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39113991 | Katrice Lee, from Hartlepool, went missing from a Naafi supermarket at a military base in Paderborn, Germany where her family was stationed.
The Royal Military Police (RMP) said the man in the picture was seen putting a child in a green car in the same area where Katrice was last seen in 1981.
It refused to say when the e-fit was made, or if it had been newly found.
In a statement the force said it had been "reassessing all evidence... in conjunction with new evidence received".
"During that process, this piece of evidence was deemed useful to the investigation, so the RMP are duly appealing for fresh information from it," a spokesman said.
The RMP refused to confirm or deny this meant they had found the e-fit while reassessing evidence and decided to release it.
It also refused to confirm it had been created recently, using either new or old evidence.
An RMP spokesperson said: "This is a newly identified line of inquiry as a result of analysing approximately 11,000 documents including eye witness statements."
The image was shown on the BBC's Crimewatch on Monday night.
Katrice's father Richard Lee said he did not know if the picture of the man was a new image or one that police have been "sitting on for so long".
"We all live in hope, a lot of people have said to me how do I maintain hope, all I can say is hope maintains me," he said.
"At the end of the day this is about a girl who has been missing and I want her back." | An e-fit released in the search for a toddler who disappeared 36 years ago may be years old, the BBC has learned. |
38620552 | Amari Morgan-Smith, who recently joined York on loan from League Two side Cheltenham, netted in the 22nd minute after racing onto Jon Parkin's flick-on.
Parkin went close to doubling York's lead just before the break, with Barrow restricted to long-range efforts.
But just when rock-bottom York began to think the win was in the bag, Jordan Williams beat home goalkeeper Kyle Letheren to the ball and slotted home the equaliser.
But Newton's drilled strike gave the Minstermen a valuable three points.
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Match ends, York City 2, Barrow 1.
Second Half ends, York City 2, Barrow 1.
Substitution, York City. Scott Fenwick replaces Danny Holmes.
Goal! York City 2, Barrow 1. Sean Newton (York City).
Alex-Ray Harvey (Barrow) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, York City. Vadaine Oliver replaces Simon Lappin.
Goal! York City 1, Barrow 1. Jordan Williams (Barrow).
Substitution, Barrow. Akil Wright replaces Liam Hughes.
Moussa Diarra (Barrow) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, York City. Danny Holmes replaces Shaun Rooney.
Second Half begins York City 1, Barrow 0.
First Half ends, York City 1, Barrow 0.
Goal! York City 1, Barrow 0. Amari Morgan-Smith (York City).
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up. | Sean Newton struck in stoppage time to give National League bottom side York a 2-1 win over Barrow at Bootham Crescent. |
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A local animal rights group went to court on behalf of the orangutan, saying she was being imprisoned illegally and should be set free.
The outcome depended on whether Sandra should be thought of as a 'person' or a 'thing'.
Lawyers representing the 29 year-old orangutan argued that she should not be treated as an object because of her intelligence and complex ways of thinking.
It was decided that Sandra could have the status of a "non-human person" - the first time this has ever happened.
As long as the zoo doesn't appeal to change the decision, this means Sandra will be transferred to a sanctuary in Brazil, where she will have more freedom.
Sandra's case is one of many that have attempted to give great apes some of the rights enjoyed by humans - all of which have failed, until now. | A court in Argentina has said that an orangutan called Sandra, who lives in a zoo there, can have some of the same legal rights enjoyed by humans. |
28202293 | The document sets out the qualities for permanent secretaries, who are the UK's most powerful government officials.
Francis Maude criticised a suggestion they had to balance ministers' needs with their departments' long-term aims.
The Cabinet Office said the document did not reflect the constitutional position and was being updated.
The incendiary accusation by Mr Maude follows his discovery of the official civil service document, which has been passed to BBC Newsnight and the Times by a source outside of government.
It says that a permanent secretary must "balance ministers' or high-level stakeholders' immediate needs or priorities with the long-term aims of their department, being shrewd about what needs to be sacrificed, at what costs and what the implications might be".
In a letter to cabinet colleagues seen by Newsnight, Conservative Mr Maude says: "As currently framed [the document] plainly does not conform with constitutional propriety.
"The civil service aims not to serve the 'long-term aims of the department' but the priorities of the government of the day."
The civil service code of conduct, the main official document setting out guidelines for all of Whitehall, says only that civil servants "serve the government, whatever its political persuasion, to the best of your ability in a way which maintains political impartiality".
But this previously unseen document, written in 2009, was intended to set out the criteria by which permanent secretaries would be chosen.
It is still in use and in recent weeks civil servants brought it to the attention of Mr Maude, suggesting he update it.
Using descriptions that have enraged cabinet ministers, it says civil servants must "tolerate ambiguity" and deal with "at times irrational political demands".
The document continues: "[Permanent secretaries] act as a 'pivot point' in terms of knowing when to 'serve' the political agenda and manage ministers' expectations, versus leading their department with a strong sense of mission."
Former Conservative minister Nick Herbert told Newsnight: "I think this is an extraordinary document. This is actually beyond a joke.
"We can't have a kind of permanent government of an unelected bureaucracy deciding that it has its own long-term priorities which may be different to those of ministers and elected government.
"And I think this does go to some of the problems that we're seeing of a civil service which is sometimes resistance to change."
Former head of the civil service, Lord Butler, said the document seemed to be an accurate summary of the relationship between civil servants and politicians.
"Ministers have a political agenda which civil servants can't get into," he said.
"Although you're working very closely together, you've got to keep a bit of difference between yourselves."
He added: "There is nothing there that I wouldn't have put down in black and white... some of it could have been a bit more straightforwardly expressed but... I think it does reflect the borders that permanent secretaries can't cross."
Mr Maude's comments are the latest salvo in an increasingly bitter fight over Whitehall reform.
Elsewhere in his letter to cabinet colleagues, Mr Maude gives the prime minister an audit of the programme of civil service reform.
He writes: "Productivity has markedly improved since 2010, with a civil service 17% smaller delivering at least as much as before.
"However, it remains far from clear how much real and lasting reform can be achieved.
"The first civil service commissioner himself, David Normington, recently questioned 'whether the reform agenda matches the scale of the changes needed'."
He adds that the "greatest challenge" is probably to change the civil service's culture, saying "younger, high potential civil servants" had been asked to draw up plans to address this.
A Cabinet Office spokesman said of the document: "The constitutional position is clear that the civil service exists to serve the government of the day, while retaining the potential to serve a future government.
"A document laying out the criteria for permanent secretary candidates from 2009, which predates both this government and the leadership of the civil service, did not reflect that position and is therefore being refreshed.
"Permanent Secretary appointments are made on merit following fair and open competition." | The Cabinet Office minister has accused the civil service of drafting a job description for permanent secretaries without "constitutional propriety". |
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The hosts led until wing Elliot Daly finished off a counter-attack, after Jonathan Davies failed to find touch with a clearance kick, and Owen Farrell converted to seal a 21-16 victory.
"In the last five minutes we lacked a bit of composure," said Howley.
"Unfortunately, England know how to win. They've got a lot of confidence."
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Defeat was Wales' second during Howley's second stint as stand-in for British and Irish Lions coach Warren Gatland.
They lost heavily to Australia in November and were criticised for their style of play in wins over Argentina, Japan and South Africa.
Howley's men opened their Six Nations campaign with a 33-7 victory over Italy in Rome, and produced a vastly improved display in defeat by England.
"I'm proud and delighted with the performance... up to about 75 minutes," said Howley.
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Daly dived over under pressure from Alex Cuthbert, who was promoted into the team in the build-up to the match when George North failed to recover from a dead leg.
Northampton Saints player North says he will be fit to face Scotland in round three on Saturday, 25 February.
Howley added: "I felt England were getting on top in the last 10 to 15 minutes and they took their chance.
"You have to applaud them for that.
"International rugby is about taking your chances and keeping discipline."
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Howley said fly-half Dan Biggar's display was one of the highlights for Wales.
"Dan Biggar delivers that level of performance whether it's in training or in a Test match," he said.
"He's one of the key players in the unit and he's matured to become a class player."
Wales captain Alun Wyn Jones said: "Hopefully we answered some of the critics.
"We had a great first half. Yes we are disappointed, but the performance was there for 76 minutes. We will take huge belief from this." | Coach Rob Howley said he was "proud and delighted" about Wales' performance against England - until the visitors grabbed victory in the closing stages. |
40341769 | The 26-year-old, who had two previous loan spells at Deepdale, has agreed a three-year contract.
Rudd, who made 34 appearances for Norwich after his debut in 2009, played 40 times on loan at League One side Charlton Athletic last season.
"It should be an easy process for him to settle in," Preston boss Simon Grayson told the club website.
"He knows how we all work and it could be as if he has not been away. We are looking forward to working with him and looking forward to challenge he will provide."
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | Preston North End have re-signed goalkeeper Declan Rudd from Norwich City for an undisclosed fee. |
36246020 | On a placid stretch of the Mulde River, in the heart of rural eastern Germany, they are learning the art of rowing.
Their efforts are still a little clumsy, and their language skills rudimentary, but as they splash their way upstream, the smiles tell their own story.
These unaccompanied boys, thousands of miles from home and separated from parents and siblings, seem happy, even settled.
They are part of a huge, continent-wide phenomenon.
Aid agencies estimate there are at least 20,000 unaccompanied child refugees across Europe. The real number could be much higher.
In Germany, in January and February this year, 31% of the 120,000 asylum applications were from minors, according to Save The Children.
For all their teenage bravado, these are among Europe's most vulnerable refugees.
"I don't know when I'll go back to Afghanistan," says 14-year-old Hajitullah, whose diminutive stature has already secured his place as cox.
"This is the first time I feel safe," says 16-year-old Kheshraw.
Afghan and Syrian refugees started arriving at the Paul Guenther school in Geithain in February. The school had very little notice and has had to make rapid adjustments.
German as a foreign language is now taught to a class of refugees, accompanied and unaccompanied, from Afghanistan and Syria.
Their teacher, Thomas Saalfeld, a translator by profession, has only been teaching since February. His immediate task is to get the students fluent enough to start attending other classes in German.
It is a real challenge, but Mr Saalfeld seems undaunted and his students are making obvious progress.
He says they are like sponges, with extraordinary levels of motivation.
Hajitullah is just glad to be there.
"I want to get an education because in Afghanistan I never went to school," he tells me.
As he juggles with a class of different ages, backgrounds and abilities, Mr Saalfeld says he is determined to give the new arrivals the best possible start.
"They see me as a bit like a father," he says of his unaccompanied students.
At break time, the new arrivals keep mostly to themselves. They have only been here a few weeks, and this small, tight-knit rural community has never had to handle an influx like this before. In nearby big cities, like Leipzig, there is anti-immigrant sentiment.
Laura Schloesser, 16, says she has not had much to do with the refugees so far, but cannot see why anyone would harbour bad feelings towards them.
"Refugees are coming not because they think Germany is such a good country. They're coming because of war and crisis," she says. "We have to respect this."
Tiny Geithain, with its ageing population and traditional values, seems to have offered a warm welcome to the refugees. But that does not mean everyone agrees with Chancellor Angela Merkel's policy of welcoming migrants with open arms.
"It's not right," says Klaus-Dieter Augustin, who runs a small shoe shop with his wife.
"No country in the world just opens up the borders and lets 100,000 people march in completely uncontrolled."
At the end of the school day, on a warm spring morning, the Afghan boys sat on the grass and played cards, listening to music from home and occasionally slipping off to make internet calls to family members.
They are free to go into town, but their €10 (£8; $11) a week pocket money from the local authorities does not go far (the home receives another €7 a week per boy to pay for cultural events).
Detlef Rohde, who put his job in journalism on hold in December to come and look after the boys, says the state should be more generous.
"We can help these people. We should help these people. We're rich enough to do that," he says.
Like the school in Geithain, he had just a few days to prepare for his new role. As for training, he says his only qualification is that he has children himself.
He is full of praise for Chancellor Merkel.
"When she said, 'I help these refugees', she did a political suicide," he says.
"I said, 'This is my chancellor'. She's right, this woman. Absolutely!"
For now, the Afghan boys are safe, being well looked after and, slowly, integrated into this quiet corner of Germany. | As they made their epic, sometimes harrowing journeys across Asia and Europe, the Afghan boys could hardly have imagined anything more incongruous. |
34244665 | Apps that regularly check for updates consume about 30% of the battery power an Android phone loses when in that mode, say the researchers.
They have created a free Hush tool that lets only the most-used apps check in while the phone is off.
Hush can cut power loss from the apps by almost half, say the team.
Hush was created by engineers from Purdue University in Indiana after they carried out a large-scale study of energy use on Android smartphones.
The analysis of power-consumption patterns on 2,000 handsets found that a lot of energy was wasted by badly written apps that did not let a phone go back into a sleep state after they checked for updates, said Prof Y Charlie Hu from Purdue.
"They are not letting the phone go back to sleep because of software bugs and, specifically, due to the incorrect use of Android power control application programming interfaces called wakelocks," he said in a statement.
The first versions of the Hush tool did a better job of handling wakelocks and policed which apps were allowed to wake a phone up and download data, said the team.
The batteries on Android phones using Hush lasted about 15% longer than those without it, suggested early results.
The Purdue team is now working to improve the tool so it can keep an eye on other functions on a phone to see which ones can be minimised to reduce the power they drain.
Prof Hu said the team's ultimate aim was to double the battery life of a smartphone.
"Much of the battery drain is caused by various apps when the screen is on and also legitimate maintenance functions," he added. | Power-hungry apps that drain the battery on Android phones even when they are in a sleep state are being tackled by US researchers. |
24173011 | The two are alleged to have chased Zyed Benna and Bouna Traore, leading them to take refuge in a power substation.
It is alleged the officers failed to raise the alarm even though they knew the youths were in danger.
Defenders say the boys knew the danger and police are being scapegoated to appease ongoing anger over the riots.
The officers are to face a jury eight years after the deaths of the youths, aged 15 and 17, following a high court decision to repeal earlier rulings blocking them from trial.
The BBC's Hugh Schofield in Paris said the delay in bringing them to court highlights the sensitivities that surround the case in France.
The October 2005 incident in Clichy-Sous-Bois, a low-income suburb of Paris largely populated by North African immigrants and their French-born descendants, inflamed existing tensions between residents and police.
Violence escalated and spread to other housing estates across France with nightly clashes causing damage to hundreds of public buildings and leading to thousands of arrests.
At the height of the riots, then President Jacques Chirac declared a national state of emergency.
Jean-Pierre Mignard, a lawyer for the families of two teenagers, said he was reassured by the decision to try the police officers.
"This is all that we wanted," he told Le Monde newspaper.
The two officers are accused of "non-assistance to people in danger". It is alleged that they started chasing the two teenagers for no particular reason.
French police reports at the time of the incident said there was no chase and the two teenagers entered the substation as a result of a tragic misunderstanding.
A third youth who had accompanied Benna and Traore but escaped with injuries was later quoted by police saying they had all been aware of the danger, which was clearly signposted at the station. | Two police officers are to go on trial for failing to help two teenagers whose 2005 death by electrocution in Paris triggered huge riots in French suburbs. |
38288658 | Years of turmoil in Yemen has left more than two million children in urgent need of food, water and medicine.
Much of the country's infrastructure has been destroyed by conflict between a Saudi Arabia-led coalition and the Iran-aligned Houthi group.
The Scottish government said it had donated to the Disasters Emergency Committee's Yemen Crisis Appeal.
The committee brings together 13 leading UK aid agencies to raise money at times of humanitarian crisis in poorer countries.
International Development Minister Alasdair Allan said the Scottish government would "do all we can to help Yemen's most vulnerable people in their hour of need".
And he said he hoped the £250,000 of funding would reach the worst affected areas of the country.
Sally Foster Fulton, spokeswoman for the Disasters Emergency Committee in Scotland, said the world must not be allowed to turn its back on the humanitarian disaster.
She told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme: "Two thirds of the population, 18.8m people, are in need of humanitarian aid, sanitation health care, emergency food.
"Half the country are suffering from hunger - seven million severely hungry.
"Children under five, breastfeeding mothers, pregnant women are badly affected. So it is a disaster.
"But what we are doing is bringing together 13 of the leading UK charities to say we can make a huge difference to millions of people.
"And with the help of the generosity of the UK people and government, and the Scottish government, we can and are making a huge difference."
More than 10,000 people have been killed and millions displaced since fighting in the Arab country escalated in March of last year.
The conflict has exacerbated the widespread poverty, food shortages and poor health services which have affected Yemen for many years.
In a report published on Monday, the Unicef children's charity said hunger among Yemen's children has reached an "all time high", with nearly 2.2 million in need of urgent care, and at least 462,000 children suffering from severe acute malnutrition.
It also said at least one child dies every ten minutes in Yemen - which is the poorest country in the Middle East - because of malnutrition, diarrhoea, and respiratory tract infections. | The Scottish government has donated £250,000 of humanitarian aid to an appeal aimed at easing hunger in Yemen. |
32264294 | Police were called to the Royal Elms Nursing Home on Windsor Road, Newton Heath, at about 22:45 BST on Friday.
The 37-year-old victim was discovered with serious injuries and taken to hospital.
Two men, aged 51 and 24, have been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder.
Det Insp Mark Tootill, of Greater Manchester Police, said: "From what we understand, there has been a disagreement in the car park of the nursing home which has led to this man being critically injured.
"Due to his injuries, we have not been able to speak to the victim at this time.
"Although two arrests have been made, I am still keen to speak to anyone who may have witnessed what happened and would ask anyone who has to please call us as soon as possible." | A man who was stabbed in the chest during a "disagreement" in a nursing home car park in Manchester has been critically injured. |
29352920 | Abu Sayyaf demanded a ransom and an end to German support for the US-led coalition against Islamic State (IS), a monitoring service called SITE reports.
Abu Sayyaf has proclaimed allegiance to IS, a hardline Islamist group that has seized large areas of Iraq and Syria.
Germany said it had "heard about the report" but refused to withdraw support for US action against IS.
A German foreign ministry spokeswoman said that threats were "not an appropriate way to influence our policy in Syria and Iraq".
She added that there would be no change to the existing German strategy, which consists of logistical support and military supplies for Kurdish peshmerga fighters battling IS militants in Iraq.
Abu Sayyaf has been active since the early 1990s.
It is a small but violent Islamist militant group which operates in the southern Philippines.
It is considered a "foreign terrorist organisation" by the US, and has been blamed for attacks including beheadings.
It is also known to kidnap foreign and local hostages for ransom.
The group claimed responsibility for the 2004 SuperFerry 14 bombing, the Philippines' deadliest terror attack in which 116 people were killed. | A Philippines-based militant group has threatened to kill two German hostages it captured in April. |
36310500 | The 21-year-old won SM8 200m individual medley gold, 400m freestyle silver and 100m backstroke bronze at London 2012.
Hynd clinched three golds at the IPC Swimming European Championships earlier this month and twice topped the podium at the World Championships last year.
"It's frustrating to have been so close to a world record twice and it's a prize dangling there for Rio," he said.
"A lifetime best performance is the big target. If you go on to the biggest stage and deliver that then you can't complain, whatever medals come."
Kirkby-in-Ashfield swimmer Hynd qualified for Brazil after impressive performances at the British Para-Swimming International Meet in Glasgow last month, which doubled as the Paralympic trials.
The Nova Centurion athlete will be joined by a host of other medal winners from London, including Ellie Simmonds, Sascha Kindred, James Crisp and Charlotte Henshaw.
He added: "With a big training block coming up, if I'm swimming this fast now, it's quite exciting to think what I can do in a couple of months time."
Fellow Nottinghamshire swimmer Henshaw will be competing at her third Paralympics, having taken a a silver in the SB6 100m breaststroke four years ago.
"I always wanted to go to one, so to go to three games is incredible," she said.
"I have got targets that I want to achieve in terms of times I want to swim, but really want to come out of the race feeling I have left everything in that pool." | Triple Paralympic medallist Ollie Hynd is determined to break a world record at the Rio Games in September. |
29285726 | In February Ms Clwyd, 77, announced she was standing down, after being the area's MP since 1984.
But she now says she intends to contest the seat after all, after "many requests from Labour voters in the Cynon Valley".
Plans for an all-women shortlist to choose a new candidate were strongly opposed by the local party.
In a letter to constituents, Ms Clwyd said: "I hope to stand again for re-election with your support."
She said the decision was taken after "careful consideration of the arguments put to me".
The MP told BBC Wales that Labour party figures in London and locally have known about her change of heart for "several weeks", but she held back from announcing it because the party had been busy with the Scottish independence referendum campaign.
Ms Clwyd said she had received a "very enthusiastic" reaction from people to her decision.
She revealed in July that she was "weighing up her options", after being contacted by constituents asking her to stay on.
It followed a row over Labour's decision to use an all-women shortlist to select her successor, which has been strongly opposed by the local party.
Cynon Valley Labour constituency secretary Alun Williams said the local party would go on "strike" and not take part in the candidate selection process if an all-women shortlist was imposed.
Welsh Labour responded to Mr Williams's comments by saying it would run the selection process if necessary.
Ms Clwyd, a former Labour shadow minister, has recently been outspoken on the state of the NHS following failings in the care of her husband at the University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, in the days leading up to his death.
David Cameron appointed her as an adviser on how hospitals in England should handle complaints. | The Labour MP for Cynon Valley, Ann Clwyd, has said she will stand for re-election in 2015. |
28827676 | It happened close to Fanad Head lighthouse at 15:00 BST on Sunday.
The Irish Coast Guard received a 999 call reporting that a man had fallen into the water and they alerted a number of rescue services.
The man was recovered from the sea and received first aid at the scene. He was then airlifted to Letterkenny Hospital, but was later pronounced dead.
Ian Scott, station officer at Malin Head Coast Guard in County Donegal, said it was not yet clear what part of Northern Ireland the man was from.
Mr Scott said Irish Coast Guard staff made an emergency broadcast on receipt of the 999 call and a local boat that was in the area responded and went to the man's aid.
"We also tasked our coast guard helicopter from Sligo, both Lough Swilly lifeboats and also our fast response coast guard team from Mulroy."
The station officer added: "All the search and rescue units arrived on the scene and our coast guard team from Mulroy managed to recover the man from the water, they administered CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation).
"He was then transferred to the coast guard helicopter and flown to Letterkenny Hospital."
The man's name has not yet been released. | A man from Northern Ireland has died after he fell from a cliff into the sea in County Donegal. |
36857928 | Jordan Kenvyn, 26, from Dumfries, was driving on the wrong side of the road when his Renault Clio hit Barbara D'Amato's Fiat hire car.
The crash happened on the A702 near Elvanfoot, Lanarkshire, on 16 January 2014.
Mrs D'Amato, who hoped to buy a house in Scotland, died after suffering serious facial injuries.
Judge Lady Scott told Kenvyn: "You are facing the possibility, if not likelihood, of receiving a prison term."
He will be sentenced next month.
The High Court in Edinburgh heard that Kenvyn had not been paying attention at the time of the crash.
Mrs D'Amato's friend, Colette Ralph, age 48, who was travelling with her, suffered abdominal injuries in the crash.
She told the trial that Kenvyn had been travelling at "very high speed" at the time.
Mrs Ralph said: "It all happened so quickly. It was over in seconds.
"There was a loud bang and a violent jolt and the airbag was in my face. It took me a few seconds to register what happened.
"I couldn't get out of the front door. I climbed out of the back seat and tried to get out the back door. "
Mrs Ralph, a British ex-pat living in Switzerland, was taken to hospital where doctors informed her that her friend had died.
Kenvyn admitted that he was on the wrong side of the road but could offer no explanation as to why.
Mrs D'Amato, age 61, who lived in France, was visiting Scotland with a view to buying a property for her retirement.
Mrs Ralph said: "She had been planning to retire in Scotland. It was always her plan. Her intention was to come and live here."
The jury took 90 minutes to find Kenvyn guilty of causing death by dangerous driving.
Lady Scott banned him from driving and ordered reports.
He will return to the High Court in Edinburgh for sentencing on 19 August. | A dangerous driver is facing a jail term after being convicted of causing the death of an American tourist. |
37211267 | Xavier Bertrand said 9,000 migrants, many trying to get to the UK, were in a Calais camp known as the Jungle.
Mr Bertrand said he wanted a new deal in which migrants hoping to claim asylum in the UK would be able to do so at a "hotspot" in France.
Those who failed would be deported directly to their country of origin.
Calais has become the focal point of France's refugee crisis.
The Jungle camp is expanding and almost every night people there try to hide inside vehicles entering the port and the Channel Tunnel to get to Britain.
Mr Bertrand wants changes to the bilateral agreement between France and the UK called the Treaty of Le Touquet.
Under the treaty, British immigration officials check passports in Calais and their French counterparts do this in Dover.
Mr Bertrand does not have the power to change the treaty but two of the candidates thought most likely to win next year's French presidential election support his idea that it be either reformed or annulled.
It is understood Home Secretary Amber Rudd will go to Paris this week to discuss the treaty.
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has said border controls for migrants in France should be shifted back to the UK.
Earlier this month, local councils in the UK said they should be involved in assessing the needs of child migrants in Calais before they arrive in the UK.
About 4,000 lone children are claiming asylum in the UK, with their care and resettlement down to local authorities.
The Local Government Association said earlier involvement would make it easier for councils to help children settle. | The president of the French region that includes Calais has suggested migrants seeking asylum in the UK be allowed to lodge their claim in France. |
35008957 | Mulhern, 21, made four appearances for the Rhinos and joins up with former team-mate Jamie Peacock who is now football manager at the Robins.
Coach Chris Chester told BBC Radio Humberside: "He's come through a really good system at Leeds and is very highly-rated by Jamie.
"He fits the bill for the recruitment that we are trying to do here and I'm looking forward to working with him."
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Chester added: "I expect him to be pushing to be in the squad and it's up to him to impress in training and in the friendlies."
Meanwhile, Hull KR have also signed winger Will Oakes, 16, from Wakefield's academy.
The teenager will initially join up with the newly formed Hull Academy side. | Hull KR have signed Leeds Rhinos prop Robbie Mulhern on a two-year deal. |
36305518 | The 22-year-old, from Lenzie, near Glasgow, and Michaella McCollum, from Co Tyrone, were jailed in 2013 for attempting to smuggle cocaine to Spain.
The Foreign Office confirmed Reid's expulsion.
It is understood she may not be able to go home until later this week as the Peruvian prosecutor has three working days to contest the judge's ruling.
Reid has served about a third of her sentence of six years and eight months.
As a result, under Peruvian law she is eligible to be deported. She has also paid a fine of 10,000 Peruvian soles, just over £2,000.
A statement from the judge, Ana Zapata Huertas, said Reid had repented of the crime she had committed and declared her intention never to commit such a crime again.
A Foreign Office spokesman person said: "We can confirm that Melissa Reid has been granted expulsion from Peru. We remain in contact with Melissa, her family and local authorities."
McCollum, 23, was freed last month after serving two years and three months in prison.
However, it is anticipated she will have to remain in Peru for a considerable period as part of her parole conditions.
McCollum and Reid were caught with an estimated £1.5m of cocaine at Lima airport on 6 August 2013 while attempting to board a flight to Madrid, in Spain.
The pair were caught with 24lb (11kg) of cocaine in food packets hidden inside their luggage.
They had claimed they were forced to carry the drugs, but pleaded guilty to charges later that year.
They had faced the prospect of a maximum 15-year prison term but struck a behind-closed-doors plea bargain to secure a shorter sentence.
Following her release, McCollum told Irish state broadcaster RTE she had been "very naive, so young and very insecure".
"A lot of times I didn't know how to say no to somebody," she said.
"I kind of just followed along with it and I guess a part of me kind of wanted to be something I'm not.
"But, simply, I made a decision in my moment of madness."
Reid's father Billy has previously said the impact of his daughter's imprisonment on his family had been "horrendous".
He said: "It's horrendous to see your daughter in handcuffs and the living conditions that she has to put up with.
"Melissa has spent her own 20th and 21st birthdays in prison in Peru." | A judge in Peru has granted an order expelling Scottish drugs mule Melissa Reid from the country. |
36118616 | Ciaran Clark nodded home Villa's opener from Ashley Westwood's corner, and Almen Abdi equalised for Watford with a curled free-kick just before half-time.
Jordan Ayew's low drive restored Villa's lead, but Aly Cissokho was then sent off with 17 minutes to play.
Deeney rose to head home Steven Berghuis's 90th-minute cross, before slotting in a loose ball in the box.
Relegated Villa were minutes away from victory, but the Premier League's bottom club fell to a particularly galling 11th consecutive loss.
Three points for 12th-placed Watford, meanwhile, means they are mathematically assured of their Premier League safety.
The last time Villa won was at home to Norwich on 6 February, the 2-0 victory being one of very few positives in what has been a truly miserable season.
Saturday's defeat at Vicarage Road equals their longest losing run of 11 matches, set during the 1962-63 season in the old First Division.
The fact they had grown into the game to lead twice deservedly will make this result especially hard to take for the Villa fans who were there.
The 2,000 or so who travelled south saw Ayew hit the post with a header in the first half, before his brilliantly-taken second was scored after a lovely one-two with Rudy Gestede, who himself should have added a third but ballooned over from inside the box.
But after Cissokho was sent off for a professional foul on Ikechi Anya, Deeney powered his side to a dramatic victory and ensured the away side suffered the familiar feeling of defeat in a new and agonising manner.
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A defeat by Villa, just under a week after losing to Crystal Palace in the FA Cup semi-finals, would have been hard for manager Quique Sanchez Flores to explain when he sits down to discuss his future at the end of the season.
If results go their way, the Hornets could finish as high as ninth in the table - a year on from their promotion from the Championship - but there is uncertainty over whether Spaniard Flores will keep his job.
This was Watford's second win in nine league games, and it was earned through two late moments of quality from Deeney after being outplayed for much of the afternoon.
Ben Watson cannoned against the bar with a volley before Villa took the lead and Abdi's equaliser was excellent - but in the second half, they were second best.
Had Villa not been stretched by the sending off of left-back Cissokho, this result may have been very different.
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Watford manager Quique Sanchez Flores: "It was important because now mathematically we are [safe] in the Premier League and for Watford that is amazing.
"We deserved to win the match. We had control but we conceded two silly goals and had to work pretty hard. We have to fight against these sort of teams.
"The speculation [about my future] in many ways is not good for the players. The players always want to focus on the main target and the main target is the match.
"Speculation is not important. What was important was to be competitive."
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Aston Villa caretaker-boss Eric Black: "The players have been criticised, and justifiably so, but not today. Ultimately of course you need to win games but there was a lot to be encouraged by.
"It's a fantastic football club with fantastic supporters and maybe it's just one little step towards getting the supporters back on side.
"I thought the effort of the players was outstanding, they showed desire and hunger but the sending-off changes the whole context of the game.
"At 2-1 up, I thought we looked like the team who were going to score again. The key moment is the sending off."
Aston Villa play at home to Newcastle next Saturday, while Watford travel to Liverpool for their next match on Sunday. | Troy Deeney's two late goals denied Aston Villa what would have been only their fourth league win of the season. |
32240531 | He described it as somebody doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.
There are boffins out there who dispute the providence of the quote, ascribing it instead to Benjamin Franklin or Mark Twain or assorted other brain-boxes, but what is unarguable is that the thrust of it is applicable to St Mirren as they meekly make their exit from the top flight of Scottish football.
Doing the same thing over and over again means making one dreadful signing after another and expecting things to come right.
It means picking the same players and putting them in the same positions where they have failed multiple times before and hoping that things come good.
It means replacing one failed manager (Danny Lennon) with his failed assistant (Tommy Craig) and replacing another failed manager (Craig) with his assistant (Gary Teale) and expecting some sort of footballing enlightenment to occur.
And it means ignoring the lessons of the past. In seven of the last eight seasons, St Mirren have got to early April - the 32-game stage of the league campaign - in 10th or 11th place in the table - usually 11th.
In five of those eight seasons, they had only one club below them at this point of the season. They survived in different ways.
They played their way out of trouble on a few occasions, but on others they hung on to their status because there was at least one other club in a worse state - Dunfermline Athletic, Gretna, Inverness Caledonian Thistle, Falkirk, Hamilton Accies, Dundee, Hearts.
Any team that continues to flirt with danger is likely to be caught out in the end. St Mirren have had as many lives as a cat in the past decade, but they've run out of time now and it's entirely their own fault.
In the last two seasons alone, their business in the transfer market has been largely hopeless.
Last season, they brought in Christopher Dilo, a goalkeeper who played 13 matches and then vanished, and Danny Grainger, who played 15 times and was then sent away to Dunfermline. They brought in Greg Wylde, who has been a bit-part player for them - and not a particularly effective bit-part player - and Eric Djemba-Djemba, a colossal embarrassment before disappearing out of Glasgow with his reputation as flat as those caps he used to wear.
The names Jake Caprice and Stephane Bahoken are two more that bombed. Of the business done, only Mark Ridgers, the goalkeeper, is still contributing regularly.
And this season's incoming list has again been awful. James Marwood was signed and was quickly sent away again, to Forest Green in the English Conference.
Ross Caldwell failed and is now with Morton. Isaac Osbourne hasn't played since February. Callum Ball, a striker who got two in 24 games, has been out since January.
Yoann Arquin has played nine matches and has two red cards and no goals. Of the summer influx, only Jeroen Tesselaar has appeared in the team on a consistent basis.
That's more than a dozen signings - the list is not exhaustive - and only two of them are playing regularly in the team. With a hit-rate like that, no wonder St Mirren are in the state they're in.
Look at the teams closest to them at the foot of the table - or, to put it correctly, the teams that are motoring away from them.
Motherwell bought wisely in January, bringing in Stephen Pearson to bolster a previously soft-touch midfield, and Scott McDonald who, apart from scoring three goals in six games, offers the type of exuberance in his personality that is like a shot of adrenaline to a one-time beaten dressing-room.
Pearson and McDonald have not only elevated Motherwell on the pitch, they have done it off the pitch as well. Their experience and leadership has been a big factor in Motherwell's recovery from apparent doom.
Ross County are an even more stark example of a club bringing the right guys in at the right time. Raffaele De Vita has scored three times in eight games, including what turned out to be the winner in their games against Motherwell and Dundee United. Craig Curran has scored five goals in his 13 appearances, including the goal that won a point against Dundee and the decisive goal in their victories over Partick Thistle and Kilmarnock.
Where are St Mirren's Pearsons and McDonalds, Da Vitas and Currans? Where are the replacements for the good players they have lost?
Conor Newton, Paul Dummett, Paul McGowan and Darren McGregor all exited and those gaps were never filled. It seems like the club's survival policy amounted to hoping against hope that one of their rivals would stumble more often than they did.
Motherwell and Ross County went out and improved their lot. St Mirren sat there and waited for one or both of them to mess up.
Teale gets the blame, just as Craig got the blame before him, but the real problem here is with Stewart Gilmour and his board and their awful decision-making both in the appointment of two managers who had been part of administrations that had already been deemed not good enough and also by their hapless work in the transfer market.
The powers-that-be at St Mirren saw the warning lights flashing a long time ago - or ought to have - and continued doing what they'd always done - the same thing over and over again while expecting a different outcome.
It's not nice to see a club relegated - as St Mirren surely will be - but that's what happens when those at the top fall asleep at the wheel.
Tony McCoy is nearing the end of his racing career and, although all of us who have marvelled at his genius in the saddle these past two decades will feel flat when he goes, surely the greater emotion will be joy at having been around to witness a maestro in his pomp.
I wish I could have appreciated Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier and George Foreman when they were at their best, but I was too young. I wish I'd seen a young Pele play. Or an imperious George Best.
What joy it would have been to be able to witness Bobby Jones create history. What a delight it would have been to be of an age to see Barry John or Gareth Edwards up close, week after week.
McCoy stands proudly in that pantheon - and it's been a privilege to watch him, interview him and try to understand him and what drove him to those stratospheric heights. Now that his career is turning for home and he's becoming more reflective as opposed to his previous self who only had eyes for Towcester next Tuesday, we're hearing so much from him that is fascinating.
"For me, it's just my own stubbornness and my own peace of mind that drove me to do what I'm doing, retiring," he told the Limerick Leader last week. "I'm not happy about doing it. It is probably the right thing, but what I'm hoping is that people will never be able to say I didn't retire at the top.
"I think you live in fear every day of being not as good as you were. Sometimes the fear totally overrides the enjoyment, you know?
"I don't feel it when I am riding the horses - it's the in-between. It's when it's over. And it's not something that I developed six months or a year ago, it's been there all my life. All my life. Sometimes it has been the ruination of my life."
McCoy spoke about what was expected of him and how difficult it has been to match those expectations, though, remarkably, he has managed it year after year. He said the biggest problem he has is that he's Tony McCoy and there's a burden that comes with that, a standard he has set for himself that's hard to repeat.
"I'm not bigging myself up for one moment, but I think, if I changed my name, I could carry on riding for another two or three years, no problem," he said.
He could change his name, but AN Other would be rumbled soon enough. No name change or clever disguise could camouflage his greatness in the saddle. As soon as he won on something that had no right to win, he'd out himself in an instant.
"The sad reality of sport is that, at some point, if you carry on too long, there will be a dip," he added. "And you don't want to be one of the people who had that dip, who carried on too long. That was always my fear."
McCoy versus his inner-demons? A great battle, no question. And one that can be added to his list of unforgettable victories. | You don't need to be Albert Einstein to figure out what has gone wrong at St Mirren, but the great man nailed it when he talked of the definition of insanity. |
39283911 | It is the first successful hijacking of a major commercial vessel in the Somali Basin since 2012 and is prompting debate over whether shipping companies have become complacent about the risk of maritime piracy.
The MT Aris 13 was travelling from Djibouti to Mogadishu on 13 March when, instead of giving the Somali coast a wide berth as advised, it took a short cut between the tip of the Horn of Africa and the Yemeni island of Socotra.
Somali pirates then ambushed the vessel just 11 miles (17km) from shore with two fast speedboats, known as skiffs, while aiming their weapons at the crew.
The vessel and its crew of eight Sri Lankan seafarers have now been seized by the pirates and are being held pending either ransom negotiations or a rescue attempt by the regional Puntland authorities. This brings to 16 the number of seafarers currently being held by Somalia-based pirates, the remaining eight being Iranians.
"For a vessel passing that close to the coast of Somalia without armed guards shows a level of complacency," said a spokesman for Neptune Maritime Security, which is currently running armed protection teams on around 70 vessels this month as they pass through the area of the western Indian Ocean known as the High Risk Area (HRA).
Employing armed teams, usually former servicemen, is seen by many shipping companies as prohibitively expensive. Shipping industry analysts say many vessels, especially those with a high freeboard (the vertical distance between the surface of the sea and the deck) have simply been speeding up to avoid capture. This is part of what is known as Best Management Practice, or BMP4.
Although pirates have, in the past, been incredibly adept at scaling the sides of big ocean-going vessels while in motion, this becomes very hard to do at speeds of 15 knots or more, especially if the captain takes evasive action, creating an unpredictable bow wave that can sink the pirates' skiffs.
In recent years the European Union and other nations, including China, have mounted naval patrols to deter Somali piracy and escort convoys along the coast of Yemen. But the area is so vast that their ships were rarely able to reach a vessel in distress in time. Once pirates were onboard it became a hostage situation which most naval vessels' rules of engagement prevented them from getting involved in.
"The navies' presence is good," says John Steed from the seafarers' welfare group Oceans Beyond Piracy, "but the primary factor in deterring Somali piracy has been the presence of armed guards onboard, along with best practice like speeding up," he added.
The ship that was captured on Monday had a low freeboard and was travelling so slowly that it was, he says "almost a sitting duck".
So will this latest hijacking be a wake-up call that prompts more precautions being taken at sea or will it signal the start of a new wave of piracy?
Worryingly, the factors that drove many Somali coastal fishermen to become pirates nearly a decade ago are still there. Somalia is currently in the grip of a famine and poverty is widespread; there are few employment options for young people.
There is massive and growing local resentment at the poaching of fish stocks off the coast by Asian trawlers. According to Oceans Beyond Piracy, some foreign vessels have "dubious" licences issued by officials in Puntland, but the local people never get to see any benefit from them.
The high point in Somali piracy came in 2010, both in terms of vessels hijacked and the number of seafarers taken prisoner for ransom. Soon after that, shipping companies began placing armed guards onboard who would "show weapons" to circling pirates and if necessary fire warning shots to ward them off.
This effectively broke the pirates' business model as, until then, they had been able to approach a ship, often at dawn after a night of chewing the narcotic qat leaf, open fire on the bridge to scare the captain into slowing down and stopping, and then they would board it using ladders.
They would then hold the vessel, its crew and its cargo for ransoms of millions of dollars.
After 2010 they were no longer able to do this with impunity. But now that news will have spread that many vessels are not carrying that armed protection there are concerns that the lucrative business of Somali maritime piracy may be set to return. | The hijacking of a merchant fuel tanker by pirates off the Somali coast this week has sent shockwaves through parts of the shipping industry. |
34993118 | Martin Tom, of Beccles, was sentenced to five years and four months in September after he admitted attacking a woman in her bed in May.
The 26-year-old's jail term was increased to seven-and-a-half-years at a Court of Appeal hearing in London.
Police said the initial sentence had not "fully recognised" that the offence happened during a burglary.
During the initial hearing, Ipswich Crown Court heard that Tom entered the victim's home in Beccles and initially intended to steal her mobile phone, but then forced himself on her.
When he was detained by police nearby, he tried to bite police officers, the court heard.
Tom admitted rape and resisting a police officer in the execution of their duty.
Det Con Darren Winchester, who began the process of appealing the sentence, said: "We are very pleased that his sentence has been increased today, as the justices acknowledged that the nature of this incident, commissioned during the act of burglary, had not been fully recognised in the initial sentencing.
"This is the correct and proper result." | A man who raped a woman during a burglary while high on crack cocaine has had his jail sentence increased. |
38709037 | Defender Liam Cooper and winger Hadi Sacko may well feature, but full-back Charlie Taylor (Achilles) remains out.
Kyle Bartley, Liam Bridcutt and Chris Wood are among those who could be rested by Leeds boss Garry Monk.
Sutton welcome back captain Jamie Collins and winger Roarie Deacon, who has scored four goals in his side's run to the fourth round.
That includes a stunning equaliser in their 3-1 victory at AFC Wimbledon in round three.
Collins returns following a two-match ban for collecting 10 yellow cards, while Deacon was left out of the midweek FA Trophy win over Worthing as he would have missed the Leeds game had he been booked.
Deacon, 25, started his career in the same age group at Arsenal as England midfielder Jack Wilshere, and wants to use Sunday's game as a platform to move back up the leagues.
"I want to get back to the top and playing at big stadiums against big teams, so showing what I can do against Leeds is another step in that direction," said Deacon.
"You always think as you go through the age groups, signing scholarships, professional contracts, that your chance will come.
"But it didn't happen for me, which happens to a lot of players, so you just have to take it on the chin and move on, which I did."
Sutton manager Paul Doswell said he is hoping for another big performance from "talisman" Deacon.
He added: "We've dubbed him the magic man and it's fair to say without his magic we would not be sitting here now." | Championship side Leeds United are likely to make changes to the side that beat Nottingham Forest on Wednesday. |
35743573 | Although violations continue to be reported by all sides, these last nine days have been the quietest that most Syrians have seen in years. | Five years after the conflict in Syria began with protests against Bashar al-Assad in southern city of Deraa, a fragile truce that came into effect on 27 February is holding in many areas of the country. |
38163038 | The shooting triggered several nights of protests across the city.
Scott's family say he was unarmed but police insist he had a gun.
Prosecutors revealed surveillance footage appearing to show a holstered gun on his ankle.
Footage released directly after the shooting by police and by Scott's wife had been inconclusive.
District Attorney Andrew Murray, who made the announcement, said 15 experienced prosecutors had unanimously recommended there was insufficient evidence to charge Officer Brentley Vinson.
Mr Murray said he had informed the family of the verdict prior to his public announcement.
After the news was released, police were put on high alert and the city of Charlotte released a statement: "We recognize that for some members of our community, this news will be met with different reactions.
"No matter where you stand on the issue, the events surrounding the Scott shooting have forever changed our community, and we intend to learn from and build a stronger Charlotte because of it."
North Carolina's governor declared a state of emergency in the city in September after protesters turned violent.
Lawyers for Scott's family said they might still consider filing a lawsuit because of different standards for criminal charges and civil liability.
Mr Vinson was placed on administrative leave following the shooting - common practice after such incidents.
The "Black Lives Matter" movement, which led many of the protests following Scott's death, was started after the deaths of unarmed black men at the hands of police.
According to one research group, over 100 unarmed black people were killed by the police in 2015 and a string of riots occurred following similar shootings this year.
Details of the shooting released by Mr Murray at a news conference state that plainclothes police went to an apartment complex on 20 September to look for a suspect - not Scott - with an outstanding warrant.
Prosecutors say Scott parked in the apartment complex's car park, beside officers, after going into a local shop.
Footage from the shop reveals that Scott was carrying a weapon, the prosecutors say.
Scott then allegedly proceeded to smoke a marijuana cigarette and hold up a semi-automatic hand gun while in his car.
He then exited the car and officers approached. At that point police deemed him a threat and Officer Vinson fired his weapon.
Scott was pronounced dead later at a local hospital from gunshot wounds to his back and abdomen.
Prosecutors say that Scott's DNA was found on a handgun at the scene.
They say the gun was cocked, the safety catch was off and there were bullets in the chamber. Investigators also found a receipt for the purchase of ammunition in Scott's wallet. | North Carolina prosecutors have said a Charlotte police officer acted lawfully when he shot and killed a fellow black man, Keith Lamont Scott, in September, and will not face charges. |
33211731 | Labour councillor Simon Carter, who has represented Bury Council's Tottington ward since 2012, faces 16 counts.
Mr Carter, 53, of Rakewood Avenue, Littleborough, appeared before Manchester and Salford Magistrates' Court.
An ex-member of the council's Standards Committee, he was bailed to appear at Manchester Crown Court on 10 July.
A Bury Council spokesman said: "We can confirm that a Bury councillor has been charged with making indecent images of children.
"As the matter is under police jurisdiction, it would be inappropriate to comment further." | A Greater Manchester councillor has appeared in court charged with making indecent images of a child. |
33892572 | The Scotttish Tremor Society [a deliberate misspelling] says shaking is often mistaken for Parkinson's.
It is estimated that up to 6% of the population have "essential tremor" - a rhythmic trembling of the hands, head, legs, trunk and/or voice.
It can appear at any age, and is four times as common as Parkinson's.
Essential tremor is a disorder of the nervous system, but is not always due to trauma. It can be hereditary or caused by a stroke - or it can simply begin for no apparent reason.
Six-year-old Greg McLelland was born with the condition but his mum, Stacey, says it wasn't properly diagnosed until he was aged five.
"At first we thought it was epilepsy but then a year-and-a-half ago we got the proper diagnosis. It was actually a speech and language therapist who noticed the tremors."
Greg's shakes are worse at night.
"We had a single bed for him but we had to get bed guards to stop him falling out with the night tremors. We've now got him a new double bed and, fingers crossed, he won't fall out of this one.
"We don't know what the future holds for him. Now, his writing is very small and he doesn't write much. The school try to get him to do things without writing, or by using a tablet."
Mary Ramsay was also born with essential tremor but was 48 before she got a definite diagnosis.
"I was getting to the stage where I wouldn't go out, I wouldn't eat or drink in public, I wouldn't write. I withdrew. But, in 1992. I went onto the internet and found the National Tremor Foundation."
Mary now runs the Scotttish Tremor Society which campaigns for greater recognition of the condition.
"There are three 't's. Two for Scottish and one for tremor," she said
"We have one lady whose mother was diagnosed with Parkinsons - I'm not sure how long ago - but she was put on medication for Parkinsons and it turns out it is essential tremor. So they have to wean her off the medication before they can start treating essential tremor."
"Mary's given us more information than the paediatrician has," says Mrs McLelland. "That's shocking."
The Scotttish Tremor Society has launched a petition calling on medical professionals and the government to recognise that it is a disabling medical condition.
The petition will be presented to the government in October.
"We are getting emails, phone calls, requests from America, Australia, New Zealand and a whole host of other countries. I basically can't keep up," said Mrs Ramsay.
Jamie Hepburn, the Scottish government's minister for sport, health improvement and mental health, said it anyone who experienced tremor symptoms should see their GP as soon as possible.
He also welcomed efforts to raise awareness of the condition.
"I understand that essential tremor can cause disruption to people's lives, particularly in more severe cases," he said.
"There are no specific treatments but it is possible to diminish the effects through appropriate medicines or other treatments in the most severe cases.
"Clinical advice, support, or appropriate referral to specialist services will be determined by GPs and based on an assessment of individual need. It is therefore essential that people who experience such symptoms seek advice from their GP as soon as possible." | A charity for people who have uncontrollable shaking is calling for the condition to be given greater recognition as a disability. |
40802572 | Two militants carried out the "commando" attack, the IS-affiliated news agency Amaq said. Authorities said the death toll had risen to 33.
The blast, which struck the Jawadia mosque, coincided with evening prayers at around 20:00 local time (15:30 GMT).
Both attackers - a suicide bomber and a militant armed with a firearm - died.
Amaq made the announcement on Wednesday using the messaging app Telegram.
Authorities in Herat said that a further 66 people were injured in the attack. Militants threw grenades when they stormed the packed mosque in the predominantly Shia Muslim area.
Herat, close to the border with Iran, is considered one of Afghanistan's more peaceful cities.
On Wednesday, protesters chanted anti-IS slogans as they carried victims' coffins through the streets of Herat, AFP news agency reported.
Demonstrators chanted "death to Daesh [IS]" and "down with fundamentalism" as the coffins were placed near the Jawadia mosque.
A spokesman for the Taliban, which has struck Shia mosques in the country before, earlier condemned the attack in a text message sent to reporters.
The incident took place one day after a battle at the Iraqi embassy in the capital, Kabul, which also saw gunmen launch an assault following a suicide explosion. IS said it had carried out that attack.
Areas dominated by Shia Muslims in Afghanistan have been hit by attacks repeatedly in the past year, by both IS and the Taliban.
Many of the casualties have been civilians, with injury numbers rising for the past five years as attacks increased.
In May, a huge bombing in the centre of Kabul killed more than 150 people, the deadliest militant attack in the country since US-led forces ousted the Taliban from power in 2001. It is not clear what the intended target was. | So-called Islamic State (IS) has said it was behind an explosion at a mosque in the Afghan city of Herat that killed dozens of people on Tuesday. |
34571732 | It's a material found in elephant tusks and China buys and sells more of it than anywhere else in the world.
Prince William has spoken passionately about trying to stop the ivory trade in the past and will use his speech to urge the Chinese government to ban it.
Here is Newsround's guide on why the ivory trade is such a big concern and why China seems so obsessed with it.
Ivory is a hard white material that is found in the tusks of elephants and other tusked animals like hippos and walruses. Although rhinos have similar looking horns, these aren't actually made from ivory. However, rhinos are also illegally hunted for their horns because they are used in lots of medicines in China and the Far East.
Lots of elephants die as a result of hunters taking their tusks because removing the ivory almost always kills the animals.
It's estimated that up to 30,000 African elephants die every year because they are hunted for ivory.
Selling ivory was banned worldwide in 1989, but the ban has been lifted several times, so there is still a lot of ivory on sale. As well as this, a lot of ivory is sold by poachers who kill elephants illegally.
In China and Hong Kong, ivory is seen as precious material and is used in ornaments and jewellery. It's also sometimes used in traditional Chinese medicine.
Some rich Chinese people think that owning ivory makes them look more successful. Others think that ivory will bring them good luck.
China has the biggest ivory trade in the world and wildlife experts believe that around 70 per cent of the world's ivory ends up there.
This year China agreed to ban ivory tusks and ornaments coming into the country for twelve months.
The government has said it wants to completely ban ivory sales soon but it is still legal to sell older carvings and ornaments.
Some people don't want ivory to be banned in China because they say that carving it is an old Chinese tradition that should carry on.
But more and more people in China disagree. A recent survey found that 95 per cent of people there wanted ivory to be banned to protect the elephants. | Prince William will go on Chinese TV today to speak out against the use of ivory. |
39261200 | Burns will defend his WBA super-lightweight title against IBF world champion Julius Indongo on 15 April.
But Hearn wanted him to face a less dangerous foe.
"It's not wrong for him because he can't win the fight, it's just that there were easier options for more money," Hearn said.
"That's why you have to admire him, because he doesn't care about the money, he cares about creating a legacy, about creating history. That's inspirational."
Burns could have defended his world title against the American Paulie Malignaggi, but as soon as Indongo won the IBF belt against Eduard Troyanovsky in Russia, Burns wanted to face the Namibian.
The contest, at The Hydro in Glasgow, will be the first time a unification bout - when each opponent is putting a world title at the same weight on the line - will be held in Scotland.
"To get a unification fight in this division is very difficult, because it's either Terence Crawford [the WBC and WBO super-lightweight champion] or this guy," said Hearn.
"This was one we targeted and, in the meantime, the Malignaggi fights and other fights came up who were bigger names but were easier.
"I'm going to Ricky Burns and saying, 'you can fight this guy for x money or this horrible nightmare for less money, what do you want to do?'.
"And he said, 'I'll fight the horrible guy for less money'. So I thought I'd better phone Alex [Morrison, his manager] to talk him out of this.
"Alex agreed with me 100%, as any advisor would do. He phoned me back 10 minutes later and said, 'it's a complete waste of time, I've spoken to him and this is the only fight he wants'.
"It's a 50/50 fight. You'd like to think Indongo would fold, coming to Glasgow and the crowd, but he just went to Russia and knocked out the champion.
"But Ricky knows what he's doing. He's been around a long time."
Hearn believes that a Burns victory would immediately open up the opportunity of a rematch with Crawford, who defeated the Scot in 2014, with the American's promoters already having made contact with him.
Burns himself, though, is wholly focused on the prospect of facing Indongo and the challenges of preparing for the fight when so little video footage is available of the Namibian.
"I know that it's a much harder fight, a riskier fight, but the rewards are going to be so much better," Burns said. "I've taken the risk, so we'll soon find out.
"There have been a few times in my career when I've proved to myself and to other people that, when I'm up against it, when people are writing me off, that's when I'll always perform to my best.
"Fingers crossed that this is another one of those situations.
"He's tall, big long arms, southpaw. It's going to be a hard fight."
Burns said that his trainer, Tony Sim "has brought in sparring partners who are quite similar, so we're getting the best preparation that we can".
"I'm confident of getting the win," he added. | Promoter Eddie Hearn described Ricky Burns' next opponent as a "nightmare" but praised the world champion for not taking an easier fight. |
32306637 | Natalie Bennett, the party's leader, said membership had reached 59,000 and to help get that message across, some of their names appeared on the posters used as the backdrop for today's manifesto launch.
Printed as an "executive summary" to save paper, the manifesto sets out the party's programme to create "a more equal, more democratic society while healing the planet".
The Greens call it a "peaceful revolution" but it's an expensive one too. Their proposals include plans to increase government spending by an additional £177bn a year by the end of the next parliament.
By 2019 government spending will be around 20% higher than it's forecast to be for the year 2015.
The Greens don't like being drawn into the same tax-and-spend scrutiny of the other parties but they know economic credibility matters. So they've tried to answer the question about their sums adding up.
Their spending plans will be paid for, they say, by tax increases and growth that comes from creating one million new jobs.
They admit though, that they aren't sure how much their wealth tax would raise as it hasn't been tried before.
At today's press conference Natalie Bennett brushed away questions about their plans for pensions by telling the audience to check on the website where the full manifesto is published.
Whatever the uncertainties, the Greens believe their pitch - anti-austerity, outside the mainstream, environment-friendly - is winning support.
They're fielding a record number of 535 candidates in England and Wales.
Caroline Lucas was their first MP, elected in 2010, and is seen as an effective spokesperson. The Greens' big priority is to retain her Brighton Pavilion seat and they are targeting 12 others, including Norwich South, Bristol West and Oxford East.
By contrast, Ms Bennett has had to live down the catastrophic interview she gave London-based LBC radio at the launch of the election campaign in January. Since then, she has appeared more confident although her personal rating didn't improve after the first TV debate.
Could the Green Party influence the next government? They have ruled out any arrangement that props up a Tory administration.
If Labour leads the next government, then the Greens say they would be prepared to offer support on a vote-by-vote basis. But the conundrum they face is that Labour plans spending cuts - more austerity - which the Greens say they want to end. | There was one man from east London in a Green Party T-shirt and maybe a handful of other supporters but otherwise, no sign in the room of the "Green surge" the party is so proud of. |
39546632 | The visitors were grateful to keeper Wes Foderingham for three fine saves before Kenny Miller's brace and a third from Joe Dodoo clinched a 3-0 victory.
It ended second-place Aberdeen's run of 10 consecutive home wins.
"I can describe the game with two words - organisation and sacrifice," said Caixinha after a second win in charge.
"I think the team understood perfectly well the opponents that they were facing and what they needed to do throughout the match.
"When it was needed to suffer, the team knew when to suffer, especially in the first 15 or 20 minutes in the second half.
"We needed to make decisions at that moment because Aberdeen were taking risks and exposing their two full-backs and we knew the time to exploit the space they were conceding.
"I am glad the game went and finished how it did."
Victory revived Rangers' hopes of catching the Dons in second spot, with six games left - including another against Aberdeen - to come.
"We knew we had still two more games against Aberdeen," Caixinha added.
"We have now won the first one but if we don't continue winning before the next game then maybe things will be different.
"That is what we need to do, keep winning and then beat them again but our focus is always on our next match and now we will have to look right away at our next opponent on Saturday."
Rangers host Partick Thistle on 15 April before a Scottish Cup semi-final against Celtic on 23 April. The post-split Premiership fixtures will be announced early this week. | Rangers manager Pedro Caixinha praised his players for "suffering" against Aberdeen before securing a win that cut the gap on the Dons to nine points. |
27963650 | Ms Reeves said her party supported the universal credit policy in principle, and hoped to "rescue" it.
She said the Department for Work and Pensions had been in "chaos" under her opposite number, Iain Duncan Smith.
Mr Duncan Smith said implementation of the project was now "working well".
The universal credit system merges six working-age benefits - income-based jobseeker's allowance, income-related employment and support allowance, income support, child tax credit, working tax credit and housing benefit - into a single payment in a far-reaching change designed to encourage work and reduce fraud.
In an interview with BBC One's Sunday Politics programme, Ms Reeves said: "We set up a universal credit rescue committee in the autumn of last year because we had seen, from the National Audit Office [and] from the Public Accounts Committee, report after report showing that this project is massively over budget, and it is not going to be delivered according to the government timetable.
"We believe in the principle of universal credit, we think it is the right thing to do."
But Ms Reeves criticised ministers for not being open about what had gone wrong with the project.
"There is no transparency," she said.
"It's going to cost £12.8bn to deliver and we don't know what sort of state it is in.
"So we have said that if we win the next election we will pause... the build of the system for three months, calling in the National Audit Office to do a warts-and-all report on it."
She said the "pause" would not involve halting the pilot schemes that were already in place.
But the Labour MP urged ministers to follow her prescription immediately.
"The government doesn't need to wait for the next election," she said. "They could do this today: call in the National Audit Office, stop throwing good money after bad, and finally get a grip on this incredibly important programme."
Mr Duncan Smith, in an earlier interview with BBC Radio 5 Live's Pienaar's Politics programme, said he had "intervened" in the implementation of the project a year ago.
"I was concerned that what was happening was that they were going to try to roll out universal credit in the same way that historically many programmes in government had been rolled out, which was kind of like a big bang, so you get everything ready and then you hit the button, and off it goes.
"Lots of things you discover later cause huge problems, and I didn't want to move anyone on to universal credit and then find that they suffered as a result."
He said the department had developed a "much better" strategy, under which the project would be introduced in phases.
On Friday, the work and pensions secretary announced universal credit would shortly be expanded from the 10 job centres where it is currently being piloted to all 90 job centres in north-west England.
At this stage, the move would apply only to single claimants, who represent the simplest cases, expanding further to encompass couples and families at a later stage.
Mr Duncan Smith told Pienaar's Politics: "Once you've got it set in the North West you can then roll it out all over the rest of the country knowing that you are likely to achieve what you set out to do."
He said reports that the policy might be abandoned were "complete nonsense", adding: "All our IT at the moment is working and it's working well, which is why we've taken the decision to roll it out to the whole of the North West." | Labour will "pause" the government's flagship welfare reform if it wins the next general election in 2015, shadow work and pensions secretary Rachel Reeves has said. |
27774813 | Its new PlayStation 4 console will get third-person shooter Uncharted 4 in 2015, while Sack Boy is due to star in Little Big Planet 3 in November.
Sony also announced it would launch a budget console for $99 (£59) this year.
Sony's E3 games expo event covered more topics than Microsoft's, but industry watchers were split as to which firm had come out on top.
"I think Microsoft had the better show - it was tighter and more focused," said Stephen Totilo, editor-in-chief of the games news site Kotaku.
"A lot of the Sony games that we saw were for 2015, and Microsoft did a better job of showing people what they will be getting in 2014.
"E3 is always to some extent smoke and mirrors, and when you're at the event you have to discern what is real and what is hype."
While Sony showed off live gameplay for the Little Big Planet game at the Los Angeles event, it only showed a brief trailer for Uncharted 4: A Thief's End, and a pre-recorded clip of another big budget title The Order: 1886, also due to go on sale next year.
However, NowGamer writer Adam Barnes had a different take.
"It was probably Sony that came out on top in the end, in spite of the wasted time talking up the benefits of Sony's TV and entertainment department," he told the BBC.
"Bloodborne carries a lot of prestige among gamers and the first official unveiling of Grand Theft Auto 5 on a next-gen platform will certainly carry a lot of weight for many."
Bloodborne is a forthcoming role-playing action title from Hidetaka Miyazaka, creator of the notoriously difficult title Dark Souls.
The PS4 version of crime-themed GTA V is due to go on sale in the autumn, shortly after the 29 July release of another re-mastered title, The Last Of Us.
Sony also announced that add-on content for its game Infamous: Second Son - due out in August - could be bought and played by consumers who had not purchased the original title.
Along with the more family-friendly Little Big Planet 3 - which is compatible with user-created levels for earlier versions of the platformer - the titles will help tackle criticism that several other big-name titles unveiled at last year's E3 have been delayed until 2015.
Analysis from E3: Dave Lee, Los Angeles
Before Sony's press event at E3, the company puts on a big open air do - food stands, beer, DJ, the works. In the LA sun. It's a pleasant way to end a busy day of announcements.
For Sony, it serves another, more useful purpose. Unlike Microsoft's press conference at 09:30 local time, which has a room full of skipped breakfasts and hangovers, the PlayStation event is packed with excitable, whooping games fans.
But the incessant hollering after every sentence won't disguise the fact that much of what we saw from Sony tonight will not enter gamer's worlds until 2015.
Compared to the strong portfolio of titles coming to Xbox One before the end of the year, it could prove to be an Achilles heel.
Yet tipping the battle back in Sony's favour is the fact that some of its exclusives looked utterly stunning.
A points win for Sony, one analyst told me, though plenty will disagree.
Sony has boasting rights to the fact that it managed to secure first-look gameplay from Rocksteady's Batman: Arkham Knight, Bungie's Destiny, and NeatherRealm Studios's Mortal Kombat X, despite the fact they will all be released on the Xbox One as well.
The Japanese firm managed to surprise its audience with news that it had signed a deal to allow PS4 owners to invite others to play multiplayer battles in another title - Ubisoft's Himalayas-set actioner Far Cry 4 - even if the "friends" had not bought the software.
It also drew one of the loudest cheers of the event with news that LucasArts classic 1998 game Grim Fandango was being recreated for PlayStation by Double Fine Productions.
But other elements of its show were less well received.
A drawn out promotion for Powers - an in-development detective TV series involving characters with superpowers - only generated scattered applause.
"This is not selling the series very strongly," blogged Ars Technica in its live coverage of the show.
News of an animated movie based on the characters Ratchet and Clank movie had an even cooler reception.
Beyond a quick mention of two new demos for Project Morpheus, Sony's virtual reality helmet was all but ignored.
The firm instead focused on the North American launch of PS Now in July - a service that will allow PS4s to play games made for older consoles via the internet. It added that the service would be extended to the PS3, PS Vita handheld and selected Sony TVs later in the year.
No mention was made of it coming to other parts of the world.
However, Sony did reveal that Europe would be included in the initial launch of the PlayStation TV - a $99 device that can stream games from the PS4 to a second TV in the home, as well as provide access to Sony's online content including movies and PS Now, where available.
Mr Totilo was not impressed.
"Sony TVs are now playing PlayStation games, the PlayStation TV is playing backwards-compatible games - I think if I was the consumer I'd be in a muddle about which of Sony's many different devices is the one that I need," he said.
Michael Pachter, an equity analyst at Wedbush Securities added: "I don't think PS TV is that differentiated from Roku, Apple TV or Fire TV to gain a tremendous amount of share. The differentiator is that it plays catalogue games, so people without a PS3 might find that interesting, but as PS3 comes down in price, that is less of a lure."
The audience proved more receptive to some of the indie games on show.
UK-based Hello Games was widely praised for its promo of No Man's Sky - a title involving a universe containing an "infinite" amount of planets.
Giant Squid - a studio founded by the art director and composer of Journey - also showed off the underwater game Abzu.
However, there was no mention of The Last Guardian - a game first announced by Sony at E3 five years ago, which the firm recently stressed had not been cancelled. | Sony has confirmed the return of two of its biggest exclusive franchises: Uncharted and Little Big Planet. |
34100577 | The Exeter Chiefs tight-head prop made his debut in Wales' 16-10 World Cup warm-up win against Ireland in Dublin.
"I still have to pinch myself - it's a bit surreal," the York-born 23-year-old said.
"Two years ago I couldn't get a game at London Scottish, so to be here now is a dream come true."
Francis added: "To come out here and get a win, you can't ask for any more on your first cap."
The 20-stone tight-head began his professional career with Doncaster Knights in 2012 before joining London Scottish the following year.
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That brought Francis to the attention of Exeter, who signed him for the 2014-15 season, where a string of impressive performances and his Welsh ancestry - his grandmother Eirlys is from the Swansea valley - brought him onto Wales' radar.
A call-up to the Wales 2015 Six Nations squad followed before Francis was included on their World Cup training camps in Switzerland, Qatar and north Wales.
Francis impressed Warren Gatland with "the way he trained and his conditioning", persuading the Wales coach to hand him his first cap at the Aviva Stadium.
"I'm happy to get it out of the way, the first game was always going to be the most nervous and the most daunting," Francis said.
"I'm quite a nervous character before a game, any game, but once I got into it I enjoyed it.
"I was happy with my first scrum but there was one before half-time that got away from us, cost us a try, but on the whole we held it.
"I'm glad to get that [first cap] under my belt but obviously a long way from [the level] I want to play - I missed a few tackles and that scrum annoyed me a bit. But a good start.
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"I always knew the lungs were going to be tested, but I felt the fitness work got me through it and I'll hopefully get some more game time to gain fitness."
Now Francis, along with the rest of the Wales squad, faces a nervous wait to see if he will make the cut for the final 31-man World Cup squad, which will be announced at midday on Monday 31 August.
"I've just got to wait. I think we're doing it live so no one is getting told before, so it's a nervy day on Monday, wait and watch and hopefully get the call," Francis added.
"Obviously I'm hopeful, I'd love to play but there's a lot of competition in my position.
"Samson [Lee] is coming back so I'll have to wait and see." | Wales forward Tomas Francis admits his rapid rise to international rugby is like "a dream". |
24627842 | The Arctic charr population at Llyn Padarn, Llanberis, has been dropping over a number of years with some blaming poor water quality.
It is the fourth year that juvenile charr have been released into the lake.
In previous years the fish have also been restocked at Llyn Crafnant, near Trefriw, Conwy, developed as a back-up source of charr for Llyn Padarn.
However, new stock will not be introduced into Crafnant this year as Natural Resources Wales (NRW) officers are monitoring populations in the lake to see if previous restocking efforts have been successful.
"We're committed to ensuring the future of the iconic Arctic charr population in Llyn Padarn and we've put great effort into restocking thousands of fish over the years," said NRW spokesman Tim Jones.
"At the same time, we're continuing to work with Dwr Cymru Welsh Water and others to find ways to improve water quality in the lake and create a better habitat for the charr to survive."
A breeding programme has been set up at NRW's Mawddach hatchery in a bid to protect the rare fish, which can only be found in a few cold, deep lakes in north Wales.
In July a report confirmed that nutrients from sewage effluent had damaged the water quality at Llyn Padarn following an incident in 2009.
NRW said the nutrients also caused a toxic algal bloom which closed the lake for weeks at a time.
Stricter limits have since been imposed on a local sewage works. | Around 5,500 rare Arctic charr fish have been released into a Snowdonia lake to help restore their numbers. |
39841707 | The centrist candidate, 39, defeated the far right's Marine Le Pen, winning 66.1% of the vote to her 33.9%.
Acknowledging his victory, Mr Macron told supporters he wanted to ensure Le Pen voters "no longer have a reason to vote for an extremist position".
The sense of relief among European Union leaders has been palpable.
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Mr Macron was elected on a pro-EU platform, while Ms Le Pen by contrast threatened to pull out of the single currency and hold an in/out referendum on France's membership of the EU.
In a speech to jubilant supporters, Mr Macron said: "Tonight you won, France won. Everyone told us it was impossible, but they don't know France."
His win makes him France's youngest president and overturns the decades-long dominance of France's two main political parties.
But huge challenges remain, with a third of those who voted choosing Ms Le Pen, 48, and even more abstaining or casting a blank ballot.
Mr Macron said he had heard "the rage, anxiety and doubt that a lot of you have expressed", vowing to spend his five years in office "fighting the forces of division that undermine France".
He will be sworn in on Sunday, outgoing President François Hollande said.
France's ambitious man 'on the move'
EU press relief at Macron win
Emmanuel Macron inherits one of the most powerful positions in Europe, and all the symbolism that comes with it.
This morning at the Arc de Triomphe, he showed no sign of being awed by his new job.
He walked alongside the outgoing President François Hollande as the two laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
The two then shook hands with veterans. Mr Macron appeared to take longer to make his way through one receiving line, stopping to talk to elderly men, leaving Mr Hollande to wait for him at the end.
Emmanuel Macron now becomes France's youngest leader since Napoleon Bonaparte, whose battles are commemorated at the Arc de Triomphe. The new president will hope that his own fights are less bloody.
Most of those running the EU were breathing a sigh of relief, given Ms Le Pen's policies and last year's Brexit vote.
European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker tweeted "happy that the French chose a European future" while German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Mr Macron "carries the hopes of millions of French people, and of many people in Germany and the whole of Europe".
US President Donald Trump, who previously praised Ms Le Pen, tweeted his congratulations to Mr Macron for the "big win" and said he looked forward to working with him.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said amid the "growing threat of terrorism and violent extremism" it was important to "join forces to ensure international stability and security".
With parliamentary elections in June, he will be campaigning on behalf of his new movement En Marche (On The Move) to get the seats he needs to pursue his legislative agenda.
The grouping, founded just over a year ago, does not yet have a presence in parliament. If he cannot gain a majority he may have to form a coalition.
His campaign pledges included cutting 120,000 public-sector jobs, reducing public spending by €60bn (£50bn; $65bn), and lowering the unemployment rate from its current level of about 10% to below 7%.
He vowed to ease labour laws and give new protections to the self-employed.
She won almost double the tally her father Jean-Marie won in 2002, the last time a far-right candidate made the French presidential run-off.
Although she performed worse than final polls had indicated, her anti-globalisation, anti-immigrant, high-spending manifesto attracted an estimated 11 million votes.
She said the election had shown a division between "patriots and globalists" and called for the emergence of a new political force.
Ms Le Pen said her National Front party needed to renew itself and that she would start the "deep transformation of our movement", vowing to lead it into next month's parliamentary elections. | Emmanuel Macron has vowed to fight "the forces of division that undermine France" after easily winning the run-off election for the French presidency. |
35532475 | Thousands of Reds supporters protested against planned increases in ticket prices at Anfield by walking out of Saturday's game with Sunderland.
"It's got to stop being all about money and go back to being a sport," Evans told BBC Radio 5 live.
"I hope Liverpool are big enough to work it out. It seems ridiculous that prices go up."
Evans, who managed the club in the 1990s, added: "They can't keep taking the supporters for granted.
"I hope it doesn't become a massive saga and that Liverpool Football Club itself realises it's the principle of the matter at the end of the day."
Liverpool cancelled a question and answer session with supporters and chief executive Ian Ayre on Monday night as a result on "ongoing ticket discussions".
Liverpool were leading Sunderland 2-0 before Saturday's walkout, but conceded two goals in the final 13 minutes to draw 2-2.
Fans started heading for the exits on 77 minutes, in protest at the £77 top-priced ticket in the new main stand next season.
Gareth Roberts, who edits The Anfield Wrap, told 5 live: "The football really took a back seat.
"Ten to fifteen thousand turning their backs on the team is unprecedented in the history of the club.
"Fans who go week in, week out, feel like they can play a part in what goes on on the pitch, so to just walk away shows enough is enough."
He added: "It's really pierced the football bubble. It seems more than ever before people are saying the fans are right. Why should fans be taxed for their loyalty?"
The Football Supporters' Federation says Premier League clubs now have enough financial clout to ease the burden on fans.
"I think we've reached a bit of a turning point," FSF chairman Malcolm Clarke told 5 live.
"Clubs could let everyone in for free all season and still have more money than they had last season with the current TV rights deal.
"People are beginning to realise the sheer size of the income being brought in by the new television deal.
"Fans are saying they should start to get some of the benefits because it wouldn't be a very marketable product without them." | Liverpool must stop taking fans "for granted", says former boss Roy Evans as the ticket row rumbles on. |
38157523 | Rifat Mohammed died hours after his parents appeared in court charged with assaulting him.
Mohammed Miah, 36, and Rebeka Nazmin, 31, of Poplar, east London, were charged with causing grievous bodily harm, which has now been replaced with the murder charge.
Rifat was admitted to hospital on 4 July, but died the next day.
A trial date has been set for 27 February 2017 at the Old Bailey. | The parents of a three-month-old boy who died from a serious head injury have been charged with his murder. |
33402706 | Manxman Cavendish was pipped by German Greipel, Peter Sagan and Swiss Fabian Cancellara, who took the yellow jersey.
Froome placed seventh on stage two, four seconds ahead of Alberto Contador in 13th and one minute 28 seconds ahead of Vincenzo Nibali and Nairo Quintana.
Team Sky's Froome, champion in 2013, is up to 10th in the overall standings.
Spanish two-time winner Contador, Italy's defending champion Nibali and Colombian Quintana have been billed as Froome's main rivals for overall victory at this year's race.
But over an unpredictable 166km along the Dutch coast, the 30-year-old was able to stake an early claim on the yellow jersey as high winds split the peloton.
"I'm really thankful to my team-mates for keeping me in front, especially when that split happened," Froome said.
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"It was chaos out there for a few minutes, with the storm, with the winds. One second Nibali was next to me so I couldn't believe it when he was distanced."
Czech time trial champion Jan Barta was the first of four breakaway riders past the day's intermediate checkpoint, where John Degenkolb got out of his saddle to take fifth and three more points than Cavendish, who rolled over in eighth.
By the time the peloton reached within 60km of the stage finish, where high winds had been blowing all afternoon, the breakaway was caught and teams organised themselves in protection of their key riders as conditions worsened.
Quintana and Nibali were just two of dozens of riders distanced by crosswinds, while Froome's team-mate Geraint Thomas was involved in a minor crash.
The Welshman recovered to finish 12th and move up to fifth overall ahead of Monday's third stage from Antwerp to Huy, where he will have an outside chance of victory himself.
"During the storm it was hard enough to see where you were going," Thomas told ITV. "I didn't realise the gap was as big as a minute and a half. It's perfect, I wouldn't turn that down."
For Lotto-Soudal's Greipel, it was an eighth Tour de France stage victory, while Cavendish of Etixx-Quick Step is still searching for his 26th.
Had Cavendish held on for third place his team-mate Tony Martin would have taken the yellow jersey, but the 30-year-old appeared to run out of energy just before the line.
"The day Cancellara beats me in a sprint I've gone too long. I've gassed it," Cavendish said.
"I think Mark [Renshaw] went too early and kind of left me hanging. We died. It's disappointing, Tony's disappointed."
1 Andre Greipel (Ger) Lotto Soudal 3hrs 29mins 03secs
2 Peter Sagan (Svk) Tinkoff-Saxo Same time
3 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Trek Factory Racing
4 Mark Cavendish (GB) Etixx - Quick-Step
5 Daniel Oss (Ita) BMC Racing Team
6 Greg Van Avermaet (Bel) BMC Racing Team
7 Christopher Froome (GB) Team Sky
8 Tom Dumoulin (Ned) Team Giant-Alpecin
9 Tony Martin (Ger) Etixx - Quick-Step
10 Warren Barguil (Fra) Team Giant-Alpecin
1 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Trek Factory Racing 3hrs 44mins 01sec
2 Tony Martin (Ger) Etixx - Quick-Step +3secs
3 Tom Dumoulin (Ned) Team Giant-Alpecin +6secs
4 Peter Sagan (Svk) Tinkoff-Saxo +33secs
5 Geraint Thomas (GB) Team Sky +35secs
6 Daniel Oss (Ita) BMC Racing Team +42secs
7 Rigoberto Uran (Col) Etixx - Quick-Step Same time
8 Tejay Van Garderen (USA) BMC Racing Team +44secs
9 Greg Van Avermaet (Bel) BMC Racing Team +48secs
10 Chris Froome (GB) Team Sky Same time
14 Alberto Contador (Spa) Tinkoff-Saxo +01min 00secs
20 Ian Stannard (GB) Team Sky +01min 20secs
21 Mark Cavendish (GB) Etixx - Quick-Step +01min 24secs
29 Alex Dowsett (GB) Movistar +02mins 02secs
33 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Astana +2mins 9secs
44 Nairo Quintana (Col) Movistar +2mins 27secs
96 Stephen Cummings (GB) MTN - Qhubeka +05mins 34secs
108 Simon Yates (GB) Orica GreenEdge +05mins 48secs
123 Peter Kennaugh (GB) Team Sky +06mins 10secs
137 Adam Yates (GB) Orica GreenEdge +06mins 20secs
139 Luke Rowe (GB) Team Sky +06mins 21secs | Chris Froome gained significant time on his Tour de France rivals as Mark Cavendish finished fourth behind stage winner Andre Greipel in Zeeland. |
36984934 | The UK betting firm reported a 16% drop in operating profits to £131.1m, with turnover up 1% to £814.4m.
William Hill, currently the subject of a merger attempt by 888 Holdings and Rank Group, won £36m from punters betting on the Euro 2016 football tournament.
That offset the £5.5m loss it incurred on the Cheltenham horseracing festival.
But William Hill's interim chief executive, Philip Bowcock, said the first half of 2016 had been "challenging" as it battled to sort out issues with its online business, including problems with its new app.
He said three out of its four business - the retail side, the US and Australia - had performed well in the six months to 28 June and trading was in line with full-year expectations.
"We have taken considerable steps forward in executing on online's improvements but there is still a way to go," he said.
Mr Bowcock made no comment on the approach from 888 Holdings and Rank Group in July. At the time, the company said it was "not clear" that a combination would "enhance William Hill's strategic positioning".
Despite the fall in operating profits, William Hill said trading still remained "in line with previous full-year operating profit guidance of £260m-£280m".
Pre-tax profits for the half year rose 28% to £100.7m, but this was due to the previous year's results being hit by a large one-off charge related to the rebranding of its Australian business.
Earlier this year, James Henderson was ousted from his position as William Hill chief executive following a series of profit warnings.
William Hill is the UK's largest betting shop operator, however it is set to lose its number one status following the planned merger between Ladbrokes and Gala Coral. | A winning streak in football was not enough to rescue half-year profits at betting firm William Hill. |
38412320 | The Dons were ahead with only nine minutes gone, Kieran Agard nodding home a loose ball after Nicky Maynard's stunning strike crashed off the crossbar.
And it was to get better for Dons, a second goal coming after 26 minutes when a defensive mix-up saw the ball fall kindly to Chuks Aneke. He picked out Agard who made no mistake in doubling his tally from close range.
Swindon pulled a goal back nine minutes later after a deep cross into the box found Luke Norris who squeezed the ball in.
But Samir Carruthers' neat through-ball saw Maynard extend the advantage once more, beating the offside trap to slot home his 100th career goal.
Swindon never gave up, setting up a nervy finale as Raphael Rossi Branco headed home with 25 minutes remaining, only to fall short and suffer a third defeat in four league outings.
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Match ends, MK Dons 3, Swindon Town 2.
Second Half ends, MK Dons 3, Swindon Town 2.
Samir Carruthers (MK Dons) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Luke Norris (Swindon Town).
Foul by Joe Walsh (MK Dons).
Jonathan Obika (Swindon Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Samir Carruthers (MK Dons) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Sean Murray (Swindon Town).
Corner, Swindon Town. Conceded by David Martin.
Attempt saved. John Goddard (Swindon Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Substitution, MK Dons. Kabongo Tshimanga replaces Nicky Maynard because of an injury.
Ben Reeves (MK Dons) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Lloyd Jones (Swindon Town).
James Brophy (Swindon Town) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Ryan Colclough (MK Dons).
Attempt blocked. Daniel Powell (MK Dons) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt blocked. Daniel Powell (MK Dons) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt saved. Luke Norris (Swindon Town) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Foul by Dean Lewington (MK Dons).
Darnell Furlong (Swindon Town) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Substitution, MK Dons. Ryan Colclough replaces Kieran Agard.
George B Williams (MK Dons) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jermaine Hylton (Swindon Town).
Attempt saved. Nicky Maynard (MK Dons) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Corner, Swindon Town. Conceded by Joe Walsh.
Attempt blocked. Luke Norris (Swindon Town) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked.
Attempt saved. Nicky Maynard (MK Dons) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the top right corner.
Foul by Daniel Powell (MK Dons).
Darnell Furlong (Swindon Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, MK Dons. Daniel Powell replaces Chuks Aneke.
Goal! MK Dons 3, Swindon Town 2. Raphael Rossi Branco (Swindon Town) header from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by James Brophy following a corner.
Corner, Swindon Town. Conceded by David Martin.
Attempt saved. Raphael Rossi Branco (Swindon Town) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Corner, Swindon Town. Conceded by George B Williams.
Tom Smith (Swindon Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Chuks Aneke (MK Dons).
Attempt saved. Lloyd Jones (Swindon Town) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Corner, Swindon Town. Conceded by Chuks Aneke.
Corner, Swindon Town. Conceded by George B Williams.
Corner, Swindon Town. Conceded by Paul Downing. | Robbie Neilson's MK Dons picked up their first win in three League One games to see out 2016 on a high after beating fellow strugglers Swindon at Stadium MK. |
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39320168 | Half a dozen "terrorists" hijacked a pleasure craft heading towards London from Kent taking dozens of people hostage in the Met's first big training operation on water.
The boat was intercepted by firearms officers near the Isle of Dogs.
The Met said the exercise was not in response to any specific threat to the river or the capital.
Just after 11:00 GMT, elite police marksmen in two small boats drew alongside the "highjacked" vessel, opened fire, boarded the craft and "neutralised" the threat.
Cdr BJ Harrington, the officer in charge of the operation, said the aim was to test the capability of many parts of the Met and other emergency services while operating in a "dangerous working environment" on the Thames.
"We want to make sure we're all working together so that London's got a really good response should this terrible incident happen," he said.
A report last year, found security measures on the river Thames needed to be strengthened.
The report's author Lord Harris called for "a comprehensive review of safety and security on the River, commissioned by the Mayor, to report by May 2017."
The exercise started just after 09:00 GMT and was expected to last a couple of hours.
Officers taking part had not been told what the nature of the simulated attack would be.
The Metropolitan Police tweeted a training exercise was under way and that people should not be alarmed.
Teams from the Met's specialist firearms unit SCO19, the Marine Policing Unit and the Dog Support Unit were all involved.
Other agencies including the Port of London Authority, Maritime and Coastguard Agency, RNLI, London Fire Brigade and London Ambulance also took part.
In June 2015, more than a thousand police officers and soldiers took part in Operation Strong Tower which simulated a terrorist firearms attack in central London.
The threat level in the UK has been rated "severe" - meaning an attack is highly likely - since August 2014.
On the 10th anniversary of the 2005 London bombings, the country's top counterterrorism officer told the BBC about 50 plots had been thwarted since the 7/7 attacks. | More than 200 Met Police officers have taken part in a simulated terrorist attack on the River Thames in London. |
35343157 | The Board of Control for Cricket in India announced the sanctions after a meeting of its disciplinary committee.
Chandila, 32, faced spot-fixing allegations while playing for Indian Premier League side Rajasthan Royals in May 2013.
Mumbai batsman Shah, 31, had been suspended by the BCCI in July 2015.
A statement from the BCCI said: "Ajit Chandila is banned for life from playing or representing cricket in any form or to be associated in any way with the activities of the board or its affiliates."
Former international umpire Asad Rauf has also been under investigation by the BCCI but did not attend the recent hearing and denies claims of wrongdoing.
A final hearing for Rauf has been scheduled for February 12. | Indian spinner Ajit Chandila has been banned for life and batsman Hiken Shah for five years after being found guilty of corruption charges. |
35679999 | A 62nd-minute try from lock Abbie Scott proved the decisive score.
Emma Croker scored a first-half try following Amber Reed's early penalty to put England eight points ahead.
Niamh Briggs replied with two penalties before the break and a third, eight minutes into the second half, put the visitors 9-8 in front.
Ireland exerted more pressure after that and number eight Harriet Millar-Mills was sin-binned for England.
But the hosts survived and were able to hold their lead once Scott had scored, even though Reed missed the conversion and a subsequent penalty.
The result lifts world champions England above France, who play Wales in Neath on Sunday, to the top of the table.
Ireland, who have finished top in two of the last three years, stay third following their second successive defeat.
Have you added the new Top Story alerts in the BBC Sport app? Simply head to the menu in the app - and don't forget you can also add alerts for the Six Nations, cricket scores, your football team and more. | England extended their winning start to the Six Nations championship to three games with a tense 13-9 success against 2015 champions Ireland at Twickenham. |
36837430 | Brochs are Iron Age roundhouses, and ruins of these homes can be found in the north and west Highlands and Orkney.
Caithness in the Highlands has more broch sites than anywhere else in Scotland.
Caithness Broch Project plans to make a large scale model of a roundhouse in Lego and loan it to museums.
The model would also be taken on tours and used as an "eye-catching prop" to encourage people to find out more about the construction and use of brochs.
Working with universities and heritage and archaeology groups, Caithness Broch Project is also planning to hold a range of events during 2017's Year of History, Heritage and Archaeology.
These include clearing vegetation from broch sites to better aid their preservation and running art competitions for schools.
Eventually, at a later date, the project hopes to build a replica roundhouse.
The reconstruction could become a tourist attraction and offer workshops in drystone dyking, a dying trade in the Caithness area. | Lego is to be used to draw attention to some of Scotland's oldest and most formidable structures. |
34353621 | The UK charity had previously said cod should not be eaten because stocks were only slightly above sustainable levels.
But it says it can now be eaten as an occasional treat following a recovery in numbers and having been removed from its red list of endangered fish.
Samuel Stone, from MCS, said the announcement was a "milestone", but fishing levels still needed to reduce.
The MCS said cod levels may never fully recover to their peak numbers of the 1970s and early 1980s.
There were now nine endangered stocks, which need "some of the attention that North Sea cod has had", it added.
Source: Seafish, National Federation of Fish Friers
North Sea cod numbers collapsed during the 1980s through a combination of sustained overfishing and changes to the environment.
But the MCS said the fishery was now showing signs of improvement.
It said strict limits on catch sizes over the past 10 years were helping numbers to recover and North Sea cod could now be eaten about once a week as a treat.
Mr Stone said "years of sacrifice and a lot of hard work" had led to population increases, but added: "Efforts of recent years need to continue in order for the fishery to head towards the green end of the spectrum."
Scotland's minister for rural affairs, food and the environment, Richard Lochhead, said the news was "a vote of confidence in North Sea cod" and reflected the "hard work put in by our fishermen".
Bertie Armstrong, chief executive of the Scottish Fishermen's Federation, welcomed the announcement, but said the organisation still did not believe North Sea cod should have been classed as a fish to avoid in the first place.
"It is not just North Sea cod, the majority of fish stocks of interest to Scottish fishermen are in a healthy state and being fished sustainably, which is fantastic news for consumers looking for great tasting and healthy to eat food for their shopping baskets," he said.
Don Tyler, a fish merchant at Billingsgate Fish Market, said customers would feel the benefits from the announcement.
He said cod sold in the UK had been coming from the Atlantic in the last few years but - following a meeting with Scottish fisherman this week - North Sea cod would soon make a return.
"The trade will win and the British public will win, because they will get a better product at a more reasonable price," he added.
Another merchant, Mark Morris, added: "We've known in the industry for a while it was coming but it is a case now that we can go back to it being a British product, caught by British fisherman, on a British plate." | North Sea cod has been taken off the Marine Conservation Society's (MCS) list of fish to avoid eating. |
21987578 | Natural Resources Wales (NRW) becomes the nation's largest public body as it merges the Environment Agency, Forestry Commission and Countryside Council.
Its chairman Peter Matthews said it would focus on maintaining important services such as flood warnings.
Experts have urged it to plan properly, but concerns have been raised about its "tricky balancing act".
NRW will now have responsibility for everything from issuing flood alerts to managing Wales' national coastal path, which opened in 2012.
Mr Matthews said: "We face many challenges - for our communities, our economy and our environment.
"I believe that the natural resources we have in Wales can play their part in tackling them.
"The natural environment is worth £8bn to the Welsh economy and as Natural Resources Wales, we want to build on this."
He added: "We will focus on maintaining the important services that people and businesses rely on, like our flood warning services, maintaining timber supply and protecting valuable sites."
Chief executive Emyr Roberts promised: "We will also begin to reshape the work we do with a fresh approach and new direction - to make the environment do more for the people, economy and wildlife of Wales."
NRW becomes the country's largest public body and will come under close scrutiny.
Minister for Natural Resources Alun Davies said: "The natural environment really is crucial to our economy here in Wales so it is vital that it is managed as effectively and efficiently as possible.
"The Welsh government has created Natural Resources Wales because we believe one body will result in a more streamlined way of working and will ensure more effectively delivery and improved value for money."
As the new body starts operating there have been calls from different groups for it to work effectively.
Nigel Annett, managing director of Dwr Cymru Welsh Water, said it should bring savings and a more efficient regulating system.
"Putting three organisations together should make big savings and we are in Dwr Cymru the largest customer of the new body, and we would like to see some of the cost savings returned to our customers in the form of lower charges in the years to come," he said.
Botanist Ray Wood, who used to work for the Countryside Council of Wales, said NRW will have a tricky balancing act.
"We've got to do things better," he said.
"We've tended to be just reactive to things that have happened. Now is an opportunity to piece together some proper planning and a vision and the knowledge."
RSPB Cymru director Katie-Jo Luxton said the the environmental challenges were so grave that they were all now going to have to work far closer together and to pool resources more effectively.
"If NRW can do that it will do something really different. Did I think we had to merge bodies to achieve that? Probably not.
"We can achieve working together whether we're one body or three, quite frankly in my view. It's about how individuals work together, the political will and the resources that are put to it." | The new body which will manage Wales' environment and natural resources is starting work. |
17249069 | The shooting happened at about 19:20 GMT on Saturday as armed officers from Greater Manchester Police (GMP) stopped a car in Culcheth.
GMP Deputy Chief Constable Ian Hopkins said officers performed first aid on the man but he died at the scene.
The dead man's next of kin have been informed. Two other men were arrested.
Witness Jessica Brown, 15, said: "I saw loads of police cars driving past and I saw three men run past the pizza place with gasmasks on and guns and police chasing them.
"Then my friend's dad came and picked us up and said it wasn't safe to be out here."
Jessica's father Anthony Brown said: "I was just putting out my tea when Jessica ran in screaming.
"I went to look but the police told me to get inside. It's shocking, Culcheth is normally a quiet village."
A car has now been removed from the scene close to the village supermarket and a care home for the elderly.
The scene of the shooting, on a public car park, has been cordoned off.
The car park off Jackson Avenue is near shops, restaurants and bars including The Cherry Tree pub.
Pub manager Mike Davies said his chef was in the rear yard at the time.
"He said he heard what he thought was a firework.
"He saw a whiff of smoke and then he heard screaming," said Mr Davies.
"We are all pretty gobsmacked that something like this could happen here in Culcheth, a semi-rural village," he said.
Mr Hopkins said: "Our thoughts are with the man's family during what will clearly be a very difficult and emotional time, and specially trained family liaison officers have been in contact with the family.
"I want to assure them that ourselves, Cheshire Police and the Independent Police Complaints Commission will carry out a thorough investigation which will establish all the facts."
Cheshire police said patrols had been increased in the area. It said the community of Culcheth "should be reassured that this is an isolated incident and there is no risk to the community as a whole".
An Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) spokesperson said: "The IPCC has been informed by Cheshire Constabulary of an incident near Jackson Avenue, Culcheth, Cheshire at approximately 7.20pm on Saturday 3 March where a man was fatally shot by armed officers from Greater Manchester Police.
"The incident has been referred to the IPCC who will independently investigate.
"IPCC investigators are at the scene and working with officers from both Greater Manchester Police and Cheshire Constabulary." | A man has been shot dead after a car was stopped by armed police officers in Cheshire during "a planned operation". |
35406072 | Prime Minister Stefan Lofven visited the centre for unaccompanied migrants in Molndal, near Gothenburg, hours after the killing.
An asylum seeker of 15 was arrested on suspicion of murder. The victim has been named locally as Alexandra Mezher.
Mr Lofven said many Swedes feared that such attacks could happen again.
"I believe that there are quite many people in Sweden who feel a lot of concern that there can be more cases of this kind, when Sweden receives so many children and youth, who come alone [to seek asylum]" he was quoted as saying by Radio Sweden.
Police officers arriving at the scene at Molndal near Gothenburg found a "crime scene with a lot of blood", said spokesman Thomas Fuxborg.
"The perpetrator had been overpowered by other residents, people were down and upset."
The victim, whose family was described as Lebanese in origin, died in hospital of her injuries.
Ms Mezher had worked at the asylum centre for a few months and a cousin quoted by Expressen newspaper said she was "an angel who wanted to do good". She had been planning to do a postgraduate course in social sciences, Goteborgs-Posten reported.
A knife believed to be the one used in the attack was recovered.
The residents at the home, all aged between 14 and 17 and about 10 in number, were moved to new accommodation for the night, according to local media.
Sweden's National Police Commissioner, Dan Eliasson, has requested 4,100 additional officers and support staff to help fight against terrorism, carry out migrant deportations and police asylum facilities, Swedish news agency TT reports.
"We are forced to respond to many disturbances in asylum reception centres," he was quoted as saying.
"In some places, this takes significant police resources. This was not the case six months ago and it means that we won't be able to respond as effectively in other areas."
Sweden accepted almost 163,000 asylum applications last year, almost a third of them from Syria. Migration officials say 35,400 unaccompanied minors sought asylum in Sweden in 2015, five times the number in 2014.
The national migration agency has described the surge in arrivals from unaccompanied minors as "a great challenge for all municipalities in the country".
Along with Germany, it is a prime destination for refugees and other migrants entering the EU illegally.
However, it recently introduced temporary border checks in a bid to control the influx of people. | Sweden's prime minister has described as a "terrible crime" the stabbing of a 22-year-old female employee at a centre for young asylum seekers. |
39350835 | Vale had goalkeeper Deniz Mehmet to thank as he made several good saves to keep out the dominant visitors.
The Dons, who were perhaps fortunate to keep 11 men on the field when George Williams felled Anton Forrester in the first half, had the better chances throughout.
Harvey Barnes crashed an effort off the post just six minutes in after Vale failed to clear their lines, while Kieran Agard was twice sent through and denied on both occasions by Mehmet before half-time.
Two minutes after the restart, Mehmet made another stop from Agard, while substitute defender Andre Bikey was called into action to block a goal-bound effort from Robbie Muirhead shortly before the hour mark.
JJ Hooper tested David Martin in a rare Vale attack late on, but Rigino Cicilia was unable to convert the follow-up.
Match report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Port Vale 0, MK Dons 0.
Second Half ends, Port Vale 0, MK Dons 0.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Rigino Cicilia (Port Vale) because of an injury.
Foul by Rigino Cicilia (Port Vale).
Dean Lewington (MK Dons) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Joe Walsh (MK Dons) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right following a set piece situation.
Foul by Scott Tanser (Port Vale).
Ben Reeves (MK Dons) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Scott Tanser (Port Vale) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Maecky Ngombo (MK Dons).
Attempt missed. Stuart O'Keefe (MK Dons) header from the centre of the box misses to the right following a set piece situation.
Ryan Taylor (Port Vale) is shown the yellow card.
Foul by Sam Foley (Port Vale).
Maecky Ngombo (MK Dons) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
André Bikey (Port Vale) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Maecky Ngombo (MK Dons).
André Bikey (Port Vale) is shown the yellow card.
Corner, Port Vale. Conceded by George B Williams.
Substitution, MK Dons. Nicky Maynard replaces Robbie Muirhead.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match David Martin (MK Dons) because of an injury.
Rigino Cicilia (Port Vale) hits the right post with a right footed shot from the centre of the box.
Attempt missed. Joe Walsh (MK Dons) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right following a corner.
Corner, MK Dons. Conceded by Scott Tanser.
Substitution, Port Vale. Rigino Cicilia replaces Anton Forrester.
Corner, MK Dons. Conceded by Nathan Smith.
Chris Eagles (Port Vale) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Harvey Barnes (MK Dons).
Attempt saved. Harvey Barnes (MK Dons) left footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Substitution, MK Dons. Darren Potter replaces Ed Upson.
Nathan Smith (Port Vale) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Robbie Muirhead (MK Dons).
JJ Hooper (Port Vale) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by George B Williams (MK Dons).
Chris Eagles (Port Vale) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Ed Upson (MK Dons).
Attempt saved. JJ Hooper (Port Vale) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Attempt missed. Danny Pugh (Port Vale) left footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high.
Ryan Taylor (Port Vale) wins a free kick in the defensive half. | Port Vale moved to within a point of safety in League One after holding MK Dons to a goalless stalemate. |
37417457 | The commission said it wanted to "shine a light on the 'black boxes'" that made up France's 941 abattoirs.
The inquiry was launched after a series of secretly filmed videos shocked the French public.
The videos showed animals being treated violently, while rules on hygiene and humane killing were ignored.
Nearly 100 people were interviewed by the commission over four months.
Documentary filmmakers, veterinarians, abattoir managers and owners as well as academics were among those who gave evidence to the inquiry.
Some of the 30 deputies who made up the commission also made surprise visits to four abattoirs to see conditions for themselves.
The undercover videos that prompted the inquiry were released by animal ethics pressure group L214. The inquiry was also said to be studying ways to improve the working conditions of abattoir employees.
The commission delivered its 255-page report on Tuesday and among the 65 recommendations reported by French media were:
L214 said it welcomed the inquiry, which it said had "given a life to hundreds of thousands of animals that die each day behind the walls of abattoirs in France". It released more video on Tuesday, showing sheep hanging from chains and struggling after their throats had been cut as part of the ritual slaughter of thousands of animals.
The pressure group argued that the commission had limited itself to superficial measures rather than "immediately practicable solutions" such as reducing consumption of meat and animal products.
It also claimed that electric stunning prior to slaughter was unambiguously backed by scientists and veterinarians.
Stunning has been obligatory in the EU since 1979 but most countries make exceptions for religious communities.
Under halal (Islamic) and shechita (Jewish) rules, an animal's throat must be cut quickly with a sharp knife while still conscious. | Video surveillance in abattoirs is among measures proposed by a French parliamentary inquiry into slaughterhouse conditions. |
40888265 | The LSFP's disciplinary committee said it holds US Ouakam "exclusively responsible" for the tragedy at the Stade Demba Diop on 15 July.
US Ouakam were further punished with a demotion to the lowest tier of Senegalese football at the end of their seven-year suspension.
The 2011 Senegalese League Champions have also been issued with a fine of 10 million francs (CFA) with Stade de Mbour being awarded the trophy as winners.
US Ouakam had been temporarily banned in the immediate aftermath of the tragedy which started moments after visitors Stade de Mbour had taken a 2-1 lead in extra-time.
That goal resulted in the collapse of a wall following fighting between fans.
US Ouakam said they will appeal the decision.
"We are going to appeal this penalty, which seems to us to be heavy and disproportionate, the Commission has been too heavy handed," Club President Abdou Aziz Guèye told local media.
"We are not sure that these kinds of sanctions will put an end to the violence in our country," he added. | The Senegalese Professional Football League (LSFP) handed a seven-year ban to US Ouakam following the crowd trouble which left eight people dead during the League Cup final against Stade de Mbour last month. |
39827067 | He said he would drink a jar of "hot salsa" and watch old Speedy Gonzales cartoons to mark the 5 May celebration.
Mr Huckabee was skewered by Twitter users, who accused him of bigotry and racism.
Cinco de Mayo commemorates Mexico's military victory over French forces at the Battle of Puebla in 1862.
It is seen in the United States as a day to celebrate Mexican culture and heritage, but is wrongly often mistaken as marking Mexican Independence Day.
Festivities in the US also often draw criticism for playing on disrespectful stereotypes of Mexicans.
Mr Huckabee waded directly into that debate with his tweet.
Gabriel Sama, the managing editor of the Spanish-language version of technology website CNET was one of many people to take offence.
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Others fired back by mocking Mr Huckabee's unsuccessful presidential bids.
They were accused of being unable to take a joke, by some users who defended Mr Huckabee.
He eventually responded, hitting out at "trolls" and suggesting they pay attention to comedian and late-night TV host Stephen Colbert, who was this week accused of homophobia after a crude joke about President Donald Trump.
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Mr Huckabee unsuccessfully ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008 and 2016. He dropped out of the 2016 race in February last year and soon after threw his support behind Donald Trump.
His daughter, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, is deputy White House press secretary. | Former Arkansas governor and Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee has been accused of racism for tweeting his plans to celebrate Cinco de Mayo. |
34900028 | The former military test-pilot has just passed his final practical exams and is due to blast off to the International Space Station on 15 December.
Along with Russian commander Yuri Malenchenko and Nasa astronaut Tim Kopra, he will spend 170 days in orbit, conducting scientific experiments and carrying out maintenance work on the vast flying laboratory.
"The launch, re-entry, the whole experience of being in weightlessness, if I get the opportunity to do a spacewalk - these are all absolute highlights of the mission," Mr Peake told the BBC at a Russian facility deep in a snowy forest on the edge of Moscow. It's where Yuri Gagarin also trained over half a century ago to be the first man in space.
Mr Peake will be the first British astronaut on the ISS, flying from the European Space Agency. Since the US space shuttle programme was ended, the Russian spacecraft has been the only way up.
So last week, the main three-man crew and their back-up team were put through two days of gruelling practical tests, including several hours squeezed inside a replica of the Soyuz capsule they'll travel in.
Fully kitted-out in their space suits, the astronauts flew a simulation of the six-hour journey, tackling multiple malfunctions on their way.
"There are emergency drills to see how to act to save themselves and the spacecraft," trainer Georgy Pirogov explained, keeping an eye on the crew via a bank of video screens in a mini mission control.
"It could be a fire, loss of pressure or an emergency landing," he said. "But in reality, most of it is automatic and ideally they should just sit and fly!"
The intense training programme has included living in a cave and deep under the sea. Yet of all things, Tim Peake says that it is learning Russian that has been "a struggle".
Now fully qualified, he says he has "no worries whatsoever" about his first ever spaceflight.
"Flown astronauts have given me lots of advice," he says, equating the experience to learning to dive or to ski.
He says there are plenty of mishaps as you adjust to a life in zero gravity, where you have to tether yourself to the wall to sleep, and to the toilet.
"After about two weeks they say you get into a pattern - how to eat, wash, use the loo - all the normal things we take for granted in our 1G [gravity] environment," he has been assured.
The crew will undertake a full scientific programme on the ISS, conducting more than 250 experiments over their six-month mission - many on their own bodies. They include research on the human immune system and the ageing process.
Some of the crew's baggage allowance will be taken up by that research kit. But as well as family photographs, Tim Peake says he'll be taking some personal items to be "flown in space", that he plans to give to his sons when they turn 18.
And on the advice of former astronauts, he'll also make space for one vital item: sticky-tape.
"They say if you leave anything, you turn around and it won't be there," he laughed, recalling the top tip for life 400km (248 miles) above Earth.
The final "graduation" ceremony at Star City takes place next week, attended by the astronauts' families. Then it's into the obligatory quarantine, ahead of the launch.
"The whole experience is a huge privilege," the British spaceman reflects, unruffled as ever. "But seeing that first view of planet Earth from space is probably going to be the most exciting moment." | British astronaut Tim Peake says he's "definitely ready" for his first space flight, finally fulfilling a childhood ambition after two and a half years of intensive training. |
35255102 | But as an unfortunate Indian woman has discovered, there is nothing lucky about being hit by other kinds of falling excrement.
The Times of India reports that Rajrani Gaud from Madhya Pradesh suffered a severe shoulder injury when she was hit by a football-sized chunk of ice last month.
Her injuries could have been much worse, according to eyewitnesses. They say she only avoided being killed because the icy ball crashed into the roof of a house before hitting her.
And the strong suspicion now is that this chilly projectile was composed of more than just frozen water.
The newspaper claims that aviation scientists believe she may well have had the misfortune to become one of an incredibly rare group: people who have been hit by what the airline industry coyly calls "blue ice".
That's its euphemism for the frozen human waste that very occasionally forms around the overflow outlets for aeroplane toilets, and then falls to earth. "Blue" because of the chemicals added to the toilets in planes to reduce odour and break down the waste.
Blue ice falls are unusual, but not unheard of.
Plane toilets store human waste in special tanks. These are normally disposed of by ground crews once the plane has landed, but international aviation authorities acknowledge that lavatory leaks can occur in the air.
Britain's Civil Aviation Authority, for example, has said that around 25 falls of "blue ice" are reported every year from the 2.5 million flights a year over UK airspace.
Alleged victims of a blue ice fall include a retired couple from Wiltshire in the UK.
Keith and Ruth Mead claim a chunk of frozen poo and urine from a jumbo jet crashed through the roof of their home last year, smashing tiles and leaving a significant hole.
The couple said they were certain of the origins of the object.
"We're sure it came from an airliner passing overhead. Where else would it come from?" Keith told the Daily Mail newspaper.
He says the half-kilo ice ball was yellow and brown in colour and he was anxious about what to put on the insurance claim. "Do we put 'house hit by frozen urine and poo', will they believe us?" he fretted.
And "blue ice" isn't always frozen, as a 16-year-old in Pennsylvania, USA, discovered in May last year when a very real "party pooper" brought her birthday celebrations an abrupt and messy end.
"Out of nowhere from the sky comes a bunch of faeces," the girl's stepfather, Joe Cambray, told a local television station.
"We'd just gotten done with the cake, thank God," said his sister, Kristie Rogy.
"Because within two minutes something fell from the sky. It was brown. It was everywhere. It got on everything… it was gross".
The family filed a complaint with the American Federal Aviation Authority, but these cases are very hard to prove.
Last year, the New Zealand Herald reported the story of an Auckland man who said his home had been pelted with what he believed was human waste from an aeroplane.
He was furious when the country's Civil Aviation Administration insisted the mess was caused by a passing flock of ducks. | In India, as in many other countries around the world, it is considered good luck when a bird poos on you. |
28266308 | Ross Conlin, 29, of Farnborough, shook Kiera Conlin in a flash of anger leaving her with fatal injuries following repeated abuse, Winchester Crown Court heard.
She was taken to hospital but died the next day. He was found guilty of murder and three counts of GBH with intent.
Charges against the girl's mother, Kelly Rayner, 26, were dismissed. She denied causing or allowing her death.
Conlin, who denied all the charges, was told he would serve a minimum of 17 years in jail.
Doctors found Kiera suffered repeated abuse in the months leading up to her death, including broken ribs and skull fractures, the court heard.
There was also a "triad of injuries" associated with babies who had been shaken.
Conlin was said to have been left alone with his daughter on May Day Bank Holiday last year, while her mother was out.
He rang 999 after Kiera stopped breathing and told the operator she had been sick.
Her injuries included bleeding to the brain and the back of the eyes, and loss of oxygen to the brain.
The jury was told the couple had money worries and Mr Conlin was in trouble at his work with a debt collection agency.
He was also a cannabis and cocaine user and had been using dating sites, causing tension in the relationship.
Speaking to the BBC before the verdict, Ms Rayner's father Paul Rayner said when Conlin was arrested and the evidence was presented to the family he was "physically sick".
He said he had to watch his daughter "relive the death of her child day, after day, after day".
Following the conviction, Julia Woodward, senior crown prosecutor, said: "Kiera Conlin was only four months when she died at the hands of the man who was supposed to protect her throughout her life.
"Ross Conlin lied in evidence, stating that his daughter started to choke on her vomit after she refused to drink the bottle of milk he was giving her.
"The jury heard that the tension between the couple and the fact that Ross Conlin had issues at work, money problems and was a cocaine and drug user contributed without any doubts with his struggle to care for his daughter and added to his anger when she was difficult to care for."
Det Ch Insp Scott Clarke, the senior investigating officer, called the trial a "harrowing and difficult experience for all those involved".
He added: "[Kiera] was abused and horrendously let down by this man - her father.
"Without the abhorrent behaviour of her father, Kiera would still be alive today." | A man has been sentenced to life for murdering his four-month-old daughter. |
36052683 | The Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Choir's song A Bridge Over You topped the chart in 2015 ahead of Bieber's Love Yourself.
The deal with Decca Records will see them release their debut album Something Inside So Strong next month.
Decca is part of Universal Music, which is also home to Bieber.
The choir won the Christmas battle after the Canadian pop singer urged his 72 million Twitter followers to "do the right thing" and help the charity single get to the top spot.
Choir co-ordinator Caroline Smith, who works as a children's physiotherapist, said "I'm delighted to be able to represent and support the NHS with such a special album. When everyone comes together in the choir it's really powerful, I've never experienced anything quite like it."
The album, out on on 27 May, includes 12 songs including Bill Withers' Lean On Me, Ed Sheeran's Thinking Out Loud and Carole King's You've Got A Friend.
Its release also marks the 70th anniversary of the passing of the NHS Act of July 1946.
The Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust have directed that a minimum of £40,000 from the sale of the album are paid to its charitable funds.
The choir, which features physiotherapists, porters and administrators as well as doctors and nurses, were runners up on Gareth Malone's BBC Two show Sing While You Work in 2012. | The NHS choir which won the race to the Christmas number one slot has joined the same record company as Justin Bieber. |
34720806 | In light-hearted comments to reporters, Mr Bush said he had done a "disservice to the French" by using them to mock Marco Rubio's senate voting record.
"I made the mistake of saying that the Congress operates on a French work week," he was reported as saying.
He said he had since learned that the French work longer hours than the Germans do.
"So, my God, I totally insulted an entire country - our first ally - that helped us become free as a nation!" Mr Bush said, according to Time magazine.
Mr Bush made the original comments during a Republican presidential debate last week.
The former Florida governor asked Mr Rubio whether the Senate ran on French time and if lawmakers only had to show up for three days weekly.
His campaign spokesman Tim Miller said he had been inundated with emails from French journalists following the debate.
Even Gerard Araud, the French ambassador, responded on Twitter to correct Mr Bush.
The French officially work a 35-hour week though many employees put in far longer hours.
Mr Bush and Mr Rubio are trailing behind Donald Trump and Ben Carson in the race for the Republican presidential nomination. | US presidential hopeful Jeb Bush has apologised to France for referencing their working week to insult a rival. |
39163014 | The home side appeared to be heading for only their second win in nine games when Marley Watkins put them in front.
He rolled the ball home from Barnsley man of the match Matty James' pass after a break out of defence.
Adam Hammill should have added a second for Barnsley, but Lawrence converted Brett Pitman's cross to level before being booked for over-celebrating.
The result extended Ipswich's unbeaten run under former Barnsley centre-back Mick McCarthy to eight matches, but they remain 16th in the Championship table having drawn their past six games.
Barnsley stay 11th and 11 points adrift of the play-offs.
Christophe Berra glanced an early header just wide for the Tractor Boys, and home keeper Adam Davies made a double save to foil David McGoldrick and Cole Skuse.
Barnsley saw a number of chances before Watkins produced a controlled finish into the corner under pressure from the Ipswich defence to finally gave them the lead.
The last word went to Lawrence, though, as Lawrence arrived late and escaped his marker at the far post to net his 11th goal of the season.
Barnsley head coach Paul Heckingbottom: "I always say it, you only get what you deserve and we didn't kill them off, simple as that.
"Ipswich showed what they're all about, why they've not been beaten in so long because they're resolute and keep going to the very end, which I think we like to think we do.
"Our disappointment today is we didn't put the game to bed earlier. We prepared as well as we could for this game and in terms of what we wanted from a performance, we delivered it."
Ipswich manager Mick McCarthy: "It's the first thing I've stolen from here, actually. I was here a long time and never took a paper-clip, pen, piece of paper or anything else, but we burgled a point today.
"It's part of the game, the game goes for as long as the referee adds time on. We were poor today, they were much better.
"Did we deserve it? Did we hell, but I'll take it."
Tom Lawrence (Ipswich Town) is shown the yellow card for excessive celebration.
Second Half ends, Barnsley 1, Ipswich Town 1.
Goal! Barnsley 1, Ipswich Town 1. Tom Lawrence (Ipswich Town) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Brett Pitman with a cross.
Attempt blocked. David McGoldrick (Ipswich Town) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Tom Lawrence with a cross.
Corner, Ipswich Town. Conceded by Matthew James.
Christophe Berra (Ipswich Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ryan Williams (Barnsley).
Foul by Jonas Knudsen (Ipswich Town).
Tom Bradshaw (Barnsley) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Offside, Ipswich Town. David McGoldrick tries a through ball, but Brett Pitman is caught offside.
Attempt missed. Josh Scowen (Barnsley) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Angus MacDonald.
Foul by David McGoldrick (Ipswich Town).
Josh Scowen (Barnsley) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Ipswich Town. Brett Pitman replaces Emyr Huws.
Attempt missed. Matthew James (Barnsley) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Adam Hammill with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Barnsley. Conceded by Jonas Knudsen.
Attempt saved. Grant Ward (Ipswich Town) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top right corner. Assisted by Freddie Sears.
Attempt saved. Adam Hammill (Barnsley) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Ryan Williams.
Substitution, Barnsley. Ryan Williams replaces Adam Armstrong.
Foul by Grant Ward (Ipswich Town).
Adam Hammill (Barnsley) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt saved. Tom Lawrence (Ipswich Town) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by David McGoldrick.
Jonas Knudsen (Ipswich Town) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Marley Watkins (Barnsley).
Attempt missed. David McGoldrick (Ipswich Town) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Cole Skuse with a headed pass.
Corner, Ipswich Town. Conceded by Gethin Jones.
Foul by Tom Bradshaw (Barnsley).
Luke Chambers (Ipswich Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Matthew James (Barnsley) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right following a corner.
Corner, Barnsley. Conceded by Jordan Spence.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Marley Watkins (Barnsley) because of an injury.
Attempt blocked. David McGoldrick (Ipswich Town) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked.
Substitution, Ipswich Town. Freddie Sears replaces Myles Kenlock.
Attempt blocked. Matthew James (Barnsley) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt blocked. Adam Hammill (Barnsley) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Adam Hammill (Barnsley) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Christophe Berra (Ipswich Town).
Matthew James (Barnsley) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Cole Skuse (Ipswich Town). | Ipswich's Tom Lawrence scored an injury-time equaliser to deny Barnsley victory at Oakwell. |
38508796 | The incident happened at about 20:40 on Friday 16 December in Saughton Mains Park after the pair - aged 16 and 20 - left a house party.
They became involved in an argument with a passerby who then allegedly assaulted them both before running off.
A 31-year-old man has been arrested and is due to appear at Edinburgh Sheriff Court on Thursday.
The victims suffered serious neck injuries and were taken to the city's Royal Infirmary.
At the time, officers described the incident as an "unprovoked attack" and said one of the victims could have had "life-threatening" injuries. | A man has been arrested by police investigating an "unprovoked attack" on two young men in Edinburgh. |
30671916 | Ryan Williams, 21, and Donald Pemberton, 20, both from St Budeaux, Plymouth, are charged with murdering 27-year-old Tanis Bhandari.
He was attacked near the King's Arms pub in Tamerton Foliot early on Thursday.
Both men are due to appear before magistrates in Plymouth on Monday.
Mr Williams, of Landulph Gardens and Mr Pemberton, of Haydon Grove, are also charged with possessing an axe and knife in a public place.
Police were called to the pub at about 01:30 GMT.
Four other men were seriously injured. A 21-year-old is in a critical but stable condition in hospital and the others have been discharged.
Det Insp Gregg Dawe said: "An axe and knives have been recovered and searches are continuing in the Milford Lane area." | Two men have been charged with murdering a builder in an alleged knife and axe attack in Plymouth on New Year's Day. |
36205421 | Clinicians' concerns had been raised at a meeting of NHS Grampian's board last month after the Scottish government announced the decision to have four such centres was under review.
Ms Sturgeon said: "There is no dubiety, there will be a major trauma centre in Aberdeen."
She said there would be also be centres in Dundee, Glasgow and Edinburgh.
In response, Labour said the "apparent U-turn" had come at the last minute.
The Conservatives said voters may ask why it had taken until the final days of the election for the "unequivocal commitment".
And the Liberal Democrats said no-one in the north east would believe what was being said until the trauma centre was "actually in place‎". | First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has confirmed there will be a major trauma centre in Aberdeen. |
40085977 | It might have a reputation for attracting nerds and geeks, but as one female fan put it: "You feel very accepted, and you get to be whoever you want for a day - it's really special."
Here are some of the female voices from this year's fan convention in London.
"I love the movie and the character. She's passionate and kind so I was inspired to be like her.
"I love the atmosphere here - it's really good for young women because it's non-judgmental.
"Any person of any shape or colour can come and feel absolutely welcome - it's so kind and friendly that nobody feels out of place. You can come as anyone you want and be absolutely fine."
Sophie: "I'm playing Maleficent, the Angelina Jolie version. I love cosplay because it gives you the chance to play someone else for a day. It's escapism, pure fantasy.
"You can be covered or wear the smallest of clothes, it's a very respectful environment where you can express yourself. There's a lot of amazing female characters in the comic, anime and film world, so there's a lot of inspiration."
Eliza: "I love young Maleficent because her wings are ginormous and she can fly very fast and she's cool. My dad made my wings and I bought my necklace here.
"I love the different types of costumes here, they're all related to comics."
Phoebe: "I love reading comics and watching animations and films. I came as Fionna because she's really strong and powerful - she once rescued a prince.
"I came here last year as well, and one of the best bits was meeting comic book artists like Jess Bradley."
Martha: "I saw the movie Suicide Squad and loved Harley Quinn because she's cool and sassy so I decided to dress like her. I really like seeing so many people dressed up here."
"I've been coming for about six years. I love dressing up - you can escape reality and it's just a bit of fun really. I fell in love with Blue Diamond's look and design and thought, 'Why not go for it?'
"I won't lie, I was a bit worried about coming here after the Manchester attack but it's good the police are here. It gives reassurance."
"Me and my husband love doing comic conventions because it gets your work out to a wider audience and the atmosphere's fantastic.
"I've been doing it for about 10 years and you get so much positive feedback. It's just so much fun.
"I draw comic strips and write and illustrate children's books and colouring books. I tend to focus a lot on self-publishing because you have complete control over what you do."
"My costume is inspired by The Purge - there's something dystopian about it and I'm really inspired by it. I bought my mask from the masquerade in Venice.
"I love Comic Con because everybody comes together and we all have something in common, no matter where we're from.
"It's a place where you feel very accepted and you get to be whoever you want for a day - it's really special."
Katie: "I'm here because I'm a really big comics fan and you don't really get this atmosphere anywhere else.
"I made my costume - it took about a month for the breastplate and then about a month for the rest - it's made of Perspex."
Kelly: "I've been coming for five or six years and it's always the same people and there's such a community feeling - everyone's into the same things, everyone wants to celebrate all these interests that they wouldn't get to explore in their day-to-day lives. Dressing up is part of the fun."
"I'm here because I love everything about it. My confidence is boosted being around people who are carefree and appreciate the same things.
"It's helped me feel less worried about the stuff that I like - it's not nerdy, it's great! Everyone's so different, I just love it. I can escape and get creative.
"I came as a Ghostbuster because it's about time there were more female-centric films and I think the hate the movie got was completely unnecessary, and the majority came from people who couldn't be be bothered to see it and give it a chance."
"I'm here to sell my comics and prints and meet people who like my work.
"I work for a comic called The Phoenix with a strip called The Shivers by Dan Hartwell, and our characters include girl heroes solving mysteries and standing up to supernatural threats.
"In the comic village here at Comic Con there's at least 50% female artists and it's a great space to work, it's really inclusive and there's loads of different comics you can discover."
Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email [email protected]. | Scratch below the surface at Comic Con and you might be surprised to find thousands of young women who go because they find it empowering. |
38518583 | Hedges, 20, and Negga, 34, are tipped to receive Oscar nominations later this month for their roles in Manchester by the Sea and Loving respectively.
Laia Costa, Tom Holland and Anya Taylor-Joy are also on the shortlist.
Holland, who made his debut last year as superhero Spider-Man, said it was a "huge honour" to be nominated.
"I have to say thank you to Bafta for recognising my work," said the 20-year-old, who will be seen later this year in Spider-Man: Homecoming.
Costa, the Spanish star of German film Victoria, said she felt "honoured to be considered in this company".
Released in the UK last year, Victoria told the story of a young woman caught up in a bank heist in one single, uninterrupted take.
Hedges, who plays a young man who loses his father in Manchester by the Sea, said it was "really exciting to be recognised".
"I've always been enamoured with English culture and have dreamed of living in England, so this nomination is particularly meaningful for me," the US actor continued.
Negga, who was born in Ethiopia and raised in Ireland, said it was "so surreal to be recognised for doing something I love".
Loving, which premiered at last year's Cannes Film Festival, sees her play a woman who faces jail for flouting interracial marriage laws in 1950s America.
Taylor-Joy, seen last year in horror film The Witch, said she could not "put into words how it feels to be in the company of such talent, past and present".
The 20-year-old, Miami-born actress will be seen later this month in Split, the latest film from The Sixth Sense director M Night Shyamalan.
Sponsored by mobile phone company EE and decided by a public vote, the Rising Star award has been presented at the Baftas since 2006.
According to Bafta, the award "honours a young actor or actress who has demonstrated exceptional talent and ambition and has begun to capture the imagination of the British public".
Previous recipients include James McAvoy, Noel Clarke and Star Wars actor John Boyega, who took home the prize from last year's ceremony.
The 2017 Bafta Film Awards will be held at the Royal Albert Hall in London on 12 February.
Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email [email protected]. | Oscar hopefuls Lucas Hedges and Ruth Negga are among the five actors in contention for the Rising Star prize at this year's Bafta Film Awards. |
28451477 | Lifeboat crews and lifeguards saved 27 lives and rescued 1,014 people.
Over the past four years, a total of 150 people have died - with men accounting for more than two-thirds of the fatalities.
It means that more people are now killed around the coast than in cycling accidents.
Across the UK, the number of deaths last year was at a four-year high of 167.
RNLI Scotland has now launched a drowning awareness campaign, Respect the Water, to warn people to stay safe.
The campaign highlights that adrenaline sports and rough weather cause the most call-outs, but are not the biggest killers.
Slips and falls while walking and running are the most common cause of coastal fatalities in Scotland, accounting for 21% over the four-year period.
Spokesman Michael Avril said: "We're trying to make people, particularly men, realise that they are at risk from drowning if they don't follow some basic but important safety advice.
"Of course we want people to go to the coast and enjoy it - we're lucky to have an exceptional coastline around Scotland.
"But we want people to understand there are risks, and that they should not underestimate the power of the sea."
He added: "We're encouraging people to make the most of the coast but to do so safely by sticking to marked paths, staying away from cliff edges and reading safety signs.
"Cold water shock is a particular hazard in Scotland for those who enter the water, intentionally or otherwise.
"The UK sea temperature is cold enough year-round to trigger cold water shock - not many people know that.
"If you're getting into the water, acclimatise gradually in shallow water." | A total of 39 people died in accidents around Scotland's coast last year, the RNLI has revealed. |
13507891 | The TV cameras visited the mere in Ellesmere earlier in the month to watch the young herons leave their nest.
Ellesmere-based Rob McBride, an expert in ancient trees, also joined presenter Julia Bradbury as Countryfile explored Offa's Dyke.
The 177-mile-long footpath marks its 40th anniversary this year, after being designated a National Trail in 1971.
The dyke itself, built by King Offa of Mercia, dates back some 1,200 years.
The ancient earthworks run from Sedbury, near Chepstow to Prestatyn in North Wales, roughly following the modern-day border between England and Wales. | Ellesmere Heronwatch and Offa's Dyke will appear on BBC One's Countryfile programme on Sunday 29 May. |
35873198 | 22 March 2016 Last updated at 15:21 GMT
Despite being born on a beach, this was the first time that they'd swam in the sea.
The pair were rescued after being abandoned by their mother, and have been looked after by RSPCA ever since.
The boy (who's been named C-3PO) jumped straight in, while his sister (called R2-D2) took a little longer to get used to the water.
It was thought that grey seals couldn't have twin babies, but the brother and sister proved that wrong when tests confirmed they were twins.
Experts say that, since their mother has already had twins once, it's possible that she could have more again in the future. | The world's first ever recorded wild grey seal twins have been released back into the wild. |
37872442 | England's Willett needs to finish fifth to regain top spot in the Race to Dubai, but was joint 58th after failing to claim a birdie in a round of 74.
Olesen enjoyed an eagle and eight birdies as he moved to 15 under, six shots clear of Spaniard Adrian Otaegui and Thailand's Thongchai Jaidee.
Otaegui had earlier broken the course record himself with a 63, before Olesen went one better.
"I feel pretty comfortable," said the leader, who won the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship last year and made a strong start to this season, but had missed the cut in seven of his past 10 events before this week.
Bogeys on the 16th and 18th left Masters champion Willett 16 shots adrift of Olesen.
Willett had led the money list since claiming his first major title at Augusta in April, but was overtaken by Henrik Stenson on Sunday after the Open champion was joint second in the WGC-HSBC Champions and Willett finished 75th in the 78-man field. | Dane Thorbjorn Olesen shot a course-record nine-under 62 to lead the Turkish Open at the halfway stage as Danny Willett's hopes of finishing the season as European number one nosedived. |
28674387 | An independent commissioner cleared Anderson of abusing and pushing Jadeja during the first Test at Trent Bridge.
ICC chief executive David Richardson reviewed the case following a written complaint from India, but has decided not to appeal against the verdict.
The fourth Test between the sides begins at Old Trafford on Thursday.
India are furious that Anderson, who has taken 16 wickets in the first three Tests, escaped punishment in Friday's hearing over what they see as a serious incident in the corridors of Trent Bridge.
Seamer Anderson, 32, could have been banned for four Tests had he been found guilty of a level three misconduct charge, while all-rounder Jadeja, 25, was cleared on a lesser charge for his part in the incident.
Richardson was given until Sunday, 10 August to lodge an appeal, but decided not to after "carefully considering" the written decision of commissioner Gordon Lewis, who is based in Australia.
"The ICC is satisfied with the manner in which the decisions have been reached," Richardson said.
"It was a complicated and sensitive matter relating to charges brought against two players at different levels of the ICC Code of Conduct.
"There appears to have been vastly conflicting evidence on both sides, with a total of 13 witnesses who gave testimony."
Despite the verdict, Anderson has been urged by former England batsman Geoffrey Boycott to cut out his habit of sledging opposition players.
"Jimmy should reflect on whether he wants to be remembered as one of the all-time great English seam bowlers or a foul-mouthed abusive bowler," Boycott wrote in the Daily Telegraph.
Richardson also warned players about using offensive language towards opposition players.
"International cricket is tough, competitive and uncompromising but we must reiterate that there is no place in the game for the use of offensive language that is personally insulting of one player by another," he said.
"It is imperative that all captains, players and coaches as well as umpires and referees are reminded of and do not shirk their responsibility to one another and to the game." | The International Cricket Council will not appeal against the decision to clear England's James Anderson over his fracas with India's Ravindra Jadeja. |
28401068 | "My parents sat me down and told me I was no longer their responsibility. They wanted me to move out and start a life of my own," she recalls, sitting in the village of Chibombo, two hours' drive from Zambia's capital Lusaka.
"Things moved faster than I expected - when a stranger paid a bride price to my parents. I had no say in the matter," she says, tears welling in her eyes.
"I didn't choose this life and I'm not happy here."
Agnes agreed to speak on condition that we do not identify her. The BBC was also able to speak to her because her husband was away.
Wearing a striped T-shirt and a colourful sarong, she has a nervous and sad manner about her.
When we met her, she was going about her daily chores, washing dishes, cleaning and then starting a fire to prepare the evening meal.
It is not difficult to see how desperate her life is, her heels are cracked, her nail polish is wearing off.
Early and forced marriages are common in Zambia. But this traditional practice doesn't just happen in Africa, it's a problem globally.
It is estimated that 14 million girls are forced into marriage before their 18th birthday every year - causing their childhoods to come to a sudden and unexpected end.
Agnes is desperate to escape her new life but fears that her parents would disown her for the disgrace that comes with being a run-away bride.
Poverty and tradition are said to be behind this practice, which is most common in rural areas.
Parents see their daughters as a source of income and even wealth, those opposed to the practice say.
But even here, some are beginning to speak out against the practice.
Chief Chamuka VI of Zambia' Lenje people wants young girls to be kept in school.
He has summoned his subjects to a meeting under a giant tree. The villagers sing, shout his clan name and clap as they see their chief approaching.
He commands respect. Community members who attended the meeting didn't disagree with anything he says.
Chief Chamuka, dressed in his traditional regalia - a black and red robe with a matching hat with feathers on it - addresses them about the dangers of child marriages.
"In my chiefdom, the stance which I have taken is that no parent shall force a girl below the age of 18 to be married. A parent who does that will be severely punished," he says.
Traditional leaders who denounce early marriage are usually frowned upon by those who believe they are defying old customs and norms that have been passed on from generation to generation.
But the chief's conviction seems unrelenting.
"I feel that in our communities there are certain customs and cultural practices that are good and some are bad - this has to stop," he says.
Those forced into child marriage feel the effects for the rest of their lives.
Beatrice Chikwekwe got married when she was 15, she is now 32.
"I was terrified and confused on my wedding day, I didn't even know what I was doing," she says.
"I fell pregnant the same year and had complications while giving birth. I nearly died."
Ms Chikwekwe is doing her final year at the local college of agriculture, trying to make up for the time she lost.
For many though, there is no fairytale ending.
Sources: Girls Not Brides
Campaign group Girls Not Brides says child marriage traps girls and their families in a "cycle of poverty".
"Girls who marry young do not receive the educational and economic opportunities that help lift them and their families out of poverty," it says in a statement.
Graca Machel, widow of Nelson Mandela and one of the group's patrons, told the BBC that traditions are not set in stone.
"Traditions are manmade and harmful traditions must be changed. As parents we don't have the right to dictate the choices that our children make," she says.
"We need to change the way families and communities view a girl. The girl-child needs to be seen as a full human being with dreams, aspirations and with the ability to thrive to the highest potential just like a boy-child."
It is estimated that girls who become pregnant before their 14th birthday are five times more likely to die while giving birth.
Back in Chibombo, aid agency Plan International Zambia is working with traditional leaders, government and other groups to rescue girls like Agnes from forced marriages.
"Where there is poverty, children are prone to abuse. We are working on educating communities about children's rights which need to be respected," says Plan spokesman Lazarus Mwale.
With her voice trembling, Agnes sums up her dilemma.
"Sometimes it is hard to defy our parents because it is disrespectful, but we can't continue to allow them to make choices that are bad for us," she says.
"It was my wish to finish school and become a nurse but I guess that will never happen because my husband won't allow me to further my studies." | Seventeen-year-old Agnes (not her real name) was married three months ago to a man she had never met. |
35789007 | The Scottish Football Association said the Old Firm derby will have a 12:00 GMT kick-off at the national stadium.
Dundee United will take on either Hibernian or holders Inverness Caledonian Thistle in the other semi-final on Saturday 16 April at 12:15.
BBC Scotland will broadcast live television coverage of the second tie, also being played at Hampden.
Caley Thistle will host Hibs in their replay on 16 March following a 1-1 draw at Easter Road.
Meanwhile, Hibs or United could face three of their biggest-ever fixtures within a week, should either reach the Scottish Cup final and be involved in the Premiership play-offs.
United are currently bottom of the top flight, while Hibs are third in the Championship, with the second bottom Premiership side destined to play the final against the winner of a series of play-offs from the division below
The dates for the final will be changed should they feature a team in the cup final.
If that applies to either Hibs or Dundee United, the first leg of the play-off would be played on Tuesday 17 May, with the second leg on the 25th, four days after the Scottish Cup final.
There is a scenario where Rangers could be involved in this too, although it seems unlikely they will surrender a 12-point lead at the top of the Championship and be forced into a play-off. | Rangers will play Celtic in their Scottish Cup semi-final at Hampden Park on Sunday 17 April. |
30828694 | The $500 (£329) mat lay at the entrance to the office in Pinellas County for two months before someone noticed, a spokeswoman said.
The error was made by the rug's manufacturer and it is being replaced.
Pinellas Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said they were looking at auctioning it for charity, the Tampa Bay Times reports.
There have been several offers to buy the misprinted rug .
"I'd buy or donate to a charity to get one," wrote one user on the office's Facebook page.
"I'm a great dog person and really find that a rug like that would be wonderful for my dogs to have for beds," wrote another.
The rug was put away on Wednesday after a deputy spotted the mistake.
"In God we trust" was adopted as the national motto of the US in 1956. It is also the official motto of Florida. | A rug has been removed from a sheriff's office in Florida after it was noticed that it read "in dog we trust" instead of "in God we trust". |
32729161 | Emma Crossman, 21, was found dead at her home in Sleaford, Lincolnshire, on 15 January 2014.
Lincoln Crown Court heard Amelia Caller, 22, from Great Hale, was "obsessed and infatuated" with Miss Crossman.
The court was told the gas which Miss Crossman used to kill herself was bought using Miss Caller's online account. | A woman has been found not guilty of assisting her best friend's suicide. |
39229906 | Back-row Sam, 22, played with fly-half Joe, 20, for the first time in the Premiership in Exeter's victory at Leicester on 3 March.
"It's good to have your brother there beside you, to tell you what you need to do," Sam told BBC Spotlight.
"Lining up before we run out, we give each other a little look and just say 'look what we're doing, it's proud'."
Sam Simmonds, who has spent time on loan with Championship side Cornish Pirates, added: "It's not so much a rivalry - there's a bit of banter here and there but we're just pushing each other really."
The siblings both start for Exeter on Sunday in their Anglo-Welsh Cup semi-final against Harlequins at Sandy Park.
Joe only made his first Premiership start on 25 February, kicking 11 points in the Devon side's win over Newcastle.
"It was brilliant," he said. "I was looking at the teamsheet when it came out - I kept checking it to make sure it was my name."
Both brothers played football until their teenage years, with Sam the first to join Exeter.
"When he got signed up here it just drove me even more, because I didn't want to be left behind," Joe added.
"It's been massive playing together - after the game, especially with our family, it's a great achievement for us both.
"I would say I'm the better footballer - I've got the kicking skills and he's like my dad, he's a back row, so I think I'm more skilful than him at the moment." | Exeter Chiefs forward Sam Simmonds says he and younger brother Joe are "pushing each other" forward at the club. |
36570991 | Ross O'Sullivan, 25, from Cardiff, started the 220-mile (354km) swim of the River Severn at the source near Llanidloes, Powys, on 1 June.
On Saturday, he completed the challenge after reaching the Severn Beach at about 14:00 BST.
"I was completely drained. But it was a great sense of achievement," he said.
He was forced to walk the first three days as the water was too shallow, but after reaching Pool Quay, where he met his fiancee Caitriona Hurley and the support team, Mr O'Sullivan said "the adventure really started".
"It was a lot more mentally tough than I expected. I had prepared myself physically for the swim but didn't think we would hit as many obstacles as we did," the civil engineer explained.
"We nearly packed it in half way through but looking back now on the tough patches, it was worth it.
"As soon as I reached the finish my first thoughts were, 'get me a warm bath and a soft mattress under my back'."
He was also supported by Kevin Brady, 32, who took a month to complete the same challenge last year.
"I was pleased with how I went down the river so fast," Mr O'Sullivan said.
"Kev has been incredibly helpful and really got me through the whole thing."
So far, he has raised £1,600 for motor neurone disease sufferers in memory of his uncle Jimmy, who died from the disease.
Mr O'Sullivan said he hoped he had helped promote "wild swimming" and inspired others to "take up a challenge". | A man has spoken of his "great sense of achievement" after swimming Britain's longest river in 18 days. |
40918568 | Club 1872, the second largest shareholder in Rangers, claims Lennon made "various inflammatory gestures" to fans during Hibs' 3-2 win at Ibrox.
The fans' group wants Police Scotland and the Scottish Professional Football League to speak to the Hibs boss.
Neither Hibs nor Lennon have commented on the Club 1872 statement. | A Rangers supporters' group has urged the police and football authorities to investigate the conduct of Hibernian head coach Neil Lennon. |
39184143 | Andrew Saunders, 21, was sentenced to life with a minimum term of 23 years on 28 February for the murders of Zoe Morgan, 21, and Lee Simmons, 33.
The couple were stabbed near the Queen Street Matalan store where they worked on 28 September, 2016.
The AG will decide whether to refer the sentence to the Court of Appeal.
A spokesman for the office said: "We have received a request for the case of Andrew Patrick Saunders to be considered under the unduly lenient sentence scheme. The law officers have 28 days from sentencing to consider this case.
"The threshold to refer cases to the Court of Appeal is very high.
"A sentence can only be regarded as unduly lenient if there has been a gross error and it is significantly below the level that any judge could have reasonably imposed after considering the facts of the case."
After he pleaded guilty to both murders, Cardiff Crown Court was told Saunders and Miss Morgan had been in a relationship, but split up before she and Mr Simmons began a relationship in July 2016.
Saunders had been unhappy that his relationship with Miss Morgan had ended and made threats against her and Mr Simmons when he found out they were together.
Days before he murdered the pair, Saunders searched the internet for the best methods to kill people.
After the attack, Saunders phoned his mother and told her he had killed the pair. He also sent a text to his father saying "thanks for being a pathetic, useless father. Just killed two people, cheers".
Police later arrested Saunders at his family home, where he told officers: "I'm sorry, you know sometimes, you just snap." | The jail term of a murderer who stabbed a couple to death in Cardiff city centre has been referred to the Attorney General's Office. |
35918547 | Tanveer Ahmed, 32, from Bradford in Yorkshire, is accused of killing 40-year-old Asad Shah outside his shop in the city's Shawlands area on Thursday.
Police had described the incident as a religiously prejudiced attack.
At Glasgow Sheriff Court, Mr Ahmed made no plea and was remanded in custody. | A man has appeared in court charged with the murder of a shopkeeper in the south side of Glasgow. |
27160315 | This is the full statement to the inquests from his mother, Sandra Stringer:
Paul William Carlile was born on 8 August 1969. Paul came into this world weighing just 4lbs. He fought hard to survive but grew to become a handsome, loving, respectful young man.
He was the first boy born to Sandra after his sisters Donna and Michelle. Paul's younger brother, Darren, was born 10 years later.
Paul was brought up to be a law-abiding citizen. He was not a hooligan and he was not a drunkard.
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Paul had a close relationship with his cousins and enjoyed family holidays to Butlins. It wouldn't be just our house, though, it would be nan, granddad, aunts, uncles and all our cousins.
We would book the whole row of chalets and Paul loved the fact that all his family were together. These were good days, happy days.
Paul's nan wanted him to become a priest, so, to please her, he became an altar boy for a few years, together with his cousin Gary, at St Peter and Paul's church.
His nan was Liverpool mad and Paul developed the same passion. He couldn't believe his luck when his dad, Jimmy, took him to Rome to see the team play.
His mum and nan were the most important people in his life. When his grandfather died in 1985, he could not bear to think of his nan on her own.
He was torn between the two women he adored. He wanted to be with them both so he shared his time between the two houses. This was just fine for Paul because he would be spoilt rotten in both homes.
After finishing his time at St Kevin's High School, Paul began a plastering apprenticeship. He loved his work and was proud of his achievements.
Paul loved treating his mum. Every Friday, he would come home with her favourite sweets and pay for her to go to the hairdressers.
He used to tell her: "One day, everyone will know my name. I will be famous, and I'll buy you a big white house".
His mum was meticulous about cleaning, but Paul would pay no heed.
After work each day, he would come home, straight into the kitchen, wrap his arms around mum, kissing her head and swung her around like a rag doll. There would be plaster and dust flying off him and we would be laughing so hard we could hardly breathe.
That was typical of Paul. He would brighten up a room just by walking in.
Paul was always a joker. He had such a crazy laugh. He would pretend to be a horse and his nieces, Tori and Katie, would take turns getting rides.
Tori had an imaginary dog and Paul would often pretend to be taking the dog out for a walk. Tori would be fuming, shouting at him to leave her dog alone and Paul thought this was hysterical. He was a terrible torment. The kids adored him.
Paul was very protective of his sisters Donna and Michelle. He would even walk into the classrooms and say he was checking his sisters were OK.
When his mum became pregnant with Darren, he used to put his head on her tummy and he always said, "It's a boy and we are calling him Darren".
Paul enjoyed fishing, he enjoyed darts and snooker, but his passion was football. He loved Liverpool.
On Friday, 14 April, Paul finished his apprenticeship. It was a proud day for him. He was to start his new job on Monday, a day that never came.
On 15 April, our world fell apart. He came home on his sister Michelle's 21st birthday. She no longer celebrates that day.
The night before his funeral, all his friends slept on the living room floor to be near him one more night.
We had a double funeral with his friend, Carl Lewis. People say the streets were lined and they couldn't get into the church.
The street he lived in with nan was renamed Carlile Way at the request of the neighbours. He was a loved and respected part of his community and they wanted to make sure he was never forgotten.
The loss of Paul has devastated his family. His mum, dad, sisters and brother.
Before he was taken from us, he had a chance to meet his nieces Tori and Katie, and his nephew Ritchie was seven-months-old. Paul now has a nephew, Adam Paul, and nieces Emma, Olivia, Lydia and Faye and our new baby, Mason Paul.
We talk about him every day. We miss his laugh, his handsome face and his enthusiasm for life. Paul was the blue eye in our family, our number one. He still is.
He had a simple life: he loved his family, his friends and his football.
We don't know what Paul's dreams were. I guess he thought he had a lifetime to fulfil them. He was 19.
His life was only just beginning. He didn't get the chance to fall in love or hold his own child in his arms.
People say time heals. It doesn't. You simply learn to live with your grief. We haven't been allowed to heal. We just want some answers that may give us some peace.
He did nothing wrong that day. He went to watch the team he loved and came home to me in a coffin.
Our pain will go when we are with Paul again and hold him in our arms. | Paul Carlile was a plasterer from Liverpool and Liverpool FC season ticket holder, who travelled by train with two friends, who both survived. |
35372023 | Davies-Okundaye trained in Adire, a traditional indigo-dyed cloth worn by women in south-western Nigeria, and featuring hand-painted patterns of birds, shells, and geckos. She is credited with the contemporary revival of this once fading textile and batik industry.
Some portraits by Joanna Lipper are also on show. Lipper first photographed Chief Nike Okundaye-Davies in Oshogbo, Nigeria, in 2010.
"I was striving to illuminate Nike's dedication to the preservation and transmission of traditional Yoruba belief structures, art techniques and visual vocabularies to new generations," says Lipper of her series of portraits.
The photographs were originally part of a project on woman at work in Africa and features women and girls engaged in farming, politics, fashion, religious observance, academic study, social entrepreneurship, activism, family life and street life.
"I wanted my photographs to reflect how Nike defines her status not through marriage or lineage as is the status quo in so many traditional, patriarchal cultures all around the world - but on the basis of her own artistic achievements, her independent professional identity and the resulting income that she herself has control over," says Lipper.
Nike Davies-Okundaye - The Power of One Woman - Featuring photographs by Joanna Lipper is on show at the Gallery of African Art GAFRA in London, until 6 February 2016. | An exhibition of early pen and ink works, delicate watercolours, acrylics, jewellery and Adire textiles by the Nigerian artist Chief Nike Davies-Okundaye is on show in London. |
33929681 | The driver circled around the 78-year-old in what officers described as a "sickening twist", before driving off.
The victim was knocked down as he crossed Beacon Lane, in Sedgley, at about 15:30 BST on Thursday.
Officers are appealing for help to track down the driver of a white van and his passenger.
They said a number of witnesses had come forward and the incident was captured on CCTV.
PC Leon Whitmore said the victim was well-known in the area and local people had been left "left very angry, stunned and sickened".
"If the driver didn't have the courage to stop at the scene, he or his passenger need to find some now and call police," he said
"This is their chance to come forward and explain what happened."
Both men are described as being in their 20s and were wearing high-visibility jackets. They left the scene in what is believed to be a white, Renault Kangoo van, police said.
The vehicle was missing two wheel trims and had a large custom-fitted lock on the rear doors. | A pensioner is in a critical condition after being left for dead in a hit-and-run crash in the West Midlands, police have said. |
36142727 | The manifesto opposes renewal of the Trident nuclear weapon system - subject to all existing jobs being retained - and fracking.
It also sets out Labour's opposition to a second independence referendum for the duration of the next parliament.
And it makes an anti-austerity pledge to stop cuts by increasing spending on public services in real terms.
The document was unveiled by Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale in Edinburgh with just a week of campaigning left before the election on 5 May.
It promises real terms protection of health, education, policing and culture budgets.
And it proposes raising money to pay for public services by increasing income tax by 1% across all bands and increasing the top rate for those earning more than £150,000 from 45p to 50p.
Ms Dugdale insisted Labour was the "only party offering an alternative to austerity" as she set out plans to use the powers of the Scottish Parliament to "invest in the future and stop the cuts to public services".
She has pledged to put education at the heart of her party's proposals for government, which include funding for a breakfast club in every primary school and an after-school sports "revolution" for every secondary school.
The breakfast clubs policy could see an average investment of £6,500 at every school. Ms Dugdale said it could help grow the economy and help women in particular thrive in their jobs.
Further pledges for children in the manifesto include a "fair start fund" of £1,000 for every child from a deprived background to cut the attainment gap between "the richest and the rest" in classrooms, funding for primary school teachers to go on computer coding courses and scrapping charges for exam appeals.
What to discern from all this? That Labour perceives it has a problem with definition in the minds of the Scottish public, that voters wonder - or, rather, have been wondering - what Labour stands for, that Labour knows it needs to remedy that, for the immediate election and - should they fail to win this time - for subsequent contests.
To be clear, Ms Dugdale is pressing for every single vote. Like the SNP, she wants the electorate to back her party on both the constituency and list ballot papers.
Should that accumulate into overall victory, Ms Dugdale would be more than delighted to move into Houses, Bute and St Andrew's.
And if it does not? If Labour falls short? The manifesto launch then kicks into alternative mode - which involves two facets.
One, Labour hopes that with its offer on tax and education, it has more firmly established its political credentials in the public mind.
Two, Labour hopes that it may have set a series of traps which could snap shut upon the SNP government during the coming term.
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Speaking at the launch, Ms Dugdale said: "This is a manifesto in the best traditions of the Labour Party. This plan for a Labour government is Labour at our boldest best.
"It is the return of the Labour Party that gave us the NHS, the minimum wage, the Labour Party that established the Scottish Parliament.
"It is a positive plan that returns to Labour's roots and invests in our nation's future. Our manifesto isn't about the politician on the front cover. Our manifesto is about the people of Scotland.
"It is about the powers that Scotland holds. It is about the potential of our nation."
Opinion polls have suggested Labour is facing a battle for second place with the Conservatives, while the SNP appears to be on course for a second successive majority and a third consecutive term in government.
To help pay for the extra measures outlined in its manifesto as it seeks to put clear water between itself and the other parties, Labour has proposed a number of tax reforms.
Ms Dugdale opposes George Osborne's rise in the threshold for the 40p income tax rate, and wants to increase the top rate to 50p for those earning more than £150,000 and to add 1p to all other income tax bands.
She also wants to abolish the current system of council tax, replacing it with a new property-based levy including a revaluation of property prices across Scotland.
The party has argued that 80% of people would pay less under its proposals than they currently do through the council tax.
Labour would also seek to empower local government by devolving tax-raising powers such as a tourism tax, land value tax and a surplus from the Crown Estate.
On the NHS, Labour wants to protect the health service budget in real terms, guarantee an appointment at a GP surgery within 48 hours, provide increased university places for medical students and invest more in advanced nurse practitioners.
The party has also set a target of having 60,000 new homes built across the next parliament, including 45,000 for social rent, alongside a plan to help first-time buyers get on the property ladder.
On Trident renewal - which was supported by Ms Dugdale but opposed by Scottish Labour as a whole at its conference - the manifesto says it will "make a submission to the UK party's national defence review opposing the renewal of Trident, subject to defence diversification agency guaranteeing the retention of all existing jobs."
And on the issue of independence, Ms Dugdale said it was time to "move on from the arguments of the past" and instead use the new powers coming to the Scottish Parliament to "make different decisions and act in the best interests of the people of Scotland".
Ms Dugdale said her party's opposition to a second independence referendum was "unequivocal" and that it was a "myth" that independence was the only way to change things".
She also said she was "appalled" that the SNP seemed unwilling to use Holyrood's new powers. | Scottish Labour has described its manifesto for the Holyrood election as being a "return to the party's roots". |
26874028 | The University of Exeter's art and history faculties have combined to use the historic artefacts to prompt discussions about "difficult topics".
The objects are kept in the vaults of the Science Museum in London and are not normally on public display.
Now they are going on show in Exeter as part of the new teaching programme.
The scheme, Sex and History, is aimed at school pupils aged 14 to 19.
It was developed with the help of a group of sixth form students from Exeter College, who used illustrations of the objects as a basis for exploring ideas around sex and sexual relationships.
The academics behind it believe that it offers "a safe environment" for young people to discuss how sexual practices and conventions have changed through history, and give them opportunities to examine their own views and concerns about sex.
The team was led by Exeter's professor of history Kate Fisher, and Rebecca Langlands, a classicist.
Prof Fisher said the "intriguing artefacts from ancient cultures act as a productive and challenging stimulus, but they also provide a safe distance to discuss sensitive subjects without embarrassment."
"They were talking about history, about places and times far away," she said.
"It was no longer sex education or about putting them in the spotlight, but it was about broader cultures."
Dr Langlands believes the objects were a perfect catalyst for discussion.
"They immediately kick-started conversations with young people in a way that is usually very difficult to achieve in a classroom context," she said.
"Traditionally sex education can be uncomfortable for teachers and pupils alike, and the availability of internet pornography poses new challenges.
"Young people are often well aware of the biological facts of reproduction, sexually transmitted diseases and contraception, but lack the opportunity for discussion of important wider social issues such as body image, love, consent, and intimacy."
Laura Kerslake, a lecturer in Ethics at Exeter College, where the scheme was piloted, said the objects helped students who might otherwise have been self-conscious.
"This approach takes the embarrassment out of it and reduces the possibility of students putting up barriers to learning," she said.
"It's also a great way to help teachers who may be faced with a wall of silence when teaching sex education.
"What was nice was seeing them looking at the different language they use to talk about sex and body parts, some of the students don't have that vocabulary so it's a way of getting them to talk about it and understand the terminology."
The artefacts are from the vaults of the Science Museum, and were collected from around the world by Sir Henry Wellcome at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th Centuries.
They will go on show at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery in Exeter on Saturday.
The Intimate Worlds exhibition contains objects relating to human sexuality, including Chinese erotic glass painting, Greek vases and African fertility dolls.
It is the first dedicated public display of Wellcome's sexually related material. | Objects including a chastity belt, Roman phallic amulets and an entwined ivory couple from China are being used to teach sex education to teenagers. |
37431646 | The release, issued ahead of a news conference hours after the result, was later edited to remove the reference.
The change came after First Minister Carwyn Jones did not mention free movement when he made the statement.
Plaid Cymru called for an independent inquiry into the circumstances.
The Welsh language version of the press release was only changed to remove the reference weeks later.
Mr Jones has since said he believes the continuation of unrestricted free movement of people would be unacceptable to people after the referendum result.
In a debate in the Senedd on Wednesday, Plaid Cymru Shadow Economy Secretary Adam Price joined Welsh Conservative leader Andrew RT Davies in questioning Economy Secretary Ken Skates on why the original press release made reference to retaining the free movement of people and was then altered.
Mr Price said: "Doctoring a government website, which set out the government's official position, to reflect a change in the political weather can never be accepted.
"I have no idea whether this case a case of cock-up or conspiracy but we clearly need an independent investigation into the circumstances under which the government policy changed, and why the press web notice was changed retrospectively.
"If this has been done to avoid embarrassment to the first minister then it is clearly a very serious matter indeed."
Mr Davies called the Welsh Government's admission "extraordinary". He also questioned whether the sole Liberal Democrat member of the Welsh Cabinet, Kirsty Williams, had been consulted on the change.
He said: "This extraordinary admission comes more than a week after I discovered Labour's change of policy, and actually raises more questions than it answers.
"Chief amongst those is why the press release was retrospectively changed, and when the Welsh Government's education secretary became aware this pledge had been dropped.
"Does she and her party now back an end to freedom of movement for people?"
A spokesman for the Welsh Government said a new press release was issued 40 minutes after the original with no mention of free movement.
He also said: "The Welsh language version online was incorrect, and based on an earlier draft. This has now been changed.
"The Welsh Government's view on freedom of movement has been articulated a number of times by the first Minister and other ministers.
"It was clearly a big concern for many voters, and as such we regard it as something still open for debate as we develop our thinking." | Welsh ministers have admitted a press release saying they backed free movement of people despite the Brexit vote was altered after being sent to journalists. |
39364798 | Yasunori Kagoike said the donation had been passed to him by Mr Abe's wife, in testimony that contradicted Mr Abe's repeated denials.
The school is under fire both for its proposed curriculum and the low price it paid for state-owned land.
The scandal has gripped the nation and hit Mr Abe's approval ratings.
Mr Kagoike's testimony to parliament was broadcast live on several Japanese television networks.
At the heart of the controversy is a primary school that he planned to build in Osaka, Japan's second city.
Mr Kagoike already runs a kindergarten that has come under scrutiny for drilling its young charges in pre-war nationalistic principles and patriotism.
His organisation, Moritomo Gakuen, bought land to build a primary school run on a similar curriculum but Japanese media say he paid less than a sixth of the land's value.
Critics allege the government intervened to award the school a large discount. The government says the discount related to industrial waste found on the site.
Mr Abe's wife, Akie, was named as honorary principal of the school for several months before resigning in February.
But the prime minister, regarded by many as a right-wing hawk with a revisionist view of Japan's war history, has denied any role in the land deal and offered to resign if any proof emerged.
Mr Abe has also denied donating money to the school, though it would not have been illegal.
Lawmakers summoned Mr Kagoike to parliament for questioning after he said last week he had received money from the prime minister via his wife in 2015.
He told parliament he clearly remembered the occasion: "She asked her aide to step outside.
"When it was just the two of us alone in the room, she said 'This is from Shinzo Abe' and gave me an envelope containing 1m yen [£7,200; $8,980) as a donation.
"I have heard Madame Akie has [recently] said she absolutely does not remember it. But for us, it was such an honour and I remember it very well."
Asked about the land deal, he said: "My understanding is that political involvement probably took place regarding the acquisition of state-owned land."
Responding to the testimony, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga rejected Mr Kagoike's allegations: "Following our checks with Ms Akie [Abe], there are no records of any receipts, and Ms Akie herself has not made any donations.
"That continues to be our understanding and is unchanged."
Mr Abe's polling figures have fallen as the scandal has rumbled on. However, the most recent poll, in the Yomiuri newspaper, put support for him at a still-healthy 56%, down 10%. | Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe gave money to a controversial nationalist school, its head told parliament, amid an escalating political scandal. |
15794246 | Ms Priyabhashini was 23 at that time, when a group of Pakistani soldiers and their Bangladeshi associates stormed into her house and dragged her away. Her husband and three children watched helplessly as she was bundled into an army jeep.
For seven months, she was repeatedly raped and tortured at an army camp in the capital Dhaka, she says.
"I was subjected to extreme physical and mental torture. They had no mercy. Many of my friends and relatives were killed in front of me," she said.
"It is heartening to see, 40 years after those atrocities, that some of those responsible for those gruesome acts are in the dock," Ms Priyabhashini said.
Bangladesh is yet to come to terms with its violent birth in 1971, after the Pakistani government sent in its army to stop was what was then East Pakistan from becoming independent.
It is not exactly clear how many people died, but official figures estimate that more than three million people were killed and hundreds of thousands of women raped during the nine-month bloody battle.
The minority Hindu community was particularly targeted. Many Hindus were even forcibly converted to Islam.
The war ended with the surrender of Pakistani forces to India, which intervened after millions of refugees flooded its eastern states to escape the brutality.
Soon after the war, there were demands from the victims and human rights groups to try those responsible for the slaughter, rape and looting.
However, Delhi, Dhaka and Islamabad agreed not to pursue war-crimes charges against the Pakistani soldiers, who were allowed to go back to their country.
Despite various attempts, efforts to try those Bangladeshis who allegedly collaborated with the Pakistani forces did not materialise until last year.
In 2010, for the first time, the Awami League-led government set up the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) to try those Bangladeshis accused of collaborating with Pakistani forces and committing atrocities.
So far seven people, including two from the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party and five from the Islamist Jamaat-e-Islami party, have been arrested and are facing trial in Dhaka. All of them deny the charges.
The Jamaat-e-Islami is the country's largest Islamist party and it opposed Bangladesh's independence from Pakistan at that time. Some of its members allegedly fought alongside the Pakistani army.
However, the two opposition parties accuse the government of carrying out a vendetta and trying to use the trial to curb their political activities.
"The trial will be transparent and independent. International observers will be allowed to come and watch the trial. The accused will be given full opportunity to defend their case," said the Bangladeshi law minister, Shafique Ahmed.
Despite the overwhelming public opinion in support of the trial, there are some bottlenecks.
First of all, this tribunal is almost a domestic set-up and the three judges sitting on the tribunal are from Bangladesh. The United Nations and other international agencies do not have any major role to play.
Human rights groups said some of the rules were not consistent with international standards, as followed by war crimes tribunals in Rwanda or Cambodia.
"Bangladesh has promised to meet international standards in these trials, but it has some way to go to meet this commitment," Human Rights Watch said in a statement issued earlier this year.
Defence counsels also complained about a lack of time for their team to prepare for the case. They also argued that Bangladesh didn't have the expertise to try war crimes, so the trials could not be fair.
"Both prosecution and defence do not have sufficient training in a trial of this magnitude," argued Abdur Razaaq, a senior lawyer for the accused and also a leader of the Jamaat.
"Our legal infrastructure is also not adequate to handle this case. So, how we can expect a fair trial?"
However, the government vehemently argued that it had enough legal expertise and manpower to conduct the trial. It promised that there would not be any political interference or revenge.
Despite the debate over whether or not the tribunal meets international standards, there is broad agreement in the country that the trial is long overdue. The consequences are likely to be severe if it doesn't go ahead this time.
"The trial will put an end to the culture of impunity, said Aly Zaker, an eminent writer and director.
"If not, the peace and harmony which the people of Bangladesh are trying to practise can be totally destroyed. So this trial is very important for our country and our people," he said. | Like many other Bengalis, eminent sculptor Ferdousy Priyabhashini is happy to see those accused of mass murder and rape during Bangladesh's 1971 independence war finally stand trial. |
36003037 | The promotion-chasing Bantams took the lead when Tony McMahon's whipped cross was headed in by Jamie Proctor.
But Akpa Akpro beat keeper Ben Williams to the ball with six minutes left to draw Shrewsbury level.
Fourth-placed City are six points off a League One automatic promotion place, while Shrewsbury are 20th, two points clear of fourth-from-bottom Blackpool.
Micky Mellon's side have two games in hand over his former club, but Town's next three matches are all against promotion-chasing sides.
They are now at home to eighth-placed Sheffield United on Tuesday night before trips to sixth-placed Gillingham and third-placed Walsall.
Shrewsbury Town manager Micky Mellon told BBC Radio Shropshire:
"You have to dig in and keep fighting. It's very tight at the bottom and tense, but we need people who can believe.
"We didn't compose ourselves in the first half - but we kept battling away. You always get an opportunity at some stage in the game and we got one fall our way.
"The substitutions worked and gave us the battling qualities we needed to get back in it, but it's frustrating because we're trying to find a system that works." | Jean-Louis Akpa Akpro's late header helped relegation-threatened Shrewsbury pick up a vital point against Bradford. |
38635518 | The Sunday Herald TV critic Damien Love reimagined the ceremony as a return of the classic science fiction series The Twilight Zone.
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"After a long absence, The Twilight Zone returns with one of the most ambitious, expensive and controversial productions in broadcast history. Sci-fi writers have dabbled often with alternative history stories - among the most common is the "What If The Nazis Had Won The Second World War" setting - but this huge interactive virtual reality project, which will unfold on TV, in the press, and on Twitter over the next four years, sets out to build an ongoing alternative present.
The story begins in a nightmarish version of 2017 in which huge sections of the US electorate have somehow been duped into voting to make Donald Trump president. It sounds far-fetched, and it is, but as it goes on it becomes more and more chillingly plausible. Today's feature-length opener concentrates on the gaudy inauguration of President Trump, and the stirrings of protest and despair surrounding the ceremony, while pundits speculate gravely on what lies ahead. It's a flawed piece, but a disturbing glimpse of the horrors we could stumble into, if we're not careful."
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Love's satirical piece has amused people on both sides of the Atlantic.
A Facebook post by singer-songwriter Billy Bragg calling the listing a preview of things to come has been shared more than 125,000 times while Star Trek actor George Takei tweeted: "The Sunday Herald TV section wins today."
Seth MacFarlane, creator of animated TV series Family Guy, also tweeted his appreciation while Twitter user Scott Wryn worries Mr Trump may invade Scotland in response.
Not everyone approved of the joke though. One user tweeted: "They can't even write a TV schedule without filling it with fake news and propaganda."
The Editor of the Sunday Herald, Neil Mackay, tweeted: "I would like the good people of the world to help me get @realDonaldTrump to read this from today's Sunday Herald. Love from Scotland x."
The president-elect, normally quick to react to criticism, has not responded to the piece so far.
The inauguration ceremony will take place on Friday 20 January and you can watch the real programme President Trump: The Inauguration at 16:00 GMT on BBC One.
by UGC and Social News team | A Scottish newspaper's TV listing of President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration has caught people's attention both in the UK and the US. |
39318074 | Hart, who is on a season-long loan from Manchester City, allowed Geoffrey Kondogbia's shot to slip under his body as Inter took the lead on 27 minutes.
Daniele Baselli and Afriyie Acquah put Torino ahead before Hart contributed to Inter's 62nd-minute equaliser.
The 29-year-old misjudged Cristian Ansaldi's cross, allowing Antonio Candreva to score from close range.
The draw leaves Inter in fifth place, five points behind third-placed Napoli, who fill the final Champions League spot.
Napoli face Empoli on Sunday, while leaders Juventus are at Sampdoria, and Roma, in second, host Sassuolo.
In Saturday's other match, AC Milan beat Genoa 1-0 to move up to sixth, with Matias Fernandez scoring the only goal.
Match ends, Torino 2, Inter Milan 2.
Second Half ends, Torino 2, Inter Milan 2.
Maxi López (Torino) is shown the yellow card.
Maxi López (Torino) has gone down, but that's a dive.
Hand ball by Maxi López (Torino).
Foul by Jeison Murillo (Inter Milan).
Andrea Belotti (Torino) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Ivan Perisic (Inter Milan) left footed shot from the left side of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Éder following a fast break.
Foul by Danilo D'Ambrosio (Inter Milan).
Sasa Lukic (Torino) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Dangerous play by Mauro Icardi (Inter Milan).
Cristian Molinaro (Torino) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Ivan Perisic (Inter Milan) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Antonio Candreva.
Corner, Inter Milan. Conceded by Luca Rossettini.
Attempt blocked. Ivan Perisic (Inter Milan) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Marcelo Brozovic.
Attempt saved. Andrea Belotti (Torino) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Sasa Lukic.
Corner, Inter Milan. Conceded by Emiliano Moretti.
Miranda (Inter Milan) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Maxi López (Torino).
Foul by Miranda (Inter Milan).
Andrea Belotti (Torino) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Danilo D'Ambrosio (Inter Milan) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Lucas Boyé (Torino).
Substitution, Torino. Maxi López replaces Daniele Baselli.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Afriyie Acquah (Torino) because of an injury.
Corner, Inter Milan. Conceded by Joe Hart.
Attempt saved. Éder (Inter Milan) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner. Assisted by Marcelo Brozovic.
Attempt missed. Antonio Candreva (Inter Milan) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Ivan Perisic with a cross.
Attempt missed. Ivan Perisic (Inter Milan) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Marcelo Brozovic (Inter Milan) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Afriyie Acquah (Torino).
Foul by Danilo D'Ambrosio (Inter Milan).
Daniele Baselli (Torino) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Antonio Candreva (Inter Milan) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Lucas Boyé (Torino).
Hand ball by Andrea Belotti (Torino).
Substitution, Inter Milan. Marcelo Brozovic replaces Geoffrey Kondogbia.
Attempt missed. Éder (Inter Milan) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left.
Roberto Gagliardini (Inter Milan) wins a free kick in the attacking half. | England goalkeeper Joe Hart made two costly errors as Torino drew with Inter Milan in Serie A. |
26919710 | Success is valued so highly that some people now make their living offering hints and tricks about how to prove popular.
Nick Taylor is one such expert at London-based PeerIndex - a firm that crunches data on millions of tweets a week to advise its clients on what works.
He stresses a need to start with the basics. Pause to think about your profile picture and description before you start tweeting.
"Pick something personal which says something about you specifically," he says.
"Remember the Twitter profile photo is very small so a full-face image is going to be easier to see than a full-body."
"With your bio try telling people about the sort of things you tweet about, that way they can easily decide to follow you based on shared interests."
Twitter's new layout allows you to add a Facebook-style banner image at the top - so, it's worth thinking about whether you want to use the virtual real estate to post a second larger photo of yourself or another image that tells visitors about your interests.
An uncluttered wallpaper that also speaks to your personality can also make your profile seem appealing. But once you have finished fiddling with the layout how should you reel people in?
Time to turn to David Schneider - an actor who has starred in I'm Alan Partridge and Mission: Impossible, and who now uses his comedic skills to help brands and businesses boost their Twitter engagement.
"Your perfect tweets will have at least one of the following: information, insight, and humour," says the founder of the consultancy That Lot.
"If it has all three then it is going to be incredibly shareable.
"Information is stuff that people want to know. Insight is 'here you are behind the scenes', and humour is humour."
He adds that it is also important to get the right tone, saying successful tweeters usually sound as if they are writing an email to a mate.
His colleague David Levin later follows up with a few other dos and don'ts - all helpfully running to less than 140 characters:
Twitter etiquette suggests that you should also follow and retweet others.
It's not obligatory - a spoof account for the Queen has racked up more than one million followers without doing so.
"One's a leader, not a follower," explains @Queen_UK.
But parody accounts aside, it can prove wise to appear neither too self-involved nor too trigger-happy.
"The follow-back can become a bit of a game on Twitter, which is not what it's designed for," says Mr Taylor.
"You should only really be following someone if you're going to be interested in what they tweet.
"Some users will un-follow you if you don't follow them back after a certain period - but are these really the followers you want in the first place?"
He says there are also a couple of rules to be aware of when using the network's name function.
"If you are talking about someone - especially when you have something bad to say - mention their @ handle - it's rude to talk behind people's backs," he explains.
"And remember that any tweet starting with @person will only be seen by the people who follow you and @person, no one else.
"If you want to start with their name but have it seen by others, put a full stop before it. For example: '.@person is great.'"
While breaking through the 1,000-follower barrier can be seen as a sign that you're doing something right, one expert suggests you should not become too fixated on your follower-count.
Dr Meeyoung Cha used software to analyse the network's first three-and-a-half years of public posts - a total of nearly two billion tweets.
"Our work is about how individuals, companies, and celebrities exploit social media to increase their influence," says the academic at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science.
"What we find is that follower count does not equal influence - in fact it is a bad indicator.
"We came to this conclusion after seeing those with the highest number of followers do not receive the same high level interaction with the audience - like retweets or mentions.
"It takes other qualities to make someone do an action like forwarding your message, engaging in conversations, being talked about."
It seems your Twitter skills can only get you so far. Ultimately it's what you do with the rest of your time that determines your true social status.
Or, as Brooklyn-based artist and rapper Cortez told his 30,000 followers last month: "Why have followers if u do nothing with them? 40k followers & no mixtapes, videos, Merch, shows! Nothing!!!#HustlinBackwards" | Whether you are new to Twitter or a seasoned pro, this week's announcement of the rollout of a revamped look for the social network was a reminder that you need to make the most of the options it offers if you want to build up your number of followers and keep them hooked. |
32702431 | The blaze caused significant structural damage to the rear of the building and equipment was badly damaged at Cowpen Crematorium in Blyth on 12 March.
Dozens of planned funerals had to be cancelled and rebooked in Newcastle and North Tyneside.
Northumberland County Council said work was now under way to repair the fire-damaged roof and equipment.
Councillor Ian Swithenbank said: "We appreciate the significant distress and inconvenience this has caused to families and have been working hard to get this facility up and running again as quickly as possible.
"We're continuing to work with neighbouring local authorities and have received excellent support from them to ensure that bereaved families are able to access crematorium services without any delays."
An investigation into the cause of the fire is continuing, but there is no evidence to suggest that the fire was started deliberately, the council said.
The council said early indications show the most likely cause was heat from machinery and flues causing a fire in the roof structure. | Northumberland's only crematorium which was gutted by fire is to remain closed until October. |
38279792 | Kohli's 235 and 104 from number nine Jayant Yadav helped India amass a commanding 631, a lead of 231 runs.
England - trailing 2-0 in the series - lost Keaton Jennings to the second ball of the innings as they reached 182-6, needing 49 to make India bat again.
Joe Root made 77 and Jonny Bairstow 50 not out, while Ben Stokes fell late on.
Nightwatchman Jake Ball was caught behind off Ravichandran Ashwin off what proved out to be the final ball of the day to leave India within sight of a third successive comprehensive win over England.
"It was a dreadful day for England," said BBC cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew.
"Spirited batting by Root, Bairstow and Stokes tried to keep England's slender hopes alive but, with the ball spinning almost unplayably, India are firm favourites to win the game and the series tomorrow."
After 182 overs and 14 hours in the field, England's batsmen faced a tough task as they prepared to contend with Ashwin, the number one Test bowler, on a pitch that was turning sharply.
Jennings, who made 112 on the first day, had spent much of India's innings fielding at short leg and that weariness showed when he fell lbw to Bhuveneshwar Kumar to his first ball.
It was the same for Alastair Cook, who reviewed a clear lbw decision as he was dismissed for the fourth time in the series by Ravindra Jadeja, before Moeen Ali edged the same bowler to leg gully for a duck.
Root and Bairstow counter-attacked but batting was always fraught as Jadeja and Ashwin got the ball to spin. Root reverse swept his way to a half-century but was dismissed by Ashwin as he moved back to a full ball.
And the late dismissals of Stokes, caught via bat and pad at slip off Murali Vijay, and Ball in the final over of the day surely ended any hopes England may have had of saving the Test.
Kohli and Jayant attacked England's weary bowlers from the start of the day, with Jayant thrashing Rashid for back-to-back boundaries, before bringing up his maiden Test century.
He and Kohli put on 241, 146 of those coming in the morning session, before Jayant charged Rashid and was stumped. He was dropped on eight late on Saturday - and by the time he was dismissed, he had celebrated his maiden Test century.
Kohli continued, rolling his wrists to rotate the strike, before bringing up his 200 with a flick off his pads. He became more aggressive after reaching the total, hitting Chris Woakes into the stands as India passed 600.
When he eventually fell for his highest Test score, caught by James Anderson at deep extra cover, he was congratulated by the England team as the 20,000-strong crowd gave him a standing ovation.
India's lower order continued to play their shots, with Woakes going for 12 runs in an over before Bhuvneshwar Kumar was caught in the deep to end India's innings.
"It's been another masterclass from Virat Kohli but Jayant Yadav looks a tremendous cricketer," Vaughan said.
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Former England opener Geoffrey Boycott: "I don't think England had any hope when they started batting.
"When it comes to turning pitches, England are all at sea. They don't get any practice on them at home in county cricket. The only way they can learn is watching Kohli."
Ex-England captain Michael Vaughan: "India are a better team in these conditions. Even if England played an extra batsman, they'd probably still lose.
"But you've got to give England credit for the way they've batted today. They've done the right thing by playing shots."
England bowler James Anderson on Sky Sports: "We're not going to come out of this game with a draw; we want to win this game.
"We're going to have to bat extremely well tomorrow. We've got to keep believing." | England are facing their seventh Test defeat of the year after Virat Kohli's double century ensured India dominated day four of the fourth Test in Mumbai. |
37396320 | Finland's defeat by Portugal ensured the Scots one of the six best runners-up spots in qualifying and a place in next year's finals in the Netherlands.
"We could have a very good competition," said Swede Signeul.
"We haven't even discussed it, but I feel we should get out of the group and go to the quarter-final."
Signeul feels a last-eight place "should be the least target we set", with the draw to take place on 8 November in Rotterdam.
"I know we are going to be in pot three of four," said Signeul, who has been in charge for 11 years. "We will be the third-ranked team in our group.
"We have a year now to prepare and to step up and really challenge the best teams.
"We have had problems when we play physical teams like Sweden, Norway and now Iceland and that is something that we need to be better at."
Scotland have one qualifier left to play in Group 1 - against leaders Iceland, who inflicted Scotland's only defeat of the campaign so far, on Tuesday.
Scotland's most capped player, goalkeeper Gemma Fay, believes reaching next year's tournament is "a positive football story" that should be applauded throughout the country.
"I absolutely hope it raises the profile of the women's game," she said. "I think it should.
"For years, we have had negativity around Scottish football and sometimes it's warranted, but sometimes I don't think it is.
"In the men's game, in the women's game, in the boys' game, everyone is doing good stuff and I would like us to celebrate that."
Fay says there is a simple answer to the secret of the success of Scottish women's football.
"Time," she explained. "We put something in place around 20 years ago with our development pathways and it has taken that time to come to fruition.
"It is time and patience and it's not going to happen overnight. You have to have the right attitude towards it and be willing to put the hard work in.
"Once you have done that, you have to be willing to fail. If you put yourself out there and try and to make yourselves better.
"So it's taking these lessons and not just accepting the way it was going to be." | Coach Anna Signeul is targeting a place in the quarter-finals of Euro 2017 after Scotland women reached their first major tournament. |
40002092 | Yn yr adroddiad mae'r pwyllgor yn nodi nad oes amserlen genedlaethol wedi ei osod ar gyfer cael gwared a'r afiechyd yng Nghymru yn wahanol i Loegr, Iwerddon a Seland Newydd.
Ond bydd angen monitro rhaglen y llywodraeth meddai'r ddogfen ac os nad yw'n gweithio byddai angen ei newid neu ei stopio.
Mae Llywodraeth Cymru'n dweud y bydd gweinidogion yn astudio'r argymhellion ac yn gwneud datganiad ar y mater cyn y gwyliau haf.
Ym mis Hydref y llynedd fe gyhoeddodd Llywodraeth Cymru ei bod yn ystyried caniatáu dal moch daear mewn cewyll ac yna'u difa ar ffermydd lle roedd na broblem hir-dymor gyda'r diciâu a lle roedd mesurau eraill wedi methu.
Ond fyddai na ddim rhaglen swyddogol o ddifa moch daear, fel sy'n digwydd mewn rhannau o Loegr.
Mae'r Llywodraeth wedi bod yn ymgynghori ar y cynlluniau ac mae disgwyl iddyn nhw gyhoeddi eu mesurau terfynol ym mis Mehefin.
Fe gyhoeddodd y llywodraeth hefyd y byddai ardaloedd TB Isel, Canolig ac Uchel hefyd yn cael eu sefydlu ar draws Cymru yn dibynnu ar ba mor gyffredin yw'r afiechyd er mwyn ceisio atal yr afiechyd rhag lledaenu.
Mae hyn yn rhywbeth sydd yn cael ei gymeradwyo gan y pwyllgor Newid Hinsawdd, Amgylchedd a Materion Gwledig.
Fe aeth yr Aelodau Cynulliad ati i gynnal ymchwiliad yn edrych ar TB ac yn benodol y dystiolaeth wyddonol, y dulliau sydd wedi eu defnyddio yn y gorffennol i geisio dileu'r afiechyd a chyfeiriad y llywodraeth i'r dyfodol.
Roedd y pwyllgor hefyd yn edrych ar y dystiolaeth mewn gwledydd eraill.
Roedd y mater iawndal yn un pwnc wnaeth godi yn ystod yr ymchwiliad.
Yn ôl yr adroddiad mae bron £150 miliwn wedi ei dalu i ffermwyr yn y 10 mlynedd ddiwethaf sydd wedi lladd eu hanifeiliaid trwy'r rhaglen i ddileu TB.
Ond mae Llywodraeth Cymru yn cynnig gostwng y swm uchaf maent yn talu o £15,000 i £5,000 ac un rheswm am hyn yw'r cyllid Ewropeaidd maent yn disgwyl ei golli pan fydd Prydain yn gadael yr Undeb Ewropeaidd.
Dywed yr adroddiad bod hi'n "bwysig bod y Llywodraeth yn talu iawndal digonol i ffermwyr".
Dywedodd cadeirydd y pwyllgor,yr Aelod Cynulliad Jenny Rathbone: "Rydym am weld Cymru'n cael ei datgan yn wlad sy'n rhydd o TB cyn gynted ag y bo modd, ond yn cydnabod bod lefel y cydweithrediad sydd ei angen i gyrraedd yno yn sylweddol.
"Daethom i'r casgliad bod angen strategaeth ar ei newydd wedd sy'n cynnwys dull rhanbarthol at ddileu TB, cyfyngiadau o ran symud ar fuchesi sydd wedi'u heintio a masnachu yn seiliedig ar risg ymhlith opsiynau eraill.
"Mae angen hefyd i gadw llygad barcud ar reoli buchesi godro mwy o faint ac unrhyw gyswllt gyda'r slyri a gynhyrchir ganddynt."
12 argymhelliad sydd yn yr adroddiad sydd yn cynnwys: | Mae angen pennu dyddiad ar gyfer pryd y bydd Cymru yn wlad gwbl rydd o'r afiechyd TB medd un o bwyllgorau'r Cynulliad. |
14093322 | 1300s - Tutsis migrate into what is now Rwanda, which was already inhabited by the Twa and Hutu peoples.
1600s - Tutsi King Ruganzu Ndori subdues central Rwanda and outlying Hutu areas.
Late 1800s - Tutsi King Kigeri Rwabugiri establishes a unified state with a centralised military structure.
1858 - British explorer Hanning Speke is the first European to visit the area.
1890 - Rwanda becomes part of German East Africa.
1916 - Belgian forces occupy Rwanda.
1923 - Belgium granted League of Nations mandate to govern Ruanda-Urundi, which it ruled indirectly through Tutsi kings.
1946 - Ruanda-Urundi becomes UN trust territory governed by Belgium.
1957 - Hutus issue manifesto calling for a change in Rwanda's power structure to give them a voice commensurate with their numbers; Hutu political parties formed.
1959 - Tutsi King Kigeri V, together with tens of thousands of Tutsis, forced into exile in Uganda following inter-ethnic violence.
The assassination of President Juvenal Habyarimana (r) sparked the 1994 genocide
Rwanda's mystery that won't go away
Kagame 'did not shoot down plane'
1961 - Rwanda proclaimed a republic.
1962 - Rwanda becomes independent with a Hutu, Gregoire Kayibanda, as president; many Tutsis leave the country.
1963 - About 20,000 Tutsis are killed following an incursion by Tutsi rebels based in Burundi.
1973 - President Gregoire Kayibanda ousted in military coup led by Juvenal Habyarimana.
1978 - New constitution ratified; Habyarimana elected president.
1988 - Some 50,000 Hutu refugees flee to Rwanda from Burundi following ethnic violence there.
1990 - Forces of the rebel, mainly Tutsi, Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) invade Rwanda from Uganda.
1991 - New multi-party constitution promulgated.
1993 - President Habyarimana signs a power-sharing agreement with the Tutsis in the Tanzanian town of Arusha, ostensibly signalling the end of civil war; UN mission sent to monitor the peace agreement.
1994 April - Habyarimana and the Burundian president are killed after their plane is shot down over Kigali; RPF launches a major offensive; extremist Hutu militia and elements of the Rwandan military begin the systematic massacre of Tutsis. Within 100 days around 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus are killed; Hutu militias flee to Zaire, taking with them around 2 million Hutu refugees.
Around 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed in the 1994 massacre
Rwanda: How the genocide happened
1994-96 - Refugee camps in Zaire fall under the control of the Hutu militias responsible for the genocide in Rwanda.
1995 - Extremist Hutu militias and Zairean government forces attack local Zairean Banyamulenge Tutsis; Zaire attempts to force refugees back into Rwanda.
1995 - UN-appointed international tribunal begins charging and sentencing a number of people responsible for the Hutu-Tutsi atrocities.
1996 - Rwandan troops invade and attack Hutu militia-dominated camps in Zaire in order to drive home the refugees.
1997 - Rwandan- and Ugandan-backed rebels depose President Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire; Laurent Kabila becomes president of Zaire, which is renamed the Democratic Republic of Congo.
1998 - Rwanda switches allegiance to support rebel forces trying to depose Kabila in the wake of the Congolese president's failure to expel extremist Hutu militias.
2000 March - Rwandan President Pasteur Bizimungu, a Hutu, resigns over differences regarding the composition of a new cabinet and after accusing parliament of targeting Hutu politicians in anti-corruption investigations.
2000 April - Ministers and members of parliament elect Vice-President Paul Kagame as Rwanda's new president.
2001 October - Voting to elect members of traditional "gacaca" courts begins. The courts - in which ordinary Rwandans judge their peers - aim to clear the backlog of 1994 genocide cases.
2001 December - A new flag and national anthem are unveiled to try to promote national unity and reconciliation.
2002 April - Former president Pasteur Bizimungu is arrested and faces trial on charges of illegal political activity and threats to state security.
2002 July - Rwanda, DR Congo sign peace deal under which Rwanda will pull troops out of DR Congo and DR Congo will help disarm Rwandan Hutu gunmen blamed for killing Tutsi minority in 1994 genocide.
2002 October - Rwanda says it has pulled the last of its troops out of DR Congo, four years after they went in to support Congolese rebels against the Kabila government.
2003 May - Voters back a draft constitution which bans the incitement of ethnic hatred.
2003 August - Paul Kagame wins the first presidential elections since the 1994 genocide.
2003 October - First multi-party parliamentary elections; President Kagame's Rwandan Patriotic Front wins absolute majority. EU observers say poll was marred by irregularities and fraud.
2003 December - Three former media directors found guilty of inciting Hutus to kill Tutsis during 1994 genocide and receive lengthy jail sentences.
2004 March - President Kagame rejects French report which says he ordered 1994 attack on president's plane, which sparked genocide.
2004 June - Former president, Pasteur Bizimungu, is sentenced to 15 years in jail for embezzlement, inciting violence and associating with criminals.
2005 March - The main Hutu rebel group, the FDLR, says it is ending its armed struggle. FDLR is one of several groups accused of creating instability in DR Congo; many of its members are accused of taking part in 1994 genocide.
2005 July - Government begins the mass release of 36,000 prisoners. Most of them have confessed to involvement in the 1994 genocide. It is the third phase of releases since 2003 - part of an attempt to ease overcrowding.
2006 January - Rwanda's 12 provinces are replaced by a smaller number of regions with the aim of creating ethnically-diverse administrative areas.
2006 November - Rwanda breaks off diplomatic ties with France after a French judge issues an international arrest warrant for President Kagame, alleging he was involved in bringing down Habyarimana's plane.
2006 December - Father Athanase Seromba becomes the first Roman Catholic priest to be convicted for involvement in the 1994 genocide. The International Criminal Tribunal sentences him to life in prison.
2007 February - Some 8,000 prisoners accused of genocide are released. Some 60,000 suspects have been freed since 2003 to ease prison overcrowding.
2007 April - Former President Pasteur Bizimungu is released from jail three years into his 15-year sentence after receiving a presidential pardon.
2007 October - Inquiry launched into 1994 presidential plane crash that sparked the genocide.
2007 November - Rwanda signs a peace agreement with Democratic Republic of Congo under which the latter will hand over those suspected of involvement in the 1994 genocide to Kigali and to the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.
2008 January - French police arrest former Rwandan army officer Marcel Bivugabagabo who is on list of war criminals wanted for trial by the Rwandan government.
2008 February - A Spanish judge issues arrest warrants for 40 Rwandan army officers, accusing them of genocide, terrorism and crimes against humanity.
2008 August - Rwanda accuses France of having played an active role in the genocide of 1994, and issues a report naming more than 30 senior French officials. France says the claims are unacceptable.
2008 September - President Paul Kagame's Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF) wins large majority in parliamentary elections.
2008 October - Rwanda decides all education will be taught in English instead of French, officially as a result of joining the English-speaking East African Community.
2008 December - One of Rwanda's most famous singers, Simon Bikindi, is sentenced to 15 years in prison for inciting violence during the genocide.
UN report accuses Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo of directly helping Tutsi rebels fighting in eastern DR Congo. Rwanda denies supplying aid and child soldiers.
Theoneste Bagosora sentenced to life imprisonment at UN tribunal for masterminding genocide.
2009 January - Former Justice Minister Agnes Ntamabyariro is jailed for life by a Kigali court for conspiracy to plan the genocide and speeches inciting people to take part.
2009 February - Rwandan troops leave the Democratic Republic of Congo five weeks after entering to attack Hutu rebels.
UN war crimes court finds former army chaplain Emmanuel Rukundo guilty of genocide, sexual assault and kidnapping during genocide, sentences him to 25 years in jail.
2009 March - Rwandan MP and governing party member Beatrice Nirere found guilty of genocide and sentenced to life imprisonment in a traditional gacaca community court.
2009 November - Rwanda is admitted to the Commonwealth, as only the second country after Mozambique to become a member without a British colonial past or constitutional ties to the UK.
France and Rwanda restore diplomatic relations, three years after they were severed over a row about responsibility for the 1990s genocide.
2009 December - Rwanda is declared free of landmines - the first country to achieve this status.
2010 February - French President Nicolas Sarkozy visits to mark reconciliation after years of mutual recrimination over the genocide.
2010 April - Opposition leader Victoire Ingabire, who planned to run against President Kagame in the August elections, is arrested.
2010 June - Ex-army chief of staff Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa, a former ally turned critic of President Kagame, is wounded in a shooting while in exile in South Africa.
Kagame re-elected
2010 August - President Kagame wins new term in elections.
2010 October - UN report into 1993-2003 conflict in DR Congo says Rwandan forces took part in attacks on Hutu civilians which - if proven in court - could amount to genocide.
2010 December - Exiled military officers General Kayumba Nyamwasa and Colonel Patrick Karegeya form new political party - Rwanda National Congress.
2011 February - Opposition leader Bernard Ntaganda, accused of stoking ethnic tensions, is sentenced to four years in jail. Rights groups criticise the ruling.
2011 June - Former family minister Pauline Nyiramasuhuko becomes first woman to be found guilty of genocide by an international court.
2011 September - Former presidential candidate Victoire Ingabire goes on trial accused of genocide denial and working with a terrorist group.
2011 December - Hutu rebel leader Callixte Mbarushimana becomes the first suspect brought to the International Criminal Court (ICC) to be freed after finds rules that there is insufficient evidence for charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
2012 June - Rwanda shuts down "gacaca" community courts that for 10 years tried those accused of involvement in the 1994 genocide.
2012 July - The US, Britain and the Netherlands halt aid to Rwanda over UN accusations that it is fuelling a rebellion in the Democratic Republic of Congo by training rebel troops. Rwanda denies the charge.
2012 October - A Rwandan court sentences opposition leader Victoire Ingabire to eight years in jail on charges of threatening state security and "belittling" the 1994 genocide.
2012 December - The UN-backed International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) convicts former government minister and key organiser of the 1994 genocide Augustin Ngirabatware to 35 years in prison.
2013 February - The ICTR overturns the 2011 genocide convictions of former ministers Justin Mugenzi and Prosper Mugiraneza, to the dismay of Rwandan prosecutors.
Opposition leader Victoire Ingabire (r) was jailed following a trial she says was politically motivated
Rwanda politician's jail term raised
2013 September - French court frees former army deputy chief-of-staff Laurent Serubuga, turning down an extradition request on the grounds that genocide and crimes against humanity were not punishable by law in Rwanda in 1994.
2013 September - Parliamentary elections. Governing RPF party gains a resounding victory.
2014 January - Leading opposition figure Patrick Karegeya dies in exile in South Africa, which becomes embroiled in a diplomatic row with Rwanda.
2014 March - Former Rwandan intelligence officer Pascal Simbikangwa is becomes the first man to be convicted in France in connection with the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.
2014 October - Rwanda suspends BBC broadcasts in the Kinyarwanda language because of a film questioning official accounts of the 1994 genocide.
2015 February - An official inquiry in Rwanda calls for criminal and civil proceedings against the BBC over a documentary which questioned official accounts of the 1994 genocide. The BBC rejects the inquiry's findings.
2015 April - The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda holds its last hearings, 10 years after opening, and having convicted 93 individuals in connection with the 1994 genocide.
2016 January - President Kagame announces that he will stand for the presidency again in 2017, after winning a December referendum on constitutional changes allowing him to serve a third term.
2016 November - Rwanda opens an investigation into 20 French officials it says are suspected of involvement in the genocide of 1994. | A chronology of key events: |
36625798 | Following the referendum vote in favour of Brexit, he said all regional and farm funding should continue, and an extra £9bn a year would be available.
UKIP Wales leader Nathan Gill has said politicians must work together "to heal the divisions" created by the campaign.
First Minister Carwyn Jones has also called for party and public unity.
In Thursday's referendum 52.5% of voters in Wales backed Leave, compared with 47.5% supporting Remain.
Live: Latest reaction to the EU referendum result
Monmouth MP Mr Davies - a prominent name in the Leave campaign - said he was "more than happy" to work with the Welsh Government to ensure Wales did not lose any funding when the UK left the European Union.
He told BBC Radio Wales it could result in even more money coming to Wales.
"We pay £19bn [a year] into the EU, we get about £10bn back at the moment," he said on Saturday's Good Morning Wales programme.
"We first of all make sure the money that was going into structural funds and CAP [the Common Agricultural Policy] continues.
"Then we look at the net £8.5-£9bn that's left over and ensure anything that's spent in Britain is 'Barnettised' so that Wales gets 5%."
The Barnett formula is used by the UK Treasury to share any extra money for public spending between the four UK nations.
Mr Davies added that he was "very open-minded" about a quick departure from the EU if the other 27 member states wanted it.
"I was campaigning to get out of the European Union, and if they want to help us out by speeding things up then that's great."
Meanwhile Clwyd West MP David Jones, a fellow Tory who led the Vote Leave Cymru campaign, said the UK Government could give Wales structural funding beyond 2020, when the current EU grant deal runs out.
The former Welsh Secretary said with the prospect of countries such as Serbia and Macedonia aiming to join the EU, it was doubtful Wales would still have qualified for aid anyway.
As the result of the referendum sank in, Mr Gill told BBC Wales that "the nation, Wales and the UK, feels divided".
He said it was the job of politicians to create "calm debate and conditions" for exiting the European Union.
Mr Gill also said it was important that the UK Government set out a "clear vision" on Brexit, and he praised David Cameron for making what he described as the "honourable decision" to stand down.
On Friday, Mr Jones called for unity, adding that it would now be "more difficult to attract investment into Wales and keep jobs in Wales".
But Welsh Conservative leader Andrew RT Davies - who campaigned for Brexit - accused him of continuing the Remain camp's "Project Fear".
Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood said she would speak to Mr Jones as talks begin on how to pull the UK out of the EU.
Meanwhile former Plaid Cymru leader Lord Wigley has called for a second vote on the matter - possibly via a general election - once the Brexit terms had been negotiated, calling for the devolved governments to be involved in those discussions.
He claimed on BBC Radio Cymru that people who voted to leave the EU were unclear as to what they were voting for, and the change of prime minister itself justified a fresh election.
Plaid Cymru AM Adam Price also joined calls for another poll. He tweeted: "I accept mandate for leaving EU, but final agreed terms of exit (Norway, Switzerland or no single market) should be put to 2nd referendum."
Following a long, and sometimes bad-tempered campaign, much of the emphasis is now on trying to heal the wounds inflicted during the debate.
But since Wales is a net beneficiary of EU funds, the focus is also on ensuring promises made during the campaign that the poorest areas would not lose a penny are kept.
Leanne Wood said she would speak with Carwyn Jones to pull together and present a united front as discussions begin on how to pull the UK out of the European Union.
Mr Jones insists he should be part of the top team carrying out those negotiations, but it is unclear whether that will happen. | Conservative MP David Davies has said he will work with the Welsh Government to ensure Wales gets its fair share of the money saved by leaving the EU. |
37156482 | The victory over the visiting Ghanaian side sees the Algerians through to the last four on the head-to-head rule.
A goal shortly after the break from France-born Chadian international Morgan Betorangal proved to be the winner for Bejaia.
It was only the second goal the Algerian side have scored in the six matches of the group phase.
Bejaia will meet FUS Rabat in September's semi-finals after the Moroccan side drew 0-0 with defending champions Etoile du Sahel of Tunisia in their Group B match on Tuesday.
Rabat finished top of the table, one point ahead of Etoile, who also qualify for the last four where they will take on TP Mazembe of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Mazembe clinched top spot in Group A with a 3-1 win in Lubumbashi over Tanzania's Young Africans.
Jonathan Bolingi opened the scoring for the hosts in the 28th minute, moments before Young Africans' Vincent Chikupe was shown a straight red card for a foul that prevented a goal scoring chance.
Mazembe made the extra man count after half-time with Zambia international Rainford Kalaba scoring two more goals before Burundi's Amissi Tambwe grabbed a consolation.
On Wednesday Kawkab Marrakech of Morocco played out a 2-2 draw with bottom-of-the-table Al Ahly Tripoli of Libya in the remaining fixture, which had no bearing on the final standings. | Algerian club Mouloudia Bejaia edged into the semi-finals of the Confederation Cup with a 1-0 win over Ghana's Medeama on Tuesday. |
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