigners say the provision of free IVF on the NHS in England has fallen to its lowest level since guidelines were introduced in 2004. | 37430380 |
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Carrickfergus man Seeley recovered from a bad start to take a stunning win in Thursday's opening Supersport race.
Seeley, 34, later triumphed in a thrilling Superstock race as he held off Michael Rutter and Michael Dunlop.
A Northern Ireland treble was completed by Lee Johnston's Supertwins victory.
Seeley was 15th on lap one of the opening Supersport race after getting caught up in Johnston's early exit but the Mar-Train Racing rider produced a remarkable recovery to take victory ahead of Guy Martin and Australian Josh Brookes.
Fermanagh man Johnston regrouped from his Supersport mishap to overhaul Ivan Lintin in the Supertwins race, with James Cowton third.
In the final riveting Superstock race, Seeley led by 1.5 seconds after two laps before being overhauled by Rutter on the penultimate fifth lap.
As backmarkers became a factor, Dunlop stormed into contention and the Ballymoney man moved into the lead midway through the final lap.
However, Seeley regained the advantage at the Black Hill section of the course and held on to the lead over the closing corners as Dunlop was also passed by 13-times North West 200 winner Rutter.
Australian Brookes, 31, took an early lead in Thursday's Supersport opener as Seeley dropped five seconds off the pace after Johnston's early exit at York Corner.
Gary Johnson took the lead on lap two as he battled with Brookes and Rutter and the Englishman maintained his advantage to half way.
However, Seeley, 34, moved his way through the field to take the lead on the penultimate lap and he held off a strong challenge from Guy Martin on the final lap, as the Lincolnshire man was hindered by backmarkers.
Seeley had 1.134 seconds to spare from Martin at the finish with Brookes a further .06 back in third.
The top six was completed by William Dunlop, Keith Amor and Rutter.
"Lee Johnston made that hard work for me and I was forced to go straight on at York," said Seeley, as he won a Supersport race at the meeting for the third successive year.
"I had to do a U-turn and come back. But I caught the leading bunch.
"Coming back from so far back, it is testament to the team and the bike they have given me."
In the Supertwins event, Lincolnshire man Lintin appeared to have victory secured as he led by more than four seconds after two laps.
However, the gap was reduced to less than a second by the start of the final lap and Johnston moved ahead in the closing stages to take his maiden North West win.
"It is about time. The first few laps I was on edge after my slip off in the first race," said Johnston, 25.
"Ivan somehow got away but I worked hard for it and it feels great."
Seeley's two victories mean he moves ahead of Philip McCallen's haul of 11 career wins on the all-time North West list as he becomes the fourth most successful rider in the meeting's history.
THURSDAY'S NORTH WEST 200 RESULTS
Supersport 600
1. Alastair Seeley
2. Guy Martin [1.134 secs behind]
3. Josh Brookes [1.194]
4, William Dunlop [2.332]
5. Keith Amor [16.499]
6. Michael Rutter [16.680]
7. Gary Johnson [17.495]
8. Bruce Anstey [18.2180
9. Daniel Cooper [25.680]
10. James Hillier [30.3250]
Supertwins
1. Lee Johnston
2. Ivan Lintin [0.525]
3. James Cowton [10.479]
4. James Hillier [11.109]
5. Jamie Hamilton [14.785]
6. Ryan Farquhar [14.855]
7. Martin Jessopp [15.910]
8. Jeremy McWilliams [36.472]
9. Paul Shoesmith [1:02.131]
10. Timothee Monot [1:02.203]
Superstock
1. Alastair Seeley
2. Michael Rutter [0.570]
3. Michael Dunlop [0.786]
4. Martin Jessopp [3.089]
5. Horst Saiger [3.455]
6. Simon Andrews [15.632]
7. Conor Cummins [29.360]
8. Guy Martin [36.128]
9. Peter Hickman [36,.466]
10. William Dunlop [39.299] | Alastair Seeley increased his haul of North West 200 victories to 12 as he took Supersport and Superstock wins on the opening night of racing at the Northern Ireland motorcycling meeting. | 27434064 |
As part of World Book Day, young adult authors are getting together for Teen Fest, an online book festival, to promote reading to teenagers.
Escapism, comfort, inspiration: these are some of the reasons why Malorie Blackman, Marcus Sedgwick and Holly Smale say they love books.
Share your own reasons for reading with Newsbeat on our Twitter feed or Facebook page.
Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter, BBCNewsbeat on Instagram and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube | Authors have been telling us why books matter. | 31541605 |
Firefighters used cutting equipment to free her from her vehicle in Poole's Arrowsmith Road, which runs through woodland, shortly before 09:00 GMT.
The road was closed between Broadstone and Canford Magna while council workers dealt with the tree.
The woman was taken to hospital with head injuries, which are not thought to be life-threatening. | A woman was trapped in her car in Dorset when a tree fell on it during strong winds. | 35197495 |
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Chasing a revised target of 76 in 10 overs after rain, Scotland won by eight wickets with 12 balls to spare thanks to Matthew Cross' rapid 22.
Mark Chapman made 40 in Hong Kong's modest 127-7 as Matt Machan took 2-26.
Earlier on the same ground, Afghanistan beat Zimbabwe to top the group and qualify for the Super 10s.
Scotland's win earned them third place in the group, with Hong Kong bottom after losing all three matches.
Beaten by Afghanistan and Zimbabwe in their opening two games, Scotland's sequence without a win at a major tournament stretched back to the 1999 World Cup.
"It's a great day for Scottish cricket," said man-of-the-match Machan, who hit the winning runs to finish 15 not out off four balls.
"We haven't played our best cricket this week but we've got the monkey off our back and we're very happy."
Scotland captain Preston Mommsen added: "It's huge - it's been a long time coming.
"The boys are absolutely chuffed to get on the board. There will be a few cold ones cracked open tonight."
Scotland's victory owed much to the discipline of their bowling attack, with slow left-armer Con de Lange and seamer Richie Berrington conceding fewer than five runs an over.
Although Chapman helped Hong Kong recover from 33-3 alongside Anshuman Rath, they struggled to find the boundary until Nizakat Khan hit two sixes in his 17 off 10 balls late on.
Scotland's chase, delayed by a second rain delay lasting 45 minutes, was little more than a formality.
Cross provided the early impetus, opener Kyle Coetzer made a patient unbeaten 20 and Machan wrapped up victory with a six over deep mid-wicket. | Scotland recorded their first win in 21 attempts at a major global tournament by beating Hong Kong in their final World Twenty20 group match in Nagpur. | 35794709 |
Fulton, 19, is a Scotland Under-21 international who has yet to play first-team football for Liverpool.
He was named as an unused substitute for the Reds in two League Cup ties against Carlisle and Bournemouth earlier this season.
Fulton is expected to provide competition for Portsmouth goalkeepers Brian Murphy and Paul Jones.
Meanwhile, Pompey defender Ben Davies has revealed he is close to signing a new deal with the club.
"I'm enjoying my football and whenever that's happened in my career, I tend to get the best out of myself," the 34-year-old told BBC Radio Solent.
"Being surrounded by good players and a good manager always helps as well."
Davies joined Portsmouth in the summer after being released by Sheffield United. He has been ever-present in League Two since then, scoring one goal.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | Portsmouth have signed teenage Liverpool goalkeeper Ryan Fulton on a youth loan until the end of the season. | 35382922 |
A police statement said the officers, who had already been suspended, were detained on suspicion of "assault resulting in grievous body harm".
The incident took place on 15 October during clashes when police cleared an underpass by the Admiralty camp.
Civic Party protester Ken Tsang was filmed being led away in handcuffs and beaten for several minutes.
Local TV network TVB later aired footage of his assault, and Mr Tsang's lawyer said that the beatings had continued after he was taken to a police station.
The authorities suspended the officers and launched an investigation shortly after the clip was aired.
On Wednesday, a police spokesman said they had not delayed investigations into the case, and that Mr Tsang had promised to show up to identify his assailants, but failed to do so.
The spokesman called on Mr Tsang to "assist the police in investigations as soon as possible".
The police also rejected previous criticism of their handling of the case, saying that their investigations had consistently followed the procedures for complaints against police officers.
"If any other officer is suspected of illegal behaviour, the police will investigate impartially and not show favouritism," said the spokesman.
Wednesday's announcement came after police cleared one of the key protest sites at Mong Kok.
More than 140 people were arrested, including two leading student activists, Joshua Wong and Lester Shum.
Analysis: John Sudworth, BBC News, Shanghai
There have been attempts to clear Hong Kong's streets before, notably of course, right at the beginning of the protests. Video footage of the protesters defending themselves with umbrellas from the pepper spray became the defining image and only served to give the movement massive momentum.
Now though, the authorities are taking a more careful approach. Recent clearance efforts, including those over the past two days in the Mong Kok district, have been to enforce the court injunctions, won by businesses including the city's taxi drivers, angered over the effect on their businesses.
They also come at a time when the protesters are weary after two solid months of sit-ins, their numbers dwindling, and not long after the world spotlight has left China following the Apec Summit. Scenes of Hong Kong chaos might not have played well with the world leaders meeting in Beijing.
But with Mong Kok cleared, two other sites remain, including the main protest site in the heart of the financial district. Further court injunctions or not, that remains a much tougher proposition.
Dozens arrested in Hong Kong crackdown | Seven Hong Kong policemen have been arrested in connection with the beating of a pro-democracy protester. | 30209866 |
Footitt, 29, has joined Division One side Surrey on a four-year deal, citing a desire to play top-tier cricket and enhance his England chances.
Storey told BBC Radio Derby: "There is no point in holding on to a player that doesn't want to be here.
"The challenge to find a replacement is a big one."
Footitt joined Derbyshire in 2010 and claimed 251 wickets in 64 first-class appearances at an average of 25.
His form earned him a call-up to the England set-up during this summer's Ashes and he felt he needed to leave the county to remain in the reckoning for a Test cap.
"We felt Mark could have achieved all his England ambitions with Derbyshire. We respect his decision but our ambition is to produce England players and hold on to our players when they get in to the England side," added Storey.
"Mark made some terrific progress since he joined five years ago We take a big sense of satisfaction of the progress he has made."
Meanwhile, fellow pace bowler Ben Cotton, 22, has signed a one-year contract extension with the county.
The University of Derby graduate took 32 wickets across all formats last season. | Derbyshire were right to let Mark Footitt leave despite the bowler having a year left on his contract, according to chief executive Simon Storey. | 34549387 |
That was below the 217,000 predicted by analysts, although the Labor Department said that figures for August tend to be revised higher subsequently.
The unemployment rate fell to 5.1% - down from the July figure of 5.3%.
The rate is the lowest since April 2008.
Wall Street headed lower following the numbers.
European stock markets, which had been trading lower before the data was released, extended their losses, with the FTSE 100 in London closing down by 2.44% and indexes in Paris and Frankfurt dropping by 2.81% and 2.71% respectively.
There were upward revisions to the number of jobs created in the previous two months, which added another 44,000 jobs. The revised figure for July was 245,000 jobs.
The weaker-than-expected August number could make Fed officials think twice about increasing rates when they meet on 16-17 September.
On Twitter, BBC economics editor Robert Peston said it was "inconceivable" that the Fed would now raise rates this month given the jobs data and slowdown in emerging markets such as China.
Paul Ashworth, chief US economist at Capital Economics, said the report was "fairly mixed and can be used to make a case for or against a rate hike", adding: "The September meeting is a 50-50 toss-up."
Rob Carnell at ING bank said: "We don't think it is sufficiently strong enough for the Fed to proceed with a September rate hike without markets worrying that the data is not good enough to support it."
Chris Williamson, chief economist at Markit, said: "The most likely scenario is one where the Fed waits a little longer in the light of recent economic and financial market instability, instead merely testing financial market reactions with rhetoric that a rate rise is increasingly imminent."
For financial markets the big question about the jobs report is how it will affect the Fed's decision on whether to raise interest rates later this month.
The low headline unemployment rate and the rise in earnings help keep the possibility alive.
But the number of new jobs was below expectations and a wider measure of "labour underutilisation" - which includes people not looking for work and part-timers who want longer hours - is relatively high.
Then there is all the recent global financial market volatility. A rate rise this month is far from certain.
One of the officials who will help make that decision said earlier on Friday that the US labour market had recovered sufficiently to warrant raising rates soon.
Richmond Fed President Jeffrey Lacker, who had called for a rate increase in June, said the US economy no longer needed rates to be so low.
He said after the numbers were released that he would going into the rate meeting "with an open mind". | The US added 173,000 jobs in August, the Department of Labor said on Friday, in the last unemployment report before September's interest rate decision by the Federal Reserve. | 34154579 |
Like a snowball getting bigger as it rolls downhill, momentum is gathering around the warnings of school leaders about impending cash problems.
Head teachers have said a lack of cash might force them to cut school hours.
Ministers were forced by a Parliamentary question to reveal that more than half of academies lacked enough income to cover their expenditure.
And school governors - the embodiment of local civic worthies - have threatened to go on strike for the first time, rather than sign off such underfunded budgets.
Petitions and protest letters have been sent to MPs about cuts to jobs and school services - and warning letters from head teachers will have been sent home to alert parents.
Grammar school head teachers have gone a step further and warned that parents might to have to pay to make up the shortfall.
School leaders see themselves rather like look-outs on the Titanic shouting out that there's a great big iceberg ahead - backed by the National Audit Office's finding that schools face 8% real-term spending cuts, worth £3bn, by 2020.
The spending watchdog says costs for schools are outstripping the budgets allocated by the government.
The missing piece in this debate has been any real sign of movement from the government - other than to keep repeating that school funding is at record levels.
But plenty will be going on behind the scenes, and there is no shortage of "insiders" with views on what's happening.
It's claimed that ministers can't sign a birthday card without getting clearance from 10 Downing Street.
So education ministers are unable to give any indication of funding changes, in part because a consultation is still taking place and more particularly because it isn't in their gift to decide.
But there are options thought to be under discussion.
The government has announced a new formula for allocating funding to schools, responding to years of complaints about regional inequalities.
But a number of Conservative MPs in rural and suburban areas have been energetically lobbying that this slicing up of the cake is still too much in favour of the inner cities.
If the formula was shifted around a little, such as putting less emphasis on deprivation, it could shift funding from London and the big cities towards the shires.
This would not have much electoral cost for the Conservatives as their support is not in these inner-city areas.
But it would be a big call in terms of political purpose to cut funding from areas of deprivation.
Another approach would be to start including pupil premium money - targeted at deprived children - into the general funding equation.
This really would mark the formal detonation of the last pillars of the Cameron and coalition era, for which the pupil premium was a moral touchstone.
There are other more creative possibilities.
It was revealed that of the money earmarked for the ill-fated plan turn all schools into academies, £384m had been taken back by the Treasury.
This £384m has been claimed as being enough to make sure that there are no losers in the funding formula shake-up.
If this cash could be "rediscovered" in a virtual shoebox in the Treasury, it could come back into play, getting the government off a funding hook - without actually having to find new money.
The apprenticeship levy, about to be introduced, has also been seen as a potential pot of money. The Institute for Fiscal Studies says by 2019-20 it will be raising £2.8bn from employers - but only £640m is set to be spent on apprenticeships.
The Department for Education has so far not been able to explain where the rest of this money might be heading.
Of course, another option is that the government refuses to move and schools have to operate within their budgets.
What would this mean in practice?
To take a real-life example shown to the BBC, what happens when a secondary school faces a shortfall of £350,000.
The only way to make such savings is to cut staff - heads and governing bodies will be making such tough decisions.
Which subject should they stop teaching? Which teachers should they make redundant? Should they get rid of counsellors for mental health problems? Should they merge classes? And who gets to lose out on the quality of their education?
This has left head teachers furious.
There has always been a well-developed moaning culture in education, but there is no escaping the outrage among school leaders about the lack of political response to funding worries.
They were even more livid when they found that the government had found money to expand grammar schools - and have written angry letters asking which services they should cut in their own schools.
They see ministers and MPs rather like untrustworthy children who won't take responsibility for their decisions.
There is also brinkmanship on both sides. Will schools really send home children because of a lack of cash?
And the government will worry that if they crack over schools, it would start a feeding frenzy of other demands on public spending.
A Department for Education spokesman said that school funding is already at its highest level - more than £40bn for 2016-17.
And the department says that it has grasped the nettle of introducing a long overdue national funding formula.
"Significant protections have also been built into the formula so that no school will face a reduction of more than more than 1.5% per pupil per year or 3% per pupil overall.
"But we recognise that schools are facing cost pressures, which is why we will continue to provide support to help them use their funding in cost effective ways, including improving the way they buy goods and services, so they get the best possible value." | After the NHS and social care, is the next funding crisis going to be in England's schools? | 38993715 |
Following an inspection of the pitch at the Matchroom Stadium the game was called off at 11:20 GMT.
Temperatures dropped to well below freezing in east London overnight.
Orient are 20th in League Two and two points above the relegation zone having lost their past three matches, and Morecambe are 17th, six points clear of the O's. | Leyton Orient's League Two match against Morecambe has been postponed because of a frozen playing surface. | 38619936 |
In a match worth a potential £120m to the victors, Cameron Jerome took advantage of a Daniel Ayala error to put the Canaries ahead.
It was 2-0 after 15 minutes when Nathan Redmond arrowed a shot into the corner.
Jelle Vossen came closest for Boro when he struck the bar, but their six-year absence from the top flight continues.
Victory for the Canaries in front of more than 85,000 fans is the culmination of a remarkable run of results under manager Alex Neil.
The 33-year-old was unheralded in England, but presided over Hamilton's promotion to the Scottish Premiership last season. That was enough for him to be given the chance to replace Neil Adams at Carrow Road in January, with the club seventh in the table and three points off the play-offs.
Neil oversaw victory in his maiden game in charge against eventual league champions Bournemouth, the first of 17 wins in 25 games during his tenure, and will now become the youngest manager in England's top flight, beating Swansea's 36-year-old boss Garry Monk.
For his opposite number Aitor Karanka and Boro, though, it ends a season that had promised so much, built on the meanest defence in the league, conceding 37 goals in 46 games.
Karanka, the former assistant manager to Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho at Real Madrid, has also seen a great deal of improvement during his 18 months in charge after taking over from Tony Mowbray in November 2013 with the side 16th in the table.
But, in a game referred to as the 'richest in football', his side fell short thanks to three first-half minutes when Norwich scored twice.
Given the weight of pressure, it was an understandably nervy opening but the game sprang into life when both sides hit the crossbar within 30 seconds of each other.
First, Norwich midfielder Bradley Johnson powered a left-foot volley against the bar, only for Boro to go straight down the other end and rattle the woodwork themselves with Vossen's delightful long-range effort.
Boro had arrived at Wembley late after being stuck in traffic, and their lack of preparation time may well have had a hand in gifting Norwich the opening goal.
Ex-Canaries defender Ayala dithered on the ball down their right, allowing Norwich top scorer Jerome to nick it off him, run into the area and calmly slot past Dimi Konstantopoulos at his near post for his 21st of the season.
And only three minutes later, Norwich, unbeaten on the road under Neil, were 2-0 up against a side who had kept 22 clean sheets this campaign.
Steven Whittaker played a great ball into the channel for Redmond and the England Under-21 winger struck home a low effort past a despairing Konstantopoulos to send one end of Wembley into an unexpectedly early ecstasy.
Boro struggled to get any sort of foothold in the game, so at half-time Karanka brought off right-back Dean Whitehead for forward Emilio Nsue.
Norwich had kept Championship player of the year Patrick Bamford quiet for the first hour, but his turn and shot was the first real test for keeper John Ruddy.
Boro's main threat came from Albert Adomah down the right, but Norwich's central defensive partnership of Sebastien Bassong and captain Russell Martin dealt with every ball into the middle.
It was in fact Norwich who went closest to getting a third when Redmond fired just wide from a free-kick on the edge of the box.
Bamford then had the chance to pull the ball back to Kike but Scotland international Martin cleared his centre, and Norwich held on to return to the top flight. | Norwich City secured an instant return to the Premier League with victory over Middlesbrough in the Championship play-off final at Wembley. | 32776552 |
It wants to recruit about 500 men and women to help deal with natural disasters and to patrol borders.
The recruitment drive follows the announcement by the United Nations mission that it would be leaving Haiti in October.
But critics say the island's small budget should be spent on the national police force of about 15,000 officers.
A Ministry of Defence statement said the recruitment drive is open to both men and women between the ages of 18 and 25, who have passed their secondary education exams.
The UN Security Council agreed in April to withdraw their security forces, the blue helmets, and leave only a small police presence to support the Haitian police.
The UN departure has sparked a debate over whether Haiti should or should not form a new army.
Many politicians support the idea arguing it would provide jobs for young people.
But the government's critics say a military force could quickly become politicised, becoming a weapon in the hands of whoever is the president or prime minister.
For much of Haiti's history, the army has been used to crack down on political dissent by a series of authoritarian presidents.
During the 29-year family dynasty founded by Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier in the 1950s, the army was pushed aside and replaced by the Tonton Macoutes, a feared private militia famed for its savagery.
But when Duvalier's son, Jean Claude, was ousted and fled to France in 1986, the army high command - notorious for its repressive tactics and packed with Duvalier appointees - remained in place.
After Haiti's first democratically-elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, was ousted in a 1991 military coup, soldiers and paramilitary forces committed countless atrocities and are estimated to have killed about 4,000 people over the next three years.
Haiti's leaders argue the new army would have different kinds of military duties, providing help after natural disasters and fighting smuggling.
Many international donors have been unenthusiastic, after having poured billions of dollars into developing the Haitian National Police which now has about 15,000 trained members. | Haiti's government has launched a campaign to re-establish its army, dissolved more than 20 years ago. | 40576545 |
Ryan Nichol, 25, of Hawick, said a winning farewell to racing at Hamilton on Thursday aboard Donnachies Girl.
He then told Racing UK about his plans to leave the sport and pursue a major career change.
"That's it now," he said. "I've been offered a job funeral directoring. It's a little bit of a change but I suppose everything comes to an end doesn't it?"
"It's a little bit different, but I did a bit last summer," he added.
"You can never say you enjoy it, but it's all right.
"I'm getting older now so I have to look to move on and see what happens."
The jockey will be working for a fellow former rider in Paul Robson, who had to retire through injury.
He said: "Paul used to ride for Nicky Richards and was a very good jockey in his day, but injuries set him back.
"I'm going to work for him now and it'll be back in Hawick, which will be a big help back home with the parents and family.
"Paul gave me the option to carry on riding, but I thought once that's it, it's it."
He said he had had a good year in racing so it was a "good point" to go out.
He added that he was "very grateful" to Borders trainer Alistair Whillans who gave him his farewell winner.
"I did the complete opposite to what I was told to do, but luckily it worked out," he said. | An amateur jockey from the Borders has retired from the sport to take up a new career as a funeral director. | 40455386 |
Huge winger Taqele Naiyaravoro scored three tries, with Duncan Weir, James Malcolm and Tim Swinson also touching down for the hosts.
Steve Shingler kicked the Scarlets' only points with two penalties.
Wayne Pivac's Welsh side are winless from their three Pool 3 fixtures.
This was a commanding, powerful display from the Warriors, but the much-needed result was all the more noteworthy given the hosts were some way from their best until the final quarter.
Balls were fumbled and opportunities squandered, although the hosts never looked troubled.
This vital victory was built on a physical supremacy established at the first scrummage and epitomised by the fearsome tackles of Simone Favaro, and the charges of the hulking Naiyarvoro. In the process, they consigned their set-piece obliteration by Northampton Saints in their last European outing to memory.
Eschewing an early shot at goal, Weir kicked a penalty to touch, the forwards splintered the Scarlets eight and the squat little pivot darted through a gap in the visiting defence to slide in and open the scoring, converting his own try.
Shingler responded with three points from the tee, but Scarlets were pinned back by punishing carries from Adam Ashe, Jonny Gray and Naiyaravoro, who even managed to make roadkill of Welsh tight-head Rhodri Jones.
Utterly dominant, Glasgow should have claimed more for their supremacy.
First, Stuart Hogg failed to hold an awful interception pass from Shingler barely five metres from the Scarlets line.
Then came a truly awesome display of power from the giant Naiyaravoro, who showed dexterity to pluck a clearing kick from the air as it plummeted towards touch then laid waste to the pack of chasing defenders who stood between him and the try-line.
It was a stirring spectacle, but the big man's toes were adjudged to have grazed the touchline by the TMO.
Their fixture last weekend against Leinster fell victim to the biblical Glasgow downpour and, at crucial moments in the first half, things just weren't quite clicking for the Warriors.
They made do with a Weir penalty on the stroke of half-time.
Michael Tagicakibau sparked Scarlets' best period of the match just after the break with a brilliant burst down the left, culminating in a second penalty for Shingler.
But Glasgow would quickly reassert their control, 21-year-old Malcolm burrowing over, Weir converting again.
Now the hosts smelled blood and produced some of their most incisive offloading fare. Naiyaravoro rumbled down the right touchline - dispatching only three Scarlets defenders on this occasion - and scored a deserved try.
Finn Russell, on for Weir, was accurate from the tee and Hogg did well to hold Jack Condy up over the line when Scarlets did manage to exert some pressure.
Russell added a delightful touch of finesse to a game peppered with brawn, floating a crossfield kick into the considerable grasp of Naiyaravoro, who sauntered in for the bonus-point score.
Russell converted and Naiyaravoro wasn't done there, infiltrating the Scarlets backline to intercept a stray pass and canter home for a hat-trick that has further cemented his burgeoning status as Scotstoun's latest cult hero.
Though the conversion sailed wide, the Russell-Naiyaravoro axis almost bore fruit again after the fly-half sent the man-mountain thundering after another diagonal punt, the ball just beating him to the touchline.
Swinson had the final say in the eventual rout, Russell converting, leaving the Scarlets with scant hope of progressing in the tournament, and sating the Glasgow supporters who have long been awaiting such a rousing European triumph.
Scarlets head coach Wayne Pivac told BBC Wales: "Up until the 50-minute mark we were in the game at 10-6 and then had an opportunity at 17-6 which we didn't finish off.
"But that last half-hour we fell off too many tackles and they put us away good and proper.
"Naiyaravoro is a big man isn't he? Very hard to tackle and a big man with a bit of room to move is very hard to stop so that's something we've got to work out within the next seven days, how to do that."
Glasgow Warriors: Hogg, Naiyaravoro, Dunbar, Horne, Seymour, Weir, Blair, Grant, Malcolm, Puafisi, Nakawara, Gray (capt), Strauss, Favaro, Ashe.
Replacements: Mamukashvili, Yanayanutawa, Fagerson, Swinson, Harley, Hart, Russell, Lamont.
Scarlets: Steff Evans, Harry Robinson, Regan King, Gareth Owen, Michael Tagicakibau; Steve Shingler, Gareth Davies; Phil John, Emyr Phillips (capty), Rhodri Jones, George Earle, Tom Price, Lewis Rawlins, Tom Phillips, Morgan Allen.
Replacements: Kirby Myhill, Dylan Evans, Samson Lee, Maselino Paulino, Jack Condy, Rhodri Williams, Aled Thomas, Michael Collins.
Referee: Mathieu Raynal (France)
Touch judges: Sebastien Minery, Thomas Dejean (France)
TMO: Vincent Azoulay (France)
Citing commissioner: Shaun Gallagher (England) | Glasgow Warriors resurrected their European Champions Cup campaign, thrashing the Scarlets with a six-try display of physical bullying and backline ruthlessness. | 35069201 |
The drugs were found during a planned search of a property and vehicles in Irishtown, County Dublin, on Saturday.
A man in his late 40s was arrested at scene.
He was released without charge on Saturday night. A police spokeswoman said a file will be prepared for the Director of Public Prosecutions. | Cocaine and cannabis with an estimated value of 750,000 euros (£550,000) has been seized by police in the Republic of Ireland. | 34566098 |
Francesca Matus, 52, and former marine Drew DeVoursney, 36, have been missing since last week.
Police told DeVoursney's family that their bodies were recovered in a sugar cane field Monday night.
The family says that both appear to be strangled, and their hands were tied with duct tape.
The couple were only together a few months, according to DeVoursney's mother, but her son hoped to eventually move to Belize.
"He was very adventurous," Char DeVoursney told the BBC.
The couple was last seen on 25 April, leaving a bar in the town of Corozal, on the northern coast of Belize near the Mexican border.
When a friend came by the next day to pick up Matus and take her to the airport to return to Toronto, the couple was not at home, and their car was gone.
Mrs DeVoursney says that her son had been travelling to Belize off and on for four years to visit friends. After studying to become a master diver, he hoped to move to Belize permanently and open up a diving school, she said.
Described as "adventurous and committed", DeVoursney dropped out of college and enlisted in the Marines following 9/11.
After doing tours of Afghanistan and Iraq, he worked as private contractor in both regions, teaching marines how to use computer equipment in the field.
"He said that was a very scary time and place to be," Mrs DeVoursney said.
Spokespeople for Canada Global Affairs and the US State Department say that the respective countries are offering consular assistance to the victim's families.
Matus was the mother of two adult sons who spent her winters in Belize, friends told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. A memorial page on Facebook was filled with condolences from friends, who said she "touched so many hearts".
Brandon Barfield, a friend of DeVoursney who served with him in Iraq, said the couple's family and friends will continue to fight for justice.
"Today is the first day of seeking out the people who are responsible for robbing us of the ones we love," he said on a GoFundMe page he started when the couple went missing. | Belize police are investigating the deaths of a Canadian woman and her American boyfriend. | 39786787 |
Derek Lyle opened the scoring for the hosts with a right-footed strike before Stephen Dobbie doubled the lead just before the break.
The Doonhamers extended their lead further when Lyle found the net for the second time.
The visitors managed to pull one back through Kevin Nisbet before Lyndon Dykes sealed the victory for the hosts.
Match ends, Queen of the South 4, Ayr United 1.
Second Half ends, Queen of the South 4, Ayr United 1.
Foul by Lyndon Dykes (Queen of the South).
Daryll Meggatt (Ayr United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Substitution, Ayr United. Craig McGuffie replaces Gary Harkins.
Substitution, Queen of the South. Steven Rigg replaces Stephen Dobbie.
Attempt missed. Kevin Nisbet (Ayr United) right footed shot from very close range is too high.
Attempt saved. Gary Harkins (Ayr United) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Attempt saved. Kevin Nisbet (Ayr United) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top left corner.
Corner, Ayr United. Conceded by Jamie Hamill.
Attempt saved. Stephen Dobbie (Queen of the South) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner.
Substitution, Queen of the South. Jake Pickard replaces Callum Tapping.
Corner, Queen of the South. Conceded by Michael Rose.
Andy Dowie (Queen of the South) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Gary Harkins (Ayr United).
Attempt missed. Kyle Jacobs (Queen of the South) left footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Stephen Dobbie (Queen of the South) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Jamie Adams (Ayr United).
Goal! Queen of the South 4, Ayr United 1. Lyndon Dykes (Queen of the South) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Stephen Dobbie.
Attempt blocked. Ross Docherty (Ayr United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Jamie Hamill (Queen of the South) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Jamie Hamill (Queen of the South).
Ross Docherty (Ayr United) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Lyndon Dykes (Queen of the South) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Jamie Adams (Ayr United).
Callum Tapping (Queen of the South) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Callum Tapping (Queen of the South).
Patrick Boyle (Ayr United) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Substitution, Queen of the South. Dean Brotherston replaces Derek Lyle because of an injury.
Jamie Hamill (Queen of the South) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Gary Harkins (Ayr United).
Attempt saved. Stephen Dobbie (Queen of the South) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Attempt saved. Stephen Dobbie (Queen of the South) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Foul by Darren Brownlie (Queen of the South).
Nicky Devlin (Ayr United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Goal! Queen of the South 3, Ayr United 1. Kevin Nisbet (Ayr United) right footed shot from outside the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Gary Harkins.
Substitution, Ayr United. Alan Forrest replaces Robbie Crawford.
Substitution, Ayr United. Jamie Adams replaces Paul Cairney.
Foul by Lyndon Dykes (Queen of the South).
Ross Docherty (Ayr United) wins a free kick in the defensive half. | Queen of the South recorded their first Championship victory of the season with a comfortable home win over Ayr United. | 36994708 |
A woman and a boy were taken to hospital following the collision on the QE2 bridge on Wednesday.
The police response has been criticised by some on social media who claim they took too long to clear the congestion.
The force rejected such criticism saying it "still has to respond to the usual daily demand".
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The accident happened at 02:00 BST but some drivers told how the road was still blocked at 18:00.
On Facebook, Keith Davies said: "16 hours - sorry it (is) a joke. Pull your fingers out Essex Police".
On Twitter, others labelled the police response "poor", claiming it was "too little too late. Where were you all morning"?
However, others on social media voiced their support for the police, thanking them for supplying water to stranded motorists and pointing out that the bridge had been damaged in the collision.
A spokesman for the force said: "Resources were deployed to the incident. We will, of course, work with partners to establish what can be done differently. The matter will be reviewed with partners." | Essex Police has defended its handling of a single-vehicle crash which left motorists stuck in queues for more than half a day. | 37116429 |
The 26-year-old impressed during a trial period at Dens Park last week.
Arturo earned a move to Cordoba after a prolific 2013-14 campaign with La Roda in the Spanish third tier.
"We are delighted to have him on board," manager Paul Hartley told the club website. "We look forward to working with him and feel he will be a good addition to the squad."
Arturo will not be considered for Friday's visit to Aberdeen. | Dundee have signed striker Arturo Juan Rodríguez Pérez-Reverte on loan from Cordoba until the end of the season. | 35379675 |
The search firm's sister company Waymo has created a free "early rider" programme in Phoenix, Arizona.
Hundreds of families are expected to take part. Waymo has equipped a fleet of 500 minivans with its self-driving technology to handle ride requests.
The company said testers could ride any time across a test zone in Phoenix twice the size of San Francisco.
The test is the first, large-scale public trial of a driverless car system.
In a blog John Krafcik, Waymo's chief executive, said it had been doing small-scale tests of its riding service with a few Phoenix families for the past month.
Now, he said, it wanted more testers, with "diverse backgrounds and transportation needs".
"We'll learn things like where people want to go in a self-driving car, how they communicate with our vehicles, and what information and controls they want to see inside," wrote Mr Krafcik.
Those applying to take part must be over 18 and live inside the large test region, which forms part of the greater Phoenix metropolitan area.
The cars will not be entirely autonomous, as Arizona laws governing the use of autonomous vehicles demand a test driver be behind the wheel to take control in the event of problems or collisions.
Google's Waymo has been one of the most aggressive developers of autonomous car driving technology and services.
The company's robot cars have now driven more than 2.5 million miles on public roads without human help.
The cars have also been involved in 14 collisions while logging those miles.
As well as fitting out existing cars with sensing and navigations systems, Waymo has also developed its own small, two-seater vehicles.
For the Phoenix test, Google will use Chrysler Pacifica minivans.
The news of the test project comes a day after the UK announced plans to get driverless cars tested on public roads and motorways by 2019.
It also comes as the Wall Street Journal revealed Amazon has been working on autonomous car services for more than 12 months. | Google is letting people use its driverless car service for any ride at any time. | 39705053 |
The 27-year-old woman was pronounced dead at the scene after her Peugeot 208 crashed on the A689 at Crosby at about 13:00 GMT on Sunday.
A man and two children were flown to the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle.
The Great North Air Ambulance said the man suffered "multiple injuries" while the children had minor injuries. | A driver has died in a crash between two cars near Carlisle. | 39025481 |
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There will soon be 1.4 billion smartphones in the world. They keep us connected and informed and now thanks to a booming market in fitness apps, they help keep us healthy too.
Moves on the iPhone and Noom Walk on Android are smartphone apps to track the number of steps taken. Fitness experts agree that around 10,000 steps a day is a good target for a healthy adult - that is a lot of tracking.
If serious about tracking fitness, a dedicated tracking band or other device could be a good investment, so we road tested four of the leading brands - the Jawbone UP, Fitbit's Flex, the Nike+ Fuel Band and Misfit's Shine - to compare the features and benefits.
If that is a bit too physical, a relaxing journey across the world from a birds-eye viewpoint can be achieved with YouTube channel World from Above HD.
Flickr group Landscape Photographers of Los Santos and Blaine County has been set up to capture the scenery of computer game Grand Theft Auto. The collection is filled with screenshots taken by gamers using the free iFruit iOS app.
Google has added remote screen lock and restore factory settings to its Android device manager, just in case the worst happens with a phone.
Watch more clips on the Click website. If you are in the UK you can watch the whole programme on BBC iPlayer. | Kate Russell's weekly review of the best apps and websites. | 24379432 |
Great Britain's all-time leading scorer Shields will be playing his 10th season with the Giants and will have a testimonial game on 21 November.
Riley has signed for a second season with the Giants while Towe will be having his third campaign with the Belfast outfit.
Towe rejoined the Giants in 2016 after a stint with Guildford Flames.
The Giants' head coach next season will be Adam Keefe after Derrick Walser's contract was not renewed following the 2016/17 campaign | Colin Shields, Blair Riley and Matt Towe have all signed contract extensions with the Belfast Giants. | 40113732 |
The nine-year-old became the first mare in 22 years to win the Champion Hurdle at last year's festival, as she was ridden to victory by Ruby Walsh.
She followed that by winning the Aintree Hurdle in April, but has not competed since.
Trainer Willie Mullins had expected her to return at Punchestown on February 22 but announced the injury on Wednesday.
He told the Racing Post: "She is definitely out of Cheltenham and possibly the rest of the season, but it's too early to say."
Cornelius Lysaght, BBC horse racing correspondent
With her catchy name and a talent that earned victory in her first 10 races, Annie Power has become one of jump racing's great favourites.
And after two near-misses at successive Cheltenham Festivals, her Champion Hurdle victory there last March was widely acclaimed.
For Willie Mullins this represents another element to a challenging season. As well as losing 60 horses owned by the powerful Gigginstown House Stud operation and star chaser Vautour as a result of a freak accident at his Carlow stables, he's facing the strongest of challenges to his long-held training championship from Gordon Elliott. | Champion Hurdle winner Annie Power has been ruled out of March's Cheltenham Festival after suffering a leg injury. | 38744162 |
A new show court for Devonshire Park Lawn Tennis Club and better facilities for players are being proposed as part of a £40m regeneration scheme.
The plans also include a new plaza, glass pavilion and restoration of the interior of the Congress Theatre.
Council leader David Tutt, said its was a game-changer for Eastbourne.
"It will herald a new era for an area of the town that is fundamental to our long term prosperity and cultural well-being."
The lawn tennis club, which hosts the Aegon International Eastbourne Tournament, sees many of the world's best tennis players arrive the week before Wimbledon.
Mr Tutt said the council hoped the Lawn Tennis Association might contribute to the funding of the scheme.
It would also look at possible heritage lottery and European funding.
A business case has been drawn up that suggests extra income from improved conference facilities would bring in an extra £1m of income a year.
The scheme also includes the reinstatement of original features and architecture at the Winter Gardens and repairs and improvements to Devonshire Park Theatre.
Councillors approved £1.4m to be spend on developing the scheme to a planning application on Wednesday night.
A separate £1.4m restoration of the grade II-listed 1960s facade of the Congress Theatre is also nearing completion.
The eight-month project was begun after a section of concrete fell from the front of the theatre. | Plans to improve facilities used for one of the world's most important grass court tennis tournaments are being drawn up by Eastbourne council. | 31962729 |
Mark Stewart QC said Nyomi Fee accepted she made mistakes in her treatment of Liam but that did not make her guilty of murder and said there was no evidence she ever injured the child.
He said another child had been assaulting Liam before he died.
Nyomi and Rachel Fee deny murdering the toddler in March 2014 near Glenrothes.
They also face charges they neglected the two-year-old and abused two other children.
The pair blame one of the other children in their care for killing Liam.
The women, who are both originally from Ryton, Tyne and Wear, deny all the charges against them.
In his closing speech, the defence QC for Nyomi Fee said: "There's not one piece of evidence offered to you that Nyomi Fee ever inflicted injury on Liam Fee at all.
"The fact that Nyomi Fee accepts that she made a terrible, terrible mistake in respect of Liam Fee does not automatically mean that she is someone who should be condemned as guilty of other aspects.
"In this case I don't suggest for one minute that you should sympathise with Nyomi fee, not for one minute.
"Evidence which the Crown hope they might have, wish they might have, suggest they might have, is actually missing and it cannot be replaced by conjecture and assumption. I intend to put before you facts."
Mr Stewart said she now accepted her guilt for neglecting Liam and could offer no excuse for what had happened.
He told the court: "It was a dreadful thing to do. It was a catastrophic mistake and a catastrophic failure of care.
"It's capable of any form of description people want to apply to it: it's unforgiveable, it's cruel, especially when you consider the consequences and the full extent of that injury is known.
"That's what happened and she accepts any description that people place upon it."
The trial at the High Court in Livingston continues. | One of the women accused of murdering toddler Liam Fee accepted she made a "terrible, terrible mistake" by neglecting him, her lawyer told a jury. | 36379287 |
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His team will go second in Group C with victory at Windsor Park on Friday.
World Cup champions Germany lead the way with Northern Ireland, Azerbaijan, Norway and the Czech Republic all vying for a play-off route to Russia 2018.
"Our aim is to put ourselves in a position of strength and three points will do that," O'Neill said.
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Azerbaijan will be missing their captain and 104-cap international Rashad Sadygov.
The defender has been ruled out with a knee problem.
However after three fixtures the country has seven points and conceded no goals, and O'Neill is wary of falling further behind an improving team who have never reached the finals of a major tournament.
"I don't think it's a game which will be make or break," he said. "There are still six games after that.
"Ourselves, Azerbaijan, the Czech Republic and Norway, there's very little between us - the games have shown that.
"We wouldn't want to be six points behind Azerbaijan.
"We have to stop their momentum from the opening three games and it will be nice for us to be sitting second.
"To have seven points after four games - and to have gone away to the Czech Republic and Germany - is a good return and will set us up nicely for the second half of the campaign."
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Azerbaijan's start to this group is reminiscent of the way Northern Ireland, then also a fifth-ranked team, opened up their qualification process for Euro 2016.
The early momentum achieved by O'Neill's team carried them to France as group winners, although it was not all plain sailing, and he wants to give Robert Prosinecki's outfit their first bump in the road in Belfast.
"I see similarities certainly in terms of where we came from and how our confidence grew and we've talked about that with the players - they are obviously a team that is capable of doing that as well," O'Neill added.
"Our job is to create a road block and make it as difficult as possible and make sure we take the three points.
"The biggest thing in any campaign is how you react when the result goes against you, and we saw that in our qualification campaign - we had to play Finland and win having lost in Romania and we hope after Friday night Azerbaijan will face a similar problem in March." | Azerbaijan are a serious threat to Northern Ireland's claim on a World Cup qualifying runners-up spot, says manager Michael O'Neill. | 37941797 |
7 June 2015 Last updated at 07:44 BST
The dogs can help to open doors, collect post and use a pedestrian crossing where their owners might have problems.
They also provide emotional support and friendship for owners like eight-year-old Phoebe.
Phoebe has autism, a condition that affects the way you communicate and make sense of the world around you.
She used to get very nervous and confused in busy places like supermarkets, where there are lots of people, but her special dog CJ helped her to feel calmer and more relaxed.
Ricky has been finding out more about these very special dogs... | A charity in Dorset has been training a group of special dogs to help kids who have physical and mental difficulties. | 33023078 |
The company hopes to attract users with a mixture of officially licensed tracks and its catalogue of 125 million covers, remixes, DJ sets and podcasts.
Called Soundcloud Go, it costs £9.99 per month in line with its rivals.
Soundcloud itself will remain free to use, although listeners in the UK and Ireland will hear advertisements between songs from Tuesday morning.
The launch is a big move for the company, which built its business by allowing artists to upload their music and share it with fans on social media and blogs.
Acts like Drake, Lily Allen, Kanye West and Miley Cyrus have used it to premiere songs, or share works in progress - even when they have a stake in rival streaming services, as West does with Tidal.
It has established the Berlin-based company as an influential player in the music industry, especially in the dance music genre.
Crowded market
The company was valued at $700m (£478m) in a funding round in 2014, but it has only recently started trying to make money from its 175 million users.
The subscription service launches with a free 30-day trial, and allows users to store tracks on their phone for offline use - "the number one requested feature", the company says.
But it is launching into an increasingly crowded market. Apple has attracted 11 million people to its music streaming service since it arrived last summer. Market leader Spotify is approaching 30 million subscribers while Tidal, which recently boasted exclusives from Rihanna and Beyonce, has about three million paying customers.
Soundcloud Go launched in the US in March to mixed reviews, with tech website Engadget calling it "a mess" and "a chore to use".
The Verge noted it offered "far fewer" official tracks than its rivals, with artists like Katy Perry, One Direction, The Beatles and Radiohead missing from its line-up.
CEO Alexander Ljung and senior vice president Sylvain Grande told BBC News those gaps were being plugged, and discussed their plans for the service.
Tell us a bit about Soundcloud Go
Alexander: The cool part about that is you have everything from the biggest hits to all the emerging stuff - new artists and remixes and so on. It's the first time that's ever existed.
And you combine that with actually having this presence from the artists themselves. So you get these authentic moments and tracks you wouldn't have expected - like when Miley Cyrus came out of the studio once and uploaded 100 tracks.
There were a lot songs missing when you launched in the US. Is that going to be the case for the UK launch, too?
Alexander: Not everything was there on day one, but a lot of it has been added since. We're still ingesting huge amount of content every day.
Why launch the product before that work was complete?
Sylvain: We wanted to avoid leaks. 99% of the content is there now.
Will people like Kanye West still put exclusive tracks on Soundcloud now it's become more commercial?
Alexander: For artists generally, one of the things that's special about SoundCloud is they have their own account, which they control. So that's led to a different degree of authenticity. If they have an idea they went to get out to the world, a bit like Twitter, they can publish it instantly. That's become a really powerful way for artists to connect to fans. They can't really do that anywhere else.
Right now, you can find individual tracks from Adele or Coldplay, but there's no way to listen to a complete album. Why not?
Sylvain: We've ingested all the tracks and we're working on it. We never had albums functionality per se on SoundCloud - people might create playlists and so on - but in the coming months we're going to have the album visualisation in the service as well.
It's been reported that Sony and Universal took a stake in the company when you signed a licensing deal with them...
Alexander: We don't comment on any deal terms. There hasn't been any official word on how the deals work.
Does having closer ties with the major labels mean we'll see unofficial remixes and cover versions taken down from Soundcloud?
Alexander: A lot of people believe that doing deals with the majors leads to more takedowns, when it's exactly the opposite. Part of the deal is that it creates a framework for being able to create a revenue stream for all this derivative content - remixes and cover versions. That type of content has never really existed in the music industry before, and now we can start to generate revenue from that and pay it back to the industry. So the incentive is to keep it up and earn money, rather than take it down.
It was widely reported that Soundcloud made a loss of $44m in 2014. Can the subscription service turn that around?
Alexander: We don't really comment on the financial results but the truth is that we're a high-growth start-up. It's a very common path. The reason you raise money is to invest it into growth before you focus on profitability.
Do you have a goal for profitability?
Alexander: I have a point in mind. But we might change it along the way, depending on what we want to prioritise.
Soundcloud Go is launching today in the UK and Ireland. Will it be coming to the rest of Europe?
Alexander: Yes, there will be more territories coming soon. | Music streaming service Soundcloud has launched a UK paid-for service to rival the likes of Spotify and Apple Music. | 36172206 |
Watch out! Make sure you choose the right driver and the right year...
This content will not work on your device, please check Javascript and cookies are enabled or update your browser | Lewis Hamilton has equalled Alain Prost and Jim Clark's record of five British Grand Prix wins - but how many of those race wins can you identify when presented with clues? | 40626161 |
Four blasts in the southern Damascus suburb of Sayyida Zeinab killed at least 83 people, state media say.
Earlier in Homs, 57 people, mainly civilians, were killed in a double car bombing, a monitoring group reports.
Both of Sunday's attacks targeted areas dominated by Islamic minorities reviled by the Sunni Muslim radicals of IS.
The blasts came as President Bashar al-Assad told reporters Syrian refugees should not be scared of returning home.
Mr Assad, who has long been accused of persecuting his own people, said ordinary Syrians who had fled the conflict due to the "standard of living that has been deteriorating drastically" could go back without fear of action by the government.
"We want people to come back to Syria," he told reporters.
More than 250,000 Syrians have been killed in the conflict. Some 11 million others have been forced from their homes, of whom four million have fled abroad - including growing numbers who are making the dangerous journey to Europe.
History of the conflict - how the civil war has spread
Maps of the conflict - the shifting territorial gains
Earlier, US Secretary of State John Kerry said a "provisional agreement" had been reached with Russia on a partial truce.
However he admitted issues remained to be resolved and said he did not expect any immediate change on the ground.
Earlier this month, world powers involved in the crisis in Syria agreed to seek a "cessation of hostilities", but the Friday deadline came and went.
In Damascus on Sunday, the state-run Sana news agency reported least 83 dead and 178 wounded in several explosions in Sayyida Zeinab. It is the location of Syria's holiest Shia Muslim shrine, said to contain the grave of the Prophet Muhammad's granddaughter.
The Amaq news agency, which is linked to IS, said IS militants had detonated a car bomb and then blown up explosive belts.
Muhannad, a local resident, told Reuters news agency he was sleeping in his home when he heard an explosion.
"A man detonated the bomb on his body," he said.
"Another five to seven minutes later, a second man detonated his body bomb there. I was right here looking at him."
The district was hit by suicide attacks last month that left 71 people dead and which IS fighters also said they had carried out.
In Homs, the blasts happened in a predominantly Alawite district, the sect to which President Bashar al-Assad belongs.
One of the early centres of the uprising against President Assad, Homs was once dubbed the "capital of the revolution".
But rebels left the city late last year under a ceasefire deal, leaving the city in government hands.
Sunday's attacks came as warring factions waged fierce battles for the northern city of Aleppo.
The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group also said that at least 50 Islamic State fighters had been killed in an advance by government troops, backed by Russian air strikes, east of the city in the past 24 hours. | The Islamic State group says it carried out bomb attacks in the Syrian capital Damascus and the city of Homs, which left at least 140 people dead. | 35628140 |
The attacker "ambushed" a policeman at the scene, shooting him multiple times, before a second officer returned fire, killing the gunman, said authorities.
The shot officer was among three men critically injured in the attack in Oak Creek, suburban Milwaukee.
Later local TV showed police vehicles at another suburb, near what is believed to be the gunman's home.
Reports said the FBI and a bomb squad had gone to search the building, in Cudahy, about 2.5 miles (4km) north of the temple, and had evacuated several blocks.
Police said they believe there was only one shooter, despite initial witness reports of more than one gunman.
President Barack Obama spoke of his sadness at the shooting, which comes just over two weeks after a gun massacre left 12 people dead at a Colorado cinema.
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Hundreds of people turned out for an impromptu candlelit vigil in the nearby city of Milwaukee for the victims of the temple shooting on Sunday evening.
At a press conference, Oak Creek Police Chief John Edwards said they were treating the attack as a "domestic terrorist-type incident", and that the FBI would take over the criminal investigation.
He said he could not release any information about the shooter, who local media reports said was a white male aged about 40.
Women and children hid in closets as the gunfire erupted shortly before 10:30 local time (15:30 GMT) on Sunday.
Four people were dead inside the temple and three outside - including the gunman, said the authorities.
"The best information is that there was only one gunman," said Chief Edwards.
He said the gunman had opened fire on one of the first officers to arrive at the scene, as the officer tended to a victim outside the temple.
The policeman was shot multiple times, before a second officer exchanged gunfire with the suspect, fatally shooting him, added Chief Edwards.
At least three critically injured men were being treated at Milwaukee's Froedtert Hospital, said officials at that facility.
They included the shot police officer, although he was expected to survive, said Chief Edwards.
Local news station WISN 12 reported that one of the injured had gunshot wounds to the chest and abdomen, the second had shots to the face and the third had gunshot wounds to the neck.
Oak Creek is a town of about 30,000 people in the south-east corner of the state.
The website for the temple says it opened in 1999 and now has a congregation of 350-400. Sunday morning was the busiest time of worship, members of the congregation said.
Devendar Nagra, whose sister escaped injury by hiding in the temple's kitchen, told the Associated Press: "We never thought this could happen to our community. We never did anything wrong to anyone."
Suni Singh told Newsradio 620 WTMJ that he had spoken to a friend inside the temple at the time.
"My friend called and said, 'I heard the shot, and two people falling down in the parking lot.' He saw the shooter reloading the gun," Mr Singh said.
Darshan Dhaliwal, who identified himself as a leader at the temple, told the Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel: "This is insanity."
President Obama said he was "deeply saddened" by Sunday's incident.
"Our hearts go out to the families and friends of those who were killed and wounded," he said in statement released by the White House.
"As we mourn this loss which took place at a house of worship, we are reminded how much our country has been enriched by Sikhs, who are a part of our broader American family."
Local politician Mark Honadel called the attack "craziness".
The state representative told CNN: "Unfortunately, when this type of stuff hits your area, you say to yourself, 'why?' But in today's society, I don't think there's any place that's free from idiots." | At least seven people, including a gunman, have died in a shooting at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin in the US. | 19138754 |
The co-ordinated raids on 60 addresses were the first time the authorities had acted on this issue in such a way.
The aim is to tackle what police called "a substantial rise in verbal radicalism".
Typical crimes included "glorification of Nazism [and] xenophobic, anti-Semitic and other right-wing extremism", they said.
Holger Munch, president of Germany's federal criminal police authority, the Bundeskriminalamt (BKA) said: "Today's action makes it clear that police authorities of the federal and state governments act firmly against hate and incitement on the internet."
He said politically motivated hate crime on the internet had increased significantly in the wake of the European refugee crisis.
Last year, Germany took in up to one million migrants and refugees.
"Attacks on refugee shelters are often the result of radicalisation which begins in social networks," Mr Munch said.
Much of the alleged hate speech took place in a secret Facebook group between July and November 2015, police said.
The raids were carried out across 14 German provinces, involving 25 police departments.
Incitement of racial hatred is a crime under German law and a person can be jailed for up to five years in a case of inciting "hatred against a national, racial, religious group or a group defined by their ethnic origins".
Facebook, Twitter and Google have all come under fire in Germany for failing to remove hate speech from their platforms promptly.
Under pressure from the German authorities, the three tech firms agreed at the end of last year to delete such speech from their services within 24 hours.
Facebook also agreed to a series of further measures including: | German police have carried out a series of raids, targeting people suspected of posting hate content on social media. | 36804363 |
The Irish-born actor plays Thomas Shelby, ambitious head of a gangster family in the BBC drama.
He said the people of the city had been "very forgiving" of his own much-maligned attempts to imitate their accent.
Speaking at the premiere of the show's third series, Murphy, 39, said the Brummie brogue was "not ugly, it's quite sexy".
He said he would test out his vocal skills on Peaky Blinders' creator, Steve Knight, who was born in the city.
"I would call him up and leave messages on his phone and see if he approves," he said.
The star said it was "really helpful" to have local talent featuring in the second series and referred to Harry Kirton, who plays Finn Shelby, as "great talent".
Members of the show's cast stepped on to the red carpet on Wednesday at The Mailbox in Birmingham.
Other notable figures from the West Midlands joined them, including comedian Jasper Carrott, Birmingham City manager Gary Rowett and model Ricki Hall.
Gaite Jansen, who plays a Russian duchess, Princess Tatiana Petrovna, had a different accent dilemma: "I'm Dutch and had to do a Russian accent. I had a dialect coach who helped me study how to speak English with a Russian accent.
She admits she didn't know much about Birmingham: "I learnt a lot though. Now I love it. And I love that Steven Knight has made Birmingham like this Wild West."
Steven Knight, who also writes the programme, said its makers hoped to do more filming in Birmingham when the fourth series goes into production.
"The locations that we have found have been North but the fourth series - which will happen - we will film far more in Birmingham," he said. | Peaky Blinders star Cillian Murphy has said the Birmingham accent is "sexy". | 36205291 |
The 54-year-old man was seriously hurt in the attack at a house at Manor Court at about 02:10 GMT on Monday.
The woman, who is 36, is due to appear at Craigavon Magistrates' Court in County Armagh on Wednesday morning.
A 21-year-old man who was also arrested in connection with the incident has since been released on bail pending further inquiries. | A woman has been charged with the attempted murder of a man who was stabbed in Moira, County Down. | 35296134 |
It is thought to be the first time China's military has publicly admitted to landing a plane on the artificial island, known as Fiery Cross Reef.
State media said the plane evacuated three injured workers from the reef.
China and several of its neighbours are locked in a territorial dispute over the South China Sea, which Beijing claims almost in its entirety.
The military plane landed on Sunday morning to pick up three construction workers who were hurt, and flew them to Hainan island for treatment, state media said.
China has previously landed civilians planes on Fiery Cross Reef, sparking criticism from Vietnam, who also claims the territory, and the US.
Beijing says it is building artificial islands and structures on reefs for civilian purposes, but other countries have expressed concern over the possibility of the facilities being used for military purposes.
The US has said China's island-building aggravates regional tensions and prevents vessels from navigating freely though the area.
Q&A: South China Sea dispute
China, Taiwan, Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia and Brunei all claim areas within the South China Sea.
China turned Fiery Cross Reef into an artificial island through a massive dredging operation, and constructed buildings and an air strip.
Rival countries have wrangled over territory in the South China Sea for centuries, but tension has steadily increased in recent years.
In February, Taiwan and the US said China had deployed surface-to-air missiles on another disputed island, called Woody or Yongxing Island, in the Paracels.
China responded by saying that the US was militarising the South China Sea through its air and naval patrols.
The US, which officially takes no position on the territorial disputes, describes the patrols as "freedom of navigation" operations to ensure access to key shipping and air routes. | China has landed a military aircraft on one of its manmade islands in the disputed South China Sea. | 36069615 |
The Orica Bike-Exchange rider, 24, attacked late on to win by 20 seconds, with Spaniard Luis-Leon Sanchez second and Italian Fabio Felline third on the 163.2km stage to Ribeira Sacra.
Yates' twin brother Adam was the first British winner of the Tour de France's white jersey this year.
Compatriot Chris Froome finished in the peloton to stay third overall.
He remains 32 seconds behind race leader Colombian Darwin Atapuma of BMC, with Spaniard Alejandro Valverde 28 seconds adrift in second.
Simon Yates, who returned from a four-month drugs ban in July after his team made an "administrative error" over an asthma inhaler, moved into 10th in the general classification, one minute 28 seconds behind Atapuma.
Yates said: "There were lots of twists and turns but I managed to come down [the descent] perfectly and I timed my attack to perfection.
"We really set it up well and I managed to take the opportunity and finish.
"It wasn't planned. We just tried to make it a hard race and I am really happy."
1. Simon Yates (GB/Orica Bike-Exchange) 4hrs 5mins
2. Luis-Leon Sanchez Gil (Spa/Astana) +20secs
3. Fabio Felline (Ita/Trek-Segafredo) +22secs
4. Ben Hermans (Bel/BMC)
5. Kenny Elissonde (Rus/FDJ)
6. Daniel Moreno Fernandez (Spa/Movistar)
7. Mathias Frank (Swi/IAM Cycling)
8. Alejandro Valverde (Spa/Movistar) +29secs
9. Romain Hardy (Fra/Cofidis) same time
10. Simon Clarke (Aus/Cannondale)
1. Darwin Atapuma (Col/BMC) 21hrs 45mins 21secs
2. Alejandro Valverde (Spa/Movistar) +28secs
3 Chris Froome (GB/Team Sky) +32secs
4. Nairo Quintana (Col/Movistar) +38secs
5. Esteban Chaves (Col/Orica) same time
6. Samuel Sanchez Gonzalez (Spa/BMC) +1min 7secs
7. Leopold Konig (Cze/Team Sky) +1min 12secs
8. Peter Kennaugh (GB/Team Sky) +1min 14secs
9. Gianluca Brambilla (Ita/Etixx-Quick-Step) 1min 22secs
10. Simon Yates (GB/Orica Bike-Exchange) 1min 28secs | Britain's Simon Yates won stage six of the Vuelta a Espana to claim his first Grand Tour stage victory. | 37185897 |
Labour and the Liberal Democrats pledged themselves to the 20,000 figure in May's assembly election.
It was also in the deal bringing Lib Dem Education Secretary Kirsty Williams into an otherwise Labour Welsh cabinet.
Mr Sargeant's announcement brings ministers' total spending on social housing grants to £98m in 2016-17.
"Alongside the well-documented health and education benefits that good quality housing provides for children and families, building homes of all tenures has a significant positive impact on the Welsh economy and on our communities," he added.
Mr Sargeant signed a pact with the Welsh Local Government Association and Community Housing Cymru committing them to working together to provide the new homes.
Stuart Ropke, chief executive of Community Housing Cymru, said it was an "ambitious" target but also "an important step forward".
"We've only been delivering half the number of homes in Wales that we need," he told BBC Wales.
"We're getting much nearer to that target with the 20,000.
"It's stretching - that's why it's important to have local government on board.
"But it's definitely achievable." | An extra £30m will be spent this year on providing 20,000 new affordable homes in Wales by 2021, Communities Secretary Carl Sargeant has announced. | 38158726 |
The statue will stand in Mayflower Park, overlooking the waterfront in the city where the plane was first built.
The 131ft (40m) replica will be one-and-a-half times the size of the actual plane and Solent Sky Museum hopes it will be erected in the next two years.
City council planners gave permission on Tuesday for it to be built.
Designer Nick Hancock beat more than 300 other people in a competition in 2010 with his entry showing a Spitfire on top of a mast that resembles a vapour trail.
Alan Jones, director of the museum behind the project, said: "It will be over £3m, but quite frankly that's got to be found - this is too important for Southampton not to be found.
"And I'm sure we will because there's tremendous interest, in fact across the world."
Mr Jones started the Solent Sky Museum 40 years ago as a tribute to RJ Mitchell and his Spitfire, which took off on its maiden flight in 1936 and played a crucial role in the Battle of Britain during World War Two.
It also tells the story of the wider aircraft industry between 1910 and 1960.
"This part of the world, this small geographical area of the Solent was the most important for aviation development and experimental work in the world," Mr Jones added.
"And the Spitfire of course was born and bred here." | Supporters of a new Spitfire memorial in Southampton have begun trying to raise more than £3m for the monument after it was given planning permission. | 28022939 |
Urbaser Balfour Beatty was granted permission for the scheme earlier this month, following a public enquiry. Gloucestershire County Council planners had previously rejected the plans.
Labour politicians want the contract for Javelin Park cancelled.
The Conservative group, which signed the deal, said cancelling the contract would be a "catastrophe".
Mark Hawthorne, leader of Gloucestershire County Council, has criticised the Labour group for trying to get the contract cancelled without knowing the costs that could potentially be levied on the taxpayer.
But Lesley Williams, leader of the Labour group, said the party had been asking for the information for years with no luck.
Labour's move has been backed by a petition set up by GlosVain, an alliance of town and parish councils, individuals and organisations that oppose waste incineration.
The group said scrapping the contract and using alternative waste facilities in Gloucestershire or in neighbouring counties could save between £232m and £364m more over 25 years than the incinerator is predicted to save.
GlosVain's chair Sue Oppenheimer called on the Conservatives to provide proof of the £100m calculation for scrapping the contract.
In a statement the Conservative group said the figure had been arrived at both as a result of compensation for breaking the contract, and as a result of the extra landfill costs, legal fees and waste taxes the council would be forced to pay.
The statement claimed the current contract would, in contrast, save taxpayers more than £150m.
A petition backing calls for the incinerator contract to be ripped up has been signed by more than 1,300 people in six days. | Cancelling a contract for a £500m waste incinerator near Gloucester would cost up to £100m, it has been revealed. | 30893308 |
Not since the 1970s has the government owned a slice of a manufacturing industry and it runs contrary to every instinct of a Conservative government for the state to meddle in the free market. Shadow Business Secretary Angel Eagle in the Commons today referred to it as "ideological reluctance".
So how likely is it?
The government's line is that it remains "very unlikely" and Sajid Javid was not in the mood to elaborate during a Commons debate which was more political than business-focused. He said it wouldn't be prudent for the government to declare its hand before a buyer was found.
There are many ways the government can support a troubled company or industry.
It can guarantee loans which allow borrowing at lower rates, it can give tax reliefs as it has for the North Sea operators, or it can lend directly as in the case of Greybull Capital for investment in Scunthorpe.
This last option, say the Department for Business Innovation and Skills, is the government's preferred method of co-investing. (Worth noting, these loans have to be on commercial terms to avoid breaching EU state aid rules).
Taking an ownership stake in the business is a last resort, as it means pumping in money which has no repayment schedule.
But there it is - on the table.
Once that option is there, why would any buyer not want a chunk of money it may never have to pay back? The government may say it's unlikely, but given the scale of the problems facing Port Talbot wouldn't it become a pre-requisite?
Not necessarily. Having the government as a part-owner can be a headache for those running the business. With taxpayer money at stake, every decision is, quite rightly, scrutinised intensely.
Meetings with government officials can eat up time and energy better spent focused on running the business. The price you pay for government money is government bureaucracy.
At this point you may be screaming - but what about the banks?
The government nationalised Northern Rock and spent billions on massive stakes in Lloyds and RBS. That is perfectly true but, whether we like it or not, banks are different.
If Tata abandons Port Talbot, there will be thousands of redundancies but - elsewhere in the UK economy - life will go on. Wages will be paid, mortgages will be provided and cash points will work. In the case of the banks those fundamental economic functions were gravely threatened.
The banks could not have survived without government support, but that does not mean they have enjoyed having it as a shareholder. If you asked Stephen Hester, the former chief executive of RBS, how he found being perceived as a sock puppet on the government's hand I suspect the answer would be not much.
Whether the government takes a stake or not is not the most important issue. Any stake would be a minority one, which means that other investors would have to be found. For that to happen, you need a credible business plan. At the moment Port Talbot has attracted the interest of Liberty House's Sanjeev Gupta whose plan has been formulated, in his own words, on the back of an envelope.
Port Talbot needs a lot more than that. Once there is a plan, we can figure out who owns what later. | The Business Secretary, Sajid Javid, rolled back the years yesterday when he seemed to allow the possibility of the part nationalisation of the UK steel industry by saying the government was prepared to "co-invest" with potential buyers of Tata's remaining business. | 36028237 |
Another set of figures last month showed it had more areas in the most deprived 10% in Wales than any other county.
Despite the ambitious £300 million transformation taking place on the old steelworks site in Ebbw Vale, the good times seem a little way off for some.
And six years ago it received an unwanted accolade when it become home to The Trussell Trust's first food bank in Wales.
It runs twice a week at the town's Festival Church. It is a short drive from a retail park - the site of the National Garden Festival 22 years ago - a regeneration stimulant awarded to Ebbw Vale which attracted two million visitors to land reclaimed from a former hot steel mill.
The figures may show poverty, but they do not quite show the good will which exists here. This is a community that wants to help those who are struggling.
"People have been terrific and the schools, churches and local businesses have been very generous," says Martin Abel, who runs the food bank.
"We had a lady with a buggy in Tesco the other day when we were down there at the collection point handing out shopping lists of what we need.
"She said 'yes, you were there for me when I needed you'. She was really excited to be able to help."
Since last Christmas, nearly 3,500 people have used the food bank - with around 1,500 vouchers presented.
As well as providing a supply of non-perishable food, there are also toiletries, pet food and as it is the festive season, some presents have been donated for children.
There is a team of 40 volunteers, which includes some who have used the food bank themselves and are returning the favour.
Visitors this morning included individuals with vouchers provided by job centres, GPs, housing associations or other agencies.
The church also delivers to satellite distribution centres in Abertillery, Beaufort, Nantyglo and Tredegar.
"If they can't afford to eat, they'll find it difficult to get here," explains Mr Abel.
One caller is Detective Constable Paul Pritchard, who is 18 months into working on a programme to keep persistent offenders out of trouble.
As well as helping to find housing, drug rehabilitation and work for ex-prisoners, he says the food bank is a vital piece in the jigsaw.
"One of the basics when they come out, before their benefits are sorted out, is food on the table - and this place helps with that. A lot of offenders will steal to eat or even steal food."
Chris Rees, 63, is the longest serving volunteer and remembers when the food bank started in a tent.
A retired nurse specialist, she got involved at the start through her church in Tredegar.
Mrs Rees shows me one of the stock rooms. "We've more spaghetti than Italy, more tea than Ceylon," she says.
"We mark all the food that comes in to make sure the sell-by date is clear and we can manage it so it all gets used.
"People can be embarrassed when they come here. You see them standing outside. But it can be people who were once well off but circumstances change and they've lost their job and can't manage."
Mr Abel said benefit delays and benefit sanctions - those who have money stopped for missing appointments or other reasons - are two of the biggest issues.
The Department of Works and Pensions (DWP) said there is "no convincing link" between welfare reforms and increased use of food banks, with the vast majority of benefits processed on time.
Mr Abel insists food parcels are not just hand-outs.
"All food bank vouchers are numbered and people are allowed up to three so we notice if a pattern is emerging. We put them in touch with agencies and find help whether it's with budgeting or whatever."
Arriving at the food bank, four-week-old daughter in arms, is Stacey.
The 30-year-old last came here a year ago and is now waiting for her benefits to be adjusted after the baby's arrival.
She was given a voucher by her housing association.
"I just want some tins of stuff," says Stacey.
"I'm on my own with three kids and with Christmas coming, I'm just struggling a bit.
"With the cold weather here, what's more important? I have to feed them but also you need your gas and electric for the kids.
"A lot of people are finding it hard to put food on the table. They've had harvest festivals at my son's school collecting for the food bank and when I've enough I've always made sure I put something in."
"They're brilliant here, so kind."
She leaves with food and an extra bag of gifts she wasn't expecting. Maybe Christmas is a little brighter. | Blaenau Gwent has long been a "go-to" place for people looking at poverty in Wales. | 30502418 |
An average of 2.8 million viewers tuned in to the second show of the new series on Sunday evening - 1.6 million fewer than the first episode.
Viewing peaked at 3.3 million just before the BBC Two show ended, overnight figures show.
Presenter Chris Evans said viewing figures would be higher when on-demand services were taken into account.
He tweeted: "Overnight television viewing figures for Top Gear have never been less relevant. Obviously some newspapers prefer to live in the past.
"The way Top Gear is being viewed is repositioning the way television is consumed. Last week 9 million viewers. This week we shall see."
The first episode of this series was watched by an average of 4.4 million when it was first broadcast - 23% of the TV viewing share.
However, when all forms of viewing are taken into account - including people who recorded the programme, watched the repeat or requested the show on a catch-up service such as iPlayer - the launch episode's audience totalled around 9 million.
Alan Tyler, acting controller of BBC Entertainment Commissioning, said: "We are delighted that this was the strongest launch episode of Top Gear since 2010."
Referring to the show's second episode, Tyler said: "Chris, Matt and the team once again brilliantly led BBC Two's biggest show of the day, by some margin.
"It secured a peak audience of 3.3m, and the show again remained the most requested programme on BBC iPlayer."
Overnight figures only account for viewers who watched the show as it was being broadcast, and do not include those watching on catch-up services.
The first two episodes of the last series of Top Gear, which was hosted by Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May, were watched by 6.41 million and 6.56 million viewers respectively, according to overnight figures from the time.
Sunday evening's figures give the second episode of Top Gear a 14% share of all television viewing in its timeslot.
BBC One's Antiques Roadshow attracted more viewers than the motoring show - with 4.2 million people tuning in.
Soccer Aid on ITV also had a bigger audience, with an average 3.9 million viewers watching across the four-hour broadcast - including viewers watching on ITV+1.
Sunday evening's Top Gear featured guest appearances from Damian Lewis, Sharleen Spiteri, Seasick Steve and Tinie Tempah.
This series is the first since the departure of Clarkson, Hammond and May following Clarkson's fracas with a producer.
They later signed up to present a new show, The Grand Tour, on Amazon Prime - which will premiere later this year.
Evans and Matt LeBlanc have taken over hosting duties for the latest series, together with co-presenters Sabine Schmitz and Eddie Jordan.
Rory Reid and Chris Harris also present a spin-off show, BBC Three's Extra Gear. | The audience for the latest episode of Top Gear dropped by more than a third, compared with last week's series debut. | 36458510 |
The introduction of touch and go contactless card technology on transport in London last September was one reason behind the rise.
Use on London buses and trains now account for 11% of all contactless transactions, the UK Cards Association said.
Recent data showed cashless payments have overtaken notes and coin use.
Last month, the Payments Council said the use of cash by consumers, businesses and financial organisations fell to 48% of payments last year.
The remaining 52% was made up of electronic transactions, ranging from high-value transfers to debit card payments, as well as cheques.
The latest figures show that the average amount paid via debit card was £43.45 last year, down by £1.04 since 2013.
This reflected the impact of an increasing number of lower value contactless payments, the UK Cards Association said.
The limit on contactless payments is £20 per transaction. This will rise to £30 in September.
"Consumers are making more than twice as many card payments every day than they were 10 years ago," said Richard Koch, head of policy at the association.
Another reason for the rise was the frequency of transactions over the internet, the association said.
Online shopping accounted for £21 of every £100 paid via cards at UK retailers, figures collected for the first time show. Some 28% of this was spent with entertainment retailers.
About 60% of the UK adult population have a credit card, the association said. Some 80% of credit and charge card spending was made by people who paid it off in full before the end of the month before incurring any additional charges.
The association said the use of fingerprint technology on smartphones was likely to increase the frequency of payments made without the need to enter a four-digit pin number. | Low-value transactions drove a 10% rise in purchases made on a card in 2014 compared with a year earlier. | 32995598 |
The 22-year-old DR Congo international joined the Sandgrounders on a short-term deal in January and made 19 appearances in the Conference Premier.
The former Everton trainee has also had spells with Macclesfield and Accrington Stanley as well as playing in Vietnam.
He is the third player to join the Mariners this summer after Scott Brown and Jack Mackreth. | Grimsby Town have signed Southport defender Aristote Nsiala on a one-year deal. | 27812614 |
Protesters set up a camp at Upton in April 2014 to prevent work by IGas.
They were removed by police and bailiffs in January after being served with a court order in November.
IGas said following tests, it had "decided not to progress" with the coal bed methane (CBM) exploration wells at the site.
See more updates on this and other Merseyside and Cheshire stories
After being served with the eviction notice, the protesters constructed an elaborate series of fortifications, including a network of tunnels, walls and a moat to try to prevent their removal.
An IGas spokeswoman said the site would be "returned to its former state, including rectifying the damage caused by the protest camp and protesters".
She said the company had carried out a "seismic acquisition programme" on a 42 sq mile (110 sq km) area, which includes the site at Duttons Lane, between September and November.
While the data gathered was still "in the processing and interpretation phase", she said early results showed the Upton site "do not meet criteria for commercial CBM development".
She added the full results would "determine the company's future exploration and appraisal work programme in the area".
The planning permission for the company to run tests at the site runs out on 28 May. | Commercial drilling will not go ahead at a site near Chester where anti-fracking campaigners camped for almost two years, an energy company has said. | 35504810 |
The 28-year-old has signed a three-year contract, subject to visa and medical.
Gibbins told the Warriors' website he was "excited about the opportunity" to join the Scotstoun outfit.
"I feel privileged to be in a situation where I can make a decision like this and I'm looking forward to the new experiences that lie ahead," he said.
Gibbins was a Super Rugby winner with the Wellington side last year and will join up with his new team-mates following his commitments with the Hurricanes and Manawatu Turbos.
The open-side has played 26 times in Super Rugby and has scored three tries.
He was also the captain of Manawatu Turbos, where he played under incoming Warriors coaches Dave Rennie and Jason O'Halloran, and has scored 19 tries in 60 appearances for the Mitre 10 Cup side.
"Each of the teams I've represented, and all the fans who have supported those teams, hold a special place in my heart and there is no doubt I'll miss the people I've been involved with during my rugby career to date," Gibbins added.
He becomes the third player to join the Warriors ahead of the 2017/18 season, with Stormers duo Huw Jones and Oli Kebble already signed up.
Gibbins is a replacement for Simone Favaro, the Italy flanker who was Warriors' player of the season last year but has not been offered a new contract.
Head coach Gregor Townsend said: "Callum is a hard-working player with real leadership attributes and he's another exciting addition to the squad for next season.
"He is part of a winning environment right now at the Hurricanes and is a player Dave and Jason know well from their time coaching him at Manawatu." | New Zealand-born flanker Callum Gibbins' summer move to Glasgow Warriors from Hurricanes has been confirmed by the Pro12 club. | 39042847 |
The Shrimpers began the game with just one victory in their first seven outings but they roared back to winning ways with a convincing performance.
They went in front after just six minutes when Jermaine McGlashan's low left-wing cross was neatly controlled by David Mooney before the striker turned to fire home, via the aid of a deflection, from eight yards.
However, Millwall hit back to equalise in the 33rd minute when Aiden O'Brien poked the ball home from close range.
The Lions were then extremely fortunate not to be reduced to 10 men when Joe Martin somehow avoided a second yellow card for a foul on Mooney.
Millwall boss Neil Harris immediately substituted Martin but could not stop the Shrimpers regaining the lead when Stephen McLaughlin lashed home a right-footed shot in the 50th minute.
Substitute Luke O'Neill completed the scoring for the Shrimpers three minutes from time, netting from a narrow angle after Jordan Archer had parried Ben Coker's left-wing cross.
REACTION: Southend United manager Phil Brown speaks to BBC Radio Essex
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Match ends, Southend United 3, Millwall 1.
Second Half ends, Southend United 3, Millwall 1.
Foul by Simon Cox (Southend United).
Ben Thompson (Millwall) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Southend United. Simon Cox replaces David Mooney.
Goal! Southend United 3, Millwall 1. Luke O'Neill (Southend United) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box to the top left corner.
Byron Webster (Millwall) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Will Atkinson (Southend United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Byron Webster (Millwall).
Substitution, Southend United. Harry Kyprianou replaces Jermaine McGlashan.
Ben Thompson (Millwall) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Jermaine McGlashan (Southend United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ben Thompson (Millwall).
Foul by Jason Demetriou (Southend United).
Shaun Williams (Millwall) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Luke O'Neill (Southend United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Shaun Williams (Millwall).
Jermaine McGlashan (Southend United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Jermaine McGlashan (Southend United).
Mahlon Romeo (Millwall) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Tony Craig (Millwall) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high following a set piece situation.
Foul by Jermaine McGlashan (Southend United).
Lee Gregory (Millwall) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Southend United. Luke O'Neill replaces Stephen McLaughlin because of an injury.
Foul by Ben Coker (Southend United).
David Worrall (Millwall) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Delay in match Stephen McLaughlin (Southend United) because of an injury.
Foul by John White (Southend United).
Lee Gregory (Millwall) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Stephen McLaughlin (Southend United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Mahlon Romeo (Millwall).
Substitution, Millwall. Ben Thompson replaces Callum Butcher.
Attempt missed. Jason Demetriou (Southend United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right.
John White (Southend United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Steve Morison (Millwall).
Corner, Southend United. Conceded by Callum Butcher.
Attempt missed. Tony Craig (Millwall) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left following a corner.
Corner, Millwall. Conceded by Ryan Leonard.
Goal! Southend United 2, Millwall 1. Stephen McLaughlin (Southend United) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the top left corner following a corner.
Corner, Southend United. Conceded by Byron Webster. | Southend surged to their first home league win of the season with victory against Millwall. | 37325294 |
There were cries of "rubbish" and "no, no" as she said selective schools could close the achievement gap between rich and poor pupils.
Ms Greening was addressing heads days after money was pledged in the Budget for new grammars and free schools.
Schools' demands for help with their running costs were not answered.
The Association of School and College Leaders, has a reputation as one of the more moderate education unions, but according to interim leader Malcolm Trobe, head teachers are becoming increasingly frustrated.
Mr Trobe told journalists at the Birmingham conference that some schools were looking at closing early a couple of times a week in order to make the sums add up.
"A number of people are thinking about reducing the number of lessons in a week - maybe having a shorter Wednesday and a shorter Friday," he said.
"There's a huge amount of anger out there about the amount of cuts we are having to make," he added.
"The majority of the funding pressures are government imposed - teacher pensions and national insurance.
"We know that money is needed for new schools but then to say something about making them selective will really have wound people up."
The new head of Ofsted, Amanda Spielman, also addressed delegates.
She condemned schools which try to boost their league table position by "moving pupils" not expected to get good results off the school roll.
"That is nothing short of a scandal.
"Childhood isn't deferrable: young people get one opportunity to learn in school and we owe it to them make sure they all get an education that is broad, rich and deep."
Ms Greening was given a polite welcome by delegates when she began her speech, but some delegates began to murmur when she began answering a question about grammar schools.
She said: "We have to recognise that actually for grammars in terms of disadvantaged children they really do help them close the attainment gap."
She added that parents were also keen as the schools were over-subscribed.
This prompted cries of ''rubbish'' and ''shame'' from dozens of delegates.
The National Audit Office reported that schools needed to find £3bn savings by 2020.
Ms Greening told heads she was listening and she did not wish to "minimise" the pressures faced by schools.
She suggested the Department for Education may be able to offer targeted support for schools in the most challenging circumstances, but it was not clear what for this support would take. | Angry head teachers heckled Education Secretary Justine Greening as she told a conference about her plans for new grammar schools. | 39224310 |
Dr Shakil Afridi is accused of running a CIA-sponsored fake vaccine programme in Abbottabad, where Bin Laden was killed, to try to get DNA samples.
He was arrested shortly after the 2 May US raid that killed the al-Qaeda chief.
The commission has been interviewing intelligence officials and on Wednesday spoke to Bin Laden family members.
Pakistan, which was deeply embarrassed by the raid, has described the covert US special forces operation as a violation of its sovereignty.
A government commission, headed by a former Supreme Court judge, has been charged with discovering how the US military was able to carry out the raid deep within Pakistan without being detected.
It is also investigating how Bin Laden was able to hide in Abbottabad, a garrison town, for several years.
After questioning Dr Afridi, the commission said that in view of the record and evidence it was "of the view that prima facie, a case of conspiracy against the State of Pakistan and high treason" should be launched against him.
Washington has been arguing that Dr Afridi should be freed and allowed to live in the US.
In the weeks after the Bin Laden raid, reports emerged that Dr Afridi, a senior Pakistani doctor, had been recruited by the CIA to organise the phoney vaccine drive.
After having tracked down a Bin Laden courier to a high-walled compound in Abbottabad, the CIA wanted to confirm Bin Laden's presence by obtaining a DNA sample from the residents.
It is not clear if any DNA from Bin Laden or any family members was ever obtained.
After the raid, Pakistani authorities took three of Bin Laden's widows and two of his daughters into custody.
The commission said on Thursday that statements had been taken from them and they were no longer required for its investigation. | A Pakistani commission investigating the US raid that killed Osama Bin Laden says a doctor accused of helping the CIA should be tried for high treason. | 15206639 |
A pox outbreak in Tollymore in March threatened resident reds.
But nature smiled on the nutkins there and they came through relatively unscathed.
Also making progress, thanks to the intervention of conservationist Sue Wilson, were seal pups Pearl and Coral.
They were washed up underweight and would almost certainly have died but for the seven weeks of hand rearing in the backyard of her home.
Of course that meant a bond, which was difficult to break when we came to re-release them off the County Down coast.
It took a lot of persuasion and the appearance of a group of mature seals to help them finally make the break.
In August, we got a call about a plague of caterpillars munching their way through trees on a Belfast housing estate. Hundreds of thousands of ash sawfly larvae were consuming the leaves on the trees there.
Unsightly and a bit spooky, but ultimately they were not doing any long-term damage to the trees themselves.
Insects got a good outing this year. A killer ladybird turned up at several sites, proof that it was breeding in Northern Ireland for the first time.
Harlequins were introduced to Europe as a way of controlling aphids but escaped and spread.
It was bad news for the native variety, because the larvae of the larger harlequin like nothing better than feasting on their young.
Fluff the baby barn owl was possibly the cutest critter we met all year.
She was not happy at being taken from her nest box along with her sibling to be ringed and recorded as part of a conservation project.
Even when we were finished she was still striking out with her tiny talons.
The ringer was glad to get rid of one awkward little owl with his hands intact. | It was a year of fluffy squirrels, biblical plagues and killer insects as the environment delighted and surprised in equal measure. | 38303961 |
The PSNI said officers had carried out extensive searches, but so far have not found anything suspicious.
"Further police enquiries are being conducted at present," a spokesperson said.
"Anyone who comes across anything suspicious should report it to police immediately by calling 101." | Police in Strabane are warning people to be vigilant after it was reported that a device was left close to the courthouse in the County Tyrone town. | 36695088 |
Lynford Brewster, 29, died following an incident on Sunday at Brynfedw.
Cardiff magistrates remanded Dwayne Edgar, also 29 and from Llanedeyrn, in custody to appear at Cardiff Crown Court on 20 June.
Two other men from Cardiff, aged 19 and 35, have been released on police bail. A fourth man, 22, from Kidderminster, Worcestershire, has also been arrested. | A Cardiff man has appeared in court charged with murdering another man in the Llanedeyrn area of the city. | 36561138 |
CalMac said the masters of its ships have experienced bad weather of greater severity and lasting for longer than previously seen.
The company's comments have been made in response to criticism from residents of Barra about ferry services.
Islanders have complained of the late arrival and departure of boats.
CalMac is holding public meetings in communities it serves ahead of the tendering process for the west coast ferry network.
A company spokesman said: "We fully recognise that disruptions due to bad weather are frustrating for all concerned, but we must put the safety of our passengers, crew and vessels first.
"It is an established fact that weather patterns are changing across our network with our masters witnessing an increase, not only in the severity of extreme weather events but also in their duration and frequency, all of which have impacted on our fleet's ability to operate services safely." | Extreme weather has been increasingly disrupting ferry sailings on Scotland's west coast, according to ferry operator Caledonian MacBrayne. | 32915362 |
The former Glasgow City manager replaces Gary Bollan, who left the Scottish League One club earlier this week to become the new boss of Forfar Athletic.
Wolecki Black, 50, has been at Airdrie since September as director of coaching.
The former Montrose player guided City to four successive Scottish Women's Premier League titles.
He also helped Glasgow reach the Uefa Women's Champions League quarter-finals for the first time in 2014.
In the summer he moved to Edusport Academy, a Scotland-based football academy for young French players.
Senior Airdrie player Kevin McBride will take on a coaching role in addition to his playing duties. Donald Jennow will also assist Wolecki Black.
The Diamonds are currently fifth in Scottish League One.
"I've barely had time to think about it because it happened so quickly," said Wolecki Black.
"I'm thrilled and really looking forward to getting on the park and training the players.
"It's going to be exciting. Everyone knows I like my teams to be pretty attack-minded so I'm looking forward to that but it doesn't hide the fact I know I've got to work defensively as well."
Club chairman Tom Wotherspoon took the decision to appoint Eddie as a full-time director of coaching for a League One club and sees his promotion as a natural progression.
Wotherspoon told the club website: "When I sat down to think who we should appoint I didn't go beyond the first name I wrote down. Eddie Wolecki Black.
"The reason is that over time it has become clear to me that Eddie and I have very similar views on how a football game should be approached." | Airdrieonians have appointed Eddie Wolecki Black as their new head coach. | 35161839 |
His double took his tally to 37 and helped Tigers to a 24-10 interval lead.
Paddy Flynn and Ben Crooks also grabbed first-half tries, with Oliver Elima and Glenn Stewart replying.
Crooks and Flynn added further tries, with the Tigers holding on to win as Eloi Pelissier, Louie Anderson and Richie Myler ran in late scores.
Solomona broke the record set by former cross-code international Lesley Vainikolo for Bradford in 2004.
And with his conversion of the former Melbourne Storm winger's first try, Luke Gale brought up 500 career points for the Tigers.
At 34-10 down with 19 minutes to play, the Dragons mounted a comeback despite the sin-binning of Ben Garcia, with Pelissier and Anderson both grabbing tries while they were a man down.
Castleford's triumph spoiled Gregory Mounis' farewell appearance at Stade Gilbert Brutus prior to his retirement at the end of the season.
Catalans Dragons: Gigot; Sigismeau, Garcia, Duport, Broughton; Stewart, Myler; Anderson, Mounis, Horo, Elima, Aiton, Casty.
Replacements: Taylor, Bousquet, Pelissier, Seguier.
Castleford Tigers: Dorn; Flynn, Minikin, Webster, Solomona; Hampshire, Gale; Patrick, McShane, Cook, Savelio, O. Holmes, Milner.
Replacements: Crooks, McMeeken, Maher, Douglas.
Referee: Phil Bentham (RFL) | Denny Solomona set a Super League record for most regular-season tries as Castleford beat Catalans in Perpignan for the fist time in six years. | 37354210 |
Thirty public order-trained officers who were deployed on Tuesday remain in the capital.
Cumbria Police said contingency plans were in place to ensure there were sufficient resources available throughout the county at all times.
A team of 30 was also sent to Greater Manchester on Wednesday afternoon, but has now returned. | Officers from the Cumbria force are continuing to support the policing operation in London. | 14497247 |
Monfils, who had been eliminated anyway, has struggled after hurting his ribs in Stockholm in October.
"I tried to make it, but I couldn't," said Monfils, who has lost to Dominic Thiem and Milos Raonic at the O2.
Djokovic, who is already into the semi-finals, can earn 200 ranking points by beating first alternate Goffin.
The Serb is attempting to win a fifth straight World Tour Finals - a result which would ensure he reclaims the world number one spot from Britain's Andy Murray.
Murray leapfrogged Djokovic to reach the top of the rankings for the first time in his career on 7 November.
World number 11 Goffin, 25, has lost all four of his previous meetings with Djokovic - most recently in the semi-finals of the Miami Masters in March. | Belgium's David Goffin will contest Novak Djokovic's final round-robin match at the World Tour Finals on Thursday after Gael Monfils withdrew. | 38008283 |
Ilfracombe coastguard rescue team was called by a member of the public on Sunday afternoon who had spotted two boys on a cliff.
It is believed they had come out of a rubber dingy.
One boy was able to climb up the rock to safety, but the other needed to be winched by helicopter.
They were "a bit wet" but uninjured, according to a coastguard spokesman.
He said the two boys had been on holiday in the area at the time of the incident.
Eye-witness Andy Jenkins, who filmed the rescue, said the weather conditions were wet and windy.
He praised the actions of the rescue team.
"It was very interesting. The professionalism of the helicopter pilot and the winchman was unbelievable." | Dramatic footage has been released of a boy being rescued by helicopter after getting into difficulty on a cliff at Combe Martin, Devon. | 36183268 |
The 61-year-old guided Portugal to their first European title with an extra-time victory over hosts France in Paris earlier this month.
He has coached Portugal since 2014, having previously spent four years in charge of the Greece national team.
Portugal begin their 2018 World Cup qualifying campaign on 6 September against Switzerland in Basel.
Subscribe to the BBC Sport newsletter to get our pick of news, features and video sent to your inbox. | Portugal's Euro 2016-winning coach Fernando Santos has signed a new four-year contract. | 36848535 |
That single act trumped the Soviet achievement of sending the first man into space eight years earlier. But what might have happened if the Soviet Union had got to the Moon first?
The first manned lunar landing was a triumph for Nasa, and when the Americans won the Space Race, they also sounded its death knell.
The Apollo lunar programme continued until 1972 and 12 astronauts touched down on the Moon's surface. But US TV networks quickly bored of the Moon landings. When politicians lost interest, the Apollo programme was scrapped.
Of course, we have not been back since. Instead, human exploration of space has been confined to low-Earth orbit.
Piers Bizony, who has co-written a biography of Gagarin called Starman, says: "The Russians were in the business of conquering space... The Americans felt they were in a race and the nature of a race is that once you think you've won it you tend to stop running."
Had the Soviets got to the Moon first it is unlikely that they would have abandoned it as swiftly as the Americans.
Not being a democracy may have enabled the USSR to spend money and marshal the talents of their population in a way that America could not.
Space historian Dr Christopher Riley believes that not only would the Soviet Union have continued with Moon missions, but they might also have built lunar bases.
And he believes that the Americans would have been compelled to do the same and even try to continue to outdo their communist rivals.
"The history that followed in the decades afterwards would have been completely different," he says.
In the summer of 1969, when the Apollo 11 crew were on their way to the Moon, US vice-president, Spiro Agnew declared that America would be on Mars by 1980. At the time, this was seen as a relatively feasible goal given how fast things had progressed in the 1960s.
"They certainly had it in their minds and on their drawing boards and there were designs of methods to get to Mars that might have been put into action in response to a Soviet landing on the Moon," says Dr Riley.
So how close were we to following this alternative reality?
Quite close, according to Piers Bizony: "Those who imagine Apollo had the Moon race to itself are wrong," he says.
The US seemed to have taken the lead in 1968 when it successfully boosted three astronauts into lunar orbit with its Apollo 8 mission.
But the Americans rushed ahead with that mission because they were afraid that the Soviet Union was about to beat them yet again and pull off another space coup.
The USSR was using a rocket called the Proton which is still in use today. The Soviets were sending payloads into space with a view to putting a cosmonaut into a so-called circumlunar flight which would take him around the Moon and straight home again without going into orbit.
They had flown an unmanned mission a few months before Apollo 8 that had taken just such a trajectory around Earth's natural satellite.
The Soviets had also built their own Moon rocket (known as the N-1) and their own lunar lander.
So how did the Americans win?
The first seeds were sown in 1957 by President Eisenhower following the launch of the first satellite by the USSR.
The launch of Sputnik 1 generated fear across the US - and a quiet realisation that the country had fallen technologically behind the Soviet Union.
President Dwight Eisenhower's response was to increase the budget for education to raise the academic standard in universities across America.
Dr Riley comments: "To increase the brainpower they'd need to pull off these technological feats to take on the Russians and win."
Eisenhower also commissioned the Saturn V rockets, principally to launch multi-tonne satellites for spying. But when President Kennedy inherited the White House and had to respond to Gagarin's flight, the Saturn V was already in development.
It was the Saturn V rocket that enabled the US to send astronauts to the Moon.
The early Soviet Space triumphs were managed and steered by Sergei Korolev, the man who built the R7 rocket that put Sputnik and Yuri Gagarin into orbit.
But after Korolev's death in 1966, the Soviet space effort lost focus.
Because he was not there to assert his authority, there was not one Soviet attempt to reach the Moon, but several rival schemes to reach the Moon.
According to Piers Bizony, the rival schemes sucked resources from each other: "There was a great deal of confusion in the Soviet space effort in the late 1960s and as a result they didn't have the technology to send a man to the Moon," he says.
Nor did they have the computing power. By today's standards the Apollo 11 onboard computer was pretty crude, but it was ahead of its time and was crucial for America's successful Moon landings.
Who might have been first to walk on the Moon in this alternative reality is anyone's guess. Yuri Gagarin died in 1968 in a plane crash and so would not have been available for any Soviet Moon shot. In any case he was too much of a national treasure to have been sent on such a risky mission.
However, if Korolev had lived a little longer and if Soviet spies had stolen US computer technology, then the Moon might well have been colonised and have been a base for international manned missions to Mars and - perhaps - beyond.
But 50 years on from Gagarin's historic flight, the Russians will once again be the planet's pre-eminent space-faring nation. This year, the US will retire its space shuttle fleet, its only craft capable of sending astronauts into space.
According to Mr Bizony: "America has no clear idea of what will replace the shuttle and no clear idea of whether as a nation they are truly committed to the human spaceflight adventure.
"Meanwhile Russia will be flying American astronauts and those from other countries on board their Soyuz capsule. And that Soyuz lifts on a rocket very similar in its essential construction to the one that launched Yuri Gagarin." | The Americans won the race to the Moon when Neil Armstrong set foot on the lunar surface in 1969. | 13041326 |
Frank Acheampong set the Black Stars on their way with the opening goal after only four minutes had been played.
On 56 minutes John Boye, captain in place of the injured Asamoah Gyan, doubled the lead and two minutes later Aston Villa's Jordan Ayew made it 3-0.
Apson Manjate pulled a goal back for the visitors but Ghana easily extended their lead at the top of Group H.
Mauritius play Rwanda in the group's other game on Saturday.
Earlier on Thursday Madagascar held Central African Republic to a 1-1 draw.
Hosts Madagascar took the lead on 80 minutes through a penalty by Carolus Andriamahitsinoro but they were pegged back with only four minutes to go when Limane Moussa scored the equaliser for CAR.
The result means Madagascar remain bottom of Group B on two points, while CAR move to four points to draw level with leaders Angola.
In Group D Comoros beat Botswana 1-0 in match that was interrupted because of heavy rain.
The teams were called off after 56 minutes, with the score at 0-0, and the match only resumed once the rain stopped and the pitch had dried.
Three minutes after it had restarted Ben Mohamed El Fardou struck the only goal of the game to earn Comoros a surprise win and their first points of the group stage.
Comoros draw level on points with third-placed Burkina Faso but remain bottom of the table by goal difference. Bostwana stay in second place.
Liberia earned a 1-0 win away to Djibouti in Group A, taking them level with leaders Togo on six points.
Anthony Laffor scored the winner on 65 minutes, leaving bottom side Djibouti still without a point in the group stage. | Ghana eased to a 3-1 home victory over Mozambique in their 2017 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier on Thursday. | 35892388 |
Marian Brown, 17, had just kissed her boyfriend goodnight when she was fatally wounded in the neck.
She was caught up in an exchange of fire between paramilitaries and an Army patrol at Roden Street in June 1972.
A fresh inquest was ordered after questions were raised over the velocity of the bullet that killed her.
Her brother, Richard Brown, told the inquest that for two years the family thought she had been killed by loyalist paramilitaries shooting up the street.
However, it was only at the first inquest they discovered soldiers had also been involved in the shooting incident.
During Monday morning's hearing, Mr Brown spoke emotionally about his sister and how he felt about what happened to her.
As her older brother, he said he "felt ashamed that he couldn't do anything" to help her and he was angry that whoever fired the shot "took her life and robbed us of a sister, a daughter and a friend".
Mr Brown said the 17-year-old "never got to bloom".
Other family members were also in court for the start of the inquest being heard by Judge David McFarland, which is expected to last more than two weeks. | The brother of a pregnant teenager shot dead in disputed circumstances in west Belfast 45 years ago has told an inquest she was completely innocent. | 40251725 |
Fire crews and ambulances were called to Samson Road in the New Parks area just after 09:30 BST where the fire was found to be in the lounge.
The 65-year-old resident was carried out of the house and despite treatment, was declared dead at the scene.
Police said preliminary investigations had shown the fire was not suspicious and a file had been handed over to the coroner. | A man has died in a fire in a Leicester bungalow. | 33396810 |
Schoolchildren are closely watched by teachers and parents as they make their way home from school. In playgrounds and on the roadside are posters warning of the danger of abduction by witch doctors for the purpose of child sacrifice.
The ritual, which some believe brings wealth and good health, was almost unheard of in the country until about three years ago, but it has re-emerged, seemingly alongside a boom in the country's economy.
The mutilated bodies of children have been discovered at roadsides, the victims of an apparently growing belief in the power of human sacrifice.
Many believe that members of the country's new elite are paying witch doctors vast sums of money for the sacrifices in a bid to increase their wealth.
At the Kyampisi Childcare Ministries church, Pastor Peter Sewakiryanga is teaching local children a song called Heal Our Land, End Child Sacrifice.
To hear dozens of young voices singing such shocking words epitomises how ritual murder has become part of everyday life here.
"Child sacrifice has risen because people have become lovers of money. They want to get richer," the pastor says.
"They have a belief that when you sacrifice a child you get wealth, and there are people who are willing to buy these children for a price. So they have become a commodity of exchange, child sacrifice has become a commercial business."
The pastor and his parishioners are lobbying the government to regulate witch doctors and improve police resources to investigate these crimes.
According to official police figures, there was one case of child sacrifice in 2006; in 2008 the police say they investigated 25 alleged ritual murders, and in 2009, another 29.
The Anti-Human Sacrifice Police Task Force, launched in response to the growing numbers, says the ritual murder rate has slowed, citing a figure of 38 cases since 2006.
Pastor Sewakiryanga disputes the police numbers, and says there are more victims from his parish than official statistics for the entire country.
The work of the police task force has been strongly criticised by the UK-based charity, Jubilee Campaign.
It says in a report that the true number of cases is in the hundreds, and claims more than 900 cases have yet to be investigated by the police because of corruption and a lack of resources.
Tepenensi led me to a field near her home where she found the body of her six-year-old grandson Stephen, dumped in the reeds. She trembled as she pointed out the spot where she found his decapitated body; he had been missing for 24 hours.
Clutching the only photo she has of her grandson, Tepenensi sobbed as she explained that although the local witch doctor had admitted to sacrificing Stephen, the police were reluctant to pursue the case.
"They offered me money to keep quiet," she says. "I refused the offer."
No-one from the Ugandan government agreed to do an interview. The police deny inaction and corruption.
The head of the Anti-Human Sacrifice Police Task Force, Commissioner Bignoa Moses, says the police are doing all they can to tackle the problem.
"Sometimes, they accuse us of these things because we make no arrests, but we are limited. If we get information that someone is involved in criminal activities like human sacrifice, we shall go and investigate, and if it can be proven we will take him to court, but sometimes the cases are not proven."
At Kampala main hospital, consultant neurosurgeon Michael Muhumuza shows me the X-rays of the horrific injuries suffered by nine-year-old Allan.
They reveal missing bone from his skull and damage to a part of his brain after a machete sliced through Allan's head and neck in an attempt to behead him; he was castrated by the witch doctor. It was a month before Allan woke from a coma after being dumped near his village home.
Allan was able to identify his attackers, including a man called Awali. But the police say Allan's eyewitness account is unreliable.
Local people told us that Awali continues to be involved with child sacrifice.
For our own inquiries, we posed as local businessmen and asked around for a witch doctor that could bring prosperity to our local construction company. We were soon introduced to Awali. He led us into a courtyard behind his home, and as if to welcome us he and his helpers wrestled a goat to the ground and slit its throat.
"This animal has been sacrificed to bring luck to us all," Awali explained. He then demanded a fee of $390 (£250) for the ritual and asked us to return in a few days.
At our next meeting, Awali invited us into his shrine, which is traditionally built from mud bricks with a straw roof. Inside, the floor is littered with herbs, face masks, rattles and a machete.
The witch doctor explained that this meeting was to discuss the most powerful spell - the sacrifice of a child.
"There are two ways of doing this," he said. "We can bury the child alive on your construction site, or we cut them in different places and put their blood in a bottle of spiritual medicine."
Awali grabbed his throat. "If it's a male, the whole head is cut off and his genitals. We will dig a hole at your construction site, and also bury the feet and the hands and put them all together in the hole."
Awali boasted he had sacrificed children many times before and knew what he was doing. After this meeting, we withdrew from the negotiations.
We handed our notes to the police. Awali is still a free man.
Allan's father, Semwanga, has sold his home to pay for Allan's medical treatment, and moved to the slums near the capital.
Sitting on the steps of their makeshift house, built from corrugated sheets of metal, I showed the footage of our meeting with the witch doctor to Allan on my laptop. He pointed to the screen and shouted "Awali!" confirming he is the man who attacked him.
Pastor Sewakiryanga says without the full force of the law, there is little that can be done to protect Uganda's children from the belief in the power of human sacrifice.
"The children do not have voices, their voices have been silenced by the law and the police not acting, and the people who read the newspapers do nothing, so we have to make a stand and do whatever it takes to stamp out this evil, we can only pray that the government will listen." | The villages and farming communities that surround Uganda's capital, Kampala, are gripped by fear. | 15255357 |
The Swedish honour is typically shared between a pop performer and a classical artist.
The pair will be invited to accept the award - worth 1 million kronor (£88,800) - in Stockholm in August.
The Polar Prize - founded in 1989 to honour exceptional achievements that transcend music genres - is awarded annually.
It is described in Sweden as the "Nobel prize of music" and was established by the late Stikkan Anderson, whose record company released the songs of Swedish supergroup Abba.
Bjork and Morricone will both be presented with their awards by King Carl XVI Gustaf at a gala ceremony at the Stockholm Concert Hall on 31 August.
Bjork, 44, hit the big time with her solo album Debut in 1993 but had previously had success as the lead singer of The Sugarcubes.
She also starred in Lars von Trier's Dancer in the Dark in 1999, which went on to win the Palme d'Or at Cannes, with Bjork winning the best actress award.
"Björk is an untameable force of nature, an artist who marches to nobody's tune but her own," said the prize committee.
Morricone, 82, has composed more than 400 film scores, including The Good The Bad and The Ugly, The Untouchables, Cinema Paradiso and The Mission.
The committee said Morricone's "congenial compositions and arrangements lift our existence to another plain".
Previous winners of the Polar Prize include Pink Floyd, Sir Paul McCartney, Quincy Jones, Dizzy Gillespie, Pierre Boulez and Ravi Shankar. | Icelandic singer Bjork and Italian film composer Ennio Morricone have won the 2010 Polar Music prize. | 10119094 |
According to the employers organisation EEF, Wales is punching above its weight with stronger manufacturing growth than anywhere else in the UK.
But there are concerns over longer-term productivity and a skills shortage.
Manufacturing employs 157,000 people in Wales, with the food, drink and transport sectors performing well.
The EEF's regional outlook report says between 2010 and 2014, the number of jobs in the sector increased by 15%.
But it says the momentum has "softened" along with the rest of the UK since the latter part of last year.
Gareth Jenkins, managing director of FSG Tool and Die in Llantrisant, said: "EEF in Wales has identified that in a sector that employs 160,000 people we will have a predicted shortfall of 8,000 people by 2018.
"There is a growing need to 'future proof' our sector to remain globally competitive."
A 10-year strategy to bridge the skills gap was launched by the Welsh government last year.
The EEF snapshot survey also found Welsh manufacturers were performing well in exports to North America, the Middle East and north Africa and were "putting Wales on the map".
But it found Wales manufacturers scored second lowest in the UK for business confidence.
Paul Byard, director for Wales at EEF, said: "This undoubtedly reflects softening momentum since the latter half of 2014 and headwinds from the fall in demand from the oil and gas sector and challenging demand conditions in some export markets." | Wales could face a gaping hole in its manufacturing workforce - with companies struggling to fill 8,000 posts by 2018, it is being warned. | 33652695 |
That was the verdict of the trade body, the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT), as it reported record turnover for 2015.
While the UK's automotive sector has "gone from strength to strength", the leave vote may cause problems for the car industry, it said.
Turnover rose 7.3% to £71.6bn while jobs and vehicle production also rose.
However SMMT chief executive Mike Hawes said that the outlook had been clouded due to uncertainty about dealing with trading partners in Europe.
"As a result (of the vote), the industry now faces new challenges. Uncertainty, economic instability and an undoubted impact in terms of cost, influence and ease of business," he said in a speech.
The number employed in the sector rose by 17,000 to 814,000 and there was a 5% rise in vehicle production to 1.7 million in 2015, the SMMT said, and car manufacturing output is already up more than 10% so far this year.
But the UK's future access to the single market has been brought into question following the vote to leave the EU.
Hawes said success has been due to unrestricted access to the single market, input to EU legislation to safeguard the interests of UK Automotive, and the ability to recruit talent from abroad.
He warned that the threat to this from leaving the union could jeopardise the ability to access important markets.
"We need full and unrestricted access to the single market now and in the future, 80% of what we produce is exported and the only way to succeed is through unrestricted and reciprocal access to the EU and global markets," he told an industry summit.
Jonty Bloom, business reporter
After the referendum British business is trying to explain to the government what it wants from the negotiations to leave the EU. What everyone seems to be talking about is "access" to the single market, but as the prime minister has said, "access to the single market has many potential different meanings".
Japan and the USA have "access", as one economist told me even Haiti does. But many countries have to negotiate a trade deal, pay tariffs, get through customs and all abide by EU rules and regulations to get their goods into the EU and they don't have a say on those rules.
By comparison, at the moment we are members of the EU's single market and have been for decades, we enjoy totally free movement of goods, finance, and people around the EU, without any tariffs and we have a say on how the rules are written.
That's why much of business thinks "access" should mean "membership of" the single market, what David Cameron today called the "best access".
That is why at its international conference today, the head of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, Mike Hawes, said "80% of what we produce is exported and the only way to succeed is through unrestricted and reciprocal access to the EU and global markets."
And by "access" Mr. Hawes means "membership" of the single market.
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However Jaguar Land Rover's group strategy director Adrian Hallmark said the EU would be unlikely to take any action that would disrupt trade, at least for the luxury end of the market.
"It's in the interest of the EU to maintain access to the UK market, so I can't imagine that there would be any overly punitive measure in the premium end of the business. It would be cutting the European nose off to spite its face," he said.
He added that the business would remain UK focused and that there were no plans to change its headcount or employment strategy.
Demand for both cars and commercial vehicles in the UK reached record levels in 2015, with 2.6 million and 420,000 registrations respectively.
Investment in research and development by the industry also reached a record high of £2.5bn in 2015, representing around 12% of the country's total spending. | The UK's vote to leave the EU will cause instability and uncertainty that will challenge the UK car industry. | 36659660 |
South Wales Police said it had worked with Bishop Vaughan School on a "sensitive safeguarding issue involving two pupils" on Wednesday.
The pupils were not at the school at the time of the arrests.
A statement on the school website said the school would not open on Thursday due to the disruption. It will reopen as normal after the Easter break.
A joint police and Swansea council statement said: "Given the confidential nature of the pupil issue, it wouldn't be appropriate for us to comment further at this time." | A Swansea school has been closed following "unusual circumstances" and the arrest of two pupils. | 35890088 |
But that is not the way his widow, Marina, and son, Anatoly, 21, want to remember him.
The photos they spread across a kitchen table tell the story of Mr Litvinenko's life, not his death.
There is a picture of him aged 17 in military uniform. He became part of the security apparatus - what was the KGB and, after the end of the Soviet Union, the FSB.
Another picture shows him sitting astride a tank - a man who fought for his country.
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But there is also an image from a press conference in which he spoke out about corruption in the FSB.
He went to see the FSB's newly-appointed director to complain, hoping he would act. But, instead, Mr Litvinenko was cast out. The director's name was Vladimir Putin.
Alongside the pictures of his work, are those of his personal life - holding his newborn son, teaching Anatoly to swim on his back, and playing with him on a sofa. Anatoly looks away from these.
"I try not to think too much about my early childhood," he says. "It is easier that way."
Soon after speaking out over corruption, Mr Litvinenko made the decision to flee Russia for his and his family's safety.
He arrived in London and eventually became a British citizen, in 2006.
Within weeks of that event, he would be poisoned.
The 10-year journey to the inquiry - which found that his murder was "probably" approved by President Putin - was tortuous.
An inquest began but then hit a brick wall when the government said much of the information it held was classified and could not be revealed in public.
The only solution, said Sir Robert Owen, the judge sitting as coroner, was to hold a public inquiry.
The government resisted that option, but Marina Litvinenko continued to fight through the courts.
Eventually, the Home Office relented, a decision many saw as the result of a downturn in relations with Russia.
Anatoly had little understanding of his father's work when he was a child, and it was only the inquiry that helped him understand the extent to which Mr Litvinenko had remained involved in the world of security and intelligence.
This included working for Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, MI6.
The inquiry revealed how Mr Litvinenko was receiving regular payments for consultancy work and had a case officer - known as Martin - he met regularly.
The details of the poisoning itself have long been known, although fresh information did emerge which linked Andrei Lugovoi and Dimitri Kovtun to multiple attempts to kill Mr Litvinenko.
Those two men have denied any role and Russia says it cannot extradite them to face charges.
One key conclusion that Sir Robert announced in his report following the inquiry was that there was "undoubtedly" a personal animosity between Mr Putin and Mr Litvinenko.
Mr Litvinenko's friend Alex Goldfarb says: "They disliked each other immensely, because Litvinenko complained about corruption… and Putin shelved his report,"
"And Putin considered Litvinenko, after the fact, a traitor for going public with his allegations."
However, the specific trigger for the killing remains a subject of speculation.
Mr Litvinenko had been vociferous and outspoken in his accusations about the Kremlin from London - co-writing a book accusing the Russian security services of bombing Moscow apartments to justify a war in Chechnya.
But it may well have been his work investigating specific individuals in the Kremlin and their ties to the mafia that prompted his killing.
He had already helped Spanish prosecutors arrest a number of individuals and was due to travel out to give further evidence when he was poisoned.
One of the people he had told about that work, and was due to travel to Spain with, was Andrei Lugovoi.
The issue of state responsibility has ramifications beyond the Litvinenko case.
An inquest is due to start in Surrey in the coming months into the death of Alexander Perepilichnyy.
He had come to Britain with information of corruption inside the Russian state.
It is not yet clear whether he was murdered, but Bill Browder, whose own lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, was killed in Russia, believes he was.
"Anything that potentially exposes money that the government crime figures are collecting puts the person who exposes that money at a risk of being killed," Mr Browder says.
He says not enough has been done in the wake of the Litvinenko killing.
"If the Russian government sends assassins to the United Kingdom to kill people and there are no consequences, it basically gives them a green light to keep on killing people," he says.
Mr Browder says the UK and EU should "at a minimum" impose individual sanctions such as asset freezes and travel bans on people in the Russian government shown to have any responsibility for the Litvinenko killing.
British diplomats involved in the Litvinenko case accept the measures taken at the time may not have been strong enough to deter Russia (these included the expulsion of diplomats and the suspension of intelligence cooperation, which was of relatively small importance anyway).
But the signs are the British state may not be keen at this moment to further escalate tensions with Russia, particularly because of Moscow's role in the Middle East and the Syria crisis.
Marina and Anatoly Litvinenko are aware the political context around the inquiry has changed and may shape the response.
They also recognise the report may be a milestone but might not not end their struggle.
"It is important, but it is not necessarily the end," says Marina.
And Anatoly says: "I feel a sense of duty.
"My father did a hell of a lot to get me to this country to make sure I was safe.
"I need to respect that and do whatever I can to honour his memory.
"Finding the truth is the closest we can get to justice for my father." | The image of Alexander Litvinenko defiant but dying from radioactive poisoning in a London hospital bed is how the world remembers the former Russian intelligence officer. | 35350415 |
Almost eight years later he doesn't look quite so crazy. Airbnb - the room letting website he helped to create - has been used by 60 million guests in 190 countries around the world, and has been valued at a staggering $25.5bn (£17.8bn; €23.4bn).
That's more than many of the established players in the hotel sector.
Yet in the early days Mr Blecharczyk said the idea was ridiculed by both investors and friends alike.
"So many people thought this was a crazy idea when they first heard it. They said certainly no one is going to allow strangers into their home, and so it was dismissed very quickly.
"A lot of these disruptive innovative ideas can easily be dismissed at first glance because they're so novel that you just think it's not possible."
It all began in 2007 when fellow co-founders Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia couldn't afford the rent on their San Francisco apartment.
There was a design conference coming up in the city and all the hotels were full so they put some air mattresses in the loft and created a simple website to advertise the room for rent.
Instead of a bed and breakfast they called it an airbed and breakfast - the name and the idea was born.
The fact that a company which didn't even exist a decade ago can now be one of the big players in the accommodation industry is indicative of how technology is shaking up the status quo in established industries.
Taxi hailing app Uber, commercial music-streaming service Spotify and the mighty Amazon have all wreaked havoc on their less technology-savvy rivals.
The changes mean that the qualities required in the boardroom are also shifting.
Traditionally the best route to the top has been from a management or financial background, but increasingly tech know-how is valued.
"Suddenly all of this technology that you used to have to go to your computer to use is going to be embedded in every aspect of your life and really driving the offline world.
"So I think as a CEO thinking about where the future is going to lie and knowing that it's going to be something completely different today is important," says Mr Blecharczyk.
It's a shift that CEO coach Steve Tappin, who works with many top chief executives around the world, says he's noticed.
"In the past, the idea of a geek in the boardoom was unthinkable. But technology is having a profound impact not just on products but the way businesses are run," he says.
Telstra chief executive Andrew Penn rose to the top via the traditional route; he was previously the Australian telecommunications firm's chief financial officer.
Nonetheless, he says that having a good grip on the technical side of the business is essential to his role.
"You've got to get your head around it.
"I don't know that means we necessarily all need to become software coders, but you do need to know enough as a CEO of a company to ask the right questions, to formulate a point of view about whether or not we had the right strategy, to get the right quality people around you that can make a difference from a technology standpoint."
Of course, as the rise of new start-ups such as Airbnb indicate, tech is also a fast-moving world. Staying on top of it means not only being aware of the changes, but ensuring the company is agile enough to react to them.
Victor Koo, chief executive of video-sharing giant Youku Tudou, often dubbed China's YouTube, says since the firm launched just under a decade ago the demands of its audience have already shifted dramatically.
In 2006, the company's customers were accessing content almost entirely on their desktop computers, now more than 60% of users access the firm's content via their mobiles.
He says such a rapid pace of change means that the structure of the organisation and the traditional reporting hierarchies within it need to be shaken up, even if temporarily.
"When you draw an organisational chart - it's really things that we came up with back in the industrial change, right?" he says.
"And we're in the internet world where the world's changing very quickly, and the traditional kind of reporting lines and kind of pyramid structure needs to be adapted."
He says this could mean short-term changes, such as bringing together people for a particular project, before they return to their usual roles.
To help keep up with the rapid pace of change, the Chinese company has created "quick task teams" which work across different departments, can brainstorm ideas and come up with new ways of doing things.
His advice to fellow chief executives is "act now".
"In terms of mistakes it's often not acting quickly enough. I'm not saying you need to bet the farm. But if you spend too much time thinking about it the opportunity has already passed," he says.
This feature is based on interviews by CEO coach and author Steve Tappin for the BBC's CEO Guru series, produced by Neil Koenig. | "You're crazy" was what people said when they found out that Nathan Blecharczyk was working on a website which would allow people around the world to rent their spare room or property to strangers. | 35340898 |
Rick Minns, nicknamed Ruddy Muddy, from Wicklewood in Norfolk creates his works of art in the mud, grease and dust on unwashed vans using a tissue.
He calls it "graffilthy art" and said he hoped people would find it more interesting than the usual "clean me" often scrawled on mud-spattered vans.
No-one had complained he said, and many owners had been in touch to thank him.
"I was a bit bored at work one day, with a bit of spare time on my hands and thought it looked like a bit of fun," Mr Minns said.
"I played around with a few things and they sort of developed from there."
His drawings take between five minutes and an hour.
He uses his fingernails to roughly sketch the image, then his finger or a tissue to complete the work.
"Maybe even a cotton bud - that's about as extravagant as it gets," Mr Minns said.
He said his artwork was spreading across the region and people had spotted it in most counties in the east - and then got in touch with him via social media.
"Hopefully it gives a smile to a few other people as well as me," he said.
"All you really need though is a dirty van. That's the important bit." | A bored van driver has put his artistic talents to use by decorating other people's dirty vehicles. | 25657998 |
About 128 pupils and staff were evacuated from Darul Uloom School, in Foxbury Avenue, Chislehurst, on Saturday.
Firefighters were called to the scene at 23:43 BST. Two men were treated for the effects of breathing in smoke.
London Fire Brigade said there was minor damage to the building and 21 firefighters tackled the blaze.
A spokesperson for London Fire Brigade said: "The fire affected a small part of a school building and there was heavy smoke throughout."
Firefighters managed to get the fire under control by 00:37.
Bob Neill, MP for Bromley and Chislehurst, said: "It's obviously something to be concerned about and we need to find out more about it.
"I've spoken to the police and fire and they are investigating.
"It's too early to jump to conclusions and they need to check out the cause."
In a statement the Metropolitan Police asked for "members of the public to remain calm and not to speculate as to the cause of the fire."
'Vulnerable locations'
They added that there was also an increased police presence around "potentially vulnerable locations" across London to provide reassurance.
Pupils and staff were able to return to the school building on Sunday morning.
According to its website Darul Uloom London was established in 1988.
The premises comprise of "130 boarding rooms in addition to classrooms, dining hall, assembly hall, prayer hall, gym, playing fields... Each room is shared by two boys." | A fire overnight at an Islamic boarding school in south east London is being treated as suspicious by police. | 22831882 |
The evidence comes in the form of a 3.2 million-year-old bone that was found at Hadar, Ethiopia.
Its shape indicates the diminutive, human-like species Australopithecus afarensis had arches in its feet.
Arched feet, the discovery team tells the journal Science, are critical for walking the way modern humans do.
"[The bone] gives a glimpse of foot anatomy and function," explained William Kimbel, director of the Institute of Human Origins at Arizona State University, US.
"It is the fourth metatarsal bone, which resides on the outside of the middle part of your foot, and which helps support the well-developed arches of the foot that we see in the soles of modern human feet.
"The bone that was recovered from the Hadar site has all the hallmarks of the form and function of the modern human foot," he told the BBC.
Palaeo-scientists knew A. afarensis spent some of its time standing tall; that much has been clear since 1974 when they first examined a skeleton of the species, famously dubbed "Lucy", also found near the village of Hadar in the Ethiopian rift valley.
But the absence of important foot bones in all of the specimens uncovered to date has made it difficult for researchers to understand precisely how much time Lucy and her kin spent on their feet, as opposed to moving through the branches of trees.
Human feet are very different from those of other primates. They have two arches, longitudinal and transverse.
These arches comprise the mid-foot bones, and are supported by muscles in the soles of the feet.
This construction enables the feet to perform two critical functions in walking. One is to act as a rigid lever that can propel the body forwards; the other is to act as a shock absorber as the feet touch the ground at the end of a stride.
In our modern ape cousins, the feet are more flexible, and sport highly mobile large toes that are important for gripping branches as the animals traverse the tree tops.
Professor Kimbel and colleagues tell Science journal that the feet of A. afarensis' say a lot about the way it lived.
It would have been able to move across the landscape much more easily and much more quickly, potentially opening up broader and more abundant supplies of food, they say.
"Lucy's spine has the double curve that our own spine does," Professor Kimbel said.
"Her hips functioned much as human hips do in providing balance to the body with each step, which in a biped of course means that you're actually standing on only one leg at a time during striding.
"The knees likewise in Lucy's species are drawn underneath the body such that the thighbone, or femur, angles inwards to the knees from the hip-joints - as in humans.
"And now we can say that the foot, too, joins these other anatomical regions in pointing towards a fundamentally human-like form of locomotion in this ancient human ancestor."
A. afarensis is thought to have existed between about 2.9 million and 3.7 million years ago, and the Hadar area has yielded hundreds of fossil specimens from the species.
Commenting on the latest research, Professor Chris Stringer, a palaeoanthropologist at London's Natural History Museum, said scientists were gradually filling in the detail of this creature's position in the human origins story.
"Bipedalism in Lucy is established, but there has been an issue about how much like our own that bipedalism was," he told BBC News.
"Was it a more waddling gait or something more developed?
"And certainly there's evidence in the upper body that the Australopithecines still seemed to have climbing adaptations - so, the hand bones are still quite strongly curved and their arms suggest they're still spending time in the trees.
"If you are on the ground all the time, you need to find shelter at night and you are in a position to move out into open countryside, which has implications for new resources - scavenging and meat-eating, for example.
"If the Australopithecines were on that road, they were only at the very, very beginning of it."
[email protected] | New fossil evidence seems to confirm that a key ancestor of ours could walk upright consistently - one of the major advances in human evolution. | 12412662 |
Jermaine McCalla, of Suremove Bristol, took a £375 holding fee from an undercover actor posing as someone looking for a flat.
He was filmed saying it covered taking the property off the market, checking references and other services.
A day later the actor decided not to go ahead as part of the BBC investigation, but was refused his money back.
Mr McCalla told him all agency fees and holding deposits were non-refundable, despite not carrying out most of the work he said it was for.
A spokesperson for The Property Redress Scheme said he had broken the code of practice in doing this and should give most of the deposit back.
Ombudsman Sean Hooker told BBC Inside Out West: "The agent should have produced a holding deposit agreement which sets out what the holding deposit would be used for and the circumstances when this would or wouldn't be refunded.
"This document should have been explained to the prospective tenant and they should then be asked to sign it if they are in agreement."
He added that the agent would be obliged to produce evidence showing what work was completed before a refund was requested.
Inside Out West heard from a tenant who said Mr McCalla failed to mandatorily register a deposit with the government's deposit protection scheme.
The programme also found an example of money that Mr McCalla had charged for unexplained services.
Mike Sergison and Eadie McCarthy were left with no alternative but to pay an extra £940 to Mr McCalla on the day they were due to move into a property he had secured for them.
The couple said they had already paid him holding and security deposits and one month's rent in advance, when Mr McCalla asked for the further amount to cover "agency fees".
They said they reluctantly paid the money to avoid being made homeless.
Ms McCarthy said: "We still haven't received a receipt of what this money was for or where it has gone."
Proceedings to wind up Suremove Bristol were lodged in December.
Mr McCalla has not responded to correspondence sent to him by the BBC regarding the matter.
Inside Out is broadcast on BBC One West at 19:30 GMT on Monday 7 March. | A rogue letting agent has refused to return a deposit following a series of complaints about his conduct. | 35726967 |
The ruling followed the court's rejection last week of Mr Andre's claims of death threats from Neville Hendricks, producer of his TV show.
ITV cut ties with Mr Hendricks for breach of contract as a result.
But, calling Mr Andre an "extremely unsatisfactory witness", the court said ITV2 would have to pay "substantial" damages to Mr Hendricks' company.
Mr Hendricks was seeking damages for lost profits of up to £7m.
His company, Mr H TV, produced Mr Andre's The Next Chapter series and Here To Help, along with Kerry Katona's reality projects, working closely with the singers' manager Claire Powell, head of CAN Associates.
Ms Powell and Mr Hendricks' had what was described as an on-off relationship, sharing a son together, before an acrimonious split in 2011.
Ms Powell's relationship with Kerry Katona also broke down, amid false rumours she was having an affair with Mr Hendricks. He believed the rumours were being spread by Ms Powell.
Around the same time, Mr Hendricks set up a Twitter account from which he tweeted or engaged in conversations giving intimate details of Mr Andre and Ms Powell's private lives "in the most scurrilous and vitriolic terms," said the judge.
Mr Andre's solicitors wrote to Mr H TV, saying he "wanted no further dealings" with the company.
The judge said the letter was "almost certainly" responsible for ITV2 terminating its agreement with the production company.
ITV2 also wanted to terminate its contract over a proposal that Kerry Katona would appear on Celebrity Big Brother on Channel 5, claiming it breached an exclusivity clause.
Mr Justice Flaux called Mr Hendricks "an honest witness" and a respected producer of a "particular genre of television, which in a very real sense, he had devised".
He also dismissed Mr Andre's accusations that the tweets constituted a real threat, although they were "offensive and expressed in foul language". | ITV2 has been ordered by the High Court to pay more than £4m damages in a case involving Peter Andre's reality show. | 34552651 |
The carrier Admiral Kuznetsov and its task force is sailing south from the Norwegian Sea on its way to Syria.
It is not clear if it will pass the British Isles via the English Channel or west of Ireland.
British Defence Secretary Michael Fallon said the ships would be "man-marked" every step of the way.
"We will be watching as part of our steadfast commitment to keep Britain safe," he said.
It comes amid heightened tension between Russia and Nato.
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Nato has accused Russia of provocative military manoeuvres, especially in the Baltic region. Russian warplanes have stepped up patrols near Nato countries' airspace.
The UK's Ministry of Defence said the destroyer HMS Duncan had sailed from Portsmouth to join HMS Richmond in escorting the group as it moves south.
It also said another British destroyer, HMS Dragon, was due to meet two Russian corvettes travelling north towards the UK from the direction of Portugal.
The Russian naval task force is the most powerful to sail in northern Europe since 2014, Russian media has reported.
The Admiral Kuznetsov is the only carrier in the Russian navy. It can carry more than 50 aircraft and its weapons systems include Granit anti-ship cruise missiles.
The other Russian surface ships in the group are the nuclear-powered battle cruiser Peter the Great, two large anti-submarine warships - the Severomorsk and Vice-Admiral Kulakov - and four support vessels.
Russian armed forces channel TV Zvezda said several submarines would probably move from the Atlantic to escort the flotilla.
The taskforce will strengthen Russia's naval presence off the Syrian coast. It already has about 10 ships there.
The UK Commander of Nato's Allied Maritime Command, Vice-Admiral Clive Johnstone, said Nato and allied nations routinely monitored "activities of interest" including the presence of Russian vessels close to national waters.
"This is in the interest of supporting our overall maritime awareness and safety of navigation in sea lanes of communication," he said. | Two British warships have been sent to shadow a Russian aircraft carrier and other Russian naval ships heading towards the UK. | 37706425 |
The company is cutting 500,000 tonnes of zinc production, 4% of the world's total supply.
Zinc prices have been at five-year lows, but news of Glencore's actions sent its price up 6%.
Most of the cutbacks will be in Australia where more than 500 jobs will be lost.
Other centres of output that will be trimmed are in South America and Kazakhstan.
Glencore said in a statement: "Glencore remains positive about the medium and long term outlook for zinc, lead and silver, however we are taking a proactive approach to manage our production in response to current prices."
Glencore is in the throes of trying to reduce $30bn of debt, created by its ambitious 2013 takeover of Xstrata. That deal added dozens of mines in numerous countries to the commodity trader's business leaving it as one of the world's biggest miners and traders of the products of those mines.
It has so far cut copper production, suspended dividend payments to shareholders and is issuing new shares to raise money.
Shares in Glencore rose 6.5% to 128.50p in early trade in London.
Glencore's shares are listed in London and Hong Kong, although its headquarters are in Switzerland.
When Glencore listed on the London market in 2011 it priced its shares at 530p. However, since then its share price has slid as - along with the rest of the mining sector - the company has been hit by the decline in commodity prices.
Last week, its share price fell by one third in one day to a record low after analysts at Investec warned that Glencore's high debts together with low metals prices "could see almost all equity value eliminated".
However, Glencore responded by saying it was "operationally and financially robust".
On Monday, its shares jumped 17% on reports that it was in talks to sell a stake in its agricultural business. | Embattled mining giant Glencore is dramatically cutting its zinc production in reaction to a 30% plummet in the price in the past few months. | 34483981 |
Squadron Commander Edwin Dunning landed a Sopwith Pup biplane on HMS Furious in Scapa Flow, Orkney, on 2 August, 1917.
It was seen as marking the dawn of aviation from aircraft carriers. He died days later attempting a repeat.
A plaque to mark the landing - which relied on crew members to grab the plane's wings to stop it - will be unveiled at Scapa.
A flypast by a Hawk aircraft is also scheduled to take place, with a second pass with wheels and wing flaps extended - simulating an aircraft carrier landing approach.
Lt Cdr Barry Issitt, commanding officer of 736 Naval Air Squadron, said: "The event itself is of particular significance to the Royal Navy and Fleet Air Arm as it marks the first successful landing of a fixed-wing aircraft on a ship under way at sea; a moment that would be the genesis for the establishment of the pre-eminence of aircraft carriers.
"It is all the more poignant considering the current regeneration of the UK's carrier capability, with HMS Queen Elizabeth currently conducting sea trials not far from the location of Dunning's landing, with Merlin helicopters from 820 Naval Air Squadron operating from her flight deck."
The new plaque has been produced by local craftsman Stuart Wylie.
On 2 August 1917, Gp Capt Edwin Dunning made aviation history by becoming the first man to land a plane on a moving ship.
The pilot, who was born in South Africa was just 25.
He achieved the feat by landing his Sopwith Pup on the deck of the HMS Furious as the ship steamed through the waters of Scapa Flow in Orkney.
The landing was extremely perilous - whereas now arrest wires would bring a plane to a halt, Dunning was relying on the deck crew of the Furious to grab the wings of his Sopwith Pup to bring it to a halt.
Five days later, the dangers became all too apparent.
While attempting to repeat the feat, Dunning waved the ground crew away.
On approach, his engine stalled and he came down on the deck of the Furious at too steep an angle. Dunning was knocked unconscious, his plane went over the side of the ship and he drowned.
In 1992, a memorial stone was unveiled at Swanbister Bay in Orkney in recognition of his feat. | The 100th anniversary of the first time an aircraft touched down on the deck of a moving ship is to be marked. | 40791496 |
They took a deserved first-half lead when Kebano lost his marker to head in Ryan Fredericks' cross from the right.
Fonte doubled the lead after the break, firing in the rebound from a narrow angle after Kebano had a shot saved.
Ipswich continued to struggle for possession and chances, as they fell to a first defeat in five league games.
The hosts only managed two shots on target, as they failed to make it five league wins from five at the start of a season for the first time in the club's history.
Fulham, meanwhile, were unfortunate not to score more, as Fredericks and Fonte both saw efforts hit by the woodwork in the first half.
Fonte's goal was his first for the club since arriving from Braga, but his afternoon was ended early when he went off with what appeared to be a groin injury 15 minutes from time.
Slavisa Jokanovic's side have now won three successive games against the Tractor Boys since a 2-1 home defeat at Craven Cottage in December 2015.
Ipswich Town manager Mick McCarthy:
"Sometimes you just have to take your hat off to your opposition. They were streets ahead of us. They absolutely bashed us up with and without the ball.
"We tried putting round pegs in square holes. We had players playing out of position due to injury and I didn't think it was right to go negative.
"There's no need to panic. We've had four good results without all of our squad available. You've got to remember that it's just one game, one result. We've won our other four league games."
Fulham manager Slavisa Jokanovic:
"We didn't start the season like Ipswich did, but there's a huge number of games still in front of us.
"I expect we can start to be more positive now. We know we're not at our best level yet and we've made costly mistakes at the beginning of the season.
"We showed we didn't forget how to play good football. There is space for us to be better."
Match ends, Ipswich Town 0, Fulham 2.
Second Half ends, Ipswich Town 0, Fulham 2.
Substitution, Ipswich Town. Tristan Nydam replaces Grant Ward.
Foul by Aboubakar Kamara (Fulham).
Jonas Knudsen (Ipswich Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. David McGoldrick (Ipswich Town) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Cole Skuse.
Substitution, Fulham. Denis Odoi replaces Stefan Johansen.
Foul by Ryan Fredericks (Fulham).
David McGoldrick (Ipswich Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Ryan Fredericks (Fulham) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by David McGoldrick (Ipswich Town).
Ryan Fredericks (Fulham) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Flynn Downes (Ipswich Town).
Sheyi Ojo (Fulham) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Flynn Downes (Ipswich Town).
Offside, Fulham. Tim Ream tries a through ball, but Aboubakar Kamara is caught offside.
Tom Cairney (Fulham) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Flynn Downes (Ipswich Town).
Substitution, Fulham. Oliver Norwood replaces Neeskens Kebano.
Sheyi Ojo (Fulham) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Cole Skuse (Ipswich Town).
Corner, Ipswich Town. Conceded by Ryan Sessegnon.
Tom Cairney (Fulham) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Cole Skuse (Ipswich Town).
Offside, Fulham. Tim Ream tries a through ball, but Aboubakar Kamara is caught offside.
Ryan Fredericks (Fulham) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Joe Garner (Ipswich Town).
Substitution, Fulham. Aboubakar Kamara replaces Rui Fonte because of an injury.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Rui Fonte (Fulham) because of an injury.
Foul by Tom Cairney (Fulham).
Cole Skuse (Ipswich Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Tomas Kalas (Fulham) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Joe Garner (Ipswich Town).
Neeskens Kebano (Fulham) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Dominic Iorfa (Ipswich Town).
Corner, Fulham. Conceded by Dominic Iorfa.
Attempt blocked. Tom Cairney (Fulham) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Stefan Johansen.
Attempt blocked. Sheyi Ojo (Fulham) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Ryan Fredericks.
Substitution, Ipswich Town. Bersant Celina replaces Freddie Sears. | Goals from Neeskens Kebano and Rui Fonte secured Fulham's first win of the season and ended Ipswich's 100% start to the Championship campaign. | 40983498 |
The Direct Energie rider took advantage of a lapse in concentration from Team Sky's Nicolas Roche to beat the Irishman in a sprint finish.
Roche was also second in the overall standings, six seconds behind Voeckler.
Bury's Adam Yates (Orica) was Britain's highest finisher, as he was third in the stage and fourth overall.
Sunday's final stage, a 198km route from Middlesbrough to Scarborough, contained six categorised climbs.
Team Sky set a punishing pace in wet and gruelling conditions after taking it on at half distance and with 44km to go they had five riders at the head of the leading group.
Roche attacked on the ascent at Harwood Dale and took with them Voeckler, Yates, Anthony Turgis (Cofidis) and Steven Kruijswijk (LottoNL).
It was Voeckler who clung on the to back of Roche as the Team Sky sprinter attacked again in the descent into Scarborough.
Voeckler, who finished third last year after missing out in a sprint finish, used that experience to employ some cat and mouse tactics, as he tracked Roche along the resort's seafront in front of huge crowds on the town's famous grass banks.
Roche suffered a momentary lapse in concentration, causing him to look the wrong way as Voeckler flew past him with the finishing line in sight to leave his rival in his wake.
Voeckler told ITV4: "It wasn't just with the strength in my legs that I used, but also my head.
"It was difficult to follow the attack of Team Sky at the climbs, so I decided on a little more patience.
"Then I knew to launch the sprint at 300 metres. Although it was early, with the wind at my back, it was not so bad."
And in a tribute to the Yorkshire public that came out in huge numbers despite persistent drizzle, he added: "I feel like this is home because the crowd were shouting my name."
The Tour de Yorkshire is a legacy of the county's hosting of 2014 Tour de France's Grand Depart. More than two million people are estimated to have lined the three-day route. | Frenchman Thomas Voeckler clinched overall victory in the Tour de Yorkshire by winning the third and final stage at Scarborough. | 36181903 |
However, Dmitry Peskov repeated Russia's position that it would "not hand anyone over".
Mr Snowden has been stuck in transit at a Moscow airport for the past month as he has no valid travel documents.
The US Attorney General, Eric Holder, has sought to assure Moscow he would not face the death penalty in America.
Washington wants him extradited for leaking details of surveillance programmes.
Mr Peskov did not specify what the nature of the talks between the agencies was.
He did, however, remind reporters that President Vladimir Putin had expressed a strong determination not to allow the case to interfere with US-Russian relations.
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Mr Putin had not taken part in any discussions with the American authorities over Mr Snowden case, Mr Peskov said.
Mr Snowden "has not made any request that would require examination by the head of state", Mr Peskov added.
The Russian president has refused to hand him to the American authorities, but said he could stay in Russia only if he stopped leaking US secrets.
Mr Snowden, whose passport has been cancelled by the US, has been in the transit area of Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport since arriving from Hong Kong on 23 June.
His father, Lon Snowden, said on Friday he believes his son should stay in Russia and avoid the US, saying he had been vilified by the Obama administration and members of Congress.
"If it were me, knowing what I know now, and listening to advice of sage people like [Pentagon Papers leaker] Daniel Ellsberg... I would attempt to find a safe haven," the elder Snowden told the Associated Press news agency in a telephone interview.
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On Thursday Mr Snowden's lawyer Anatoly Kucherena denied earlier reports that Edward Snowden had been given Russian travel documents.
Mr Snowden has requested temporary asylum in Russia, and said recently his favoured final destination was Latin America.
In a letter to Russian Justice Minister Alexander Konovalov, Mr Holder said that the charges against Mr Snowden were not punishable by death.
If additional charges were brought which could incur capital punishment, the US would not seek to impose such a penalty, he added.
The Snowden affair has caused diplomatic ructions around the world, upsetting close US allies and traditional enemies.
Leaks by the former CIA worker have led to revelations that the US National Security Agency (NSA) is collecting Americans' phone records.
On Wednesday evening, an attempt to block funding for the programme narrowly failed in a 205-217 vote in the US House of Representatives.
The White House had lobbied Congress to support the surveillance.
Opponents of the US, including Bolivia, Venezuela and Nicaragua, have all offered Mr Snowden asylum. | The American FBI and Russian FSB security services are "in talks" over US fugitive Edward Snowden, according to the Russian president's spokesman. | 23468459 |
Mohammad Akhlaq was kicked and beaten with stones by a group of men in Dadri in Uttar Pradesh state on Monday night.
Mr Akhlaq's 22-year-old son was also seriously injured in the attack, and has been admitted to a hospital.
Six people have been arrested in connection with the incident. Police are probing who spread the rumour.
Slaughter of cows is a sensitive issue in India as the animal is considered sacred by Hindus, who comprise 80% of the country's 1.2bn people.
Uttar Pradesh is among a number of Indian states who have tightened laws banning cow slaughter and the sale and consumption of beef.
The beef ban has also provoked outrage with many questioning how the government decides what is on their plate.
Mr Akhlaq's family said the family had stored mutton, and not beef in their fridge. The police have taken the meat and sent it for testing, reports said.
"Some locals spread rumours that Akhlaq had cow meat at his home and engaged in cow slaughter. Following the rumours, they attacked his home," senior local official NP Singh told The Indian Express newspaper.
Senior police official Kiran S told the AFP news agency that the "announcement about the family consuming beef was made at a [local] temple".
The incident happened in a village, barely 50km (31 miles) away from the Indian capital, Delhi, where Mr Akhlaq, a farm worker, lived with his family.
His 18-year-old daughter Sajida told the newspaper that a "group of more than 100 people from the village" reached the house on Monday night.
"They accused us of keeping cow meat, broke down our doors and started beating my father and brother. My father was dragged outside the house and beaten with bricks," she said.
"We had come to know later that an announcement had been made from the temple about us eating beef...There was some mutton in the fridge...The police have taken it for examination."
Reports said local villagers, protesting against the arrests, had clashed with the police, and damaged a number of vehicles.
Eleven states - including Uttar Pradesh - and two union territories (federally-administered regions) in India ban slaughter of cows, calves, bulls and bullocks. | A 50-year-old man in northern India has been killed in a mob lynching allegedly over rumours that his family had been storing and consuming beef at home. | 34398433 |
This international ranking of university cities has seen Paris slip from first place - a position the French capital has held for four years.
The Canadian city has come top of the QS Best Student Cities, a spin-off from the annual QS World University Rankings.
It will add to suggestions that Canada will attract a bigger slice of the lucrative international student market, particularly if there are concerns about changes to entry rules under President Trump.
It also has the benefit of being able to offer degree courses in two big international languages - with English-speaking universities such as McGill University, and French-speaking, such as the Université du Québec à Montréal.
Entry to this league table requires cities to have at least a population of 250,000 and to be home to at least two universities in the World University Rankings.
The rankings are based on a basket of measures - including the quality of universities, facilities for students, affordability, the "desirability" of the city for students, access to employers, the international nature of a city, levels of tolerance, pollution and safety.
Canada is seen as high on desirability for international students - with Montreal in top place and Vancouver in 10th and Toronto in 11th place.
Ben Sowter, head of the QS Intelligence Unit which produces the ranking, forecasts that Canada's growing popularity will be part of an increase in "alternatives to the traditionally dominant study destinations, both in Europe and North America".
"Canada will become a major player," forecasts Mr Sowter.
Canada could attract students from the US, and the UK could lose students to Ireland, the Netherlands and the Scandinavian countries, he says.
A spokeswoman for the city of Montreal says there has already been a surge of international students - with big rises in student numbers from China, India, France and Iran.
Figures from admissions services in the UK have already shown a 7% fall in applications from EU students - and UK universities have been worried that the backwash of Brexit will leave the UK looking less welcoming to overseas students.
But there are no signs of an adverse impact on London in this year's rankings, moving up from fifth place to third.
The two great world cities of London and Paris are in the top three best places to study - able to offer both a rich cultural as well as academic experience.
Along with Boston, which can claim Harvard, MIT and Boston University, London and Paris are boosted by the strength and number of top universities.
The slip from first to second place for Paris is attributed to cost and a loss in desirability, including safety.
Mr Sowter rejects a link to terror attacks in the French capital - saying that when students are surveyed only a handful of cities are seen as more attractive than Paris.
He says students seem to be resilient to accepting there are no "zero risk" cities - whether it is Boston, Berlin or Paris, all of which have maintained their attraction.
London's universities rate highly on quality - "no city has a superior variety and quality of universities to London" - and the falling value of the pound after the EU referendum has improved their affordability for overseas students.
Edinburgh is Scotland's highest ranked university in 18th place.
Apart from Canada, the only other country with two cities in the top 10 is Germany, with Berlin and Munich. This reflects Germany's financial advantages for overseas students - who do not have to pay any tuition fees.
The most affordable cities of all, taking into account living costs, were Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia and Surabaya in Indonesia. Stockholm in Sweden and New York in the US were the most expensive.
Asian countries - particularly China and India - provide the biggest cohorts of overseas students. But Asian countries are becoming big magnets in their own right, with five cities in the top 20, headed by Seoul, which has risen to fourth place.
Shanghai is the highest rated city in China in 25th place, with Mumbai the highest in India in 85th place.
The competition for attracting international students is big business.
The US remains the biggest market and annual figures show that for the first time more than a million overseas students were at US universities - with almost 330,000 from China alone.
Apart from the benefits from international research partnerships - and the long-term influence of soft power - such international students are officially estimated at being worth almost $36bn (£29bn) to the US economy.
Being able to attract more of these valuable students makes these rankings much more than a civic beauty contest.
QS Best Student Cities 2017
1. Montreal
2. Paris
3. London
4. Seoul
5. Melbourne
6. Berlin
7. Tokyo
8. Boston
9. Munich
10. Vancouver
11. Hong Kong and Toronto
13. Sydney
14. Singapore
15. Zurich
16. Vienna
17. Kyoto-Osaka-Kobe
18. Edinburgh
19. New York
20. Brisbane
21. Taipei
22. Canberra
23. Barcelona
24. Manchester
25. Shanghai | Montreal has been named as the best city in the world for students. | 38959018 |
President Nicolás Maduro says the constituent assembly is needed to bring peace after months of crisis.
But the opposition says the new body, which has the ability to rewrite the constitution, is a way for the president to cling to power.
In the capital Caracas, police used tear gas against opposition protesters who tried to reach parliament.
Several people were injured as security forces tried to disperse a few hundred demonstrators, reports say.
In other parts of the city, thousands of government supporters gathered to cheer and wave flags as the new members took office. Some carried pictures of late leader Hugo Chávez and the independence hero Simón Bolivar.
Among those sitting for the first time in the 545-member assembly are Mr Maduro's wife and son.
A close ally of Mr Maduro, former foreign minister Delcy Rodriguez, was elected president.
Her opening speech attacked the opposition as "fascist" and warned the international community against interfering.
Katy Watson, BBC South America correspondent, Caracas
Despite the protests and despite the criticism both at home and abroad, the Maduro administration has refused to change tack. This constituent assembly was a "victory" for the government, even though most people see it as anything but.
While the political wrangling continues, the economy is being pushed to the brink. When we arrived in Caracas a week ago, the unofficial exchange rate was around 10,000 bolivares to the dollar. It has now nearly doubled to 19,000.
But how much worse can this country get? The feeling is that things could get worse before they get better and that the opposition will need patience.
But the international community might not sit and wait for things to improve. Mr Maduro and several of his friends are already under sanctions. There is a suggestion that the US may broaden sanctions to cover the oil industry but that would be a very unpopular move. With the country relying on oil for more than 95% of its foreign earnings, the fall-out would hurt the people more than the politicians.
Constituent assemblies are set up for the specific purpose of drafting or adopting a constitution, and as such can fundamentally change how a country is run.
Venezuela is mired in a deep economic crisis and has seen waves of violent protests, and Mr Maduro presented the assembly as a way of promoting "reconciliation and peace".
Ms Rodriguez added in her speech: "The international community should not make a mistake over Venezuela. The message is clear, very clear: we Venezuelans will resolve our conflict, our crisis without any form of foreign interference."
But the opposition has cried foul. The new assembly has the power to bypass and even dissolve the current opposition-led National Assembly.
The two bodies are expected to run in parallel in the Legislative Palace in Caracas.
The election for the constituent assembly was marred by violence and accusations of fraud.
Venezuela's electoral authorities said more than eight million people, or 41.5% of the electorate, had voted, a figure the company that provided the voting system said was inflated.
The opposition boycotted the poll and also held an unofficial referendum in which they said more than seven million Venezuelans voted against the constituent assembly.
They have called for mass protests against the new body but demonstrations so far appear to have been muted.
The Vatican has joined worldwide condemnation of the assembly by calling for it to be suspended. In a statement, it argued the assembly fomented a "climate of tension" rather than reconciliation and peace.
The US has imposed sanctions on Mr Maduro, with the Trump administration calling him a "dictator".
The European Union and major Latin American nations say they will not recognise the new body.
Mr Maduro retains a major ally in Russia, however, and has the support of several left-wing nations in the Americas. | Venezuela's controversial new assembly has opened despite fierce opposition at home and abroad. | 40829229 |
Emergency services, including police, firefighters and a search and rescue helicopter, were called to Mwnt just before 20:00 BST on Friday.
The Coastguard said one person was taken out of the water and was in hospital, but no-one else was involved.
The extent of their injuries is not yet known.
Gwbert coastguard and Cardigan rescue teams were deployed - along with both Cardigan lifeboats and the St Athan search and rescue helicopter.
Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service said five engines were sent to the scene but not needed. | One person has been pulled from the water and taken to hospital after a car plunged over a cliff in Ceredigion. | 36566573 |
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