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What is the summary of the provided article? | 23 March 2017 Last updated at 10:34 GMT
Some of the first dinosaurs could have come from the UK.
This is according to new research by Matthew Baron, a scientist from the Natural History Museum.
He suggests that what we know about the evolution of dinosaurs, and where they first came from, might be wrong.
By looking at fossils Matt thinks that some of the first dinosaurs might have been around nearly 15 million years earlier that we thought.
And the exciting thing is, they could have lived around 245 million years ago in an area called Laurasia, which is now the UK.
Mr Putin was speaking at a summit in Belarus with leaders of ex-Soviet republics, including Moldova.
He said he wanted Moldova to postpone a free trade deal with the EU until 2016, as Ukraine had agreed to do recently.
Russia supports separatists in Trans-Dniester, a long strip of land that broke away from Moldova in 1992.
The pro-Russian separatists are heavily armed and the fighting in eastern Ukraine has raised concern that the frozen conflict in Moldova could similarly reignite.
The EU and US accuse Russia of sending troops and armour into eastern Ukraine to help the rebels there. Russia has repeatedly denied doing so.
Mr Putin warned that economic integration between some ex-Soviet republics and the EU could undermine their preferential trade ties with Russia. He is pushing for a Russian-led Eurasian economic union.
Moldova is one of Europe's poorest countries and has particularly close economic and cultural ties with neighbouring Romania, an EU member.
In June the EU signed far-reaching partnership deals with Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine.
Moscow is worried that the Russian market could be flooded by cheap goods from the EU that would hit Russian producers.
Last month Russian pressure resulted in the EU and Ukraine agreeing to postpone until 2016 the free trade part of their new partnership agreement.
Russia persuaded the EU to include it in further discussions on the trade deal's possible impact on the Russian economy.
At the Minsk summit on Friday Mr Putin referred to that agreement with the EU and asked: "Where was Moldova? Why couldn't we build a relationship like that with Moldova?
"We wanted to, and asked many times for it. Unfortunately, we haven't heard a clear answer from our Moldovan friends...
"We have to resolve the existing differences and find compromise solutions," he said, adding that such compromises would help "all the member states of the CIS free trade zone" - that is, the ex-Soviet states with which Russia has preferential trade links.
Russia has selectively blocked imports of food and drink from Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine in recent years, moves seen by Western politicians as efforts to exert political control. Russia mostly justified the measures by alleging hygiene violations. | A scientist has made an important discovery which could rock the dinosaur world.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has told Moldova that it must take account of Russia's interests before developing closer trade ties with the EU. |
Give a concise summary of the passage below. | Natalie Hemming, 31, was found dead in woodland near Chandlers Cross, Hertfordshire, on 22 May.
Paul Hemming denies murder but admitted manslaughter at the start of his trial at Luton Crown Court.
He told the jury the heavy egg, made of jade, hit Miss Hemming's head, causing her to fall into a coffee table.
He said he then realised she was not breathing, telling the jury: "I couldn't believe I had done it. I just thought...I'm in trouble. How am I going to explain it to the kids upstairs? So then I thought I am going to cover this up."
When he was asked why, he replied: "Because I knew I had killed her."
Miss Hemming was last seen alive in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, on 1 May.
The court was told Mr Hemming drove Miss Hemming to a wooded area 30 miles away from the couple's home in Alderney Avenue, Newton Leys in Milton Keynes, where he left her body in undergrowth.
The jury has been told their relationship was difficult and Miss Hemming had told her partner she wanted to leave him for another man.
In court, Mr Hemming admitted he was "heartbroken" at the prospect of them splitting up, but he denied claims he had been violent towards Miss Hemming shortly before her death.
When asked what he was thinking when he threw the £1,000 egg, he replied: "I have no idea what was in my mind."
He said he had not intended to kill her.
The trial continues.
Officers were called to the address in Tonteg, Pencoed, on Saturday afternoon.
The body of 67-year-old Rita Stephens was found and the man was arrested and taken to Queens Road police station in Bridgend.
He has also been charged with making threats to kill and will appear Bridgend Magistrates' Court on Monday.
Det Chf Insp Kath Pritchard of South Wales Police said: "This incident has brought shock and sadness to the local community in Pencoed who I would like to thank for their support since this tragic incident."
Agulla, 27, joined the Falcons from French side Agen in October and has since made eight Premiership appearances for the club.
"This squad is very united and I have been made to feel very welcome since I got here" he told the club's website.
"I share the ambitions of everyone here in wanting to get better for next season."
Agulla is one of six players who have recently renewed deals with the club, which finished 11th in the Premiership this season.
The club's top try-scorer Nili Latu, prop Rob Vickers, lock Will Witty, scrum-half Sonatane Takulua and fly-half Craig Willis have already committed their futures to the Falcons.
Ten new signings have also been announced by the club in recent weeks as they look to improve on a disappointing season. | A father accused of murdering his partner has told a court he killed her by hurling an imitation Faberge egg at her after she confessed to an affair.
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A 43-year-old man has been charged with murder after a woman's body was found at a house in Bridgend county.
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Argentina back-line player Belisario Agulla has signed a permanent deal with Newcastle Falcons. |
What is the summary of the following article? | Lambeth Council is set to pay tens of millions of pounds to people whether or not they were abused at Shirley Oaks.
A report from ex-residents outlining abuse on an "industrial scale" has named 27 men as alleged abusers.
The investigation says at least 60 abusers were active, and accuses some police officers of corruption.
The publication of the report by the Shirley Oaks Survivors Association (SOSA) covers a period from the 1950s to the closure of the homes in 1983.
BBC home affairs correspondent Tom Symonds says details of the compensation scheme have yet to be finalised, but the council says a key principle would be that there would be a blanket payment to any resident in the Shirley Oaks homes because all were judged to be at risk.
The payments will not be large in many cases but there will be higher payments to those who were abused, our correspondent added.
Shirley Oaks was an 80-acre site near Croydon in south London that included cottages where children in care were looked after by house mothers and fathers. The site also included a school, swimming pool, sick bay and playing fields.
Daniel De Simone, BBC News
SOSA launched its 129-page report at a packed press conference in central London.
Raymond Stevenson and Lucia Hinton, the report's authors, have spent two years gathering documents and speaking to hundreds of people.
A room packed with journalists heard former residents and the relatives of some who later died - many of them emotional, some in tears - describe years of official indifference.
But no longer.
The leader and chief executive of Lambeth Council both spoke, offering apologies and reparations.
Local MP Chuka Umunna said institutions beyond the council - including the Home Office and the police - were also "culpable."
The group, which conducted its own investigation, said it had illuminated abuse on an "industrial scale" and therefore succeeded where multiple official inquiries had failed.
The SOSA, which spent two years investigating claims of abuse at the home and spoke to more than 400 people, says it was "shocked" by what it had found.
The group said both boys and girls had been abused, including young infants.
The report accuses one named police officer of "providing misleading information to victims" and of "informing one victim their abuser was dead when in fact he was alive".
It links 20 deaths to Shirley Oaks. Some of those named died while residents at the home, others years later, but none are classed as homicides. However, the report states "at the time of their deaths no-one considered whether their lives had been blighted by the extenuating circumstances of being brought up in a Lambeth children's home".
Another claim says Shirley Oaks generated a culture in which children sexually abused one another.
The report, co-authored by SOSA founder Raymond Stevenson, also criticises a series of police inquiries and official reports relating to Lambeth children's homes.
"Some of the omissions and failing of past inquiries contradict our findings and suggest that these prior inquiries were economical with the truth and aimed at concealing the extent of the abuse of children," it adds.
Two of the people named in the report - William Hook and Philip Temple - have been convicted of child sexual abuse relating to Shirley Oaks.
The SOSA has had unprecedented co-operation from Lambeth Council, which has disclosed some of its files, apologised for the abuse and admitted liability.
But the group alleges the council destroyed 140 care records in the mid-2000s despite being required by law to keep them for a further 70 years.
Chief executive of Lambeth council Sean Harriss said: "All the children that were in Shirley Oaks during periods of time when paedophiles were operating were at risk. We've acknowledged that the council has put all of those children at risk."
Council leader Lib Peck said the authority had previously publicly apologised to those who were "so badly let down".
She added: "The investigation by the Shirley Oaks Survivor's Association has shone further light on the suffering of those entrusted into the council's care. Lambeth Council is preparing a new, far reaching redress scheme for survivors of historical abuse in the borough. It will allow them to secure compensation quickly whilst minimising legal fees."
Last month the survivors association pulled out of the independent inquiry into historical child sexual abuse in England and Wales because of concerns over its leadership.
Labour MP Chuka Umunna, who sits on the Home Affairs Select Committee and whose Streatham constituency falls within Lambeth, said it was a "sad indictment" the SOSA did not have confidence in the inquiry and "felt their only choice was to withdraw from that investigation and publish their own report". | Every resident of a former network of children's homes in south London is to receive compensation for being at risk of abuse dating back decades. |
Summarize the content provided below. | Both players would have been free agents this summer but the League Two side have triggered options to keep them at the club.
Scotland Under-21 international Jones, 21, has scored nine goals for Crewe this season.
Cooper, 20, has netted eight times in 47 appearances this term while also contributing nine assists.
The government is facing calls to reconsider the changes, which come into force in April, or to soften the impact on the people affected.
In the House of Lords, cross-bench peer Baroness Meacher is tabling a motion to amend the reforms.
The government says people's incomes will be protected by other measures.
Ministers point to the new National Living Wage, increased free childcare and a larger personal income tax allowance.
Mr Osborne is due to address Conservative MPs later, with a Commons debate about tax credits triggered by Labour taking place on Tuesday.
Some Conservatives have expressed concern about the impact of the changes, and former minister Andrew Mitchell has suggested a "tweak" is needed before April.
Speaking BBC Radio 4's PM programme, Conservative MP Stephen McPartland - one of two Tories to vote against the reforms last month - said he was unhappy they had not been mentioned in his party's general election manifesto.
"There are still a number of Conservative MPs who are very unhappy," he said, adding that it would have helped if those now questioning the changes had spoken out earlier.
Mr McPartland, the MP for Stevenage, said he believed "mitigation" would be put forward by the Treasury.
"My understanding is that they are going to be looking at a range of issues to try to calm the situation down," he added.
Mr Johnson told the BBC tax credits, which supplement low earners' incomes, were "extremely cumbersome".
"Many people come to see me saying they've got an unfair situation, in that they are finding if they work more than a certain period every week, they get their tax credit withdrawn, so it's got to be sorted out," he said.
"We need a way forward. Obviously what I would like to see is working with the tax and benefits system and the living wage to make sure that hard-working people on low incomes are protected, and I'm sure the chancellor can do that."
The Conservative MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip also told BBC Radio 4's The World at One programme he believed the tax credit changes were under "intensive review".
"Let's see what they come up with," he said. "I'm sure that they are working on it now."
Tax credits debate: Finding your way
From April, the threshold at which tax credits begin to be withdrawn will fall from £6,420 to £3,850, and people's income over this amount will be reduced more steeply.
MPs approved the changes in a vote last month. They were introduced using a statutory instrument, so did not need to pass through the House of Lords.
But Baroness Meacher is expected to table a rare "fatal motion" challenging the policy which would mean it is debated and voted on in the Lords, where the government does not have a majority.
She told The World at One she expected Conservative peers as well as Church of England Bishops would join her in opposing the measures.
"The most vulnerable people in our society are going to lose money," she said.
Baroness Meacher said it was "unbelievable" people earning as little as £3,850 were going to lose out and called on the government to "think again and protect people at the very very bottom".
Former Labour minister Frank Field has proposed his own alternative solution which he says would mitigate the effects of the reforms at no extra cost.
Mr Field told the BBC's Daily Politics he hoped the Lords would defeat the government and claimed that pressure from Conservative MPs to soften the cuts was also "being applied in the most intense form" to the prime minister and the chancellor. | Crewe Alexandra have extended the contracts of midfielder James Jones and winger George Cooper.
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London Mayor Boris Johnson says he is "sure" Chancellor George Osborne can come up with a way to protect people on low incomes from tax credit cuts. |
Write a summary for this information. | This weekend the 100th Welsh Athletics Championships will be held in Cardiff and Simpson told BBC Wales Sport that they come at an exciting time for the sport.
"It's a fantastic time for the 100th Championships to come along because it's the lead up to the London World Championships and 2018 Commonwealth Games," he said.
"I think we're going to see some new names and new faces, which is really exciting.
"There's a changing of the guard at the moment with some young athletes just on the verge of the breakthrough and on the cusp of doing something special."
The Welsh Athletics Championships were first held at Newport Athletic Ground, now Rodney Parade, in 1907. Due to breaks for the two World Wars, the 100th edition will be held at Cardiff's Leckwith stadium on Friday 9 and Saturday 10 June.
But things have understandably changed since that first competition more than a century ago.
"In 1907 there were just 10 events - and none for women," said Clive Williams, who competed in the Championships himself in 1962 before going on to cover the event for the BBC.
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"Events like the pole vault, triple jump and javelin were held much later when the Championships came to Maindy Stadium in Cardiff in 1951.
"Up until then all of the Championship events were held on grass tracks, laid especially for the day. Most were on rugby pitches like the Arms Park.
Women were finally allowed to compete in 1952.
Half a century ago, Williams says there'd be six or seven thousand fans who'd turn up for the Welsh Athletics Championships, with the Welsh Games (a multi-sport event first held in 1959) attracting as many as 15,000.
It was a prestigious date on the Welsh sporting calendar and an important pathway for any aspiring Olympian.
"To compete at the Championships was the thing to do," said Williams.
"Lynn Davies won countless Welsh titles at long jump and triple jump and remains the only Welsh (track and field) athlete to win an Olympic gold medal (in 1964)."
Former 110m hurdles world record holder Colin Jackson, the late discus thrower Philippa Roles and 1968 British Olympic captain Ron Jones have all competed in the past.
But the most successful athlete in Championship history is Merthyr Tydfil's Venissa Head. She won 25 Welsh titles - including 15 consecutive shot put golds from 1974 to 1988.
Many past champions will parade around the Leckwith stadium on Saturday to mark the 100th Championships.
Scott Simpson admits there isn't a "superstar" of Welsh athletics competing this year - but believes several young stars will soon have made a name for themselves.
Hurdler David Omoregie, 21, middle distance runner Jake Heyward, 18, and sprinter Hannah Brier, 19, are all expected to add to some already promising performances over the coming months.
They all started out at the Welsh Athletics Championships, which may not attract as many as seven thousand fans these days, but hopes to put on a worthy show at its centenary this weekend. | Wales has a number of young athletes who are "on the cusp of doing something special" - according its head of athletics coaching and performance Scott Simpson. |
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Ian Cathro's side are 10 points behind third-placed Rangers - who are in the final guaranteed Europa League place - and four off St Johnstone, having played a game more than both sides.
Esmael Goncalves's header was Hearts' best chance before Kris Boyd twice went close for the hosts late on.
Killie are six clear of Motherwell, who occupy the relegation play-off spot.
Both Kilmarnock and Hearts have now completed their pre-split fixtures and have five games to play.
The opening 45 minutes were low on chances, but one man who did have a pop at goal from 25 yards was Killie's Iain Wilson.
He was an impressive performer and you can see why the home fans rave about this young defensive midfield prospect.
The 18-year-old Kilmarnock youth product has been in the team since the turn of the year and shows a calmness on the ball and a range of passing, as well as always showing to receive the ball.
Hearts had a penalty shout in the first half when Arnaud Djoum went down under a challenge from Kristoffer Ajer, but any pull by the Norwegian was not deemed significant enough by referee Euan Anderson for a spot kick.
Goncalves, on five goals so far for Hearts, had another of the few efforts early on but it failed to seriously threaten Killie goalkeeper Freddie Woodman.
Thankfully both teams were more intent on bringing an attacking edge at the start of the second half.
Liveliness was a key trait of substitute Dean Hawkshaw's contribution for Killie and he set up Cal Roberts minutes after the restart, but he dragged a left-footed effort into the side netting at the near post.
Killie spurned another decent chance to go in front when the usually reliable Boyd ballooned over after being set up by Gary Dicker.
At the other end, Goncalves got his head on the end of a cross but could only nod straight at Woodman.
Goncalves had another couple of golden opportunities as the match drew to a close.
First, he whipped a low shot just wide with the help of a deflection, before being caught in two minds when Liam Smith's centre came his way.
Boyd nearly won Killie all three points with a low, drilled free-kick that fizzed narrowly wide of Jack Hamilton's goal, then a diving header at the back post.
But overall the hosts will likely be happier with a point than Hearts will.
It is another crucial little step away from the relegation region for Kilmarnock, yet for Hearts it is not really enough to apply serious pressure on those ahead of them.
Hearts head coach Ian Cathro: "It's not acceptable [the result] because it's not what we wanted. Initially we controlled the match but we didn't create enough chances, we weren't enough of a threat.
"There's not tremendous confidence levels there, we're still building that. A draw away from home is not a disaster but we are disappointed.
"We need to be better. We are progressing, slowly, but we've got no concerns over where we are."
Interim Kilmarnock boss Lee McCulloch: "We possibly could've snatched all three points in the way the game finished. It was certainly nowhere near good enough in the first half; we got away with one there as we didn't stick to the game-plan, didn't play, didn't look to get on the ball or pass it.
"We showed great character in the second half to go out and put on a performance like that, we were maybe unlucky not to nick it in the end.
"Iain Wilson played tonight like a mature man; even in the first half he was probably our best player and then he stamps his authority all over the game in the second half. His range of passing, he's quick, he can play centre-half and it shows what a great job the youth coaches are doing here."
Match ends, Kilmarnock 0, Heart of Midlothian 0.
Second Half ends, Kilmarnock 0, Heart of Midlothian 0.
Freddie Woodman (Kilmarnock) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Esmael Gonçalves (Heart of Midlothian).
Attempt missed. Kris Boyd (Kilmarnock) header from the right side of the six yard box is close, but misses to the right.
Attempt missed. Kris Boyd (Kilmarnock) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left from a direct free kick.
Kristoffer Ajer (Kilmarnock) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Rory Currie (Heart of Midlothian).
Attempt missed. Perry Kitchen (Heart of Midlothian) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses the top right corner.
Corner, Heart of Midlothian. Conceded by Iain Wilson.
Attempt blocked. Esmael Gonçalves (Heart of Midlothian) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Substitution, Kilmarnock. Adam Frizzell replaces Callum Roberts.
Attempt saved. Malaury Martin (Heart of Midlothian) left footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Substitution, Heart of Midlothian. Malaury Martin replaces Jamie Walker.
Attempt missed. Alexandros Tziolis (Heart of Midlothian) right footed shot from more than 35 yards is close, but misses to the right.
Kris Boyd (Kilmarnock) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Arnaud Sutchuin-Djoum (Heart of Midlothian).
Jordan Jones (Kilmarnock) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Liam Smith (Heart of Midlothian) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Liam Smith (Heart of Midlothian).
Attempt missed. Liam Smith (Heart of Midlothian) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Corner, Heart of Midlothian. Conceded by Luke Hendrie.
Attempt saved. Jamie Walker (Heart of Midlothian) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Substitution, Heart of Midlothian. Moha replaces Don Cowie.
Substitution, Kilmarnock. Greg Kiltie replaces Sean Longstaff.
Attempt saved. Arnaud Sutchuin-Djoum (Heart of Midlothian) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt saved. Esmael Gonçalves (Heart of Midlothian) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt missed. Kris Boyd (Kilmarnock) right footed shot from the centre of the box is just a bit too high.
Corner, Kilmarnock. Conceded by Perry Kitchen.
Iain Wilson (Kilmarnock) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Krystian Nowak (Heart of Midlothian) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Krystian Nowak (Heart of Midlothian).
Delay in match Kristoffer Ajer (Kilmarnock) because of an injury.
Attempt missed. Kris Boyd (Kilmarnock) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses the top left corner.
Foul by Iain Wilson (Kilmarnock).
Perry Kitchen (Heart of Midlothian) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Hand ball by Andraz Struna (Heart of Midlothian).
Substitution, Heart of Midlothian. Rory Currie replaces Prince Buaben.
Attempt blocked. Jordan Jones (Kilmarnock) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Sean Longstaff (Kilmarnock) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. | Hearts' hopes of European qualification suffered a setback as they played out a drab goalless draw away to Kilmarnock. |
Summarize the provided section. | Whale researchers have discovered a population of Omura's whales living near Madagascar in the Indian Ocean.
It's the first time the whales have been seen alive in photos or video.
Dr. Salvatore Cerchio from the New England Aquarium and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution led the study.
So little is known about the Omura's that scientists don't know how many exist in the wild.
The study looks at the Omura's techniques for finding food, the sounds they make and their preferred habitat in the shallow coastal waters of Madagascar, an island in the western Indian Ocean.
"Over the years, there have been a small handful of possible sightings of Omura's whales, but nothing that was confirmed," says Dr. Cerchio.
Omura's whales are a relatively small whale ranging in length from 10 to 12 metres long. They are from the whale family called rorquals, which all have long, deep grooves along their throats that can expand when they feed.
They are the smaller cousin in this group that includes the giant blue whales and the acrobatic humpbacks.
The species was only given its name, based on dead specimens, in 2003. Since then scientists have failed to find live ones.
But in 2013, Dr. Cerchio and his team spotted the unusually marked whales off the northwest coast of Madagascar.
Cerchio said, "At first, we thought they were Bryde's whales...but then with good photographs and underwater video, we noticed they more closely resembled the description of Omura's whales."
The scientists spotted an odd colouring on the head of whales, a rare characteristic found in only one other whale species - fin whales, which are much larger.
"When we clearly saw that the right jaw was white, and the left jaw was black, we knew that we were on to something very special," said Cerchio.
In late 2014, DNA tests confirmed that they had found the first live population of Omura's whales.
They have said they want to honour "the most charismatic actor of his generation" whose "dazzling talent" means he belongs "in the pantheon of legendary actors".
Clooney will be bestowed with the Honorary Cesar Award from the Academie des Arts et Techniques du Cinema later this month at the French equivalent of the Oscars.
The Academie said it had chosen the Ocean's Eleven and Gravity star because of his "dazzling talent as an actor, director, scriptwriter and producer - and above all, his artistic and spiritual generosity".
He "embodies Hollywood glamour", their effusive statement went on, adding: "His charm, humour, personality and engagement stand at the heart of our perpetual and eternal admiration."
And they predicted that Clooney's name "will forever be inscribed in the pantheon of legendary actors".
That should be enough to make sure he turns up to the Cesar Awards ceremony in Paris on 24 February.
Others to have won the honorary Cesar in the past include Scarlett Johansson, Quentin Tarantino, Kate Winslet and Michael Douglas.
Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email [email protected]. | The first moving images of a mysterious whale species, with bodies as long as school buses, has been released by a team of international scientists.
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In case George Clooney has not had enough gushing compliments during his career, the organisers of France's top film awards have some more for him. |
Can you summarize the following information? | The burglary happened at 22:50 GMT on Wednesday in Grenville Avenue, Slough.
Police said the men forced their way into the property, threatened the 34-year-old victim with a knife, and demanded Asian gold jewellery.
She handed over what she was wearing, as well as some other items, and the men left through the front door.
The suspects were possibly eastern European, one was 5ft (1.52m), one was 5ft 4ins (1.64m), and one was 6ft (1.82m).
Det Con Sarah Noah said: "This was an extremely frightening ordeal for the victim, who was at home with her nine-year-old daughter at the time of the offence."
Officers also found an AK47-style assault rifle after they were called to reports of a fight in East Street, Bromley, at about 04:30 GMT.
Up to 10 men were involved in the brawl which was spotted by CCTV operators, who traced a man to a Bromley address.
Two men, aged 32 and 41, were arrested on suspicion of firearms offences.
Officers said the three weapons found at the property were not capable of firing and were decommissioned.
In a statement, the Met Police said: "The group fighting had dispersed upon arrival of officers at the scene but using CCTV, the man with the suspected firearm was traced to a nearby address in Market Square, Bromley.
"Although the weapons were not capable of firing, the presence of firearms in a public place causes panic and fear of violence." | A woman was threatened at knifepoint by four men who broke into her house while her nine-year-old daughter was asleep in bed.
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Two men have been arrested after police seized a World War Two machine gun and a rocket launcher following a street fight in south east London. |
Please summarize the given passage. | A joint bid by Japanese architecture company Nikken Sekkei and a Catalan studio won the tender to remodel the home of the La Liga champions.
The Nou Camp has a capacity of 99,354 and is the biggest stadium in Europe.
The redevelopment will also see the roof ring the entire stadium with all the seats being under cover.
Work is scheduled to start in the 2017-18 season and will not prevent the club from hosting games.
Holyrood's Health and Sport Committee has backed the Burial and Cremation (Scotland) Bill.
But it called for a number of clarifications and changes.
The bill was brought forward in response to the scandal at Mortonhall crematorium in Edinburgh.
It emerged that staff at the crematorium had secretly buried the ashes of babies for decades without their parents' knowledge.
Further cases were reported in Aberdeen, Fife and Glasgow.
The legislation will introduce a legal definition of "ashes" and require authorities to keep details of burials and cremations indefinitely.
The committee welcomed confirmation from the Scottish government that it intends to amend the bill to set out more detail about the disposal of ashes by cremation authorities.
This will specify the circumstances in which cremation authorities can dispose of ashes, the steps that must be taken beforehand and the information that must be recorded.
MSPs said they agreed with the definition of "ashes" set out in the bill but raised concerns the definition of "cremation" was not clear enough.
The committee has sought clarification from the Scottish government on action to ensure all women who lose a child or pregnancy are given the appropriate support.
It has also called for flexibility in the timescales relating to decisions about the disposal of remains to allow for the range of circumstances in which a woman may lose her pregnancy.
Committee convener Duncan McNeil said it was clear to the committee that the needs of women who had experienced the loss of a pregnancy or baby needed to be placed firmly at the centre of this legislation.
And he called on the Scottish government to ensure there is flexibility within the legislation in order to meet the "very personal circumstances and needs of women."
Mr McNeil added: "The loss of a baby is one of the most heart-breaking things that can happen to a parent.
"So the poor historic practices at some crematoria that resulted in parents not knowing what happened to their baby's ashes has had a long-lasting and devastating impact on the parents and families affected.
"While we welcome the legislation, this committee has concluded that there are several key provisions within the bill that need to be strengthened to make sure that this never happens again."
The committee scrutinised aspects of the bill relating to pregnancy loss, still-birth and infant loss while other measures relating to burials were examined by the Local Government and Regeneration Committee.
Its report, published last week, concluded the bill "lacks ambition" and called for licensing for funeral directors.
The bill follows on from the recommendations of Lord Bonomy's Infant Cremation Commission set up in the wake of Mortonhall scandal. | Barcelona have unveiled plans to remodel their Nou Camp stadium with the capacity rising to 105,000 by the 2021-22 season.
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New legislation on cremations must be strengthened to ensure the baby ashes scandal is never repeated, MSPs have said. |
Please provide a short summary of this passage. | Donald, 50, was named as number two to head coach Matt Walker in January.
He is working towards the ECB level three qualification he needs to gain the visa necessary to take up the role.
The former South Africa fast bowler did not link up with the squad for the recent tour to the West Indies, and the club say they are frustrated that the ruling is delaying Donald's arrival.
Kent are hopeful of announcing a stand-in for him by the end of the week in time for the start of pre-season, but admit it could be "weeks or months" before Donald is able to join up with the squad.
He took 1,216 first-class wickets during his playing career and played 72 Tests and 164 one-day internationals.
The local authority has said it could increase Council Tax by 2.5% - adding an extra £28.50 to a Band 'D' property - to generate £3m.
The council's funding is being reduced by 4.54%, compared with a national average reduction of 4.8%.
The council said it "may result in a reduction in employee numbers".
The authority has said it hoped to delay recruitment to currently vacant posts and help avoid compulsory redundancies.
Councillors will meet to set their budget on Thursday 9 February.
It comes after the council said it had received the third lowest funding settlement from the Scottish government, which was £7.4m less than in 2016.
Aberdeenshire has been allocated £394m in revenue and £30.7m towards capital expenditure.
It said that together with income from Council Tax, non-domestic rates and other charges, the council was expected to set a budget to deliver local services worth £540m and continue its ambitious capital programme of building new schools, leisure centres and roads projects.
Among the savings being considered alongside a council tax rise are a review of the school transport network, streamlining waste collection routes and less frequent cleaning of bus shelters. | Kent are hoping to shortly appoint an interim replacement for newly-appointed assistant coach Allan Donald.
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Aberdeenshire Council has warned it needs to make more than £24m of budget savings which could see a 2.5% council tax rise. |
Write a brief summary of the document. | The president of the Philippines has told the BBC the new coal plants are needed to meet demands for energy.
This comes despite environmental groups and some leading Filipino politicians arguing that coal is one of the biggest contributors to global warming.
Coal emits more greenhouse gas than any other fossil fuel.
And climate scientists have long concluded that burning more coal will undermine efforts to limit the rise in temperatures.
But many developing countries, facing rapid increases in population and surging economic growth, see coal as a relatively cheap option, which is why the Philippines is planning a total of 23 new coal plants.
China, India and other fast-growing Asian economies also have plans for hundreds of new coal power stations.
The dilemma of how developing countries should generate electricity - and whether they should follow the path of the nations which industrialised first and became rich using coal - will loom large at the UN summit on climate change in Paris starting next week.
For the Philippines, coal currently generates about 42% of the country's electricity, with the rest coming from locally-sourced natural gas and renewables, but coal's share could potentially rise to about 70% in a few decades, according to some projections.
Speaking to the BBC, President Benigno Aquino said that reducing the use of coal in favour of gas, a popular choice for many, was not an option because of a lack of gas-importing facilities.
And he said that while the Philippines had increased the share of renewables, costs had limited their appeal until recently.
With solar, he said, "the price was considered too high so that it would bring up all of the electricity rates which would make us not competitive and will hamper the growth."
His concern is that higher power prices would "raise a hue and cry from our people about very high electricity rates which are at points in time the highest in the region".
The costs of solar had now fallen, Mr Aquino said, but that still left the problem of the intermittent nature of renewables, which he then chose to spell out.
"For instance, if we go to wind, are the wind turbines really working or not? Solar will get affected by cloudy conditions like this."
He was speaking under the dark clouds of Typhoon Koppu, known as Lando in the Philippines, which struck last month killing dozens of people and causing widespread flooding.
The president added: "Wave action is not yet developed sufficiently to be viable for the product mix.
"So what we're trying to do is ensure that we have the most modern coal plants that are in existence."
The push for more coal, in the face of strenuous objections, has dismayed many leading figures who say that there are many less-polluting alternatives.
Senator Loren Legarda, who chairs the country's Senate Finance Committee and has pushed through new legislation on climate change and energy, told me that "doing coal is a crime".
"It's a crime against humanity, it's just bad. It pollutes the already vulnerable environment, and coal kills - it kills our air, it kills our biodiversity.
"Coal is never an option, coal is not cheap. We must put in the negative effect of the health of the people, the negative effect on biodiversity, the bad effect on the environment , the bad effect on business."
Senator Legarda does not advocate closing down existing coal-burning power stations but says the global trend is to move away from coal and that her country should be part of that movement, particularly since its 98 million people are particularly vulnerable to a potential scenario of higher temperatures and more violent typhoons.
"Europe is downscaling on coal, many countries are downscaling on coal so why are we approving coal? It does not make sense. We are victims of climate change and we want to exacerbate it? We want to worsen the situation by doing more coal? It does not make sense."
Meanwhile, amid the debate over energy in the Philippines, there are efforts to help people cope with the kind of future disasters that may become more intense with climate change.
The charity Save the Children is providing advice to schools on how to teach children to be more aware of the possible dangers.
At the school in the village of San Augustin, in the flood-prone province of Bulacan on the central island of Luzon, pupils are given regular training drills in how to stay safe in situations such as flash floods.
According to one of the charity's organisers, Lourdes Pambid: "People are really getting to see the effects of these changes in the climate and they're also paying attention to these things."
She said the worry was that the next generation would grow up into a very different world.
"For children, it's losing their homes and even the type of their livelihoods.
"In Bulacan, it used to be a farming area and then the floods came in and some have shifted to fish farming but then conditions became worse and they had to give that up, they had to leave fishing.
"It could get worse if nobody does anything to address this situation so that's why the kids, the local government units, the government officials should be doing something about it."
Follow David on Twitter. | A developing country dubbed one of the most vulnerable to climate change has confirmed controversial plans for more coal-fired power stations. |
Give a brief summary of the following article. | Current leader Mike Nesbitt announced the party's decision in Thursday's first sitting of the new assembly.
Sinn Féin's Martin McGuinness said the step was "an act of desperation" that went against Lord Trimble's approach.
But Lord Trimble said he saw "leadership" in the UUP's "bold move".
The former Northern Ireland first minister led the UUP through peace talks that paved the way to the Good Friday Agreement in 1998 and the creation of a power-sharing executive at Stormont.
He said the arrangements put in place in the 1998 agreement "were going to evolve".
"In the initial stages we wanted everyone in there working together, but there is actually, in the long-run, a need for an opposition," he told BBC Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster programme.
"It is a bold move but it's a move which I think reflects what was always going to be the case.
"I think bold moves have to be taken now and again and people have to offer leadership.
"I recognise that in what Mike's doing and I salute him for it."
A bill to allow for the creation of an official opposition at Stormont was passed towards the end of the last assembly term.
Lord Trimble said criticism of the UUP's move by Sinn Féin was therefore ironic.
"Mr McGuinness and Sinn Féin were party to putting those arrangements [to create an opposition] in place, so it's a bit silly to turn round and complain that it's happened," he said.
"Rather than throwing these negative comments at it, what others parties should be doing is saying: 'OK, let's see if this works.'"
The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) also criticised Mr Nesbitt for the move, saying it had been his response to a poor result for the party in last week's assembly election.
Lord Trimble disagreed with that assessment.
"I saw a very positive result and I saw growth there, too," he said.
"I see this as a sign of confidence and I hope it's rewarded."
Northern Ireland's main political parties entered negotiations over a programme for government - a plan of priorities and action - for the new Northern Ireland Executive this week.
David Ford, the Alliance Party leader, said the Ulster Unionists had been premature in deciding to move into opposition, and accused Mr Nesbitt of "grandstanding".
"The opportunity was there to discuss and negotiate over two weeks, and Mike Nesbitt didn't even last two speeches before he flounced out," Mr Ford said.
He said his party has been offered the justice ministry, which it held in the previous executive, but it has yet to decide on whether it will accept the position.
"It's not an issue of being offered something," he said.
"It's an issue of whether being in government or not being in government is a better way for delivering what we believe is essential for the people of Northern Ireland." | An Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) move to form the Northern Ireland Assembly's first ever opposition is a "sign of confidence", its former leader David Trimble has said. |
Can you provide a summary of this content? | Experts are expected to visit the site in the next few days to examine the sea mammal to see if they can establish why it died. | A dead porpoise has been washed ashore in the harbour at Rhyl, coastguards say. |
Please summarize the following text. | In some cases they lost money on their investments as individual markets ended the year lower than they started.
The 100 share index dropped by 5% during 2015, the Dow Jones average in New York fell back during the year, and so did the Hang Seng index in Hong Kong.
But despite wild volatility, the Shanghai Composite index in China ended up over the year.
Events in China had the most potent impact on world stock markets.
A combination of slower economic growth, bungled management of its country's exchange rate, a plunge in world commodity prices linked to reduced Chinese demand, and huge gyrations on the Chinese stock market - the handling of which was also bungled by the Chinese authorities - all spilled over to other stock markets around the globe.
Ben Kumar at Seven Investment Management in London said: "China was nothing but a wild ride all year - the market was up 50% at one point and down 15% at some points."
"China has always been volatile but this year people outside the country paid attention."
Foreign ownership of shares in China is very restricted and most shares traded there are owned by domestic investors.
Even so, events in the country had a big impact on other stock markets and June, July and August were particularly uncomfortable.
"Events in Asia and the emerging markets conspired to undermine other markets," said Steve Clayton, head of equity research at the UK investment form Hargreaves Lansdown.
Mr Kumar added: "The US equity market took a big pause and suffered its worst year since 2008".
Probably the most fundamental economic trend of the year was the huge fall in the price of oil.
In May the price of a barrel of Brent Crude oil had crept back up to $67 a barrel from earlier low points in the year, but since then it has fallen steadily to end the year at just $37 a barrel.
Although this has brought some welcome relief to many consumers who buy products made from oil, the new low price threatens to undermine the economies of the world's oil producers, and is disrupting the businesses of the huge oil and gas companies that dominate the industry world-wide. | Investors in stock markets around the world endured a volatile year in 2015. |
Write a concise summary for the following article. | Starting in Inverness, the event's competitors raced over stages held in forests in the surrounding area. The full results of the opening competition of the 2016 Scottish Rally Championship can be found here.
Photographer Paul Campbell captured some of the action.
World champion Brennan, 31, beat the USA's Genevra Stone by half a length in a time of seven minutes 21.54 seconds with China's Duan Jingli claiming bronze.
Find out how to get into rowing with our special guide.
Brennan, bronze medallist at London 2012, has dominated the event leading up to the Olympic Games.
It was Australia's sixth gold of the Games and third rowing medal.
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George Ferguson said he would arrange to take somebody in himself and hoped those with "space in their homes" and "generous hearts" would follow.
Bob Geldof is among other people who have offered to take in refugees.
The prime minister has said the UK will accept thousands more Syrian refugees in response to the humanitarian crisis.
Campaigner Geldof said he would take in four families at his homes in Kent and London, telling Ireland's RTE Radio: "It's a failure of that new politics that's led to this... absolute sickening disgrace."
Elsewhere, the Mayor of Liverpool, Joe Anderson, has offered to take 100 refugees into the city.
And the Dean of York Minster, the Very Reverend Vivienne Faull, said the cathedral would offer one of its vacant properties to a family.
It has not been decided how many refugees Bristol could take. The city has 13,000 households on the waiting list for social housing.
Mr Ferguson said: "I have a small room that I could offer and I shall do so... I will make arrangements to be able to take somebody in."
The mayor, whose family took in a Ugandan family fleeing Idi Amin's regime in the 1970s, said he wanted to "lead by example".
He said he was not asking people living in crowded housing to take more people. But was looking for those "who do have space in their homes and a huge generous heart" to take people in and help them get back on their feet.
Bristol, a city of sanctuary, is also in talks with charities and landlords about finding space.
Councillor Brenda Massey said she had been contacted by Syrians in Bristol who were offering help, as well as some of the city's mosques. But she said it was important Bristol had a long-term solution for refugees - with housing, education and health facilities in place.
Calls for Britain to offer refuge to more of the thousands of people fleeing Syria and other countries intensified after a photo was published of a drowned three-year-old Syrian boy.
Labour leadership contender Yvette Cooper said on Tuesday every city should be asked to accept 10 refugee families.
The Local Government Association, which represents councils in England and Wales, said any help offered by councils must be voluntary and Whitehall must cover the costs.
A spokesman for Cosla, which represents most Scottish councils, said a number of them were "in discussions with the Home Office about accepting more" Syrian refugees - if they get support from Holyrood and Westminster.
25,771
people applied for asylum in the UK in the year ending June 2015
41%
(11,600) were granted asylum
14% of applicants were from Eritrea
9% were from Pakistan
8.5% were from Syria
2,168 applications were from unaccompanied children
Part of its £450m Bay Campus development, the Great Hall includes lecture theatres and teaching spaces, along with a 700-seat auditorium.
Senior pro vice-chancellor Prof Iwan Davies described it as a "world-class new concert and conference facility for Wales".
To mark its opening, the building will be lit up at night, ending on Sunday.
It will become the new "home venue" for the university's music programme, as well as hosting musical performances, community arts and cultural events and international industry conferences. | Scottish motorsport's Snowman Rally was held in the Highlands on Saturday.
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Australian Kimberley Brennan comfortably won Olympic gold in the women's single sculls final in Rio.
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Can you provide a summary of this content? | Beyond the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) and Sinn Féin exchanging crocodile snaps at the start of the week, the campaign so far has been more boring than brutal.
But the hustings have begun, and trade union members were putting their questions to election hopefuls at Unison's headquarters in Belfast on Friday.
Effective power-sharing was high on the agenda, and as far as healthcare workers are concerned the political parties must reach a deal in the post-election talks.
Conor McCarthy, from the union's Royal Victoria Hospital branch, said a failure to break the deadlock and a resulting return to direct rule is not an option.
"The two main political parties are actually running on this campaign telling the public what they won't do if they're voted back into power," he said.
"That's unacceptable - we want to see what they will do.
"Regardless of who's first minister or deputy first minister, the cornerstone of success and sustainability is genuine power-sharing - not based on a foundation of sand, but genuine, strong partnership."
Stephanie Greenwood, from Unison's Northern Health Trust branch, said union members wanted to see an anti-poverty strategy as a priority for any new executive.
"Poverty remains a hugely significant problem for Unison members and their families, and our members are struggling with low pay, tax credits and cuts," she added.
Charities have been warned not to align themselves with parties or candidates during the election campaign after some made posts with a political slant on Facebook and Twitter.
The law forbids charities from becoming involved in party politics, but they can engage in political campaigning to achieve their purposes.
It is "fundamental to public trust and confidence" that charities remain independent and neutral, the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland said.
Francis McCandless, the regulator's chief executive, said: "They cannot endorse a candidate, they cannot endorse an entire party."
Some breaches of the rules charities are bound by are made unwittingly, she added.
"We've seen an example where a charity wanted to say thank you to someone who had helped them out.
"They posted a picture of an election poster of the person, who was standing as a candidate - they said they just didn't think.
"On the other end of the spectrum, you may get individuals who want to use the charity as a vehicle to get support for their campaign.
"The charity may allow itself to be used as that kind of vehicle, either knowingly or unknowingly."
Social media is a "risky area" for charities, Ms McCandless said, because it is "so easy to retweet or repost something and that strays over the line".
"Trustees probably wouldn't sit down and decide to spend their money publishing a leaflet to support a candidate - they know they wouldn't do that.
"But they don't think of a social media post in the same bracket.
"Actually, it is - you're using the name of the charity to endorse this person or this party."
Jim Allister has questioned whether the DUP's claim that Sinn Féin could take the post of first minister after the election is genuine.
The Traditional Unionist Voice leader laid down a challenge to the DUP, saying it should refuse to go into power with Sinn Féin if the republican party comes out on top after polling day on 2 March.
"If they are so opposed, as they ought to be, to a Sinn Féin first minister, then the answer is in their own hands," he said.
"Let them now declare to the electorate that they will not nominate a deputy first minister - that blocks Sinn Féin from ever being first minister," he said.
"Or, if it's just a bogeyman they're creating in order to try and scare people into voting for them, as they've done so often, then the people need to see through that."
You can hear the full interview with Mr Allister, along with an interview with Ulster Unionist leader Mike Nesbitt, on BBC Radio Ulster's Inside Politics.
BBC News NI's Campaign Catch-up will keep you across the Northern Ireland Assembly election trail with a daily dose of the main stories, the minor ones and the lighter moments in the run up to polling day on Thursday 2 March.
Hear more on BBC Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster and BBC Radio Foyle's The Breakfast Show at 07:40 GMT, and on BBC Radio Ulster's Evening Extra at 17:40 GMT each weekday. | Slowly but surely, the wheels are beginning to turn on this Northern Ireland Assembly election trail. |
Summarize the following excerpt. | The financial institutions are seeking a total of 28bn yen ($273m; £164m) in compensation.
Olympus was entangled in one of Japan's biggest accounting scandals, which came to light in October 2011.
That was when then chief executive Michael Woodford turned whistleblower and revealed investment losses which had been hidden for many years.
The six trust banks include Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking, the Nomura Trust, and State Street Trust.
The accounting scandal was made public when Mr Woodford was dismissed from his post after challenging chairman Tsuyoshi Kikukawa and the board over suspiciously large payments related to acquisitions.
That led to an investigation being launched, which revealed a cover-up of losses dating back to the 1990s.
Mr Kikukawa, former executive vice-president Mr Mori and former auditing officer Mr Yamada were arrested in February 2012 and indicted on suspected violation of the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act. All three had admitted to hiding losses.
The scandal also hit Olympus shareholders, as the firm lost almost 80% of its value in the aftermath of the revelations.
New South Wales authorities have told residents not to be complacent about the fire, which started on Saturday.
Firefighters said on Sunday they had contained the blaze, which destroyed one home and damaged several others, but told locals to remain alert.
In an early start to Sydney's bushfire season, the fire burned through 20 hectares of bushland.
South Katoomba Fire Service Captain Steve Parrot said despite authorities downgrading the fire to advice level, residents should remain alert to the dangers.
"We need to keep a good watch until that fire is declared by the Rural Fire Service as completely out, so maintain your bushfire awareness plan," he told local media.
Experts have warned that some areas of Australia are becoming uninhabitable because of the increased risk of fire and that worse-than-normal seasons are becoming the norm.
The Climate Council, a research body, predicts the total economic cost of bush fires in NSW will be A$43m ($37m; £24m) in 2014.
Fire and Rescue NSW Commissioner Greg Mullins told the BBC the concept of a "normal" fire season was redundant and people had to accept that property losses were now inevitable.
"We treat every summer now as worst-case scenario. On [catastrophic fire weather warning] days, there's basically nothing we can do except save lives by getting information out there."
Santander in Leighton Buzzard was left extensively damaged after the JCB rammed through the glass at 03:00 GMT.
A restaurant on the opposite side of Hockliffe Street has a hole in the wall, believed to be caused by the digger driving back and forth.
Police believe at least four people were involved in what they say was an "audacious" raid.
Det Sgt Tom Hamm of Bedfordshire Police said: "Fortunately they were unsuccessful and fled the scene empty-handed along North Street, in what is believed to be either an Audi or a BMW."
The digger was still embedded in the front of the bank during the morning as it was investigated by forensics teams.
Police said they think it was stolen in Leighton Buzzard recently and asked anyone who had seen a JCB being driven late at night to contact them.
They also called on people with CCTV in the area to send them their footage.
More on this and other stories from Bedfordshire | Japan's Olympus faces lawsuits from six banks seeking compensation over false financial statements from 2000 to 2011.
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Summarize the following content briefly. | Magnitsky died in a Moscow prison after he was arrested while trying to expose tax fraud nearly four years ago.
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe report accuses the Russian authorities of a cover-up.
But its author, Andreas Gross, said US-style black-listing of Russian officials was counter-productive.
Washington passed legislation known as the Magnitsky Act last year, to withhold visas and freeze financial assets of Russian officials thought to have been involved with human rights violations. The law has been applied to 18 Russian individuals by name.
Russia, which is a member of the Europe-wide body, is invited to comment on Mr Gross's findings before the report is submitted for approval in September.
Allegations that Magnitsky was tortured in custody have been rejected by Russian investigators, while attempts to prosecute prison doctors for negligence resulted in no convictions.
One trial which did begin this year is that of the dead man himself, who is being prosecuted posthumously for tax evasion.
Soon after the US Congress passed the Magnitsky Act in December, Moscow banned Americans from adopting Russian children, and it recently pressured the Irish Republic, a Council of Europe member, to back down from endorsing the American black list.
Parliaments in several other European countries have also been considering action, following the American example.
"I... call on the... Assembly to send a clear signal to the Russian authorities that the cover-up must be reversed and the true culprits must be held to account," Mr Gross, a Swiss Socialist MP, writes.
His report calls on Russia to
It is "in the interest of Russia and of all her hard-working and tax-paying citizens" for the Russian authorities to punish the culprits, he says.
But he rejects the idea of targeted sanctions as envisaged by the US.
Asked by the BBC News website what "intelligent sanctions" might mean, Mr Gross said this could not be decided until the truth about Magnitsky and his work to uncover corruption was established.
However, his report suggests countries might take the British approach of denying entry visas to any persons suspected of having committed serious crimes.
Washington's targeted sanctions, he argued, were a legally dubious "quick fix" which had made it even more difficult to establish the facts as they had fuelled Russian hostility.
"Nothing will change for the better for the Russian people only because 18 people are prevented from entering the United States," he said.
"Such sanctions are as un-smart as military actions when you have no political perspective for overcoming a crisis."
He said they did not serve Magnitsky's goal of stopping the theft of public money and private property in Russia, nor did they help protect people against abuse in Russian prisons.
Magnitsky was working as an auditor at a Moscow law firm when he discovered what he said was a massive fraud by tax officials and police officers.
He is said to have uncovered the alleged theft of $230m (£150m). After reporting it to the authorities, he was himself detained in 2008 on suspicion of aiding tax evasion.
He died in custody on 16 November 2009 at the age of 37 of conditions caused by untreated pancreatitis.
Magnitsky's colleagues at the firm, London-based Hermitage Capital Management, say the case against him was fabricated to make him halt his investigations.
"He was a decent man who discovered huge injustices," Mr Gross said on Tuesday. "Instead of being praised for that and being supported, he was unjustly treated and brought to his death. It is totally upside-down. He should have been treated as a hero of Russia." | A draft report for Europe's top human rights watchdog advocates "intelligent sanctions" over the death of Russian whistleblower Sergei Magnitsky. |
Summarize the following excerpt. | Yafai meets 31-year-old Japanese Muranaka in Birmingham.
The 27-year-old became the city's first world champion when he beat Panama's Luis Concepcion in December.
"Unification bouts are very much part of my plan, and sooner rather than later," he said.
"Whatever my team puts in front of me, that's what I'll take. I've got the best team in the business around me who advise me what to do and when to do it, so I listen to them first and foremost.
"But I like to take it all one fight at a time. I've got to concentrate on this fight and then we'll go from there and see what is next."
Muranaka's countryman Naoya Inoue holds the WBO belt, Filipino Jerwin Ancajas is the IBF champion, and Thailand's Wisaksil Wangek claimed the WBC title from Roman Gonzalez in March.
"Ancajas could be the likeliest of unifications, but it depends on when they are available," Yafai added.
"I'd love to fight Gonzalez. Obviously he's the name in the division. In the rematch, which seems to be on the cards, I think he'll beat Wangek convincingly.
"If I had to hold out and have another defence or two before fighting Gonzalez, then I'd do that."
Exxon Mobil closed down 1.5% and Chevron was 1.6% lower, following a sharp drop in crude oil prices.
That weighed on the Dow Jones Industrial Average, which ended the day flat at 21,478.17. The S&P 500 was up 0.15% at 2,432.54, while the Nasdaq was 0.67% higher at 6,150.86.
Technology shares provided some support for those indexes.
Microsoft finished 1.3% higher, Facebook gained 1.3% and Google was up 1.4%.
Two hours before the markets closed the minutes of the Federal Reserve's most recent meeting were released, but had little impact on the share indexes.
The minutes revealed that the Fed's policymakers were split on the outlook for inflation and how it might affect the future pace of interest rate rises
Investors had been hoping for insight on the central bank's plans for interest rate hikes or possible balance sheet reduction.
"I see a murky, opaque message," Stephen Massocca, senior vice president at Wedbush Securities in San Francisco, said.
"We've gotten a little bit of weaker economic data of late and we seem to have deflation starting to set in, said Robert Phipps, director at Per Stirling Capital Management.
"That does call into question whether or not we are going to see as aggressive a Fed as they are telling us to expect," he added. | Kal Yafai is preparing to make the first defence of his WBA title defence against Suguru Muranaka on Saturday, with plans to unify the super-flyweight division already on his mind.
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Energy shares weighed on the US indexes on Wednesday as a fall in the price of oil hit the sector. |
Summarize the following piece. | An online petition said new head teacher Fiona Robertson ordered the school bathrooms to be locked during lessons.
The petition which has gained over 2,600 signatures, claimed the toilets were not unlocked during break times.
The school said a key was available in an emergency during class time.
The petition, which refers to Miss Robertson as Mrs X, stated: "As of last week, Mrs X decided that students would no longer be able to use the toilet facilities during class time and proceeded to lock all bathrooms to prevent us from using said facilities.
"The toilets were then promised to be unlocked at interval and lunch but so far this has failed to happen.
"The motive behind this idiocy seems sensible. Mrs X does not approve of the number of people being excused from class and fears people may 'hide' in the bathrooms to prevent going to subjects they dislike and fair enough, this does happen.
"However, preventing us from one of our basic human rights is not the way to solve the problem."
A Perth and Kinross Council spokeswoman said the toilets were not locked during break times and that a key was available for pupils in an emergency during class time.
The spokeswoman said: "There has been an ongoing issue with a large number of pupils asking to be excused during class time.
"The head teacher has taken steps to reinforce the school's existing policy that pupils should not be out during class time unless under exceptional circumstances.
"We will work with the school's staff, pupils and parents to ensure that everyone understands the policy and how it is being implemented."
The 25-year-old was carried off on a stretcher with a head knock just before the break at McDiarmid Park.
Clark collided with Jack Rodwell as the midfielder had a goal disallowed.
The Perth club confirmed on Twitter that the keeper was released from hospital on Saturday night, although he is suffering from a concussion.
Also on Twitter, Clark revealed he was "stiff and groggy" and thanked staff at Ninewells Hospital for taking care of him.
In Saturday's match, Steven MacLean fired Saints into the lead after 18 minutes and two more from David Wotherspoon within another six minutes put the Perth side in command.
Williams, 32, signed for Everton in August of 2016 after spending eight years with the Welsh side.
The former Stockport County centre-back, who made over 300 Swans appearances, joined the Toffees for a fee thought to be around £12m.
"It's the first time he's been back and it's a big game for us," Britton said.
He continued: "He won't be doing us any favours. Ash is Ash, he gives everything every time he stepped across the white line for us and Wales for many years.
"Watching Everton, he's done the same there. He will [give everything] against us."
Britton has found opportunities limited with the Swans this season, having made just 15 appearances, but did feature in their 1-1 draw against Manchester United at Old Trafford after being recalled for the victory over Stoke City.
"It would be great to play against Ash because after so many years playing in front of him, I have a great relationship on and off the pitch," Britton told BBC Radio Wales Sport.
"I got on very well with him so it would be great to be part of that game with Ash coming back.
"We all know the quality he's got so it's going to be difficult to beat him, but hopefully on that day we can come out with a win and I can give him a little bit of stick." | Perth Grammar School has denied a claim that it has imposed an outright ban on pupils using the toilet during class time.
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St Johnstone goalkeeper Zander Clark is out of hospital after picking up an injury in a 3-0 friendly win over Sunderland.
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Everton defender Ashley Williams will not do his former club Swansea City any favours when they play each other on Saturday, according to Leon Britton. |
Summarize this article briefly. | The manager admits the departure of goalkeeper coach Gordon Marshall and Gary Owers came as a shock after the relief of avoiding relegation.
"We'll get a replacement in. That may take a bit of time," he said of Owers' exit after only three months.
"I'm not going to rush into that one because it's a critical area."
Marshall this week switched to Scottish Premiership rivals Aberdeen, while 46-year-old Owers, who managed at Bath, coached at Bristol City and was assistant at both Aldershot and Plymouth Argyle, has become assistant boss at Conference Premier club Gateshead.
Owers and Baraclough had been working on signing targets this summer and the manager said: "A phone call with Gary was one I did not expect, but there was an opportunity for him to get back into coaching and we can't deny him that.
"He has helped set up a recruitment department here that will go from strength to strength.
"Gordon, I only found out about a couple of days ago.
"It comes as a bit of a shock and it's something you don't want to be dealing with going into pre-season.
"But Gordon feels like it is a step up in his career and is going to work with a manager he worked with previously."
Speaking before Motherwell announced the signing of striker David Clarkson, Baraclough admitted that being involved in the play-off final against Rangers had delayed his team building.
"We were probably a couple of weeks, or maybe more than two weeks, behind everyone else because clubs knew what division they were going to be in," he said.
"That won't be used as an excuse whatsoever. We are working feverishly to make things happen.
"We need to add to the group and we are comfortable with the way it is going at the moment."
Lee Erwin switched to Leeds United, John Sutton has moved to St Johnstone, Scott McDonald is out of contract, while 21 other players have exited Fir Park this summer.
Asked about how many will be replaced, Baraclough said: "We're perhaps looking at another five or six at this time.
"We'll wait for the right ones. There's no desperation to get somebody in.
"I'd like to have two players pushing for each position, but that may be within a 20-man pro squad because, for me, you still have to have that pathway for the youngsters to come through.
"The people we are talking to and the targets we've gone for and are continuing to look at, we're comfortable where we are."
He did not have any visitors on Friday after doctors advised him to rest, but his family are said to have been in contact by phone.
The 91-year-old Duke of Edinburgh was taken to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary on Wednesday from Balmoral.
The Queen left Balmoral for a few hours on Friday, the first time she has been seen in public for a couple of days.
She drove herself out of the gates of the estate in a Range Rover, returning later in a convoy that included the Earl and Countess of Wessex.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Defence has confirmed an RAF helicopter was scrambled to take the duke to hospital on Wednesday, but its efforts to land near a road were thwarted by fog.
A spokesman said it was eventually decided it would be quicker to complete the 50-mile journey by road.
It is the duke's third hospital stay in nine months.
He spent four days in hospital over Christmas, following an operation to clear a blocked heart artery.
And after attending events to mark the Queen's Diamond Jubilee in June, Prince Philip was admitted to hospital for five nights, missing several days of festivities after sustaining the original bladder infection. | Ian Baraclough is remaining relaxed despite Motherwell losing some of their top players, their goalkeeping coach and head of recruitment this summer.
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Prince Philip has remained in hospital as he continues to receive treatment for a bladder infection. |
What is the summary of the following document? | The Iron's victory over a Cobblers side watched from the stand by newly appointed boss Justin Edinburgh closed the gap at the top to just one point after Sheffield United went down 4-1 at Walsall.
A tepid opening period came to life when Kevin Van Veen twice went close, heading wide from close range before seeing Adam Smith save his low drive from the edge of the box.
Cobblers created a couple of openings, Matt Taylor being denied by Luke Daniels who then thwarted Marc Richards.
But Scunthorpe broke the deadlock in the 21st minute when Stephen Dawson's cross was headed home by Van Veen from close range.
John-Joe O'Toole fired wide and Hoskins was denied again by Daniels. But Cobblers equalised three minutes before the interval when Alex Revell headed home Taylor's near-post cross.
After the restart, Van Veen fired wide before Cobblers got on top and Zander Diamond twice went close. From Taylor's cross, Diamond saw his header thump the upright before heading over from close range.
But Scunthorpe also had a couple of decent chances as the half progressed, Van Veen firing over before Morris hit the bar from a free-kick with Smith well beaten and Craig Davies headed over for the visitors.
Scunthorpe had the better late chances, as Harry Toffolo headed over, Smith denied Duane Holmes and when the ball ran loose Morris volleyed over. But the visitors won it in the 83rd minute when Diamond's clearing header only fell to Morris on the edge of the box and he curled into the top corner.
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Match ends, Northampton Town 1, Scunthorpe United 2.
Second Half ends, Northampton Town 1, Scunthorpe United 2.
Attempt missed. Sam Hoskins (Northampton Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box is just a bit too high.
Attempt blocked. Jak McCourt (Northampton Town) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.
Corner, Northampton Town. Conceded by Jordan Clarke.
Zander Diamond (Northampton Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ivan Toney (Scunthorpe United).
Alex Revell (Northampton Town) is shown the yellow card for hand ball.
Hand ball by Alex Revell (Northampton Town).
Substitution, Scunthorpe United. Matt Crooks replaces Duane Holmes.
Duane Holmes (Scunthorpe United) is shown the yellow card for excessive celebration.
Goal! Northampton Town 1, Scunthorpe United 2. Josh Morris (Scunthorpe United) left footed shot from outside the box to the top right corner.
Attempt saved. Duane Holmes (Scunthorpe United) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Attempt saved. Marc Richards (Northampton Town) right footed shot from long range on the right is saved in the top right corner.
Corner, Northampton Town. Conceded by Luke Daniels.
Substitution, Scunthorpe United. Ivan Toney replaces Kevin van Veen.
Substitution, Northampton Town. Jak McCourt replaces Hiram Boateng.
Corner, Northampton Town. Conceded by Murray Wallace.
Attempt missed. Josh Morris (Scunthorpe United) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses the top left corner.
Attempt saved. Duane Holmes (Scunthorpe United) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Foul by Alex Revell (Northampton Town).
Charlie Goode (Scunthorpe United) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt missed. Harry Toffolo (Scunthorpe United) header from the centre of the box is high and wide to the left.
Corner, Scunthorpe United. Conceded by Zander Diamond.
Attempt blocked. Harry Toffolo (Scunthorpe United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Alex Revell (Northampton Town) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Murray Wallace (Scunthorpe United).
Attempt missed. Craig Davies (Scunthorpe United) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high.
Josh Morris (Scunthorpe United) hits the bar with a left footed shot from outside the box from a direct free kick.
Hand ball by David Buchanan (Northampton Town).
Foul by John-Joe O'Toole (Northampton Town).
Sam Mantom (Scunthorpe United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Kevin van Veen (Scunthorpe United) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses the top right corner.
Attempt blocked. Alex Revell (Northampton Town) right footed shot from very close range is blocked.
Substitution, Scunthorpe United. Craig Davies replaces Tom Hopper.
Attempt missed. Zander Diamond (Northampton Town) header from the right side of the six yard box is just a bit too high.
David Buchanan (Northampton Town) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Duane Holmes (Scunthorpe United).
Kevin van Veen (Scunthorpe United) is shown the yellow card.
John-Joe O'Toole (Northampton Town) is shown the yellow card. | Josh Morris grabbed the late winner as second-placed Scunthorpe beat League One strugglers Northampton at Sixfields. |
Can you provide a brief summary for this document? | The Republic of Ireland international failed to make a Premier League appearance for Eddie Howe's side after joining from Stoke in August.
"We felt we could not stand in Marc's way after the reasons he gave, which will remain private," said Howe.
Wilson, 29, has been out with a hamstring injury since 7 January.
He picked up the injury in the last of his three appearances for Bournemouth, a 3-0 defeat by Millwall in the FA Cup third round, having also featured in two EFL Cup ties earlier this season.
Baggies head coach Tony Pulis previously signed Wilson when in charge of Stoke in 2010.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page or visit our Premier League tracker here.
The council began a 12-month trial of monthly collections in September, to encourage residents to recycle more.
Councillor Bill Darwin, who represents Kinmel Bay, said the new arrangement was a "potential health time-bomb".
Conwy council said it is half way through the trial period and there is no evidence of an increase in vermin.
Mr Darwin said there had been an increase in fly-tipping in the Towyn and Kinmel Bay areas as people struggle to fit four weeks' worth of waste into one wheelie bin.
"It's not too bad if there's just one couple living in a house but it's a big problem for families," he said.
"People are resorting to taking household rubbish, including dog excrement and cat litter, to public litter bins and this is causing an increase in rats and seagulls.
"The smell is terrible and it's only going to get worse as the warmer weather comes."
More than 10,000 Conwy residents are taking part in the trial, while the council has brought in three-weekly bin collections for the rest of the county.
Clwyd West AM Darren Millar said complaints had "increased dramatically" since it had started.
"The situation is totally unacceptable and unless these changes are scrapped, it will have a detrimental impact on our tourism industry and local wildlife," he said.
The council's recycling and waste policy states that properties with fewer than six residents are restricted to one wheelie bin for household waste and that overflowing or open bins will not be collected.
There are weekly collections for recycling and food waste.
Mr Darwin is asking for more feedback from local residents as he writes a report to present to the council.
A council spokeswoman said there was "no evidence of an increase in vermin" and that "the vast majority of residents are disposing of their food waste correctly in their food waste bin".
She added the four-weekly trial was introduced after the council found half of rubbish thrown away to landfill could have been recycled, wasting £1.6m each year.
Since September, the trial has seen residents throw 507 tonnes less into their wheelie bins compared to the same period last year. | West Brom have signed Bournemouth's Marc Wilson on loan until the end of the season, with the defender leaving the Cherries for personal reasons.
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Four-weekly bin collections in Conwy county are causing an increase in rats, seagulls and flies, a councillor has claimed. |
Summarize the passage below. | "I'm sorry this has been confusing," she told the cable news channel MSNBC.
Her use of private email has generated a barrage of criticism as Mrs Clinton runs for the Democratic presidential nomination for the 2016 election.
Critics say that her set-up was not secure, contrary to government policy, and meant to shield her from oversight.
Political analysts - including fellow Democrats - have said the Clinton campaign has stumbled in its response to the controversy and Mrs Clinton had not seemed contrite - at times even making jokes about the email issue.
A more sombre Mrs Clinton took full responsibility in Friday's interview, saying she didn't "stop and think" about how use of a private email account would be perceived.
It has been a major issue in the presidential race. Polls show an increasing number of voters view her as "untrustworthy" due in part to the questions surrounding her email use.
Under US federal law, officials' correspondence is considered to be US government property.
Government employees are encouraged to use official email accounts although some top officials have used personal accounts in the past.
In March, Mrs Clinton said she and her lawyers made the decision over what would be considered work-related email when the state department asked for records from former secretaries of state.
The emails deemed work-related were about half of the 60,000 emails she sent in total during her time in office. The emails she deemed personal were deleted, Mrs Clinton said.
Since then, the state department has been releasing the emails to the public in batches about once a month.
The former Barcelona player, 33, suffered the injury after his side had made three substitutions and Juve finished with 10 men.
A club statement said Alves "fractured the fibula bone in his left leg".
The Brazil international completed a free transfer to reigning Italian champions Juventus in June after signing a two-year deal.
Defender Leonardo Bonucci, 29, also had to go off with an injury in the first half after "straining the flexor muscles in his thigh". | Hillary Clinton has said she wished she had made a "different choice" and not used a private email account while serving as US secretary of state.
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Juventus defender Dani Alves broke his leg during his side's surprise 3-1 defeat by Genoa on Sunday. |
Provide a concise overview of the following information. | The session began at a top security prison in Athens, without some of the key defendants present.
Security forces are braced for trouble, with party supporters and anti-fascist groups vowing to stage protests.
Golden Dawn polled third in the January general election.
Critics describe the anti-immigrant party as a neo-Nazi group.
All 18 of the far-right party's MPs in the previous Greek parliament are among the defendants, but only a handful of them were in the specially-built courtroom for the start of the trial.
Leader Nikos Michaloliakos, 57, who was released recently from prison, is being kept under house arrest and was not in court on Monday.
The trial follows a lengthy investigation into the 2013 murder of anti-racist rapper Pavlos Fyssas by a Golden Dawn supporter.
Golden Dawn has also been linked to the murder of a Pakistani immigrant and beatings of political opponents.
The trial is due to last at least a year.
The item was found near Fakenham and is possibly from a sword grip, but experts say it has differences to similar finds.
Dr Andrew Rogerson, county archaeologist, said: "It's a fragment, but there's no context for it."
No evidence of dwellings has ever been found in the village.
6th Century
Kingdom of East Anglia formed (modern-day Norfolk and Suffolk)
AD624 King Raedwald, who is believed to have been buried at Sutton Hoo, died
AD869 King Edmund, later known as St Edmund, was killed by the Vikings
AD869-918 The kingdom becomes part of the larger Viking Danelaw
The Portable Antiquities Scheme, which is in the process of valuing the item, said it was "similar to sword-grip mounts from the Sutton Hoo ship burial and the Staffordshire Hoard".
But because the mount, which dates back to the late 6th or early 7th Centuries, lacks "small perforations for attachment", its "precise function... is not clear".
The Norfolk coroner will hold an inquest in March to decide if it should be recorded as a treasure find.
Dr Rogerson, who works at the county's Historic Environment Service in Gressenhall, said four other items, including a brooch and a belt mount, had been discovered in the area in recent years.
"The new mount may have come from a sword clasp, but it's a bit of a mystery," he said.
"This is a high-status item, not unlike pieces found at the Staffordshire Hoard, and it's another piece of the jigsaw as we slowly find out more about settlements across East Anglia.
"The chances of there not being people living there and working the land are remote, but there would need to be a huge survey looking for a settlement to fully understand the land-use in the area."
The mount was found by Barrie Plasom, 70, last year, during a charity search aimed at raising money from any finds for the East Anglian Air Ambulance.
He said: "I thought I'd found a bottle top, put it in my pocket and didn't bother looking at it again until later."
Singapore Airlines was the launch customer for the two-deck jet in 2007.
The airline has decided not to renew the A380 plane when the ten-year contract expires next year.
The news comes after Airbus more than halved its delivery target for the A380, raising fears it could slip back to making a loss from the aircraft.
A Singapore Airlines spokesperson said: "Our first five A380s are on 10-year leases, with options to extend. The first expires in October 2017, and we have decided not to extend it.
"For the other four, decisions will be made later."
But they added the airline had orders for five separate A380s with Airbus, which will start being delivered in the second half of 2017.
The A380 only began breaking even for Airbus last year.
In July, Airbus said it would still avoid losing money on the jet in 2017 with as few as 20 deliveries, but gave no further guidance.
Analysts say that big aircraft like the A380 and Boeing's 747 series have fallen out of favour.
Smaller jets can be more profitable as they are easier to fill and are cheaper to operate, analysts say. | Leaders of Greece's far-right Golden Dawn party are among 69 people who have gone on trial on charges including murder and being part of a criminal group.
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A "mystery" gold mount found in a Norfolk field has provided "another piece of the jigsaw" for historians looking for Anglo-Saxon settlements.
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Singapore Airlines has decided not to keep the first A380 it leased, delivering a fresh setback for Airbus' super-jumbo plane. |
What is the summary of the provided article? | Mr Brodin is the company's head in Sweden and will succeed Peter Agnefjall, who had been in the role for four years.
Ikea is now based in the Netherlands and the new boss will work in Leiden.
The new chief executive said he was "very honoured and excited" about his new role.
Mr Agnefjall said he will take some time off with his family before embarking on his next challenge.
Lars-Johan Jarnheimer, chairman of Ikea's parent company INGKA Holding, said: "Under Peter's leadership, Ikea Group has expanded into new and crucial markets, accelerated our retail transformation in order to meet the changing needs of customers and taken our sustainability commitments further."
Robert Haigh, of analyst firm Brand Finance, said an internal appointment was a "sensible move" for a firm like Ikea.
"It's a difficult decision for a company whether to look inside the company or whether to bring someone in," he said.
"But for one with strong brand identity like Ikea, as we have seen with the recent appointment by John Lewis, it makes sense to continue that identity and culture. Ikea is still performing well and is Sweden and Scandinavia's most valuable brand."
Ikea's sales have grown by double-digit percentages since it started selling its products online eight years ago, but the company is also concentrating on improving the in-store experience for customers.
Mr Haigh added: "While there has been a real decline in out-of-town shopping centres, especially in the food sector, the shopping experience can still be something people really enjoy.
"At Ikea customers like to be able to feel the product and it is almost uniquely tied in with the Ikea experience, with people also going there for the meatballs and other food."
Ikea opened its first store in 1958 and has made ready-to-assemble furniture a global phenomenon.
Last year 783 million people visited the company's 348 stores, while it had 2.1 billion visits to its website. | Ikea, the Swedish flatpack furniture giant, has named Jesper Brodin as its new chief executive from September. |
Summarize the provided information. | "I cannot give the mandate to somebody who threatens the sovereignty of Macedonia," said President Ivanov.
Social Democrat leader Zoran Zaev formed the coalition after agreeing to support a bill making Albanian the country's second official language.
Thousands of Macedonians have been protesting against the bill.
An official from the Albanian Democratic Union of Integration (DUI), which had hoped to join the coalition, said the situation was "chaos".
The former Yugoslav republic has been in political crisis for two years following a phone-tapping scandal.
December's general elections were brought forward two years as part of a Western-brokered agreement, but failed to produce an outright winner.
The results between the governing VMRO-DPMNE party and the Social Democrats (SDSM) were so close that both parties initially claimed victory.
Forming a coalition with minority parties has been their only way forward.
The VMRO-DPMNE, which won two more seats than the opposition, has already tried but failed to form an alliance.
Macedonia came close to civil war in 2001 after an Albanian uprising.
Ethnic Albanians make up around a quarter of the country's population. | Macedonian President Gjorge Ivanov has refused to grant a coalition of Social Democrats and ethnic Albanian parties a mandate to form a government. |
Can you summarize the following information? | Rose, the 2013 US Open champion, hit a six-under 65 to move to 12 under, with Sweden's Henrik Stenson (68) second.
Overnight leader Marcus Fraser of Australia (72) is third on nine under.
American Bubba Watson (67), David Lingmerth of Sweden (68) and Emiliano Grillo of Argentina are tied fourth on six under, while Ireland's Padraig Harrington is in a group on five under.
"It would mean an awful lot to win, especially when you see what it means to other athletes here," Rose said. "It would be unbelievable.
"The top three have really separated themselves from the rest of the pack so it is going to be a fun last group."
Rose and Open champion Stenson, who combined to win all three of their matches as Europe retained the Ryder Cup against the United States at Gleneagles in 2014, will tee-off their final round alongside Fraser at 14:39 BST on Sunday.
Further down the field, Britain's Danny Willett is on three under after a two under par round of 69.
It means that Willett, the 2016 Masters winner, is six shots behind current bronze medallist Fraser, in a tie for 14th.
"After three days we have left ourselves with a little bit too much work to do," admitted Willett.
"I am going to have to keep playing well and see,"
Meanwhile, South Africa's Jaco Van Zyl sank Olympic golf's second hole-in-one at the par-three eighth hole.
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Clubhouse leader Rose hit the first hole-in-one on Thursday.
The men's winner will become the first Olympic champion since 1904, with the sport returning to the Games following a 112-year absence.
More than half of the world's top 10 are not in Rio, including number one Jason Day and four-time major winner Rory McIlroy who pulled out citing concerns over the Zika virus.
In July, Northern Ireland's McIlroy added that he was unlikely to watch television coverage of the golf, preferring "track and field, swimming, diving, the stuff that matters".
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Three men were shot dead by police after driving into pedestrians on London Bridge and stabbing people.
Seven people were killed and a further 48 were injured. The police have arrested 12 people.
Amy Webster was in Borough Market, along with her boyfriend, when the attackers tried to make their way in.
"There were glasses being chucked around, bottles, and then people were throwing chairs," she told BBC Radio Foyle.
"People at the back of the restaurant started screaming and running away from it."
"We started to run away and it wasn't until after a couple of minutes the manager managed to get the guys out of the restaurant and close the shutters.
Ms Webster explained: 'We started to come back into the restaurant and someone was saying: 'A girl's been stabbed.'
"Basically, three men had come in with knives and stabbed a girl next to the door."
The so-called Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
"My partner saw one of the attackers briefly," said Amy Webster. "He saw a man holding up a big knife that [he said] was about a foot-and-a-half long and waving it about."
"We thought it was all over. I was getting our bags together and i was down next to the door and then we started hearing gun fire outside.
"We heard about four rounds of gun shots, in hindsight that was probably the police but we didn't know they were there at that point.
"I found leaving the restaurant was almost the scariest part. We didn't know what was on the other side of the door," she added.
The 26-year-old, who survived a 7.8 magnitude earthquake in Nepal in 2015, said that when the police arrived, everyone was asked to "keep their hands above their head".
"We walked past a couple of other bars that were also attacked, there was a lot of blood on the ground and there was people still in the bars that were injured and were being treated. It just seemed chaotic," Ms Webster said.
"We feel incredibly lucky. There were so many people who weren't as lucky as we were to walk away unharmed." | Great Britain's Justin Rose leads the Olympic golf tournament by one shot heading into Sunday's final round.
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A woman from Londonderry has described the "chaotic" scenes in a London restaurant during Saturday night's terror attack. |
Write a short summary of the following excerpt. | Adam Alderson had organs including his pancreas, stomach and spleen replaced after contracting a rare cancer.
The operation took a team of 30 people about 17 hours to complete.
Mr Alderson, 36, married his fiancée, Laura Blanchard, in Hornby and said: "After everything we've been through this is the icing on the cake".
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Mr Alderson, from Preston-under-Scar, near Leyburn, was diagnosed with pseudomyxoma peritonei in 2013 and at one stage was told nothing could be done and he was sent for end of life care.
But, after learning of pioneering surgery carried out on England rugby league player Steve Prescott he underwent the same procedure at Oxford's Churchill Hospital.
Mr Prescott died from complications three weeks after undergoing the operation but the same surgery was successful for Mr Alderson.
He is believed to be only the fourth person in the world to survive the operation.
Speaking after the ceremony he said: "I'm an emotional wreck today. I never thought we would see this day."
His wife, Laura, added: "We've been to hell and back, but it's what makes you really. It means the world to me and I'm absolutely thrilled."
Among the guests at the wedding was surgeon Georgios Vrakas, who led Mr Alderson's operation.
"It is probably the biggest operation someone can have today. It is a massive undertaking," he said.
"You have to really be fit and have the mental motivation to undergo this so, it's amazing to see that he's actually leading a normal life now."
The couple will celebrate their wedding by taking part in a 15,000 mile rally to Mongolia to raise funds for Macmillan Cancer Support and The Steve Prescott Foundation.
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The GB1 crew were lying fourth after two runs, 0.02 seconds off bronze, but they rolled over on corner nine.
Lamin Deen, Ben Simons, Bruce Tasker and Joel Fearon emerged unscathed but they missed out on a fourth run for the top 20 sleds.
"It's hugely disappointing," said performance director Gary Anderson.
"But they are strong characters and I have no doubt they will bounce back from this and be better for it.
"They have shown they are truly world-class and we need to make sure we remember that as we build towards the next Winter Olympics in two years' time.
"They were on course to be within a tenth of a second off the leaders at the end of run three and would have been ahead of the eventual gold medallists going into the final run."
GB's other crew, led by John Jackson, finished in 11th place, while Oskars Melbardis of Latvia took his team to gold ahead of Germany and Switzerland. | A man who survived a multiple organ transplant has married his fiancée two years after being told he had just weeks left to live.
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Great Britain's hopes of winning a first four-man bobsleigh medal in 77 years ended with a crash at the World Championships in Igls, Austria. |
Write a concise summary for the following article. | Currently experiencing its highest ratings in 22 years, what's behind SNL's resurgence in popularity?
Since debuting in 1975, Saturday Night Live has been a bulwark of the US TV landscape. As America's longest-running comedy-sketch series, generations have grown up with its oft-emulated brand of slapstick and satire.
But as celebrity, politics and modern living changed over the years, so too have the targets of SNL's jokes. With the arrival of Donald Trump's White House administration, SNL has been gifted a comedy cash-cow.
Alec Baldwin's devastating portrayal of Trump triumphed with viewers when it debuted in the run-up to last year's US Presidential Election and has since become a staple feature of the series.
Last week, Melissa McCarthy's ultra-caustic turn as White House press secretary Sean Spicer went viral on YouTube.
On social media, fans of the show are raving about its persistent jabs at the new presidency.
"This is hilarious. Comedians have never had it so easy with this admin," said Youtube user mimi k.
"Trump made SNL 'GREAT' again!" exclaimed Steven L.
"I don't care who you voted for, that was funny as hell," added Joe Momma.
It remains to be seen whether SNL's Trump bump is due to new viewers from across the political spectrum, or merely re-engaged liberals who had fallen out of love with the show in recent years.
One viewer who has been less than impressed by the cutting caricatures is the president himself.
"Watched Saturday Night Live hit job on me. Time to retire the boring and unfunny show. Alec Baldwin portrayal stinks. Media rigging election!" Trump tweeted three weeks before voting day last year.
"I watched parts of @nbcsnl Saturday Night Live last night. It is a totally one-sided, biased show - nothing funny at all. Equal time for us?" he tweeted again less than two weeks after winning the presidency.
"@NBCNews is bad but Saturday Night Live is the worst of NBC. Not funny, cast is terrible, always a complete hit job. Really bad television!" he wrote five days before inauguration.
In this extraordinary time of western political upheaval, that the most powerful man in the world should feel compelled to repeatedly condemn his own parody has become an added draw for SNL fans.
After last week's stinging routine from Melissa McCarthy, Spicer told Fox News he thought her impression of him was "cute" and "part of American culture." Trump, however, stayed uncharacteristically silent.
Fans began to wonder whether SNL had genuinely hit a nerve. Politico reported that behind closed doors Trump was furious his administration was being made to "look weak".
In particular, it is thought Trump took exception to his staffer being spoofed by a female comedian.
This tension between SNL and Trump has created genuine suspense for fans of the series - eager to find out which member of the White House administration will be in the firing line next - simply because they know it riles the president.
As SNL has forged its recent reputation for Trump baiting, fans began submitting their own suggestions on how best to lampoon the leader of the free world.
Enter Rosie O'Donnell. The actress and comedian has never previously appeared as part of the Saturday Night Live cast, but has been embroiled in a very public 10-year long feud with Donald Trump.
Frequently referred to in the US tabloids as each other's nemesis, the spat dates back to 2006 when O'Donnell criticised Trump's Miss USA beauty pageant on talk show The View.
She has since described Trump as a "snake-oil salesman" who should "sit and spin", while Trump in turn has called O'Donnell a "fat pig" and "a real loser".
After McCarthy's outing as Spicer last week, Twitter user @calvininsf tweeted at O'Donnell to ask whether she was "willing to take one for the team?"
O'Donnell replied to say: "I am here to serve - Alec has Trump - Melissa has Spice - I would need a few days to prepare - so if called - I will be ready."
The discord between O'Donnell and Trump has provided a ripe opportunity for SNL's sketch writers. They are in the unique position of knowing that the target of their jokes is watching, but remain tight-lipped about whether they will take up O'Donnell on her offer.
Seemingly keen, O'Donnell has changed her Twitter profile picture to a superimposed image of her face on the body of the White House's Steve Bannon.
A caricature of Bannon has already appeared on SNL, played by regular cast member Mike Day dressed as the Grim Reaper.
Having O'Donnell portray Bannon would doubtless infuriate the Trump administration further - especially in light of recent press speculation about the amount of power Bannon wields in the White House.
SNL has got its teeth back after an arguably lacklustre and directionless few years.
During the last White House administration, President Obama was parodied more than 50 times by SNL cast members Fred Armisen and Jay Pharoah. But those impersonations never quite resonated with viewers in the same way Baldwin's Trump and McCarthy's Spicer have.
The last time SNL so overtly contributed to America's national dialogue was Tina Fey's impression of former Alaskan governor Sarah Palin.
Palin's misquote "I can see Russia from my house!", which was said to have derailed her 2008 vice presidential campaign, was in fact a line from Fey's SNL skit.
Whether SNL has the potential to shape our perception of Donald Trump in the way it did Palin remains to be seen.
SNL's current growing ratings can in part be attributed to its biting humour and supremely talented cast - but just as important as the jokes is how Trump reacts to them.
Alec Baldwin is again set to host the show this weekend.
If O'Donnell makes an appearance, then it will no doubt help boost those record viewing figures further. Not just because she is funny, but because Saturday Night Live strikes at the very heart of American politics.
Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email [email protected]. | Rumours that comedian Rosie O'Donnell is due to play White House chief strategist Steve Bannon on this weekend's episode of Saturday Night Live have sent social media into overdrive. |
Can you provide a brief summary for this document? | They coincided with a court ruling that Northern Ireland's abortion legislation is in breach of human rights law.
On Monday, Belfast High Court ruled abortion should be allowed in cases of sex crime and fatal foetal abnormality.
But the guidelines still advise fatal foetal abnormality alone is not grounds for abortion. They do not mention rape.
The 1967 Abortion Act does not apply to Northern Ireland and it has much stricter abortion legislation that the rest of the UK.
The long-awaited guidelines, intended to provide clarity to health care staff, were drawn up by Stormont's Health Minister Simon Hamilton.
Justice Minister David Ford told BBC NI's The View programme he received a copy of the document on Monday, shortly after the judge's ruling.
"In the face of the court decision, we've now got a conflicting issue of guidance which seems to me to be out of date four of five hours before it was circulated," Mr Ford said.
The BBC has seen the new guidelines, which make it clear that abortions are only lawful if a woman's life is at risk or there is a permanent or serious risk to her mental or physical health.
That reflects a document published two years ago by Mr Hamilton's predecessor Edwin Poots.
Mr Poots's guidance stated that "foetal abnormality is not recognised as grounds" for a termination.
Mr Hamilton's version clarifies that the impact of a foetal abnormality on a woman's physical or mental health may be taken into account when health professionals recommend options for her clinical care.
His new guidance makes no specific reference to pregnancies resulting from sexual crimes, such as rape or incest.
Mr Hamilton's advice has not yet been published, but the director of the Royal College of Midwives (RCN), Breedagh Hughes, agreed with Mr Ford that it may already be out of date.
"I haven't seen the guidance that's been circulated to the [Stormont] Executive, it hasn't been released to the service yet, so midwives still don't have anything," Ms Hughes told BBC Radio Ulster.
"But I do appreciate that it's likely to need updated very quickly, if the judgement that was made on Monday is, in fact, ratified by the court on 16 December, because my understanding is that there's somewhat of a legal limbo at the moment."
The RCN director added: "At the moment there are about 1,500 midwives working out there, at the coalface, with no guidance whatsoever at all, so from our point of view, some guidance is probably better than none."
The High Court legal challenge to the abortion law was brought by the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission.
International human rights organisation Amnesty International said Monday's ruling was a "hugely significant step".
However, anti-abortion groups said the ruling had been "profoundly disquieting" and "gravely morally wrong".
Mr Ford told The View that Mr Hamilton's guidelines "may well be a fair reflection of the law if it hadn't been for that judgement".
"I'm still looking at the detail of the guidance but I think it is an improvement on what we had," he added. | Northern Ireland's new draft guidelines on abortion may have gone out of date hours before ministers received them, Stormont's justice minister has said. |
Summarize the provided section. | The MHRA says it will continue to monitor all side-effects and advises UK women who experience problems to see a doctor.
The sterilisation device blocks off the fallopian tubes so no egg can travel from the ovaries to the womb.
But some users say they have been injured by it.
Although rare, there have been instances of the device puncturing neighbouring organs, such as the bowel.
Other women have reported nasty side-effects, such as allergy to nickel found inside the implant.
US regulator the Food and Drug Administration has been holding meetings to evaluate the benefits and risks.
It says it has received more than 5,000 reports about Essure in the past 13 years.
The UK's MHRA says it cannot provide any such data to the BBC, although it does collect it.
But it insists the device - given to about 1,500 women a year in the UK - is safe.
A spokeswoman said: "We currently have no information to suggest that Essure devices used in the UK are unsafe to use.
"We liaise regularly with the US FDA and are aware of the recent open meeting of their obstetrics and gynaecology devices panel discussing post-market experience with the Bayer Essure female sterilisation device.
"We continue to monitor all adverse incidents reported to us.
"If any women experience any problems, they should discuss this with their GP.
"We encourage the reporting of any adverse incidents with medical devices to MHRA. "
Adverse incidents can be reported to the MHRA on its website or by calling 020 3080 7080.
A spokeswoman for Bayer said: "Bayer is strongly committed to women having access to different methods of birth control options, because no form of birth control is without risk or should be considered appropriate for every woman.
"It is important that women discuss the risks and benefits of any birth control option with their physicians."
Essure is usually inserted under local anaesthetic and does not require cuts to be made in the abdomen.
Dr Kate Guthrie, of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, said Essure was a good option for some women.
"It's quite a simple procedure to do and doesn't require surgery, unlike other sterilisation methods," she said.
"But as women and clinicians, we need evidence that it is safe.
"I'm confident in our system of regulation.
"If women are getting side-effects, then we need to know about it." | UK regulators are reassuring women the permanent birth control implant Essure is safe despite concerns in the US. |
Summarize the content provided below. | A Freedom of Information request by Pulse magazine revealed 57 practices closed in 2016, with a further 34 shutting because of practice mergers.
The Royal College of GPs said doctors could no longer cope with growing patient demand without more funding.
NHS England said investment in general practice had increased by £1bn over two years.
The number of patients having to change surgeries was up by 150% from 2014, according to the data, and up 15% from 2015.
The figures also highlighted areas particularly affected, including Brighton, which saw seven practices close in the past two years, Pulse said. Four of the closures meant 9,000 patients had to find a new surgery.
In April 2016, NHS England announced an extra £16m for this year for a so-called "practice resilience programme", with another £24m in subsequent years.
But Prof Helen Stokes-Lampard, chairwoman of the Royal College of GPs, said the needs of surgeries, both with funding and staff, were not being met.
"GP practices are the lifeblood of our local communities so the complete closure of any practice will always be a last resort when all other options have proved unworkable," she said.
Prof Stokes-Lampard added that, while there may be funding available, practices needed to be able to get to it "without having to wade through convoluted red tape".
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GPs in England
5,000 more planned for 2020
1 in 3 considering retirement in next five years
13% of GP training places went unfilled last year
Dr Chaand Nagpaul, chairman of the British Medical Association's GP committee, told Pulse that the money could make a difference, but blamed local Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) for stopping the cash getting to where it was needed.
"The tragedy is CCGs have not delivered their part in making the resource available," he said.
"Many practices that should have received support have had none to date. That's been a failing of local delivery."
An NHS England spokesman said anyone wanting to register with a GP was guaranteed a place and funding had been increased.
"These figures as presented don't reflect the full picture as they include patients whose records automatically transfer after a merger and therefore don't have to change practice," he said.
"As part of our plans to improve general practice services and boost the workforce, many practices are choosing to merge in order to offer patients a much greater range of services."
But Labour's shadow health secretary, Jonathan Ashworth, said more needed to be done to help GPs, which would, in turn, take the pressure off struggling hospitals.
"Tory ministers need to take urgent action to address this spike in GP practice closures and explain what they will do to make sure patients can easily and safely access the GP services they need," he added. | Record numbers of GP practices closed last year, forcing around 265,000 patients to move, data suggests. |
Can you summarize the following content in brief? | The blast happened during a religious celebration in Jesus Tepactepec, a village in Tlaxcala state.
Villagers had been taking part in a procession when a firework accidentally landed on the vehicle, reports say.
Fourteen ambulances, a mobile medical unit and two air ambulances were sent to the village to treat the wounded.
Many of the injured were taken to hospital in neighbouring Puebla state.
"My God, this is a tragedy," said the Bishop of Tlaxcala, Francisco Moreno, who was at the scene of the explosion.
The state governor, Mariano Gonzalez, ordered all hospitals in the region to treat the victims of the explosion.
"People were taking part in a religious procession in Jesus Tepactepec when a rocket landed on a truck carrying a large quantity of fireworks," said the civil protection director for Tlaxcala state, Jose Mateo Morales.
He said the number of victims could increase, as the street was full of people making preparations for the celebration of the village's patron saint, Jesusito.
The event has been organised by environmental campaigners as part of World Naked Bike Ride on 11 June.
Others rides are due to take place in London, Brighton, Southampton, Manchester, Sheffield, Bristol, Portsmouth and York.
Exeter organiser Maurice Spurway said total nudity was not compulsory.
"We're not expecting everyone to be naked - I'm not going to be totally naked," he told BBC News.
It has been described as a "peaceful, positive and fun protest exposing the need to rediscover non-oil-dependent modes of transport, and highlight the vulnerability of cyclists".
Mr Spurway is part of Exeter Cycle Vision, which aims to create a culture where cycling is the main way of getting about the city.
The car, he said, mitigated against that vision and he said he hoped the naked bike ride would be the "culture shock" needed to kickstart the process of "greening" the city.
Participants in the bike ride are being encouraged to paint their bodies.
"It'll be quite a splash as we cycle up the High Street," Mr Spurway added.
Organisers are meeting Devon and Cornwall Police later to discuss the event and acceptable levels of decency.
A police spokesman said while he respected the campaigners right to protest, he hoped common sense and respect would prevail and people would be sensible about their level of nudity.
Complete nudity, he said, was not acceptable, and officers would be obliged to uphold the law if complaints from the public were received.
People waiting at the stop can hear the sound of a man coughing before a woman is heard urging people to visit their GP if they, or someone they know, has had a cough for three weeks or more.
The shelter has been placed in Sandgate, in Ayr's town centre.
Run by the Scottish government's Detect Cancer Early campaign, the project aims to raise awareness of a cough as a key sign of lung cancer.
The bus shelter also bears the image of a man coughing, alongside the campaign's strapline - "Don't get scared, get checked".
Dr Hugh Brown, NHS Ayrshire and Arran's Primary Care Cancer Lead, welcomed the "great opportunity" provided by the shelter "to explain to people the potential significance of a cough when they're least expecting it."
He said: "One reason patients are often diagnosed late is that they are unaware of the symptoms of lung cancer.
"I hope this makes a huge impression and helps get the message across to people in Ayrshire that it's important if you, or someone you know, has had a cough for three weeks or more, it's time to get it checked out.
"It's probably nothing to worry about, but it could be a sign of lung cancer.
"The disease can develop slowly over a number of years and often causes no pain. It is much more treatable than it used to be, but being switched on to the symptoms and acting quickly to have them checked by a GP are crucial - you won't be wasting anyone's time." | At least 12 people died and dozens more were hurt when a small lorry loaded with fireworks exploded in a small village in central Mexico.
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About 100 people have signed up for a naked cycle ride through Exeter to highlight how vulnerable cyclists are on the road.
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Scotland first "coughing" bus shelter has been installed in Ayr. |
Give a brief summary of the following article. | Herdman, who hails from Consett in the north-east of England, said that England under then boss Hope Powell were "rigid and predictable". Powell printed the outspoken Geordie's comments, stuck them up in the dining hall and England came back to win the game 2-1.
"He loves his mind games," says England forward Karen Carney, who was involved that day in Germany and could also start in Saturday's World Cup quarter-final against the hosts.
Herdman, who believes the brain is the most important part of footballer, has ensured he doesn't fuel the fire this time, yet the intriguing rivalry remains.
The Newcastle United supporter plotting England's downfall has history with his native land - and not just from his upbringing.
In addition to knocking out Great Britain at the same stage of the 2012 London Olympics, he was also tipped to take the England job before Mark Sampson was awarded the post 18 months ago.
In the end Herdman, 39, decided that leading the host nation at a World Cup was too good a job to leave.
For a man who seems to relish the spotlight, Saturday's match in front of 54,000 fans at BC Place could be the kind of showpiece he had in mind.
Herdman's path to the top job in Canadian women's football has been a roundabout one. Brought up in the rough and tumble of Consett, County Durham, he found himself caring for his father, who suffered from a mental illness. His parents later divorced and his mother turned to alcohol.
A young Herdman felt like he had no place in a town renowned for its steel-making and he describes it now as a period which left him with "demons" he has worked hard to overcome.
Eventually he found his way into teaching and, by combining it with coaching, he found his niche. A sports science degree followed and then a job at Sunderland's academy.
But without a playing background behind him - the Northern League was as far as he got - he felt like progress at a Premier League club would be hindered. So in 2001, he and his wife decided to hot-foot it to New Zealand after he was offered a coaching position. His relentless work ethic meant that three years later he was picked up by the national federation and in 2005 he was coaching the national team.
"Your past does shape you and it certainly gives me a fighting spirit," Herdman told BBC Sport. "It's made me want to prove people wrong and work that little bit harder than others."
After a World Cup absence stemming back to 1991, Herdman led the Football Ferns to consecutive World Cups in 2007 and 2011, as well as their first Olympics in 2008. On all three occasions, New Zealand failed to make it past the group stages but his reputation as an innovator and work behind the scenes impressed. Late in 2011, Canada came along with an offer.
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With host status at the Women's World Cup looming, Herdman's success in North America was instant. Leading them to first place in the 2011 Pan-American Games, he also successfully guided them to the London 2012 Olympics where he would enjoy his greatest and perhaps most heart-breaking moment as a coach.
Having earned a route through to the quarter-finals with a draw against Sweden at Newcastle's St James' Park, Herdman's team then punctured the GB balloon by beating them 2-0 in the quarter-finals. "In Olympic terms there were a few personal bests out there," Herdman said.
The United States awaited in the last four but Canada were beaten in extra time following a dubious goal which earned their arch-rivals a place in the final and an eventual gold medal.
By earning Canada's first bronze medal in football since 1936, though, Herdman's status as a world-class coach was sealed and he formed an unbreakable bond with his team. Christine Sinclair, the country's record goalscorer, said: "He's the best coach I've ever had."
Which is why reports of a player fall-out ahead of the England quarter-final have been a surprise.
Canada have failed to fire at the World Cup so far, but have ground their way to a series of 1-0 wins. But when Sinclair scored an injury-time penalty to earn Canada an opening game victory over China, she ran straight to Herdman to celebrate.
This week's controversy came about because of what was deemed a private conversation between defender Carmelina Moscato and Fox Sports analyst and former Canadian international Christine Latham. After Moscato had allegedly told Latham that team morale was low because Herdman was picking injured players, the Canadian boss was forced to defend himself.
"Yeah [the morale] is terrible, it's really terrible," Herdman said sarcastically. "The girls are fighting each other, they hate each other. You can see all the black eyes and bloody noses."
Herdman insists that now Canada have made it through the group stages the pressure is off. However, he has also admitted that when he quizzed his players about their greatest fears prior to the tournament, they revealed it was being left out of the team with friends and family in the stands rather than playing in front of a sell-out crowd.
Sampson has hinted that his players felt the same pressure when they lost to Germany at Wembley last November. So are the mind games reversing?
Despite seven years between them, in many ways Herdman and Sampson are cut from the same cloth, and not just in their penchant for crisp, white shirts.
Both are happy talking tactics all day long and have resounding belief in how mental resilience can prove the difference in tight games, which has been the case in the last three encounters between the two nations.
Sampson has the edge, winning both matches at the annual Cyprus Cup, including the 1-0 win in the 2015 final last March. Herdman can point to a 1-0 victory in England's final friendly before the tournament started.
Like his players, Sampson is expecting a physical game, and past experiences suggest that there won't be many goals.
"In three meetings between me and John, they have only beaten us once from a goal outside the box in a game we weren't ready for," Sampson said. "If they have sussed us out, they've hidden it so far."
The biggest difference in this tournament is that England have been able to shift gears in wins over Mexico, Colombia and Norway. The same cannot be said of Canada.
Before reaching the knockout stages with a draw against the Netherlands, Herdman showed his players how Paul Gascoigne made an impact for England at the 1990 World Cup in Italy. "My job is to fuel passion in people so they see a bigger vision of themselves," he has said.
Herdman has shown he is more than capable of delivering on that promise. Unlike the London Olympics, though, Canada will be the team with the extra burden. | When Canada coach John Herdman was in charge of New Zealand at the 2011 World Cup his attempts to ramp up the pressure on England before a group game between the sides backfired. |
Provide a brief summary for the information below. | He said the system would stop people from buying too much of a single item.
But the opposition in Venezuela rejected the plan, saying the policy treated all Venezuelans as thieves.
Critics said fingerprinting consumers of staple products was tantamount to rationing and constituted a breach of privacy.
Up to 40% of the goods which Venezuela subsidises for its domestic market are smuggled to Colombia, where they are sold at much higher prices, the authorities say.
"The amount of staples smuggled to Colombia would be enough to load the shelves of our supermarkets," Gen Efrain Velasco Lugo, a military spokesman, told El Universal newspaper earlier this week.
The opposition blames what it says are the failed left-wing policies of the past 15 years - initiated by late President Hugo Chavez - for the country's economic crisis.
Dissatisfaction with the shortage of many staples, as well as rampant crime and high inflation, led thousands of people in the western Venezuelan states of Tachira and Merida to take to the streets in January.
The protests quickly spread to the rest of Venezuela, which faces similar problems.
Earlier this month Venezuela launched an anti-smuggling operation on its border with Colombia.
It deployed 17,000 troops along the border and began closing all the crossings at night.
The one-month ban will be lifted in mid-September.
Correction 11 September 2014: This report, originally published on 22 August, contained a reference to the border closure being agreed by the two countries, based on statements by Venezuelan officials. This has been removed as Colombia later called it a "unilateral decision". | President Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela has announced a mandatory fingerprinting system in supermarkets to combat food shortages and smuggling. |
Summarize the following content briefly. | Hundreds of vehicles were stranded in mud at the park-and-ride site for the Portmeirion event in Gwynedd.
Organisers planning a singer-songwriter festival in neighbouring Conwy have said those who helped were "heroes".
Tansy Rogerson from the Gorjys Secrets event said she was stuck for two days in Porthmadog.
"It would be amazing if the farmer and his girlfriend that rescued me got in touch, as I never got the chance to get their names, and say thank you again," she said.
"We wanted to do something immediately to keep in people's mind what a great place north Wales is to see and enjoy live music - and to also say thank you to all those unsung heroes."
As well as offering free tickets to the tractor drivers, event organisers said those who survived the mud bath could get half-price entry to the new festival being held on Saturday, 17 September at Caer Rhun Hall, in the Conwy Valley.
It claims to be the first singer-songwriter festival held in the UK, with a line-up including the Mercury Prize nominated Seth Lakeman, world beat-box champion Bellatrix.
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The 61-year-old had the operation on 16 March and has missed the League Two club's matches while recuperating.
"I'm pretty sure I'll be well enough to go to the game and not feel stressed," he told BBC Radio Gloucestershire.
"I'll have an earpiece probably, to the dugout, and any decisions we can make we can all make together."
With assistant boss Russell Milton in charge in Johnson's absence, the Robins have lost four consecutive games, leaving them six points above the relegation zone with seven games remaining.
"If I am sitting at home, I'm watching the results of our rivals in our league and, all of a sudden, the pressure is more by sitting at home and trying to relax," Johnson added.
"So I might be better off just being at one game, putting the effort that I can give into that, and hopefully we can get a result.
"I'll be sitting there with my wife next time - I can't get too excited if she is there."
The emergency services were called to Prestonhill Quarry in Inverkeithing at about 21:20 on Thursday following reports of a teenager in the water.
It is understood the teenager is 18-year-old John McKay from Kirkcaldy.
A Police Scotland spokesman said: "Inquiries are ongoing to determine the full circumstances surrounding this incident."
In August 2014, Cameron Lancaster, from Burntisland, Fife, died at the quarry.
Alice McGarry, councillor for Inverkeithing, Dalgety Bay and Aberdour, told the BBC Scotland news website she was meeting with MSP Annabelle Ewing to talk about using the new Community Empowerment Act to take over the privately-owned quarry in a bid to make it safe.
She said: "Following the tragedy last year the police conducted a safety assessment of the quarry and found there were steps needed to be taken.
"The council has tried to contact the owners but they don't communicate.
"Two deaths in a year at the quarry just cannot be allowed to go on." | Tractor drivers who pulled cars from a field at Festival No.6 in north Wales are being offered free tickets to a new event, to say "thank you".
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Cheltenham Town boss Gary Johnson hopes to be in the stands for Saturday's game against Morecambe, as his recovery from triple-heart-bypass surgery continues.
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Divers searching a disused quarry in Fife have found a body, Police Scotland has confirmed. |
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He reached the tip of South Africa 17 days, 22 hours and 58 minutes after leaving Les Sables d'Olonne, France, to break the record by over five days.
The 42-year-old sailed to the Cape of Good Hope from the equator in a record eight days, 15 hours and 56 minutes.
Thomson is aiming to be the first British skipper to win the solo non-stop round-the-world race.
Averaging 20 knots since setting off on 6 November, he has led the fleet since 12 November.
Earlier in the race Gosport-based Thomson became the fastest man to cross the equator but said the record was unimportant.
With 18 days passed since the race began, the skippers still have to reach Cape Leewin in Australia and Cape Horn at the bottom of South America before turning north and sailing through the Atlantic on the way to the finish line in western France.
The Vendee Globe is renowned for being one of the most gruelling sporting challenges, with only 71 of 138 sailors to date have finished since the first race in 1989.
Thomson finished third in the previous staging of the race in 2012-13, completing the race in 80 days, 19 hours and 23 minutes, just over one day behind winner Francois Gabart. | Welsh sailor Alex Thomson has broken two race records as he passed the Cape of Good Hope in the Vendee Globe. |
Write a short summary of the following excerpt. | Mr Kerry, 71, was injured in a biking accident in the French Alps last week and was flown to Boston for treatment.
Surgeon Dennis Burke said the operation went well and Mr Kerry should make a full recovery.
"I do not anticipate this will interfere with his duties as secretary of state," he added.
Dr Burke said Mr Kerry was conscious throughout the four-hour operation, which took place under local anaesthetic.
"The procedure was uncomplicated, the fracture was fully repaired, and we plan to get him up walking on Wednesday," he said.
Mr Kerry had been attending talks in Switzerland over the future of Iran's nuclear programme prior to the accident.
It happened some 40km (25 miles) south-east of the Swiss border in Scionzier, France.
The diplomat, who is a keen cyclist, is believed to have hit a kerb before falling off his bike and fracturing his right femur.
Shortly before undergoing surgery Mr Kerry phoned in to address a high-level conference in Paris, about the ongoing Islamic State crisis.
He had planned to attend in person but was forced to cancel. He also pulled out of a visit to the Spanish capital Madrid.
White House spokesman John Earnest said Mr Kerry would "approach his recuperation and rehabilitation with uncommon zeal" and would work to shorten his recovery time.
He said he remained "confident" the secretary of state would "play a leading role" in the Iran nuclear negotiations as the 30 June deadline for a deal looms. | US Secretary of State John Kerry has undergone successful surgery on a broken leg and will be walking by Wednesday, his doctors have said. |
Write a concise summary of the provided excerpt. | Ali has accepted an invitation to perform in December, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal tweeted.
The Shiv Sena had threatened to disrupt Ali's Mumbai concert on Friday.
The party said it would not allow any artiste from Pakistan to perform until the situation in Kashmir has improved.
India and Pakistan have recently accused each other of unprovoked firing along the disputed border.
A ceasefire agreed in 2003 remains in place, but the neighbours often accuse each other of violating it.
Mumbai is the the capital of western Maharashtra state, where the Hindu nationalist BJP rules in coalition with the Shiv Sena.
A recent assurance by Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis that Ali was welcome to perform in Mumbai and that his government would give him "full protection" did not deter his ally from opposing the concert.
Soon after the concert was cancelled, a minister from Delhi's ruling Aam Aadmi Party said the Shiv Sena action insulted not only Ali, but also Indian ghazal singer Jagjit Singh.
Ali's concert was to be a tribute to Jagjit Singh on the event of his fourth death anniversary.
Ghulam Ali is popular in India and recently performed at a Hindu temple in the ancient city of Varanasi. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has also said he is a fan. | Pakistani ghazal singer Ghulam Ali has agreed to perform in the Indian capital Delhi after his concert in Mumbai was cancelled following protests by the right-wing Hindu party Shiv Sena. |
Provide a concise summary of this excerpt. | Saxony's state justice ministry said Jaber al-Bakr was found dead and that an investigation had been launched.
He had been turned in to police on Monday by three Syrian refugees after being on the run for two days.
German police had been watching him for months, but failed to arrest him when they raided his flat on Saturday.
Since his arrest, Jaber al-Bakr, 22, had been on hunger strike and was under round-the-clock surveillance, news website Der Spiegel reported.
Call to reward Syrian refugees who arrested fugitive
He was granted asylum after coming to Germany last year.
German intelligence received reports last week that he might be planning an attack, and they alerted police in the eastern state of Saxony.
Authorities said they discovered last Thursday that the suspect had used the internet to get bomb-making instructions and had obtained explosives.
The BBC's Damien McGuinness in Berlin says al-Bakr's death will now make it even more difficult for police to find concrete information about his plans and about any possible accomplices.
When police raided the flat in the eastern city of Chemnitz, they found 1.5kg of TATP, a home-made explosive used in the deadly jihadist attacks in Paris last year and in Brussels last March. The explosives were "extremely dangerous", police said.
But al-Bakr managed to slip the net, and made his way to the city of Leipzig where he asked the Syrians for help.
The three told police they had heard about the manhunt and tied him up while one of them knelt on him.
They alerted police who finally managed to arrest him.
Since then there have been calls for authorities to honour the three. Bild newspaper described them as "the Syrian heroes from Leipzig".
The authorities believe al-Bakr had links to the group that calls itself Islamic State. | A Syrian migrant suspected of planning a bomb attack on a Berlin airport has killed himself in his prison cell in Leipzig, Germany, officials say. |
Summarize the content provided below. | China's industrial output, retail sales and fixed asset investment all grew more slowly than expected in April, indicating the economy remains weak.
The Nikkei 225 index closed up 0.3% at 16,466.40, while the broader Topix gained 0.1% to end at 1,321.65.
Australia's benchmark ASX/200 rose 0.6% to close at 5,358.95.
South Korea's Kospi index ended flat at 1,967.91.
In China, the mainland's Shanghai Composite gained 0.8% to close at 2,850.86 while Hong Kong's Hang Seng wrapped the day at 19,883.95, also 0.8% up.
China's National Bureau of Statistics said on Saturday that industrial output rose 6% year-on-year in April, compared with 6.8% growth the month earlier.
Fixed-asset investment grew by 10.5% in the January-to-April period, compared with an increase of 10.7% the year before.
Retail sales grew by 10.1% in April from a year earlier. They all missed market expectations.
Vishnu Varathan from Mizuho bank said the activity data raised concerns about China's renewed slowdown and exacerbated "woes about global demand deficiency". | Asian stock markets rose on Monday, shrugging off disappointing economic data released by China over the weekend. |
Write a summary of this document. | Introducing a nationwide rate is "ludicrous", Mr King told BBC series The New Workplace.
The living wage will come into force in April 2016 and set a new minimum pay level of £7.20 an hour for workers aged 25 and over.
A Department for Business spokeswoman said it would ensure "work pays" and reduce reliance on benefits.
She added: "The new National Living Wage is an essential part of moving to a higher wage, lower tax, lower welfare society."
The rate will be 50p an hour higher than the National Minimum Wage fixed by the Low Pay Commission.
By 2020, Mr King argued, the Living Wage could be "10% or 15% higher" than the minimum wage equivalent.
"The Low Pay Commission has done tremendous work on the minimum wage for many years," Mr King said.
But the living wage "is not economically justified", he added.
Employers will seek to make their workforces more productive and that will lead to fewer jobs, he argued.
"You can't talk about productivity without recognising that one of the consequences of productivity is less people producing the same output", Mr King said.
"Companies will invest in more productivity and as a consequence there will be less jobs."
His comments come in the same week that Sainsbury's announced that, from 30 August, its 137,000 shop-floor staff, including workers under 25, will see their standard rate of pay rise 4% to £7.36 an hour.
Frances O'Grady, the general secretary of the TUC, told The New Workplace she was concerned employers may replace older staff because the National Living Wage only applies to workers aged 25 or over.
"The real risk here is we see employers who want to keep their labour costs low substituting in young, lower-paid workers for adult workers who they would have to pay more," she said.
Earlier this week, McDonald's UK chief executive Paul Pomroy told the BBC that his company was "working through" what the impact of paying the living wage was going to be.
You can hear the full interview on The New Workplace at 12.04BST on Saturday, 29 August.
The broadcaster, who presents the Victoria Derbyshire Show on BBC Two and the BBC News Channel, revealed the diagnosis on Twitter and said she would be having a mastectomy.
Derbyshire, 46, said she planned to work on the programme "as much as possible during treatment".
She also praised family, friends, the NHS and her colleagues in her tweets.
Derbyshire, a former BBC Radio 5 live presenter, tweeted: "Hi, have been diagnosed with breast cancer & am having a mastectomy in a few wks.
"Family, friends, work & NHS staff are being brilliant."
She added that said she would be "doing the programme as much as possible during treatment in the months ahead".
A BBC spokesman said: "We wish Victoria a full and speedy recovery and look forward to having her back full-time on the programme as soon as possible."
Police said they were detained by officers investigating allegations staff mistreated youngsters at Medway Secure Training Centre, in Rochester.
Four of the men were arrested on suspicion of child neglect. The force has not confirmed the arrest details for the fifth person.
They have all been bailed until April.
The allegations uncovered by Panorama relate to 10 boys, aged 14 to 17, and involve unnecessary force, foul language and a cover-up.
Three of the five men arrested on Wednesday were among four team leaders at the centre who were sacked on Tuesday, the BBC understands.
Paul Cook, who is managing director for children's services at G4S, said there was "no place in our business for the conduct shown on the BBC's Panorama programme" and the firm fully supported the police action.
A female duty operations manager has also been placed on restricted duties, while a male healthcare worker employed by Central and North West London NHS Trust (CNWL) has been suspended. | The National Living Wage will "destroy jobs", former Sainsbury's chief executive Justin King has claimed.
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The BBC journalist and presenter Victoria Derbyshire has been diagnosed with breast cancer.
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Five men have been bailed following arrests over a BBC Panorama investigation into abuse at young offenders centre in Kent. |
Summarize the information in the following document. | It was set up in November last year to speed up development and encourage private investment in the industry.
The move followed the collapse of wave power technology firm Pelamis which called in administrators after failing to secure development funding.
Scottish Renewables welcomed the announcement, which it said comes at a "challenging time" for the sector.
The first contract will be awarded to a group of 12 former Pelamis employees, led by the company's former chief executive.
Energy Minister Fergus Ewing said he was glad they were able to "retain some of the best brains working in marine energy in Scotland".
He said: "Only last month, Highland and Islands Enterprise, on behalf of Wave Energy Scotland, successfully acquired the intellectual property and a range of physical assets previously owned by Pelamis.
"And yesterday, Wave Energy Scotland agreed to work with 12 former Pelamis employees to capture the impressive learning they have acquired on their technology development journey."
Lindsay Leask, senior policy manager of offshore, wind and marine at Scottish Renewables, said: "Today's announcement on the funding to be allocated to Wave Energy Scotland comes as a welcome sign of the Scottish government's continued commitment to the sector, particularly after a recent challenging period.
"This money will enable Wave Energy Scotland to continue the development of wave energy in Scotland and build upon the global lead we enjoy by funding work on some of the key challenges commonly encountered by technology developers.
"The industry has recognised for some time that a collaborative approach to solving these problems is vital to ensure wave energy devices can develop to commercial scale, and Wave Energy Scotland provides a space for that to happen."
The cash will be rolled out over the next 13 months.
Scottish Liberal Democrat energy spokesman Liam McArthur said the funding was a step in the right direction, but that there must be "sustained" support for the industry.
He said: "Wave energy offers the chance to create jobs and wealth in communities across Scotland, as well as real opportunities for exporting services and expertise overseas. Hopefully today's announcement provides a basis now to crack on and deliver that ambition."
In December, workers told BBC Scotland the Scottish government had "pulled the rug" from under the country's leading wave energy companies by withdrawing public funding.
The criticism came after Pelamis called in administrators and its main rival, Aquamarine Power, said it was making more than half of its workforce redundant. The Scottish government insisted it had supported the sector.
Paul Costa, from Falkirk, produced and supplied the drug from more than 100 plants grown at the Emotion Karting centre in Ayr between 2013 and 2015.
The 35-year-old was caught after police raided the site and found high powered lamps and other "gardening equipment".
He was convicted following a trial at the High Court in Glasgow and will be sentenced next months.
The court heard that the large crop of cannabis plants had a value of up to £100,000.
Costa had denied being responsible - despite police finding numerous cannabis related web searches on his computers.
Police also found his fingerprints in the area where the drugs were and his DNA on a juice can.
When they searched his computer, they also discovered a number of YouTube videos had been watched - including "how to properly dry cannabis".
A leaflet for a hydroponics company was also seized.
He claimed it was him who found the farm and was in the process of trying to catch the culprit when detectives raided the complex.
However, jurors rejected that and convicted him of producing and supplying the drug between February 2013 and February 2015.
The court heard Costa was effectively "second in command" at Emotion. His boss Manoj Deo had also faced the same allegations, but prosecutors dropped the accusations during the trial. | The Scottish government has awarded £14.3m to Wave Energy Scotland to "kick start" the new marine energy body.
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A go-kart worker has been convicted of growing a large cannabis farm in a concealed area near the kart track. |
What is the summary of the document provided? | The film, which is out in June, concludes director Christopher Nolan's superhero trilogy - and the plot has been a closely-guarded secret.
"I was in a panic for 20 minutes," Oldman told the BBC. "I thought, 'where the hell have I put it?'"
"It had my name on it," he added. "They would have killed me". The script eventually surfaced in his hotel room.
"I'd gone out for dinner," the actor explained, "and I had put it in the room between the mattress and the bed, because I couldn't scrunch it into the safe.
"I was half-thinking about something else and shoved it there."
The 53-year-old, who plays police commissioner James Gordon in the film series, admitted the script would have been "the worst one to lose."
He described the lengths that Nolan and film studio Warner Bros went to to ensure the script remained under wraps.
"When he [Nolan] gives the script out, it doesn't have the ending. Characters sometimes change, or their names change. And you have to go to the studio to read it."
Oldman was speaking at the Empire film awards, where he received the best actor prize for his role in Cold War thriller Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.
He was not the only actor on the red carpet who described the security measures currently being employed by film studios.
Mark Strong was at the ceremony during a break in filming Zero Dark Thirty with director Katherine Bigelow, who won an Oscar last year for The Hurt Locker.
The film, which has been on location in India, is a dramatisation of the raid by US Navy Seals on al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden's home in Abbottabad.
Strong said the producers wanted the script to be "as secret as possible".
"You have to apply to read it on your computer," he told the BBC. "If it detects that you haven't read it for a couple of days, it disappears off the computer."
"When you are reading it, if it detects after five minutes that you haven't turned the page, the text goes blurry."
He said the tight security was because the script went into detail on "a lot of CIA procedure" that had been described by "the people who were involved" in the raid.
Oldman said there was also a sound commercial reason for the secrecy surrounding screenplays.
"There's a website that gets hold of scripts and reviews films before they're made, so I can understand the paranoia." | Gary Oldman has described the moment he thought he had lost the script for Batman film The Dark Knight Rises. |
Write a concise summary for the following article. | Restrictions during the alert meant cars could only be driven on alternate days, depending on whether its number plate ended in an odd or even number.
Statistics showed about 112,800 vehicles violated the rule - in just four days - newspaper Beijing News and state broadcaster CCTV said.
The most recent alert ended on Tuesday.
The penalty for driving on the wrong day is 100 yuan ($15; £10) for every three hours on the road.
The four-day alert was part of government efforts to address often dangerous levels of pollution in Beijing.
It was only the second red alert - the highest of four tiers of air pollution warnings - ever issued for the city, with the first coming earlier in December.
The four-day alerts trigger restrictions on factory and construction work, and barbecues, among other things.
The authorities had been criticised in the past for rarely issuing pollution warnings, despite facing several bouts of serious pollution. The current alert system started two years ago.
Car use is high in Beijing - of 5.6 million registered cars, buses and taxis in the capital, 4.3 million are private cars.
Long-term exposure to high levels of PM2.5 - a type of pollution involving fine particles less than 2.5 microns (0.0025mm) in diameter - has been linked to lung damage and respiratory illnesses.
The World Health Organization (WHO) considers PM2.5 readings of 25 micrograms per cubic metre as the maximum safe level. During the recent red alert, pollution peaked at 508 on Tuesday, according to the US Embassy's air pollution monitoring service in Beijing.
The US monitoring service describes that level as "beyond index" - one level above "hazardous", which stops at 500.
Coal-powered industries and heating systems - in heavy use during the cold Beijing winter - are major contributors to the pollution.
The air quality is often made worse by weather conditions and the city's geography - Beijing is bordered to the south and east by polluting industrial areas, and to the north and west by mountains that trap the dirty air over the city. | Beijing drivers could face a total of $1.6m (£1m) in fines for breaking driving restrictions during the city's pollution red alert, Chinese media say. |
Can you write a brief summary of this passage? | The 34-year-old scored his 12th goal of the season against League One leaders Sheffield United on Saturday.
But the striker, who has made 181 Cobblers appearances over two spells, is out of contract in the summer.
"I wouldn't have moved my family to the area if I didn't think there was a connection there," said Richards.
"Hopefully I'll pick a couple more goals before the end of the season. Who knows what might happen?"
Saturday's 2-1 defeat by the Blades - promoted to the Championship as a consequence - left Edinburgh's side six points above the relegation places with five games remaining.
And Richards has said the club are not "safe at the moment" going into Friday's match away at play-off hopefuls Millwall.
"We still need a point at least," Richards told BBC Radio Northampton.
"It's going to be tough at Millwall - they're doing OK in the league and it's always a hard place to go. We'll do well to get anything from there."
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The British fighter said he has suffered mental health issues for years and has not trained since May.
"I've been out drinking, Monday to Friday to Sunday, and taking cocaine," Fury, 28, told Rolling Stone magazine.
It comes two days after Fury claimed on social media to have retired, before retracting the comment three hours later, saying it was a joke.
Speaking about his mental health issues, Fury added: "I can't deal with it and the only thing that helps me is when I get drunk out of my mind.
"They say I've got a version of bipolar. I'm a manic depressive. I just hope someone kills me before I kill myself."
Fury beat Ukraine's Wladimir Klitschko last November to win the WBA, IBF, WBO and IBO titles. It was 40-year-old Klitschko's first loss since 2004.
Within two weeks, Fury was stripped of the IBF title because he was unable to fight mandatory challenger Vyacheslav Glazkov.
A rematch with Klitschko was cancelled in July - with Fury citing injury - and the bout was rescheduled for 29 October at Manchester Arena.
However, that has also been called off, with Fury's uncle and trainer Peter Fury saying he does not expect to see his nephew in the ring again until 2017.
Fury, who is from the traveller community, told Rolling Stone he had been the victim of a "witch hunt" following his win over Klitschko, claiming he had even been turned away from restaurants with his family because of his heritage.
He said: "I'm the heavyweight champion of the world and I've been told, 'Sorry mate, you can't come in, no travellers allowed'.
"I used to love boxing when I was a kid. I hate boxing now."
Fury faces a UK Anti-Doping hearing in November after traces of a banned substance were allegedly found in a urine sample in June.
Fury told Rolling Stone he had taken cocaine only in recent months, once he had stopped training, and had never taken performance-enhancing substances.
He said he is also receiving help for his depression.
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After the final whistle in March, Tyler was seen on camera helping officers clear up police tape from outside St James' Park after most of the 52,000 fans had left the ground.
The seven-year-old was given a signed football from the club and the chance to be a mascot when Newcastle United face Manchester City on 19 April. | Captain Marc Richards would "love to stay" at Northampton Town but says his future is the hands of chairman Kelvin Thomas and boss Justin Edinburgh.
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World heavyweight boxing champion Tyson Fury says he has been taking cocaine to help him deal with depression.
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A boy who helped police clean up after the Tyne-Wear derby has been found after an appeal to trace him. |
Provide a summary of the section below. | The work of the CPS is being examined in BBC Four series The Prosecutors: Real Crime and Punishment.
The cameras were allowed to follow the CPS in Merseyside and Cheshire as the north west's chief crown prosecutor spoke of "a lack of understanding".
In 2014, 651,352 cases were brought to court in England and Wales by the CPS.
Claire Lindley, chief crown prosecutor for the CPS in the north west, said she hoped the programme would show that "we are all human and the decisions we are making are impactful and do affect lives."
She said: "We prosecute about 30,000 cases per year and we are quite proud of the fact we have a conviction rate of over 80%.
"We do get some criticism in the press and it's a shame because I know how hard my staff work and how dedicated they are to making sure victims are at the heart of the work we do."
The prosecutors decide whether to charge, who to charge and what offences to charge them with - decisions that have an impact on victims' lives, their families and perpetrators.
The programme looks at a case involving Nicky Clifford, whose son Flynn, 11, was killed by a driver in 2013.
Ms Clifford, from Sandbach in Cheshire, said: "The questions that I wanted answers to I couldn't be told because I am a witness and I have to go in court untarnished.
"That actually is quite isolating. For them, it's evidence - it's my life.
"I want to know what other people saw and I want answers to my questions and I don't want them a year-and-a-half down the line.
"When you are talking to people face-to-face, they can see your eyes and they can see what you are going through - that you are not just a name on the form or know it's not just a schoolboy.
"It's not just a schoolboy, it's my son."
In February 2015, the driver was convicted of causing death by driving carelessly after he was prosecuted by the CPS.
The documentary also tells the story of Rebecca Bamber, 43, who was stabbed to death in her garden in Widnes, Cheshire. Her former partner David Hoyle was charged with murder but pleaded not guilty, admitting manslaughter. He was convicted of murder in December 2014.
The Prosecutors: Real Crime and Punishment is on BBC Four at 21:00 GMT on Wednesday. | Cameras have been following prosecutors from the Crown Prosecution Service for the first time as they decide whether to bring criminal charges. |
Please summarize the passage below. | In a statement (in Czech), the foreign ministry says they are in "satisfactory health", and a special aircraft will be sent shortly to bring them home.
The ministry did not not say whether a Lebanese driver - who was with the group - was also found.
The Czechs disappeared in the eastern Bekaa Valley last year.
Their empty car with documents and money was found in the Kefraya region.
A security operation was launched immediately amid fears the group was kidnapped.
Media reports at the time suggested that their disappearance may have been linked to the case of a Lebanese man held in the Czech Republic in connection with suspected arms smuggling.
In 2011, seven Estonian cyclists were abducted at gunpoint in the Bekaa Valley and released four months later.
Some areas of the Bekaa Valley, east of the capital Beirut, are notorious for lawlessness and drug trafficking.
Gomis, 28, was out of contract after spending almost five years at the French club, where he scored 56 goals in 120 league appearances.
The forward was a target for the Swans last summer and has now signed a four-year deal.
Newcastle United agreed a fee in the region of £8m for the Frenchman in August, but the deal fell through.
Gomis was impressed by the persistence of manager Garry Monk and chairman Huw Jenkins in their continued interest in him.
"They showed they really wanted me - and that's one of the main reasons I chose Swansea ahead of the other interested clubs," said the 12-times capped Frenchman.
"They've been trying for over a year to sign me. It didn't quite happen back then, but they kept trying and I'm absolutely delighted to be here now.
"Although I've been aware of Swansea for a number of seasons, I've been following them a lot closer since the interest first materialised last year.
"It's a proud club with strong philosophies. It is growing all the time and I'm honoured to be given the opportunity to be part of it."
Gomis, a product of St Etienne, made his last appearance for Les Bleus in their 3-0 friendly defeat by Brazil in September.
He became Monk's second signing since becoming manager at the Liberty Stadium.
His first was a deal to secure goalkeeper Lukasz Fabianski from Arsenal, whose contract with the Gunners expires at the end of June. | Five Czech nationals who went missing in Lebanon in July have been found and are now in the care of Lebanon's security force, Czech officials say.
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Swansea City have completed the signing of striker Bafetimbi Gomis after he left Lyon. |
Give a brief summary of the content. | Nelson Cheung, 65, died and his wife, Winnie, 57, was injured after their car was forced off the road near Randalstown.
Police said three men aged 25, 32 and 33 had been charged with Mr Cheung's murder.
They have also been charged with attempted murder, robbery and attempted robbery.
The 25-year-old man was additionally charged with burglary.
A 32-year-old woman has been charged with perverting the course of justice and handling stolen goods.
All four are expected to appear in court in Ballymena on Thursday.
The charges will be reviewed by the Public Prosecution Service.
A 16-year-old girl and a 14-year-old boy who were also arrested by detectives have been released pending a report to the Public Prosecution Service. | Three men have been charged with the murder of a man in County Antrim last Wednesday. |
Summarize the content of the document below. | Officers were called to an address in Bryn Heulog, Old Colwyn, at 20:30 GMT on Thursday. David Kingsbury, 35, was found dead nearby.
Two 30-year-old men and a 50-year-old man have been arrested on suspicion of murder and are being questioned.
A 38-year-old woman arrested on Thursday has been released on bail.
A post-mortem examination revealed Mr Kingsbury died from a single stab wound.
In a tribute, Mr Kingsbury's family said: "David was a very loving, affectionate son, brother and uncle with a good heart.
"We all loved him to bits and will miss his happy, easy going nature, his infectious smile and sense of humour." | Three more people have been arrested following a fatal stabbing in Conwy county. |
Can you summarize this passage? | A woman in her 20s suffered facial injuries after being hit with a hammer in the Enfield Parade area at about 22:45 BST on Saturday night.
The 35-year-old woman has also been charged with possession of an offensive weapon with intent to commit an indictable offence.
She is due to appear at Belfast Magistrates' Court later. | A 35-year-old woman has been charged with attempted murder after a hammer attack in north Belfast. |
Can you write a short summary of this section? | Conservative MP Sir Tony Baldry, the Second Church Estates Commissioner, said he was frustrated by the actions of a blocking minority in the synod.
Tory backbencher Eleanor Laing argued that the Church's "position as the established church must be called into question" as a result of the vote.
Sir Tony said this was a "good point".
There was "overwhelming support" among members of the Church of England for the introduction of women bishops, he told MPs in response to an urgent question tabled by Labour MP Diana Johnson.
Sir Tony, as Second Church Estates Commissioner, is responsible for taking questions in Parliament on Church matters and steering Church legislation through the Commons.
He noted that "94% of the bishops who voted on Tuesday voted in support of the measure, as did 77% of the House of Clergy; even in the House of Laity, 64% were in favour".
He blamed a "handful of votes amongst the laity" for the failure to secure the requisite two-thirds majority in each house of the tricameral legislative body.
"It is impossible for me to explain to parliamentary colleagues how a measure that has had the support of 42 out of the 44 dioceses failed to pass in general synod," Sir Tony said, questioning whether the election process to the House of Laity was "sufficiently representative".
Sir Tony offered to convene a meeting between concerned MPs and the incoming Archbishop of Canterbury, the Right Reverend Justin Welby.
Contrary to reports, new legislation on the subject could be introduced before 2015, he said.
"What the rules prevent is the same measure being reconsidered by general Synod without a special procedure," he explained.
"It is perfectly possible for a different and amended measure to consecrate women bishops to be considered by general Synod."
Ms Johnson said it was vital that the Church "is led by the very best, not just those who happen to be male".
"There should be no stained-glass ceiling for women in our church," she told MPs.
"The Church of England now stands to be left behind by the society it seeks to serve, looking outdated, irrelevant, and frankly eccentric by this decision.
"A broad church is being held to ransom by a few narrow minds."
Ms Laing added: "When the decision-making body of the established church deliberately sets itself against the general principles of the society which it represents then its position as the established church must be called into question."
This was "a perfectly good point", Sir Tony replied.
"What has happened as a consequence of the decision by general synod is the Church of England no longer looks like a national church, it simply looks like a sect like any other sect," he continued.
"If the Church of England wants to be a national church, then it has to reflect the values of the nation."
But he was more critical of a proposal by Labour's Chris Bryant, who called on the prime minister to bring in "a moratorium on male bishops until there could also be women bishops".
"No nomination without feminisation," he declared.
Sir Tony replied: "Of course, we could have done that if the prime minister still had control over the appointment of bishops."
Former PM Gordon Brown, the second commissioner replied, had "without any proper consultation renounced the ability of Downing Street to have any influence" over appointments. | The Church of England's decision to reject the introduction of women bishops makes it look like "a sect", a senior Church representative has said. |
Provide a brief summary of this section. | In 1925, some 250 working class children from more than 50 schools across Manchester were recruited for a choir that would go down in musical history.
They rehearsed twice a week, and by 1929 were deemed good enough to make a recording with the prestigious Halle Orchestra by its principal conductor Sir Hamilton Harty.
Together, they recorded Henry Purcell's Nymphs and Shepherds at the Free Trade Hall. The angelic performance made the resulting 78rpm record a surprise hit.
Forty-five years later, Thames Television reunited some of the choristers for a documentary about that day.
A 21-year-old Victoria Wood happened to be watching. And the tale of those children, and what became of them, has stayed with the comedian ever since.
"I've always thought it would make a good story, of the children making that record," Wood says.
"It's a famous record and it was very unusual for schoolchildren to be making a record in 1929, especially with the Halle Orchestra."
'Wonderful quality'
The crackly recording has an ethereal quality that has helped it speak across the decades, Wood explains.
"There's just something about the sound of it - I don't know whether it's because it was recorded on one microphone, and so it doesn't sound like a modern record, or whether it's because they sing really fast.
"I don't know what it is. There's some wonderful quality about it that I find very touching."
When the Manchester International Festival asked Wood, from Bury, for ideas for any Manchester-related shows, she immediately thought about recreating that recording.
"My starting point was to reconstruct that event," she says. "But then I thought actually just to reconstruct that event, that's not a play, that's just a kids' concert.
"And so I started to weave in this story of what those kids might be like 40 years down the line."
The result is That Day We Sang, which she describes as "a play with music".
"This isn't a musical," she insists. "This is a play with songs - slightly different."
So the play flits between 1929, using a choir of 100 current schoolchildren, and 1969, when the middle-aged former choristers are reunited.
It centres on Tubby, now an overweight insurance man, and Enid, a secretary, who reflect on where the decades have gone.
"They're reunited for a news interview on local telly," Wood explains. "This is something that Tubby hasn't heard for many, many years.
"Just hearing that music and thinking about that day and thinking about who is was then and who he is now - it emboldens him to make a change in his life and make a move towards having a relationship with somebody."
Wood is now 58 and is entitled to reflect on three decades of distinction on stage and screen, and can be comfortable in her position as a cosy national presence whose comic and dramatic touches rarely disappoint.
But as the story is about people looking back on missed opportunities and seeking to change their lives, does it reflect anything she has been thinking about herself?
She responds vaguely about things that she writes being "always something to do with what you're thinking about, but you don't even know what you're thinking about until you write".
"What you think you're thinking about is a choir and two middle-aged people. You actually may be thinking about lots of other things that probably are to do with your own life or you own emotions," she adds.
And then she avoids going further by saying that she does not want to draw comparisons with her own life because the audience must be able to interpret the story in their own way.
Wood has written and directs the show, but will not appear herself.
Vincent Franklin, who has appeared in TV comedies The Thick Of It and Twenty Twelve, will play Tubby, with Olivier Award-winning actress Jenna Russell as Enid.
The new children's choir comprises pupils from three primary schools and one secondary in north Manchester.
As well as giving them experience on stage, the choir will also benefit the children with the transition between schools, Wood explains.
"They think it will help those children who are in primary school. It will give them a better bridge and a better understanding of what it's like to be in secondary school."
That Day We Sang is one of the most high-profile events at the festival, which kicks off on Thursday and also includes new work by Bjork, Damon Albarn and theatre company Punchdrunk.
And it is a return to Manchester for Wood, whose tour of Acorn Antiques: The Musical! opened in Salford in 2006.
"I haven't done a big theatre piece for a few years, it's mainly been TV stuff," she says.
The festival, she explains, is "just a chance to do something you couldn't do in any other situation".
"It is a story about Manchester for Manchester," she adds.
That Day We Sang runs at the Manchester Opera House from 6-17 July. | Victoria Wood is telling the story of a 1920s children's choir in a stage show that will premiere at this year's Manchester International Festival. |
Please summarize the document below. | Mr Cairns said armed police potentially saved many lives by shooting dead three men at the scene of Saturday's terrorist attacks in London.
The Tory minister said Mr Corbyn had previously opposed such a policy.
However, Labour's Stephen Kinnock immediately rebuked the comment, saying Mr Corbyn said on Sunday police should use "whatever force is necessary".
During a debate on BBC Radio 5 live from Gower on Monday, Mr Cairns pointed out that Mr Corbyn had previously "opposed the shoot-to-kill policy".
"On Saturday night that shoot-to-kill policy saved tens, if not hundreds of people's lives," he said.
Mr Kinnock, when asked in the radio debate if Mr Corbyn supported shoot-to-kill now, said: "Yes."
"He made it clear in his speech yesterday that he would authorise the police and security services to take all necessary measures," Mr Kinnock said.
Welsh Labour leader Carwyn Jones was critical of the prime minister's claims that there was too much tolerance of extremism.
Campaigning on Anglesey on Monday, he said that after six years of being home secretary Theresa May was responsible as it was "on her watch".
He added: "I don't think it is wise to rush into a response in the aftermath of a horrible attack - we have to be clever than that to look for a response which is far more effective."
Meanwhile, Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood has called on politicians to be careful of the language they use when referring to minority communities in the aftermath of the attacks in Manchester and London.
"What the terrorists want is for us to be divided as communities," she said, also while campaigning on Anglesey.
"They want us to turn on each other and, as politicians, we have to be very, very careful to make sure that we talk about this in a way that doesn't help people to turn upon their neighbour."
Opposition parties in Wales have also called for UK government cuts to police budgets to be reversed to boost the fight against terrorism during a campaign debate on BBC Radio Wales.
Labour's Stephen Doughty said community officers were "often the first line in providing community intelligence which is so crucial to the security services" which could potentially prevent terrorist attacks.
Plaid Cymru assembly member Steffan Lewis said such officers could build "a level of trust" and could spot people "who may be susceptible to radicalisation".
UKIP's leader in the assembly, Neil Hamilton, said his party would reverse police cuts and give them more powers to stop and search suspects.
Liberal Democrat peer Baroness Randerson said her party would also reverse cuts and warned of the risk of losing international co-operation to combat terrorism after Brexit.
Conservative candidate David Davies insisted that anti-terrorism and intelligence budgets had been protected while the UK government tackled a budget deficit "inherited from Labour".
He said there was also a need to have "some embarrassing and difficult conversations" with the Muslim community to root out extremists.
A vigil was held, following the London attack, in Swansea's Castle Gardens at 18:00 BST on Monday evening. | Welsh Secretary Alun Cairns has sparked a row over whether Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn opposed a shoot-to-kill policy. |
Write a summary for the following excerpt. | It said the number of foreign fighters worldwide had soared by 71% between the middle of 2014 and March 2015.
Syria and Iraq were by far the biggest destinations and had become a "finishing school for extremists".
It also said if IS were defeated in Syria and Iraq, the foreign fighters could be scattered across the world.
The UN Security Council had asked experts six months ago to investigate the threat from foreign fighters joining Islamic State and other militant groups.
In the report filed to the council late last month, the experts say the flow of foreign fighters has risen from a few thousand a decade ago and is now "higher than it has ever been historically".
They say: "For the thousands of [foreign fighters] who travelled to the Syrian Arab Republic and Iraq... they live and work in a veritable 'international finishing school' for extremists, as was the case in Afghanistan during the 1990s."
Syria and Iraq were said to house 22,000 foreign fighters, with 6,500 in Afghanistan and hundreds in Yemen, Libya, Pakistan and Somalia.
Foreign fighter case studies
Texan Michael Wolfe, 23, planned to fly to Turkey via Iceland and then get into Syria to commit "violent jihad". But he unknowingly relied on an undercover FBI agent for travel advice, was arrested and admitted attempting to provide material support to terrorists.
Embarking on a path to jihad
Melbourne schoolboy Jake Bilardi travelled to fight with IS and reportedly died in a suicide attack in Iraq this year. The 18-year-old Muslim convert left Australia last year and flew via Turkey to Iraq.
Who are Australia's radicalised Muslims?
Briton David Souaan was jailed in December 2014 for preparing terrorist acts. Arrested at Heathrow last May after a tip-off from fellow students. Had previously been in Syria and had pictures of himself posing with guns.
Tracking UK's jihadists
A high number of foreign fighters had come from Tunisia, Morocco, France and Russia but there has also been an increase from the Maldives, Finland and Trinidad and Tobago.
The report called for greater intelligence sharing between nations to help identify foreign fighters.
It highlighted the effect of social media networks which had linked "diverse foreign fighters from different communities across the globe".
The chances of foreign travellers becoming caught up in terrorist incidents was "growing, particularly with attacks targeting hotels, public spaces and venues".
The Security Council adopted a resolution in September demanding all states make it a serious criminal offence for their citizens to travel abroad to fight with militants, or to recruit and fund others to do so.
The Welsh government said Jobs Growth Wales, which started in April 2012, will benefit another 4,000 young people in its fourth year.
The idea is to help young people find work by giving them experience, and to help employers by paying half of the wages for the first six months.
The programme had exceeded its target, the Welsh government said.
Jobs Growth Wales aimed to create 12,000 job opportunities over three years for unemployed 16 to 24-year-olds.
The Welsh government said the EU-backed programme had already almost achieved that in its first two years, with more than 9,000 of those 12,000 getting a job.
Deputy Skills and Technology Minister Ken Skates visited Swansea fluids manufacturer Hydra Technologies on Thursday, after it took on five people through the scheme.
"Meeting the team here today has shown me yet again how Jobs Growth Wales can not only help provide fantastic opportunities for young people who would otherwise be out of work but also allow employers in Wales to grow their business by accelerating their recruitment plans," he said.
"The programme is clearly reaping huge rewards for all involved and we are really proud of the progress that has been made in its first two years.
Ricky Owen, from Ogmore Vale in Bridgend county, had been unemployed for several months but said the new job had turned his life around.
"I had been really struggling to find a job that not only appealed to me but also met the skills and experience I already had. The job opportunity was fantastic," he said.
"It helped me to gain the skills and knowledge I needed in order to apply for one of the permanent jobs available." | More than 25,000 foreign fighters from 100 nations have travelled to join militant groups such as al-Qaeda and Islamic State (IS), a UN report says.
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A scheme that helps young unemployed people in Wales get into work is being extended at a cost of £12.5m. |
Write a brief summary of the provided content. | David Smith, from Galston, was found guilty of the attacks, which took place over a 16 year-period from 1975 to 1991 in the East Ayrshire town.
He was also convicted of sexually abusing a third girl and physically abusing two girls and a boy.
Smith denied the charges against him and claimed his victims were "scheming" and "liars" but was convicted following a trial at the High Court in Glasgow.
Jailing him, judge Lord Matthews told Smith: "You committed a catalogue of physical and sexual abuse towards children.
"I have seen the victim impact statement which detail in graphic detail your offending. Mere words are inadequate to describe your actions."
Smith was described by one of his rape victims as always being "touchy-feely".
She was first abused by him at seven years old and first raped when she was 10.
The victim told advocate depute Bruce Erroch, prosecuting, that Smith had "stolen her childhood".
He raped her on various occasions between June 1979 and June 1985.
The victim, who is now 45, told the jury that Smith would also beat her with a belt, a poker, a shovel and a wooden spoon.
His other rape victim, now aged 39, told the jury: "I've blocked most of what he did to me out. It was the only way I was able to survive."
First offender Smith was also convicted of sexually abusing a third girl between February 1976 and February 1979.
Smith, who is also known as Darter, engaged in sexual activity with one of his rape victims while she was sleeping in bed with his other rape victim.
The 25-year-old arrived from Doncaster at the end of December on an initial six-month deal, and has scored five goals in his 16 games since.
"The aim was to be here longer than the six months, so I'm really happy to get it over the line," he told Rangers TV.
"I love it here, and playing at Ibrox. There are good times ahead at this club and I want to be part of that."
Forrester was taken off injured in Rangers' Petrofac Training Cup final win over Peterhead, but insisted he was "totally fine" for Sunday's Scottish Cup semi-final with Celtic.
And he is confident Rangers can cause problems for the Premiership leaders at Hampden.
Forrester gave Rangers the lead after 13 seconds in their 4-0 quarter-final victory against Dundee.
And he said: "We got off to a flying start and it was against Premiership opposition. That gave us belief that we can mix it up there with the league above and we believe we can get something out the game.
"We believe in the dressing room. We talk day in, day out. We have to keep improving but it's a good test for us on Sunday." | A 64-year-old man has been jailed for 10 years for raping two young girls.
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Rangers winger Harry Forrester has signed a new three-year contract which will keep him at the club until 2019. |
Provide a concise summary of this excerpt. | But in the notice to the United Nations the US state department said Washington would remain in the talks process.
President Donald Trump drew international condemnation in June when he first announced the US intention to withdraw.
He said the deal "punished" the US and would cost millions of American jobs.
Friday's announcement is seen as largely symbolic as no nation seeking to leave the pact can officially announce an intention to withdraw until 4 November 2019.
The process of leaving then takes another year, meaning it would not be complete until just weeks after the US presidential election in 2020.
Any new US president could then decide to rejoin the agreement.
"Today, the United States submitted a communication to the United Nations in its capacity as depositary for the Paris Agreement regarding the US intent to withdraw from the Paris Agreement as soon as it is eligible to do so," the US statement read.
"The United States will continue to participate in international climate change negotiations and meetings... to protect US interests and ensure all future policy options remain open to the administration."
In June, Mr Trump indicated he was open to another climate deal "on terms that are fair to the United States".
However, key signatories to the accord quickly ruled that out. The Paris Agreement took decades to finalise.
The US stance on climate change also caused divisions at the G20 summit in Germany last month.
A joint summit statement said it "took note of the decision of the United States of America to withdraw from the Paris Agreement".
However, leaders of the other G20 members agreed the accord was "irreversible".
Climate change, or global warming, refers to the damaging effect of gases, or emissions, released from industry, transportation, agriculture and other areas into the atmosphere.
The Paris accord aims to limit the global rise in temperature attributed to emissions. Only Syria and Nicaragua did not sign up.
Countries agreed to:
Nasa's Goddard Institute for Space Studies says the world's average temperature has risen by about 0.8C since 1880, two-thirds of that since 1975.
US think tank Climate Interactive predicts that if all nations fully achieve their Paris pledges, the average global surface temperature rise by 2100 will be 3.3C, or 3.6C without the US. | The Trump administration has issued its first written notification that the US intends to withdraw from the 2015 Paris climate agreement. |
Can you provide an overview of this section? | The 30-year-old forward, who has joined Burton Albion on loan, said starting one league match and both EFL Cup fixtures "painted a picture" for him.
"The most important thing at my age is to play," Ward told BBC Radio Derby.
"It obviously wasn't going to happen for me there and I am not a player to sit around and just collect the money."
Ward did not play against Burton in the season opener, but scored in the EFL Cup game against Doncaster and then started the league fixture against Brighton.
However, he was taken off just over an hour into the 3-0 defeat and did not feature in the Championship again.
The Northern Ireland international said linking up with Nigel Clough - his manager from his time at Derby County - was a "great" opportunity.
"I obviously wasn't playing at Forest," Ward added. "Nigel knows what I am like and I know what he is like. We have had a good relationship in the past and hopefully it carries on."
The rodents normally avoid mature forests with large trees as they provide little in the way of cover.
But researchers, writing in Biotropica, say that logging makes rainforests more attractive for rats as fallen wood contains more insects which they eat.
Scientists are concerned that the invading black rats will be bad news for native mammals.
Sometimes called the ship rat, these rodents have spread around the world over the past 400 years, often causing the extinctions of native species and spreading disease.
Much of their notoriety rests on the idea that black rats were the origin of bubonic plague, although recent research casts doubt on that notion.
Black rats have usually avoided older forests as they contain large trees which do not provide much in the way of ground level protection. They also tend to have leafy forest floors which are noisy for rats to run through, as they attract predators.
This new study examined the idea that logging of trees in rainforests might facilitate the spread of the rodents.
The researchers looked at the island of Borneo where large tracts of the natural forest have been degraded.
It had been believed that black rats were confined to urban areas in Borneo. To test the idea that they might spread into deforested regions, the scientists trapped rats from four different species - they then attached small spools of cotton thread to their backs and and tracked their movements.
Across the animals in the study, the researchers found that the black rats had the strongest preference for the type of disturbed habitat associated with logging.
The increased amount of fallen wood boosted the amount of insects which the rats eat. The logged forests also have more undergrowth which provides better cover. The researchers believe that black rats favour these small changes far more than related species.
"Logging creates micro-environments that black rats love, helping them move in," said study co-author Dr Rob Ewers from Imperial College London.
"This could be bad news for native mammals who might not be able to compete with black rats for food and resources. It's also bad for the forest, as many small mammals are important seed dispersers, helping rainforest plants to grow, and they are also prey for larger animals."
The researchers say that the widespread destruction of forests throughout the tropics may well be multiplying the threat from invasive species like black rats. They believe the presence of these rats could pose a significant threat to nesting birds and other small mammals.
The scientists say that the way that logging is done can have a big impact on the suitability of the land for the black rats.
The more dead wood that is left behind the better the black rats like it. If felled trees were more accurately cleared as well as the vines that connect the trees, the rat's progress might be curbed.
Follow Matt on Twitter and on Facebook. | Jamie Ward felt he had no option but to leave Nottingham Forest during the transfer window after playing just one of the club's five Championship games.
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Cutting down trees in rainforests facilitates the spread of invasive black rats, a study suggests. |
Provide a brief summary of this section. | The 27-year-old woman was pronounced dead at the scene after her Peugeot 208 crashed on the A689 at Crosby at about 13:00 GMT on Sunday.
A man and two children were flown to the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle.
The Great North Air Ambulance said the man suffered "multiple injuries" while the children had minor injuries. | A driver has died in a crash between two cars near Carlisle. |
Summarize the provided information. | The man is thought to have been hit by the moving boom on a Giraffe crane on the deck of the north tower.
It is understood the 60-year-old suffered severe blood loss and he was unable to be resuscitated.
Another man was injured in the incident. Work has stopped for investigations to take place.
The bridge, ordered by ministers because of corrosion of the main suspension cable on the Forth Road Bridge from Fife to Edinburgh, is due to be completed by the end of the year.
Work started in 2011 and the death is thought to be the first fatality at the site.
The site reopened on Friday morning to allow the man's colleagues to "come together and and support each other", a project spokesman said.
"Everyone on the site has been deeply affected by this tragedy and specialist support is being made available for anyone who needs it," he added.
It will close at 13:00 and it will remain shut until Tuesday morning.
The project spokesman said: "The return to work will start with a mark of respect for our lost colleague."
Harry Frew, Ucatt Scottish regional secretary, said his thoughts were with the man's family.
He told the BBC Scotland news website: "We were just on our way back from a Worker's Memorial Day ceremony in Glasgow Green to commemorate workers who have been killed at work when we heard the news.
"I am very saddened about this tragedy and our thoughts are with his family."
A Forth Replacement Crossing spokesman said: "We are deeply saddened to have to confirm there was an incident just before noon on 28 April on the Queensferry Crossing's north tower in which a person has lost his life.
"One other person has been taken to hospital. All activity has been stopped at the north tower.
"Our thoughts are with the family and friends of our colleague and co-worker at this time."
A Police Scotland spokesman said: "We are currently working alongside our partner agencies to investigate an incident on the Queensferry Crossing Bridge that resulted in a man sustaining fatal injuries.
"The call was received around 12.20 on Thursday and sadly, the man was pronounced dead a short time later.
"Another man on the bridge also sustained minor injuries.
"Inquiries to establish the full circumstances surrounding this matter are ongoing." | A construction worker has been killed in an incident on the Queensferry Crossing, the new £1.4bn bridge being built across the Firth of Forth. |
Summarize the content of the document below. | Figures obtained by the BBC show the number of families in temporary accommodation for six weeks also trebled over the same period in Medway, breaching government guidelines.
The Conservative-led authority said it may take up to four years before the situation improves.
The Labour opposition said the answer was to build more council homes.
Councillor Howard Doe, cabinet member for housing, said: "There are a range of social issues and we cannot afford to deal with them all now.
"I'm hoping that over the next three to four years I would expect the figures to improve.
"As universal credit comes in and any bumps are ironed out, I think landlords will be far happier taking people who are drawing benefits."
Council figures show the number of families in temporary accommodation rose from 85 in March to 148 by the end of 2014.
In the same nine-month period, the number of children in temporary accommodation rose from 145 to 305.
The number of families living in similar circumstances for six weeks or more trebled from 40 to 120, in the same period.
Government guidelines say B&B accommodation should only be used for families for a maximum of six weeks.
Councillor Teresa Murray, deputy leader of the Labour group, said there was a shortage of housing, with 20,000 people on the waiting list.
She said: "In my ward, I've got families living in two-bedroom flats and they have four children."
She said the answer was to build more council houses.
"Any temporary accommodation is dealing with the consequence and not the cause," Ms Murray added.
Officers in Bethesda have tried to reason with large groups who have been leaving smashed bottles and litter, but the problem had got worse recently.
North Wales Police PCSO Gareth Davies said their behaviour was having an "awful" impact on the community.
But some residents said youngsters in the town had nowhere to go.
North Wales Police has put a dispersal order in place, giving officers the power to order anyone to leave the area if their behaviour is anti-social.
"What we don't want to happen is that an individual from Bethesda is prosecuted or has a dispersal order which could have an affect on their lives in the future," Mr Davies told BBC Radio Wales' Good Morning Wales.
"There is no obvious explanation. They are at an awkward age where they think they are too old to go to a youth club, too young to go to a public house."
One resident, who did not want to be named, also told the programme she was worried about her little boy getting hurt because of all the smashed glass in the parks.
But another claimed the enforcement would not work fearing it would criminalise young people in the town.
"They got a little bit hyperactive, they have got nothing to do, nowhere to go," she said.
"The police are saying they are going to bring in this legislation, but it is not going to work.
"They are going to be moving them around place to place. They need to make sure kids have a safe place to go." | Numbers of children in temporary housing more than doubled between March and December, Medway Council says.
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Police have launched a crackdown on youngsters drinking in parks and car parks following a rise in problems in a Gwynedd community. |
Write a brief summary of the document. | He met veterans and appeared at a rally in South Carolina on Monday, ahead of Saturday's primary election.
George W Bush's legacy has come under fierce attack from Republican frontrunner Donald Trump.
Jeb Bush, the former Florida governor, has spent a lot of campaign cash but failed to make an impact.
He is struggling to catch up with Mr Trump and Texas Senator Ted Cruz, who won the New Hampshire and Iowa contests respectively.
Mr Bush's famous family has largely kept out of his presidential nomination battle and he insisted last year that he was running as his own man.
But last week his mother Barbara Bush, wife of former President George HW Bush, spoke out in his support.
And on Saturday, Jeb Bush defended his brother's presidency, saying he had built a "security apparatus to keep us safe".
In a televised debate, billionaire businessman Mr Trump tore into George W Bush's record, accusing him of lying about the reasons for the Iraq War, which he said had destabilised the Middle East.
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"I want to tell you - they lied," said Mr Trump. "They said there were weapons of mass destruction, there were none. And they knew there were none."
He also scoffed at Mr Bush's defence of his brother.
"The World Trade Center came down during your brother's reign, remember that."
Experts say that Mr Trump's tactic of attacking the former president is risky because he still maintains wide appeal among Republicans in South Carolina, from churchgoers to business leaders and retired military personnel.
On Monday, George W Bush, alongside his wife Laura, met US military veterans at an American Legion Post in Columbia, South Carolina.
Last week, he praised his brother's abilities in a radio advert, and Jeb Bush will hope his personal appearance will bring dividends on polling day.
Although George W Bush remains a divisive figure nationally, he and his father both won primary elections in South Carolina.
South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham, who quit the presidential race and is now backing Jeb Bush, said: "The Bush name is golden in my state."
While Republican voters in South Carolina make their choice for president, the Democratic Party is holding its own contest in Nevada on Saturday. Republicans in Nevada and Democrats in South Carolina get to express their views in separate contests the following week.
Mr Cruz, Mr Trump and Democrats Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders have all won one state each.
20 February - South Carolina primary (Republican); Nevada caucus (Democrat)
23 February - Nevada caucus (R)
27 February - South Carolina primary (D)
1 March - 'Super Tuesday' - 15 states or territories decide
18-21 July - Republican convention, nominee picked
25-28 July - Democratic convention, nominee picked
8 November - US presidential elections
In depth: Primary calendar
Piotr Dziurdzik, of Meetinghouse Street in Ballymoney, appeared at Antrim Crown Court on Wednesday.
The 33 charges include 27 of making indecent photographs of children.
Dziurdzik, who worked at Causeway Hospital in Coleraine, was due to go on trial but asked to be re-arraigned and pleaded guilty.
The offences were committed between 2012 and 2015.
The other charges included three of possession of prohibited images of a child and three of possession of extreme pornographic images.
A defence barrister asked for a pre-sentence report ahead of sentencing.
The judge said the defendant will now be subject to notification regarding the Sex Offenders Register.
A spokesperson for the Northern Trust said it is "aware of this case and took appropriate and timely action at the earliest stage to deal with this matter.
"We are also aware that an interim order of suspension has been placed on the doctor's registration by the GMC." | Former President George W Bush has hit the campaign trail to boost younger brother Jeb's faltering presidential nomination bid.
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A County Antrim anaesthetist has pleaded guilty to a number of charges of making indecent photographs of children. |
Please summarize the document below. | Arlene Foster made the announcement for IT firm Parity Solutions in 2010, when she was minister at the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment.
Invest NI had pledged £630,000 in support, but it was never paid as the company rethought its plans.
At the time, the firm employed 63 people and aimed to hire up to 94 more.
It intended creating a "Microsoft centre of excellence", which Ms Foster said would "contribute almost £3m in salaries to the economy".
But six years later, just under 20 staff are employed locally and on Tuesday they were told half of them are likely to lose their jobs as the Belfast office down sizes.
The cutbacks are being linked to a loss of government work.
Parity is based at the Northern Ireland Science Park, but its headquarters are in London.
There have been other occasions when, usually for commercial reasons, expansions backed by Invest NI did not work out.
US firms Vello Systems and CVS Caremark are recent examples of businesses that reduced their staff in Northern Ireland following earlier announcements to expand.
South Wales Fire and Rescue Service said the alert at Triangle Business Park, in Pentrebach was raised just before 04:50 BST.
About 30 firefighters initially attended the blaze.
Five firefighters and two officers remained at the site using cooling jets to make the machinery safe, a fire service spokesman said.
Florin Gheorghe, from Romania but living at Meadowbank Court, had also been charged with false imprisonment, assault and inciting prostitution.
On Friday, Londonderry Magistrates Court heard there had been a material change to the available evidence.
The judge ordered the charges to be withdrawn and Mr Gheorghe to be released.
The twice world darts champion died on 24 March at the age of 62. He had been suffering from the lung disorder chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
About 400 people, including former darts star Eric Bristow, packed Kirkcaldy Crematorium to hear about a "wonderful and loving" dad.
He leaves behind wife Malvina and their three children Anne Marie, John and William, and six grandchildren.
During the service, conducted by Denis Madden, mourners heard how Wilson would have celebrated his 44th wedding anniversary next month.
Mr Madden said: "When it came to the crunch, what this man's life was all about was his wife, his children and grandchildren. That's what mattered.
"He was a lovely, quiet, firm family man."
Mr Madden told how Wilson never sought the fame his success brought him after he first picked up darts in a local pub when the team were a player down.
He said: "He went on to play all over the world. I don't think there's a continent that the man did not play in. But if the truth be told, Jocky Wilson never wanted to become famous or in the spotlight.
"Jocky would be the first to tell you that work in its own right was a means to an end, all he wanted out of it was to provide well for his wife and family."
He added: "Jocky was a wonderful dad. He was full of fun and laughter, and yet I have to say he and Malvina brought their children up well because they have instilled nothing but the best of values, morals and standards in all three of them.
"He has played a huge part in moulding each one of them into the people that they have become today."
From his debut at the World Championship in 1979 until 1991, Wilson managed to reach at least the quarter-finals of the tournament on every occasion.
Wilson also lifted the British Professional Championship four-times between 1981 and 1988, as well as the British Open and Matchplay titles.
He was a founding member of the Professional Darts Corporation and is acknowledged as one of the main forerunners to darts' current popularity. | It has emerged that a project, which the executive said would create around 100 well-paying jobs in Belfast, never materialised.
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An investigation has begun into a factory fire in Merthyr Tydfil in the early hours.
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Rape and human trafficking charges against a 29-year-old man living in Londonderry have been withdrawn.
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The funeral of Scottish darts legend Jocky Wilson has taken place in Fife. |
Can you summarize the following information? | Two months ago, the Welsh secretary went into bat for the government after more than 80 Church of England bishops accused ministers of an inadequate response to the migration crisis.
Mr Crabb told Sky News "in a sense Church of England bishops criticising the Conservative government isn't really news" before arguing that the response had been one of compassion. He added: "If you go back decades now, if we had listened to the bishops and all of their prescriptions for economic and social policy, we'd probably have debt a lot higher and we wouldn't have the kind of economic recovery we've got."
Now the churchgoing Mr Crabb has a problem with Church in Wales bishops. Admittedly, there are fewer of them but they have added their voices to the chorus of discontent that seems to accompany the increasingly friendless draft Wales Bill on its journey.
Declining to give their blessings to the Bill, the bishops conclude: "Wales deserves, and has asked for, a settlement which is fair and just. What is on offer at the moment is a rather rushed Bill which goes against the spirit of both what the prime minister promised after the Scottish referendum and the desire expressed in the Bill's foreword."
Mr Crabb could be forgiven for wondering if no-one will rid him of these turbulent priests. Conservative MP Glyn Davies took to Twitter to conclude: "Another day, another kicking for the Wales Bill. If I were Sec of State I might be tempted to scrap the whole idea!"
Mr Crabb is not apparently tempted to scrap the Bill but seasoned observers of the devolution scene concluded that his tone before AMs in Cardiff on Monday was more conciliatory. He agreed that the list of reserved powers - or 267 powers Westminster doesn't want Wales to have as walesonline.co.uk put it - was too long.
He said he was surprised to see hovercrafts on the list, and even had to explain to his children what a hovercraft is.
They may need updating on 1950s inventions but, growing up in Wales in the 21st century, the little Crabbs should at least be well aware of more modern inventions such as the Barnett formula, legislative competence orders, the lockstep, and the Richard, Silk and Holtham commissions. | It's not the first time Stephen Crabb has had a problem with bishops. |
Write a concise summary for the following article. | The 32-year-old suffered the injury during Ulster's Pro12 win over Treviso in Belfast on Friday evening.
Tommy Bowe has been drafted into the Irish camp as they prepare to play Wales in Cardiff on Friday night.
Ireland must also do without Connacht lock Ultan Dillane, who will be sidelined for at least two months after undergoing shoulder surgery.
Head coach Schmidt will now hope to have stalwart full-back Rob Kearney back in full training on Monday.
Kearney had been battling a hip issue but is now thought to be ready to come back.
The British and Irish Lions full-back's return could offset Trimble's loss, with Ulster's Jared Payne then likely to go head-to-head with Garry Ringrose to start at outside centre in Wales.
Ireland are second in the Six Nations table, three points behind leaders England.
Schmidt's side lost to Scotland in their first match but then beat Italy and France.
The investigators said in a report last month that thousands of people had been tortured, suffered sexual abuse or disappeared during political violence.
They also warned of the danger of genocide from the escalating violence.
The decision comes days after Burundi announced plans to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC).
A letter signed by Foreign Affairs Minister Alain Aime Nyamitwe said Pablo de Greiff of Colombia, Christof Heyns of South Africa, and Maya Sahli-Fadel of Algeria were no longer welcome in Burundi.
Their investigation, published in a UN report, had described "abundant evidence of gross human rights violations" possibly amounting to crimes against humanity, by the government of Burundi and people associated with it.
Speaking in New York on Monday, UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric urged Burundi to continue to co-operate with the investigators.
"It's critical that Burundi and every other country co-operate fully with UN human rights mechanism and that is including working with those representing it," he said.
Burundi's announcement to withdraw from the ICC came six months after the Hague-based court said it would investigate ongoing violence in the country.
The African Union (AU) has repeatedly complained that the ICC treats Africans and Africa unfairly.
Burundi descended into political turmoil in April 2015 when President Pierre Nkurunzinza began his bid for a third term.
Since then, more than 500 people have died and at least 270,000 have fled the country. | Ireland winger Andrew Trimble will miss the last two matches in the Six Nations after breaking a bone in his hand.
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Burundi has banned three UN investigators from entering the country after they accused the government of gross human rights violations. |
What is the summary of the given information? | In the course of Israel's creation in 1948 and its occupation of the West Bank and Gaza in 1967, more than half the Arabs of pre-1948 Palestine are thought to have been displaced.
Today there are millions of Palestinians living in exile from homes and land their families had inhabited for generations.
Many still suffer the legacy of their dispossession: destitution, penury, insecurity.
Palestinian historians, and some Israelis, call 1948 a clear example of ethnic cleansing - perpetrated by the Haganah (later the Israeli Defence Forces) and armed Jewish gangs.
Official Israeli history, by contrast, says most Palestinian refugees left to avoid a war instigated by neighbouring Arab states, though it admits a "handful" of expulsions and unauthorised killings.
What is undisputed is that the refugees' fate is excluded from most Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts because, given a right of return, their numbers endanger the future of the world's only Jewish state.
The issue of the refugees is therefore seen by many Israelis as an existential one.
Four million UN-registered Palestinian refugees trace their origins to the 1948 exodus; 750,000 people belong to families displaced in 1967 - many for the second time.
Inside a Palestinian refugee camp
Palestinian advocacy group Badil says another 1.5 million hail from pre-1948 Palestine but were not UN-registered, while an additional 274,000 were internally displaced inside Israel after 1948, and 150,000 were displaced in the occupied territories after 1967.
That makes more than six million people, one of the biggest displaced populations in the world.
Israel steadfastly argues that all refugees - and it disputes the numbers - should relinquish any aspirations to return to what is now its territory, and instead be absorbed by Arab host countries or by a future Palestinian state.
It disavows moral responsibility by arguing that 800,000 Mizrahi Jews were displaced from Arab countries between 1945 and 1956 (most of whom settled in Israel) and insists Palestinians left willingly.
But that view is at odds with UN General Assembly Resolution 194 and Article 13 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Resolution 194 asserts the refugees' unconditional right of return to live at peace in their old homes or to receive compensation for their losses.
Whatever the rights and wrongs of their cause, the practicality of return and questions of moral justice, in Mid-East diplomacy the refugees' fate has been largely ignored.
This has come about because most resolutions of the Arab-Israeli conflict have been pegged to the 1967 war, while the events of 1948 have been discounted as an element of the conflict.
Israel has deployed a number of arguments to justify blocking the return of Palestinian refugees, such as saying that it is the only Jewish state, the refuge of Jews from around the world, while there are 22 Arab countries where they could go.
It also points out that UN General Assembly resolutions have no force under international law and says the unassimilated refugee population has been held hostage by frontline Arab states waiting for Israel's destruction.
The diplomatic focus on 1967 has been advantageous for Israel: territory occupied at that time is regarded as the entire problem, and solutions can therefore be limited to dividing up that land.
This is problematic for many ordinary Palestinians, however, because it sidelines the Nakba, the "catastrophe" of 1948 - an issue that for them lies at the heart of the conflict.
Palestinians accuse Israel of a kind of "Nakba-denial", absolving itself of liability, but condemning itself to perpetual conflict with its Arab neighbours.
Israel vigorously denies such a characterisation. Zionist historians justify what happened in 1948 by saying the new Jewish state was threatened with annihilation by the invading Arab armies.
But some of Israel's "new", or revisionist, historians argue that its founding prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, exaggerated the Arab threat, in order to implement a pre-determined plan to expel Palestinian civilians and grab as much of the former Palestine as possible.
Demography - the need to have a large majority of Jews to sustain a Jewish state - has certainly been a key concern for Israel since its foundation.
Under a 1947 UN-sanctioned plan to partition Palestine, Israel would have been established on 55% of the former territory, and without a significant transfer of population the Jews in that territory would have scarcely exceeded the Arab population there.
The 1948 war ended with Israel in control of 78% of the former Palestine, with a Jewish-Arab ratio of 6:1.
The equation brought security for Jewish Israelis, but emptied hundreds of Palestinian villages and towns of 700,000 inhabitants - the kernel of the Palestinian refugee problem today.
With the justification of not wanting to jeopardise its Jewish majority, Israel has kept Palestinian refugees and their descendants out of negotiations on a settlement to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
But for most Palestinians, their fate remains an open wound, unless there is a Middle East peace deal that acknowledges and makes reparation for what happened to the refugees. | More than 60 years after the establishment of Israel, there is no Arab-Israeli issue that remains as utterly divisive as the fate of Palestinian refugees. |
Give a brief summary of the content. | In an interview published in the Times, Mr Rasmussen is quoted saying Scotland's membership would have to be approved by the other member states.
The Scottish government said membership was "in the strong interests of the rest of the alliance".
Pro-Union campaigners claimed the SNP's plan to join Nato "isn't credible" if it removes Trident nuclear weapons.
"I am not going to interfere at all with a campaign leading up to the referendum in Scotland, but I can inform you about procedures and the facts," Mr Rasmussen told The Times.
"In [the] case that Scotland voted in favour of independence then Scotland would have to apply for membership of Nato as a new independent state.
"A decision on accession would have to be taken by unanimity, by consensus as always in Nato."
He added: "Some aspiring countries have waited for many years. Others enjoy a very short procedure depending on how close they are to fulfilling the necessary criteria."
The UK is a founder member of the Nato alliance, which now encompasses 28 states.
In 2012 the SNP, which currently forms the Scottish government, voted to end its 30-year opposition to Nato. Two MSPs, John Finnie and Jean Urquhart, left the party in protest at the policy change.
The party has maintained support for nuclear disarmament and has committed to removing the UK's Trident weapons system from Scotland if voters back independence in the forthcoming referendum.
Speaking for the Better Together campaign, former UK Defence Secretary Lord Browne said: "Alex Salmond has not explained how he intends to remove our nuclear deterrent whilst simultaneously rejoining a nuclear alliance. It simply isn't credible.
"Today we have the ability to make a difference in our world. We have seat at the top table in Nato, the EU, the UN and the G7.
"Our membership of Nato as part of the UK gives us a level of security that cannot be guaranteed if we vote for independence. Why put that at risk?"
A spokesman for the Scottish government said: "The Nato secretary general has simply outlined the process we are already aware of.
"We have made clear that, following a vote for independence, the Scottish government will notify Nato of our intention to join the alliance and negotiate a transition from membership as part of the UK to independent membership, taking our place as one of the many non-nuclear members.
"Nato's own stated intention is for membership to be open to all European democracies that meet the membership criteria — and given that Scotland occupies a key strategic location in the North Atlantic we believe our continued membership will be in the strong interests of the rest of the alliance."
In a previous interview in June, Mr Rasmussen said Nato had not discussed the implications of a "Yes" vote in the referendum, adding that the issue was "for the Scottish people to decide". | An independent Scotland would have to apply to Nato as a new state, secretary general Anders Fogh Rasmussen has said. |
Please provide a concise summary of the following section. | The world number three posted a video on social media of himself gripping his putter with his left hand below his right during practice.
McIlroy plans to use the technique at this week's WGC-Cadillac tournament.
"I feel like it's something I'm going to stick with, regardless of what the outcome is tomorrow, or this week or next week," he said.
McIlroy missed the cut at the Honda Classic last week and is making the switch before the Masters, which takes place between 7-10 April.
"It's a drill I've been doing for a while," said the 26-year-old.
"I feel like my left hand controls my putting stroke and I felt over the past few weeks my right hand was becoming a little bit too dominant."
He added: "It's one of those things where the drill started to feel a little bit better than the real thing, so I'm just going to stick with it."
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Nick Conrad of BBC Radio Norfolk was hosting a live debate about convicted rapist Ched Evans on Monday.
Conrad had said women should "keep their knickers on" during a phone-in over the future of the ex Sheffield United footballer.
In the apology, he called the comments "ill-judged" and apologised "to anybody who was offended".
VisitScotland has teamed up with online travel and lifestyle publisher Matador Network to produce a two-minute video.
It hopes to boost visitor numbers across the Scottish Borders and Midlothian.
It is part of a three-year £367,000 marketing campaign to put the railway "on the map" and promote it to national and international markets.
The film features a range of attractions throughout the area including:
VisitScotland chief executive Malcolm Roughead said: "The Borders Railway has had a massive impact on the local economy and has encouraged people to come and visit this part of the country from all over the world.
"The momentous re-opening of the historic route last year by the Queen captured the attention of the world's media.
"We want to build on this momentum and continue to shine a spotlight on the regions surrounding the Borders Railway which are now easier than ever before for visitors from the US to explore."
The Borders Railway - between Tweedbank and Edinburgh - was officially opened in September last year.
Michael Ross was 15 when he shot Shamsuddin Mahmood, 26, in the head in Kirkwall's Mumataz Restaurant.
The former Black Watch sniper was jailed for a minimum of 25 years in 2008 after being convicted of murder.
Ross has been told by the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission there is not enough evidence to support a miscarriage of justice claim.
Mr Mahmood was shot in full view of a room full of diners, including families with children, by a masked gunman.
Noel Moss, 68, was hurt when a tractor rolled over him at his farm. There was no nearby ambulance available.
An ambulance had to be sent from 34 miles away in Ballyshannon, County Donegal.
The incident happened on Tuesday 28 July but details have just emerged.
John McPoland of the Ambulance Service said: "We got a call about an incident involving a tractor and we are extremely sorry that it took so long.
"We apologise to Mr Moss and his family.
"A rapid response paramedic was there within 23 minutes providing treatment and pain relief to Mr Moss.
"We were trying to get an available ambulance. The paramedic who was on site did say to the team that an ambulance was urgent.
"It is an unacceptable time for us to get to a scene.
"This is a man who had internal injuries. We feel like we let Mr Moss down."
Mr McPoland explained that all the ambulances were involved in other emergency calls.
"We have serious challenges when it comes to rural communities. I wouldn't want to see this happen again," he said.
"Every part of the health service will tell you today that they could be doing with more resources."
Mr McPoland said the ambulance service would like to meet Mr Moss and his family to explain what happened. | Rory McIlroy intends switching to the "cross-handed" putting method as he tries to improve his form.
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A BBC presenter has apologised for remarks made during an on-air discussion about rape.
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A new film hopes to attract American visitors to use the Borders Railway to explore south east Scotland.
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A man jailed for the murder of a waiter in Orkney in 1994 has failed in a bid to have his conviction re-examined.
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Give a concise summary of the passage below. | Coventry is famous for the 2 Tone music of the 1970s ska scene and manufacturing the iconic London Taxi.
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After an opening draw against Australia and disappointing defeat to India, GB needed a victory to have any chance of reaching Friday's gold medal final.
Ashley Jackson opened the scoring, before David Condon (twice) and Alistair Brogdon struck to secure all three points.
"We wanted to come out and prove a point," Condon told BBC Sport.
"We were good against Australia but let ourselves down against India, so we really wanted to give the crowd something to shout about today."
The match also saw Henry Weir claim his 100th international cap from combined Great Britain and England games.
Weir said: "I'm obviously really happy to reach that landmark, but it was about getting the result today and I think we looked more like ourselves."
After scoring just once in their opening two fixtures GB signalled their intent to threaten as an attacking force early on against Korea.
They dominated the first half with goals from Jackson and then Condon in each of the opening two quarters, before Seungju You brought Korea back into contention before half-time.
The British men lost none of their focus in the final two quarters, though, scoring twice more to ensure the victory.
GB head coach Bobby Crutchley told BBC Sport: "It's really pleasing to score some good goals and create lots of chances.
"We need to keep building throughout the tournament, but we need to do enough early on to give us a chance of reaching that final.
"It'll be exactly the same [at Rio 2016], where we'll need to cope with the pressure and perform throughout," he added.
Britain will next face Olympic champions Germany on Tuesday, before rounding off the pool-stage against Belgium on Thursday.
The top two ranked teams will then face-off for gold on Friday, with third and fourth battling it out for bronze.
Find out how to get into hockey with our special guide. | BBC Coventry & Warwickshire needs your help to decorate a taxi to celebrate the city and the people in it.
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Britain's men secured their first win of the 2016 Champions Trophy with a 4-1 defeat of South Korea in London. |
Write a summary for the following excerpt. | The Division One leaders added 128 runs in just 19.4 overs as Toby Roland-Jones smashed 66 and James Franklin made 56 not out before declaring on 536-9.
Facing a first-innings deficit of 332, Durham then slipped to 252 all out.
Spinner Ollie Rayner impressed once again, claiming 5-85 to finish with match figures of 9-102.
Middlesex are now 35 points clear of second-placed Somerset, who have a game in hand, and are almost certain to extend their advantage over Yorkshire in third, whose Roses match against Lancashire is heading for a draw.
It was another day of complete dominance for the hosts at Lord's as they reached their highest score against Durham, surpassing the 511 made at the same ground in 1994.
Roland-Jones and skipper Franklin put on exactly 100 for the eighth wicket in just over an hour in the morning - Roland-Jones hitting six fours and four maximums in his 47-ball knock.
Durham opener Keaton Jennings top scored in their second innings with 45 to become the first batsman in the country to pass 1,000 Championship runs, but the visitors never looked close to making Middlesex bat again.
Durham's own hopes of winning the title now look to be fading as they sit 40 points behind Middlesex with five matches remaining, but with a game in hand on the leaders.
It will be 29-year-old Lyon's first experience of county cricket, having taken 247 wickets in 67 Tests.
"We've replaced a top international with another top international," Worcestershire director of cricket Steve Rhodes said.
Lyon's arrival is subject to clearance from Cricket Australia.
"Signing a top-class international spinner is terrific for us from the performance angle," Rhodes added.
"Nathan is also a very committed dressing room man and our young spinners like George Rhodes and Ben Twohig will have the opportunities to pick his brains over that period."
Pace bowler Hastings was named in Australia's 15-man squad for the Champions Trophy last month alongside fellow seamers Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood, Pat Cummins and James Pattinson, who is currently playing for Nottinghamshire.
The tournament starts on 1 June with Australia's first match the following day against New Zealand at Edgbaston.
The fire at Balloch Primary School in Culloden Road was reported just before 11:00 on Sunday.
SFRS said firefighters wearing breathing apparatus tackled the blaze.
The fire service said the incident was "thought to be electrical in nature", adding that no-one was in the building at the time of the fire.
Station manager and incident commander Alex McKinley said: "The building was very heavily smoke-logged so our firefighters were operating in challenging conditions.
"They successfully extinguished the fire and worked to ventilate the premises, which had sustained severe smoke damage."
Highland Council said the school, which has a roll of 237 primary and 50 nursery pupils, would be open again on Tuesday. | Middlesex moved a step closer to their first County Championship title since 1993 as they thumped Durham by an innings and 80 runs inside three days.
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Worcestershire have signed Australia off-spinner Nathan Lyon to replace compatriot John Hastings during the Champions Trophy in June.
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An electrical fault may have caused a fire in a room at a primary school in Inverness, the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service (SFRS) has said. |
Write a summary of this document. | Huge Holiday Homes wanted to convert the building in the centre of Dolgellau into apartments catering for up to 56 visitors.
A spokesman said the bunk bed style hostel would attract family holidays.
But the application was turned down by Snowdonia National Park Authority's planning committee.
The committee chairman cast the deciding vote, after members were split on the application.
Objectors to the development at Lombard Street listed potential parking and noise problems, but those in favour said the hostel would bring trade to local shops.
Dolgellau mayor Dyfrig Siencyn said residents were concerned there could be hen and stag parties with no supervision on site.
They also provide the first direct evidence that there may be as much water trapped in those rocks as there is in all the oceans.
The diamond, from central-west Brazil, contains minerals that formed as deep as 600km down and that have significant amounts of water trapped within them.
Researchers have published their findings in the journal Nature.
The study suggests water may be stored deep in the interiors of many rocky planets.
Diamonds, brought to the Earth's surface in violent eruptions of deep volcanic rocks called kimberlites, provide a tantalising window into the deep Earth.
A research team led by Prof Graham Pearson of the University of Alberta, Canada, studied a diamond from a 100-million-year-old kimberlite found in Juina, Brazil, as part of a wider project.
They noticed that it contained a mineral, ringwoodite, that is only thought to form between 410km and 660km beneath the Earth's surface, showing just how deep some diamonds originate.
While ringwoodite has previously been found in meteorites, this is the first time a terrestrial ringwoodite has been seen. But more extraordinarily, the researchers found that the mineral contains about 1% water.
While this sounds like very little, because ringwoodite makes up almost all of this immense portion of the deep Earth, it adds up to a huge amount of deep water.
Dr Sally Gibson from the University of Cambridge, who was not involved in the work, commented: "Finding water in such large concentrations is a hugely significant development in our understanding of the ultimate origin of water now present at Earth's surface."
The observation is the first physical evidence that water can be stored in the deep interiors of planets and solves a 25-year-old controversy about whether the deep Earth is dry, wet, or wet in patches.
Discussing his findings, Prof Pearson told BBC News: "The discovery highlights the unique value of natural diamonds in trapping and preserving fragments of the deep Earth.
"It's incredible to think that, as you hold this sample in your hand, the residual pressure at the interface between the diamond and the inclusion is 20,000 atmospheres."
Describing his diamond sample, he said: "It looks like it's been to hell and back, which it has."
Prof Joseph Smyth of the University of Colorado has spent many years studying ringwoodite and similar minerals synthesised in his laboratory.
He said: "I think it's stunning! It implies that the interior may store several times the amount of water in the oceans. It tells us that hydrogen is an essential ingredient in the Earth and not added late from comets.
"This discovery implies that hydrogen may control the interior processes of the Earth just as it controls the surface processes, and that water planets, like Earth, may be common in our galaxy."
A key question posed by the observation is to understand the extent to which plate tectonics on Earth leads to oceans of water being recycled deep within our planet, and to predict the likely amounts of water trapped in other rocky planets.
Ringwoodite is expected to form deep in Mars as well, for example, where it sits against the metallic core.
Grains of the same mineral synthesised in Prof Smyth's laboratory shine bright blue under the microscope.
Given the new findings of ringwoodite's water-bearing capabilities, its abundance at depth, and its beautiful hue, the term "blue planet" seems even more appropriate for Earth. | Plans to turn former offices into a hostel in Snowdonia have been refused amid fears it would be used for hen and stag parties.
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Minerals preserved in diamond have revealed hints of the bright blue rocks that exist deep within the Earth. |
Please provide a short summary of this passage. | The 53-year-old former Wolves CEO replaced David McNally in August 2016, who resigned when the Canaries were facing Premier League relegation.
Moxey took up the position after overseeing the transition of ownership at Wolves, where he spent 16 years.
"The role has not worked out satisfactorily for Jez, his family or the club," club chairman Ed Balls said.
Balls continued: "All parties have professionally and amicably agreed to move on. We wish Jez all the best in his future career and now our focus is on the next steps for Norwich City."
Finance director Steve Stone, who acted as the club's interim chief executive in the summer of 2016 prior to Moxey's arrival, will take up the role again on a short-term basis.
"Our immediate priority is on providing every support possible to [manager] Alex Neil and the squad to maintain our push towards the top six positions in the Championship table."
Norwich are 10th in the Championship with 28 games played and are three points off the play-off places. | Norwich City chief executive Jez Moxey has resigned and left the Championship club after six months in the role. |
Please provide a summary for the content below. | Fabrice Bregier, chief executive of the planemaking arm of Airbus Group, said the company was in advanced talks with several possible customers.
But although the European firm was on target to sell more A380s this year, talks could slip into 2016, he said.
"If [talks] slip into next year, this is not a drama. I think we will have some new customers," Mr Bregier said.
The Gulf's three big carriers are key customers for the A380, whose future has been questioned due to poor sales.
Airbus has not had a new sale of its super-jumbo aircraft, whose wings are made in the UK, for two years.
The company had faced persistent speculation that the double-decker plane would be discontinued, although Airbus denies categorically that this is being considered.
The biennial Dubai Airshow has traditionally been an event for Airbus to announce big sales. But following record orders in 2013 this week's show was now expected to be much quieter.
Airbus has been under pressure from the A380's largest customer, Emirates, to upgrade the aircraft, to make it more efficient and possibly even stretch it to add extra seats.
But with the airline yet to commit to a new version, Airbus is in no hurry to sign off on the €2bn-plus development costs.
Asked whether Airbus planned to lengthen the jet in order to increase its 540-seat capacity, Mr Bregier said: "It is too early to say. We can stretch this aircraft; the problem is to see whether we would have a sensible market for that." It may happen "one day", he said.
Earlier at the airshow, Emirates' president Tim Clark said he would like Airbus to get "on with it", a reference to developing a more fuel-efficient A380, called the A380neo. He said this could be done without necessarily stretching the A380.
Emirates has 140 A380s in operation or on order, but has said it could buy up to 200 more if a re-engineered model was developed.
The airline will move within the next decade to a huge new airport in Dubai capable of handling 160 million passengers annually. Emirates says the airline could double in size after the move.
The current Dubai International Airport is running at near-full capacity of 70 million passengers a year. "Yes we have issues of capacity… But for us to have ordered another 100 A380s - believe me if we could at Dubai International, we would." | Airbus has admitted that new orders at the Dubai Airshow for its A380, the world's biggest aircraft, are unlikely. |
Can you summarize this passage? | Most galaxy clusters - the largest structures in the Universe - are "red and dead", having long since produced all the stars they can make.
But cluster formation should, according to theory, include a cooling phase, resulting in blue light from new stars.
Writing in Nature, researchers say they have seen evidence that the enormous Phoenix cluster makes 740 stars a year.
In our own Milky Way, only one or two new stars are made each year.
The cluster, some seven billion light-years away, is formally called SPT-CLJ2344-4243 but the researchers have renamed it for the constellation in which it lies.
It contains the mass equivalent to about two and a half million billion Suns.
While astronomers are getting better at spotting these huge conglomerates of galaxies - the Planck space telescope has reported notable hauls of them - there is still much to learn about how they form and what goes on within them.
Just as planets are thought to form by the eventual coalescence of matter that is around after star formation, galaxy clusters are believed to form through colossal galactic mergers - another event that sharp-eyed astronomers have managed to get a picture of, on more than one occasion.
Theory has it that in addition to a central black hole that is usually present, clusters have a great deal of gas at their cores, sprayed from nearby galaxies and supernovae, that should eventually cool down enough to draw together and start the process of star formation anew.
Yet astronomers have only ever seen red, dead regions at clusters' cores; the lack of evidence for the idea was called the "cooling flow problem".
But a find by the South Pole Telescope in Antarctica, with follow-up observations by the space-based Chandra X-ray Observatory, found one bright cluster among several new finds.
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology led an international team that went on to use a total of 10 different telescopes worldwide, each looking at different colours of light, to characterise the surprise Phoenix finding.
The Phoenix cluster showed particularly bright emission in the ultraviolet range of the spectrum, corresponding to hundreds of young stars and suggesting that 740 were being born each year.
"Not only is it the most X-ray luminous cluster in the Universe, but the central, most massive galaxy is forming stars at an unmatched rate," said Michael McDonald of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US.
The findings shed light on the interplay between the supermassive black holes that appear to be at the centres of all big galaxies, and the vast tracts of gas that surround them.
These black holes are the source of a kind of tug-of-war - their gravity draws material inward, but they also release huge amounts of energy in the form of jets that tend to heat the gas and keep it at a distance.
The researchers believe that the black hole at the core of the Phoenix cluster's central galaxy must not be putting out much energy at the time we now see it.
Commenting on what he called the "tussle" between the central black hole and the surrounding material, the UK's Astronomer Royal Sir Martin Rees, from the University of Cambridge, said: "It's not able to hold that infall of gas at bay, and this gas is falling in and forming stars.
"That's a very extreme phenomenon, that's what's so special about this system. This is a fascinating step toward putting this picture together of the tussle." | Astronomers have seen a huge galaxy cluster doing what until now was only theorised to happen: making new stars. |
Can you summarize the following content in brief? | 30 September 2016 Last updated at 09:11 BST
But this hasn't been possible since a war started there more than five years ago.
In the country's biggest city Aleppo there are signs that the problems could be getting even worse.
Despite that, children in Syria are trying to get by and do what they can to put a smile on their faces, as Leah's been finding out...
It employs 250 staff and operates more than 40 Newport Bus services in Newport, Cardiff and Cwmbran.
The industrial action is due to take place on Tuesday, 19 July.
In a statement, the company said: "We have made a number of pay increase offers to our staff. Sadly, these offers, including our latest improved pay increase, have been rejected."
The company said it would try to operate as many services as possible if the planned action went ahead.
Meanwhile, 320 staff have lost their jobs after Wrexham-based bus company GHA Coaches announced it had gone into administration.
The proposed 50m (164ft) deep pool at the University of Essex would be far deeper than NASA's own 12m (40ft) deep training pool in Houston.
If it goes ahead, the project is expected to cost £40m.
The pool would simulate the microgravity of outer space and deep sea environments.
The university's development partner Blue Abyss said the pool could be used for human spaceflight research programmes, environmental monitoring, training in advanced commercial diving techniques, marine and human physiology research and aerospace development.
The world's current deepest pool is the Y-40 diving pool in Montegrotto Terme, Italy, which is 42m (137ft) deep.
John Vickers, managing director of Blue Abyss, said: "All the ingredients are here; the location near to Stansted Airport and the North Sea offshore industry via Harwich; a superb campus site and an excellent research base within the University's academic departments."
University of Essex registrar Bryn Morris said the pool idea, on the Knowledge Gateway research and business park, fitted in "very well" with the university's "strengths". | Syria in the Middle East used to be a country where children lived normal lives, going to school, playing with friends and growing up in safety.
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Can you write a brief summary of this passage? | Boro, who needed a point, were undone by a deep cross to the back post that Akpan nodded in early after the break.
Graham made it four goals in four games against Boro when he took in Simeon Jackson's flick-on and smashed in.
Adam Forshaw's late goal gave the Teessiders hope in injury time, but it came too late to rescue a point.
Home goalkeeper Jason Steele denied striker Jordan Rhodes three times in one-on-one situations, as the two came up against their respective former clubs.
Scotland international Rhodes and Ritchie De Laet both had penalty claims as Boro pressed, but they were waved away by referee Andrew Madley.
Rovers' second win in a row moves them up to 16th in the table, and they might have enjoyed a more comfortable finish had Matt Grimes turned in two half-chances.
Defeat for Aitor Karanka's visitors, who stay third, was compounded by the loss of captain Grant Leadbitter to a hamstring injury in the second half.
Blackburn Rovers manager Paul Lambert:
"They're a top side. What happens when you see the finishing line, to try and get out, sometimes nerves come into it. Whether that happens to them again, I don't know.
"You'd like to think they will see it through this time because of the disappointment of last year.
"You will tend to find between now and the end of the season it will be pretty twitchy."
Middlesbrough head coach Aitor Karanka:
"It's taken 75-85 for us minutes to wake up. It's really difficult for me to understand why a team like Blackburn, who is in the middle of the table and which had played five games in the last two weeks, and their players wanted it more than us.
Their players are jumping more than us, they were quicker than us, even when they were winning 2-0 they were desiring to score the third one.
"When we are playing to get promotion, or at least to be in the play-offs, it is difficult to understand."
Collins, known for his work with Orange Juice and his 1995 hit A Girl Like You, was recognised at the Association of Independent Music (AIM) Awards.
New mother Adele was crowned the most played independent act at the ceremony, held at The Brewery in east London.
The awards honour the best acts signed to the UK's independent record labels.
Collins, 53, was left unable to walk, talk or read after suffering a stroke and two haemorrhages in 2005.
But the Scot recovered enough to record again, work as a producer and publish a book of his illustrations of British birds.
Collins was in attendance to collect his outstanding contribution award from his friends and collaborators Vic Godard and Frankie and the Heartstrings.
Daniel Miller, founder of Mute Records, also received an honorary award at Monday's event, hosted by BBC DJs Huw Stephens and Steve Lamacq.
The Prodigy were named best live act, while Enter Shikari's A Flash of Colour was named independent album of the year.
Bailey Gwynne was stabbed by a fellow pupil at Cults Academy in October.
His killer, also 16, was last month jailed for nine years after being found guilty of culpable homicide.
The review will look at the relationship between the boys, as well as the educational, pastoral, health and social care services provided.
It will examine whether the services were "proportionate to the assessment of risk".
The inquiry was commissioned by Aberdeen City Council, the police and NHS Grampian after Bailey was fatally stabbed in a fight which started over a biscuit.
In March, BBC Scotland revealed that concerns about the killer, who cannot be named for legal reasons, were voiced nine years ago when, as a primary pupil, he threw rocks at another child.
The incident resulted in the victim being treated for concussion.
The inquiry is being led by Andrew Lowe, chairman of child and adult protection for Renfrewshire, and will be published in September.
The former lawyer, will have access to all the necessary case files from the council, health board, the police and the Scottish Children's Reporter.
He will also be able to draw on any additional independent professional expertise he requires to meet the terms of the review. | Goals from Hope Akpan and Danny Graham sealed victory for Blackburn Rovers against Middlesbrough, who missed the chance to go top of the Championship.
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Give a brief summary of the following article. | Brooke Burton adopted him two years ago from a relative who fed the dog nothing but junk food.
Dennis is now 12lb (5kg) after weighing 56lb - almost five time the size of a normal dog of his breed.
The six-year-old dog lost the excess weigh through diet and exercise - but required surgery to remove excess skin.
His "before and after" pictures have become a hit on the internet.
Ms Burton said Dennis couldn't take more than a few steps without being out of breath - before he switched to nothing but dry dog food and started taking frequent walks.
"In the beginning, you could tell he was very depressed, that he really didn't feel good at all,'' Ms Burton, a nursing student, told the Associated Press.
"He didn't have much of a personality. After he lost weight, this bossy little demanding man popped out. He's into everything; he wants to play with everybody."
Dr Kathleen Ham, the veterinary surgeon who performed operations to remove Dennis's excess skin, said the story should be cautionary tale for overindulgent pet owners.
"We have an expression: food is not love," Ms Ham said. "Most of what your pet wants from you is affection and attention." | A miniature dachshund from Ohio has lost more than 75% of his body weight after being put on a diet-and-fitness regime by his new owner. |
Please provide a short summary of this passage. | Jane Taylor's daughter rang the helpline to say that her mother was suicidal.
A call handler classified the call as 'serious and urgent' but this was downgraded when no nurse was available.
Ms Taylor needed "immediate help" but instead, a three-hour call back was arranged.
She was then put in touch with a mental health helpline but subsequently killed herself with an overdose.
The Scottish Public Services Ombudsman said that mental health should not be treated with any less urgency than physical health.
SPSO Ombudsman Jim Martin said: "The initial call handling is geared towards physical problems and gathering personal information.
"However, the advice I have received highlighted that, for people experiencing mental health difficulties, this is ineffective and can exacerbate their symptoms."
The SPSO investigation found Ms Taylor spoke to an adviser from mental health charity Breathing Space, who took her through some breathing exercises over the phone.
However, she was reportedly still tearful when the call was ended.
A nurse practitioner attempted to call back around two hours later but there was no answer and the call was closed.
NHS 24's own investigation report said "it was unclear why the call was downgraded, and that there seemed to have been a disregard of mental health concerns by the senior nurse".
Ms Taylor's daughter Beth Green called the police a few days later after she was unable to contact her mother.
They forced entry into the woman's home in Bishopbriggs, near Glasgow, and found that she had killed herself with an overdose of medication.
Ms Green lodged several complaints, which were investigated and upheld by the SPSO.
NHS 24 Director of Nursing and Care Sheena Wright said: "We fully accept all of the recommendations in the SPSO report and can confirm actions were taken to address the issues in 2014.
"We again offer our sincerest apologies to Ms Taylor's family for the care she received, which was not of the standard she should have expected from NHS 24.
"We will continue to ensure that all relevant actions resulting from the SPSO recommendations are fully embedded to enable NHS 24 services to improve the way we can support vulnerable patients calling with mental health issues."
The ombudsman made several recommendations to NHS 24, including a review of its guidance for all staff on the management of suicidal thoughts, and a review of procedures for triaging mental health difficulties. | A public services watchdog has criticised NHS 24 over the way it handled a call about a distressed woman who later took her own life. |
Summarize the passage below. | Mr Wen has been addressing about 3,000 delegates to open the National People's Congress in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.
He says the government aims to keep inflation to within 4% and hit economic growth of 8%.
Mr Wen accepted that uneven economic development was a "serious problem".
The focus on social stability was echoed in an editorial in the Communist Party-run Beijing Daily that coincided with the opening of the Congress and which warned against any Middle East-inspired pro-democracy protests.
The speech is the most important of the year delivered by a Chinese politician, correspondents say, similar in status to the State of the Union address in the US.
"Recently, prices have risen fairly quickly and inflation expectations have increased," Mr Wen says.
"This problem concerns the people's well-being, bears on overall interests and affects social stability. We must, therefore, make it our top priority in macroeconomic control to keep overall price levels stable."
Despite the booming economic growth there are millions who feel shut out, angry at official corruption, at inequalities that are rising, at land grabs.
That's why the government is so concerned about the possibilities for unrest.
Read the BBC's Damien Grammaticas's thoughts in full
Inflation in China is at 4.9%, and has continued to accelerate despite three recent interest rate hikes. Analysts say it has yet to peak.
Rising prices are a concern because poor families spend up to half their incomes on food.
This year's National People's Congress, which meets for 10 days, is to approve China's five-year plan for 2011-2015.
The plan, the country's 12th since the Communist Party took power in 1949, aims to create more sustainable growth and even out growing disparities in wealth between rich and poor.
Domestic demand would be stimulated, Mr Wen said, with subsidies to farmers and the urban poor increased.
"Expanding domestic demand is a long-term strategic principle and basic standpoint of China's economic development as well as a fundamental means and an internal requirement for promoting balanced economic development," Mr Wen said.
The government would "firmly curb the excessively rapid rise of housing prices in some cities".
Who writes Wen's speech?
China's economy has become the world's second largest after several decades of rapid growth. But the success has come at the cost of polluted skies and waterways across much of the country.
Much of that growth has been driven by exports and large infrastructure projects, but there are concerns that the economy could falter unless it changes course.
"We must make improving the people's lives a pivot linking reform, development and stability... and make sure people are content with their lives and jobs, society is tranquil and orderly and the country enjoys long-term peace and stability," Mr Wen said.
He made no mention of the unrest in the Middle East, but the Beijing Daily editorial said that "stability is a blessing and chaos is a calamity".
Recent anonymous calls from a US-based website for pro-democracy protests in Chinese cities have been smothered by police.
"Those people intent on concocting and finding Middle East-style news in China will find their plans come to nothing," Beijing Daily said.
There are tens of thousands of protests across China every year, but most are over local grievances, especially land confiscated for development projects.
Despite the booming economic growth there are millions who feel shut out, angry at official corruption, at inequalities that are rising and at land grabs, says the BBC's Damian Grammaticas in Beijing.
That is why the government is so concerned about the possibilities for unrest, he says. | China must ensure social stability by reducing inflation and corruption, Premier Wen Jiabao has told the parliament's annual session. |
Summarize the information in the following document. | The government says 390,000 three and four-year-olds will be eligible.
But research for the Pre-school Learning Alliance suggests the figure will be nearer 500,000, meaning tens of thousands could miss out.
The government says it is spending more on childcare than any previous administration.
It will "hit the ground running" to deliver the extra free hours in September.
The government already funds 15 hours of free nursery care for three and four-year-olds.
This is due to rise to 30 hours for working parents from September.
The basis of the Pre-school Learning Alliance (PSLA) warning is twofold:
The specialist early years research company Ceeda, which carried out the survey, says an extrapolation of the results suggests 478,000 children meet the eligibility criteria.
The researchers say that parents increasing their hours could add another 22,000 children, bringing the total to about half a million - 28% higher than allowed for by the government.
And the PSLA says the final figure could be even higher as the Ceeda calculations do not include children of parents not currently working who take up jobs, encouraged by the offer of free childcare.
The group says that if children meet the eligibility criteria and their parents can find nurseries offering the free hours, the government will have to fund them, even if there are more of them than they have allowed for in their budget.
PSLA chief executive Neil Leitch called the figures "deeply concerning".
"The Department for Education has been clear that the whole point of restricting the scheme to 'working families' is to encourage parents to go back to work, yet they don't seem to have factored even the most modest of adjustments into their figures, such as parents working a few more hours to become eligible."
The latest PSLA warning follows earlier concerns that the hourly rates paid to nursery owners for free hours do not cover costs.
A report by the National Audit Office last March warned that some childcare settings might choose not to offer the extra free hours "if the funding is not right" as this might threaten the viability of their businesses.
And one nursery owner, who spoke to the BBC in October, warned: "We'll go bust under the current proposals."
Neil Leitch said the two factors together could lead to "a childcare capacity crisis".
He said that while 30 hours of "so-called 'free childcare' may sound like a great policy... if there aren't enough places to match demand and the government continues to refuse to listen to valid concerns over funding, the policy simply cannot succeed".
A Department for Education spokeswoman said the government would be spending a record £6bn on childcare by 2020, including an additional £1bn on the free hours.
"Around 390,000 working families will be eligible for 30 hours free childcare from September. In most cases, their children are already in existing childcare places, which will become free.
"We are also creating almost 9,000 new places through £50m of capital grants," said the spokeswoman. | The government has underestimated the number of children in England eligible for 30 hours of free childcare promised from September, warns a lobby group. |
Please provide a concise summary of the following section. | Gordon, 23, joined Thistle in the summer from Hamilton Academical and has appeared 19 times for the Firhill side.
Jagiellonia Bialystok are currently joint top of the Ekstraklasa and it is believed Thistle did not demand a fee for the versatile defender, who has a Polish mother.
Gordon came through the ranks at Accies and made his top-team debut aged 17.
Meanwhile, the Jags signed defender Niall Keown on Tuesday.
The Turkish Kebab House takeaway on the Beersbridge Road was targeted overnight.
The incident happened between 00:00 and 07:30 BST on Thursday, police said.
They are treating the incident as a racially-motivated hate crime.
East Belfast MLA Andy Allen condemned the "deplorable attack".
"The individuals responsible are not representative of the wider community of east Belfast," said the UUP assembly member.
"Such actions are not wanted and I would appeal to anyone who saw anything suspicious in the area or has any information to contact the PSNI."
PUP councillor John Kyle said the graffiti was particularly disappointing in light of progress made in terms of assimilating newcomers and residents from different ethnic backgrounds.
"Racism undermines communities, shows distrust and fear and should be opposed on every occasion," he said.
The 24-year-old, capped once by England, was on loan at Southampton - but that agreement has been cancelled to allow him to move to Anfield.
He is eligible to face Arsenal in the Premier League on Wednesday.
Liverpool have been hit by a succession of injuries to central defenders and boss Jurgen Klopp said Caulker is the "best solution" for the club.
The 48-year-old German added: "We want to press the opponent and so they have to play long balls.
"If they play long balls, you need people in the last line who can help you with headers and we've found it with Steven Caulker."
The Merseyside club have lost Martin Skrtel and Dejan Lovren to hamstring injuries, but Kolo Toure (cramp) and Mamadou Sakho (knee) will be fit to face Arsenal.
Tiago Ilori was recalled from a loan spell at Aston Villa to play in the 2-2 FA Cup third-round draw at Exeter on Friday.
Caulker's last Southampton appearance came in the 6-1 League Cup defeat by Liverpool on 2 December.
"Steven came in in the summer before we signed Virgil van Dijk because we had long-term injuries and he was a back-up," said Saints boss Ronald Koeman.
"He didn't play a lot and normally we have more defenders for that position. I am not going to stop his opportunity to play for Liverpool."
The Reds have been linked with former Borussia Dortmund defender Neven Subotic and Schalke defender Joel Matip, who could still move to Anfield in the summer.
Caulker, who won his one England cap in 2012, has seen his career stall after moving on loan to St Mary's Stadium after previously playing for Tottenham Hotspur and Cardiff City.
He also had loan spells at Yeovil Town, Bristol City and Swansea City during his time at White Hart Lane.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | Partick Thistle defender Ziggy Gordon has signed for Polish top-tier club Jagiellonia Bialystok.
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What is the brief summary of the provided content? | Britain, the world champions, led throughout and finished well clear of Germany, who took silver, and the Netherlands, who claimed bronze.
It is Britain's third gold medal of the rowing competition, and follows the women's eight earlier winning silver.
Find out how to get into rowing with our special guide.
Team GB have now won eight golds in Rio and lie third in the overall medal table, one ahead of Japan.
Great Britain finish top of the rowing medals table with five medals: two silvers and three gold - one gold medal fewer than at London 2012.
Andrew Triggs Hodge and Pete Reed are now three-time Olympic gold medallists having won titles in Beijing and London in the men's four.
"I can't put it into words. We've never been so ready. They're an amazing bunch of guys, that was a big, big, race," said Reed.
Scott Durant, Tom Ransley, Matt Gotrel, Paul Bennett, Matt Langridge, Will Satch and cox Phelan Hill completed the victorious British line-up.
Coach Jurgen Grobler said: "There are no secrets. Hard, hard, work, having vision of what is coming up and running a good training programme - and they're still having fun."
Sir Steve Redgrave, five-time Olympic rowing champion
"I think they did the plan perfectly. The surprise I did have was that the Germans didn't go with them.
"GB went out in front and led the field. They struggled in the last 250 metres but the job was done. There wasn't one doubt through the full race.
"We have topped the Olympic rowing table and that is very, very impressive."
James Cracknell, double Olympic champion
"That was brilliant. GB delivered exactly what they have trained for. They were not fazed, they dug deep and stuck to the plan. I am so chuffed for them. What a race!"
Greg Searle, former Olympic champion on Twitter
"Massive congratulations to both GB Rowing eights. Cool, calm and brave from everyone. Well done everyone involved".
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Chinese media outlets reported on Monday that Tuan Tuan, one of two pandas given to Taiwan by mainland China in 2008, had died from distemper.
The zoo snapped a photo of Tuan Tuan behind bars but in front of Monday's newspapers and put it on Facebook.
It told people not to worry, and warned them not to listen to internet rumours.
Tuan Tuan's partner Yuan Yuan and their cub were also fine, said the zoo.
Tuan Tuan's name means "unity" or "reunion".
His arrival in Taiwan was seen at the time either as a sign of warming relations or of Chinese assertion of control over Taiwan, which it considers a breakaway province.
Chinese media sites which had repeated the death rumours have since apologised.
They included the Communist Party mouthpiece People's Daily - it said it had been "misinformed". | Great Britain's men's eight won gold in Rio to reclaim the Olympic title for the first time since 2000.
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Give a brief overview of this passage. | He added: "The only thing she's got going is the woman's card, and the beautiful thing is, women don't like her."
Putting to one side for a moment Mr Trump's claims regarding Mrs Clinton's chances, we ask - how would a female Trump fare in the US presidential race?
Does being a woman confer electoral advantage - would our putative "Mrs Trump" be a winner?
Hillary Clinton is more popular among woman voters than among men, as Vox explains using recent polling figures from Morning Consult.
She is also, contrary to Mr Trump's assertion, much more popular among woman voters than he is. But what the polls do not show is whether those woman voters are Clinton supporters because of her gender or because of her policies.
In fact, younger women in some polls are more likely to support Bernie Sanders than Mrs Clinton for the Democratic nomination. Millennials "do not care" that Mrs Clinton is a woman, wrote Molly Roberts in her contribution to a Politico article entitled Hillary's woman problem.
In February FiveThirtyEight commissioned Morning Consult to find out if voters were more or less likely to support a woman candidate. While most of those polled said that a candidate's gender would have no impact on how they voted, they did find that more Republicans than Democrats said they would be more likely to vote for a candidate who was male.
Indeed, for Republican voters, the preference among women for a male candidate is nearly as big as among men. This suggests that Mr Trump would not be at an advantage - at least during the primary season - if he were a Mrs Trump instead.
Donald Trump's bombast does not seem to put his supporters off. His speeches are peppered with outspoken criticisms of his rivals and his Twitter insults are so frequent that the New York Times even maintains an inventory.
Could a Mrs Trump get away with this?
Probably not, according to linguistics professor Deborah Tannen, who explains the double-bind facing women who run for office:
"If a candidate - or manager - talks or acts in ways expected of women, she risks being seen as under-confident or even incompetent," she wrote in the Washington Post.
"But if she talks or acts in ways expected of leaders, she is likely to be seen as too aggressive and will be subject to innumerable other negative judgments - and epithets - that apply only to women."
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Can Donald Trump really change his image?
Mr Trump's hair and perma-tan have attracted more column inches than the appearance of most male politicians. But has he had to deal with the sort of personal attacks that female contenders face daily?
Take this, from Mr Trump himself, on former Republican contender Carly Fiorina: "Look at that face. Would anyone vote for that? Can you imagine that, the face of our next president?"
Ms Fiorina responded: "I think women all over this country heard very clearly what Mr Trump said."
Barack Obama has acknowledged the extra sartorial challenges facing female candidates, telling Politico that in 2008 Mrs Clinton, then his rival for the Democratic nomination, "had to do everything that I had to do, except, like Ginger Rogers, backwards in heels.
"She had to wake up earlier than I did because she had to get her hair done."
Female politicians - and professional women generally - have to fork out for a large number of different, appropriately styled and flattering outfits in a range of colours (not for nothing does Mrs Clinton describe herself as a "pantsuit aficionado" in her Twitter biog). Their male counterparts can get away with a narrow selection of suits and ties, saving the mental energy needed to plan a campaign wardrobe.
Is insulting women's looks the same as mocking Trump's hair?
Mr Trump has been married three times, divorced twice, and has five children. His current wife, Melania, a Slovenian-born former model, is nearly 24 years his junior.
Would a woman with such a marital track record succeed in politics - or would she need to demonstrate her cookie-baking credentials and discuss the strains of "having it all" as she combined her career with her large family?
Mrs Clinton's personal life (one high-profile marriage, one daughter) has been pored over for decades.
And her decision to stay married was attacked by Ms Fiorina in a Republican debate earlier this year: "Listen, if my husband did what Bill Clinton did, I would have left him long ago," the Republican said.
And Mrs Clinton was roundly criticised when she dismissed cookie-baking in favour of policy-making.
"You know, I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas, but what I decided to do was to fulfil my profession, which I entered before my husband was in public life," she said in 1992, when her husband was running for president.
Mr Trump has made several public comments praising the physical attractiveness of his oldest daughter Ivanka.
In 2006 he told a talkshow audience that "if Ivanka weren't my daughter perhaps I'd be dating her". And in 2015 he told a Rolling Stone reporter: "Yeah, she's really something, and what a beauty, that one. If I weren't happily married and, ya know, her father..."
If any readers can remember a female politician joking about fancying her adult son, please write in.
. | After Donald Trump swept to victory in all five Republican primaries on Tuesday, he said that if his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton were a man "I don't think she'd get 5% of the vote". |
Summarize the content provided below. | 15 November 2015 Last updated at 13:56 GMT
The former England captain had organised a Unicef charity match at Old Trafford in Manchester.
Before kick-off the crowd stood silent to pay tribute to those who lost their lives.
Beckham who was playing in the match, along with his son Brooklyn, said it was the right thing to do. | David Beckham has paid tribute to the victims of the Paris attacks. |
What is the summary of the provided article? | The 55-year-old replaces Dean Saunders, who was sacked in November after six months in charge at the Proact Stadium.
Wilson, who left the Tykes in February, takes over a side 18th in League One, having lost their last six matches.
Chesterfield have not disclosed the length of Wilson's contract, but say it extends "beyond the end of the season".
Wilson, who spent three years at Chesterfield as a player, told the club website: "I have many fond memories of my time at the club and, after living in the area for over 30 years, it's a club I feel very attached to.
"I was asked to have a talk with Dave Allen (chairman) and Chris Turner (chief executive) and just really see how the land was lying - and we got on famously."
Wilson was in his second spell in charge at Oakwell until earlier this year after returning in 2013, having led them to the Premiership in 1997.
But he was unable to stop them from being relegated out of the Championship in 2013-14 and left the Tykes 17th in League One, seven points clear of the relegation zone and seven off the play-off places.
Wilson, who became the 24th person to reach 1,000 games in English football management in December last year, comes in to a side that reached the play-offs last season under Paul Cook.
Former Wales international Saunders replaced Cook after he left for League Two Portsmouth, but lost 13 of his 23 games in charge of the Spireites.
Jose Angel Flores and Silmer Dionisio George were shot as they left a meeting in Tocoa in the north-east on Tuesday.
They were both members of Muca, which fights for land it says has been fraudulently taken from farmers and given to multinationals.
Muca says dozens of farmers and activists have died in land rights clashes since 2009.
The most high-profile recent killing was of award-winning indigenous rights activist Berta Caceres, who was shot at her home in the western town of La Esperanza in March.
Mr Flores was the president of Muca (The United Farmworkers Movement of Aguan).
He and Mr George, who had both previously been threatened, were killed by hooded men armed with rifles in Tocoa, 240km (149 miles) north of the capital, Tegucigalpa.
Muca opposes large agriculture companies that grow African oil palm, saying land has fraudulently been transferred to them from farmers.
It pursues legal cases on farmers' behalf but also carries out illegal land occupations in the Bajo Aguan valley.
Amnesty International's Americas director, Erika Guevara-Rosas, said Honduras had become a "'no-go zone' for anyone daring to campaign for the protection of the environment".
US Ambassador to Honduras James Nealon condemned the killings, saying: "The United States of America calls for a prompt and thorough investigation and for the full force of the law to be brought to bear against those found responsible."
Government spokesman Luis Osabas said the killings were being investigated. | Chesterfield have appointed former Sheffield Wednesday, Sheffield United and Barnsley manager Danny Wilson as their new boss.
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The killing of two activists fighting for land rights in Honduras has sparked international condemnation. |
Summarize the following excerpt. | Lewis Hamilton leads Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg by 17 points before the last race in Abu Dhabi on 23 November.
If Rosberg wins, Hamilton needs to finish second to take the title. Under the old system, sixth would be enough.
"Hopefully double points will not make a difference," said Wolff.
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"It would put a big shadow over the championship if it was turned by a technical issue."
Hamilton has won 10 races this season to Rosberg's five, but Wolff said that did not mean the German would be an undeserving winner if he ended up triumphant because of double points.
"Whoever has most points at the end the season is the worthy champion," he said. "Even though if it really comes down to that situation, some of us might have a different feeling about it, it is what it is.
"Whoever wins the championship is going to have his name in the record books and that's it."
Double points were introduced this season at F1 commercial supremo Bernie Ecclestone's behest but the issue has been controversial all year.
Most drivers and team bosses have expressed their objection to the scheme and it has met vociferous opposition from fans.
Wolff said he would push for it to be dropped next season.
"Nobody likes the double points," he said. "We are going to discuss it next time around.
"I don't think Bernie likes it, so it is probably something we should be getting rid of for next season."
Hamilton is opposed to double points. He said after finishing second to Rosberg in Brazil on Sunday: "It's never happened in F1 before. It just so happens to be this season."
And he added that he agreed with the view expressed by Rosberg, who said: "I find it artificial and I don't like it in general.
"Of course, it's great for me at the moment, but you know that's just because of the situation.
"But there are other sports which have tried the same sort of thing, like Nascar, and they've done this very successfully.
"We need to keep on reviewing it. It's good to try something and we'll see how it goes this year."
The Argentina defender failed to declare 1.5m euros in earnings in 2011 and 2012, state prosecutors said.
He admitted to the charges in a court appearance in Gava, near Barcelona, lasting less than five minutes.
Mascherano - who has played for Barcelona since 2010 - is the latest high-profile footballer to come under scrutiny from Spanish tax authorities.
He is alleged to have attempted to conceal earnings from his image rights by using companies he owns in Portugal and the US.
A court filing released last month confirmed the player had repaid 1.75m euros - the full amount plus interest - and he may end up paying a fine and avoiding a trial.
"Mascherano admitted the facts of the two counts of tax fraud, so there was no need to interrogate him," said a judicial source.
The star was handed a two-game ban on Wednesday after he insulted the referee in Barcelona's 3-1 win over Eibar last weekend.
In a separate case, Mascherano's team-mate Lionel Messi is set to stand trial alongside his father for tax fraud totalling 4.16m euros - also relating to image rights. | There will be "a big shadow" over the F1 World Championship if the award of double points at the final race of the season decides the title, according to Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff.
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Barcelona's Javier Mascherano has admitted two counts of fraud totalling just over 1.5m euros (£1.1m). |
Can you summarize the given article? | The new president said on Tuesday that the country's treasury was "virtually empty".
He vowed to recover billions of dollars "stolen" under previous administrations.
The president won elections in March on a promise to tackle corruption, seen as one of the country's biggest problems.
Nigeria is Africa's biggest oil producer but much of the revenue is said to be stolen.
"The days of impunity and lack of accountability are over," he told a meeting of state governors on Tuesday.
He said Nigeria would get the "facts and the figures to help us recover our stolen funds in foreign countries,'' over the next three months.
He did not specify which other countries had agreed to help recover the money.
In an earlier briefing with journalists, he said it was a "disgrace" that some government workers had not been paid for months.
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Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo estimates that Nigeria's debts stand at about $60bn (£38bn).
However, former Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has rejected the claim, saying the debt was much lower, AFP news agency reports.
Mr Buhari's election victory ending 16 years of rule by the Peoples Democratic Party.
It was the first time an opposition candidate has won a presidential election in Nigeria. | The US and other countries have agreed to help Nigeria recover money stolen from the government, President Muhammadu Buhari has said. |
Please summarize the given passage. | At least 21 firefighters are among the dead, with another 721 people injured after the blasts at a warehouse storing hazardous materials.
The operators of the Tianjin site have been accused of "clearly violating" safety rules.
China has ordered a nationwide check on dangerous chemicals and explosives.
China's cabinet also ordered officials to "crack down unwaveringly on illegal activities to ensure safety".
Twenty-five of the injured are in critical condition and 33 are serious.
Some fires are still smouldering and chemical experts are testing for toxic gases.
The cause of the blast is still being investigated.
Officials have only confirmed that calcium carbide, potassium nitrate and sodium nitrate were at the warehouse.
But there were reports in the People's Daily that 700 tonnes of sodium cyanide were at the Tianjin site. Ammonium nitrate may also have been present.
Chinese officials, though, have admitted there are discrepancies between accounts from the company and from customs, and that damage to company offices had made it hard to identify the chemicals.
More than 200 chemical and biological experts from the military are on site but officials insist that the air and water quality levels in Tianjin are safe.
People's Daily said the Tianjin facility, operated by Ruihai Logistics, had "clearly violated" safety rules that say dangerous materials must be stored at least 1km (0.6 mile) away from public buildings and main roads.
State media said the manager of the Ruihai Logistics site had been detained.
Fire officials have defended the actions of the team who responded to the initial report of a fire on Wednesday night, amid suggestions that using water on some of the chemicals could have led to the blasts.
Calcium carbide reacts with water to create the highly explosive acetylene.
Fire department official Lei Jinde said: "We knew there was calcium carbide inside but we didn't know whether it had already exploded. At that point no-one knew, it wasn't that the firefighters were stupid."
They would not have sprayed water on calcium carbide, he said, although he admitted it was a large warehouse and the team could not be sure where that substance was.
Chemical experts suggest an acetylene blast could then have detonated ammonium nitrate causing a much larger blast.
There were two explosions. The first was equivalent to about three tons of TNT, the second - some 30 seconds later - was equivalent to 21 tons.
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'Netizens' critical of coverage silenced: Authorities remove social media posts | Eighty-five people are now known to have been killed in giant explosions in the Chinese port of Tianjin on Wednesday, local officials say. |
Summarize the following excerpt. | The gigantic lagoons - like big man-made lakes - would generate electricity using the power of the sea's tides.
There are plans for six lagoons in total - four in Wales, one in the south-west of England in Somerset, and one in the north-west of England in Cumbria.
The lagoons could generate 8% of the UK's electricity, say engineers.
The seas around Britain are tidal: this means the water levels rise and fall every day, sometimes by several metres in height.
A turbine is a way of generating electricity from a turning fan.
When wind, or water, rushes through the fan blades, it turns the turbine and generates power.
This means a huge amount of water comes and goes, roughly twice a day.
These special lagoons will use the power of the sea tides by controlling when the water flows back and forth.
When the tide starts to rise, gates in the sea wall around the lagoon are closed and water builds up outside the wall.
When the tide is at its highest, the gates are opened and the water rushes through turbines in the wall.
As the turbines turn around, electricity is generated, and as the water passes through, the lagoon fills up as well.
Then it happens the other way around: as the tide falls outside the wall, the level of the lagoon stays high. At low tide, the gates open again letting the water out of the lagoon, generating more electricity.
It's thought the turbines would generate power in this way for an average of 14 hours each day.
Environment groups say the lagoon shouldn't disturb wildlife too much and that it'll make much-needed clean energy.
But some people are worried that the turbines might harm fish, so they don't want the lagoons built too close to rivers.
The company behind the scheme say the lagoon walls would act as artificial reefs for wildlife.
Sixth-tier club Poole Town need to raise £70,000 to upgrade their home ground by the end of March.
Austin, 27, has told Poole's board they can have free use of his box at Southampton's St Mary's Stadium to entertain potential investors.
He scored 48 goals in 42 games for the Dorset club between 2008 and 2009 before moving to Swindon Town.
Poole are a point off the play-off places in their first season in National League South. Their home ground Tatnam, in the grounds of a secondary school, is set to be graded by an inspection.
The club will be relegated should they fail to pass the inspection, which requires a minimum amount of terracing for standing and upgrade their floodlights.
"It's a massive ask for those of us running the club to maintain our National League position from a financial point of view," vice-chairman Chris Reeves told BBC Radio Solent.
"On the pitch, the team have done us proud. But, we have to comply with the ground grading issues.
"It just doesn't bear contemplation that we would be relegated," Reeves added. "Somehow or other, we've got to bridge this gap."
The club have raised nearly £1,000 in the first 24 hours since launching an online donations page for the improvements. | New plans are out for the world's first lagoon power plants, to be built here in the UK.
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Southampton striker Charlie Austin is supporting one of his former non-league clubs in their bid to avoid demotion. |
What is the summary of the given information? | It is understood Mr Mickel, 79, drowned while swimming at Fuerteventura on Saturday.
Mr Mickel served as chairman of the Glasgow-based housebuilder for eight years up until 2012.
His son Andrew, a fourth-generation family member, is group director of the company.
A spokesman for Mactaggart & Mickel and the Mickel family said it was "with great sadness" that his death had been confirmed.
He added: "Mr Mickel was a prominent Scottish businessman, having joined the housebuilder as a third-generation family member in 1961, becoming a director in 1966 and serving as chairman of Mactaggart & Mickel for eight years up to 2012. He continued to be a director of the business.
"There will most likely be a post-mortem given the sudden nature of his death, therefore no further details are available at this time.
"The family would request for a period of privacy and respect to be observed at this time." | Tributes have been paid to former Mactaggart & Mickel chairman Derek Mickel, who has died while on holiday in the Canary Islands. |
Give a concise summary of the following information. | It is still shocking to see thousands of exhausted travellers sleeping rough, on roadsides or railway tracks, or spread across grassy verges, as they wait for buses or trains to take them further on their journey.
And it raises searching questions: what kind of lives have they fled? What future awaits them somewhere in Europe, if not beyond?
"It's a tragedy to see people moving from border to border, never knowing which border will be open tomorrow," says Antonio Guterres, head of the UN's refugee agency, when we meet in the margins of the UN General Assembly in New York.
"Five thousand people are arriving every day," he says, with palpable frustration over Europe's failure to move on longstanding pledges to establish proper reception and screening centres in Greece and Italy, at the first points where people arrive.
Last week, at a summit in Brussels, there was a promise to set up "hotspots" by the end of November.
For now, "Where are you from?" is the simple question posed by the legions of journalists, aid officials and volunteers who congregate along border crossings.
"Syria" still seems to be the most frequent reply. That's what people tell us, that's what UN officials report.
The UNHCR's latest figures on Mediterranean Sea Crossings this year, which add up to just short of 500,000 by late September, put Syrians at 54%. Afghans fall in second place at 13% arriving.
When you look at Greece alone, the figure for Syrians rises to 71%.
Source: UNHCR
Months into this massive pilgrimage of our time, the face of this flow keeps changing. And the stories people bring are different too.
All told, Syrians tell a story of a country, devastated by four years of punishing war, that is now being depopulated of its educated middle class.
At the railway station in the Croatian border town of Tovarnik, I recently met a microcosm of Syria's young professionals huddled together in the baking heat: an electrical engineer from Latakia on the coast, possibly the safest area under government control; a banker from war-torn Aleppo who said he's pursuing his "destiny;" a young businessman who paid thousands of euros for a 20-minute ride in a speedboat to get to Greece.
They had all left Syria only days before.
They had made a decision to flee a destructive war without end and to pursue the possibility of a future their own country now seems to deny them.
"Many people are saying if we're going to go, we must go now while Europe's door is open," a Western aid official living in Damascus tells me as he lists the people he knows personally that are leaving, week after week.
UN reports say an estimated 5,000-7,000 Syrians now arrive in Lebanon every week from Syria en route to a Mediterranean crossing.
A little more than half that number are said to come from Damascus.
In recent weeks, I kept meeting Syrians who said they had come from Mezzeh, a relatively wealthy neighbourhood in central Damascus which is home to embassies and some popular cafes.
No area of Syria is now untouched by war, but some are ravaged, others much less so.
Others speak of an escape from places in and around Damascus where life is a living hell - besieged and embattled areas like Qudsaya, Yarmouk, Ghouta.
In northern Greece, on the edge of the no-man's land leading to the former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia, I see another snapshot of Syria today.
An old man, his weary eyes drained of light by a dark war, wore his sadness like a suit.
He tells me he is from the Palestinian camp of Yarmouk, on the southern edge of the capital, which lies in utter ruin.
He pulls his crumpled UN refugee card from his pocket to confirm his identity. It seems to be all he has.
"I will bring my wife and children later," he explains. "There's so little water and food, but I couldn't afford to bring them now."
Next to him, a tall, well-dressed man surrounded by his large extended family tells me he is from Idlib in the north.
When I ask what life is like now after a coalition of Islamist forces took power, he replies vaguely.
Then, when I hear him speaking fluent Greek to local police, he admits he left Syria four years ago to live in Cyprus.
When his family's turn comes to cross the border, he bends to lift a tall, disabled teenage girl to carry her on his back.
A second disabled girl stumbles along behind holding her mother's hand.
Everyone, whatever their circumstances, has a reason to seek what they hope will be better life in Europe.
"Everyone's life is affected by the violence," a local UN official tells me when I ask about concern that wealthier Syrians will find their way to the front of the queue at the expense of the truly destitute, displaced in whatever shelter they manage to find, across Syria or in refugee camps in neighbouring nations.
"We take some of the most vulnerable who don't have the wherewithal to get to Europe." Ann Richard, the US Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Migration, and Refugees explains in an interview in New York.
"The people who are streaming across Europe are largely middle class educated people seeking more opportunities for themselves, and for their children."
But they're also fleeing a devastating war that's taking a terrifying human toll.
And it's not just Syrians who want to escape life's hard limits in harsh lands.
On the railway lines in northern Greece, I met three generations of a large family of Afghans from the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif.
The youngest child shyly clutched her father's hand. Two young brothers struggled to carry their ailing grandmother in her wheelchair across the pebbly stretches of track.
"Isn't Mazar-i-Sharif one of the safest areas of Afghanistan?" I ask.
Their reply is the same refrain I heard from almost every Afghan I met on this perilous journey across Europe.
There's worry about a growing presence of so-called Islamic State and mounting attacks by Taliban fighters.
This week's startling Taliban advance on the provincial capital Kunduz in the northeast will only swell what is already a steady stream fleeing the area,
This massive displacement is both a journey to safety and a huge jobs fair.
"Where are you from?" I ask a tall African man who stands out in a crowd.
"Somalia," he replies, and then averts his gaze, saying: "Please don't film me."
Minutes later, a man standing behind him breaks away to admit that their group of 20 young men had travelled from Ghana, regarded as one of the most stable countries in West Africa.
"I was about to be arrested for a recent fire in a market which wasn't my fault," he explains. "I had to leave."
Everyone has a reason to leave. Everyone believes they have good reason to be given a chance at a better life - no matter where they come from.
"This uncontrolled movement creates opportunities for people who are not refugees to try to have their chance," admits the UNHCR's Guterres.
"Europe has to realise it will take a massive capacity to assist people when they arrive, to grant them their dignity, to verify their stories, to ensure that when people say they come from Syria, they haven't come from somewhere else." | It is still startling to see the human river now coursing across Europe, streaming through fields, surging over borders or halting at formidable metal barriers. |
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The Chinese businessman, 39, outlined his ambitions at a Villa Park press conference on Wednesday.
"I hope in five years, or after five years, we will talk of this club as Madrid or Barcelona," he told BBC WM.
"Or someone else as well known and accepted by people in the world to say 'oh, that's the greatest club'".
Former Everton chief executive Keith Wyness is to become the club's new chief executive, subject to Football League approval when he appears before a panel on Thursday.
"This is a new challenge," added Dr Xia. "I am looking forward to working with Roberto, Keith and everyone else. I want to take this club back to the right place. We will do whatever we can to support Robbie."
Dr Xia was seated alongside new Villa manager Roberto Di Matteo, who revealed that he hopes his first summer signing will be Bournemouth defender Tommy Elphick.
The 29-year-old centre-half has discussed personal terms on a £3m deal.
Villa have also confirmed the appointment of former Chelsea and Liverpool assistant manager Steve Clarke to the backroom team.
Former West Bromwich Albion and Reading boss Clarke, 52, will become Di Matteo's number two, with Kevin Bond, Harry Redknapp's long-time assistant, the other key part of his dressing room as first-team coach.
Di Matteo admits he has a big rebuilding job on following Villa's return to the second tier of English football for the first time since 1988.
Dr Xia has already stated that Di Matteo will have between "£30 to 40m" to spend on new players.
But Di Matteo has inherited a team who won just three games last season to be relegated from the Premier League.
And he faces a tough task if he is to emulate the achievement of Graham Taylor, who led Villa to promotion in his first season in charge, when he took over as Villa boss in 1987.
"I know it will be difficult," said Di Matteo. "It's a rebuilding job and I have to turn things around.
"The objective is to get promotion this year. But we need to turn a team that has struggled into a strong competitive team. All aspects need to be looked at.
"We need a united group, people who are willing to fight for the club in the Championship. But, with the right personnel we can do well.
"The last three or four years it has been a club in decline and relegation last season topped that off. It will take time to sort the team out. We want results yesterday instead of today."
"Well, there's no denying the extent of the new Aston Villa owners' ambition. Dr Tony Xia says he'd like to see Villa up there with Real Madrid and Barcelona within 5 years. Ambitious stuff!
"Such words can be easy to say but, while many may think he should be more realistic in his statements, I'd ask 'what's wrong with a bit of dreaming'?
"He's a man full of enthusiasm that has just taken over a club that has known nothing but suffering for years, culminating in relegation last season. So I, at least for one, will forgive him a bit of exuberance, while knowing those words could come back to haunt him if things go wrong.
"Villa fans now have some hope, something that's been sadly lacking in recent times. A new owner, a new manager and a new era await.
"I know in football it's the hope that can hurt the most at times. However, to be around a club without it is a soulless existence. Under Xia, it feels like we are all in for an exciting ride whatever happens, so why not reach for the stars?" | Aston Villa's new owner Tony Xia hopes that the Midlands club will be as well known around the world as Real Madrid or Barcelona inside five years. |
Provide a brief summary of this section. | The Briton, who had a stroke aged 23 which led to her being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS), won athletics bronze in the T38 100m and gold in cycling's C4-5 time trial.
"I am in a small minority as a black female with a disability," she said.
"But I've shown that even with conditions like MS, it's not the setback that it has to be."
In winning cycling gold in a world record time, the 25-year-old from Leeds became the first Briton since 1988 to win a medal in two sports at the same Paralympics.
Isabel Barr was the last Briton to achieve that feat, with medals in the shooting and athletics in Seoul.
Cox, who said she celebrated winning bronze on the track by spending the next day "plaiting people's hair and watching [the film] Coach Carter", now wants to inspire the next generation of Para-athletes from different backgrounds.
"There is nothing to be afraid of - just come out and show what you've got," she said.
"I've come out here and done it, I'm nothing special. You just have to have heart, passion, determination and self-belief."
BBC Sport's Nick Hope
"I really think Kadeena Cox's success could start a seismic shift in Paralympic, as well as Olympic, cycling and encourage more black athletes to try the sport.
"Given the obvious sprint power many black athletes are able to generate in track and field events, I know there are many in cycling who feel it would be a natural shift.
"To date I think it's been a cultural problem - much like we've seen traditionally in swimming, which is dominated by white athletes.
"However, that has begun to change in recent Games and in particular the Rio Olympics where USA's Simone Manuel became the first African-American woman to win an individual Olympic swimming gold.
"Will cycling be the next sport to benefit from a change in views and attitudes towards old 'traditions' in sport?" | Double Paralympic medallist Kadeena Cox hopes her achievements in Rio can inspire fellow black athletes. |
Summarize the provided section. | The officer Sen Con Scott Mason, from Cue in Western Australia, first rescued Cuejo the joey in March after his mother was hit and killed by a truck.
Cuejo had a second brush with death on 27 April when a wedge-tailed eagle grabbed him in the Burringurrah police station yard.
Sen Con Mason said the eagle lifted Cuejo over a 2m-high fence.
He told the Australian Broadcasting Corp. that he chased after the eagle, which landed a short distance away.
A second eagle joined the attack, but Sen Con Mason frightened the birds while Cuejo bolted away.
"I finally caught up with him a few hundred metres down the way and found out that he was bleeding quite heavily," he said.
Cuejo suffered wounds to his chest and face, and lost hair from his back.
The little kangaroo is the star of the Cue Police Twitter account and sometimes hops around after Sen Con Mason on duties.
Ramsey, 25, has not played since injuring his hamstring in Arsenal's loss to Liverpool on the opening day of the season.
Wales play Austria away in Vienna on Thursday, 6 October before hosting Georgia in Cardiff three days later.
"There is concern because he has been out for so long," Wales assistant boss Osian Roberts told BBC Wales Sport.
"It's extremely disappointing after the magnificent tournament Aaron had at the Euros that he picked up an injury in the opening game of the season.
"It's a huge disappointment for him and for all of us. But let's just hope the situation improves for him over the next week or so."
Ramsey missed Wales' 4-0 win over Moldova in their opening 2018 World Cup qualifier in September.
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger said the former Cardiff City midfielder would be "back after the [September] international break" but it now appears he could miss the second and third fixtures of Wales' current campaign.
Ramsey was regarded as the outstanding performer in Chris Coleman's squad during Wales' unprecedented success at Euro 2016.
He was named in Uefa's official team of the tournament after helping Wales reach their first semi-final.
But Ramsey missed the 2-0 semi-final loss to Portugal after picking up two yellow cards during the opening five games. | An Australian police officer has fought off eagles to save the life of his adopted baby kangaroo.
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Wales midfielder Aaron Ramsey is an injury doubt for October's World Cup qualifiers against Austria and Georgia. |
Can you summarize the following content in brief? | Belfast couple Robert McKenzie and his wife, Wilma, had just come out of the sea when a gunman opened fire at a beach resort in Sousse.
Three Irish people and at least 15 British were among 38 people killed.
The couple were staying at a hotel about 300 yards from where the shooting happened.
Mr McKenzie said "pandemonium" broke out.
"Everyone was running. I hadn't heard any gunfire," he said.
"I didn't see anything. I didn't hear anything other than people running and I saw horses running back towards us. Where the incident happened, I understand, is three hotels down from us. It was close enough, and close enough to get everyone off the beach on our particular section of it."
He said he had subsequently been told that people had been shot dead.
"We were very upset but the people of Tunisia, all the hotel staff that we have known over the years were very, very nice and they kept apologising to us, they were in tears, they are such beautiful people."
Mr McKenzie said they were very upset by what had happened.
"If they had come to our section of the beach, we'd have been wiped out because we always lay right at the front of the beach and we're never off the beach and wouldn't have had a chance, quite honestly," he said.
"By the grace of God, it didn't happen to us, God was looking after us."
A couple from County Westmeath and a woman from Robinstown, County Meath, are among the dead.
Irish broadcaster RTÉ said the couple had been named locally as Laurence (Larry) and Martina Hayes.
They were in their 50s and came from Athlone. They had one daughter.
Irish woman Lorna Carty, a mother-of-two from from Robinstown in County Meath was also killed.
The Irish government is warning people travelling to Tunisia to "exercise extreme caution". | A Northern Ireland man said he and his wife would have been "wiped out" in the terror attack in Tunisia had they been on a different part of the beach. |
Give a short summary of the provided document. | The decision was taken after one of the students, 17-year-old Ruby Rai, told a local media channel that political science was about cooking.
Video of the interview with her and other students went viral in India.
Last year, parents of students in the state were photographed climbing school walls to pass on answers.
The embarrassed state government had announced tough measures like fines and jail terms intended to curb cheating this year.
The markedly lower pass rate seen in the results announced last week was taken as an indication that the steps had worked.
That is, of course, until the footage of arts student Ruby Rai's interview was aired.
The government said that her result, as well as that of Saurabh Shrestha who came first in science and was unable to answer a simple chemistry question, had been suspended with immediate effect.
The two students, along with 12 others who excelled in the examinations, will now have to appear for a written test and interview before a panel of subject experts on 3 June, Bihar examinations chairman Lalkeshwar Prasad Singh told Indian media.
Their handwriting will also be checked to verify if they answered their own questions, he said. | Fourteen students who topped school leaving exams in India's Bihar state will be retested amid concerns they cheated, the state government has said. |
Give a brief summary of the content. | It is understood the firm, Bell & Co, will claim that Cerberus is treating some former Ulster Bank borrowers harshly and putting jobs at risk.
But, in a statement Cerberus said it is "fair and consistent" in its approach.
The US investment fund added that it has reached "consensual outcomes" with the vast majority of borrowers.
Cerberus is best known for buying more than £1bn of loans from the Republic of Ireland's National Assets Management Agency (Nama), but it also spent a similar amount on loans from Ulster Bank.
In December 2014, the fund bought Project Aran from Ulster Bank for a reported £1.1bn
It is a portfolio of more than 6,000 loans relating to more than 5,000 properties and 1,000 borrowers.
About 20% of the assets are in Northern Ireland with the rest in the Republic of Ireland.
It later paid Ulster Bank another £200m for a Northern Ireland loan portfolio called Project Rathlin.
Cerberus expects borrowers to repay their loans quickly either by selling properties or finding new lenders.
Firms like Bell & Co negotiate on behalf of borrowers.
Their evidence to the enterprise committee at Stormont is expected to focus on the negotiation process and property valuations.
Cerberus' statement added that since 2014 it has have written off more than £3bn in debt in Northern Ireland.
It said that had "helped to strengthen the local economy, creating jobs and the stimulus for growth that has enabled others to invest and recruit for the future".
PM Viktor Orban's right-wing government opposes plans to relocate a total of 160,000 refugees across the bloc.
The EU announced the scheme last year in response to the migrant crisis.
Analysts say Mr Orban is emboldened by UK's vote to leave the EU, after a campaign in which immigration was a key issue.
Hungary became a transit state on the Western Balkan route to Germany and other EU destinations.
In an effort to curb the influx, it sealed its border with Serbia and Croatia and criminalised illegal entry. The measures were popular at home but criticised by human rights groups.
In a statement, President Ader said voters would be asked: "Do you want the European Union to be entitled to prescribe the mandatory settlement of non-Hungarian citizens in Hungary without the consent of parliament?"
Hungary, along with Slovakia, has already launched a court challenge against the EU plan, which would see relocations over two years.
The proposal was meant to ease pressure on Greece and Italy, the main entry points for migrants and refugees into the bloc.
But its implementation has been slow. Until mid-June, 2,280 people had been relocated from both countries, none of them to Hungary, according to EU data.
Mr Orban has previously described the quotas as "illegal and unreasonable", saying they "could redraw Europe's cultural and religious identity".
More than one million migrants and refugees arrived in the EU in 2015, mostly by sea.
Sgt Stephen Chilton, of Nottinghamshire Police, put the 17-year-old in an unapproved neck lock to restrain him.
Assistant Chief Constable Simon Torr said the allegations were unproven, adding the panel did not find the use of force disproportionate.
Sgt Chilton will be given further training before resuming full duties.
The misconduct hearing, the first the force has held in public, was shown video footage of Sgt Chilton holding the youth around his neck for 56 seconds and punching him in the stomach.
The teenager had been considered at risk of self harm and had attempted to barricade himself in his cell at Bridewell custody suite in Nottingham.
When Sgt Chilton entered the room, the youth allegedly lunged at him and he was cuffed and put in the neck lock.
Parvin Fernando, representing the force, said: "There was an opportunity for that neck restraint to be loosened or removed.
"Sgt Chilton persisted with the neck restraint applied to [the prisoner] despite it being obvious that it was unsafe to do so in the circumstances."
Earlier in the hearing, the panel was told by the force's trainer in officer safety that although the hold was not taught, it appeared to be a "dangerous and comparatively unusual situation".
Judging the allegations of misconduct to be unproven, ACC Tor said: "We do not find the force used was disproportionate to the perceived threat." | An accountancy firm representing businesses whose bank loans were sold to Cerberus is expected to criticise the investment fund at Stormont later.
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Hungary will hold a referendum on 2 October on whether to accept mandatory EU quotas for relocating migrants, President Janos Ader has said.
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A custody sergeant accused of using excessive force on a vulnerable teenager has been cleared of misconduct. |
Can you summarize this passage? | Fans have been offered free entry to the Super League game at AJ Bell Stadium but will be asked to make a donation to help those affected.
It will be the first major sporting event in Greater Manchester since the bomb incident at the Manchester Arena.
"No, we did not consider postponing," Koukash told BBC Radio 5 Live.
"It is not something we could have done as it is subject to the RFL [Rugby Football League].
"It is an opportunity, instead of postponing it, to show solidarity and support to those affected."
There will be a one-minute silence before the match, which kicks off at 20:00 BST, and the club have asked for a round of applause in 22nd minute as a mark of respect for the 22 people who died.
"Terrorist acts are no longer what we see on television, it has happened here within our community," added Koukash.
"It affected our families and killed our children - rugby league is a sport based on families helping each other.
"All we are asking for is for people to turn up, whether you love rugby league or not, collect a free ticket and put in a donation no matter what you can afford.
"If it is a £1 it is a £1, if it is £20, whatever you can afford put it in the donation box and all the proceeds will go to the fund."
Salford are having their best season for a number of years and are currently second in the table after only securing their top-flight status in the Million Pound Game last October.
The 32-year-old defender, who joined from local rivals Nottingham Forest in 2012, has a year to run on the three-year deal he signed in 2014.
Morgan told BBC East Midlands Today: "I love it here and would love to stay.
"But now I am focusing on what we can achieve as a group and trying to get over that finishing line."
Morgan added: "First and foremost I need to concentrate on the pitch and see what happens after that."
The Foxes have 53 points and are two points clear at the top of the table with 12 games remaining.
North London rivals Arsenal and Tottenham have 51 points, with Manchester City in fourth place on 47 points. | Salford Red Devils owner Marwan Koukash says playing Friday's game against Catalans "shows solidarity and support" to victims of the Manchester attack.
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Leicester City captain Wes Morgan says he has not started talks about a new contract but is eager to extend his time with the Premier League leaders. |
Can you summarize the following content in brief? | Tyrone Henry, 31, of Phoenix Close, Hackney, has also been charged with possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life and being a prohibited person in possession of a firearm.
The detective was shot in the shoulder on Thursday afternoon in Hackney.
Mr Henry is due to appear at Thames Magistrates' Court on Saturday morning.
Met Commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe paid tribute to the officer saying he had shown "great bravery" and that colleagues had described him as "exceptional".
He remains in a stable condition in hospital. | A man has been charged with the attempted murder of a Metropolitan Police detective during an undercover operation in east London. |
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