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37610327 | He was the fiddler and frontman for Edinburgh-based band Shooglenifty, and before that performed with Swamptrash.
With Shooglenifty he helped to create a genre of music called acid croft, described as "a blend of Celtic traditional music and dance grooves".
The band, which has posted a tribute to Grant on its website, said Grant died on Sunday after a short illness.
Grant grew up in Lochaber and was the son of well-known left-handed fiddle player Aonghas Grant.
He played fiddle and wrote music, including the tunes Two Fifty to Vigo, She's In The Attic, Nordal Rhumba, Glenfinnan Dawn and Fitzroy Crossing.
In the tribute on Shooglenifty's website, the musician was described as having "lived without ties and responsibility, but was devoted to his music, his family and his fellow musicians".
Shooglenifty has performed at the HebCelt in the Western Isles, the Highlands' Blas festivals and Glasgow's Celtic Connections.
The band rounded off its 25th anniversary tour last December with a special performance at Edinburgh's Hogmanay celebrations. | Tributes have been paid to Scots musician Angus R Grant who has died at the age of 49. |
37037095 | While supporters are used to seeing changes in playing personnel, this campaign feels like a significant step into the unknown with Swansea now in the hands of US owners.
The people's club is now owned by investors, though the supporters' trust has retained a 21.1% stake in the Swans and influential chairman Huw Jenkins remains in the role.
However, dreams that heavy investment from the new owners and increased television revenue would translate into a summer or recruitment have proved unfounded, with Swansea arguably selling as many key players as they have managed to sign.
The failure to 'bring home' former midfielder Joe Allen, will also rankle.
"I suppose we are all a little impatient, I guess even more so as we didn't bring in Joe Allen," coach Alan Curtis admitted after losing out on the Wales midfielder.
"I think there is a lot of frustration, with the supporters, but also with the players and maybe the board themselves."
The failure to sign Allen, who joined Stoke despite Swansea registering their interest, was not the only body blow they have suffered.
After eight-years and over 350 games, defender Ashley Williams has departed for Everton in a move the Swans say the Wales captain instigated.
Manager Francesco Guidolin also opted to allow a trio of strikers, Alberto Paloschi, Eder and Bafetimbi Gomis to leave the club, though it is the sale of Andre Ayew, Swansea's top scorer last term, that leaves the biggest dearth in terms of goals.
However, confidence will be high that Swansea have signed players who can provide the goals to more than make up for the absence of the Ghana forward.
Spanish international Fernando Llorente arrives with a pedigree as large as his six foot six inch frame, having excelled previously in both La Liga and Serie A.
He is joined by record signing Borja, the 23-year-old Atletico Madrid forward, who scored 18 La Liga goals on loan at Eibar last season.
Influential midfielder Gylfi Sigurdsson will be charged with providing the ammunition for Swansea's Spanish contingent, with his new contract. signed amid serious interest from other Premier League clubs, perhaps Swansea's most significant off-season deal.
The additions of Netherlands duo Leroy Fer and Mike van der Hoorn also boost a club still seeking a replacement for Williams.
The Swans could be forgiven for feeling the fixture computer has conspired against them as they face an exceptionally tough start to the season.
While they will feel confident of their prospects in openers against Burnley and Hull City, two sides expected to be battling the drop, the Swans then face a succession of difficult contests against the Premier League's glitterati.
The Swans visit champions Leicester at the end of August before clashes with Chelsea, Southampton, Man City in September.
Clashes with Liverpool, Arsenal and a visit to Stoke follow in October, with Man United, Everton and Tottenham all in action against the Swans by the beginning of December.
A flying start will be extremely tricky, so Swansea need to ensure their Spanish revolution begins with a bang, not a siesta.
Championship title odds: 1000/1
Championship relegation odds: 7/2
Subscribe to the BBC Sport newsletter to get our pick of news, features and video sent to your inbox. | It has been a summer of seismic adjustment at Liberty Stadium, with the club receiving a major overhaul on and off the field. |
36847695 | It was found behind a row of bushes in the Ballycolman estate on Wednesday.
It has been taken away by officers for examination.
Det Insp Andy Workman said: "It is reckless in the extreme to leave such an item in an area near to a community centre which is frequented by all members of the community, including children."
He said the "danger" had now been removed and appealed for information.
In a separate incident, police said a number of suspicious objects found during a search of open land at Spout Road in Strabane have been taken away for examination.
Police said there were no further details at this stage. | Police have recovered a suspected firearm near a community centre in Strabane, County Tyrone. |
22174013 | The correspondence between Bohr and his then-fiancee Margrethe Norlund reveal a rocky settling in period in England.
Excerpts of letters sent during Bohr's time in England were discussed at the American Physical Society meeting.
The letters show an exchange rich with literary allegory.
Bohr was eventually instrumental in overturning the "plum pudding" model of the atom, propounded by J J Thomson of Cambridge University, instead suggesting a dense nucleus orbited by electrons - the atom as we know it today.
He came to Cambridge in 1911 specifically to work among the famous Cambridge mathematicians including Thomson. But the letters to Margrethe showed that his transition to Cambridge intellectual circles was turbulent.
"He thought 'Thomson was a genius who showed the way to everybody', and he wanted to be part of that story," said John Heilbron, a fellow of Oxford University.
"But when he got there, he found out that Thomson was busy showing the way to other people, and also following his own research," he told BBC News.
"James Jeans, another of the Cambridge mathematicians, was too shy to do battle with Bohr, and [Joseph] Larmor… would not read Bohr until he prepared a proper English version of his work and had it published in a proper English journal - which never happened.
"The Royal Society of London declined on the interesting grounds that it was 'polemical', and it would not include in its Transactions insults to anyone who had not already been insulted in the Transactions. That was a great disappointment to him, that he couldn't engage with these guys."
But what strikes Prof Heilbron about the letters to Margrethe, whom Bohr married the following year, is the intellectual character of their exchanges.
"The material concerning literature - which is essentially the core of this new correspondence - consists of their making personae of one another derived from literature.
"We have in the case of Margrethe her appearance as several heroines from Ibsen, there are all these Dickens heroines, whereas Bohr is to her some hero as in a Carlyle story, but also people from Shakespeare and other heroic figures.
"In a way, their courtship is conducted on a level above the carnal."
The letters will be excerpted in a forthcoming book by Prof Heilbron and Finn Aaserud of the Niels Bohr Archive, titled Love, Literature and the Quantum Atom.
They were made available by the Bohr family, who Prof Heilbron said "have come to realise that these documents do honour to everybody, (and) are of great interest to a much wider society". | Newly released letters from the famed Danish physicist Niels Bohr shed light on his struggles with great English researchers over his nascent theory of the atom. |
38262307 | Campaigner Peter Mitchell has called the sign at Limavady Health Centre "deeply offensive and wrong on so many levels".
He said there was an onus on health care providers to use more socially acceptable language.
The Western Health and Social Care Trust has promised to take action.
Mr Mitchell, a local actor and wheelchair user, said he initially thought the sign was a "wind-up".
"The word handicapped is really offensive," he said.
"It comes from mid 17th Century when disabled people were seen as second class citizens, they literally had to beg on the streets with their cap in their hands.
"Do people look at me because I am in a wheelchair, as a second class citizen, that I have nothing to offer?"
He said there was ongoing debate among disability groups as to appropriate language, but said there was widespread agreement that the word handicapped was "wrong on so many levels".
Damon Rose from BBC Ouch said the word "embodies an old fashioned idea that if you are handicapped you have something wrong with you".
"Whereas if you are disabled people tend to think of that more as a problem people can solve by putting in ramps or accessible loos".
In a statement the Western Trust said: "We are grateful that this has been brought to our attention and will take action to rectify immediately." | A disability campaigner has called on a Northern Ireland health trust to remove a sign which refers to disabled people as "physically handicapped". |
35577666 | Following last week's narrow loss to leaders Saracens, Chiefs were beaten 23-17 at Sale Sharks on Saturday.
Exeter, who travel to London Irish next week, are still second in the table, seven points clear of third place.
"There is a little bit of pressure on us, but we have to make sure that pressure comes out positively and we play with great energy," said Baxter.
It was the first time that Exeter have lost back-to-back Premiership matches since January 2014, when they went on a run of four successive losses that ended up costing them a chance of making the play-offs.
"We were one decision last week away from winning the game, that's how tight it was against the team top of the Premiership," Baxter told BBC Radio Devon.
"Losing away to Sale with a losing bonus point, who haven't lost here all season - if you look at them in the course of a big season, they're not major things. I'm not going to suddenly go 'two losses means everything's falling apart', it's not.
"But the reality is we do have to go and win at London Irish, because that's a team we should knock over if we want to be a top-four side." | Exeter Chiefs boss Rob Baxter says there is "pressure" on his side after a second successive Premiership defeat. |
34294981 | Public and Commercial Services (PCS) Union members have protested against plans to stop extra payments to weekend and bank holiday staff.
National Museum Wales said on Friday the union will now consult members over its offer to compensate weekend staff.
Planned strikes over the next two weeks, including next Tuesday and Wednesday, will be suspended, it added.
The news comes after three months of negotiations, most recently via the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service.
In August, strikes hit six of National Museum Wales' sites, including Swansea's National Waterfront Museum, the National Slate Museum in Llanberis, Gwynedd, and the National Wool Museum, Dre-fach Felindre, Carmarthenshire. | Planned strike action by workers at Wales' national museums over a pay row have been suspended. |
34095878 | Francie Molloy, MP for Mid Ulster, said police visited his home on Saturday morning and warned of an "imminent threat to his life".
"They called around 2am with intelligence relating to an attack by a loyalist paramilitary organisation on me or my home," Mr Molloy said.
"I was surprised at this type of thing, it's concerning.
"I pride myself in representing all sides of the community here in Mid Ulster, and I won't be deterred from doing that.
"It would look as though it relates to events of the last couple of weeks."
The Sinn Féin MP Mickey Brady, who has also been the subject of death threats, has asked those with information to bring it to the police "so that those who are intent in taking us backward are brought to justice". | A Sinn Féin MP has said he has received a death threat from a loyalist paramilitary organisation. |
35918864 | Danny Cipriani's penalty put Sharks ahead before Greig Tonks levelled and Sean Maitland's score made it 8-3.
But Sharks replied through Cipriani and Mike Haley to lead 13-8 at the break.
Cipriani's kick extended Sharks' lead before Johnny Williams' score gave Irish hope, but tries for TJ Ioane and Cipriani kept up Sale's top six push.
Tom Coventry's side had lost just twice at home since November and were in touch at 15-16 on 70 minutes.
But opportunistic tries for substitute Ioane and fly-half Cipriani, who contributed 20 of his team's 30 points, sunk the Exiles in the final 10 minutes.
With three games of the season left to play, Sale remain in seventh place, four points adrift of Harlequins in sixth, who recorded a 46-25 victory over strugglers Newcastle.
London Irish will travel to second-from-bottom Newcastle in a fortnight's time in a must-win match if they are to entertain any hopes of surviving the drop.
London Irish head coach Tom Coventry told BBC Radio Berkshire:
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"Bad fortune probably cost us towards the end. I thought there were two massive moments in the game.
"One came from a forward pass from Danny Cipriani and the other from hands in the ruck that were missed by the officials.
"We're just not a good enough team that we can rock through a game and let those opportunities go by.
"We need everything to go our way and they were two big, pretty telling moments."
Sale director of rugby Steve Diamond:
"Fair play to London Irish, they're fighting for their lives. They gave it a pretty good crack and we've just edged them out in the end.
"We made some basic errors, but we did just enough and turned around at half-time just in front."
On whether a place in the top four is realistic: "We've got two games away and two at home to come. We'll see how we go.
"The maths probably tells you the top four is out of the equation, but we'll give it a really good go.
"It'll probably go down to the last game of the season at Newcastle."
London Irish: Maitland, Fowlie, Hearn, Williams, Fenby; Tonks, Steele; Court, Paice, Aulika, Sinclair, Symons, Narraway (capt), Cowan, Treviranus.
Replacements: Cruse, Smallbone, Halavatau, Sexton, McCusker, McKibbin, Brophy Clews, Mulchrone.
Sale Sharks: Haley: Addison, James, Tuitupou, Edwards; Cipriani, Stringer; Lewis-Roberts, Taylor, Mujati, Evans, Ostrikov, Neild, Seymour (capt), Easter.
Replacements: Briggs, Harrison, Cobilas, Mills, Lund, Ioane, Ford, Brady. | Sale secured their first victory at the Madjeski Stadium since October 2006 to leave London Irish four points adrift at the bottom of the Premiership. |
40926885 | 14 August 2017 Last updated at 14:02 BST
15-year-old Eduardo decided to take his dad out in a racing car to show him what he could do.
It all got a bit too much for the F1 champ and he became a bit overwhelmed as many proud dads do.
Bet you've seen your grown-up crying at key moments in your life! | Former F1 driver Rubens Barrichello's son is following in his dad's footsteps. |
40598913 | Mr Farron said he had put the decision "to bed" about two weeks into the campaign, and denied deceiving voters by continuing to fight the election.
"I absolutely threw everything at it," he said.
He announced his departure six days after polling day, saying he was "torn" between the leadership and his faith.
The Liberal Democrats increased their tally of seats from nine to 12 at last month's general election, but their vote share fell from 7.9% to 7.4%.
In an interview with BBC Radio 5 live's Emma Barnett, Mr Farron said that under his leadership, the party had "left intensive care and is back relevant".
"My job was to save the party," he said.
"The Liberal Democrats still exist and we're moving forward."
Mr Farron faced repeated questions about his views on gay sex during the campaign, and when he announced his resignation, said he had found it impossible to be a committed Christian and lead a "progressive liberal party".
Asked about his decision to quit, he said he had not wanted to "become the story".
"I made the decision about two weeks into the election campaign," he said.
"I thought there isn't a way forward out of this without me either compromising or just causing damage to the party in the long run."
He said he had told himself to "put that into a drawer, don't talk to anybody else about it, get on and do as good a job as you can during the election".
Mr Farron said this had "not in the slightest" deceived voters, adding that "in every election there is a reasonable chance that leaders will step down".
"I just thought 'I am here to do a job,'" he said.
A leadership contest is under way to replace Mr Farron - and with a week to go before nominations close, just one candidate, former Business Secretary Sir Vince Cable, has come forward.
Mr Farron - who criticised Theresa May's unopposed "coronation" as Tory leader - said Sir Vince had already been subject to "plenty of scrutiny".
"If there's only one candidate, then that's how it is," he added. | Outgoing Lib Dem leader Tim Farron has revealed he decided to quit several weeks before the general election but did not announce his decision publicly. |
40821180 | The 20-year-old Nigeria international, who scored 21 goals in 64 games after making his debut for Manchester City in 2015, joins on a five-year-deal.
Last August, he signed a new contract until 2021, but saw his playing time limited by the January arrival of Brazil forward Gabriel Jesus.
"It feels good and I'm happy to be part of this team," he said.
"I know the ambition of the team and speaking with the manager, he let me know what I need to do - to help the team achieve what they want. I was convinced and I'm happy to be here."
Foxes manager Craig Shakespeare added: "It's a great signing for us. Kelechi is an enormously talented player that has shown a huge amount of promise at every level in which he's played.
"We've tracked his progress for some time, so we know how much quality he'll bring to the squad.
"He's young, he's hungry, he's ready for the next stage of his development and I'm delighted that will be with Leicester City."
Iheanacho becomes the fourth addition to Shakespeare's squad for the new campaign - goalkeeper Eldin Jakupovic and defender Harry Maguire both joined from Hull City while midfielder Vicente Iborra signed from Sevilla.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | Leicester City have signed striker Kelechi Iheanacho from Manchester City for a fee understood to be £25m. |
40588992 | The judge ruled he could remain free pending an appeal.
Lula has rejected claims that he received an apartment as a bribe in a corruption scandal linked to state oil company Petrobras.
He says the trial is politically motivated and has strongly denied any wrongdoing.
The case is the first of five charges against him.
Lula served eight years as president until 2011 and has expressed interest in running again in next year's elections for the left-wing Workers' Party.
On Wednesday, a judge found him guilty of accepting bribes from engineering firm OAS in the form of a beachfront apartment in return for his help in winning contracts with the state oil company.
In a statement, Lula's lawyers insisted he was innocent and said they would appeal.
"For more than three years Lula has been subject to a politically motivated investigation. No credible evidence of guilt has been produced, and overwhelming proof of his innocence blatantly ignored," they wrote.
The head of the Workers' Party, Senator Gleisi Hoffmann, also hit out at the ruling, saying it was designed to stop Lula standing for office.
She said the party would protest against the decision.
The BBC's Katy Watson in Rio says Lula remains a popular politician and the sentence will deeply divide Brazil.
The charges Lula faces relate to the Car Wash scandal, the nickname for Brazil's biggest ever corruption probe.
Operation Car Wash was launched three years ago amid escalating public anger over political corruption.
The investigation centres on firms that were allegedly offered deals with Petrobras in exchange for bribes, which were funnelled into politicians' pockets and party slush funds.
Lula, a former steel worker turned union leader, came to office as the first left-wing leader in Brazil in nearly half a century.
He was Brazil's most popular president during his tenure - former US President Barack Obama labelled him the most popular politician on Earth.
Unable to stand for a third consecutive term, he was succeeded by close ally Dilma Rousseff, who was later impeached.
Current President Michel Temer also faces corruption allegations and is resisting calls for him to step down. | Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has been convicted of corruption charges and sentenced to nine and a half years in prison. |
24723605 | HMP Whatton faced a "a considerable backlog" with 250 of its 840 inmates treated last year, the Independent Monitoring Board said.
The IMB said the behaviour programmes were a key part of the prison's rehabilitation scheme.
A prison spokesman said it was looking at increasing treatment programmes.
An HM Inspectorate of Prisons report has confirmed the funding for sex offender treatment at the prison was "inadequate", he added.
John Webster, of the prison's monitoring board, said the number of inmates on waiting lists for courses was "between two and five times higher - depending on the type of course - than the number of places actually available".
"Prisoners regularly tell us they have been waiting for up to two years to get on the course," Mr Webster said.
"Our concern is that people ostensibly come to Whatton to go on this sex offender treatment programme and because of cutbacks generally they sometimes have to wait for up to two years to get a place on the course."
The Ministry of Justice said it was looking to "increase the availability of treatment programmes and had created the Sex Offender Management Board to address this."
In a statement, it added: "As highlighted in the Independent Monitoring Board's report, HMP Whatton is operating well."
An IMB report said the prison offers "a range of offending behaviour programmes with particular focus on cognitive treatment, such as the Sex Offenders Treatment Programme, Thinking Skills Programme, Controlling Anger and Learning to Manage it (CALM)."
The prison, which has the largest sex offender treatment centre in Europe, also offers anti-libidinal drug therapy to about 60 prisoners.
The IMB said the drug treatment, which suppresses sexual thoughts and urges, was "encouraging" and was having "a positive effect" on inmates.
The medical treatment process, which started as a pilot scheme in 2009, is completely voluntary.
The IMB report praised staff at the prison but said a funding shortfall was to blame for lack of training. | Sex offenders at a Nottinghamshire prison are waiting up to two years for treatment because of "inadequate" funding, a prison watchdog says. |
38335687 | Labour-run Glasgow City Council said it may need to make £60m of savings while Fife, also controlled by Labour, forecast £30m.
Finance Secretary Derek Mackay said he was investing an extra £240m in local services when he unveiled his draft budget on Thursday.
The figure is disputed by opponents who claim a £300m funding drop.
The draft budget document showed the amount of money local government will receive from Holyrood dropping from just under £10.1bn this year to slightly less than £9.65bn in real terms in 2017-18.
But Mr Mackay insisted that, "in totality", local services would receive additional funding because local authorities were allowed to increase council tax by up to 3%.
Money due to be paid directly to head teachers to close the attainment gap will now be funded from central government, allowing councils to keep money raised by changes to council tax on higher-value properties.
They will also get £357m from the NHS next year to pay for closer links between the health and social care sectors.
Councils are of course heavily dependent on the Scottish government for money.
The amount of cash that they receive - the core funding - is coming down when compared with last year. This is the cash that they have flexibility over and can choose to spend as they wish.
However, there is new funding from the government. Most significantly there is £120m going straight to head teachers as well as £107m to ensure people working for the joint boards covering health and social care are paid the living wage.
As well as this government money, there are a couple of extra sources of cash which will be available to councils.
The changes to the council tax will see people in higher-band properties paying more from April. In addition, councils across Scotland will have the power to increase the charge by 3%.
It will be up to individual councils to decide whether or not they want to do this.
This is really about whether you are comparing like with like.
Is it about the money available for local services or is it about the core government funding which makes up such a large proportion of council budgets?
Councils across Scotland will be calculating just how much better or worse off they think they are going to be. Glasgow expects cuts and savings of at least £60m - potentially more - and Fife £30m.
That does not mean they expect £60m or £30m less from the government overall. This may mean making savings in one area to balance out meeting rising costs somewhere else.
But some local authority leaders said the drop in core local government funding amounted to continued austerity.
Glasgow City Council leader Frank McAveety told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme that the decision to raise the council tax rate for higher-value properties would ultimately benefit more affluent local authorities, but not Glasgow.
He added: "We're talking about a reduction of £60-£70m this year, even with the 3% [council tax rise]. So we're talking about the maximum raising from that of about £6m, so there's a massive gulf.
"The idea that that compensates for the cumulative impact on Glasgow over the years is just kidding on."
He added: "The truth of the matter is that local government services will have less money this year again and that's an ongoing thing for Glasgow and the minister should be ashamed of himself."
The co-leader of SNP-controlled Aberdeenshire Council, Richard Thomson admitted that the local authority would have less money over the next financial year.
However, he told the programme: "Yes, we will have less money but certainly not of the magnitude that's bring talked about in Glasgow and Fife. The early indications are that we had a settlement of just over £400m last year and we're expecting it to be slightly under this year, so we're not talking about a huge difference.
"A very large part of the smallness of the difference in Aberdeenshire across the two years is about the ability to retain every penny that's available through the increase in council tax on houses banded E to H.
"That's a very significant portion for Aberdeenshire, it's about just over £8m."
The leader of Fife Council, David Ross said: "No matter how Derek Mackay tries to dress it up, this is a significant cut in the core funding to councils across Scotland that will have a real impact on local services.
"We won't know the detail of exactly how the settlement will affect Fife until next week, but my initial view is that we will still be forced to make over £30m cuts to services in Fife.
Mr Mackay insisted that "the totality" of funds available for local services would increase as a result of his budget.
He claimed that if it had been so unpopular, his budget would have been rejected by the local government umbrella body Cosla.
He said: "You have to look at the whole package to local government. If this settlement was so bad tell me why Cosla hasn't rejected the package that I've presented to local government?
"They're considering the package and they certainly haven't rejected it because they recognise that there's been movement in areas of policy."
Mr Mackay also rejected criticism of the decision not to introduce a 50p level of tax for top earners - a policy included in the SNP's 2015 manifesto.
He did, however, decide not to pass on a cut in income tax for people earning £45,000 a year to £43,430, that will be given to people elsewhere in the UK.
He said: "We'll keep it under review, but we won't raise it in such a way that it could lose income in tax receipts to Scotland.
"If we believe it will raise more revenue in Scotland then we will look at that, but if it looks as if it would lose us money to invest in public services then it's not an increase worth making." | Two of Scotland's biggest councils have warned they expect to make savings or cuts of up to £90m between them. |
32185984 | Costa replaced Oscar at half-time, with the score 1-1, but lasted only 10 minutes before being forced off with further hamstring trouble.
"If the result was 2-0 he wouldn't play. But I have to risk. My medical department had to risk," said Mourinho.
He said the striker will miss at least two weeks.
It rules the Spain forward out of the matches at QPR on 12 April and against Manchester United at Stamford Bridge on 18 April.
Costa has scored 19 goals since joining Chelsea from Atletico Madrid for £32m on a five-year contract in July last year.
In September, Mourinho revealed that the striker was not able to play more than one match a week because of a hamstring problem.
Costa suffered another hamstring injury against Hull on 22 March and missed Spain's games against Ukraine and the Netherlands.
Mourinho said: "If the medical department decide to take four weeks, it wouldn't happen.
"But no way am I upset with my medical department and I am not unhappy with the will of the player to try and help the team.
"From all the scans two days ago, the muscle and image was completely clean. The player trained twice at 100%. He did much more in training than he did in the match.
"The medical department do fantastic things for us. We will wait for Diego again. Next week Loic [Remy] or Didier [Drogba] will play."
Asked how long Costa would be sidelined for the Chelsea boss added: "For sure a couple of weeks minimum. Let's see what happens." | Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho said it was "a risk" to play Diego Costa after he was injured during Saturday's 2-1 win against Stoke. |
20722581 | Turing was convicted of gross indecency in 1952 after acknowledging a sexual relationship with a man.
Professor Stephen Hawking, Astronomer Royal Lord Rees and the Royal Society's Sir Paul Nurse are among 11 signatories to a letter in the Daily Telegraph.
They urge David Cameron to "formally forgive this British hero".
The scientists said: "We write in support of a posthumous pardon for Alan Turing, one of the most brilliant mathematicians of the modern era.
"He led the team of Enigma codebreakers at Bletchley Park, which most historians agree shortened the Second World War.
"Yet successive governments seem incapable of forgiving his conviction for the then crime of being a homosexual, which led to his suicide, aged 41."
Denying that it would set a precedent, they added: "It is time his reputation was unblemished."
The others who signed the letter are Lord Currie of Marylebone, Lord Grade of Yarmouth, Lord Faulkner of Worcester, Lord Sharkey, Lord Smith of Finsbury, Baroness Trumpington, Sir Timothy Gowers of Cambridge University and the Science Museum's Dr Douglas Gurr.
Homosexuality was illegal at the time of the mathematician's conviction.
Turing was part of the team at Bletchley Park that cracked the Nazi Enigma code, vital to the allied war effort. He is now widely recognised as a computing pioneer.
However, at the time of his death - which an inquest recorded as suicide - he was virtually unknown to the public. His work at Bletchley Park was kept secret until 1974.
The government rejected a call to pardon Turing in February, when it was presented with an online petition with more than 23,000 signatures. | Some of Britain's leading scientists have called on the government to grant a posthumous pardon to Bletchley Park codebreaker Alan Turing. |
39457422 | The Swans take on Middlesbrough at the Liberty Stadium on Sunday, where they have lost just once since Clement took charge in January.
Only Arsenal, who are currently sixth in the table, have bettered Swansea's home record since the turn of the year.
"We need that kind of mentality [at home]," said Clement.
After losing to the Gunners at home in his first game in charge, Clement's Swans have beaten Southampton, Leicester and Burnley at the Liberty Stadium to ease at least some of their relegation fears.
Their record on the road has not been quite so impressive however, with the Welsh club going into the Boro game off the back of defeats away at Hull and Bournemouth.
It has seen them dragged back towards the bottom three, with Boro under the charge of caretaker boss Steve Agnew, one place off the foot of the table and five points behind their hosts.
Clement refuses to see the game as a 'must win,' but, cites his side's finest victory under him as proof the Swans are capable of picking up points anywhere with nine games left.
"Of course we must relish playing at home," said Clement.
"Go back to our performances against Leicester and also Burnley, where we created lots of crosses into the box. We were very dangerous that day.
"The squad sense the important of this game. I wouldn't say it's must-win because what if you don't win? Is the season over? No, of course it's not. You've still got eight games and they are games that you can win at home or away.
"I think the fact we won at Liverpool away, it's something we can always look back on and say 'we can go anywhere and get a good result'. It's a very important game, there's no question about it."
With the late-season run-in set to begin, Clement has dismissed the idea that his side have been enjoying an upturn in form many teams experience when a new manager takes charge.
"I haven't changed anything from what I did at the start to now," he said.
"The training intensity, the way I communicate with the players, it's the same kind of thing. We work on details, we work on the fundamentals, there was no magic when I first came in and there won't be next week or the week after."
Despite enjoying success as assistant to Carlo Ancelotti at Chelsea, Paris Saint Germain, Real Madrid and Bayern Munich, Clement says keeping the Swans in the top flight would eclipse anything he has achieved in his career so far.
He added: "Personally, it would be the best. It is very different being an assistant to a head coach.
"Those achievements when I worked with Carlo were very satisfying. But when you're calling all the big decisions yourself, the reward of getting victories are very, very satisfying. But the defeats hurt you more than anything.
"So it would be very rewarding if we managed to achieve the objective." | Swansea City boss Paul Clement hopes their recent home form will help his side avoid relegation from the Premier League. |
39286766 | It finished 0-11 apiece after normal time and the teams will meet again in Ballybofey next week.
Derry stunned holders Monaghan with a 3-10 to 1-11 victory at Iniskeen to take them into the semi-finals.
Cavan hammered Fermanagh 2-19 to 0-4 while Armagh defeated Down 2-13 to 0-12 in the Athletic Grounds.
Donegal were dominant in the first half but struggled to score while Tyrone were guilty of too many wayward passes.
Michael Langan's point deservedly nudged Donegal in front before the interval, although their poor shooting meant they only led 0-5 to 0-4.
Tyrone had their best spell in the third quarter with David Mulgrew pointing twice as they moved 0-9 to 0-7 ahead after 41 minutes.
Langan's quality frees brought Donegal back into it and Tyrone keeper Benny Gallon pulled off a superb save from Michael Carroll.
Donegal's total of 15 wides looked to have cost them when Fergal Meenagh bore down on goal, but the ball was somehow cleared.
It finished all-square after normal time with the excellent Langan nailing his fourth dead ball chance of the half.
Brennan had the final say in the extra-time, slotting over a 45 three minutes from the end.
Lanagan finished with a total of 0-6 while Mulgrew was Tyrone's top-scorer with four points from play.
Next week's winners will play Cavan in the semi-final on 29 March after the Breffni side crushed Fermanagh.
Cavan, who won four Ulster U21 titles in a row between 2011 and 2014, scored the opening seven points at Brewster Park.
Ryan Connolly hit four points as the visitors cruised to a 0-10 to 0-3 interval lead before Conor Smith and Peter Corrigan added second-half goals.
Derry pulled off the biggest shock of the night, beating defending champions Monaghan.
James Donaghy's 19th minute goal helped the Oak Leafers lead 1-5 to 0-5 at half time.
Barry Kerr was sent off for Monaghan and Tiernan Flanagan was among the Derry goalscorers in the second half.
David McAllister netted a late penalty for Monaghan but it was too little, too late.
In the semi-final Derry will play Armagh, who beat Down 2-13 to 0-12 in the Athletic Grounds.
Shea Loye starred with a personal haul of 2-7. | Lee Brennan levelled for Tyrone late in extra-time to secure a 0-14 to 0-14 draw with Donegal in the Ulster U21 quarter-final at Healy Park. |
34640618 | Mark Roberts was dismissed after a whistleblower claimed he re-used syringe cartridges and root canal surgery files.
He had worked at Splott Road Dental Surgery from 1989 to February 2015.
Cardiff and Vale University Health Board said 450 out of 3,000 patients have been in touch following an appeal and 252 are to have blood tests.
The health board said the tests are for those deemed to be at a higher risk of infection or to give peace of mind to those who are worried.
However, patients have been assured there is a very low risk of the transfer of infections like hepatitis B, hepatitis C and HIV.
The dentist said he deeply regretted "lapses" at his practice, as health bosses contacted all former patients.
The General Dental Council confirmed Mr Roberts was suspended for 18 months in April, and this has been "continued" until October 2016 due to "concerns about his cross-infection controls".
Splott Road Dental Surgery is now under new ownership.
The claims of poor infection control include: | Hundreds of patients will be tested after a Cardiff dentist re-used equipment that should have been binned. |
36408210 | North Yorkshire Police said officers were monitoring a demonstration of between 40 to 50 people near York Minster "when altercations broke out".
Four of the protesters and one local man were arrested on a variety of public order offences.
The remaining demonstrators were escorted by police to York station. | Police have arrested five men following a disturbance involving far-right protesters in York on Saturday. |
32723732 | Mr Khan said he wanted to give the next generation of Londoners the same sort of opportunities he had.
Former Labour MP Tessa Jowell and MP for Tottenham David Lammy have also declared their plans to stand.
Author and Journalist Christian Wolmar has said he too will join the race to succeed Tory Boris Johnson.
Mr Johnson, who last week was elected Tory MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip, first became mayor in 2008 and was re-elected in 2012, but will step down next May when his second term ends.
On BBC London 94.9, Ms Abbott, MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington, said "Despite the fact that we've got a Conservative-led government, you can really, as mayor, help to make London a fairer place and a better place and stand up for intrinsically London values."
Mr Khan, re-elected as MP for Tooting, said: "For the last eight years you've seen a red carpet mayor, somebody who is fantastic going to openings, great with a flute of champagne in his hands."
He then tweeted that he planned to be a different kind of mayor, saying he would "roll up my sleeves".
Mr Wolmar said: "The capital needs a mayor who puts communities back at the centre of decision making and who tackles the affordability crisis before it becomes too late.
"That's why my campaign will be based on three key areas: making London more affordable, liveable and sustainable."
Mr Johnson defeated Labour's Ken Livingstone in both the 2008 and 2012 elections. Mr Livingstone was mayor for eight years until his 2008 defeat.
But he was voted in as an Independent candidate in the first mayoral election in 2000 after claiming Labour altered its selection rules to ensure Frank Dobson was picked as the party's official candidate instead of him. | Labour MPs Diane Abbott and Sadiq Khan have announced their bids to be Labour's candidate for mayor of London. |
19468879 | He spoke of "enormous devastation", praised those who saved lives and hailed disaster relief co-ordination by state and federal authorities.
Thousands of evacuees are in shelters, or with friends and relatives.
Isaac killed seven people - five in New Orleans and two in Mississippi - seven years after Hurricane Katrina.
Mr Obama was met in New Orleans by Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal and city Mayor Mitch Landrieu, before heading off to visit storm damage in St John the Baptist Parish.
"Obviously right now we are still in recovery mode," the president said after his tour, before adding: "The good news is that the army corps levees... worked very well."
He pledged that the US federal government would work to speed up "any decisions that need to be made" to ensure the entire region was protected by flood defences for future storms.
His visit came after Republican opponent Mitt Romney toured storm damage in Louisiana on Friday.
Early on Monday, utilities said that nearly 240,000 people had no electricity in Louisiana, although that figure was lowered significantly to about 100,000 as the day went on.
More than 11,000 were without power in Mississippi. About 5,000 were without power in Arkansas.
"My family is split up," Angela Serpas, resident of hard-hit Plaquemines Parish, told the Associated Press news agency. "This is the second time we've lost our home. We lost it in Katrina."
Residents who were evacuated from Plaquemines Parish, a vulnerable stretch of land extending to the Gulf of Mexico, will be allowed to return temporarily under police escort on Monday.
Over 3,500 people were still in shelters on Sunday, according to the office of Governor Bobby Jindal.
Thousands of people were forced out of their homes in that area after storm surge drove water over the banks of Lake Pontchartrain.
Crews are also still clearing debris left by Isaac, mostly downed trees and power lines. So far, state workers in Louisiana have cleared 130 miles (210km) of roads.
In St Tammany Parish, Louisiana, which lies to the north of New Orleans, authorities were dealing with threats from the swollen Pearl River and a lock under pressure in a canal.
The lock was opened to release water and a mandatory evacuation notice was lifted, but officials encouraged residents to stay away from the area.
In the town of LaFitte, rescue teams intentionally breached a levee on Sunday to ease flooding in the area, the Times-Picayune newspaper reported.
Forecasters are expecting the Pearl River to crest on Monday at 19.5ft (5.9m), potentially putting thousands of homes at risk of flooding.
Meanwhile, in Mississippi, the swollen Wolf River is due to crest on Tuesday, weather forecasters said.
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, which killed almost 1,800 people, the federal government spent $14.5bn (£9.1bn) rebuilding the city's flood defences. Hurricane Isaac marked the first real test of the revamped system.
Although Hurricane Isaac did not have the same force as Katrina, the storm moved slowly and dumped large volumes of rain on Louisiana and Mississippi.
Many of the areas hardest hit by the hurricane were not protected by the New Orleans flood barriers.
At the height of the storm, about 850,000 people were reported to have lost power in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Texas and Arkansas. | US President Barack Obama has visited Louisiana as the Gulf Coast continues to grapple with flooding and power cuts in the wake of Hurricane Isaac. |
38501373 | We were asked if there were any photographs of a windmill that once towered over Penkhull and Hartshill in Stoke-on-Trent.
You wanted to know why there were circular holes high up in the walls of hay lofts.
And you wondered about the history of the Alexandra colliery in Coventry. Here are some of the answers.
Local historian Richard Talbot said the windmill stood on Kirkland Lane. It dates roughly from 1780 and was built for farmers for milling.
However, by 1891 the mill had been demolished and Mr Talbot does not believe anyone took a picture while it was standing.
A semi-detached house now stands where the windmill once was.
An archaeological dig was carried out before building work started and found some remains of the windmill including the foundations "but nothing significant"," Mr Talbot says.
You can find out more about the Penkhull Windmill here and if you have a photograph of it use the form at the bottom of this page to get in touch.
Blists Hill Victorian museum in Ironbridge has examples of these holes in the side of barns.
The Ironbridge Gorge Museums Trust told us it was so that loosely bundled bales of hay could be thrown, from a pitch fork, into the loft.
In the past, bales were not rectangular and tidy like they are today, so they were less likely to catch on a round hole than a square one.
The trust also said that some barns have smaller holes near the eaves to attract owls, in the hope they would control mouse-numbers - and they were known as "owl holes".
The Alexandra Colliery was one of three in the area operated by Wyken Collieries Ltd, which started work at the Warwickshire Coalfield from 1862.
The Alexandra and Wyken Collieries were the first to open. When the Wyken was worked out by 1881 miners moved to the Alexandra until it too became exhausted by 1919.
The third, and last, Craven Colliery, closed in 1927. The history of some of the surrounding railway lines can be found on this site.
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34479153 | Chaplin, famous for his comic roles in black and white silent films, would book into the Newton Hotel in Nairn with his family later in his life.
The hotel has been put on the market with an asking price of about £4.5m plus VAT.
The former baronial mansion has 63 bedrooms and 21 acres (8ha) of grounds. | A hotel where Charlie Chaplin stayed during holidays in the Highlands has been put up for sale. |
36986361 | Stewart Watson, 36, was found guilty last month of attempted murder after the attack in the West Lothian village of Polbeth on 4 September 2015.
The judge condemned his "truly horrifying assault" on Anne Crossan, 47.
Outside court Miss Crossan said: "I feel as though a chip has been lifted off my shoulder. I just feel relieved."
Watson was sentenced at the High Court in Edinburgh
Lord Bannatyne said: "It is difficult to imagine how terrifying this must have been for the complainer (Miss Crossan). The results of the assault were appalling."
The judge said the effects on Miss Crossan had been not just physical but emotional and added: "This assault was on an entirely innocent person. The assault was clearly premeditated."
Miss Crossan said she had been diagnosed as suffering post traumatic stress disorder following the attack on her which left her suffering nightmares and frightened to answer the door.
Watson, who has a previous conviction for fire-raising, attacked Miss Crossan at her home and doused her in lighter fuel before igniting it.
The 36-year-old, who had denied the attempted murder, threw the flammable liquid over Miss Crossan's head and body during the attempted murder.
She told his earlier trial: "My hair was on fire, my face, my neck was on fire. I lost quite a bit of my hair and my scalp was all burnt."
"Flames came right up at me. I just put my right hand up to my face, so the right side wasn't as badly burned as the left side. I had glasses on. If I hadn't I would have been blinded," she said.
She said she ran to the bathroom and dipped her head in water. She was taken by ambulance to St John's Hospital in Livingston.
Miss Crossan was put in an induced coma while she was treated for burns following the attack.
She was scarred for life, has had to relearn how to walk and talk, and is still under going treatment.
She told the court Watson had threatened to "murder" her after she had disclosed information about him to his then-girlfriend.
Police found lighter fluid on the trainers he was wearing on the evening of the attack, and two cans of a similar fluid in his home in the village near Livingston, one of them empty.
Forensic scientists matched the lighter fluid to traces found on a top Miss Crossan had been wearing.
Defence solicitor advocate Mike Bell said: "He is resigned to the fact a long sentence of imprisonment awaits him." | A man who poured lighter fluid over a woman before setting her on fire has been jailed for eight-and-a-half years. |
36686455 | Sangyoung, 20, overturned a 14-9 deficit to beat Hungarian veteran Geza Imre 15-14.
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The Korean was appearing in his first Games while Imre, who won bronze in his first Olympics in 1996, was competing in his fifth.
France's Gauthier Grumier claimed bronze with a 15-11 victory over Swiss Benjamin Steffen.
Subscribe to the BBC Sport newsletter to get our pick of news, features and video sent to your inbox. | Park Sangyoung completed a surprise victory in the men's individual epee to win gold for South Korea. |
36269734 | A ministry statement quoted by Interfax news agency said it was a breach of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, signed in 1987.
The US says the Aegis system is a shield to protect Nato from long-range missiles and is no threat to Russia.
Romania is hosting part of the system.
A ceremony will be held at a Nato airfield in Deveselu, southern Romania, on Thursday to mark the start of Aegis operations there.
"This decision is harmful and mistaken, because it is capable of upsetting strategic stability," said Mikhail Ulyanov, head of the Russian foreign ministry's department for proliferation and arms control issues.
Nato and US officials say the system has been developed to track and intercept missiles fired from a "rogue" state. In the past Iran was mentioned in that context, but the US has also had North Korea in mind.
For years the US has been testing the Aegis system on warships too.
An incoming missile would be destroyed in space, before it could re-enter the Earth's atmosphere.
On Friday another phase of the project will be launched in Poland, with a groundbreaking ceremony at Redzikowo, near the Baltic Sea. Aegis missiles are to become operational there in 2018.
Mr Ulyanov said Russia's interests "are being affected in a direct way by this".
He said the Americans' MK-41 launch system could also be used to fire cruise missiles, not just air defence missiles.
"From our viewpoint this is a violation of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty," he said. | Russia's foreign ministry says US activation of a European missile defence shield in Romania, scheduled for Thursday, violates a treaty on nuclear forces. |
39389570 | The hosts' captain Joss Labadie and visitors' Josh Yorwerth were red carded after they clashed in the 51st minute.
Demetriou scored from long range after 18 minutes as County ended a three-match winless run to leave them five points from safety.
Crawley dropped a place to 18th in the table as Newport held on.
Newport manager Mike Flynn told BBC Radio Wales: "I thought there was a superb attacking performance in the first half and we should have been out of sight.
"The second half showed the other side of what the boys have got. They defended unbelievably, but I would have much rather them have finished their chances.
"I haven't seen the red cards incident. I haven't seen it back yet and until I have, I haven't got anything to say on it."
Match ends, Newport County 1, Crawley Town 0.
Second Half ends, Newport County 1, Crawley Town 0.
Attempt saved. James Collins (Crawley Town) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Corner, Crawley Town. Conceded by Joe Day.
Attempt saved. Enzio Boldewijn (Crawley Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Substitution, Newport County. Sid Nelson replaces Alex Samuel.
Attempt missed. Matt Harrold (Crawley Town) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right following a set piece situation.
Corner, Crawley Town. Conceded by Mickey Demetriou.
Sean Rigg (Newport County) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Enzio Boldewijn (Crawley Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Enzio Boldewijn (Crawley Town).
Corner, Crawley Town. Conceded by Mark O'Brien.
Attempt blocked. James Collins (Crawley Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Substitution, Newport County. Jennison Myrie-Williams replaces Ryan Bird.
Foul by Alex Samuel (Newport County).
Joe McNerney (Crawley Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Conor Henderson (Crawley Town) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right from a direct free kick.
Mickey Demetriou (Newport County) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Mickey Demetriou (Newport County).
Enzio Boldewijn (Crawley Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Crawley Town. Conor Henderson replaces Josh Payne.
Attempt saved. Matt Harrold (Crawley Town) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Substitution, Newport County. Tom Owen-Evans replaces Mitch Rose.
Foul by Mark O'Brien (Newport County).
Dean Cox (Crawley Town) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Hand ball by Jimmy Smith (Crawley Town).
Substitution, Crawley Town. Matt Harrold replaces Rhys Murphy.
Foul by David Pipe (Newport County).
Dean Cox (Crawley Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Alex Samuel (Newport County) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses the top right corner.
Josh Payne (Crawley Town) is shown the yellow card.
Alex Samuel (Newport County) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Andre Blackman (Crawley Town).
Mickey Demetriou (Newport County) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Jimmy Smith (Crawley Town).
Attempt missed. Ryan Bird (Newport County) right footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Attempt saved. Mickey Demetriou (Newport County) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Corner, Newport County. Conceded by Glenn Morris.
Substitution, Crawley Town. Dean Cox replaces Kaby.
Alex Samuel (Newport County) wins a free kick in the defensive half. | Defender Mickey Demetriou's winner boosted Newport County's hopes of League Two survival as they and Crawley finished with 10 men. |
39170417 | Thornhill and her sighted pilot Hall added the kilometre time trial title to the pursuit crown they won on Thursday.
They led a British clean sweep ahead of Aileen McGlynn and Louise Haston with Alison Patrick and Helen Scott third.
Jon Gildea and men's tandem pair James Ball and Matt Rotherham claimed their first World titles.
It takes GB's gold medal tally to five with more medal chances to come in Sunday's final session.
Thornhill and Hall finished in a time of one minute 9.552 seconds to beat 43-year-old McGlynn, who is in her first GB outing since 2012, and Haston by 1.537 seconds.
Paralympic triathlon silver medallist Patrick, who is making her debut in international track cycling, and Scott were a further 0.026 seconds back.
"To stand up there with our team-mates was brilliant. I've never experienced that before," Thornhill told BBC Sport.
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Hall added: "More GB riders coming through is good; it pushes us along and keeps the competition high."
Ball and Rotherham were the penultimate pair to ride in the men's event and after clocking 1:00.727 seconds. They watched on as Commonwealth Games champions Neil Fachie and Craig Maclean failed to better their time [1:02.39).
"It's one of the greatest feelings I've ever had," said Welshman Ball, who finished fifth with Maclean at the Rio Paralympics
"I'm really happy with how it turned out and I'm hoping for good things on Sunday in the sprint."
Gildea's success in the C5 4km pursuit comes off the back of missing out on selection for Rio 2016.
After qualifying second behind Lauro Cesar Chaman of Brazil, the 38-year-old from Sale, who became eligible for Para-sport in 2013 after breaking his leg badly in a mountain bike accident, dug deep in the final to beat his rival by 1.985 seconds.
"It's nice to come back and get a world champion's jersey. That's the starting point for getting on my way to Tokyo," he said. | British tandem pair Sophie Thornhill and Corrine Hall won their second gold medal at the Para-cycling Track World Championships in Los Angeles. |
36786438 | The armed forces have been deployed to reinforce a 175km (110-mile) razor-wire fence erected last year on a border that is also a gateway to the European Union.
Until new regulations came into force on 5 July, an average of 130 people crossed the fence every day.
The new law allows the authorities to push back anyone caught inside Hungary within 8km of the fence, but in practice it seems to be applied to those caught far deeper into Hungary, as far as Budapest.
The push-backs usually happen at night, through gates built into the razor wire fence, or even over the wire.
The measures have caused growing backlogs on the Serbian side in daytime temperatures of up to 37C. More than 1,000 migrants are now waiting to enter Hungary, legally, through one of two "transit zones" at Horgos and Kelebia.
The conditions in the camp at Horgos are appalling. Most of the residents are Afghans, while Syrians and Iraqis are concentrated at Kelebia.
A long queue forms each morning for the two taps of running water which serve 850 people, including many women and children. There are now 12 toilets.
Another queue forms rapidly when a jeep from the Serbian Red Cross arrives with bread rolls. The UN refugee agency, the UNHCR, provides tins of tuna. People boil water for tea over small fires dug into the sandy earth. Some bake potatoes or sweet corn on the embers, or heat the tuna.
Shelter from the burning sun is offered by small tents and UNHCR blankets, tied together between poles cut from the undergrowth.
Last week a 10-year-old Afghan boy drowned while trying to wash in a pond nearby. His mother walks aimlessly through the camp with her other children, too sad to speak to anyone.
The UNHCR is mediating with the Serbian and Hungarian authorities about where to bury the dead boy.
The unofficial leader of the camp, 25-year-old Afghan doctor Hamid Joya, is besieged by people trying to find out what number they are on his list.
He negotiates with the Hungarian Office of Immigration and Nationality, which controls the steel turnstile into the transit zone, built right into the border fence. Each day 15 people are admitted - 14 from families, and one single male; and a similar number at the other transit zone at Kelebia.
"When the transit zones were first established we were told they could process 100 people a day," UNHCR spokesman Erno Simon told the BBC on a fact-finding visit to Horgos.
"We have been trying to persuade the Hungarian authorities to increase the number because of the inhumane conditions in which they are forced to camp here," he told the BBC.
But if 100 people were admitted each day, that would render the massive security operation on the far side, and the fence itself, irrelevant.
The Hungarian government has called a referendum for 2 October to oppose refugee redistribution quotas proposed by the European Commission.
To be valid, the referendum will require at least 50% of Hungary's eight million voters to take part.
The government has launched a nationwide publicity campaign to mobilise the public to participate.
Some opposition parties have called for a boycott of the referendum, claiming that it would be a vote against Hungary's continued EU membership.
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Migrants who have been pushed back to Serbia through the fence have accused police in Hungary of brutality.
Samir, from Afghanistan, says he was punched and kicked by police after he surrendered to them having gone four days in Hungary without water. He was then pepper-sprayed as he was being pushed back through the fence "to teach him a lesson".
"We have witnessed a lot of cases of intentional trauma that can be related to excessive use of force," said Momcilo Djurdjevic, a doctor from MSF (Doctors Without Borders), which has an active presence in both camps.
He lists testimonies from refugees and injuries that MSF has treated including "cuts, dog bites, and police, baton-shaped bruises on their bodies".
There has been no official Hungarian response to these allegations.
Official communiques note only that illegal migrants caught on Hungarian territory are "escorted" back to the border.
Faisal Sarwary from Kandahar has been in the Horgos camp for two weeks, with his father, mother, and four sisters.
Smugglers in Belgrade offered them an illegal trip to Austria, across Hungary, but "my father didn't accept. We just want to be patient and pass these borders legally".
A note on terminology: The BBC uses the term migrant to refer to all people on the move who have yet to complete the legal process of claiming asylum. This group includes people fleeing war-torn countries such as Syria, who are likely to be granted refugee status, as well as people who are seeking jobs and better lives, who governments are likely to rule are economic migrants. | A massive security operation, involving up to 10,000 police and soldiers, is under way along Hungary's southern border with Serbia, to keep out migrants and refugees. |
36802749 | Irene Nel, 73, was visiting family in Bristol on a six-month tourist visa in 2012 when she was diagnosed.
Her daughter, who moved to the UK in 1999, has been fighting her deportation claiming she will die if sent back.
The Home Office said all applications were considered on individual merit in line with immigration rules.
Mrs Nel is currently being cared for by her daughter Desree Taylor, who is a British citizen.
She said her mother needs to have dialysis three times a week "to keep her alive", but a process was being put in place to deport her with just 72 hours' notice.
"She won't have dialysis in South Africa because over there - if you're over 60 - you don't qualify at all," she said.
"So she will go back and within two weeks, her consultant has said, she will pass away."
Mrs Nel has said she would "rather die than go back" and has appealed for six weeks' notice so she can stop dialysis.
"I love my country but I can't go back," she said.
"I've got no one there, all my kids are here and if I have to go back I might as well give up everything."
A Home Office spokesman said: "All cases are carefully considered on their individual merits, in line with the UK immigration rules."
The case echoes that of 92-year-old South African Myrtle Cothill who had her threat of deportation lifted after more than 150,000 people signed a petition for her to stay in Dorset with her daughter. | More than 100,000 people have signed a petition urging the Home Office not to deport a woman with kidney failure from the UK back to South Africa. |
25352764 | Izzy Dix was found dead in Brixham, Devon, on 17 September. Her family and friends blamed cyber-bullying and began a campaign against it.
But, the inquest at Torquay Coroner's Office, heard there was "no evidence of cyber bullying".
Coroner Ian Arrow recorded a verdict of suicide and said Izzy had "significant personal and emotional turmoil".
Police investigated the teenager's death after claims she was bullied on a social media website.
Det Con Diane Brugge, from Torbay's child protection unit, told the inquest there was no suicide note, although a diary had mentioned three suicide attempts.
She said Izzy's internet use, telephone and computers were checked but "nothing that suggested any cyber bullying" was found.
But Annie Hargraves, of the Izzy Dix Memorial Campaign, said the family had evidence of Izzy being bullied, which she referred to as "internet trolling" and the "worst form of abuse".
She said the campaign group firmly believed bullying was a major factor in Izzy's death.
"We believe the processes that took place today and the conclusions reached are fundamentally flawed," she added.
A statement, read at the inquest from Izzy's mother, Gabbi, said her daughter "had been bullied from the moment she started" Brixham College.
She said: "She got picked on at school for being bright and wearing a skirt that was longer than the other girls."
The inquest heard that on the night Izzy died she had been upset because a girl had "made her life hell" at school that day and the supply teacher had not noticed.
Izzy and her mother had also argued later that night.
When Izzy said she was lonely and no-one cared about her, her mother said she had to find her own solutions and that lots of people loved her.
The teenager was later found hanged in her bedroom by her mother.
Brixham College is yet to respond to what was heard at the inquest. | A 14-year-old girl hanged herself after an argument with her mother, an inquest has heard. |
24560026 | The Intelligence and Security Committee is examining whether laws governing intercept are "still fit for purpose".
The impact on people's privacy will also now be considered by the inquiry.
Concerns arose over "snooping" by the state after data-gathering centre GCHQ was cited in leaks by ex-US security contractor Edward Snowden.
The controversy sparked by Mr Snowden's leaks to the Guardian newspaper prompted the ISC inquiry.
In July, after reviewing GCHQ reports produced with material including US intelligence from its controversial Prism programme, the ISC decided that UK security services had not broken the law in accessing information on UK citizens.
The intercept activities of the UK spy agencies come under three pieces of legislation: The Intelligence Services Act 1994, the Human Rights Act 1998, and the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000.
On Thursday, ISC chairman Sir Malcolm Rifkind said: "In recent months concern has been expressed at the suggested extent of the capabilities available to the intelligence agencies and the impact upon people' s privacy as the agencies seek to find the needles in the haystacks that might be crucial to safeguarding national security.
"There is a balance to be found between our individual right to privacy and our collective right to security.
"An informed and responsible debate is needed," he said, adding that the ISC had "therefore decided to broaden the scope of its forthcoming inquiry to consider these wider questions, in addition to those relating to the existing legislative framework."
He said the inquiry would continue to examine classified information but also invite written evidence "more broadly, including from the public, to ensure that the committee can consider the full range of opinions expressed on these topics".
Mr Rifkind said the committee, which meets in secret, also hoped to hold some future evidence sessions in public.
The ISC was recently given greater powers to scrutinise the work of the security services and last week Downing Street dismissed suggestions that there could be a government review of its role.
Nick Pickles, director of Big Brother Watch, welcomed the ISC announcement but said "such a debate cannot be allowed to take place behind closed doors and without pressing questions being asked about the legal justification for what we know to be already happening at GCHQ and elsewhere".
Shami Chakrabarti, director of civil liberties campaigners Liberty, said: "Some will say better late than never, others fear a tactical whitewash to calm public concern.
"It's certainly significant that the committee feels compelled to dig a little deeper but that's no substitute for much broader public and political debate." | Parliament's intelligence watchdog is to hear evidence from the public as part of a widening of its inquiry into UK spy agencies' intercept activities. |
37983434 | The visitors opened the scoring when Whitehouse turned the ball past York shot-stopper Scott Flinders at the near post.
Nathan Arnold's 20-yard free-kick five minutes later saw Lincoln take a 2-0 lead into the break.
York came close to pulling a goal back when Sean Newton hit the bar, before the visitors extended their advantage three minutes later when Luke Waterfall fired in from close range.
The home side got one goal back when Yan Klukowski found the net after his initial effort had been saved by Paul Farman - but Lincoln restored their three-goal lead five minutes later thanks to Bradley Wood.
York were reduced to 10 men in added time when substitute Daniel Nti was dismissed.
Report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, York City 1, Lincoln City 4.
Second Half ends, York City 1, Lincoln City 4.
Daniel Nti (York City) is shown the red card.
Substitution, Lincoln City. Adam Marriott replaces Theo Robinson.
Goal! York City 1, Lincoln City 4. Bradley Wood (Lincoln City).
Substitution, Lincoln City. Alan Power replaces Matt Rhead.
Goal! York City 1, Lincoln City 3. Yan Klukowski (York City).
Substitution, Lincoln City. Jack Muldoon replaces Nathan Arnold.
Goal! York City 0, Lincoln City 3. Luke Waterfall (Lincoln City).
Substitution, York City. Callum Rzonca replaces Charlie Cooper.
Substitution, York City. Daniel Nti replaces Aidan Connolly.
Substitution, York City. Alex Whittle replaces Matt Fry.
Second Half begins York City 0, Lincoln City 2.
First Half ends, York City 0, Lincoln City 2.
Luke Waterfall (Lincoln City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Goal! York City 0, Lincoln City 2. Nathan Arnold (Lincoln City).
Yan Klukowski (York City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Goal! York City 0, Lincoln City 1. Elliot Whitehouse (Lincoln City).
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up. | Elliott Whitehouse scored on his first start for Lincoln as they beat York to extend the Minstermen's winless run in the National League. |
37521806 | The Heritage Lottery Fund has awarded a £13.8m grant to the cathedral, which has raised a further £10.9m.
It sold pieces of stone removed during restoration of the 15th Century Great South Window, some of which sold for more than £7,000 each.
The roof of the nave is set to be replaced and a new visitor centre is to be built.
The Grade I listed cathedral, founded in AD 597, has been a world-famous centre of pilgrimage.
One million people visit the cathedral every year, the Very Reverend Dr Robert Willis, said.
"This is without doubt a very exciting time for the cathedral," he said.
"We want to further enhance the experience for [visitors] as well as reach out to those communities with whom we would like to to share the richness of the heritage we have in this magnificent place."
The Gothic-style window, which is 52ft (16m) high and 23ft (7m) wide, was removed in December 2013 after stone fell onto a pathway.
Much of it had to be rebuilt after crumbling stonework revealed serious structural problems.
Parts of the window were put on display at the Getty Museum in in Los Angeles. | Almost £25m has been raised to pay for "vital" restoration work at Canterbury Cathedral. |
37013670 | Mr Trump is focusing on cutting taxes, eliminating regulation and ending trade deals.
Mrs Clinton, on the other hand, wants to raise taxes on the wealthy, increase spending on job training and lower taxes on companies that hire more Americans.
Here are some of the ways they differ.
Mr Trump favours cutting taxes for everyone and reducing the number of tax brackets from seven to three.
"The rich will pay their fair share, but no one will pay so much that it undermines our ability to compete," Mr Trump said during a speech on Monday.
Mrs Clinton would keep taxes the same for most Americans but add an additional bracket for the highest earners. The income from that would be used to pay for programmes like free university education for students from low- and middle-income families.
Her campaign is calling the higher taxes on the wealthy - 4% on people who earn more than $5m - the "fair share surcharge".
Both candidates have proposed closing tax loopholes that typically favour the rich.
Mr Trump proposes a child care deduction that would cover the average cost of child care, while Mrs Clinton favours limiting the number of deductions taxpayers can claim at 28%.
Tax deductions allow people to subtract some of the income they are taxed on - effectively lowering which bracket they fall into. They typically favour the rich who can take more, while the 43% of Americans who currently pay no income would be unaffected by the change.
Donald Trump also proposed eliminating the estate tax or "death tax" completely. The tax only applies when a family member passes on more than $5.45m worth of assets to an individual or $10.9m to a married couple.
According to the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center, Mr Trump's plan would reduce the amount of income the government takes in by $9.5tn over the next decade. Mrs Clinton's plan would add $1.1tn in revenue over the next 10 years.
Neither candidate has proposed significant reductions in spending on public pension and healthcare programmes like social security, Medicaid and Medicare. The funding needed for those is expected to balloon over the next decade and its unclear where the money to pay for them will come from without tax increases.
An analysis performed by Tax Foundation last month found that while Mr Trump's plan would lower taxes for all Americans it would lower them most for the highest earners.
Mr Trump has done his best to capitalise on the discontent around trade deals.
His economic proposal suggests renegotiating trade deals using "negotiators whose goal will be to win for America". He has not spelt out what that "win" looks like, but he has promised to step away from deals like the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta) if a good deal cannot be reached.
Mr Trump has also promised to get tough with countries that violate trade agreements, applying new tariffs and pursuing cases against them in the World Trade Organization. He has specifically said that he will label China a "currency manipulator".
Mr Trump has called for a 35% tariff on Mexican goods and a 45% tariff on Chinese goods.
That would mean a $100 television from Mexico would cost $135.
This could encourage US consumers to buy more products made in America, but it would also likely encourage Mexico to place an import tax on US goods, making it hard for US companies to sell their goods abroad. Mexico purchased $267.2bn in US goods in 2015, making it the second largest export partner for the US.
Mrs Clinton has said these tariffs will lead to a trade war making it harder for the US to compete on a global stage.
Clinton has gone back and forth on trade. She previously supported the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) but has said in her campaign that she doesn't think it's the best deal for America.
Her plan focuses more on increasing production in the US by offering tax incentives to companies that build there rather than barring imports out. While she has criticised some trade deals, she hasn't ruled out signing new ones if elected.
Trump on trade
Clinton on trade
Both candidates have promised to put Americans back to work, though unemployment has hovered around a low 4.9% since the beginning of the year.
Mr Trump's employment plan focuses on encouraging more businesses to open in the US. He has suggested that investing in infrastructure, cutting the trade deficit, lowering taxes and removing regulations will make it easier for companies to hire.
In his speech on Monday, Mr Trump focused mostly on increasing manufacturing jobs, which have declined by around 5 million since 2000. Much of that decline has been caused by improvements in technology, however, not outsourcing.
Mrs Clinton's policy for jobs growth is a little more specific. She has called for increasing jobs training - in part paid for by tax revenue from wealthier Americans. She has pushed for infrastructure spending and investment in new energy to lift the number of jobs in those sectors.
Despite their many areas of disagreement, there a few things both candidates are pushing for.
Mr Trump has not addressed how he will pay for these cuts, other than saying the changes will boost the economy and that will increase the tax base.
Mrs Clinton has said most of her spending increasing will be covered by tax increases, but it is unclear if those numbers entirely match up.
She will give her own economic policy speech on Thursday. | Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have laid out their visions for the US economy and, unsurprisingly, they are very different. |
38469751 | 30 December 2016 Last updated at 13:13 GMT
The Beipanjiang bridge stands 565 metres above the ground, which is nearly twice the height of the Shard skyscraper in London.
The bridge connects the two mountainous areas of Yunnan and Guizhou, cutting the journey time between the two places from four hours to around one hour.
The four lane bridge, which spans 1,341 metres, is now open to vehicles. | The world's highest bridge has opened in China, after taking three years to be built. |
38624160 | Championship top scorer Dwight Gayle put the visitors ahead and helped Newcastle return to the top of the table before going off injured.
Defender Isaac Hayden and midfielder Vurnon Anita were also forced off hurt.
"Gayle and Hayden have muscle problems. Anita was a bad tackle on his ankle," Benitez told BBC Radio Newcastle.
"But it is too early to know. Our club doctor will let me know."
The injuries come on top of striker Aleskandar Mitrovic being stretchered off with a nasty gash to his knee in last Saturday's FA Cup third-round defeat by Birmingham City at St Andrew's.
"I spoke with him and he is progressing," said Benitez. "He needs time. Normally they say two or three weeks."
But, while the Newcastle boss must wait to discover how long he might have to be without 20-goal top scorer Gayle, he does have Jonjo Shelvey available again after a five-game suspension for Wednesday night's FA Cup third-round replay with Birmingham at home.
He also has Daryl Murphy off and running, having followed up his FA Cup goal at St Andrew's with his first in the league for the club - Newcastle's late winner at Griffin Park.
Striker Sammy Ameobi has also returned from loan at Bolton Wanderers.
"To lose three players and see the reaction from the players is something that, as a manager, you have to be really pleased with," added Benitez. "And the fans should be proud too.
"We had to keep reacting to losing players, but, if you want to stay at the top, you have to show character." | Newcastle United manager Rafael Benitez says it is too early to know the full extent of the injuries suffered by his side in their 2-1 win at Brentford. |
36933913 | The Bluebirds have signed striker Frederic Gounongbe and defender Jazz Richards so far this summer, as well as making the loans of Lex Immers and Kenneth Zohore permanent transfers.
Cardiff's opening Championship fixture is at Birmingham on Saturday, 6 August.
"There's time and I'm sure there'll be a lot of business between now and when the window shuts," said Trollope.
"We're still looking and we're still hopeful."
Cardiff concluded their pre-season preparations with a 1-0 defeat away against Premier League side Bournemouth on Saturday.
Gounongbe led the attack in a 3-4-2-1 formation based on the system which Wales used as they reached their first major tournament semi-final at Euro 2016.
The 28-year-old joined on a free transfer from Westerlo having scored 13 goals for the Belgian side last season.
The Benin international and the relatively inexperienced 22-year-old Zohore are the only recognised strikers in the current Cardiff squad likely to feature this season.
But Trollope would not be drawn when he was asked if attack is an area of the team he is aiming to strengthen in particular.
"I'm not going to go into details in terms of what we're looking for," he said.
"But we're looking at certain areas we think we need to strengthen and add, both in terms of the first team and competition for places and strength in depth which we obviously need."
The other two strikers at Cardiff, Federico Macheda and Adam Le Fondre, have been told they are free to leave if they can find a new club.
"We've got interest in a few of ours who we've made available," added Trollope.
"We've been respectful to them and they've worked hard whichever group they've been with, if we can find a solution that would suit all parties." | Cardiff boss Paul Trollope hopes to make more signings before the transfer window closes at the end of August. |
38966581 | The home city of Romanian number one Simona Halep will host the tie on outdoor clay on 22-23 April.
Britain are looking to return to the elite level of the competition for the first time since 1993, but will go into the tie as heavy underdogs.
Find out how to get into tennis in our special guide.
Halep, the world number four, has already said she will play in the tie.
Romania have four other players in the top 100.
GB captain Anne Keothavong's team kept their promotion hopes alive last month with a 2-1 win over Croatia. and while she will hope to call on Johanna Konta, the world number 11 is not at her best on clay.
British number two Heather Watson is currently ranked 108 but has a strong Fed Cup record with 25 wins and only seven losses.
It is the third time Britain have reached the World Group II play-offs in the past six years, with the team then captained by Judy Murray losing to Sweden and Argentina in 2012 and 2013 respectively. | Great Britain will travel to the Black Sea city of Constanta for their Fed Cup World Group II play-off against Romania. |
38542779 | Cafodd yr heddlu eu galw i ardal Bryn Heulog tua 20:30 nos Iau ble cafwyd hyd i gorff David James Kingsbury, 35 oed o'r pentref.
Mae'r ddynes, sydd hefyd o'r ardal, yn cael ei chadw yn y ddalfa i gael ei chwestiynu gan yr heddlu.
Fe wnaeth canlyniadau post mortem ddangos fod Mr Kingsbury wedi marw ar ôl cael ei drwynau unwaith.
Mae'r crwner wedi cael ei hysbysu.
Dywedodd y Ditectif Arolygydd, Arwyn Jones: "Rydym yn parhau i ymchwilio ac rydym yn awyddus i glywed gan unrhyw un oedd yn siop Aldi ar Ffordd Abergele, neu siop y Co-op ar yr un stryd yn Hen Golwyn, rhwng 20:30 a 21:00 ddydd Iau, 5 Ionawr."
Dylai unrhyw un â gwybodaeth gysylltu â'r heddlu ar 101 neu'n ddienw ar 0800 555 111 gan ddefnyddio'r cyfeirnod V002232. | Mae'r heddlu yn Sir Conwy wedi cael estyniad o 36 awr i holi dynes 38 oed sydd wedi ei harestio ar amheuaeth o lofruddiaeth yn Hen Golwyn. |
38839564 | The 20-year-old defender joins the National League strugglers who have just lost Connor Oliver and Ryan Fallowfield to injury
Tinkler signed for the Premier League club's academy when he was 13 and has played twice for their Under-21's in the Football League Trophy this season.
North Ferriby, next to bottom in the table, host Dover Athletic on Saturday.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | North Ferriby United have signed Robbie Tinkler on loan from Middlesbrough until the end of the season. |
36205324 | The six-storey residence in Kenya's capital Nairobi came down in heavy rain, with more than 80 people still missing.
While investigations are still underway into the cause of this collapse, we look at some common problems.
Adequate foundations can be costly.
They can cost up to half the price of a building, observes professor of civil engineering Anthony Ede at Covenant University in Ota, Nigeria.
He says two things should be considered when you are building the foundations - the solidity of the soil and the heaviness of the building and its contents.
In the commercial capital of his country, Lagos, the swampy ground requires strong foundations. Far stronger than solid ground.
But he says developers save money that should be spent on foundations when building on the city's swampy ground and many buildings have collapsed in Lagos as a result.
Even on solid ground, foundations need to be strong enough for the load.
Inadequate foundations for a four-storey building was one of three reasons given by investigators for a building collapsing in northern Rwanda in 2013 and killing six people.
Materials that just aren't strong enough to withhold the load are used, says Hermogene Nsengimana from the African Organization for Standardisation, whose organisation met last month in Nairobi to discuss why so many African buildings collapse.
He suggests there is a market for counterfeit materials - going as far as to say that sometimes scrap metal is used instead of steel.
When a six-storey building in Uganda's capital Kampala collapsed in April, the director of the city authority suggested it had been constructed with counterfeit materials, reports Ugo news site.
Mr Nsengimana says there are even cases of counterfeiters faking authentification certificates.
But he suggests contractors also knowingly use the incorrect materials to cut costs.
So they may use concrete intended to bear the load of a one-storey building in a four-storey building.
Mr Ede adds that this is something regulators are not policing.
Even when workers are given the right materials to make the concrete, they mix them incorrectly, says Mr Ede.
This results in concrete which is not of the sufficient strength to hold the load.
He accuses developers of cutting costs by employing unskilled workers who are cheaper than trained builders.
This is one of the reasons put forward by civil engineers Henry Mwanaki Alinaitwe and Stephen Ekolu why a building in Uganda collapsed in 2004.
Their research shows that the workers misunderstood the mixing ratios of the concrete.
It suggested that people used wheelbarrows instead of measuring gauges to measure cement.
The five-storey BBJ new hotel collapsed in construction and 11 people died.
"You find bricklayers and even technicians calling themselves engineers," cautions the president of the Nigerian Institution of Structural Engineers Oreoluwa Fadayomi in Nigeria's The Punch news site.
To those who want to save money on professionals, he advises: "One should not be penny wise and pound foolish".
Mr Ede says a building collapses when the load is beyond the strength of the building.
He gives the example of asking a baby to carry a heavy box: "The baby will not be able to withhold the strain."
Even if the foundations and the materials are strong enough for what they were originally built for, that purpose may change.
So, Mr Ede says, if a building was designed to be a home and is then turned into a library where boxes and boxes of books are piled up, the building may strain under the weight.
He says another reason why the load is often heavier than the original design is because extra storeys are added.
In March an upmarket apartment block which had more storeys than planned collapsed in Lagos, killing 34 people the Guardian reported.
This came two years after a church accommodation for the famous preacher TB Joshua collapsed, also, authorities said, because it had more floors than it could hold. In that case more than 100 people lost their lives.
At all points of construction the strength of the building should be tested, says Mr Ede.
"You have to be strict," he says, about policing building.
"The law says you must test. It's the enforcement of the law which is the problem," he says.
That's a big problem, he says, when at every stage of construction there is someone with a strong motivation to save money or take money.
There are many physical reasons a building can collapse but only one driving motivation for that to happen, says Mr Ede. That's money.
And for him this is the real reason buildings collapse - corruption. | After a building collapsed in Kenya last week, killing at least 33 people, experts look at some reasons why such incidents occur in Africa. |
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Figueroa's 176kg lift in the clean and jerk meant Indonesia's Eko Yuli Irawan (312kg) was forced to settle for silver, as both men improved on the medals they won at London 2012.
Kazakhstan's Farkhad Kharki won the bronze medal with a total of 305kg.
Chinese favourite Chen Lijun missed out, failing to register in the snatch.
Find out how to get into weightlifting with our special guide.
Subscribe to the BBC Sport newsletter to get our pick of news, features and video sent to your inbox. | Oscar Figueroa lifted a combined total of 318kg to win the men's Olympic -62kg weightlifting title, and deliver Colombia's first gold of Rio 2016. |
39282918 | The New Zealand parliament passed the bill recognising the Whanganui River, in North Island, as a living entity.
Long revered by New Zealand's Maori people, the river's interests will now be represented by two people.
The Maori had been fighting for over 160 years to get this recognition for their river, a minister said.
"I know the initial inclination of some people will say it's pretty strange to give a natural resource a legal personality," said New Zealand's Treaty Negotiations Minister Chris Finlayson.
"But it's no stranger than family trusts, or companies or incorporated societies."
The Whanganui River, New Zealand's third-longest, will be represented by one member from the Maori tribes, known as iwi, and one from the Crown.
The recognition allows it to be represented in court proceedings.
"The river as a whole is absolutely important to the people who are from the river and live on the river," said MP Adrian Rurawhe, who represents the Maori.
"From a Whanganui viewpoint the wellbeing of the river is directly linked to the wellbeing of the people and so it is really important that's recognised as its own identity."
Members of the Maori community celebrated the news with tears and music in New Zealand's parliament.
The settlement brought to an end the country's longest-running litigation, the NZHerald reports.
It also included $80m (£65m) in financial redress and $30m (£25m) to a fund to improve the river's health. | A river in New Zealand has become the first in the world to be granted the same legal rights as a person. |
20033097 | Boyle, 40, from Glasgow, said the paper had defamed him with an article published on 19 July 2011.
Daily Mirror publisher Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN) defended the piece "on the basis of truth and fair comment".
However jurors ruled in favour of Boyle.
The comedian said he was "very happy" as he left court.
Jurors awarded Boyle £50,400 after concluding that the racist description was defamatory.
Jurors had been shown footage from the BBC satirical show Mock The Week, in which Boyle and other comedians discussed immigration.
He was given further damages of £4,250 after the jury found the Mirror's report saying Boyle had been "forced to quit" Mock the Week was defamatory.
The comedian said The Daily Mirror newspaper had "misunderstood" the context of his use of language in jokes, adding the accusation of racism "goes against everything I've tried to do in my work, to do in my life".
The Glasgow-born comedian said he had been "pretending" to be someone with racist views during the episode.
He said he had "actively campaigned" against racism and he thought it was "important" to highlight the issue in his routines by mocking the attitudes of racists, whom he "despised".
The comedian's humour has often proved controversial with audiences.
Last year, broadcasting watchdog Ofcom upheld more than 500 complaints about his Channel 4 show Tramadol nights, during which he joked about model Katie Price's disabled son, Harvey.
In 2008, the BBC apologised when Boyle made a joke about Palestine on the Radio 4 comedy show Political Animal.
A year after that, BBC Two's Mock The Week was criticised by the BBC Trust over comments Boyle made on the show about swimmer Rebecca Adlington's appearance. | Comedian Frankie Boyle has won £54,650 in damages after a High Court jury concluded that the Daily Mirror had libelled him by describing him as "racist". |
38409809 | For the past few seasons we have been lucky with our festive fixtures - we have been at home on several occasions, and the times we have been on our travels, the trips have been very short.
This year we are at Plymouth, which means an overnight stay.
It will obviously be hard leaving my little girl. She is my world, and missing out on spending the majority of Christmas Day with her won't be easy.
However, we are professionals and are extremely lucky to do what we do for a living. As I have said in this column many times before, I would never moan or complain, as I genuinely love my job, and I accept and understand the sacrifices that need to be made.
Not drinking, watching what I eat, making sure the quality and length of my sleep is good enough, working hard on my fitness - these are all things that are part of my lifestyle, and they're ingrained in me after so many years.
There will be so many people across the country in the same boat on Christmas Day. The nurses and those in the emergency services, whose jobs are vital, will be eating their Christmas dinner in various different surroundings. These guys do it year after year and do an amazing job.
December is always an enjoyable, but busy, month for footballers.
The Christmas party is usually the first activity and it's always a hot topic in the dressing room. I'm sure you've seen plenty of photos and videos on social media of teams dressed in some kind of fancy dress or crazy attire in a city in Britain or, very occasionally, further afield.
Some lads look forward to the Christmas party from pre-season, while others genuinely aren't so bothered. The non-drinkers will always still attend, but some lads do need a little encouragement for a night or two away from home.
The fines system will have been in place from early July as a way of self-policing team discipline, but also providing funds to spend on the festive party, and someone will have been volunteered to be the guy who makes the necessary calls to ensure hotels and nightclubs are all booked.
I have always enjoyed the social side of football. Seeing the lads away from the training ground is a great way of getting to know one another better, and the bonding that comes from it is very useful.
Hospital visits are another part of December's activities to look forward to.
It's one club appearance you will never hear any complaints or grumblings about.
The satisfaction and genuine enjoyment the lads get from these visits is pure.
Seeing children in hospital is horrible, but to give them some happiness and a highlight to enjoy is so rewarding.
I hope that you all have a great Christmas and a very Happy New Year! | Christmas Day is taking a slightly different tone for me this year. |
32941799 | Michelle O'Neill will meet with Chinese officials with responsibility for food standards.
China is set to become the world's largest consumer of pork, surpassing the European Union by 2022.
The minister said she would use the visit to build on an "important relationship" between both countries.
Inspectors from China made two trips to pork plants in Northern Ireland in April as part of the approval process.
Exports
Mrs O'Neill said: "I am hopeful my visit will maintain momentum on the approval process."
Northern Ireland already exports dairy products and animal hides to China.
As well as a market for pork, it is hoped there could be opportunities for beef and chicken exports in the future.
The minister will also promote Northern Ireland's agri-food industry during the week-long trip.
The minister will travel on Sunday in what will be her third visit to China. | Northern Ireland's agriculture minister will make a return trip to China this weekend as efforts intensify to secure a market for Northern Ireland pork. |
39119164 | Beth Battista said that she had no hesitation in offering her kidney after hearing of Lyla's protracted search to find a suitable donor.
"I knew I just had to get tested rather than watch her suffer," she said.
Both Beth and Lyla are now recovering after the successful transplant operation last Wednesday.
The teacher and mother-of-two said that she heard about Lyla's condition after her mother Dena Carreyn shared a Facebook post about the girl's desperate need for a living kidney donor.
Lyla was diagnosed a year ago with microscopic polyangiitis (MPA), a rare autoimmune disorder which requires 12 hours of dialysis a day.
Beth contacted the the UW Health Transplant Program in Wisconsin and, after two tests in July and August, was deemed to be a suitable donor for Lyla.
It was a rare match because she needed to be the right blood group with few antibodies picked up from previous bouts of sickness. She also needed to have matching antigens.
In September she discovered that the child was to be a pupil in her class at the Kids' Express Learning Centre in Madison.
The woman donating organs to strangers
Woman with 100-year-old kidney from mum 'still going strong'
The operation itself required surgeons to make four small incisions in her stomach in order to pull the kidney out, before taking it to Lyla, who was in a nearby hospital ward.
"It was the same level of a pain as having a caesarean," the teacher told the BBC, "but I'm pleased to say that as soon as the kidney was put inside Lyla it began working immediately."
"I was discharged from hospital 48 hours after the surgery and am feeling OK although really tired.
"But I am told this common among donors because their remaining kidney needs to grow to make up for the missing organ.
"I'm really proud to have saved her life."
Her actions have won widespread plaudits on social media.
"You are an inspiration for all of us to go out there and be a donor," one commentator on Facebook said. | A US preschool teacher has told the BBC of her delight in being able to save a five-year-old pupil's life by providing the child with one of her kidneys. |
38573052 | UK-wide there was a 19% fall, with a 20% drop in England and 3% in Scotland.
Data from BankSearch for Lloyds Bank showed almost half of Scotland's regions recorded growth.
The bank said the downward trend was likely to be in response to the "uncertain economic environment".
Across Wales, 23,195 new business start-ups were recorded in the 12 months to November 2011, compared to 17,089 in the year to November 2016.
Anglesey saw the biggest fall, from 668 start-ups to 337 in the same period, but Merthyr Tydfil only fell from 364 to 363.
Economists say this could be a sign that things are going well with those forced to become self-employed after the financial crisis now finding more secure work.
Prof Dylan Jones-Evans, of the University of Western England said: "Lloyds Bank have said shows the economy was uncertain because of this drop.
"Well, actually it works the other way because many people go into self-employment not because they've seen an opportunity but because of necessity and once the economic problems get better then what happens is they go away from self-employment back into employment."
"So paradoxically perhaps what this data is actually showing is that the economy is improving".
The Federation of Small Businesses said it was essential that those starting out were prepared.
"There are a few common challenges," said Ben Cottam, of FSB Cymru.
"The first is that businesses expand - too big, too quickly. We also find that people fail to look for the right advice to support them so it might be not sourcing an accountant to get the right financial advice, which is absolutely crucial." | The number of new businesses starting up in Wales has dropped by 26% over five years, figures obtained by a banking group have shown. |
38663408 | Matthew Salmon, 29, of St Ann's, Nottingham, was found guilty of multiple child sex offences at Nottingham Crown Court in December.
The girl, then aged 10, came forward after the NSPCC visited her Derbyshire school as part of its Speak out Stay safe service.
Salmon was sentenced to 15 years with a further year on licence.
The court heard how Salmon carried out multiple sexual assaults on the girl, ranging from kissing to rape over a two-year period.
He was found guilty of nine charges, including three counts of rape and two of sexual assault.
Judge Gregory Dickinson QC said the girl had suffered the "full spectrum of sexual abuse" and, given her age, "she clearly had no idea how serious it was".
Det Con Sue Hough, of Derbyshire Police, said: "Hopefully this will go some way to providing closure for the family and allow them to move on.
"It has been the most horrific catalogue of sexual abuse I've ever had to investigate on a child."
The NSPCC's Speak out Stay safe campaign involves volunteers visiting schools to speak to children aged four to 11 about how to protect themselves from abuse and how to report it.
Since the service started in 2011, it has reached more than one million children at 15,000 schools across the UK. | A child rapist who was convicted after his victim heard a safeguarding talk at her school has been jailed. |
34142499 | Finance, HR and IT directors were among nine senior staff given vehicles.
One tax expert said the recipients could save thousands of pounds each year as emergency vehicles are treated differently by HM Revenue and Customs.
The forces said the vehicles were part of their wider fleet, and denied they were provided for tax reasons.
BBC News sent Freedom of Information requests to all 45 UK forces, asking them if they had provided civilian staff with cars fitted with emergency response equipment, and received responses from all.
The seven forces which said they had were Devon and Cornwall, Merseyside, Humberside, South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire, Avon and Somerset, and Greater Manchester Police.
The main recipients were finance directors, although human resources and IT directors have also benefitted.
In addition, West Mercia and Warwickshire Police said they used to jointly pay for a car for a "director of enabling services", but no longer did so.
None of the vehicles had been used in an emergency, and the drivers of the vehicles were not qualified to use them in such circumstances.
South Yorkshire and Humberside Police were the only forces to say they provided two senior civilian staff with vehicles.
In a statement to the BBC, South Yorkshire's Police and Crime Commissioner Alan Billings said the scheme pre-dated the appointment of police and crime commissioners.
"Even so, I am disappointed that I was not made aware of it. I have asked the chief constable to review the policy and I understand that the equipment has now been disconnected, pending removal from the vehicles."
The BBC sent Freedom of Information requests to all 45 police forces in the UK. All responded. Seven forces said they had provided cars for the following civilian personnel:
Devon and Cornwall - Head of roads policing unit
Greater Manchester Police - Assistant chief officer
Humberside (two cars) - Assistant chief officer of HR; Assistant chief officer support
Merseyside - Director of finance
West Yorkshire - Director of finance and business
Avon and Somerset - Chief financial officer
South Yorkshire (two cars) - Director of finance; Director of IT
In addition, West Mercia and Warwickshire forces said they previously provided a joint vehicle to a director of enabling Services.
Humberside Police said one of the vehicles was made available for driver training on a regular basis, while the other supplemented the force's fleet and could be used for special events or royal visits.
The forces all denied the arrangements were part of efforts to reduce their tax bills.
But a report earlier this year from the College of Policing found many police officers felt "a culture of entitlement" existed at senior levels within forces.
A focus group spoke of "staff at chief officer rank being provided with executive cars fitted with emergency equipment", such as blue lights and sirens.
This was despite the fact they would not have been trained or authorised to use the vehicle, and was "apparently motivated by the advantageous tax treatment available for emergency vehicles," officers in the focus group said.
Laura Hutchinson, a director at tax specialists Forbes Dawson, said any potential tax saving would depend on the cost of the vehicle and its CO2 emissions.
For example, a BMW 5 series saloon costing £30,000 would incur a taxable benefit charge of more than £2,200 for someone paying the 40% tax rate.
However, this fee would not apply if HMRC was satisfied that the vehicle was used for emergency purposes.
"It is clear that the vehicle does not have to be a marked car, which may make this an attractive route to providing tax-free benefits where the rules were not intended to apply," said Ms Hutchinson.
Earlier this week, officers in the West Midlands complained that their siren-less vehicles were hampering efforts to catch criminals.
In 2011, a BMW fitted with emergency response equipment - covert blue lights and a two-tone siren - was stolen from outside the home of the force's former finance director. | Seven police forces in England have given company cars with blue lights and sirens to civilian staff not trained to use them, the BBC has learned. |
34064721 | Mr Neville died in Australia, after being taken ill on a visit to support his daughter Tracey, who is England netball head coach, during the World Cup.
The 65-year-old was a former commercial director of Bury Football Club.
His funeral service will be held in Bury, followed by a private burial.
Mr Neville was involved in the fans' group Save Our Shakers, which was formed when the side faced bankruptcy in 2002.
His sons both started their lengthy football careers with Manchester United in the early 1990s. Gary won 85 England caps, while Phil won 59.
An emotional Tracey Neville led her England side out on court hours after it emerged her father had been taken ill.
She said it was the right decision to stay, as her father would not have expected her to "bail out" of a tournament. | The funeral is due to take place later of Neville Neville, father of former England and Manchester United footballers Gary and Phil. |
38710545 | It happened in Shore Crescent about 23:30 GMT on Saturday.
The men threatened a woman inside and caused damage to the house before leaving.
There were no reports of any injuries.
Police are appealing for information. | Two masked men have forced their way into a house in north Belfast. |
40145681 | Mr Rocha Loures was seen in a video released in May carrying a bag with 500,000 Brazilian reais ($154,000).
Prosecutors allege he was handling a bribe from a businessman who had been recorded discussing hush money with President Temer.
His arrest comes as part of a probe into alleged payments to politicians by the meat-packing company JBS.
President Temer has repeatedly denied any involvement in the bribery scandal, which threatens to engulf his administration. He said Mr Rocha Loures could be the victim of a trap.
The owners of J&F's, the controlling shareholder of JBS, said under a plea bargain that they spent 600m reais ($184 m) to bribe nearly 1,900 politicians over a number of years.
One of them, Joesley Batista, also gave prosecutors an audio tape, leaked to the media, in which Mr Temer appears to condone bribing a witness.
The audio came from a conversation between the president and Joesley, and was recorded using a hidden device.
In it, Mr Temer appears to discuss paying for the silence of politician Eduardo Cunha, who is currently in prison.
Mr Temer has said the recording is genuine but may have been tampered with. He says it was taken from a meeting in March and he denies any wrongdoing.
"I never authorised any payments for someone to be silent," he said in a televised address. "I did not buy anyone's silence. I fear no accusations."
Mr Temer has resisted calls to step down over the scandal.
The country's Supreme Court has approved an investigation into the allegations against the president.
Mr Rocha Loures could seek a plea bargain and reveal who the money was intended for, BBC Brasil correspondent, Julia Carneiro, says.
But that could damage the president's assertion that he did nothing illegal, she adds. | Brazilian police have arrested Rodrigo Rocha Loures, a former congressman and close friend of President Michel Temer. |
39880891 | Rooney is the record goal-scorer for both United and England.
But the 31-year-old has started only 22 games this season and has hinted he may have to leave Old Trafford this summer in order to ensure first-team football.
"He gets hammered and yet he is Manchester United's and England's top goal-scorer," Savage told BBC 5 live.
"He is a professional, his work ethic is very good, you can see his temperament is still the same. When he gets a decision against him, he goes berserk. That is the same old Wayne Rooney.
"The bottom line is that age and not playing regular games is catching up with him. He is not the player he was. But he is the most under-appreciated footballer we have seen in English football."
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Rooney has been at Manchester United for 13 years, since joining from Everton for £27m in August 2004.
He has won five Premier League titles, the Champions League, the FA Cup, three League Cups and the Club World Cup during his time at Old Trafford.
This season he surpassed Bobby Charlton to become United's outright leading scorer, with his tally currently standing at 252.
He has also broken Charlton's England scoring record and has 53 goals for his country from 119 caps.
On Wednesday, he spoke about his future, saying: "Would I like to stay? I've been at this club 13 years. Of course, I want to play football."
The forward continues to be linked with a move to China, while Everton and the United States have been suggested as other potential destinations.
United face Celta Vigo on Thursday in the second leg of their Europa League semi-final, holding a 1-0 lead over the Spanish side. | Manchester United forward Wayne Rooney is the most under-appreciated player in English football, says former Wales international Robbie Savage. |
37360294 | The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said the rate in Scotland between May and July had fallen to 4.7%, with the UK as a whole at 4.9%.
The employment level rose 51,000 over the quarter to 2,631,000 - the largest quarterly rise on record.
The Scottish government said the figures underlined the importance of EU and single market membership.
Across the UK as a whole, the number of people without jobs and looking for work fell by 39,000 to 1.63 million.
Average weekly earnings including bonuses increased by 2.3% on last year, down slightly from the previous report. The proportion of people in work hit a record high of 74.5%.
The latest numbers don't tell us much about the impact of the Brexit vote. It's too early for that.
The claimant count for August is one measure that is taken after the vote, and that has seen only limited change, so far.
The statistics return the Scottish jobs market to being in a slightly better position to that of the UK as a whole. So what's changed to make that possible?
The simple answer: no-one knows. I've been hearing from some who can make educated guesses. One suggests the weakening of the pound - which proceeded the Brexit vote - may has boosted tourism employment in May to July, both through more foreigners coming to Scotland and with more British people "staycationing".
Scotland has a relatively large tourist sector, and it's been doing fairly well of late.
Another economist points to underlying factors to do with inactivity rates - largely made up of family carers, the long-term ill, full-time students, early retirees and a much smaller number of so-called "discouraged".
Taken over a year in which the number seeking work went up by 33,000, the number counted as inactive went up by 30,000. Employment was up 17,000 in that period.
So this is not the simple model of people being unemployed, and then finding a job. It is more complex than that, with people moving from job search to economic inactivity and back, alongside a more modest uptick in the numbers in work.
Also, in RBS research published earlier this week, the increase in the "in work" category has largely comprised those in self-employment, taken over the past eight years.
That should not be read as a sign of confidence from business and recruiters. There are many reasons for going self-employed - positive ones, for good pay and flexibility, and through necessity, for lower and uncertain pay.
The ONS said the figures showed "continued labour market improvement".
Scotland saw the second-largest increase in the employment rate across the UK, behind only Wales.
In its employment and labour market report, the ONS said: "The large increase in Scotland is partially due to some estimates at the start of the year much lower than suggested by other recent figures, with the underlying pattern mostly flat."
The Scottish government said Scotland continued to outperform the UK on female and youth employment.
Keith Brown, the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Jobs and Fair Work, said: "These encouraging figures continue to show that the fundamentals of the Scottish economy are strong, with a 51,000 rise in the employment level and a drop of just over 1 percentage point in the unemployment rate over the quarter, taking it below that of the UK average.
"While these figures are welcome, the Scottish government is absolutely committed to taking further action. Our Labour Market Strategy shows that there is still more that we can and will do."
Mr Brown said the government's planned £500m Scottish growth fund would further support the workforce and allow the economy to grow.
But he added that Brexit posed a "real and direct risk" to economic recovery in Scotland.
The small business support organisation, FSB, said most Scottish firms had been "getting on with business" since the vote to leave the EU in June.
Andy Willox, the FSB's Scottish policy convenor, said: "While these figures are encouraging, smaller businesses and the self-employed still need support from governments in Edinburgh and London.
"The upcoming autumn statement will be a great opportunity for the new chancellor to show that he backs the UK's army of smaller firms.
"Further, the Scottish government's current enterprise and skills review must make agencies put the needs of small and growing businesses at their core." | Unemployment in Scotland has fallen below the UK rate, according to the latest official figures. |
37432357 | The men, believed to be aged about 40, targeted the woman, who is partially sighted, in Loynells Road, Rubery, on Tuesday.
Police said they suspected the child, thought to be a girl, was being used as a potential distraction technique.
The purse contained just a £5 note and loose change.
Initially the woman thought the men were family members, but she began screaming on realising the intruders were rummaging through her lounge.
She was not hurt but was "very badly shaken up," West Midlands Police said.
Both men are said to be white, about 5ft 9ins tall and of slim build. The child was thought to be aged about 18 months. | A man carrying a toddler and another thief barged their way inside a 90-year-old woman's house before stealing her purse. |
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The Blues are 14th in the top flight, six points off the bottom three, and their next two league games are at home to Everton and away to Arsenal.
"It's reality," said Hiddink, who took over from Jose Mourinho in December. "We have two difficult games coming up.
"If you don't gather points there, you don't know what the others do. The Premier League can surprise you."
Chelsea were one point above the relegation zone when Mourinho departed the club.
The Stamford Bridge side then beat Sunderland, after which Hiddink took over as manager.
"There are 12 points difference to fourth place, which is Tottenham," added the Dutchman.
"We all like to look forward and to the top of the table, but also don't be unrealistic - you're six points off the line of relegation. That's also a fact.
"We have to work hard and be very concentrated and gather our points to step up." | Relegation is a possibility for Chelsea, says the Premier League champions' interim boss Guus Hiddink. |
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Bolt, an eight-time Olympic champion and icon of world sport, will retire after this month's World Championships.
The Jamaican, 30, will run in the 100m and 4x100m at the Worlds, which begin in London on Friday.
"Hopefully athletes will see what's going on and what they need to do to help the sport move forward," he said.
Referring to the McLaren report, which uncovered evidence of a Russian state-sponsored doping programme, he added: "Personally I think we were at rock bottom. After the scandal on Russia I don't think it gets any worse than that.
"Over the years we're doing a better job, it's getting clean and we're catching up to a lot of athletes. There's an understanding that if you cheat you will get caught. Over time the sport will get better.
"I said a couple of years ago it had to get really bad, when there's nowhere else to go but up. Doping is always a bad thing and it's never pleasant because you put in the hard work and the sport starts going forward and then you have other guys bringing it back, it's hard.
"It's going in the right direction so hopefully it will continue in that direction."
The men's World 100m final is on Saturday, 5 August, while the men's 4x100m relay race - which will mark the end of Bolt's career - is on the following Saturday.
Bolt has won 100m, 200m and 4x100m gold at the past three Olympic Games - Beijing 2008, London 2012 and Rio 2016.
However, his unprecedented 'triple triple' of nine gold medals was downgraded to eight after Jamaican team-mate Nesta Carter, who was part of the quartet that won the 4x100m in Beijing, tested positive for a banned substance. Carter has appealed against the decision.
Nevertheless, Bolt's exploits remain unprecedented and he also holds the world record in the 100m (9.58 seconds) and 200m (19.19).
Asked if he still believes he is the fastest in the world, the Jamaican replied: "Yeah, without a doubt.
"The last race I ran was a 9.95, so that shows I am going in the right direction. After the two rounds leading up to the 100m final, which always help me, it's all about who keeps their nerve.
"I have been here many times. I know I am ready."
Asked in an interview with BBC Sport whether he believes his world records will be broken, he replied: "I hope they're not. No athlete would ever wish for that - I want to brag to my kids when they're in their 20s: 'See, I'm still the best!
"There is no-one around now, in this era, who can do it. No. Maybe in a couple of years, 10 years, but my records are safe for now."
Bolt was also asked which of the current stars of track and field could potentially replace him as the pre-eminent force in the sport.
He named South African 25-year-old Wayde van Niekerk, who will be competing in the 400m and 200m in London.
"Wayde van Niekerk is proving he is a world star. He has broken the 400m world record, he ran the fastest 300m ever, and now he's doing the 200m also. For me, he's proving that he can step up to the plate," said Bolt.
"I'm watching him, we've had discussions and he's a cool person but I've told him to open up his personality a little bit because he's really laid back."
Bolt says he will miss the "thrill" of being on the track but that it is time for him to slow down and enjoy himself.
"The energy when you first walk out on the track and the people go crazy, that's what I'll miss the most," he said.
He might manage to replace the buzz of competing with one of his hobbies, though.
"I ride quad bikes, that's an adrenaline rush," he said.
"But I think it's time for me to slow down a little, relax a little bit. Enjoy myself as much as possible."
He says he does not think he will re-consider his retirement as he has nothing left to prove - and of his legacy added that he wanted to be considered among the greatest sports figures of all time.
"I just want to be one of the greats," he said.
"Whenever there's a conversation about the greatest sports stars, I want to be part of that conversation. I want people to say: 'Yeah, Usain Bolt was one of the greatest'."
Asked if it was his mind or body saying 'enough', he replied: "It's the body, definitely.
"Over the years, I've got more niggling injuries than anything else, simple little things, but it's just because I'm getting older. The pounding means my body's just deteriorating now, so for me it's just time to go."
Media playback is not supported on this device | Usain Bolt says athletes who dope must "stop or the sport will die" as he prepares to race for the final time in his illustrious career. |
35508045 | Team Katusha's Eduard Vorganov tested positive for meldonium in an out-of-competition test last month.
Meldonium is used in Latvia and other eastern European countries to treat serious heart problems and aid the circulation of oxygen.
The 33-year-old joined the team in 2010 and was the Russian road race champion in 2012.
He finished 19th at the Tour de France in the same year.
Vorganov's Italian team-mate Luca Paolini failed a test for cocaine at last year's Tour and under UCI rules Katusha could now be banned from competition for 15-45 days.
Under the guidelines, if two riders and/or staff within a team commit a breach of the rules within a period of 12 months, the team shall be suspended from participation in any international event.
The team issued a statement regarding Vorganov in which it insisted: "This substance has never been used by the team in any form and was not provided to the rider by the team.
"Eduard Vorganov has been suspended from all team activities, effective immediately.
"In the event that Eduard Vorganov took this product on his own initiative we will conduct an investigation, as such conduct is in breach of the team's strict medical and anti-doping internal rules." | A leading cycling team could face a suspension after one of its riders failed a test for a banned substance. |
38101368 | In its second estimate of the health of the economy, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) also says business investment grew by more than expected.
That was up 0.9% following the Brexit vote, against the second quarter, although it was down on last year.
There will be a third estimate of the figures in December.
"Investment by businesses held up well in the immediate aftermath of the EU referendum, though it's likely most of those investment decisions were taken before polling day," Darren Morgan, an ONS statistician, said.
"That, coupled with growing consumer spending fuelled by rising household income, and a strong performance in the dominant service industries, kept the economy expanding broadly in line with its historic average."
The figures cover the period from July to the end of September and the ONS said the growth in gross domestic product suggested limited effect so far from the EU referendum at the end of June.
However, it is expected that the effects of the Brexit vote and the fall in sterling will begin to feed through in the coming months.
The Office for Budget Responsibility, which provides independent economic forecasts and analysis, said on Wednesday that it expected the economy to grow by 1.4% in 2017, down from the 2.2% it predicted in March. It cut its forecast for growth in 2018 to 1.7%, down from 2.1%.
The "near-term strength of the economy after the Brexit vote is unlikely to persist", said Samuel Tombs chief UK economist with Pantheon Macroeconomics.
"The outlook for stagnation in real incomes next year, as inflation rockets, points to a sharp slowdown in consumer spending growth ahead," Mr Tombs added.
The British economy continued to grow following the vote to leave the EU and so has business investment, although there had been fears that both would be hit immediately by the decision to leave the EU.
It is the huge services sector that kept the economy growing. Services increased by 0.8%, driven by a continued strong performance on the British High Street as sales continue to boom. But all the others sectors of the economy, manufacturing, agriculture and construction, are contracting.
It is however the business investment figures which are the most encouraging. They show investment is continuing to grow, despite fears that businesses would slam on the brakes following the Brexit vote, if only temporarily, because they were uncertain about what the future holds.
The ONS says business investment held up well after the vote to leave the EU, although it also added that most decisions on investment in this period were probably taken before the referendum result was known. | The UK economy grew by 0.5% in the third quarter, official figures have confirmed, helped by export growth and stronger consumer spending. |
31080129 | Glenn Maxwell starred with bat and ball for the hosts, scoring 95 and taking 4-46, and Mitchell Johnson took 3-27 on his international return.
England had Australia 60-4 but the hosts recovered to post 278-8.
Johnson swept through England's top order and Maxwell's off-spinners did the rest as England were 166 all out.
England have now lost 13 of their last 15 one-day internationals against Australia in Australia and have only two warm-up games before they face them again in their World Cup opener on 14 February.
Captain Eoin Morgan still has several puzzles to solve, not least his own patchy form with the bat - the left-hander made 121 in the tri-series opener in Sydney but has posted scores of 0, 2 and 0 since.
The hosts were 0-1 after James Anderson dismissed Aaron Finch with the third ball of the innings and David Warner followed in the seventh over, deflecting a lifting ball from Anderson to point.
Stuart Broad did for George Bailey, the under-pressure Tasmanian fending a short ball to short-leg to leave Australia tottering on 46-3.
In-form Steve Smith batted confidently for his 40 but was stumped by Jos Buttler at the second attempt after coming down the pitch to Moeen Ali.
But Maxwell and Mitchell Marsh put on 141 for the fifth wicket, the former demonstrating his full array of strokes and bringing up his ninth one-day international fifty with a reverse pull for four.
Maxwell hit four boundaries in one Chris Woakes over before falling to Broad in the next, while Marsh was run out for 60 soon after.
James Faulkner hit four sixes - including three in one Woakes over - to race to an unbeaten, 24-ball fifty and transform what would have been a below-par total into a testing target.
Anderson was again the pick of England's bowlers with 2-38 while Woakes's bowling figures of 0-89 from 10 overs were the fourth worst for England in ODI history.
England's openers made a confident start before Ian Bell nicked a fine delivery from Josh Hazlewood and wicketkeeper Brad Haddin snaffled a brilliant one-handed catch.
Enter Johnson, who took 37 wickets in Australia's Ashes whitewash of England last winter but had played no international cricket in 2015.
James Taylor never looked settled before skewing Johnson to gully, where Maxwell took an excellent catch diving low to his left.
And when Moeen fended a wicked Johnson bouncer to second slip and Morgan shouldered arms to a straight delivery next ball, England were in disarray on 46-4.
Faulkner picked up his 50th ODI wicket when he had Joe Root lbw with his first delivery, but the Tasmanian all-rounder was forced to leave the field soon after with a side injury.
Buttler looked in fine form before reverse-sweeping off-spinner Maxwell to substitute fielder Pat Cummings and Woakes was gone next ball, offering up a simple caught and bowled.
Broad played some big shots before holing out to deep mid-wicket, Ravi Bopara became Maxwell's fourth victim when he holed out to extra-cover and Hazlewood bowled Steve Finn to wrap up the win. | England were thrashed in their last competitive match before the World Cup, crumbling to a 112-run defeat in the tri-series final in Perth. |
21608747 | Between 2009 and 2011, it bought £1.5bn worth of raw materials and consumable supplies - like uniforms and ammunition - more than it used, a report from the Public Accounts Committee found.
But the committee said it was "cautiously encouraged" that the MoD was "now starting to get a grip".
The government has pledged "to reverse decades of lax inventory management".
The committee said the MoD did not always dispose of items it no longer needed. More than £4.2bn worth of non-explosive supplies had not moved for at least two years, it said.
The MPs also said they were "disappointed" that the MoD had failed to improve its management of supplies, despite criticism from the National Audit Office dating as far back as 1991.
Committee member Richard Bacon said: "It is unacceptable that the Ministry of Defence is wasting significant amounts of public money buying equipment and supplies that it doesn't need.
"It is particularly galling at a time when funding is tight and when one considers that the National Audit Office has been warning about these issues for over 20 years."
The report said: "The MoD purchases, holds and uses more than 710 million items of 900,000 different types, from bullets and missiles to medical supplies, clothing and spare parts for vehicles, ships and aircraft.
"Project teams within the department can order as much consumable stock as they think they might ever need because they are only billed for it when they use it."
There were therefore "no incentives in place to prevent over-ordering", it concluded.
The MoD plans to introduce controls to reduce spending on inventory by £300m in 2012-13 and £500m each year by 2015.
It also intends to reduce the volume of stock held by 35% in order to make room for equipment returning from Afghanistan and Germany in central depots, some of which are already at 90% capacity.
Defence Equipment Minister Philip Dunne said: "Support for military operations is, and must continue to be, our first priority.
"Appropriate reserves of equipment are essential to be able to deploy our armed forces at short notice and sustain them on operations around the world."
He added: "I am determined to reverse decades of lax inventory management to ensure that MoD assets are managed much more efficiently in the future.
"Considerable progress has been made since 2010; the size and value of our holdings are now heading in the right direction and we plan to spend almost £2bn less on inventory over the next four years."
But shadow defence secretary Jim Murphy said: "Ministers seem to be cutting kit we need while ordering equipment we'll never use. Ministers should be cutting from the backroom not the frontline.
"Continued waste is unacceptable at a time of deep defence cuts and government failure to balance the books.
"There must be persistent prudence to ensure every penny piece is spent wisely.
"We need real reform to MoD budgeting. The government must respond by getting a grip of the inventory management system." | The Ministry of Defence has bought billions of pounds worth of equipment that it does not need, MPs have said. |
35209329 | 1 January 2016 Last updated at 12:21 GMT
The boys, aged six and 10, were taken from Hemming Way on the Britwell estate at around 07:00 GMT on New Year's Eve.
The pair were ordered into a white van and driven around for several minutes.
Two people, possibly an adult and a child, seen walking in the area near the time of the kidnap are being asked to contact police.
Police said the boys were later allowed out of the van and were able to run back home uninjured. | Police investigating the kidnap of two young boys by three masked men from their home in Slough have released CCTV footage of two potential witnesses. |
38394697 | For foreign correspondents, it tends to be a conflict or catastrophe. Politicos deal in shock resignations or revelations. For us in the arts unit, it is award ceremonies - and celebrity deaths.
An instant obit of a once great, but now late, talent is what programme editors demand from us.
And you can be as Boy Scoutish as you like in your preparations, but the artistic life - and death - isn't about pleasing the establishment: creative souls do things their own way.
So, I was not entirely awake on Monday 11 January 2016 when my phone rang around 6.55am. It was a producer at the Today programme.
Had I heard the news, he asked? M…maybe - I hedged. What news? David Bowie is dead, he said.
Oh no! Oh no for lots of reasons. Firstly, it was awful news. I loved David Bowie; couldn't imagine him dead. He was still making great records. He wasn't particularly old, and now - well - he was no longer here.
And then, oh no - I had to make sense of his incredible life, without much time to pause for thought. Six minutes later, I was on-air talking to Today's Nick Robinson.
I got home late from work that night, put Heroes on and thought… sad day, but thankfully rare - a once-a-year occasion at worst.
But three days later came another call from another producer. Had I heard the news…?
Oh dear. Alan Rickman was fine actor whom one generation fell for Truly, Madly, Deeply, in 1990, and a new generation got to know and eventually love as Severus Snape in the Harry Potter films.
By the time news emerged of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies's death on 14 March, we had already paid our tributes to Pierre Boulez, Harper Lee and Sir George Martin. All titanic figures, but at least they had led full lives.
And then on 31 March, another shock.
Dame Zaha Hadid had died. I had interviewed the Bagdad-born British architect just a few weeks before, when she appeared as hale and hearty and feisty as ever.
She was frustrated with her adopted country, rightly so. Her fellow Brits had been sniffy and slow in recognising her brilliance - and now she was gone, still in her prime, before amends could be made.
2016 was beginning to feel like a weird year. A sense compounded three weeks later with the announcement of Victoria Wood's death.
That was a blow, too. We adored her. She was great. Always funny, jokes on the money; and never mean. We need such towering talents in our lives, not scythed down by the Grim Reaper. But he wasn't done yet.
The very next day, at around 3pm our time, social media stories started bubbling up speculating that Prince had died at his Paisley Park estate. Now, come on! Don't be silly. Don't be true. Don't be dead.
But he was.
At this point, articles started to appear asking if arts deaths were at an all-time high. Columnists wrote think pieces explaining to us that it was all to do with our obsession with celebrity in a post-Warholian media age.
Meanwhile, the man in charge of obituaries at the BBC noted his services had been called upon far more frequently in the first third of 2016 than in the same months of the past five years.
It had been an extraordinary period. It has been an extraordinary year - with a sting in its tail.
On 11 November at 1:15am - a call from a producer on the Today Programme. Had I heard the news?
"Who's dead?" I said.
"Leonard Cohen," came his reply.
I knew he was frail and unwell, but there is something about truly great, unique artists - which he was - that you hope can circumnavigate that realities of live and death.
That pop's longstanding poet-in-residence had succumbed while still making fine work seemed unfair, to us and to him. He knew better:
If you are the dealer
I'm out of the game
If you are the healer
It means I'm broken and lame
If thine is the glory
Mine must be the shame
You want it darker
We kill the flame
You Want it Darker by Leonard Cohen (2016)
And so we went into the festive season. Surely Death was done?
Sadly not. In fact, he indulged in a Christmas rush with many unpleasant surprises to unpack.
The news about Status Quo's Rick Parfitt broke on Christmas Eve. George Michael was found dead on Christmas Day. And then, the following day Richard Adams passed away. So did Carrie Fisher, and her mother - Debbie Reynolds - 24 hours later.
I think it is fair to say 2016 was a most unusual year.
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29327590 | The Higher Education Careers Service Unit (Hecsu) analysed the destinations of 256,350 new graduates six months after they left university.
Some 7.3% were unemployed in January 2014, down from 8.5% in January 2013 and the lowest level since 2008.
The figures are a "fascinating example" of how quickly the graduate jobs market can change, says Hecsu's Charlie Ball.
The deputy director of research said students should "bear this in mind when deciding which subject to study".
The report says that although new graduates are likely to "bounce around or can't find what they are after immediately", the size of the survey makes it a "reliable snapshot" of how they are faring as a group.
The figures, published jointly with the Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Services, suggest 70% of new graduates were in employment by January 2014.
The researchers suggest better employment prospects have resulted in fewer graduates in further study - some 12.4% of the total, down from 13% the year before.
Some 5.6% were combining work and study, leaving 7.3% unemployed and 4.7% listed as "other".
The figures also suggest more graduates were in professional and managerial work - 66.3% of new graduates, compared with 64.9% the previous year.
Fewer were working as retail, catering, waiting and bar staff - down to 13% of the total from 13.7% the previous year.
Graduate employment in recession-hit sectors such as science has picked up slightly but many with science and technology degrees still find themselves in other jobs, say the researchers.
The numbers of new graduates employed as science professionals in January 2014 were still quite small, just over 2,000, but the researchers say this represents an increase of almost a quarter (22.4%) on the figures for 2013.
"There are significant increases in employment across all sectors and the turn in fortune is spreading beyond the South East with graduates in cities such as Birmingham and Manchester doing particularly well," said Dr Ball.
"If you are located away from the major cities and are yet to feel the upturn, there's a good chance it will reach you in the months to come, assuming there are no further shocks to the economy - although there are no absolute guarantees."
He said it was encouraging that more graduates were finding work in the science, technology and engineering and construction sectors but cautioned that the story was a complex one "of demand and supply".
"It is vital that students seek careers advice early and take work experience to better inform their decisions and prepare for employment. | There has been a big fall in graduate unemployment in the UK, the latest figures suggest. |
29420184 | The rise includes people lured to the country after meeting people via online dating or job recruitment sites.
Romania remains the most likely country of origin for victims, followed by Poland and the UK.
The NCA says trafficking does not have to involve crossing international borders.
Investigators say the rise is partly down to better reporting, including an increase in the number of children feared to be victims of sexual exploitation gangs.
Overall, the agency says there has been a 22% jump in the number of identified suspected victims of trafficking between 2012 and 2013.
The 2,744 suspected victims, thought to be the tip of the iceberg, include 602 children.
The NCA says there has been a surge in reports of sexually exploited children - from 38 to 128 - in the wake of high-profile abuses cases in Rotherham and elsewhere.
Investigators also found cases of adults forced into prostitution, labour exploitation, domestic servitude, or compelled to commit crimes such as making false benefit claims.
More than half of the Romanians in the figures were being exploited for sex, according to the NCA’s annual intelligence assessment.
People from Poland were the most likely victims of labour exploitation - forced to work in agriculture, construction, factories and car washes.
Almost all of the 55 children who were being used to make false benefit claims originated from Slovakia, the report says.
The NCA says victims were being trafficked from Eastern Europe on the expectation of legitimate work which never materialised.
In some cases women travelled to the UK with men who they thought were their boyfriends - only to be coerced into prostitution.
Some victims had initially responded to online dating sites or job adverts.
The NCA report adds: “There is limited information available to suggest that traffickers mark potential victims with tattoos, with various symbols signifying ownership or to show that a victim is over 18.
“Information also suggests that victims may be marked with numbers, but the meaning of these numbers is not known.
"Various sources indicate that tattoos are used globally to mark victims of trafficking for sexual exploitation by traffickers and pimps, but the extent to which this is used in the UK is not known.”
Liam Vernon, head of the NCA’s human trafficking team, says: "Put very simply, you brand cattle - and that's how traffickers view people, as a commodity to buy and sell.
“Human trafficking for the purposes of exploitation is an insidious and complex crime and much of the exploitation is hidden from view.”
Mr Vernon says trafficking has "nothing to do with crossing borders", and any recruitment for prostitution, forced labour, slavery or servitude is exploitation.
Speaking about the British victims, he adds: "With UK girls, we see them groomed, we see them recruited, we see them moved around, we see them kept by gangs for sexual exploitation, gratification, or financial gain.
"For UK men, we see that happen, recruited by abduction, fear, controlled, for purpose of slavery, for purpose of labour."
The government’s Modern Slavery Bill is currently before Parliament and expected to become law before the 2015 general election.
Ministers say it simplifies complex laws on exploitation and increases the maximum sentence to life.
The bill also proposes to ensure victims cannot be prosecuted for most offences committed while being controlled - and receive reparations from their abusers.
Labour says it will create a "specific offence of serious exploitation".
It says this will make prosecutions easier and prevent the "undercutting of local workers and responsible businesses by the exploitation of low-skilled workers from Europe". | The number of people trafficked for slavery or other exploitation in the UK has risen sharply to more than 2,700, the National Crime Agency (NCA) says. |
37628883 | Sgt Louise Lucas, 41, died when she stepped into the path of a single decker bus in March 2015.
Civil engineer Mark Thomas told the Swansea inquest on Wednesday the road had designated crossings and markings.
Following Sgt Lucas' death temporary railings were put up.
Acting Coroner Colin Phillips asked whether the risk of pedestrians looking the wrong way while crossing the unconventional layout of Kingsway had been identified during previous audits.
Mr Thomas replied: "Yes."
He said: "A measured approach was taken and a number of considerations were taken on board.
"I consider the fact that we incorporated designated signalling points for pedestrians to be an appropriate response to safety concerns raised in the audit."
Asked whether Sgt Lucas's death would have been prevented had railing along the central reservation already been in place, Mr Thomas replied: "No, sir."
Mr Thomas added there is evidence pedestrians "continue to cross the Kingsway using the central reservation" and not the designated crossing points despite the introduction of guard rails since the incident.
On Tuesday the inquest heard evidence from Sgt Lucas's best friend Karen Williams who said she would not have seen the bus coming. | Installing rails along the central reservation of Swansea's Kingsway may not have prevented the death of a police officer who was hit by a bus, an inquest has heard. |
40369801 | Officials said it was operating, but at a reduced capacity, after diesel fuel was sent from Egypt.
Engineers hope to restore it to full working order within days.
The plant was shut down in April amid an escalating power struggle between Hamas, which governs Gaza, and the West Bank-based Palestinian Authority.
The closure worsened the already lengthy blackouts which Gaza's two million inhabitants have been experiencing.
Despite the plant's partial resumption, residents will continue to receive four hours of electricity followed by about 14 hours off.
On Thursday, a day after lorries brought a million litres (220,000 gallons) of diesel into Gaza from Egypt, engineers partly restarted the plant.
A spokesman for the Gaza Electricity Distribution Company (Gedco), Mohammed Thabet, told the BBC that two of the four generators were now operating
He added that the other two generators would hopefully be operational before the festival of Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the Islamic month of Ramadan.
The power plant is now generating 45MW - 30% of the 148MW of electricity available in the Strip. Israel is providing 80MW and Egypt another 23MW.
Gaza has long suffered from chronic power cuts, says the BBC's Yolande Knell in Jerusalem.
But, our correspondent adds, recent decisions made in Ramallah by the Palestinian Authority, headed by President Mahmoud Abbas, to put pressure on the Hamas government in Gaza have led to a worsening energy crisis.
Hamas stopped buying fuel for the power plant from the PA after the PA scrapped a tax exemption, doubling the price.
And this week Israel - which considers Hamas a terrorist organisation and does not deal directly with it - began reducing the electricity it supplies to Gaza after President Abbas said he would no longer pay Israel the full amount for it.
Mr Abbas had warned in mid-April that he would take "unprecedented steps" to "end the division" between Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.
In 2006, Hamas won Palestinian parliamentary elections and reinforced its power in Gaza the following year when it ousted Mr Abbas' Fatah faction from the territory.
The rival groups agreed to the creation of a unity government in 2014, but it never got off the ground in Gaza.
Last week, the United Nations warned that a further increase in the length of blackouts was likely to lead to a "total collapse of basic services, including critical functions in health, water and sanitation sectors". | The Gaza Strip's only power plant has resumed work, temporarily preventing a worsening of the energy crisis in the Palestinian coastal territory. |
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Source: Opta
The club said he "had failed to achieve any of the club's targets, with the exception of qualification for next season's Champions League".
Assistant Brian Kidd will take charge for the final two games of the season and a tour to America in late May.
Malaga's Chilean coach Manuel Pellegrini has been strongly tipped to replace Mancini.
On Sunday night, 59-year-old Pellegrini, who spent one season in charge at Real Madrid in 2009-10, insisted there
"I deny here and now being the new coach of Manchester City," he said after Malaga's goalless Primera Division draw with Sevilla. "I haven't signed any agreement with anybody."
In a statement, City thanked 48-year-old Mancini for the job he had done since joining the club in December 2009.
But the club said the failure to hit "stated targets" and the need to "develop a holistic approach to all aspects of football at the club" prompted the sacking.
A dictionary definition of holistic means thinking about the whole of something and not just certain parts. It is understood City are referring to all aspects of the club - for example the youth system and first team - pulling in the same direction.
"Roberto's record speaks for itself, he secured the love and respect of fans," said chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak. "He has done as he promised and delivered silverware and success."
City added it was "a difficult decision" to part with Mancini, explaining it was "the outcome of a planned end of season review process that has been brought forward in light of recent speculation".
A replacement for Mark Hughes, Italian Mancini was in charge for three-and-a-half years, winning the FA Cup in 2011 and City's first top-flight league title for 44 years in 2012 - a year to the day before his sacking.
In with the club.
But this term, City are a distant second to champions Manchester United, went out of the Champions League in the group stages and lost the FA Cup final to Wigan.
Source: Opta
Mancini was critical of Manchester City officials for failing to deny the newspaper reports that surfaced on the morning of Saturday's FA Cup final stating he would be sacked and replaced by Pellegrini.
City were beaten by Ben Watson's 90th-minute header at Wembley as Wigan, struggling to avoid relegation from the Premier League in 18th place, became the lowest-ranked team to win the FA Cup since West Ham in 1980.
City thrashed rivals United 6-1 at Old Trafford in October 2011 en route to their first Premier League title and beat them again on their home ground this season.
But Sir Alex Ferguson's team wrapped up their 20th league crown last month with four matches remaining.
Mancini's record in the Champions League has come under particular scrutiny.
He reached the quarter-finals with Inter Milan, but City have been eliminated in the group stages of both their campaigns during his reign.
Mancini's sacking means the Premier League's major trophy winners from 2011-12 have now all been sacked. League Cup-winner Kenny Dalglish was dismissed by Liverpool last May, and FA Cup and Champions League-winner Roberto Di Matteo by Chelsea in November. In addition, Championship-winner Brian McDermott was sacked by Reading in March.
Having finished third in their group last season, behind Bayern Munich and Napoli, they again failed to qualify for the knockout stages this term.
They failed to win any of their six matches in a formidable group that also contained Borussia Dortmund, Real Madrid and Ajax.
Their tally of three points was the lowest by an English side in the group stage of the competition.
City have two games remaining in the Premier League this season.
They face Reading at the Madejski Stadium on Tuesday before finishing their campaign at home to Norwich on Sunday and then travelling to America to play Chelsea in St Louis on Thursday 23 May and New York on Saturday 25 May. | Roberto Mancini has been sacked as Manchester City manager a year to the day since winning the Premier League. |
36837435 | Fierce Beer began as a home-brewing sized business working out of premises in the city's Great Western Road and selling products to local bars.
A limited company since April this year, it has set up a micro-brewery in Kirkhill Industrial Estate.
Owners Dave Grant and David McHardy used redundancy pay-offs from their other jobs to help fund the business.
Investors have also come on board to help finance the brewery, which is the only registered brewery in Aberdeen.
Before the official launch this week, the brewery had been in operation for two months and in that time produced more than 20,000 litres of beer.
With business development manager Louise Grant, the owners are producing eight beers which they are selling across the UK.
Mr McHardy said: "We have both been passionate about brewing ever since we purchased our first home brewing kits a few years ago.
"When I met Dave on a brewing course in England, it was clear to me then that we would be working in the brewing industry together very soon.
"Launching Fierce to the public has been extremely exciting, and we carried out a lot of research initially, investigating the best local ingredients and the most effective way to bottle our beers, all of which has been really important."
He added: "We have managed to gain the support of a number of larger craft beer breweries and businesses which has been incredible, and I am looking forward to seeing how the company progresses over the next few months." | Aberdeen's only micro-brewery has officially launched following £250,000 of investment in its new headquarters. |
34614556 | The Yorkshire Dales will be extended to the north and west and the Lakes to the east and south.
The changes, which take effect next August, bring the boundaries of the two parks close to either side of the M6.
The move was announced by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).
Elizabeth Truss, Secretary of State for Environment, said the parks were part of the UK's "national identity".
"I am delighted to be able to announce this extension which will join these two unique National Parks and protect even more space for generations to come," she added.
The move will see the Yorkshire Dales grow by nearly 24% and Lake District by 3%.
Lake District:
Plans include extending an area in the east from Birkbeck Fells Common to Whinfell Common and;
An area in the south from Helsington Barrows to Sizergh Fell, an area north of Sizergh Castle and part of the Lyth Valley
Yorkshire Dales:
The north is set to include parts of the Orton Fells, the northern Howgill Fells, Wild Boar Fell and Mallerstang
The west is set to extend to Barbon, Middleton, Casterton and Leck Fells, the River Lune, and part of Firbank Fell and other fells to the west of the River Lune.
The Country Land and Business Association (CLA) criticised the extension, saying it ignored the views of farmers and landowners.
Dorothy Fairburn, CLA North Regional Director, said: "We share the ambitions of boosting rural growth and caring for our landscapes, but we are clear that the flexibility for change - which is critical for a modern, working countryside - should not be stifled.
"We are disappointed that the public inquiry and the secretary of state appear to have ignored the views of many of our members who own and manage over 100,000 acres of land affected by this decision, and who also run many rurally-based businesses, some of which are involved in the visitor economy."
Plans to extend both national parks were first mooted by Natural England in 2009.
A public inquiry was launched in 2013 after five local authorities objected.
After hearing more than 3,000 objections and representations, it was recommended the extensions be approved.
It is hoped the move will boost rural tourism in the area and potentially add millions to the £4bn already generated by visitors to the parks. | The Lake District and Yorkshire Dales national parks are to be extended by 188 square miles - an area bigger than the Isle of Wight. |
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33469464 | In 2008 and again in 2012 a liberal coalition of minorities, college-educated whites and single women gave Barack Obama more than enough votes to comfortably win the presidency. Can it hold fast after he exits the stage next year?
A two-term presidency can paper over a host of fissures within a political movement. The longer a party stays in power, the more competing interests are liable to grow dissatisfied with their share of the governing pie.
Sometimes the centre holds. In 1988, for instance, George HW Bush rode to power on the strength of the Ronald Reagan governing coalition. By 1992, however, the foundation had given way, as fiscal and social conservatives revolted, ushering in eight years of Democratic rule and pushing the Republican Party farther to the right.
At the Netroots Nation conference of left-wing activists in Phoenix, Arizona, last week, the fault lines within today's Democratic Party were on full display. And while Mrs Clinton was more than a thousand miles away, honouring "prior commitments" in Iowa and Arkansas, the events that transpired in the desert this weekend should give her pause.
There's no question, for instance, that the enthusiasm and support for Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders' insurgent presidential campaign is real. He's climbed in polls over the past few weeks, and on Saturday night 11,000 turned out to hear the firebrand socialist give one of his 60-minute stem-winders.
On the menu was a heavy dose of liberal red meat - including condemnation of the "billionaire class" and calls for higher taxes on the wealthy, expanding government-run healthcare programmes, raising the minimum wage and tuition-free college education.
"Bernie Sanders stands up for what's just and right," says conference attendee Jean Devine of Phoenix. "He's for the Democratic ideals of equality for all people and for the rich not being able to buy elections."
While in Arizona, campaign supporters hoisted banners and toasted their man at a local nightclub with cleverly named cocktails like "Weekend at Bernie's" and "Vermont Treehugger" (with maple syrup-infused whiskey).
There was a point in time when Mrs Clinton was the cool Democrat. She had her own internet meme. She was near universally beloved by party faithful. Now, however - at least among the rank and file at Netroots Nation - Mr Sanders is the candidate of the hour.
The Vermont senator has given voice to the frustration and anger that some on the left feel over the current state of US politics. They helped elect Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012, but their goal of enacting a full progressive agenda seems to them far from realised.
"Bernie's looking pretty good," says Hanna Roditi of Connecticut. "He's the only one who doesn't cater to corporations. The policies that he supports have more to do with people's needs."
The most common adjectives used to describe Mrs Clinton in Phoenix, on the other hand, were "calculating," "cautious" and "corporate".
"I won't vote for her," Roditi says, adding that if Mr Sanders doesn't win the Democratic nomination she'll write in his name on the general election ballot.
The establishment - whether in the government or the Democratic Party - was a source of anger time and again at the conference. During a Thursday afternoon panel discussion, EJ Juarez, director of Progress Majority Washington - singled out Democratic campaign managers in particular for betraying their party's progressive ideals.
"We ceded a lot of the soul of our values off to contractors who don't often adopt the equity principles we talk about," he said. "They aren't talking the same language."
On Friday morning Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, a champion of the left, used her keynote address to rail against an "insider Washington" that ignores the liberal priorities of the nation at large - on issues like gun control, income inequality and tighter Wall Street controls.
"The American people are progressive, and our day is coming," she said.
After calling out the financial behemoth Citigroup by name, she said the US government - even during the Obama administration - has been dominated by Wall Street insiders. She then offered some advice for candidates seeking the presidency.
"I think that anyone running for that job - anyone who wants the power to make every key economic appointment and every key nomination - should say loud and clear we don't run this country for Wall Street and mega-corporations, we run it for people," she said to cheers.
It was likely a barb aimed at Mrs Clinton - who has been criticised by some on the left for being in the thrall of big-money donors - and set the stage for the Saturday's presidential town hall forum featuring Mr Sanders and fellow candidate Martin O'Malley.
A funny thing happened on the way to the forum, however - evidence of yet another frayed fibre in the Democratic electoral quilt.
Mr O'Malley took the stage first, and about 20 minutes into his question-and-answer session a group of several dozen protesters from the group Black Lives Matter interrupted the proceedings with chants, songs and shouts.
Tia Oso, leader of the Black Alliance for Just Immigration, commandeered a microphone and asked the former Baltimore mayor what he would do to "begin to dismantle structural racism in the United States".
Mr O'Malley was met by boos when he said: "Black lives matter. White lives matter. All lives matter." (He would later apologise, saying he did not want to "disrespect" the passion and commitment of the protesters.)
The demonstrations continued for Mr Sanders. At one point the senator snapped: "If you don't want me to be here, that's OK. I don't want to outscream people". He would later cancel previously scheduled afternoon meetings with conference attendees, including one with the Black Lives Matter group.
By evening, however, the Bernie show was back. The Phoenix conference centre was packed with the campaign loyalists in a display of grass-roots support outpacing even the 10,000 who turned out just weeks earlier in Madison, Wisconsin.
Unlike that Mid-west liberal bastion, however, Arizona is decidedly conservative - an indication that the senator is drawing power across the country.
The true-believing left does have a history of rallying behind unvarnished candidates like Mr Sanders, however, and they have met with limited success. Paul Tsongas in 1992, Bill Bradley in 2000 and Howard Dean in 2004 are but a few of the men who failed to translate big crowds and energetic support into primary victories.
Mrs Clinton must hope that the Sanders campaign meets with a similar fate - and when it does, that progressive loyalists like conference attendee Pam Miles of Huntsville, Alabama return to the fold.
"Bernie Sanders says everything that I feel," Miles says. "He's a dynamo, he is a truth-teller, he speaks truth to power. I love Bernie."
She adds, however, that she'll be happy to back Mrs Clinton if she gets the nomination. She says she's keen to avoid the kind of intra-party discord that marred the Clinton-Obama battles of 2008.
"In '08 it was absolutely horrible," she says. "It broke friendships, it hurt feelings. I'm not going to do that this time."
As for the Black Lives Matters activists who became the surprise story of Phoenix, Wesley Lowery of the Washington Post asked Mrs Clinton how she would have responded to the protesters during a Facebook question-and-answer session on Monday.
"Black lives matter. Everyone in this country should stand firmly behind that," she replied. "We need to acknowledge some hard truths about race and justice in this country, and one of those hard truths is that that racial inequality is not merely a symptom of economic inequality. Black people across America still experience racism every day."
She went on to recommend body cameras for US police officers, sentencing reform, voting rights and early childhood education.
Unlike her Democratic competitors, Mrs Clinton had the luxury of time to respond to this latest challenge. Whether it will be enough to weather what could be a coming storm, however, remains to be seen. | Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton may be the prohibitive favourite to win the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016, but that doesn't mean the political ground beneath her feet is solid. |
39821465 | Illustrator Dan Peterson drew the scenes at the count for seats in the Cardiff north area at Llanishen Leisure Centre on Thursday night.
The Cardiff Metropolitan lecturer created the sketches to explain what happens during local elections.
"People need to be more aware of what happens, in some cases voter turn-out was only 30-odd per cent," he said.
Mr Peterson was a war artist in Afghanistan in 2011 and worked as an illustrator with the Royal Navy in 2015.
He plans to sketch more scenes at the general election next month.
He said: "It's a difficult atmosphere to describe, it's quite unusual.
"I didn't realise there was so much scrutiny involved, I'm impressed with the efficiency of it.
"It's a lot calmer than you think and people are quite friendly towards each other even though there's a rivalry between them," he added.
You can follow our live election results here. | A university lecturer has used his artwork to capture the atmosphere of the local election count. |
32749377 | As many as 10,000 spectators were evacuated from the arena in Mannheim, in south-west Germany.
Reports say model Heidi Klum and judges on the show were the first to leave the arena, before the audience were removed.
Police say they received a bomb threat from an anonymous female caller.
They investigated a suspicious suitcase but later said no bomb had been found.
The show was interrupted at about 21:30 local time on Thursday (20:30 BST), with technical problems blamed.
Shortly afterwards, broadcaster ProSieben said it would not be airing the programme, which is one of Germany's most popular shows.
Police said the audience left the SAP Arena calmly. But ARD television reported that many left their jackets and bags behind.
Klum, who hosts the show, later tweeted (in German): "Dear GNT fans, the evening has not ended as I would have wished! Safety comes first!"
Newspaper Bild said Klum, her daughter Leni and the show's judges had been taken to an undisclosed location outside the venue.
Four young women were competing in the finale of the 10th series of Germany's Next Topmodel, based on model Tyra Banks' America's Next Top Model.
Klum said the producers would announce the name of the winner in the next few days. | The live final of a reality television show, Germany's Next Topmodel, was taken off air after a bomb scare at the venue where it was being filmed. |
29566377 | The survey, carried out on behalf of the BBC by polling company Populus, marks the start of the first day of the company's renewed four-year franchise.
The franchise, run by Govia, covers Kent, and parts of Sussex and London.
Neville James, who commutes from Ebbsfleet, said it was costing him £2 a minute to use the service.
"I have to stand on the train... frequently they're cancelled," he told BBC Radio Kent.
The survey also found 70% of people were satisfied with the experience of using Southeastern.
It was carried out by Populus and sampled 1,000 commuters. It found:
Tunbridge Wells MP Greg Clark said: "Across the whole region... people feel the biggest problem is the sheer value for money.
"If you're paying £4,000 a year that is a huge sum of money and you quite rightly expect a good service for that.
"People are right to be critical when they're paying a fortune and things go wrong."
David Statham, managing director of Southeastern, said: "It's important we address those things that have come up through your survey and the national passenger survey and we start to deliver on things that passengers think are really important - better information, better train services, better punctuality and an upgrade of our stations and our train fleet."
Annual season ticket prices to London terminals vary, depending on which part of Kent a commuter is travelling from, and whether they choose to use the high-speed service.
From Deal it could cost up to £5,996, while from Sevenoaks a passenger would have to pay up to £3,252. The prices would be higher if travel on the underground was required.
Richard Dean, Southeastern's train service director, said fares were mandated by the Department for Transport, and it would be unaffordable to set them any lower.
He said: "The reality is that the profit that Govia can make out of the franchise is capped.
"Obviously if we make more profit we give it back to the government, if we make less profit then we effectively go out of business... we are capped at a very low level of profit."
Mr Dean explained that the government's objective was "to get taxpayers to pay less and fare-payers to pay more for using the trains, and it does mean that fares have gone up". | Nearly half of commuters believe that Southeastern trains does not offer "good value for money", a BBC survey has found. |
36684331 | Kevin McLean allegedly forced his way into Agnes Widdis's home in Dundee on 12 February.
Prosecutors at Dundee Sheriff Court allege he seized his grandmother by the arm and robbed her of £50 in cash.
A further allegation states that on the same day Mr McLean, 31, was in possession of two knives in Dundee's South Ward Road.
Mr McLean pleaded not guilty to the charges.
Sheriff Alastair Brown continued the case until 8 July for further investigations to be made. | A man is to stand trial accused of assaulting and robbing his 85-year-old grandmother in her home. |
32402777 | He was Labour's Defence Secretary under Harold Wilson and oversaw one of the most comprehensive reviews of the strength of the armed services since the Second World War.
And he was James Callaghan's uncompromising Secretary of State for Northern Ireland where he took on the IRA at the height of its powers.
All this was a long way from Roy Mason's upbringing in the pit village of Carlton just outside Barnsley where he left school with no qualifications and went down his local pit as an apprentice at the age of 14.
In an interview with the BBC in 2007 to mark him being awarded the Freedom of Barnsley: "I wasn't thinking about politics then- just getting on with life like everybody else and that meant going down the pit".
The young Mason was clearly a bright lad. He became an underground fitter, passed his qualifications for the highly responsible and skilled job of an underground foreman - a "pit deputy"- and became an activist in the National Union of Mineworkers.
"It was at that time that I had the ambition of becoming an MP," he said in that 2007 interview. "For me I thought I could make a difference."
By the time he won a by-election in 1953 to take his home-town seat he had taken a university degree through his trade union and married his wife Marjorie.
Many years later he told me how his win at the polls happened so quickly that he had to borrow £50 from his father-in-law to keep him and Marjorie going for the first month in London.
He told me he got off the train holding a suitcase in one hand, his wife in the other and with no more than a fiver in his pocket.
He was then summoned to meet his first party leader, Clement Attlee.
"I was not a particularly young man. I was 28, but this was really a daunting prospect. He gave me two bits of advice - specialise and keep away from the bars. I have followed that advice ever since."
His talents had been spotted by Harold Wilson who made him a minister of trade in his first cabinet and then later a member of his cabinet as postmaster general.
He really came to the fore as defence secretary. His review of the size, funding and organisation of the armed forces provoked an outrage from the military but was seen by many commentators as part of a long overdue modernisation process.
It was his time as Northern Ireland Secretary from 1976 that put him at the heart of the storm. He is credited as being the first minister to take on the IRA and was totally uncompromising in his approach.
Martin McGuinness, a senior IRA member at the time and later elected to become the joint Northern Ireland First Minister after the peace process has described Roy Mason as probably the province's most reactionary 20th Century British politician.
His time in Belfast meant that Roy Mason had a permanent armed police bodyguard wherever they went even decades after he left office.
He never moved from the semi-detached house in Barnsley where he and Marjory brought up their two daughters. He was elevated to the Peerage as Lord Mason of Barnsley.
Yet he said in 2007 that probably the proudest moment of his long and distinguished career was to receive the freedom of his home town. | Lord Mason of Barnsley was one of the most influential politicians of the 1970s but never forgot his roots as a mineworker who became the MP for his home town. |
34977544 | On Monday morning zookeepers found one Humboldt penguin lying dead in its cage and two others missing, police spokesman Marco Mueller said.
It is the latest in a string of mysterious incidents at Dortmund Zoo.
Last month a sea lion was found dead with a smashed skull. In August three pygmy marmosets were stolen.
Mr Mueller says it is not clear whether the incidents are linked.
Police are trying to determine whether the penguins were targeted by thieves.
A post-mortem examination is being carried out on the dead bird, the zoo said.
Security at the zoo has been stepped up. | Police in the German city of Dortmund are investigating the death of one penguin and the disappearance of two others from the local zoo. |
40763150 | Callum Brown, from Ayr, lost both his legs in a bomb blast in Afghanistan six years ago.
He has been treated at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, but claimed staff told him future treatment would need to take place in Scotland.
Mr Brown told the Daily Record it was due to a funding row.
In his letter to Tobias Ellwood, Keith Brown said: "This is no way to treat a veteran who has served in the British Army and who has given so much for his country."
Former lance corporal Callum Brown has been receiving care at the Birmingham hospital, which has dedicated and specialised facilities for military casualties.
He was airlifted there from Afghanistan in 2011 and now receives treatment at the hospital as an out-patient.
But on his last visit he said he was told the hospital could no longer treat him and that he would have to receive future treatment in Scotland.
He told the Daily Record it was a "massive injustice" and added: "A senior member of staff told me that he was ashamed to say that they could no longer treat me there.
"He said it was because the English NHS would no longer foot the bill for me there since I wasn't from England."
Mr Brown, who served with 2 Scots, the Royal Highland Fusiliers, said he still suffers constant pain and is concerned he will not have access to the same medication and specialists in Scotland.
Mr Brown said that while he had "huge respect" for the NHS in Scotland, the service simply did not have the specialists to treat him.
He said of the English team that looked after him: "I would not be here without them. I have paid my taxes for years so why shouldn't I continue to get my treatment and medication down there?"
NHS sources told the BBC Scotland news website that in cases where a patient receiving treatment in England was living in another part of the UK, hospitals had to apply for funding from that country.
A statement from the University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust said it had arranged two more follow-up appointments to "determine the effectiveness of Mr Brown's latest cycle of treatment".
"If he needs further treatment within the trust, we would need to seek pre-approved funding from NHS Scotland," it added.
Dr Alison Graham, medical director at NHS Ayrshire & Arran said the health board was "committed to funding and supporting Mr Brown's ongoing treatment, be that in Scotland or elsewhere".
She added: "We are in discussion with University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust regarding this."
Scottish Veterans Minister Mr Brown has raised concerns to Mr Ellwood about how information about the funding of Callum Brown's treatment was communicated to him.
He said: "Our injured veterans expect and must be able to receive the best possible healthcare that is available, regardless of where it is delivered.
"They should certainly not be told that their healthcare can no longer be provided at a particular location due to funding arrangements."
He said that both NHS Scotland and NHS England had long-established guidance in place, which sets out who is responsible for the cost of patients' healthcare when they need to cross borders for treatment.
He added: "NHS healthcare providers on both sides of the border should be able to agree funding arrangements between themselves without the need to involve patients in such decisions.
"NHS Ayrshire and Arran - Mr Brown's local NHS board - recognises the brave service given by Mr Brown through his duties in the armed forces and will continue to fund and support Mr Brown's ongoing treatment, be that in Scotland or elsewhere.
"I trust that you will now take any necessary action to remind NHS England of the responsible commissioner arrangements so that there is no repeat of this distressing incident for Mr Brown, or for other veterans who require NHS healthcare after sustaining serious injuries while serving their country."
He added that "no member of the Armed Forces, Service family member or veteran in Scotland should face disadvantage when accessing services and support". | Scotland's veterans minister has written to his UK counterpart to complain about the treatment of a Scots soldier at a hospital in England. |
38737190 | Finance Minister Máirtín Ó Muilleoir said the judge would be "unflinching in his pursuit of the truth and scrupulous in his analysis of the evidence".
Sir Patrick will be supported by two panel members and, if needed, assessors from outside Northern Ireland.
He would begin gathering papers on 1 February, said Mr Ó Muilleoir.
"By getting to the truth of the RHI scandal, this inquiry team will... go some way to rebuilding the shattered public confidence in the institutions," he said.
The inquiry is expected to report its findings within six months.
The RHI scheme was intended to increase the creation of heat from renewable sources.
However, businesses have been receiving more in subsidies than they are paying for renewable fuel and the scheme became majorly oversubscribed.
The fallout from the scandal surrounding the scheme, which is approximately £490m over budget, resulted in the resignation of Sinn Fein's deputy first minister, Martin McGuinness, the collapse of Stormont's institutions and the calling of snap elections on 2 March.
Earlier on Tuesday, a judge issued an interim injunction preventing the publication of hundreds of names of RHI claimants.
The finance minister told the Assembly the areas the inquiry will investigate will be wide-ranging, including:
Mr Ó Muilleoir said the inquiry would have the power to compel witnesses and evidence.
He also said that the inquiry would be in public and hopefully televised, but that Sir Patrick had decided there would be no public hearings before the election.
"Rest assured every stone will be turned and there will be no dark corners where the light won't shine, " he added.
He said Sir Patrick would have absolute control over the scope and execution of the Inquiry, which would be entirely independent.
No decision has yet been made on the venue for the inquiry, and no details were given on its anticipated cost. | Retired appeal court judge Sir Patrick Coghlin will chair a public inquiry into the botched energy scheme that could cost taxpayers £490m. |
35835006 | Lawmakers lambasted Mr Snyder for his handling of the crisis, which he has said was an administrative failure.
The US Environmental Protection Agency is also being blamed for not addressing the crisis quickly enough.
Pipes in Flint began leaching lead after the city switched its water supply to save money.
Mr Snyder has called the crisis "a massive error of bureaucracy" and rejected calls for him to resign, most notably from Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders.
He has said switching water suppliers, which happened when the city's finances were under state control, was not about saving money.
The water from Flint River stripped lead from the pipes and contaminated the supply. Lead exposure can cause learning disabilities and behavioural problems in children.
Flint is a majority-African American city where over 40% of the residents live in poverty.
The situation in Flint "really reeks of environmental discrimination", representative Robin Kelly said.
Another representative, Elijah Cummings, told Mr Snyder he was responsible for the contamination of the city's water supply and that he would likely be subject to criminal charges if he was running a business.
"The governor's fingerprints are all over this crisis," said Mr Cummings.
Multiple lawmakers called for him to resign at the hearing, at which Mr Snyder called the water crisis "a terrible tragedy" and "the humbling experience of [his] life".
Also appearing was Environmental Protection Agency director Gina McCarthy, who said the responsibility ultimately fell on Michigan state officials, and that they did not communicate the scope of the problem well enough.
But representative Jason Chaffetz told Ms McCarthy she should resign and that she and her agency "failed".
Ms McCarthy denied this, saying "the crisis we're seeing was the result of a state-appointed emergency manager deciding that the city would stop purchasing treated drinking water and instead switch to an untreated source to save money".
She admitted the EPA could have "pushed more" to check on the situation in Flint, but said the problem was not her agency's fault.
Mr Snyder has called on Congress to approve a bill $220 million (£152 million) bill to repair and replace the lead-contaminated pipes in Flint, along with other cities. The bill is currently on hold. | Michigan Governor Rick Snyder is testifying before Congress on the Flint water crisis, which has left residents without clean drinking water. |
37199383 | Ciarán Maxwell, from Larne, County Antrim, was detained in Somerset on Wednesday by the Metropolitan Police Service's Counter Terrorism Command.
The 30 year old is suspected of preparing for acts of terrorism.
A warrant for further detention was granted to the Met by Westminster Magistrates' Court on Friday.
It means that he can now be held in custody until 12:20 BST on Wednesday 31 August.
Mr Maxwell was taken to a West Country police station immediately after his arrest.
However, a Met spokesman said the royal marine was transferred to a London police station on Thursday.
His arrest is understood to be connected to the discovery of two arms dumps near Larne earlier this year.
The weapons discovered are thought to be linked to dissident republican paramilitaries.
Searches in Devon connected to the arrest are still ongoing. | Detectives who arrested a serving royal marine in a Northern Ireland-related terrorism investigation have been given a further five days to question him. |
30368077 | The 22-year-old was getting into his car at Ulsterville Gardens at about 19:00 GMT on Saturday when the men demanded his keys and money.
When he refused, they attacked him then ran off empty-handed. He was treated in hospital for head and facial injuries.
A short time later, three men aged 20, 22 and 25 were arrested nearby at Donegall Avenue in the Village area.
Police have appealed for information. | A man has been assaulted by a gang of men attempting to steal his car in south Belfast. |
39668066 | The Battle of Messines Ridge in Belgium was the first occasion that soldiers from the 36th Ulster Division and 16th Irish Division were in battle together.
Both had fought at the Battle of the Somme but at different stages.
The ceremony will take place in Messines on 7 June.
The Northern Ireland Office said the ceremony would take place at the Island of Ireland Peace Park.
The battle was a notable victory for the Allies and involved the deployment of 19 huge mines which exploded beneath the ridge, killing as many as 10,000 soldiers.
Secretary of State James Brokenshire said: "We have seen all too well how history can divide, but our ambitious goal throughout this decade of centenaries is to seek to use history to bring us together, and to build on the political progress that has been made throughout these islands.
"This shared ceremony is an opportunity to remember the service and sacrifice of those who fought at Messines Ridge, as well as to further strengthen the important relationships that exists between the United Kingdom and Ireland."
Irish Foreign Minister Charlie Flanagan said: "Those from the island of Ireland were brought together by diverse motivations but they shared a common purpose as soldiers and, caught up in the grim realities of war, no doubt a common desire: to survive and return home."
The event will be ticketed. Those interested in attending should visit the UK government website or the website for the Department of Foreign Affairs in the Republic.
More than 200,000 Irishmen fought on behalf of Britain in World War One, including both unionists who wanted Ireland to remain a part of Britain and nationalists who wanted to protect Home Rule, in which Britain had agreed to devolve some parliamentary powers to Dublin. | The UK and Ireland will hold a shared commemoration ceremony to mark a major World War One battle in which nationalist and unionist soldiers fought together side-by-side. |
29234086 | Two men, pilot Grant Jordan and Al Ryan, both in their 50s, are in a serious but stable condition in hospital after the light aircraft crashed in Vinoy Park, St Petersburg.
A 17-year-old girl and another man had minor injuries, according to the St Petersburg Police Department.
The group from the Ulster Flying Club were on a trip to the US.
They were flying to Key West in a hired Piper PA28 Cherokee plane.
The plane reportedly lost power on approach to an airport. It is thought the engine failed and the undercarriage clipped a tree, according to John Hughes, the chairman of Ulster Flying Club.
The pilot's wife, Susan Clarke from County Down, is preparing to fly to the US. She told the BBC she had spoken to her husband on the phone and his injuries were not life-threatening.
Ms Clarke said Mr Jordan had several broken bones, none of which required surgery.
Chairman of Ulster Flying Club, John Hughes had been in contact with all four following the crash.
"Allegedly what happened is the engine stopped on the approach over the town and he [Mr Jordan] did an excellent job and got the aircraft into a small park just on the line of the approach to the main airfield," he said.
"He appears to have done an excellent job, but on the last part of the approach into the field from the witness statements that I've heard, the aircraft clipped a couple of trees which upset his final attempt to get into this park, but he still got in.
"The aircraft was substantially in one piece which explains why one of the passengers was able to walk away.
"They've been lucky in that if this had happened and they hadn't had the competence to do it [land] then things could have turned out worse." | Three people from Northern Ireland and one from the Republic have been hurt in a Florida plane crash on Monday. |
39152651 | The £215m capital funding has to be spent on increasing school capacity and boosting access for these pupils to good schools.
It may be spent on specialised classrooms and facilities, but not on general day-to-day school budgets.
The news comes as many schools complain of general funding shortfalls.
Minister for vulnerable children and families, Edward Timpson, said the government wanted to ensure all children have equal opportunities regardless of their background and any challenges they may face.
"We've already made the biggest changes for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities in a generation, but we want to go further and build on that success.
"Our multi-million pound investment will enable local councils to build new classrooms and improve facilities for pupils, ensuring that no child is left behind," he added.
Councils will be expected to consult local parents, carers, schools, and others on how their funding should be used and publish a short plan showing how they will spend the money.
Every local authority, except Isles of Scilly and City of London, will get at least £500,000 to be spent over three years from 2018.
Malcolm Trobe, Interim General Secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said heads would be very pleased with any government spending on education, particularly when it is aimed at helping young people with the greatest needs.
But he added: "Unfortunately, however, this is a drop in the ocean compared to what is needed.
"Schools will have to make £3bn of savings to their annual running costs by 2020, which will have a huge impact on the curriculum they are able to offer and the support they are able to give young people, because they will have far less staff.
"In addition, the National Audit Office recently reported that it would cost an estimated £6.7 billion to return all school buildings to satisfactory or better condition." | Schools in England are to receive a cash boost to help improve facilities for children with special educational needs and disabilities. |
38539097 | The Iron's victory over a Cobblers side watched from the stand by newly appointed boss Justin Edinburgh closed the gap at the top to just one point after Sheffield United went down 4-1 at Walsall.
A tepid opening period came to life when Kevin Van Veen twice went close, heading wide from close range before seeing Adam Smith save his low drive from the edge of the box.
Cobblers created a couple of openings, Matt Taylor being denied by Luke Daniels who then thwarted Marc Richards.
But Scunthorpe broke the deadlock in the 21st minute when Stephen Dawson's cross was headed home by Van Veen from close range.
John-Joe O'Toole fired wide and Hoskins was denied again by Daniels. But Cobblers equalised three minutes before the interval when Alex Revell headed home Taylor's near-post cross.
After the restart, Van Veen fired wide before Cobblers got on top and Zander Diamond twice went close. From Taylor's cross, Diamond saw his header thump the upright before heading over from close range.
But Scunthorpe also had a couple of decent chances as the half progressed, Van Veen firing over before Morris hit the bar from a free-kick with Smith well beaten and Craig Davies headed over for the visitors.
Scunthorpe had the better late chances, as Harry Toffolo headed over, Smith denied Duane Holmes and when the ball ran loose Morris volleyed over. But the visitors won it in the 83rd minute when Diamond's clearing header only fell to Morris on the edge of the box and he curled into the top corner.
Report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Northampton Town 1, Scunthorpe United 2.
Second Half ends, Northampton Town 1, Scunthorpe United 2.
Attempt missed. Sam Hoskins (Northampton Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box is just a bit too high.
Attempt blocked. Jak McCourt (Northampton Town) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.
Corner, Northampton Town. Conceded by Jordan Clarke.
Zander Diamond (Northampton Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ivan Toney (Scunthorpe United).
Alex Revell (Northampton Town) is shown the yellow card for hand ball.
Hand ball by Alex Revell (Northampton Town).
Substitution, Scunthorpe United. Matt Crooks replaces Duane Holmes.
Duane Holmes (Scunthorpe United) is shown the yellow card for excessive celebration.
Goal! Northampton Town 1, Scunthorpe United 2. Josh Morris (Scunthorpe United) left footed shot from outside the box to the top right corner.
Attempt saved. Duane Holmes (Scunthorpe United) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Attempt saved. Marc Richards (Northampton Town) right footed shot from long range on the right is saved in the top right corner.
Corner, Northampton Town. Conceded by Luke Daniels.
Substitution, Scunthorpe United. Ivan Toney replaces Kevin van Veen.
Substitution, Northampton Town. Jak McCourt replaces Hiram Boateng.
Corner, Northampton Town. Conceded by Murray Wallace.
Attempt missed. Josh Morris (Scunthorpe United) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses the top left corner.
Attempt saved. Duane Holmes (Scunthorpe United) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Foul by Alex Revell (Northampton Town).
Charlie Goode (Scunthorpe United) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt missed. Harry Toffolo (Scunthorpe United) header from the centre of the box is high and wide to the left.
Corner, Scunthorpe United. Conceded by Zander Diamond.
Attempt blocked. Harry Toffolo (Scunthorpe United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Alex Revell (Northampton Town) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Murray Wallace (Scunthorpe United).
Attempt missed. Craig Davies (Scunthorpe United) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high.
Josh Morris (Scunthorpe United) hits the bar with a left footed shot from outside the box from a direct free kick.
Hand ball by David Buchanan (Northampton Town).
Foul by John-Joe O'Toole (Northampton Town).
Sam Mantom (Scunthorpe United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Kevin van Veen (Scunthorpe United) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses the top right corner.
Attempt blocked. Alex Revell (Northampton Town) right footed shot from very close range is blocked.
Substitution, Scunthorpe United. Craig Davies replaces Tom Hopper.
Attempt missed. Zander Diamond (Northampton Town) header from the right side of the six yard box is just a bit too high.
David Buchanan (Northampton Town) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Duane Holmes (Scunthorpe United).
Kevin van Veen (Scunthorpe United) is shown the yellow card.
John-Joe O'Toole (Northampton Town) is shown the yellow card. | Josh Morris grabbed the late winner as second-placed Scunthorpe beat League One strugglers Northampton at Sixfields. |
37173410 | The incident happened near the village of Eddleston at about 13:00 on Sunday.
The man fell from a Vespa scooter and was taken to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary for treatment.
Police said they believed a black car may have been involved in the incident and appealed for anyone who was in the area to contact them. | A man has been seriously injured after falling from his scooter in the Scottish Borders. |
40834642 | Millwall, who won May's League One play-off final, went ahead courtesy of Saville's first goal for the Lions.
But just past the hour mark, Portuguese winger Morais levelled the scores from a free-kick just outside the box.
The result meant that both Millwall and League One runners-up Bolton still await their first Championship wins.
Lions goalscorer Saville, who made his loan move from Wolves to the London club permanent over the summer, converted a neat one-two with Steve Morison for the opener.
Morison could have doubled the home side's lead, but his improvised hook-shot was cleared off the line by Mark Beevers.
Bolton rescued a point when Morais' free-kick from 20 yards proved too good for Millwall keeper Jordan Archer.
Millwall manager Neil Harris:
"I thought we were the better team. I thought we had the most chances, got our noses in front.
"I'm disappointed not to win the game. That's two games in a row where I think we've been the better team in this division and we've only got one point from it.
"However, saying that, I'm really pleased for my players that we get our first point on the board."
Bolton manager Phil Parkinson:
"I'm delighted with our own performance on the day.
"Millwall's a tough place to come, especially their first (home) game back in the Championship. We always knew it was going to be difficult.
"With the key players we lost to injury last week, I thought we stood strong as a team and apart from one slack moment to give them the goal I thought some of our defending and players putting their bodies on the line was top class."
Match ends, Millwall 1, Bolton Wanderers 1.
Second Half ends, Millwall 1, Bolton Wanderers 1.
Corner, Millwall. Conceded by Mark Howard.
Attempt saved. Shaun Williams (Millwall) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Jem Karacan (Bolton Wanderers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Fred Onyedinma (Millwall) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Jem Karacan (Bolton Wanderers).
Foul by James Meredith (Millwall).
Aaron Wilbraham (Bolton Wanderers) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Conor McLaughlin (Millwall) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Aaron Wilbraham (Bolton Wanderers).
Offside, Millwall. James Meredith tries a through ball, but Shaun Hutchinson is caught offside.
Attempt blocked. Jed Wallace (Millwall) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Andrew Taylor (Bolton Wanderers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Tom Elliott (Millwall) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Andrew Taylor (Bolton Wanderers).
Attempt blocked. Steve Morison (Millwall) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Jed Wallace with a cross.
Conor McLaughlin (Millwall) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Conor McLaughlin (Millwall).
Jem Karacan (Bolton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Bolton Wanderers. Aaron Wilbraham replaces Gary Madine.
Substitution, Millwall. Tom Elliott replaces Lee Gregory.
Fred Onyedinma (Millwall) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Mark Beevers (Bolton Wanderers).
Attempt missed. Jed Wallace (Millwall) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.
Foul by George Saville (Millwall).
Josh Cullen (Bolton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Millwall. Fred Onyedinma replaces Shane Ferguson.
Offside, Millwall. Lee Gregory tries a through ball, but Jed Wallace is caught offside.
Lee Gregory (Millwall) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Josh Cullen (Bolton Wanderers).
Foul by Steve Morison (Millwall).
Mark Beevers (Bolton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Shaun Williams (Millwall) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Adam Armstrong (Bolton Wanderers).
Substitution, Bolton Wanderers. Adam Armstrong replaces Adam Le Fondre.
Shaun Hutchinson (Millwall) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Shaun Hutchinson (Millwall).
Jem Karacan (Bolton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Shaun Hutchinson (Millwall) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Shaun Williams with a cross. | Newly promoted Millwall and Bolton shared the points after a Filipe Morais free-kick cancelled out George Saville's opener at The Den. |
40381825 | Jon Platt was convicted of failing to secure his child's regular attendance.
He lost an earlier legal challenge at the Supreme Court in April, despite winning previous legal battles in a case brought by Isle of Wight Council.
Platt was given a 12-month conditional discharge and ordered to pay £2,000.
The case - over a £120 fine - returned to Isle of Wight Magistrates' Court earlier where Paul Greatorex QC, for Platt, had argued the prosecution should not continue and was an "abuse of process".
He suggested none of the documents published by the council or the primary school on attendance made it clear when a penalty notice would be given.
"It's completely vague, it does not give the guidance that parents are entitled to expect," he said.
Mr Platt told the court he did not believe he had seen a number of documents from the school setting out changes to absence rules.
He said a form from the school, when he applied for the seven-day absence in 2015, had noted that attendance of between 90% and 95% was satisfactory, which his child fell into.
Truancy prosecutions in England in 2015
Source: PA
But Ben Rich, counsel for Isle of Wight Council, said giving clear guidance did not mean spelling out every consequence of any action.
He argued the school was not required to make sure that every letter sent home was read, and that the council's code of conduct had made it clear that a penalty notice could be issued for a term-time holiday.
Giving the judgment, magistrate Jeannie Walker said: "The circumstances of this case fall squarely into that breach of school rules."
The case has cost taxpayers £140,000. | A father who fought a long-running legal battle after taking his daughter on a term-time holiday to Disney World Florida has been found guilty over the unauthorised trip. |
36722585 | Mrs Leadsom has made her experience in the City a key part of her campaign to be the next leader and prime minister.
Allies of the energy minister have said she is a victim of a concerted effort to rubbish a "stellar" career.
Mrs Leadsom, who was a leading Brexit campaigner, came second in the first round of voting in the leadership race.
Mrs Leadsom, a former economic secretary to the Treasury, will battle it out with fellow Brexit backer Justice Secretary Michael Gove on Thursday to join Home Secretary Theresa May on the ballot to succeed David Cameron.
Liam Fox and Stephen Crabb withdrew from the leadership race after the first round, and gave Mrs May their backing.
By John Pienaar, deputy political editor
Energy minister Andrea Leadsom's claim to have been a financial high-flier is under intense scrutiny.
Team Leadsom has made much of her background in banking. One friendly MP described her as having managed "hundreds of people and billions of pounds".
But the Times newspaper described her credentials as a senior banker as having been "politely but firmly undermined".
Robert Stephens, formerly of the investment firm Invesco Perpetual, had said "she didn't manage any teams, large or small and certainly did not manage any funds".
Ms Leadsom's CV also lists the post of Project Director at Barclays. "Director" was a managerial title, not a boardroom one.
A campaign helper told me she'd been unfairly attacked, but also admitted her experience may have been "bigged up" - exaggerated, in other words - by the MP who'd boasted of her high-powered background.
Mrs Leadsom's campaign has responded to a report in the Times - which claimed her career had been exaggerated - by publishing a summary of her CV setting out her various banking roles, including senior roles at Barclays and Invesco Perpetual.
Defence Minister Penny Mordaunt - one of Mrs Leadsom's backers - claimed there was a "concerted effort" being made to cast doubt on the leadership hopeful's background before entering parliament, and said she was the "strongest candidate on the economy".
Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Mrs Mordaunt also dismissed the suggestion some of Mrs May's supporters could back Mr Gove in the next round of voting in an effort to prevent Mrs Leadsom's name being on the final shortlist of two presented to members.
"I would say to all my colleagues on Thursday, if you are voting for a candidate who you do not think is the best person to lead this country, you are doing something wrong," she said.
Despite her clear lead in the first round of voting by Tory MPs, Mrs May - who supported the campaign to stay in the EU - said she did not want the contest to be a "coronation".
"I have been clear from the start. The party and the country deserve an open, honest, robust debate - and the next leader needs to have won a mandate to lead.
"So there should be no deals, no tactical voting, and no coronation," she said.
Mrs Leadsom and Mr Gove both say the next PM must have campaigned for Leave.
Mrs May got 165 of 329 votes cast by Tory MPs on Tuesday. Mrs Leadsom came second with 66 and Mr Gove got 48.
Given the margin of Mrs May's lead, she is almost certain to feature on the two-person ballot to be put to the around 150,000 Conservative members, with the eventual outcome due on 9 September.
But former Conservative chairman Grant Shapps called for the process to be accelerated, saying it should be finished by the end of July.
Mr Shapps has written to MPs seeking their backing, saying it was a "matter of concern for the country", and also plans a petition.
Mr Gove's supporters insist he can be trusted despite his dramatic 11th hour decision to turn on ally Boris Johnson and launch his own campaign.
Culture Minister Ed Vaizey told Today the U-turn had "caused Michael some difficulty" but said colleagues would "trust a man who was prepared to make that decision", claiming his was the campaign "building the momentum". | Conservative leadership candidate Andrea Leadsom has published details of her CV, after claims her previous roles in financial services were exaggerated. |
38364847 | Ross McNab is alleged to have carried out a raid on the Dunkeld branch of the Bank of Scotland on 29 November.
Mr McNab appeared from custody at Perth Sheriff Court and denied robbing bank teller James MacKinnon while he was working in the branch.
The charge against Mr McNab alleges that he robbed the bank of £65.
He will face trial in March next year. | A 28-year-old man has appeared in court accused of carrying out a bank robbery in Dunkeld and making off with £65. |
30938989 | The force made the decision after a survey found the "overwhelming majority" of staff wanted to do away with the helmets.
The "custodian" will still be worn on ceremonial occasions, like funerals and Remembrance Day parades.
West Yorkshire is the second force to make the change after Thames Valley did so five years ago.
Supt Keith Gilert said peaked caps had become "more appropriate" and "more in keeping" than traditional helmets.
First used by the Metropolitan Police in 1863, the "custodian" helmet was based on the spiked Pickelhaube worn by the Prussian army.
Nick Smart, chairman of the West Yorkshire Police Federation, welcomed the change in headwear.
"Helmets fall off heads, they're cumbersome and a lot of the time they weren't getting used," he said.
"Officers in cars would chuck them on the back seat and not put them on to deal with an incident." | West Yorkshire Police is getting rid of the traditional police helmet in favour of peaked caps. |
34155092 | Tring School, in Hertfordshire, said it had "explicitly and repeatedly" made clear its dress code to pupils and parents.
Head teacher Sue Collings said the school was "very proud" of its "values, achievements and aspirations".
Parents criticised the move on social media, and one said her daughter felt "humiliated".
"She's now at the point at which she says she feels humiliated in front of all her friends, she doesn't want to go in on Monday," she told BBC Three Counties Radio.
Another parent said: "My daughter has been sent home again because of the length of her skirt. "
In a statement, Ms Collings said: "In our communications we stated that students who were incorrectly dressed will be told to improve their uniform to the necessary standard before attending lessons.
"If students were able to immediately go home and then return in the correct uniform they would be welcomed into lessons today.
"If students could not go home, or didn't have the correct clothes, then they would be supervised in school and they would be expected to acquire the correct uniform over the weekend before going to lessons on Monday.
"The school has stated our expectations and consequences explicitly and repeatedly."
The school's dress code on the website states: "Skirts must be black, knee length and be of a pleated design." | More than 100 girls were sent home from school after their skirts were deemed too short by staff. |
35936425 | The 24-year-old was charged for an incident in his side's 1-1 Championship draw with Fulham on 23 February.
It is understood the bite was on Cottagers defender Fernando Amorebieta.
The Football Association said in a statement: "[This] was considered a non-standard case given the seriousness and both unusual and violent nature of the misconduct."
Doukara, who denied the charge, has also been fined £5,000.
Leeds United said that they were "disappointed with the outcome and the length of the ban" but would not be commenting further until the full written judgement has been released.
The ban means Doukara will be unavailable until the final game of the season.
Barcelona forward Luis Suarez has served three bans for biting during his career.
The Uruguay striker was banned for nine international matches and suspended from all football activity for four months for biting Italy defender Giorgio Chiellini during the 2014 World Cup.
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Dagenham & Redbridge midfielder Joss Labadie has been banned for biting twice in the past three years.
He was handed a 10-match suspension for a bite while with Torquay in 2014 before being given a six-month ban after biting a Stevenage player while playing for the Daggers last March. | Leeds United striker Souleymane Doukara has been banned for eight matches for biting an opponent. |
34589201 | Mr Biden is considering running for president and accounts depicting him as hesitant to attack Bin Laden have been seen as a political liability.
"Mr President, my suggestion is, don't go," Mr Biden told congressmen in 2012, according to ABC News.
But on Tuesday Mr Biden said he told President Obama privately to proceed.
"As we walked out of the room and walked upstairs, I said - I told him my opinion that I thought he should go, but follow his own instincts," Mr Biden said at an event in Washington.
"I never... say what I think finally until I go up in the Oval [Office] with him alone," he added.
In May 2011, Mr Obama authorised the operation. US special forces shot and killed Bin Laden at a compound near Islamabad.
Hillary Clinton, who was secretary of state at the time, has said publicly that she supported the raid.
Bin Laden was widely believed to have been behind the bombings of US embassies in East Africa, the attack on the USS Cole in Yemen in 2000 and the 2001 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington.
In recent months, supporters have encouraged Mr Biden to challenge Mrs Clinton for the Democratic nomination.
However, Mr Biden, 72, has questioned whether he has the "emotional energy" to run after the death of his son Beau in May.
Others say by entering the race so late Mr Biden may not be able to rally enough financial support to mount an effective campaign.
After a strong performance in the first Democratic presidential debate last week, Mrs Clinton has seen her poll number rebound after a summer which saw her support wane.
Mrs Clinton maintains healthy leads in most early voting states even after factoring Mr Biden into the race.
Mr Biden expects to decide within days because deadlines to appear on the ballot in key states are fast approaching.
The former Delaware senator failed in his bids for the White House in 1988 and 2008 before becoming Mr Obama's running mate. | US Vice-President Joe Biden has said he supported carrying out the operation that killed al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden, a change from previous accounts. |
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