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The Italian received the abuse after he tweeted 'Man Utd...LOL' during United's shock 5-3 loss to Leicester on Sunday.
The 24-year-old's post was retweeted more than 150,000 times and met with a string of racist and abusive messages.
A number of accounts that sent the abuse have since been closed down.
Police say they will first need to establish who sent the messages and where they originated from.
Anti-discrimination group Kick It Out said other social media users alerted it to the racist tweets sent to the former Manchester City player.
"We extend our support to Mario Balotelli after the appalling racist abuse directed at him," a spokesman said.
"We have since reported this via True Vision - the Police's online reporting facility.
"During the 2013-14 season, 50% of all complaints submitted to us from across the game related to social media abuse.
"The issue has been escalating and we urge fellow social media users to assist in bringing this type of abuse to the attention of the authorities."
Balotelli, who played in Liverpool's 3-1 defeat by West Ham on Saturday, has been singled out for racist abuse in the past.
He was heckled by Italy supporters during a pre-World Cup training camp in May and was on the receiving end of numerous instances of racist abuse during his time at Inter Milan and, more recently, AC Milan. | Merseyside Police say they are investigating racist abuse sent to Liverpool striker Mario Balotelli on Twitter. | 29302216 |
The Worcestershire Parkway station would be built close to junction seven of the M5.
The Department of Transport said the business case for the plans show "there might be a positive financial and economic business case".
MP for Worcester Robin Walker said: "It's a big step forward as this has been in the planning for some years."
The station would be built at the intersection of the Cotswold railway line and Birmingham to Bristol main railway line, the council said.
The plans are part of the Worcester Transport Strategy, which requires £200m of investment.
Mr Walker added: "Speaking to people in Worcester, it's clear that they would like this third station as it could be very good for business too."
A spokesman from the Department of Transport said: "Bidders hoping to operate the new Great Western Main Line rail franchise will now need to engage with the council on this scheme and propose how the station could be served, should the council be able to secure funding." | Plans for a third railway station in Worcester have moved a step closer after receiving government backing. | 19086161 |
The incident happened on Parnell Street, at its junction with Hill Street, shortly after midnight.
Gardaí (Irish police) believe that the man was struck by a green or blue Audi saloon car which left the scene in the direction of Summerhill.
Witnesses also allege that a number of men got out from this car and assaulted the man.
The man was taken by ambulance to the Mater Hospital. | A man in his 40s is in hospital after he was reportedly assaulted following a hit-and-run incident in Dublin. | 40606803 |
Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed said the deal was reached at UN-brokered talks in Geneva, Switzerland.
The south-western city has been the scene of months of fierce fighting between Houthi rebels and forces backing the government.
Local residents are now enduring dire shortages of all kinds, reports say.
Mr Ahmed described the agreement as a "major step forward".
There are hopes that aid deliveries will be sent to other Yemeni cities in the coming days.
At least 5,700 people, almost half of them civilians, have been killed in air strikes and fighting on the ground since a Saudi-led coalition launched a military campaign in March in support of the government.
The campaign was launched after the Houthis seized the capital Sanaa and advanced towards the second city of Aden.
The already dire humanitarian situation in Yemen has also deteriorated severely, with more than 21 million people - four-fifths of the population - now requiring aid.
Since March, coalition and pro-government forces have retaken Aden and the city of Marib. | Negotiators from Yemen's warring sides have agreed to allow the resumption of aid deliveries to the besieged city of Taiz, the UN special envoy has said. | 35125273 |
After winning the first set, the Serb approached the chair, saying: "Someone is smoking weed, I can smell it, I'm getting dizzy."
Djokovic later told reporters: "You can't believe how bad it was.
"Whoever it is, I hope he doesn't come back tomorrow. He's probably on the seventh sky somewhere."
Djokovic said he had also noticed the issue during a doubles match with partner Janko Tipsarevic on Friday.
"Yesterday in the doubles match, today again. Somebody's really enjoying his life around the tennis court," he joked.
Djokovic went on to close out a 6-4 6-4 victory against the Frenchman in the semi-final.
The top seed will face Britain's Andy Murray in the final later on Sunday. | World number one Novak Djokovic complained to the umpire that he could smell cannabis on court during his Rogers Cup win over Jeremy Chardy. | 33951245 |
The injury-hit Premiership strugglers have signed 26-year-old Braid on a contract until the end of the season.
The versatile back, who can also play at centre or in the back three, won the most recent of his 21 caps in last weekend's 21-16 defeat in Romania.
He is due to join Worcester following Canada's match with Samoa on Friday.
Head coach Carl Hogg said: "With the recent injuries to Ryan Lamb and Tom Heathcote, we're delighted Connor is able to come in and bolster the side in the number 10 position.
"He has plenty of experience in goal-kicking while his versatility across the backline will also be of great benefit."
Warriors, who played adaptable youngster Jamie Shillcock at 10 for the first time in the Premiership in Friday's 18-17 home defeat by Northampton, have a lengthy injury list.
Skipper GJ van Velze has been missing since the second game of the season following a concussion injury, while Francois Hougaard has been ruled out for three months after shoulder surgery.
They began the month with a 15 first-team players sidelined following injuries, which prompted moves for Australian scrum-half Michael Dowsett and full-back Auguy Slowik.
Former Glasgow Warriors, London Scottish and Doncaster Knights goal-kicker Braid has also represented his country on the World Sevens circuit. | Worcester Warriors have made their third short-term signing inside a month by bringing in Canada fly-half Connor Braid. | 38068142 |
The typhoon landed in Guangdong province on Sunday but moved later to neighbouring Guanxi. Deaths and injuries were reported in both areas.
Officials said the typhoon, as well as the tornadoes that came with it, were to blame for widespread power outages.
Mujigae also swept through Taiwan and the Philippines on Saturday.
The typhoon, whose name means "rainbow" in Korean, had prompted the evacuations of thousands of people in southern China prior to its arrival.
It landed in Zhanjiang on Sunday afternoon with winds of 180 km/h (112 mph) at its centre and rain.
It caused widespread blackouts and a cut-off in water supply in some areas in Zhanjiang, according to Xinhua.
It grounded flights and prompted suspensions of rail service in some cities along China's southern coast, including places popular with tourists such as Hainan and Sanya.
Another tourist spot, Fangji Island, also saw more than 500 tourists stranded during the typhoon.
The Guangxi civil affairs department said the typhoon had affected more than 1.44 million people by early afternoon Monday.
Mujigae landed amid China's week-long National Day holiday, disrupting plans for many holidaymakers. | Typhoon Mujigae has killed at least 11 people and injured more than 200 in southern China, the Xinhua state news agency has said. | 34441060 |
David Phillips, 67, had denied a single charge of tipping waste in a garage opposite his home in Mount Pleasant in March last year.
But he was convicted at a trial at Swansea Magistrates' Court on Wednesday.
He claimed he believed he was the owner of the garage as the issue had not been challenged in over 20 years. He was fined £200.
He was also ordered to pay £250 in compensation to the legal owner of the garage who had registered it with the Land Registry, unlike Phillips.
He must also pay £2,000 in legal costs and a surcharge of £20 after being found guilty of depositing wood without an environmental permit.
Defence barrister Ben Blakemore called on a number of witnesses, including residents of Oakfield Terrace who admitted to assuming Phillips was the only user of the garage but that they had not known who legally owned it.
In mitigation, Mr Blakemore added: "What we have here is not an offence being committed but a matter of ignorance."
District Judge, Sophie Toms, told Phillips: "I accept your good character and your role in the community and desire to improve it." | The former leader of Swansea council has been found guilty of fly-tipping. | 33000335 |
16 January 2017 Last updated at 17:54 GMT | Northern Ireland Secretary James Brokenshire says an election to the Northern Ireland Assembly will be held on Thursday 2 March. | 38643181 |
Ben Wragge, 13, was fatally wounded at a property in Thurston, Suffolk, on 1 May 2016.
A celebration of his life on Saturday raised £2,000, with the money going towards a skatepark being built in the village in memory of Ben.
Claire Wragge, 41, said: "I think about him every second of every day."
Ben would have turned 14 on 14 May.
Benni's Chill was aimed at celebrating his birthday, his life and to raise money towards the £170,000 needed for the skatepark.
Ben loved skateboarding and going out on his BMX and scooter, his mother said.
Ms Wragge said she wished she was never given such a tragic reason to fundraise for the skatepark.
"He was such a beautiful boy, absolutely beautiful, I just want to celebrate him every day," she said.
"I wish I wasn't having to do any of this but to have something just to keep him here, it would mean the world for his sisters and brother to see something for him."
She said she did something every day to "try to keep his spirit here", including speaking about him to her family, wearing his hoodies and visiting places he loved.
Ms Wragge said: "This year has been horrible, unbearable doesn't even come close.
"It's devastated us as a family."
Benni's Chill included live music, barbecue and a raffle.
A summer ball in aid of the Ben Wragge Skatepark will be held on 23 June. | The mother of a teenage boy who died after he was injured by an airgun pellet has said she makes it a daily mission to keep his "spirit alive". | 40120753 |
Ryan Morse died suddenly at his home in Brynithel near Abertillery on 8 December 2012, Cardiff Crown Court heard.
Dr Joanne Rudling and Dr Lindsey Thomas both pleaded not guilty to unlawfully killing him through gross negligence.
They are due to stand trial on 3 May. | Two GPs have appeared in court to deny the manslaughter of a 12-year-old boy from Blaenau Gwent. | 35523100 |
The blog shows that the show was mainly downloaded on BitTorrent.
Plus, the season's finale was downloaded more than eight million times.
Breaking Bad and The Walking Dead are in at number two and three in the list, with an estimated 4.2 and 3.6 million downloads respectively.
The finale of Game of Thrones for season four set a new piracy record, with just 12 hours after broadcast on television in the US, it was illegally downloaded 1.5 million times.
It was also the most searched-for TV show on Google for 2014.
Producers have been teasing fans with second-long clips from the new series, through text messages, through Twitter accounts and through the ThreeEyedRaven.com website.
The show has also been nominated for a Golden Globe award for best TV drama series.
TorrentFreak added that the illegal downloading of TV shows does not seem to have slowed down and is in fact on the rise, "sometimes exceeding the number of traditional viewers in the US".
The website's founder, who's known as Ernesto told Newsbeat via email, that piracy is a "demand and supply problem".
"Piracy of popular TV-shows such as Game of Thrones does indeed grow worldwide. The growth varies per region though.
"Generally speaking, demand is relatively high in countries where legal options are not available, delayed, or relatively expensive.
"Availability is a key motivation for people (not) to pirate. Piracy is in large part a demand and supply problem, where customers (pirated) demand something that the industry is not offering yet."
Game of Thrones has been a huge hit for US network HBO, beating the record held by The Sopranos this year as the most-watched HBO show of all time.
Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube | According to stats from TorrentFreak, Game of Thrones has taken the crown for the third year in a row as the most illegally downloaded TV show. | 30614035 |
The mammal gained its nickname due to a likeness to the Star Wars character, but a University of York biologist has named it the hamamas tube-nosed fruit bat after the Papuan word for 'happy'.
It has a rounder jaw than similar fruit bats, giving the impression of a grin.
The recognition follows a study of 3,000 specimens by a team of experts.
The bat's scientific name, Nyctimene wrightae, honours the conservationist Dr Deb Wright who worked in conservation in Papua New Guinea.
The University of York said the Nyctimene family of bat is characterised by its odd protruding tubular nostrils.
Dr Nancy Irwin, who named the bat and led a research group that visited 18 museums around the world, said: "Most of the morphological characteristics that separate this bat from other species are associated with a broader, rounder jaw which gives the appearance of a constant smile.
"Since most remote Papuans have never seen Star Wars, I thought it fitting to use a local name."
Dr Irwin, a biologist at the university, said the 'happy' bat belonged to a group that had been known since 1769, but was not officially recognised.
"Now after 250 years this cryptic species, very difficult to tell apart from its cousins, can be identified and its ecology can be studied in the field," she added. | A bat from the rainforests of Papua New Guinea affectionately known as 'Yoda' has been given official recognition as a new species. | 40897648 |
Harbour View Surgery in Burry Port shuts in July when the doctor retires.
A local councillor said the town's other surgery was unable to take on everyone from Harbour View which looks after about 1,400 patients.
Health bosses said they were committed to providing care for everyone in the area.
Town councillor Geraint Davies said: "I understand that there isn't much space in the other surgery, and so patients would be expected to travel to Kidwelly or Llanelli. That is too far, especially for elderly people in Burry Port."
Hywel Dda director Jill Paterson said the health board was working closely with local surgeries and the community council.
"Over the coming days patients will receive a letter telling them which surgery they can register with from 1 August onwards," she said. | Concerns have been raised that people in a Carmarthenshire town will soon have to travel further afield to see a GP as their surgery is to close. | 39930722 |
Mike Samwell, 35, was fatally injured as he tried to stop thieves from stealing his car from outside his home in Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester.
Ryan Gibbons, 29, from Chorlton, appeared before Salford and Manchester Magistrates' Court.
He was remanded in custody and is due before the crown court on Tuesday.
Mr Gibbons, of Steven Court, Egerton Road South in Chorlton, is also charged with burglary and aggravated vehicle-taking.
A 15-year-old boy, from south Manchester, who was arrested on suspicion of murder and burglary has been bailed pending further inquiries.
Two men, aged 20 and 21, who were arrested on suspicion of murder and burglary have also been bailed.
Former submarine officer Mr Samwell, was asleep with his wife Jessica in their Cranbourne Road home when intruders struck in the early hours.
Police believe he was run over by his car, a black Audi S3, which was taken and later found damaged about three miles away from the house. | A man has appeared in court accused of the murder of an ex-Royal Navy officer thought to have been run over by his own car. | 39755656 |
It not yet known what caused the death of the baby rhino, who was born in January and named Fara.
She became ill on Tuesday morning and although keepers and vets stayed by her side, Fara died in the afternoon.
"It is too early for us to speculate to the cause of Fara's death but everything possible was done to help her," said Dr Nick Davies, assistant curator of mammals.
"It is a truly sad time for us all."
Officials have decided to close the rhino house today to give her mother "some quiet time".
Fara arrived on 31 January to mum Kitani, and her birth was caught on film.
The female calf landed safely in a "textbook" birth, said the zoo's curator of mammals Tim Rowlands at the time.
It was the first time Fara's father 15-year-old Sammy had sired a calf.
Eastern black rhino are a critically endangered species and the zoo says there are just 650 left in the wild.
"Fara was the fourth calf born here in the last three years and to date we have had a very successful breeding programme so Fara's death will be felt deeply by all those who cared for her every day," said Dr Davies.
The zoo says its breeding programme is using "ground-breaking science" to monitor the hormone levels of female rhinos, ensuring they are introduced to potential partners at the best time.
It also provides support to other organisations around the world who are involved in protecting the survival of the species.
Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter, BBCNewsbeat on Instagram and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube | A black rhino calf has died at Chester Zoo, keepers have announced. | 31730735 |
28 December 2015 Last updated at 07:43 GMT
The accident happened on Sunday morning, 20km (12.4 miles) east of Julia Creek in north-west Queensland.
Three train staff are in hospital with minor injuries. The site was quickly declared an emergency and the 2km exclusion zone was imposed.
The extent of any acid leakage remains unclear, says Queensland Police, who added that local flooding has hampered access to the site. | An exclusion zone is in place after a 26-carriage freight train carrying some 200,000 litres (44,000 gallons) of sulphuric acid derailed in Australia. | 35188130 |
Vets treating the shar pei, found in Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire, said they had never seen a dog abandoned in such a poor condition before.
She is thought to have been used as a "breeding machine" for puppy farmers.
RSPCA inspector Rachel Smith said: "Her nails had curled around three times before embedding in her pads."
The emaciated dog - now called Glynis - was found lame and bleeding in Rye Road on 26 May.
"This poor dog was extremely skinny, had an eye infection, unbelievably overgrown nails and a life-threatening infection in her uterus called pyometra," said Ms Smith.
It is believed the animal, thought to be about 10 years old, was kept in a small crate and neglected for years resulting in a number of conditions including painfully narrowed ear canals and inward folding eyelids.
Ms Smith said: "I suspect this poor shar pei had been used as a breeding machine - a commodity for an unscrupulous puppy farmer.
"When she couldn't give them what they wanted anymore, she was cast aside and dumped to fend for herself."
Glynis' paws have been so badly damaged by her overgrown nails she may still need to have a toe amputated.
She is currently being cared for by the Rescue Remedies charity, which hopes to find her a new home. | The owners of a neglected dog, dumped with a life-threatening infection and nails so long that it could not walk, are being sought by the RSPCA. | 40436386 |
Uncertainty about Greece's future in the bloc led to the euro to fall initially, down to $1.09. But it recovered losses to trade at $1.1134.
Investors were also cautious ahead of trading in China - which last week began to recover some ground after losing a third of their value since mid-June.
The Nikkei was up 0.8% at 19,929.56.
The euro fell 1% to a low of 135.45 Japanese yen in early trade, but bounced up to 136.35 on rumours that the European Central Bank had agreed to delay a Greek repayment of 3.5bn euros, which had been due on 20 July.
In Australia, the S&P/ASX 200 index was up 0.05% to 5,494.40 in early trade.
South Korea's benchmark Kospi index was higher 0.1% to 2,033.04.
Shares of Hotel Shilla jumped nearly 5% after it and partners Hyundai Development Engineering & Construction and Hanwha Galleria Timeworld won licences to operate duty-free stores in downtown Seoul. | Asian shares were higher on hopes for a deal for Greece despite an emergency summit ending again with no resolution and more deadlines in the debt crisis. | 33502833 |
Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander said the Conservatives wanted to vary public sector pay around the UK, despite dropping the idea in 2012.
At the time, a letter emerged in which Mr Alexander told First Minister Carwyn Jones he wanted regional pay.
The Conservatives have accused the Lib Dems of hypocrisy, calling Mr Alexander regional pay's "foremost champion".
The letter to Mr Jones said Mr Alexander was "keen to see local, market-facing pay introduced across the UK".
But on Thursday, Mr Alexander said: "We stopped the Tories in 2012 and hoped that would be the end of this nonsense.
"When the Tories asked Treasury officials to publish a report backing regional pay in 2014 we were forced to block it again. And if Liberal Democrats are returned to government, we will block it again."
Last week, Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg claimed regional pay would have removed more than £1bn from the Welsh economy.
Welsh Liberal Democrat candidate Roger Williams added: "Let us be clear about this - the Tories wanted to pay people less just because they work in Wales.
"Without the Liberal Democrats in government, the Tories would have taken over a billion pounds out of the Welsh economy, with public sector workers having their wages slashed." | A leading Lib Dem minister has said he blocked plans his party says would have "slashed" Welsh workers' pay last year. | 32530825 |
Convicted armed robber William Carlin failed to return to HMP Castle Huntly, near Dundee, after a period of leave.
Carlin was jailed in 2013 after being caught with a security box containing £40,000 from a Sainsbury's in Prestwick.
Police officers had been searching for Carlin in Ayrshire and in the Newcastle area. | A 52-year-old man who absconded from prison a month ago has been found, police have said. | 35026598 |
Gareth Willington died after his boat, Harvester, sank off St David's Head on 28 April and a pre-inquest hearing will be held in October.
Mr Willington's son Daniel, who was also on the boat, is still missing but the search has now been called off.
Five lifeboats, a helicopter and fishing boats helped in the search. | An investigation into the death of a fisherman whose boat sank off Pembrokeshire has been opened and adjourned by a coroner. | 36196611 |
Fans had been trying to climb a fence at the stadium, in Marseille, to join up with another group of supporters when stewards got involved.
Punches were thrown by supporters before riot police intervened.
Elsewhere, Turkey and Croatia have been charged by Uefa for disturbances during their matches on Friday.
Croatia have been sanctioned after supporters were involved in crowd disturbances and racist behaviour, and in throwing objects and the setting off of fireworks, as their team played the Czech Republic in St Etienne.
The Turkish Football Federation has been charged with the setting off of fireworks, throwing of objects and field invasion after some of their fans caused trouble during their 3-0 defeat by Spain in Nice. | Hungary supporters clashed with stewards and riot police inside the Stade Velodrome before their side's Euro 2016 match against Iceland. | 36568629 |
The football club wants to stop people watching and filming sessions at the Reds' Melwood Drive complex.
Liverpool City Council backed the club's proposals to install 4.5m (15ft) high retractable screens which would be closed during first-team training.
The club said the screens - which will be retracted at all other times - were first planned more than a year ago.
This will minimise the impact on residents, as well as allowing the grass to grow properly. | Liverpool's plans to build high screens around their training ground have been approved by the city council. | 32393459 |
The action by Jacqueline Morton's sons could pave the way for payouts to the relatives of the six people killed.
Glasgow City Council, which employed lorry driver Harry Clarke, has said it does not intend to contest the action, which will be settled by insurers.
A fatal accident inquiry found Mr Clarke lost consciousness at the wheel before the crash in December 2014.
Those who died in the city centre crash were Jacqueline Morton, 51, and Stephenie Tait, 29, both from Glasgow, Erin McQuade, 18, her grandparents Jack Sweeney, 68, and his 69-year-old wife Lorraine, from Dumbarton, and Gillian Ewing, 52, from Edinburgh.
Their families were told in December last year that they could not launch private prosecutions against Clarke.
Ms Morton's sons and four other members of their family are named in legal proceedings at the Court of Session in Edinburgh where they are seeking compensation.
There is already an agreement between the council's insurers and the family that the action will not be defended.
Last month, Harry Clarke admitted culpably and recklessly driving a car in September 2015, despite his licence having been revoked. He is awaiting sentence at Glasgow Sheriff Court. | The family of a victim of the Glasgow bin lorry crash are to sue the council for compensation. | 39351763 |
The Scots were among soldiers, sailors and airmen from all over the UK who stopped at Peterborough East Railway Station during 1916 and 1917.
They left messages, poems and drawings in two visitor books at the tea stall.
Peterborough Archives Service has found details on many of them, but has appealed for help with others.
The appeal for information forms a three-year history project.
Armed forces personnel travelled through the railway station on their way to and from the frontline.
Some of the servicemen only wrote their initials next to their messages at the stall which was run by the Women's United Total Abstinence Council.
Those who left their initials but not their full name was a Sergeant JEH of the Gordon Highlanders.
He also left a short poem that read: "'Off with a Draft at last. After eighteen months hard work, And should another War draw nigh, I'll never join the 2nd Line."
Information has already been found on Scottish servicemen who signed the book, including Linlithgow-born George A Browse, a warrant officer second class with the Seaforth Highlanders.
He was awarded the Military Cross for gallantry during the Battle of Arras in 1917.
After the war, he settled in Elgin in Moray and played for the football team Elgin United. He was also the model for the town's New Elgin War Memorial. | Information is being sought on Scots servicemen who signed visitor books at a tea stall in England during their travels in World War One. | 39796794 |
A section of the northbound motorway in Northamptonshire was closed from about 03:00 GMT after the body was discovered on an unlit stretch.
Police said the death of the man, named as Ashley Hayes, 46, from Shepherd's Bush, London, could be suspicious.
Det Sgt Tony Hopkins said: "This may have been an accident or something more serious."
The carriageway was closed between junction 16 and 18 until about 14:00.
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Police were first alerted to the body, between junctions 16 and 17, just after 02:00 after receiving a number of calls from motorists.
They said Mr Hayes suffered "catastrophic" injuries on a 50mph stretch of the road near Watford Gap services.
Mr Hopkins said Mr Hayes may have been in the Toddington Services area, in Bedfordshire, at about 01:30.
"He may have been given a lift from there, or may have hidden himself in a lorry, to enable him to get to where we discovered him," Mr Hopkins said.
"This may have been an accident or something more serious. We need to determine the circumstances that led to his death." | Police said a man hit by several vehicles on the M1 may have hidden himself in a lorry. | 38565408 |
"The talks are progressing quite well," he said. "Can we find an agreement or not I don't know. We are slowly progressing and there is a chance."
The Gunners are likely to have to secure a work permit for the uncapped 24-year-old Brazilian.
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Arsenal signed 17-year-old defender Krystian Bielik from Legia Warsaw for a reported £2.4m this week.
Wenger said Bielik, who can play in central defence, would be used as a defensive midfielder "without any question".
Regarding Bielik's fitness, he said: "He's not fit because they had the long winter break in Poland so he's at the start of getting back to full fitness and will not be ready for three weeks."
Wenger said there was a "50-50" chance that Paulista, the £15m-rated defender who joined Villarreal from Brazilian side Vitoria in 2013, would join him and added: "We are ready to pay the price we think right for a good player."
But because Paulista is not a European Union citizen and has yet to establish himself as a senior Brazil international, he would not meet the automatic work permit criteria.
Arsenal would have to convince a Football Association hearing that the defender was an "exceptional talent" and so should be granted permission to work in the United Kingdom.
That recommendation would then be passed on to the government department for a final ruling.
Wenger said that Hector Bellerin should be available for Saturday's FA Cup tie at Brighton following ankle trouble, but midfielder Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (groin) is a doubt.
The Arsenal manager also said that England striker Danny Welbeck "will need two more games to be back again" and is not in full training yet. | Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger says the club are in talks with Villarreal in a bid to sign defender Gabriel Paulista. | 30933091 |
The hosts went close to opening the scoring, but Lee Molyneux's 35-yard free-kick came back off the post.
The game looked to be heading for extra-time, but Collins rose superbly to head home James Wallace's corner.
Victory gave Nigel Adkins his first win as Blades boss following Saturday's 4-0 drubbing at Gillingham. | An injury-time goal by substitute Neill Collins earned Sheffield United a place in round two of the Capital One Cup with victory over League Two Morecambe. | 33768493 |
Lauri Love, 31, who has Asperger's syndrome, is accused of hacking into the FBI, the US central bank and the country's missile defence agency.
Mr Love, from Stradishall, Suffolk, has previously said he feared he would die in a US prison if he was extradited.
A judge at Westminster Magistrates' Court made the extradition ruling.
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Earlier, his lawyer said his alleged hacking had "embarrassed" US authorities.
Tor Ekeland said the US government "had very, very bad security and these hacks utilised exploits that were publicly-known for months".
Mr Love's lawyers said he could face up to 99 years in prison if convicted of the hacking offences.
Earlier he stood in the dock as district judge Nina Tempia ruled he could be extradited to the US, where he could face trials in three different states.
He was first arrested at home in Suffolk in 2013 and had computer equipment seized by British police, who then released him on bail.
He was not charged in the UK, where the investigation into him was dropped.
Mr Love's defence team argues his depression and Asperger's syndrome mean he should not be sent abroad, but US prosecutors say he is using his mental health issues as an excuse to escape justice.
In England and Wales, the maximum sentence for crimes such as those of which Mr Love is accused is two years and eight months. | An autistic man suspected of hacking into US government computer systems is to be extradited from Britain to face trial, a court has ruled. | 37385201 |
The England flanker only returned on 30 September, after initially thinking he would be out for just six weeks after injuring himself in October 2015.
"It was constant setbacks, so mentally that was difficult," said Clark, 27.
"Through all your setbacks you do learn and I do feel a bit like I've taken a lot from it despite it being such a negative experience."
Clark twice had surgery on the problem, before playing his first competitive Northampton game since May 2015's play-off semi-final defeat by Saracens two weeks ago.
But the former Leeds Carnegie man has said he has "not been anywhere near happy" with the level he has been playing at since his return.
"I'm an intense person because I care," Clark continued to BBC Radio Northampton. "We get one shot at this career and I'm not willing to sit around and do a half-hearted job of it.
"There are times you have to relieve that and I probably need to be better at switching off but that's what makes me, me.
"I don't think I'm good enough to chill out and let it happen." | Northampton Saints' Calum Clark says it was 'mentally challenging' during his 11 months out with a shoulder injury. | 37643459 |
The New York to Paris flight landed at Shannon Airport after 07:30 local time.
It has been reported that the 172 passengers had an "urgent need" to use the toilet after the facilities on board became unusable.
The crew asked for engineers to be on standby to service the aircraft's toilets when it landed.
The flight resumed its journey to Paris shortly after 09:30. | A transatlantic flight diverted to the Republic of Ireland after crew requested a landing so that passengers could use an airport's toilets. | 38437297 |
Police received reports that the man had been found on Cumbernauld Road, in the city's Riddrie area, at about 21:30 on Monday.
The man, whose identity is currently unknown, died while being taken to Glasgow Royal Infirmary.
Police said a post mortem examination would be carried out to establish how the he died. | The death of a man who was found badly injured in a street in north Glasgow is being treated as unexplained. | 33147589 |
The 44-year-old Dutchman "intentionally insulted" King Willem-Alexander, accusing him of being a murderer, thief and rapist, the Dutch judiciary said.
He was convicted of breaking seldom-used royal defamation laws.
A Dutch political party has proposed scrapping the laws and the king has pledged to accept the outcome of any debate on the issue.
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The court in Overijssel suspended 16 days of the sentence and the man will not spend any more time in jail, having already spent 14 days in preventative custody last year.
He was found to have doctored images of executions online to include the king's face in place of those of the actual victims, the judiciary said.
"This behaviour is unacceptable in our society and demands that a penalty be imposed on the suspect," it said in a statement.
The Dutch D66 political party is campaigning to abolish the lese majeste law, which was last used in 2014 after an activist shouted obscene slogans about the royal family during a protest.
Prosecutors initially charged the protester but reversed the decision after the move was condemned as an attack on freedom of speech.
The Netherlands' lese majeste law dates from 1881 and carries sentences of up to five years jail or a fine of 20,000 euros ($22,200; £16,700).
In total 18 prosecutions were brought under the law between 2000 and 2012, half of which resulted in convictions, Dutch TV reported. | A court in the Netherlands has sentenced a man to 30 days in jail for insulting the king on Facebook. | 36799639 |
A Misuse of Drugs Act warrant was carried out for the premises in Chulmleigh, Devon, on Friday morning.
Sgt Dave MacFadden said police and neighbourhood teams had acted "directly on community intelligence".
One man is currently helping police with their enquiries and awaits interview. | More than 100 cannabis plants have been seized at a farm by police. | 35674243 |
Bafana Bafana won 2-0 in Uyo to record their first victory over the Super Eagles in a competitive match.
But the game was overshadowed by the use of footballs borrowed from the South African camp.
The Super Eagles turned up at the ground without balls approved by the Confederation of African Football (Caf) because the entire consignment of 250 sent to the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) is still stuck at a port awaiting clearance.
Nigerian players had been training with footballs from their kit sponsors and only got a feel of the 2017 Caf balls during the pre-match warm-up.
To borrow match balls from your opponent is not only bizarre but embarrassing
"It's not the reason we lost but we trained with different balls only to use another ball for the game," said one player who requested anonymity.
Another player also speaking on condition he is not named said: "To borrow match balls from your opponent is not only bizarre but embarrassing."
NFF officials have not exactly been forthcoming either on the matter which left them with plenty of egg on their faces.
Back in January Caf sent 250 footballs to Nigeria for use during Champions League, Confederation Cup and international matches.
The balls were apparently sent to the wrong address and the NFF only just discovered the error when tracking the consignment.
"We are working on it now and remain confident that we will get the balls out before the weekend," an official told the BBC.
The NFF tried to use the 2016 match balls in Uyo but both the match commissioner and referee declined. | The fall-out from Nigeria's dramatic defeat to South Africa in an Africa Cup of Nations qualifier on Saturday looks set to continue after one player branded the absence of official match balls a "national disgrace". | 40260859 |
The 30-year-old Barcelona midfielder was reported to have verbally and physically abused Bilal Mese on a flight following a friendly against Macedonia in Skopje on Monday.
Turan was kicked out of a training camp in Slovenia on Tuesday and quit the national team hours later.
"I think the time has come," he said.
"I am ending my career with the national team."
Turan, who has played 96 times for Turkey, reportedly approached the journalist from Turkish newspaper Milliyet before take-off about a story he had published on a pay dispute at Euro 2016.
Turan reportedly ranted at Mese, calling him "shameless" and eyewitnesses claimed he grabbed the journalist by the throat and had to be restrained by his team-mates.
Turan added that he felt "no remorse" and was "quite calm".
"I really love my country. I really love my flag. I have always said if that's what you want, I will retire," he added at a media conference in Slovenia on Tuesday.
Mese, who has been a sports journalist since 1973, has threatened to take legal action against Turan when he returns to Turkey, his newspaper said.
"We strongly condemn this assault," the Association of Sports Journalists of Turkey said in a statement.
"The fact that this assault was committed by the captain of our national side reinforces its seriousness."
Turkey face Kosovo in a 2018 World Cup qualifier on Sunday. | Turkey captain Arda Turan has announced his retirement from international football after he allegedly abused a journalist on the Turkish team's plane. | 40179321 |
The former Tottenham, Manchester United and England forward retired from playing in 2008.
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Sheringham's assistant Kevin Watson was also registered ahead of Wednesday's game against Welwyn Garden City.
But the club later posted on Twitter that "contrary to speculation", neither would feature in the match.
"With a number of squad injuries and the FA Youth Cup game just 48 hours before this fixture, both were registered in case they were required," the statement added.
Earlier in the day, Boro had confirmed that registering Sheringham and Watson was "not an uncommon occurrence at the club" as members of previous management teams had played in the county cup competition.
Boro's former goalkeeping coach Dave Beasant was named on the bench for their League Two play-off first leg against Southend United last season at the age of 56.
Sheringham, who scored 11 goals in 51 international appearances for England, originally quit playing at the age of 42 at the end of the 2007-08 campaign.
He was appointed Stevenage boss in May following a spell as attacking coach at West Ham. The club are currently five points above the League Two relegation zone. | Stevenage manager Teddy Sheringham has opted not to turn out in the Herts Senior Cup after registering himself as a player at the age of 49. | 34709873 |
Jamie Charles Reed, 26, of Scunthorpe, appeared at Grimsby Magistrates' Court in connection with the death of 60-year-old Robert MacNeil.
Humberside Police said Mr MacNeil, died at Great Oaks Hospital on Monday, but would not reveal his injuries.
Mr Reed was remanded in custody and will appear before Hull Crown Court on Friday.
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A spokesman for the trust said: "We can confirm that we have had an incident at Great Oaks in Scunthorpe and a patient has died. Our heartfelt sympathies are with the man's family and friends.
"The police were notified immediately of the incident in the early hours of Monday morning and we are fully co-operating with their inquiries.
"We cannot comment any further at this time due to the police investigation." | A patient at a Scunthorpe mental health unit has been charged with the murder of another man being treated there. | 38662371 |
The Dow Jones fell 73.04 points, or 0.4%, to 18,563.01.
The wider S&P 500 dropped 8.80 points to 2,181.35, while the tech-focused Nasdaq index fell 17.32 points to 5,244.70.
Shares in Walmart fell 1.2% to $72.45 after Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway cuts its stake in the retailer.
Industrial gas supplier Praxair saw its shares jump nearly 5% after the company said it was in early merger talks with Germany's Linde.
On the currency markets, the dollar hit seven-week lows against the euro, yen and Swiss franc after official figures suggested US inflationary pressures remain weak, potentially delaying further interest rate rises.
Figures from the Labor Department showed consumer prices were unchanged last month, while core prices - which exclude food and energy costs - rose just 0.1%. | (Open): After hitting another set of record highs on Monday, US markets slipped back in early morning trade. | 37097643 |
Police called to Bramble Road in Witham, Essex, on Friday found a man had been burned on the face and hands.
A spokesman said they could not say which of two suspected attackers was in custody for "investigative reasons".
Last week police said they wanted to question two men about the attack and on Sunday released an e-fit.
Police said the 56-year-old victim had gone down to collect his post from the communal entrance to the block of flats when he encountered two men banging on the door.
A spokeswoman said it was now thought he was in "the wrong place at the wrong time" and "was not the intended target of this attack".
The victim is receiving treatment at the specialist burns unit at Broomfield Hospital in Chelmsford. His injuries are not thought to be life-threatening.
"The two suspects are described as a white man and a black man and if anyone saw them either in the area prior to this attack or afterwards we would urgently like to speak to them," a spokeswoman said. | A 19-year-old man has been arrested after a man suffered "potentially life-changing" injuries when a harmful chemical was thrown over him. | 28737317 |
4 May 2017 Last updated at 07:16 BST
They're the latest thing in school playgrounds.
You or your friends have probably got one, whether you're a girl or a boy.
They were originally designed to help kids with conditions like autism deal with stress, but have now become a popular toy.
But it's not all fun and games for these little gadgets, some schools have banned them and there have been complaints that some are poorly made.
Ricky's been finding out what you think about them.. | Have you heard of fidget spinners? | 39798767 |
The 23-year-old victim's body was discovered at an address in Ladykirk Road, Benwell, on Thursday night after reports of a disturbance, police said.
Parvel Cina was arrested on suspicion of murder and has now been charged, Northumbria Police confirmed.
The 25-year-old, of no fixed address, is due before Newcastle magistrates later.
The victim has not been identified. A police spokesman said the force had referred itself to the police watchdog, the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC), because of recent police contact with the woman and man. | A man has been charged with murder after a woman was found dead in a house in Newcastle. | 32181468 |
Erick Aguirre's own goal put the Golden Eaglets in front in Abu Dhabi.
The Nigerians doubled their lead with a tap in from Kelechi Iheanacho before captain Musa Mohamed's free kick sealed the win.
Nigeria also picked up the tournament's fair-play award and Dele Alampasu was awarded the Golden Glove for being the best goalkeeper.
The first goal came after nine minutes from a Nigerian counter-attack moments after the Mexicans had threatened at the other end.
The Golden Eaglets broke quickly to create a three-against-one situation, and as Musa Yahaya was about to pull the trigger, Aguirre's attempted clearance ended up in his own net.
Yahaya nearly doubled the lead in the 39th minute but his shot crashed against the bar.
Moments later, Taiwo Awoniyi tried a spectacular overhead kick but it went straight into the arms Raul Gudino in the Mexican goal.
Mexico threatened the Nigerian goal a couple of times in the first half but found Alampasu in inspired form.
The Mexicans pressed early in the second half but it was Nigeria who doubled their lead when Gudino parried a long range shot into the path of Kelechi Iheanacho, who tapped in for his sixth goal of the tournament.
With 15 minutes left on the clock, the Mexicans had a great chance to score but Ivan Ochoa headed wide.
The title was sealed when captain Mohamed curled a free kick round the wall from the edge of the area with nine minutes left.
The victory in the United Arab Emirates caps a successful year for Nigeria after the senior team won the Africa Cup of Nations in South Africa in January. | Nigeria won the Under-17 World Cup for a record fourth time on Friday with a 3-0 win over champions Mexico. | 24874527 |
The woman left home at about 11:30 BST for a walk before Christmas lunch when she was pushed to the ground by a man in Meyrick Park Crescent, Bournemouth.
He wrenched her handbag from her grasp and left her lying on the pavement.
Passers-by found the woman, who had to spend Christmas Day in hospital with a fractured wrist.
The woman's purse and bank cards were recovered but "a little over £20 in cash was missing", police said.
She told officers she walked past a white man sitting on a low wall outside a guest house moments before the attack.
He is described as in his 20s, of average height and slim. He had dark hair and was wearing dark clothing. | An 83-year-old woman was mugged for £20 in a "callous and violent attack" as she went for a walk on Christmas Day morning, police have said. | 30610143 |
Edwina Hart said she knew the closures to install new lighting in the Penmaenbach tunnel, in Conwy county, had caused "frustration" for motorists.
She said contractors were working 24/7 to finish the work by Christmas.
Ms Hart said it was part of a £42m project to "improve the safety and resilience of this key route".
The Welsh government announced the westbound carriageway of the A55 Penmaenbach tunnel would be completely closed at night, with just one lane open during the day, for nine weeks from 18 October.
In a statement on Monday, Ms Hart said: "I have received correspondence about this issue and appreciate that the works have caused some frustration for road users.
"Unfortunately, delays were longer than normal the week before last, and poor driver behaviour impacted on our efforts to minimise queuing.
"We are unable to re-open the westbound tunnel fully each day as this would extend the overall programme considerably, result in greater health and safety risks and significantly increase scheme costs.
"However, we did remove the eastbound traffic management during the day on the weekend to minimise delays."
Additional work is also due to take place in the Conwy and Pen-y-Clip tunnels in February and March, Ms Hart added.
She said the effect on traffic and local residents would be "significantly less" than at Penmaenbach. | "Poor driver behaviour" has contributed to delays caused by tunnel works on the A55 in north Wales, the transport minister has said. | 34770247 |
"Marc and I are overwhelmed with gratitude and love as we celebrate the birth of our son, Aidan Clinton Mezvinsky," Ms Clinton tweeted.
The couple already have a daughter, Charlotte, born in 2014.
The little boy is the second grandchild for US Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and her husband Bill.
Hillary Clinton describes herself as "wife, mom, grandma" in her own twitter bio.
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Chelsea Clinton has frequently supported her mother at political events, most recently appearing alongside her in Brooklyn, New York, on 7 June, when she secured the Democratic nomination.
Mrs Clinton's opponent, presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump, also welcomed a new grandson recently. His daughter Ivanka had a third child, Theodore, in March. | Chelsea Clinton and her husband Marc Mezvinsky have announced the birth of their second child. | 36568762 |
The 28-year-old Scot has made seven appearances for the Blades this season but has not featured for them since the start of December.
He started his career at Clyde and has also played for Queen of the South, Blackpool and Rotherham.
Harris is available for the League One game against Scunthorpe on Saturday at Highbury.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | Fleetwood Town have signed Sheffield United left-back Bob Harris on loan until the end of the season. | 35604497 |
The small section includes a new roundabout at Craibstone junction and the replacement roundabout with traffic lights at the Inverurie Road/Dyce Drive junction.
The roundabout at the Craibstone junction will connect with a new airport link road.
It opened to traffic on Monday afternoon.
Keith Brown, the Scottish government minister responsible for transport infrastructure, said: "The north east economy needs every stimulus that can be provided and our investment in this project is expected to bring in an additional £6bn to the north-east economy and create around 14,000 jobs over the next 30 years.
"We can look forward to the full benefits of these works starting to be realised when the road opens in winter 2017." | A link road designed to connect into the new Aberdeen bypass is opening to drivers. | 37209472 |
The former Liberal Democrats president said he did not have the energy to "give any head space" to what happens after the general election.
Mr Farron was criticised by party grandee Lord Ashdown after saying the Lib Dems had been "tarnished" by entering a coalition with the Tories.
But Mr Farron said he was focused "entirely" on the election.
At the Lib Dem conference last month, Mr Farron - seen by some as a frontrunner to succeed Nick Clegg - was quoted in the Mail on Sunday suggesting the party's brand would be tainted for a generation by governing with the Conservatives.
That prompted Lord Ashdown to say Mr Farron lacked judgement and needed to show "a little more patience".
But Mr Farron told Sky News' Murnaghan programme: "My focus is entirely on making sure myself and my colleagues up and down the country win as many seats as possible because that's what matters for Britain."
Asked if he would stand to replace Mr Clegg if he was no longer leader, Mr Farron replied: "The election we're facing in 32 days' time is the biggest one for this country for many years - the hardest and toughest one for the Liberal Democrats in a generation.
"If I give any head space whatsoever to what happens afterwards then that is foolish and disloyal and I haven't got the energy for that."
Mr Clegg heaped praise on Mr Farron last week as he distanced himself from "bickering" by other senior colleagues and urged an end to the criticisms.
Subscribe to the BBC Election 2015 newsletter to get a round-up of the day's campaign news sent to your inbox every weekday afternoon. | It would be "foolish and disloyal" to consider a post-election leadership bid, Lib Dem MP Tim Farron has said. | 32188995 |
Steve Law's side secured the first silverware of the season thanks to tries from Patric Lewis and Mike Callow.
Bedwas' victory came after they were beaten by Pontypridd in the inaugural final of the competition in 2016.
They had beaten Bridgend 55-14 in the semi-final. | Bedwas beat Carmarthen Quins 23-18 to secure the Foster's Premiership Challenge Cup in the final at Bridgend's Brewery Field. | 39469347 |
Topley, 22, has made just one appearance for his county since moving from Essex at the end of last season.
He fractured a hand while batting against Warwickshire in April but has since sustained a stress fracture to his back.
"We'll look to build him up to fitness again during the winter," Hampshire director of cricket Giles White said.
Topley, a member of the England squad which finished runners-up at the World T20 in India in March, has played 10 one-day games and six T20 internationals for his country.
"Hopefully he can get some recognition again with England and hopefully he fires for us next year," White told BBC Radio Solent.
Hampshire are monitoring the fitness of former West Indies fast bowler Fidel Edwards with a view to a potential return for the remainder of the season.
Edwards, 34, has recovered from a fractured ankle sustained while playing football in a warm-up before Hampshire's County Championship match against Yorkshire in April.
"It's down to the physio," White added. "Fidel's confident, but we've got to make sure he's ready before we introduce him back to the team." | Hampshire and England fast bowler Reece Topley has been ruled out for the remainder of the season. | 37034766 |
Mujahid Arshid, 33, is also charged with the kidnap, rape and attempted murder of a woman in her 20s.
He appeared at the Old Bailey for a preliminary hearing alongside Vincent Tappu, 28, from Acton, west London, who is accused of kidnapping both women.
Ms Dookhran, 20, was found dead on 19 July in an unoccupied house in Kingston Upon Thames.
The court heard that Mr Arshid wished to be known as Mr Hussain and a provisional trial date has been set for 17 January 2018.
The defendants were remanded in custody and will next appear at the Old Bailey for a plea and trial hearing on 11 October. | A man accused of the kidnap, rape and murder of Celine Dookhran will face trial in January, 2018. | 40726550 |
A report outlined £12.5m for temporary defences after a review was commissioned following the floods across northern England last December.
Bob Deacon, whose home in Hebden Bridge was flooded, said: "It's abysmal. It's really shocking."
Environment Secretary Andrea Leadsom said it would "strengthen defences".
About 16,000 houses were inundated during the wettest Christmas in a century.
The National Flood Resilience Review recommended measures including barriers and high-volume water pumps to be held at seven strategic locations around the country.
Mr Deacon, who chairs the Hebden Bridge Partnership, which was set up to improve the town, said flood-hit communities in West Yorkshire focused on solutions involving changes to the management of the moorland.
"There are only two sentences about all that - on the last page," he said.
"An opportunity has simply not been taken to assess this impact."
He said he had hoped the review would look at measures to force water companies to take on a legal responsibility to reduce flood risk.
"As a policy issue, it's simply not there. It's quite shockingly disappointing," he said.
About 90% of affected businesses had reopened and many installed flood resilience measures paid for by money raised locally, he said.
Leeds City Council leader Judith Blake said the city was "barely mentioned in this report".
"What we can't have is a repeat of what happened with the cancelled flood defences in Leeds in 2011," she said.
Brenda Pollack, campaigner at Rewilding Britain, which wants to restore natural habitats and wildlife, said opportunities to reduce flood risk naturally had been missed by the government.
"Restoring natural, varied landscapes helps absorb flood waters and is more cost effective than expensive flood barriers and defences," she said. | Flood victims have reacted angrily to the government's efforts to prevent flooding, with some describing it as "shockingly disappointing". | 37311138 |
The teams will play three Tests and five one-day internationals, with the hosts hoping to stage the day-night contest at Auckland's Eden Park.
"We can't confirm it yet, it's something we're extremely interested in and working towards," said New Zealand Cricket's David White.
New Zealand lost to Australia in the first day-night Test in November 2015.
England and Wales Cricket Board chairman Colin Graves said earlier this month that England would host their own day-night Test, adding "we just have to decide when it is going to happen".
New Zealand drew the Test series 1-1 when they toured England in 2015, with the hosts winning the one-day series 3-2.
England also beat New Zealand to make the final of the World Twenty20 in March. | New Zealand hope to play a day-night Test as part of England's tour of their country in early 2018. | 36403348 |
Florida officials have reported nine cases of leprosy already this year - double the normal rate.
Leprosy is a bacterial disease that affects the skin and nerves.
While the risk of contracting leprosy from an armadillo is low, health officials advise against touching the animals.
The disease can be spread through saliva. Armadillos sometimes spit when cornered or caged.
Most of the population is immune to leprosy - also known as Hansen's disease - and the disease is treatable. However, leprosy can be life-threatening if left untreated.
Originally from South America, armadillos are found in many southern states in the US, most notably in Texas. | Health officials in Florida are warning people to avoid contact with armadillos after a recent rise in leprosy cases linked to the armoured creatures. | 33628312 |
Ahead of Saturday's game at Twickenham, new England coach Jones criticised Ireland's tactics, specifically the kicking away of possession.
"Someone like Eddie is going to throw things out there," said Easterby, 40, holder of 65 Ireland caps at flanker.
"We have just got to focus on what we're doing."
Easterby says Ireland must laugh off the barbs from England's new boss, who has already freely admitted he will chase any available edge, including the use of mind games.
"It is what it is," added Easterby. "Characters like that are good for the game, and we'll see come Saturday night how much of that rings true."
On Monday, Jones said that he was preparing his England side for an aerial bombardment from the two-time defending Six Nations champions.
"They kick 70% of their ball away. If they want to do that, good luck to them," said the England coach.
"It has worked for them. It is not the way I think you should play rugby, but it has been successful for them, so good luck."
Prior to the England coach's comments on Monday, Irish boss Joe Schmidt had reacted to a previous Jones' jibe that Ireland play safety-first rugby, insisting: "Ireland have kicked less than a quarter of the possession we have had."
The Six Nations' own stats support Schmidt's view, with Ireland recorded as kicking away 23% and 24% of possession respectively in their first two matches of the 2016 tournament.
The injury-ravaged Irish will chase their first win at Twickenham since 2010 after drawing their opener against Wales and losing narrowly to France on 13 February. | Ireland's forwards coach Simon Easterby has urged the country's Six Nations squad to ignore criticism from England boss Eddie Jones. | 35645668 |
The club apologised on Thursday after a group of fans reportedly used pepper spray on security staff as they tried to break into the away section.
Fireworks were also set off in the stadium and there were allegations of racist chanting, which Legia deny.
Uefa have also charged Dortmund for their fans' use of fireworks in the Champions League tie on Wednesday.
The governing body will hear the case on 28 September. | Uefa has charged Legia Warsaw with six offences following crowd trouble in their 6-0 defeat by Borussia Dortmund. | 37385485 |
Wiltshire Police has been told of seven incidents in the local area, and PCSOs have been patrolling schools at Church Road, Laverstock and Southampton Road.
So far no offences have been disclosed and police inquiries continue.
Insp Dave Minty asked children and parents to "be sensible" and take proper precautions to ensure safety.
"All of the reports have involved children of secondary school age and these have been only verbal approaches," he added.
"No one has been injured and there has been no attempt to get the young people in the car.
"Nonetheless, we want to remind children to stay safe and report anything suspicious to the police."
The force said local inquiries into the seven reported incidents this month were still ongoing. | Police in Salisbury are warning parents of "stranger danger" following a series of reports of children being approached by strangers in cars. | 33121597 |
Venus, 46, took temporary control when and has collected four points from three games in charge.
Against Watford, individual errors cost us. Would a new manager change that? That's really for other people to decide
With Boro not playing until 23 November after the international break, Venus is hoping his future can be sorted out.
He told BBC Tees: "Hopefully these two weeks allow the club to make some plans and if that means them offering me the position then yes I do want it."
The 46-year-old made a flying to start after stepping up from his role as Mowbray's assistant by comprehensively beating Doncaster 4-0 at the Riverside but since then they have and
Prior to the match against the Hornets, Boro chairman and allowed him to bring in
Tony Mowbray departed as Boro boss with the club 16th in the Championship, 10 points from the play-offs places.
Venus's side remain in the same position, two points closer to the top six.
However, Venus claims any decisions on outgoing transfers are not on his current agenda when pressed about reports linking Lukas Jutkiewicz with a move to Blackburn.
"That's just speculation but, to be honest, I wouldn't know if there was anything happening anyway," he explained.
"It's been the same from the start, I just go into work every day. I'm doing my job and feel like the players are responding to the messages I'm trying to get across.
"Against Watford it was individual errors that cost us and it's for other people to decide whether or not a new manager would change that." | Mark Venus says he wants the Middlesbrough job on a permanent basis. | 24910970 |
Gavin Dawes, 33, ploughed into Jonos Sasvari while driving in excess of 80mph in a 30mph zone, a court heard.
Pedestrian Mr Sasvari was killed when Dawes went through a red light at a crossing on Brighton's seafront.
Sentencing at Lewes Crown Court, Judge Jeremy Gold said: "This was an appalling course of driving as is possible to imagine."
He added: "You, Gavin Dawes, are solely responsible for the death of a 78-year-old man."
Officers began to pursue Dawes when he failed to stop for them in the Bear Road area.
After mowing down Mr Sasvari, he drove away with his front windscreen smashed, bonnet dented and number plate hanging off.
Dawes, of Phoenix Rise, pleaded guilty to causing death by dangerous driving and two counts of dangerous driving at an earlier hearing.
He was sentenced to nine years, but will serve an additional 15 months for a previous dangerous driving incident which he was sentenced at the same time. It will run consecutively, totalling 10 years and three months.
He was also disqualified from driving for 10 years after his release from prison.
Daniel Frier, defending, said Dawes felt "guilt, remorse and sadness".
Richard Woolgar, 35, of Donald Hall Road, Brighton, was also jailed for 12 months for dangerous driving.
He was seen driving erratically alongside Mr Dawes, in the minutes before the crash, but the vehicles went separate ways.
There is an ongoing investigation by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) into what happened, including "the actions and decisions of the police officers who were in the area at the time". | A speeding driver who hit and killed a 78-year-old man during a police pursuit has been jailed for more than 10 years. | 40306307 |
The move comes as the party's Trevor Lunn announced at an event in Belfast that he would now support gay marriage.
The Lagan Valley MLA told the BBC a number of things had changed his mind.
"The vote in the south which is certainly very impressive - a very conservative country," he said.
"I've been certainly heavily lobbied by the various groups and friends - I've lots of gay friends.
"The big rally in Belfast, which I thought was very impressive.
"Overall, I have decided it's time to get a bit progressive, perhaps, and fall into line with this measure."
Welcoming the development, gay and lesbian support group the Rainbow Project said: "Trevor has long been a supporter of the LGBT community in Northern Ireland and has been a strong voice for the rights of LGBT young people in education.
"We are enormously happy that Trevor has now come out in favour of equal marriage."
On Saturday, Alliance Leader David Ford said he was delighted to see party members come out in force to support this year's Belfast Pride.
Mr Ford was joined by a number of Alliance elected representatives during the parade. | The Alliance Party has said it will make a commitment of support for same sex marriage part of its manifesto for the next Assembly election. | 33776345 |
Andrew Bedford, 27, from Huntingdon in Cambridgeshire, was last seen at 18:20 BST on Friday, 28 September 1990 at Factory Bank, off Great Whyte, Ramsey.
Three people were arrested in connection but no-one was charged.
Police say they now believe he was shot dead later that Friday. The cold case investigation has now officially become a murder inquiry, officers said.
Mr Bedford was last seen eating a takeaway in a light blue Ford Cortina car.
Despite extensive searches involving police helicopters and divers, a nationwide poster campaign and a Crimestoppers reconstruction no trace of Mr Bedford was found.
A spokesman for Cambridgeshire Police said: "It was always known murder was a strong possibility but his body was never found."
However, detectives believe he was killed with a shotgun sometime during the evening of 28 September at a garage called Mongrel Cars, which no longer exists, in Ramsey.
Three people arrested on 30 September 1990 on suspicion of murdering Mr Bedford were released without charge.
Det Insp Ian Simmons from the Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire Major Crime Unit, said: "Having reviewed the circumstances of Andrew's disappearance and given nearly 25 years have passed, we are now confident he is dead and was murdered.
"A team of detectives... is devoted to the cold case and we want to speak to anyone who has any information about Mr Bedford's disappearance and death."
The prime suspect for the shooting is now dead, "but others who were involved have never been brought to justice", the spokesman added.
When Mr Bedford was last seen he was wearing overalls, a khaki jumper, jeans and trainers. He was described as 5ft 8in (1.72m), medium build with mousey blond, curly, shoulder-length hair and had a number of tattoos. | An investigation into the disappearance of a man almost 25 years ago is now being treated as murder. | 32231070 |
Sian Harkin, 54, used cheques from Llwyncelyn Infant School claiming it was for a shelter for pupils' parents.
Merthyr Crown Court was told in April she gave them to convicted fraudster Lee Slocombe who had manipulated her.
Harkin, of Pontypridd, admitted fraud, theft and forgery charges and was given a 12-month prison sentence.
A disciplinary hearing was told mother-of-two Harkin was in charge of the staff account at the school, and was arrested after an internal audit.
It ruled she had brought her "profession into disrepute".
Harkin did not attend the hearing in Cardiff.
Slocombe was jailed for three years and seven months at Newport Crown Court in February after he defrauded three families out of more than £40,000. | A head teacher has been struck off after trying to fiddle £30,000 from a Rhondda Cynon Taff school's funds to give to a rogue builder. | 35063491 |
Brayden Dillon was asleep in his family's Sydney home in April when a masked gunman allegedly broke in and shot him in the head.
Conrad Craig, 26, was arrested earlier this week and charged with murder.
A 30-year-old woman was charged with murder on Wednesday, the same day Brayden's family held a vigil for what would have been his 16th birthday.
Police have described the shooting as "execution style" and said it happened after the gunman had entered the home and threatened Brayden's mother.
The teenager's stepfather and young step-siblings were also in the house at the time.
The woman will appear in a Sydney court on Thursday. | A second person has been charged with the murder of a 15-year-old boy who was shot in his bed in Australia. | 40577570 |
Previously-bagged flour was left strewn across the southbound carriageway in a collision between a lorry and a car towing a caravan at about 04:30 BST.
One lane remains closed between junctions 14 and 15 in Gloucestershire amid a clean-up operation.
Highways England said work to clear the flour, debris and fuel spillage will be completed overnight.
Avon and Somerset Police said there were no reports of serious injury.
Jack Tappin, from Highways England, said the articulated lorry "ended on its side in lanes one and two" following the collision, damaging a safety barrier,
Motorists have been advised that one lane will remain closed between junction 14 and junction 15 overnight. | Up to 24 tonnes of flour and 200 litres of diesel have been spilt across the M5 in a crash. | 40836650 |
Emergency services were called to the site in North Ayrshire on Sunday night after the man was found on a crane.
It is understood he was an employee who was there to do repair work. He did not fall from the crane.
Police Scotland said a post-mortem examination would be held to establish the exact cause of the man's death, which is being treated as unexplained. | Police have launched an investigation after a 23-year-old man was found dead at Hunterston coal terminal. | 31487071 |
In October it was confirmed Trevor Purt was stepping down from Betsi Cadwaladr health board, which will remain in special measures for two years.
Board chairman Dr Peter Higson told AMs Mr Purt was being seconded to a health job in England for 12 months.
He said the arrangement was the "best value" for money for the taxpayer.
Senior figures at the health board serving north Wales have been giving evidence to the assembly's public accounts committee on Tuesday.
Dr Higson told AMs Mr Purt had "relinquished" his job in north Wales and his secondment included "payment in lieu of notice".
"I think in the circumstances we found ourselves, the options we had in front of us, this was probably the best value in terms of cost overall, and also in terms of allowing the health board to move quickly to recruit a new chief executive," he said.
According to an online business network profile, Mr Purt is working as an advisor to the East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust.
Betsi Cadwaladr has been under the highest possible level of Welsh government intervention since June, for what Health Minister Mark Drakeford called "serious and outstanding concerns" about its leadership.
A report in May found "institutional abuse" at the Tawel Fan mental health ward in Glan Clwyd Hospital.
In June, it emerged there was a fraud investigation into aspects of the board's spending plans.
Earlier in November, ministers announced the board would receive extra help, including an improvement team to help managers set key milestones.
Facing questions about what the board was doing to turn things around, interim chief executive Simon Dean told AMs there was no complacency at the top of the organisation. | A Welsh health board is still paying the £200,000 salary of its suspended chief executive while he works in England, AMs have been told. | 34843459 |
A woman's body was recovered from one of the vessels.
More favourable weather conditions have resulted in a major increase in the number of people leaving north Africa.
Many of the unseaworthy boats were spotted about 40km (25 miles) from the Libyan coast.
"We saved a total of about 4,500 people in about 40 rescue operations," a coastguard spokesman told AFP news agency.
He added that the operations were continuing and the number might rise.
More than 10,000 people have died crossing the Mediterranean to Europe since 2014, according to United Nations figures.
An agreement between Turkey and the European Union to halt migrants from travelling to Greek islands has reduced boat arrivals by 98% during the first five months of the year, compared with the same period in 2015, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) says.
But arrivals in Italy continue at about the same rate as last year, the IOM added.
A note on terminology: The BBC uses the term migrant to refer to all people on the move who have yet to complete the legal process of claiming asylum. This group includes people fleeing war-torn countries such as Syria, who are likely to be granted refugee status, as well as people who are seeking jobs and better lives, who governments are likely to rule are economic migrants. | The Italian navy and coastguard say they have rescued about 4,500 migrants from dozens of small boats in the Mediterranean during the course of Thursday. | 36611059 |
A Greater Manchester Police employee noticed an "overpowering smell" on the man's breath during an interview for an IT management role.
Tipsy Andrew Jackson, 48, then disclosed he had had trouble parking, was breathalysed and arrested.
In court, he admitted drinking and driving and was banned for a year, police said.
The IT worker appeared at Bury and Rochdale Magistrates' Court on Friday, was fined £120 with a £30 victim surcharge and ordered to pay £85 costs.
Mr Jackson, of Barlow Moor Road, Didsbury, Manchester was told his ban would be reduced to seven months on completion of a drink-driving awareness course.
His hour-long interview took place on 25 January at a training centre in Prestwich, Greater Manchester, but he fell foul of the law when he revealed his travel arrangements.
The interviewer, a civilian worker, said: "I asked if he had any trouble in finding us. As soon as he began to speak I could smell something on his breath which I was thought was stale alcohol.
"He mentioned that he did have a little trouble in finding somewhere to park, which immediately raised concerns.
"Shortly after he arrived in the small office, the smell of alcohol became overpowering."
The interviewer then made his excuses at the end of the interview and left the room to ask a police officer's advice.
A traffic officer quizzed the man over whether he had been drinking but he was adamant that not a drop had touched his lips that morning.
However Mr Jackson did admit to sharing a bottle of wine with his wife the night before during a meal out.
The traffic officer then marched him out of the building to a nearby patrol car and gave him a breathalyser test, which he duly failed. | A police job candidate was arrested for drinking and driving after he turned up for a interview smelling of alcohol. | 38969740 |
The Pro12 champions open their European campaign away to French side Racing 92 on Saturday.
Northampton Saints and Scarlets are also in Pool 3 and meet at Franklin's Gardens later on Saturday.
"We certainly have a playing group I believe can get to the latter stages of the Champions Cup," Townsend told BBC Scotland.
"We are playing a team we don't know much about but we know who they've got in their roster and they are very strong.
"They have played eight or nine games this season and we've had a good look at them.
"We know that, if we can put our game in place, both defensively and in attack, it's going to cause any team problems."
Townsend described Northampton as "one of the strongest teams in England over the last 10 years" and Welsh side Scarlets as "the form team in [Pro12]".
"All three teams are going to be threats," he said.
The Warriors did not progress from the pool stage in last season's inaugural Champions Cup tournament and Townsend warned that his side must play to their full potential throughout.
"You've got to play very well, close to your best, for the six games," Townsend said.
"Last year, we won against Bath and Montpellier, but it wasn't good enough as we only won one more match after that.
"We've had more experiences of winning big games [since then] - winning the semi-final and final in the Pro12.
"Our players, most of them that are going to be involved this weekend, have played in the World Cup. So they have had excellent experiences since they last played in the Champions Cup, but it's how we play right from the start." | Head coach Gregor Townsend is confident Glasgow Warriors can go far in this season's European Rugby Champions Cup. | 34791594 |
The Victoria state government said the company, QMS, received a series of "abusive and threatening" complaints.
A spokesman for QMS would not detail the nature of the threats to the BBC.
The digital advert, promoting a series of government-backed events, had been the subject of online debate.
Victoria's Minister for Multicultural Affairs Robin Scott said it was disappointing to see "a small minority attacking proud Australians".
"Anyone who considers this a victory needs a refresher on the true meaning of Australia Day," he said in a statement.
"It is about bringing people together and celebrating the diversity which makes this state and this country great."
Australia Day is a public holiday celebrated on 26 January, marking the day Britain's First Fleet arrived in 1788.
The scrolling advert featured about five other images, a government spokeswoman said. The Guardian reported the images featured people of various cultural backgrounds.
It has been the subject of online discussion since Friday when a photo of the billboard was widely shared among far-right groups on Facebook.
People commenting on the posts claimed the image was not a true reflection of Australia Day, with some labelling it "propaganda".
But others defended the advert, saying Australia was a proud multicultural nation.
Richard Di Natale, leader of the left-wing Australian Greens, tweeted he was "disgusted by campaign to take down Australia Day sign featuring Muslim women". | An Australia Day advert featuring two girls in hijabs in front of an Australian flag has been removed from a Melbourne street after threats were made to the billboard company. | 38645838 |
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The Lionesses beat Serbia 7-0 away on Tuesday, but had been told before the match that victory would not guarantee qualification for July's tournament.
However, it emerged on Wednesday that England's win assured them one of the six best runners-up slots and a place in the finals in the Netherlands.
"It is a bit curious. We were confident ourselves," said coach Mark Sampson.
"We did the maths and were clear that we would be going to Holland next year, but of course you have to wait for the official governing body to give you the go-ahead.
"It was nice to get that eventually this morning. With the players all together at the airport, we had a little celebration. Not on the pitch - but at Heathrow."
England captain Steph Houghton told BBC Radio 5 live: "We would have liked to have known last night, but now we can concentrate on next summer."
England will take part in an expanded 16-team tournament with hosts Netherlands, holders Germany, France, Norway, Spain and Switzerland also certain to be there.
Scotland are one of seven teams assured of at least a runners-up finish in the qualifying groups, but who may yet face a two-legged play-off to make sure of their place.
England coach Sampson says that he hopes his side can eclipse their third-placed finish at last year's World Cup.
"The target has got to be to go a little bit further. We want to be a nightmare for whichever team we face and try to come back with the trophy," he added. | England women have qualified for Euro 2017 without kicking a ball after an administrative error. | 36482417 |
The 50-year-old, who has previously worked in Jordan, Spain, Montenegro and Indonesia replaces Jose Kilamba, who had been coaching Angola since 2015.
Bianchi, the fourth Brazilian to coach Angola, has been coach of Angolan club Petro de Luanda since last year.
"We have a huge challenge to qualify for the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations," Bianchi said.
Qualifying for the tournament in Cameroon will start in June, and Angola will face Burkina Faso, Botswana and Mauritania in their group.
Angola reached the Nations Cup quarter-finals in 2008 and 2010 and also qualified for the 2006 World Cup.
But they have failed to qualify for the last two Nations Cups and are already out of the running for 2018 World Cup, eliminated by South Africa.
The Palancas Negras (black antelopes) are ranked 45th out of 54 countries in Africa and 148th in the world.
"My mission is also to improve the country's position in the Fifa rankings," added Bianchi. | Angola have appointed Brazil's Roberto Bianchi as their new coach, the football federation said on Wednesday. | 39210126 |
Villa are now 15 points from safety with six games left after a 4-0 defeat by Chelsea which saw several protests.
Fans held up banners targeting owner Randy Lerner, with others saying: 'Proud history, what future?'
Asked if Villa could win them over, Black said: "It's got to happen, and it will. How quickly, I don't know."
Villa's 10 home league defeats matched the same number in 2013-14 under former manager Paul Lambert.
Black, who took over from Remi Garde after the Frenchman was sacked on Tuesday, added: "When the team is bottom of the league, I can understand the disconnect with the supporters.
"We have to give the supporters something, not the other way round. It's been a hard season for them."
Banners were apparent throughout the game as Villa capitulated to a Chelsea team inspired by second-half substitute Oscar, while Alexandre Pato scored on his long-awaited debut.
Protests were planned for the 74th minute, to correspond with the year - 1874 - that Villa were founded, and when the moment arrived there was a mass show of discontent from the home supporters.
Matters were made worse when Alan Hutton was sent off in the 85th minute.
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Black added: "We are under no illusions that the problems are running deeper [than the result].
"The fans need to see some kind of effort, there was a certain amount of that, but the quality lets the players down. You would have to ask the players if they have shown enough fight.
"I've spoken to them. We are professionals and we needed to be professional and I've outlined that. We need to continue to work hard to get this club back to where it should be." | Aston Villa caretaker boss Eric Black said the club faces a battle to get the fans back onside after a record-equalling 10th home loss of the season. | 35950644 |
Operations director John Stoddard, 41, was killed at the Higher Kings plant at Cullompton, Devon, in 2011.
Exeter Crown Court heard DS Smith Paper had failed to act on 73 urgent safety recommendations from a report compiled 11 months earlier.
The company admitted failing to ensure safe working.
Mr Stoddard died instantly when he was pulled into a production line from an upstairs platform as he tried to smooth down paper which was passing through it.
The father-of-two was killed 11 months after a firm of consultants had made a series of safety recommendations which were not implemented.
These included 33 areas of very high risk which should have been addressed within 24 hours and 40 of high risk which should have been rectified within a week.
Judge Francis Gilbert QC said it was a "serious aggravating feature" that the company had failed to act on the report.
The judge said: "If the company had corrected the hazardous feature which was later described by their own expert, this fatality would not have occurred.
"The Health and Safety Executive concluded that the risk to operators from thin moving machinery was obvious.
"They say the failure to address so many area of high or very high risk was a failure at the highest level of the company."
Mr Simon Antrobus, defending, said the company accepted full responsibility and offered a public apology from chief executive Miles Roberts to Mr Stoddard's family. | A paper company has been fined £400,000 after a number of "serious safety failings" led to an employee being crushed by a machine. | 33871908 |
According to documents, Mr Lee became angry after the man, Donald Bolding, flashed a graphic tattoo at the people in Mr Lee's car, including his fiancée.
He later returned with an accomplice and beat Mr Bolding with a tyre iron.
Mr Lee, 49, co-founded Pinkberry in 2005 but left the company in 2010.
He was arrested in January 2013 at Los Angeles International Airport on "outstanding charges."
Prosecutors said Mr Bolding was struck twice in the head and suffered a broken arm, before passerby stepped in to stop the attack.
Mr Lee faces up to seven years in California state prison.
A sentencing hearing is scheduled for 14 January. | Young Lee, co-founder of frozen yogurt chain Pinkberry, was found guilty by a California judge of beating a homeless man in Los Angeles in June of 2011. | 24876445 |
Bolton Wanderers 1-2 Middlesbrough
Birmingham City 1-2 Burnley
Blackburn Rovers 0-2 Huddersfield Town
Brentford 1-1 Bristol City
Cardiff City 0-0 Queens Park Rangers
Charlton Athletic 0-1 Derby County
Leeds United 3-2 Reading
Preston North End 1-1 MK Dons
Rotherham United 0-0 Nottingham Forest
Sheffield Wednesday 1-1 Ipswich Town | Reports for Saturday's Championship games, as Middlesbrough hold on to top spot after a thrilling win over Bolton. | 36055394 |
MPs on the Welsh Affairs Committee said in January it would improve "clarity of responsibility" to the public.
The response, published on Friday, said there had been no "political consensus" in Wales for the idea.
However, the UK Government backed calls for new incentives to improve passenger satisfaction, after the MPs said people were tired of "old and cramped" trains.
The committee's original report spoke of an "urgent need" for new trains on the Wales and Borders network, blaming a "huge failure" to allow for passenger growth when the former Strategic Rail Authority awarded a 15-year franchise in 2003.
Welsh ministers will decide who runs the next franchise from 2018, with current operator Arriva and three other firms competing for the contract.
In its response, the UK Government agreed with most of the committee's recommendations, but rejected handing power over rail infrastructure to Wales.
Referring to devolution proposals in 2015, which led ultimately to the 2017 Wales Act, it said: "This recommendation was considered as part of the St David's Day process, but there was no political consensus to take it forward.
"The Government does not intend to revisit the issue given those discussions," it continued, adding that the Department of Transport would "liaise closely" with the Welsh Government over Network Rail's investment plans.
In the Welsh Government's response - also published on Friday - Economy Secretary Ken Skates said greater Welsh control of rail infrastructure and a "fair allocation of funding" was needed to improve "speed, reliability, capacity and safety".
He claimed Wales and the Borders made up 6% of the UK rail network but had seen only 1% of Network Rail's spending on improvements since its creation in 2011. | Control and funding for railway tracks in Wales should not be devolved, the UK Government has said. | 39449104 |
The Scottish Premiership club issued the statement after discussing the matter at a Monday board meeting.
But it did not shed any further light than her own social media statement.
Mitchell is United chairman Stephen Thompson's sister and the news broke 24 hours after United lost Saturday's Scottish Cup semi-final to Hibernian.
The Tannadice outfit are favourites for relegation as they are currently bottom of the Premiership, eight points adrift of Kilmarnock with five games remaining.
Mitchell had said on Twitter: "I have resigned as director of Dundee Utd. I remain a shareholder, fan & am committed to my work with the community and DUWFC (Dundee United Women's Football Club)."
United said on Sunday: "The board of directors confirms it has received notification of intent to resign from Justine Mitchell.
"This matter will be discussed at a previously arranged board meeting on Monday 18 April."
Following that meeting, the club added: "Dundee United can today confirm the resignation of Justine Mitchell as a director of Dundee United Football Company Limited.
"Justine has informed the board that she wishes to focus her efforts on the development of Dundee United Women's team and the club's community involvement." | Dundee United say that Justine Mitchell has stepped down as a director as she wants to concentrate on the club's women's team and community involvement. | 36067962 |
Conservative MP Paul Uppal revealed the figure, which he took from the Spotlight on Spend website, on BBC WM.
But the 1,428 actually referred to rupees and equates to just £14.
Wolverhampton City Council said Mr Uppal had been left with "egg on his face" - but he pointed out the sum had been listed with a pound sign online.
Councillor Andrew Johnson, Wolverhampton City Council's cabinet member for resources, said: "Local government finances can be complex, but I would have expected Paul Uppal, as a member of parliament, to carry out basic checks with the council before going public with these figures and getting egg on his face.
"We would have been more than happy to assist him to understand the numbers."
Shadow housing minister Emma Reynolds, the Labour MP for Wolverhampton North East, went further, calling for an apology.
But Mr Uppal, who represents Wolverhampton South West, said the mistake was not his.
"It's there in black and white," he said.
"The council has thanked me for pointing it out." | An MP who wrongly claimed Wolverhampton City Council had spent £1,428 on pizzas in India has been accused of failing to carry out basic checks. | 26455633 |
The boy allegedly incited another person to carry out an attack at an Anzac Day event with the aim of killing or seriously injuring people.
He is also accused of inciting another person to behead someone in Australia.
The court remanded the boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, to youth detention.
The case was transferred to the Old Bailey, which will hold a preliminary hearing later.
The boy was charged after officers from the North West Counter Terrorism Unit and Lancashire Police executed a search of an address in Blackburn on 2 April.
Anzac Day is commemorated on 25 April in memory of Australian and New Zealand soldiers who have died in war. | A 14-year-old boy from Blackburn accused of inciting terrorism in Australia has appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court. | 32443481 |
Tsonga, 31, has pulled out with the same adductor problem which forced him to retire from the French Open.
It will be the first time Slovenia-born Bedene, 26, has represented Britain at Queen's Club, following his nationality switch in 2015.
He reached the third round at Roland Garros last month - the furthest he has progressed at a Grand Slam.
Queen's is part of the ATP World Tour 500 series and leads up to Wimbledon, which runs from 27 June to 10 July.
Defending champion and British number one Andy Murray will be aiming for a record fifth title when the event starts on Monday.
Former French Open winner Stan Wawrinka, and fellow top 10 players Milos Raonic and Richard Gasquet, are also part of the line-up.
Find out how to get into tennis in our special guide.
Subscribe to the BBC Sport newsletter to get our pick of news, features and video sent to your inbox. | Britain's Aljaz Bedene has replaced Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the main draw at the Aegon Championships at Queen's Club. | 36492402 |
Higgins shared a 78-run sixth-wicket stand with John Simpson (82 not out) as the hosts bludgeoned 119 runs off the final 10 overs at Lord's.
Sussex captain Luke Wright was then caught behind off paceman Tom Helm.
But rain forced the players off after only four overs of Sussex's innings.
Middlesex's attacking intent was highlighted by opener Paul Stirling (71) hitting the second ball of the match for six.
Wicketkeeper Simpson shared a fifth-wicket stand of 177 with James Franklin (69) reignited their innings before the latter was bowled by Ajmal Shahzad (2-88).
Although Simpson was the set batsman, 22-year-old Higgins executed his shots brilliantly - hitting 24 off the final over - as he smashed Shahzad for two huge maximums.
With Sussex needing to make a fast start, Helm - tipped to be a future England talent - got the ball to nip back in to dismiss Wright but the weather denied Middlesex victory for the second time in four days, after their Championship game with Essex was drawn. | Ryan Higgins' 48 off 23 balls propelled Middlesex to their joint third highest List A score of 341-5 but persistent rain saw their One-Day Cup match against Sussex abandoned. | 39709505 |
On a day several big names struggled, world number 11 Scott had a five on the par-three 17th and a six on the par-four 18th to shoot a two-under 70.
William McGirt and Mackenzie Hughes lead overnight after five-under 67s.
Rory McIlroy and Masters winner Sergio Garcia finished one over, the latter hitting a hole-in-one on 17.
England's Justin Rose is one further back, while world number one Dustin Johnson carded a one-under 71 and Luke Donald opened with a 74.
Scott's fellow Australian Jason Day, the world number three, is two under after scoring a 70.
BBC golf correspondent Iain Carter
Players can go through spells when they cannot avoid being centre of attention.
It seems this is the case for Masters winner Sergio Garcia, who repaired a stumbling start with a hole in one on probably the most iconic par three on the PGA Tour.
That capped an odd opening day in which a string of big names - Jason Day, Adam Scott and Rickie Fowler included - handed back promising starts.
Sawgrass represents an exacting test with no margin for error and that remains the case following the latest renovations to the layout.
Rory McIlroy has been troubled with a back problem that hampered his preparations and he will need to shed rust rapidly to have any chance of contending over the weekend. | Adam Scott dropped four shots over the last two holes as he blew the chance to take a first-round lead at the Players Championship at Sawgrass in Florida. | 39892487 |
The bomber attempted to drive into a UN camp in Ansongo town when his explosives detonated, it added.
At least 35 UN troops have been killed and more than 140 wounded in Mali since July 2013.
The UN took charge of security after French-led forces seized northern cities from Islamist militants.
The al-Qaeda-linked militants fled into the vast Sahara desert, and have since carried out suicide bombings and hit-and-run attacks on UN troops.
Secular Tuareg rebels had initially been allied with the Islamists, but the two groups later fell out.
The UN's chief in Mali, Mongi Hamdi, condemned the attack as "cowardly and odious," the AFP news agency reports.
"I am shocked that valiant peacekeepers are again being targeted, as well as innocent civilians. This attack will not deter Minusma [the UN peacekeeping force] from its mission of restoring peace and security in Mali," he was quoted as saying.
The peacekeepers, from Niger, were seriously wounded, UN spokesman Olivier Salgado said, Reuters reports.
Northern Mali has been a flashpoint of conflict since Mali's independence from France in 1960, with Tuareg rebels campaigning for independence or more autonomy.
The emergence of jihadist groups in recent years has made the conflict even more complex.
The 9,000-strong UN force took over peacekeeping operations in July 2013. | A suicide attack on a UN base in northern Mali has killed three civilians and wounded nine peacekeepers, the UN has said. | 32327252 |
The Columba Declaration paves the way for future joint working between the two churches.
It came after the moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland addressed the synod.
It is believed to be the first time a serving moderator has been invited to speak at the Church's governing body.
The Right Rev Dr Angus Morrison told the gathering in London: "The strengthening of the bonds which already exist between us can only serve the 'advance of the Gospel' which is our united desire and aim."
The declaration sets out how members and clergy will be allowed to worship and exercise ministry in each other's churches.
It will also offer opportunities for congregational partnership, formal and informal, where there are churches close to each other.
Members voted 243 votes to 50 to approve the document at the synod.
The Bishop of Chester, the Right Reverend Dr Peter Foster, who co-chaired a study group which prepared the agreement, said: "As our country has become more secular, we find ourselves drawn together as we face common problems, and opportunities.
"For all the ways in which our recognition and calling as national churches has had very different histories and legal structures, we have found that we have more in common, in our common tasks in mission, than we might have been led to suppose."
The report will now go to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in May for approval. | The Church of England's general synod has backed a report proposing a historic agreement with the Church of Scotland. | 35581273 |
The Milwaukee-based firm now expects to sell between 241,000 and 246,000 bikes this year, down from 262,221 last year.
Demand has been dropping for years. A decade ago it was selling almost 350,000 annually.
Harley is also facing competition from cheaper bikes made by the likes of India's Polaris and Japan's Honda.
In a BBC interview earlier this year, the boss of the firm, Matthew Levatich, said his iconic motorcycle company was "emblematic" of what the Trump administration thought a home-grown US company should be.
But in its second quarter results, published on Tuesday, the company said sales would be down sufficiently for it to need to cut production, and workers' hours, at some of its US plants.
Harley-Davidson demand has weakened among its aging baby-boomer customers and fewer millennials are taking to motorcycling.
Part of the reason for the fall in demand is that its loyal customers are ageing, and, as they do, they sell their bikes, dampening the appetite for new vehicles.
Despite this, the company said it was not looking to cut new bike prices in the face of these lower used-bike prices.
Harley has tried to counter its image as a high-cost, older age group brand and has introduced a number of models at the lower price range aimed at younger riders.
Across the US, big bikes are falling from fashion. Figures released last week show registrations of large motorcycles fell by about 7% so far this year.
Harley-Davidson's second quarter net income was down almost 8% at $258.9m (£198m).
Revenue per motorcycle rose about $437 to $15,530 in the quarter. | Shares in Harley-Davidson are down about 8% in New York after the motorcycle maker slashed its sales forecast for this year. | 40650307 |
Between Worlds by Tansy Davies, staged by the English National Opera in 2015, triumphed in the stage works category at the awards ceremony.
The opera explores the feelings of fear, courage and loss experienced by those caught up in the attacks.
Other winners this year included a sound compilation designed to bring a train journey to life.
Sonorama by Claudia Molitor, which was composed to soundtrack the journey between London's St Pancras and Margate, won in the sonic art category.
The piece brings together music, interviews, readings and archival material and reflects what the listener can see from the train window during the journey.
The ceremony, hosted by BBC Radio 3 presenters Sarah Walker and Andrew McGregor, took place at the British Film Institute in London on Tuesday evening.
Alba, an original composition inspired by the writings of Samuel Beckett, netted Rebecca Saunders composer her second British Composer Award.
Ten of the 13 awards this year were won by first-time winners.
Shri Sriram took home the wind or brass band award for Just a Vibration - a work which combines Indian melodies with a brass band.
Roderick Williams won the choral award for Ave Verum Corpus Re-Imagined while Freezywater by Leo Chadburn won the chamber ensemble prize.
Alan Davey, controller at BBC Radio 3, said: "This year's unprecedented numbers of first-time winners encompass a broad array of different musical genres and ideas, demonstrating that the UK's contemporary classical music scene is more alive than ever."
BBC Radio 3 is broadcasting highlights of the ceremony at 22:00 GMT on Saturday 10 December. The programme will be available online shortly after broadcast.
You can follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, and on Instagram, or if you have a story suggestion email [email protected]. | An opera set in the World Trade Center during the 9/11 attacks has won a British Composer Award. | 38235819 |
The club had asked its main creditors, which include the council, to write off about 70% of its debts.
Cabinet members discussed the proposal on Thursday.
The council said the redevelopment of the Swalec Stadium was part-funded by loans from creditors including themselves, with £16m owed.
Glamorgan asked creditors to write-off 70% of the money and interest owing and agree to a restructuring of the remaining 30%.
The plan to write off £4.4m from a debt of £6.4m the club owes to the council was recommended in a report to the council's cabinet.
Councillor and cabinet member Graham Hinchey said: "As with many organisations, changes to the economy had a detrimental effect on Glamorgan County Cricket Club.
"However, it is imperative that this long established sporting institution does not go into administration."
Glamorgan chief executive Hugh Morris said: "The council's decision is extremely important to the club and is one of the final pieces in the jigsaw in re-negotiating our debt.
"The club still faces financial challenges in the months and years ahead and we are mindful of our responsibility to develop our business to safeguard our long-term future."
Glamorgan's other main creditors - Allied Irish Bank and Paul Russell - the club's former chairman, have also agreed to the restructuring proposal.
The club successfully hosted an Ashes Test at the Swalec Stadium with Australia in 2009 and will host a further Ashes Test this year. | A £4.4m debt owed by Glamorgan Cricket Club has been written off by Cardiff council. | 31964175 |
The verdict comes in an official report by the Care Inspectorate which is conducting a series of reviews on services across the country.
Inspectors visited Scotland's fourth largest local authority between October and November last year.
Their report expressed confidence that North Lanarkshire's services were improving the lives of local children.
They carried out a review of the children's services provided by the council and its partners, including Police Scotland, Scottish Fire and Rescue, NHS Lanarkshire and the Children's Reporter.
The inspectors met almost 100 children, their families and care staff as part of their findings into the standard of care they were receiving, and the difference it was making to their lives.
Their report looked at young people under the age of 18 - or up until they are 21 years and beyond if they have been looked after.
The joint inspection report awarded six "very goods" and three "goods" from nine key categories identified as being essential to improving the lives of young people.
Inspectors agreed one area for improvement with the partners: to ensure consistency of practice in the multi-agency response to child protection issues.
This had already been identified as an issue by the council and its partners.
The report also highlighted some examples of good practice in North Lanarkshire, including a partnership with Motherwell Football Club Community Trust.
The Trust uses the influence of the football club and sport to deliver programmes to tackle issues including sexual health, smoking, alcohol and substance abuse.
Some of the programmes involve footballers and coaches from Motherwell FC's first team as role models with programmes being delivered in the SPFL club's Fir Park Stadium. | Children's services in North Lanarkshire have been praised as amongst the best in Scotland. | 32974649 |
A UK government investment of £300m is expected to be matched by the Scottish government.
The money will be used to support innovation, infrastructure, housing, tourism and culture including a new concert hall in St Andrew Square.
Contributions from councils and universities are expected to take the total investment to about £1bn.
The money will support the creation of five new innovation hubs, including in robotics and space technologies.
Investments at Heriot-Watt, Queen Margaret and Edinburgh Universities are envisaged.
The Edinburgh and South East of Scotland City Region Deal was due to be announced at the end of March but was delayed by elections.
Secretary of State for Scotland David Mundell said it would have a major economic impact on the region.
He said: "The UK government is investing £300m in the Edinburgh and South East of Scotland City Region Deal, which will boost the economy of Edinburgh and the whole of South East Scotland for decades to come.
"The Edinburgh deal will focus on the capital's strengths of new technology, innovation and culture. It will make a real difference to the lives of people in the region, creating jobs and prosperity and driving investment."
The regional bid involved six councils - City of Edinburgh, East Lothian, Fife, Midlothian, Scottish Borders and West Lothian.
It is the fourth UK City Deal in Scotland, following investments in Glasgow, Inverness, and Aberdeen. | Edinburgh and south east Scotland are receive a multi-million pound boost after the latest City Deal was agreed. | 40661396 |
The firm has recently suggested investment in the factory could cease if its economic competitiveness is affected by Brexit.
The factory is Britain's biggest car plant and employs almost 7,000 people.
A government spokesman said talks with the company were "ongoing".
The Wearside factory produced 475,000 vehicles last year, of which 80% were exported.
Chief executive Carlos Ghosn was speaking to reporters at the Japanese company's headquarters in Yokohama, news agency Reuters reported.
It followed a meeting with Prime Minister Theresa May at Downing Street last week.
He said: "We're not asking for any advantage [from the British government], but we don't want to lose any competitiveness no matter what the discussions."
Ghosn said he had received reassurance that the British government would be "extremely cautious" in "preserving the competitiveness" of the plant.
"As long as I have this guarantee... I can look at the future of Sunderland with more ease."
Production of the next Qashqai model is expected to begin in 2018 or 2019.
The time it takes to bring a new car into production means Nissan needs to decide where to make its next-generation model soon.
Businesses have been concerned that Britain is headed towards a "hard Brexit", which would leave it outside the single market and facing tariffs of up to 10% on car exports. | Car giant Nissan says it will make a decision next month on whether to produce the next Qashqai SUV at its Sunderland plant following Britain's vote to leave the European Union. | 37726493 |
Zeid Raad Al Hussein, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, will spend four days in the country.
Sri Lanka had committed to allowing foreign judges to investigate allegations against Sri Lankan forces.
But President Maithripala Sirisena last month said no foreign judges would be allowed in the investigation.
Sri Lankan troops are accused of killing at least 40,000 Tamil civilians in the final months of the civil war in 2009.
Mr Al Hussein will travel to the former war zone and will meet victims of human rights violations. He will also talk to top government officials, civil activists and religious leaders.
His follows a UN resolution last year, co-sponsored by the Sri Lankan government, that required foreign judges to assist in the investigation.
Speaking to the BBC last month, President Sirisena said Sri Lanka did not need to "import" specialists.
"We have more than enough specialists, experts and knowledgeable people in our country to solve our internal issues," he said.
In October 2015, Sri Lanka co-sponsored a UN Human Rights Council resolution calling for a special judicial mechanism to prosecute war crimes.
Both the army and the Tamil Tiger rebels are accused of atrocities in the civil war that ended in 2009. As many as 100,000 people are thought to have died in the conflict. | The UN's top human rights official has arrived in Sri Lanka amid concerns that the country's president is backtracking on promises to investigate war crimes. | 35511409 |
17 councils were "happy" to do so when a Wales summit on resettling refugees was held in September, she said.
Ms Griffiths said a "task force", holding its first meeting in November, would assess how many Wales could take.
She told AMs she refused to "set an arbitrary number today as to how many refugees we should be welcoming".
Prime Minister David Cameron has said up to 20,000 refugees will be accepted in the UK over the next five years, under his government's expanded resettlement scheme. | All 22 local authorities in Wales have now agreed to accept refugees from Syria, Communities Minister Lesley Griffiths has told assembly members. | 34447456 |
Chris Ruane will return to fight the Vale of Clwyd seat he lost in 2015 after 18 years in the Commons.
Gareth Thomas will contest Clwyd West, which he represented from 1997 to 2005.
The Conservatives currently hold both seats, being defended by James Davies and David Jones. All 40 Welsh MPs - 25 of them Labour - will seek re-election. | Two former Welsh Labour MPs are hoping to return to Westminster in June as the party confirms its list of 40 general election candidates in Wales. | 39744752 |
Hayley Pointon, 30, was shot at a house in Hinckley, Leicestershire, as she visited her on-off boyfriend Nigel Barwell, in February 2013.
Aaron Power, 25 and Aaron Newman, 24, both of Coventry, had blamed each other for the killing.
The pair were ordered to serve a minimum of 31 years each for murdering Ms Pointon, of Coventry.
The eight-week trial at Leicester Crown Court heard that Mr Barwell was the intended target for the shooting.
Ms Pointon had been leaving the property when shots were fired, and died from a single gunshot wound.
The judge, Mr Justice King, said: "The scars you have inflicted on each family member will be long-lasting.
"This was in truth a calculated, cold-blooded murder. This was a planned killing and each of you were part of that plan.
"It may never be known who fired the shot but what is sure is each of you were involved in the killing and each had an intention to kill."
Hayley's mother, Kerry Pointon, said the family would try to rebuild their "shattered lives".
She said: "She can never be replaced in our lives and therefore we feel that there can never be any true justice for Hayley and her children."
A third man, Dylan Whitty, 30, from Coventry, was found guilty of assisting an offender. He is due to be sentenced on 8 September.
Three other men were cleared of the same charge. | Two men who shot dead a mother-of-two by mistake have been jailed for life for her murder. | 33757609 |
The 40-year-old 14-time major champion, who twice had surgery during 15 months out, hit seven birdies as he moved into joint ninth on six under par.
From trailing by nine after a 73 on Thursday, he is now six off the lead.
"Yesterday I had it going and lost it. Today was different," Woods said.
He told the Golf Channel: "It feels good. I played the middle of the round better, kept the momentum going and moved myself up the board."
First-round leader JB Holmes shot a one-over 73 to slip to joint seventh as his fellow American Dustin Johnson moved into a share of the lead with Hideki Matsuyama of Japan.
Matt Kuchar and Louis Oosthuizen - who both shot 67s - are tied for third, two shots back, while Bubba Watson had a nine-under-par 63 to move three shots off the lead.
Behind him, Brandt Snedeker had an eight-under-par 64 to move one shot ahead of Justin Spieth and Holmes on eight under.
Olympic champion Justin Rose, playing his first event after a seven-week break, withdrew with a bad back before play got under way at the four-round event in the Bahamas.
Media playback is not supported on this device | Tiger Woods recovered from a mixed first round by shooting a brilliant seven-under-par 65 as he continued his return to competitive golf on day two of the Hero World Challenge. | 38188989 |
Grimsby and Dover both lost their final games, meaning Braintree finished third and will have a home second leg in their semi-final against Grimsby.
Striker Michael Cheek netted twice for the hosts before half-time and Mitch Brundle added a third from close range.
Altrincham needed to win to stand any chance of survival.
A 5-0 home win over Welling in their previous outing, which ended a seven-match winless run, gave them hope of an unlikely escape but Alty will return to the sixth tier of English football next season after two years in the National League.
Braintree, who are managed by PE teacher Danny Cowley, are aiming to reach the Football League for the first time in their history. | Part-time Braintree Town secured a National League play-off place by beating Altrincham, whose relegation was confirmed by defeat in Essex. | 36118713 |
The findings follow an inspection at the G4S-run Rainsbrook Secure Training Centre near Rugby.
Inspectors rated the unit "inadequate"- the lowest grading - and said young people suffered degrading treatment.
G4S said what had happened there was "completely unacceptable" but claimed it took swift action at the time.
The training centre, which opened in 1999, houses up to 87 boys and girls between the ages of 12 and 18.
The unannounced joint Ofsted, HM Inspectorate of Prisons and Care Quality Commission inspection of the unit was carried out in February.
Inspectors said: "Poor staff behaviour has led to some young people being subject to degrading treatment, racist comments, and being cared for by staff who were under the influence of illegal drugs."
The report also found delays in children receiving essential medical diagnosis and treatment, and said on one occasion, a young person did not receive treatment for a fracture for about 15 hours.
Frances Crook, chief executive of the Howard League for Penal Reform, said: "This is the worst report on a prison I have ever seen because it is a catalogue of abusive practices that have been inflicted on young children who have no escape.
"These child jails run for profit are secretive and should never have been set up in the first place. Rainsbrook should be closed immediately. No child is safe in this jail."
A G4S spokesman accepted the report was "extremely disappointing".
However, he said it was the first time in 16 years the centre had been found by any inspecting body to be less than "good" or "outstanding". | Staff looking after young offenders at a detention centre in Northamptonshire were under the influence of drugs, an Ofsted report has said. | 32809798 |
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