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Secretary of State James Brokenshire made the announcement after meeting the main parties and Irish Foreign Minister Charlie Flanagan.
Mr Brokenshire, who extended the talks deadline until 29 June last week, said some progress had been made.
However, he added there were still a number of outstanding issues.
"All the parties involved recognise it is vital devolved government, and all of the institutions established under the Belfast Agreement and its successors, resumes in Northern Ireland as soon as possible," he said.
"Although formal roundtable talks are paused until after the general election, a range of bilateral discussions will continue, with a view to building on progress."
Sinn Féin leader Michelle O'Neill said it had been "a realistic decision" to pause the talks.
She said she welcomed DUP leader Arlene Foster's meetings with representatives of the Irish language-speaking community, which "could bode well for the future".
UUP leader Robin Swann said he was "both disappointed and frustrated" by the decision.
However, he said: "We'd rather see the progress that has been made 'banked' so we can come back to it after the general election".
SDLP leader Colum Eastwood said the parties had "sensibly" paused the talks process.
He said negotiators were "absolutely up against it", and that there had been "lots of talking around the houses and plenty of shadow-boxing".
Alliance leader Naomi Long said the parties had been able to park the process "but we cannot stop the juggernaut of chaos and cuts".
She said they must remember that "after the election we have a very small window to come back and agree to restore devolution".
Meanwhile, former Ulster Unionist Party leader and First Minister Lord Trimble has said devolved government in Northern Ireland could function without an executive and should consider continuing as just an assembly.
Speaking in the House of Lords on Wednesday, he said Stormont could operate in the same way the Welsh assembly did when it was first formed.
Lord Trimble said this system operated for six or seven years before the assembly decided to move to an executive.
"That assembly could continue to function and it would be able to move to having an executive the moment that the parties that presently won't nominate for an executive shows a willingness to do so," he added.
The political deadlock in Northern Ireland came after a snap election on 2 March brought an end to Stormont's unionist majority and the Democrat Unionist Party's lead over Sinn Féin was cut from 10 seats to one.
Under Northern Ireland's power-sharing agreement, the executive must be jointly run by unionists and nationalists, with the largest party putting forward a candidate for first minister.
The late Martin McGuinness quit as deputy first minister in January in protest against the DUP's handling of a botched green energy scheme.
Sinn Féin has said it will not share power with DUP leader Arlene Foster as first minister until the conclusion of a public inquiry into the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) scheme.
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McIlroy bogeyed five of his first six holes and needed to hole a 20-foot putt on eight to avoid another dropped shot.
But McIlroy, 28, had four birdies on his back nine as he came home in 32.
The 2014 champion, who has missed the cut in three of his last four events, is six behind US trio Jordan Spieth, Brooks Koepka and Matt Kuchar.
World number four McIlroy was fortunate to only bogey the opening hole as he holed a 25-foot putt from just off the green after a wild second shot had put him in trouble.
Further missed greens saw the Northern Irishman drop further shots at the third and fourth and a four-foot par putt failed to drop at the next after an indifferent approach.
A horrible horseshoe out of the hole left him five over after six and he needed an up-and-down from a bunker to par the short seventh before rescuing par again at the eighth after another errant tee shot.
However, McIlroy was much improved on his back nine as a fine approach to six feet set up a birdie at the 11th after getting a good bounce to avoid a bunker from his tee shot.
As he finally began to find the fairway off the tee, McIlroy birdied the two par fives, the 15th and 17th, while a brave six-foot par putt at the 16th helped to maintain his back-nine improvement.
McIlroy went close with his eagle attempt on the 15th from 30 feet and left his putt short on 17 before rolling in a 15-foot birdie chance at the last.
After his stunning back nine, McIlroy is convinced that he remains in position to challenge for the fifth major win of his career.
"I don't think tomorrow is going to be good at all (weather wise) but we might get the better of it maybe (in the morning)," the Holywood man told Sky Sports.
"If I can go out there tomorrow and try and keep these good feelings I have (after today), I feel like I am still right in this golf tournament."
McIlroy, who will tee off at 9:47 BST on Friday morning with Dustin Johnston and Charl Schwartzel, said caddie JP Fitzgerald had played a big role in keeping his spirits up after his horrible start.
"I didn't know where I was after six holes. JP tried to keep me as positive as I could be out there."
The former world number one acknowledged that his 20-foot putt for par at the par-five eighth had been "huge".
"Getting up and down from about 95 yards to get a par there was big - especially on the eighth which was probably one of the easiest holes.
"From the seventh hole on, I had to have 100% trust in myself and not be in two minds what I was doing, which was what I did on the first six holes."
2011 winner Darren Clarke finished well with birdies at the 17th and 18th but his 75 left him facing a huge task to make his first cut since last year's Open.
After four opening pars, Clarke, 48, had three straight bogeys and he carded two more bogeys and a double bogey.
"I hit the ball nicely but didn't putt very well," said Clarke after his round.
Two-time Open winner Padraig Harrington carded a 73 while Offaly man Shane Lowry was one better.
Harrington, champion when the major was last played at Royal Birkdale in 2008, failed to card a birdie as he dropped a shot on the seventh and then double bogeyed the 11th.
Twice major winner Spieth didn't drop a shot in his 65 and was later joined on five under by US Open champion Koepka and world number 18 Kuchar. | Rory McIlroy is six off the pace at The Open after battling back from an awful start to card an opening one-over-par 71 at Royal Birkdale. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "40672992"} | 903 | 40 | 0.445772 | 1.100039 | 0.006074 | 1.290323 | 24.322581 | 0.83871 |
Peter Bellett, 69, of Garnant, pleaded guilty to wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm and possessing an offensive weapon in a public place.
Michael Irons was treated in hospital after the attack at Garnant Pharmacy near Ammanford on 5 December, 2016.
Bellett was due to stand trial at Swansea Crown Court but pleaded guilty on the first day of the hearing. | A man has admitted stabbing a pharmacist at a practice in Carmarthenshire. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "39418375"} | 94 | 21 | 0.567554 | 1.100568 | -1.235553 | 0.461538 | 5.538462 | 0.461538 |
Anderson hit 109 with Dom Joyce contributing 67 as Merrion notched a formidable 252-9 at Castle Avenue.
Waringstown were only able to post 196 in reply with Lee Nelson top-scoring with 48.
Anderson and Joyce put on 108 for the second wicket in Merrion's innings in the game's pivotal partnership.
Joyce and Anderson safely negotiated probing opening spells from former Irish international Phil Eaglestone (3-57) and South African professional Cobus Pienaar (2-39), to build the platform for what would be a match-winning total.
"We were a bit slow at the start but I just knew I had to bat for 50 overs and we'd have a decent score as I would be able to accelerate as the innings went on," said Anderson.
"The margin of the win was more comfortable than I expected but the bowlers did a super job and were backed up by the fielding throughout."
Waringstown's run chase never really got going, getting bogged down for long periods by a Merrion attack which never relinquished their stranglehold on the game.
Skipper Lee Nelson (48) and Greg Thompson (20) threatened briefly with a stand of 52, but with the required run rate steadily increasing, Merrion always held the upper hand.
Fifteen-year-old Max Neville set the tone with a magnificent opening spell, conceding just 12 runs in his seven over spell - as well as taking the crucial wicket of Pienaar - while former Ireland star Dave Langford-Smith crucially dismissed both Nelson and Thompson.
SATURDAY'S CRICKET RESULTS
Irish Senior Cup Final
Merrion 252-9 J Anderson 109, D Joyce 67
Waringstown 196 L Nelson 48 W van Bohr 3-38
Merrion won by 51 runs
Ulster Bank Premier League
Derriaghy v Carrickfergus
Derriaghy 218-9 R Bailie 40, A Haggan 5-49
Carrickfergus 221-3 P Botha 65 no, I Parkhill 64 no
Carrickfergus won by 7 wickets and Derriaghy relegated
Instonians v CIYMS
Instonians 162 R Theron 88
CIYMS 100 N Jones 32, J Thompson 5-27
North Down v CSNI
North Down 127 J Muller 50
CSNI 128-3
CSNI won by 7 wickets
Long's SuperValu Premier League
Ardmore v Coleraine
Ardmore 202-4 D Curry 102 no, R Brolly 45
Coleraine 203-4 (48.2 overs) S Randiv 81, R. Chopra 69, S Dunn 3-28
Coleraine win by 6 wickets
Bready v Drummond
Drummond 197
Bready 198-6
Bready won by 4 wickets
Eglinton v Brigade
Eglinton 207 O Williams 91 no
Brigade 208-8
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27 February 2017 Last updated at 12:11 GMT
No it's not a joke - it's a mission that Mexican lovers of the dog breed set out to achieve: a record Bulldog walk.
They got together almost 1,000 of the chunky dogs and marched around Mexico City. The organizer, Erick Hernandez, said that he'd never seen such a large gathering of this specific breed. They've got their tails crossed they'll get the seal of approval.
It's pretty hot in Mexico but don't worry - the owners fussed over their pets, rubbing them down with water and holding umbrellas over them to protect their delicate skin from the sun.
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Gary McClean was not appointed to the post with Waterside Neighbourhood Partnership, despite scoring the highest at an interview.
A fair employment tribunal found he was unlawfully discriminated against on the grounds of his political opinion.
The partnership said it was disappointed with the decision.
In a statement, it said: "Waterside Neighbourhood Partnership believe that that we did not discriminate based on the grounds of political opinion.
"But we have since reviewed our recruitment policies and procedures internally".
Mr McClean was supported by the Equality Commission in taking the case.
The tribunal stated: "This is a highly unusual case where the highest marked candidate in an interview process, who had exceeded the threshold marking, and who had been identified as the person to be appointed, was not appointed."
A score sheet considered by the tribunal recorded the individual marks of each panel member and showed that Mr McClean was scored highest by all three.
In a line on the sheet marked "person appointed", the claimant's name was written and this was followed by the three signatures of the panel members.
The tribunal found that "two members of the interview panel believed he should not have been appointed to the post. The chairman of the interview panel believed he should have been appointed."
The tribunal also stated that, given the nature of the evidence, "it seems highly unlikely there can be any innocent explanation of the extraordinary result of this interview process.
"If there had been such an innocent explanation, it would have been put forward from the start and maintained consistently thereafter."
It said that Mr McClean believed the control and funding of community activities should be a matter for communities themselves and not for main political parties.
Speaking after the ruling, Mr McClean, said: "I have always believed that that the only reason I was considered unacceptable for this post was because my political stance did not fit in with the approach of Sinn Féin and the DUP towards community services and funding.
"The tribunal decision has clearly shown that the Waterside Community Partnership Ltd. cannot give any credible explanation for refusing to appoint me after I had come top in the interview and met the threshold they had set as the standard.
"I didn't take this case for financial reward, but because I hope that, by successfully challenging this process, I can shine a light on the need for greater transparency and accountability in appointments within the community sector."
Dr Michael Wardlow, chief commissioner of the Equality Commission, said: "All appointments, including those in the community sector, must be made without reference to a person's political opinions, or to any other protected ground.
"It is also important that the procedures for such appointments meet basic standards of fairness and transparency and that they are accountable to scrutiny."
McClean did not re-apply, and the post was awarded to another person.
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There were early claims of rapid advances being made as government forces pushed towards Tikrit from several directions.
But previous assaults on the militants there have been beaten back despite claims of victory by the state forces, so it will be some time before the fate of this latest offensive becomes clear.
It is a battle of great importance. Both the Iraqi prime minister and the Americans have been heralding an even more significant push in the coming months to recapture the biggest city in northern Iraq, Mosul, which also fell to IS last June.
That campaign would be thrown into doubt if the government fails at Tikrit, which controls the strategic highway linking the south with the north.
The attack on Tikrit was inaugurated by Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi who addressed his top officers on the eve of battle.
"Today we are launching a major and important campaign to liberate the citizens of Salahuddin province, which includes Tikrit and other areas, from the Islamic State terrorists," he said.
"So, I call upon you and all other commanders to deal with citizens well. We should protect the citizens and their properties."
That underlined one of the concerns raised by this thrust into mainly Sunni terrain.
Because the Iraqi army collapsed last June and is still shaky, much of the fighting is being done by Shia militias, backed by Iran.
They are thirsting for revenge for atrocities carried out by IS in June, when hundreds of Shia recruits were massacred.
In a neighbouring province where Sunni areas have been overrun by a similar combination of pro-government forces, there have been accusations of revenge killings and abuses inflicted on the Sunni population by the Shia militias.
The prime minister may be urging restraint but there is a question mark over how much control he has over the forces on the ground.
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It is understood the man was from Northern Ireland.
The crash happened on the M1 southbound close to Junction 11 near Monasterboice in Drogheda, County Louth at 12:45 local time on Thursday.
The man died after the truck he was driving struck a van before overturning on the roadside embankment.
A section of the road remains closed while forensic investigations are carried out.
Police have appealed for witnesses.
The mayor of Drogheda, Kevin Callan, said about 50 emergency services personnel attended the scene to deal with the crash.
"Everybody in the town is quite shocked to hear the news," he said.
"Number one that there was a crash of this size, but also the fact that somebody has lost their life.
"I think I speak on behalf of everyone in Drogheda when we extend our sympathies, and our thoughts and prayers are with the family of that person." | A man in his 40s has died after a crash involving a van and a truck on a motorway in the Republic of Ireland. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "32240427"} | 207 | 33 | 0.638604 | 1.302953 | -1.048369 | 1.2 | 7.04 | 0.8 |
The man, identified as Syed Sharif Khan, was stripped naked, beaten and dragged through Dimapur, Nagaland state's main city, before being hanged.
Hundreds of policemen have been patrolling the streets of Dimapur since the incident amid increasing tension.
A curfew was also imposed in the city on Sunday to maintain law and order.
In earlier reports, police named the dead man as Farid Khan, but his family told the BBC his name was Syed Sharif Khan.
Police said Mr Khan was a Bengali-speaking Muslim trader from the neighbouring state of Assam. He was arrested in February on charges of raping a 19-year-old tribal woman three times.
Mr Khan's brother said he was picked on because of ethnic reasons. According to reports, the woman was related to Mr Khan by marriage.
After Mr Khan was taken from prison on Thursday, he was dragged through the streets by thousands of people. Police opened fire to try to stop the mob, wounding several people.
On Monday, police said the arrested men had been charged with rioting, arson and unlawful assembly.
"Some of these 42 arrested men were also directly involved in the lynching, and will face additional charges," news agency AFP quoted Inspector General of Police Wabang Jamir as saying.
There are conflicting versions of how a large mob entered the prison and then removed - and killed - one selected inmate.
One version is that initially a small group of men went to the prison, and demanded to take out Mr Khan, and that some prison officials complied and led them to him.
Only later, several thousand people collected outside the jail, demanding that the prisoner be handed over to them.
The lynching happened in the midst of a controversy in India over the government's decision to ban India's Daughter, a documentary about the 2012 gang rape and murder of a student in Delhi.
But correspondents say the killing is also linked to rising ethnic tensions in Nagaland, whose indigenous tribespeople have blamed migrants from Assam state and Bangladesh for settling on their land.
Vigilante justice is not unheard of in India but it is rarely seen on this scale.
The lynching points to rising anxiety among locals in Nagaland about Muslim Bangladeshi migrants who, they say, have illegally settled on their land and are encroaching on their resources.
Many say it also proves how easily mass hysteria can be whipped up among local people to brand any Muslim migrant as Bangladeshi.
The defendant in this case was not a Bangladeshi but a Bengali-speaker from the neighbouring state of Assam. His father served in the Indian air force, and two of his brothers are in the army.
The incident points to a complete breakdown of law and order in Nagaland, which is wracked by a tribal insurgency.
Chances of a settlement to the 58-year-old conflict continue to look dim after 17 years of negotiations because rebel factions who cannot agree on the territorial limits of a future Naga homeland or state. | Police in north-eastern India say they have charged 42 people in connection with the lynching of a suspected rapist who was taken from prison by a mob. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "31792402"} | 699 | 41 | 0.478872 | 1.247233 | -0.057475 | 1.433333 | 19.5 | 0.833333 |
The 30-year-old has agreed a one-year deal at Huish Park.
Formerly with Plymouth, Bury, Port Vale and York City player, the Guadeloupe international most recently played for non-league side Weymouth.
He started his senior club career with French side Caen, before moving to England in 2010 to join Argyle, for whom he started 33 league games.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | League Two club Yeovil Town have signed former Bournemouth defender Stephane Zubar on a free transfer. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "40434804"} | 98 | 27 | 0.460807 | 0.974939 | -0.01962 | 0.294118 | 5.058824 | 0.294118 |
The platform, popular with emerging artists, faced closure if the new funding was not approved by Friday.
"Soundcloud is here to stay,” wrote Alexander Ljung, the company’s chairman, who as part of the deal is stepping down as the firm's chief executive.
Concerned users had been backing up their Soundcloud uploads, worried the site would go offline.
Its highest profile user, Chance the Rapper, has been vocal in supporting the site.
In July, the Berlin-based company laid off 40% of its workforce, a total of 173 people. In a note circulated to shareholders earlier this week (obtained by Axios) Mr Ljung said without the money Soundcloud would not be able “to continue as a going concern”.
By Friday, things were looking up.
"This financing means Soundcloud remains strong and independent,” Mr Ljung wrote in a blog post.
"Over the last few weeks, I’ve been moved by the outpouring of commentary around Soundcloud’s unique and crucial role in driving what global culture is today (and what it will become tomorrow).
"You’ve told me how, without Soundcloud, there would be a giant gaping void in today’s world of music. We can’t have that, and I’m happy to once again say that won’t be happening.”
The company will see considerable changes in leadership. Mr Ljung will be replaced as chief executive by Kerry Trainor, the former boss of video-sharing site Vimeo. Mike Weissman, also formerly at Vimeo, will become Soundcloud’s chief operating officer.
Soundcloud will now need to look at reducing costs and doing more to monetise the service which, according to the firms latest publicly available figures, has more than 40 million users.
The firm’s money problems have been well-documented - with its valuation dropping considerable from a high of $700m in 2014. In September, acquisition talks with Spotify failed to materialise.
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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.
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The e-brochure features an interactive map of Wales split into areas.
Visitors can click on one to see what kind of wildlife is there in different seasons, for example puffins on Skomer Island or dormice in north Wales.
Mr Skates said it was "astonishing" what had been achieved using a small amount of money and described it as a "very precious resource".
Speaking at the launch in Llanelwedd, he said: "We have record levels in terms of visitors but what we want to do is build on those successes, making sure people come and return time and time again.
"I'm particularly impressed by what you have done with the online resources, not just including top 10 visitor suggestions for each area but for each of the seasons. We have to ensure there's something all year round to offer tourists."
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The Hinkley Point C party had been cancelled at the very last minute by a nervous UK government.
After years of delay, EDF management had finally managed to convince its own board (just) that constructing the world's biggest nuclear power station wouldn't bankrupt the company.
It was now Theresa May's turn to waver.
There was plenty to think about. A contract that locked in an electricity price more than double the current cost. The commitment to growing Chinese involvement in the UK's nuclear industry, and the voices pointing out that other options for low carbon electricity were getting cheaper all the time.
All good reasons to hit the pause button. There seemed little chance of renegotiating the price (after EDF's struggle with its own board) or the participants in the project (without mortally offending the Chinese) so many thought the deal looked dead.
Nothing has changed in the six weeks since - so why is it almost certain this deal will now get the green light?
First, there has been the lack of anti-Hinkley spinning from the new brooms at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. Last week, the Secretary of State, Greg Clark, and senior civil servants hosted journalists for a get-to-know-you session.
If Hinkley was dead you can be sure that the subliminal chat would have been how the energy market had changed, new options were available, delays at other EDF sites were a big worry etc. There was none of that.
In the Commons today, Greg Clark reiterated that new nuclear was a vital part of the UK's energy mix.
If that's true and the government acknowledges our power generation capacity is creaking, that means it thinks it still needs Hinkley.
Secondly, EDF has already spent £2.5bn on developing the project. Clearing earth, building a concrete factory and providing top-notch bat and hedgehog facilities doesn't come cheap.
Does the government really want to face a compensation claim from EDF? If so, that could mean spending £2.5bn on NOT building infrastructure.
Third, Theresa May has had a chance to deal with China's top brass directly. Meekly nodding through a project developed by two previous governments without acknowledging the parties had changed would arguably show weakness.
With China now added to the project, it seems reasonable to want a personal chat with Mr Xi to remind him who the customer is.
After G20 she has now done that and will no doubt tell us that she has received all sorts of assurances that China does not present a security risk.
Fourth, EDF went to the trouble of announcing a Welsh steelmaker as the preferred bidder on a £100m steel order for Hinkley just last week.
Granted, that may have been another nudge from EDF and the subcontractors to the government to highlight the benefits to a particularly beleaguered industry of Hinkley.
BUT after the embarrassment last time, one feels that it wouldn't be worth going through the motions unless they were fairly confident.
Theresa May will still be under some pressure to justify her spanner-throwing antics of late July. So we can expect a series of reasons why the delay was necessary and unexpected benefits of going ahead.
We may hear of an unexpectedly high level of involvement for British contractors (as in the Welsh steel example above) and a mechanism to return excess EDF profits to UK consumers.
Although there is anecdotal evidence of the first being true, there is already a mechanism in the existing deal to achieve the second.
None of that will appease the project's many critics who say that this is a project from a bygone age - a dinosaur in a digital, dynamic and decentralised age of power.
Those voices will continue to be heard at their loudest when the inevitable hiccups delays and controversies emerge in the future.
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The move focuses on those using Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights to argue their right to a family life would be breached by deportation.
Home Secretary Theresa May said this right was not "absolute" and could be overridden in the national interest.
Parliament will hold a debate and vote later in June on whether the guidelines should apply, Mrs May told MPs.
Several leading barristers have questioned the need for new guidance, saying the meaning of Article 8 is already clear and judges understand it.
Deportation should become routine for any foreign criminals jailed for at least 12 months, the government has said, and those sentenced to more than four years should only be allowed to remain in the "most exceptional circumstances".
* Source: Home Office
The home secretary first signalled that the government wanted to alter the way courts interpret Article 8 - the right to a family life - at last year's Conservative Party conference.
She said the meaning of Article 8 had been "perverted" and used to prevent the removal of foreign national prisoners and illegal immigrants.
However, the example she used in her speech, of a Bolivian man who she claimed had been allowed to stay in Britain because he had a pet cat, was widely criticised for being inaccurate.
In the past, judges have interpreted Article 8 through the development of case law.
Speaking on Sunday, Mrs May said the UK was "entitled" to set out its views on the subject and to make clear its belief that all aspects of Article 8 - including when other considerations could take precedence - should be taken into account in rulings.
"This is not an absolute right [to family life]," she told BBC One's Andrew Marr show. "In the interests of the economy, or controlling migration or public order, those sort of issues, the state has a right to qualify the right to a family life."
Mrs May said she wanted MPs to set out "very clearly" their view on what "constituted the right to family life" and how "we balance the public interest against the individual's interest".
She said she would expect judges to "follow and take into account" the views of Parliament, adding "if they don't we will have to look at other measures and that could include primary legislation".
The Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants said that in 2010 only between 2% and 8% of foreign prisoners facing deportation won appeals on Article 8 grounds.
And civil rights group Liberty said the right to family life was already qualified, allowing "considerable latitude over immigration control and the economic well-being of the nation".
"The home secretary is far better reviewing immigration rules than bashing the human rights act or the judiciary," said its director Shami Chakrabarti.
For Labour, shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said the number of foreign criminals being deported had fallen since 2010 and new guidelines, while a "sensible" move, were no alternative to "serious action" on enforcement.
"The Borders Inspector's report has made clear that failings in administration and enforcement within the Border Agency are preventing hundreds of foreign criminals being deported," she said.
Separately, the home secretary also outlined plans to introduce minimum income requirements for people seeking to bring foreign spouses or children into the country.
From next year, an immigrant from outside the European Union will have to earn at least £18,600 a year to enable their spouse to join them. For those with one child, the level will be £22,400, rising by £2,400 for each additional child.
Migrants seeking to settle will also have to be able to speak and understand English and pass a "Britishness" test, demonstrating an understanding of life in the UK.
Mrs May also announced there will be a minimum probationary period of five years for settlement to deter sham marriages. | Judges are to be given new guidelines aimed at ensuring fewer foreign criminals avoid being deported. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "18384543"} | 849 | 24 | 0.398632 | 0.950833 | -0.026096 | 1.176471 | 44.705882 | 0.705882 |
Appearing at Carlisle Crown Court, Phillipa Hodgson, 21, of John Street, Maryport, pleaded not guilty to two charges of mistreating or wilfully neglecting the resident at Workington's Rosecroft Residential Home.
A trial, to be held at the same court, has been scheduled to begin on 27 January.
Ms Hodgson was granted conditional bail. | A woman has denied mistreating an 81-year-old Cumbrian care home resident. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "34765038"} | 89 | 22 | 0.623381 | 1.239937 | -1.184932 | 0.375 | 4.125 | 0.375 |
The triptych, Three Studies of Lucian Freud (1969), is considered one of Bacon's greatest masterpieces.
It was sold after six minutes of fierce bidding, Christie's auction house said.
The price eclipsed the $119.9m (£74m) paid for Edvard Munch's The Scream last year.
At the same auction, Jeff Koons broke the world record for a price paid for a single artwork by a living artist.
His sculpture Balloon Dog (Orange) - one of a series of five stainless steel sculptures in varying colours - fetched $58,4m (£36.7m).
The previous record for a living artist was set by a Gerhard Richter painting depicting an Italian city square, which sold in May for $37.1 million (£23.3m).
It was the first time Three Studies of Lucian Freud had been offered at auction and bidding opened at $80m (£50m, 60m euros). Its presale estimate was $85m (£53m, 64m euros).
By Will GompertzArts editor
In a world of supply and demand, it is not surprising that Bacon's huge triptych should sell for such an amount. It's unique, it's very high quality, and from an extremely famous period in the artist's life.
The subject, and Bacon's remarkable use of colour, captures a moment in art history where his friendship with Freud was at its closest. It represents a relationship that has already moved into legend.
What would be wonderful is if Freud's portrait of Bacon (painted around the same time but stolen from Berlin's National Gallery in 1988) was to be recovered and put back on public display, completing the story of these modern masters' mutual admiration.
A telephone bidder won with an offer of $127 million (£80m), which, after commission, means they will pay a total of $142m.
The auction house did not disclose the identity of the buyer.
Bacon, known for his triptychs, painted Three Studies of Lucian Freud in 1969 at London's Royal College of Art, after his studio was destroyed in a fire.
Francis Outred, head of Post-War and Contemporary Art at Christie's Europe, said the work was "a true masterpiece and one of the greatest paintings to come up for auction in a current generation".
"It marks Bacon and Freud's relationship, paying tribute to the creative and emotional kinship between the two artists," he added.
The pair met in 1945 and became close companions, painting each other on a number of occasions, before their relationship cooled during the 1970s.
Exhibited in Bacon's renowned retrospective at the Grand Palais, Paris in 1971-1972, the three panels that form the painting were separated in the mid-1970s.
One panel was shown at the Tate in 1985 before the three sections were reassembled.
The complete work was displayed in New Haven, Connecticut in 1999.
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The arrests were made in a joint operation between the National Crime Agency (NCA) and the PSNI. Those arrested are suspected of accessing indecent images of children.
On top of the arrests, steps were taken to protect a number of children deemed to be at risk.
Items were also seized for further forensic examination.
The people who were arrested have been released on bail pending further enquiries.
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The top division of women's football saw an overall 48% rise, with the average league attendance being 1,076 compared to 728 in 2014.
Newly-crowned champions Chelsea Ladies enjoyed the biggest gain with a 164% increase, while Sunderland were second with a 123% rise.
Manchester City had the highest average attendance of 1,500.
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They also claimed the season's single highest attendance with 3,180 supporters at the Academy Stadium on Sunday, as City beat Notts County on the final day of the 2015 WSL 1 campaign.
England's success at this summer's World Cup appears to have had a major impact on women's football, with attendances up by 29% compared to matches before the tournament.
FA director of football participation and development Kelly Simmons said: "The sheer increase in attendances we've seen this season shows just what appetite there is for the women's game in this country.
"2015 has been a landmark year for women's football, with the success of the England team at the World Cup and the first-ever SSE Women's FA Cup Final at Wembley, and this is another marker of just how far the game has come." | Women's Super League One crowds have seen a major increase from last season, the Football Association has announced. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "34447139"} | 262 | 25 | 0.597991 | 1.369802 | 0.261788 | 0.857143 | 11.238095 | 0.666667 |
Joel Richards, from Wednesbury, was killed alongside uncle Adrian Evans, grandfather Patrick Evans and 35 others in the terrorist attacks near Sousse, Tunisia, this year.
Now the 19-year-old Walsall fan's family is to be presented with a posthumous award.
Friends and colleagues praised Mr Richards and his dedication to sport.
Suzanne, his mother, said: "The community, as well as his friends and family, have lost so much.
"In 19 years he did more for the sports community than most will ever do."
Rebecca Foster, who led Mr Richards on his PE course at Worcester University, said he was "an exceptional student" and natural role model whose "infectious personality" made him popular throughout the university.
"He was very hard-working, he was conscientious, and he motivated those other students around him," she said.
"Should he [have] wanted to go into teaching he would have had his hand snapped off to be a PGCE applicant at any university, but equally he was a very talented referee, and I know that the FA probably would have headhunted him too.
"I think really the world was his oyster."
Jeremy Kamp lived with Mr Richards as they studied together in Worcester, and said his friend's passion for sport would never be forgotten.
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Several thousand protested outside the main public TV station in Warsaw.
The new laws give the government power to appoint heads of public TV and radio, as well as the civil service.
European media watchdogs and the EU have condemned the move. But the government says some of Poland's state-controlled bodies need reform.
"Free media" protests were held in the cities of Poznan, Wrocław and Krakow, Radio Poland reported.
"We want to express our solidarity with the independent media and our opposition to the attack being currently being carried out against it," the station quoted Mateusz Kijowski - head of the newly-created Committee for the Defence of Democracy - as saying.
The committee also opposes the introduction of a constitutional court - which it says undermines the court's responsibility for holding the government to account.
The government's media reforms give the treasury minister the power to hire and fire broadcasting chiefs - a role currently in the hands of a media supervisory committee.
On Friday it dismissed state media management teams and installed replacements.
The EU Commission has warned that Poland may be jeopardising EU values by introducing the new laws and could face punitive measures. It will hold a debate on the reforms on 13 January.
Polish presidential spokeswoman Malgorzata Sadurska said earlier this week that President Andrzej Duda signed the laws because he wanted the state media to be "impartial, objective and reliable".
The Eurosceptic Law and Justice Party (PiS) won a clear majority in October elections and argues that journalists on public service channels are biased against it in their coverage.
Most Poles tune in to the public TVP channels, as well as public radio - which includes many regional stations.
Correspondents say that incoming governments in Poland tend to put their own people in to run large state companies, institutions, and the public media - but the PiS has gone faster and further this time. | Protests have take place across Poland against new laws which demonstrators say gives the newly-elected government power to restrict media freedoms. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "35272542"} | 443 | 29 | 0.528178 | 1.286404 | 0.613854 | 1.25 | 15.375 | 0.666667 |
The project, known locally as Surfbury, will be based east of Newquay's town centre and is similar to the duchy's Poundbury development in Dorset.
The plans were approved by Cornwall Council's strategic planning committee.
However, some councillors are unhappy the development has not been able to deliver more affordable homes.
The Duchy of Cornwall - a major landowner in the south-west of England - owns most of the 218 hectare (538 acre) site, known as Nansledan.
The duchy is a private estate that funds both the charitable and private activities of Prince Charles, who holds the title of Duke of Cornwall.
Tim Gray, estate surveyor to the Duchy of Cornwall, said: "These latest applications are the heart and backbone of the scheme and will secure its future delivery and the wide range of community benefits that will flow from it."
Councillor Geoff Brown said the plans had received some local criticism over the amount of affordable housing.
"That is certainly one of the concerns that local councillors have got," he added.
"I think we are looking somewhere in the region of 27-30% which is significantly less than we would like."
A Duchy of Cornwall spokeswoman said: "The level of affordable housing provision has been agreed by the council, and the development also incorporates a wide range of community benefits.
"The project aims to boost the employment provision in the local area by delivering one job per household throughout the development." | The Duchy of Cornwall's plans for 800 homes, shops, a supermarket and a primary school have been given the go-ahead. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "25464014"} | 320 | 32 | 0.597435 | 1.470566 | -1.038877 | 1.115385 | 11.192308 | 0.653846 |
Andrew Houston, 48, had denied driving carelessly on the A9 between Newtonmore and Kingussie on 9 July 2013.
His wife, Abigail, and seven year-old daughter, Mia, died along with German tourist Dr Mohammad Hayajneh.
Houston was convicted of a reduced charge of careless driving. He was fined £1,000 and disqualified from driving for a year.
The trial at Inverness Sheriff Court began on Monday.
Outside the court the family of Dr Hayajneh said they had not wanted Houston jailed but did not feel justice had been served.
Mr Hayajneh's son Jonas said: "We are sad at this verdict and believe that justice has not been done for our father and husband.
"We don't feel hatred towards Mr Houston and at no point we wanted him to go to prison, but we wanted him to be found guilty since all the evidence suggested he was and we are convinced that this tragedy could have been avoided.
"We now face the prospect of not gaining proper closure."
Dr Hayajneh's wife, Ursula, praised the actions of the police and medical staff in the aftermath of the accident.
She said: "After the accident I learned that Scottish people are very helpful, they have a great heart and so friendly and at this horrible time I would say 'thank you' to the police and to everybody who were so helpful to me."
Houston is a senior partner at McSporrans defence Solicitors in Edinburgh.
Now the family will pursue a civil action against Houston.
He made no comment as he left the court with the mother of his late wife and her sister.
However, his defence counsel, Frances McMenamin said: "His mother and sister in law have been fully supportive of my client since the tragedy and it hardly needs saying that Mr Houston will always carry the burden of the loss of all those lives and knows the grief and loss to others.
"It has taken its toll on him both emotionally and physically and he has found it psychologically difficult to cope with.
"He expresses his inevitable sadness for what this loss has meant to others."
It was five months before the solicitor advocate was fit enough to be interviewed by police about the tragedy.
But he could not remember how it happened, only a loud bang "and the horrid aftermath" he told officers. | An Edinburgh lawyer has been cleared of causing the deaths of three people by careless driving. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "35493964"} | 527 | 20 | 0.405475 | 1.079552 | -0.786035 | 1 | 27.117647 | 0.647059 |
The 27-year-old's body was found after officers were called to his Isle of Man home on 30 July.
Insp Iain MacMillan said: "Mr Baggs had suffered from asthma for many years and died as a result of his condition."
Police have informed the coroner that the Plymouth-born entrepreneur died from "natural causes".
Insp McKillop said: "From the reaction we have encountered during our enquiries, it is clear that this is a tragic and premature loss of such a hardworking and visionary young man.
"We extend our thoughts to the family at this sad time and on their behalf I would request that they are now left in peace to grieve."
Baggs lived in the Isle of Man for most of his life and ran a telecommunications company.
When he was aged 21 in 2010, he became the youngest ever candidate to appear on the BBC One show The Apprentice.
Baggs, who was fired in the semi-final, became famous for his one-liners which included "Everything I touch turns to sold" and "I'm Stuart Baggs the brand".
He was found dead by police after they were called to his home on Central Promenade in Douglas, at 09:00 BST last Thursday.
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Private ambulances were used 9,242 times last year compared with 1,248 in 2012-13, according to details released after a request by Plaid Cymru.
The Welsh Ambulance Service said it was due to a rise in demand and a change in the way the service was delivered.
But Plaid said the ambulance service needs a long-term plan to meet demand.
Welsh Ambulance Service NHS Trust executive director Patsy Roseblade said: "All businesses use a range of providers to cope with peaks in demand and this is neither unusual nor necessarily a bad thing.
"That's why we've been using a range of providers in recent months, including private and third sector providers to bolster our capacity while we realign our own resources in a more efficient and effective way."
The ambulance service said private providers, including St John Ambulance crews, carry the same life-saving equipment and staff have the same level of skills.
Additional providers have been operating mainly in south east Wales covering health board areas for Cwm Taf, Aneurin Bevan and Cardiff and Vale.
Since 2013/14 the ambulance service started using private providers to support transfers to hospital for patients referred by GPs.
And it said more recently it has "made a conscious decision to support internal capacity with the use of private providers for responses to emergency calls" which are more expensive due to the equipment and skill level required by crews.
The use of taxis by the service has also increased from 682 times three years ago to 868 times in the last financial year, costing £10,000.
Ms Roseblade said: "Using taxis where clinically appropriate means more ambulance resources are available to respond to life-threatening calls and therefore represents more effective use of the finite pool of specialist skills and equipment available to us.
"Too often we get calls that do not need an ambulance service response. Lots of people who call 999 simply need to see a pharmacist or GP."
Plaid health spokeswoman Elin Jones said: "The dramatic rise in the use of private ambulances for emergency transport indicates a desperate need for a long term plan to meet demand in-house.
"Plaid Cymru has made it clear that we want to see an increase in the number of ambulances and staffing to ensure there is sufficient emergency care available to treat people at the scene as well integrating health and social care to improve patient flow and reviewing GP out-of-hours care." | Ambulance bosses have defended a rise in the use of non-NHS crews and vehicles with costs increasing from £172,000 to over £2m since 2012. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "32951605"} | 533 | 38 | 0.505861 | 1.282435 | 0.017888 | 1.066667 | 15.633333 | 0.666667 |
Would-be referendum voters have until midnight on Tuesday 7 June to sign up to the electoral register.
Prime Minister David Cameron says more than a million people have done so since the referendum campaign began.
But figures suggest many people will leave it too late to register and will be turned away at polling stations.
Lib Dem peer Lord Rennard, chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Democratic Participation, said: "Many millions of people will not be on the register, and won't be able to take part in the referendum. Some, unaware of the deadline, will register too late.
"Before the last general election, 186,000 applied after the deadline. Despite the efforts of Bite The Ballot's #TurnUp campaign, this may happen again, and many people may think that they're already registered and turn up at the polls anyway."
An APPG report published in April, Missing Millions points to 2014 research which shows 7.1 million people have gone missing from the electoral roll and that the gap between the voting age population and registered voters is growing.
British, Irish and Commonwealth citizens resident in the UK and many British citizens living abroad are entitled to vote in the referendum.
You can check with your local authority's electoral services team if you are worried that you are not on the register.
If you are not on the register you have until midnight on Tuesday, 7 June to submit an application for a vote. The deadlines for applying for a postal vote at the referendum are:
In England, Scotland or Wales, you can register to vote online anytime at gov.uk/register-to-vote. If you are a British citizen living abroad, you can register to vote online in the same way.
In Northern Ireland, visit the government's Register to vote in Northern Ireland page to download a registration form. If you are an Irish citizen living abroad who was born in Northern Ireland, visit the Electoral Office for Northern Ireland website to download the correct form.
Research by Dr Toby James, of the University of East Anglia, shows that many citizens think that they are on the register because they pay their council tax and therefore expect those running the election to "know about them".
The Missing Millions report shows that two thirds of polling stations turned away voters in 2015 who thought that they were on the electoral register, but were not.
An Electoral Commission spokesman said: "There's only one way to ensure you're able to have your say at this historic referendum and that's to be registered to vote by 7 June.
"Anyone who was already registered to vote for the elections in May will be registered for the EU Referendum.
"If your circumstances have changed since May, for example if you've moved home, then you need to re-register at your new property."
Government figures show more than a million people have signed up to the electoral register since 1 March, with 25 to 34-year-olds leading the way. More than 25,000 people in that age group registered on Monday alone, out of a total for that day of 83,000. The next biggest group was the under-25s.
The figures show a big spike in applications for a vote on the deadline for registrations for May's elections in Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and English local authorities.
But there was another, smaller spike on polling day itself, suggesting many people only discovered they were not on the register when they tried to vote and were turned away.
Campaign group Hope Not Hate and Bite the Ballot have launched a voter registration drive called #TurnUp with the aim of registering 500,000 young people by 7 June.
The campaigners are targeting universities, further education colleges, local neighbourhoods and faith communities and claim support from Facebook, Twitter and Tinder.
Bite the Ballot has also joined forces with Starbucks to hold voter registration and EU debate events at 50 coffee shops around the country, starting next Wednesday.
David Cameron highlighted the efforts being made to sign up younger voters at an event at Easyjet headquarters in Luton earlier on Tuesday.
"We are obviously doing a lot, encouraging companies and others to say this is a very big vote - it affects your future, it's not just about the next five years, it's about the next 50 years and I think over a million people have registered since this campaign started, which is very encouraging," said the prime minister.
Voters now have to register to vote as individuals rather than by household, as part of an attempt to cut down in electoral fraud.
Estimates vary as to how many people have "gone missing" from the electoral roll since a new system was introduced.
Millions of people were transferred automatically on to the new register after having their identity confirmed by checking social security and council tax records.
Names that could not be verified in this way were kept on the register until 1 December last year but have now been removed - a total of 770,000 entries. A total of 1.5 million people have been deleted since 2014, when the new system began to be rolled out but many could have signed up again since the figures were released earlier this year.
Labour's shadow minister for young people and voter registration, Gloria De Piero, said: "This referendum takes place at a time when we know 1.5 million people have been taken off the electoral register since the introduction of Individual Electoral Registration.
"You only have until 7 June to get on that register and have your voice heard.
"I hope everyone will think about where they will be on 23 June, so they can make sure they are registered at the right address.
"It might be easier to arrange a postal or proxy vote if you are going on holiday, to Glastonbury, or even if you will be studying hard for exams.
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Warburton suffered a knee injury in Cardiff Blues' 24-24 draw at Ulster in April, ruling him out for six weeks.
Blues head coach Danny Wilson said the 28-year-old may return for a possible European Champions Cup play-off final - a week before the tour's first game.
"I spoke to Sam and he feels that he could play now," Gatland said.
Speaking to Sky Sports, Gatland continued: "He's made some really good progress and really happy with how he's responded to treatment over the last few weeks.
"I expect him to play before he goes to New Zealand. I think he's looking to play for the Blues and if potentially they are involved in one of the play-off games to get into Europe, he's hoping to be selected for that."
Meanwhile, Gatland also said scrum-half Conor Murray and lock Alun Wyn Jones were progressing in their own recoveries from injury.
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Murray sustained up a shoulder injury in Ireland's Six Nations defeat by Wales in March while Jones also injured his shoulder in Wales' defeat by France on 18 March.
"[Jones] is making good progress. [Lions forward coach] Steve Borthwick went down and saw him last week and he's confident that he's going to be okay as well," Gatland said.
"It looks like the Ospreys are going to be involved in the semi-finals of the Pro12 and that would give him [Jones] an opportunity to get some rugby under his belt.
"Conor Murray, the prognosis with him looks pretty positive in terms of hopefully getting back and getting a game for Munster as well, and that'll be good for him over the next few weeks if he can get a game.
"The ideal scenario is that, and it's not for everyone, but depending on how long ago you've picked up an injury, you want some players to get back on the field and get a game under their belt before we go on tour." | British and Irish Lions head coach Warren Gatland expects injured captain Sam Warburton to play before the tour of New Zealand begins in June. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "39797924"} | 469 | 33 | 0.532758 | 1.283753 | 0.344221 | 1.2 | 16.4 | 0.72 |
Adrian Vasquez has filed a lawsuit in Florida alleging negligence by Princess Cruises, his lawyer said.
The American cruise company has said it deeply regrets that one of its ships sailed past the dying men.
Passengers said they spotted the castaways and alerted staff, but the firm said the captain was not informed.
Mr Vasquez's lawyer, Edna Ramos, said the lawsuit includes testimony from two cruise ship passengers who said they saw the boat and reported it to a member of staff.
One passenger, Judy Meredith, earlier told reporters she had informed a sales representative about the boat and had shown him it through a spotting telescope.
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She said she had been assured the information had been passed on to the crew.
Mr Vasquez and his friends set out in their three-metre-long open fishing boat the Fifty Cents from the port of Rio Hato in February, and were on their way back after their catch when the engine failed.
After 16 days adrift, he says, they saw a cruise ship sailing past, and had made attempts to flag it down with a red sweater.
"We felt happy, because we thought they were coming to rescue us," he said.
Mr Vasquez was eventually rescued 1,000km (620 miles) off the mainland, near the Galapagos Islands. His friends had already died of thirst.
He said he survived thanks to a sudden rainstorm that replenished his drinking water supplies.
Princess Cruises said there appeared to have been a "breakdown in communication".
It said the captain - Edward Perrin - and the officer of the watch were not notified.
Princess Cruises said it understood its responsibility under the law of the sea to help any vessel in distress, and said its ships had been involved in more than 30 rescues over the past decade. | A Panamanian fisherman who survived 28 days adrift in the Pacific and watched two companions die is suing the owners of a cruise ship that sailed past. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "18055087"} | 406 | 40 | 0.480691 | 1.245047 | -0.134166 | 1 | 12.821429 | 0.642857 |
Joseph Muscat, whose country assumes the EU's presidency in January, told the BBC "this is really and truly our position and I don't see it changing".
Theresa May says the UK will begin the legal process to leave the EU by March.
Mr Muscat said talks on the details of a "new relationship" could be delayed.
Much political debate has focused on the possibility of a "soft" Brexit - the UK retaining some form of membership of the single market in exchange for conceding some control over immigration - and "hard Brexit" - leaving the single market but having fuller control over migration.
But Mr Muscat said the UK and EU needed to first reach agreement on a range of other details once Mrs May triggers Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty.
He said these included the bill the UK must pay before leaving, establishing what will happen to the UK-Republic of Ireland border and working out interim arrangements on issues like security.
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Asked about a suggestion from Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson that the UK could in theory stay in single market and place limits on the freedom of movement of EU citizens, Mr Muscat told the BBC "it's just not happening".
He added: "All of us have been pretty clear in our approach that we want a fair deal for the UK but that kind of fair deal can't translate itself into a superior deal.
"I know that there is absolutely no bluffing from the European side, at least in the council meetings I have attended, saying 'we will start in this position and then we will soften up'.
"No, this is really and truly our position."
He acknowledged the talks could get "complicated" and amount to a "bit of a Catch 22 - it won't be a situation when one side gains and the other side loses.
"We are going to lose something but there will not be a situation when the UK has a better deal than it has today".
Mr Muscat also reiterated the view that even when a final or interim deal is struck between EU leaders and Britain, the European Parliament may decide to veto it in 2019.
His comments come days after the UK's Brexit Secretary David Davis described his meeting with the European Parliament's chief negotiator Guy Verhofstadt as a "good start".
Mr Davis said their pre-negotiations discussion had been able to cover structures and how both sides propose to approach the Brexit talks, adding a deal was possible that was in the interests of the EU and the UK.
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In what were described as the biggest ever military exercises to have taken place on Venezuelan soil, President Maduro proudly declared that more than 500,000 troops from the armed forces and civilian militias loyal to the government participated in "Operation Independence 2016" over the weekend.
"We have never been more prepared than this," barked the president in a speech evoking Venezuela's military heroes of the past, none more important than Mr Maduro's predecessor in office, Hugo Chavez.
Prepared for what exactly? There is no threat of invasion from Venezuela's neighbours and, while clearly keeping a close eye on developments, Washington is highly unlikely to make any direct intervention.
Appearing alongside President Maduro, Minister of Defence Gen Vladimir Padrino Lopez said US "spy planes" had been detected violating Venezuelan airspace on two occasions this month.
Proof, suggested the general, that Washington was planning an invasion and that Venezuela's armed forces should be placed on full alert.
President Maduro frequently blames the country's many crises on "economic warfare" promulgated by internal business elites and hostile foreign governments.
But by raising the spectre of a foreign invasion, many commentators suggest, the embattled president is showing signs of desperation, using an old but tired tactic to divert attention from what is really happening.
One might respectfully counter that the root cause for Venezuela's many problems lies much closer to President Maduro's front door.
Venezuelans are certainly suffering, as I saw in a large regional hospital in the provincial city of Maracay, to the west of Caracas.
Concerned doctors, at the end of their tether, told me how the healthcare system is on the verge of breakdown.
They showed me wards, crammed full of patients but without basic medical equipment. I spoke to patient after patient whose operations could only proceed after they themselves had bought the appropriate medical supplies - splints, dressings, antibiotics etc.
With wards full, many people were forced to lie on gurneys or on the floor in filthy, dark corridors as the daily national blackout affected the most critically important sectors of society.
I spoke to the parents of a baby, severely ill with acute respiratory complications. They had to dig deep into their own pockets for an ill-fitting mask and respirator to keep her alive.
In another makeshift emergency room, as a young girl was undergoing an operation for a broken arm, there was an open drain full of filthy waste water with flies and mosquitoes everywhere.
Most doctors are fearful of speaking on the record because of potential reprisals by loyal pro-government officials attempting to conceal the chronic crisis in Venezuela's health system.
But one junior doctor who did not mind speaking out was Emmanuel Torres.
"Patients are dying because they can't get basic drugs," he told me, having just had to refuse a desperate mother ventilation treatment for her acutely asthmatic child because of an extended power cut.
"I've even had to pay for supplies myself to ensure that routine medical procedures can take place." added Dr Torres.
Reluctantly, he is contemplating a move abroad to work, along with as many as 40% of the country's doctors.
But the shortages go much further than medicines. Venezuela has become a nation of queues.
Food, basic ingredients and household goods are all scarce in a country that became so dependent on oil revenues, it could not cope when the price crashed.
Outside supermarkets and pharmacies across Venezuela, people queue for hours on end, often not even knowing if they will get what they need once inside.
Babies' nappies, flour, sugar, milk and shampoo were just some of the items I heard being repeatedly listed by desperate but stoical shoppers.
You have to admire the resilience and patience of Venezuelans. This situation has persisted, indeed worsened, for the last two years.
Many of those I spoke to in a long queue near the sprawling Petare shantytown would have once regarded themselves as "Chavistas", supporters of the revolution promoted by the late President Chavez.
These are the people who, in last December's Congressional elections switched their allegiance to the opposition coalition.
Emboldened by that victory, opposition supporters have repeatedly challenged the government of Nicolas Maduro.
Their aim is to gather enough signatures to force a recall referendum against the increasingly unpopular leader.
Mr Maduro, in turn, appears more autocratic and entrenched.
He recently declared a state of "economic emergency" and extended, for 90 days, his powers of decree.
He has also publically contemplated using those powers to dissolve a Congress which he regards as hostile and a threat to Hugo Chavez's socialist revolution.
Thus far, President Maduro has been able to count on the support and loyalty of the Venezuelan armed forces that he has vowed to use against opposition protesters "in defence of the revolution".
Perhaps, say observers, that is the real reason behind all the talk of "imminent invasion" and "foreign aggression": to create the emergency conditions that would enable the armed forces to deal with internal dissent.
These are dangerous days in Latin America's most unstable nation. Both government and opposition leaders have recklessly hinted at military intervention in the crisis.
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Twenty-year-old Smith trailed Breeze after lifting 92kg in the snatch, but managed 118kg in the clean and jerk to set a Games record of 210kg.
Two-time champion Breeze, 35, who came out of retirement last December, lifted 202kg in total as Nigeria's Ndidi Winifred took silver with 206kg.
"This is what I've been dreaming of for months and it's happened," said Smith.
"There was a time when I considered quitting the sport.
"I had problems with a back injury and I just wasn't getting any better but, sitting here with a gold medal round my neck, I know exactly why I love this sport."
The Londoner, who won bronze in the same event four years ago in Delhi, celebrated victory with a back flip.
She admitted she struggled to make the weight for the competition.
"I had a bit of a scare a couple of days ago because I still had a good two-and-a-half kilos to come down, so I cut out the carbs and I didn't drink for the majority of Friday," she said.
"I was suffering a little bit so, post-weight, that first bite of chocolate was the best thing I've ever tasted."
Breeze, who moved into coaching after retiring in 2010, said: "It's been one heck of a comeback. I never for one minute thought I'd be back competing.
"My sole intention when I started playing around again last year was to try and motivate and push my athletes to qualify themselves."
England's Christopher Freebury, 25, finished eighth in the men's -69kg after lifting a total of 280kg. That was some way behind Malaysian gold medallist Mohd Hafifi Mansor's total of 305kg. | England weightlifter Zoe Smith won the Commonwealth Games -58kg title as Wales' Michaela Breeze took bronze. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "28504683"} | 413 | 27 | 0.439331 | 1.083301 | 0.247712 | 0.578947 | 19.105263 | 0.578947 |
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. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "34557161"} | 119 | 25 | 0.548949 | 1.096365 | -0.565069 | 0.863636 | 4.909091 | 0.5 |
At least 50 people are reported to have been wounded or killed after being shot in areas of Cape Town's Manenberg suburb in recent weeks.
Provincial Premier Helen Zille has asked the national government to send in the army to help overwhelmed police.
A caretaker at one of the schools died after being shot a number of weeks ago.
A stray bullet from gang violence hit a primary school at about that time as well.
The decision to close the schools was made after teachers said they fear for their safety, Western Cape Province Education Ministry spokeswoman Bronagh Casey told the Associated Press news agency.
Aysha Ismail, mother of one of the victims, called for a greater police presence in Manenberg, to try to bring down the levels of violence.
Ms Ismail said her son was shot in an area where children play every day. Fellow members said he was a part of the gang called the Americans. | A surge in gang violence has prompted education officials in South Africa's Western Cape Province to close 16 schools for two days. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "23715359"} | 202 | 28 | 0.603668 | 1.328175 | -0.197124 | 1.083333 | 7.375 | 0.666667 |
The NHS England review looked at how all 209 local health boards - called clinical commissioning groups - were performing on waiting times, cancer survival, patient surveys and early diagnosis.
Only 29 were classed as performing well enough to meet the ambitions set out in the 2015 cancer plan.
That called for improvements in care so that by 2020 another 30,000 lives per year could be saved.
Dr Fran Woodard, of Macmillan Cancer Support, said the review was "very concerning".
"It highlights just how much the NHS is struggling to meet the challenge of delivering cancer services which meet all the critical needs of people with cancer."
The findings show that two-thirds of areas are failing to achieve the target of ensuring 85% of cancer patients start treatment within 62 days of an urgent referral.
More than half are not seeing 70% of cancer patients survive for a year - another stated ambition.
But a spokeswoman for NHS England defended the performance of the local health groups.
"Cancer care is now the best it's ever been, but we've set stretching goals to save thousands more lives by 2020.
"Measured against this ambition it's not surprising that most local services need to make further improvements, but we're going to track progress transparently so everyone can see how we are improving care and outcomes for patients."
The data will now be used by cancer alliances which will work across regions to help drive up performance between now and 2020.
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Nathaniel Mendez-Laing, Ian Henderson, Callum Camps and Peter Vincenti scored to give Dale a 4-1 win over Gillingham and end a 11-game winless run.
Saturday's victory moved the side into 10th place, easing pressure on Hill.
"They see the infrastructure that we've put in place and the processes to be even more successful," 47-year-old Hill told BBC Radio Manchester.
"I'm fortunate enough that I've got very intelligent owners who can see through not winning a game since early January."
Rochdale's win was their first in the league since 2 January, when they beat Walsall 2-0, and although Hill was pleased with the three points he believes he has nothing to prove.
"I'm the most successful manager this club has ever had and there are plenty of clubs up and down the country who'd take me tomorrow," he said.
Hill's side are seven points outside the League One play-off places, but with games in hand on many rivals, and he is looking forward to the remaining 10 matches.
"We play a lot of teams below us and I think that could give us some impetus going into the next stage of the season," he added. | Rochdale boss Keith Hill thanked the club's "very intelligent owners" after his side ended a poor run of form. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "39328533"} | 275 | 29 | 0.537144 | 1.293745 | -0.249668 | 0.913043 | 10.826087 | 0.652174 |
The Peatland Code, say its developers, has been designed to link potential private funders with accredited restoration projects.
The habitat has been calculated to store three billion tonnes of carbon, more than 20 times the amount locked away in the UK's forests.
The code was launched at the World Forum on Natural Capital in Edinburgh.
The initiative has been developed by the IUCN UK Peatland Programme, which promotes the restoration of the UK's peatlands, and is overseen by a number of environmental bodies including: Scottish Wildlife Trust, the RSPB, the John Muir Trust and the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust.
"Peatlands are arguably the UK's greatest reserve of natural capital," said Peatland Code Chairman Paul Vaight.
Speaking at the code's launch, Mr Vaight said that the majority of the nation's peatland habitat were in a poor state of repair.
However, he added that they were relatively cheap and easy to restore. Once the dominant vegetation, sphagnum moss, had returned, the peatland began absorbing carbon once again.
"Not only that but a healthy bog acts as an excellent filter for water. This is very important in the UK since about 75% of our water catchment is in peatland areas," he observed.
"It also acts as a break on flash floods, delays water run-off and reduces the scale of water in the rivers."
Peatlands account for about 10% of the UK's land area and stores about three billion tonnes of carbon, more than 20 times the volume stored by the nation's forests.
The code is based on research carried out by teams from Birmingham City and Leeds universities.
Prof Mark Reed, who led the research team at Birmingham City University, said: "Whilst providing valued homes for some of our rare and endangered wildlife, our peatlands act as a huge store of carbon, locking up as half as much as half that found in the Amazon rainforest despite being a hundredth of its size."
International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) UK Peatland Programme director Clifton Bain said the new code provided an opportunity for business leaders to show that they were serious about protecting the UK's natural capital.
The code, its developers say, firstly quantifies the carbon savings made as a result of restoring a peatland. It secondly gives those providing the funds confidence the carbon savings will be made, and deliver wider benefits to the area's wildlife and communities.
The World Forum on Natural Capital also saw the launch of a consultation on a framework that would standardise the way business measure its impacts and dependencies on natural capital.
The Natural Capital Protocol, developed by the Natural Capital Coalition, plans to create a system that allows the value of natural assets into organisations' decision-making processes.
The consultation runs until the end of February 2016, with the first version of the protocol being launched in the summer of 2016.
To date, there are an array of systems to measure and place a financial value on natural capital.
One such system has been developed by US-based organisation Aecom.
"I am an environmental economist and we have these economic notions of capital, such as financial capital and manufactured capital. These are common parlance within business," explained Aecom's Chris White.
"Then you have concepts such as sustainability and CSR (corporate social responsibility), which is generally seen as a separate area and is not viewed as a main issue within the boardroom.
"The idea of a natural capital approach is to try and bring them together. It is to talk about and view the environment as an asset. The idea is that you have a piece of natural capital like a forest and it provides something that is of value to a business over time," Mr White told BBC News.
One company to have worked with Aecom's natural capital valuation system is National Grid.
"We have more than 600 legacy sites, which are things like gas holder sites and industrial sites that we have inherited from previous activities," explained Stuart Bailey, National Grid's head of sustainability and climate change.
"What we do with these is of interest to us and to our board," he told BBC News. "What we do and what we build has an impact on communities and they have an impact on the environment."
He explained that the challenge within National Grid was establishing a way to convert the environmental costs and benefits of these legacy sites into a "monetary value that our finance people and stakeholders understood".
Using the system developed by Aecom, Mr Bailey said it was possible to get natural capital onto the company's decision-making process.
He used the "negative asset" of an old gas holder site in Burnley, Lancashire, as an example.
"There is no commercial value to that piece of land. Gas holder sites in London have brownfield redevelopment value but in Burnley there is not the demand and it is actually a liability for us.
"We have problems with that site. We have problems with trespass and we have problems with fly tipping.
He explained that a consultation with the local community revealed that residents wanted an open green space that could be used for recreation.
"We have worked with the local authority and the forestry commission on a plan for a community woodland.
"This particular project is not costing us anything to do. It is a site that goes from a value of near zero to a site (using the tool developed by Aecom) with a value of £300,000.
Mr Bailey added: "We also get a few benefits, such as hopefully remove the fly-tipping issue, we get the security sorted and, hopefully, the local community gets some benefits too." | Private investors are being invited to help fund the restoration of about one half of the UK's peatlands. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "34894430"} | 1,233 | 24 | 0.46955 | 1.377677 | -0.018085 | 2.1 | 56.25 | 0.8 |
He said he had agreed to suspending the right-to-buy scheme "to ensure homes are available to those who need them".
Swansea and Carmarthenshire have already been granted the power to halt sales to protect their housing stock.
Ministers are planning to introduce a law to abolish right-to-buy across Wales over the next year.
Ending the flagship policy of former Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was one of the most eye catching pledges in Welsh Labour's assembly election manifesto.
Since 1980, more than 130,000 houses in Wales have been bought under right-to-buy, for council tenants, and right-to-acquire, for housing association tenants.
Anglesey council says nearly half its housing stock has been sold under the scheme - leaving it with fewer than 4,000 properties.
Mr Sargeant said he had agreed to the council's application to suspend right-to-buy to "help them deal with the pressure their social housing is facing and to ensure that homes are available to those who need them".
He said the Welsh Government was also abolishing right-to-buy altogether, because the scheme was "further increasing the pressure on our social housing supply and is forcing many vulnerable people to wait longer for a home".
"Legislating to end the right-to-buy is the only sure way to prevent this and give social landlords the confidence to invest in building more of the affordable homes Wales needs," Mr Sargeant added. | Anglesey has become the latest Welsh local authority to stop tenants buying their own council houses, Communities Secretary Carl Sargeant has confirmed. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "37372332"} | 320 | 30 | 0.578689 | 1.416466 | 0.146815 | 0.541667 | 12 | 0.541667 |
Letters from the EA to their parents were not delivered as planned on Saturday 20 May.
The authority said the letters would now be sent by recorded delivery on Tuesday.
"We are currently investigating the cause of the delay," an EA spokesperson said.
The EA also apologised to parents who could not contact a helpline to get information about the process.
"The EA helpline received a high volume of calls on Saturday," the spokesperson continued.
"We apologise to anyone who was not able to get through."
On Saturday, about 21,000 P7 pupils were contacted by post-primary schools to confirm their year 8 places for September 2017.
The EA delay affected some of the 120 pupils who have not yet been placed in a post-primary school.
On Monday, Michael Holden, whose son attends Killinchy Primary School, told the BBC his family have been left in limbo after they did not receive a letter over the weekend.
He said he and his wife made about 300 attempts to get through to the emergency hotline, but that it was constantly engaged.
"When we eventually did get through, it said the mailbox was full and simply disconnected the line," he said.
"No principal in our area was given the result either, so the primary schools weren't given the information so they weren't able to assist any parent."
He added: "The whole thing is just absolutely shocking and in the day of technology - why they can't offer alternatives that we could log into a system and view the result?
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Guo, 24, ran gambling operations out of private flats she rented in the capital, a Beijing court said.
She made headlines in 2011 after she claimed to work for a company linked to the Chinese Red Cross, while also boasting about luxury cars she owned.
The scandal led to a large drop in donations, despite the charity denying any links to her.
On Thursday, the Beijing Dongcheng People's Court said (in Chinese) that Guo was also fined 50,000 yuan ($7,800; £5,000), while associate Zhao Xiaolai was jailed for two years and fined 20,000 yuan.
Guo had admitted to illegal gambling, but denied running a casino.
Gambling is mostly illegal in mainland China, although it is allowed in Macau and, to a lesser extent, Hong Kong.
Guo's high profile meant that her case attracted significant attention in China, with the Beijing Dongcheng People's Court posting live updates of most of the proceedings on its Twitter-like weibo microblog.
The hashtag "Guo Meimei Zhao Xiaolai casino trial" was viewed more than six million times on Thursday.
Guo first became notorious in 2011 after posting photos of herself posing with luxury cars and designer handbags while claiming to be "general manager" of the China Red Cross Commerce Department - a company linked to the Chinese Red Cross.
The Chinese Red Cross - which was already facing accusations of misusing donations - denied any connection to Guo, but the charity still experienced a 60% drop in donations that year. | Chinese internet personality Guo Meimei has been jailed for five years for running an illegal casino. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "34209099"} | 357 | 23 | 0.565677 | 1.420277 | -0.25322 | 1 | 17.235294 | 0.647059 |
Smith, 28, won a controversial fight in April after Williams was withdrawn by his corner at the start of the 10th round because of a badly cut eye.
The Welshman, 25, said the injury, which required plastic surgery, was a result of a "blatant" Smith headbutt.
Williams led on all three judges' scorecards at the time.
Victory for Smith extended his record to 25-1-1, while defeat was Williams' first in an 18-fight career.
Despite winning, Liverpool's Smith was not crowned WBO interim champion because of his failure to make the weight before the bout.
Puerto Rico's Miguel Cotto will fight Japan's Yoshihiro Kamegai for the vacant WBO title in August, with the winner facing a mandatory defence against the winner of Smith v Williams.
The title has been vacant since Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez relinquished the belt to move up to middleweight, and he will challenge Gennady Golovkin for the WBC, IBF, IBO and WBA Super world titles in September.
The rematch had been expected to be staged in Manchester.
"I'm delighted to bring this huge rematch to Newcastle which is a city with a rich tradition of big fight nights. In the past I have bought shows with Ricky Hatton, Joe Calzaghe, Nigel Benn and Prince Naseem Hamed to Newcastle and I'm sure this is set to rival the very best that we've done there," promoter Frank Warren said.
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The victims, in their 20s and from Canvey, Essex, are in hospital with injuries to their upper body. They are are not thought to be life-threatening.
Officers were called to a "firearms incident" in Somnes Avenues, Canvey, at about 03:30 BST on Saturday.
The suspect, 22, from the town, is being questioned by police. The scene has been sealed off and inquiries are continuing.
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Owen Mort, 28, spends 40 hours a week fashioning intricate metalwork for heritage projects.
He was always interested in working with metal - but having trained as a mechanical engineer he ended up working as a shipyard welder in Belfast.
Owen from Clogher, County Tyrone, had finished a 24 hour shift welding wind farms when he saw an advertisement that would change his life.
Thanks to a £15,000 heritage lottery fund grant, he was able to retrain as a blacksmith.
Now his work graces heritage projects around Northern Ireland.
They include Dunluce and Carrickfergus castle as well as Scrabo Tower in Newtownards.
He also made handrails for the Bellaghy Bawn - the area that was home to poet Seamus Heaney who composed a famous poem about a forge.
"I love the thought of bringing metal alive," Owen said.
"You're taking a raw material and turning it into something functional or beautiful."
He uses modern equipment like an electric fan instead of bellows, but the techniques are the same as those used hundreds of years ago.
Owen also sports a beard as a health and safety precaution.
If the molten metal hits his face it singes the beard and drops off rather than sticking to his face.
He is now one of the few blacksmiths in Northern Ireland qualified to do heritage work. | He describes it as a passion not a job. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "35462082"} | 312 | 13 | 0.309232 | 0.78532 | -1.705071 | 0.8 | 25.9 | 0.6 |
The Riders, who have already won the BBL league title and BBL Trophy reached the play-off final with a 162-126 aggregate semi-final win over London.
Paternostro told BBC Radio Leicester: "You don't win 35 games if you don't know how to win important games.
"It is an incredible team. I think Riders fans and Leicester fans should be really proud of this team."
Leicester will now face Newcastle in Sunday's BBL play-off final in the O2 Arena in London, having beaten Plymouth in the Trophy final back in March..
Paternostro, who was named as BBL coach of the year for the fourth time earlier this month, continued: "Not only is this side successful, but they play the game the right way and play for their team-mates.
"The BBL hasn't seen too many teams like this who are so unselfish. I am proud of these guys." | Coach Rob Paternostro says everyone in the city should be proud of Leicester as they remain on course for a treble. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "39862390"} | 205 | 29 | 0.538902 | 1.187579 | -0.186315 | 0.909091 | 8.409091 | 0.636364 |
Dozens of Democrats joined Republicans as the House passed the measure 289-137, in a rebuke to the White House.
President Barack Obama has said he will veto the legislation.
The bill follows the attacks in Paris that left 129 people dead, claiming to the be the work of Islamic State.
Seven of the perpetrators died in the attacks, and one of them is thought to have been a Syrian who entered Europe via Greece with migrants.
It still needs to pass the Senate before hitting Mr Obama's desk.
Syrian refugees in the US explained in graphics
The bill would require the head of the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Director of National Intelligence to sign off on each refugee as being "not a threat to the security of the United States," following an FBI background check.
Calling the Paris attacks "a game changer", Rep Brad Ashford, a Democrat from Nebraska, said: "I cannot sit back and ignore the concerns of my constituents and the American public."
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy said he supported the bill because "it is against the values of our nation and the values of a free society to give terrorists the opening they are looking for".
Others urged compassion for those fleeing the war-torn regions.
"Defeating terrorism should not mean slamming the door in the faces of those fleeing the terrorists," said Rep Jerrold Nadler, a Democrat from New York. "We might as well take down the Statue of Liberty".
Step-by-step: how a Syrian refugee gets to the US
Republicans do not have the votes to override Mr Obama's veto, but say that their affirmative vote is symbolic.
Rand Paul, a senator from Kentucky who is currently running for president, has highlighted a 2011 case in his home state of two Iraqi refugees who schemed to send rifles, missiles and money to al-Qaeda against US troops in Iraqi. They are now imprisoned.
The White House has said that 2,174 Syrians have been admitted to the US since the attacks in September 2001, and noted that none of them has been arrested or deported for terror offences.
Millions of Syrians have fled to neighbouring countries and to Europe since the Syrian conflict began about four years ago.
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Susan Bro said she refuses to speak to Mr Trump after hearing him equate counter-demonstrators, like her daughter, with white supremacists.
Her daughter, Heather Heyer, was killed on Saturday after a car ploughed through a crowd in Charlottesville.
She said she did not "want to be used for political agendas".
Mrs Bro told ABC New's Good Morning America television programme she missed a call from the White House, which appeared to have been made during her daughter's public memorial on Wednesday.
She added that she received three more "frantic messages" from Mr Trump's press team later in the day but was too exhausted from the funeral to talk.
It was when she saw a news clip of Mr Trump again blaming both sides for the violence that she changed her mind about speaking to the president.
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"It's not that I saw somebody else's tweets about him, I saw an actual clip of him at a press conference equating the protesters... with the [Ku Klux Klan] and the white supremacists," she said on Friday.
"You can't wash this one away by shaking my hand and saying, 'I'm sorry.' I'm not forgiving that."
A day earlier Mrs Bro told MSNBC she had received death threats after speaking out about her daughter's death and the president's comments.
Also on Friday, the mayor of Charlottesville, Mike Signer, called for Confederate statues to be removed from the city in order "to repudiate the pure evil that visited us here".
He called upon the state General Assembly to pass laws restricting openly carrying firearms during events, and upon the city to create a memorial to Ms Heyer.
Mr Trump drew outrage this week after reversing his condemnation of Saturday's far-right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, which was supported by white supremacists and neo-Nazis protesting against the removal of a statue of Robert E Lee, a general who had fought for the pro-slavery Confederacy during the US Civil War.
Violent clashes between the rally's supporters and counter-protesters escalated when a car rammed into a crowd of anti-racist demonstrators, killing Ms Heyer and injuring nearly 20 others.
Mr Trump bowed to pressure on Monday to denounce far-right elements at the rally, but appeared to defend its organisers on Tuesday.
He condemned the suspect in the car-ramming incident, but said those who marched in defence of the statue had included "many fine people".
Mrs Bro said her daughter, a paralegal and Charlottesville resident, did not belong to any organised faction of demonstrators, but was "part of a group of human beings who cared to protest".
The president appeared to further his support for the organisers on Thursday when he weighed into a national debate about the removal of controversial statues, including some to leaders of the pro-slavery rebellion defeated in the US Civil War.
Critics say monuments to the Confederacy are racially offensive, but supporters say they are important symbols preserving Southern heritage.
In a series of tweets, Mr Trump said the "history and culture of our great country" was being "ripped apart with the removal of our beautiful statues and monuments".
Cities across the country have accelerated planned removals of controversial statues in the wake of the violent protests in Charlottesville.
A statue of Roger B Taney, the US Supreme Court justice who wrote the 1857 Dred Scott decision that upheld slavery and denied citizenship to African Americans, was quietly removed from the grounds of the Maryland State House early on Friday. | The mother of a woman fatally run over by a car at a far-right rally in Virginia says she has "no interest" in speaking with President Donald Trump. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "40977695"} | 830 | 39 | 0.451537 | 1.161441 | 0.080081 | 1.484848 | 21.272727 | 0.69697 |
A New York appeals court unanimously rejected every Argentine argument against the payout.
The decision is the latest twist in the long-running legal saga.
Argentina refuses to pay anything to investors who declined to participate in a previous debt reduction deal involving most of the nation's lenders.
"What the consequences predicted by Argentina have in common is that they are speculative, hyperbolic and almost entirely of the Republic's own making," the judges said in their decision.
But the appeals court held off forcing Argentina to pay pending an appeal to the Supreme Court - which is considered unlikely to hear the case, but puts off any decision to 2014, well after Argentina's congressional elections in October.
The appeal came after a Manhattan court ruled last February that Argentina had violated its contractual obligation to treat all creditors equally. That meant the country would have to pay the bondholders, led by NML Capital and Aurelius Capital Management.
Argentina defaulted on some $100bn of debts in 2002, and has since restructured its debt twice, cancelling around 75% of the nominal value of the bonds.
Almost 92% of the country's bondholders agreed to write off most of the amount owed to them.
NML Capital and Aurelius are demanding 100% repayment of the $1.3bn, plus interest.
The investors were so determined to get their money that they went to court to have an Argentinean ship, the Libertad, impounded in Ghana last year. After several weeks, the ship returned home. | Argentina has been told again it must pay back more than $1.3bn (£830m) to a group of investors - 11 years after its record debt default. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "23832247"} | 333 | 38 | 0.533964 | 1.284948 | -0.473688 | 0.5 | 9.09375 | 0.4375 |
The England midfielder opened the scoring when he skipped into the box and drilled into the bottom corner.
Reading almost equalised when Callum Harriott's deflected shot landed on top of Emiliano Martinez's goal.
Arsenal dominated after half-time, with Oxlade-Chamberlain's deflected shot completing a 14th game without defeat.
Oxlade-Chamberlain, 23, has struggled to hold down a regular starting place in Arsene Wenger's first-choice side during their fine start to the campaign.
He has completed 90 minutes on just two occasions this season, but staked his claim for a bigger role with the standout performance in a much-changed Arsenal team.
While there was little to remind the Emirates Stadium crowd of Arsenal's memorable 7-5 win when the teams met in this competition in 2012, it maintains the Gunners' hopes of winning the League Cup for the first time since 1993.
Reading acquitted themselves well for the most of the contest, but were put on the back foot when a sloppy pass from keeper Ali Al-Habsi allowed Oxlade-Chamberlain to win back possession high up the field and then open the scoring.
Al-Habsi partially redeemed himself with several saves after the break, but was powerless to stop the second which deflected off Royals defender Jordan Obita to seal victory.
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger:
"Alex has looked nervous in front of goal and now we hope this will build his confidence.
"He has been working really hard in training. That is now showing on the pitch.
"His concentration and his focus have improved, he is much sharper and he will continue to do well.
"(To start games in the Premier League) he needs to keep playing like that."
Reading boss Jaap Stam:
"I think we tried to get the result but, playing Arsenal, they have quality in a very big squad.
"They can make it very hard and that is what they have done today.
"We wanted to push them up and make chances. We have done it a couple of times but then sometimes we gave the ball away as well.
"It is a very good team, we knew it wasn't going to be easy.
"We wanted to win but I think the players need to learn from (that game) to improve their chances going forward."
Match ends, Arsenal 2, Reading 0.
Second Half ends, Arsenal 2, Reading 0.
Olivier Giroud (Arsenal) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Liam Kelly (Reading).
Attempt missed. Mohamed Elneny (Arsenal) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Carl Jenkinson (Arsenal) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Stephen Quinn (Reading).
Attempt missed. Stephen Quinn (Reading) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left following a corner.
Corner, Reading. Conceded by Kieran Gibbs.
Attempt blocked. Dominic Samuel (Reading) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Attempt saved. Yann Kermorgant (Reading) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Foul by Gabriel (Arsenal).
Dominic Samuel (Reading) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Rob Holding (Arsenal) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Garath McCleary (Reading).
Substitution, Arsenal. Gedion Zelalem replaces Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain.
Substitution, Reading. Stephen Quinn replaces Joey van den Berg.
Olivier Giroud (Arsenal) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Liam Moore (Reading) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Liam Moore (Reading).
Goal! Arsenal 2, Reading 0. Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (Arsenal) right footed shot from outside the box to the top left corner. Assisted by Olivier Giroud following a corner.
Corner, Arsenal. Conceded by Ali Al Habsi.
Attempt saved. Alex Iwobi (Arsenal) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Danzell Gravenberch (Reading) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Gabriel (Arsenal).
Garath McCleary (Reading) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (Arsenal) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Garath McCleary (Reading).
Attempt saved. Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (Arsenal) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Substitution, Arsenal. Chris Willock replaces Lucas Pérez because of an injury.
Delay in match Lucas Pérez (Arsenal) because of an injury.
Attempt saved. Olivier Giroud (Arsenal) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Corner, Arsenal. Conceded by Jordan Obita.
Lucas Pérez (Arsenal) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Danzell Gravenberch (Reading).
Substitution, Reading. Danzell Gravenberch replaces Tennai Watson.
Foul by Carl Jenkinson (Arsenal).
Jordan Obita (Reading) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Arsenal. Olivier Giroud replaces Jeff Reine-Adelaide.
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Tower Hamlets mayor Lutfur Rahman has been taken to the Election Court by local voters who want his 2014 election to be declared void and re-run.
Lawyers said Mr Rahman lied in court and "over the years".
The mayor said such allegations were "not true" as his "future is right here in this courtroom".
"Why would I lie?" he asked.
Mr Rahman has been accused of lying about his involvement in several events leading up to his 2014 election.
He was questioned about his involvement in distributing propaganda containing lots of "abusive phrases" about his predecessor John Biggs.
But the mayor said he had "never seen" the leaflet, which also linked Mr Biggs to the British National Party and National Front.
Francis Hoar, who represents the voters bringing the case against the mayor, outlined a £35,000 overpayment to media advisers.
One adviser was also a star correspondent for local TV station Channel S, the court heard, which Election Commissioner Richard Mawrey, sitting as judge, said was like a political editor at the BBC being paid by the prime minister.
Mr Rahman also came under fire for TV adverts in Bangladeshi media that promoted himself and Tower Hamlets, the subject of multiple complaints to Ofcom.
The mayor hit back, saying the appointment of a correspondent as an advisor was "apolitical" and the council "has no control" over the adverts.
Earlier in the day, claimants accused Mr Rahman of dominating the local paper East End Life, claiming 97% of its quotes came from him or members of his cabinet.
But, the independent mayor said the paper was "not a propaganda machine", adding opposition members also featured in the paper.
Four voters have mounted a legal challenge under the provisions of the Representation Of The People Act.
Lawyers for the group have made a series of allegations, including "personation" in postal voting and at polling stations, and ballot paper tampering.
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13 August 2016 Last updated at 14:35 BST
That makes them the world's longest-living vertebrates - or animals with spines.
So we've been taking a look at some of the other ancient living things that we share the planet with. | Scientists studying Greenland sharks reckon the fish can live for up to 400 years! | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "37069085"} | 57 | 20 | 0.474631 | 0.971983 | -0.747185 | 0.066667 | 3.2 | 0.066667 |
Dianne Ngoza was due to be removed from the UK at 17:00 GMT after losing an immigration battle.
Manchester Central MP Lucy Powell said she had "received assurances" from immigration minister Robert Goodwill that the case had been put on hold.
She is now calling for Ms Ngoza to be freed from detention at Yarl's Wood.
Ms Ngoza left Zambia 22 years ago and has "no network of social, family or work with anyone back in Africa," and considers herself British, her campaign website says.
However, she was ordered to leave after her visa renewal was turned down.
More than 2,000 people have since signed a petition to keep her in Greater Manchester.
Campaigners say she has been involved in a range of community organisations and human rights groups, and had recently been nominated for a Spirit of Manchester 2016 award.
Ms Powell said people's "overwhelming support" had been a "great comfort" to Ms Ngoza.
"I am pleased that the minister has listened to the concerns raised about Dianne's case and I will continue to put pressure on the minister until all avenues have been exhausted," she said.
Ms Powell added that Ms Ngoza should now be released from Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal centre in Bedfordshire and given the right to appeal against her deportation from within the UK.
Meanwhile, solicitors have launched an appeal for Ms Ngoza to be able to stay under human rights legislation, but that application has not yet been heard.
Mervyn Cross, of law firm Duncan Lewis, said he was yet to receive correspondence from the Home Office confirming the latest developments.
The firm would therefore still submit an application challenging Ms Ngoza's removal, he added.
A Home Office spokesman said: "We expect people with no legal basis to remain in the UK to leave the country voluntarily, and we provide support to help people return to their home country.
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Smith suffered the injury against Edinburgh in September 2013 and had six operations in the following 12 months.
He will now concentrate on his role as an Ospreys coach, which he had been combining with his playing duties.
"It's been a tough three years for me physically. I've given it everything I can but it's the only decision available to me now," said Smith.
"I've worked hard over the last two years or so trying to get my fitness back to where it needs to be as a pro rugby player, and it's been a long road."
Smith made his Ospreys debut against Connacht in February 2007 and made 94 appearances, scoring three tries.
The former Wales youth international took over as Ospreys' elite youth performance manager in December 2014. | Ospreys back-row Tom Smith has been forced to retire at the age of 29 because of a knee injury. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "34650356"} | 177 | 28 | 0.56008 | 1.247444 | -0.92375 | 0.409091 | 7.090909 | 0.409091 |
Pakistan moved to within 30 runs of Zimbabwe's total of 172 without losing a wicket, before a batting collapse almost cost them the Twenty20 match.
Skipper Shahid Afridi hit his first ball for four to give his side victory with three balls to spare in Lahore.
Gunmen attacked buses carrying the Sri Lanka team in the city six years ago.
Beforehand, fans waited at the Gaddafi Stadium in temperatures of 43 degrees Celsius and faced frequent security checks.
Both teams arrived at the stadium in a fleet of vans carrying armed guards.
Dozens of CCTV cameras were installed in the surroundings of Nishtar Park, where the Gaddafi Stadium is located.
Tickets for both Friday's and Sunday's T20s in Lahore were sold out within two days, and the teams will also play three one-day internationals at the venue next week. | Thousands of police and paramilitaries were on hand for Pakistan's nervy win in their first home full international fixture since a terror attack in 2009. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "32850749"} | 197 | 36 | 0.560838 | 1.272947 | 0.073922 | 0.407407 | 5.962963 | 0.407407 |
The Vauxhall Zafira was left on Woodland Terrace in Charlton by Ghazi Hassan, who was visiting his brother on Wednesday night.
He said this "wasn't a good day" but was "thankful" his family were not hurt and no-one else was injured in the incident.
BBC Radio London has reported speculation that the collapse could be due to recent heavy rain.
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The blue people carrier has since been lifted out of the hole by a crane, and was first discovered by police outside St Thomas' Church at about 03:20 BST.
Mr Hassan said: "In life you have good days and bad days. This morning wasn't a good day.
"But I'm thankful me or my family wasn't in the car.
"I've told the insurance. They are coming to pick it up and repair it so that's the positive side, and that no-one was injured."
Mr Ghazi's brother, Abdul Ahmadzai, said: "I woke up very surprised. The police were here about 4am so I came outside and saw the car - they said it was in a hole.
"I thought: 'There's nothing I can do' and went back to sleep. I just woke up again now."
The Reverend Erica Wooff, the rector of Charlton, who lives next door to the church, said her initial reaction was: "Oh my goodness, there's a hole in the road".
"There was a massive storm last night. It has been raining constantly for the past two days but I didn't hear tarmac rip open," she said.
Resident Cleo O'Kane, 25, said she heard a loud bang during the night.
"It was raining so much I thought it was thunder," she said.
"I woke up and then just went back to sleep - my window was open - then woke up at six this morning, came outside and there was a car in a hole."
She added: "All the car is resting on apparently is a pipe, otherwise it would have disappeared."
The road has been closed near the church due to "subsidence problems", London Buses said.
A council spokesperson said it was expected the road would remain closed for several days but the hole is "stable".
The spokesperson said: "It has been confirmed the car is not resting on a gas main and can safely be removed. Once the car has been removed this will facilitate the investigations into the causes of the incident.
"The geology in the area is sand/gravel and there is nothing to indicate that the collapse is related to old mine workings."
Thames Water said there were engineers at the scene checking whether there is any damage to clean water or sewer pipes.
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Craig Preston, 34, was allegedly attacked by Shiraz Bashir, Leonie Mason and the teenagers in a lay-by near Rotherham before being dumped close to the Woodhead Tunnel in August.
The prosecution say Mr Preston was tied up and then kicked, punched and stamped on during the attack.
All five defendants deny murder.
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Sheffield Crown Court heard Mr Preston, also known as Craig Nelson, had been in a relationship with Leonie Mason, 23, for about seven years but in early 2016 she began a relationship with Shiraz Bashir, 43.
Prosecutor Dafydd Enoch QC said Ms Mason, who changed her name to Alina Shiraz in March 2016, and Mr Bashir saw Mr Preston as an "annoyance" and plotted to kill him.
In the weeks before the killing Mr Bashir told Ms Mason via Skype: "Just get [him] out and I promise on our true love he won't be living."
The court was told that on the night of 21 August Ms Mason and two of the teenage boys, who cannot be named because of their age, had driven Mr Preston to a lay-by in Town Lane, Rotherham.
There they met with Mr Bashir and the third teenager at about midnight, the jury heard.
Mr Enoch said the five defendants then attacked Mr Preston before he was "trussed up" with cable ties and bundled into the boot of a silver Vauxhall Astra. His body was later dumped by the Woodhead Tunnel.
He said: "In that lay-by, all five defendants beat Mr Preston effectively to death.
"He has been kicked, punched, hit and stamped upon with fists, feet and bits of wood and possibly other implements.
"The injuries which he suffered in the lay-by caused him to die."
The trial of Mr Bashir and Ms Mason, both of Holme Park Court, Huddersfield, and the three teenagers, two aged 15 and one aged 16, continues. | A man was beaten to death in a "brutal and senseless" killing by a love rival, his ex-partner and three teenage boys, a court has heard. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "39139328"} | 447 | 40 | 0.412427 | 1.104147 | -0.212109 | 1.151515 | 11.818182 | 0.787879 |
Called Desert Trip, the three-day event will take place at the Empire Polo Field in Indio, California - the site of the Coachella music festival.
Tickets start at $200 (£137) per day, rising to $1,599 (£1,097) for a three-day pass for the area near the stage.
The Who, Roger Waters and Neil Young are also on the bill.
Performances will start after sunset, with each artist playing a full set.
Rumours about the show began to circulate last month, after the first weekend of Coachella.
The Who's Roger Daltrey later confirmed to BBC 6 Music that the festival was likely to go ahead, describing it as a once-in-a-lifetime line-up.
"We have to face it, we are [at] the end of an era," the singer told 6 Music's Matt Everitt. "We're the last of our generation."
"You can see from reading the obituaries lately that we [rock stars] don't make old bones very well, do we?"
The LA Times said Dylan and the Stones were expected to open the festival with back-to-back performances on Friday, 7 October, with McCartney and Young playing the following night, and Waters and the Who concluding proceedings on 9 October.
"I don't think any of us cares who goes on first," said Daltrey. "We've never worried about that. The music is all so different, that's not going to matter at all."
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The 70-year-old Spaniard won 13 titles and 90 grands prix in a 22-year career between 1964 and 1986.
MotoGP described Nieto "as a true giant of motorcycling history who will be greatly missed".
Nieto was taken to hospital after the quad bike he was riding collided with a car on 26 July.
MotoGP said he had remained in intensive care for a week after the accident, before his condition deteriorated.
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The footage posted online on Monday was said to be filmed in a school in Columbia, South Carolina.
US media said the pupil had refused to leave the classroom when asked. The school "resource officer" was called.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said there was "no justification" for the incident.
The officer is white and the female student, who was unharmed, is black, the sheriff's office said.
The incident comes at a time of increased scrutiny of police and their use of force against African Americans.
"It's very disturbing what happened today," said Richard County Sheriff Leon Lott, who has requested a federal investigation on the incident.
In a video obtained by South Carolina's WIS network, the officer, Ben Fields, is seen confronting the pupil, who is sitting at her desk. They then exchange words.
Mr Fields had been assigned to the school and was meant to protect students and faculty and promote anti-crime and anti-drug initiatives.
He then appears to restrain her around the neck, before quickly pulling her and her desk backwards to the floor.
The video shows him throwing the pupil a few metres across the classroom. She is then restrained.
Throughout the incident, other pupils remain seated, but some stand up and comment when the pupil is on the floor.
The video does not show what happened before the officer arrived.
source: Richland County Sheriff's Department
The footage has been widely shared internationally on social media, with the term #AssaultatSpringValleyHigh used by many on Twitter.
The State newspaper in Columbia reported that the pupil and a male student were detained for breaching the peace.
Sheriff's spokesman Curtis Wilson told a press conference the girl had been asked to leave the classroom "several times" before the officer was called.
The officer has been taken off front-line policing while a sheriff's department investigation takes place, Mr Wilson said.
Debbie Hamm, the district's school superintendent, said in a statement that authorities were "deeply concerned" over the incident.
The state's ACLU said such "egregious use of force" against young people in class was "outrageous".
One group called the Richland Black Parents Association said the video "revealed what many African American parents have experienced in this district for a very long time." | A US sheriff's department says it is investigating after a video emerged showing an officer throwing a female pupil across a classroom. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "34644336"} | 519 | 30 | 0.538953 | 1.375499 | 0.144204 | 1.166667 | 19.333333 | 0.75 |
The Lotto Soudal rider dropped France's Axel Domont (AG2R) on the final climb of the 170.5km stage to win by 44 seconds in Saint-Etienne.
Britain's Chris Froome finished 15th in a group 59 seconds behind De Gendt.
The Team Sky rider is bidding to win a fourth Dauphine title.
The Dauphine is the traditional warm-up event for the Tour de France, which runs from 1-23 July this year.
Froome, 32, went on to win the Tour after each of his previous Dauphine victories in 2013, 2015 and 2016.
De Gendt, 30, and Domont, 26, were part of a seven-rider breakaway earlier in the stage, before the pair move cleared with two laps of the finishing circuit to go.
After De Gendt's decisive attack, Domont held on to claim second place in front of the chasing Diego Ulissi, Pierre Roger Latour and Emanuel Buchmann.
Britain's Ben Swift (Team UAE Emirates) was ninth, 59 seconds behind De Gendt.
Britons Simon Yates (Orica) and Peter Kennaugh (Team Sky) finished in the same group as Froome and are all one minute nine seconds behind De Gendt, who took 10 bonus seconds for winning the stage.
Monday's 171km stage two is another hilly route from Saint-Chamond to Arlanc, while the race concludes on Sunday, 11 June.
1. Thomas de Gendt (Bel/Lotto Soudal) 4hrs 17mins 04secs
2. Axel Domont (Fra/AG2R) +44secs
3. Diego Ulissi (Ita/Team UAE Emirates) +57secs
4. Pierre Roger Latour (Fra/AG2R) Same time
5. Emanuel Buchmann (Ger/Bora) Same time
6. Sonny Colbrelli (Ita/Bahrain-Merida) +59secs
7. Julien Simon (Fra/Cofidis) Same time
8. Alejandro Valverde (Spa/Movistar) Same time
9. Ben Swift (GB/Team UAE Emirates) Same time
10. Michael Valgren (Den/Astana) Same time
Selected others:
15. Chris Froome (GB/Team Sky) +59secs
44. Simon Yates (GB/Orica) Same time
45. Peter Kennaugh (GB/Team Sky) Same time
1. Thomas de Gendt (Bel/Lotto Soudal) 4hrs 16mins 54secs
2. Axel Domont (Fra/AG2R) +48secs
3. Diego Ulissi (Ita/Team UAE Emirates) +1min 3secs
4. Pierre Roger Latour (Fra/AG2R) +1min 07secs
5. Emanuel Buchmann (Ger/Bora) Same time
6. Sonny Colbrelli (Ita/Bahrain-Merida) +1min 9secs
7. Julien Simon (Fra/Cofidis) Same time
8. Alejandro Valverde (Spa/Movistar) Same time
9. Ben Swift (GB/Team UAE Emirates) Same time
10. Michael Valgren (Den/Astana) Same time
Selected others:
15. Chris Froome (GB/Team Sky) +1min 9secs
44. Simon Yates (GB/Orica) Same time
45. Peter Kennaugh (GB/Team Sky) Same time | Belgium's Thomas de Gendt took an impressive solo victory on the opening stage of the Criterium du Dauphine. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "40150867"} | 817 | 29 | 0.444539 | 1.126339 | -0.257293 | 1.1 | 30.45 | 0.6 |
Paying tribute to Mr Cameron during his final Prime Minister's Questions, the MP suggested a complete career change.
He said leadership roles were available as manager of the English football team, presenter of Top Gear or as the next occupant of the White House.
Mr Cameron laughed but said the posts sounded "even harder" than his own job.
The prime minister was given a standing ovation by Conservative MPs in the House of Commons, as he prepared to hand over power to Theresa May on Wednesday.
Mr Kinahan commended Mr Cameron's record in office, saying: "May we thank the prime minister for all his hard work and his leadership and particularly his commitment to the union and to Northern Ireland."
The South Antrim MP said his party was looking forward to working with the next prime minister but also offered the incumbent some career advice.
"I'm told that there are lots of leadership roles out there at the moment," Mr Kinahan said.
"There's the England football team, there's Top Gear, there's even across the big pond a role that needs filling."
Mr Cameron thanked the UUP member for his "kind remarks and fascinating suggestions for future jobs."
He added that most of them "sound even harder than this one, so I think I'll pass".
During his tribute, Mr Kinahan said the prime minister had visited Northern Ireland "often" during his six-year tenure.
He reminded him of the time he went for an early morning dip in Lough Erne, when County Fermanagh hosted the 2013 G8 summit and he invited Mr Cameron back to swim in Lough Neagh.
In response to Mr Kinahan's final question - about the threat to the UK posed by its decision to leave the European Union - Mr Cameron said Northern Ireland was stronger now than when he came to power six years ago. | If David Cameron is looking for a new job as he steps down as prime minister, he was given plenty of ideas by Ulster Unionist MP Danny Kinahan. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "36786042"} | 406 | 38 | 0.545684 | 1.44063 | -0.180837 | 0.833333 | 12.266667 | 0.633333 |
Police located the vehicle crashed on the Marble Arch Road, Florence Court, after 21:00 BST on Thursday.
Inside, they found what could be up to eight kilos of cocaine.
No-one was in the van. Det Insp Alan Pyper said the suspected drugs were being analysed.
"We are delighted to have recovered this quantity of illegal drugs and our inquiries are continuing to establish a quantity and value," he said.
"I would appeal to anyone who saw a red van in the vicinity of the Marble Arch Road between 21:00 and 22:00 BST last night to contact detectives on the non-emergency number 101." | A "substantial" quantity of suspected cocaine has been found in an abandoned van in County Fermanagh. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "34596870"} | 138 | 24 | 0.544392 | 1.112692 | -0.120784 | 0.842105 | 6.526316 | 0.631579 |
The Glasgow back-rower will start only his fourth Test as the Scots aim to seal a 2-0 series win in Tokyo.
"We are just looking at keeping calm heads," he said. "In this humidity, the ball gets a bit wetter than you expect.
"The boys are sweating a lot so we have to be clever, play a more structured game, carry hard and not be too fancy."
South Africa-born Strauss, 29, admits he was frustrated at not making the match-day 23 for last week's first Test in Toyota City, which Scotland won 26-13.
But he has been drafted straight into the side at blind-side flanker for Saturday's match, with John Barclay moving to open-side and John Hardie dropping to the bench.
"I want to get my hands on the ball as often as possible, and just be a physical presence," he told BBC Scotland.
"If we can keep the ball and choke the game out, be more clinical when we get opportunities in the scoring zone, that is what we want.
"We have to keep the ball better and be smart about it."
Strauss made his debut against Japan as a replacement in last autumn's World Cup, a few days after he qualified for Scotland on residency grounds.
He started subsequent group games against USA and South Africa before returning to the bench, with only one further start - against France in the Six Nations - until now.
Japan may be lifted by the presence of Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko at the Ajinomoto Stadium, but Strauss believes the visitors will rise to the occasion, too.
"It is great motivation for them but it is a great occasion for us as well, knowing the Emperor will be there and what a big occasion it is for them.
"Japan have shown a lot of growth. I remember watching them at the 1995 World Cup [where they lost 145-17 to New Zealand].
"They have grown so much from then until now, and their performance in the World Cup last year was immense.
"But we always want to improve ourselves and after last week's game there is a lot to improve."
Scotland: Stuart Hogg, Tommy Seymour, Matt Scott, Peter Horne, Sean Maitland, Ruaridh Jackson, Henry Pyrgos (capt), Rory Sutherland, Stuart McInally, Moray Low, Richie Gray, Jonny Gray, Josh Strauss, John Barclay, Ryan Wilson.
Replacements: Fraser Brown, Gordon Reid, Willem Nel, Tim Swinson, John Hardie, Greig Laidlaw, Huw Jones, Sean Lamont.
Japan: Matsuda, Sa'u, Bennetts, Tatekawa, Sasakura, Tamura, Shigeno, Inagaki, S. Horie, Hatakeyama, H. Ono, Kotaki, Tui, Kin, Mafi. | Scotland must keep "calm heads" and "not be too fancy" in their tactical approach to Saturday's second Test against Japan, says Josh Strauss. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "36623182"} | 653 | 35 | 0.489324 | 1.416759 | 0.097769 | 1.566667 | 18.566667 | 0.833333 |
The 25-year-old English left-back goes into Accies' squad for Saturday's league trip to face St Johnstone.
Hamilton have been short of options in that position since Lennard Sowah moved to Hearts earlier in January.
Accies' head of player recruitment David MacKinnon told BBC Scotland: "He's got a good pedigree with loads of experience in the English leagues."
Adams came through the youth ranks at Sunderland and played for Brentford, Northampton Town, Coventry City, Notts County and Mansfield Town.
He switched to League Two Cambridge last summer and made 12 appearances this season.
Accies player-manager Martin Canning has played 20-year-old Scott McMann in the first team and both Louis Longridge and Grant Gillespie have slotted into the left-back role. | Hamilton Academical have signed Blair Adams on a free transfer from Cambridge United on an 18-month deal. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "38773798"} | 190 | 23 | 0.57551 | 1.275118 | -0.712259 | 0.35 | 7.65 | 0.35 |
The first of the classic AA Milne books beat Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland into second.
The Gruffalo, by Julia Donaldson from 1999, was the most recently written book named and came in fifth.
The YouGov poll was carried out as part of a campaign to promote reading and support vulnerable children in the UK.
The list of favourite titles is dominated by British authors.
It was issued in conjunction with the start of the reading initiative entitled Story Time - supported by children's charity Barnardo's and retailer John Lewis - which was launched by the newly appointed Doctor Who, Peter Capaldi.
"Being read to as a child is something most of us take for granted but for many of the children Barnardo's supports, storytelling and communicating are skills that their parents don't have," said Capaldi.
"I would encourage people across the country to embrace storytelling, bury your head in a good book and donate as much as you can through Story Time in aid of Barnardo's.
"You'll be helping the charity reach out to parents of some of the UK's most vulnerable children and ensuring they build the confidence and knowledge to help their little one thrive."
Winnie-the-Pooh was the first of two books of stories about the much-loved bear and his friends Christopher Robin, Piglet, Eeyore, Kanga, Roo and Tigger and was published in 1926.
Carroll's fantasy novel appeared in 1865.
And the third place book, The Very Hungry Caterpillar by US author and illustrator Eric Carle, came out in 1969.
JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit, from 1937, came in fourth place.
Roald Dahl featured twice in the top 10, with Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and The BFG. | Winnie-the-Pooh has been named as the favourite children's book of the past 150 years, in a poll of more than 2,000 adults. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "27664081"} | 403 | 37 | 0.44514 | 1.223377 | -0.922778 | 1.586207 | 11.862069 | 0.689655 |
As well as talking about it at Dublin's Web Summit event*, the company has outlined a few of the key points in a blog post.
It hopes the technology - a blend of artificial intelligence and machine-learning - will be able to help blind people "see" images by enabling our computers to distinguish what is in a picture.
It's an incredibly sophisticated task. Next month, the company says it will present a paper detailing the progress it has made so far.
"Our AI research efforts - along with our work to develop radical new approaches to connectivity and our work to develop immersive new VR technologies - are a long-term endeavour," wrote Mike Schroepfer, Facebook's chief technology officer.
"But if we can get them right we will be able to build systems that are smarter and more useful, enable developers to create immersive new experiences, and make it possible to connect everyone in the world."
I'll look in more depth at Facebook's work when that paper is made public. But first I wanted to share a little anecdote that hints at just how smart Facebook's AI is becoming. Or how scary it's becoming, depending on your point of view.
About a month ago I spent a morning at Facebook's new building in Menlo Park, catching up on various areas of the social network's research - one of which was AI.
My guide showed me the image recognition system by handing me a pile of pictures of dogs. Each was a different breed.
I held up a picture of a Border Collie, and the machine would think for a moment before saying "Border Collie".
Picture of a German Shepherd… a moment's pause... "German Shepherd".
It recognised each dog almost instantly.
OK, very smart. But feeling sceptical, I wondered if the machine was just looking out for the specific picture - which is simple - rather than having a knowledge of dog breeds.
So I loaded up a photo of a friend's bulldog on my phone, to see if the machine was smart enough to figure it out.
I held it up, the computer thought about it for a moment, and then it said...
"Smartphone."
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The Celtic manager was the man who first brought the Iceland midfielder to Liberty Stadium on loan from Hoffenheim in 2012, when Rodgers was in charge.
Everton have yet to match Swansea's £50m valuation for the 27-year-old.
"Gylfi is an outstanding player and if he was to go I know it would be with a heavy heart," Rodgers said.
"I took him to Swansea firstly on loan and I know how much it means to him. He's been a great servant there and currently still is until anything changes."
While Rodgers is not sure whether Sigurdsson will leave Swansea - who he rejoined permanently from Tottenham in 2014 - in this transfer window, the Celtic boss is sure that the Welsh club have plans to fill any gap created.
"If Gylfi does go - and it's a big if at the moment - I'm sure the scouting and recruitment team will have the people behind the scenes they want to bring in," added Rodgers, who was back at Swansea for Swans legend Alan Tate's testimonial.
"The strength of Swansea has always been the team. It lost individuals when I was there, players moved on, but the strength of Swansea is it's one team with one club." | Gylfi Sigurdsson would leave Swansea "with a heavy heart" if his proposed transfer to Everton materialises, according to ex-boss Brendan Rodgers. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "40884968"} | 306 | 49 | 0.66204 | 1.644378 | 0.282725 | 1.37037 | 9.185185 | 0.777778 |
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Couch, fifth in the synchronised 10m platform final with partner Lois Toulson, scored 332.80 to finish fifth.
But Barrow, 27, could not emulate her former partner in the 10m synchro and finished 23rd with a score of 277.40, with only the top 18 progressing.
The semi-final starts at the Maria Lenk Centre at 14:00 BST on Thursday.
"It was hard to stay focused for such a long time in a 28-diver preliminary round but it was pretty steady," said 27-year-old Couch from Plymouth.
"Three of my dives were really good so hopefully I can do those again tomorrow and the two that I dropped a little bit hopefully I can step them up.
"I had a shaky start but I had a talking to myself when I got to the handstand and shook things up a little as I was a little bit flat to start off with."
Barrow said: "I wanted to finish with a better score than that. The journey has been really tough but I got here on a good score and I wanted to do that again. There are no excuses for why I didn't.
Subscribe to the BBC Sport newsletter to get our pick of news, features and video sent to your inbox. | Britain's Tonia Couch is through to the Olympic diving 10m platform semi-final, but Sarah Barrow failed to qualify from the preliminary competition. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "37113527"} | 296 | 32 | 0.504552 | 1.288937 | -0.127858 | 1.142857 | 9.25 | 0.642857 |
But what does Germany owe Greece, if anything, and why?
The Nazi occupation of Greece from 1940-44 was among the most savage - around 250,000 people died, mostly from starvation.
Massacres include the one at Kalavryta where about 500 people were killed. At issue now is compensation for the killing of 218 civilians in Distomo in 1944. In 2000, the Greek Supreme Court ruled Germany should pay €28m (£19.7m; $30m) to the relatives of those killed, although the decision was not enforced, and the dispute effectively reached stalemate in international courts in the following years.
Justice Minister Nikos Paraskevopoulos has said he is ready to approve that ruling.
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras told parliament on Tuesday he had a duty to pursue reparations. He set the tone for his presidency early on by laying a wreath at a memorial to a massacre of Greeks by German soldiers in Athens.
But Greece's wartime enemy is now its major creditor.
Greek relations with Germany have deteriorated in recent years because of the financial crisis, with Germany one of the big contributors to the eurozone bailout that began in 2010.
The new leftist government argues austerity measures should be relaxed, a demand opposed by Germany. It negotiated a four-month extension to its €240bn (£170bn; $255bn) bailout last month after tense talks with creditors.
Berlin paid 115m Deutschmarks to Athens in 1960 in compensation. It was a fraction of the Greek demand but was made with the agreement there would be no more claims. Greece says the 1960 deal did not cover key demands, including payments for damaged infrastructure, war crimes and the return of a forced loan exacted from occupied Greece.
Germany insists the issue of compensation was settled in 1990 legally and politically before Germany reunified and has questioned why Greece did not negotiate when it entered the eurozone.
It is classified but based on previous estimations, Athens could be demanding as much as €162bn: €108bn for destroyed infrastructure and €54bn for the forced loan.
The Supreme Court ruling allowed for German-owned property to be seized as compensation though it was never acted on by then-Justice Minister Michalis Stathopoulos.
Among possible assets are property belonging to Germany's archaeological school and the Goethe Institute, a cultural association. | The Greek government has threatened to seize German property as compensation for World War Two. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "31849430"} | 552 | 18 | 0.531805 | 1.387016 | 0.014496 | 1 | 28 | 0.75 |
Police have also charged the 39-year-old accused with improper use of electronic communications.
The charges relate to a hoax bomb alert at Mr Adams's home in the west of the city two months ago.
The man was charged by detectives in Newry, County Down, to appear before Belfast Magistrates' Court on Saturday.
Police were called to the Sinn Féin leader's home in Norfolk Drive in May after receiving information that a device had been left there.
After a search, nothing untoward was found. | A man has been charged with causing a hoax bomb alert at the home of the Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams and making threats to kill. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "33663514"} | 114 | 35 | 0.669289 | 1.397742 | -0.511905 | 1.777778 | 3.777778 | 0.740741 |
A raft of new security measures have been introduced for the Australian Open and warm-up events in January.
Tennis Australia said there is "no evidence of widespread corruption".
A BBC and BuzzFeed News investigation in January uncovered suspected illegal betting, with 16 players reportedly flagged over suspicious matches.
The Tennis Integrity Unit (TIU) rejected the allegations but subsequently announced a major review into its operations as the news dominated last year's Australian Open.
Leading players were asked about levels of corruption in tennis, with Roger Federer saying it was "super important to maintain the integrity of our sport", while Andy Murray said, "I think we deserve to know everything that's out there".
Tennis Australia has now announced a number of measures "designed to safeguard the integrity of the upcoming summer of tennis", with its own National Integrity Unit boosted by an information and intelligence officer and a safety and risk manager.
Prize money will also be increased at the "lower levels" of the sport, including qualifying and early rounds of the Australian Open, in an attempt to help those more vulnerable to corruption.
Other steps include enhanced education for players and staff, increased security during tournaments, and extending the block on access to gambling websites from Tennis Australia tournaments.
"We made the decision to not just sit back and wait for the IRP (Independent Review Panel) to hand down their findings but to take immediate action," said Tennis Australia president Steve Healy.
"Our sport needs strong measures implemented now and that's exactly what we are doing." | Australia's tennis association will increase prize money and has employed additional full-time investigators in an attempt to stamp out corruption. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "38260773"} | 323 | 27 | 0.626227 | 1.560837 | 0.592223 | 1.333333 | 12.833333 | 0.666667 |
Colin Pitchfork was given a life sentence in 1988 for the rape and murder of 15-year-old Lynda Mann and Dawn Ashworth in Leicestershire.
Both victims' families opposed his release.
Barbara Ashworth, Dawn's mother, said "life should mean life".
His case was referred to the Parole Board to review his suitability for release.
A spokeswoman said: "We can confirm that a three-member panel of the Parole Board has not directed the release of Colin Pitchfork but has recommended to the Ministry of Justice that he is suitable for a move to open conditions.
"It is up to the Ministry of Justice whether or not to accept this recommendation. We are unable to comment further on the details of this case."
Ms Ashworth said she was concerned Pitchfork could harm a member of the public if allowed out of open prison on temporary release.
"It's a process whereby he's released more gradually and gradually into the community again," she told BBC Radio Leicester.
"I would far sooner he was still in prison where I consider he belongs.
"I would go down on bended knees to the secretary of state for justice and just beg them not to let this man out again, because we don't know what he's capable of."
The judge who sentenced Pitchfork described him as "a danger to young women" whose crimes were of a "particularly sadistic kind".
He was given a life sentence with a minimum term of 30 years, but in 2009 the Court of Appeal reduced the minimum term to 28 years to take into account the "exceptional progress" Pitchfork had made in custody.
The court said the former baker had sought to address the reasons for his offending, achieved "a high standard of education, to degree level", never been placed "on report" while in custody and was "trusted to help with the well-being" of fellow inmates.
It added that Pitchfork, who's now 55, had become a specialist in transcribing printed music into Braille, work which was used across the UK and internationally.
Once a life sentence prisoner's minimum term has been served, they are eligible to be considered for release by the Parole Board.
The Parole Board is not legally permitted to consider whether the prisoner has been punished enough, instead it must focus solely on how dangerous the prisoner is.
Rebecca Eastwood, Lynda Mann's sister, started a petition demanding Pitchfork is never released.
It gathered 19,222 supporters and was submitted to the Parole Board before the hearing to consider his case. | A child killer who became the first person in the world to be convicted using DNA evidence has been refused parole - but recommended for transfer to an open prison. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "36168459"} | 584 | 34 | 0.404012 | 1.093784 | 0.141775 | 0.774194 | 16.387097 | 0.580645 |
The group challenged the German-based United Kingdom Ukulele Orchestra (UKUO) over the similarity in name.
It argued the German group had copied its format and fans were getting confused between the two.
The judge agreed and said its "passing off" claim had succeeded.
The legal battle kicked off last September when the UOGB filed a claim for trademark infringement as the UKUO was preparing for its first tour of the UK.
In his initial ruling, Judge Richard Halcon sided with the German group, agreeing that it was not in competition and adding the British group should have mounted a legal challenge earlier.
Made up of British musicians, the UKUO was founded in 2009, while the UOGB has been going since 1985.
But in his ruling on Thursday, Judge Halcon said he was satisfied "the United Kingdom Ukulele Orchestra' misrepresents to a substantial proportion of the public in this country who recognise the Ukulele Orchestra Of Great Britain' as the trade name of a particular musical group".
He added: "I am also satisfied that this has caused damage to the Ukulele Orchestra Of Great Britain's goodwill, particularly by way of loss of control over the Ukulele Orchestra Of Great Britain's reputation as performers."
The case was brought by the founder of the UOGB, George Hinchliffe, who told the court he was approached in 2009 by a German producer who wanted to franchise the band in Germany.
The request was turned down, but Erwin Clausen, director of Yellow Promotions, set up the United Kingdom Ukulele Orchestra, promoting a similar style of musical comedy.
Mr Hinchliffe said: "We have worked hard for 30 years to create a unique show and the court has now recognised that copycat musical performances cannot trade off the reputation of established groups."
The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain has performed in many venues worldwide, including New York's Carnegie Hall, the Sydney Opera House and London's Royal Albert Hall.
It has also released eight studio albums and performed at music festivals including Glastonbury.
Mr Hinchliffe added: "We have an international and celebrity fan base who have stood by us and who will be very pleased." | The Ukulele Orchestra Of Great Britain (UOGB) has won a High Court ruling against a rival group which it accused of trading off its reputation. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "33363229"} | 476 | 35 | 0.576165 | 1.62384 | 0.660112 | 1.821429 | 15.035714 | 0.75 |
21 February 2017 Last updated at 15:01 GMT
Two children in Croatia do exactly that. Ema and Alen both go to school on their own.
They both live in remote areas away from big cities and have started writing to each other in their lessons.
Their teachers have even set up video calls for Ema and Alen and they've arranged to meet up with each other.
More pupils are expected to start at both Ema and Alen's schools in the future so hopefully they won't be alone too much longer. | Could you imagine going to school and being the only child in the whole of your school? | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "39038050"} | 111 | 19 | 0.374867 | 0.868672 | -1.059291 | 0.611111 | 5.666667 | 0.388889 |
Twenty-three years after Giovanna Amati raced in qualifying for the Brabham team at the South African, Mexican and Brazilian Grands Prix, the wait for a woman driver to start a race for the first time since Lella Lombardi in 1976 goes on.
And for Amati, Wolff's retirement indicates it shows no sign of ending soon.
"I cannot see any woman at the moment racing at the top, achieving a seat in F1," says the Italian.
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"I am not saying they are not good enough, just that it takes the right team, a good budget and a lot of passion to go ahead - and a lot of perseverance also."
"What a pity [Wolff retired], maybe she could have done well in other championships, she's a talented woman.
"Sometimes people get tired. If you don't achieve what you want, you quit. It's the easiest decision.
"But it's a personal decision. I hope she will change her mind in one year or two. She is still young enough to race elsewhere, such as in GT or at Indianapolis or Le Mans."
Amati certainly knows all about the challenges faced by aspiring and ambitious female drivers looking to carve out a career in F1.
"First and foremost it's a problem of strength. Everyone thinks it is easy to drive on the circuits, it is not easy at all. The car is very stiff, it is very tough to drive and it takes a lot of stamina to finish the races.
"You can't just wake up one day and say 'I'm a Formula 1 driver', you have to work hard."
The hard work is a given. But there are suggestions more sinister forces are creating a carbon fibre ceiling for women in the sport. Did Amati ever encounter direct sexism on the track?
"Of course, all the time, especially from the media. The media didn't like me, I never understood why.
"Also from the drivers and owners. Basically in their minds they were thinking, 'What is she doing here? This is not her place, this is my place'.
"It is difficult to change this attitude, but I didn't care then and I don't care now."
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Amati's indifference to the hostility she faced was fostered by a deep determination to take her love of motorsport as far as she could, having nurtured an interest from an early age.
"Since I was eight or nine years old, I enjoyed driving anything I could find, even the tractor at our country house.
"It was a passion. When I was practising for my driving test I used to do the drive to school with [friend and future Italian racing driver] Elio de Angelis. He drove me there.
"So, slowly, slowly, I became a racing driver. First Formula 3, then Formula 3000 and then one day I got a call from Mr Ecclestone.
"It sounds easy but it wasn't. I got the call in January and the championship started in March and I didn't know how to get the money needed. I was about to go to the USA to race in the Indy formula so I had just two weeks to find a budget."
Just when it looked as though Amati was going to have to turn down the chance of a lifetime, fate smiled kindly upon her.
"My father was no longer alive but at that time one of his friends had become prime minister of Italy [Giulio Andreotti].
"He gave me an appointment at 5:45am. I couldn't sleep all night, thinking about what I was going to say. I was desperate.
"It was the only chance I had and he helped me. At the last minute, I could meet the budget."
The stroke of good fortune that allowed Amati to realise a lifelong dream came 14 years after she endured a harrowing personal nightmare.
In February 1978, as a climate of lawlessness and extreme political violence engulfed Italy, the 18-year-old Amati - whose father was a highly-successful film producer and cinema-owner - was kidnapped outside her family's villa for ransom by an armed group led by Marseille gangster Jean Daniel Nieto.
Held hostage in a wooden cage for over 70 days, Amati was eventually released, reportedly after her father used box office receipts from the first Star Wars film to help meet the kidnappers' demand of almost $1 million.
Amati is understandably reluctant to revisit that dark period in her life, but she does address the salacious newspaper coverage at the time that speculated on the nature of her relationship with Nieto, suggesting she had fallen in love with him during her captivity and maintained a relationship after her release.
"All the stories that you have read in the newspaper were wrong, completely wrong. When I went out I just wanted to come back to my family and to get all the group arrested.
"These are stories that the media put out."
Nieto was sentenced to 18 years in prison, before escaping in 1989 and going on the run. He was finally recaptured in 2010.
For Amati, the modern images of captives held by the so-called Islamic State cause her anguish.
"When I can see what is going on in the world when ISIS get hostages, I feel so bad for them, I feel so bad.
"You know, of course, sometimes you lose your faith, your hope because you think that everybody has forgotten you, but this is not true, you realise this is not true.
"You just don't have the contact with the rest of the world, but then once you get out you recover."
Possessing natural fortitude and determination to succeed, Amati agrees her inherent resilience was calcified by her traumatic experience.
"For sure it made me stronger. I mean, spending three months in captivity - it makes you stronger. Either you go mad or it makes you stronger, and I got stronger."
Such strength helped propel Amati to a place on three F1 Qualifying grids, with her final appearance coming at the Brazilian Grand Prix weekend in 1992 before she was replaced by Damon Hill.
As the F1 season heads to Sao Paolo for its penultimate race, Amati's reflections turn to her time on that track all those years ago.
"I had all the interest on me because I was the only woman in the championship but I couldn't perform, with that car I couldn't perform.
"Brabham at that time had a lack of sponsors and lack of budget. My engine was leaking oil, water, everything, and when I asked to change it there were no spare parts. So it was difficult, all the other cars were performing much better than ours.
"I couldn't qualify with that car and the problem was that they didn't give me another chance afterwards."
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No other woman has had a chance either since then. Formula 1 chief Bernie Ecclestone has suggested that the solution could lie in separate races for female drivers and, although rejected by Wolff and the head of the FIA commission for women in motorsport Michele Mouton, it is an idea that Amati believes is worth considering.
"I think that Bernie's idea is very bright, to make an F1 only for women, because then at least you can race at the top of competition.
"But then who pays for it? It's not easy. I can see you need a lot of money to make it work.
"Right now there are only 20 cars in F1 so I can't foresee any women being in the top 20 drivers in the world. When I drove there were 32 cars, not 20.
"So maybe he should make a formula with the old cars, or maybe the one who wins the race can then race with the men, or something like that - but this is the only chance right now for a woman to race an F1 car."
Whether it is in races against men or not, Amati has some trenchant advice for those women looking to establish themselves in F1 cars in the future.
"Be a women outside the track, not inside the track. Inside the track you must be like a man. Why wear a pink helmet? This is crazy!
"If you want to beat them you have to be like them. Maybe the [kidnapping] experience made me stronger like a male."
As for Amati's own future, the call of the track has lost none of its allure over the passing years.
Ironically, just as the totemic Wolff departs the motorsport scene, one of its female pioneers from a previous generation is plotting a return.
"I have some offers to race again. I will let you know in one or two months, but it definitely won't be Formula 1.
"But I have decided to go back to the track. Nothing else can give you the adrenaline. You feel alive." | Susie Wolff's decision to hang up her helmet last week in frustration at a perceived lack of opportunity reinforced one of Formula 1's perennial questions - where are all the female drivers? | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "34771317"} | 2,013 | 42 | 0.399433 | 1.108615 | 0.536433 | 1.057143 | 51.828571 | 0.714286 |
Legal & General and Northampton Borough Council had put forward plans to jointly redevelop the former Greyfriars bus station site in 2012.
The council said the agreement had now been "terminated" by mutual agreement.
The authority is now looking for another partner to develop a "major retail and leisure scheme" on the site.
The new scheme will not be an expansion of the Grosvenor Shopping Centre, which is owned by Legal & General, said the council.
The original development agreement committed Legal & General to extending the Grosvenor Centre back onto the site of the demolished Greyfriars bus station.
It also obliged Legal & General to refurbish the Grosvenor Centre. Work on the revamp has started and is due for completion in early 2015.
The agreement was subject to a series of conditions including "occupier commitment and financial viability".
But the Greyfriars development has not moved ahead and was delayed further while the council and Legal & General opposed plans for a £50m shopping development at Rushden Lakes in east Northamptonshire.
When permission for Rushden Lakes was granted in June the council and Legal & General met again and they have agreed to end their commitment to jointly redevelop Greyfriars.
Legal & General will continue with its £10m investment in the Grosvenor Centre, which will see major stores Next and Primark opening in October and November.
In addition, Legal & General is expected to lodge a planning application shortly to remodel both the Market Square and Abington Street entrances.
The council said demolition of the old bus station and office complex has started and the site will be levelled and ready to market to developers and retailers by December. | A £250m scheme to expand the Grosvenor Shopping Centre in Northampton has been scrapped. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "28293329"} | 373 | 24 | 0.507631 | 1.224106 | -0.175041 | 1.647059 | 18.647059 | 0.823529 |
Celtic take a big lead into Tuesday's play-off second leg in Kazakhstan.
"Having that 5-0 cushion, you can get complacent," the 28-year-old Celtic winger told BBC Scotland when asked about Thursday's group-stage draw.
"But that's where we stay mentally strong and focus on the game in hand and get the job done."
Sinclair, who scored two goals during the first leg at Celtic Park last week, insists he and his team-mates will put that healthy lead to the back of their minds in Kazakhstan.
"There's not so much pressure because of the 5-0 lead, but when we go out there, we can't concede," said last season's player of the year in Scotland.
"We'll keep calm and play our normal game and make sure we go out there to win it as well.
"We have to make sure we go over there and get the job done and then we can start looking to see who we may face."
Sinclair expects Tuesday's hosts to adopt a more cavalier approach as they look to reduce a heavy deficit and believes the easy way to settle any concerns is to score the first goal.
"In their minds, I'm sure they've got nothing to lose," he continued.
"They're going to come at us. I can't see them sitting in because there would be no point in that.
"So they're going to be attacking us just as much as we'll be attacking them, so I'm sure it'll be an open game."
With Celtic strong favourites to progress, Sinclair believes this season's squad is better equipped to handle the group games after three draws and three defeats last season.
"I think we're a much better team, much more together and obviously the gaffer has brought in a few players and a bit more experience from last year," he added.
"Every footballer around the world wants to play in the Champions League and to get into the group stages, it should be unbelievable and, for all the fans and everyone involved at Celtic, it's a massive thing.
"That's why you play the game, you're always trying to test yourself and play against the best and there's no better place to play against the best players than in the Champions League." | Scott Sinclair is relishing the prospect of playing in the Champions League group stage but says Celtic must first concentrate on beating Astana. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "40992137"} | 499 | 29 | 0.527835 | 1.255345 | 0.258424 | 1.125 | 19.791667 | 0.625 |
The presidential candidate predicted that voters in France, Germany and the Netherlands would follow their US and UK counterparts to reject the arguments of the political establishment.
She said that 2017 would be the "year of the awakening" for European people.
Her comments were echoed by the Dutch politician, Geert Wilders.
"Yesterday, a new America. Today... a new Europe!'' Mr Wilders, the leader of the anti-immigration Freedom Party (PVV), said while opening the meeting under heavy security in the central German city of Koblenz.
"The people of the West are awakening. They are throwing off the yoke of political correctness," he said.
"This year will be the year of the people... the year of liberation, the year of the patriotic spring."
Ms Le Pen said Britain's vote to leave the European Union last year would have a domino effect across the European Union (EU).
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"We are experiencing the return of nation-states," she said.
The year 2016 was characterised by the "awakening of Anglo-Saxon countries", she added, while 2017 "will be the year of the awakening of the people of continental Europe".
Ms Le Pen denounced German Chancellor Angela Merkel's migrant policy which she said had allowed huge numbers into Europe and was a "daily disaster''.
The conference of right-wing parties comes ahead of key elections in France, the Netherlands and Germany in 2017 in which they hope nationalist and anti-immigrant policies will resonate with the electorate.
Hundreds of protesters gathered in Koblenz to demonstrate against the meeting.
Also attending the meeting are Frauke Petry of the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD), Harald Vilimsky of the Freedom Party of Austria and Matteo Salvini of Italy's anti-EU Northern League.
It takes place a day after the Washington inauguration of Mr Trump, who championed the causes of patriotism and "America first" in his speech. | French National Front (FN) leader Marine Le Pen has told a meeting of right-wing politicians in Germany that patriotism is the policy of the future. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "38705176"} | 486 | 35 | 0.44687 | 1.136251 | 0.520424 | 1.4 | 14.2 | 0.733333 |
The Irish prime minister was speaking at a Belfast Pride breakfast event in the city on Saturday morning.
The Republic of Ireland's first openly gay leader, said he was attending the event as a "gesture of solidarity".
Northern Ireland is the only place in the UK where a ban on same-sex marriage still exists.
In 2015, the Republic of Ireland voted to legalise same-sex marriage in a referendum.
Mr Varadkar told crowds outside the Northern Whig in Belfast that he was not "here to unsettle anyone".
"But I am here to state my support and my government's support for equality before the law and individual freedom for all citizens wherever they may reside," he said.
The DUP, which opposes same-sex marriage, has raised no opposition to his attendance at the event, but across the street a group of Free Presbyterians staged a protest.
The taoiseach (Irish prime minister) added: "Difference makes us stronger and that's something I believe in and something that I think can mark Northern Ireland out in the future.
"I totally appreciate that this it is an issue for the Northern Ireland Assembly, but we need an assembly up and running."
Mr Varadkar said he had given his opinion on the issue to former first minister, Arlene Foster.
Thousands of people are expected to attend the Belfast Pride parade on Saturday afternoon, although Mr Vardakar has said he was not able to attend the main event because he had a prior commitment.
Mr Varadkar also said he was pleased that the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) and Gardaà (Irish police) would be marching in the parade in uniform for the first time.
"Doesn't that say something really good about Northern Ireland and the way it has developed as a society in the past 10 or 20 years?" he added.
On Friday, the first day of Mr Vardakar's visit, he called for "unique solutions" to preserve the relationship between the UK and the European Union after Brexit.
During a speech at Queen's University in Belfast he also warned "the clock is ticking" in Brexit negotations and that "every single aspect of life in Northern Ireland could be affected" when the UK leaves the European Union.
On Friday afternoon, the taoiseach met members of Northern Ireland's political parties, including representatives from the DUP, Sinn Féin, the SDLP and Alliance.
His meeting with DUP leader Arlene Foster came days after a row between the party and the taoiseach over the Irish border post-Brexit.
But Mrs Foster told the BBC she had thanked the taoiseach for "discounting" the idea of a border along the Irish sea. | Leo Varadkar has said it is "only a matter of time" before same-sex marriage is introduced in Northern Ireland. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "40833700"} | 630 | 31 | 0.552769 | 1.431572 | -0.512777 | 1.791667 | 22.125 | 0.875 |
Pensioners are now the least likely group to be in income poverty, according to the think-tank.
The IFS report also said that most poor people now live in households where someone is working.
The government said there were record numbers in work, and that wages were rising faster than inflation.
On average, incomes rose by 2% in real terms between 2007/08 and 2014/15, according to the IFS.
However, that figure concealed very different experiences for different generations:
The IFS report acknowledged that the proportion of children living in workless households has dropped, from one in four in 1994/5 to just one in six in 2014/15.
But in two-thirds of cases, children classified as poor now had a parent with a job - households the IFS described as the "new poor".
Increasingly middle income families were now also sharing the experience of poverty, the think tank said.
Half of these families now rented their homes, rather than owning them.
And while poorer families had become less reliant on state benefits, middle income families with children now get 30% of their income from the state.
Twenty years ago, the figure was 22%.
The new Work and Pensions Secretary, Damian Green, said there were record numbers of people in work, and wages were rising faster than inflation, but more needed to be done.
"As our economy grows, we will also be building our skills base, developing a proper industrial strategy and improving education to help everyone reach their full potential," he said.
One reason for the growing income gap between young and old was that pensioners have experienced a "strong growth" in benefits, the IFS said.
Since 2010 the state pension has risen according to the "triple lock" - whichever is the higher of inflation, earnings or 2.5%.
Pensioners are also entitled to non-means-tested winter fuel payments, free bus travel, free prescriptions, a Christmas bonus - and a free TV licence for those aged 75 and over.
Another reason their incomes have risen is because more people over 60 are still working.
By contrast young people have failed to benefit from an improving jobs market as quickly as some other age groups.
Earlier this week research from the Resolution Foundation found that workers born since 1990 typically earned £8,000 less in their twenties than those born in the 1970s.
The insurance company Prudential said that people planning to retire in 2016 expect to have an income of £17,700 a year, the highest number they have recorded.
In its report the IFS also said that living standards were likely to be hit by the Brexit vote.
"Virtually all serious analysis suggests that the uncertainty over the UK's future relationship with the EU will lead to a smaller economy and hence lower living standards over the next few years than we would otherwise have had," the report concluded.
"But precisely how this will feed through into employment, earnings, and tax and benefit policy is impossible to predict with confidence."
However, the report also noted that more people were in work than ever before and that inequality in wages had fallen. | Young people have suffered a drop in income since the financial crisis, but pensioners have enjoyed a big rise, the Institute for Fiscal Studies has said. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "36826166"} | 654 | 33 | 0.454533 | 1.094615 | 0.24248 | 1.206897 | 21.206897 | 0.655172 |
The 26-year-old ex-Rochdale, Watford and Brighton player moves to Blues with a view to a more permanent deal, once he has proved his fitness.
Buckley is a replacement for Demarai Gray, who joined Premier League side Leicester City for £3.75m last week.
But Blues look like having to face the rest of the season without injury-plagued full-back Neil Eardley.
Eardley, 27, who is out of contract at the end of the season, may have to undergo surgery on a cruciate knee ligament injury, less than a month after coming back from a shoulder injury.
"He's had a scan and it looks like a cruciate injury," Birmingham boss Gary Rowett told BBC WM. "I don't know the exact prognosis but I would hazard a guess it would be the season and a little bit more. He's very low. He's been incredibly unlucky with injuries and our hearts go out to him."
Buckley began his career at Rochdale before moving to Watford in January 2010. He signed for Brighton for £1m in June 2011 before following his old Seagulls boss Gus Poyet to Sunderland for £2.5m in August 2014.
But he has not figured this season and spent a month out on loan at Leeds in October, making his debut in a 2-0 home defeat by Blues.
"Things perhaps haven't quite gone for Will Buckley in the last year at Sunderland," said Rowett. "But I look at what the potential is in any signing.
"When he played at Brighton, he was perfect for a counterattacking system, He's very athletic, good pace, two footed, travels well with the ball and has that little bit of Premier League quality in the final third.
"If we can get that out of him and have him enjoying his football again, I think we'll have a really top signing on our hands."
He is Blues' second signing of the January transfer window following the extension of Huddersfield Town striker James Vaughan's loan until the end of the season.
Buckley is expected to figure in Saturday's trip to Derby County for a Blues side who are back up to eighth in the Championship, having now picked up seven points out of nine since losing 3-0 at Sheffield Wednesday on Boxing Day.
"I'm pleased with how we've responded," said Rowett. "This division is all about navigating little blips.
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She has been named as 64-year-old Janet Gilson, a Salvation Army worker from Leigh-on-Sea, Essex.
A 29-year-old man was arrested at the city's main ferry harbour and is being questioned by detectives.
Ms Gilson - found at her niece's property on Lamma Island - reportedly suffered head injuries but police could not confirm if she had died from them.
She had arrived in Hong Kong on 6 March and was last seen on Tuesday in the village of Tai Yuen Village.
Her body was found in the flat, three days after she was reported missing by her niece.
The South China Morning Post reported that a witness to the arrest said she saw a handcuffed man with his head covered by a hood escorted by police off the ferry.
She said there had been a strong police presence around the island during the day and that the ferry piers on Lamma Island had also been under heavy guard.
The man, described by the paper as an expatriate, was held overnight for questioning.
A post-mortem examination will be conducted to establish the cause of Ms Gilson's death but police have confirmed that they are treating it as a "suspected murder case".
It emerged that she had retired only recently.
In a statement Major Carol Bailey, who is a regional manager for the Salvation Army, spoke of their sadness and shock at the news.
"She was a deeply spiritual woman and was highly respected and loved by all those with whom she came into contact."
"She was an inspirational person and she will be sadly missed."
A Foreign Office spokesman said it was ready to provide consular assistance to the family if required. | Police in Hong Kong have launched a murder inquiry after the body of a British woman was discovered in a flat. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "12798438"} | 380 | 26 | 0.482292 | 1.124558 | -0.692766 | 1.181818 | 15.363636 | 0.818182 |
A murder investigation is under way after Frankie Cooper was knifed in Princess Square in Newcastle city centre at about 13:20 GMT on Monday 20 February.
Mr Cooper, who was from the Newcastle area, died in hospital on Saturday.
Two teenagers charged with assault remain in custody pending court appearances. | A 22-year-old man who died five days after being stabbed on Tyneside has been named by police. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "39104519"} | 64 | 27 | 0.671502 | 1.171568 | -0.970554 | 0.272727 | 2.590909 | 0.272727 |
The visit is part of a series of events taking place to mark Glasgow being the first ever "Partner City to The Open".
The title recognises Glasgow's status as a transport and accommodation hub for the event from 10-17 July.
Organisers of The Open estimate that the championship could be worth up to £100m to the Scottish economy.
Johnnie Cole-Hamilton, executive director of championships at The R&A said: "We are delighted to have Glasgow as the first Partner City of The Open and there is a great deal going on to celebrate the return of one of the world's great sporting events to Royal Troon just down the coast in South Ayrshire."
The Claret Jug, which was won at St Andrews last year by the USA's Zach Johnson, has been presented to the winner of The Open since 1873.
It was received on the runway of Glasgow Airport by airfield operations manager Billy Hill.
It was then placed on public display in The Open shop in the main terminal building.
Francois Bourienne, commercial director at Glasgow Airport, said: "It is an absolute honour to welcome one of the most famous trophies in world sport to Glasgow Airport.
"The Open will attract tens of thousands of visitors from across the world and a number of our airline partners have added extra capacity in order to meet demand." | The Claret Jug that is presented each year to the winner of The Open has arrived in Glasgow ahead of this year's golf championship at Royal Troon. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "36478521"} | 292 | 35 | 0.65974 | 1.505582 | 0.197613 | 2.137931 | 9.137931 | 0.827586 |
Mae Cynghrair Parciau Cenedlaethol Cymru, sydd yn cynnwys nifer o gyrff cadwraethol, wedi dweud bod yr adroddiad fel ag y mae "yn peri risg i enw da parciau cenedlaethol fel tirweddau gwarchodedig yng Nghymru".
Dywedodd yr RSPB ac Ymddiriedolaethau Natur Cymru nad oedden nhw'n gallu cefnogi adroddiad Tirwedd y Dyfodol - sydd wedi'i lunio gan grŵp dan gadeiryddiaeth yr Arglwydd Elis-Thomas - yn ei ffurf bresennol.
Mae digon sydd i'w gefnogi yn y ddogfen, medden nhw, ond maen nhw hefyd wedi mynegi "pa mor siomedig ydyn ni gyda'r adroddiad".
Ychwanegodd y ddau gorff nad yw'n cynnwys unrhyw argymhellion clir, a bod diffyg cydnabyddiaeth o'r angen brys i daclo colli cynefin o fewn tirwedd warchodedig.
Mae'r adroddiad - oedd i fod i gael ei chyhoeddi ym mis Mawrth, ond fydd nawr yn cael eu rhyddhau yn hwyrach na hynny - wedi ei weld gan Newyddion 9.
Mae'n dweud mai ei "dyhead yw datgloi potensial llawn holl dirweddau Cymru", a bod gan y parciau cenedlaethol ac ardaloedd o harddwch naturiol ran allweddol i'w chwarae yn nyfodol y wlad.
Roedd galwad hefyd ar "gymunedau i gael eu hysbrydoli i ddatblygu eu gweledigaeth a thargedau tymor hir eu hunain ar gyfer y dyfodol, er mwyn creu swyddi a chyfleoedd i bobl ifanc aros a dychwelyd i'w cymunedau".
Ond mae cadwraethwyr yn pryderu nad yw'r adroddiad yn crybwyll 'Egwyddor Sandford' o gwbl, sydd yn dweud mai prif bwrpas parciau cenedlaethol yw gwarchod a chyfoethogi harddwch naturiol, bywyd gwyllt a threftadaeth ddiwylliannol yr ardal.
"Mae'r adroddiad fel mae o yn warthus i fod yn onest. Mae angen ailddrafftio," meddai John Harold o Gymdeithas Eryri.
"Does 'na ddim argymhellion clir, a 'dan ni'n bryderus iawn efo beth sydd ddim yn yr adroddiad. Does 'na ddim sôn am egwyddor cadwraeth yna, ac mae hynny'n bwynt sylfaenol - dyna beth mae parciau cenedlaethol i fod i wneud."
Ychwanegodd Elfyn Jones o Gymdeithas Fynydda Prydain: "Dwi'n siomedig dros ben fod yr adroddiad ddim yn dweud mwy am warchod y parciau cenedlaethol, ac am y cyfleoedd sydd 'na i gael gwell mynediad i barciau cenedlaethol.
"Dyna 'di sail parciau cenedlaethol - fe gawson nhw eu sefydlu yn 1949 er mwyn gwarchod y tirwedd anhygoel sydd o'n cwmpas ni, ac mae'n siomedig iawn gweld bod hynny i'w weld wedi cael ei dilutio yn yr adroddiad yma."
Cafodd grŵp Tirwedd y Dyfodol Cymru ei sefydlu yn 2015 gan Lywodraeth Cymru.
Mae'r Arglwydd Dafydd Elis-Thomas wedi gwrthod gwneud sylw ar y mater, ond dywedodd llefarydd ar ran y llywodraeth: "Mae'n bwysig cofio mai fersiwn drafft o'r adroddiad yw hwn.
Mae Rhaglen Tirweddau'r Dyfodol Cymru wedi bod yn hynod gydweithredol ei natur ac wedi cynnwys amrywiaeth eang o bartneriaid, sydd wedi cyfrannu at y trafodaethau a'r drafftio.
"Mae'r trafodaethau hyn yn barhaus wrth i adroddiad terfynol gael ei baratoi ar gyfer ei gyhoeddi cyn toriad yr haf." | Mae adroddiad drafft ar ddyfodol parciau cenedlaethol Cymru wedi cael ei feirniadu gan gadwraethwyr, sydd yn dweud y gallai wneud niwed i'w enw da yn rhyngwladol. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "39424626"} | 1,920 | 118 | 0.718827 | 1.678972 | 0.292159 | 1.714286 | 19.75 | 0.785714 |
Theodore Silvester was taken ill on Friday at Anlaby Primary School, where paramedics pronounced him dead.
The appeal aimed to raise £1,000, but now has more than £13,000 in donations.
Tributes have been pouring in for Theodore, whose post-mortem examination has yet to take place.
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Brian Andrews, who works as a crossing patrol guard outside the school, said he was "very, very upset" when he heard about Theodore's death.
"A great little guy," he said. "A very happy little chap.
"Absolutely devastated, upset; I felt for his parents and his schoolmates."
One tearful mother taking her child to the school on Monday said everybody was in shock.
"He was such a young little boy and you don't expect it to happen, so we are all very upset," she said.
"We're feeling so sorry for the family."
On Saturday, head teacher Gareth May said the whole school community was "deeply saddened by this tragic event".
Flowers have been left outside the school's gates, with staff and pupils offered support over the coming days.
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Tina Love, from Dartford in Kent, has been sentenced to six years after previously being convicted of wounding with intent to do grievous bodily harm.
The assault took place in the concert area of the holiday camp in Bognor, West Sussex, during a performance of Jack and the Beanstalk in April 2013.
Julie McDonald, from Buckinghamshire, suffered head and facial injuries.
Chichester Crown Court heard Love, 28, of Acacia Road, head-butted Ms McDonald, who was then 47, before biting off part of her nose and spitting it out on to the floor.
The attack in front of 450 people followed a dispute over whose table was whose, the court was told.
Part of Ms McDonald's nose had to be reattached during surgery.
A victim impact statement read to the court by prosecutor Rachel Beckett said the attack left the mother-of-three living a "nightmare".
"The assault on me was unwarranted, unprovoked and has left me scarred for life," it said.
"I was left in the theatre covered in blood with one of my children next to me as I screamed out in shock and pain.
"You can't hide from this. It is there every day staring me in the face when I look in the mirror and I have to deal with this for the rest of my life."
Defending, Neil Guest said Love would lose her local authority home and also be separated from her three children, aged eight, five and four.
In mitigation, he said she had no previous convictions, had not been in trouble since the attack and was at low risk of re-offending.
"She's a true, caring mother who helps strangers and gives to charities," he said.
"What came over her that night we simply don't know."
Sentencing, recorder Mark Milliken-Smith QC said it was a "tragic case" in which everyone had suffered, including Love's own children. | A woman who bit off part of another woman's nose at Butlins during a children's pantomime has been jailed. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "31464394"} | 444 | 34 | 0.448799 | 1.180006 | -0.440188 | 1.227273 | 17.772727 | 0.681818 |
Dr Stuart MacDonald works in Portadown Health Centre, home to seven surgeries including Bannview Medical Practice.
Bannview is potentially at risk of closure after its last remaining doctor resigned.
Dr MacDonald, from a separate surgery in the same building, said: "Every GP that I speak to is feeling the strain."
The other six surgeries in the town have told the health authorities that they cannot absorb the 5,000 patients from the Bannview practice.
On Wednesday, the Health and Social Care Board (HSCB) denied claims that Bannview was set to close within weeks, and said: "No decisions have been made to close the practice."
The HSCB said it was "currently in discussions with a potential contractor to take over" the practice, but patients have complained to BBC News NI about the current level of service being provided by Bannview in the absence of regular family doctors.
Dr MacDonald told the BBC's Good Morning Ulster programme: "Any time we've had meetings in Portadown to discuss this, I've been very, very struck at the depth of feeling among all the GPs in all the practices."
He said doctors were having difficulty trying to provide a "safe, sustainable service" because of a shortage of GPs to cater for demand.
"Portadown is the first medium-sized town where this situation has become so acute, but I am sure that there are other towns right across Northern Ireland where [surgeries] may be one illness or one retirement away from a very, very similar situation."
Dr MacDonald added: "Bannview must survive. If Bannview falls, then its possible Portadown [GP services] as a whole could fall over and create a domino effect, not just in Portadown but in the underlying areas.
"If that happens in Portadown, it could happen in any town."
Clare McConville-Walker, now 34, has been a patient of Bannview Medical Practice since birth.
The mother of three told BBC News NI that her family has not been able to pre-book an appointment with their own GP "for months" due to the shortage of doctors in the surgery.
Ms McConville-Walker said her grandfather, who is also a Bannview patient, is being treated for cancer and dealing with a "different locum every day" is causing difficulties.
She said she believed that many patients who need to see their GP about important, but non-emergency health issues, will be "put off" because of the current situation.
Wednesday's HSCB statement said: "The board and practice apologise to all patients for the current inconvenience and will continue to work diligently together over the coming days to endeavour to ensure normal cover and the full provision of general medical services resumes as soon as possible."
The last GP to quit at Bannview, Dr Shauna Heanen, wrote an emotive resignation letter saying she "couldn't cope" with 12 to 14-hour working days with no breaks.
Dr MacDonald told the BBC that the health authorities must bear in mind that GPs are "human beings".
"These are people with family lives, they are people with home lives, and many of us are struggling to get the balance right. I'm aware of situations where GPs have given up their job just to be able to have some sort of functioning normal home life again."
Last month, it was reported that hundreds of GPs in Northern Ireland have signed undated resignation letters to the NHS, meaning they could begin charging patients directly for appointments this year.
The British Medical Association's Tom Black said at the time GPs have a "huge workload" and if something was not done about it there would be "no GP services".
Many medical professional have argued that Northern Ireland is not producing enough doctors to cater for its aging population.
Last year, Health Minister Michelle O'Neill announced plans to increase the number of GP training places to 111.
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It has been confirmed, although still unofficially, that ministers are seriously looking in that direction for the next education watchdog for England.
Sir Michael Wilshaw's term of office will end this year and the government - it's up to them rather than Ofsted - is casting its recruitment net overseas.
In particular, they are considering candidates who have been involved in the charter school movement, state-funded independent schools, with a similar ideological DNA to academies and free schools in England.
The big impact of charter schools has been in the most deprived urban areas, credited with re-energising schools that had been in a state of chronic decline.
It's a claim rejected by their opponents, particularly in US teachers' unions, who say that the successful glitz and PR around charter schools is not backed up by any significant long-term advantage.
Some charter schools do well, some do badly... like any other type of school, they argue. The current mayor of New York, Bill de Blasio, has been accused by charter school groups of putting up "roadblocks" to their expansion.
But what kind of candidates are likely to emerge?
The names in the frame so far include Dave Levin, co-founder of the Knowledge Is Power Program, which runs more than 180 schools.
Another name is Doug Lemov, who runs Uncommon Schools - and for anyone reading the tea leaves in such things, he tweeted about Arsenal's game after being mentioned by the Sunday Times as a possible candidate for this London-based job.
Eva Moskowitz of Success Academy is also mentioned, a deeply controversial figure in US education, whose school chain is currently firefighting a viral video of a teacher ripping up an infant pupil's homework in front of them.
A much stronger candidate, so far not mentioned, might be Geoffrey Canada, president of the Harlem Children's Zone.
Also suggested by other insiders has been Michelle Rhee, who runs an education reform group and is a former head of state schools in Washington DC.
But there are also informed opinions arguing that the idea of a US watchdog might be a smokescreen and there are a lot of practical complications that might make such a transatlantic transfer unlikely.
For instance, the salary might be a barrier. It has to be enough to tempt someone over - but if it's too much it's going to be a constant source of complaints.
It's categorised as one of those "sounds great on paper" ideas.
And a candidate closer to home might be the frontrunner, such as the national schools commissioner, Sir David Carter.
There are also some big differences between the US and England's school systems. First of all, there is no US school system - it's organised at state and city level, with all the variability in standards and resourcing that come with that.
In terms of international education rankings, the US is a pretty unimpressive performer. In the Pisa tests, run by the OECD, the United States is behind the UK on every measure.
This mediocre average conceals an even more depressingly polarised underlying picture.
Academics at Harvard and Stanford have looked at Pisa results for individual US states, comparing them to other countries. It found that some, such as Massachusetts, have standards that would match most other places in the world.
But there were other states, particularly in the south, which had some of the worst results in the developed world.
In individual cities there are also some calamitous problems.
In Detroit, according to the results of US tests, only 4% of 13- to 14-year-olds in the city's state schools are proficient or better at maths. This is a city where teachers have been banned from striking and are closing schools by calling in sick on the same day.
These kind of extremes do not really have a parallel in England.
Another big difference is that much of the talk around charter schools is about rescuing failing schools in places such as New York.
But in England's school system, London is the jewel in the crown, outperforming the more comfortably quilted shires.
The narrative of evangelical educators working in the bleakest urban, violent wastelands doesn't really translate.
An American in Ofsted would be more likely to have to take on the rusting arcades of a rainy seaside town, counting the bookies and pound shops rather than the gang victims.
National Association of Head Teachers' leader Russell Hobby was not enthused by the idea of a US import, saying that "seeking home-grown talent might be wiser".
"Quality of leadership is usually considered higher in the UK, so there's a good pool to draw from. Our unions are nothing like the US unions in terms of restrictive practices."
And Christine Blower, leader of the National Union of Teachers, said: "If the government is scouring the world for a new head of Ofsted they should look to Finland.
"It is universally agreed to have an excellent education system characterised by co-operation, collaboration and trust. A far cry from the charter school ethos of the US."
There is another major dimension to this story. As well as talking about who gets the job, perhaps the more important question is about how the job is going to be redefined.
Sir Michael Wilshaw is probably the most influential figure in England's education system, with his views and rulings often overshadowing education ministers.
Although he has faced much criticism from the teachers' unions, Sir Michael has been a powerful force in defending a comprehensive school system, rooted in public service and the public sector.
The teachers' unions have long complained about the Ofsted head, but they might come to regret his departure.
The more free-market advocates of academies have resented the regulatory, interventionist force of Ofsted - and they would not be unhappy to see its power being cut down to size.
Ofsted's willingness to take on academy chains has been intended to raise standards, but will also have raised hackles.
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The statistics show that 3.94 million procedures were carried out in the course of scientific research - a fall of 206,000 on 2015.
Some 51% of the total figure was accounted for by experiments and 49% relates to the breeding of genetically modified animals for research.
A charity called on the government to curb "out-of-control" animal breeding.
Troy Seidle of Humane Society International said: "We've witnessed this trend toward out-of-control breeding of genetically modified animals developing for more than a decade, and have repeatedly called on the Home Office to take action."
Between 2007 and 2016, the number of procedures increased by 23%.
The rise in breeding of genetically altered animals was largely responsible for the increase.
Of the 2.02 million experimental procedures completed in 2016, the majority involved mice (60%), fish (14%), rats (12%), and birds (7%).
As of 2014, the Home Office statistics contain information on the severity of procedures carried out on animals.
This year, the majority of experimental procedures (46%) were classed as "mild". This compares with 51% of experiments being categorised as mild the previous year.
The proportion of experiments classed as severe (6%) did not change compared with the previous year's figures.
The procedures involving specially protected species, such as horses; dogs; cats; and non-human primates, accounted for 0.9% (18,000) of procedures in 2016.
Dr Sarah Wells, director of the Medical Research Council's mouse genomics facility, the Mary Lyon Centre, said: "The management of colonies of genetically-altered animals is complex but we are developing increasingly sophisticated ways of breeding and genotyping them and preserving their eggs and sperm.
"These efforts are reducing the number animals required for each experiment."
Dr Penny Hawkins, head of the research animals team at the RSPCA, said: "The significant, year-on-year increases in animal procedures after 2000 seem to have ended, and the overall number is now fluctuating around four million.
"But it would be very wrong to allow this level of animal use to become 'normalised', because of the pain, suffering and distress involved."
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He will join team captains Ian Hislop and Paul Merton when the new series returns on 2 October.
Clarkson pulled out of hosting the BBC One panel show in April, after being sacked from Top Gear after a "fracas".
He is set to front a new motoring show for Amazon next year, alongside co-hosts James May and Richard Hammond.
Clarkson's appearance on Have I Got News For You will be his first on the BBC since his departure from Top Gear.
He was suspended in March after assaulting producer Oisin Tymon, and the BBC later confirmed his contract would not be renewed.
At the time, BBC director-general Tony Hall said "a line has been crossed" and that "there cannot be one rule for one and one rule for another".
Clarkson signed up to present Have I Got News For You on Friday, and his appearance will mark the start of the show's 50th series.
When he pulled out of hosting in April, production company Hat Trick had suggested the presenter would appear on the show soon.
A statement said: "On reflection, Jeremy Clarkson has decided not to host Have I Got News For You. We fully expect him to resume his hosting duties later in the year."
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The 22-1 chance, ridden by George Baker, triumphed from Ventura Storm and Housesofparliament after the odds-on favourite unshipped Seamie Heffernan.
Epsom-based Mongan said winning the world's oldest Classic, first run 240 years ago, was "surreal".
"I'll go down in history. At least I've done something right," she said.
"It was brilliant. I think I screamed a lot. I'm in shock," added Mongan, who is assisted by her husband, former jockey Ian.
It's brilliant. It's so nice to have a horse like that in the yard
Both Heffernan and Idaho were reported to be fine after the incident.
Harbour Law is the first Classic winner in 47 years to be trained in the town associated with the Derby.
Idaho was bidding to give Irish trainer Aidan O'Brien his fifth Leger victory but appeared to take a false step just under four furlongs out, and left Heffernan on the turf.
"When Idaho clipped heels it made it a very open race," said Baker after victory by three quarters of a length.
"I can't believe it, I'm so happy for Ian and Laura, they had so much faith in him and really deserve it."
Heffernan was taken to hospital as a precaution.
Analysis - BBC racing correspondent Cornelius Lysaght:
"On a day when the 'Leger' was in danger of being severely upstaged by an outstanding Irish Champion Stakes, the famous old race made its presence well and truly felt with a staging that dripeped with history and drama.
"The glass ceiling associated with female trainers in major horse races has long been shattered by the likes of Jenny Pitman and, on the flat, by Criquette Head-Maarek, but Laura Mongan's win is still a notable result for the final Classic.
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A mother by the age of 13.
When I meet Eloise what strikes me is how incredibly small she is. Her arms are tiny and she's not very tall either.
The thought of a man - a soldier - raping her seems unimaginable.
But it's not only the trauma of sexual violence Eloise has to deal with - she has a nine-month-old baby to look after too.
We are not using her real name because she is a minor and also for her own protection from possible retaliation.
She says that when she was 12 a Ugandan soldier, deployed to protect her town, attacked her.
"My mother sent me to the market to buy something," she says. "On the way, a Ugandan soldier grabbed me. He dragged me to a nearby lodge [hotel] and raped me."
Uganda has about 2,500 soldiers stationed in the Central African Republic (CAR). The mission, which began in 2009, aims to hunt down Joseph Kony and members of his Lord's Resistance Army (LRA).
The rebel group has been accused of committing massacres, abductions, rape and acts of looting. Kony and his men started in Uganda but went on to wage their war across the Democratic Republic of Congo, South Sudan and the CAR.
But now the Ugandan army is being accused of committing sexual crimes similar to those carried out by the group it's meant to be fighting.
At a secret location, we meet Marie. She is 14 years old and far more confident than Eloise.
She makes a similar allegation.
"I was going to the field to work and on my way, I was grabbed by a Ugandan. He was violent, he attacked me and he raped me. When I think about this, it hurts me. I didn't expect it at all.
"If I had a knife or machete I would have tried to attack him."
Most of the soldiers from the Uganda People's Defence Forces (UPDF), are stationed in Obo, in the far south-west of the CAR.
Dense forest and rivers surround it. But it's also a modern military town. During the day there's the constant sound of helicopters and planes taking off - soldiers coming in and going out, their supplies arriving.
A United States unit of about 100 military advisers is also based in the town, supporting the mission to find Kony.
Uganda operates under an African Union mandate but other countries in the region affected by the LRA, which are meant to be part of the mission, hardly contribute troops because of conflicts back home.
Obo mayor Barthelemy Maickos says: "I'm thankful for the Ugandans being in our locality. If they were not here, Joseph Kony's men would be."
But, with all the allegations of wrongdoing, he wishes his own government would take up the responsibility of protecting its people.
The CAR has faced bouts of instability. The most recent began in 2012 when the mostly Muslim Seleka rebels overthrew the government. To confront them a Christian/Animist group the anti-Balaka was formed. The country is divided and the United Nations stepped in to provide peacekeepers.
But some of these UN soldiers, as well as those from former colonial power France, have been accused of sexually abusing boys, girls and women.
In an effort to be more open about these crimes, the UN has investigated allegations against Ugandan soldiers in and around Obo.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, last July said his office had interviewed 18 women who said they had faced sexual violence and harassment by Ugandan soldiers. Fourteen cases of alleged rape, including cases involving victims who were minors at the time, were also reported, all in and around Obo.
Several women and girls reported they had been taken from their villages by Ugandans and forced to become prostitutes or sex slaves, or to marry Ugandan soldiers, the statement said.
Mr Al Hussein called on Uganda to investigate the alleged crimes itself and ensure that, where evidence was sufficient, alleged perpetrators were brought to justice.
But the man charged with carrying out public prosecutions in Obo, Max Tina, told us he gets little co-operation from Uganda.
"We knew one case where a dog was used to rape a minor," he says. "When we started investigating, the Ugandan authorities decided to clean their tracks and repatriate those who committed this crime back to Uganda."
I put these allegations to Brig-Gen Richard Karemire, the Ugandan military spokesman, who says an investigation was carried out in Obo but no evidence was found.
"A team went on the ground and did a very good investigation and they never found anything really to implicate any UPDF individual for having perpetrated such crimes," he says.
I push him on the fact that such complaints have followed the Ugandan army when it's been deployed in Somalia or the Democratic Republic of Congo.
He answers: "Allegations will always be there. What's important is that when there are allegations, when you investigate and find elements culpable, what do you do? Wherever we find any of our soldiers culpable we take action."
Maria Burnett, associate director at Human Rights Watch, sees the situation very differently.
"We have long-standing concerns about accountability for sexual exploitation and abuse committed by Ugandan soldiers during operations outside Uganda," she says.
"We have discussed our concerns with various officials over many years and each time there are commitments to investigate, mixed with denials that abuses have occurred."
I asked Eloise, still a child herself, what she hoped for her and her baby's future.
"I'm not thinking of anything for us, " she says. "I don't know - I'm not thinking of anything."
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But how does the pay for junior doctors compare with other jobs?
Basic salary for junior doctors starts at about £23,000 but increases in the second year to about £28,000 (Pay for doctors - NHS Careers). For a doctor in specialist training, the basic salary is between £30,000 and £47,000.
Junior doctors get more for working extra and anti-social hours (currently classified as outside 07:00 to 19:00 Monday to Friday) on top of the basic salary, which boosts their income.
According to figures from the NHS Employers Organisation, the average total salary for a doctor in training is around £37,000.
The new contract changes anti-social hours to outside 07:00 to 22:00 Monday to Saturday, making Saturday between 07:00 and 22:00 part of a junior doctor's normal working week.
The change to Saturday working has angered doctors, who say it will reduce overtime pay and cut salaries. The Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, has indicated he may be prepared to reconsider his plan to reclassify working on Saturdays.
The Department of Health thinks the new contract is a better deal. It says it will increase the basic salary for doctors and improve training so that junior doctors will not get paid less on average overall.
The move is part of the drive towards seven-day working in the NHS.
Working alongside doctors, a fully qualified nurse starts on about £22,000. Hours worked on Saturdays, Sundays, public holidays and on weekdays between 20:00 and 06:00 receive a pay premium. The Royal College of Nursing says it will challenge any proposal by the government to scrap or undermine unsocial hours payments.
Outside of the medical profession, a teacher starts on about £23,000, according to the teachers' union, the NUT.
Graduates start out on salaries ranging from about £21,000 to £37,000, according to the Association of Graduate Recruiters (AGR).
At the top of the scale are law and banking, while public sector and retail pay rests at the bottom.
The average starting salary for a corporate investment banker is about £35,000 to £40,000, according to the graduate job website Prospects.ac.uk. After three or more years, salaries may rise above £50,000.
In countries such as Australia, doctors receive tax breaks for a proportion of their income assigned to everything from rent or mortgage to eating out at restaurants.
Some junior doctors in the UK complain about having to pay for hospital parking and what they see as over-priced hospital food, although hospitals may offer subsidised parking and meals.
Other professions boast a range of unusual perks, including free climbing walls for office workers, staying at home on your birthday at a tech start-up and even a dog to pat at an advertising firm.
For doctors, though, rewards come in making a difference to patients' lives and, in the long term, a healthy salary.
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Earlier this week, inspectors said they had safety concerns about inmates at HMP Hewell, with vulnerable prisoners self-harming to address basic issues.
The anonymous officer also told BBC News cells were rarely searched.
A prison spokesman said staffing levels were set using a national benchmark but it was recruiting new officers.
He added that intelligence-led cell searches were now more common practice.
The prison officer highlighted several areas of concern among workers.
"The staff don't feel safe and there's not enough of them," they said.
"We've been cut back. In order to run a prison safely and securely you need the staff, and that's been totally taken away.
"Staff don't feel able to challenge prisoners properly... there's no consequence for bad behaviour.
"They don't feel backed up by management or by other staff around them."
The officer said mandatory cell searches were no longer conducted and they were "rammed" with contraband like mobile phones and weapons.
Use of synthetic cannabis was "rife" and targeted searches were "few and far between", they said.
The prison governor had made some changes but "did not believe he is understaffed", the officer said.
In its report earlier this week, HM Inspectorate of Prisons said there had been one murder and six suicides since its last visit and incidents of self-harming and bullying were high.
It found up to 40% of cells at the prison near Redditch were overcrowded, while access to basic services such as clothing, cleaning materials and mail were all poor.
The report mostly criticised the closed prison, which houses 1,100 inmates, with another 200 at the open section.
The Howard League for Penal Reform said Hewell had seen frontline officers cut from 330 in August 2010 to 170 by the end of June this year.
In a statement, Governor Nigel Atkinson said Hewell did have some job vacancies, which meant that "at times certain aspects of the prison regime may be restricted" but all work was risk assessed.
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All O'Keefe's scalps came as India lost seven wickets for 11 runs to be 105 all out - captain Virat Kohli making his first Test duck in 45 innings.
Australia, bowled out for 260 in their first innings, then moved to 143-4 to lead by 298 runs.
Captain Steve Smith, dropped three times, was unbeaten on 59 at the end of day on which 15 wickets fell.
O'Keefe claimed three wickets in one over, first dismissing top-scorer KL Rahul (64) before Ajinkya Rahane and Wriddhiman Saha fell for ducks.
All of his six wickets came in the space of 24 deliveries as the 32-year-old claimed career-best figures in his fifth Test.
Despite Ravichandran Ashwin dismissing David Warner (10) and Shaun Marsh for a duck, Smith and Matt Renshaw (31) steadied the innings to put Australia on top.
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Jones, known for TV sitcoms Stella, and Gavin and Stacey, will write and star in the new six-part comedy Splott.
The comedy, set in the Splott area of Cardiff, tells the story of Mandy Ferhat - a school cook and single mum.
When life gets tough, Mandy - played by Jones - turns to her "bonkers" neighbour Val and her "sweet but serial killer-obsessed" colleague Kathleen.
Jones said: "Let's be honest, who can't help but love the name Splott. A name made more loveable by the fact that it's a real place nestled in the heart of Wales' capital.
"I'm so excited to be playing a strong gutsy Cardiffian in what I hope is going to be a refreshingly daft and silly sitcom on Radio Wales."
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The Right Reverend Libby Lane, 48, was made Bishop of Stockport in front of more than 1,000 people.
The Church formally adopted legislation last November to allow women bishops, following decades of argument over women's ordination.
Archbishop of York John Sentamu, who led the service, said he had been "praying and working for this day".
During the two-hour service Dr Sentamu and other bishops laid their hands on Bishop Lane and prayed. This was followed by lengthy applause.
Writing in today's Yorkshire Post the archbishop said: "It is high time we had women bishops. I have been praying and working for this day.
"In a few years' time when more and more women will be bishops, I predict we shall be wondering how we ever managed without them."
However, in an indication that some Anglicans still oppose women's ordination, the service was briefly delayed by an opponent of the changes.
The Rev Paul Williamson stepped forward shouting "not in the Bible" after the Archbishop of York asked the church if Mrs Lane should be ordained as a bishop.
The second time Dr Sentamu asked the congregation, there was no opposition and the ceremony continued.
A Church of England spokesman said of Mr Williamson, priest in charge of a church in Hanworth, Middlesex: "He's got the right to protest but the contrast was between a lone voice protesting and a sea of voices affirming."
Bishop Lane had said the consecration would be a very "emotional" moment.
She said: "It is a remarkable thing that this happens to me, and people have been very supportive of me personally, but actually this is about a moment in the Church's history."
Speaking after the service her son Benedict said: "We've been building up to it now for a long time and it's satisfying that it has finally happened and we are finally here.
"She's the best person for the job."
Libby Lane has been vicar of St Peter's Hale and St Elizabeth's Ashley, in Greater Manchester, since April 2007.
At York Minster today I've met Anglican women bishops from the US, New Zealand, South Africa, Iceland, Sweden and Germany delighted to welcome her to their ranks.
Retired Swedish bishop Christina Odenberg told me it was inevitable England would catch up.
Meanwhile, long-time campaigner Christina Rees of Women and the Church said that, now the mother church had made this move, she felt other provinces of the Anglican Communion which had been holding back out of "deference" would follow suit.
I was also struck by young journalist Carey Lodge of "Christian Today", who was born the year before the Church of England voted in favour of women priests.
She said her friends were filling her social media space with tweets and updates revelling in what one woman is achieving today. All of them believed others would follow quickly.
Libby Lane's former curate at Hale, Georgina Watmore, told me with a big beam on her face that she looked forward to the day when there would be a female archbishop - and "probably in my lifetime".
Her consecration comes more than 20 years after women became priests in the Church of England.
And it comes after the general synod gave the final seal of approval to the legislation on women bishops following its passage through Parliament last year.
After the change was approved, Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby said that the Church was entering a "completely new phase of our existence".
Who is the Church of England's first female bishop?
But divisions still remain between Anglicans who feel the change is consistent with their faith and traditionalists who disagree.
Opponents of women bishops include some who place great importance on the laying on of hands by existing bishops in the consecration of new bishops, and wish to be looked after by bishops not affected by the involvement of women in this process.
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A vicar from Blackburn used her service on Sunday to protest at changes being made to the consecration of the Bishop of Burnley next month. The laying on of hands on the Rev Philip North will be performed by other bishops but not by Dr Sentamu (who by then will have laid hands on Bishop Lane). Mr North opposes women bishops.
Dr Sentamu said the changes to Mr North's consecration were made "for prayer, not politics". He pointed to the arrangements within the Church that "a suitable supply of bishops continues" for opponents of women's ordination.
Gloucester, Oxford and Newcastle are among the dioceses where new bishops will also soon be appointed, while interviews for the vacancy as bishop for the Southwell and Nottingham diocese took place at the start of December.
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He replaces Archie Norman, who has chaired the broadcaster since January 2010.
The former Endemol UK chairman is already a non-executive director at ITV and will take over from Mr Norman on 12 May.
In January, Sir Peter said he would step down as chairman of the Arts Council England in 2017.
The announcement sparked speculation that he may move to ITV after the FTSE 100 company said last month that Mr Norman would be leaving.
Sir Peter is also president of the Royal Television Society and has enjoyed a long career in broadcasting.
He began as a researcher on That's Life in the 1970s before establishing his own production company that was responsible for programmes including Ready Steady Cook and Ground Force. It was later sold to Endemol.
While at Endemol, Sir Peter brought the formats including Big Brother and Deal or No Deal to UK vierwers. He stepped down as its UK chairman in 2007.
Sir Peter said: "ITV has gone through a remarkable resurgence during Archie's chairmanship and there is still so much more that we can achieve.
"This is an incredibly exciting time for everyone in the media sector with change happening at an unprecedented rate, and I'm absolutely delighted to be working with Adam [Crozier] and the management team. TV is my first love."
Mr Norman said: "The last six years has been undoubtedly challenging but also extremely rewarding and enjoyable, and an experience I would not have missed for the world."
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A little over a year ago, the RNLI lifeboat sailed out of the harbour at St Abbs for the final time.
It brought to an end a service which the popular Berwickshire diving spot had enjoyed for more than a century.
However, local fundraising and a large donation from Boyd Tunnock have seen a new boat officially launched.
It is a day the lifeboat crew could hardly have believed would be possible just 12 months ago.
It appeared then that cover would be provided from the nearby station at Eyemouth.
Nonetheless, people like coxswain Paul Crowe never gave up hope of raising the hundreds of thousands of pounds needed to buy their own boat and run their own service.
"We have had a lifeboat for 112 years and we basically need one," he said.
"We are at the heart of the diving community on the east coast of Britain as far as I'm concerned.
"A fast response is undoubtedly needed here."
A modern lifeboat does not come cheap and a local campaign estimated it would need up to ??500,000 to get one up and running.
The community rallied round at a series of fundraising events and other donations were received to make gradual progress towards the ambitious target.
Then, in November last year, a successful businessman and keen sailor suddenly accelerated matters.
Boyd Tunnock, owner of the famous teacake and caramel wafer makers, sent a donation of ??10,000 which led to further talks with campaigners.
He subsequently agreed to put up ??250,000 if they agreed to name the boat the Thomas Tunnock in honour of both his grandfather and late brother.
It meant the service was able to return to the waters off St Abbs much sooner than expected.
The boat has already been in operation but the official launch took place on Saturday, attended by Mr Tunnock and First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.
It was the conclusion of an emotional journey for local residents.
"Everybody was over the moon when the new boat arrived," said Mr Crowe. "The whole village turned out."
He said the boat was capable of the swift response necessary for any emergency call-outs in the area.
"It is an animal, for the want of a better description," he said.
"It can do 45 knots without thinking about it."
Mr Tunnock was on hand to see the result of his donation at the special launch and celebration of the boat's arrival.
Without his contribution, it might have taken quite a bit longer for the community's dream to be realised.
As he said at the time of making his commitment, ??250,000 translates to a "lot of caramel wafers".
But what it has brought to St Abbs certainly tastes sweet to those who feared they might never see a lifeboat based in their village again. | A remarkable story of community commitment and business philanthropy has been completed in a small seaside village in the Scottish Borders. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "37360060"} | 619 | 31 | 0.304343 | 0.842147 | -0.427266 | 0.681818 | 25.363636 | 0.590909 |
The Royal College of Radiologists has described the shortage as "severe" and said it was aware of the potential impact on the care of cancer patients.
In a recent report, the Health and Social Care Board said the regional performance against the 14-day breast cancer standard had "deteriorated".
The Health and Social Care Board confirmed to the BBC that approximately 40 posts remain unfilled.
It said this was despite multiple attempts to recruits doctors.
According to those who work in the area, more money is required to train professionals.
A number of professionals told the BBC that a shortage of radiologists in Northern Ireland is impacting on how quickly patients are receiving cancer diagnosis.
They said more investment is required to train professionals.
In a statement to the BBC, a spokesperson for the Royal College of Radiologists said: "We are aware of the severe shortages of qualified radiologists in Northern Ireland and the potential impact that this is having on the care of cancer patients."
It added: "This issue has been exacerbated by a combination of additional factors such as inadequate training numbers and the retirement of radiologists."
The role of the radiologist is vital in cancer diagnosis.
A medical doctor, they specialise in diagnosing and treating disease and injury through the use of medical imaging technology such as X-rays.
Dr Anna Gavin, the director of the Northern Ireland Cancer Registry, said their role is crucial.
"Radiology is a very important area for the diagnosis of many conditions, including cancer," she said.
"If there are delays in the radiologists' workload then we are causing a backlog of patients to be diagnosed and treated."
There are vacancies, however, in almost every health trust especially in the southern area where one radiologist was covering the entire area for almost a year.
Some cancer patients are having to wait longer than they should for diagnosis and treatment.
Paul Hutchinson's cancer returned in November last year. He was diagnosed with a brain tumour in 2013 and underwent surgery and treatment.
However, he had to wait more than three weeks for a scan following surgery.
"The wait is terrible. You aren't supposed to wait that long but the Christmas holidays fell in between and only I kept ringing and hassling the secretary it would have taken a lot longer," he said.
Mr Hutchinson said that his oncologist had told him that they needed the results of the scan before they could organise his chemotherapy treatment.
The BBC has contacted the Belfast Health Trust and is awaiting a response.
The Health and Social Care Board is aware of the staffing problem.
It said that while most trusts are meeting the 14-day target, in the southern area only 39% of urgent breast cancer referrals were seen within 14 days. | Almost 25% of radiologist posts in Northern Ireland are currently vacant. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "39439218"} | 587 | 16 | 0.508237 | 1.271443 | -0.217156 | 1.384615 | 42.153846 | 0.769231 |
Paul is a pupil at what is, in Northern Irish terms, an unusual school.
He attends Gaelcholáiste Dhoire, one of only two two post-primary Irish medium schools in Northern Ireland.
An Irish language act could see more schools like Gaelcholáiste Dhoire open, as the act would give children the right to an education in Irish if they wanted it.
It would also guarantee services through Irish on a par with those available in English.
Politicians have had their say on an Irish language act through the election campaign.
Nationalists and some other parties want one, many unionists do not.
But how do Irish speakers feel about an act? Is language legislation important to them?
Gaelcholáiste Dhoire was a good place for me to start asking those questions.
The school opened, controversially, in 2015 with only 16 pupils, but that number has trebled since and is expected to rise again this year.
The principal Diarmaid Ua Bruadair said that the school was vital to the local community.
"The Irish language has been spoken in the Sperrin mountains within living memory," he said.
"So there is a seed there and that seed was lying dormant for a while, and the Irish medium education and community sector has enabled that seed to grow again."
He said an Irish language act was essential, and does not understand why it is politically controversial.
"The students at this school have rights, and they should be protected," he said.
"There's a growing recognition across the world that minority languages are valuable, are precious, and should be protected."
Aside from education provision, an Irish language act could also mean some other practical differences.
Irish could be used in courts and in assembly debates with simultaneous translation.
It would be used by state bodies, including the police, and a commissioner would be put in place to make sure the use of the language was facilitated.
Those proposals and others were detailed in a consultation document produced by the Department for Culture, Arts and Leisure back in February 2015.
However, no estimate was put on how much it might cost to implement.
That does not change students' views in another, very different, Irish class.
At Stranmillis University College in south Belfast, Ian Malcolm teaches Irish in the evening to lifelong learning students.
He is a Protestant and a unionist, but is a fluent speaker and Irish language enthusiast.
He wants an act, but thinks that a phased introduction would make common sense.
"I think that would be a more productive approach than some sort of blanket introduction where everything is introduced at once," he said.
"What's the point of an Irish language act if it's going to mean people sitting down and translating pointless documents nobody reads in English into pointless documents nobody reads in Irish."
"A very important move for me would be the appointment of an Irish language commissioner or indeed a languages commissioner for Northern Ireland who would be able to take a look at the overarching questions surrounding Irish in the province."
His students, who come from all backgrounds, also do not see why a language act should be controversial.
Peter Tweed said the act would not force people to learn Irish.
"It's not something that we had the opportunity to learn at school, but I've always had an interest in language in general," he said.
Legislation "would potentially de-politicise the language to some degree," he said.
The Irish News columnist Patrick Murphy said people forget that, at many points in history, it was Protestants who ensured the language survived.
"The Irish language should be taken out of the political arena because in Northern Ireland the political arena is a sectarian arena," he said.
"I think the problem comes from the St Andrew's Agreement which suggests the Irish language is a Catholic language."
"In effect, the Presbyterian church has done more to preserve and protect the Irish language than the Catholic church ever did."
"In the 17th century the Presbyterian church was translating the Bible into Irish - the Catholic church didn't manage that until 1981."
All of the Irish speakers I talked with said they did not want the language to be a political football.
But when it comes to a language act the challenge is still to get the politicians all in harmony. | "I have more friends to talk to in Irish and I'm able to use my language more." | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "39133588"} | 935 | 23 | 0.36661 | 1.066439 | -1.276688 | 1.190476 | 41.333333 | 0.809524 |
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