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Dan Gardner's fabulous 30-yard strike put the Spireites ahead and Leon Barnett's own goal put them in control.
But Barnett's fine low shot and a Craig Davies penalty levelled things.
And, as the Wigan pressure grew, Hiwula stole the points when he scored with a coolly-taken right-foot strike.
The victory, which puts Wigan level with their hosts on 10 points, looked a near impossibility as the hosts seized control after a goalless first half.
The Latics were on top before the interval but trailed when Gardner cut in from the left flank and crashed a superb shot high into the net.
Barnett's bizarre headed own goal looked like deciding the match, but he made amends when he netted at the right end on 81 minutes.
And, after Davies scored from the spot following Sam Hird's foul on Chris McCann, Hiwula's strike ensured a first away league win of the season for Wigan.
Wigan manager Gary Caldwell told BBC Radio Manchester:
"Crazy game. I thought we deserved to be in front before they scored but in the second half we just had a crazy 10 minutes.
"Character and desire is something you need in any successful football team. The way they played in the last 15 to 20 minutes was phenomenal and we deserved to win at the end.
"I'd look like Graham Barrow, with grey hair, if we keep doing that so that's not how we want to win games.
"But at times you need to have the desire to keep going. We're going to need that throughout the season."
Match ends, Chesterfield 2, Wigan Athletic 3.
Second Half ends, Chesterfield 2, Wigan Athletic 3.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Richard O'Donnell (Wigan Athletic) because of an injury.
Attempt saved. Jay O'Shea (Chesterfield) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Corner, Chesterfield. Conceded by Jason Pearce.
Goal! Chesterfield 2, Wigan Athletic 3. Jordy Hiwula-Mayifuila (Wigan Athletic) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal.
Attempt blocked. Armand Gnanduillet (Chesterfield) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Goal! Chesterfield 2, Wigan Athletic 2. Craig Davies (Wigan Athletic) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.
Penalty conceded by Sam Hird (Chesterfield) after a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty Wigan Athletic. Chris McCann draws a foul in the penalty area.
Jordy Hiwula-Mayifuila (Wigan Athletic) hits the bar with a right footed shot from the centre of the box.
Attempt saved. Michael Jacobs (Wigan Athletic) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Foul by Ritchie Humphreys (Chesterfield).
Andy Kellett (Wigan Athletic) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Sam Hird (Chesterfield) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Craig Davies (Wigan Athletic).
Substitution, Chesterfield. Ritchie Humphreys replaces Gboly Ariyibi.
Goal! Chesterfield 2, Wigan Athletic 1. Leon Barnett (Wigan Athletic) right footed shot from outside the box to the bottom left corner.
Corner, Wigan Athletic. Conceded by Sam Hird.
Attempt saved. Craig Davies (Wigan Athletic) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Substitution, Wigan Athletic. Andy Kellett replaces Sean Murray.
Attempt saved. Craig Davies (Wigan Athletic) left footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Sam Hird (Chesterfield) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Reece James (Wigan Athletic).
Corner, Chesterfield. Conceded by Max Power.
Own Goal by Leon Barnett, Wigan Athletic. Chesterfield 2, Wigan Athletic 0.
Gboly Ariyibi (Chesterfield) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by David Perkins (Wigan Athletic).
Attempt missed. Dan Gardner (Chesterfield) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Goal! Chesterfield 1, Wigan Athletic 0. Dan Gardner (Chesterfield) right footed shot from outside the box to the top right corner. Assisted by Armand Gnanduillet following a set piece situation.
Armand Gnanduillet (Chesterfield) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Michael Jacobs (Wigan Athletic).
Attempt missed. Craig Davies (Wigan Athletic) left footed shot from very close range is just a bit too high.
Substitution, Wigan Athletic. Jordy Hiwula-Mayifuila replaces Haris Vuckic.
Substitution, Wigan Athletic. Chris McCann replaces Donervon Daniels.
Substitution, Chesterfield. Armand Gnanduillet replaces Lee Novak.
Attempt missed. Craig Davies (Wigan Athletic) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left.
Attempt missed. Sam Morsy (Chesterfield) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right.
Attempt blocked. Dan Gardner (Chesterfield) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. | Substitute Jordy Hiwula grabbed a 90th-minute winner as Wigan Athletic scored three goals in the final nine minutes to fight back from 2-0 down and beat Chesterfield in a compelling match. | 34093742 |
Play was suspended for two hours because of lightning at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey and then eventually stopped for bad light.
That left 39 players having to complete their first round on Friday morning.
Korea's Amy Yang is five under, a shot ahead of Lydia Ko, with Jodi Ewart Shadoff and Georgia Hall at one under.
Former champion Michelle Wie has withdrawn from the event with a neck injury.
The American withdrew on the 11th hole, her second hole of the day, in a rainy start to the second round.
"Based on the short turnaround from last night's round to this morning, I haven't been able to recover enough to play to my full potential today, " Wie tweeted on Friday.
"I am confident with continued treatment, I will be at 100% by the Scottish and British Open."
Scotland's Catriona Matthew and England's Charley Hull are at level par, while Bronte Law is three over and Carly Booth six over.
Further storms are forecast for Friday. | China's Shanshan Feng carded a six-under-par 66 to lead the US Women's Open by one shot, after the first round was delayed by bad weather. | 40602914 |
The man, who has not been identified, had received a tattoo with the words "Jesus is my life" five days before going for a swim in the Gulf of Mexico.
The man was then admitted to a Dallas hospital complaining of severe pains nearby to the tattoo on his calf.
Doctors advise that new tattoos be kept clean in order to prevent infection.
The man had a history of alcohol cirrhosis of the liver, and reportedly told doctors that he drank six beers daily.
Doctors at the Parkland Memorial Hospital put the man on life support 24 hours after he was admitted, as he went into septic shock.
Doctors say he tested positive for the flesh-eating bacterium Vibrio vulnificus.
The British Medical Journal reports that the pathogen is common in the Gulf of Mexico's coastal waters, and the risks of infection rises during warmer months.
According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, V. vulnificus causes 80,000 illnesses and 100 deaths each year in the US with most infections being attributed to eating raw shellfish.
Medical professionals advise that new tattoos be covered during bathing, and that people avoid swimming after getting new ink. | A Texas man has died two months after contracting a flesh-eating bacterium through a new tattoo on his leg, medical officials say. | 40182130 |
Andrew Bache, 51, from Portsmouth is in a critical condition after Russian fans went on the rampage with iron bars in Marseille on Saturday.
Dean Bache said his brother was still unconscious after being put in an induced coma.
But he had briefly opened his eyes and moved his arms, he said.
Mr Bache, who is also known as Pepe, suffered a cardiac arrest, extensive brain injuries and a lung infection after being attacked before England's match against Russia.
He opened his eyes when his son Harry visited him in hospital, Dean said in a message posted on a fundraising page.
Friends who launched an appeal to help him have so far raised more than £19,000 towards a £30,000 target.
Dean Bache said his brother would "have an operation in 10-15 days to repair his broken face".
He said: "I'm not ashamed to say I cried for the first time today...I was talking to him... and held his hand and he closed his hand and gripped mine."
Chief Marseille prosecutor Brice Robin said Mr Bache had been beaten around the head by Russians armed with iron bars.
A message from Dean Bache, shared on Facebook, read: "I was told that the chief inspector of the local police has informed them that they have excellent CCTV footage of the attack and have indentified those involved and pictures have been forwarded to French police." | An England fan left with severe brain injuries after violence at the Euro 2016 tournament, has "opened both eyes" in hospital, his brother has said. | 36549738 |
The Hammers took the lead inside 10 minutes when Carroll lost his marker to head in a Manuel Lanzini corner.
The hosts hit back with a well-worked move that ended with Cristhian Stuani tapping in Calum Chambers' low cross.
Carroll pounced after Victor Valdes tipped away Michail Antonio's low effort to give West Ham the lead at the break.
Boro threw on January signings Patrick Bamford and Rudy Gestede, but the Hammers added to their lead on the break late on through Jonathan Calleri.
It means Middlesbrough's winless run in the top flight now stretches to five games.
West Ham boss Slaven Bilic said Carroll had suffered whiplash after scoring an acrobatic overhead kick last week against Crystal Palace but, despite taking a couple of days off training during the week, the powerful centre forward looked sharp at the Riverside.
He only touched the ball twice in the Middlesbrough box in the 67 minutes before he was taken off, but found the net on both occasions - and he has now scored five goals since his return from injury in early December.
With Dimitri Payet left out of Bilic's match-day squad amid rumours he is set to leave London Stadium, Carroll offers the Hammers a very different threat.
The former Newcastle and Liverpool man won 70% of his duels against Boro, only bettered in the West Ham starting XI by captain Mark Noble, and his aerial prowess also proved key to the visitors when defending set-pieces.
Middlesbrough's struggles in front of goal have been well documented this season, and they headed into the game having scored the fewest in the top four leagues apart from Oldham.
But Aitor Karanka's side can feel aggrieved at not taking something from this one. They enjoyed over 60% possession and delivered 27 crosses to West Ham's eight from open play - only capitalising on one of those.
Karanka has bolstered his squad's attacking threat with the January signings of Bamford and Gestede, the former scoring 17 goals during his last spell at the Riverside in the Championship, but neither had time to have an impact on the game.
It was winger Adama Traore who proved the biggest nuisance for West Ham, first down the right-hand side with the on-loan Chambers and then on the left when he linked up with George Friend.
Karanka said after the game the 20-year-old has "an amazing future", but he will surely hope to keep him for at least another transfer window as Boro look to avoid relegation.
Middlesbrough boss Aitor Karanka: "As a manager I cannot be more proud of my players than I am now. They have done every single thing. We win as a team, lose as a team. We have to work on the last 10, 15 minutes."
On whether keeper Victor Valdes was at fault for Andy Carroll's second goal: "Victor Valdes is having an amazing season, helping us a lot.
"He is one of the best keepers in the world and us as a club have to be proud to have players like him."
West Ham manager Slaven Bilic: "It was a good week for us after Palace, the confidence we played with, and we used that momentum to come here and put out a strong performance and get three massive points."
On Carroll's goalscoring form: "Week in, week out he is a brilliant player. Not only goals, he makes an impact with his presence. His work rate is quality and he is unbeatable in the box. It is very hard to stop him.
"He loves it. He gives you everything. Hopefully he is going to stay fit."
Middlesbrough host Accrington Stanley in the FA Cup fourth round next Saturday (15;00 GMT), before welcoming West Brom in the Premier League the following Tuesday (19:45).
West Ham are at home against Manchester City in the Premier League on 1 February (19:45), having been knocked out of the FA Cup by Pep Guardiola's side.
Match ends, Middlesbrough 1, West Ham United 3.
Second Half ends, Middlesbrough 1, West Ham United 3.
Goal! Middlesbrough 1, West Ham United 3. Jonathan Calleri (West Ham United) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Manuel Lanzini following a fast break.
Corner, West Ham United. Conceded by Calum Chambers.
Attempt blocked. Manuel Lanzini (West Ham United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Jonathan Calleri.
Attempt missed. Rudy Gestede (Middlesbrough) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Álvaro Negredo with a headed pass.
Bernardo (Middlesbrough) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jonathan Calleri (West Ham United).
Substitution, West Ham United. James Collins replaces Sofiane Feghouli.
Substitution, Middlesbrough. Rudy Gestede replaces Adam Forshaw.
Bernardo (Middlesbrough) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Bernardo (Middlesbrough).
Manuel Lanzini (West Ham United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Jonathan Calleri (West Ham United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Manuel Lanzini with a through ball.
Substitution, Middlesbrough. Patrick Bamford replaces Cristhian Stuani.
Ben Gibson (Middlesbrough) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Ben Gibson (Middlesbrough).
Michail Antonio (West Ham United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Calum Chambers (Middlesbrough) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Corner, Middlesbrough. Conceded by Sam Byram.
Adama Traoré (Middlesbrough) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Sam Byram (West Ham United).
Hand ball by Winston Reid (West Ham United).
Ben Gibson (Middlesbrough) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jonathan Calleri (West Ham United).
Offside, Middlesbrough. Adam Clayton tries a through ball, but Adam Forshaw is caught offside.
Bernardo (Middlesbrough) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jonathan Calleri (West Ham United).
Substitution, West Ham United. Jonathan Calleri replaces Andy Carroll because of an injury.
Attempt missed. Adam Forshaw (Middlesbrough) right footed shot from outside the box is too high from a direct free kick.
Adama Traoré (Middlesbrough) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Edimilson Fernandes (West Ham United).
George Friend (Middlesbrough) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Edimilson Fernandes (West Ham United).
Foul by Adam Forshaw (Middlesbrough).
Sofiane Feghouli (West Ham United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Calum Chambers (Middlesbrough) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left.
Foul by Cristhian Stuani (Middlesbrough).
Aaron Cresswell (West Ham United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Middlesbrough. Conceded by Sam Byram. | Andy Carroll scored twice to make it back-to-back victories for West Ham in the Premier League, despite Middlesbrough dominating for long spells at the Riverside on Saturday. | 38620043 |
6 June 2017 Last updated at 09:32 BST
The outcome of the election will have a big impact on your lives, even though you can't vote.
So these kids have asked BBC expert, Chris Mason, all their burning questions - like what will happen to Larry the Downing Street cat?
What happens if there's a draw?
Watch to find out. | There's a general election coming up on Thursday - adults will vote for who they want to run the country. | 40171040 |
Earlier this month, Tracey Tough, 42, who is also known as Tracey Hart and lives in West Lothian, was jailed for a year at Forfar Sheriff Court for contempt of court.
Until now the media has been banned from reporting the case.
The reporting restriction has been lifted following a challenge from BBC Scotland.
Her case will now be considered by the Court of Session. | A Church of Scotland Minister has been released from prison pending further court action. | 34672797 |
It is a visual reminder that the Saudi Kingdom is Britain's biggest market in the Middle East.
Inside gleaming luxury stores with all the recognisable labels, it is shopping Saudi-style.
Shops shut at prayer times throughout the day, and the growing number of female employees wear long black abaya cloaks, black headscarves or the niqab to reveal only their eyes, in line with this conservative culture.
It is a visual reminder that two countries with what many call a special relationship have found ways to work together, while trying to respect very different traditions.
But this comfortable partnership is often sharply jolted. And the ties that bind are often brought to bear to ease the strains.
"We have a very open frank relationship, based on a very strong relationship in areas of trade, defence and security collaboration that allows us to talk about areas of concern, perhaps sensitive issues," Britain's Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond told me when he arrived in Riyadh this week.
That is why, he says, he was able to announce that 74-year-old British citizen Karl Andree will leave his Saudi prison cell in the next week.
He will leave behind a kingdom he came to call home, and escape a punishment of 350 lashes for being caught with homemade wine.
But other individuals, like jailed Saudi blogger Raif Badawi facing 1,000 lashes, and Ali Al-Nimr on death row, remain issues of great international concern.
There was said to be a "back and forth" on their plight too during Mr Hammond's talks with Saudi leaders including King Salman. But there is still no word on if and when they will ever walk free.
This relationship between two kingdoms has often been rocked by tensions back in Britain too over how to balance human rights concerns with the government's desire to promote a crucial trade and investment relationship including major arms deals which make Britain one of Saudi Arabia's leading suppliers.
Those arguments recently erupted publicly inside David Cameron's government and resulted in the cancellation of a £5.9m ($9m) contract for training in prisons.
Saudi officials defend their Islamic Sharia law system but in private some express discomfort with brutal punishments like stoning, and grisly beheadings in the streets, which make headlines around the world.
Efforts are said to be underway to codify this body of laws to avoid what one diplomat called "maverick judgements".
For London, freedom for a British grandfather in poor health takes some of the public sting out of this matter.
But a strongly worded warning from Saudi Arabia's ambassador in London earlier this week was another reminder of simmering sensitivities.
In his letter published in the Telegraph newspaper Mohammed bin Nawaf bin Abdulaziz warned of "potentially serious repercussions that could damage the mutually beneficial strategic partnership that our countries have so long enjoyed".
His sharp rebuke came in the midst of a wave of highly critical reports about the Kingdom including coverage of the tragic crush of people during the annual Hajj pilgrimage, demands for Riyadh do more to give refuge to Syrians fleeing a punishing war, as well as the condemnation by human rights watchdogs of its harsh Islamic Sharia law punishments.
The ambassador's warning made headlines in some Saudi newspapers so I carried one with me when I attended the opening of the first major international Mining and Minerals Conference in Riyadh.
Inside the sprawling Prince Sultan Hall, transformed into a sparkling gallery of exhibition booths, it still felt like "business as usual" as the powerful Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, Ali Bin Ibrahim Al-Naimi, snipped with a smile the traditional red ribbon on a familiar red carpet for investors seeking to spend time and money in the kingdom.
I showed a Saudi newspaper headline to Sandy Angus, chairman of British firm Angus Montgomery, who have been in the business of organising exhibitions for 120 years including three decades in the Middle East.
"There's no feel of that at all," he says, looking at Gulf News which put the words "UK ties" in bold red letters and "dark clouds" in black. "But if any aspersions are cast on the relationship one is obviously nervous of that and the implications in the long term."
At the elegantly appointed headquarters of the Saudi Arabia General Investment Authority, the genial Governor and Chairman of the Board Abdullatif al-Othman speaks of a relationship that is "deep and strategic with common interests and a partnership which is much stronger than the effects of some negative articles".
It is hard to get anyone to respond officially to criticism of judicial punishments so I asked Mr Al-Othman whether the negative reports are affecting his efforts to attract foreign investors to the kingdom.
"We can all can argue about the ideologies of capital punishment and what sort of punishments," he replies, pointing out that capital punishment exists in many countries around the world.
"So long as it is independent, that it is fair, and there is a fair trial and an appeal process we have to respect that," he explains.
But this spike in condemnation of Saudi Arabia's human rights record comes at a time when Saudi leaders are being courted even more than ever.
Riyadh is emerging as a leading go-to capital in the midst of an unprecedented diplomatic push to resolve the crisis in Syria.
In the past week, Russia's President Vladimir Putin called the Saudi King twice.
US President Obama also spoke on the telephone to King Salman.
Saudi sources confirmed these conversations helped convince Saudi leaders to ease their strong opposition to the participation of their arch rival Iran at a major international gathering on Syria in Vienna this week.
Diplomatic sources say Mr Hammond also began some of his conversations here with expressions of concern over the grave humanitarian consequences of the war in Yemen where a Saudi-led coalition has been accused of scant regard for civilian casualties and suffering - charges that Saudi officials throw back at Houthi rebels who forced the Yemeni government out of Sanaa earlier this year.
As special as any relationship may be, different interests and ideas means it will always be fraught with risk, and occasional ruptures. | Brand Britain is ubiquitous in Riyadh - a slow drive through heavy traffic causes you to notice all the trademark signs you would see on British high streets. | 34664390 |
The companies face a penalty of 44.6bn won ($39m; £25.2m), said the Fair Trade Commission (FTC).
The regulator said the two firms held secret meetings in 2008 and 2009 to agree on prices for washing machines, flat-panel TVs and laptop computers.
Samsung and LG are the largest makers of the products in South Korea.
"Their price rigging caused damage to many consumers by leading the prices of washing machines, flat-panel TVs and laptop computers to rise more than other competing products," the FTC said.
Samsung was fined 25.8bn won, while LG was fined 18.8bn won. | South Korea's antitrust regulator has fined Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics for conspiring to fix the prices of some appliances. | 16540678 |
Dr Brian Harris, 77, worked for the NHS and in a private practice in Cardiff for 40 years.
He denies all 13 charges of sexual assault, indecent assault and rape against five men. The allegations are said to have taken place between 1991 and 2011.
The trial at Merthyr Crown Court is expected to last up to five weeks.
The jury heard the first of the alleged assaults took place in 1991 on a man who was a patient at Sully Hospital and the Amy Evans clinic in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan.
A second man, who was recovering from brain damage, was said to have been assaulted at Sully Hospital the following year.
Ian Wright, prosecuting, said a third patient was "subject to a catalogue of serious sexual assaults including rape" during appointments at the Trealaw clinic in Rhondda Cynon Taff and at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital between 2009 and 2011.
Two other men claimed to have been assaulted at the Trealaw clinic. | A psychiatrist has gone on trial accused of sexually abusing vulnerable patients in south Wales. | 39267351 |
It was the year a UKIP councillor blamed the floods on gay marriage, a man had his penis cut off in an attack in Middlesbrough, and a bomb hoax resulted in an RAF jet escorting a passenger plane to Manchester Airport.
The death of cancer fundraiser Stephen Sutton, torrential summer flash flooding, and the teacher who was stabbed to death at her school in Leeds also made the headlines.
UKIP councillor blames storms and floods on gay marriage
UKIP councillor David Silvester blamed last winter's storms and heavy floods on the government's decision to legalise gay marriage.
In a letter to his local paper David Silvester said he had warned David Cameron the legislation would result in "disaster".
At the time of the comments UKIP said his views were "not the party's belief" but defended his right to state his opinions.
An inquiry by South Oxfordshire District Council found the comments had not breached its code of conduct.
William Roache cleared of rape and assault
Following a trial, Coronation Street actor William Roache was cleared of rape and indecent assault charges.
Five women had claimed he assaulted them when they were aged 16 or under between 1965 and 1971.
Outside court, the actor, who plays Ken Barlow, said: "In these situations there are no winners... we should be much kinder to ourselves."
Mr Roache returned to the cobbled streets of Weatherfield over the summer.
Penis cut off in attack
A man was found by the side of a Middlesbrough road with his penis cut off.
The 40-year-old was discovered on the A66 in the early hours "in a distressed state" with wounds to his groin.
He spent almost a month in the James Cook University Hospital, some of it in an induced coma.
A 22-year-old man arrested on suspicion of assault was later released from police bail without charge.
Teacher stabbed to death at school
Spanish teacher Ann Maguire was stabbed to death in front of pupils inside Corpus Christi Catholic College in Leeds.
A 15-year-old boy was detained by staff following the attack.
She had worked at the school for more than 40 years and had been due to retire.
In November, Will Cornick was given a life sentence after he admitted murdering her.
The judge said the teenager had shown a "chilling lack of remorse" and ordered him to serve at least 20 years, saying he might never be released.
Cancer fundraiser Stephen Sutton dies
After raising millions of pounds for charity, the inspirational teenager lost his battle with cancer aged just 19.
He was diagnosed when he was 15 and rather than dwell on his misfortune, drew up a "bucket list" of things he wanted to achieve.
Stephen, from Burntwood in Staffordshire, raised more than £5m for charity after news of his plight spread on social media and following his death.
In November, his mother collected an MBE on her son's behalf.
Missing Malaysia backpacker: Body found
Gareth Huntley's body was found on Tioman Island on 4 June, eight days after he was believed to have gone on a trek to a waterfall.
The 34-year-old's body was discovered in a pond close to the Juara Turtle project, where he had been living and working as a volunteer.
In June, a post-mortem examination revealed no external injuries.
His death remains a mystery.
Torrential rain and flash flooding cause travel chaos
Homes were flooded and people left stranded in their cars as lightning, hail, heavy rain and flash flooding hit east and south-east England at the end of the month.
More than half the average total rainfall for England in July fell in an hour in some areas, the Met Office said.
Military jet escorts Qatar Airways plane to airport
An RAF jet escorted a passenger plane to Manchester Airport after the pilot was handed a note about a possible device on board.
A man was arrested on suspicion of making a hoax bomb threat on the Doha to Manchester plane, which had 269 passengers and 13 Qatar Airways crew on board.
The 47-year-old was later sectioned under the Mental Health Act following the incident.
Palmira Silva 'beheaded' in London garden
The 82-year-old woman was found decapitated in her back garden in north London in September.
Ms Silva had died from stab wounds to the heart and aorta, a post-mortem examination found.
She was described as not having "a bad bone in her body".
Nicholas Salvador, of Gilda Avenue, Enfield, is accused of killing her and charged with assaulting a police officer.
He is expected to appear at the Old Bailey on 27 February.
McCann 'Twitter troll' found dead in hotel
Brenda Leyland, who was accused of targeting internet abuse at the family of Madeleine McCann, was found dead in a hotel in October.
Days before her death she was confronted by a reporter from Sky News over her use of Twitter.
He questioned her about hate-filled messages about the McCanns on the social networking site.
Her inquest, expected to be held in March, will hear evidence from two Sky journalists.
Knightsbridge balcony collapse
Tomasz Procko, 22, and Karol Szymanski, 29, died after part of a balcony collapsed in London.
The men, who were originally from Poland, had been delivering sofas to the Knightsbridge property.
Eight other people were treated for injuries.
A neighbour, who wanted to remain anonymous, told BBC News: "They were trying to pull a couch up to the first-floor apartment with ropes. Was apparently too heavy. The fence broke off and fell on the workmen below."
Bodies of Charlotte Bevan and missing daughter found
Charlotte Bevan sparked a major police search when she left St Michael's Hospital in Bristol without a coat and wearing hospital slippers, with her four-day-old baby Zaani wrapped only in blankets.
Their bodies were found at the Avon Gorge.
Their inquests, which were opened and adjourned until April, heard the pair were found in a gully having "apparently fallen".
Their funerals were held at Christ Church in Clifton on 19 December. | As 2014 draws to a close we take a look at some of the most read England stories from the BBC News website over the past 12 months. | 30589636 |
It will succeed the £425m Superfast Cymru project, which aims to reach 96% of premises by the end of 2017.
Ministers hope to get £20m in EU aid, and raise £37m by investing their share of BT's profits from new customers.
Skills and Science Minister Julie James said: "We know there is more to do ... to bring faster broadband to those final hard-to-reach areas."
Welsh Conservative economy spokesman Russell George welcomed the announcement, after AMs criticised the roll-out in a Tory-led Senedd debate on Wednesday.
"Recent history reveals a record of over-promising and under-delivering," he said.
"Many communities are either still waiting for access or have not been incentivised to use a service that's now available to them.
"It's vital that lessons are learned, and that this money is used effectively to improve broadband connectivity across Wales."
During the debate, Plaid Cymru AM Dai Lloyd criticised the take-up rate, saying fewer than a third of premises capable of receiving the service had signed up for it. | Up to £80m will be spent to ensure every property in Wales can access superfast broadband in a new scheme. | 37877743 |
Keith Walker, 36, a father of three, from Tir na Ri Road, Clondalkin died.
And another man was shot in the arm at Shelerin Road, Clonsilla at about 18:00 local time.
His injuries are not life-threatening. The men were members of a pigeon club who were meeting in the yard at the time.
Police believe Mr Walker was not the killer's target and was shot in a case of mistaken identity.
People living in the area suggested that the shooting was reportedly carried out by a gunman dressed as a woman.
A 32-year-old man was arrested in County Meath on Saturday morning.
On Saturday evening, two more men, aged 36 and 38, were also arrested.
Police have also searched a number of homes in Dublin. | Police have arrested two more men in the Republic of Ireland over a fatal shooting in Dublin on Friday. | 33125990 |
That number is significantly higher than the 1,500 Syrians that have been permitted to re-settle in the US since the start of the conflict.
The 10,000 figure is still much lower than the 340,000 asylum seekers who arrived in Europe this year.
Since the beginning of the conflict the US has given $4bn ($2.6bn) in aid.
The increase in accepting refugees displays a "significant scaling up" of US commitment to accept people from conflict zones and help provide for their needs," White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said.
US Congress would have to to make a "significant financial commitment" in order to allow for additional 10,000 refugees to the US, Mr Earnest said.
Germany Chancellor Angela Merkel has said her country is prepared to accept 800,00 Syrians, having accepted about 450,000 so far.
Prime Minister David Cameron has said that the UK will accept 20,000 Syrian refugees.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has registered four million Syrians as refugees, and it has asked governments around the world to resettle 130,000 Syrian refugees by the end of 2016.
In May, 14 US Senators penned a letter to President Barack Obama asking him to allow 65,000 Syrian refugees to settle inside the US.
Humanitarian aid money remains the most effective way to fight the problem for the US, Mr Earnest said, and it is "not feasible" for millions of Syrians to come to the country.
"We know the scale of this problem, it's significant," he said.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has called for an "emergency global gathering" at the UN General Assembly meeting this month, where the migrant issue is sure to be discussed.
Asked at a press briefing why the US was not accepting as many refugees as the UK, as a larger country, Mr Earnest said the US wants to meet the "most urgent, immediate needs" of migrants like basic medical care, food, water and shelter.
The security screening migrants must go through when arriving in the US can take 12 to 18 months, and the "safety and security of the US homeland" comes first, he said.
There have been concerns expressed that terrorists could exploit the refugee system to enter the country and carry out an attack, but experts say that fear is overblown. | President Barack Obama has called for the US to prepare to accept "at least" 10,000 Syrian refugees next year, according to a White House spokesman. | 34215920 |
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France forward Payet, 29, rejoined the Ligue 1 club on Sunday for £25m, after allegedly refusing to play for the Hammers for the past month.
"As much as we didn't want him out, you can't go against the consensus of the team," Sullivan told BBC Radio 5 live.
Sullivan went on to reveal that Payet sacrificed his wages for January.
"He's not been talking to anyone in the squad," said Sullivan of Payet, who joined West Ham in June 2015.
"He's been sitting in the corner of the room for his meals and he's isolated himself. Before that he was bubbly, happy, shaking everyone's hand before the match.
"Either it was a tactic or something in his head had changed.
"The team wanted him out, the manager - with great reluctance - wanted him out. We think it's bonded the team better together."
West Ham paid Marseille £10.7m for the attacking midfielder in 2015 and he signed a new five-and-a-half-year contract in February 2016.
He excelled in his first season in the Premier League, scoring 12 goals and earning a nomination for the PFA Players' Player of the Year award.
However, Payet scored only three goals from September to December last year, and manager Slaven Bilic said earlier this month that he did not want to play for the club any more.
"You could make him sit in the reserves for six months, and cost you another two or three million pounds in wages, and we thought about it because what we got out of Marseille wasn't our valuation of the player," said Sullivan, who rejected two initial bids for Payet.
"The player's surrendered his January wages, so there's a bit of dignity we got with that.
"You've got to take a sensible view - the offer was just about what we could accept. I can't say I'm pleased with it. It's a damage limitation deal."
After re-signing for Marseille, where he had previously spent two years, Payet said it was a "personal choice" to return and he needed to go "back to his roots".
Sullivan added: "We tried to talk him round but we accepted we weren't going to be able to. We offered free flights home, help for his wife, everything we could possibly do - but he wanted to go back to Marseille.
"On his day he's an outstanding player. I feel very sad he's no longer a West Ham player." | West Ham's players wanted Dimitri Payet out of the club prior to his move back to Marseille, says the club's joint-chairman David Sullivan. | 38804244 |
Wiebe, 27, beat Kazakhstan's 38-year-old Manyurova 6-0 to add to her gold from the 2014 Commonwealth Games.
She is Canada's second female wrestling Olympic gold medallist, after Carol Huynh's -48kg win at Beijing 2008.
In the bronze-medal bouts, China's Zhang Fengliu beat Belarus' Vasilisa Marzaliuk, and Russia's Ekaterina Bukina saw off Cameroon's Annabel Ali.
The win for Wiebe gave Canada a first wrestling medal of any colour at Rio 2016.
Subscribe to the BBC Sport newsletter to get our pick of news, features and video sent to your inbox. | Canada's Erica Wiebe beat London 2012 bronze medallist Guzel Manyurova to win Olympic -75kg freestyle wrestling gold. | 36690937 |
In a rare comment on his religious beliefs, the prime minister stressed the importance of teaching children about the religious aspects of Easter.
He told BBC Radio Norfolk he wanted Nancy, Arthur and Florence to understand that the festival was more than just "chocolate eggs".
It comes as Downing Street released Mr Cameron's Easter message on YouTube.
In it, he says: "Easter is not just a time for Christians across our country to reflect, but a time for our whole country to reflect on what Christianity brings to Britain."
He speaks of the "countless acts of kindness" carried out every day across the UK by "those who believe in and follow Christ".
"The heart of Christianity is to 'love thy neighbour' and millions do really live that out," he added, praising Alpha courses run in prisons and the "spirit" shown by those who had helped rescue residents during the winter storms across southern England.
By Chris MasonPolitical correspondent, BBC News
There is something about political leaders and their aides being asked about their Christianity that leads to memorable soundbites.
Or perhaps it is because it is a topic they often avoid and so any reference to it is remembered.
Tony Blair's former spin doctor Alastair Campbell was once reported to have batted away a question to the then PM about his faith by saying: "We don't do God."
And David Cameron, when he was leader of the opposition, borrowed a Boris Johnson analogy to compare his belief to the signal of a London radio station in the Chilterns.
In other words, a bit patchy.
Intriguingly, that signal seems rather clearer now.
Three times this week the prime minister has talked with conviction about his faith and what he believes Christianity brings to the UK.
It's a message from an instinctively "county Tory", a Conservative from a rural background, that will appeal to the party heartlands; where some feel bruised by what they see as liberal, metropolitan concerns such as gay marriage.
He said the government had increased funding for the Near Neighbours programme, which encourages members of different faith groups in the inner cities to work together on "social action" projects.
Mr Cameron held a reception for Christian leaders in Downing Street on Wednesday, following a day dominated by the resignation of Culture Secretary Maria Miller after a row over her expenses.
"The Bible tells us to bear one another's burdens. After the day I've had I'm definitely looking for volunteers," he told the gathering.
According to reports on the Bloomberg news service, the prime minister made no reference to gay marriage, a policy overseen by Mrs Miller but which threatened to damage his government's relationship with the Church of England, in his comments.
Instead, he thanked churches for the work they did with the poor and urged them to speak up for Christians suffering persecution around the world.
He said his "moments of greatest peace" occurred every other Thursday morning, when he attended Eucharist at St Mary Abbots, the west London church linked to the school his children attend.
"I find a little bit of peace and hopefully a bit of guidance," he added.
Mr Cameron is said to have referred to Jesus Christ as "our saviour" during the talk.
In an interview with BBC Norfolk on Thursday, Mr Cameron said he and his children mulled over "what Easter is all about" as they ate breakfast that morning.
"I was very impressed with their knowledge about Good Friday and Easter Sunday," he said.
"We had a bit of a conversation about that, (that) it wasn't about chocolate eggs.
"That was one of the themes at breakfast in the Cameron household."
In 2009, Mr Cameron told BBC One's Songs of Praise: "I believe in God and I'm a Christian and I worship - not as regularly as I should - but I go to church.
"Do I drop to my knees and ask for guidance whenever an issue comes up? No, I don't. But it's part of who I am."
British politicians have traditionally shied away from talking about their own religious beliefs in public, an attitude summed up by Tony Blair's former spin doctor Alastair Campbell, who in 2003 was reported to have said: "We don't do God."
Mr Blair was received into the Roman Catholic faith after leaving office and set up a Faith Foundation to promote better understanding between religious groups around the world. | David Cameron has spoken of the "peace" and "guidance" he finds in his Christian faith. | 26986002 |
The excellent Eden Hazard opened the scoring when he burst forward from halfway early in the first half before finishing low into the corner.
Willian then added a second just before the break with a clinical strike.
Scott Arfield shot wide for Burnley, but substitute Victor Moses wrapped up the win by sliding home a late finish.
Victory means Chelsea are currently top of the table, level with Manchester United on nine points from three games, but ahead on goals scored.
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Two seasons ago, Hazard was arguably the best player in the Premier League as his 14 goals and nine assists helped Chelsea to win the title.
However, he was a shadow of his former self last season, failing to score in the Premier League until the end of April.
Under Antonio Conte, he appears to have rediscovered his best form. His goal against Burnley - the Belgium international's second in four games - was reminiscent of those he scored in 2014-15, charging at the defence before despatching a perfectly placed strike beyond Tom Heaton's dive.
The Clarets had no answer for Hazard, whose clever runs and tricky feet caused the visitors' defence, and in particular full-back Matt Lowton, problems throughout.
If Chelsea are to win the title this season, they will need the winger at his best. On his showing so far this season, that appears to be the case.
Conte has favoured either a 4-1-4-1 or a 4-2-4 formation since taking over at Chelsea and both require a lot of work from his wingers.
In order to be effective, they need to stay wide and both Hazard and Willian were hugely successful at doing this. Such a tactic forced Burnley to stretch their defence, so when either winger cut inside there was space for them to work with. The outcome was a goal apiece for Hazard and Willian.
When the two went off, their replacements - Pedro and Moses - picked up from where they left off, combining for Chelsea's third.
Burnley produced arguably the result of the season so far by beating Liverpool 2-0 in their previous Premier League game.
They had just 19% possession against the Reds but made the most of their limited time on the ball, while their disciplined two banks of four frustrated Jurgen Klopp's side throughout. That was not the case in this game.
Burnley failed to work the ball quickly to forwards Andre Gray and Sam Vokes, allowing Chelsea to regroup and cut off their attempts to counter. In the end, they never looked like getting anything from the game.
However, they will rarely face tougher tests than this one. They next face Hull City and with Premier League survival their target for this season, getting a result in that game will be a truer test of what they can achieve this season.
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Chelsea boss Antonio Conte: "I am pleased to see the team play well and create a lot of chances. After 13 games where we have conceded at home, we didn't this time and that is very important. Now we must continue.
"I want Hazard to be decisive at the beginning and I am pleased because I saw this today. However we must continue with his work and the work of the whole team.
"I am pleased to work with these players but if we find a right solution, we want to improve this squad."
Burnley boss Sean Dyche: "They were far too good today. They are too strong in all areas. We want to take on the challenge and I think the lads got too sucked in with the result from last week.
"We did not use the ball at all. There were too many sloppy passes and you just cannot do that against teams like this one.
"They were never in trouble, but we have to learn from these games. This is not really our market, there is a big gap from where they are and where we are.
"We were not close to getting a result today."
After the international break, Burnley entertain Hull on 10 September, while Chelsea travel to Swansea the following day.
Match ends, Chelsea 3, Burnley 0.
Second Half ends, Chelsea 3, Burnley 0.
Attempt saved. César Azpilicueta (Chelsea) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Pedro.
Corner, Burnley. Conceded by César Azpilicueta.
Foul by Pedro (Chelsea).
Matthew Lowton (Burnley) wins a free kick on the right wing.
James Tarkowski (Burnley) is shown the yellow card.
Goal! Chelsea 3, Burnley 0. Victor Moses (Chelsea) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Pedro with a cross.
Victor Moses (Chelsea) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ben Mee (Burnley).
Attempt missed. Michy Batshuayi (Chelsea) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by César Azpilicueta.
Attempt blocked. Sam Vokes (Burnley) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Foul by John Terry (Chelsea).
Sam Vokes (Burnley) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Offside, Burnley. Sam Vokes tries a through ball, but George Boyd is caught offside.
Substitution, Chelsea. Pedro replaces Eden Hazard.
Substitution, Chelsea. Michy Batshuayi replaces Diego Costa.
Eden Hazard (Chelsea) wins a free kick.
Foul by James Tarkowski (Burnley).
Substitution, Chelsea. Victor Moses replaces Willian.
Attempt missed. James Tarkowski (Burnley) header from the left side of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Johann Berg Gudmundsson with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Burnley. Conceded by N'Golo Kanté.
Corner, Burnley. Conceded by Branislav Ivanovic.
Corner, Burnley. Conceded by César Azpilicueta.
Attempt missed. Ben Mee (Burnley) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Johann Berg Gudmundsson with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Burnley. Conceded by Branislav Ivanovic.
Attempt blocked. Aiden O'Neill (Burnley) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Johann Berg Gudmundsson.
Substitution, Burnley. James Tarkowski replaces Dean Marney because of an injury.
Foul by César Azpilicueta (Chelsea).
Stephen Ward (Burnley) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Dean Marney (Burnley) because of an injury.
Corner, Chelsea. Conceded by Matthew Lowton.
Attempt missed. Diego Costa (Chelsea) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Eden Hazard.
Corner, Chelsea. Conceded by Aiden O'Neill.
Attempt blocked. Diego Costa (Chelsea) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Willian.
Attempt saved. Eden Hazard (Chelsea) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Willian.
Attempt missed. Eden Hazard (Chelsea) left footed shot from the centre of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Oscar following a corner.
Corner, Chelsea. Conceded by Michael Keane.
Substitution, Burnley. Aiden O'Neill replaces Steven Defour. | Chelsea continued their perfect start to the season with a comfortable victory over Burnley at Stamford Bridge. | 37139886 |
Khizr Khan told a rapturous crowd that his son Humayun had sacrificed his life to save those of his fellow soldiers.
If it had been up to Mr Trump, he said, his son would not have been in America.
Mr Khan asked if Mr Trump had "even read the United States Constitution", and offered to lend him his copy.
Appearing on stage in Philadelphia with his wife, Mr Khan, 65, paid tribute to their son who was killed by a car bomb in 2004 at the age of 27.
"Tonight we are honoured to stand here as parents of Captain Humayun Khan and as patriotic American Muslims with undivided loyalty to the country,"
He said Mr Trump, by contrast, had "sacrificed nothing and no-one".
"Donald Trump consistently smears the character of Muslims," he continued.
Mr Khan, a Pakistani-born legal consultant, moved to the US with his family in 1980.
As delegates cheered, he said: "Donald Trump... have you even read the United States Constitution?"
Waving his copy of the document, he said he would gladly lend it to Mr Trump, and invited him to look for the word "liberty" and the 14th amendment on equal protection before the law.
The Democrats have focused on the themes of diversity and inclusiveness during the campaign.
They have consistently accused Mr Trump of sowing discord, notably with his plan to build a wall along the Mexican border and his threat to ban Muslims from entering the US.
In her final speech at the convention, Hillary Clinton - who will face Mr Trump in November's presidential election - said the Republican candidate "wants to divide us - from the rest of the world, and from each other".
Mr Trump tweeted that the speech had failed to address the threat posed by radical Islam, making the former secretary of state unfit to lead the country. | The father of a Muslim US soldier killed in Iraq has condemned Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, in an impassioned speech on the final day of the Democratic convention. | 36921638 |
Craig Tanner scored the opener for Plymouth in the 16th minute before Craig Slater's superb free-kick made it 1-1 in the 31st minute.
There was a 10-minute delay in the closing stages after referee Johnson collided with Plymouth's Jimmy Spencer.
It took until the 87th minute for the match to be decided when Ryan Donaldson's instinctive charge-down looped over keeper Sam Walker.
Plymouth held on through 16 minutes of added time for their 11th win in those 13 unbeaten matches.
Both clubs' physios treated Johnson on the field before he was taken to nearby Derriford Hospital.
"We don't have any major concerns about him," Plymouth Argyle club doctor Paul Giles told the club website after the match.
"There was a rumour that he had a fit - there were no fits. He was alert and talking right throughout the whole incident.
"There was an accidental collision and he was struck in the back and had a hyper-extension injury to his neck, and heard a click. He was alert; he was orientated; he didn't lose consciousness."
Match ends, Plymouth Argyle 2, Colchester United 1.
Second Half ends, Plymouth Argyle 2, Colchester United 1.
Attempt saved. Macauley Bonne (Colchester United) left footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Corner, Colchester United. Conceded by Ryan Donaldson.
Corner, Colchester United. Conceded by Connor Smith.
Corner, Colchester United. Conceded by Ben Purrington.
Sonny Bradley (Plymouth Argyle) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Chris Porter (Colchester United).
Foul by Jake Jervis (Plymouth Argyle).
Lloyd Doyley (Colchester United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Nauris Bulvitis (Plymouth Argyle) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Chris Porter (Colchester United).
Foul by Jake Jervis (Plymouth Argyle).
Richard Brindley (Colchester United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Plymouth Argyle. Connor Smith replaces James Spencer.
Corner, Plymouth Argyle. Conceded by Alex Wynter.
Hand ball by Chris Porter (Colchester United).
Foul by Nauris Bulvitis (Plymouth Argyle).
Chris Porter (Colchester United) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Substitution, Colchester United. Macauley Bonne replaces Denny Johnstone.
Substitution, Colchester United. Sammie Szmodics replaces Craig Slater.
Substitution, Colchester United. Tarique Fosu-Henry replaces Kane Vincent-Young.
Attempt missed. Yann Songo'o (Plymouth Argyle) header from very close range is close, but misses the top right corner following a corner.
Corner, Plymouth Argyle. Conceded by Richard Brindley.
Corner, Plymouth Argyle. Conceded by Lloyd Doyley.
Goal! Plymouth Argyle 2, Colchester United 1. Ryan Donaldson (Plymouth Argyle) left footed shot from the left side of the box to the centre of the goal.
Substitution, Plymouth Argyle. Ryan Donaldson replaces Craig Tanner.
Attempt missed. James Spencer (Plymouth Argyle) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.
Hand ball by Chris Porter (Colchester United).
Graham Carey (Plymouth Argyle) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Graham Carey (Plymouth Argyle).
Richard Brindley (Colchester United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Nauris Bulvitis (Plymouth Argyle).
Chris Porter (Colchester United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Nauris Bulvitis (Plymouth Argyle) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Nauris Bulvitis (Plymouth Argyle).
Chris Porter (Colchester United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Nauris Bulvitis (Plymouth Argyle).
Chris Porter (Colchester United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Delay in match Kurtis Guthrie (Colchester United) because of an injury. | Plymouth extended their unbeaten League Two run to 13 matches with a win over Colchester in a match that saw referee Kevin Johnson leave the field on a stretcher following a collision. | 37737139 |
The foreign secretary told MPs the UK government would achieve this via the joint ministerial committee process.
Plaid Cymru hailed this as "seemingly a major concession" from UK ministers.
On Monday, Welsh First Minister Carwyn Jones urged the prime minister to listen to voices outside the Westminster "bubble" on Brexit.
Responding to a question from Plaid Cymru MP Jonathan Edwards on Tuesday, Mr Johnson said: "We work closely under the joint ministerial committee to bring in the devolved administrations and to make sure that the great deal we're going to get has their endorsement and their approval."
Mr Edwards had asked the foreign secretary to ensure "in the spirit of co-operation" that the final Brexit deal was endorsed by the devolved parliaments before it was signed.
"This is seemingly a major concession from the British government and one that Plaid Cymru has been calling for since before the referendum was held," Mr Edwards said afterwards.
"Wales, as an exporting nation, has a major stake in these negotiations and it is right that the final deal should be endorsed by all four countries before it is signed."
He added: "The British government must now stick to its word and I will be seeking clarity from the prime minister and the Brexit secretary to ensure that the foreign secretary's concession today is honoured." | UK ministers are working closely with Welsh and Scottish counterparts "to make sure" the final Brexit deal has their approval, Boris Johnson has said. | 40568059 |
Ahmad Zeidan, 23, was sentenced to nine years in 2014, but claims he was tortured into admitting drugs charges.
His father Manal Zeidan said that his son, from Reading, decided to stop his hunger strike after being visited by a British official in prison.
The Foreign Office said it was continuing to assist Zeidan.
UAE authorities have previously denied all torture claims against Zeidan, who is being held at a prison in Sharjah.
Zeidan was a student at the Emirates Aviation College in Dubai when police found 0.04 grams of cocaine, worth around £3, in a friend's car he was a passenger in.
The other men were given pardons or acquitted but Zeidan, the only Briton in the group, was jailed for nine years.
Mr Zeidan said his son had not eaten for a "few days" but was persuaded to end his stance after meeting with a representative from the British embassy.
He said he had been promised the UK would raise the case again formally if a motion to reduce his sentence at a court hearing next month was successful.
"If the motion fails or the Foreign Office does not formally raise his case then he will restart his hunger strike," Mr Zeidan added.
"I am very worried about his health and his hopelessness.
"He told me he can't take much more of this."
A Foreign Office spokeswoman said the case was "regularly" raised with the UAE government.
"We cannot interfere in another country's judicial system just as we would not allow another country to interfere in ours," she added. | A British student in a United Arab Emirates jail has temporarily ended a hunger strike over the UK government's "lack of action". | 40566697 |
The four cyclists say they were hurt at a spot near Gnosall in Staffordshire.
The injuries - including a slashed elbow - happened in separate incidents over a three-week period.
The local authority says it has fixed the issue - one of about 20,000 potholes it deals with annually across a road network of 6,000km.
More stories from across Staffordshire.
Greg Dancer is among those seeking compensation for the injuries sustained last November.
He said he knocked out his front teeth and tore his top lip when he "took the centre line" on a flooded road - injuries that left him "drinking through a straw".
Paul Rowlands said he was hurt a week later, breaking his collarbone and some ribs when he was "catapulted over the handlebars".
He said he was "practically unconscious" and lying in water because of the cavity which, he said, he reported.
Glen MacDonald-Jones said a week after that, he boosted the pothole's injury toll with a slashed elbow, adding a fourth cyclist broke his collarbone two days later.
He said a flooded road meant he kept to its centre apex but the next moment, he was on his back.
The group says it wants to bring legal action against the local authority.
Mr Rowlands said: "Clearly we want some compensation for our injuries and for the damage to our bikes, but ultimately we want Staffordshire County Council to sort out the roads so as they're safe for everybody."
The authority said pothole repairs were prioritised according to the risk posed to the "travelling public", with reported defects "inspected as soon as possible".
It added it aimed to deal with defects posing "immediate risk" within seven days, with "lesser priority potholes" addressed when resources became available. | Smashed teeth, a torn lip and broken collarbones are among the injuries to cyclists who say they all went over the same pothole. | 39809666 |
It has become closely associated with globalisation and is a frequent target for critics of the process.
The WTO's main functions are to provide a forum for negotiations to reduce barriers to international commerce, and to administer a system of rules governing trade.
The WTO was established in 1995, when it took over essentially the same functions from the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (Gatt), which came into force in 1948.
One of the motivations for creating the Gatt was a wish to dismantle the barriers to trade that had been erected between the two world wars.
Most economists regard the establishment of these interwar trade barriers as misguided and say they probably aggravated the Great Depression of the 1930s.
A series of eight "rounds" of negotiations under the Gatt led to the progressive reduction in trade tariffs - taxes which are imposed only on imported products.
The eighth and final such round, known as the "Uruguay Round" ended with a much wider agreement.
This went beyond the Gatt's focus on trade in industrial goods, and covered services, such as banking and telecommunications, intellectual property and agricultural subsidies.
The Uruguay Round also led to the establishment of the WTO with a new and more effective system for dealing with trade disputes.
The WTO has seen the launch of one new set of global trade negotiations. It is called the Doha Round; it was launched in the Qatari capital in November 2001. Progress has been very slow.
The Round has produced an agreement on "trade facilitation" which means improving customs procedures. Agreement on other aspects, including further reductions in tariffs and farm subsidies, has been elusive.
The supreme decision making body of the WTO is the ministerial conference which meets periodically.
Much of the detailed negotiating is done by embassies in Geneva, where the WTO has its headquarters.
The organisation provides a system for resolving disputes, when a country alleges that another has violated WTO rules.
The WTO's day to day business is conducted by its secretariat, with more than 600 regular staff under a director-general, currently Roberto Azevdo, a Brazilian diplomat.
The director-general is a key figure in leading negotiations, although decisions are taken by member governments. Mr Azevedo succeeded the France's Pascal Lamy in 2013.
Critics of the WTO argue that it is pursuing an agenda driven by business interests and that its rules undermine the sovereignty of its member states.
In recent years, the lack of progress in the Doha Round talks has led some countries to seek trade agreements among smaller groups.
These include the Trans-Atlantic trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), a negotiation underway between the EU and US - and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TTP), which also involves the US.
As the negotiating effort of major governments has shifted towards these agreements, so has the attention of critics. All the leading world economies are members of the WTO.
European Union countries are all members, but they act together in the WTO as the EU. As well as its existing 162 members, a further 21 countries have applied to join the WTO, including Iran, Iraq and Syria.
Negotiations can be very slow. Algeria for example applied in 1987 (to the WTO's predecessor, the Gatt) and has still not agreed membership terms. | The World Trade Organization (WTO) is an international agency with 162 member countries and its purpose is to promote international commerce. | 35074942 |
Hamilton, 31, is in the running for the award, along with Lionel Messi, Usain Bolt, Novak Djokovic, Jordan Spieth and basketball player Stephen Curry.
There are six British nominations for the awards, voted for by sports media.
Heptathlete Jessica Ennis-Hill, the GB Davis Cup team, swimmer Adam Peaty, mountain cyclist Rachel Atherton and boxer Tyson Fury are also short-listed.
The winners will be announced at the Laureus World Sports Awards in Berlin on 18 April:
Usain Bolt (Jamaica) athletics, Stephen Curry (US) basketball, Novak Djokovic (Serbia) tennis, Lewis Hamilton (GB) motor racing, Lionel Messi (Argentina) football, Jordan Spieth (US) golf.
Genzebe Dibaba (Ethiopia) athletics, Anna Fenninger (Austria) skiing, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (Jamaica) athletics, Katie Ledecky (US) swimming, Carli Lloyd (US) football, Serena Williams (US) tennis.
All Blacks (New Zealand) rugby, FC Barcelona (Spain) football, Golden State Warriors (US) basketball, Great Britain Davis Cup Team (tennis), Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula One Team (Germany), US Women's Football Team.
Chile Men's Football Team, Jason Day (Australia) golf, Tyson Fury (UK) boxing, Adam Peaty (UK) swimming, Jordan Spieth (US) golf, Max Verstappen (Netherlands) motor racing.
Dan Carter (New Zealand) rugby, Jessica Ennis-Hill (UK) athletics, Mick Fanning (Australia) surfing, Michael Phelps (US) swimming, David Rudisha (Kenya) athletics, Lindsey Vonn (US) skiing.
Marie Bochet (France) skiing, Liu Cuiqing (China) athletics, Daniel Dias (Brazil) swimming, Omara Durand (Cuba) athletics, Pieter Du Preez (South Africa) athletics, cycling, Leung Yuk Wing (China Hong Kong) boccia.
Rachel Atherton (UK) mountain biking, Bob Burnquist (Brazil) skateboard, Adriano de Souza (Brazil) surfing, Mick Fanning (Australia) surfing, Jan Frodeno (Germany) ironman triathlon, Chloe Kim (US) snowboarding. | Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton has been nominated for the title of Laureus World Sportsman of the Year. | 35706859 |
The executive collapsed over a botched green energy scheme.
"There was no alternative to an election. We went to the DUP before Christmas, Martin McGuinness spoke to Arlene Foster - we asked her privately to step aside so we could facilitate an inquiry.
The DUP hardened up their position over Christmas and tried to dress it up as an attack on unionism and we ran out of road.
If the institutions don't have the peoples' confidence then it can't function. "
"It's been clear for several weeks now that Sinn Féin have been looking to manufacture a crisis and collapse the institutions here.
"We want to see an RHI investigation. Sinn Féin were the ones who frustrated that. They said Arlene Foster had to step aside - she had done nothing wrong, so why would she have?
"When Martin McGuinness went that impediment was gone. They still didn't want a judge-lead inquiry."
erry Carroll says that "this is a once in a lifetime election"
"It was a sad day to see the Institutions, created after many years of hard negotiations, being collapsed by a combination of political opportunism by Sinn Féin and gross incompetence and arrogance by the DUP.'
"This is a once in a lifetime election-a judgement day for all those who have taken the electorate for granted.
"We call on everyone, irrespective of the community that they come from, to punish the big parties for their failure to deliver anything for ordinary people. | Politicians have been reacting to the news that Northern Ireland will go to the polls on 2 March to elect a new Assembly. | 38644157 |
The black Staffordshire bull terrier, known as Watchman IV, retired in 2009.
The regiment said Watchman IV - also known as Stormer - had met the Queen twice and "brought joy to hundreds of people" at regimental occasions.
His coffin was carried through Burton in a procession attended by the mayor of East Staffordshire, and buried in gardens near the town hall.
Jim Massey, secretary of the Staffordshire Regimental Association, said: "Watchman was the fourth mascot we have had since World War Two.
"He was a particularly placid, well-behaved dog and a great regimental character, during the 10 years he spent with us.
"When we put his special coat on him, he knew he was going to get petted by hundreds of people but he never got growly with them."
Watchman IV, who was 15 when he died, lived with his handler Malcolm Bower and his wife. Mr Bower died in 2010.
The dog met the Queen in April 2006 at the 800th anniversary of Stafford borough and also at a remembrance service at Westminster Abbey.
Mr Massey said the dog had brought "instant recognition" to the regiment at such events.
"The mayor said a few words, we read a poem by his handler and we played the Last Post," said Mr Massey.
"We tried to do this in a dignified and appropriate way." | A dog that was a mascot for the Staffordshire Regiment Association has received a ceremonial burial. | 25419508 |
The US owner of Staples has sold the UK arm, which employs 1,100 people across 106 stores, to Hilco for a "nominal" sum.
Hilco said it was planning to phase out Staples-branded shops over the coming months.
Staples also has online and business-to-business operations.
Paul McGowan of Hilco, which also owns entertainment retailer HMV, said: "While retail in the UK has been challenged recently, a team led by retail veteran Alan Gaynor will work alongside the existing management team to build a plan for success for the business."
Staples placed its European business under review in May after it was forced to abandon a $6.3bn merger with fellow US office supply giant, Office Depot, on competition grounds.
Shira Goodman, chief executive of Staples, said selling the UK business was in line with its strategy of focusing on the North American and mid-market business.
She said Staples was continuing to make "good progress" on the rest of its European business to allow the company to "streamline our operations, sharpen our focus and more aggressively pursue our mid-market growth strategy".
This year, a number of retailers have already closed or said they will shut down their UK shops, including department store group BHS, and clothing specialists such as Austin Reed, American Apparel and Banana Republic.
The Hilco deal comes after recent reports suggesting Staples was in talks with investment firm Cerberus over a sale of its entire European business.
According to its most recent accounts, Staples' UK business reported pre-tax losses of £5m for the year to January 2015, down £2.1m from the previous 12 months.
However, its online and business-to-business divisions have fared better than the stores. | The UK High Street is losing another brand following the sale of Staples, the stationery specialist, to a restructuring company. | 38013806 |
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Taricaya turtles are classed as vulnerable because of changes in their habitat in the Amazon river.
It's thought development and logging may have caused their population to drop.
Conservationists hope that the mass release of the turtles will boost their numbers. | Thousands of baby turtles have been released into the wild in Peru to help boost an endangered species. | 37833704 |
Seven memorials have been given newly protected status and eight have had their protection upgraded, Historic England said.
The Battle of the Somme began on 1 July 1916 and is considered to be one of the bloodiest in human history.
On the first day alone, almost 60,000 soldiers were killed, hurt or missing.
When the battle ended in November 1916 about one million soldiers were dead or wounded, among them were 420,000 British casualties.
Memorials to the Pals Battalions are among those to receive greater protected status.
Many recruits in the Pals Battalions did not see major action until the Somme, when they suffered heavy casualties, with towns, cities and even particular streets losing a large number of men.
There are also memorials for nurses, vets, and a young scout killed in the battle.
One memorial, a simple stone pillar on the North Yorkshire Moors, commemorates two young shepherds who were boyhood friends and signed up together in 1914.
David Evennett, heritage minister, said: "These memorials are a poignant reminder of those who lost their lives in the Battle of the Somme 100 years ago and an important part of our heritage."
Bradford War Memorial, Bradford, West Yorkshire
Memorial to the Leeds Pals, Healey, West Yorkshire
Carlton Colville Scouts Memorial, Carlton Colville, Suffolk,
Commondale Shepherd's Memorial, Commondale, North Yorkshire,
1st Surrey Rifles, St Giles' Church, Camberwell, London
Green Howards Regimental Cross, Richmond, North Yorkshire
Penrith War Memorial at St Andrew's, Penrith, Cumbria
Accrington War Memorial, Oak Hill Park, Lancashire
Barnsley War Memorial, Barnsley, South Yorkshire
Sheffield War Memorial, Sheffield, South Yorkshire
City and County of London Troops War Memorial, Royal Exchange, London
The Rifle Brigade War Memorial, Westminster, London
Lichfield War Memorial, Lichfield, Staffordshire
Preston War Memorial, Preston, Lancashire
War Memorial at All Saints (Garrison Church), Aldershot, Hampshire | More than a dozen war memorials have received greater protected status to mark the centenary of the Battle of the Somme. | 36656300 |
Alt News website reported on Wednesday that the ministry used the picture in its annual report to show that it had installed floodlights in border areas.
But the website said the picture was taken in 2006 by Spanish photographer Javier Moyano of the Ceuta enclave.
The ministry has reportedly ordered an inquiry into the "embarrassing gaffe".
Edited Modi flood photo sparks mockery
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government has faced similar online mockery in the past for using wrong or photo-shopped pictures in official press releases and reports.
India's state-run Press Information Bureau in 2015 tweeted an obviously edited image of Mr Modi surveying deadly Chennai floods.
In the latest gaffe, the home ministry included the picture in its report which was published on its website.
After Alt News reported the error, many Indians took to Twitter to mock the ministry.
The NDTV website reported that Home Secretary Rajiv Mehrishi had demanded an explanation from officials.
"If it's a mistake by the ministry, we will apologise," he said.
The ministry has been installing floodlights in border areas to check smuggling and infiltration.
In its annual report, the ministry said it had floodlit 647km (402 miles) of India's border with Pakistan and Bangladesh.
Officials said it was unclear how a wrong picture made its way into the annual report. | Twitter users are ridiculing India's home ministry for using a picture from Morocco's border with a Spanish territory to highlight its work. | 40284480 |
Greg Duffy accused Tony Fadell of "insulting" Dropcam employees who had joined Nest as part of the takeover.
He also suggested Mr Fadell had "fetishised" some of the worst traits of Apple's Steve Jobs.
Neither Nest nor its owner Alphabet - Google's parent - have responded.
But in an interview published by the Information news site last week, Mr Fadell was quoted as saying: "A lot of [Dropcam's] employees were not as good as we hoped. It was a very small team and unfortunately it wasn't a very experienced team."
The article said Nest later clarified that this only referred to Dropcam employees who had left the business following the merger.
Mr Duffy is among their number.
One expert called the affair "embarrassing".
"American corporates are usually surprisingly discreet and manage to keep grief hidden behind their walls," commented Matthew Gwyther, editor of Management Today.
"You've obviously got an enormous personality ego clash between the two men.
"But I bet this kind of thing is far more common than we normally hear."
Mr Duffy said he posted his thoughts to Medium's site to "set the record straight".
"The 50 Dropcam employees who resigned did so because they felt their ability to build great products being totally crushed," he said.
"All of us have worked at big companies before, where it is harder to move fast. But this is something different, as evidenced by the continued lack of output from the currently 1,200-person team and its virtually unlimited budget.
"According to LinkedIn, total attrition to date at Nest amounts to nearly 500 people, which suggests that we were not alone in our frustrations."
He also challenged Mr Fadell to publish Nest's accounts to reveal how well its internet cameras were faring compared to its smart thermostats and net-connected smoke alarms.
And he attacked Mr Fadell's management style.
"The current leadership of Nest... seems to be fetishising only the most superfluous and negative traits of their mentors. For the sake of the customers and for the talented employees that remain there, I hope they find a way through these struggles."
This appears to be a reference to Mr Fadell's time working alongside Apple's late chief executive Steve Jobs. The two - along with others - developed first the iPod and then the iPhone.
"I've built a lot of my success off finding these truly gifted people and not settling for B and C players, but really going for the A players," Mr Jobs said in an interview.
Apple's co-founder famously added that settling for B players risked creating a "bozo explosion... that kind of company never ever succeeds".
According to the Information, Mr Fadell and Mr Duffy repeatedly clashed in the brief time they worked together.
Mr Fadell recalls telling Mr Duffy he had not "earned" the right to report directly to him.
In turn, Mr Duffy says he told Nest's co-founder that he was running the division like "a tyrant bureaucrat".
It is also reported that Mr Duffy tried and failed to convince Alphabet's chief executive Larry Page to sack Mr Fadell and let him take charge.
Mr Duffy says he now thinks it was a "mistake" to have sold his firm to Nest for $555m (£385m).
"Larry Page is said to be a friend of Fadell, but he would do very well to stay completely out of it," remarked Mr Gwyther.
"It looks terrible to appear to be taking sides against people in your organisation.
"But the wider affair is a reflection of the incredibly high expectations that there are of these tech companies - that you think stuff will happen very quickly and work pretty fast.
"But it's a reminder that it's not always straightforward, and there can be stumbles along the way when trying to create new products." | The chief of Nest - the internet-connected home tech specialist - has been attacked in a blog by the founder of Dropcam, the video camera start-up it acquired less than two years ago. | 35925139 |
Det Chief Insp April Casburn is accused over Operation Varec, which considered whether Scotland Yard's inquiry into phone hacking should be reopened.
Prosecutor Mark Bryant-Heron said she "sought to undermine a highly sensitive and high-profile investigation".
Ms Casburn denies one charge of misconduct in public office.
The charge relates to 11 September 2010 when Ms Casburn, 53, from Hatfield Peverel, Essex, was working in counter-terrorism, managing the National Terrorist Financial Investigation Unit.
Southwark Crown Court heard one of her team had been asked to carry out financial investigations as part of the Scotland Yard inquiry into phone hacking.
It is alleged Ms Casburn rang the NoW's news desk at 07.51 BST to offer information in exchange for payment.
She gave the names of two of the people under investigation during the conversation, it is said.
Mr Bryant-Heron said: "The prosecution says she sought to undermine a highly sensitive and high-profile investigation at the point of its launch.
"The prosecution says, and it's a matter for you 12, that the act of telephoning the News of the World to offer to sell information and the provision of some information during that call was misconduct, it was misconduct in public office.
"It was a gross breach of the trust that the public places in a police officer not to disclose information on a current investigation in an unauthorised way, or to offer to do so in the future for payment."
The newspaper did not publish anything and no payment changed hands, the court heard.
Mr Bryant-Heron said Ms Casburn admits making the phonecall but denies asking for money, and says she had a reasonable excuse.
She says she was concerned that resources that were supposed to be used to combat terrorism were being allocated to the phone hacking investigation, and that much of the information was already public knowledge.
The court heard the call was taken by NoW journalist Tim Wood - who said she refused to give her name, but introduced herself as a senior police officer.
Mr Wood told the jury: "The one thing that stands out in my mind is the fact that she kept going on about Lord Prescott.
"Her saying that he was pressing for them to put charges on the News of the World, and she was saying that she felt it was wrong that he was interfering in the scandal, so to speak, and she resented that."
He added: "She was almost justifying her call by saying that it was this interference by Prescott that had upset her."
The detective told him six people were under investigation including former NoW editor Andy Coulson and reporter Sean Hoare, Mr Wood said.
The court then heard from Det Supt Christos Kalamatianos who led the 60-strong National Terrorist Financial Investigation Unit.
He said his relationship with Ms Casburn was "cordial", but she had accused him of failing to support her and the unit on one or two occasions.
She broke down in tears in the dock as her former colleague gave evidence and was comforted by a member of her legal team.
When questioned about his working relationship with the defendant, Mr Kalamatianos told the court: "I believe I was managing her sensitively, I don't know that I was managing her well."
Meanwhile, Detective Chief Superintendent Dean Haydon, who led Operation Varec in September 2010, told jurors that one financial investigator on Operation Varec admitted he had been at a dinner party with a journalist who worked for the Sun, and had discussed phone hacking.
That investigator was subsequently removed from the team.
The trial was adjourned until Tuesday. | A former counter-terrorism detective offered information about the phone hacking inquiry to the News of the World for money, a court has heard. | 20930046 |
The tourists were bowled out for 255 on day three, before India moved on to 98-3, a lead of 298, with captain Virat Kohli unbeaten on 56.
"We have batted for long periods of time in these conditions previously, so there's no reason why we can't do that on day four and five," said Bairstow.
"The way that Virat played shows that there are runs to be scored."
England slumped to 80-5 on the second evening before Bairstow, who made 53, shared a sixth-wicket stand of 110 with Ben Stokes.
After Stokes fell for 70, England lost their last four wickets for 30 runs.
"It would have been quite easy for us to capitulate and be all out for 150," Bairstow told BBC Sport. "The way we applied ourselves and the runs we scored was pleasing.
"We're still fighting and still hanging in there."
India turned down the opportunity to enforce the follow-on and were reduced to 40-3 before captain Kohli shared an unbroken 58 with Ajinkya Rahane.
The home side are likely to bat until after lunch on Sunday before leaving England more than four sessions to survive on a surface showing uneven bounce and likely to offer increasing amounts of turn.
"The key will to be play straight," said Yorkshire's Bairstow. "We scored more than 500 in the first Test, so we do have the capability.
"It's exciting, but we know it will be a challenge."
However, former England captain Michael Vaughan says the tourists' chances of saving the Test are remote.
Speaking on Test Match Special, Vaughan said: "England will be thinking they need to bat 140 overs in the second innings to get away with a draw.
"I can't see how they can win. The draw is a possibility but it's very, very minute." | England are "still fighting" in the second Test against India, according to wicketkeeper Jonny Bairstow. | 38038571 |
A feature on Nicola Sturgeon appeared in the publication's October edition.
She spoke at length to writer Susie Rushton and had pictures taken by fashion photographer Benjamin McMahon.
Ms Sturgeon told journalists she did "sometimes suffer from a bit of internal conflict" about whether she should take part in such photo shoots.
She said comments about her appearance were often "written in the most hideous and quite cruel way".
The SNP leader added: "I have the dilemma of knowing whatever I do people are going to talk about what I wear and what my hair looks like, and I could and, maybe should, just decide that I'm not going to engage with that on any level.
"Or I can decide, as I sometimes do, that I'll try to turn it into a positive in some way."
Ms Sturgeon went on to explain that she was keen to promote Scottish designers by wearing their clothes.
"But you will find people with different opinion, sometimes I'm a bit internally conflicted by it," she added.
Ms Sturgeon quipped that since Jeremy Corbyn's election as Labour leader, "male politicians are getting talked about for what they wear just as much as female politicians".
She added: "His dress sense has been subject to as much commentary over the past couple of weeks as mine has been." | Scotland's first minister has been speaking of the "conflict" she felt ahead of agreeing to a photo shoot with fashion magazine Vogue. | 34348942 |
Michael Birch was left in a critical but stable condition after the crash in which 23 people were injured.
The bus and lorry collided on Wednesday near Colchester, with the steam engine falling into the front of the bus.
Friends hope to raise £2,000 to help Mr Birch and his family. They described him as a "really genuine guy".
Of the 23 injured in the accident in East Mersea, seven were seriously hurt including the 44-year-old bus driver from Colchester.
A 51-year-old Great Yarmouth man arrested after the collision on suspicion of causing serious injury by dangerous driving has been released on police bail.
Cab driver Dan Hammett, 24, and bus driver Laura Bearder, 37, helped set up the fundraising page for Mr Birch.
Mr Hammett, who has known Mr Birch for several years, said: "One thing you don't want is financial pressure when you're concerned for your loved ones.
"Hopefully if this raises a few hundred pounds for him and his family, it will be a great help, even if it's train tickets to see him in hospital."
By Saturday morning, more than 40 people had pledged a total of almost £600.
Ms Bearder described Mr Birch as a "really loyal, dependable guy."
She said as a fellow bus driver, the news of the crash had rocked her and her colleagues.
"Driving around yesterday, you could tell by the looks on the faces of the other drivers - it's so sad, he's one of ours," she said.
First Essex managing director Alex Jones said the firm had received countless messages of support for its driver from colleagues and customers, and it was supporting his family.
"Our thoughts are also with those customers that were injured as a result of the incident," he said. | A fundraising page has been set up for a bus driver seriously injured in a crash that saw a steam engine fall off a lorry into his bus. | 34357138 |
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The 39-year-old made 121 in the 24-run victory over Yorkshire at Headingley, his 39th limited-overs hundred to go with 61 first-class centuries.
Sangakkara, who retired from international cricket in 2015, says he will quit first-class cricket after this season.
The left-hander has scored 45,529 runs in all forms of cricket.
He brought up his hundred - his eighth of the season in all formats - with a single to third man off Matt Fisher as Surrey posted 313-7. Yorkshire managed 289-9 in reply.
Sangakkara has enjoyed a stellar summer in County Championship Division One, averaging 90.60 in six matches.
Last month he fell 16 runs short of becoming only the fourth player to make six consecutive first-class centuries.
The former Sri Lanka captain is fifth on the all-time list of leading Test run scorers with 12,400 in 134 Tests, and only India legend Sachin Tendulkar has made more than Sangakkara's 14,234 runs in 404 one-day internationals. | Sri Lankan Kumar Sangakkara scored the 100th century of his career in Surrey's One-Day Cup quarter-final win. | 40265703 |
Shkelzen "Genny" Dauti, 21, from Albania, died in hospital after being found in Gilpin Close, Southampton, in the early hours of Saturday 11 March.
Christopher Jones, 27, of Denbigh, and Lee Marc Williams, also 27, of Lixwm Village, Flintshire, have both been charged with murder.
They are due before Southampton magistrates on Friday. | Two men have been charged with the murder of a man who was found in a street with a stab wound to the chest. | 40049805 |
Borough of Poole Council plans to start charging at Upton County Park and other parks, beaches and playing fields.
Whitecliff Residents Association said surrounding streets would be "flooded" by motorists looking for alternative free parking.
The council said the move could raise £0.5m a year.
The council is proposing on-street charges round Sandbanks, at Upton County Park and at open spaces including Whitecliff Park, Hamworthy Park, Lake Pier, Newfoundland Drive Skateboard park and Rockley Park.
Opponents claim charges will discourage people from visiting parks and taking part in sport and fitness activities.
A petition opposing the plans has attracted almost 2,000 signatures and members of Whitecliff Residents Association have written to the government to complain.
Association chairman Bob Lister said: "If they put in car parking charges, they will flood our road which is already congested."
The council's transport portfolio holder John Rampton insisted introducing charges was a "financial imperative".
"It's a very small ask - we don't believe people's behaviour will change that much."
"Councils are in such a difficult position - they have to make savings and make money and commercialise, where they can, if they are to survive and provide services to the most vulnerable people in our society."
If the plans are approved following public consultation, charges could be in place by Easter. | Plans to introduce car park charges at parks in a Dorset town could increase congestion in nearby streets, campaigners have claimed. | 35469697 |
Hamilton decided to join Mercedes after the 2012 Singapore Grand Prix, in which he had to retire from the lead.
His then McLaren team-mate Button said: "Lewis is one of the quickest guys ever in an F1 car but he did not know [they would be so quick] when he signed.
"We're all emotional, he took it emotionally, but it has paid off."
Hamilton, who has won the past two titles, has always insisted the decision was based on Mercedes' plans for the future, after several weeks of persuasion from then team boss Ross Brawn and non-executive chairman Niki Lauda.
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Brawn and Lauda sold Hamilton on their plans for the new turbo hybrid formula, which they have dominated since its introduction in 2014.
But at the time of Hamilton's decision, Mercedes were far less competitive than McLaren, for whom Hamilton won four races and secured seven pole positions in a tightly contested season.
Hamilton's relations with McLaren, and particularly chairman Ron Dennis, had soured and his retirement from Singapore with gearbox failure was one of a series of problems that year that prevented him mounting a more serious title challenge as the championship was fought out between Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel and Ferrari's Fernando Alonso.
Button said: "I don't think anyone thought he was doing the right thing and at that moment in time it wasn't the right thing to do.
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"But he has walked into a team that has improved dramatically. They have done an amazing job but you couldn't have envisaged that at that moment in time.
"I think he was upset with the situation he had in McLaren. It was off the back of a DNF when leading in Singapore."
BBC F1 Review, Saturday, 12 December, 13:00 GMT, BBC One | Lewis Hamilton's decision to join Mercedes was "emotional" and not based on knowledge of the team's potential, according to Jenson Button. | 35007705 |
It warns that if someone contracts gonorrhoea, it is now much harder to treat, and in some cases impossible.
The sexually transmitted infection is rapidly developing resistance to antibiotics.
Experts said the situation was "fairly grim" with few new drugs on the horizon.
About 78 million people pick up the STI each year and it can cause infertility.
The World Health Organization analysed data from 77 countries which showed gonorrhoea's resistance to antibiotics was widespread.
Dr Teodora Wi, from the WHO, said there had even been three cases - in Japan, France and Spain - where the infection was completely untreatable.
She said: "Gonorrhoea is a very smart bug, every time you introduce a new class of antibiotics to treat gonorrhoea, the bug becomes resistant."
Worryingly, the vast majority of gonorrhoea infections are in poor countries where resistance is harder to detect.
"These cases may just be the tip of the iceberg," she added.
Gonorrhoea can infect the genitals, rectum and throat, but it is the last that is most concerning health officials.
Dr Wi said antibiotics could lead to bacteria in the back of the throat, including relatives of gonorrhoea, developing resistance.
She said: "When you use antibiotics to treat infections like a normal sore throat, this mixes with the Neisseria species in your throat and this results in resistance."
Thrusting gonorrhoea bacteria into this environment through oral sex can lead to super-gonorrhoea.
"In the US, resistance [to an antibiotic] came from men having sex with men because of pharyngeal infection," she added.
A decline in condom use, which had soared because of fears of HIV/Aids, is thought to help the infection spread.
The disease is caused by the bacterium called Neisseria gonorrhoea.
The infection is spread by unprotected vaginal, oral and anal sex.
Symptoms can include a thick green or yellow discharge from sexual organs, pain when urinating and bleeding between periods.
However, of those infected, about one in 10 heterosexual men and more than three-quarters of women, and gay men, have no easily recognisable symptoms.
Untreated infection can lead to infertility, pelvic inflammatory disease and can be passed on to a child during pregnancy.
The World Health Organization is calling on countries to monitor the spread of resistant gonorrhoea and to invest in new drugs.
Dr Manica Balasegaram, from the Global Antibiotic Research and Development Partnership, said: "The situation is fairly grim.
"There are only three drug candidates in the entire drug [development] pipeline and no guarantee any will make it out."
But ultimately, the WHO said vaccines would be needed to stop gonorrhoea.
Prof Richard Stabler, from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, said: "Ever since the introduction of penicillin, hailed as a reliable and quick cure, gonorrhoea has developed resistance to all therapeutic antibiotics.
"In the past 15 years therapy has had to change three times following increasing rates of resistance worldwide.
"We are now at a point where we are using the drugs of last resort, but there are worrying signs as treatment failure due to resistant strains has been documented."
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It's hard to say if more people around the world are having more oral sex than they used to, as there isn't much reliable global data available.
Data from the UK and US show it's very common, and has been for years, including among teenagers.
The UK's first National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles, carried out in 1990-1991, found 69.7% of men and 65.6% of women had given oral sex to, or received it from, a partner of the opposite sex in the previous year.
By the time of the second survey during 1999-2001, this had increased to 77.9% for men and 76.8% for women, but hasn't changed much since.
A national survey in the US, meanwhile, has found about two-thirds of 15-24 year olds have ever had oral sex.
Dr Mark Lawton from the British Association for Sexual Health and HIV said people with gonorrhoea in the throat would be unlikely to realise it and thus be more likely to pass it on via oral sex.
He recognises that while condoms would reduce the risk of transmission, many people wouldn't want to use them.
"My message would be to get tested so at least if you've got it you know about it," Dr Lawton said. | Oral sex is producing dangerous gonorrhoea and a decline in condom use is helping it to spread, the World Health Organization has said. | 40520125 |
The Scottish government is facing demands from environmental campaigners for a permanent ban on unconventional oil and gas extraction.
It follows Mr Ewing's announcement in January of a "moratorium" on fracking.
Mr Ewing told MSPs the temporary ban would remain in place until the Scottish government had carried out a full public consultation.
There will also be a public health assessment, planning guidance is to be strengthened and environmental regulations are to be reviewed.
In BBC Scotland Investigates: The War Over Fracking, to be broadcast on Wednesday night, Mr Ewing was asked about the likelihood of a permanent ban.
He said: "We should have a national debate about the topic, especially since we are to acquire, we hope, powers in respect of the unconventional oil and gas issue before very long.
"So this is the right time to have a national debate informed by evidence."
The minister is then asked: "If the Scottish public clearly says it doesn't want this, will that be enough for you to introduce a permanent ban?"
Mr Ewing replies: "Well, let's see what the debate comprises. I don't want to prejudge that debate."
The energy minister tells the programme: "Hydraulic fracturing has been carried out in the USA on a very large scale. But the central belt of Scotland is not North Dakota.
"It is different and we need to think how it will be, how it may be, applied to Scotland."
The programme also heard from Ineos director, Tom Crotty, who said shale gas would have a crucial role to play in the future of the company's huge petrochemicals plant at Grangemouth.
Mr Crotty said: "We need to address a lot of misconceptions that have grown up over the last couple of years about this industry.
"We believe it is extremely safe and we have to persuade people of that."
One of Scotland's leading experts on fracking told the programme public confidence in the ability of the authorities to regulate the industry would be key.
Zoe Shipton, professor of geological engineering at the University of Strathclyde and a member of the Scottish government's Independent Expert Panel on Unconventional Oil and Gas, said: "We know how to engineer the process so that it will minimise the risk of ground water, surface water contamination, unintended releases of methane and so on.
"But clearly, when you think about local communities there are real issues of trust."
The documentary also examines the impact fracking could have on the Scottish environment and on carbon emissions.
Dr Richard Dixon, director of Friends of the Earth Scotland, said: "In Scotland, we already produce seven times more fossil fuels than we use.
"Around the world we produce about five times more fossil fuels than we can possibly afford to burn if we're to avoid disastrous climate change.
"So the last thing we need anywhere, but particularly in Scotland, is new fossil fuels."
Scottish Green MSP Patrick Harvie said he believed many communities in Scotland would be "alarmed" at Mr Ewing's comments.
He added: "Not only is the SNP's energy minister still talking about this dangerous industry as an opportunity, but he appears to be suggesting it will eventually take place."
Supporters of the unconventional oil and gas industry say burning shale gas, rather than coal, to produce electricity, could help reduce global carbon emissions.
Fergus Ewing believes the Scottish government's policy on fracking should be based on a "rational analysis" of the facts.
He's found himself at the heart of an increasingly heated and divisive debate.
And he knows it is an issue fraught with political dangers.
Industrial giants like Ineos believe any genuinely "rational analysis" will result in approval for unconventional oil and gas extraction in Scotland.
They say it could transform the prospects for Scottish manufacturing and argue the potential environmental impact has been exaggerated.
But Mr Ewing has a problem.
That's because environmental campaigners and the growing number of community-based anti-fracking groups believe his "rational analysis" of the facts will win the day for them.
They point to local environmental impacts and the over-arching issue of climate change.
The Scottish government's moratorium, announced in January, has given Mr Ewing much-needed breathing space.
It means the issue won't have to be settled until after next year's Scottish parliamentary elections.
But difficult decisions lie ahead for the minister.
Both sides in the war over fracking welcomed his announcement of the moratorium as an opportunity for them to make their case, and ultimately win the day.
The clock is ticking.
More than a century ago, the shale oil industry transformed the landscape of central Scotland.
Today, the shale bings of West Lothian still stand testament to that.
Sooner or later, we will have to decide if it is time to go frack to the future.
BBC Scotland Investigates: The War Over Fracking will be broadcast on BBC1 Scotland at 1930 on Wednesday 29 April. It will also be available on the BBC iPlayer. | Scottish Energy Minister Fergus Ewing has called for a "national debate" on fracking in a BBC Scotland interview. | 32479225 |
Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe admitted the force must "do more to build trust" after an inquest jury found the 29-year-old was lawfully killed.
Mr Duggan was shot dead by police in August 2011 in Tottenham, north London.
Sir Bernard will meet community leaders in Haringey to discuss how "confidence" in the Met can be improved.
The family of Mr Duggan reacted with anger after the jury concluded by a majority of eight to two that he was lawfully killed by officers.
Mr Duggan, whose death sparked protests that descended into rioting and looting across London and spread to other parts of England, was shot when police stopped a taxi he was travelling in.
Following the conclusion of the four-month inquest at the Royal Courts of Justice on Wednesday, his aunt Carole Duggan said he had been "executed".
Sir Bernard said: "I want to express my sympathy to Mark Duggan's family. They've lost a son and brother and their friends have lost a friend.
"That's a terrible event for everybody and they've had to wait a long time for this verdict.
"I hope that everybody's able to accept the verdict of the jury. It's a jury of ordinary Londoners who have come to a verdict which we all have to accept.
"I do acknowledge that we need to do more to build trust with the people of London and there are things that we need to learn from this event.
"First of all, I want our officers to be able to be more open when it comes to the investigations that follow these events.
"In pursuance of that we're going to ask them to wear video cameras, so that we can record this type of incident, and I'm going to meet many people from across London, leaders from the Haringey community, to see what we need to do to work together to improve the confidence in the Met for those members of society who may feel that this has damaged their confidence in any way."
The jury of seven women and three men was asked to answer five questions over Mr Duggan's death.
The panel concluded he did not have a gun when he was shot by officers who surrounded a minicab he was travelling in.
But the jury said it was more likely than not that Mr Duggan had thrown a gun from the vehicle just before he was killed. The weapon was found about 20ft (6m) away from the scene.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) is currently conducting an investigation into his death.
Speaking to BBC Radio, the Duggan's family lawyer Marcia Willis Stewart said there were "inconsistencies" in the inquest's findings.
"The officer always said that Mark Duggan had a gun in his hand. He described it in detail," she said.
"What we have is a finding that is at odds [with the police officer's evidence]."
She added that a lack of video evidence meant the truth may never be known.
"The issue about the gun is a question because we have a situation where there was not video recording.
"The only video recording was that of the resuscitation, so we will never know," she said.
After the inquest findings, she said the family would seek a meeting with the IPCC, their MP David Lammy, and MP Keith Vaz, in order to ensure there is "a vigorous review" of events.
Deborah Coles, from the charity Inquest, said Mr Duggan's family were considering whether to apply for the decision to be judicially reviewed. | Firearms officers are to wear video cameras in an attempt to be "more open" following the death of Mark Duggan, the Met Police Commissioner has said. | 25663495 |
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His exhibition is called Dismaland and features the work of lots of other famous artists.
The art works are all meant to look like the sorts of things you would normally expect from a theme park, but with a twist.
Banksy keeps his identity a secret and police and some local councils, think his work is graffiti and remove it.
But the owners of some of the buildings he has worked on make lots of money from selling it at auction.
This latest attraction by Banksy and his friends is his biggest event yet and is already attracting lots of people.
Watch Ricky's report to find out more. | The mysterious artist known as Banksy has created an art exhibition on the site of a old, abandoned theme park called Tropicana in Weston-super-Mare in the south-west of England. | 33999257 |
A RNLI lifeboat made the discovery four miles east of the town shortly after 11:00 GMT on Wednesday.
A spokesman for Dorset Police said there were no suspicious circumstances and the matter had been referred to the coroner.
Police said it was thought the man's body had been in the water for several weeks. | The death of a man whose body was found in the sea off the coast of Weymouth is not being treated as suspicious. | 34730441 |
Paula Vasco-Knight admitted paying her husband Stephen, 46, for work on a publication which never existed.
She was CEO at South Devon NHS Foundation Trust and national lead for equalities for NHS England at the time.
The 53-year old was given a 16-month prison sentence, suspended for two years, and ordered to do 250 hours unpaid work by Exeter Crown Court.
More on the sentencing and other stories from the South West >
Mr Vasco-Knight admitted submitting an invoice to the NHS in 2013 knowing he had not produced any work.
He was sentenced to 10 months, suspended for two years, for his involvement and ordered to do 150 hours unpaid work.
The pair initially pleaded not guilty to fraud but later changed their plea to guilty.
When questioned by police the pair provided a document which they claimed Mr Vasco-Knight had produced.
But it emerged material in it was copied from a document from the King's Fund which had not been publicly available at the time the couple claimed it had been created.
Mrs Vasco-Knight was given an honorary doctorate by the University of Exeter in 2013 and received a CBE in 2014 for her work as an ambassador for equality and diversity within NHS England.
In one set of ratings the hospital was ranked as the 10th best performing in the country in 2012 and she was named as the best in her field at the NHS Leadership Recognition Awards in that year.
Sue Frith, managing director of NHS Protect, which conducted the investigation, said afterwards: "Between them, Paula and Stephen Vasco-Knight defrauded over £11,000 of NHS money that was sorely needed for its intended purposes." | A former health boss has been given a suspended prison sentence for paying her husband £11,000 of NHS cash. | 39229204 |
The striker picked up Michael Coulson's pass and fired in a low shot from close range to give the Minstermen the lead.
Jayden Stockley came close to equalising for the visitors minutes later but his header hit the cross bar.
Fewster won a scramble on the edge of the box to double York's lead after the break, as the home side registered back-to-back victories.
York City manager Jackie McNamara told BBC Radio York:
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"I thought it was a hard work performance. They caused us problems. They're a good side.
"But I'm delighted with all three points, the two goals and the clean sheet. It gives the defence a lot of confidence.
"We can play a lot better but credit to the way Exeter played the game." | Loanee Bradley Fewster's double moved York City out of the relegation zone with victory over Exeter City. | 35529485 |
Kris Beech and Mike Radja both scored twice with Craig Peacock and Chris Higgins also on target as Belfast earned a sixth win in seven games.
Goals from Beech and Peacock put Belfast 2-0 up and while Cale Tanaka replied, Radja and Higgins then netted to leave the Giants 4-1 ahead.
Coventry twice cut the lead to two goals but could get no closer.
James Jorgensen's goal late in the second period reduced Belfast's lead to 4-2 only for Beech to leave the Giants with a three-goal cushion early in the last period.
Russell Cowley cut Belfast's lead to 5-3 with less than five minutes remaining but Radja scored his second goal of the night with just over two minutes left.
The sides will meet again, but in Coventry, on Sunday evening when the game will start at 17:15 GMT.
With leaders Cardiff losing 3-2 against Dundee after a penalty shootout, the Giants are now five points off the pace in the Elite League although Belfast have three games in hand on the pacesetters.
Sheffield remain second in the table - level on points with the Giants - although Belfast also have played a game less than the Steelers. | Belfast Giants maintained their strong Elite League title challenge as they beat Coventry 6-3 on Saturday night. | 35216125 |
Mayor of Weymouth and Portland, Councillor Richard Kosior, will now have to use a his own car, or hire a taxi or limousine and driver, depending on the type of engagement he attends.
It comes after former mayor Christine James chose not to use the service and instead opted for her own transport.
The annual cost of running a car and providing a chauffeur was £21,000.
However, providing alternative transport for the last financial year was about £3,100, the borough council's scrutiny and performance committee said.
"Therefore there is the potential to make a significant budget saving in this area," a committee report said.
Mr Kosior, who was elected mayor on 19 May, said: "In these days of austerity and council cuts we can't be seen to be squandering money on chauffeuring me to various functions."
Hired taxis or cars would bear the coat of arms of the borough "for that sense of occasion", he added.
He said he had asked for a review in six months to ensure the new format was still saving cash. | A Dorset mayor's car and chauffeur have been scrapped in a bid to save the council money. | 36468876 |
The crash, involving a car and a coach, happened on the Moorfields Road at about 13:00 BST on Sunday. The road remains closed.
The name of the man who died has not yet been released.
Police have appealed for anyone who witnessed the crash to get in contact with them. | A 21-year-old man has been killed in a crash on the outskirts of Ballymena, County Antrim. | 33952628 |
When Mancini looks back on his City career one date will be forever ringed on his calendar. It is a date that brought an unwelcome symmetry to his time at Etihad Stadium.
It was on 13 May 2012 that the Italian enjoyed his finest moment when Sergio Aguero scored 100 seconds from the end of the season against QPR to give City their first title in 44 years.
And it was on the unhappiest of anniversaries, one year later, that Mancini's slow march towards the exit door was confirmed.
If ever there was an example of how swiftly the scenery can shift in the modern Premier League it is the dismissal of a manager just 12 months after he delivered the greatest moment in City's modern history.
For all the fine words and expressions of admiration for Mancini contained in the farewell statement, he has gone simply because City believe results this season, and circumstances surrounding them, deliver proof that he was not up to the job of taking this fiercely ambitious club where they want to go.
There will be sympathy for Mancini, especially from City fans who supported him so vociferously throughout the FA Cup final defeat by Wigan at Wembley, as they will rightly remember him as the manager who - albeit briefly - freed them from the years of living in Manchester United's shadow.
City's statement, made when it became obvious Mancini was a lame duck after speculation that he was about to be sacked and replaced by Malaga's Manuel Pellegrini went unchecked, carried a ruthless tone.
It is clear the club's Abu Dhabi owners expected a more robust title defence rather than the concession to United. They certainly expected a more distinguished Champions League campaign than the horror show which saw them fail to win any of their six games, albeit in a group containing Real Madrid, Borussia Dortmund and Ajax.
The only target he hit to the satisfaction of those in Abu Dhabi was Champions League qualification and that, combined with other factors, was not enough to save Mancini.
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Mancini's confrontational style, with public criticism aimed at goalkeeper Joe Hart among others, is neither here nor there if he can use a Premier League title as his shield but it is another matter in a season dotted with the sort of limp efforts such at that served up in the cup final defeat against Wigan.
Talk of tensions behind the scenes was rife and at times City have looked a team lacking spirit - yet when they won so impressively at Manchester United in April it was a vivid reminder of why they were the champions.
There was also a shift in emphasis at City that did not work in Mancini's favour. Chief executive Ferran Soriano and sporting director Txiki Begiristain arrived to bring their Barcelona experience to bear, to cast some Catalan colours on the Etihad canvas.
It would appear the style of the statesmanlike Pellegrini, who it is said regards the concept of entertaining and attacking football as non-negotiable, is an easier fit to this template than Mancini.
Having won the Premier League, the Champions League will have been fixed in the mind's eye of owner Sheikh Mansour and chairman Khaldoon Al-Mubarak. City's lamentable group phase, coupled with Mancini's unimpressive record in the competition with Inter Milan, will have hardened the belief that someone else was needed for this job.
Pellegrini has a decent record in the competition - he took unfashionable Villarreal to the semi-finals of the Champions League in 2006 - where they lost to Arsenal - before the Gunners also knocked them out in the last eight a year later.
His one season in the Champions League with Real Madrid saw a defeat in the last 16 at the hands of Lyon, but he was only denied from taking Malaga to the last four this season by Borussia Dortmund's remarkable fightback which saw them score twice in stoppage-time.
Sadly for City and Mancini, so aware of the rather undignified departure of his successor Mark Hughes in 2009, things were allowed to get messy and a few items of dirty laundry were aired in public.
"The key thing in the statement is the holistic side of it. I think what has gone against him is his man- management style. There are issues other than the performance that have undermined him.
"When you look at the flashpoints Mancini has had this season, that gives you an indication of the difference in holistic approach that City are looking for."
This surfaced in a tense briefing in Wembley's media theatre on Saturday when Mancini effectively, and unnecessarily, named and shamed the club's communications department for failing to kill off speculation about Pellegrini. He now knows why this was impossible.
And Mancini only needs to recall the circumstances of his own appointment, in through the back door as Hughes was going out of the front, to know there is an element of 'live by the sword die by the sword' in management.
As stated previously Mancini will have his sympathisers - and rightly so. He may have spent close to £300m but it bought the success that had eluded City for so long.
This season, however, shone a harsher spotlight on some of those purchases. The Mario Balotelli experiment ended with his sale to AC Milan after a series of non-performances, Edin Dzeko has looked a poor return on £27m and Samir Nasri has once again under-performed.
Mancini's departure also tells a tale of missed opportunity. In some respects City had the Premier League at their mercy last summer after winning the title but a sudden complacency seemed to take hold.
And this is where Mancini will forever complain about the hand he was dealt. It was obvious, and made obvious by him on countless occasions, that he wanted better signings than those that arrived last summer.
Mancini wanted Robin van Persie (although it was clear from very early on that he wanted Old Trafford), Eden Hazard and Daniele De Rossi. They either moved elsewhere or stayed put.
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In their stead came an unremarkable stream of signings in the shape of Jack Rodwell,Maicon, Scott Sinclair, Javi Garcia and the outstanding exception Matija Nastasic. Strictly B-List when Mancini insisted he always wanted a stellar cast.
Place these circumstances together and you have route that led to Monday night's conclusion.
The next step is expected to be the arrival of Pellegrini. City have made their intentions clear. Sir Alex Ferguson calls Manchester United "the bus that waits for no-one" - Begiristain and his cohorts want to build a similar vehicle across the city.
A fierce Premier League response will be demanded while there must be no more embarrassments in the Champions League. There will not be a demand to win it but there must be no repeat of this season's shoddy effort.
Mancini is not a figure who attracts sympathy but there was something almost poignant about his last public words as Manchester City manager, sitting rain-soaked in front of the media at Wembley.
Asked about Pellegrini and his future he said: "We will see if it is true in the next two weeks. If it is not true you have written stupid things in the last six months. If it is true I'm stupid because I don't understand this."
Now he knows. | Manchester City spoke of the need to "develop a holistic approach" as one of the reasons for sacking manager Roberto Mancini - but more basic forces were at work in his dismissal. | 22520019 |
Breivik claims to have been kept in isolation since 2 September, with time outside his cell limited to an hour a day.
Breivik killed 77 people in 2011 when he bombed central Oslo before going on a shooting spree at a youth camp.
He was sentenced to 21 years in 2012.
His claims about deteriorating prison conditions were made in a letter to media outlets in Norway and Sweden.
In his letter, Breivik, 36, says harsh prison conditions have forced him to drop out of a political science course at the University of Oslo.
"Studying and corresponding is not humanly possible under such circumstances, and this applies to anyone who is isolated under such conditions," he wrote according to English news site The Local.
Breivik said that if conditions remained unchanged he would continue the hunger strike until he died, Norwegian media reported.
No one at Skien prison, where Breivik is held, is currently on hunger strike, prison director Ole Kristoffer Borhaug told the BBC.
He declined to comment on the conditions of individual prisoners.
Norwegian Justice Minister Anders Anundsen also declined to comment on Breivik's claims, according to the Dagbladet newspaper.
The University of Oslo admitted Breivik as a full student in July, explaining that inmates had a right to higher education if they won entry to courses.
Breivik has previously complained of "inhumane" prison conditions, including that his coffee was being served cold. | Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik has threatened to starve himself to death in protest at his treatment in prison, according to media reports. | 34401166 |
The play was performed by Dublin's Abbey Theatre and Headlong at the Ulster Tower in Thiepval, France.
Friday will be the Centenary of the Somme, one of the bloodiest battles of World War One.
Among the dead were 3,500 soldiers from across Ireland. Two thousand of them were in the 36th Ulster Division.
The 1985 play by Frank McGuinness focuses on the experiences of eight Ulstermen who volunteer to serve in the division at the beginning of the war.
The story is told in flashback from the viewpoint of the only survivor of the eight.
From the Somme, the play will be taken on a tour of Northern Ireland, presented by the Lyric Theatre.
Lyric executive producer Jimmy Fay said it was absolutely amazing for the play to be staged at the site of the battle.
"It's been in planning for a long time but I think the actual permission was only given on Friday," he said.
"So the whole thing had to move quite quickly."
He said it was a powerful piece of work.
"The play's the greatest play written about 1916 in any form. It's got the most powerful resonance," he said.
"It's such a key part especially of the north's history, but also Irish history in general.
"We've done a tour of Orange halls in the last few weeks just enacting some scenes from the play with some young Belfast actors.
"It's brilliant that the theatre can do that - reach out to people from different parts of the community and different backgrounds that are finding common ground with it." | A special performance of the play Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme has been staged at the site of the 1916 battle. | 36669148 |
An encouraging autumn set Scotland up for their best Six Nations since 2006, although a record hammering at Twickenham took much of the gloss off an otherwise promising campaign.
Glasgow Warriors thrilled the Scotstoun faithful by reaching the knockout stages of the Champions Cup for the first time, but a sixth place finish in the Pro12 was a disappointing end to the Gregor Townsend era.
A sense of chaos never seemed far away from Edinburgh as they stumbled through another desperately underwhelming league campaign that yielded just six wins. And yet their run to the quarter-finals of the European Challenge Cup featured several stirring performances that hinted at what might have been.
Former internationals Rory Lawson and Peter Wright assess how Glasgow, Edinburgh and Scotland have fared this season.
Victories over Argentina and Georgia and a narrow loss to Australia in the autumn Test series laid good foundations for a crack at the Six Nations.
A first opening day win in 11 years duly arrived against Ireland, a first win over Wales in a decade soon followed and the victory over Italy on the final day ensured the Scots achieved three tournament wins in a single campaign for the first time in since 2006.
There was frustration but no shame in losing narrowly to France in Paris. However, a record 61-21 thrashing at the hands of England seemed like a significant step backwards and perhaps loomed large in Warren Gatland's thinking as he selected only two Scots - Stuart Hogg and Tommy Seymour - in his initial British and Irish Lions squad for the tour of New Zealand.
Following a fruitful spell in charge which saw Scotland reach their highest position of fifth in the world rankings, Vern Cotter has made way for Townsend, who will lead the summer tour which includes matches against Italy in Singapore, Australia in Sydney and Fiji in Suva.
RL: "Positive. Three wins in the Six Nations was progress. The hammering at Twickenham put just a little bit of a sour finish on things when you're assessing at the end of the tournament.
"I think they can look back on this season with a lot of pride. Hearing people from England, Ireland and Wales talking about how good a side Scotland are now is encouraging. When it came to Lions selection a number of people were disappointed not to see more Scots."
PW: "They have improved and progressed. They got a good autumn international series under their belts and got a bit of confidence in their game. It was a pretty good Six Nations with three home wins.
"Losing the England game would have been fair enough but the manner in which they lost put a little bit of a dampener on the international season. However, beating Ireland, beating Wales and beating Italy, relative to what we've done in the recent past, I think showed we are heading in the right direction."
RL: "As back-to-back Six Nations player of the tournament Stuart Hogg has been rewarded with a Lions place. He was absolutely outstanding. A real killer instinct, x-factor and consistency that has everybody in world rugby aware of his stature and ability.
"Hamish Watson being in contention for Lions selection shows just how good a season he's had. He's been very impressive for Edinburgh but even more so in a Scotland jersey. Tommy Seymour's Lions selection is just reward for his excellent form."
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PW: "Huw Jones stepped up to the plate. For a guy that very few of us knew before he arrived he's performed well.
"Finn Russell is still growing in stature, he's got a long way to go but I think if he keeps progressing the way he is then in a couple of years he could be an absolutely outstanding, world-class player.
RL: "Gregor will have a few more ideas up his sleeve about first phase backs strikes that he takes so much time looking at.
"He won't want to see Scotland capitulate the way they did at Twickenham ever again. He'll want to make sure there are structures in place to avoid that kind of thing happening."
PW: "I don't see a need for huge changes. Gregor will obviously want to stamp a few things on it that are synonymous with him but I think the style of play already works well.
"We do need to find a way to beat England and I think a lot of that is psychological."
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RL: "In the autumn they're going up against the world champions, the All Blacks. That's the kind of challenge that will be fantastic for Gregor and his squad, to match yourself against the best.
"Six Nations, you're looking again for three wins. They'll be aiming to win both home games which will be tough with England and France coming to Murrayfield. Three wins and anything more than that is huge progress."
PW: "Two out of three would be great in the autumn internationals. In the Six Nations I would be looking to win the two home games and to pick up an away win somewhere. Three wins out of five would again be a good return."
With major strides in Europe countered by inconsistency in the Pro12, assessing Glasgow is tricky.
Terrific home and away victories over last season's runners-up Racing 92 helped set-up a final day showdown with Pool One rivals Leicester Tigers in the Champions Cup. Knowing they needed a win to advance to the last eight, Warriors produced arguably their greatest display to destroy the two-time champions 43-0 at Welford Road.
Their quarter-final bow was a bitter disappointment though, Townsend later admitting he had "over-prepared" his side before they were comprehensively beaten 38-13 by tournament winners Saracens.
Glasgow were unable to rouse themselves for a tilt at making the league play-offs, with a final day home defeat to Edinburgh not the send-off they had in mind after Townsend's highly-successful five-year spell in charge.
New Zealander Dave Rennie arrives from Super Rugby side The Chiefs to take over the reins at Scotstoun.
PW: "Pretty mixed. The Pro12 was disappointing. They didn't make the play-offs which would have been the least they would have expected to do.
"They had difficult games when they didn't have their full squad in autumn Test series and the Six Nations. When you're supplying 13 or 14 players to the national team you suffer big time during those periods. Their success in a way brought their own downfall this season.
"They had really successful European campaign with a really disappointing end. Overall, I'd say it was a fairly negative campaign for Glasgow compared to recent seasons."
RL: "Ali Price has been impressive and really matured in a position where he's had to challenge co-captain Henry Pyrgos. He's really kicked on this season which has been great.
"Zander Fagerson has taken to international rugby and Champions Cup rugby incredibly comfortably and has looked very, very good."
PW: "Fraser Brown has stepped it up. The positive for Glasgow has been the number of young players coming through, the likes of Matt Fagerson, Scott Cummings and Matt Smith."
RL: "They probably just need to strengthen in a couple of areas. The signing of Lelia Masaga just adds some more firepower and x-factor to that back-line.
"I'd like to see a slightly steelier edge from their forwards. There are occasions they need a slightly tougher mind-set."
PW: "They've got to add a little bit more depth to the squad. I think Dave Rennie has to carry on the same style of play, he would be mad to change too much at the start.
"They probably need another fly-half. They obviously have Finn Russell but I think they need another 10 that can step in and change things if it's not quite working. Adam Hastings is a young, promising player with potential, but that's all it is at the moment - potential."
RL: "In the Champions Cup the quarter-finals should be minimum standard now. I'd like to think they can achieve that again and perhaps go one step further.
"They'll be looking for a more consistent league campaign. Glasgow are a top four side and they've got to get themselves back into contention next year."
Many within Scottish rugby felt the one-year contract offered to Alan Solomons last summer to remain at Edinburgh was an extension too far and the veteran South African stepped down four games in after a lacklustre start to the campaign.
Duncan Hodge was thrown into the fray with a brief to steady the ship, but it's been a rocky spell for the rookie head coach. Edinburgh's season is probably best summed up by back-to-back fixtures in late October.
A thrilling 36-35 Challenge Cup victory over Harlequins at Murrayfield, full of attacking verve and ambition and no shortage of guts to see off their opponents, was followed six days later by a calamitous loss at home to Italian no-hopers Zebre.
The Challenge Cup run offered hope before being ended by La Rochelle at the quarter-final stage. A ninth-place finish ended Hodge's hopes of being given the big job permanently. He will revert to his previous role of attack coach as Richard Cockerill looks to inject some spark into an under-performing squad next term.
PW: "The Pro12 has been a disaster. A real lack of consistency, poor style of play, a poor product for the fans under Alan Solomons. Duncan Hodge tried to change it to be a bit more positive but I think the players' confidence was shot.
"The European campaign was slightly better than the league campaign, although to be fair it couldn't be any worse. They've got huge issues at the moment. The last two wins over Dragons and Glasgow should hopefully give them a little bit of confidence building into next season."
RL: "Duncan Hodge was thrown in the deep end with a squad he inherited, they moved ground at the turn of the year to go to Myreseide - there were a lot of changes.
"There was also disruption caused by injuries to key guys, particularly Alasdair Dickinson and WP Nel, who are so important.
"They've become a bit of a cup team. They've got the ability to do well in the Challenge Cup, but they've just come up short again and they have to improve a lot next season."
PW: "Hamish Watson and Ben Toolis have been their stick-outs. Damien Hoyland showed flashes at times. Blair Kinghorn had a reasonable start but then faded away and you could probably say that about a number of Edinburgh players."
RL: "There needs to be a harder edge in the forward pack. I'm sure Richard Cockerill will bring that. He'll set standards that may shock a few players.
"There needs to be a little more cutting edge behind the scrum. Robbie Fruean would be a really strong addition."
PW: "The big names - Sam Hidalgo-Clyne, Phil Burleigh, Duncan Weir, Ross Ford - these guys need to step up a bit. They've been disappointing.
"If one coach can change a culture, a mind-set, I think Richard Cockerill is the man that can do it. If Cockerill can't change it, is there really any hope for Edinburgh? I think he's got a good chance, but they need to sign a couple of hard-edged backs."
RL: "The standards have been good in Europe in the last few seasons. They need to look to make the knockout stages again.
"They've got to find some consistency in the Pro12 and look to be finishing in the top half next season." | It's been a season of fluctuating emotions for Scottish rugby fans. | 39904759 |
Dr Ronak Patel, 33, was using a hands-free phone shortly before his car hit a lorry in Honington, Suffolk.
PC Mark Webb told an inquest in Bury St Edmunds that "the most plausible explanation" for the crash was that he fell asleep at the wheel.
Dr Patel, of Ixworth, died at the scene on 3 August last year.
The inquest heard he had finished the third of three night shifts at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital and wanted to get back home, rather than sleeping at the hospital.
The trainee anaesthetist's VW Golf collided head-on with a lorry on the A1088 Ixworth Road, at Honington, shortly before 09:00 BST.
In a statement read at the inquest, Helen Patel said: "We were singing to keep him awake."
When her husband's phone cut off suddenly, she had tried unsuccessfully to call him back 14 times. She then started to drive along his route home but was met by police who said there had been a crash.
A police accident investigation ruled out mechanical defects and road conditions as possible causes of the crash.
PC Webb said: "It is my opinion that the most plausible explanation for the collision was that Dr Patel fell asleep which prevented him from having appropriate control of his car."
Lorry driver Peter Stimpson said in a statement he had seen Dr Patel's car come around a bend and start to drift across to the wrong side of the road.
Mr Stimpson said that despite braking and pulling his lorry to one side, there was nothing he could do to avoid the impact in which severe damage was caused to both vehicles.
Assistant Suffolk coroner Yvonne Blake recorded a conclusion that Dr Patel had died as a result of his car being involved in a collision with a heavy goods vehicle. | A doctor who died in a crash on his way home from work had been singing on the phone to his wife to help keep him awake, an inquest has heard. | 36767868 |
A man armed with a small knife and metal bar approached staff as they opened the One Stop Shop at 06.00 GMT.
Officers said he took a substantial amount of money from a safe.
They want to speak to a witness who told an officer they saw a car leaving the car park at speed, and a female customer who went into the shop shortly after the robbery.
The armed man is described as 5ft 10in (1.78m) tall, of slim build and wearing grey or white jogging bottoms, black shoes, a camouflage jacket with the hood up and a scarf over his face.
Anyone with information is asked to contact police on 101. | Police are searching for witnesses to an armed robbery at a convenience store in Usk, Monmouthshire, on Sunday. | 38955258 |
But the significance of the bombing, which was claimed by Islamic State (IS) militants, goes beyond the horrendous human loss. If IS indeed stands behind the attack, it would not only further complicate the situation in Yemen, but also have implications for the broader struggle against IS.
IS's need continuously to expand is a central feature in its strategy since its blitzkrieg in Iraq and Syria last year gave it control over vast territory and facilitated the announcement that it is a caliphate.
Viewing itself as the rightful leader of Muslims everywhere and as mandated by God to rule over all territories once under Muslim control and beyond, IS must spread.
Expansion is also a mobilisation tool for IS. It adds to the myth of Islamic State's inevitability and invincibility that its leaders are trying to promote.
By building its brand name, IS seeks to convince Muslims to accept its authority and pledge their allegiance to the self-styled caliph, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
But IS miscalculated. Early victories, astonishing as they were, reflected the poor state and morale of its opponents in the Iraqi army and the lack of advanced armament by the Syrian rebels more than the prowess of its own forces.
When IS pursued the genocide of the Yazidis, threatened Irbil, the capital of the Kurdish autonomous region, and beheaded American hostages, it forced the United States to intervene.
The American intervention largely stopped IS's advance and, in some locations, even forced IS forces to retreat after suffering heavy casualties. Moreover, to its dismay, the American assault did little to make prominent jihadi scholars and rival groups (primarily al-Qaeda) change their minds and pledge allegiance to al-Baghdadi.
At the same time, the attacks IS suffered have hardly been devastating. The complex conditions in Iraq and Syria, as well as the American fear of getting bogged down in another ground war in the Middle East, led an intervention-weary President Barack Obama to adopt a very cautious strategy.
As a result, the US and the mostly symbolic coalition it formed did not make any effort to uproot IS from its main strongholds, and failed to convince its supporters that the caliphate project is doomed.
Loyal to its slogan "staying and expanding" but unable to continue its expansion in the main battlefront, Islamic State had to prove its viability and success elsewhere.
In November 2014, it announced that it accepted pledges of allegiance from jihadis in Libya, Algeria, the Sinai Peninsula, Yemen, and Saudi Arabia. As a symbol of its alleged authority, it also announced the establishment of wilayat (governorates) in these countries.
Since the beginning of the year, IS has also collected oaths of fealty from the former Afghan and Pakistani Taliban and from the Nigerian Boko Haram militant group, and declared the establishment of wilayats there.
Notwithstanding the fanfare surrounding these announcements, in reality IS's presence and power outside Iraq and Syria is much more limited.
The stronger groups who joined IS, Ansar Beit al-Maqdis in Sinai and Boko Haram in Nigeria, are in decline. In the case of the latter, weakness was probably the reason it joined IS, and it is unclear to what extent it accepts al-Baghdadi's authority.
In Libya, IS is still a weak force, although it is taking advantage of the civil war in the country to slowly gain traction. The IS presence elsewhere is even more fleeting.
But as the experience of Iraq and Syria and IS's growing profile in Libya suggest, the group strives in unstable places, that are in large supply throughout the Middle East and Africa. This makes Friday's attack in Yemen particularly alarming.
If IS was indeed responsible for the carnage - the US expressed doubts regarding the veracity of the claim - it would symbolise its actual entry to the Yemen arena.
The rise of the Shia Houthis did not reflect sectarianism initially, but the conflict has assumed a much more pronounced sectarian character since the Houthis forced President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi out.
This is particularly bad news because if Syria is any indication, such a conflict draws in radical Sunni Islamists and makes compromise extremely difficult to reach.
The Sunni-Shia fault line already strengthened the position of al-Qaeda's Yemeni branch. But whereas AQAP still listens to the wishes of its tribal allies and acts with some restraint (it quickly denied responsibility for the mosques' bombing), the introduction of Islamic State would lead to further radicalisation of the conflict and rise in indiscriminate violence.
Beyond Yemen, the Sanaa bombings underscore how the American strategy against Islamic State is lacking. The US is not degrading IS fast enough to stop its expansion, and it does not appear to have a plan for confronting IS branches in Sinai, Libya, West Africa, and now Yemen.
In taking its time to address a quickly expanding threat, the US not only risks further turmoil in the Middle East and Africa, but also makes attacks by IS members in the West more likely.
Barak Mendelsohn is Associate Professor of Political Science at Haverford College and a Research Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. | The bombing of two mosques in Sanaa, which killed close to 140 people and injured 350, represents another stage in Yemen's spiralling violence. | 31998682 |
A former youth player at Chelsea - where Gradi was assistant manager - says he was assaulted by Eddie Heath, the club's chief scout, when he was 15.
Gradi, 75, denies any wrongdoing and says he will help the FA's review.
Heath, who has since died, has been accused by several people of abuse in the 1970s and 1980s.
The League Two club stated on their website: "Following discussions with the Football Association, Crewe Alexandra can confirm that Dario Gradi is currently under an FA interim suspension from football."
Gradi released his own statement later on Monday: "Having been notified by the Football Association on 25 November, I acknowledged my current interim suspension from football.
"I would like to reiterate that I will do everything within my power to assist all investigatory authorities.
"As I have previously stated, aside from denying any wrongdoing it would be inappropriate and unfair on all parties to comment through the media at this time in connection with any allegations."
The FA, as part of its widened review into child sex abuse allegations, expects to question Gradi after the Independent reported that, in 1974, he went to see the parents of a youth player at Chelsea about a sexual assault.
The former youth player - who cannot be identified for legal reasons - told the newspaper: "He [Gradi] came to visit my parents and me to smooth it over.
"I remember him saying something like: '[With] Eddie, [football] is his life and he gets a bit close to the boys. I'm sorry if he's overstepped the mark in his fondness this time.'"
Chelsea are not known to have taken any action and Gradi has made no specific comments on this claim or his links with Heath.
The FA has given no indication about who will be spoken to as part of its review.
Gradi has previously said he "knew nothing" about the alleged abuse of young footballers by anyone connected with Crewe until 1994 and that he then co-operated with the authorities.
Meanwhile, Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron has written to Damian Collins, chair of the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee, calling for a formal inquiry into the abuse allegations.
He said: "A full inquiry should be launched looking at how the Government can radically reform the FA to ensure this never happens again."
Despite failing to win any major honours in his management career, Gradi developed a reputation as a fine coach of young players, primarily at Crewe Alexandra.
Born in Milan, Italy, he came to the UK as a child after the Second World War and went on to play football at non-league level, before becoming Chelsea assistant coach in 1971, aged 29.
He remained at the London club until 1976, before returning to Sutton United, who he used to play for.
Following spells as manager of Wimbledon and Crystal Palace, he began an association with Crewe in 1983 that now spans 33 years.
He was manager from 1983 to 2007, leading the team to the second tier of English football for the first time in 1997, and was awarded an MBE for services to football a year later.
Crewe's 11th-placed finish in their first year in the second tier remains the highest finish in the club's history.
During Gradi's tenure, the club won the PFA Bobby Moore Fair Play Trophy 12 times in 15 years.
Having had a spell as director of football, Gradi had a second stint as manager from 2009 to 2011 before returning to the overseeing role he still occupies.
In 2013, aged 72, Gradi became the oldest person appointed to Greg Dyke's FA commission charged with improving English football from the grassroots upwards.
Described by the National Football Museum as "one of English football's best developers of young players", Gradi's tenure at Crewe has seen internationals David Platt, Geoff Thomas, Danny Murphy, Seth Johnson, Robbie Savage and Dean Ashton emerge.
The National Football Museum inducted Gradi into its Hall of Fame in 2004, and he was given the Football League's outstanding contribution to football award in 2011.
The FA is supporting a hotline set up by the NSPCC. It is available 24 hours a day on 0800 0232642. | Crewe Alexandra have confirmed director Dario Gradi has been suspended pending a Football Association investigation that will include looking into claims he "smoothed over" a complaint of sexual assault against a Chelsea scout in the 1970s. | 38289451 |
14 October 2013 Last updated at 15:36 BST
Cyclone Phailin struck the state of Orissa in the east of the country on Saturday.
Eighteen people were killed and nearly one million forced to leave their homes.
Winds of up to 125 miles an hour flattened many coastal villages, uprooted trees and blocked roads.
Now a major clean up operation has begun, with many ordinary Indian people doing their bit to repair the damage.
Watch BBC correspondent Andrew North's report from India. | Thousands of people have taken the clean up operation, following a huge cyclone in India, into their own hands. | 24524536 |
The Halifax, part of Lloyds Banking Group, said that property prices rose by 5.7% in the year to the end of January.
This was slower than the 6.5% annual growth seen the previous month, leaving the typical home valued at £220,260.
The figures come on the day the government unveils a housing strategy.
The view also comes a week after rival lender, the Nationwide Building Society, said that the outlook for the UK housing market remained "clouded".
The lender, the largest in the UK mortgage market, said its data showed prices in the three months to the end of January were 2.4% higher than the previous three months.
However, compared to a year earlier, price growth was starting to slow and was well below a peak of 10% seen last March.
Property values had actually dropped by 0.9% in January compared with December, prompting a mixed view of the outlook in the industry.
"January is always a lethargic month for UK property as a result of the Christmas break and so any fall in house prices at this time of year should be taken with a pinch of salt, rather than a handful of panic," said Russell Quirk, founder of eMoov.co.uk.
"Had any other market around the world been subject to such a sustained period of scaremongering and uncertainty amongst buyer and seller as the UK market has in the last year, I expect it would be a different story to the one we are seeing here."
Jeremy Leaf, a north London estate agent, said: "The figures show a broadly slowing market in response not just to seasonal but other factors, which we have also noticed in our offices.
"Worries about rising inflation and what this means for general living costs and interest rates, as well as stricter mortgage criteria and the focus on affordability, are having an impact on people's decision-making."
Relatively few properties on the market and low interest rates were keeping prices up, the Halifax said, but other factors would slow house price growth in 2017.
"Weaker economic growth and increasing pressure on spending power, along with affordability constraints, are expected to dampen housing demand, resulting in some downward pressure on annual house price growth during the year," said Martin Ellis, Halifax housing economist.
The lender said the number of first-time buyers had risen by 7% to 335,750 in 2016.
This was still 17% below the immediate pre-crisis peak of 402,800 in 2006.
Where can I afford to live? | Annual growth in house prices slowed in January and the trend is expected to continue throughout 2017, according to a lender. | 38891777 |
Ten men have been detained in connection with the incident, which happened early on Saturday morning.
But none of them resemble the six alleged attackers who were caught on CCTV burgling the convent before the 74-year-old nun was raped.
The nun is being treated in a Kolkata (Calcutta) hospital.
"Time was when West Bengal had a slightly better record than most other parts of the country as far as the safety of women was concerned, but the state is badly slipping on that count," says the Hindustan Times.
Other papers too have been giving prominent coverage to the "inhumane and barbaric crime".
Papers have highlighted that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has expressed "deep concerns" over the incident.
The Hindustan Times wonders if religious tensions also played a role in the crime.
"There are various reasons for rape and among them one could be is inter-community tension. In this case, this could have been the most potent one. When there is a dispute between two communities and the administration is found to be slack, one that has a greater local heft tries to browbeat the other by means of calculated violence. And in the process women become soft targets," it says in an editorial.
The DNA criticises the main opposition Congress party for failing to raise the issue in the parliament.
"A nun was gang-raped at a missionary school and an under-construction church was demolished. It was left to Communist Party leader D Raja to raise the issue after the Congress walked out of the upper house over the so-called snooping incident," the paper says.
India's BJP-led government has denied allegations by the Congress party that it snooped on its vice-president Rahul Gandhi.
Meanwhile, the state government in the northern state of Haryana has banned beef consumption and killing of cows.
Haryana has followed the western state of Maharashtra, which has also banned beef and "cow slaughter".
"The new law [in Haryana] will also promote conservation and development of indigenous breeds of cows and establish institutions to keep, maintain and take care of the infirm, injured, stray and uneconomic cows," reports the NDTV website.
The move has sparked anger in a section of the media and opposition parties have also criticised it.
"India is a diverse country and in a diverse country people have different culinary habits. Beef is also a poor man's protein. So, this is nothing else but a political agenda," a report on the Zee News website quotes Congress leader Manish Tewari as saying.
The Hindu nationalist BJP is the ruling party in both Haryana and Maharashtra states.
BBC Monitoring reports and analyses news from TV, radio, web and print media around the world. You can follow BBC Monitoring on Twitter and Facebook. | Papers urge the government in West Bengal state to improve the security of women after the rape of an elderly nun. | 31918386 |
Le Monde says the controversy, which has erupted at a time of high tension in France over the influence of Islam, "is political in origin".
The paper points out that two of the main figures who have objected to the event - Valerie Boyer, a member of the centre-right party The Republicans, and Stephane Ravier, a member of the far-right National Front - will be contesting parliamentary seats in Marseille in 2017.
The left-leaning Liberation echoes this line, saying the controversy "has nothing to do with the law" but is being stoked by conservative and far-right politicians seeking to gain political advantage by suggesting that fundamentalism is in the ascendancy in France.
The paper says that a ban on the event could be counter-productive, by creating a sense of injustice.
In a piece headlined "The burkini day is making waves", Le Parisien also points out that there is "nothing illegal" about holding such an event in private.
"But yesterday it caused an outcry, fuelled mostly by elected representatives from The Republicans and the National Front," the paper notes.
Remi Godeau, writing in the liberal Paris-based paper L'Opinion, dismisses the controversy as being "as vain as it is empty".
He accuses certain politicians of seeking to make an already tense atmosphere worse by acting as "sorcerer's apprentices, pyromaniacs and fear merchants" and of "stigmatising the entire Muslim community in the run-up to the election".
La Provence points out that the event has been advertised by its organisers since mid-July, but that the controversy only broke out "after elected representatives on all sides took a stand on the issue".
Meanwhile, the news website of France's main commercial TV channel BFMTV declares that "There's no summer break for religious controversies.
"A sign of communalism or the exercise of the right to practise one's religion? This is the question posed by the 'burkini day'."
However, at least one commentator approves of the idea of a ban on burkini-clad swimming sessions.
Gilles Debernardi, writing in Le Dauphine, argues that the authorities should take a stand on behalf of secular values, instead of allowing "a text written in the seventh century… to determine best practice at the swimming pool".
He warns that to do otherwise would permit religious groups "to thumb their noses at the laws of the Republic, which advocate gender equality".
BBC Monitoring reports and analyses news from TV, radio, web and print media around the world. You can follow BBC Monitoring on Twitter and Facebook. | Plans to hire a waterpark in Marseille for a "burkini day" attended only by women wearing the all-over swimming garment have sparked criticism from right-wing politicians, but the French media are on the whole suspicious of their motives. | 36987223 |
The 2016 Olympic gold medallist, 29, went into the final day with a 13-point lead despite being in a scratch pairing with crew Eilidh McIntyre in Santander.
"Although we had a good points gap going into this medal race I think that often adds pressure, as everyone expects you to win," said Mills.
"To come away and pull it off, it's a relief."
Mills only returned to competition in May because of a concussion and stomach problems she had suffered since her triumph at the Rio Games.
But the victory in Spain was a chance for Mills to regain her racing edge, returning to the 470 class after trying her hand in the 49er FX.
"The conditions were so tricky that it just felt the safest option was to take it to the Dutch girls [second-placed Afrodite Zegers and Anneloes Van Veen] and try and practice a bit of a match race," said the Cardiff native.
"We don't often get this opportunity where you're far enough ahead that you're guaranteed a silver, so we thought let's just see what we can do and pulled it off quite nicely." | Welsh sailor Hannah Mills was delighted after winning the 470 class event at the World Cup Series Final. | 40242012 |
The alarm was raised after the aircraft, which took off from Oban Airport at 11:30 on Thursday, failed to arrive at Carlisle Airport.
Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the crash, which took place about two miles off the Kintyre coast near Skipness.
The bodies of two men and wreckage from the aircraft were recovered from the sea following an extensive search.
The search operation involved a coastguard search and rescue helicopter from Prestwick, as well as Police Scotland, Arran Lifeboat and the Tarbert and Campbeltown coastguard rescue teams.
Police Scotland said inquiries were continuing in an effort to establish the identities of the two men.
The force urged anyone with information about the crash to get in touch.
The Air Accidents Investigation Branch is also conducting an independent safety investigation. | Two men have been killed in a light aircraft crash off the Scottish coast. | 40054779 |
Shots were fired at their home in Tollnamona Court at about 02.40 BST in the early hours of Saturday morning.
The couple and their grandchild were upstairs and sleeping at the time and were not injured.
Sinn Féin councillor, Emma Groves, said the family had lived in the house for 33 years and had raised their seven children there.
They said they had no idea why they would be targeted in an attack like this.
A PSNI spokesperson said they are working to establish a motive and have appealed for witnesses. | An elderly couple and their grandchild have escaped injury in a west Belfast shooting. | 36814928 |
Victor Matfield and Teimana Harrison come in to the pack.
Worcester are unchanged from last weekend's 31-23 home victory over Sale, the Warriors' first win in 13 games.
Dean Ryan's men are seeking only a second Premiership double over Saints, having won 13-12 at Sixways on the opening weekend of the season.
Worcester won that tight game in added time thanks to debutant Tom Heathcote's penalty.
But the Warriors have struggled since, only ending their long losing run last Saturday against mid-table Sale when their latest international signing, scrum-half Francois Hougaard, scored on his debut.
Ryan's Warriors have only recorded one Premiership away win since he took over, the 17-12 victory at Newcastle in March 2014.
Worcester have lost all six Premiership away games this season, with bottom club London Irish suffering the same fate.
Northampton have lost two of their six Premiership home games this season, to Saracens and Wasps.
Worcester's only 'season double' over Northampton came in the 2004-05 campaign.
Warriors director of rugby Dean Ryan told BBC Hereford & Worcester:
"That first game against Saints in October will be a big motivator for them as well as us. We understand the pressure we're under.
"After last weekend's defeat at Newcastle, they'll be wanting to come out and play again and that'll be a huge challenge for us.
"Hopefully last weekend's win will be a catalyst for us to keep going and playing with the same intent. Nailing results is very important to us."
Northampton Saints: Foden; K Pisi, Burrell, Mallinder, Collins; Myler, Dickson (capt); Waller, Haywood, Brookes, Craig, Matfield, Gibson, Wood, Harrison.
Replacements: Marshall, Waller, Denman, Dickinson, Fisher, Kessell, Hanrahan, G Pisi.
Worcester Warriors: Pennell; Heem, Olivier, Mills, Vuna; Heathcote, Hougaard; Rapava Ruskin, Bregvadze, Schonert, O'Callaghan, Barry, Potgieter, Kirwan, van Velze (capt).
Replacements: Annett, Leleimalefaga, Johnston, Sanderson, Dowson, Baldwin, Lamb, Symons. | Northampton have made four changes to the side that narrowly lost at Newcastle last week, bringing in wingers Ken Pisi and Tom Collins. | 35641898 |
Lib Dem Lynne Featherstone told the Guardian she had "no doubt" allowing Julien Blanc to perform in the UK would lead to a rise in sexual harassment.
The self-styled "dating guru" holds seminars claiming to teach men how to attract women but his methods have been widely criticised as sexually abusive.
A Change.org petition seeking to deny him a visa has over 120,000 signatures.
Ms Featherstone, who recently became crime prevention minister, took the unusual step of announcing she was lobbying the home secretary to examine grounds for refusing Mr Blanc entry.
She said: "As the Home Office minister with responsibility for tackling violence against women and girls, I am extremely concerned by the sexist and utterly abhorrent statements Julien Blanc has made about women.
"If he was allowed to perform in the UK I have no doubt that cases of sexual harassment and intimidation would increase."
She added that although free speech is "hugely important", it is "not appropriate to talk about choking girls under any circumstances".
Twitter users have been using the hashtag #ChokingGirlsAroundTheWorld to share pictures apparently showing Mr Blanc with his hand around the throats of women that he has himself shared.
Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper has also publicly condemned Mr Blanc.
In a letter to the home secretary, Ms Cooper wrote: "Why should we let someone into this country to incite sexual assaults or violence against women?
"There is plenty of evidence of Mr Blanc's vile views and misogynist business, and no interest for Britain in him being able to promote them here in our communities," she continued.
A Home Office spokesman said the department would not comment on individual cases of exclusion.
The spokesman observed: "This home secretary has excluded more foreign nationals on the grounds of unacceptable behaviour than any before her."
Mr Blanc had to cut his Australian tour short last week because his visa was cancelled following protests there.
His UK tour is due to start in London in February 2015.
On its website, Mr Blanc's company Real Social Dynamics calls itself "the world's largest dating coaching company" and promises customers the chance to "witness dating coaches attract beautiful women in live demonstrations".
The petition to bar him from the UK was started by a woman - using the pseudonym Caroline Charles - who was angry at the material being taught at his seminars.
BBC Newsbeat has tried to contact Real Social Dynamics but is yet to receive a reply.
The home secretary has the power to block a visa application by a foreign national if it is thought their presence in the UK would not be "conducive to the public good".
Last year, Theresa May banned anti-Islamic activists Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer from coming to the UK to join an English Defence League demonstration.
In 2009, then home secretary Jacqui Smith refused to admit Dutch far-right politician Geert Wilders. | A Home Office minister has added her voice to those saying a US "pick-up artist" should be banned from Britain. | 30067667 |
Denis Petkov, 19, was found with stab wounds following an incident on East Hanningfield Road in Rettendon, Essex, on 11 March.
Mihal Dobrev, of East Hanningfield Road, pleaded not guilty to murdering the teenager.
The Crown Prosecution Service cited insufficient evidence for its decision not to go ahead with a trial.
Jenny Hopkins, chief crown prosecutor for CPS East of England, said following a review of the case it had "concluded there is insufficient evidence for a realistic prospect of conviction against Mr Dobrev".
She added: "This decision means that the case cannot proceed and so we have offered no evidence against him."
The CPS offered its sympathies to the family of Mr Petkov. | A 37-year-old man charged with murdering a Bulgarian teenager will no longer face prosecution. | 40568298 |
In November 2013, Essex Police was given information from the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) about Martin Goldberg.
The force did not realise he was a teacher until September this year.
Essex's police commissioner said "an ambiguous phrase" was behind the delay - but refused to clarify what it was.
"It is believed that what went wrong was a misinterpretation of an ambiguous phrase used by CEOP... as they passed the material over," Nick Alston said.
"However, that detail is rightly being looked at by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC).
"It would be wrong of me to pre-empt that investigation," he added, when asked if he could reveal the phrase used.
Goldberg, deputy head of Thorpe Hall School in Southend, was found dead the day after being interviewed by police.
His name was on a list of 35 intelligence "packages" passed to the force by CEOP 10 months before his death.
The centre had received the information from police in Canada in 2012, after a company selling videos of naked children was investigated.
But he was not identified to Essex Police as "high risk", a force spokesman said.
When they discovered his occupation, officers applied for a search warrant - which was declined - and visited Goldberg at his home.
Mr Alston said Essex Police had changed its policy as a result of Goldberg's case.
He said when intelligence was received, occupation checks would be carried out straight away to determine if they worked with children.
"We needed to identify any key issues immediately, and Essex Police needed to act to address those matters and help protect children from harm as soon as possible," Mr Alston said.
A spokesman for CEOP said he could not comment on the case due to the IPCC investigation. | A teacher who took indecent photos of pupils was not investigated immediately because of a "misinterpretation of an ambiguous phrase", it has been claimed. | 29933100 |
He is thought to have been playing with other children at a house in Mijas, on the Costa del Sol, when he fell into the pool.
Emergency services were called to the property on Sunday evening but he could not be saved.
The Foreign Office confirmed the death and said it was offering support to the child's family.
A spokesman for local authority Ayuntamiento de Mijas said there were 20 people at the property when the child died at the Mijas Golf resort in Las Lagunas, Mijas.
It is understood his parents had been entertaining friends at their rented holiday apartment when the accident happened.
A 15-year-old boy then sounded the alarm, according to Spanish newspaper Diario Sur. The four-year-old died at about 21:00 local time (20:00 BST).
A post-mortem examination was due to take place in Malaga on Monday.
A Foreign Office spokesman said: "We can confirm the death of a British national in Spain on 16 August.
"We are in contact with local authorities and have provided the family with advice on bereavement abroad, including on repatriation." | A four-year-old British boy has drowned in a swimming pool during a family holiday at a resort in southern Spain. | 33957626 |
The 20-year old utility player, who can operate in midfield, spent last season at League Two side Wycombe Wanderers.
He has made one first team appearance for Southampton in 2014-15, when he also skippered the young Saints to the Under-21 Premier League title.
"I've been watching Jason for the last six months," said boss Jon Whitney.
"Wycombe's manager Gareth Ainsworth is a good friend of mine. He spoke really highly of him as a player and a person. He's a committed defender. Southampton think really highly of him."
Since being appointed manager on 1 June, Whitney has brought in four midfielders, Kacy Milan Butterfield, Peterborough United's Erhun Oztumer, Sheffield United's Florent Cuvelier and Colchester United's Joe Edwards.
The loan deal with Southampton will run until January 2017.
Since the end of last season, Walsall have lost of right-back Jason Demetriou, centre-half Paul Downing, winger Milan Lalkvovic and midfield link man Romaine Sawyers, who all turned down offers from the club.
Demteriou has since signed for Southend, while Downing has joined MK Dons, Lalkovic is to go to Portsmouth and Sawyers remains linked with former Saddlers boss Dean Smith at Championship side Brentford.
The Saddlers remain in negotiations with winger Anthony Forde, while they are still to determine the future of midfielder Sam Mantom, striker Jordan Cook and left-back Andy Taylor.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | Walsall have made their fifth signing of the summer by bringing in Southampton defender Jason McCarthy on loan for the first half of next season. | 36653215 |
They have also used those pulses to drive neuronal activity in a slice of mouse brain.
They say the system is a more faithful replica of touch sensation than many other designs for artificial skin, making it a promising option for the development of responsive prosthetics.
The work appears in Science magazine.
The main advantage, according to senior author Zhenan Bao, is that the bendy, plastic-based sensor directly produces a pattern of pulses that makes sense to the nervous system.
"Previously, with plastic material, we and others in the field have been able to make sensitive touch sensors - but the electrical signal that comes out from the sensor is not the right format for the brain to be able to interpret it," she told the BBC.
That means that other designs, although they have produced some remarkable results in tests with patients, have required a processor or a computer to "translate" the touch information.
"Our sensor is now coupled with a printed, simple electronic circuit. That circuit allows our sensor to generate electrical pulses that can communicate with the brain," said Prof Bao, a chemical engineer at Stanford University.
"We see this as the first step towards using plastic materials for artificial skin on prosthetic limbs."
In the more near-term, she added, the sensors might prove useful in wearable technology.
"They are very thin and flexible, and are also stretchy. So you could mount a sensor on your skin and use it to detect vital signs like heartbeat and blood pressure."
The heart of the design is a layer of flexible, rubbery polymer, laced with carbon nanotubes and shaped into tiny pyramids. When the sensor gets squashed, this semi-conductive layer offers a read-out of the pressure.
"When pressure is applied, the pyramids are deformed," Prof Bao explained. "The top becomes more flat, and this changes the amount of current that can flow through these pyramids."
Beneath that layer is an inkjet-printed circuit, called an oscillator, which turns the variable current into a train of pulses. With more pressure and more current, the rate of the pulses goes up.
To show that this signal could communicate reliably with the nervous system, Prof Bao and her colleagues passed it to a blue LED and shone the light onto a slice of brain from a mouse.
There, a subset of brain cells had been engineered to respond to this stimulation, by expressing a light-sensitive channel that floods the cell with charge when hit by blue photons.
Sure enough, when the scientists measured the impulses of individual cells within the slice, they saw a faithful readout of the pulses being produced by the touch sensor, and flashed by the light - even when they were rattling out at 200 pulses per second.
This light-based technique is referred to as "optogenetics" and is used by neuroscientists for all sorts of experiments, including manipulating memories by driving activity in specific sets of neurons.
Prof Bao's team chose it because delivering electricity directly to nerve cells is often problematic.
"Electrodes are made of hard material and they tend to damage neuronal cells," she said. "But using this technique, we don't have to directly contact the neurons."
In the future, stem cell technology could generate an optogenetic interface for technology like the new sensors. Alternatively, Prof Bau said, there might be improved ways to deliver the electrical impulse directly.
"There are quite a lot of developments right now in soft electrodes, for better bio-interfaces. That could be another approach."
Polina Anikeeva, a materials scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, wrote a commentary for Science about the new sensors. She told BBC News the Stanford team's optogenetic demonstration was exciting.
"A number of companies and clinical trials are already exploring optogenetics as an alternative to electrical stimulation," Prof Anikeeva said.
"As the efficacy and safety of the method becomes better understood, it is not unrealistic to envision more applications of optogenetic neural stimulation in prosthetic interfaces - but it is going to take time and effort."
Follow Jonathan on Twitter | Engineers have built a flexible sensor that detects touch and, just like skin, produces electrical pulses that get faster when the pressure increases. | 34539056 |
Redbridge Borough Council said the move was triggered by the "chronic shortage" of affordable housing in London.
Canterbury City Council said it tried to secure the homes for its own housing register, but lost out to a council with larger "financial resources".
It has also said the move will create a "financial strain" on local schools and social care.
The barracks were home to families of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, which were based at Howe Barracks for 10 years, before moving out in 2014.
They were the last representatives of the regular Army in the city, which has had a base in Canterbury since 1794.
Leader of Canterbury City Council, Simon Cook, said the council did its "utmost" to get the properties as they would have "made a difference to so many local families".
"We have explored the effective legal avenues open to us to prevent this from happening, but sadly there are none at present," he said.
"We will monitor this to ensure Redbridge follow due process and will take action if they fail to do so."
He added the council were seeking "urgent clarification" from Redbridge on the level of support needed
A spokeswoman for Redbridge Council said the authority aims to find accommodation in the borough for families where possible.
"The chronic shortage of affordable housing is a London-wide issue and due to the pressure in the housing market it has become increasingly difficult for us to secure enough local supply," she said.
"The cost of renting and buying properties is pushing people to outer London boroughs including Redbridge and beyond." | A London council is to move more than 200 families in temporary accommodation into a former barracks in Canterbury. | 36370956 |
Chris Wood struck his 11th league goal of the season to put the hosts ahead in the first half before a hamstring strain forced him off soon after.
Garry Monk's side only made sure of the points in injury-time when Souleymane Doukara converted a penalty.
Chris Gunter was adjudged to have pushed Charlie Taylor inside the area.
Reading's best chance of the game came right at the end when Yakou Meite's goal-bound effort was blocked by Pontus Jansson on the Leeds line.
Leeds, who responded from losing 2-0 at Brighton on Friday, had to send on Liam Bridcutt when New Zealand international Wood was withdrawn after his opening goal.
A rifled right-foot shot into the roof of the net produced his 14th strike in all competitions this season after Hadi Sacko dragged the ball back across the penalty area.
Leeds had little trouble containing a Reading side, who despite enjoying 77% possession, produced just two shots on target all game.
Leeds head coach Garry Monk:
"Chris Wood's just got hamstring tightness, we won't know for another 24 hours. It didn't look like a bad one where I was, but we will have to wait.
"You can see already we can't afford to lose any more but credit to those players, they're digging in.
"Physically it's hard for them but we don't want to lose Woody, who has been integral to what we're doing."
Reading manager Jaap Stam told BBC Radio Berkshire:
"I thought we played very, very well tonight, I think that was one of our best games.
"In how you play, you're not going to get 10 chances to score, but a couple during the game.
"We spoke about being patient and in the second half in the final third we could've done better in terms of decision-making.
"We should've scored before they got their first goal and then we needed to be sharper in terms of defending. Late on, we tried to force it for the equaliser and after that they got a late penalty."
Match ends, Leeds United 2, Reading 0.
Second Half ends, Leeds United 2, Reading 0.
Attempt blocked. Yakou Meite (Reading) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is blocked.
Tyler Blackett (Reading) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Ronaldo Vieira (Leeds United).
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Pontus Jansson (Leeds United) because of an injury.
Goal! Leeds United 2, Reading 0. Souleymane Doukara (Leeds United) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.
Penalty conceded by Chris Gunter (Reading) after a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty Leeds United. Charlie Taylor draws a foul in the penalty area.
Foul by Jake Cooper (Reading).
Pontus Jansson (Leeds United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Jake Cooper (Reading) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Kyle Bartley (Leeds United).
Substitution, Reading. Jake Cooper replaces Liam Kelly.
Yakou Meite (Reading) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Yakou Meite (Reading).
Liam Bridcutt (Leeds United) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt saved. Matt Grimes (Leeds United) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Ronaldo Vieira.
Foul by Roy Beerens (Reading).
Ronaldo Vieira (Leeds United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Roy Beerens (Reading) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt blocked. Garath McCleary (Reading) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Tyler Blackett.
Substitution, Leeds United. Matt Grimes replaces Stuart Dallas.
Attempt blocked. Garath McCleary (Reading) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Joey van den Berg.
Substitution, Reading. Yakou Meite replaces George Evans.
Offside, Reading. Yann Kermorgant tries a through ball, but Liam Kelly is caught offside.
Attempt blocked. Garath McCleary (Reading) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Tyler Blackett.
Corner, Reading. Conceded by Robert Green.
Attempt missed. Yann Kermorgant (Reading) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Garath McCleary with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Reading. Conceded by Ronaldo Vieira.
Foul by Yann Kermorgant (Reading).
Kyle Bartley (Leeds United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Leeds United. Alex Mowatt replaces Kemar Roofe because of an injury.
Attempt blocked. Joey van den Berg (Reading) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Tyler Blackett.
Corner, Reading. Conceded by Robert Green.
Attempt saved. Roy Beerens (Reading) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Yann Kermorgant.
Foul by Chris Gunter (Reading).
Stuart Dallas (Leeds United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Chris Gunter (Reading) wins a free kick in the defensive half. | Reading lost for the second successive away game as Leeds moved up to fifth in the Championship play-off places with a goal in each half at Elland Road. | 38217653 |
The four girls said they came up with the new name Little Mix after talking with their mentor Tulisa Contostavlos.
"We decided to change our name to Little Mix as we do not want to cause problems for the charity," they said.
The charity gave a "massive thank you" to supporters who backed its campaign against X Factor.
Little Mix said they had no idea there was a charity with the same name when they came up with Rhythmix.
"We're happy that this has now been resolved," they added.
"We're the same girls as we've always been and we want to thank all of our fans for their continued support.
"We came up with some ideas for our new name which we discussed with Tulisa and she had some ideas too.
"We all agreed on Little Mix as it just felt right."
The music charity Rhythmix, which has been operating in Kent, Surrey and Sussex for 10 years, feared X Factor's use of the name would cause confusion.
It hired lawyers and wrote an open letter to show supremo Simon Cowell asking him to intervene after the mix-up was revealed.
It formally objected to the X Factor's application to register Rhythmix as a trademark in Europe.
Supporters set up a Facebook group urging music fans to buy Nirvana's 1991 track Smells Like Teen Spirit in time to make it the Christmas No 1.
Tens of thousands of people joined the group, pledging to help stop an X Factor act getting the Christmas top spot.
The charity, which receives National Lottery funding, has 50 musicians who have worked with 40,000 young people through youth support services.
Chief executive Mark Davyd said it was delighted the band had changed its name.
"We are very pleased that the girls have, as we understand it, really pushed the programme to allow the name change," he added.
"I think that says a lot about the way they behaved throughout.
"We are very, very pleased with the outcome." | The X Factor girl group Rhythmix has changed its name following a threat of legal action by a Brighton charity with the same name. | 15499552 |
The fire at Little Plumstead Hospital, near Norwich, broke out at 01:45 BST on Sunday.
There were more than 50 firefighters at the scene at the height of the blaze.
Station manager Duncan Ashworth said: "It's a beautiful building, and a very complicated building. All of the internal structures have burnt away."
The blaze engulfed the entire 60m (197ft) by 20m (67ft) building.
The red brick building, built as a hall in 1889, opened as a hospital in 1930 and has been unoccupied since the 1990s. No-one was in the building when the fire broke out.
Mr Ashworth said it was not yet known how the fire started and an investigation was under way.
"Because it was so well developed by the time we got here, we are obviously going to speak to people, early witnesses, to try to establish the most likely area but at the moment, it's going to be difficult to pinpoint that exactly," he said.
Firefighters are still at the scene dampening down. | A former mental health hospital has been destroyed after a large fire ripped through the 19th Century building. | 37076430 |
The 30-year-old was heading out to Melbourne for a player-coaching role with Brighton Cricket Club, who he had played for the previous year.
However, changes to the visa laws meant he would have to miss out for 2016.
"Someone of my age with a family, there is only one type of visa you can get," Rushworth told BBC Newcastle.
"I had the wrong visa. And unfortunately the new visa doesn't allow you to play cricket.
"The Professional Cricketers Association are trying to find a way around this because pro-cricketers want to play cricket overseas and if you can't do that it's no good for anyone.
"I spent the winter at home. Obviously it was devastating at the time but I think it's worked out well as I spent the winter working hard in the gym."
Rushworth's winter of discontent came on the back of Durham's own tale of woe, having been dished out heavy sanctions by the England and Wales Cricket Board.
The county accepted an aid package from the ECB to service debts and agreed a deal with Durham County Council to convert debts into shares.
It came at a price as the team were relegated to Division Two, handed points deductions across the formats and had the Riverside ground's Test status removed.
On the flipside, the county's finances are in a better state, Sir Ian Botham has come in as chairman with optimism and enthusiasm, and on the field there has even been the acquisition of overseas imports.
South African Test player Stephen Cook and New Zealand opener Tom Latham will play half a season apiece for Jon Lewis' side.
"We've been in situations in the past as a team where we've been on the back foot and circumstances have gone against us," Rushworth continued.
"But we've always come out strong so hopefully this year is no different.
"We've got a smaller squad this year but the lads are hungry and they want to prove we can do it." | Durham seam bowler Chris Rushworth can finally see the positives after being refused entry to play in Australia last winter because of visa issues. | 39517674 |
Robbie Brady scored a late header to give his country a 1-0 victory over Italy.
That meant they qualified for the last 16 as one of the best third-placed sides.
The Republic of Ireland will play the hosts France next - on Sunday afternoon.
Wales and Northern Ireland will play each other on Saturday for a place in the quarter-finals.
England will play Iceland on Monday, after Iceland qualified thanks to a dramatic late winner over Austria.
Iceland are the smallest nation ever to qualify for a major tournament. | England, Wales and Northern Ireland will be joined by the Republic of Ireland in the Euro 2016 knockout stages. | 36604481 |
The monarch distributed money in recognition of services to the church and community to 91 men and 91 women - representing each of her 91 years.
Leicester is the final cathedral to host the annual service during the Queen's reign.
The Dean of Leicester, the Very Reverend David Monteith, said it was a "huge honour".
Live updates on the Queen distributing Maundy money in Leicester here
He said: "Wherever the Queen goes it's a great day, but the fact that we complete the series of cathedrals that the Queen has visited over her reign on Maundy Thursday means we are the triumph of all that work and we couldn't be more pleased."
Hundreds of people lined the streets to welcome the Queen, who was accompanied by Duke of Edinburgh, for the service which dates back to the 13th Century.
The Queen handed out two purses, one white and one red, to each person.
The red purse contains a £5 coin, commemorating the centenary of the House of Windsor and a 50p coin commemorating Sir Isaac Newton.
The white purse contains uniquely minted Maundy coins, equating in pence to the Queen's age.
Source: The Royal Mint | The Queen has handed out commemorative Maundy coins in a traditional service at Leicester Cathedral. | 39588387 |
The 29-year-old was out-of-contract at the Iron, having made 109 appearances and helping the club to the League One play-offs this season.
Daniels will provide competition for Dan Bentley, with whom he spent time with at Southend, and Jack Bonham.
"His signing will give us one of the strongest goalkeeper departments in the league," said head coach Dean Smith.
Daniels came through the ranks at Manchester United, and has also previously played for West Brom, Shrewsbury and Tranmere.
His departure leaves Scunthorpe short in the goalkeeping department, with Joe Anyon having left for Chesterfield.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | Championship side Brentford have signed Scunthorpe United goalkeeper Luke Daniels on a three-year deal. | 40028479 |
The series will include three Tests, four one-day internationals and three Twenty20 internationals, with England arriving in the UAE on 30 September.
The first Test starts at Abu Dhabi's Zayed Cricket Stadium on 13 October.
Pakistan have not played Test cricket at home since a 2009 attack on the Sri Lanka team bus killed seven people.
In May, they hosted Zimbabwe in a five-match series comprising two Twenty20 games and three one-day internationals.
The second Test of the autumn tour will be at Dubai Cricket Stadium from 22-26 October with the third held at the Sharjah Cricket Club, where England have never played a Test.
England's last tour to the UAE in 2012 saw Pakistan win the Test series while England triumphed in the ODIs and T20S.
Tour dates
30 September: England team arrive
5-6 October: v Pakistan A, Sharjah CC
8-9 October: v Pakistan A, Sharjah CC
13-17 October: 1st Test, ZCS, Abu Dhabi
22-26 October: 2nd Test, Dubai Cricket Stadium
1-5 November: 3rd Test, Sharjah CC
8 November: One-day practice match, ZCS, Abu Dhabi
11 November: 1st ODI D/N, ZCS, Abu Dhabi
13 November: 2nd ODI D/N, ZCS, Abu Dhabi
17 November: 3rd ODI D/N, Sharjah CC
20 November: 4th ODI D/N, Dubai Cricket Stadium
23 November: T20 v UAE XI, ZCS, Abu Dhabi
26 November: 1st T20, Dubai Cricket Stadium
27 November: 2nd T20, Dubai Cricket Stadium
30 November: 3rd T20, Sharjah CC
1 December: England depart UAE | England and Pakistan have arranged October and November dates for their two-month autumn tour in the United Arab Emirates. | 33640065 |
Ofsted again found widespread failings and inspectors discovered 16 out of 1,052 "in care" children did not even have their own allocated social worker.
Inspectors branded services "inadequate" and said care of children needing protection must also improve.
The council said it could take five years to move from inadequate status.
It said it was disputing the allegation children had no access to a social worker, because in 13 cases a team manager had taken charge following the sudden departure of a member of staff.
Leadership, management and governance also required improvement, said the report, despite several new senior appointments being made in the past two years.
The council had "lost touch" with 190 children who had left its care, the report found. Some of them were vulnerable 16 to 17-year-olds and their safety could not be guaranteed.
The council said information was available about these children, but not requested by Ofsted.
On 30 June 2015, 4,534 children were formally in need of a specialist children's service - down from 7,361 at 31 March 2014.
During the same period 522 children and young people were the subject of a child protection plan - a reduction from 537.
"It typically takes three to five years to move from an 'inadequate' judgment and see the impact," the council said.
James Joyce, chairman of the children's services committee, said: "We can't agree with its ultimate conclusion.
"Children are now much safer and better protected than they were two years ago.
"When we came into office in 2013, we had a shortage of social workers, no early help service and more than 100 unallocated child-in-need cases." | Norfolk County Council has failed to improve significantly services for children in care after being rated "inadequate" in 2013, a report says. | 34580764 |
His departure is regarded as a blow to the government of Prime Minister Mark Rutte.
His centre-right Liberal Party (VVD) is trailing in opinion polls ahead of a general election in March.
Mr van de Steur is the third member of Mr Rutte's government to resign over the scandal.
Former Justice Minister Ivo Opstelten and his junior minister, Fred Teeven, resigned in 2015 after misleading parliament over the 2001 deal.
The affair revolves around a deal prosecutors reached with a drug trafficker, Cees Helman, worth €2m (£1.7m; $2.1m).
Mr van de Steur has been criticised for his role in answers provided to parliament over the issue.
He has denied advising certain information be withheld.
PM Rutte has also come under fire from opposition politicians.
The Freedom Party, led by anti-immigration politician Geert Wilders, is leading public opinion polls. | Dutch Justice Minister Ard van der Steur has resigned in a row over a 2001 compensation payment to a convicted drug trafficker. | 38761549 |
In February, Twitter announced that 125,000 accounts since mid-2015 had been banned for the same reasons.
"Daily suspensions are up over 80% since last year, with spikes in suspensions immediately following terrorist attacks," said the firm.
It added that it continued to work with authorities on the issue of extremism.
In the past, Twitter has faced criticism over the level of extremist content that has been detected on its network.
Besides increased human efforts, Twitter said it had benefited from the use of spam-fighting tools that can help automatically detect problem accounts.
One third of the recent batch of suspensions were identified via such methods, the firm added.
"We have expanded the teams that review reports around the clock, along with their tools and language capabilities," said Twitter in its blog.
"We also collaborate with other social platforms, sharing information and best practices for identifying terrorist content."
However, the move was described as a "short term solution" by Nikita Malik, a senior researcher at the Quilliam Foundation, an anti-extremist group.
"What we're trying to do as an organisation when we work with social media companies like Google and Twitter is to help them have a more pro-active role," she said.
She added that it would potentially be more beneficial to focus on promoting counter narratives that challenged the message of extremist propaganda. | Twitter has suspended 235,000 accounts for violating its policies on the promotion of terrorism, the social network has said in a blog. | 37120932 |
In his final news conference, Mr Obama said December's UN resolution condemning Israeli settlements should be a "wake-up call".
He also warned his successor Donald Trump against any "sudden, unilateral moves" on the conflict.
Mr Obama was apparently referring to Mr Trump's plan to move the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
Mr Obama was criticised for breaking with Washington's tradition of using the US veto to block UN resolutions critical of Israel.
But the outgoing US president said on Wednesday: "The goal of the resolution was to simply say that the... growth of the settlements are creating a reality on the ground that increasingly will make a two-state solution impossible.
"It was important for us to send a signal, a wakeup call that this moment may be passing."
Mr Obama said that during the transition, his team has sought to provide the incoming Trump administration with "the context in which the president-elect may want to make some of these decisions".
He declared that the "status quo is unsustainable" and said that early in his administration he decided to try to preserve the possibility of a two-state solution because he does not see an alternative.
Mr Obama cited a "rightward drift in Israeli politics" as well as the rise of terrorist groups in Syria as reasons for the failure to advance the peace process.
The issue of Jewish settlements is one of the most contentious between Israel and the Palestinians, who see them as an obstacle to peace.
About 500,000 Jews live in about 140 settlements built since Israel's 1967 occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
The settlements are considered illegal under international law, though Israel disputes this. | US President Barack Obama has said he fears "the moment may be passing" for a two-state solution in the Middle East. | 38667119 |
Playing against Spurs for the first time since his £85.3m world record transfer to Madrid, Bale provided the key moment in a pedestrian affair.
The Wales international swerved home on his left-foot from outside the box after James Rodriguez headed home the opener at Munich's Allianz Arena.
Erik Lamela missed Spurs' best chance.
The Argentine winger skied over from a Kyle Walker cut-back in a busy opening 15 minutes that contrasted with the way the rest of the game played out.
Bale initially appeared to indicate he did not intend to celebrate his goal, which came in the latter stages of the match.
He pointed his hands towards the ground and looked down, but with jubilant team-mates bearing down on him he then brought his hands together to make the familiar heart shape seen so often in his six years at White Hart Lane before he left for the Bernabeu in 2013.
His goal was certainly a strike to be proud of. The 26-year-old turned quickly towards goal before unleashing a vicious low strike that seemed to bamboozle goalkeeper Michel Vorm with its dip and pace.
Dutchman Vorm, standing in while first-choice goalkeeper Hugo Lloris continues his recovery from a broken wrist, mistimed his dive and the ball went into the net via his arm.
Luka Modric was another former Tottenham player on show for Real, and the Croatia midfielder went close with a deflected shot Vorm did well to claw off the line in the first half.
Spurs youngster Dele Alli, in his first pre-season at Spurs since a £5m transfer from MK Dons in February, at one point nutmegged Modric in midfield.
The 19-year-old said he was disappointed with the result but put the moment of skill down to "natural instinct", adding: "Hopefully I've shown what I can do."
Although both sides put out strong line-ups, with Harry Kane among the starters for Spurs, there was no Cristiano Ronaldo or Karim Benzema for Real.
Ronaldo suffered a back injury during training on Monday, while Benzema pulled a muscle in his right thigh.
Host club Bayern Munich play AC Milan in the tournament's second semi-final later on Tuesday, with Spurs to play the loser in a third-place play-off on Wednesday.
That match will come just three days before the start of Tottenham's Premier League season - Mauricio Pochettino's men play Manchester United in a 12:45 BST kick-off at Old Trafford on Saturday. | Gareth Bale scored against former club Tottenham Hotspur as Real Madrid won 2-0 in a friendly at the pre-season Audi Cup in Germany. | 33781408 |
The Roman and Celtic coins, which date from the 1st Century BC, were found by two metal detector enthusiasts.
Dr Philip de Jersey, a former Celtic coin expert at Oxford University, said the haul was "extremely exciting and very significant".
He said each individual coin was worth between £100 and £200.
The exact number of coins found has not been established, but archaeologists said the hoard weighed about three quarters of a tonne and could contain about 50,000 coins.
The exact location of the hoard has not been revealed by the authorities but Environment Minister, Deputy Rob Duhamel, said he would do everything he could to protect the site.
"Sites like these do need protection because there is speculation there might even be more," he said.
"It is a very exciting piece of news and perhaps harks back to our cultural heritage in terms of finance. It was found under a hedge so perhaps this is an early example of hedge fund trading."
It was found by Reg Mead and Richard Miles in a field in the east of Jersey.
They had been searching for more than 30 years after hearing rumours a farmer had discovered silver coins while working on his land.
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Mr Mead and Mr Miles worked with experts from Jersey Heritage to slowly unearth the treasure.
A large mound of clay containing the coins has now been taken to a safe location to be studied.
It is the first hoard of coins found in the island for more than 60 years.
Several hoards of Celtic coins have been found in Jersey before but the largest was in 1935 at La Marquanderie when more than 11,000 were discovered.
Dr de Jersey said it would take months for archaeologists to find out the full value of the haul.
He said: "It is extremely exciting and very significant. It will add a huge amount of new information, not just about the coins themselves but the people who were using them.
"Most archaeologists with an interest in coins spend their lives in libraries writing about coins and looking at pictures of coins.
"To actually go out and excavate one in a field, most of us never get that opportunity. It is a once in a lifetime opportunity."
The ownership of the coins is unclear. Mr Mead said he had asked the States of Jersey for clarification.
Deputy Duhamel said the owners of the site had indicated they would like to see the whole hoard on display at the Jersey Museum or the archive. | One of Europe's largest hoards of Iron Age coins has been unearthed in Jersey and could be worth up to £10m, according to an expert. | 18579868 |
The 19-year-old spent last season on loan at Griffin Park from Liverpool, and scored seven goals in 39 appearances for the Bees.
Canos joined Norwich in July 2016, but has only made three league appearances for the Canaries this season.
The Spain Under-19 international has signed until 2021, with a year's option in the club's favour.
"Sergi, is a player and character that fits naturally into our dressing room," said Brentford boss Dean Smith.
"After working with him last season, you can see what he brings to the group, and an infectious attitude to match."
Meanwhile, Slovenian striker Jan Novak has joined Brentford's B team on an 18-month deal.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page or visit our Premier League tracker here. | Brentford have re-signed winger Sergi Canos from fellow Championship club Norwich for an undisclosed fee. | 38811973 |
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Russia was banned from all IPC events last week after evidence showed that anti-doping samples from Paralympic athletes had been compromised.
"This decision was like killing Russian sport," said Akzhana Abdikarimova.
Russia's National Paralympic Committee has until 28 August to appeal.
Abdikarimova, 33, is a member of the Russian Paralympic track and field team who are currently in Thailand together on a training camp, and she says the group remain hopeful of the decision being reversed if an appeal is made to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas).
"When our coach told us the decision at training, some were shocked and some were angry and we were all disappointed. But our mood is good because we believe we can change something in this situation," said Abdikarimova, a T53 silver medallist from the 2016 European IPC Athletics Championships.
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"It is our human right to compete. We believe the decision will be changed because it is ridiculous. This is a disaster for many athletes who are training hard for Rio and I don't think a majority should take responsibility for someone else."
The IPC made its decision on Russia's ban after the governing body received additional information from Professor Richard McLaren, who published a report revealing evidence of a widespread state-sponsored doping within Russian sport, particularly at the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Abdikarimova and many of her track team-mates were also part of the Russian cross-country skiing and biathlon teams in Sochi but she says they are unaware of such a system.
"I know in the team I train with now, we don't take any meds because our team is for the fair competition of the sport," said Abdikarimova.
"Most of us were in Sochi together but we don't know what's going on with the report from McLaren. We have not seen it and we don't know who will be named.
"We were the heroes of the Sochi Games and if some programme existed, we should know something about it or have heard something and we didn't."
Abdikarimova believes the evidence shows clear wrongdoing but says it is the individual cheats that should be banned from the Rio Paralympics, which begin on 7 September.
"When the decision was made, it was like someone shooting my back. This is a cruel decision," she said. | The International Paralympic Committee's decision to ban Russia from the Rio 2016 Paralympics will "kill" disability sport in the country, says a Russian Para-athlete. | 37052720 |
18 July 2016 Last updated at 13:12 BST
John Oakley will travel from Goole, near Hull, to his home town of Warrington in Cheshire, and is taking Max the dog along for the ride.
The journey will take the intrepid pair through more than 130 locks, and they will share a tent at night.
Max even has his own specially-made life jacket for the trip which is expected to take place in September. | A man and his pet dog are embarking on a 100-mile kayak challenge to raise money for the RSPCA. | 36826577 |
She was also an opponent of the regime of Gen Augusto Pinochet which took power in a military coup on 11 September 1973 and ruled Chile for 17 years.
Her opposition landed her in three of the 1,132 detention centres where the military junta detained almost 40,000 political prisoners and subjected them to physical and psychological torture.
Arrested in April 1975, when she was 23 years old, she spent a total of 18 months in prisons in the capital, Santiago.
The first detention camp she was taken to was Villa Grimaldi, a notorious torture centre run by the secret police (DINA, later renamed CNI), where some of the harshest types of torture were inflicted and hundreds were killed and "disappeared".
Despite the regime of terror and precarious living conditions all inmates were subjected to, Ms Jimenez and her fellow prisoners managed to develop musical activities while in captivity.
But music was not just used by the prisoners. Their captors, too, used music as a form of punishment and a soundtrack to torture.
One of the episodes Ms Jimenez remembers most vividly from her time at Villa Grimaldi happened during a winter's night when a guard demanded she sing for the entertainment of DINA personnel.
She refused, despite the guard threatening to punish all the prisoners if she did not obey.
Romperá la tarde mi voz
hasta el eco de ayer.
Voy quedándome solo al final
muerto de sed, harto de andar
pero sigo creciendo en el sol... vivo.
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My voice will ring through the afternoon
until the echo of yesterday.
In the end, I am left alone
dying of thirst, tired of walking
but I continue to grow in the sun... I live.
Lyrics by Hamlet Lima Quintana
"Although I felt frightened, I decided that my small act of rebellion would be not to sing. Also, I thought I would not be able to," she told me.
But when the guard left briefly to get cigarettes, another detainee persuaded Ms Jimenez to sing, not to please the jailer but to comfort another prisoner, Cedomil Lausic, who, after a brutal torture session, was suffering in solitary confinement at some distance.
When the guard returned, Ms Jimenez was singing Zamba Para No Morir (a song made popular by Argentine singer Mercedes Sosa, whose music was banned by the Pinochet regime) at the top of her lungs, hoping the song would lend some strength to her fellow prisoner.
She was punished for her act of rebellion and had to spend the entire night in the rain. She later learned that her song was the last thing Mr Lausic heard before dying.
He was 28. His name is one of those listed on the Wall of Names, a memorial erected at the site where Villa Grimaldi stood.
The original buildings were demolished by the military in 1989 and the former torture centre is now a memorial park.
Ms Jimenez was later transferred to Tres Alamos, a detention camp for political prisoners in Santiago. There she ran a weekly music workshop for inmates, teaching guitar, recorder and singing.
Suddenly, after several months, the camp administration decided to forbid this activity, as well as the many other workshops organised by the inmates.
Ms Jimenez thinks the reason for this ban was that the authorities feared the prisoners were getting too organised.
She convinced the authorities that having a choir of about 100 people would improve the camp's image, particularly as they were expecting an inspection by the human rights commission of the Organisation of American States.
The authorities agreed to the project, but not to the prisoners performing to the commission.
The choir rehearsed twice a week.
Many participants did not have any previous musical experience. They sang songs that were already part of the camp's repertoire. The most emblematic were Palabras para Julia and Candombe para Jose.
The choir lasted five months, until September 1976 when all but six prisoners were freed or exiled.
The mass release was widely seen as an attempt by the Pinochet regime to diminish international criticism of its human rights record.
Forty years on, a group of prisoners led by Ms Jimenez has revived the choir and will perform in an event commemorating the 40th anniversary of the coup, to be held at Villa Grimaldi.
Recruiting participants for the choir has been difficult, Ms Jimenez says.
"There are people who cannot be bothered, others smoked too much and lost their voices. Forty years have passed: those who are 80 now aren't able to stand and sing. They are tired, or ill."
Apart from the emotional challenge of making music in a place that brings back extremely painful memories, for Ms Jimenez there are additional physical difficulties.
She recently suffered a stroke and has become almost deaf.
But despite the memories Villa Grimaldi brings back, former political prisoners who have joined the choir look forward to singing at the event on 11 September.
Lucrecia Brito was detained at the age of 20 and was held for seven months in Villa Grimaldi, Tres Alamos and Cuatro Alamos detention centres.
For her, it is about remembering the past, "commemorating life despite torture, an homage to all those who went through Villa Grimaldi and other detention and torture centres".
For others, like Carena Perez, it is about the future.
Ms Perez, who spent five months in detention in 1975 in Villa Grimaldi and three other detention centres, says she sings for those who did not live through the events "because there are still people who do not know what happened, and singing is our way of denouncing it".
Dr Katia Chornik is a musicologist at the University of Manchester. Her article is based on research for the Leverhulme project: Sounds of Memory: Music and Political Captivity in Pinochet's Chile. | Anita Maria Jimenez is a Chilean music teacher and pianist. | 24014509 |
Under the pension proposals, workers will also be expected to work for five more years before they can receive their full pension.
Unite joins other steel unions, Community, GMB and Ucatt, in voting for strike action.
Tata said the strike vote was "very disappointing".
If the action goes ahead, it will be the first national steel strike for 30 years.
The four unions represent 17,000 steel workers who have been told that they may have to retire at 65 rather than 60 under the new pension proposals.
Tata released an open letter to employees last Friday which said Tata's UK operations were losing money and the pension scheme had a shortfall of more than £2bn.
But Unite and the other unions claim that they have "already offered pension savings of £850m to the company after five months of intensive negotiations".
Unite national officer for steel Paul Reuter said: "Our members have made it clear that they are not prepared to have their contracts with their futures torn up in front of their eyes.
"We have offered Tata Steel UK the savings it says it needs. Instead the company is hell-bent on making people who work in a physically demanding environment graft unnecessarily for a further five years to get their full pension."
Unite said it would meet the other steel unions next week to discuss next steps, including industrial action.
A Tata Steel spokesman said: "We have been trying to develop an affordable and sustainable pension scheme for employees, so today's ballot result is very disappointing."
The firm pointed out that less than half the workforce voted for strike action.
But in signs that Tata may be bowing to pressure from the unions, it said: "We have over the last few months listened carefully to our employees during a consultation process.
"In response to this feedback, we will soon be announcing new measures which will lessen the impact of the proposed pension changes, particularly on our longest-serving employees nearing retirement age.
"We hope that these important changes to our proposals will be welcomed by employees and the trade unions and that they will consider this when deciding on any industrial action."
Profits within the UK steel industry are being squeezed by cheap imports and weak demand. Its costs are also higher than elsewhere for both energy and labour.
The company's parent, India's Tata Steel Ltd, reported an $889m (£582m) quarterly loss this month, partly because of its UK business.
In Wales, Tata has sites in Port Talbot, Llanwern in Newport, Shotton in Flintshire and Trostre, Carmarthenshire.
It also has a plant at Motherwell in Scotland, while in England, there are plants at Corby, Scunthorpe, Redcar, Rotherham, Hartlepool, Walsall and Wednesbury. | Tata Steel workers belonging to the Unite union have voted to go on strike in protest at the closure of the British Steel pension scheme. | 33025622 |
100m: Usain Bolt (Jam)/Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (Jam)
200m: Usain Bolt (Jam)/Dafne Schippers (Ned)
400m: Wayde van Niekerk (SA)/Allyson Felix (USA)
800m: David Rudisha (Ken)/Maryna Arzamasava (Blr)
1500m: Asbel Kiprop (Ken)/Genzebe Dibaba (Eth)
5,000m: Mo Farah (GB)/Almaz Ayana (Eth)
10,000m: Mo Farah (GB)/Vivian Cheruiyot (Ken)
Marathon: Ghirmay Ghebreslassie (Eri)/Mare Dibaba (Eth)
110/100m hurdles: Sergey Shubenkov (Rus)/Danielle Williams (Jam)
400m hurdles: Nicholas Bett (Ken)/Zuzana Hejnova (Cze)
3,000m steeplechase: Ezekiel Kemboi (Ken)/Hyvin Jepkemoi (Ken)
20km race walk: Miguel Angel Lopez (Spn)/Liu Hong (Chn)
50km race walk: Matej Toth (Svk)/NA
4x100m relay: Jamaica/Jamaica
4x400m relay: United States/Jamaica
High jump: Derek Drouin (Can)/Maria Kuchina (Rus)
Pole vault: Shawnacy Barber (Can)/Yarisley Silva (Cub)
Long jump: Greg Rutherford (GB)/Tianna Bartoletta (USA)
Triple jump: Christian Taylor (USA)/Caterine Ibarguen (Col)
Shot put: Joe Kovacs (USA)/Christina Schwanitz (Ger)
Discus: Piotr Malachowski (Pol)/Denia Caballero (Cub)
Hammer: Pawel Fadjek (Pol)/Anita Wlodarczyk (Pol)
Javelin: Julius Yego (Ken)/Katharina Molitor (Ger)
Decathlon/heptathlon: Ashton Eaton (USA)/Jessica Enis-Hill (GB)
Gold
Mo Farah (men's 5,000m) - day eight
Greg Rutherford (men's long jump) - day four
Jessica Ennis-Hill (heptathlon) - day two
Mo Farah (men's 10,000m) - day one
Silver
Shara Proctor (women's long jump) - day seven
Bronze
Women's 4x400m relay - day nine
Men's 4x400m relay - day nine | The reigning champions from the 2015 World Championships in Beijing: | 40808151 |
Toby Perkins told a Commons debate on the NHS his father went to Coventry and Warwickshire Hospital in July 2015 suffering from "extreme pain".
He had symptoms of an aneurysm but was sent home after five hours in A&E, the Chesterfield MP said. His father died four days later.
The BBC has contacted the hospital for a response.
Mr Perkins' father had suffered a near-fatal aneurysm three years earlier while on holiday in Germany.
He added he was "ashamed to say that I'm grateful" his father had the first aneurysm abroad, as "the quality of the emergency care he received in Munich saved his life".
"I regret the same could not be said of our NHS," he added.
Mr Perkins told ministers the registrar who saw his father commented it had been a "non-stop afternoon" and asked his father whether he minded going home.
"He said he had sent home five people who should have been in hospital because they were not enough beds.
"These pressures and these life and death decisions are not unique to that registrar, or to that hospital."
The NHS and social care is in the midst of a crisis that leaves the elderly and disabled isolated and struggling to cope, and "means people being sent home from A&E to die", Mr Perkins said.
"We must do better," he added. | An MP has told how his father "died in my arms" after being sent home due to a shortage of hospital beds. | 38590113 |
Mark Burry was working at Rigmar Services base in Dundee's docks area when he was killed in the accident on 12 February last year.
A fatal accident inquiry into the 49-year-old's death will begin in September.
A sheriff offered his condolences to Mr Burry's family at a preliminary hearing at Dundee Sheriff Court.
Mr Burry was contracted by Marine Support Tayside Ltd and was sent to work at Rigmar's site in Prince Charles Wharf.
He was helping to move items from one place to another as part of a downsizing operation.
Depute fiscal Gavin Callaghan told the hearing: "A storage rack A-frame holding a significant number of pipes fell and he was struck by one or two that had fallen.
"As a result he suffered injuries from which he died.
"There is no witness who can actually speak to seeing the accident happen.
"There were witnesses who hear a noise and look around but nobody sees the fatal accident occur."
Sheriff Alastair Brown ordered a further preliminary hearing on 12 September ahead of the fatal accident inquiry, which is expected to last two days.
Addressing three members of Mr Burry's family who attended court, the sheriff said: "I'd like to record my condolences to the family.
"It is easy to lose sight that there is a person involved in this type of case who you have lost." | A forklift driver died when two large pipes fell from a storage rack and landed on him, a court was told. | 40774826 |
Phil Shiner, from the now-defunct law firm Public Interest Lawyers, had 12 charges of misconduct proved against him by a panel of the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal.
He had admitted acting recklessly by publicly claiming UK troops unlawfully killed, tortured and mistreated Iraqis.
The defence secretary said Mr Shiner had "made soldiers' lives a misery".
Sir Michael Fallon told the BBC he was "delighted" that Mr Shiner had been "exposed".
"The decent thing for him to do now would be to apologise," he said.
In five of the charges found proved he was found to have acted dishonestly, including agreeing to pay "sweeteners" to a fixer - named only as "Z" in tribunal papers but understood to be called Mazin Younis - to persuade him to change his evidence to the £31m Al-Sweady Inquiry.
The five-year investigation ruled in 2014 that allegations of murder and torture made against British soldiers by Iraqi detainees were "deliberate lies".
Mr Shiner previously admitted nine allegations of acting without integrity, including that he had made unsolicited approaches to potential clients.
He did not attend the hearing, having written to the tribunal to say he was unwell and could not afford to pay for a defence lawyer.
The tribunal heard in December that he accepted he would be struck off as a result of the case, thought to be one of the most expensive ever brought by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA).
Andrew Tabachnik, representing the SRA, accused Mr Shiner of being "in a state of avoidance" to prevent proceedings from going ahead in full.
The hearing finished earlier than expected as a result of Mr Shiner's absence.
The tribunal heard about how British military personnel had been affected by his actions in "cold-calling" the family members of alleged Iraqi victims.
Army Colonel James Coote, who was a major stationed in Basra, said the false claims made against British troops at the Battle of Danny Boy in 2004 had been "extremely stressful and demoralising".
As a team leader at PIL, Mr Shiner authorised and procured payments and fee-sharing agreements with the agent, "Z", between 2007 and 2010.
The tribunal also ordered Mr Shiner to pay interim costs of £250,000.
A second solicitor from PIL, John Dickinson, was reprimanded by the tribunal and ordered to pay £2,000 costs after he admitted that failed he to keep Al-Sweady clients properly informed about the progress of the inquiry.
SRA chief executive Paul Philip said he welcomed the tribunal's decision to strike off Mr Shiner.
"It is important that solicitors can bring forward difficult cases, but the public must be able to place their trust in them," he said.
"His misconduct has caused real distress to soldiers, their families and to the families of Iraqi people who thought that their loved ones had been murdered or tortured.
"More than £30m of public funds were spent on investigating what proved to be false and dishonest allegations."
The tribunal aims to publish its decision within seven weeks, after which Mr Shiner would have 21 days to appeal.
Sir Michael said in a statement: "Justice has finally been served after we took the unprecedented step of submitting evidence on his abuse of our legal system.
"Phil Shiner made soldiers' lives a misery by pursuing false claims of torture and murder - now he should apologise.
"We will study any implications for outstanding legal claims closely." | A human rights lawyer who brought abuse claims against UK troops after the Iraq War has been struck off for misconduct. | 38841544 |
Scotland are on four points after four matches and sit second bottom of qualifying Group F, four points adrift of second-placed Slovenia.
Regan reckons the Scots can qualify for next year's finals in Russia, but only if they beat Slovenia at Hampden.
"That's really a must-win game for Scotland," Regan told BBC Scotland.
National coach Gordon Strachan has been boosted by the news that Celtic captain Scott Brown will be available against Slovenia.
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And Regan added: "We know how important it is to get our campaign back on track. Gordon knows it. The team knows it.
"We came out of the England game [November's 3-0 loss] very disappointed. Gordon was keen to have a friendly match to prepare for the next qualifier and we've set that up with a match at Easter Road on 22 March against Canada.
"Whilst ever there is an opportunity to qualify for the World Cup, that remains our focus.
"We still have a number of matches at home this year - we've got four home games - and we'll be trying to get as many points as we can possibly get, starting with Slovenia here at Hampden."
Scotland kicked off their qualifying campaign with a 5-1 win in Malta and a 1-1 home draw with Lithuania, before back-to-back 3-0 defeats away to Slovakia and England. | Scottish FA chief executive Stewart Regan believes the national side must take three points in their World Cup qualifier against Slovenia on 26 March. | 39080025 |
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Tamim Iqbal batted through the Tigers' innings, hitting three sixes in his unbeaten 83 from 58 balls, but lacked any meaningful support as they posted 153-7 from their 20 overs.
Opener Stephan Myburgh and captain Peter Borren both made 29, but the Dutch left themselves too much to do.
Tight bowling at the death left them tantalisingly short on 145-7.
Captain Mashrafe Mortaza was Bangladesh's hero with the ball as his four overs cost only 14 runs, just when the Dutch were looking to press the accelerator.
Relive Bangladesh v Netherlands with in-play highlights clips.
One team from Group A, which also includes Ireland and Oman who meet later on Wednesday, will qualify for the Super 10 stage when the eight major teams enter the competition.
Media playback is not supported on this device | Bangladesh beat a spirited Netherlands side by eight runs in their first match of the World Twenty20 in Dharamsala. | 35763467 |
The 21-year-old suffered soft tissue damage during Saturday's second warm-up match against the United Arab Emirates.
Earlier in the game Overton struck an unbeaten half-century, but was then only able to bowl four overs.
"It is a real shame that Jamie will not take part in this series," said Lions head coach Andy Flower.
"He was starting to really hit his straps on this section of the tour."
Overton will now return to Taunton, where he will undergo a rehabilitation programme to start his recovery. | Somerset fast bowler Jamie Overton is heading back home after a foot injury ruled him out of the England Lions series against Pakistan A. | 35362110 |
Fans in the UK are currently limited to audio commentary by rights issues, but Championship, League One and Two matches will be available to watch abroad from August.
The digital platform, called iFollow, will cost £110 for full access.
Currently, 61 of 72 EFL clubs have signed up to the EFL Digital platform.
However, the EFL says that 11 clubs still have the provision to offer the streaming through their own digital providers including Aston Villa, Bristol City, Queens Park Rangers and Accrington Stanley.
Streaming packages in other sports have given fans the opportunity to follow their teams from afar, particularly in the United States.
The North American-based National Football League, National Hockey League and National Basketball League governing bodies have web-based streaming packages, while in Australia, rugby league and Australian Rules followers can subscribe to NRL and AFL streaming.
"The new iFollow platform represents a potentially significant new revenue stream for clubs," EFL chief executive Shaun Harvey said. "While enabling enhanced engagement with existing fans now living abroad.
"iFollow will also present the EFL with an important opportunity to stimulate the interest of new groups of supporters who follow our clubs overseas, which in turn will help support the growth of our competitions on the international stage." | The English Football League is to provide live streaming of every non-televised game to overseas supporters from the 2017-18 season onwards. | 39797400 |
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